Delightfully Strange

I reblog whatever. I like plants, animals, memes, superheroes, etc.  I am 28yr old, genderqueer (they/them), and autistic. Also I'm Canadian btw.  Also the adorable cat I have as my picture thing is Bear, he's my cat and I love him very much. Also I may not be aro/ace, but I am unapologetically inclusionary towards em. Fuck you if ya ain't. (I also have a Facebook page: Tiny Hat On A Pumpkin!)

[scrubblet-deactivated20230111]

The Lion, the witch and the audacity of this bitch

Tom Percival was on Sky News (UK) to talk about whether children's books are essential (let's skip the fact that it's such a boring dystopia where education and reading material for children is questioned whether it's essential in the first place)

Knowing he traces his art? And had the bollocks to go on national news to blatantly bs his way around is frustrating.

And what's worse is that Landy retweeted it, knowing the concerns we brought up.

https://twitter.com/DerekLandy/status/1331218334692544514?s=19

Derek Landy on Twitter

“@Scrubblings @umbralartist @anyataylorjoy Er... you could do this with practically any well-proportioned face.”

[facelessxchurch]

I called him out on it on the SkyNews video. If you were so kind to back me up that would be lovely.

[facelessxchurch]

@contentedcitrus The Fletcher from the old cards was traced from  Christopher Masterson. (X) (X)

And the Fletcher from the white cover of the third book was traced from Hayden Christensen. (X)

[tinyhatonapumpkin]

It's one thing to have a shit artist for the first few books MAYBE, but after it got popular and Landy would have had more money/rep.... He should have hired a decent artist jfc. If nothing else the bad art was dragging his works down.

Like Skulduggery always looked cool, hell I first started reading the series solely bc of how cool the first book looked, but... the rest? Eh......

(As for maintaining style/aesthetics.... So like idk about other art programs, but just the one year PRE-Animation and Illustration program I took at college had a whole class just on how to emulate specific styles. Because like... That's a very necessary skill in the animation and illustration industries??)

[facelessxchurch]

I completely agree with everything you just said. My best guess for why they keep using Percival for the covers is either bc he’s cheap or bc he’s a friend of Landy. Maybe both.

Also, Landy had the money/rep for a decent artist right from the start according to the guardians article I found from 2007.

“With publishers eager to exploit the market pioneered by Harry Potter's adventures, Landy's work was greeted by Harper Collins with an advance of more than £1m.“

“Landy's publishing advance - said merely to be "in seven figures" - is one of the highest paid to an author of children's fiction and covers three books, aimed at children between eight and 13.“

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[tinyhatonapumpkin]

IMPORTANT PSA!

Taking a ride in the woo woo wagon will not shorten your wait time at the hospital. You're not cheating the system. Regardless of whether you arrive at the hospital via ambulance, bus, car, etc. You will still be triaged, and your wait time will be dictated by that!

I'm not even a medical professional I've just had a lot of medical emergencies and I have seen enough Karens who get mad poor paramedics and nurses when this doesn't work out for em

[tinyhatonapumpkin]

Do you ever have a dream that's so beautiful and perfect, albeit mundane? But you still yearn for it to become a reality, while knowing that it's impossible...

I just woke up from a dream, a rather simple one really. I was working as a horticulturist alongside a coworker, repotting seedlings we'd planted earlier from their seed starters to proper pots. We were chatting and joking and generally enjoying ourselves. We had a contest that neither of us really cared about to see who had the most seeds germinate, whose seedlings were bigger, etc.

The golden afternoon sunlight poured in through the greenhouse windows, as the plants around us drank it up. Music played softly in the background from a device on a table a good few metres behind us.

We worked over two large, albeit not deep, translucent containers. We would take a seedling set, pull out the ones that made it, then put it in a pot that we'd already prepared, water it, then put it aside on a tray. Once a tray was full, he'd take it to another area (I'd bring over the seedlings, he'd take them away).

My coworker was black, wore his shoulder length dreadlocks tied up to keep them out of his face - and out of the soil that stained our floral print gloves and plain coloured aprons. My apron was solid green, his maroon. He wore a Hawaiian style shirt underneath though.

We were just talking about a new piece of gardening equipment he'd got that changed from green to orange with the temperature (he was demonstrating with cold water)... When my cat woke me up.

I got mad at my poor cat momentarily (just said his name angrily don't worry), I wanted to stay there! It was such a lovely dream... Yet, while horticulture is a real profession, and from what I've heard the people in it are quite nice....

I'm chronically ill. I struggle with basic things, like just... taking care of myself. In the dream I had no fatigue, no pain, no feeling sick or dizzy, no being out of breath... I was just able to function without issue.

