The Woods at the World's End

[thefabulousweirdtrotters]

Compilation of weird trees 

[lierdumoa]

Compilation of forest spirits

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

At this point in time I just want to give up. 

[homeiswheretheheartsare]

[avvocarlo]

I didn’t used to care about graffiti removal until I saw “dank meme graffiti” 

[avvocarlo]

this shit has to go

[genghis-khanye]

the barriers between internet and reality are getting seriously frayed

[vote-for-eggman]

This poisoned my blood and gave me strep throat

[scrimblobimblobadimbo-deactivat]

Lushsux does really good graffiti tho

[avvocarlo]

this addition does nothing but help my argument further 

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

I love it

[lothar]

death stranding fans are at it again, this time trying to decipher the presumed secret message in lindsay wagner’s necklace which also might’ve been inspired by the quipu method of recording information cause kojima’s an actual madman

[vanlifunhouse-deactivated202101]

@orandulum

[unlimited-nice-works]

Russian Twitter Decoded it

[charredasperity]

Kojima, what the fuck

[dangerousfishmonger-deactivated]

Holy shit so I looked the song up and the music video for it was uploaded almost a year ago…

And apparently according to the director, the music video is directly related to the plot and setting of Death Stranding? So there’s been this Death Stranding quazi-trailer just sitting here for a whole damn YEAR before Kojima thought to mention it. And he only mentioned it in a particularly obtuse code.

what the fuck!?

[folkbian-deactivated20181007]

when someone keeps referring to ‘the queer community’ and ‘queer people’

[constxllation]

plot twist, the queer community is a separate thing. literally its for lgbt+ people who identify as queer.

[earlgraytay]

added to that, ‘lgbt’ erases a whooooooooole lot of people. and that’s even without dredging up the cesspool that is Ace Discourse. 

pan people, intersex people, questioning people, people who don’t feel comfortable with a label at all and just know they’re not straight and/or cis… all clearly not cishet, but all clearly not included in the acronym. 

‘queer’ might not be the best word for The Group Of People Who Are Not Straight, Not Cis, Not Perisex, and/or Not Allosexual/Romantic, but LGBT is even worse, IMO.  it’s exclusionary as fuck, it’s unwieldy when you try to make it less exclusionary, it’s… generally not my first choice? 

there’s no word that’s gonna cover everyone, but ‘queer’ covers more people than ‘lgbt’ IMO.  

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

Somehow I feel saying the Queer and LGBTTQ* community would definitely not please the anti-Queer folks at all. Not one little bit. 

And yet the Queer and LGBTTQ* community is a thing in my region. We use both, because god knows LGBT is not a substitute for queer.

The queer community’s history extends beyond the age of its current members. 

[bela40]

my attention span is so bad i cant watch something without being on my phone at the same time i always have to have 2 layers of activity when did this happen why is capitalism stealing my soul away the spectacle has me firmly in its grip

[liddelfolk]

Psychology time!

This isn’t having a short attention span (or well maybe thats part of it), but probably something called “Optimal Arousal.”(This is psychology, not anatomy, please keep your mind out of the gutter Xp)

Optimal Arousal goes like this: When effort is low, more stimulus is better. When effort is high, less stimulus is better.

I’ll elaborate. Whenever you do something easy (like maybe some homework as an example), unless something else is happening (like music or a show) you tend to get drawn away or doze off. In this homework scenario, the effort is low, so in order to keep at it and do well on working on it, you need a higher amount of stimulus, like a movie.

If something is hard, like for instance a test, you probably will try to avoid noise, going so far as to hush others so you can concentrate. The effort is high so you want less stimulus.

Keep this in mind. It can help you focus, and make life a lot easier. Dont feel bad for doing lots of different things while you are just chillin. Enjoy the knowledge!

[digitaldiscipline]

This is also the reason that when people get lost or are trying to find an unfamiliar destination, they turn their car stereo down.

[elainapoststhings]

Whoa wait turning down the music so you can “see better” is a real thing and not just something to poke fun at?

[fierceawakening]

aces were never part of the lgbt community and you can die mad.

I’ll be glad to die mad, but not for a while yet, and not about anonymous messages.

(Fuckwit McGee here does know I used to be an exclusionist until I realized messages like that are not what I want to sound like and I should rethink, right?)

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

They're not a part of Anons LGBT community but they're a part of my LGBT community.

I wonder what that's like to know that whole huge parts of the LGBT community welcome whole people you don't? I don't know what that's like.

I do know what's it's like to have parts of Anoms LGBT community accept me in parts, and man it sucks.

What's it like to be part of a dying breed Anon? If you're not already, you're going to start feeling real Excluded for those beliefs real soon. That is if you go outside and talk to the people in the LGBT community and not just your little circle of it.

[justaphobethings]

So like what do exclusionists do when they go to prides and they see ace and aro flags flying everywhere? Booths dedicated to being ace and aro? What do they do? Fume in silence or start screaming their bullshit? “Asexuals don’t belong at pride! They’re not LGBT!” Oh really? Cause actual prides have shown otherwise.

They go home and cry on Tumblr

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

Sounds right.

