Paradigm Rift

Ghost in the machine. The machine being the medical system.

[valravn72]

I Don't Have the Energy to Format This Cool

^ my singular attempt to add web decor.

You can call me Val. My pronouns are they/it and wire/wires/wired/wiredself.

I’m a nonbinary transwhatever and a funkyass beast creature with primarily obsessive compulsive disorder, fibromyalgia, POTS spec symptoms, hypermobility, audhd, dpdr (I think that's all it is?? may be plural bro don't quote me on this bro) and an essential tremor. I am full of the problems but I have 100 swag. My neck hurts.

BYF: I POUR THE MILK FIRST WHEN I EAT CEREAL WHAT ARE YA GONNA DO CRUCIFY ME LIKE CHRIST? I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU TRY!!!!!!! NERD.

I BELIEVE IN THE INHERENT BEAUTY OF HAVING FAITH IN OTHERS EVEN WHEN IT'S HARD. TO BE GENTLE, TO BE KIND—THIS IS THE WAY. BUT ALSO LIKE TAKE NO SHIT THOUGH. Please abide my DNI! Thank you!!

Main interests and post subjects:

Vocaloid/V Synth/UTAU/CeVIO music (pafl, thab, tptm, Endless Empty Dream, etc.)

Yu-gi-oh! shows/manga

Ludonarratives and games in general

Digital art

Web nostalgia, old new media, indie webdev stuff

Sonic / Sonic idw

Houseki no Kuni

Fucked up and loud music about trauma and worms and shit

Kagerou Project

Kingdom Hearts

Rpgmaker Horror (OFF, Hello Charlotte, ynfgs, Oneshot, etc.)

Webcomics and zines

Code Geass (RB, R2, AtE, RotD, L&G, NoN)

Vylet Pony

UNBEATABLE BAYBEEEEE

JTHM somehow

E ve Utaite/Kara no Kioku/Inochi no Tabekata

Probably more I forget everything I like regularly

update: I am rarely active <3 update 2: for some reason code geass has made me active update 3: why am I active rn this site sucks ass

RECOMMEND ME FREEWARE BOSS!!!!!!

Picmix account: https://www.picmix.com/profile/Valveravn if it's down the mods probably got me for arguing with old white conservative women lmao

[i-love-my-blorbo-polls]

Does your blorbo play video games

Yes! They play them often cannonically

I bet they do but idk if its cannon

Maybe sometimes but not often

No

They’ve never heard of video games

Voting ended onJun 3

This blog offers polls about “blorbos”, or fictional characters which you are attached to and really love. All polls are made by the blog owner unless otherwise stated, at which point we will credit the submitter or anon if they wish not to be named. We recommend you read through all the answers before answering yourself, as we have similar answers or multiple may be true. We want to make sure you can vote the best option possible and not be disappointed when you realize a different answer fit better.

[tallglassofsoup]

I love this website

[kaftofi]

i just wanna talk with the person in charge

[wheelie-sick]

sometimes people experiencing psychosis and/or mania will come up to you on the street and talk in confusing or upsetting ways. your job is to either have a regular human-to-human conversation with that person or politely leave. your job is not to call 911. do not call 911. you might kill that person if you call 911.

[wheelie-sick]

I don't even have the energy to screenshot and respond to your tags- what the actual fuck is wrong with you? "the cops are scared and rightfully so" "mental health calls are the scariest for cops" OH so this isn't about the safety of psychotic & manic people this is about piggy feelings?

and no, actually, this is not USA specific and no, actually, people from other countries should not ignore this post. police violence and sanism weren't invented in the US and they are certainly not unique to here. if you (or anyone) thinks that this bullshit doesn't happen elsewhere then you are not listening.

[headspace-hotel]

cops r Some Guy with a Gun

do we want Some Guy with a Gun in this situation? answer is usually "NO"

[ravioliet]

yes i do ship those characters but i ship them in an infinitely more aroace way than you will ever be able to comprehend

[ravioliet]

they're not "dating" they're not "a couple" they're intrinsically connected and intertwined with each other for eternity. they're bound together like the stars. get with the program

[ygo-dm-shippings-list]

Irateshipping

Irateshipping = Malik Ishtar x Katsuya Jounouchi

Named so because there is a chance that these characters would be irate at each other after the events of Battle City.

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AO3 tag <filter_ids:7800469> (what’s this?)

[flawless-rarity-blog]

SOMEONE ON TEGAKI DREW IRATESHIPPING.

Glorious.

[pandabaozi]

found

main: katsuya jounouchi x malik ishtar [irateshipping]  supporting: seto kaiba & malik ishtar,  seto kaiba & yami malik, yami malik & malik ishtar word count: 117,030 [21/21 chapters, complete] general cw: past child abuse, implied/referenced self harm

An overdue remodel of Kaiba Land’s Death-T brings Malik Ishtar back to Domino City five years after the Ceremonial Battle. Despite his best efforts to move forward, echoes of past mistakes continue to shadow his every step, sowing seeds of suspicion and distrust within his circle of friends. 

However, his unusual living arrangements and budding friendship with one Katsuya Jounouchi might be just what he needs to break free from lingering regrets.

[read on ao3]

artwork commissioned from @GOMA_yammy

[noselfpreservation]

[abdulrahman-family2]

Look, look, this is happening right now! Look, an attack on a residential building! Look how the flames are consuming the bodies of martyrs and children! My God, this is hell, I swear! And you're still watching and remaining silent?

