midnight's mess hall

greetings :D || call me mid(night) || any pronouns! || artist and writer

[serenamidnight]

lil intro / guide !

elloooo it's me, your local gremlin :) you can call me midnight or just mid!

i'm a multifandom person, but will reblog stuff im not in just bc i find it nice/interesting

if your profile is blank or looks off (no posts, weird name, generic/suggestive pfp) i am very likely to block you, because unfortunately bots exist :(

no overt nsfw reblogs/posts on this acc - might make a sideblog for that someday but we'll see

i mostly reblog a LOT of stuff so apologies for spam

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general posting: #midnight talks

reblogs: #mid rb's things

asks: #mid's mailbox

art: #midnight creations

writing/headcanons/ideas etc: #midnight scribbles

[hagiomoto]

[bearballing]

i feel like the rest of that tweet should be shown:

[whotookcheesuschrist]

WHO officials admit they are preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran

World Health Organization staff remain ‘vigiliant’ in the event of a nuclear incident

[quasi-normalcy]

If this administration even looks funny at nuclear bombs, it's time to get a million people to descend on Washington and dispose of the lot of them. I'm sorry, but this is a line that CANNOT be crossed.

[penny-anna]

Lost Doctor Who and the Daleks episodes discovered in 'ramshackle' collection

The Doctor's assistant Peter Purves was invited to a screening of the episodes in Leicester.

OH MY GOD??

[penny-anna]

oh my god i talk a lot of shit about getting back more of daleks master plan but its actually happening there's a clip on the article and everything. oh my god it's 1am. i have work in the morning.

[penny-anna]

and two?? TWO????? im on the fucking floor

[swordlet]

Peter Purves, who played the Doctor's assistant Steven Taylor, was invited to the Phoenix Cinema in Leicester on Wednesday under false pretenses to view the two episodes, and he said: "My flabber has never been so gasted."

My flabber has never been so gasted.

[lizardlicks]

Professor of cinema and television history at Leicester's De Montfort University, Justin Smith - chair of trustees at FIF - said "a debt of gratitude" was owed to the anonymous late collector, whose films - largely focused on his love of trains and canals, including hundreds of home videos - were donated to FIF after he died.

ANOTHER AUTISTIC BADDIE WIN!!!!

[elierlick]

This is a colorized photo of the first known trans woman in Switzerland to receive governmental permission to live as a woman. Adine T. (1878–1935) learned about new passes in Berlin allowing other trans women to dress how they pleased. Inspired by this knowledge, she went to a psychologist and obtained her own Swiss permit in June 1914!

Adine had an extremely supportive wife, who I also have to highlight. When Adine struggled to find a job after transitioning, her social worker told her, "You cannot expect the public to understand your special situation." Her wife was furious at the comment and made a written complaint against the social worker. She accused them of "plotting against [Adine's] freedom," adding "shame on you, and shame on you again!" Adine later attepted to change her legal name changed, but the government denied her request.

I'll be visiting Switzerland this summer to dig further into her history. More soon!

[breadloco]

stopppp everyone absolutely needs to see this

[jewperduper]

So my dad was the assistant music editor on Tarzan, and idk if it was Bring Your Kid to Work Day or something but one day he did just that so there I was, this incredibly small 1st grader, in an absolutely cavernous recording studio with a full orchestra and a giant screen playing the scene they were taping the score for, and my little brain couldn't handle the big music and the big movie happening all at once so I started crying and it was the first time music ever brought me to tears and it was too much to take in so we stepped out of the studio and ran directly into Phil Collins, who looked to me very much like my dad, and in my delicate emotional state I became immediately convinced that my dad had been copied and nobody had told me so I started crying harder, and Phil Collins said something that was probably meant to be calming but it was with a British accent so I thought there was a copy of my dad in every country and I absolutely lost it at the notion that other kids would get to have my dad, and my dad ended up having to carry me back to the car.

So.

Sorry for crying very loudly at you Phil Collins, your work on Tarzan was so moving it triggered my first emotional breakdown.