[redbeardace]

Custom Pride Flag Emojis

I’ve put together a pack of pride flag emojis for Pride month and beyond. These images were designed with Slack in mind (because Slack’s selections of pride flags is extremely limited)…

It’s now Pride Month!  Get your pride flag emojis today and start a Party Parrot Pride Parade in the #random channel!

It’s got rainbow flags, asexual flags, intersex flags, trans flags, pansexual flags, non-binary flags, aromantic flags, genderqueer flags, poly flags, bisexual flags, agender flags, and more!

[redbeardace]

A lot of people have noted the lack of a lesbian flag in this set, and I apologize for that.  Unfortunately, the program that I wrote to generate these flags is not capable of creating any of the lesbian flags that I’m aware of.  It can really only do horizontal stripes and very basic shapes, like the demi triangle or intersex circle.  (The π on the poly flag is even too far for the program.  Its placement is broken, so it ends up shifting position on the different size flags and it’s [debatably] backwards on the vertical variants.)  The labrys, the lipstick mark, or the interlocked Venus symbols are well beyond what it can do.

So, is there common one that I’m not aware of that the program can do?

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

There's the lesbian flag that's just strips. It's the lipstick lesbain flag without the kiss mark.

[adobsonartworks]

This is what I hate the most about nearly all online debates. Sometimes opposing sides are NOT equal, and we shouldn’t treat them as if they were.

[breefolk-hates-staff]

This applies to political debates as well.  Journalists in America have basically given into the fallacy that both sides must always be equal, regardless of context.

[fierceawakening]

I am super uneasy about posts like this but I don’t have the words to explain why they creep me out.

The closest I can get to forming words is “that’s not a debate” and “wtf that’s not how debates end.”

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

That’s not a debate, that’s a negotiation. A negotiation that ends in a compromise for one side, and a loss for the other.

A debate should be about presenting your side /your case to the audience and holding the other side accountable to present their case accurately too.

The “egual” thing is usually just that both sides get to speak. For political debates it means all parties or candidates are allowed to participate. Not that positions are both egually valid, but that all candidate are all equally running for election.

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

Ah, not even a regular negotiation. That's like some sort of legally binding mediation where the participants can't give reject the results.

[adobsonartworks]

This is what I hate the most about nearly all online debates. Sometimes opposing sides are NOT equal, and we shouldn’t treat them as if they were.

[breefolk-hates-staff]

This applies to political debates as well.  Journalists in America have basically given into the fallacy that both sides must always be equal, regardless of context.

[fierceawakening]

I am super uneasy about posts like this but I don’t have the words to explain why they creep me out.

The closest I can get to forming words is “that’s not a debate” and “wtf that’s not how debates end.”

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

That's not a debate, that's a negotiation. A negotiation that ends in a compromise for one side, and a loss for the other.

A debate should be about presenting your side /your case to the audience and holding the other side accountable to present their case accurately too.

The "egual" thing is usually just that both sides get to speak. For political debates it means all parties or candidates are allowed to participate. Not that positions are both egually valid, but that all candidate are all equally running for election.

[iguanastevens]

What to do when you don’t like a fic: a step by step guide

Step 1:

[reiner-is-back-bitches]

Amazing tutorial I recommend to everyone!

[thesaltofcarthage]

I have done this and it totally works!

[johanirae]

Lifehack right here everybody

[gxdtaem]

it really is Frightning to me how many people think shipping things like starker and thorki is ok like…. give me one (1) good valid reason to ship either of those things like.. just admit y’all are fetishists for fucks sake

[just-antithings]

Just Anti Things: what exactly is being fetishized this time? you didn’t specify

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

No. 

I need a valid reason for me to ship something.

You need a valid reason for you to ship something. 

I don’t need a reason you consider valid to ship something I like.

You don’t need a reason I consider valid to ship something you like. 

Me and you are separate people with different interests in ships. Live with it, and die angry I guess. 

Or accept that different people have different interests in ships that can’t ever fit in your box, and it’s not worth trying to get them to justify themselves to you when you could instead be enjoying the ships you do like, as nothing we say will ever satisfy you anyway. 

Yes, OP I am 100% what you consider to be a fetishist based on your own definition of the term. Now what? 

[aroacemonster]

Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.

[thewoodsattheworldsend]

My local term is LGBTTQ*, so that's what we use. LGBTQ* or LGBT* we're the previous local term. People will end up using their local term. Queer community is also popular for non-offical use. Official use being the local Pride website.

Queer is still alive here, and we wouldn't drop the second T because Canada. It stands for two spirit.

Local terms matter, even if we're on the internet.

[nixxie-pic]

Happy Towel day to all you hoopy froods out there who know what I’m on about! Here’s some Martin Freeman screencaps from the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the galaxy to help you along.

And if you don’t know what I’m talking about (good lord, why not?) go visit this wiki site (x) or the actual towel day page (x).

Happy 25th May everyone… So long, and thanks for all the fish! Do you know where your towel is??

[guapular]

[asexualveganmystic-deactivated2]

Is he like the opposite of Bob Ross?

[bwansen]

Yes.