I’m reposting this with a link to some sources from the OP, btw; I’m sorry for not tagging them, but Tumblr won’t let me and I’m guessing it’s a privacy settings thing.

https://www.academuseducation.co.uk/post/ancient-mesopotamian-transgender-and-non-binary-identities

Well fucks? Get to it!

41.7k notes and as of 7th April, the signatures are only 14,817.

The deadline is 9 July 2025.

Trans rights are always wavering in safety and are not stable and well protected in the UK. Please sign.

Trans rights in the UK is my rights.

WHY DOES POOB HAVE ME BLOCKED LMAO

The Outbursts of Everett True was a comic strip that ran in papers from 1905 to 1927, wherein the aforementioned Everett True regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude. Men have not only been taking up too much room on public transport for about as long as public transport has existed, but the people around them have been irritated about it for at least a hundred years. The next time someone tries to claim that manspreading is a false phenomenon, please direct them to this strip so that Everett True can correct their misconceptions with an umbrella upside the head.

I have never before heard of Everett True, but if he “regularly beat the everliving shit out of rude people as a warning to anyone else who might consider being rude,” I have a strong spiritual connection with him.

I fucking love him

i can imagine this guy’s voice very clearly in my head but i couldn’t put a name to it 

He also jabs racists in the eye!

I love the justice grandpa of fists

I’m very lucky to own a book that’s a collection of most of these comics (sadly not all of them) and would highly recommend hunting these down if you can. Sorry for the lack of a scanner but phone photos will just have to do.

He was a enjoyable cuss who didn’t care for war mongering.

Especially profitable war mongering and excuses for it!

He certainly didn’t like selfish husbands and fathers!

Politicians who turned on their words once they got theirs weren’t safe.

He said fuck the police!

He absolutely didn’t like people ruining little things for kids.

He stood up for foreigners. Especially those doing their best to communicate with limited second language knowledge.

He was not having any tomfoolery when it came to gun safety and laws. Especially with youth involved.

You had better not abuse a animal with him nearby. He’d right that wrong real quick!

And best of all him and his wife were both prickly cusses together. Relationship goals.

I have a new role model

“justice grandpa of fists”

It’s nice to see a fat dude in a political cartoon that’s NOT being used as shorthand for greed and corruption.

Hes like the personification of motherfucker unlimited

Reblogging this newer version of this thread with so many more strips I haven’t seen…why did this character ever disappear. Where did you go, Everett.

we need him more than ever…

sorry to make a long post longer but I feel like we could all really use some Everett True Beating Up Anti-Maskers content: 

He’s a hero, our Everett.

Just found out there were live action Everett True shorts (silent films, though, so the outbursts were largely body language)

Reblogging to always have it to hand. :)

I want a Batman and Spider-Man crossover but not with kid Peter Parker I want full-blown adult Peter Parker that just does not give a shit anymore. Like he has seen weirder shit, this is nothing new to him. he's just tired, pissed off, and wants to go home. he'd be like "where am I?" batman replies "gotham"

Spider-man: "and where is that?"

Batman: "new jersey"

Spider-man: "that makes sense"

today we post everett true

Man I hate it when people use the pronoun “you” as a singular pronoun in an informal setting. “You” is plural, unless thou dost speak to an unfamiliar person. The correct singular second person pronoun is “thou” in most cases. Grammar never changes. Pronouns must always stay one way until the end of time. Learn thy proper English. *sigh* Kids these days.

If thou this mistake shouldst make on thine own blog, then know, villain, that thou art a dirty descriptivist, and no friend of mine. Ne'er should language itself alter, it doth remain fixèd as such, untouch’d by change. Wouldst thou, vile descriptivist, that we forget the heritage of our great tongue? Nay, say I. Thou art but a dickhead who sayest so.

stynt ðy clappe! beoð ðo writerris be wetleas knafen. ðy langag o engelond diffoulened be, ille usenid bi sclaundrous novelri.

Spider kiss 😘

The concept:

when you go to bed significantly earlier than usual, a little menu should pop up asking if you want Wake Up Early or More Sleep. and then you should get what you requested. that's my human body UI improvement for the day.

You should also be able to toggle Sleep Now instead of Lie Awake Worrying About Lack Of Sleep when going to bed early.

If uppercase letters are capital letters then what the FUCK are lowercase letters

Literally lower case, fortunately!

