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This blog is a mess, but it's mine. I like it

[shadow-banned-the-hedgehog]

[yorgen-sh]

The Chinese shoe manufacturer decided to demonstrate the indestructibility of their shoes

[scarlettohairdye]

And also the indestructibility of that woman's ankles

[teaboot]

This is Peak Yuri media and I hope my beautiful feral daughters love each other forever

[kind-of-human2]

Imagine learning that the jerkass guy you’ve been trying to reach out to for at least a month who just killed himself was actually a repressed trans woman and now you have to listen to everyone misgender her because how are you supposed to bring that up in casual conversation

[doomedmutual]

[evidently-endless]

being offered ai at every turn

[caffeinatedopossum]

"I'm still kicking" is such a funny way to say "I'm still alive". Like lol. I'm still thrashing. Flailing. Writhing even. The violence remains.

[nongunktional]

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

[nongunktional]

i do think the negative interpretations of "im probably nonbinary but i have a job right now" are kind of reaching. it's obviously a waste of time to theorize the op's intended meaning, so instead i think it's better to recognize how the phrase can be a useful framing device to criticize how much of a fucking hassle it is to get gendered correctly. "but i have a job" e.g. will face discrimination that could threaten livelihood; e.g. don't have the mental bandwidth to explain gender to others; e.g. don't have the time and energy for the soul-searching necessary to confirm. all three of these are labor issues. yes you could interpret it as "but being nonbinary isn't important enough to worry about", despite that being a blatantly bad-faith read. it's more useful to interpret it as "but being publicly nonbinary requires a lot of social effort that, in many cultural contexts, will create more problems that you can't afford to deal with". like cmon it's a really good jumping off point for productive conversations about queer labor rights

[kosmogrl]

[bonivers]

going on a guilt trip do yall want anything

[saphnn]

probably not, I mean ,, who would want anything from me ...

[kuropin]

Jax and Kinger

[scifiseries]

[edgar-allan-possum]

[teaboot]

Is this a bit silly? Yes. But consider: living in the same universe as RoboMonk

[teaboot]

We Are One step Closer

[64mpg]

ads targeted to women: omg you are thirtyyyy. kill yourself

[flannelgirlfriend]

I love this post so much my friend put it on my 30th birthday cake

[dragon-in-a-fez]

under US law, it's illegal for anyone who's not a member of a recognised native tribe to own an eagle feather. the penalty is a $100,000 fine.

14 years ago when I had recently moved to Alaska, I went hiking with an Aleut friend, and she pointed to a feather lying on the ground and said "hey that's a bald eagle tail feather, you should grab it!" and I was like "uhh I'm very white and that's very illegal" and she went "they're fuckin everywhere up here man. I have 20." so she grabs it off the ground and hands it to me and says "there, now it's a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person."

and I'm like, okay, cool, I guess this is how we do things in Alaska. nice.

so I keep this bald eagle tail feather around for years. display it in my home among other cherished memorabilia from places I've lived and visited, etc.

on a whim, I have just now looked it up. there is no exemption to that law for a ceremonial gift from an indigenous person. the last 7 years I lived in the US, I was technically a bald eagle poacher.

probably a good thing I don't intend to move back there anytime soon. I wonder what the statute of limitations is on bird crimes.

[jessebloom]

this almost makes me want to go back to law school

[kaitiebee]

I understand perfectly now.

[bereft-of-frogs]

My renewed interest in improving my pace and need to get motivated to do intervals combined with my rediscovery of audio dramas has resulted in me redownloading Zombies Run and they have a new side story section and

omg Hephaestus what are you doing here????

[sir-sanguinus]

Heyo!

I love some of the venture side stories!

Venus Rising was my fave of the ones I've done so far.

Tho in fairness, I'm still running down the main ZR story before I get properly into the side stories!

I think there are still a few ZR accounts alive, but in fairness, I've been softly away from Tumblr for a little while.

[bereft-of-frogs]

Venus Rising, good to know good to know. I’ll add it to the list! I’m really enjoying rediscovering this. It’s fun not to have to choose between music and a podcast/audiobook. I’m still only a couple episodes in to the main narrative but I think for my weekly long run I’m going to mix in one of these side quests just to mix things up.

I did end up starting this one. It was really fun because my running playlist features a lot of scifi soundtrack music so it felt SO appropriate to be getting space station missions followed immediately by Bear McCreary’ All Along the Watchtower’.

Also I thought I would be like ‘but where are my blorbos’ every time the ship name came up but it turns out British people pronounce ‘Hephaestus’ differently enough from Americans that I wasn’t like, pining for Minkowski the whole time. I mean, I was, but that’s been a constantly state of being since I finished that podcast.