Third Thoughts

Autistic. 20s. She/her. Main blog. Nerd stuff, social justice stuff. Cyric fanatic.

[catchymemes]

[ginkgocrown-old-blog]

I showed this post to my boyfriend and he tried to take his shirt off like a girl and 

uh

yeah

[castielsteenwolf]

Out of the 82k notes my post got this is by far the best comment holy shit thank u for being u

[wingscanspeak]

So i tried it both ways and uh

i mean how do you do the first one without pulling out all your hair?

[zorobro]

this made me laugh really hard….

and it made me realize that girls and boys pull their shirt off differently. /amazed

but seriously I think girls just do the cross arm thing because of HAIR like demonstrated 

[wingscanspeak]

So one year, one URL change, and a hair cut later, I decide to try again… FOR SCIENCE! 

Its not science unless you write it down so 

[30secondstocalifornia]

First method:

Well done, i guess…

Second:

I fucked up

Girls… how?

[ohshititsmama-deactivated201812]

I DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN HAVE SUCH DIFFERENT WAYS OF TAKING OFF SHIRTS AND SO MUCH DIFFICULTY DOING IT THE OTHER WAY

[iprayforangels-deactivated20220]

I FIGURED IT OUT!!!!!

It’s all in the way that girl/boys shirts are made.

Girls shirts have less armpit room then boy’s do and are generally shorter so pulling it off over your head is more practical because by lifting your arms all the way up you make enough room for the sleeves to just slip off.

Boys shirts have more room and are generally longer so it is easy to slip them off over your head.

but if you take a girls shirt off like a boys shirt you will get your arms caught because there isn’t much armpit space.

and if you take a boys shirt off like a girls shit you will still have your head in it when you’ve lifted your arms all the way up because of the shirt’s length.

It has nothing to do with us. It is entirely to do with how our shirts are made. I figured it out for you. YOU’RE WELCOME!

[prince-cake]

bless you

[wingscanspeak]

look what is back on my dash. Jesus.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[deathtofun]

I told a guy his total was 13.21 and he said “wish it were that year, could actually get some good music on the radio”

[regularlesbian]

breaking news from the AP, our boys on the front have just sacked constantinople. take that, heretics. coming up next are the soothing lute dirges of bing crosby

[villainessbian]

*screams of a witch burning at the stake*

THOU ART CURRENTLY LISTENING TO

*Gregorian chanting*

13.21

*leper bell ringing*

HIGH MEDIAEVAL FM

*recording of John Lackland sobbing as he signs the Magna Carta*

WHENCE COMETH NAUGHT BUT LITURGIES

LITURGIES

AND MORE LITURGIES

*Templar knights praying out loud*

THIS ISN’T THY GRANDMOTHERES STATION

*Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing*

[moss-sprout]

I'm starting a collection

[werewolfetone]

Shirt that says REJECTING ONE INCORRECTLY BLACK AND WHITE VIEW OF HISTORY FOR ANOTHER IS NOT PROGRESS

[werewolfetone]

[authorizedpope]

booty shorts that say THE PROBLEM IS YOUR WHOLE PARADIGM, NOT THE ANGLE FROM WHICH YOU VIEW IT

[liarsblade]

[aircademia]

yeah libraries are cool but have you ever found a library with a secret doorway disguised as a bookshelf that leads to a smaller, hidden library filled with ancient books full of mysteries and forgotten knowledge? me neither and i'm sad about it

[shamebats]

[image ID: TikTok comment by Spedubopy: I once had a german bouncer look at my pre transition-ID and then back at me and just go "ja das ist an improvement" /end ID]

[pressedflorals483729]

Do not confuse my flat affect for a lack of whimsy.

[exlibrisv]

i hate it when people say all men are evil, partially because gender essentialism is bullshit, but mostly because i personally am actually working really hard to be evil in unique and refreshing ways, and by acting like it's a quality innate to my gender you're dismissing all the time and effort i've put in.

