Neat Things

Pi-ratical here, making personal posts and reblogs and all that good stuff that doesn't belong on an art blog. Wishlist

[mus-osseous]

Damn boy, are those space pants? 'Cuz I'm anticipating a catastrophic decompression incident

[carrionmansion]

Loooove stories where people learn the wrong lessons. A tragedy in itself. And honestly sometimes it just feels more realistic

[whisperedsighss]

[genderoutlaws]

Stonewall veteran and trans rights advocate Victoria Cruz dies

Victoria Cruz, a transgender rights advocate and Stonewall veteran, has died at the age of 79 following a battle with liver cancer.

a lot of ppl's lives were touched by victoria :( may her memory be a blessing

[brainscrewz]

tbh if someone just handed me a pressure washer and set me loose in the streets i would go into a trance and just start hosing shit down indiscriminately. it's not a question of how much i could clean, but how long until i get hit by a car and die

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

Digital de-aging is bad not just because it always looks creepy as fuck no matter how much money they pour into it, but because it deprives me of getting to see the fucking black magic of a) the casting director somehow finding someone who looks unnervingly like the original actor despite not being related at all and b) the actors completely convincing me that they are, in fact, the same person at different times in their life.

[matrixdragon]

And occasionally, the amusement of sticking a bad wig and some makeup on the original actor and just demanding we accept they're a teenager now.

[onceuponatimeinerebor]

[problematicghosty]

you’re allowed to be a boy btw. You’re allowed to be a girl. You’re allowed to be both or neither or something else entirely. You’re allowed.

[madeofklay]

What I learned not to do in art school

[starrynet]

what’s your favorite ship?

titanic

hms terror

uss enterprise

ever given (the container ship that blocked the suez canal in 2021)

captain ahab’s whaling vessel

ship of theseus

battleship monopoly token

mclennon

Remaining time: 1 day 17 hours

[bayboyzone]

Noelle Sweetie My Outfit Bluescreened LOL

[correlatedcontents]

Probably the worst thing about living in this town is all the guys on out-of-control rocket-propelled gliders who are always crashing into everything. But that's just what happens when I, the youngest son of the town's preeminent glider baron, sabotage the automated assembly line to thwart the aspirations of my older brother, who has inherited leadership of the company for no other reason than the priority of his birth, and despite my clear aptitude for the machines of our family trade. Yep, I gotta say, that's just the sort of thing you sign up for when you live in a town like Gliderville

[trickyparadise]

[catasters]

[fiskael]

Beaded centipede bracelet, done as a christmas gift.

[respectissexy]

Having experienced a lot of it in my 20s, I think some of the worst, pettiest, most straight up this-is-just-bullying-you're-passing-off-as-praxis incidences of Queer Infighting endemic to young people can be best understood as attempts to exercise power by people with very little power.

Like you're 22, you're queer, you've just become a Marxist, the scope of World Suck is overwhelming and you have $30 in your bank account. What can you do to feel like you have any power? Well, you can try to get your frenemy cancelled for cosplaying a character from a problematic show. You can write a public callout post over someone's obviously friendly use of a slur you don't think they technically have the right to reclaim. Doing this stuff can make you feel like you have power and your actions have an impact. Unfortunately the impact in question is a negative impact on other marginalized people. But that often takes some maturity and self-reflection to notice.

[drtanner]

I'm reminded of this post from 2017. To paraphrase, OP took part in community service via their university and part of that was cleaning the bathrooms at the local homeless community centre, which would frequently get trashed, not because the homeless people using them disrespected the work of the people cleaning them but because they had so little control over other things that happened in their lives, and the bathroom was something they could affect.

This, too, is a trashed bathroom; young queer people living through hell and having precious little control over their circumstances or the world in which they exist can affect something by using the language of social justice as a cudgel on their would-be allies, as well as getting a brief feeling of power over someone else by doing it.

It's not worth it. Don't trash your community bathrooms.

[ashlgcostumes]

As someone who is both trans and has a child, absolutely hilarious to me that society presents one of these as absolutely only to be done if you are 110% certain and have proved to several people that you want it bad enough and are ready, and the other is like. You might as well everyone else does. Just do it nobody feels ready. You don’t want to? Yes you do

Especially since one of those is pretty reversible if you change your mind after a couple years and the other one, well, technically but that’s pretty frowned upon

[cumdumpstiel]

it's so crazy the level of Noise people seem to be totally cool with like they'll have the tv on blaring mission impossible 47 on 1000+ volume dolby digital surround sound subwoofers rattling the windows while somebody's in the kitchen making a smoothie with frozen rocks in it and also there's a five car pileup happening right outside the door with bystanders screaming and sobbing and sirens blaring and a busted fire hydrant blasting everywhere and a pack of feral neighborhood dogs coming to play and bark in the hydrant water and they start mauling a child on the sidewalk and then the ambulance rolls up and then the neighbor starts setting off pipe bombs in his backyard and the air raid sirens go off and then they'll just turn to you and be like hey i'm talking to you. did u even hear me just now 😡 why are you so distracted

[cumdumpstiel]

you, some type of freak autist: hey can we turn off the radio if we're gonna have a conversation

me, neurotypical as fuck and ready to party: *shouting over the amber alert on my phone* hold on i cant watch this explosive action movie if i don't have screaming rainforest monkey mating season ASMR playing on my phone for background noise. okay, now we can talk about your dead grandma or whatever