The single braincell is in many places...

Shay, early 30s, queer person of colour. emotionally damaged, freely affectionate. my nsfw and more in the pinned. I can't access my other blog so here we are ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

[shadows-chaos-continues]

finally a proper pinned post

Welcome to the shitshow! It's MY shitshow.

Shay (she/ they; late 20s) a queer and emotionally damaged creature with lots of affection to go around. Usually found in the middle east, often visiting the uk

my nsfw and main blog is @sin-n-bliss-burnt1 so i follow from there. You can read about supporting me and my content here! backup blog @shadows-chaos-backed

this blog can be 18+ often so, minors, please direct yourself elsewhere. 

DO NOT INTERACT

if you think any kind of human is better than another,

if you think you deserve to make decisions of another person and their body,

if you struggle with respecting people who are different from you,

if you do not support sex workers, content creators, and artists,

in other words, racists, homophobes, anti-choice, pro-lifers, and other weirdos, stay the FUCK away.

you'll find here a collection of art, animals, landscapes, laughs, opinions on worldly things, and other weird shit. my queue (800+) is posting 90% of the time, the other 10% is me being a dumbass.

been on tumblr since 2012ish - my old blogs got nuked in 2022 and 2024 rip (shadows-chaos, shadows-chaos-temp, spilt-ink-and-scribbles, heavensent-sins, sinners-retreat, sin-and-bliss, , sins-and-bliss, sin-n-bliss, and all the others)

tags below

shays shitshow/ shays scribbles - own posts

gorgeous - delightful people

beautiful - nature and animals

from my mutuals/ my gorgeous mutuals - mutual's content

shavery/ my moon and stars - targeting the loml @in-these-arms

🖤🖤🖤 - good mental health and self care

where's the sun to my moon/ yearning for safety - relationships and love and whatnot

sad bitch hrs/ 🔪🔪🔪 me/ insert world weary sigh/ off - angst, anger, and sad stuff

the rest of the tags are self explanatory i think

what else is there to know? idk, send asks. happy to chat! keep it respectful and be as weird as you want. generally approachable, often silly, usually dumb, always sleeby.

[shadows-chaos-for-now]

Hello I'm here now 🖤

@sin-n-bliss-2 has joined the graveyard. replaced by successor @sin-n-bliss-3

[firem4ge]

Trying to attend anything in public just has me butting against the fact that being tma sucks. Yeah, that hema thing looks cool, how do they feel about trans women? Yeah, the trivia at the lesbian bar looks cool, so like their thoughts on trans women? Oh, that lesbian rave looks awesome, so about the trans women? Just, fundamentally unsure if I will even be allowed to exist in this space, and if I am will I be interacted with? Will I be the pariah desperate for attention but relegated to standing awkwardly in the corner or alone at the bar?

[sexboobomb]

“You can’t let other people’s opinions dictate your life” and the “opinions” in question are people saying I should be stabbed in a city where a woman was stabbed 40 times for being like me.

Like we all WISH this was a “be yourself” issue but its not. It’s a “I don’t want to be hate crimed” issue.

[were--ralph]

imagine if werewolf knots were square

[were--ralph]

Blocked. Have a rancid day.

[were--ralph]

[reliand]

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said to be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

[fwipfwoparoni]

This is from a 1963 interview with Kenneth Bancroft Clark, which I recommend watching here.

[theshadowrealmitself]

So I saw on tiktok that Palestinian journalist, Bisan Owda, has called for a boycott of Spider-Man: Brand New Day because its producer, Avi Arad, has publicly supported the genocide of the Palestinian people and has defended Netanyahu

I’m also seeing that there are posts about it on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook, but I’m not seeing any posts about it on Tumblr? Am I not looking up the right keywords in the search bar or are we all out of the loop?

(I can’t find the original post from Owda because I have the worst time navigating Instagram, but this link is from The Jamia Times on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DblMMDKTyub/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ== )

[Image ID: Picture of a quote from Bisan Owda that reads: “Waiting for Zendaya and Tom Holland to say something about this maybe? We cannot separate art from accountability. Every ticket sold supports a production led by a producer who has publicly defended Israel’s war on Gaza. Boycott is one of the few peaceful tools we have to demand justice.” /End ID]

[tongue-twists]

if you're bored and want to do something simple but fulfilling I recommend wikisource's proofread of the month. you can help public domain works be transcribed to be more accessible for everyone! even just validating a few pages helps a lot and there's a bunch of simple guides on the site.

[glenthemes]

wikisource proofreading instructions

color codes for if a page has been proofread

[archibaldtuttle]

hey if anyone feels like helping, I'm trying to chip away at this fascinating book by an author I love - it's about the Spirit World and there's a chapter about ghost sex.

[ssave-baby-life]

I PASSED OUT FROM CRYING SO HARD... MY BABY QAIS HAS DIED.

I am living the hardest hours of my life, and the doctors have told me that we may lose my little boy within the next 48 hours while I stand helplessly beside him, I will not forgive anyone who sees this post and does not support me with a single word and ignores me.

[ssave-baby-life]

Because of his illness, Qais has struggled to eat or drink for more than a week, and his weight has dropped to only 7 kilograms. He urgently needs medication and treatment, but I cannot afford the cost while time keeps running out.

[ssave-baby-life]

I am not asking for the impossible; I am begging for a chance to save my child's life. Please donate if you can, and if you cannot, share Qais's story. It may reach someone who can help give him another chance to survive.

Please donate now Gofundme

[ssave-baby-life]

Unfortunately, I am still using torn pieces of old cloth instead of medical bandages because I do not have enough money to buy proper supplies, and my baby Qais’s wound keeps reopening and bleeding. Please, I beg you, donate now and help me save him.

