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blair | iraself | queer

[v11ces]

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Blair | iraself | adult | asexual transmasc mspec lesboy, queer as in fuck you | nightlight coven protector

ir / ira / iras / iraself

if you're struggling figuring out my pronouns you can use they/them.

radically inclusive, intolerant of intolerance pro-endo, pro-kff, pro- everthing, let people decide what words describe their own experience, it's not fuckin about you. if your argument is about stealing resources or making the community look bad, it's a bad argument.

if you can't fuck with gutterotica you probably don't want to stick around

not here for discourse. im just here to yell in to the void. dont try to start shit, i’ll just block you.

this blog will have references to trauma, depictions of violence and gore, swearing, alterhuman stuff, politics, nsfw and gay as fuck content, and what ever else. i dont really tag so follow at your own risk. you can block me if you want, no hard feelings.

[v11ces]

it's April 1st 2023 and you just asked me to remind you that you need fancy butane @dr-beetus

[yassifiedgollum]

Made accidental eye contact with a stranger in line to order coffee jn. I smiled mildly at him, and then he turned toward me and went, "Do you like drugs? Cocaine?"

For some reason I answered him as if this were a normal question. I said, "I've had it once and it was kind of boring."

He nodded thoughtfully and went, "Boring. Hmm. Weed?" And I chuckled and went, "Yeah," and then it was his turn to order coffee and he disappeared after that. Very strange interaction

[cipheramnesia]

You just experienced a Tumblr poll in the wild.

[doublism]

they used to make smackable technology. you used to be able to hit your tv when it didn't work good.

[wizardarchetypes]

when I was a kid I had an old tv in my room that would always turn to unwatchable static in the middle of shows but one night my sister and I were watching Naruto & every time Kakashi was on-screen the static cleared so we were like “hahaha the tv looooves Kakashi.”

I had a Kakashi bookmark so we held it up against the screen as a joke but the static actually cleared up. Mystified, we tried different bookmarks and objects with the same plastic material but nothing else worked, only the Kakashi bookmark.

We ended up taping it to the corner of the screen and it stayed there for 11 years until we moved out. When I was older people would be like “can you move the bookmark off the screen” bc it did sort of block a bit of the view but I would demonstrate the static issue and everyone was always just like “huh. what the hell?? well…alright.”

No explanation, but thanks Kakashi.

[yesterdaysprint]

Daily Mirror, England, April 8, 1920

[ruporas]

your love returns in tragedy (ID in alt)

[megan-renee]

Your vibe is oddly bitter and reeks of insecurity

sounds like someone needs to go in the water

[dapperboar]

[curiositykilledthecas]

Reblogging again because the art is spectacular. 10/10.

[how-ll]

at work during a national holiday i don't care about, but im getting paid 200% and it's quiet enough that i can crochet the entire time

[how-ll]

flat rat

[georgedontdothat]

how?? just how?

[wkdwtchoftheest]

@jooshthepunished

[jooshthepunished-deactivated202]

[textless]

I believe this glorious bee is an Oil-Digger, like this.  I was out walking by myself, so I probably watched it for half an hour.  Cochise County, Arizona, July 2020.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

chinese high-end business war by 双面笑笑

[cheesencrackersinprison]

I want this as a long ass show where every episode's this

[theamphibianmen]

"low support needs disabled people are often not believed to have a disability at all and therefore struggle to get accommodations."

"high support needs disabled people's accommodations are often seen as 'too much' and therefore are not met."

"neurodivergent people's needs are often dismissed because nothing is physically wrong with them."

"physically disabled people people often cannot physically access buildings and people refuse to do anything about it."

"invisibly disabled people are seen as lazy by society."

"visibly disabled people are ostracized from society."

