Call me B

Or Miri. They/them. 25. Queer. please chat with me ---------------------------------------------------------- ☆crochet blog: @wholesometropicalfluff☆ ☆resources: @musingsofateenagesidekick☆

[leucotoe-archive-deactivated202]

words of affirmation i repeat on the daily

[ruffboi-mags]

If someone thinks I'm annoying they are welcome to get the heck out.

[arrowquillpokemon]

game: has any kind of elemental based fighting system

me: apply pokemon logic

[gluttonousgoddess]

To be fair Pokemon element logic is rooted in normal logic.

[arrowquillpokemon]

yeah, everyone knows a wrestlers biggest weakness is the local pigeons

[karnalesbian]

go outside and try to suplex a bird

[dolleyeresponse]

tell me how bug resists fighting

[karnalesbian]

go outside and try to suplex a bug

[gayhockeyshow]

Hudson Williams NOBODY gets it like you

[femalegothic]

men just love to run their fucking mouth about what women do or do not want without even once considering consulting any actual women on the matter

How Women’s Sports Uniforms Became So Controversial, Long Before The Paris Olympics

Nike’s viral track kit is just one part of the story.

Faced with restrictive and uncomfortable uniforms, these women athletes fought to change their gear

(cnn) — When Olympian Tess Howard put on her new uniform for Great Britain’s women’s field hockey team in 2021, she

Women’s beach handball team fined for choosing shorts over bikini bottoms | CNN

The Norwegian women’s beach handball team has been fined after players opted to wear shorts instead of bikini bottoms during a European cham

Top female athletes speak out amid Olympics, defy convention through their uniforms

Female athletes are breaking with their sports' apparel conventions -- if not regulations -- to prioritize their comfort during competitions

Women’s Uniforms: judgement of women clutters sports front

Sports Commentary Historically, women in sports have not garnered the same respect as men, though they perform the same tasks and play the s

An Olympic medalist who refused to compete in bikini bottoms says skimpy outfits are putting women off athletics

Pole vaulter Holly Bradshaw refused to wear the customary bikini bottoms and crop tops favored by the majority of female athletes.

Underlying Injustices: Female Athlete Uniforms

According to Women in Sport, 78 percent of girls avoid participating in sports while on their period. 78 percent.  CEO of Women in Sport, St

[hollowedskin]

When I used to play field hockey in highschool the refs had to check to make sure we weren't wearing shorts under our skirts, and if we were we weren't allowed to play on the feild.

I was goalie so I didn't have to, because of the armour, but it's also why I refused to play any other position, or any other sport.

They did it to netballers and basketballers too, which was even worse bc their whole sport involves jumping.

And people wonder why girls don't want to play sports....

[ratbastarddotfuck]

tumblr keeps giving me these ads with straight up porn in them (like, nude dickriding) and while idgaf about seeing porn I really am like, exhausted by the double edged swords of "terms of service" and "advertising".

I can't post images that show too much of my stomach, because notable body fat trips whatever alarms are up in tumblr HQ. but advertisers can show me skinny white girls bouncing on it all day long bc like, they're advertisers.

we live in advertising world. companies have more rights to "expression" in public than individuals. once you notice it you won't stop seeing it. you have a moral duty to resist it.

[ratbastarddotfuck]

getting tired of these kinds of responses. "you're only seeing porn because you look at porn and the ads are connected to your data huehuehuehue" like it's some kind of gotcha.

I am a sex worker - a porn creator. Yes, I spend a lot of time on porn sites! sometimes for work, sometimes for pleasure. I'm not embarrassed to admit it. Do you think I should be? I'm on testosterone, sometimes I jerk off four times a day. Get over it.

When I said "idgaf about seeing porn" I meant it! What I DO care about is the fact that I as a user and a worker cannot post my creative labour on this website, but that advertisers can show me whatever they want, including AI generated Attractive People doing my job. The implication that they're doing this with the use of tracking cookies makes it worse, actually. I don't like living under surveillance. Do you think it's funny? Or do you think that was part of the problem I was trying to talk about from the start?

