Geologist

Heyo! Folk punk dream tarantula, I reblog fantasy stuff, skyrim, dnd, and rocks!

[knismofag]

take off your genitals... you won't need them for the kind of sex we'll be having...

[justsomeguycore]

lesbian scifi is so easy. here’s a woman in cargo pants and a tank top on a spaceship. are you with me

[justsomeguycore]

maybe it’s not even cargo pants. maybe it’s coveralls rolled to + tied around the waist. maybe she even has fuckoff boots

[queeranarchism]

Preparing for Eviction / Homelessness

I myself have been homeless. Car camped. I can share a few things that can make that time easier.

This is a good good list that unfortunately a lot of people need right now.

[angel-of-anarchy]

Good tips.  I can vouch for many of these.  Here are a couple more that have worked for me (U.S.-based): - Get on food stamps before you are actually homeless, if you can.  It’s just less complicated that way, but I have also had good luck just being very straightforward with DHS about my situation.  - The article talks about not paying for storage – I really think your mileage may vary on that one. I paid for a cheap storage unit that I split with my sister for a couple years.  If you really do have things of value that you want to keep, I say do it if you can find a cheap unit.  ALSO, I have low-key stayed in my storage unit.  You can’t do it for long, and depending on the place, it can be sketchy, but it can be done. - National parks and Forest Service campsites.  Yeah there is definitely the whole day-use only thing but there are some that aren’t monitored.  They often have bathrooms, and for me, it sometimes felt way safer being away from people. - Hook up with your local Food Not Bombs.  It’s usually really good food and run by folks who are used to working outside the system.  You might be able to make friends and score a place to live or stay. - When I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to afford rent for the foreseeable future, I bought myself a cheap travel trailer.  600 bucks and I’ve lived in it for almost five years now.  Friends are way more likely to let you live indefinitely in their driveway or on their land than endlessly crashing on their couch.  I do work-trade or pay what I can for utilities.  If your car can’t haul it (mine can’t), rent a U-Haul truck for a day to get it where you need it to be.  Obviously this requires some cash, but if you can swing it, it can really save your ass in the long run. - Make a plan for bad weather – heat waves and cold snaps can kill.  Heat is worse for me where I live, so I make sure to have a list of spots I can escape to.  This is where those national parks can sometimes come in handy, but also think about overpasses, city parks with lots of shade, abandoned buildings.  Know where your local cooling/warming shelters are.  Keep some money stashed away if you can to pay for cheap motel rooms during the worst weather.  If you can split the cost of a room with friends, even better. - Have a few strategically stashed canisters of mace or pepper spray.  - But at the same time, look out for each other.  You don’t have to become bosom buddies with everyone else on the street, but treating each other like humans is both good for your mental and emotional health and also you’ll find that people are often really amazingly generous with their resources and knowledge.

[queeranarchism]

Good advice. Storage is also one of those thing that a friend might be able to help you with. Cheap storage options are often damp or not as secure as you’d like. That might be a bad place to put your childhood photo albums, electronics, important paperwork, favorite dress, those expensive shoes you bought once… If a friend is willing to store a few boxes of stuff, at least you know those things are safe and dry.

etc.

[sobcat]

tomorrow I'll do the possible

[do-not-u-dare]

let’s talk about how they made it impossible to function without a phone and digitalised everything and then turned around and went “actually! these phone things aren’t safe for kids but it’s magically ok once you’re eighteen. guess you’ll have to have your life dictated by your parents now lol cause we’re gonna take the devices away from you. IT’S FOR YOUR OWN GOOD WHY ARE YOU COMPLAINING”

[do-not-u-dare]

ok my apologies. take away my ability to buy anything too ig because these fuckass stores don’t accept cash anymore. take away my ability to communicate with people outside my house and school because I can’t text and I can’t email and I cant drive to them either and I can’t even fucking get public transport without a phone either. can’t order at a fucking restaurant without being asked to get a membership and install an app and also very sorry but you can only order through our online menu now! have you ever considered that it’s not just about instagram?

[dykepuffs]

I was having this conversation with a friend at an HIV conference we went to- All week we heard speeches about how the most powerful tools for both outreach and education, and for managing your health if you're diagnosed with HIV, are online tools, often tools on social media, and how the population of youth with HIV are one of the most marginalised patient populations.

How the fuck are they meant to either get tested, get on PrEP, access PEP, get on ARVs, access counselling or peer support etc, when the government is cutting them off from the places where we put information out?

[sailatina3]

I wish it were more common to have "bilingual" stories. By that i mean stories where it's important that 2 or more languages are spoken throughout. There isn't any translation, there's just multiple languages spoken by the characters. I understand why this is seldom done considering how heavily limiting it is to the number of people who can actually read or watch it. But idk I think the world would be better off with some stories like that.

[sailatina3]

Many of us live bilingual lives. What those lamguages are, what they mean to us, the historical and political state of those languages, are very very important! So at some point I think it would be nice to write something that is simultaneously English and spanish, and there would be a pretty sizable number of people who could read that.

A story like this would probably be impossible to translate into a third language though, for obvious reasons. Which i feel conflicted about, because I on one hand believe that all art should be in all languages and have as many accessibility options as possible. But I also think this specific type of story *needs* to be in those languages and removing one or swapping them would miss much of the point. Hrmmm...

[headspace-hotel]

Translate it into a third AND fourth language

[headspace-hotel]

Actually reading something like this even as a monolingual person would be very cool because you would have to figure things out yourself. And you would pick up some of the language possibly.

[kosmogrl]

depressed at 11 was crazy i should have become a child prodigy

[what-even-is-thiss]

Reminder to pay attention to your local elections because right now my city’s attempt to build a light rail system is being held up by one singular idiot on the city council.

[what-even-is-thiss]

But anyways right now they’re doing a regional study to assess the cost and feasibility of the light rail system so I hope this one guy’s crusade against public transit funding doesn’t work.

Pay attention to local politics.

[learn-how-to-love]

That “cringe” nonbinary xenogender genderfuck therian who uses neopronouns and may or may not go on HRT while being loudly, proudly themselves will always be more revolutionary and subversive than a binary trans person who aggressively reproduces the cis status quo and shames anyone who doesn’t do the same.

[anarchists-united]

[sweet2canyon]

“Trans men don’t expirience transphobia for being a man”

the average threads comment section under a post about Elliot page:

[anarchist-art]

[fieldexplores]

Never Learned - Gator Days

[anik]

i love this guy

[scorebug]

i still don’t understand what the difference is between a strike and a ball ❤️

[scorebug]

this is making me cry

[loredwy]

I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

[would-you-punt-them]

now all the things you guys have told me about american high schools are starting to make sense

[jeaninelatragedia]

holy shit.

[frustratedasatruar]

You're not really supposed to say it this way, because its considered crass, but here in the US children are culturally and legally considered essentially the property of their parents.

Note that its considered more crass to point this out than it is to treat children as property in the first place.

[evilsoup]

Let's take like a conceit from a hollywood movie kind of scenario: if there's an emergency and someone shoves a baby into your arms then you are responsible for it, at least until you can safely hand it off to someone else; there is an obligation there imposed on you simply by the situation you are in and your status as a human being, without there being any kind of "guilt" or debt you have to pay off. This is the sense in which there are moral obligations imposed on you by the general state of the world. It's not that you have done something wrong, it doesn't mean that you have to take on guilt for some shit your ancestors or fellow countrymen did. It is because you are a human being in a society which has the material capacity to enable everyone to live a good life, but then systematically prevents this for vast swathes of humanity, that you have an obligation to try to change the situation, proportionate to your capacity to act.