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I think I have like 5 followers on this blog, but as a heads up, I will be recombining my offshoot blogs with my main blog.

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liberalsarecool

White Supremacists protect their Republicans and punish their victims. .

elierlick

You shouldn’t have to be trans to get any sex characteristic-related surgery. It’s not a limited resource. Plenty of cis men get implants and cis women get breast reductions. From Colby Gordon today and Leslie Feinberg in Transgender Warriors (1996).

official-boob-posts

official boob post

yvesdot

oc asks that reveal more than you think

Do they sleep with a stuffed animal? If they have multiple, who’s the favorite?

Can they take care of a plant? What about a pet? What about a child?

Ask them to describe their love interest.

Do they look good in red?

Speech! Speech! Speech! Speech! Will they give one, and what about?

Who will they take advice from, no matter what it is? Who won’t they take advice from, no matter what it is?

Describe them in three words. Now let them describe themself in three words.

Do complex puzzles intrigue or frustrate them?

Do they empathize with non-sentient things (dolls, plants, books…)?

What age do they most want to be right now?

They’ve won the lottery. Spend, or save?

Do they like romance in the books they read (or in the book they’re in)?

Name one thing their parents taught them.

Would they agree with the term ‘guilty pleasure’? Do they have any?

What would they consider a waste of time– other than school or work?

If money wasn’t a limit, what would they wear?

Do they like children?

Kissing: tongue or no tongue?

Do they study before tests? Practice before job interviews?

What do they like that nobody else does?

What would it take for them to break up with someone? What would be the last straw?

Do they like being called pet names? Do they call other people pet names? What’s their go-to?

Stability or novelty?

Honesty or charity?

Safety or possibility?

Talent or effort?

Forgiveness or vengeance (or…)?

Would they date a fixer-upper?

What recurring dreams do they have?

What would they do if they knew it would be forgiven?

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Oh my gosh. I just found this website that walks you though creating a believable society. It breaks each facet down into individual questions and makes it so simple! It seems really helpful for worldbuilding!

theredscreech

Heads up that this is a very extensive questionnaire and might be daunting to a lot of writers (myself included). That being said, it is also an amazing questionnaire and I will definitely be using it (or at the very least, some of it).

heroineimages

Bookmarking this…

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diamondseaside

is anyone else deeply unsettled by the fact that tomorrow’s NOVEMBER

ricetrippycreeps

gentlemanbones

READER BEWEADER YOU’RE IN FOR A SCEADER

vltroit

what-eats-owls

So there's something I want to say re: intentionally withholding your vote, and I want to do it without coming across as condescending or dismissive.

I've worked as a field organizer in two campaigns, 2010 and 2012, and my job was to help turnout the vote for Democratic candidates up and down the ticket. Technology may have changed, but people are still knocking on doors for specific voters the way they were 12 years ago.

If you say you're not voting/voting 3rd party, the campaign volunteer is supposed to mark that and move on. Their job, in the final month of the election, is to make sure the campaign's supporters have all the information and resources they need to cast a vote.

They aren't collecting data on why you're withholding your vote. They aren't submitting opinion polling results to the campaign. Something like 155 million people voted in the 2020 election, and if you say you're not voting, the campaign is not going to waste a volunteer's time and morale begging you to vote when there are literally millions of other voters to turn out.

Let me repeat that: The campaign does not track why you're not voting. They simply note your vote is not a priority for turnout and move on.

I say this because I see a lot of promotion of non-voting like that's a boycott, when the function is not the same. A boycott is a coordinated mass refusal to engage with an institution—which sounds similar if you see a vote as a good or service to withhold. Unfortunately, it's not.

A vote is a choice you're making as part of a community hiring committee. Your abstention doesn't prevent someone from being hired. It just lowers the threshold for the worst candidate to succeed.

All this to say: In my direct experience as an organizer, abstaining from the vote sends a message. That message is not "You need to try harder to win my vote." It's "Don't waste time on me."

madlori

Your abstention lowers the threshold for the worst candidate to succeed.

Bam.

swordfright

you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

hacash

You’ll all sleep a lot better when you realise that actually most people, rather than being purity in human form or evil incarnate, are in fact just some guy.

breelandwalker

Also can we stop trying to make people who lived decades ago in completely different social and cultural circumstances fit into the ethical and ideological standards of modern day when we can't even get 100% of the people living NOW to toe that line?