[queerspacepunk]

not to be all "these two words will change your life" or whatever, but I promise you, programming in "good catch!" as your response to people correcting you/pointing out errors or whatever removes so much friction from interactions, and comes with a delightful happy meal toy of "not hating yourself so much for making mistakes"

[madgastronomer]

I use "I stand corrected" a lot. The mild silliness of the outdated language makes it work for me.

[knitmeapony]

I had a high school science teacher who would say "if you admit you're wrong and change your mind..." and the whole class would respond back "... you aren't wrong anymore!"

And when a kid would assert something incorrect In class, he wouldn't tell them they were wrong, he would help lead them to the right answer and then when they admitted/ accepted the new information, he'd say "now we're both right! Nice work!"

For a bunch of gifted kids whose identity and reputation often was staked on knowing more than most people, it was a great safety valve. No shame in making a mistake, because if you accept it you have learned! Now you are smarter! It always made me feel better.

[fluffyplushiesworld]

[bwaah]

foolproof, huh? well. let me proof to you how fool I can be

[anti-parent]

alsoooo a big, big, big digital security lesson that you absolutely have to understand while making recommendations is that if your protocol is too complicated or inaccessible, even if it's somehow perfectly invulnerable, then people will start taking shortcuts that are way fucking worse.

ok, proton handed payment info over to swiss authorities, who then helped the fbi. if you start indiscriminately fearmongering about all proton services because of it (and implying that they can send more info than they have) then what are people switching to? people have to use email. not everyone is going to switch to tuta mail or whatever. but even if they did, they have paid plans too, which would likely be susceptible to the same issue. and if they decide, fuck it, there's no point, i'll just go back to using gmail instead, that puts everyone at way more risk than continuing to use protonmail.

it's also fine and good to say that people shouldn't be putting incriminating stuff in any emails. but we don't know that the fbi tracked them down through incriminating emails. they knew somehow that the account was associated with the stop cop city protestors, which could've very well been because their handle was stopcopcity at proton dot me or something. (i don't know if that was the case!) and then the payment information associated with that account was used to track someone down.

like the whole idea is that we have to break these cases down piece by piece and then come up with easily actionable recommendations that protect most people like 80-90% of the way, because that alone will make it much much harder for others to compromise them. and then there are various additional levels of precautions you can take based on the sensitivity & admin level of what you're working on. like. that's what digital security for orgs is.

[anti-parent]

and this is kind of a tangent but. you especially need to be prioritizing a risk mitigation approach because flock & ring cameras exist lmao. regardless of whether you use any consumer technologies at all, if you live in the US, these things are tagging your license plate & other visual attributes of your car. using facial recognition on drivers & passengers & pedestrians. aggregating all that data to track your movement like on a map. what are you going to do? not live in a city? not drive a car? not leave your house?

no. you have to be aware of what these security risks are and how to manage them depending on what actions you're taking.

[redrobinssinging-deactivated202]

On this pride month, remember that Twin Peaks aired an episode in 1990 where it introduced Denise Bryson, an openly transgender woman in the DEA who is referred to by the characters with her pronouns, and her identity is respected and valued throughout the three episodes she was in, making her a fan favourite among fans and transgender women.

She returns in the third season, where her former boss Gordon Cole, told everyone who wasn't willing to support her for her identity, to fix their hearts or die. The phrase "fix your hearts or die" was eventually appropriated by the transgender community and became a common phrase used against transphobes.

Also remember that Laura Palmer and Dale Cooper, the main characters of the show, are bisexual, and have canonically related and felt seen in queer spaces (there's also a scrapped scene from Fire Walk With Me where Laura and Donna were going to kiss, and the infamous deleted scene where it seemed Cooper was going to kiss Harry after the Miss Twin Peaks show). And they're not the only ones who are bisexual! Ronette Pulaski, Theresa Banks and Bobby Briggs are also bisexual.

I have to mention that BOB was played by Frank Silva, a non-white gay man who sadly passed away due to AIDS complications in 1995. Frank had been involved in Lynch productions since Dune, and everybody honours and remembers Frank fondly, saying he was the sweetest man you could ever meet.

In conclusion, Twin Peaks is a queer show and it's important to acknowledge what Twin Peaks did for the community. Especially Denise Bryson and the quote "fix your hearts or die".

[facelessoldgargoyle]

FIX YOUR HEARTS OR DIE!

[natnormalatall]

roald dahl was antisemitic and misogynistic. george orwell was openly homophobic. edgar allan poe married his 13 year old cousin. dr seuss cheated on his wife (and was racist as well as antisemitic!). hp lovecraft was racist as fuck. anyways they’re fucking dead it’s not like you’re enabling their behaviors in the afterlife or something. then again I think they bleed into the books so uh keep an eye out for that

the difference between these old white guys and jk rowling is that the former group is all dead. jk rowling is alive and using your money to oppress trans people

[mischa-makowka]

[positivepostoffice]

[swagpaws]

[ID: A hand holding a card of paper, titled, "I love you," at the top. On the left is boxy splashes of oranges, yellows, turquoise, and dark cool gray radiating outwards, labelled, "The Experience." On the right is a small and simple swatch of each color above each other, labelled, "The Words." End ID.]

credit to britchida (link)

brit (they/them) is an abstract artist who makes these pieces as a way to heal and connect with others to offer community and resilience. i really recommend checking out more of their stuff, and i recommend crediting artists at the very least if u intend to post art without their permission

[shouty-y]

overwhelmed ✨

[pimientosdulces]

the moon