[quasi-normalcy]

It’s important that everyone understand that, when I say that I “like” a villainous character, what I in fact mean is that I consider them to be both cool and morally praiseworthy, as well as correct in their aims and methods and worthy of emulation by people in the real world. Just in case there was any ambiguity on this point.

[quasi-normalcy]

I further elaborate that I consider them to be An Excellent Role-Model for Impressionable Children.

[quasi-normalcy]

I almost neglected to mention that they are a worthy sexual partner and that I am aroused by everything that they do.

[fictionmeetsnonfiction]

*What do you guys think of fictionkins who don’t feel bad for the actions they made in their media?

I recently saw a video that made me think about this question a lot. They made a very strongly worded video about how you shouldn’t be happy if you have a kin from a certain game or be proud of it. They were a kin of one of the victims of this character so it’s very reasonable that they’d dislike and maybe even have a hatred towards others who kin that (I myself would act the same toward All For One kins), but their video honestly came off as saying “you’re a weird/bad person if you make jokes about your kin’s actions or don’t feel remorse for them”

I myself kind of fall into the category because as Shigaraki (MHA) I do not feel bad for the people I hurt in my universe. (I also kin the prototype from poppy playtime but that isn’t a past life and the identity and how I identify with his violence is a bit complicated.)

So I want to hear other people’s opinion on this question because I never really thought about it until now.

[a-dragons-journal]

My opinion boils down to

a) These are actions that are not material here; therefore they are not punishable the same way as actions in the here-and-now.

b) What good does it do anyone for you to feel guilty? It helps no one, least of all you, to beat yourself up for things that ultimately, you-here-and-now had no control over.

c) Whatever you may have done as your fictomere, you presumably had reasons for it; people don't do things that they feel are wrong unless they have strong reasons, and while that doesn't necessarily justify it, it does... explain it, I guess, and mean that it's kind of ridiculous to beat yourself up indefinitely for doing things you clearly thought were necessary and/or justified at the time.

Ultimately, @goratrix-betrayed put it better than I ever manage to in the panel he once ran for Othercon on this very subject, which I highly recommend you (and whoever posted that video, frankly) give a listen to:

[watcherwingedcat]

I'm going to try to explain a bit too, as I feel I have *opinions* on this topic. Obviously, regarding what the person on the video said, I don't think someone should feel bad for being a specifical fictional character or being because, ultimately, it's not something (most of us) can control. Obviously there's otherlinks and fictionlinks but that's another topic entirely.

At the end of the day, like Rani said, you couldn't control what your fictional identity did in the past (before being, well, you), so there's no use on beating yourself up for it. You're you now. You're living a different life to the one character-you lived. You can feel bad, remorseful even, but you shouldn't torture yourself with it, because it was not a choice that was up to present-you. Am I explaining myself correctly?

If you don't like what your (I forget the word right now, but your fictional identity) fictomere (? did, you can always... change it? From your own point of view, you may see canon and thinking: "well, this is something that happened differently". You can always rewrite "canon" from how you remember it being or how you feel is right. Maybe it may help with those feelings

I'm also thinking about that one panel in othercon that talked about this, let me find it. Aha!

And finally, whatever you did in your canon, you shouldn't feel ashamed about it. You are the character you identify as, and the character is the one you identify as. You are one and the same. Maybe in canon it made more sense what you did. Maybe the circumstances of the moment demanded it. I'm also not proud of things I did as far as my memories of it can be trusted, but I have to live with it now. It wasn't really my choice now, right?

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[aliveburs-deactivated20230829]

“starry night” this, “café terrace at night” that, when are we going to talk about “two rats” by vincent van gogh?

[thememedaddy]

[angiepants]

This is a man loving blog btw. I know this is the man hating site and increasingly the trans man hating site but that shit stops at my borders

[abolish-the-draft]

[dearausten]

not now sweetie, mommy is watching how the massive girlbossification of female characters has led to the belief that weak and vulnerable female characters are badly written characters because apparently every woman needs to be outspoken and witty and snarky and brave in order to be considered “complex” and have any value in a piece of media!!

[chilewithcarnage]