Psychic Refugee

Intersectional feminist, tea lover, avid reader & proud member of the Maudience. She/her. Ace/A-spec. (Any posts/reblogs/comments are my personal views only.)

[melodypowers65]

Using my first free blaze post to make strangers look at pictures of my kitten :D

Her name is Nemesis, she's a British Blue (British Shorthair), she's 17 weeks old and she's purrfect.

[atrusovaartist]

Acrylic on canvas, 50 × 60 cm

“Normandy Wind”

Every summer, when schools close for the holidays in Belgium, our family sets off on a long journey.In Belgium, schools and kindergartens begin their summer holidays at the same time—from July 1 until the beginning of September—so for almost two months the children are always traveling with me.

This summer we’re exploring Russia, and on our way home we’ll spend some time in Turkey. Last summer, however, was dedicated to one of my favorite kinds of travel: discovering the regions of France.We left Belgium, drove north of Paris to visit Monet’s Gardens in Giverny, then continued to Étretat and followed the coastline through Normandy and Brittany. We never drove for more than two hours without stopping. Every small harbor, lighthouse, botanical garden, medieval street, or dramatic stretch of coastline deserved its own pause.We visited Cherbourg, explored the Normandy landing beaches, admired countless lighthouses, wandered through quiet coastal towns, and eventually reached the unforgettable Mont Saint-Michel before continuing south through Rennes. Beyond that lay another region of France, but we deliberately decided to save it for the summer of 2027. Most likely we’ll continue our journey along the Bay of Biscay.One thing stayed with us throughout the entire trip: the wind.

Not a gentle sea breeze, but a powerful, cold Atlantic wind that seemed to sweep through every street, every harbor, and every cliff. It was especially noticeable in Brittany, where the peninsula faces the open ocean. The old towns are built with houses standing close together and narrow streets, and you immediately understand why—people have been building them this way for centuries to shelter themselves from the relentless wind.

The Belgian and Dutch coasts are windy too, but France feels different. There is a deep respect for history there. Old buildings are carefully preserved, fishing villages have kept their original character, and as you walk those narrow streets, it’s easy to imagine yourself living in the nineteenth century.

What impressed me most was the contrast. The sea looks incredibly soft, almost magical. Light glides across the water, making the waves seem as though they were made of silk. Yet only moments later the sea can become wild. The waves rise with incredible force, and the wind is strong enough to make you lose your footing. It’s a contrast that’s almost impossible to describe.When I returned home, I didn’t want to paint a specific place. I deliberately left out trees or recognizable landmarks that would make the landscape easy to identify. Instead, I wanted to capture the feeling itself: the calm, almost weightless sky, the endless rhythm of the water gently swaying first one way, then the other, and the invisible presence of the wind—something you cannot see, but can feel in every brushstroke.That memory became “Normandy Wind.”

[closet-keys]

I don't know how to address this properly because I feel like every time I write about it I get the same misunderstandings from every direction.

the thing happening right now (at the very least in the US and UK) is that trans youth are actively and systemically losing access to healthcare. this has been gradually escalating since the start of the pandemic, and more young people lose healthcare every single year.

when I talk about this I tend to get two responses

"why do trans adults want to expand these experimental treatments to children who can't consent"

"providers offering care to trans adults is a step in the right direction, even if they aren't offering it to trans youth. the perfect is the enemy of the good. we can't fight our allies."

do you see how both the overtly transphobic version and the nominally "pro-trans" version replicate the same misinformation?

this is not a question of "should we expand access to trans youth?" trans youth have had access to medical transition care for a long time. what is happening is the care they already had access to is being made inaccessible and then criminalized systematically.

am I making sense? places refusing to offer care to trans youth are not "a step in the right direction" because that implies that the trend is expanding access that "begins" with trans adults and innately will gradually encompass young people. that is not the case. this is not a hypothetical thing that we can all have different theoretical opinions on. what is happening is the systematic revoking of healthcare.

the further this progresses, the more healthcare is restricted for more demographics. that's how this works. healthcare is being restricted across the board as part of the broader eugenics project. abortion is being restricted. vaccines are becoming more expensive. insurance companies are denying more treatments to disabled people. anti-fatness is surging. ableism is surging. there are active campaigns to get people to mistrust the very idea of healthcare in favor of "wellness" grifts. no one wears N-95 masks. this is the trend. it's been the trend.

I don't know how to communicate that we are not at an early step in a progressive trajectory, we are mid-stage in a eugenic order. please understand what I'm saying.

[iamthelowercase]

Hello, tumblr! I saw something on here the other day that worried me, so I decided to Do Science about it. But I can't do it alone: I need your help to build the dataset!

Here's what I need you to do:

If you see a post with a "mature content" label, and it's 2026, DM me a link to the post.

Yes, that's really it.

I am hoping to collect several thousand such posts, so that I have a decent sized dataset. I do not care what the post is about; if it's labeled as "mature content", I want to add it to my dataset.

If I get 10,000 posts in my dataset before August 31st 2026, I will post my preliminary findings then. I won't feel comfortable calling my findings "settled" before 2027, unless I get over 50,000 posts.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 1

What's your hypothesis, OP?

I am not talking about that unless I have results to share. That would bias the results.

I did write them down and I did share them with a trusted contact who can prove that I wrote them down the same day I made this post. (While I did so before I made this post, I am not sure they will be able to provide proof of that, because I did so on the same day.)

OP are you interested in...?

Do you have to click through to see the post? Does the clickthrough contain the words "mature content"? Then yes.

OP are you interested if the post is about...?

I am interested in the mature content labels, not the content of the post. Is there a clickthrough that contains the words "mature content"? Then yes.