BUT WHAT WERE THEY CALLED TO DISTINGUISH THEM FROM CAPITALS PRIOR TO THE CASE

ooh ok I know this one, the technical terms for upper and lower case letters are majuscule and minuscule, which goes all the way back to when they were essentially two different latin alphabets that were not combined together in written text in the way we do now. there's actually no specific opposite term to capital that applies to minuscule letters.

however... since capital comes from the latin caput meaning head because capitals are used at the head of a sentence or page, if we wanted to have an opposite term for lower case letters we could take it from the latin word for body, corpus. therefore, something like "corpusal letters" maybe?

The genitive case for caput is capitis, from which we get capital. The genitive for corpus is corporis, so the analog for lowercase letters would be corporal letters.

#this is also why we have the terms 'capital punishment' and 'corporal punishment' #capital punishment is punishing the head (execution) while corporal punishment is punishing the body (nonlethal physical harm)

That makes a lot of sense. How cool! Gonna call them that from now on as if it's been the name forever.

One of Bruce Wayne’s biggest problems is that a large part of his philosophy when dealing with his personal relationships is that “I’d rather they’d be safe and alive while hating me than dead or injured while loving me” which leads him to push the people that love him away because he thinks so little of himself that he majorly undermines just how much that hurts them.

Because if he hates himself with such passion how could it be conceivable for anyone to love him so much that to them, the pain of losing him is worse than any physical pain could be? Kind of the motto “if you love someone you’d let them go” but when the people he’s trying to push away are so devoted to him that they KEEP COMING BACK, it ends up falling into a cycle of violence that hurts everybody. What he doesn’t GET is that they hold him on such a high pedestal that his act of pushing them away translates to THEM not being good enough instead of HIM not being good enough.

I miss when everyone on my dash listened to Welcome to Night Vale so there’s be a good chance that on any ole day someone would reblog a quote that would grab me by the throat and forcibly ascend me to a higher plane where I understood myself and the universe better and with more kindness but also a little spook

“The past is gone, and cannot harm you anymore. And while the future is fast coming for you, it always flinches first and settles in as the gentle present” are you kidding me this quote has propelled me through at least three emotional crises

“The desert seems vast, even endless. And yet scientists tell us that somewhere, even now, there is snow.” That quote literally got me through grieving my brother like WTNV goes HARD

A List of Some of My Favorite Quotes From This Insane Podcast:

I discovered this podcast at the beginning of high school, and let me tell you, it rewired my synapses.

Not only was it my first experience with positive LGBT representation, it was the show I clung to when everything else went to shit. Whatever was going on in my life, I knew I had this show in my corner, making me laugh, making me cry, making me feel okay about my place in the universe.

I owe the creators of this podcast more than I could express.

"the lights over the Arby's" is such an intrinsically queer piece of writing that it hits me *hard* every time.

"We will never be the same again. But here's a little secret for you: no one is ever the same thing again after anything. You are never the same twice, and much of your unhappiness comes from trying to pretend that you are. Accept that you are different each day, and do so joyfully, recognizing it for the gift it is. Work within the desires and goals of the person you are currently, until you aren't that person anymore, and everything changes once again." (from Episode 75)

"The universe is vast. You are also vast. So is an ant. There are different sizes of infinity."

Please call this recession the Trump Slump.

We need to put Trump's name on this.

if ever anything I wrote were to ever go viral, let it be this. Let everyone talk about the Trump Slump. I want to hear this term in the news.

Hey kid, look at me.

I want you to T-pose. Turn your right thumb up and your left thumb doen and look at your right thumb. Move your arms up and down a bit until you feel a nerve running from your armpit to your palm. Now turn your right thumb down and your left thumb up, and look at your left thumb. Keep your chest facing forward and your shoulders back. Move your arms again until you feel that nerve again. Keep alternating between these two for a minute, or look at each thumb thirty times each.

Now sit down. Put your left hand firmly under your left buttock, palm down. Keep your shoulders back and put your right hand over the crown of your head, very gently pulling it to the right. Do this for thirty seconds, then do it again but with your right hand under your right buttock.

These are stretches for the nerves in your arms, and are very good for people who sit behind a computer a lot, or fibre artists, or you name it. Do them daily. They will hurt in the beginning, but keep doing them, even after the pain has gone, or it will return and you'll have to start all over.

Hey, I know another type of stretch for this!