IT'S ALMOST LIKE THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE DISABILITY

[metanarrates]

it's actually really weird to me that a lot of adults don't seem to remember the worst bits of being a child. were you not horribly aware of when adults were talking down to you as a child? don't you remember how little autonomy you were allowed, even when it came to things that seemed pretty harmless? don't you remember the times when adults would seemingly be assholes to you for no reason? even if you had nice and reasonable parents, didn't you ever have teachers or other adults in power who treated you disrespectfully? didn't it sting no matter how people justified it?

especially when I was a teenager, it seemed obvious to me & to most of my peers when an adult wasn't treating us with respect. you could almost smell it, in certain classrooms. there would be this palpable, shifting undercurrent of teenage dissatisfaction whenever some teachers started talking. and it made a lot of the kids act out! which of course made the teachers try to exert their power, which never worked because nobody respected them, which made them get more draconian, etc.

as a teen, I didn't really get why my peers and I seemingly had a superhuman sense for when an adult was on a power trip. but now I think I get it. kids are systematically denied autonomy, respect, and consistently have the validity of their experiences denied. like, flat-out. they're a vulnerable class of people made even more vulnerable by their lack of societal rights. being disrespected as a kid is so frequent that I would say it's a defining experience for most children. is it any wonder they tend to pick up on when an adult doesn't see them as worth listening to?

so yeah, of course a ton of kids want to be treated "like an adult." to them, that's synonymous with being treated like a human being worth listening to. it's up to you, as an adult, to understand that wish for what it is, and behave accordingly. you don't gotta be a child psychologist. you don't gotta be perfect at it. all you have to do is remember how painful adult disrespect could be when you were a kid & do your best to act with some compassion.

[possessedpasm]

The Mane Attraction 🦁✨️

[sirfrogsworth]

Remember this joke?

Well, I am going to do something similar only with photography. This is a photo someone took for an Amazon review of their Clinique products.

Honestly, it is not a terrible photo. They did some staging. They have an interesting background. All of the labels are legible. It is properly exposed. This would be a perfectly acceptable product photo for an Etsy page.

I've been taking these advanced photography courses in preparation for whenever I am able to create a new studio in the house. And my teacher is a photography badass. I just watched a 6 hour class on how to recreate a professional Clinique ad. And at first glance it looks deceptively simple. It's just some skin care products being splashed with a little water.

Which is why I wanted you to see an average person for reference.

This is what Karl Taylor came up with.

And I don't think I've learned so much about photography in one tutorial before.

Product photography is just loads and loads of problem solving. You have to light the chrome caps with a gradient. Which requires giant diffusion scrims.

Those big white panels are literally only there for the two chrome caps.

You need a pure white background, but you can't let light spill all over the studio, so you put up giant black light blockers.

And you have to add another light just for the orange bottle on the right.

Oh, and if you want the bottles to glow, well, you have to hide a silver reflector behind them.

But you still want the edges of the bottles to be darker so they have some contrast. So you add some black tape to the sides.

And in order for the reflective labels to have bold black lettering, you have to reflect black cards into them.

Ack! Karl's beautiful bald head is showing up in the chrome caps! He must put on the naughty blanket.

And once you get every aspect of every bottle perfectly lit, you finally get to yeet some water at it all.

I don't love product photography because I have a weird obsession to help greedy corporations make their wares look more beautiful. I love it because it is a complicated and challenging new puzzle every time. Every product is a different shape and requires a different technique to make it look its best.

I don't know if I will be able to live up to Karl's standards.

This is about the level I was at in 2017 before I quit photography.

I have so much more knowledge in my brain now. I'm really hoping I can surpass that.

[walkingouttahere]

[sanguinebutch]

[ Image ID: a tweet from twitter user @/chronicparent30 that reads “Chronic illness is weird in that if a healthy person got ill for a week with the symptoms I deal with every single day, they’d likely rest and do the bare minimum for that week. But because my symptoms are forever I’m meant to live life as normal no matter how dreadful I feel.” End ID ]

[walkingouttahere]

[sanguinebutch]

[ Image ID: a tweet from twitter user @/chronicparent30 that reads “Chronic illness is weird in that if a healthy person got ill for a week with the symptoms I deal with every single day, they’d likely rest and do the bare minimum for that week. But because my symptoms are forever I’m meant to live life as normal no matter how dreadful I feel.” End ID ]