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Arospec Awareness Week Day 1 Fandom Challenge: A character you headcanon as aromantic and on the asexual spectrum.
For day 1 of AAW, I drew my favorite and also probably most unpopular aroace headcanon, Mettaton from the forbidden fandom, in the aro and ace pride colors. It looks a little weird since he’s not wearing pink but hey at least i got this done on time, kind of
This is the greatest progression of events I have ever read, where’s my historical gay romance novel about this
KING JAMES, CAN YOU CHILL?
Local King Cannot Stop Promoting His Boyfriend
where’s the lush period drama about this series of events?
fun thing about king James, this guy was fairly public about his bf (more public than what was acceptable). He threw lots of extravagant parties with his man on his arm. It pissed off the church obviously so to get them off his back, he’s the one that ordered the third translation of the Bible from Hebrew to English (the King James Version aka the Authorized Version) so the Bible every hot blooded all American Christian reads today was literally just written so a very gay king could fuck his boyfriend in peace.
oh my god this is hilarious
“guys, guys. I know this looks kinda gay, and i promise i have a good explanation for all this, but have you considered… that jesus… is also gay? checkmate, heteros.”
This was a rollercoaster I never want to get off of.
You dont need to keep proving yourself to anyone anymore
Some boys
My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.
I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”
I searched and searched for the post this graphic was from, and the OP deactivated, but I kept the graphic, because my BFF does the same thing, uses her imagination to come up with the worst pain she can imagine and pegs her “10″ there, and so is like, well, I’m conscious, so this must be a 5, and then the doctors don’t take her seriously. (And she then does things like driving herself to the hospital while in the process of giving birth. Probably should have called an ambulance for that one!)
So I found this and sent it to her. Because this is what they want to know: how badly is this pain affecting you? Not on a scale of “nothing” to “how I’d imagine it’d feel if bears were eating my still-living guts while I was on fire”.
I hate reposting stuff, but I’ll never find that post again and OP is deactivated, so, here’s a repost. I can delete this later, i just wanted to get it to you and I can’t embed images in a chat or an ask.
This is possibly why it took several weeks to diagnose my fractured spine.
Pain Scale transcription:
10 - I am in bed and I can’t move due to my pain. I need someone to take me to the emergency room because of my pain.
9 - My pain is all that I can think about. I can barely move or talk because of my pain.
8 - My pain is so severe that it is difficult to think of anything else. Talking and listening are difficult.
7 - I am in pain all the time. It keeps me from doing most activities.
6 - I think about my pain all of the time. I give up many activities because of my pain.
5 - I think about my pain most of the time. I cannot do some of the activities I need to do each day because of the pain.
4 - I am constantly aware of my pain but can continue most activities.
3 - My pain bothers me but I can ignore it most of the time.
2 - I have a low level of pain. I am aware of my pain only when I pay attention to it.
1 - My pain is hardly noticeable.
0 - I have no pain.
What about a thinner trans Karkat who binds!!! With black Trans Dave for bonus points
Karakat’s trying to find a binder that fits Dave and Dave’s trying to hide his exitement
I made a lil animation while I was disconnected from the internet at work. May this lady crow bring you the lavender of calm thoughts. <3
ONLY BUY NASA APPROVED ECLIPSE GLASSES
We’ve been doing some research, and looked at a bunch of glasses on Amazon.
Be VERY cautious when buying eclipse glasses on Amazon. Read the reviews. A lot of people are complaining about fake / knockoff glasses - even from what appear to be legit vendors. If they say they’re from China, DO NOT BUY.
The American Astronomical Society has a list of NASA approved eclipse glasses vendors here.
The page also lists brick-and-mortar retailers, but check the manufacturer name before buying.
And apparently there are FREE eclipse glasses being distributed to libraries nationwide and via school science programs.
We ordered ours directly from one of the approved manufacturer sites to be absolutely certain. There are several options, though clearly many of these are already selling out.
If you have any desire to see the eclipse, get your glasses now and get the right kind. You may not go blind, but it can seriously damage your eyes.
A sweet, off color Tangerine Quartz. A quartz from the Prime kindergarten, she ended up running away for fear of being shattered due to her malformation. She ended up hunkering down in a mine deep in the earth durring the war. Unfortunately, the corruption reached her even down in the mines and she was turned into a burrowing worm monster, a legend told by humans.
I’ve been spending a lot of time on my Book of Shadows/Grimoire lately and I’m just in love with it. I used to be so scared to mess my drawings up that I wouldn’t draw at all. This book has given me an excuse to draw and be proud of whatever I manage to create.
