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Age: old enough to remember 9/11 + I no longer get carded at the liquor store
Gender: I barely know 'er (he/him)
daily affirmations
- I will own a house and decorate it just like I've been dreaming of for years
- I WILL OWN A HOUSE
- my house will have the cutest decor ever
- I will have the most peaceful house of all time
- house
Hello fish nation, please enjoy some silly gouache fish paintings
Imagine if you asked a baker to make you a chocolate chip cookie and instead of doing that they started with an oatmeal raisin cookie and then spent millions of dollars to genetically engineer flatter, rounder raisins that look more like chocolate chips. I guess that would be kind of a neat thing they were able to do and maybe it would be helpful in some other situation but I probably wouldn’t feel like they’d made me an actual chocolate chip cookie.
That’s kinda how I’m feeling about this “De-Extincted” Dire wolf thing
i used to be so good at writing strong, thoroughly-researched, thoroughly-edited essays.
as a kid in hs, my teacher literally came up to me, holding my 40 page essay on the intersection of the European witch hunts and capitalism/exploitation/gender roles (it was supposed to be 7 pages...whoops) and went like "this is literally a master's-degree level thesis. what are you doing?? you could literally use this as your final dissertation in a master's program, what the fuck."
NOW??? NOW?? you'd think I'd be oh so skilled. but alas. i can barely piece together two ideas. adhd skill-regression is so so real. im SOBBING
The skill can come back and it often does. It is not unusual for it skill recedes during stressful and painful times. Maybe you just need more stability/safety/kind people around you.
I have been through something similar a few times in my life with writing, yoga, studying...
Admittedly, my life is always financially and socially precarious, so my notion of stability currently just means "enough money to pay the rent and food for the next few months."
It is hard to hold onto anything when you have to fight for survival all the time, either materially or emotionally.
Wow, uh. Okay, I'm gonna need a minute to process "It is hard to hold onto anything when you have to fight for survival all the time...". You're genuinely rewiring my brain is we speak.
Thank you, this means a lot to hear. <3
Thank you as well. We have to help each other in this hellscape whenever we can.
Hey here's some unsolicited decor advice: get a bowl. put it on your coffee table. fill it with objects that are Good To Hold. Watch your guests be satisfied.
For example, I have this bowl of polished rock orbs. (and one glass ball.) they serve no purpose but everyone who comes into my home picks up at least one of them and just kinda rolls it around in their hands.
It's not just to have a "do over" that doesn't involve the original cast, it's to cut them out of the royalties. Literally the entire point is to make sure all the money made by Harry Potter goes to transphobes or people willing to work with transphobes.
If you watch it, you are supporting bigotry, hate, and oppression. That's just objective reality. All for a story that you probably have already seen in movie and book form.
#the last point is especially true since the old cast receives royalties for anything with their likeness on it#meaning the original trio still gets money for every mug with their 14 year old faces on it#if they stop making those and replace them with the new cast which they will the old cast gets cut off completely#which is again exactly what rowling wants because she cannot stand those 'ungrateful brats' as she would likely put it#and as she has last say in anything that gets made in harry potter paraphernalia this might also explain the decrease in faces on products
via @discipleofkleio
I hate Rowling so much.
There's people in the notes saying they're going to watch it anyway, and you know, I understand how you can start feeling so burned out and numb from the world that it may feel too hard to avoid things that will give you a little immediate relief in some way in order to avoid the long-term impact of funding these things.
But. If you can't bring yourself to avoid watching it, you better at least fucking pirate it.
FYI, Rowling posted this today. She is actively queerphobic, do not support this project in anyway.
I know that this was a foundational thing for so many people. I was one of them. Without Harry Potter, I probably wouldn't be the person I am today.
If you're thinking about watching this anyway because you feel all that nostalgia: It's time to grow up. It's time to move on.
Don't even hate watch it. Make it fail.
It is the easiest thing ever to simply not do anything.
#oh look she's expanding the horizon of her hatred. that's nice. (i'm so tired y'all)#transphobia cw#acephobia cw
They always do, it's the same rhetoric used by the same people. The only thing that changes is the order in which the groups are targeted. Bisexual people will be next.
what this fandom needs
What fandom, you ask? All of them. There’s not enough in any fandom.
That fucking DIY wheelchair post is going around again, and none of the people reblogging it are reblogging a version that talks about the risks of using homemade mobility aids that don't fit you properly - such as that they can make your pain worse or cause pressure sores that lead to terrible infections.
I did see a couple of additions about how cool and punk it is. I don't know, is getting sepsis punk?
you're absolutely right but arguably getting sepsis from the mobility aid you cobbled together, the one that's both the only thing thing letting you actually live life to the fullest extent possible and the thing that will kill you is the kind of thing that sounds like a really poetic way to go out
Oh, you can just fuck off entirely.
It's not "poetic". You're just dead.
You are, moreover, dead in an incredibly painful, awful way.
Do you understand what infected bed sores and sepsis do to a person? Do you really? Do you understand how much pain they would be in? Do you understand how hard it would be to be their loved ones watching them the hospital as their organs shut down?
Do you understand how painful it'd be to be in a chair that's causing spinal damage for hours and hours every day?
Disabled people and their pain do not exist to be a poetic metaphor for your consumption. It's just suffering.
I am sooooo close to finishing my first weaving! I think by the end of the day, I should be taking it off the loom and getting it ready for felting/fulling.
do u think omegaverse acknowledges covid-19 and the generation of people who permanently lost their sense of smell like how are they all scenting each other now is the omegaverse economy in shambles
actually pheromone sensing works differently from normal olfaction, since humans in our world don’t have a functioning vomeronasal organ (VNO), we don’t have any data on how covid-19 would affect a functioning VNO in omegaverse AUs
Actually there is evidence that covid probably would affect the VNO and it stands to reason would accordingly impair its function. Briefly:
In conclusion the omegaverse economy IS in shambles.
OP this is very well-written but im still hung up on how you came onstage dressed as a clown only to tear off the costume and reveal yourself as a biologist
this motherfucker actually just tweeted this in the middle of his own championship match at wrestlemania
just in case you’re doubting me
he lost, btw
