Welp thats it.

My reblogs and ramblings. Been here since Jan 2013 and not going anywhere soon. Queer

[running-batty]

My electric bill is always high in the summer but this is horrific. I don't know how I'm going to pay for this!

I didn't expect the rate increase to be so significant, I expected maybe $20. We already weren't sure how we would afford the bill this month after the issues we've been having with dcf about cutting my brothers insurance by mistake and refusing to fix that mistake. It's costing us over $300 a month to cover his critical health needs.

I desperately need some help. If anyone can spare a few bucks I'd really appreciate it.

[hail-dondus]

Finding out Hans Zimmer is a transphobe genuinely had me falling to my knees

[cartoonistfreak101]

Thank you blastybaku for explaining this!/gen

[poetry-protest-pornography]

If you've ever heard a movie score and thought "holy shit, this is incredible", there's like, a 50% chance it was Hans Zimmer who composed it.

This is a pretty major letdown, ngl.

Anyways, fuck transphobes, which includes Hans Zimmer, apparently.

[excessively-english-jd]

Anyway shoutout to John Williams, amazing composer and probably the one who made the other 50% of "holy shit amazing" soundtracks (Jurassic Park, Star Wars, Superman, and incidentally the original Harry Potter theme and score) who famously worked closely with the first openly transgender woman to be nominated for an Academy Award, Angela Morley. He respected her, and so far as I can see, has never made transphobic remarks.

[riverwindphotography]

A New Year in the western woodlands.

(c) riverwindphotography

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[mysteriousbeetle]

[ID: Screenshots of text from an article that reads:

"England crashed out of the World Cup in the dying minutes against Argentina. Within hours, the UK Fact Check Politics account posted a familiar reminder on social media: "If you are a victim of domestic abuse tonight, you can call the National Domestic Abuse Helpline."

"There is something uniquely absurd about living in a society that can predict a rise in violence against women with roughly the same confidence it predicts traffic after a bank holiday.

"Researchers at Lancaster University found that incidents of domestic abuse increased by 38% when England lost World Cup matches and by 26% when they won or drew. The day after an England match, incidents remained 11% higher than normal.

"Another study examining police records in the West Midlands found alcohol-related domestic abuse reports increased by 47% following England victories in major tournaments.

"Win, lose or draw, women seem to be the ones expected to absorb the emotional fallout."

/End ID.]

[kremlin]

uninstall adobe acrobat. it is malware. it has been malware. these aren't opinions: acrobat meets the definition of malware.

it installs a user-login-time "startup" executable that ignores any windows directives to disable it on startup. doing so only removes the even-more-malicious taskbar-icon-creating advertisement-notification-creating process. no matter what you do, the sleeper "updater" process starts when you log in, and runs perpetually

it sends & receives encrypted network traffic both periodically and non-periodically. both are bad, both are suspicious, and a program doing both is more suspicious than the sum of their parts. and to boot: acrobat will polymorphically edit its code after such network activity

this isn't new: it has always done this. now, it does not even do the thing it is meant to: provide a way to interact with documents, which is amongst the very first features computers were built to provide. you can merely open PDFs and read some of their content in the narrow space between the requests for adobe to give them your money, and interface for features you cannot use (because you don't) or do not, have not, and will not ever need

adobe and microsoft would very much like the user's cultural norms around computers to allow for advertisement built into the local software and even operating system itself. the web being 100% advertisements was not enough! sure enough, acrobat will hijack the windows notifications system thing to give you the 2026 equivalent of pop-ups

i don't really know enough about windows software equivalents, so i'll paypal $20 to the first person that reblogs this with a list of 3-5 PDF reader/editor/etc acrobat equivalents that meet the following criteria:

open source, locally-built executables must match checksum of prebuilt distributed executable

no paid features/premium version/subscription/whatever

not a toy hobby project thing, must be windows-users-proof

cheers

[andmaybegayer]

Firefox's built-in PDF.js viewer: does everything you could want from a basic viewer, fast enough search, and can now do annotations for filling in forms and such

KDE Okular: is a decent viewer and can also do basic annotations, and is so not-a-toy that you can even download it on the Windows app store.

