i was very sleep-deprived

a collection of shit i can't post on my main blog

[memewhore]

[yellow-cat]

im not really worried about aging because im only going to become hotter and more insane the older i get

[prokopetz]

I enjoy when people give me a hard time about using the term "sequential art" because they think it's just a pretentious way of saying "comics", because when I point out that "comics" and "sequential art" are overlapping but non-identical mediums, they invariably demand an example of sequential art that isn't comics, and I get to hit them with "PowerPoint presentations".

[maxknightley]

Much like the $15/hr minimum wage, "walkable cities" are not longer sufficient. The world has changed.

We need jumpable cities.

[maxknightley]

Only a lack of political will has prevented the United States from adding conveyor belts, skybridges, artificial updrafts powerful enough to lift a grown woman, and multiple types of collectible to its urban centers.

Naturally, for the sake of accessibility, this also means that all wheelchairs should come with integrated rocket thrusters.

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

i do think a lot of implausible medieval plot devices make more sense when considering the fact that these people simply did not have glasses

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

like the king arthur problem of how were these people always accidentally sleeping with the wrong person? well 1) no glasses 2) no lights and candles are so expensive 3) royal couples didn’t even sleep in the same bed a lot of the time anyway 4) arranged marriage how much do you really know your spouse anyway? maybe not very well a lot of the time 5) people are drinking a lot idk. maybe not as absurd as one might think

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

this post is brought to you by the one time i woke up at a sleepover and realized that without my glasses i could not distinguish one friend from the other. haunting. all of arthurian literature was unlocked to me at that moment

[bethanydelleman]

This very much applies to Shakespeare (I think we all underestimate how extremely dark it was in the past)

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

my fav pokemon fact is that 25% of marill are canonically trans masc

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

the gender ratio for azurill is 75% female whilst for marill it’s only 50%.

also look how much happier he is post transition! go on king <3

[xx-k1tsun3-k1d-xx]

happy pride month to transgender marill pokemon <3

[the-reconciliation-of-all-things]

how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different

[importantandunavoidable]

there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first

[yeoldenews]

I love that in 200+ years click-baity fluff piece animal stories have not changed one bit.

(source: The Liverpool Mercury, August 26, 1814.)

[stardial]

IS OBI WAN KENOBI trans OR A chaser?

TRANS

CHASER

both <3

OTHER...? (tell me in tags..?)

Voting ended onNov 12, 2023

[ct-dykeula]

[stardial]

this is the funniest fucking thing ive ever read

[byjove]

Rest in Peace to Renee Good. ICE shooting an innocent 37 year old mother attempting to protect her neighbors is not an accident or an act of self defense, it is an act of terror designed to dissuade other people from stepping in, documenting ICE violence and reminding immigrants of their rights. Her son is now an orphan and the president of the United States is calling her a ‘professional agitator’ on social media.

[stripedroseandsketchpads]

The head of ICE is calling her a violent terrorist and claimed her attempt to back her car away was actually an effort to murder the ICE officers present.

There’s a reason that the Right have all rallied so quickly behind this narrative: it’s happened before, with ICE’s approval.

Renee is the ninth person to have been shot by ICE since last September; and in all of those shootings the victim was in a vehicle and the agents claimed that the vehicle was “a threat”/trying to “run them down.” One other shooting, that of Silverio Villegas Gonzalez, was also lethal.

This is pretty clearly a sanctioned tactic being used by ICE repeatedly with an eye towards using the vehicle-as-weapon excuse later.

[deadgenerations]

The interesting thing here is that vehicles-as-weapons has entered the US discourse quote violently over the last few years. but it has because particularly deranged rught wing lunatics have been argitating to make it legal to run down and even murder protestors with your car for blocking traffic. They've spent years sanctioning the use of a vehicle to legally kill people, and now are killing people for driving near them under a delirious reverse logic

Ahead of ‘No Kings' protests, DeSantis says Florida drivers can hit protesters to ‘flee for your safety'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on a podcast this week that drivers in Florida who encounter protesters and feel threatened have a right to h

[fourpatch]

speaking of, i don’t remember whether i ever posted this completed pair of gloves here. never got around to making a sweater of it, but there’s still time.

[luisonte]

Si hombre pero que dise tu

[fireduende]

[lastoneout]

[mxjackparker]

If you're at work in a retail or hospitality environment and you see a sex worker with a client... no you didn't.

If your boss asks you if you think that person's a sex worker, you tell them you do not believe that. You don't report their presence to anyone. You don't joke about it with a coworker. You don't eavesdrop or bother them.

We're working the same as you are. Leave us alone!

[mxjackparker]

Some examples of situations where you might need to keep your mouth shut about a potential sex worker:

You see someone you don't recognize walk past reception at your hotel to head directly for the stairs or elevator or towards the rooms without acknowledging you at the reception desk. Yes, this includes when the person is wearing revealing clothing or a nice dress and heels. This is not your business.

You notice multiple men going to the same hotel room during the same evening, each only staying for an hour or so at a time. This is not your business.

You seat two customers for dinner and work as their waiter/waitress for the night. You see one give an envelope of cash to the other. Yes, this includes when there's a huge age gap between the two and they're being affectionate. This is not your business.

You overhear one customer ask another how much they charge for a night, whilst making drinks for them. You heard nothing. This is not your business.

I do not care what kind of retail or hospitality setting you work in. If you see a sex worker, no you didn't!

[astra-the-dragon]

if the cops get involved, you know who gets punished? not any of the clients, only the sex worker. not a pimp, not the hotel manager, only the worker; and the cops are liable to sexually assault them as well.

if you have any qualms about sex work, you can start by improving workers' rights as a whole. demilitarizing police. increasing comprehensive sex ed for all ages. battling misogyny in the workplace. under the boot of capitalism, we all suffer - the most vulnerable, such as sex workers, suffer worst. leave them be.

[sn4ilsh3llz]

Get High And Notice Basslines

[roriferis]

Help they made the dinosaurs in the field museum’s captions into cute babies

[roriferis]

Also at the Field Museum. What they don’t tell you is that the Mastodon is so-called because a French scientist thought its distinctive teeth resembled breasts. I guess.

[wolfertinger666]

burn it 🔥

(he/him) 🐇

[wolfertinger666]

said this on bluesky but:

i genuinely encourage non black people to engage with this, who might be worried they can't because of the word "nigga" because they feel like it's overstepping. the only way it would be overstepping is saying it to me when ur not black, but please don't be afraid to engage with black art.

i kinda get annoyed when non black people police other non blacks on how to engage with black culture because it creates a problem where non black people avoid us all together which can be extremely isolating and create even MORE tension and overall being uneducated.

[collapsedsquid]

According to the sources, the President has asked the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) to prepare the invasion plan, but it is being resisted by the joint chiefs of staff on the grounds that it would be illegal - and would not be supported by Congress. One source said: 'They have tried to distract Trump by talking about less controversial measures, such as intercepting Russian 'ghost' ships - a clandestine network of hundreds of vessels operated by Moscow to evade Western sanctions - or launching a strike on Iran.' [...] One diplomatic cable describes the 'worst-case' scenario as leading to 'the destruction of Nato from the inside'. It adds: 'Some European officials suspect this is the real aim of the hardline MAGA faction around Trump. Since Congress would not allow Trump to exit Nato, occupying Greenland could force the Europeans to abandon Nato. If Trump wants to end Nato, this might be the most convenient way to do it.'

Vroom Vroom accelerate those contradictions.