Crysis.

xe/xym/they/him. xryxix. 28. nonbinary. there ain't no rest for the wicked.

[misscrazyfangirl321]

Hey someone suggested I use ChatGPT to figure out adulting today, and as I was going through the mental list of places I'd rather look, I realized "beloved strangers on Tumblr dot net" was on that list.

So if you have an aspect of adulting that you're really good at-taxes, budgeting, cooking, insurance, credit, time management, house upkeep, anything-please feel free to reblog with any tips.

[notcruvusmemes]

Not me, but @bitchesgetriches has a lot of great resources for many of these topics on their website.

[bitchesgetriches]

That's us! Professional internet adults, specializing in financial stuff! We recommend starting with our Grand List of All Articles, or one of our Masterposts:

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Taxes

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Increase Your Income

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Retirement and How to Retire

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Credit and Credit Cards

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Investing for Beginners

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about How to Pay off Debt

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need To Know About Living Independently for the First Time

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Repairing Our Busted-Ass World

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Self-Care

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Getting a Job, Raise, or Promotion

MASTERPOST: Everything You Need to Know about Saving Money and Being Frugal

[ruinedchildhood]

[sweatermuppet]

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

[starbear36768]

[fandomsandfeminism]

I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Like "X is a universal human right. (This doesn't include Y people though)"

Either you think X isn't actually a human right, or you think Y aren't people.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Some folks really did go straight to the replies to prove me right.

[hyperlexichypatia]

It's wild to me that people in the notes are all arguing about rapists and murderers and people deserving to get their human rights taken away for doing Bad Things, and...

Yeah, sure, serial killers deserve human rights too, but isn't there a more obvious demographic you're sliding right by? Isn't there a demographic of people so thoroughly erased by human rights discourse that their rights aren't even debated, it's just taken for granted that human rights don't apply to these people?

(It's minors. I'm talking about minors. Also disabled/neurodivergent adults under institutionalization/guardianship who have been reduced to the legal status of minors.)

[dragon-in-a-fez]

I literally do this as a first-day activity in my childhood studies courses.

I take a poll: "how many of you would agree that 'everyone deserves the right to privacy' is a pretty uncontroversial statement?"

when 95% of them have put their hands up, I say "now, what if I clarify that 'everyone' includes children?"

and as everyone lowers their hands slowly and gives me a confused look like a deer in headlights, I tell them "okay. this class is about what it means to not be part of 'everyone'."

[aetherograph]

Slight disagree. A child's right to privacy starts with taking away their parents' right to know what they speak about with therapists, social workers, and doctors. Children, from the time they CAN speak, must have completely private avenues available to get help for abuse and that requires not being afraid of how they will be punished after therapy because of what they told the therapist. Yes that happens. FREQUENTLY.

We must also cease this extreme black and white view of kids. Kids are not monster supercriminals who always lie and cheat and they are not innocent angels who always speak profound truths and wisdoms either. They are human beings. Human rights includes not being villified nor pedestalled.

Nobody should read a child's diary. Nobody should go into a child's room without permission. Nobody should go into a child's phone. This is WIDELY considered almost criminally rude when done to adults, so don't do it to kids! PRIVACY IS A HUMAN RIGHT.

Our privacy as adults is being viciously attacked and eroded every day, and it's easy to roll over and give up but all human rights must be fought for. That includes children. That ESPECIALLY includes children.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Yeah that's what they said? Where's the disagree?

[depsidase]

[thedrugdude]

Well HE seems nice.

[anarchistmemedistro]

[prinnay]

Twinkle, 10 x 16, acrylics on paper and board

Thank you to the person who has already claimed this artwork. The proceeds are completely going to the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights!

[shiftycatstudios]

Thought I'd upload all my Dragon Age Kiss Week (2025) illustrations onto one post :)

✨ Link Tree || Bluesky || Ko-fi ✨

Day 1: "Morning" ft. Cullen Rutherford and Wren Lavellan Day 2: "Tavern" ft. Elek Tavor and Paisleigh Halward Day 3: "Fade" ft. Carver Hawke and Merrill Day 4: "Famous Landmark" ft. Emmrich Volkarin and Esteri Ingellvar Day 5: "Battlefield" ft. Alistair Theirin and Selph Surana Day 6: "Reunion" ft. Solas and Giada Lavellan Day 7: "Celebration" ft. Alistair Theirin and Rhiannon Cousland

[what-even-is-thiss]

I keep hate-reading plague literature from the medieval era, but as depressed as it makes me there is always one historical tidbit that makes me feel a little bittersweet and I like to revisit it. That’s the story of the village of Eyam.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Eyam today is a teeny tiny town of less than a thousand people. It has barely grown since 1665 when its population was around 800.

