vegans making honey a bee labour issue is the funniest thing imaginable because like, you picked the one animal that has already unionised

You literally could not exploit bees if you TRIED

"Oh well if you stop the queen leaving the bees are trapped" wrong, bees can and will swarm without a queen. They will also make new queens if they don't think theirs is good enough

"Bees don't consent to their honey being taken" wrong, bees are actually more than intelligent enough to know we take the honey. They LET us take the honey if they think what we provide in return (shelter, food, protection) is a fair deal.

"Taking honey starves the bees" WRONG AGAIN! Domestic bees overproduce honey. A beekeeper NEVER takes honey the bees would need because then you piss off the bees, and if you piss off the bees you don't have any bees. They stockpile honey for the winter, but because domestic colonies do way better than wild ones they stockpile too much. That's why beekeepers can take out whole frames and then have them filled in no time. Domestic bees actively overproduce because they know humans are going to skim some off the top.

And if they didn't want humans to take it, beekeeping WOULD NOT work.

To keep bees you have to let them fly free. If they can fly free they can leave. Meaning if they don't like what you're doing, they WILL leave.

The whole idea they're basically slaves to the queen is also not true, they can just make a new queen literally whenever, and if they don't like her, they kill her.

There is no way for a beekeeper to exploit their bees. The bees are EMPLOYEES.

Employbees, if you will.

"In recent years, there has been a rush on the internet to supply image descriptions and to call out those who don’t. This may be an example of community accountability at work, but it’s striking to observe that those doing the most fierce calling out or correcting are sighted people. Such efforts are largely self-defeating. I cannot count the times I’ve stopped reading a video transcript because it started with a dense word picture. Even if a description is short and well done, I often wish there were no description at all. Get to the point, already! How ironic that striving after access can actually create a barrier. When I pointed this out during one of my seminars, a participant made us all laugh by doing a parody: “Mary is wearing a green, blue, and red striped shirt; every fourth stripe also has a purple dot the size of a pea in it, and there are forty-seven stripes—”

“You’re killing me,” I said. “I can’t take any more of that!”

Now serious, she said it was clear to her that none of that stuff about Mary’s clothes mattered, at least if her clothes weren’t the point. What mattered most about the image was that Mary was holding her diploma and smiling. “But,” she wondered, “do I say, Mary has a huge smile on her face as she shows her diploma or Mary has an exuberant smile or showing her teeth in a smile and her eyes are crinkled at the edges?”

It’s simple. Mary has a huge smile on her face is the best one. It’s the don’t-second-guess-yourself option."

--Against Access, by John Lee Clark, a DeafBlind educator

I think this also includes the important idea of imagining the other. Sighted people (like myself) often consider visuals the *most important* part of an experience. This isn't and can't be the case for a blind person. If you don't have sight, then the particulars about the color/expression/etc. aren't necessarily going to be important to you.

Smiling matters because it's an indicator of emotion. The quality of the teeth only matter if it's relevant to the joke. Striped shirt only matters if the text describes it as polka dots and that's the point.

Describe the parts of the image that give context, because a person whose primary mode of interpreting the world is not sight will most likely not want extraneous visual information.

"Aro/Ace person gets given a love potion" story but instead of them being immune or whatever, it DOES work, and they realize IMMEDIATELY that they've been fed a love potion because this feeling is so wrong and foreign but everyone keeps laughing off the idea of it being a love potion because "they were probably just a late bloomer" or "no, you just finally found the right person!" and it's just a horror story about how no one believes them even though they know, they KNOW this isn't right and they can't stand it.

tfing my wife into all the romantic creatures starting with the anglerfish

Really hope you transform yourself, too. Else this won't be very romantic.

Implying I also need to be an anglerfish to find the romance in my tiny fish wife falling in love with me so bad he turns into some extra testicles for me. But yes.

Truest love

Fandom terms have to sound silly, like blorbo or squick, because fandom needs humbling. Not a lot. But just every so often you need a good grounding reminder that all of this is literally made up nonsense for fun.

If you take a fictional thing so seriously that silly words genuinely annoy you, you've gone too far and you need to dial it back.

"So does Spock not like women? Is he like Sherlock Holmes?" - my 73 y/o mother.

GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH

If you haven't heard of Julia Donaldson, she's primarily a picture book author, who we can thank for extremely popular Halloween classic Room on the Broom as well as the Gruffalo.

Let this be a testament to the power of picture books.

I'm living for these jokes.

Also I need "GET GRUFFALO'D, BITCH" on a T-shirt.

