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Gradually figuring this out. Main interests are fandom things (except that I end up watching a lot of TV I hate for individual characters/actors I love and that makes me cranky), mental health stuff, fabulous-looking people, fuzzy animals, weird art, and critical discourse. And PUNS. White Canadian. Nonbinary (they/them please). Queer. Actively trying not to be a complete asshole about life and working out my own shit. I will honour unfollow requests if you are uncomfortable with me following you. I also try to be very careful about only reblogging correctly attributed and sourced work. I make mistakes sometimes, but I will take things down once I become aware. I generally don't publish asks publicly unless requested. I'm also crappily slow at responding to them unless they are urgent, sorry!

[mensajeroseis]

now lets admire one of my favorite quotes about TRANSNESS

[catchymemes]

[alienpapacy]

me: *has a puny human emotion*

blue whale: you are like a little baby. feel this

blue whale: *telepathically shares it’s emotions with me and I fucking explode*

[tenderwiki]

a lot of children - especially mentally ill children - end up traumatized not because someone was specifically hurting them but because their needs weren’t being met, or because their problems weren’t being seen, or because they were rendered particularly vulnerable by other aspects of their identity, like queerness or race. 

and it can be hard to look at your childhood and go “I was hurt” and also know that the hurt wasn’t deliberate. it’s uniquely painful to not have someone to blame. 

you do not have to excuse the people who hurt you, even if it was unintentional. & acknowledging your own pain does not necessarily entail blaming them for it.

you are allowed to do what you need to do in order to recover. 

[shrimplydelicious]

“I’m finally going to write! I have a great idea!”

[edgelord-trashcan]

LAUGHS LOUDLY

[ardatli]

OK but like… first sentences don’t have to be there forever. I cannot begin to count the number of times I’ve started a story like:

And just write the ideas down until the story starts to shape itself. Then when you’re ready, go back and delete everything before the point where the story actually starts. 

Writing yourself into an idea is a time-honoured technique, and it works. 

[rubyvroom]

I tend to start everything in the same document exactly so that I am never confronted with the dreaded Blank Page.

For example, a document I called One-Shots is where I keep dropping all my concepts and random scenes and half-baked bits of story. If a bit takes off and starts running to a few pages length, I airlift it into a new document of its own and it’s already a thousand words. Psychologically I find it a lot easier to get started this way.

A longer piece of writing gets a Master File that starts out with an outline and a bunch of reference material dumped in, and I just keep adding to that underneath or elaborate the outline until I have successfully tricked myself into Actually Writing The Thing. When the shape of the piece is starting to show itself I can delete all that stuff or move it to a new document.

[solassitudes]

oh. maybe. maybe this it. maybe that’s the problem.

[desiignercucci-deactivated20201]

I’ve never been dragged so viciously in my whole life. Wow. Me.

[mikkeneko]

After years of living in the adulting world, I think I’ve come to a realization: Manners exist to guide you to good conduct even when you’re in a bad mood.

When you’re happy, when you’re feeling generous, when you’re pleased with your gift or your service or your outcome, it’s easy to be nice. It’s easy to tip the waiter well when you’ve had a good day. It’s easy to thank the teller or the clerk when you got what you wanted out of the transaction. It’s easy to smile and chit-chat with strangers on the road when you’re in a good mood.

It’s hard to tip the waiter when you didn’t enjoy your food. It’s hard to thank the clerk for their time when you’ve just been told there’s a problem with their account and they weren’t able to fix it for you. It’s hard to think of something nice to say when your aunt gave you a crappy sweater you neither need nor want. It’s hard to be nice to people when you’ve had a shitty day. It’s HARD.

That’s what manners are for. Scripts and phrases that you learn by rote to say when you can’t think of a single nice or good thing to say from your own volition. Yes, they’re scripted. Yes, the sentiment is empty. But the scripts work in every situation, and the emptiness provides a buffer between your own unhappiness and the rest of society.

Because most of the time, it’s not the waiter’s fault that the food you ordered wasn’t what you expected. It’s not the clerk’s fault that your account is overdrawn. It’s not the fault of the barista or the stranger on the subway that you got fired today or your favorite aunt died. But even when you can’t summon a smile or a cheery word, you can still have manners, because they will serve you the same in sunshine or rain.

[animatedamerican]

This is very wise and very well put.

[unclefather]

[thaxted]

:(

[rox-and-prose]

Sometimes having mental illness is like living paycheck to paycheck but with your brain

[officialspec]

gender reveal came back negative

[retroject]

I found a lovely snail at work who was dried out so I let him have a shower and he seemed to enjoy it!! 🐌🚿

[hochiminhts-deactivated20190916]

an ecofascist blog has been gaining a lot of followers recently

the user captain-planet-official, who got popular from posts like this masking as environmental care (as most ecofascists do):

frequently slip in bits of white supremacist/racist/antisemitic commentary or ideals between posts, such as these:

or even the user outright requesting fashwave images from other fascists on here:

i’m not only worried about this for the sake of kicking weird fascist cunts like this off of the site, but also because of the fact that his entire persona has been attracting minors who don’t understand the undertone or even ecofascism itself. i’ve recently talked to one who had drawn fan art for the page! this isn’t good at all!

please spread this.

[donnasweettttttttt]

when people are like “the hunger games just stole the plot of battle royale” like listen everything steals from the plot of everything the lion king is just furry hamlet westworld is jurassic park but sexier lost is edgy gilligan’s island there are no original stories and the only good piece of media is jennifer’s body

[perrisbueller-deactivated202002]

Michael crichton wrote westworld and jurassic park tho so he just pirated himself

[donnasweettttttttt]

michael crichton keeps TRYING to tell y’all about the evils of capitalism impeding on the progress of science when will y’all LISTEN

[kryptonians]

Maybe he just doesn’t like theme parks

[dangerousturkey]

michael crichton in line for a roller coaster at six flags: fuck this

[bakwaaas]

someone said ‘the version of me you created in your mind is not my responsibility’ and wow

[ace-aro-fandroid]

Star Trek: The Next Generation S2 E2 “Where Silence Has Lease” 7:56

he is actually perfect

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

The most special interest hyperfixation TM thing I think I’ve done recently is when a friend said curiously “I wonder what the prefixes ‘cis’ and ‘trans’ even mean originally”

And I was learning about the Cetls and I was like “well when Rome was conquering the Gauls, they successful took their territory all the way up to the Alps, and that territory was called Cisalpine Gaul, whereas the Gauls’ territory across the Alps was called Transalpine Gaul, so probably I guess they mean ‘this side’ and ‘the other side’ or something sorta like that.”

And then after all that I was like. OH WE’RE TALKING ABOUT GENDER.

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Cis people: conquered by the Romans. Cut their hair and wear togas now.

Trans people: still partying. Fuck Caesar

[o-kurwa]