[katzirra]

I find that really fucking rich as a gotcha point, because I don't fucking look at jack shit on my phone of that nature, and tumblr is STILL flooding mine with that shit too. OP is right that it fucking sucks and they shouldn't have to have even made the second post. If you're trying to defend this shit to someone - maybe stop bootlicking and reread the first post lmao??

The fact big corpo can push NSFW shit in my face that I don't wanna god damn see, but the stuff I do wanna see and access by people who are properly tagging and currating etc being the problem? Yikes. It fucking feels gross. It feels kinda violating when you're not looking for it tbh. Also with all this sanitizing the internet nonsense FOR THE CHILDREN!!! I think constantly about the fact there are young teens on here, who are probably being exposed to these ads as well. If I'm getting them when I don't look at stuff on my phone, what are they catching on theirs?

And especially the ones - if the 'big data' is factored in- but the ones who are trying to covertly explore sexual curiosity, and getting that thrust in your face when you're not looking for it fucking SUCKS. Also like, seeing that shit when I'm in public and I have nsfw filters on and it still gets through?? WRETCHED BEHAVIOR.

Shit sucks. I hope everyone reports those ads every time they come up, because that SPECIFIC shit shouldn't fly.

[alexseanchai]

[image: Tumblr tags: #buddy...those ads are take from Your “big data stuff]

[crimsonservbot]

You ever hear that old chestnut about how most people neglect the part of the story of Icarus where he also had to avoid flying too low, lest the spray of the sea soak his feathers and cause him to fall and drown? You ever think about how different the world would be if Icarus died that way instead? If the idiom was to Fly To Close To The Sea? A warning against playing it far too safe, about not stretching your wings and soaring properly? You ever think about how Icarus died because he was happy?

[stoopkidlisteningtocsh]

Was feeling Emotions than was quickly hit by very different ones upon opening the comments

[meganwhalenturner]

Some things I am  not telling you

Somebody in a message a while back referred to my “No Spoilers” policy and seeing Seanan McGuire’s post reminded me of it.  I want to clarify–I don’t have a No Spoilers Policy.  I have a Not Telling policy.  

I’m Not Telling what’s in the next book.

I’m Not Telling why something was in the last book.

I am Not Telling what things mean.

I am Not Telling anything I haven’t already put on the page.  

What I hope is  …  I am Not Telling You What to Think.

This isn’t an easy policy to stick to. I’m always tempted to tell people what I think (about anything, really, don’t let me get started) and I do lapse, especially in small group settings that involve too much caffeine or in some cases, alcohol, and some day when readers have had time to make up their own minds, I expect I’ll loosen up about this. (Like Ray Bradbury, in 40 years I am going to tell you that The Thief was really all about the evils of television.)  I don’t have this policy because it’s the moral high ground.  It’s a personal thing.  I like to make up my own mind about what I read– I want to offer my readers the same space.  I never want something I say to get in the way of you creating the story you want in your own head.

[meganwhalenturner]

Reblogging here for new readers the roots of my uncooperative nature.

[buddie-romance]

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

[runawaymarbles]

The midjourney stuff just reminds of when we were trying to find a new platform to host the ao3 donation form, and companies kept trying to tell me about all their "ai" features that would track donor engagement, and figure out the optimal pattern to email individual donors asking for follow up donations, and all the ways they suggest we manipulate people into staying on our websites. It was a great way to filter out who either wasn't listening to us when we described our ethics and donor base, or just didn't believe us.

Now granted ao3 is a unique case based on a) the amount of page views we get in any given time period and b) the fact that most donors absolutely do Not want to be identified as such anywhere, (the default "list of recent donors" module got nuked Immediately) but it surprised me some that the concept of "donors who value their privacy and would be furious at even the whiff of AI" is unique. Some of us really are just existing in different worlds.

