Maybe-Maidens Fanblog

Yiran | any pronouns | flammable

[thoughtthingsthrough]

About me:

I am Yiran. That means flammable.

The Maybe-Maidens is a fictional band that I made up. I made the album cover for their first album, The Apple and Me. Maybe one day I’ll make another album cover for them.

[lelif]

on survival

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[yokowan]

dont store a knife with the point facing down, it damages the blade. no, dont do that either. when you store it with the point facing up you might accidentally hurt yourself when you try to grab it. dont store a knife at all actually. your blade must never leave your hand, always ready, ruthless and waiting. you know deep down that ever since you learned the stench of blood you will never be able to cast it aside. or just get a sheath for it i guess.

[messengerofmechs]

Hey everyone. There's a new youtube feature that rolled out just yesterday that's raising some privacy concerns.

Expanding ways to share on YouTube

People in the U.S., U.K., Brazil, and Singapore can now share videos and chat with friends directly within the YouTube app. The update bring

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

Trimming the source id (the stuff after the '?' in links) will also prevent this from happening.

[justroll]

My boss just showed me this today. Her boy toy sent her a video, she clicked through to his profile, then she spent the next hour laughing about his three minute “elevator pitch” to NASA for becoming an astronaut. So yeah this is real, stay safe

[caats]

[dysfunctionalroomba]

[krasnoarmeyets]

anyway you should always remember that all those foreigners you see dying on the news are just as real people as you are who have just as much interiority as you do. there is nothing about you that makes you more important and it is by pure chance that you are not in their position. in fact, this holds for all of history. every person, no matter the horror of the fate that befell them, had just as much interiority as you do. i feel like some people haven't fully internalized this.

[jojo-the-dogg0]

Equiping an armor tutorial

i'll prob make more bc i love talking ab armors

[3000s]

aww so cutes

[trogocytotrans]

whoever you are this is iconic

[gay-irl]

[judgejudyofficial]

yeah u freaks up north look and sound exactly like this when u pretend that us southern queers are perfectly complicit in our own eradication - for the heinous crime of not living in a liberal population center.

[hoshikostar]

[glitterygolem]

I keep this image on hand for whenever I see similar sentiments.

[tunemyart]

I live in the South.

The last time I went to vote, the door I usually come through was locked. It was prime voting hours, between 5 and 6pm, when people get off work and are heading to the polls before they close at 7.

Granted, these doors aren't the main doors by the main parking situation, but they are the doors closest to where voting is set up and are functionally the front doors. They should be unlocked, and they always have been when I've voted here before.

I looked through the window on the door. I saw a guy catch sight of me. He walked away.

I called somebody whose voting location is the same as mine. Had it changed again with all the shenanigans and redistricting of the last year? She was also on her way to vote and stopped to look it up: no, it was the same.

I walked around the building - like, fully around. The doors by the main parking situation were open. I walked down a long hallway - and yes, voting was happening here, just like it should have been.

I approached an election official - the guy I'd seen through the doors. Did he know that those doors were locked, and could he change that?

He scoffed condescendingly. "Anyone who can be stopped by that locked door must not want to vote that badly," he said. And then turned around and walked back into the Republican primary.

The security guard I talked to after this unlocked the doors immediately, which, great - but that's not the point.

The point is that they are gerrymandering the fuck out of us in the Southern states because we're here. They are systemically stealing our power because we're here for them to be afraid of. They are casually doing things like locking doors (or at least not unlocking them) during major elections because they're afraid of the votes we are still able to cast despite it all.

I can't prove this guy locked the door. I can't prove this was election interference. But his response to it is absofuckinglutely part of the voter suppression playbook, and I can guarantee that similar situations have been playing out across the South during primary season and will continue to play out during midterms in November.

This is what we're up against. And your fates are very much tied to ours when it comes to elections. So I'm afraid to ask, but... does any of that mean anything to you?

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

re ehrc guidance. which is not legally binding.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

“should I do this for people of all ages?”

that's a very good addition actually, a solid "you want me to ask people's kids about their genitals? can i have that in writing?" should make upper echelons very uncomfortable.

[what-even-is-thiss]

I still don’t get why people try to convince me that driving is less complicated than navigating a public transit system. With public transit I’m not doing most of the work.

