Steph's Mind Attic

Howdy, I'm Steph. She/Her I'm a 37-year-old Lesbian, career cis fan girl, and writer. My top offenders are: Disney, Star Wars, Musicals, Anime, TTRPGS, & Marvel. I'm a very opinionated attention whore, I wasn't held enough as a child. I'm also a supporter of the LGBTQIA agenda.

[only-knives]

IM GOING TO CRY THEY MIGHT INCREASE THE SSI ASSETS LIMIT TO $10,000.

it's a bipartisan bill too! and for anyone unaware, people on SSI (which is different from SSDI), can only have $2,000 in assets (unless they have an ABLE account, which comes with its own rules). this assets limit has been in place for FORTY YEARS and is a giant part of why being on SSI keeps people incredibly impoverished.

i've also heard they might remove the marriage penalty but i don't have the spoons to read or explain it so someone else please add on!

this is huge! please spread the word and do what you can to help ensure this happens!

[radsity]

i love keyleth so freaking much

[image description: a color illustration of Keyleth, from Critical Role. Cherry blossom petals are drifting in the breeze to her right, and she's watching them with a relaxed, small smile. Her outfit is loose green silks and brown leathers. Her hair and mantle sweep in the breeze as well. She's holding up her right hand to catch a few petals, and the left is holding her staff. End ID.]

[wirwerdensiegen]

Gong Jun Weibo Update 2023/09/27 p02/02.

[eternalssource]

GEMMA CHAN Vogue World: London 2023

[arielerics]

At least, out loud. I won’t say I’m in love.

[transfaguette]

god apparently Walgreens has a policy where employees can refuse to complete a transaction if it goes against their moral or religious beliefs…like lets get this straight a pharmacist can refuse to give a customer their prescribed medication because they disagree with it. and technically theyre supposed to hand it off to another employee. but this doesnt always happen. literally leaving people without condoms or contraceptives or HRT or any number of things because the employee simply didn’t want to. Incredibly ghoulish policy that has no right to exist. I’m sorry if you work in a pharmacy and can’t do your literal job because its too “morally challenging” for you, you should not have that job!

[spacelazarwolf]

ppl always wanna be like "but freedom!!!!!!" like ya freedom to get a new fucking job that doesn't require u to do things that are "against ur morals." go work at hobby lobby dipshit.

[nonbinannytranny]

yeah this happens a lot more than people think and it’s not just walgreens. when i was first prescribed testosterone i couldn’t pick it up at any cvs in brooklyn or manhattan because the first pharmacist i saw (who was usually really nice to me prior to testosterone) suddenly changed her tone and deleted the medication from my profile in the system somehow. for weeks every pharmacy only gave me the needles. nowhere i went would fill my testosterone. in new york city. planned parenthood ended up giving me what they had in stock instead of going through a pharmacy because even the doctors calling all 6 pharmacies wouldn’t help.

i know trans people who couldn’t get refills on hormones and went without ANY hormones in their body. that is fucking dangerous and would not happen to cis people. everyone should have access to their own prescribed medications.

[politijohn]

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[chthonic-pain]

"we'll get you in" and "someone can help you" do NOT mean the venue is accessible. if i call up in advance of an event and ask if i will be able to attend, i want to know if i can actually attend or if going there will be a disastrous waste of my time, money, and energy. if you have stairs just fucking say you have stairs, fucking hell, "uhhhh we can carry your wheelchair with you in it" is not an answer to whether there is step-free access

[chthonic-pain]

im so sick of able bodied cowards wringing their hands & being too embarrassed to admit over the phone that their building's architecture is hostile to disabled people. like yeah you SHOULD feel bad about it, but you also have a duty to be honest. if you dance around and try avoid telling me the building is not accessible, you risk me showing up and getting stuck and causing an even worse scene because you lied about accessibility and now you've got a distressed cripple in your foyer.

like. i don't care how ashamed you are. i don't care how embarrassed you are. i will think so, so much less of you if you try to hide the shitty access from me instead of just informing me. i need that information for my physical safety. i am not saying that you personally are responsible for the inaccessibility. i just want to plan my fuckin day without getting stranded somewhere for once.

[chthonic-pain]

let me rephrase this a little more kindly

if you work at an inaccessible venue and a disabled person calls up to ask if there is wheelchair access, you are doing them a favor and being a good ally by saying the truth and warning that person about inaccessibility. if you want to help disabled people, you need to make an effort not to put obstacles in our way, and that means informing us of access issues so that we can plan around them and avoid getting stuck or hurt.

if you lie about or try to minimize access issues, you are instead putting us in danger.

we will learn about the inaccessibility one way or another: either by you telling us, or by going there and finding out for ourselves when we hit a roadblock. don't let it be the second one, it's much less pleasant for everyone involved.

