White, demisexual, USamerican. She/her (or they). Supernatural survivor. Destiel. Cockles. Other shippy and fanish things. Textile arts, dress history. I’m not great at tagging, so follow at your own risk. Also @scruffybutterfly and @oggiesreading
Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.
Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.
That is to say: you are not a bad, lazy, or selfish person for struggling, even if you know why you are struggling.
“The LEGO Movie was my favorite movie of 2014, but it strikes me that the main character was male, because I feel like in our current culture, he HAD to be. The whole point of Emmett is that he’s the most boring average person in the world. It’s impossible to imagine a female character playing that role, because according to our pop culture, if she’s female she’s already SOMEthing, because she’s not male. The baseline is male. The average person is male. You can see this all over but it’s weirdly prevalent in children’s entertainment. Why are almost all of the muppets dudes, except for Miss Piggy, who’s a parody of femininity? Why do all of the Despicable Me minions, genderless blobs, have boy names? I love the story (which I read on Wikipedia) that when the director of The Brave Little Toaster cast a woman to play the toaster, one of the guys on the crew was so mad he stormed out of the room. Because he thought the toaster was a man. A TOASTER. The character is a toaster. I try to think about that when writing new characters— is there anything inherently gendered about what this character is doing? Or is it a toaster?”
— Bojack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg commenting on how weird gendered defaults in entertainment are, and why we should think twice about them. Excerpted from this longer original post.
(via 360degreesasthecrowflies)
the first thing that comes to mine is kintsugi and that got me thinking about scars being golden. I have a few very vague/shapeless ideas floating around, but for the sake of being succinct and not taking ages to answer these asks, I'm going to go with one and it's a sort of revisit to this idea I had before about soul marks.
I want to take it further and say that every scar a person has ever had, their soulmate sees stitched in gold. And Buck is particularly self-conscious about this because of all the scars he got as a kid as well in addition to the scars on his leg and the Lichtenberg scars.
Tommy figures it out much sooner. Maybe he catches a glimpse of gold reflecting under the bright lights of the hangar the night of the hurricane, but he can't be too sure and he doesn't have the time or capacity to wrap his head around it. He knows for sure the day of the basketball game because Buck's showing a lot more skin. And while Tommy's got a few big scars, none of them are visible with the way he's dressed, and any of the smaller ones--on his legs are arms--are too small to see when they're playing basketball.
I think Tommy would hide it for awhile. It's not unusual for him to wear long sleeves and multiple layers. He isn't trying to deceive Buck, although the guilt eats at him because that's exactly what he's doing, it's just--he tells himself it doesn't matter anyway. What would Buck want with a soulmate like him anyhow. And he means to keep his distance, but it doesn't work out that way, though I keep I would hold off on their first kiss much later than in canon.
Maybe Buck figures it out before Tommy tells him. He didn't think much of it at first when he would catch Tommy looking at the scars on his legs because they're visible for anyone to see. He doesn't question the way Tommy's gaze lingers on his chest during a sparring session because it's not the first time he's caught Tommy's eyes lingering on him in an appreciate manner. It's the little scars that give it away. Buck can't see it anymore, but he had a scar when he was younger along the knuckles on his right hand from when he fell out of a tree when he was 9. He and Tommy are getting coffee and when Buck slides Tommy's coffee across the outdoor table, Tommy's eyes linger on Buck's hand. The first time Tommy kisses him, Tommy's lips connect with the right corner of Buck's mouth and even though it isn't noticeable now, when Buck was 11 he crashed his bike into a tree and bit a hole right through his lip.
For some reason, Buck doesn't tell Tommy right away that he knows. There's a lot of insecurities from both parties and so many things that go unsaid, but it gets to a point where they are all but admitting it to each other. When they're lying naked in bed and Tommy's tracing the path of Buck's Lichtenberg scars telling him how beautiful he is. When Buck lets his lips linger on the inside of Tommy's left thigh right over the healed scar from a fishing lure Tommy got one summer on the lake when he was 13.
The way Buck brings it up is by asking Tommy when he's going to let him see his scars, though they both know he already has. They both know he's really saying when are you going to let me in?
Maybe Tommy deflects, smiles at Buck and says you first, sweetheart.
I don't know exactly where this would go or how and when they finally stop being so scared of the enormity of being each other's soulmate, but also realizing that doesn't mean they wouldn't have chosen each other anyway, that they have been choosing each other every day pretty much since they met.
Before they can do that though, maybe they break up. Maybe it's a mutual decision, maybe they want to prove to themselves and each other it's real and not just because the universe or whatever says so. Maybe it's less mutual, one leaves but the other doesn't ask them to stay. When they inevitably run into each other months later after no contact and they hook-up...right after they've helped each other out of their shirts, they both notice a golden jagged line right over the other's heart.
Tommy traces the new line on Buck's chest. "Oh."
Buck does the same. "That's new."
They barely make it to Tommy's bedroom, pressing each other against every wall, barely letting each other breathe.
After, Buck's tracing the line on Tommy's chest again. "Does it hurt?"
