whimsy is the revolution

runa • she/they • tired queer witch • haver of hobbies • happy to be here

[victusinveritas]

It's almost like something happened in 2020-now that is causing these problems.

[lil-leviathan]

My clasped weft cowl is finally off the loom! I can't believe i warped this up a whole month ago. I'm absolutely loving the technique and how it all came out. I just need to wash it, trim ends and block it!

This will be my entry into the state fair for the 'woven scarf or shawl' category!

[love-ardour-anarchism]

Still one of my favourite tattoos and one of my favourite quotes.

“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."

REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.

"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little-"

YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.

"So we can believe the big ones?"

YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.

"They're not the same at all!"

YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.

"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point-"

MY POINT EXACTLY." ― Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

[strewbi]

Sir Terry Pratchett is a master of the written word but he ain’t shit for the way he trained me to accept dumb naming conventions because i got three missed calls on my phone from Scam Likely and I spent like half a day wondering who I knew named Scam. 

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[typhus-andronicus]

Mr. Scam Likely of the Ankh-Morpork Thieves’ Guild

[takofukkatsumi]

The cousin of Trev Likely from Unseen Academicals I suppose

[raydowi]

Lapras is such a serene and pretty Pokemon, easily one of my faves 💙

[dungeonmastersdiary]

[alexaloraetheris]

We used paper cutouts glued to toothpicks and stabbed into erasers, but I like this idea better.

[inbabylontheywept]

For a college game, I used an entire box of candy canes as a size colossal monstrous zombie grasshopper, and then when it died I ripped the box open and used the candy canes as size large monstrous parasitic horsehair worms erupting from its corpse. Nobody actually wanted to eat them after that so I took them home and ground them into a powder with a pestle, intending to add it to my hot cocoas. But I didn’t wash the pestle very well last time after using it to crush garlic and chilis, so I accidentally made chili-garlic-mint powder and then I tried serving that cocoa at a later D&D sesh, and we were all baffled at why it tasted so horrible until I was like oh my god it’s the ground up zombie ass worms. I contaminated them with garlic and chilis. And the group was like YOU GROUND UP THE ZOMBIE ASS WORMS AND FED THEM TO US which seemed like a lot of fuss over what would have otherwise been free and delicious cocoa. Then after that before taking any snacks they’d ask did you perchance put any zombie ass chili-garlic worm powder in this?, and then refuse to eat until I said None.

Which they thought was very funny, even if I was slightly less amused, but I bided my time until they got tired of the joke and stopped specifically asking. Then I poured all the remaining zombie ass chili-garlic worm powder into a bag of party mix. The first guy to take a bite spluttered, and I laughed, and everyone said WHAT DID BABS DO, and I said THE WOOOORMS… YOU FORGOT TO ASK… OHMYGOD… and then I laughed so hard I actually cried. Derailed the start time almost an hour.

Oh that was a wonderful day.

[tgirl-tamag0tchi]

18 year old me wouldn’t even recognize me… and that both is comforting and horrifying.

I’ve given up on almost every plan he had for his life.

And replaced them with dreams… I actually like.

[durable-dog]

today is the misgendering day apparently and it’s insane that i (we) have to just. take it at work. because that’s what is polite and professional. and i’m not allowed to go into my coworker’s office and say “what will it take for you to start gendering me correctly” and i’m not allowed to respond to students and say “please be mindful of the clearly stated pronouns and honorifics in my signature” and before you say “you’re allowed to say those things!” no i’m not. i promise i am not.

[durable-dog]

the argument i often get is “people don’t know that it bothers you if you don’t correct them” and i don’t know how to make you understand how it feels to have to ask politely over and over again to be treated with the same respect that people unthinkingly grant to dogs.

[moonbrainedtranny]

I had a problem with someone misgendering me and using my deadname two years after I transitioned and he damn well knew it.

I tried to get some help. this resulted in my sitting through a 15 minute lecture from my boss about how it's normal for people to make that mistake and I just have to accept it and be patient.

then I got the exact same lecture from the director of hr.

I felt like a worm, small and wriggling and powerless. that was the moment I learned I have to let cis people step on me whenever they feel like it

[bebsi-cola]

disabled people are often in permacrisis

[bebsi-cola]

there's never enough money each month. there's always an unexpected illness. new symptoms pop up or old symptoms flare up. meds have to be managed always and refilled constantly and any refill has the opportunity to go wrong. any regular care has the opportunity to go wrong. any mistake can send your health spiralling. it's always "i just need to get through this bad patch" but as soon as one ends another begins. another crisis begins in the middle of the last crisis. managing one thing leaves another thing to be neglected until that becomes a major issue and has to be managed asap and the cycle starts anew over and over and over

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

via prev

[iceghosto]

This morning I had like the lesbian equivalent of that part from the Brian David Gilbert cooking video about getting called Boss haha

[litterofbiscuit]

its interesting being a weird autistic tranny as a kid and letting yourself get accustomed to the idea that youre just some magically antisocial loser who is "introverted" and is happy being alone and then you grow up and realize that actually you love being social you love hugs you love going out and hate being alone you just hated all of the social opportunities available to you growing up so much you let yourself romanticize solitude as a slightly less miserable state than interacting with people

[weevil-mastermind]

Imagine if we did the “public libraries are punk” thing for other subcultures. Imagine if people made shirts that said “Soup kitchens are grunge” or “Mixed Use Urbanism is Juggalo”.

[vintar]

[academicabyss]

[biblicallyaccuratemoth]

The longer I’m on estrogen the shorter my shorts become

[things-from-strings]

🕸BEHOLD MY BOY!!!🕸

after who knows how many months of puzzling out the geometry, running out of the right colors, & feeling like i'd NEVER be done making flower motifs, HERE HE IS!! in all his orange glory!!

the cutest, sweetest, most huggable spider in the WORLD!!! ✨️💖🕷💖✨️

his name is Arson 🔥🥰🔥

[street-dog-bread]

[demilypyro]

having free control over our endrocrine systems and the ability to change our genitals is currently inextricably tied to trans rights, and for good reason, but frankly i don't think it even needs to be. it should just be a matter of bodily autonomy, and that should be universal. if a cis dude wants tits and a pussy i think that would be fine. if cis women want a dick or nothing at all that should be allowed i think. people shouldn't need to be transgender to be allowed to change their bodies. free the nipple, enlarge the nipple, remove the nipple. whatever the fuck you want. i dont know if there's a term for this belief but i hold it very strongly. everybody biohack yourselves NOW

[lesvegas]

passing in public makes me feel like white shrek

[lesvegas]

literally how it feels

[welpnotagain]