As a society, we need to stop assuming that everyone enjoys drinking alcohol.
Lmao @ people who think I’m ridiculous for this post. I’m defensive because alcoholism is a huge issue. Everywhere in the world. Not to mention, I know it’s hard for some of you fucks to believe because of how widely accepted alcohol is, but there are a HUGE amount of people who have personal issues with alcohol. Either being recovering or previous alcoholics themselves, having a close personal tie with someone who abused alcohol, growing up in an unstable alcoholic household, having DEEPLY EMBEDDED family or spouse issues ALL because of alcohol. FUCK OFF with your me being so offended bullshit. Just assume people are sober till you find out on **their** terms they aren’t. Don’t expect that everyone likes to drink. Just like you wouldn’t expect that everyone likes to smoke cannabis, why would you do it with alcohol? (That’s rhetorical, it’s obviously because basically everyone assumes the entire world enjoys drinking). It’s not hard. Don’t offer people drinks unless you know they drink. BYE.
My favorite response when I tell people im straight edge is “what? You’ll never drink ever? Not one drink? I don’t believe you.” And they’ll laugh And I’ll look them straight in their fucking eye and tell them both my parents, and my aunt are recovering alcoholics. The rest of my family? Has never tried, nor ever got the chance to recover from their addiction. It’s by some miracle my mother is alive right now because she drank so much her liver stopped working. She was in a coma for two weeks. The doctors almost gave up on her. My dad was an abusive drunk and then turned to hard drugs and that certainly didn’t help anything. My 3 younger sisters and I were almost put into foster care because of the both of them. I was only about 14 at the time. Making my youngest sister, 7. And because of all of this my family went bankrupt and we were almost homeless. All because of drinking :)
That usually shuts them up real fucking fast but, I shouldn’t have to explain that to anyone. I shouldn’t have to defend my (perfectly healthy!) choices!
If someone tells you they don’t drink, it’s for a fucking reason. Don’t be a dick. Casual alcoholism is a huge fucking problem in the world and its scary that most people can’t see it.
Also, some people just… don’t like drinking. There are people out there who just genuinely do not enjoy drinking alcohol. They don’t like the taste, they don’t like being impaired, and they have no desire to try to force themselves into enjoying it just because someone else thinks it’s “weird”.
There are all kinds of reasons that someone might not choose to drink, and all of those reasons are valid. There’s nothing wrong with it, it doesn’t mean they “can’t have fun”, and I guarantee you they’re not judging you for drinking. And if they are? It’s definitely not as much as they’re being judged for not drinking.
Don’t try to force people to drink. Don’t assume everyone likes to drink. And if someone says they don’t drink? Don’t force them to explain why just to get you to stop hounding them.
There are plenty of reasons to avoid booze and the particulars of someone’s reasons are none of your business. Nobody deserves to catch crap because they don’t imbibe.
There are also some medications and medical conditions that interact with alcohol in an extremely negative way, and people with such conditions are under no obligation to disclose why they can’t or won’t drink.
Seriously, please, if someone says they don’t drink just respect it and let them be. Don’t ask. You’re often putting them in a position to either lie or be forced to reveal some very personal stuff, and it sucks.
Alcohol is my biggest cptsd trigger because of my abusive mother. I don’t fucking want to tell people about it, so I just say I don’t like it, but people often take that as an invitation to keep questioning me or try to convince me to try it. Which only makes me hate them tbh
A few days ago when I was making bread for Lammas and homemade soft pretzels because I have a real problem with them, I had a request to share those recipes, so here is the first one!
This is actually my mother’s recipe, I can’t even take full credit for this one!
For the yeast mix to start –
1 package of yeast (not the quick active or whatever, just regular baking yeast)
½ cup of warm water
1 Tbs of sugar
For the bread mix –
7 ½ cups of flour
¾ cup of white sugar
½ cup of melted shortening or lard (I personally use shortening)
2 Tbs of salt
2 cups of lukewarm water
2 eggs
How we do it –
In a small glass bowl of the ½ cup of warm water, in this order dissolve completely the yeast (stir it around until it is dissolved if you’re impatient like me) and then dissolve the 1 Tbs of sugar completely. Set aside and let activate (usually about 10 minutes, I go ahead and start the next step while it activates)
In a large bowl (the biggest you have) combine flour, sugar, melted shortening/lard, salt, water, eggs and activated yeast (once it’s all bubbly and bigger), stir and mix well (you can use a mixer with dough hooks, but I don’t have one so I don’t). Cover your bowl up with saran wrap, and set in a warm dark place and let it rise for 2 hours.
Take it out and knead the dough for at least 5 minutes.