Tommy kisses Buck's forehead. "Not anymore."
send me a made-up fic title and i'll tell you what i would write to go with it
This idea came from this tweet. ☺️ The wing prints left by a hunting owl looked so incredibly beautiful that they immediately gave me Destiel vibes🤩
Sadly, burnout meant I didn't get around to drawing it until summer, lol. But I think I needed that time, because I finally managed to bring it to life exactly the way I imagined🥰
Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress
This has been a common method for a long time in some states
The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh
An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually
was outside in the yard just sitting quietly watching the dogs play and felt a SHARP pain in my hand and there was suddenly a yellowjacket just STINGING ME VICIOUSLY??? I've never been stung by a yellowjacket before :( I wasn't even doing anything!!! i hate when insects make their presence in my space a Problem, because I wish I could communicate to them that I am one of the rare humans who will actually be fine with just seeing them around and sharing space with them UNLESS they start presenting a threat to the health and safety of the other residents... :( I'm literally nice
Took a benadryl and am icing the sting. I looked it up and it looks like if I do have a reaction to it, it'll be in the next two hours, so we are being vigilant about keeping an eye on that. my mom had a bad allergic reaction to a bee sting a few years ago but otherwise that's not something that our family has a history with, but like. MCAS, lol. i do think it's going to be funny if my body is fine with a yellowjacket sting but throws a tantrum about (spins wheel) a glass of juice
Drinking soda is better than drinking nothing all day. Eating ice cream for dinner is better than eating nothing for dinner. Eating salsa is better than having no produce in your diet at all.
Water is way more hydrating than soda, but soda is more hydrating than nothing. A balanced meal is way more nutritious than ice cream, but ice cream is more nutritious than nothing.
Something is better than nothing. Some hydration is better than no hydration. Some nutrients are better than no nutrients. Some produce is better than no produce.
Don't let societally imposed food guilt trick you into believing that nothing is a better choice. Nourishing your body, however you can, is always the better choice. Fed is best. Always.
Genuinely, one of the measures that's stopped book banning the most when districts implement it, is having the would-be banners fill out a form that demonstrates if they've read the book or not. Like where they have the summarize the plot and characters and do a mini book report and give a review. It stops them in their tracks. This is why in my high school, every time someone wanted to ban a book it ended up going nowhere. There was one where a conservative student wanted to ban the manga "Legal Drug" for having a marijuana leaf on the cover, then got the form that required them to actually read and either balked, or read it and realized it was not pro-drug at all.
(The other one that reduces book bans even further is "requiring the would-be banner to be affiliated with this actual school in some way, either by being a student, faculty/staff or a parent of a child at the school" because the vast majority of bans are "activists" with no affiliation with the school who just travel around trying to do this in districts all over the U.S. IIRC a few years ago someone crunched the numbers and just 51 parents were responsible for all the book bans that year nationally. 51! In a country with 50 states, with over 300 million people total!)
Laws like this indeed do a lot to stop fascist book censorship. They can also help legally protect librarians from getting fired or harassed for keeping books on the shelves! Some states like Rhode Island have already passed these laws. If you're in a blue state, look up whether you have laws like this on the books. MAYBE your state is trying to get one passed right now, like New York's Freedom to Read bill. call your state elected officials to voice support for it.
I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.
Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.
Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.
"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
i really do hate when people act like athena is buck's surrogate mom like that man is nottt her son he is a smelly ugly stray dog that bobby brought home one day and athena was like Bobby what did you bring into my house and Bobby said I found this guy on a call...isn't he cute? and athena was like He is not. but she let him keep the dog so long as he agreed to take care of him and not let him sit on the furniture. and athena will look at the dog sometimes as it's begging her for food and be like You are one ugly mutt you know that? and it'll wag its tail at her and she'll sigh and give its ears a little scratch. one time when bobby was in the kitchen athena fed the dog a shred of bacon from the table and may was like Mom did you just feed the dog bacon? That's not good for dogs and athena was like May don't be ridiculous i don't even like that dog. Michael did you see me feed the dog bacon? and michael was like Don't bring me into this i'm not the one who brought the dog home. and harry was like Can i feed the dog bacon and athena and may and michael and bobby all said No. now that bobby is gone athena lets the dog sit on the sofa sometimes and sometimes it'll put its doggy head in her lap and she'll say What are we gonna do with ourselves now...and the dog will drool on her and she'll say This is why i don't let you sit on the sofa. sometimes when she does something reckless and illegal she lets the dog ride along with her in the car because the dog likes to bite people so it can be helpful to have around. she never introduces it as her dog though she always say That dog in my passenger seat? I have no idea where he came from...must've left my car door open. meanwhile the dog has escaped the car and has bitten someone's leg off
He didn't steal 10 million dollars. They made that number up as a loss, they never fucking had it. Rockstar has spent more than a billion fucking dollars on GTA VI and will likely make billions more when it gets released.
Uber is a fucking shell game of a company designed to leech investor capital and output bootleg cabs.
Nvidia posted a profit in 2023 of $4.37 billion. This is like someone stealing less than a penny from me.
And they lock this kid in a prison hospital for LIFE?
What with GTA VI going up for pre-order i'd just like to remind everyone that rockstar conspired with the UK government to lock an 18-year-old away for life for hacking them.
