Stay tuned

I think I'm going to try posting some art or at least some writing.

[turing-tested]

doing research on people's preferred formats for how restaurants have their menus displayed online and i'm including responses to the post to send to my boss but um. i don't think i can include this specific response

[turing-tested]

[turing-tested]

I regret to inform you all but my Google drive name at my job is Dirk Strider because that is also my real life legal name in my life

[xollii]

[micahdotgov]

genuinely me if they made it illegal to say "genuinely" in every sentence:

[what-even-is-thiss]

We stopped trying to buy cat beds because the cats just pull drying kitchen towels down and sit on those

[what-even-is-thiss]

Kneading mat made for kitty comfort? No. Stolen kitchen towel from the stove handle? Yes.

[what-even-is-thiss]

We just let them do it at this point. Stealing the towels must be a form of enrichment for them or something and it reminds us to wash our towels more frequently.

[teaboot]

I bought Ollie a bed and he refused to use it so I commandeered it for a chair cushion. Only when it was throughly broken in did he deign to nap upon it. I think its a combo of "smells like home" and "good location"

[ot3]

my favorite thing about trying to buy groceries and by favorite i mean not that is how the safeway website has these nested categorized menus for browsing products that just do not work. like you click the subcategories and they tell you there's nothing there. so you either have to scroll through entire departments worth of stuff at once or already know exactly what you're looking for and search.

[ot3]

actually you're not even allowed to know what you're searching for anymore because i tried that and it took over 2 minutes to load the fact that it had zero search results for 'bleach'. safeway, i know you carry bleach or bleach related products. i know you have it. dont lie to me

[lookcaitlin]

[theprofessional-amateur]

How your email finds me

[sleepy-bebby]

Oh god, why didn’t you just let him through?

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

This Untitled Goose Game expansion is WILD

[avakkins-alter]

Me and my Gardevoir~

[softbluefeathers]

It looks like admiration but she's actually just hitting that man with psychic feminization beams.

[socialmaya]

Occasionally forget people genuinely think capitalism is thousands of years old

[sylestial]

One time I was talking about Robin Hood with some coworkers and one guy was like “he was bad because the people he helped learned to expect handouts” and I wanted to be like… okay can you explain how that flawed capitalist propaganda applies to feudalism

[scallioncreamcheesebagel]

reminder that capitalism was literally invented in the 16th century

[tayefeth]

That’s an exaggeration. What was invented in the 16th century was mercantilism. Capitalism really dates for the beginning of the nineteenth century, with the rise of industry and cash crops over artisans and merchants. Vulture capitalism, with the notion that companies have no duties other than generating profit, is even younger.

[antique-scarecrow]

Capitalism is only 200 years old and I have to say, they have not been an impressive 200 years

[downtroddendeity]

I think a lot of this comes from the fact that most people don’t know the formal definition of capitalism. We all know the word, we’ve all seen the jokes, but very few people bother to actually define it unless they’re talking about political theory and philosophy, so it’s easy to end up with the impression that Capitalism = Money Can Be Exchanged For Goods And Services.

Capitalism is the economic system where most of the means of production (i.e. everything people need to have to make the stuff that everyone wants) are owned by private individuals or corporations, who then hire people to provide the labor necessary to produce things, with the intent of selling the output at a profit. It’s the difference between “you’re a carpenter and you make a chair and you sell it” and “you’re Richard Q. Richington who owns a chair factory, and you pay people to sell the chairs you paid other people to make and then all the excess money goes back to you.” There have been Richard Q. Richingtons on and off throughout history, but that being the norm for every single industry is a pretty recent development.

[antiterfbutch]

An alarming amount of people seem to think capitalism = all trade, and I don’t think that’s a coincidence.

[weeeeps]

slime uses mimicry to appear more dangerous

[big8cola]

The only two markers for time in my life are thursday (i get paid) and monday (new episode of witch hat atelier) otherwise i live ina formless void wherein times seems to pass but largely unbeknownst to me

[chironeis]

hmmmmm. fic where rocky and/or adrian are exorbitantly worried about the power dynamic that presents itself with grace being alone on an alien planet, relying solely on the goodwill of significantly stronger and somewhat more intelligent beings to survive, and rocky and adrian being terrified of accidentally pressuring grace into a relationship because of it. the angst and care and tenderness that goes along with that concept. hmmmmmmmmmm

[selfservesoftservebitches]

I do love the idea that grace, fresh on erid, a little or a lot under the weather bc malnutrition and extended space travel, is recovering the fish transfer bag equivalent of a smaller atmosphere-controlled building, where the scientists of erid are descending on him like sharks, extremely eager to study an actual extra-terrestrial

And like, they probably mean well, its not malicious, theyve got a thin grasp of human social norms and or body language, if any, and those are normally a bit suspended in pursuit of scientific discovery, right?

if he asked the science team to stop they would, but,

They're going to such great lengths to be hospitable to him already, crafting a home for him, surely thats worth a bit of discomfort

Without them hes dead in seconds, better to stay on their good sides, obviously.