Divide into loaves (I usually end up making three like shown above, make them as even as you can and place the dough into your pans (butter the inside first so it doesn’t stick)
Cover again and let rise for another 30 minutes.
Bake at 350F for 35-45 minutes (check it at 35-40)
Butter the top, slice and serve. I find it best warm with butter on the slice, I love sticking it in the microwave for 20 seconds in the morning and having it with breakfast.
I hope you enjoy! Send/tag me in your photos and let me know how yours turn out!
“See?! I taught him that!”
Also, non aligned enbies deserve $100 each from exclusionists who keep trying to enforce binaries on them to try to categotlrize their sexuality.
You guys don’t have to be male or female aligned to be valid or for your input on sexuality to be important.
You don’t need to be attracted to someone “"same or similar gendered”“ for your attraction to be not straight. Literally any attraction you guys feel is non straight if that is how you choose to identify.
Gatekeepers don’t define you, you do.
Also, non aligned enbies deserve $100 each from exclusionists who keep trying to enforce binaries on them to try to categotlrize their sexuality.
You guys don’t have to be male or female aligned to be valid or for your input on sexuality to be important.
You don’t need to be attracted to someone “"same or similar gendered”“ for your attraction to be not straight. Literally any attraction you guys feel is non straight if that is how you choose to identify.
Gatekeepers don’t define you, you do.
wtf are you talking about, i’m a non-aligned nonbinary exclusionist and literally no exclusionist i have ever encountered has tried to push binary alignment onto me
this is just bullshit propaganda at this point y'all need to stop
I’m a non aligned nonbinary person and it has happened to me more times than I can count
Just because something isn’t your personal experience doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen
The entire concept of SGA forces a binary on NB people
Ok so I rly fucking need to clean my house. Do any other People With Depression™ have any tips or ways you motivate urself to clean? Because this feels like the hardest goddamn thing in the world even tho I know it’s not and I’m just continually frustrated with myself and have been for the past two weeks.
HOO BOY DO I HAVE DEPRESSION/EXECUTIVE DYSFUNCTION CLEANING TIPS
in no particular order (because I have depression and executive dysfunction):
1. If something sensory about cleaning bothers you, eliminate that before you start. For example, I wear gloves to do the dishes. If the sound of the vacuum bothers you, wear headphones and turn up the music. etc.
2. If you can, make a list of everything that needs to be done. Then acknowledge that you probably can’t do it all, and circle all the things that absolutely, no matter what, have to be done. Pick one (ONE! ONLY ONE! START WITH ONE!) of those things and break it down into smaller steps. Then even smaller steps. Seriously, if step one is “stand up” and step two is “walk to closet” and step 3 is “get mop”, that’s fine. It can be that small.
3. Take a break. “But I literally only started five minutes ago!” Don’t care. If you want a break, take a break. “At this point I’ve spent more time on breaks than I’ve spent on cleaning.” Ok, but you’ve spent more than zero time on cleaning, so you’ve accomplished more than you had at the beginning. “If I take a break it won’t get done!” If you burn out it won’t get done either. Take a break.
4. If nothing is working, try what I call bin cleaning/box cleaning. Take a big trash bag and a box. Pick up the first object you see. Step 1: Is it trash? Put it in the trash bag. Step 2: Will you use it in the next 2 days? No? Put it in the box. It’s a problem for Future You. If you’ll use it in the next 2 days, take time to put it away. Rinse and repeat.
5. Did you get distracted and forget what you were doing? Don’t worry about it. Just clean a thing. It doesn’t matter if it’s the thing you were cleaning before. You have to clean lots of things, so just pick a thing and clean it. Eventually you’ll get around to the thing you forgot.
6. If you have to do a thing you really hate, do a thing you like afterwards. I hate doing dishes, but folding laundry soothes me, so that’s a nice one to do afterwards. YMMV. If there are no cleaning things you like that you can do afterwards, see number 3.
7. Make it fun. Play loud music and dance while you’re cleaning. Wear something that makes you feel cute, or if you prefer, something comfy. Light your favorite candle. Whatever.
8. If it’s nice out, open a window. Seriously, it helps.
This is seriously so helpful, thank you.
To add to the break part, cleaning for a set small amount of time then breaking for a small amount of time and repeating until you're ready to stop (whether you're done clean or just done for the day) is a helpful way to avoid burn out. For example, you set a timer for 15 minutes to clean and just clean the whole time then when the timer goes off you drop whatever you're doing and break for 5 minutes. Watching some of a show or a video while you break can be good. Having the break smaller than the clean period is ideal I think, but if you have them the same length it's fine.
