Contrary to the name, I talk

Rachel, too old for this, too young to care.

[tinknevertalks]

Sanctuary fandom roll call! Raise your hand if you're still here! Yes I'm tagging a few of you so people who might not know each other can have a nosy and maybe get a new mutual or two.

@ladyelysandra @electricrogue @teslacriss @ellefantii @galactic-pirates @trickster-archangel @fabledshadow @misscrazyfangirl321 (I know you're on hiatus lovely but wanted to include you) @crazymcwritesalot @stargnusxcarter @tryingthisfangirlthing @ssorca19 @lanistas

Tried tagging a few others but Tumblr being a div. If I've missed you, lemme know in the replies. XD

Wanna join a Sanctuary community! Clicky click!

[thestorieswesay]

asking for a bit of help

Hi, if you don't know me, my name is Stories, or RhineGold.

I'm a 40 year old divorced, disabled, and queer woman who has to take things one day at a time. I'm disabled and I am enrolled in all kinds of medical programs aimed at just getting my body through the day. (Unable to work, I'm currently on SSI, but my SSDI application is still crawling its way through the government.)

This month just started and I am already broke.

I had to pay an unexpected and absolutely massive bill on the 1st and I have exactly .74 cents to my name.

(I had not had a new pair of glasses in the past ten years, but they finally got so bad I couldn't see at all and my head hurt constantly. I have Medicare and the initially agreed to pay for most of the cost of the new frames and lenses — I already paid $250 previously and insurance was supposed to pay the remaining $500. When I went to pick up the glasses on Monday, the doctor informed that THEY HAVE DECIDED NOT TO. In order to get my desperately-needed glasses on the 1st, I had to pay it all.)

And, so, I've come to this. I've never asked for help like this before. I'm quite frankly embarrassed but I've got to get through this month somehow.

What I Need (Most Pressingly):

I have certain needs — my monthly meds will cost me about $130. I can do without some of the painkillers, but the diabetes meds and the psych meds are not optional.

I have to pay the company that manages my feeding tube supplies and also pay for any food I actually manage to eat per os — at least $55 for the supplies and anything else is gravy.

I'm currently enrolled in a Partial Hospitalization Program at a psychiatric facility, but it's in another city an hour from my home both ways, and gas is so fucking much right now. (A full tank gives me about six full trips and I have to make ten trips a week. I paid $30 on Sunday to fill the tank and I don't have enough gas to get there tomorrow.)

What I Am Offering In Return:

I'm a writer (fanfiction, original works, poetry) and I made media-related graphics. I don't yet know how to make videos or gifs. I don't believe in taking commissions for fanworks, since, to me, that violates the 'no-profit' nature of the relationships between media creators and the fan creators. But I am offering to write you a gift as a show of thanks for any donations. I can also hand-draw you a crappy picture of your blorbos or your OCs. I can make you a title graphic or banner or something for your stories and collections. Whatever you'd be happiest with, to the best of my ability.

My Ko.Fi is RhineGold. My PayPal is [email protected].

(I apparently have a -$35 in my PayPal even though I thought I had settled that already. I don't know how else to get money from people so if you know a way that's instant and free/cheap that I should be using, please advise.)

Please, anything would help me get through this month somehow. I'm so embarrassed and I hate this but I don't know what else to do at this point? Thanks so much, and please boost the signal if you wouldn't mind? Thanks, everyone.

[thestorieswesay]

YOU GUYS MY ACCOUNT IS NO LONGER IN THE NEGATIVE and I THINK I have enough to get enough gas to make it to my hospital program tomorrow. I'm literally in tears, you're so kind (if you donated please DM me about your thank you gift!) AMAZEAMAZEAMAZE.GIF

[thestorieswesay]

Here I am again — the gas did not last as long as I'd hoped/had measured it would and I have a $76 prescription (painkillers ugh) waiting at CVS but I spent the last of my money on food and on a minor medical emergency that's been ongoing. LET ME REPAY YOUR KINDNESS ANY WAY I CAN!

[tired-fandom-ndn]

Sometimes "rarepair" means "you are literally the only person who posts about this on tumblr dot com" and you have to learn to be okay with that.

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

"are you gonna take those pills the rest of your life?" you mean my molecules? why surely you wouldn't deprive me of my molecules. they are shaped exactly just so, you see. my molecules

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

do you know how hard someone had to work to make my molecules into their molecule shapes??

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

they invented a new shape of molecule just for me and you want me to what, not absorb it???

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

reblog to remind somebody about their molecules

[estrogenesis-eeveeangelion]

people who shape molecules at their jobs found this post and they're in the notes being happy to be appreciated. go take your fucking molecules

[rappersdoingnormalshit-blog]

[st3fan00]

Why Wayne got socks in the jacuzzi

[whitegirlsaintshit]

those are his hooves you bitch

[professionalchaoticdumbass]

happy 10 years of those are his hooves you bitch

[whitegirlsaintshit]

why the FUCK am i still on here

[nianeyna]

[pathos-logical]

[ID: Image one is a photo of Lil Wayne in a pool at a party. He is wearing socks, which underwater look very much like hooves.

Image two is a gif of the Ninth Doctor from Doctor Who shouting joyously, “Just this once, everybody lives!” End ID]

[contemptible-scoundrel]

fuuuck I could use a mysterious benefactor right now

[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[the-quasar-hero]

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

[the-quasar-hero]

This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.

[pollsforadults]

Spin the wheel. Now, imagine you're on a first date with someone who says they`re a [result]. How does this affect the odds of a second date?

