Definitely Not Asleep

23 | gender? never met her | she/they | Disclaimer: My blog is for me and me only. If you like it cool, but it in no way reflects the values or interests of any person, company, organization, or third party I'm affiliated with. Welcome to dystopia y'all. Header by: @bruhgender

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

when it’s busy at starbucks and the gay baristas get mean pride flag 

(inspired by this post)

[scary-numbers]

I’ve never worked at Starbucks nor do I drink coffee but I was still compelled to make this

[solissagittarius]

Hello world

Isnt it funny how as soon as I turned off anon the person sending me hate mail stopped? Love to see it folks. Anyway I still run a different blog and if you're interested in getting it send me a dm

[solissagittarius]

Hello world

Isnt it funny how as soon as I turned off anon the person sending me hate mail stopped? Love to see it folks. Anyway I still run a different blog and if you're interested in getting it send me a dm

[solissagittarius]

Hate mail!!

Someone was legitamitely sending me hate mail, so I remade somewhere else. Opened up anon to see if they were still around lol

[cuteautumn]

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

[tomatoreddsworld-deactivated201]

WHAT THE FUCK IT’S CHRISTMAS EVE WHY DID SOMEONE REBLOG THIS

[derranger-deactivated20220102]

TOMORROW IS HALLOWEEN!!!

[pajaentrecolegas-archive-deacti]

- SCREAM (1996), dir. Wes Craven - VICTOR FRANKENSTEIN (2015), dir. Paul McGuigan - FRIGHT NIGHT (1985), dir. Tom Holland - A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2: FREDDY’S REVENGE (1985), dir. Jack Sholder - NEAR DARK (1987), dir. Kathryn Bigelow - THE COVENANT (2006), dir. Renny Harlin - INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994), dir. Neil Jordan - SOCIETY (1989), dir. Brian Yuzna - THE HITCHER (1986), Robert Harmon - THE LOST BOYS (1987), dir. Joel Schumacher

[pettydavis]

i KNOW the rituals are intricate!

[kryptoniteconundrum]

A text I never expected to receive from my mother

[depsidase]

[seabassapologist]

MY HOLOGRAPHIC PANDA EXPRESS SWEET AND SOUR SAUCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fanonical]

normalise being bad at roofs in minecraft. normalise not being able to make an aesthetically pleasing roof to save your life in minecraft.

[netheritenugget]

Normalize just digging into the side of a mountain to avoid making roofs in Minecraft

[wolfbeware]

yall need me to tap the sign?

here’s a roof guide that i use because i used to be shit

i dont remember the source, b/c ive had this for like years, but i suggest messing around with these roofs with different shapes/sizes of buildings

in fact, you can mix and match and have one roof with a side room with a different roof on it

honestly, have fun

[lilietsblog]

holy shit

[mabaefong]

The creator Kallialee (idk if they have tumblr I’d love to tag them ) is a goddamn genius

[tenya]

fucked up how colors look different depending on what screen you’re looking at them on. that should be illegal I think

[broskepol-deactivated20221009]

this fucking shit, you know

[bogleech]

I spend so much time carefully picking and adjusting the colors in every single drawing I make that I’d probably lose my mind if I didn’t just repeatedly push this out of my memory and pretend it’s not a thing. Why am I reblogging a blank empty post that doesn’t say anything??? Weird

[gaysheep]

good news! you can’t make sure that everyone will see the correct colors on their own device, but you can make sure your monitor is as accurate as possible for printing and sharing by calibrating it! 

there are a bunch of free monitor tests, but here’s an easy one you can use. the passmark and eizo tests are also pretty good, though passmark doesn’t work in your browser. be warned that some tests may cause eye strain.

you can either use the settings built into your monitor itself or use the display color calibration settings in your operating system to adjust the settings until everything looks correct, and then enjoy your accurate colors.

[zeldadiarist]

REBLOG TO SAVE A LIFE

[butterflypeaflowertea]

i think it’s so sweet that humans draw hearts everywhere. that’s not even what a heart looks like and yet here we are… scrawling them in the margins of the notes we take in class, tracing them in glass that’s misted over. on our friends’ hands in sharpie, in the sand at the beach. fashioning them out of leaves or twigs or bits of grass on the sidewalk. in chalk and dry erase marker. with our hands, when someone’s taking a photo of us. very cute ❣️

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

Comrade Attenborough

[lucasnoahs]

If you haven’t watched a

Attenborough’s latest special on Netflix yet I’m begging you to. It’s basically 1 hour of him explaining why capitalism must be dismantled if we as a species are to continue to survive, with a slight nature theme. He calls it his witness statement. Its him no longer trying to put it nicely and just screaming can we please stop destroying our planet and civilisation for FIVE MINUTES.

[tigerkat24]

Image Description: a tweet from Jason Hickel @jasonhickel. Tweet reads: Something big happened this morning. David Attenborough, speaking on BBC radio, pointed to capitalism as the main driver of ecological breakdown. The debate is beginning to shift. A link is attached to bbc.co.uk but there is no other information about it. The headline is Attenborough: ‘Curb excess capitalism’ to save nature The two replies are still from Jason Hickel and read: 1) “The excesses the capitalist system has brought us, have got to be curbed somehow.” “We are going to have to live more economically than we do. And we can do that more happily, not less happily.” 2) Crucially, he recognizes that inequality is at the core of the ecological crisis. Our planet will begin to recover, he says, when “those that have a great deal, perhaps, have a little less.” We need to rebuild “a working ecosystem in which everybody has a share”.