And realizing that I yearned for something so basic, so... Well something so ordinary, not fantastical... As if it were fantastical, as it's just as impossible for me....

Made me very sad.

And yet.... I still want to go back. The dream was so bittersweet, in the beauty and peace it allowed me to experience, even just momentarily... Yet with the knowledge that I can never have anything like it.

[scrubblet-deactivated20230111]

The Lion, the witch and the audacity of this bitch

Tom Percival was on Sky News (UK) to talk about whether children's books are essential (let's skip the fact that it's such a boring dystopia where education and reading material for children is questioned whether it's essential in the first place)

Knowing he traces his art? And had the bollocks to go on national news to blatantly bs his way around is frustrating.

And what's worse is that Landy retweeted it, knowing the concerns we brought up.

https://twitter.com/DerekLandy/status/1331218334692544514?s=19

Derek Landy on Twitter

“@Scrubblings @umbralartist @anyataylorjoy Er... you could do this with practically any well-proportioned face.”

[facelessxchurch]

I called him out on it on the SkyNews video. If you were so kind to back me up that would be lovely.

[facelessxchurch]

@contentedcitrus The Fletcher from the old cards was traced from  Christopher Masterson. (X) (X)

And the Fletcher from the white cover of the third book was traced from Hayden Christensen. (X)

[tinyhatonapumpkin]

It's one thing to have a shit artist for the first few books MAYBE, but after it got popular and Landy would have had more money/rep.... He should have hired a decent artist jfc. If nothing else the bad art was dragging his works down.

Like Skulduggery always looked cool, hell I first started reading the series solely bc of how cool the first book looked, but... the rest? Eh......

(As for maintaining style/aesthetics.... So like idk about other art programs, but just the one year PRE-Animation and Illustration program I took at college had a whole class just on how to emulate specific styles. Because like... That's a very necessary skill in the animation and illustration industries??)

[mjalti]

daddy issues make u a people pleaser but mommy issues make u like. a sociopath

[kakyoiin]

[ursulaklegun-deactivated2024122]

People who love cold weather are fucking weird. You like to freeze? You like to shiver?? You like when you take a step outside and the air stings your skin???

[fishmech]

yea

[tinyhatonapumpkin]

No listen I like cold weather bc I overheat easily + I like being able to snuggle up under blankets, drink tea, wear big thick hoodies, etc, etc.

Cold weather means comfy things can happen. Hot weather means I'm sweaty and sticky and just sprawl out in front of a fan trying not to die

[vantasable]

Recently acquired a new assistant! Meet the respectable Dr. Wom

[catboymuqing-moving]

guys again please please please please please please please think critically about those posts that are like “i didn’t realize [really common or nonspecific thing] was an adhd thing and doesn’t apply to neurotypicals/anyone else at all!!” bc a lot of the time they are completely unfounded (sometimes frankly insane) and give people really messed up ideas about the differences between nd and nt people and how those differences work. and that shit doesn’t help anybody in any way! you don’t have to pathologize and essentialize everything you do, and you shouldn’t build up firm definitional barriers between neurotypes that don’t really exist. i’m talking about that friendship post specifically rn which is a prime example (come on, you can’t characterize how all people of a certain neurotype manage something as infinitely complex as human friendship), but it applies to SO many other things i’ve seen floating around i feel like i make this post every other day. the mental math thing comes readily to mind too.. honestly just think about these things before u spread them like true information, check the sources or go find sources at least.. please

[tinyhatonapumpkin]

Also sometimes it's something from another condition, and the spreading of information saying it's from condition A can cause people to not persue an assessment for condition B.

Sometimes it's a genuine misinterpretation, mix up, incorrect wording, etc... But it can still lead to people going without the correct diagnosis.

(yea so I ended up with a bunch of misdiagnoses (which does happen, especially if you're late diagnosed autistic like me!) and took forever before persuing an autism assessment (correct diagnosis) due to seeing all kinds of stuff propping up the incorrect diagnoses from psychiatrists who didn't spend more than 5-20min talking to me before throwing a label at me. Once I had a proper full assessment for everything I lost like. 5 different diagnoses I'd had it was ridiculous.

Wasn't until I started seeing a new psychiatrist who looked at my LONG diagnosis and medication list and was like "Uh... Something's up." That I started double checking shit and realized things weren't adding up.)

So yea; seriously PLEASE double check things!!

[blackgirlmagicx]

[astoriachef]

How am I supposed to stop them?

[1884647573462-deactivated201707]

v for vendetta is a film with a female protagonist that criticises capitalism, condemns pedophilia, encourages the viewers to question their governments, has a central plot about how LGBT people are condemned in right wing societies (more than three LGBT characters are in it) and was directed by a trans woman and her brother.

why has this become a fuckboy classic

[rhymingteelookatme]

because they mistake V for the protagonist and Evey as simply the viewpoint character, wilfully ignore the part of the plot about LGBT discrimination, and concentrate on how cool V is with his mask and his government-rebelling plots. 