[teapot-studies]

Random writing tips that my history professor just told during class that are actually helpful

Download all your sources or print them so you can turn off your wifi

Give your phone to someone

Just. WRITE. Writing is analysing, you’ll get more ideas as you write. It doesn’t need to be perfect, for now you can just blurt out words and ideas randomly. You can fix it later.

Create a skeleton/structure before writing.

Stop before you get exhausted. It’s best to stop writing when you still have some energy and inspiration left, this will also motivate you to get started again next time.

Make a to do list

Work in bite sizes. Even if it’s not much, as long as you put some ideas on paper or do some editing.

Simple language =/= boring language, simple language = clear language.

Own your words. If they are not your words, state this clearly in the text, not just in the footnotes.

STOP BEFORE YOU GET EXHAUSTED. Listing it again because it’s easily one of the best tips a teacher has ever given me.

[secondlina]

I drew a little something for the Hiveworks micro comic summer~

Hiveworks Comics

It's time! Today is the day. Share the comic you've been working on all summer with the tag #MicroComicSummer

[plasticterrarium]

Alison Bechdel wrote this book and chose violence

[lg5]

It's crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.

[rootbeergoddess]

This is what gets me. The writers and actors aren’t asking for much but these CEOs are digging their heels in

[vermilionstarlight]

It's because it sets a precedent that the CEOs are terrified to set. That they will acquiesce to worker demands if the workers are resolute enough.

Because in an ideal world for these rich fucks, the workers give up, and the CEOs win, and its reinforced in the collective public mindset that all a strike does is "disrupt the economy, deprive people of valuable products, and waste people's time". The goal is to maintain the assertion that Strikes Don't Work. I don't think they genuinely give a shit about 0.15% of their revenue. What they care about is the OPTICS.

They cannot back down, for the exact same reason that WORKERS cannot back down. Because if the workers win, it shows people just that bit more that The Poors have power and ultimately we can make the rich do what we want if we put our fucking minds to it. And that, to the rich, is bad news bears to the highest degree.

[ashleysjohnson]

40 FICTIONAL FEMALE DYNAMICS 1. Buffy Summers & Willow Rosenburg (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

And I just realized that that's what I want to do. Fight evil, help people. I mean, I-I think it's worth doing. And I don't think you do it because you have to. It's a good fight, Buffy, and I want in. I kind of love you.

[fazmid]

I love opening up this website first thing like the morning paper and immediately seeing multiple posts like "how to get rid of the evil clown on the dashboard". like oh is this what we're doing today

[nottiredenoughtosleep]

I'm gonna start adding this to every post I see about this advertising bs that tumblr are pulling

not only is it annoying, and in some countries probably illegal for not declaring a paid partnership

TUMBLR IS CROSSING THE PICKET LINE

They are taking money from Netflix to promote a show.

Actors and writers are unable to promote work because of the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

Netflix is under the AMPTP, so it is a struck company, making One Piece a struck work.

So they are using alternate ways of promoting their products, including paying companies like tumblr.

Both the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have made statements saying that they consider anyone or company taking payment to promote struck work as crossing the picket line.

Tumblr is spitting in the face of struggling actors and writers to make a quick buck from Netflix

[charliejaneanders]

I just saw a post on Tumblr asking if you're "allowed" to do something in a story you're writing. (In this case, a POV shift.)

I just want to sing to the tune of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, "THERE ARE NO RULES. THERE ARE NO RULES. There are no rules there are no rules there are no rules..."

[catchymemes]

[traycakes]

I want to make this absolutely clear to kids: children didn't used to be stuck inside the house like you are today. There used to be public places you could hang out. It used to be fairly safe to walk around because trucks weren't designed to kill children. You didn't need a car to go anywhere so kids without a license weren't trapped. There weren't 24/7 cable news networks constantly scaring parents with anecdotes even as crime was at all time lows and the biggest danger comes from adults kids know not strangers.

It's easy to ignore old people talking about "the good ol' days" because a lot of the people saying that shit are racist assholes, but the way society treats kids today really is objectively worse than how kids used to be treated. You deserve better, and you should know that better things are possible. We just need to kill the suburbs and for-profit news.

[fans4wga]

WHY THEY STRIKE: Sean Astin (SAG), Member of the SAG-AFTRA Negotiating Committee & Actor on Lord of the Rings

"They're paying us late. At Universal. And Warner Brothers. And Disney. And Amazon. And Hulu. And Netflix. Are you kidding me?" Sean Astin makes an impassioned speech on the SAG picket line. Today, August 13, 2023 marks 30 days since the start of their strike (July 14, 2023).