LibreOffice Draw: I don't ever really like having to open this but if you have to edit a PDF in detail it does work, and doesn't just vomit up a bunch of polygons when you give it text to work with. Better as an authoring tool than an editor.

[ms-demeanor]

I've 100% replaced free acrobat with the firefox built-in and it works wonderfully for general office use and research/reading/viewing. It doesn't have robust redaction capabilities, but if you need to fill and sign and highlight a form it's actually much more intuitive than acrobat reader.

[keltoid]

[desinteresse]

So many women are looking for a “masc lesbian” but what they really mean is that they want a top who has their life together lmao

[desinteresse]

“You got masc vibes even though you are a femme” do I? Or do you just think that confidence and competence are inherently linked to masculinity?

[desinteresse]

Like if you want someone to top you till you cry then you should just say that. There are many women who can provide, many of them femme.

[desinteresse]

But also it’s kind of rude to assign gender roles and sexual preferences to someone just because they’re masc. just because she wears a snapback that doesn’t mean she’s a top or able to fix your car or whatever.

[bedupolker]

I like how all the airline companies made checking bags more expensive and now while youre waiting for the plane all they do is beg you to volunteer to check your carryon bag for free

[batshit-auspol]

Homophobic senator Cory Bernardi accidentally walks into a 'Vote Yes for Gay Marriage' photoshoot, 2017

[welovegamingz]

[theinfamousdoctorf]

The only way this shit will ever go away is if you DON'T BUY IT.

[bluering8]

listen to me, this is so so important: you've gotta get used to really giving it your 60% as a default. like don't half-ass it necessarily but try not to go over 70% or so of an ass. you'll feel better and live a happier more fulfilled life, and on the rare occasions where you do need to lock the fuck in you'll be able to pull off bullshit that the sad miserable wretches giving it their 100% can never dream off, because they're busy draining themselves dry and you have energy reserves to spare.

[smokingchagga]

This is actually what I was adviced to do at the work rehabilitation program I went to. Hasn't left my mind since. 10/10 solid advice

[littlegermanboy]

guys i just got the best anon ever idk if i can post this i want to keep it framed in my inbox forever.

[littlegermanboy]

i can’t choose a favorite part of this it’s all so good.

[peachdoxie]

"I NEED people to stay angry about this!" "If you're not angry about this, then you don't care!" god I'm so tired of being told that I have to be angry in order to care about an injustice in the world. I can care about things and want to change them without being angry all the time.

[bludragongal]

essential

[bludragongal]

Hey I just want to throw out a quick THANK YOU to everyone who has reblogged this to add drawings of their characters kissing. I would reblog every single one but I don't want to spam anyone's dash, so instead here is a single addition below the jump with screenshots and tagged credits. Y'all give me life. Thank you thank you.

CHARACTERS KISSING HALL OF FAME GALLERY:

@sudzie-void

@ellaofoakhill

@heroineimages

@doodlee-a

@heroesofdigitalrock

and here's a link to the post so you can appreciate each one of these in greater detail which i personally recommend

@catcake24

@speedtales

@pyrohorse and @randomly-lynn

If I missed anyone please let me know! And if you feel inclined, please add your own characters kissing (or not kissing) to this post. I love you guys, thank you for keeping me going.

[bludragongal]

Just checking in to see how we're all doin'. Hope y'all are hanging in there and keepin' 'em kissin'. <3

[bigbigbigtruck]

i’ll be real, kitten, daddy needs multiple wealthy and powerful folks to die in a painful, drawn-out, and generationally humiliating manner

[what-a-bastard]

Accepting identities I don't understand is actually extremely easy because I just go "this isn't about me" and move on with my life unbothered by someone else's identity, it's truly that simple.

[eevee-on-keyboard]

i heard someone say once, “you don’t need to speak French to acknowledge that it’s a language that exists”. and i feel like more ppl need to keep that in mind when they come across something they don’t understand.

[cyphir-spacerobot]

Victor Frankenstein after achieving the impossible and building a fucking person from scraps of the dead: Oh god, ew, ew it's ugly! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew! Ew! Yucky! Yucky! Gross! Ew!

[koiagain]