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

imposter syndrome in autism is so..... im rotating it in my mind

[mrspider-deactivated20221213]

part of the reason people go years without knowing theyre autistic because they dont “act” autistic in front of other people is because theyve been so conditioned to repress their symptoms that they become unobservable, sometimes even to themselves. this is masking. its not a light switch that can be turned on and off again. its the gradual repression and punishment for acting anything but neurotypical and the construction of a new, more socially acceptable identity.

as time goes on and your most ‘offensive’ symptoms are ‘under control’ the only things that remain are the ones that only hurt you and the exhaustion. you cant even unwind fully in private because of the fear of being ‘wrong’. the reason so many autistic people struggle with identity is because we’ve literally been forced to abandon who we are at a core level and make one to appease the world. forced to act completely against our nature in order to... act more ‘natural’.

[24ozsteak]

thinking about that WoW epidemic

[24ozsteak]

[swampgallows]

i was telling my dad, ever the skeptic, about corrupted blood back in March at the start of lockdown, and how the cdc studied it. how it can be used as a model for what to do and how people might act in the event of an unpredicted pandemic, and how people were playing out the same behavior during covid.

he said “so they fixed it, right? how did they fix it in the game?” and i told him the truth: they didn’t. they couldn’t control it. they had to reset the servers and roll them back to the time before the ZG encounter.

a CNN article recently referenced another “viral” event in world of warcraft: leeroy jenkins facepulling as a metaphor for the expedited reopening of businesses. what it fails to mention however is how the video ends. everyone who charges in with leeroy dies. he wipes the raid.

it really feels like that meme where it’s like “wow, cool video game reference!” and the point soaring over their head says THE DAMAGE WAS IRREVERSIBLE. THE THREAT SPREAD TOO RAPIDLY AND EVERYONE DIED.

[wheel-skellington]

weird reframing of the corrupted blood incident to make it seem, for some reason, like it was all selfish actions that people said was unrealistic because real people would help others. in fact its literally the opposite, it was used as real world data specifically because of the player driven efforts to fix it

[the-jellyfish-galaxy]

The reason this plague in the game was a good model is because we had all walks of life type people reacting in different ways.

Those with healing magic would go into infected areas to see if they could save the infected or at least keep them alive through the disease. Those that couldn’t do that tried to warn players before they entered infected areas. NPC could be infected and have “no symptoms”; they could be asymptomatic carriers and pass it to nearby players.

The best part though was by the time Blizzard had finally come out and said “if you are infected, try to quarantine yourself so you don’t spread it!!” the player base was ALREADY DOING SO. The players had recognized the problem and worked together in myriad ways to fix it.

They also had negative reactions as well, another reason this was such a good example of a real outbreak. They had a couple people report healers or alchemists who were claiming to sell cures/treatments to the disease that ultimately would do nothing. They had a group of players that would hide in the mountains near cities and just pass the disease back and forth between themselves and then raid cities to infect them all over again. They had higher level players start rebelling on the servers. Saying it was an overreaction and if you get it you’ll just die and you can come back and be fine, etc. Since they could get the disease and survive, ie it didn’t do enough damage to them since they were higher level, they felt it unnecessary to care about whether they got it or not. They complained about not getting to play like normal just because this plague could kill lower level players.

ALL of these reactions, good and bad, were real enough to what we assumed a real life epidemic would play out that people started to use it as a model. And now look, we have proof that it was accurate.

However, what we needed to learn from it was primarily that it wasn’t reversible. The bad reactions and lack of care from the few players that weren’t cooperating made it impossible in the end to contain. The only reason it was fixed at all is the game had to reverse time, literally just delete their entire game log a few weeks and time travel weeks into the past to before the plague even began.

Think about that.

The reason no one believed it was a valid model is that it was a video game and thus the consequences weren’t permanent. “No one would act like that in real life.” But look at how we are handling this outbreak. Is it not eerily similar?

And we can’t time travel.

[adobe-outdesign]

[powerfulwizard]

[saywhat-politics]

These Are Your Rights If You Don't Feel Safe At Work Without A Mask

Can employers make you go maskless -- or still require masks -- now that the CDC has relaxed guidelines for vaccinated people?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relaxed mask mandates last week for vaccinated Americans, allowing them to stop wearing masks in most places except when directed otherwise by workplace guidance or state and local law.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, described the decision as a way “to get back to a degree of normality, which people who get vaccinated deserve to have.” The guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like public transportation, planes, hospitals, prisons and homeless shelters.

Major retailers like Target and Publix have since announced that face coverings are no longer required for fully vaccinated employees and customers, except when local and state laws make it a requirement.

But retail unions said the CDC guidelines are unfair for workers who have no way of knowing which customers and colleagues are vaccinated and which ones aren’t. The new guidance relies on an honor system, and the assumption that people will still mask up if they have yet to be vaccinated. There is no nationwide vaccine passport system, and although employers may require proof of vaccination to return to an office, not all are expected to do so.