[shinosarna]

What I find interesting is that - V is actually, imo, coded as trans, especially in the original graphic novel. Alan Moore claims that clues to identity of V ‘are all there’, which implies it might be a named character. If it was one, the only person matching would be Valerie, the woman whose journals V gives to Evey. Everything would match - Valerie was an actress, which would fit with both costume and tastes of V, and also why said letter was so important - and really, how the hell an occupant of a high-security concentration camp under constant observation had ability to write a letter, and also how a letter written on toiler paper would survive all these years, and burning down of Larkhill camp. (answer - by being written AFTER all these events).

Except, V appears to be male. Everyone is using male pronouns for him, in the movie he speaks in a masculine voice, and in the novel we do see a panel of his silhouette naked in Larkhill, and he definitely has a masculine physique.

But, if Valerie becoming V was metaphor for transition, that’d make sense.

That’s in addition to well, the fact that a lot of trans men begin their self-discovery as butch lesbians? It’d sure fit.

Why do I believe that theory? In addition to whole LGBT themes thing, and the letter thing, there’s one more reason. Well, I think this was skimmed by in the movie, but in the novel, we get a pretty solid clue. See, in the movie, exact nature of experiments performed on Larkhill inmates is kept rather dubious if I recall - we know they gave V abilities slightly above normal humans, but that’s it.

But in the novel, it’s more specific. So, what is the field of experiments that are being performed Larkhill concentration camp that they needed human specimen?

Hormone research.

V got strength to throw off chains of opression and fight back and yadda yadda, became a character who ticks off literally every single checkbox on definition of a superhero, including superpowers…

By literal fucking hormone therapy.

Administered to him, ironically, by the very oppressors.

From what I’ve read of Alan Moore’s stories, he doesn’t leave details up to a chance. Everything has a reason, and everything is interconnected with each other. And this, this doesn’t look like a bit of dark irony Alan Moore would pass up, since he loves that shit.

So, those are my reasons for this particular interpretation.

[little-miss-rasputin-pageant]

this is a really incredible

also I just wanted to add that both the directors are transgender woman, the Wachawowskis, and they also directed Matrix

[fisharescary802]

Holy shot I did not pick up on this

[jenniferrpovey]

I really don’t understand how anyone could not know V was Valerie. To me it’s as obvious as day. It’s actually somehow MORE obvious in the movie.

[eruvadhril]

It became a fuckboy classic in the same way that Watchmen turned from a direct critique of Objectivism and a statement on How Superheroes Should Absolutely Not Behave, into a badly-understood blueprint for how a bunch of writers and fans decided All Superheroes Should Absolutely Be At All Times Because It’s Gritty And Dark And Realistic (including Zack “I never really liked comics except for Watchmen and also I want Warner Brothers to let me make a movie version of The Fountainhead” Snyder).

[doubleca5t]

[tinyhatonapumpkin]

My dumbass reading this post: VALERIE STARTS WITH A V! OF COURSE!!

[darlingsterns]

i’m watching an art theft documentary and they’re interviewing this art history professor from new york who was asked to go with the fbi to authenticate a rubens that had been stolen but it was a sting operation so they had to pretend like they weren’t the fbi, that they were some private buyer about to pay $3.5 million for it, and the fbi was like “this is a VERY delicate operation because you never know how they will react to what you have to say so let the agent do all of the talking, don’t say a word to anyone just nod if it’s the rubens, the last operation we did the guy in your position got shot because things went wrong in a second” and then it cuts to the professor’s interview and he says “i wasn’t going to fly down to miami to be a part of an undercover fbi sting operation to handle what could be rubens’s aurora and just NOT say anything. i was gonna have to ad lib a little” and then he tells the interviewer that when he & the fbi agent got to the hotel while he was examining the painting he started lecturing the other people, first on how badly they had wrapped it, and then about like how it had been painted, the history of it, what the subject was and what she was doing, etc etc, and he was like “i hadn’t taught a class on rubens in 15 years, so for me it was like being back in the classroom except my students couldn’t leave” 

[darlingsterns]

at one point during the deal the professor turned to the woman selling it and he said “isn’t this just the most beautiful rubens you’ve ever seen outside of a museum?” (because the fbi had told him earlier that this piece had been stolen from a museum) and THEN he said “where on earth did you get it from?” and the group of people the woman had with her was like taxidermy-fox.png but the woman was like “inheritance” can you IMAGINE the fbi agent about to have a fucking aneurysm when this random guy you’ve brought in just to nod if it’s the right painting not only starts giving an impromptu lecture but then he asks how they got it