[ihatenearlyeverything]

the only thing that could top that clip is that story

[ashenmind]

to-do list

[ashenmind]

[mysticalcats]

it's really gross how you can be self aware enough to know what's going on in your head but you can't actually stop it from happening. i need to grab it like a pigeon that got stuck in a house and throw it out the window. be free

[positivelyqueer]

reminder that those "how to talk to [disabled people]" (wheelchair users, aac users etc) posts are very good guides for strangers and acquaintances.

But anything that the actual disabled person in front of you says overrides the general rules of politeness. and these might change day to day or person to person.

I've got some friends who read my aac screen because they're hard of hearing, or maybe I'm feeling self conscious about my voice that day, or want to have a more private conversation.

if I offer my crutch to you asking you to hold it for a moment, this supersedes the 'don't touch other people's mobility aids' rule.

conversations with friends are actually nicer for me if someone is on my level as a wheelchair user. But if an assistant in a store did that I'd run over their toes.

what I'm saying is trust the person you're with to know their wants and needs, and don't be scared if it contradicts the general rules of interaction that you've been taught.

(also don't be afraid to ask accomodation questions, they are usually well received. "would you like me to look away while you type/make your sentence?" Is a much more polite and relevant question than "what is that and why are you using it?")

[noccolibroccoli]

So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.

So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"

But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:

And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)

Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.

And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize

They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy

[adharathestara]

nazis made it illegal for Jewish people to drive before they began sending them to concentration camps. and let me remind you, people in the US are already being sent to worryingly concentration camp-esque places. the holocaust didn't just happen like that. Jewish people didn't dissappear overnight. fascism takes over slowly, and takes more and more rights from more and more people as it progresses.

and they do not, and will not, stop.

[decadentqueentidalwave]

So Kansas made trans people’s ID cards invalid, which means they can’t drive or really participate in society…

[sweetly-dazed]

It means trans people in kanas can't do the following:

Vote

Recieve medical care from outpatient

Drive

Travel domestically or internationally with that driver's license

Go out to bars or clubs

Go to out of state dispensaries if someone needs medical cannabis

Validate their medications at pharmacies which can be life saving (Trans people can also be on insulin and other very necessary medications besides the hormones for gender affriming care! A high percentage of trans folx are disabled or chronically ill)

Most importantly, none of them are able to stay stealth in the state of kanas which means they are more subjected to hate crimes and unjustified police violence.

Its not just a blatant attack on our trans people here its an active act of genocide that's cannot be done with any means of justification besides bigotry reasons.

[ghosttea13]

Started watching Jacksepticeye's playthrough of the new Resident Evil, and I don't know who's more in love with Leon, me or Sean.

[therealjacksepticeye]

YOU THINK YOU CAN MATCH MY SHEER LUST FOR LEON? THE VERY THOUGHT

[shamebats]

"Because I Love You" by Lex Marie.

[shamebats]

She spent hours upon hours just beating the canvas with a belt...

[gay-milton-quotes]

when you look at the finished painting, you can almost see letters - but there aren't any. It's all noise. a lot of adults process this sort of beating by insisting there is a lesson in it. with the title and artist statement in mind, it's like they're trying to read a message of love written in that chaotic canvas.

[catchymemes]

[hunter-rodrigez]

[memewhore]

[preserving-tiktok]

[teaboot]

Adult ProTip, from a security professional: If a kid tells you, "My parents are gonna kill me / kick my ass / kick me out" for something relatively minor, don't respond with shit like "Really? ;) that sounds a little extreme, don't you think sweetie?" because that shit really does happen.

Instead, respond as though whatever threat they are afraid of is fully valid, and offer whatever you can do to help- ask if they believe they are in danger of being hurt in any way, and work accordingly.

If they're overreacting, they'll usually realize and dial it back, self-correct and begin thinking a bit more rationally.

If they're not overreacting, and the danger is real, then they'll need a level-headed adult in their corner, not another condescending authority figure who doesn't believe them.

[seedysys]

sorry about the light mode but this is important also

[teaboot]

^^^^^ Also, since it wasn’t in the original post:

Some kids who ARE being abused will backpedal too btw, and minimize things. But investigating gives you a chance to assess, and lets THEM know that there are adults who exist, who- even when they’ve done something wrong- still care about their wellbeing more than they care about punishment

[baddywronglegs]

Nature doing what humans will not again