The Infrastructural Hideaway

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i finally installed tumblr savior but no one’s posting the stuff i’m trying to avoid and i don’t remember what the tags are

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scrolling down the dashboard looking for stuff i can’t stand, getting more and more heated cause all the posts are awesome

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i finally installed tumblr savior but no one’s posting the stuff i’m trying to avoid and i don’t remember what the tags are

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I dunno why I’ve just been sitting on this. Hey y’all - how ‘bout a late 90s rock anthem about being trans?

Content warning: You might want some emotional support available before you listen to this. Can’t promise this’s gonna knock you off your seat, but I’ve seen it make people cry.

I found this on a mix CD some years ago. There’s been a few different bands called Callahan - this one, unfortunately, I can’t seem to find any info about online. The songs are copyright 1998 and 1999 (it doesn’t say which are which).

Here are the liner notes for this track:

CALLAHAN CHRISTINE  4:02 Four Scottish lads by way of Glasgow... offer up the question of the ages. You can answer standing up or sitting down. (Gordon/McFarlane/Dunn/Matthews) Chrysalis Music. From the Reprise album Ask Yourself One Question.

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if rats can hold a cracker they can hold a sword 

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What’s Your Style?

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i log back into tumblr after i forget how long and the first thing i see is This

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i won’t bother you with what these are for, i thought they just came out pretty is all

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this is completely unedited output from an emulator loaded with a pokemon yellow rom and a(n unusually large) controller input file

i’d suggest turning the sound on

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Ill never see megaevolution in the same way

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… This isn’t as new as people seem to think it is. Mega Lucario has always been relentless and brutal. Mega Glalie has always had a broken jaw. It was only in supplementary materials and stuff, so it was hard to find and relatively unknown, but the dangers of Mega Evolution have always been around.

AND THAT’S THE THING. That’s where the ‘love and trust’ from X and Y comes in.

Because Mega Evolution is psychotically dangerous for a lot of Pokemon. So they need a skilled trainer that they trust to see them safely through it. Because that love and trust lets them stay in control of themselves

Because if they have that, they can rise to ever higher heights. They can get closer to being the best. Because Pokemon are competitive by nature, and most of them want to be the strongest. To be a master, right?

If you Mega Evolve your Pokemon, you’re not being cruel to your Pokemon and forcing them through terrible pain for more power. You and your Pokemon are, together, making the decision to do something dangerous, because you trust each other to make it through safely, because you trust each other to make use of this terrifying power and come out on top.

Mega Evolution is scary as hell, but it’s not evil unless you make it so.

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This.

Remember what happened to Korrina’s Lucario after it gained it’s Mega Evolution in the Anime?  

And how Korrina had to painstakingly bond with it again, despite being years soulmates with it?

I do.

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tumblr shows me this post on my first refresh every day. not complaining, it's a good post

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Hey! Could you reblog this if you are polyamorous or support polyamory? I’d like to get to know how many people are educated or identify as polyamorous xx

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The Gardener, as it’s often called, is a mysterious, otherwise nameless creature who looks over a nameless garden. It may seem intimidating, but you need not worry - this inquisitive plant is mostly interested in making friends and learning about the world around it.

Here’s a finished design commission for @vertissidus​!! This has been in the works on and off for a few months, but I finally had the time to get it done today! 

A whole series of conceptual sketch pages were also commissioned for this design, a couple of which are included on this post. If you wanna see all the original sketches, they’re here!

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Memory

Reposting because I fixed some big problems with it! This is a simple HTML5 animation I made, based on this comic that @bloodsbane​ did.

Here is the link to the animation. I think it looks better if you open it in a smallish window.

If you open it on a mobile browser, it will prompt you to tap the screen before it will play. Sorry about that—I had to put that in to get the music to sync correctly in some mobile browsers.

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I FORGOT TO ADD THE M4A VERSION OF THE MUSIC

ugh i’ll fix it in a bit i guess

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i’m way late with this but here’s a flower for @bloodsbane

if the sound or something doesn’t work try using this link instead

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A really cute commission for @vertissidus!! Featuring Frisk and Chara as monsters ;w; 

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it’s the cuties! here they are!

