At Least Nine Times Trash, maybe more.

Queer as in fuck you. 34 / he/him. Cancer x3 ♋️ (two placements and a diagnosis) / Autistic Unreasonably aggressive washed up creative type, now here for funsies.

[birdplushie]

"it's not that deep" START DIGGING!!

[magn-animously]

DIG

[14-opossums-in-a-trenchcoat]

DIG

[buriedunderyourmum]

DIG

[hannisconfused]

DIG

[kitsunesakii]

DIG

[yourlocalfandomfriendo]

DIG

[apple-notplural]

DIG

[vivitur-moritur]

DIG

[spacecat24-7]

DIG

[chub-froggy]

DIG

[thatghostthateatspeople]

DIG

[krowbreaker]

DIG

[spid-the-spider]

DIG

[annabelle--cane]

DIG

[yellow-faerie]

DIG

[vampiraptor]

[philosopherking1887]

OOPS TOO DEEP

[razzmothazz]

still caring about internet friends you lost touch with years ago is so embarrassing. yeah i had a deam we met up irl recently. the last time we spoke was maybe 7-8 years ago. i still wear the laces we randomly decided was a sign of our friendship. i dont know what any of your socials are or if youre even active on any. sometimes i see someones art resemble yours and i wonder for hours. do you still go by that name you chose? whenever i see it i wonder if its you. we couldve passed each other in this vastness a thousand times and not have a clue.

[razzmothazz]

we were lonely kids having fun together. do you remember?

[josephbrassey]

“Haha remember when murder-hornets were gonna be a thing? What a nothingburger.”

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

And I refuse to let the cynics own a chunk of my heart.

[gudamor]

Happy Smallpox Eradication Day

[asksloyxp]

Maybe if I just work harder, this empty cup will pour again

[shinyrock6498]

Maybe the cup needs a bit of time to rest and refill?

[asksloyxp]

Maybe the cup needs to lock the fuck in???

[a-driftamongopenstars]

so I'd like to conduct a sort of survey. no judgement, but I'm curious!

imagine a fandom post, a gifset or an art or a fic. it's something you like.

why do you choose to not reblog it?

just don't want to

it's not something I want on my blog

I save it to drafts and forget to publish

reblogging feels like an effort (too many buttons to press)

I only reblog posts that really affected me

other (in tags or comments please)

Voting ended onApr 21

ironically, reblogs are appreciated to get a larger answer scope :)

[a-driftamongopenstars]

absolutely fascinating results and responses, thank you everyone. the poll is still going and I hope to try and gather everyone's thoughts into some kind of document 👀 maybe.

[prokopetz]

Tabletop RPG with an old school "you can die during character creation" lifepath system, except most of the disqualifying events are stuff like "made it to adulthood with no major traumas" or "discovered a love of carpentry", so your actual goal is to make just enough bad life decisions that your character is a big enough loser to become an adventurer.

[prokopetz]

Starting out in a coastal community is regarded by some as an optimal choice because if you have the bad luck to end up happily married you can make a saving throw to see if your spouse is subsequently eaten by a whale.

[depsidase]

[avocant]

okay so I'm having a debate with my flatmates

are these all different things and if so what do you call them

[moonywithatrafficcone]

#1 is a hoodie. No doubt about it. Zip is there, hood is there. It is a hoodie.

#2 is where we start to question a little bit. But the answer remains the same. That is a hoodie.

#3 is not difficult at all. That is a jumper. NOT A SWEATER. A sweater is not ugly unless it is a christmas sweater that is intended to be ugly. That third one is a jumper (or a pullover if you want to be different).

am i correct

yes

double yes

no (put your answer in replies)

vanilla extract/results

Voting ended onApr 11

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you can only do this career for the rest of your life

https://wheelofnames.com/dng-wgq

How are things going?

Great! A job I actually enjoy!

okay. I can put up with this

bad but not terrible

terrible

I don't work/results

Voting ended onApr 13

(this wheel is set in a magical world where all jobs pay enough to support yourself so this is purely about the work you do and not the money)

[dragonroyaly]

[brickylittle]

oh my god I just realized this is the year people will stop being born and stop aging and stop dying

[trippin-on-apple]

What football will look like in the future

Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong. Something is terribly wrong.