Where the story starts with Eyam is that in August 1665 the village tailor and his assistant discovered that a bolt of cloth that they had bought from London was infested with rat fleas. A few days later on September 7th the tailor’s assistant George Viccars died from plague.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Back then people didn’t fully understand how disease spread, but they knew in a basic sense that it did spread and that the spread had something to do with the movement of people.

So two religios leaders in the town, Thomas Stanley and William Mompesson, got together and came up with a plan. They would put the entire village of Eyam under quarantine. And they did. For over a year nobody went in and nobody went out.

They put up signs on the edge of town as warning and left money in vinegar filled basins that people from out of town would leave food and supplies by.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Over the 14 months that Eyam was in quarantine 260 out of the 800 residents died of plague. The death toll was high, the cost was great.

However, they did successfully prevent the disease from spreading to the nearby town of Sheffield, even then a much bigger town, and likely saved the lives of thousands of people in the north of England through their sacrifice.

So I really like this story, because it’s a sad story, because it’s also a beautiful story. Instead of fleeing everyone in this one place agreed that they would stay, and they saved thousands of people. They stayed just to save others and I guess it’s one of those good stories about how people have always been people, for better or worse.

[auroranibley]

It gets better.

Here’s the thing. One third of the residents of Eyam died during their quarantine, but the Black Plague was known to have a NINETY PERCENT death rate. As high as the toll was, it wasn’t as high as it should have been. And a few hundred years later, some historians and doctors got to wondering why.

Fortunately, Eyam is one of those wonderful places that really hasn’t changed much in hundreds of years. Researchers, going to visit, found that many of the current residents were direct descendants of the plague survivors from the 1600s. By doing genetic testing, they learned that a high number of Eyam residents carried a gene that made them immune to the plague. And still do.

And it gets even better than that, because the gene that blocks the Black Plague? Also turns out to block AIDS, and was instrumental in helping to find effective medication for people who have HIV and AIDS in the 21st century.

Here is a lovely, well-produced documentary about Eyam and its disease resistance. It’s a little under an hour. Trigger warning for general disease and epidemic-type stuff, but also, maybe it will help you have some hope in these alarmly uncertain times.

[valtsv]

you ever see shit that makes you think “i know i’m very online but i’m not online enough for this one”

[eve-nightengale]

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/reading-rainbow-reboot-viral-librarian-mychal-threets-host-rcna234777

Some good fucking news today. Exactly the energy you would want the host of reading rainbow to have :) <3

[h0useofw0lves]

i need to recreate this truck i saw with my eyes while driving on the highway today gimme a sec

[h0useofw0lves]

it was like this

[potholefullofsoup]

found a pic on reddit. 10/10 for accuracy

[alleesaur]

dear old pal

[stuckinapril]

So crazy how you have the worst day of your life but then the next day the sun keeps shining and the air’s just a little cooler w the onset of fall and you realize that there’s nothing you can’t come back from because the only time it will ever be too late is when we’re dead and not ever before

[stuckinapril]

September mantra

[politijohn]

Source

[surrealisticduvet]

don't let this flop. monty python watchers what phrases have had the most impact on your lexicon. for me it's "what's all this then" and "other than that, perfectly normal"

[not-to-get-political-but]

The difference between the left and right in America is that if a prominent left wing voice, like say AOC, was shot in the neck in front of a crowd the right would meme the hell out of it. Her slumped over corpse would be redrawn as a wojack and "you talk like you have a hole in your neck" would be the buzz response to any left wing comment anywhere.

They would have zero remorse and they'd be having the time of their lives, yet if a leftist so much as smirks at Charlie Kirk's ironic death then you'll get a half hour lecture about how gun violence is always bad and that killing talking heads won't help the revolution or some obnoxious shit.