crazy insomniac nerd

Exists in a parallel universe, that is my brain. makes jokes and science puns that are funny only to me. whines and rants about work and boards constantly. Bi. 29. she/her. 🇮🇳 ( if you know, you know)

[lecataste]

[thecrazyinsomniac]

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[shockpine]

[thecrazyinsomniac]

Days pass by and whenever we think we are out of troubles and we can finally be happy.. Disaster keeps happening over and again. It's just infuriating me. But I'm happy that you're by my side.

[appalachiananarchist]

Attending: *Asks the med student a pimp question*

Student: *Does not know answer and is getting visibly flustered*

Me, sad: *Mouths the answer dramatically when the attending turns around*

Med student: Cardioversion!

Attending: That’s right! Now who told you that?

Med student: Um… Jesus. Jesus came down, saw my suffering, and told me the answer.

[geniuss-loci-deactivated2021052]

Kait Rokowski

[rneliflua]

there’s this specific brand of lazy media criticism seen on tumblr and twitter that I like to call “checklist criticism”. it is called like this because it consists on checking for the presence of superficial signifiers of a Bad Trope™ (as if going through a static checklist) in a given piece of media and declaring said piece of media to be, therefore, bad, without taking into account factors such as context, nuances, the handling, the framing, and, most importantly, what makes this bad trope bad in first place, and if the harm it usually causes is still being perpetrated in this particularly story given the aforementioned contextual variables.

an example of checklist criticism that happens a lot is the common “[x] this tv show has a female character [x] who dies before the show is over, therefore = Woman In The Refrigerator™, show bad!” Okay but, how did she died? What were the circumstances around her death? What purpose did it serve in the larger story? Did she die just to advance someone else’s story or she died fulfilling her own arc? Did she had any agency in the way she went or was she a passive victim of circumstance? Was her death dignified or unnecessarily violent? Are there any other important female characters that make it to the end? The Woman In The Refrigerator™ trope is not bad because women dying in fiction is inherently bad – if no female character were ever allowed to die, even in war or crime or post-apocalypt fiction, there’d be very low stakes for female characters, and low stakes mean very little reason to care about them. The WITR trope is bad because it’s about treating female characters as more expendable than male ones, banalizing violence against women in fiction, and cutting short female representation from pieces of fiction – which, most of the time, is already low. A female character whose death has an actual point in her own storyline, who’s afforded the same weight and dignity as male character’s deaths, and in a story where there’s no shortage of other female characters that survive the end of the story, is not a Fridged Woman, she’s just a female character who dies.

Another example – and here I’m taking an example from my own identity, so I don’t get accused of stepping on anyone’s feet – would be something like “this book has a [x] latina character, she’s [x] loud and spontaneous, she likes to [x] flirt and sleep around. Spicy Latina™! Book racist!” Okay, is she a caricature of a loud and spontaneous latina or is she a fully realized human being with a fully rounded personality, including dreams and wishes and opinions and vulnerabilities and agency, who just happens to be spontaneous, like so many people across multiple ethnicities happen to be? Is being flirty and spontaneous her only character traits or does she have more (that may go against other stereotypes about latinas)? Is her flirtness and sexuality framed in a fetishistic way that favors a (white) male gaze or it is framed in a nuanced way that prioritizes her pov and her agency and her pleasure and her happiness? Did the author really give her those traits because they’re a lazy fuck that couldn’t think of other traits to give his latina character other than spontaneous and flirty or do those characters traits have an actual point in the context of this particular story? Again: keep in mind why bad tropes are bad in first place.

We live in a time where reductive criticisms are an easy source of clout over actually thoughtful and deep analysis that don’t easily lend themselves to the type of short and snappy hot takes for twitok format and I’m exhausted.                      

[rneliflua]

Like, this lack of understanding of what makes certain bad tropes bad is how we ended up with a plethora of male writers patting themselves in the back for creating a ~deconstruction of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope~ by writing stories where the male protagonist has to learn that the girl they assigned as their personal MPDG is not interested in fixing him, while still making it all about their male protagonists POV and their story and their arc. The MPDG is not bad because women being quirky is bad or because people helping their partners grow is bad. The MPDG is bad because it’s about women being narrative tools with no inner life helping the growth of the male protagonist, and if you write a story where she still has no personhood and is still pretty much defined by your male protag’s view of her you’re not changing anything just because the dude has to learn by the end that his view of her was wrong and she never wanted to save him. you still wrote a story about a flat female character that helps the pov male protag learn a lesson, only this time it was a different lesson, you just changed the window dressing.   