[hellallamerican]

absolutely major news out of georgia: the legislative session ended last night at midnight and ALL anti-lgbtq+ bills were defeated

[leitharstjarna]

All anti-LGBTQ+ bills defeated as Georgia legislative session ends

Georgia Equality celebrates the defeat of anti-LGBTQ+ bills, including restrictions on gender-affirming care. Advocacy and activism prevaile

[beabaseball]

The bills that were defeated included: SB 30: a bill to restrict access to medical care for trans youth SB 39: a bill to deny coverage of medical care for trans people covered by the State Employee Health Benefit Plan SB 74: a bill to criminalize librarians sharing LGBTQ+ content SB 497: a forced outing bill for LGBTQ+ students HB 104 and 267: bills further restricting trans youth from participating in sports HB 671: a drag ban HB 1210: a bill to create en exemption for non-affirming parents and caretakers to abuse trans youth

[roycohn]

"the world you grew up in is gone" but not in a reactionary "there are too many brown people" way more like i woke up one day and suddenly everyone is illiterate and believes jewish people are literal demonic pedophiles, raw dairy and steak cure cancer, and AI chatbots are their friends. and i want the old world back

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

Speaking generally, I think people on the left need to be more comfortable laying claim to nostalgia. It's ground that shouldn't be reflexively ceded just because of a spurious idea that the mere passage of time has an inherent morally positive quality to it. Extremely compelling left-wing arguments can be made for many aspects of the way things were done in the recent or semi-recent past, over against how they are done now.

[coherentnow]

bring back:

a heavily unionized workforce

wages that can support around 4 people

clothes with decent craftsmanship

relatively low rates of incarceration

frequent uses of third spaces

unmarried people being able to stay at home (with their parents) without stigma

married people living with multiple generations of family

non-blood relatives who are uncles and aunts

market competition in pharmacies, telecommunication companies, grocery stores, and all else

limits to campaign/election spending (including what is in essence by proxy)

small farmers

home ownership

camera-free places

closed-circuit cameras when cameras must be present

functioning social safety nets

walkable spaces

free places to hang

reading as a daily habit, culturally

listening to music as a daily habit, culturally

respecting and decently paying writers and musicians for their time and talents

This time, though make all of these things directly available to people of all races and ethnicities and all genders, and make it all elective.

Side note: these are things from different eras.

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

I'm not familiar enough with how the old Ma Bell telephone monopoly in the US used to work to know if I agree with this, but I've heard that arguments can be made that that was better than both the brief era of free-ish competition afterwards and the re-cartelized telecommunications sector now. Homeownership is also not right for everyone; it should be more affordable by a whole fucking lot, but landlords' practices towards renters should also be more regulated. Agreed with everything else on this list entirely.

[coherentnow]

Solid notes.

I don't know much about the Bell telephone monopoly off-hand, but in general, I do know that when we see that kind of scenario (large numbers of independent companies who are no better--or worse than--monopolies), there tends to be price-fixing and other forms of collusion under the surface. So, I'll amend my market competition point to addressing unfair and anticompetitive business practices, generally. That ought to lead to some serious improvements, regardless.

I'm completely with you re: homeownership. Yes to improving affordability and accessibility across the board--and beefing up tenant's rights such that they enjoy most of the same rights as owners. I'd also like to see private equity firms pushed out of residential ownership altogether.

[isaacsapphire]

Intriguing wishlist and I like to see this tree barked up. Sounds nice enough as a dream, but executing the reality might be complex or require other less obviously positive or practical things though.

Has daily reading ever been a hobby of the masses? Is daily music listening not a hobby of the masses now?

Incidentally you do presumably understand that the implication of CCTV rather than remote surveillance is on site security? Like, it’s a kind of distributed jobs program/reshoring/return from The South for remote monitoring. Is that the whole point?

[calamitys-child]

I always say that the thing which sets Sargent apart as a portrait artist is that he draws/paints literally every subject - no matter their gender, social position, life vs representational drawing etc - like he is right that minute realising he's desperately in love with them. And it rules every single time.

[calamitys-child]

Examples pulled just from his Wikipedia page most popular works. Absolutely devastating scenes for bisexuals for over a century

[shorthistorian]

Don't forget the ALLIGATORS. He loves them too.

[kitschyfemme]

btw if you are friends with someone and you have the kind of dynamic where you can tease each other you also need to be nice. just so we're all aware. you also have to be nice with your words on top of it. like with your words. use your words. you should tell them with your words when you like something about them. if you are scared of being too sincere or vulnerable that is not an excuse to not be nice to someone. also you should work on that. ok are we all on the same page

[estrogenesis-evangelion]

"when i was your age, netflix came to our house in the mail" never gets old. they don't believe you, because they can't, because they cannot conceive the apparatus by which this would be true. but it is true. they mailed me season 1 of the sopranos with stamps. with fucking stamps man

[2020knives]

do something to prev

shave them bald

put them in the timeloop

they must find your pages

trapped in mirror dimension

let them loose into the wild

introduce them somewhere else as an invasive species

put a plastic bag in their enclosure

fill them with milk and throw against the wall

turn them into marketable plushie

remove them from reality

study them in a petri dish

Voting ended onApr 6