Moral puritanism is a fucking cancer. People don't have to be perfect to be good or interesting or to have something valuable to contribute.

yesterdaysfantasies

I think I have like 5 followers on this blog, but as a heads up, I will be recombining my offshoot blogs with my main blog.

If you're not already, please follow me @thetokentrans.

Thanks!

writing-prompt-s

There’s a serial killer in your town. Unfortunately for them you are a necromancer and you have fun driving that maniac insane.

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231 votes and 25 comments so far on Reddit

This post by u/steponalegobrick was just too good not to share, and they told me to go ahead an crosspost to tumblr since they don't have an account!

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Hello! I am a speech therapist student, and since I am procrastinating on my studying AND fic writing, here is a brief description of the types of stuttering people can have. While I have no clinical experience in this, only theory knowledge, the way of writing them are taught to me by my profs who are practising STs/ SLPs. (prof if you see this, why?)

Repetition

sound repetition. “Can you p-p-pass me the s-salt?”

syllable repetition. “Sorry, I can-cannot reach the- the salt.”

phrase/ sentence repetition. “I see I see. How about you help you help me get some water?”

Prolongation (of sound) “I’m ssssorry, I mmmust go home now. I need to go to the toiiilet.”

Blocks (usually no sound)

at first sound. “Can you tell me…. Where the …. Toilet is?”

not at first sound. “Sure the toi… let is arou…nd the cor… ner.”

Secondary Behaviours These are actions that only occur WITH the stuttering. They are not tics. When the person with stuttering is making a lot of effort to get their words out, they attempt to have actions that avoid or stop their stutter. Not all people who stutter have secondary behaviours.

head or facial movements

eye blinking

jaw tightening

body swaying

throat clearing

use of fillers “uh i think … uh we uh …uh should go out.”

other body movements ect

How may the person who stutter feel?

tension in throat and/ or tongue and/ or jaw

increased effort when trying to say something, but is stuck on it

may feel loss of control, embarrassment, social anxiety

eg.

Not everyone has all the different classifications of stuttering (repetition, blocks, prolongation), and not everyone has all (if any) of the secondary behaviours. Pick some that you think suits your character best, and stick to them.

TAKE NOTE. Stuttering is on a range of severity. It can be unnoticeable to the public when the person is more fluent. It can affect their daily lives. Severity can change over time, or fluctuate, or be more severe with certain emotions.Also, people without stutter can have disfluencies in speech. Which means they may not have fluent/ perfect speech every time they talk.

example

“I-I know what I want to say but uh…. It is it is hard for me t-to sssay it.” - stutter

“I’m not exactly sure what I have to say… but since you guys.. yall uh want me to say something… I guess I will try.” -disfluency

“I’m s-scared of speaking- I mean giving a talk on uh on stage. But the more I talk up here… I get more confident in my s-speech.” - stutter or disfluency

Let me know if I have made any mistakes, or if there is anything else to add. (if you are my prof, I see you on Monday;))

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just-shower-thoughts

Blind people must save a lot on electricity.

cynopansy

They do actually!

mauve-moth

I had a blind professor, last semester, and I swung through his office to make up an exam. It was a while before I knew he was in there because he was sitting with the lights off. I finally went in, apologized, and took the exam by the light of a nearby window (which was fine). Forty-five minutes into dead silence he panicked and yelled in this booming voiced, “WAIT, YOU CAN SEE!!!” before diving across his desk to turn on the lights. I’m sure he was embarrassed but I thought it was endearing and it highlighted a large aspect of disabled life that I hadn’t previously considered.

hotmolasses

Sort of relatedly I once had professor who was deaf, but she had learned to read lips and speak so she could communicate easily with hearing people who didn’t know sign language. One day she had gotten off topic and was talking a little about her personal life, so that one of the students said “Oh, I know, I grew up in Brooklyn too.”

She stared at him for a long time and then said “How do you know I’m from Brooklyn?”

And he said “You have a Brooklyn accent.”

She said “I do?” and the whole class nodded, and then she burst out laughing and said “I had no idea! The school where I learned to speak was in Brooklyn. I learned by moving my mouth and tongue the way my teachers did. So I guess it makes sense that I have their accent, I just never thought about it.”