[tess-mercer]

not to be boring but I like when evil characters.... well not become “redeemed,” more like they become domesticated. its just delightful when like an evil monstrous little bastard man goes from committing murder to getting mad someone misplaced their costco card or left the jar of mayo on the counter all day.

[madtumbleson]

I just needed to preserve these tags. For reasons.

[one-lovely-little-idiot]

Ive had the stinking sofa meme thing in my photos idk how long and everytime i see it it without fail makes me laugh

[quotefeeling]

“Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; But eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, Stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories and make peace with them.”

— lyanla Vanzant

[studentlifeproblems]

[samezukas-deactivated20171227]

so i don’t think a lot of people really understand how often south asian culture is misinterpreted and appropriated so i’m making a post about it right here.

any mention of third eyes

any mention of chakras

people wearing bindis when they shouldn’t be 

fucking “om” or “aum” tattoos or appliques on things like yoga pants. do you know how fucking disrespectful it is to put a symbol that is so important to my religion and culture on the ass of some white chick’s yoga pants

people wearing maang tikka when they shouldn’t be

anklets with bells on them are very important to the dance culture of south asia and it’s disrespectful to wear them outside of a traditional dance setting

feel free to add any more that i missed because i’m fucking tired

[samezukas-deactivated20171227]

this is okay to rb if you’re not south asian. in fact it’s encouraged that you reblog this post, regardless of your race

[fierce-little-afro-witch]

^^Anyone is capable of appropriation without meaning to, even other poc. Please respect!

[afrocentric-divination]

All of you asking if it’s still ok if youre pagan can also go choke. Y’all will use any excuse to appropriate and not care what other people say not to use. They are literally saying “DONT” and y’all are saying “yeah but…” But my ass. Learn to stop being so entitled.

[biconicfinn]

Also! Regarding the anklets with bells there are two types: one is the traditional dance one which has more and bigger bells, you can hear the sound from ages away and work only for traditional dance, and the other is smaller and thinner, with lesser small bells that can be worn always. The dance ones are very important and significant as our traditional dances are seen as having a lot of meaning especially with regards to religion. I mean when I got my salangai (tamil for dance anklets) I brought it to the temple to pray and have them be blessed before I wear them and in my dance school you weren’t allowed to wear your anklets until you’d done your namaskaram before starting. On the other hand, my grandmas and aunts and cousins all wear kolusu (tamil for normal anklets) all the time and I even wore them as a small child so there is a difference between those two.

[thecrazyinsomniac]

I hadn’t heard of robin cook but there are some audiobooks of his from my library that I can get! I have been listening to podcasts recently but wanted something more - is their one of his you would recommend? I was thinking of starting with Genesis or Host!

I like sci-fi, crime/mystery, thriller, fantasy/magic systems. I haven’t had a lot of time to sit down with a book, I miss curling up with a good one

Fever and chromosome 6 are good. If you can get them, give them a try. I loved Genesis and Host too.

I don't know how popular he's in US, he was popular a while back in our country ( like he was my dad's favourite.. Along with Agatha Christie..so he got me into reading them)

[kitty]

[thecrazyinsomniac]

Thanks for answering!! I am awful at organizing my books in any reasonable fashion 😅 I just moved and currently have them tossed on a shelf and really need to do something more. I usually at least have them by genera. I am not sure I have a favorite cover I am drawn to fantasy covers though that isn’t my favorite kind of book to read. Do you have any comfort books/books you reread?

I'm like on most of the days too. When I am feeling down, I organize them ( as it's been too frequent these days.. They are a bit organized. Also, as I have moved to a different country recently I couldn't bring many books with me, so the collection is awfully low)

I like historical fiction ( though those colonial tropes have messed them up for me) and before JKR spoiled the franchise for me, I used to reread Harry Potter a lot. I used to reread old Robin cook medical scifi a lot.

What books do you like?

[clish-moved-deactivated20210119]

“If you are not attracted to an individual, because the individual has a trait, that’s okay”

[ruffboi-mags]

1) This is a very good twitter thread.

2) the notes are full of terfs (in part bc OP put it on terf tags intentionally) and it’s gross af but it makes a damn good blocklist

[iamshadow21]

Reblogging the good stuff from Laura Kate Dale, the gay autistic transwoman gamer we deserve.

[pretentioussongtitle]

You don’t have to find anyone personally desirable in order to let them live in peace.