[what-even-is-thiss]

What if instead of relaxing and just getting off the vehicle when it beeps at the right stop you got stuck in traffic and had to concentrate constantly on what you’re doing or else you kill somebody and started screaming at other people for not using their giant death machines correctly wouldn’t that be so much better

[alchemistdoctor]

I am begging you. Please learn about stress/discomfort tolerance. Practice raising it. You need this to survive. If someone online can ruin your day with a throwaway comment, you desperately need to understand discomfort tolerance and consciously, systematically build that shit.

Also! Stress tolerance is such an important skill that having a learning disability in that area is a major symptom of a whole lot of other disabilities/mental illnesses! Struggling with it is a huge part of life! It sucks!

Am I saying everyone with misophonia needs to listen to chewing noises all day? No. But you need to find ways to tolerate it enough that you don't treat others like shit if they make a mouth noise near you.

No, you don't have to read the fic with your trigger tags. But you do need to be able to handle scrolling past the tags without being upset.

It is hard! But not having it also makes you so so so easy to manipulate. That grandma is racist AF because her mom raised her to be uncomfortable around black people and she never fought that discomfort. Trans people make so many cis people uncomfortable and that discomfort turns into bigotry real fast.

Letting your discomfort dictate your actions and beliefs about things is a great way to become a terrible person. Learn. Discomfort. Tolerance.

[theinstagrahame]

If your discomfort is severe enough that you change your behavior about it, someone will find ways to manipulate that: cyberbullies, corporations, fascists, abusers.

[hollanderthoughts]

"your life is yours to mold" oh nooooooooo oh no oh my god. oh fuck me. no. oh my god. oh im so fucked dude.

[shit-hdb-would-say]

Harry du Bois would say this.

[headspace-hotel]

I am actually thinking lots about how the Bucky fanfiction scene after Captain America: The Winter Soldier delved so deep into how that level of torture and mind control would actually affect a person, and the fragmentation of Bucky's personal identity, in many cases exploring how Bucky would never be the person Steve knew ever again.

They explored the effects of PTSD that he would suffer and realistically dealt with how it would affect him mentally to be not allowed to make choices, to be mentally and psychologically abused to that extent and how he would struggle to adjust once he was safe. They even dug into the uglier realities of torture as it exists in real life, showing Bucky as a survivor of sexual violence

Also, lots of fanfics portrayed Bucky as being physically disabled after his time as the Winter Soldier. Like, there were multiple fics I read where he has a feeding tube that described that with realism, and several more where he has various GI tract difficulties after being tube-fed throughout his stint as a living weapon. Multiple fics that describe him having seizures, at least two fics where he is addicted to heroin and suffers withdrawals from that, also fics where the arm is removed and he has to adjust to life as an amputee

And then, when you return to canon, of course they're not interested in the long-term mental and physical effects of The Horrors at all, except for a little bit of Hollywood PTSD.

Film franchises rarely explore the actual physical and mental effects that would be suffered by action heroes due to the events and injuries they endure in canon, but the level of investment in the Implications on the part of the fans vs. the actual people in charge of the franchise is SO stark here.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

First humans ever to leave the solar system suddenly drop out of communications and the ship can't be found with any equipment. After one month of no contact their home countries start reluctantly holding funerals for the space heroes only for them all to turn up, healthy, well fed and extremely disoriented, in the middle of Tokyo, talking about alien abduction. Turns out that aliens found the poor humans straying out of their solar system, presumably lost, and took them to Alien Wildlife Rehabilitation before dumping them back in the middle of their native habitat.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#bonus points if none if the crew are Japanese#aliens just dropped where they thought was best

I literally just googled "city with the highest population"

[marlynnofmany]

I’ll bet they have cool new tattoos that turn out to be tracking devices too. Just in case these spirited individuals try to make another break for it.

[teal-deer]

... do the tats make them stupid popular, like that time scientists gave birds tracker anklets and it accidentally made them ultra fuckable

[marlynnofmany]

Let’s say yes. Those alien scientists are learning so much, and none of it is accurate.

[clockworkspider]

When it comes to adhd diagnosis, I think the idea that "people should have access to drugs which can materially improve their life" and "pathologizing the human condition is very profitable for the medical industrial complex" are ideas that can and should co-exist.