[abdulrahman-family2]

My friends, please listen to me and understand what I'm saying. I swear the war here is not over. We still live in fear every single day. Every day we hear the sounds of shelling, and every day innocent people and children are targeted, their only crime being that they were born here. We are not asking for the impossible. We simply want our children to live in safety, to wake up without fear, and to sleep without their homes being shaken by explosions.

[abdulrahman-family2]

A house near me was evacuated a little while ago, and just minutes later it was completely destroyed right before our eyes. How can you say the war is over? I swear it's not over, and we live in terror every single day. 💔😭

[abdulrahman-family2]

To everyone reading my words: Remember that behind the news are real people living through this suffering moment by moment. And amidst these harsh circumstances, we are still facing another hardship. My sick nephew needs another operation, and we still need 700 euros to cover the costs. Every help or share of our words could make a huge difference to us during this difficult time. 💔😭

Donate here - PayPal - Vetted#642

[abdulrahman-family2]

If my nephew isn't saved and doesn't get his surgery, he'll be one of the victims of this genocide. I can't bear to lose any more of my family. Please don't let me lose hope in you. We still need 700 euros for my nephew's surgery. Please donate, donate so I don't lose him. Donate! 💔😭

[nickyandmikey]

when two musicians sing into the same microphone and lean in very close to each other… like omg are you guys gonna kiss now to relieve the homoerotic tension?😳

[nickyandmikey]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT ONE DIRECTION I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS “HARRY” PERSON IS GO WATCH BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN AND CLARENCE CLEMONS KISS ON STAGE RIGHT NOW

[irrelevantlyvalid]

op is the only valid person i’ve ever met. everyone else needs to come to the light

[chokolattejedi]

Okay, but this is really important: Bruce Springsteen occupied this really weird place in music history. His songs were all from this pessimistic, nihilistic view of an America that had let him down:

Just like the anti-Vietnam War protest songs that we associate with the 1960s, or the early nihilism that spawned punk music in the 1970s. But he didn’t *sound* like a punk anarchist; he sounded like a country rock singer. When he released Born in the U.S.A. people completely misinterpreted (or possibly ignored) the lyrics in favor of the tone of the music.

Politicians used his music to promote their ‘Murica Yes! brand, and he had to literally explain that that was not what he was about. He’s over here asking when we’re going to have jobs and heathcare, not stanning the politicians who weren’t helping the people.

It was also kind of a big deal that he had an integrated band, because even as late as the 1980s music was still kind of segregated and MTV was straight up racist. They refused to play and promote black artists and then claimed that were no black artists in the first place. Michael Jackson’s record company had to threaten a boycott of their white artists to get MTV to play his Thriller video.

Plus, the first black/white interracial kiss on TV was in 1968 (OG Star Trek). Also it took us until the 70s to get sympathetic gay characters on screen, and the 90s to get gay characters to kiss onscreen. And all of those firsts were met with outrage.

So keep that in mind when you see Bruce Springsteen not just playing with an interracial band, but engaging in an interracial, gay kiss on stage repeatedly.

Passages from American Popular Music by Larry Starr and Christopher Waterman

[executeness]

I used to think that Bruce and Clarence kissing onstage was exuberance, showmanship, and telling racist homophobes to fuck off. Like, they picked up a certain kind of audience and went “Racist homophobes? Not in our house!” And started the kissing then but then I actually looked it up and

https://www.gq.com/story/this-fucked-me-up-bruce-springsteen-singing-about-clarence-clemons

It was a story where… we remade the city. We remade the city, shaping it into the kind of place where our friendship and our love for one another wouldn’t have been such an exceptional thing. - Bruce Springsteen

It wasn’t about showmanship or rejecting bigots or anything it was just. Damn right that was one of the loves of his life and damn right he was going to kiss him onstage

It gets me a little that Bruce has had a divorce, that he’s been married twice, but he loved Clarence for the rest of Clarence’s life and will presumably love him the rest of his own

Clemons said in one interview. “Bruce and I looked at each other and didn’t say anything, we just knew. We knew we were the missing links in each other’s lives. He was what I’d been searching for.” In another version of the story, Clemons says “He looked at me, and I looked at him, and we fell in love.”

I’m having some emotions about it!

“He was elemental in my life,“ Springsteen adds, “and losing him was like losing the rain.”

Not just! I love you pure and deep and true but! I am going to love you like that in front of the whole damn world!

We have fewer narratives about taking risks and making statements for platonic love rather than romantic and supposedly it would be easier to downplay this onstage than romance and! They refused! They fucking refused! In front of hundreds of thousands of people, over the course of years! In the spotlight, in word and deed, I love you!

God I’m not okay about it

[ramshacklefey]

Now I’m mad that this is not among any of the things I was ever told about this artist.

[jbbartram-illu]

I knew about this in general (& via all those fabulous photos), but this just adds even more beautiful context <3

[eregyrn-falls]

Just to add to the pile: this was the cover of Springsteen’s break-through album Born to Run, in 1975:

I mean, will you LOOK at this:

This was the pic chosen for the album cover from an extensive photoshoot, too. A few others:

There’s a lot more online if you search. They’re all pretty amazing. But the photographer is right, the one chosen for the album cover just pops.

[attackdragon]

HOLY SHIT! TWO FRIENDS!

Original by @stuffman-art below

[dreadwedge]

As a transsexual woman 👩 who has had multiple experiences ‼️ I have found 🔎 that the biggest block of cheese 🧀 is usually the one ☝️ that has the largest size 📈

[dreadwedge]

mature content

[vampantheon]

pros of being on testosterone: my kermit impression is getting better

cons of being on testosterone: my Mort from Madagascar impression is getting worse

[vampantheon]

peace and love on planet fucking earth

[thefuzzydave]

The Headlines of 2020

[assignedmale]