FTMininomenon

but one of these days i’m gonna wriggle up on dry land | 27 | he/they | more about me

[milky-delphie]

an artist i admire drew fanart of a fic im writing

so basically im god and my ego is in the stratosphere

[hotvampireadjacent]

[only-tiktoks]

[swagpaws]

[VD: A TikTok titled "My 10 favorite (inexpensive) holiday gift ideas for the blind & visually impaired." The first clip shows a person pointing up at the title as they voice-over: "These are my ten most favourite gifts for the blind and visually impaired".

The following items are demonstrated in the video and described in the voice-over:

1. Assorted bump dots - Various kinds of stickers with protruding dots on them that can be put onto appliances to make them more tactile.

2. Pocket money brailler - A device that allows you to imprint braille onto paper notes, indicating their value.

3. Liquid level indicator - A device hung on the edge of a container with metal prongs that detect when liquid has reached it.

4. Braille Pop-It - A pop-it with the alphabet in braille on each bubble.

5. Tactile Rubik's cube - A rubik's cube with unique textures for each color.

6. Braille color clothing tags - Tags with braille to indicate what colour a piece of clothing is.

7. Signature guide - A card with a rectangular slit in it to guide the user when writing their signature.

8. Low vision playing cards - Cards with very large and colorful numbers on them.

9. Pop-A-Cell - A plastic card with 6 bubbles you can indent to practice braille characters.

10. Talking keychain clock - A clock that says the time aloud when you press a button.

End VD.]

[swagpaws]

rbing again to boost my description! please make sure to rb this with a description! its a bit painfully ironic to see a video about blind people without a description... yknow, so visually impaired people can access it

[shubbabang]

its not funny but i do think about it a lot

[dikdikpronouncedxylophone]

This made me think about this panel from Calvin and Hobbes:

But unlike the adult in this strip, Calvin’s dad actually APOLOGIZED for yelling at him when he saw how guilty his kid was:

[obliviasart]

Example #1726473 why I will never stop telling people how important Calvin and Hobbes was to me growing up. Kids need this shit, they need to be shown that it’s normal to make mistakes sometimes and that adults should be able to recognize and apologize when they treat their kids unfairly in response.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Why does the KKK have to have the term grand wizard, like every time I want to make a high ranking wizards, I think oh he's the grand wizard, then I remember, that's the leader of the KKK, and I have to change it to royal wizard or something

[queer-as-city-folk]

Not the white European in the notes saying that I should still use the term grand wizard because it makes the KKK seem less serious...

[chiefmuffinmuncher]

They don't use Grand Wizard anymore, so you could steal it. Also even if they did still use it, fuck the KKK, dilute their ownership of the term. You could also use High Wizard, Lord Wizard, Great Wizard, Chief Wizard, or Master Wizard.

[queer-as-city-folk]

They still use the term, there are living people with the title. And I don't think I, as a white Midwesterner have any right to "reclaim" grand wizard as a term. Why do white people want so badly to be allowed to use KKK terms?

[queer-as-city-folk]

The whole point of the KKK using silly sounding words was as dog whistles that the white press would see as frivolous and ignore while still being able to invoke terror in Black Americans. I have no right to use their language as a white person in some sort of sick reclamation

[isabelofwraithmarsh]

People are saying that Emily Wilson went too far in her criticism of N0lan's Odyssey but if it had been me in her shoes, and that man had adapted my favorite text into a story about how Sometimes War Atrocities Make The Perpetrators Feel Bad, and turned my favorite character into some generic straight white dude while the women in the story are tortured to make him Feel Feelings, and that man then cited *my* translation as inspiration, I would be on the news.

[prokopetz]

We used to treat Guys Who Think All Romans Lived In Collonaded Temples And Exclusively Built With Stone Because That's What The Ruins Look Like as freakish outliers, but thanks to the rise of AI aesthetic blogs we now know that a. this is actually a widespread belief in certain circles, and b. the "certain circles" in question are Nazis.

[prokopetz]

My unpopular sci-fi/fantasy opinion is that "humans are the best community-builders" is just the old "humans have the greatest Will to Power" trope wearing a progressive hat.

[jukashi]

To be fair, there's not a lot of traits humans have, that other sophonts wouldn't have, that can't be squeezed to 'superior Will to Power' by an audience looking for it. Good colour vision is eye for detail is inquisitiveness is Will to Power. Being good at throwing things is Man The Hunter is ambition and drive is Will to Power. And I don't need to tell you what happened with 'relatively oversized penis'!

[prokopetz]

Well, yes – you're talking to the guy whose Tumblr post popularised "anomalously high cardiovascular endurance due to an evolutionary history of persistence predation" as humans' Special Hat and ultimately gave rise to the Humans Are Space Orcs meme; you don't need to explain to me how even relatively innocuous traits can be twisted around into "superior Will to Power"! – but my point is that the humans-are-the-best-community-builders thing isn't even a twist. It's a more or less direct attempt to rehabilitate old-school science fiction's "humans are naturally suited to Lead The Lesser Races because of our superior Will to Power" thing into "oh, we don't have an inherent right to dominion, we just coincidentally happen to be meritocratically suited to being in charge owing to our natural superiority at the virtues of leadership".