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I learned about the murder of Kitty Genovese in two separate psychology classes, at two separate universities. It was studied as an example of the “bystander effect”, which is a phenomenon that occurs when witnesses do not offer help to a victim when there are other people present.

I was told by my professors that Kitty Genovese was a 28-year-old unmarried woman who was attacked, raped, and brutally murdered on her way home from her shift as manager of a bar. I was told that numerous people witnessed the attack and her cries for help but didn’t do anything because they “assumed someone else would”. Nobody intervened until it was too late. 

What I was not told was that Kitty Genovese was a lesbian who lived more or less openly with her partner in the Upper West Side and managed a gay bar. 

Now… is it likely that people overheard Kitty’s cries for help and ignored them because they thought someone else would deal with it? Or, perhaps, did they ignore her because they knew she was a lesbian and just didn’t care?

Maybe that’s not the case. Maybe it was just a random attack. Maybe her neighbours didn’t know she was gay, or didn’t care.

But it’s a huge chunk of information to leave out about her in a supposedly scientific study of events, since her sexuality made her much more vulnerable to violent crimes than the average person. And it’s a dishonour to her memory.

RIP Kitty Genovese. Society may only remember you for how you died, but I will remember you for who who were.

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this was one of the first lessons I had in psych too and we were never told about this either nor was it in any of the reading materials

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I never knew this.

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I also never knew this about Kitty Genovese, but I do know that, in fact, many of the dozen (not thirty-eight) people who witnessed some part of the attack (which took place after 3AM, on a chilly night in March when most people’s windows were closed) tried to help in some way.

One shouted out his window for the attacker to leave her alone, which did successfully scare the man off temporarily.

Another called the police but, seeing her still on her feet, said only that there had been a fight but the woman seemed to be okay.

And when Kitty Genovese was finally attacked in a vestibule where she couldn’t be seen from outside, Karl Ross, a neighbor, saw what was happening but was too frightened himself to go to her rescue–so he started calling other neighbors to ask what he should do. Eventually one of them told him to call the police, which he did, and the woman he called, Sophie Farrar, rushed out to help Kitty even though she didn’t know whether the attacker was gone.

Kitty Genovese died in the arms of a neighbor who tired to help and comfort her while they waited for the police and ambulance to arrive. Kitty was in fact still alive, although mortally wounded, when the ambulance reached the scene.

The man who saw the final stabbing? Who panicked and called other neighbors first instead of the police? The man who said, infamously, that he “didn’t want to get involved” because he was reluctant to turn to the police for help? He was thought to be gay himself. He was a friend of Kitty and Mary Ann’s. After being interviewed by the police he took a bottle of vodka to Mary Ann and sat with her, trying to comfort her.

So, no. I don’t think the evidence indicates that Kitty Genovese’s neighbors let her die because she was a lesbian, because Kitty Genovese’s neighbors tried to help.

See also: Debunking the Myth of Kitty Genovese (The New York Post)

A Call for Help (The New Yorker)

(Also, going by the content of the murderer’s confession, it was indeed a random attack.)

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how on EARTH was this “scientifically” studied but the details gotten so wrong and the wrong as hell conclusion published and taught in schools?!?!?! where were those scientists observation skills?! on vacation?!

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How to take facts and turn them into an urban legend that gets taught in schools: Make a bad made-for-t.v.-movie about it, watch it, believe everything the movie says, annnnnnnd go!  That’s how it gets taught as this supposed “scientific study.”  Someone got fucking lazy.

Spread the real deal, kids.

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A book about this, “No One Helped”: Kitty Genovese, New York City, and the Myth of Urban Apathy, won the Lambda Literary Award for LGBT Nonfiction this year! if anyone wants to check it out try your local library!

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i have no source for this but i remember reading somewhere that one reason it took so long for the cops to get called on that situation was that the people in that neighborhood knew things about the cops that some of us only found out in the last couple of years

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Welcome to American Lit! Where I get very stoned, press record, and sit down at the piano to see what happens. This will be perhaps the first in a series of raw improv works based on sticky green flowers.

Original Cover Art by RicoShae