Squiddles and Sopor

This started out as a fandom side blog but now it's pretty much my main. If you're interested in more in-depth university related posts my other blog has more of those.

[dramatic-dolphin]

a while ago I read this sci-fi short story from the 50s where a guy is kidnapped and interrogated by aliens using a very sophisticated lie detector, but he realizes that the lie detector works off technical truth, and with some careful phrasing and misdirection, he manages to make them believe that humans are a race of immortal, overpowered, omniscient telepathic beings. and it works.

my favorite part is when he tells them that humans are "capable of transportation without the aid of spaceships or any vehicles, just by using mental power to control physical matter". it's true, we can. it's called walking.

[dramatic-dolphin]

okay I found it, it's The Best Policy by Randall Garrett

and it has other gems such as "I know beyond a shadow of a doubt what every member of my race thinks of you" (they don't know you exist) and "every human knows exactly as much about the location of your home planet as I do" (nothing)

[squiddlesandsopor]

Hii, sorry if this bothers you but do you plan on updating Don't Forget to Breathe? Love your writing! Hope you having a good day😊

I’m not currently writing anything. I’d like to finish the story but at this time I can’t say when that will be.

[lianabrooks]

[katecolleen]

I’ve reblogged this before and I’ll reblog it again ayoooooooo

[bogleech]

A witch is a magic user with more focus on medicine and the body and a wizard is a magic user with more focus on like physics and academia. I don’t know what dingus made up one day that they’re just the 2 magic genders, that sounds stupid

[go-lurk]

witches = magic doctors, wizards = magic researchers, artificers = magic engineers, alchemists = magic chemists, sorcerers = magic youtubers

[professorsparklepants]

What about warlocks?

[anonymousalchemist]

[deep, deep, deep sigh] 

magic sugar babies 

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

when welcome to night vale said: “Sleep heavily and know that I am here with you. The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first, and settles in as the gentle present. This now, this us, we can cope with that. We can do this together you and I.”

[queerlection]

[Image description - Images of an aroace, aromantic and asexual pride flag with the text: Attraction? In my me? No. End description.]

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[prole-log]

[exigencelost]

Okay look. Stephanie Meyer contributed four (4) cool things to the contemporary fantasy genre, which I shall now list here in the hopes of getting it out of my system. In descending order of importance:

1. Writing a story about a girl who wants something. Plot driven by a woman’s (non-vilified) desire. Truly dreadful execution but still a good idea, sort of a literary incarnation of the “he a little confused but he got the spirit” meme.

2. The fact that when Bella becomes a vampire she can still breathe but “there’s no relief tied to the action” which I remember verbatim because it fucking slapped. The idea of human physical sensations being partially defined by our mortality and the sensations still exist after you become undead but your experience of them is fundamentally different because you no longer need any of it? Extremely cool. The closest Meyer came to taking an interesting stance on vampires being dead.

3. Werewolves are immortal but they can literally stop whenever they want. That shit’s hilarious. Curse of immortality who.

4. The fact that vampires don’t sleep or get tired so their communally-raised baby doesn’t have a crib because she is always in someone’s arms. That was extremely cute and there’s a different, better book contained somewhere in that specific concept.

[hugintheraven]

5. Depression being represented by like 6 blank chapters titled with months.

“protect heteroromantic aces” lmao from what? the sharknado?

[infocards]

from corrective rape? from mothers who are open and accepting of gay, bi, pan, etc people and still unknowingly tell their asexual children that people who don’t want sex are sick need help? from their closest friends at birthday parties starting conversations about how weird and fake asexuality is? from the fear of being alone forever because no one could want to be with someone like them? from going against sexual and relationship norms in a society that tells them they’re broken and wrong?? from people like you who delegitimize their struggles in the eyes of much of lgbt+ community, some of the only people who you’d think might understand

[goblinlorde]

I had to reblog this twice bc you just got 100% fucking destroyed my dude

[kihba-deactivated20211123]

“drama kid” this and “band kid” that. wheres the love for us kids that did absolutely nothing in high school

[a-trans-comic-by-me]

“Do Not Stand At My Grave And Weep” – Mary Elizabeth Frye

Happy Pride 2019!

[grassfire]

jorts in the summertime, jants in winter, joots all year ‘round

[dykejedi-deactivated20170430]

don’t be ridiculous, you cant wear joots in the summertime, that’s when you gotta  break out your

jandals

[danbutt]

nah mate aussie summer’s too hot for jandals

you need some jongs

[beemojis]

In America we call those jlip-jlops

[la-laborista-republiko]

[icarus-milano-deactivated202103]

Fun fact one of my friends used to do this, except when he told one of them he got accepted to a paid one they offered to match the pay because they liked his résumé a bunch. And he like, never would have guessed that they would. So try! It can’t hurt.

[turing-tested]

this pride month on top of calling out transphobia and homophobia from your communities, please do the same for serophobia, which has historically gone hand in hand with thousands of LGBT people’s deaths.

[turing-tested]

for clarification, serophobia is the fear and aversion of people who are living with HIV/AIDS. you can’t get HIV from hugging someone, you can’t get it from drinking after someone, and there’s now medication that makes it so HIV is undectable in your blood, which means it’s also untransmissable. serophobia has no place in the LGBT community!

[jupitersflower-deactivated20200]

“queer” is such a useless term. if i tell someone im bisexual, they know i am attracted to men and women. if a man tells me he is gay, i know he is a man exclusively attracted to other men. if someone tells me they are queer, it tells me nothing about them. it doesnt tell me who they attracted to. it tells me nothing about that person.

[internettwink]

It tells me they’re trying to be a extra lil bitch and that I shouldn’t be friends with them

[terflies]

No, you probably shouldn’t, for their sake.

[star-fall-system]

yall realise thats exactly the point, right

queer covers everyone who is noncis or nonstraight

it covers the identities you want to erase or disallow from the community

it doesn’t immediately tell you private information about someone’s sexuality or gender that you aren’t entitled to

and the person in question may not even know themselves, but queer is what they know they can always use if they’re not sure except they know theyre definitely not cis/straight

you hate it because it’s too inclusive and too broad. It’s supposed to be inclusive and broad. If someone tells you they’re queer then all you need to know is that they are in some way not cis or straight and other than that it aint your business. If being told someone’s identity is none of your business pisses you off, thats a you problem

[aphony-cree]

Imagine saying you wont be friends with someone unless they disclose all details of their gender and orientation immediately upon meeting you and still feeling that you’re morally superior 

[thebestoftumbling]

[canon-lgbtaq-daily]

The canon LGBTAQ+ character of the day is:

You!!!

[djfibi]