Every single one of them is physically stronger than he could ever hope to be, anyway

Its almost familiar, being steamrolled under an authority that holds the pillars of your life in its hands.

So, he doesnt protest.

But rocky sure will, the second hes in range of grace's heartrate

[chironeis]

YES

[redstonedust]

i do find the rules around clothes fascinating because of how made up it all is. we invented the idea of covering our bodies from the elements because we lack fur like other mammals and then made up all these rules around it and now people will unironically tell you "men cant wear skirts its unnatural" girl none of this is natural. we are born naked and made up the rest as we went along. hope this helps.

[mechantelope]

tadc ep 9 spoilers/thought dump

TRANS JAX MY BELOVED OMG

I went and watched Episode 9 the other day and I took a chance and actually dressed like a girl because I've been struggling with that (which is so embarrassing to say because I've been on E for almost a year). My partner really had to convince me because I started freaking out when I saw how I was dressed.

Seeing every thread of Jax's transness come together and seeing her memories and seeing all this fanart of her and the beauty she could have been if she'd just reached out to someone. It made me realize how much I push down in myself and honestly felt like I was stabbed in the heart lol

i'm fumbling my words and stuff but I just HAVE to say something to SOMEONE. i wanna shout from high up that I'm a girl and I don't want to lie anymore. I feel like I've lived my whole life up to this point with a drowning girl in my brain and she can breathe now for once 😭

sorry this is so sappy and dramatic i'm just so fucking full of thoughts from this

[mechantelope]

all i ever wanted was to be a girl. from the absolute earliest times i can remember, this is what i wanted. i had absolutely nobody i could trust and i had parents who would emasculate me. i got caught up with horrible people and was a horrible person for a few years. i felt so fucking seen and i cant believe a stupid purple rabbit from a silly Internet cartoon hammered into my head how badly I needed to accept myself.

[mechantelope]

representation matters and i am so fucking happy to see someone who feels the same pain i do

[mechantelope]

Oh yeah here's the outfit I wore! I did some makeup but don't wanna show my face lol

[sammypog]

why is no one talking about the book reunion scene. did you know when grace explains that he’s going to die of starvation, rocky immediately tells him to leave and go back home, that he’ll just keep waiting, that erid might send another ship someday. i’m going crazy. rocky had probably completely accepted his fate and then grace miraculously appeared and gave him back his life and his home. and he was instantly willing to give it all up again just so grace could survive. can anyone hear me. this is insane. i’m insane

[dyke-parade]

the fact that grace has to CONVINCE ROCKY not to do this by arguing that grace isn't worth risking the entirety of erid for????

[bulkhummus]

i know for a fact you have to sign in to enter any school if you do not work there, and especially if you are not a parent, so at some point Eva Stratt had Carl hold up his badge so she could march past a retired cop who acts as a security guard for the school and everyone watches, mouth agape, as the woman walked into Grace's classroom

it was end of day - teachers stay late. kids have afterschool activities. Stratt and Carl are not familiar faces, which would have every adults head on a swivel who worked in a school. people would notice.

and i just know the rumors in the faculty room went fucking HARD the next day when Grace didn't show up to work

[bulkhummus]

thinking more about grace as a teacher

Avoids the faculty room like the plague

His classroom is NOT organized, there is shit everywhere - but he knows exactly where everything is

Goes out for lunch every day to eat his sad little sandwich on a bench in the sun

his prep is a lunch period so kids are ALWAYS in his room while hes trying to like grace and do other shit

Gets to work pretty early to prep for the day but leaves the moment the EOD bell rings which gets looks from other teachers

will speak up at faculty meetings - he never has a problem being an informative bitch at a faculty meeting and everyone loves and hates him for it

will always raise his hand to go on stage when they ask for teacher volunteers at an assembly

his do nows all have to do with relevant and contemporary research that he himself is interested in and keeps tabs on

he always 'forgets' to take attendance so he can have kids who need a break from sitting to bring it down to the office

his coworkers are convinced he's gay because he doesn't talk about his personal life and has no kids and teachers are gossip junkies

he only makes administrators who come in and have no idea how schools actually run use his Dr. title, everyone else can call him Mr.

He gets stuck with teaching health so he treats the human body and all that it does like its alien and the kids go nuts for it

all tests are open book because he firmly believes in utilizing resources

[hard-times-paramore]

Okay, real talk now. People love to tag male characters in posts about women, but this post is gonna take this seriously. Is there actually a canonically male character you believe is a trans woman? Or at least has made into a trans woman for a fanart or a fanfic? Excluding the ones canonically implied.

Sound off in the tags! Link to the fanart or fic if available. Do it. Give me the girls. Make more women.

[mrsazarath]

i mean anyone i relate to/like very much i tend to headcanon as transfemme. Thats possibly me projecting or whatever but like yeah rhere doesnt need to be strong evidence i will headcanon it anyway or go looking for evudence retroacrively