[zz9pzza]

Op's tags

#I just started dropping '2.5 Billion page views a month'#into conversations as early as possible bc they would Not believe me otherwise#it was right up there with having to say 'csam attacks' to get them to take my compartmentalization of information concerns seriously#turns out those are the magic words#otw#op

[runawaymarbles]

The last part was kind of insane, honestly. When we started changing platforms for the donor database, I kept telling them that yes I was aware we already had an account for the volunteer database, and no that could not be connected to the donor database. And they said yes fine sure and then connected them anyway. And I called them back and said, excuse me, I'm confused, I can see both databases. And they said, well, yeah, but it's only you, someone has to be able to see both databases to give other users access. The other users can't see both. And I said, no, we have been asking for a completely separate database. I should not be able to see both. And they said, you are one organization, one organization can't have two databases. And I said, last year someone used our volunteer email list to commit approximately one thousand felonies. Please feel free to imagine how much worse it could have been had they had a way to use volunteers' email addresses to get their legal names. We do not want this to be something anyone can do no matter how much we trust them. Let me describe those felonies to you in more detail. And they emailed me two hours later and said, you can have two separate databases.

[kyraneko]

This post feels like watching an iceberg go by in clear water. The amount of stuff going on beneath the surface of AO3 just astonishes.

[jeffsatyr]

(ID in alt)

[elodieunderglass]

Approximately one THOUSAND felonies

[regonym]

hope is a weapon, by @mumblesplash (x)

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[gqandw]

[slipping-into-madness]

[thaumbody]

Here's a source for the analysis, but it probably is not the source.

Labor share of income hits record low as corporate profits soar

Workers’ share of US economic output has fallen to its lowest level since the government began keeping records in 1947, according to data th

Some points of interest:

Corporate profits are soaring. After taxes, they now take 12.3 percent of national output, far above their postwar average of 7.3 percent.

Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages have risen 3 percent since the end of 2019, Ip noted. Corporate profits over the same period have risen 50 percent.

The Economic Policy Institute calculates that since 1979 the productivity of American workers has grown 90 percent while the pay of the typical worker has grown 33 percent. Had wages tracked output, the average worker would earn $16.40 more an hour today.

The profits are concentrated among the largest corporations. Earnings at the 500 biggest US firms rose 28 percent in the first quarter from a year earlier, the fastest pace since 2021, and their profit margins reached 14.8 percent. The seven technology giants known as the “Magnificent 7”—Apple, Microsoft, Nvidia, Alphabet, Amazon, Meta and Tesla—grew their profits 63 percent.

In the United States, the richest 1 percent of households hold 31.7 percent of all wealth. The bottom half hold barely 2.5 percent.

[the-gay-goblin]

Only day you can reblog this

[roseverdict]

this has been scheduled since last month

[archaicfirehydrants]

today

[what-day-of-the-week]

All the days you can reblog this for the next 10 years:

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[tatersgonnatate]

... Y'know what, sure. why not

[silly-signs]

Official silly sign

[jewish-mccoy]

fandom + antisemitism

okay fandom. 

here’s a hard truth that y’all need to grasp: YOU’RE ANTISEMITIC.

which fandom? doesn’t matter. it’s all of you. it really is. xmen? yeah. marvel? yep. dc? YEP. Star Trek? THE WORST. 

let me give you a heads up on some quick, easy ways to stop being trash.

stop “forgetting” jewish characters are jewish (cough, Spock, cough) 

listen to jews when we tell you shows like the ray are inherently antisemitic

don’t make jewish characters christian in fanfic or fanart

STOP. DRAWING. HORNS. ON. SPOCK. 

if you write a holocaust au, you’re the worst kind of trash (y’all know who you are)

cherik fans, please don’t support people who portray Erik as a priest or a fucking German soldier 

LISTEN TO JEWS. 

[jewish-mccoy]

Goyim can reblog this FYI

[fromchaostocosmos]

don’t erase characters Jewishness which is done a fuck with erik

do not make Jewish character demons like please understand history and how that comes into play 

don’t be racist 

do your fucking research 

i have a whole tag on fandom antisemitism if you want to go and see some things of what not to do 

please understand that when actors that are not Jewish play Jewish characters this is whitewashing

it is still whitewashing if fancast a Jewish character with an actor who is not Jewish

do not write Chanukah as if it is xmas just for Jews. Chanukah is not like x-mas at all. 