[iamthelowercase]

Tumblr Science FAQ, round 2

Should I reblog this for reach?

Yes, please. I felt really silly when I noticed I forgot to include that in the original post.

Is it okay if I send you my own posts?

Yes, those are perfect for what I'm looking for. I actually need to do some processing on a post to make it useful for testing my hypothesis, and this makes it easy.

Are you looking for "potentially mature content" also, or just "mature content"?

I want both, please. Anything that throws up a blocking screen that you have to click through. The distinctions between them are one of the things I am hoping to study.

Does it matter when the post was made originally?

Technically no. There's no way to respond to this without introducing some bias in the results, and I don't want that. However, I do collect some data on a post as part of making it useful to me, and that data is easier to collect if the post is recent.

What if I request content label review on a post after I send it to you?

I need to see the mature content label to be able to use the post. Because the mature content label hides the content of the post, it is very hard to use a post that no longer has a mature content label. You could send me a screenshot, but people could use that to lie to me.

Basically, it's more work for you to make it usable to me.

OP are you a transphobe? It would ruin the experiment for me if you're a transphobe.

I promise I'm not a transphobe and not doing this for transphobic reasons. You should still double-check that I'm not a transphobe for yourself, though. I am not sure that this study will have the useful effects you're hoping for; I am studying something specific, and it may not be what you hope.

[1five1two]

[decadent-hag]

[thememedaddy]

[oneheadtoanother]

[stannisbaratheon]

[stannisbaratheon]

i posted this old as balls gifset ten years ago today

[soaringsearingphoenix]

Happy anniversary old as balls gifset

[maeglinthebold]

@meme-conservation

[meme-conservation]

We are pleased to note the continued survival of this meme to the point that it, too, is Old As Balls

[lotrheritageposts]

LOTR Heritage Post

[damejoansutherland]

men need to STOP starting podcasts and START forming barbershop quartets. NOW.

[melodypowers65]

ask game for aging tumblr population

17 or 20 or 26

17. are you a member of any clubs or associations?

I am a member of a German community organisation as of this year!

I only go to their monthly Kaffeeklatsch (an hour of tea and coffee and snacks and chat) thus far, so I can practice speaking German since I haven't been able to go to my old German evening classes last semester or this semester (because I'm too tired after work mid-week). But they also advertise events by another German community organisation, so maybe I'll be able to go to some more events later this year.

20. what's your favourite beverage?

Tea 😅

It's hard to be more specific than that, because I like a lot of different types of tea and what I drink depends on time of day, mood, what I've already had etc. Top teas are probably Assam (plain black), chai, hojicha and jasmine white tea.

26. do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?

List! Grocery shopping is on Saturday, so meal planning for the upcoming week is usually Thursday over dinner and list writing is either Friday evening or Saturday morning.

Sometimes spontaneous purchases will be made, but the list is very important.

[melodypowers65]

ask game: 8 - do you have kids? do you want them? [blatantly an excuse to get nemesis photos]

No and no!

Apart from genuinely having no desire to have kids, I feel like I struggle to look after myself sometimes and so would not be able to look after another human being!

Interestingly, I refer to Nemesis as the baby, but I don't call her my fur baby or child and I don't refer to myself as her mother. She is my baby cat and I am her human, but she's not a stand in for a child. Not to cast shade on anyone who does call their pets their children - each to their own!

Photo as requested:

[melodypowers65]

🌠

1. LM Montgomery of course! You are the glorious conductor of our Maudience orchestra.

2. Saints. You have interesting stories about saints that I have never heard (growing up non-catholic and mostly non-religious).

3. Witty. You have great ways of expressing things and turning stories of the every day into hilarious anecdotes. Somewhat like an author we both like...🤔

[hype-queer-fixated]

[blackboard-monitor]

ask game for aging tumblr population

what's your favourite kitchen appliance?

do you have a collection of anything?

what's the best job you've ever had?

what's the worst job you've ever had?

what's your favourite piece of furniture and where did you get it?

what's your go-to recipe when you want to make something that requires minimal effort?

are you married or do you intend to get married?

do you have kids? do you want them?

are you on good terms with your parents?

do you have siblings? do you hang out with them?

do you vote?

what's the biggest purchase you've ever made?

what are your hobbies?

what's a hobby you'd like to get into?

do you collect anything?

how long have you known your oldest friend?

are you a member of any clubs or associations?

have you ever changed fields in your career or education?

how many wisdom teeth do you have and have you had any removed?

what's your favourite beverage?

do you have any living grandparents?

do you have nieces/nephews/godchildren/other kids in your life that aren't yours?

what's the coolest place you've visited?

what's your most recent degree and has it been useful to you?

would you rather own a dishwasher or a laundry machine if you could only have one or the other?

do you make a list before going to the grocery store or just wing it?

what's your favourite household chore?

what chore do you hate the most?

do you have houseplants and how are you at keeping them alive?

what's your living arrangement? (who do you live with, in what kind of building, do you own or rent or other?)

[have-you-been-here]

Any Five Keep On Movin' Tour 2025/2026 show, Earth

Have you been here?

I have been here

I have not been here

Remaining time: 6 days 5 hours

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[doubleca5t]

An actual World Heritage Post

[dykecosette]

how does this post not have a million notes but anyone online can quote it

[definitelynotlazav]

one week until ten years of Spiders Georg

[yd12k]

[xbuster]

[ches-nogat]

This took me too long

[witzmaennchen]

Ü, very cool

[xenasaur]

シÜت - what you say when you were about to say “shit” and then noticed a small child in earshot