[h1king33k]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B4Zm-Aa74Y&t=2613s

[drek-odradek-deactivated2022031]

omg BLESS YOU for the link and the time stamp that was as glorious as described by the OP

[bythestardoggedmoon]

Y’all failed to mention that HE posted the video HIMSELF and liked every single comment oh my god

[plumslices]

[decepticonsensual]

So, Elon Musk is talking about how to colonise Mars, and suggesting that, for those who couldn’t afford the fortune it would normally cost to make a space voyage, loans could be offered… and people could, y’know, just pay them back with labour upon their arrival…

… all at the same time that the viral hit song is a sea shanty about being a worker transported to an inhospitable place to work for a big corporation, which then pays you shit so you can never afford the passage home.

It’s like, sometimes our past speaks to us.  And sometimes it jumps up and down, screaming and waving lit sparklers.

[tinyhatonapumpkin]

So indentured servitude. Just... Literally indentured servitude.

[justsomeantifas]

call me ignorant but i genuinely don’t understand why sports have to be split up by gender.

[robobun]

@ everyone in the notes talking about physical performance: if that were the case, then sports would be divided by physical performance. that’s a thing you can measure. that’s a thing that varies by individual. a weak man and a strong man would be an unfair fight in boxing/wrestling/MMA, which is why they divide those sports up into weight groups based on physical performance. but they also further segregate them based on gender. chess is segregated by gender for no reason but sexism. if it’s actually about skill and physical ability, then measure those and separate people by those metrics. don’t do some bullshit gender segregation and pretend like men and women are inherently on different levels no matter their individual abilities.

[justsomeantifas]

💅

[aggrokawaii]

Remember that time a teenage girl struck out Babe Ruth? That’s fucking why. Men are afraid of being beaten by women.

[amuseoffyre]

Remember that time male swimmers were pulled out of training because Kate Ledecky was leaving them ‘broken’ by swimming better than them? Remember how she didn’t even notice, because she was busy actually training?

[notanadult]

Shooting is a sport that has no reliance on strength and so any allowance for gender variation is irrelevant. The last time there was a mixed competition (1992) a chinese woman named Zhang Shan won it.

[murderxbaby-deactivated20190102]

It’s often presented as for the benefit of women. After all, they’ll be heartbroken when they‘re hurt or bested by men.

Projection is a hell of a drug. 

[dick-graysons-left-butt-cheek]

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

this is why they drug test Serena like crazy. the believe no woman should be that good. let alone a black woman. and black women have always been considered “manly” and less feminine.

[iampikachuhearmeroar]

also can we talk about how surfing is segregated as well? like how the dude who won this years international surfing cup or whatever was given $30,000 worth of prize money, while the woman who won the women’s comp was only awarded like $16,000 of prize money???? or whatever it was. but I know it was either half or less than half of what the man won. like why can’t they get the same prize money and when they’re competing internationally in the same competition? they surely have the same level of skill and talent.

[yungcrybby-anonymousbosch666]

the pay gap in sports between men and women is fucking insane.

[torukun1]

The pay gaps, not to mention lack of sponsorships for women athletes who don’t look like models is insane. If you weigh over 250 pounds, no one will sponsor you. It’s why most female Olympic-class weightlifters live in poverty/out of their cars.

[shipitbabyonemoretime]

[intersex-mhacha-deactivated2020]

Reminder that in international (and usually national too) womens athletics anybody with 5m/mol of natural testosterone or higher is disqualified. (See legal case of Dutee Chand vs IAAF.)

Do you or somebody you know have PCOS? You are banned from international womens athletics because you are supposedly in posession of an unreasonable advantage in sports.

Folks disqualified for hyper-androgenism in womens athletics.

Francine Niyonsaba

Caster Semenya

Dutee Chand

Margaret Wambui

And more

-

Why are those disqualified overwhelmingly black and brown? Because testing is case by case when an athletes performance “raises suspicions”. They overwhelmingly test athletes of colour, for being too fast and not meeting white expectations of femininity.

Racism and intersexism(discrimination against intersex people) in sports is abject evil. Desegregate sports.

[iamthecutestofborg]

Wow

[memewhore]

[suspiciouslysharklike-deactivat]

what baby elephant

[weavemama]

daily reminder that there is absolutely nothing normal about being expected to waste a majority of your life at a corporation to survive instead of indulging in better life experiences ✨

[ralfmaximus]

In the 1960s it was a common speculation that by 1980 the typical work week would consist of 4 days. And by the year 2000 we’d be working no more than 3 days a week.

Because of computerization, automation, and better efficiencies in workflow.

Guess what happened instead?

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[everythingfox]

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