If you reach out to Jewish people and ask for help to make sure your fanart or fanfic or whatever is not antisemitic we will help so reach out.

Don’t be an asshole if antisemitic shit is pointed out

Don’t harass Jewish people for pointing out antisemitism in your fave show book movie comic whatever

Don’t ignore said pointed out antisemitism either

Also Yaweh not a term Jewish people have ever used that is some xtian made up bullshit   

[magnetothemagnificent]

-Giving a demon character who is played by a white man a hooked nose and sallow or darker skin in fanart is antisemitic. Full stop.

-Same with vampires

-And goblins

-And witches

-WW2 “AUs” where one character is a Nazi and the other is a Jew is antisemitic. There is no enemies-to-lovers when one person is part of an oppressed group and the other is an oppressor.

-Do at least a little bit of research before writing Jewish characters. Jews aren’t just “secular Jew who is Jewish only for comedic relief” or “ex-Charedi Jew with trauma.”

-Lizard people characters are antisemitic.

-Illuminati/Secret Society of Elites conspiracy theories and plotlines are antisemitic

-“Outsiders who kidnap children for blood rituals” is antisemitic

-Jews who talk about the antisemitism in your favourite media aren’t “party poopers”. Media antisemitism has real world consequences.

-Don’t expect every Jew in fandom to be your educator. Some of us are happy to educate you, but others just want to enjoy fandom and not have to educate goyim on the fact that antisemitism is real.

-Listen to a diversity of Jewish voices. Your one Jewish acquaintance who says it’s “okay” to everything you do isn’t enough.

[roycohn]

🔊🔊 END STAGE DISCOURSE!! END STAGE DISCOURSE!! WE HAVE ARRIVED AT "FICTIONAL SEX IS COERCIVE BECAUSE CHARACTERS ARE BEING FORCED TO DO THINGS BY THE AUTHOR"!!!! 🔊🔊

[blueeyesatnight]

My favorite professor, shout out Glenn, would interrupt students who were saying "Well XYZ clearly felt--" and go "No, backtrack, scratch that. They are a character. Not a person. They don't have any thoughts other than what the writer clearly specifies on paper they have. Don't give agency to nonliving things, they are not real, they never were real, and it is dangerous to lose that line."

He was a sweet man and raised in the Midwest so interrupting people hurt his very soul, that's how dangerous he felt the idea of losing the line of fiction was.

He notably also taught a course called Bible in Lit which I took and those lines came back a lot.

[ominous-signs]

You guys should talk about your ghost experiences if you have them actually, and want to share that is. I’m so curious.

[json-derulo]

not a ghost experience or even a supernatural one, but a bizarre unexplained occurrence that keeps me up at night nonetheless: I once found a real, perfectly intact pumpkin sitting on my doorstep one morning in mid-march.

fresh. showed no sign of having been frozen and thawed out. not carved or smashed or anything. no knock, no note, no nothing. I asked every friend who knew my address and none ever owned up to it, or even seemed suspicious. all shared my bafflement about how someone would even get a fresh, whole pumpkin in florida in mid-march. it's been years at this point and I have never gotten even a whiff of an explanation.

if you're ever looking to pull a completely harmless prank that will live rent-free in the target's mind forever...miraculously acquire a large, unwieldy, wildly out-of-season piece of fresh produce, abandon it on their doorstep, and never, ever tell them who or why or how the fuck

[amorphousspecimen]

In the same vein but opposite.

I had a venus fly trap go missing overnight.

Brought it home, put it on the kitchen table, went to bed.

Next morning it was just gone. My mom and my grandma were both as confused as me, and I know they wouldn't have done anything with it since they were the ones who paid for it as a birthday gift to me.

I'm still baffled, but do use it as an anecdote about how bad with plants I am.