100% guarantee I'll want a second date

It's significantly more likely

The odds don't change

It's significantly less likely

There wont be a second date. Absolutely not

Remaining time: 5 days 9 hours

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[softbrah]

“online fandom bestie that you once shared intense intimacies with but don’t really talk to anymore simply bc we drifted into new blorbo obsessions” is such a specific type of relationship that has to be impossible to explain to anyone who hasn’t experienced it

[secondlina]

No transphobes allowed, only transborbs.

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[orthoscheme]

supermarkets should have benches

[orthoscheme]

everywhere should have benches

[nikaalexandra]

OKAY SIT DOWN SHUT UP, WE’RE GONNA TALK COLORS

THIS IS SAPPHIRE

THIS IS TEAL

THIS IS PERIWINKLE

THIS IS AZURE

 AND THIS IS TURQUOISE

WONDER WHY THOSE ALL DON’T LOOK LIKE THE SAME COLOR? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT 

OTHER THAN BEING PART OF THE SAME FAMILY OF BLUES, THEY ARE NOT ALL THE SAME FUCKING COLOR! WHY WOULD THEY ALL BE THE SAME FUCKING COLOR! DO YOU THINK WE JUST NAME NEW COLORS FOR KICKS!?!?!?

WHEN DESCRIBING A CHARACTER’S GOD FORSAKEN EYE COLOR, PICK ONE YA GODDAMN HIPPIE

[sohnderleere-deactivated2018072]

As someone who is colourblind this post is fucking hilarious because they are in fact all the same fucking colour

[diogenes420]

things heating up in the fuckin uuhhhhhhhhh BLUE fandom 

[fangirltothefullest]

So uh….. fun fact about turquoise

They come in varying degrees of blue and green.

[averruncusho]

THIS IS TUMBLR

[icarus-suraki]

[poppetawoppet]

This

Is American Idol

[digitaldiscipline]

[kittydesade]

[dogposts]

went a little overboard on our costume this halloween

[missdibley]

[modernsuperhero]

the rubber duck

[arsonistblue]

For anyone curious what they mean by the rubber duck, rubber duck debugging is a tactic used by programmers to figure out bugs in the code. To do it, they explain the code, verbally, line by line, to the rubber duck until they find it. 

It’s also very useful for writers, and I’ve used it multiple times with rubber ducks, stuffed animals, and my friends.

[brunhiddensmusings]

“when i say it out loud i realize where the stupid was”

[elidyce]

I literally cannot count the number of times I’ve gone to someone and told them ‘I can’t figure out what’s wrong with my story, please let me explain it to you’ and that was all it took. Sometimes they ask helpful questions like ‘did you remember to feed them’ or ‘so is this all on the same day’ but other times I don’t even need that, it just figures itself out as soon as I try to explain it to someone else.

It’s one of my go-to pieces of writing advice. You’re stuck on your story? sit down and tell me/someone all about it. 

[griffonatrix]

reblog to give prev a notification

[pillarofawesome]

[mittoboy]

We all know about the Justice League believing Batman is some sort of cryptid—like a humanoid creature of the night that fights crime and world-ending threats.

So obviously, when Batman finally introduced Robin, everyone in the League just assumed the acrobatic, energetic kid was also a cryptid. Because no normal child could do the things Robin does. But here’s the thing: nobody ever dared to bring up their suspicions in front of Batman or Robin.

At least… not until Dick retired as Robin, and Jason showed up.

When Jason became Robin, the League was very confused to see Robin suddenly de-aged into a younger kid. Did he… rejuvenate? No, that couldn’t be it. This one’s skin tone was way lighter than before.

Jason, being way more curious than Dick, started snooping (not maliciously) and overheard the League speculating about the weird change. He quickly started theorizing that maybe this Robin had died and Batman just got another one. And Jason “Being Robin Gives Me Magic” Todd was not about to let the League think his older brother was dead. So, knowing exactly what everyone believed, Jason just went:

“I’m the same Robin.”

Scared the life out of them. But he didn’t stop there.

“I just got tired of my old shell and went into a chrysalis stage to regenerate a new body.”

And then he left.

That was enough to confirm every single suspicion the League had that neither Robin nor Batman were actually human.

When Jason died and Tim took up the mantle, he carried on the rumor—because obviously Tim “Mr. Stalker” Drake had overheard Jason saying something similar to Batman one night.

So Tim just greeted everyone casually, and the League went, “Oh, Robin got tired of his last form and changed again.”

Stephanie’s time as Robin was short, and she never got to properly meet the League. But that didn’t stop her from making sure they knew she existed. When Tim returned as Robin and went to the Watchtower, he casually showed Flash and Green Lantern some photos of Stephanie as Robin.

“That form was unstable. I had to return to this one to avoid dying.”

And he left.

Then came Damian. Now, Damian didn’t refuse to play along out of pride—it was just complicated, because there was no way the League wouldn’t notice that Red Robin was literally the same Robin as before.

The solution?

“Molecular division,” they both said at the same time. “More efficiency for working with Batman by existing as two halves of the same being.”

Nobody objected. In fact, Green Arrow didn’t say a word, because watching two Robins speak at once made him think of the twins from The Shining.

And Bruce… Bruce just let it happen. Because honestly? He enjoyed watching his kids spend hours sharing all their Robin adventures just to keep the “shapeshifter Robin” lore consistent.

[greelin]

[AFTER REVEALING VERY TELLING PERSONAL INFO] But don’t read into that. let’s move along