It is unfair that we can’t share all the same sensory and vocal stims it is UNFAIR that the sound that makes u feel comforted and happy makes me want to beat myself with a rock. Why must we suffer. Autism telepathic hive mind when

Wish u could all enjoy warm mud texture as much as I do. Wish clicky sound didn’t set my brain on fire. Rage and biting

I made this for a class assignment on what neurodivergent means to me

Update: I made a Shadow version :)

Edit: Hey guys if you're gonna repost my art on other platforms please ask me before hand, I'd like to know where it's going.

Plus it's fun for me to look at peoples responses on platforms I'm not on ♥️

We gotta start telling people “you don’t actually like TTRPGs you just like critical role” more. Like if somebody joined a martial arts class and kept talking about signature moves and catchphrases and power slams and rivals like its pro wrestling that would be pretty fucking annoying to people who like to practice martial arts right

On the one hand, as someone who has done a fair amount of improv theatre, I think a lot of Critical Role people would really prefer doing improv theatre to TTRPGs. On the other hand, those people very often lack the humility, vulnerability, and ability to share the spotlight necessary for good improv theatre, so I don’t really want them there either.

You can learn humility, how to be vulnerable, and how to share the spotlight. Not that you need to be the one to teach that if you don’t want to. But people can learn, just saying.

Absolutely you can, provided that you’re approaching a situation open to the possibility of being wrong and a willingness to learn. Unfortunately, the type of Critical Role people we’re discussing usually believe that they know how to play TTRPGs –they’ve watched hundreds of hours of people playing!– and don’t conceptualize roleplaying as a skill they’d need to learn at all.

The online culture around D&D treats being disruptive and detached as funny and normal. Think of all the memes about interrupting the BBEG’s monologue by attacking them, or refusing to learn the names of NPCs and giving them derisive nicknames. These are behaviours that would be considered extremely bad form in improv, but they’re behaviours the zeitgeist of D&D has primed players to see as normal. And giving someone feedback on how they roleplay? Forget it. Even kindly approaching someone to say they should play their character with more vulnerability is the sort of thing that’s going to generate, “My DM told me I was playing my character wrong” posts on reddit, with a comment section full of people parroting, “No D&D is better than bad D&D.”

Obviously people can learn these skills. It’s just unfortunate that their experience with Critical Role and the D&D culture primes them not to understand that they need to learn these skills.

no sentence fills me with utter loathing so much as "i asked chatgpt"

Some of y'all gotta uncouple your personal self worth from your thought patterns. Me saying something is a reactionary thought pattern and urging you to examine it is not me personally calling you a fascist lmao. Everyone has thought patterns and some of them are going to be reactionary since yknow. We live in a society etc etc

Yeah like. that's not the same thing. we don't do thought crimes here. All it means is, if it hadn't occurred to you that these patterns might be reactionary or sexist or what have you, it's an opportunity to analyze that and see things from a new perspective

This is low-key another reason why callout culture sucks cause without the ability to learn from your mistakes there's much more incentive to deny them. It's okay to fuck up and need to reassess stuff. I'm not a fucking cop. I'm not gonna sit here and condemn you to the dungeon because you said something stupid.

Yknow what I LOVE about the Star Trek fandom? It’s ANCIENT. I had a talk with a nice old lady at the old persons home that my great grandma is in and she noticed my Spock shirt and was like “oh I love that show I thought the premise was lovely” and you all know THE PREMISE is trekspeak for spirk and I was like “do you accept the premise because I do” and she looked at me with the eyes of someone who is reliving their otp moments and she said “the premise is all I wrote about, dear” and we just talked about spirk for a hella long time and I just love how age doesn’t matter in this fandom you can be ninety and still be the biggest spirk bitch ever how rad is that

I was today years old when I learned that particular euphemism

I was also today years old. Fandom codes man

Reblogging to spread knowledge about the Premise, because I absolutely love that bit of fandom, and I want to make sure that it survives. (and yay to everyone who is part of today’s 10,000!)

The reason it was called “The Premise” was plausible deniability. Because homosexuality was still criminalized then, and admitting to shipping a couple fictional dudes together could get you in serious trouble if you said it to the wrong person, but fans wanted to be able to find each other, and discuss their fandom in semi-public spaces safely. And so, “The Premise” became code. If someone didn’t know the code, they’d assume you’re talking about the literal premise of the show (that is, the idea that humans will have faster-than-light space travel in the future and travel around meeting aliens and having adventures), and respond accordingly.

It’s exactly the same concept as how, if you tell some random person who doesn’t tumblr that you like their shoelaces, they’ll be like “uh, thanks?” and then you know they don’t tumblr while they also have not been informed that YOU tumblr. But if they respond “thanks, I stole them from the president”… you both know. Except with higher social stakes for making sure you aren’t outing yourself as a Spirk shipper to the wrong person. It’s fine NOW of course, but it wasn’t always.