[prokopetz]

The real reason you need to title your drawings is so that you can stick a little placard in the caption displaying the title of the work, artist's name, year of creation, and medium like your blog is a a fancy art gallery.

[prokopetz]

(Note that you are 100% allowed to get silly with it – putting some unhinged shit in a work's title has been common practice among Serious Artists for literal centuries, which makes it Respectable.)

[romanceyourdemons]

i’m not going to call myself “the friend who’s too woke” or hedge around my opinion because this is my deeply considered belief: horror literature is the theater of disgust, and the disgust that drives the vast, vast majority of classic horror media from the 1890s-1940s—dracula, jekyll and hyde, king kong, nosferatu, the mummy, universal frankenstein, the wolf man, cthulhu, and more—is the exact disgust that drove the worldwide tide of violence in the 1930s and 40s, a tide that has never fully receded, and you have NO business adapting a piece of classic horror media if you aren’t willing to put in the work to identify what is portrayed as disgusting in that property and enter into some form of dialogue with it. if you don’t want your movie to be “about” race or class or gender or sexuality or ability, you’re free to choose a source material that isn’t already about that, but unluckily for you giant hypersexual apes do not exist in a vacuum

[dogpuppy]

[awkwardexxodus]

oh man the painting on this drawing is insa- fuck do you mean #minecraft build

[awkwardexxodus]

the specific build in question btw

[parchmentengineer]

I looked up some of the artist's other builds and they're all just absolutely incredible

[despazito]

[busket]

omfg my post. I made this lmfao

[galeceon]

i hate when you tell somebody Everything will be ok and they have a bitchy nihilistic answer. oh my god okay you can go wallow in your misery for the rest of time if you'd prefer but some of us want to be happy

[hemipenal-system]

dragon who kisses you with tongue and deletes shinigami eyes from your web browser

[hemipenal-system]

“shinigami eyes is bad?” well i encourage you to draw your own conclusions of course but

[libertineangel]

Completely unsurprising post to be made by a person who consistently refuses to recognise the reactionary basis of the "transandrophobia" movement

Everyone's always very keen to forget that Shinigami Eyes wasn't actually developed to mark transphobes in general but to help aid the online safety of trans women specifically, and shockingly enough yeah you're more likely to get marked red if you explicitly refuse to oppose the trans cohort of Men's Rights Activists.

The above green-marked statements are obviously pithy off-the-cuff remarks expressing such normal women's frustrations as "men are often misogynist" and "women shouldn't give men infinite patience", but of course these things that are perfectly understandable in the mouths of cis feminists become gross insults when said by a transfem, because everything we ever say is taken in the worst possible faith and we're never allowed to be annoyed or angry.

[sedimentarygal]

Being annoyed or angry is not an excuse to be incredibly transphobic actually. One trans woman to another, go fuck yourself.

[vergess]

Hey, btw, Libertineangel is fully lying up there. Shinigami Eyes now exists solely to "protect" a specific subset of reactionary trans women and no one else, including any trans woman who even vaguely steps out of line with the "radical transfeminist" movements online.

However, when the project started, it was explicitly and specifically for ALL trans people of ALL gender assignments and gender identities.

Like. I know that person is right about the use case of the extension now, but they are straight up lying about history here. And really recent history. History most of tumblr's user base lived through on tumblr.

This is a ridiculous thing to lie about, frankly.

[hi-fi-planetoid]

Source on the extension including nonbinary people and trans men as per their guidelines as far back and 2019 btw

[totodiletears]

Gonna be honest, I'm not sure why anyone thought an extension that's basically "THIS person is a bad person! How do we know that? Because other people said so! When you see a marked post, you should know that's a bad person even though you didn't actually see them do anything bad!" was a good idea. You've all been here long enough to see how ridiculous callout posts can get, right? People accuse each other of being x bad thing based on spurious evidence all the time.

Do you know how often I've seen "Shinigami eyes shows this person is a transphobe" as a reply to some innocuous post with absolutely no other evidence? And people going "oh shit I didn't know, I'm so sorry for reblogging from this bad person!" in response?? You can say people should use a tool like this as a starting point, or as a mere warning of possible problems instead of just taking its word for it without any further thought... but most people don't. That's not how humans work. It's the same problem that's leading to people blindly trusting what AI Overview says. Even if it started with good intentions, shinigami eyes getting abused was inevitable and I don't know why so many of yall didn't see it coming.

[batsandboba]

do not start gambling. go outside and locate a bug. now post it on inaturalist. bam. nature's gacha game

[spirit-of-science]

The "gambling" reward pathway aka the inconsistent reward pathway literally evolved for things like this! Foraging! Trying new recipes! Experimenting with a new technique while crafting! Any essential human activity that might get you something useful, but also might just make some trash.

There is nothing inherently unhealthy about that reward feeling! You can have that same feeling in a healthy way!!!! Corporations are taking advantage of it for profit, don't let them!!!!!!

Mushroom hunting! Birding! Trying a new technique in a craft you're already familiar with! Mixing random sauces in your fridge to see if any of them taste good!!!

[bishopony]

ok here it is