Wake Up With Giggli

This blog is undergoing some redesign, and will probably become a bit greyer. See my other blog at sleepwithgiggli.tumblr.com for sexy and more personal stuff (though it'll probably be reblogged here anyway)! Age 18+ (by a comfortable margin)

[wakewithgiggli]

Reblog Rules

Apparently you can add pinned posts to your tumblr. I’m not sure how that works, but as a first attempt, why not list my personal rules for reblogging stuff.

So here they are.

[thatwasthenightthingschanged]

"And I know you know all of this and it's okay if you come and cry about Nick all day. But I'm terrified all the time and I just really need my best friends with me to march at pride, okay?"

[charliejaneanders]

this scene wrecked me

[therozanov]

HEARTSTOPPER FOREVER [2026]

[pangur-and-grim]

re: my last post, I know it seems very impressive that my book is in a lot of stores! but I make less than someone working full-time at McDonalds. I am not a powerful individual, I'm just another trans person online writing niche queer books, and trying to survive off it.

[pangur-and-grim]

I was going to say the difference is that McDonalds employees don't have to deal with people literally calling for their death, but actually, that might be a McDonalds experience too. we might in the same boat in that regard.

[assignedmale]

[wakewithgiggli]

[girl-blorbo-polls]

What’s your girl blorbo most likely on the way to?

Heaven

Hell

Valhalla

Reincarnation

Ghost

She’s always been dead

She’s immortal

Other

Remaining time: 2 days 2 hours

[animentality]

[hypnonerd1095]

Anti AI and hypnokink post at the same time, I have peaked in my reblogging

[elierlick]

This is the only known photo of the first trans woman to have her gender legally recognized in Switzerland.

In 1914, Adine T. sent a letter to her local police to grant her a pass to dress as she pleased. She petitioned that "I be granted permission to live as a woman, to wear female clothing and to pursue female occupations, and to be considered a woman before the world in all and every respect, since my emotional feelings are totally feminine and I feel unspeakably unhappy in male clothing."

Her gender was so clear that even the conservative Swiss government had to recognize it. Obtaining permission to live as a woman "is a matter of life and death for me," Adine added.

111 years ago, it was the first pass of its kind in her nation (although not the first in Europe). When interviewed, Adine described herself similarly to other trans lesbians in the 20th century: "a homosexual woman in a male body.” Source: Matthias Ruoss, "Arnold, Arnoldine, Adine."

[n0seferatu]

big pharma will try to sell u $20 cold medicine like spicy ramen doesnt cost like a dollar a pack and orgasms are free

[n0seferatu]

damn british people cant cum..... this is so sad.......

[n0seferatu]

big chemist will try to sell you £20 paracetamol like beans dont cost like a quid a can and havin a wank costs fock all

[creekfiend]

thing I am proud of: when the doctor started going on a weird rant about long covid not being real I paused and listened to his nonsense for a bit and then very calmly said, in a polite and curious tone, "you don't believe in post-viral illness?" and he like. stammered a bunch and was like OH WELL I'M NOT SAYING -- I DON'T...I just think ..! and backpedaled awkwardly while I just sat there like :3c interesting :3c thank you so much for clarifying your stance on this :3c

[creekfiend]

an important skill for chronically ill people to develop is the ability to treat the doctor as though they are simply a person you are interviewing to find out how much they know about your condition.

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Holy shit op this is LITERALLY in the book 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depends On It'. Written by a guy who did hostage negotiation and then tried doing business negotiation, and mopped the floor with industry experts.

I'm fortunate enough to have a primary care doctor who knows about hEDS, but it's occurring to me that the skills in this book could be medically life changing for chronically ill folks of all kinds. Like. Literally a matter of life and death, especially for BIPOC and/or fat and/or young people who are having their issues dismissed.

[creekfiend]

HMMM interesting!! will have to check this out

[sucrosesorcery]

Love this book, it's a great primer on skills that aren't taught but are absolutely life changing in small ways, but they add up. It's like haggling but for all social situations. The mirroring methods in negotiation tactics helped me a lot with getting information out of abusive family members. It's also just good advice in general for social situations that need easing. A lot of examples in the book and what OP is doing here help soften situations that would otherwise be abrasive both for yourself and others. It's usually about empathy and de-escalation.

Iirc generally, the advice in this book adheres to the thought that we're social and emotional creatures. No one is rlly gonna respond to cold hard facts, nor are they gonna care much about your hard limits or offense. Some ppl want to offend, some want to prove things or are desperate for approval.

You can deal with it like op did by asking for clarification. Ppl backpedal hard when u want them to explain a stupid and reactionary thing they did! You can also mirror the last thing they said or address the elephant in the room as it were: "You think x will happen if we implement y." These are just a few methods out of the book, and they can work. It just takes time and practice, as well as understanding why they work and to what end.

Also @nightmare-from-heaven nice to see another person who's read this book! Genuinely one of my favorite non-fiction eye-openers.

[nightmare-from-heaven]

Yes! You state it so well @sucrosesorcery – how to ease situations that might otherwise be abrasive, is a huge percent of it. The book was recommended to me by @the-sacred-now as a primer for autists on 'how to human behaviour', and I think I agree.

Colonialist science sold the idea that humans are logical creatures, but any autist can tell you that is absolutely not the case. Practicing the forms from this book can help bridge that behavioural and emotional gap.

[cat-goo]

Fun how the bystander effect was coined to cover up how cops are bigoted cowards who let a queer person die and stockholm syndrome was coined to cover that the cops handled a hostage situation so badly the hostages trusted their captors more than the cops.

[sleepwithgiggli]

[badjokesbyjeff]

New York is the exact opposite of Minnesota. New York is where the Big Apple is and Minnesota is where Minneapolis

[mckenzie-t-canis-lupus]

JEFF WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.

[staysafestayvigilant]

[wakewithgiggli]

[wakewithgiggli]

Are you a Muse? Bombshell? Femme Fatale? Ingenue? Princess? And so much more. Use this quiz to empower your inner radiant beautiful self. Please not that you can be a mixture of different archetypes and you can interchange them depending on your current life phase. This is just fun! Find me on for more - https://enchanted-moura.tumblr.com/