I had to go to occupational therapy a while back due to pain in my ulnar nerve (same nerve that acts as your 'funny bone'). It was getting compressed from jamming my elbow against hard plastic armrests that were in a too-tall fixed position on my cheap old office chair. I was having burning and tingling pain and numbness radiating from my elbow into my ring and pinky fingers. It sucked. Honestly, I found it worse than carpal tunnel, because a rigid elbow brace makes life way harder than a rigid wrist brace.

Anyways, the main exercise that my occupational therapist had me do was called a nerve glide. The stretches OP describes help improve flexibility, but the nerve gliding exercise helps move the nerve out of the pinched spot so it can move more freely.

Here's the best diagram I can find of it:

It's a little confusing, so have some extra description on the weird parts:

Ulnar nerve compression (aka cubital tunnel) is apparently super common, but I had never heard of it before I started having issues. If you lean forwards on your desk or armrests a lot, I'd suggest giving these a try. It feels kind of weird because you can feel the nerve, but it shouldn't hurt at all.

Masterpost: The Token Human (part one)

Someone asked, and it occurred to me that I don't have a current list of all the stories in this ongoing series! Here's the first half of everything I've posted so far (not counting the probably-canon ones I made up before starting a proper timeline).

First off, here's the post about the novel that these were meant to lead up to. (The stories are an ever-evolving prehistory now). They can be read out of order and still make sense enough.

How I Became the Token Human Space Weather and Shuwogs The Brief Mystery of the Escape from Storage Hold B Human at Work A Peaceful Upheaval We’re All Weird Here Invisibly Beautiful Schrödinger’s Poison A Completely Problem-Free Delivery The Oddest of Odd Jobs Stabby the One and Only What’s a Minor Heart Attack Between Friends? The Ability to Smell Beauty Courtship Behaviors Irrational Attachment Friend-shaped Going the Extra Mile/s Mechanical Rhythms Bargains at the Space Market Kittens in Space Human Magic The Little Things One Peril of Package Delivery Interspecies Adventures While Sick Troublemakers and Pestcatchers Talking Sports Tactical Artwork Double Duty Racetracking There’s No Aggression Like Passive Aggression Too Many Limbs Just a Rock A Worthy Sacrifice Shore Leave Scary Stories in Space Starseed Apples Hands-Free Medical Assistant Where Wormholes Come From Star-Crossed Small Noises Stars and the Slapping Thereof An Impressive Number of Arms Junkyard Playground Seeing Faces A Mystery Easily Solved Finger Talking Arboreal Species Small-Scale Comedy Downhill Speed Reaching Always Bring A Flashlight Fingernails and Fisticuffs Singing and Other Noises Fun and Dangers with Hovercycles Walkway Aesthetics Food Choices Playing Translation Telephone

(Part two on the way, pending glitches.)

(Part two!)

Decoy Accidental Training Things to Do on Ice Catching Things in Zero-G The Good Perch The Right Time and Place The Indignity that is Hiccups Squishy Cybernetics Monkey Chase Secondhand Solutions Not Special Not Special, Part Two Loud Darkness Paws in a Circle Double Dog Dare The Mechanic’s Burden Drying Out Rainy Day Eggs Faceoff Stranger in Need Mystery Colors Not a Pest Early Efforts Names Chosen Carefully Confidential Human Questions Unlikely Tech Problems Crinkly Collectibles Other Uses for Packaging Recreational Food Handy Tools I Know A Guy Predator Games Honking Trouble Digital Billboards and Bumper Stickers One More Earth Animal One More Earth Animal, Part Two Singing the Approach Little Legends Clues Best Suited to the Task Singing the Return A Feat of Minor Daring Unsettling Preferred Speed Rematch Ways of Being Comfortable Cave Space Partially Fragile At Home in the Mud The Many Uses for Earth Fruits Aiming the Machismo Spice in Space Correct in Size and Opinion Fools, Fauna, and Music Appreciation Another Strange Earth Drink Unexpected Blue A Noir Interlude (In Space) Mysterious to You Heights and Heroism Honorable Battle Wounds

And that's everything as of April 7th, 2025! I'll keep writing them on a weekly basis until I find a good reason to stop. They're fun. And I am working on that sequel novel that will include all these characters as well as most of the ones from the first book. (That takes a bit more work than a few low-stakes short stories, so it's taking longer.) I'll get there. In the meantime, enjoy this surprisingly long list of links! Hopefully they all go where they're supposed to.

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.