“Breeze the baby horse is all grown up, but still sleeps with his teddy years later”

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Bruce’s expression in the third panel really truly captures the look of a child whose parent is known to be extremely sarcastic but also is entirely capable of the insane thing they just said, so you’re not sure whether they’re being genuine or not.

Some thoughts about excuses and also disability porn

Please watch this! It’s so important.

I like the part where he points out that the photo where he looks 'less athletic' and 'unfit' by superficial body image standards is one where he was already a professional athlete competing in the paralympics.

I love Josh Sundquist.

Immensely powerful thrift shop find, google drive to follow

22,000 ANIMATED GIFS

from ~2001, plus a few text-to-speech thingies i couldnt use on modern hardware, and more

Alright, hear me out

Behold, a sword

Hilt? ✅

Guard? ✅

Used for cutting? ✅

Infinitely long blade? ✅

I've been sore all day and finally got food and painkillers and I'm so relieved I feel manic.

God help my poor partner

I should blaze this post

Favorite thing about Dracula Daily so far is that yesterday I read a post that had in-depth, well-researched analysis that could easily be mistaken for a published literary criticism of Dracula, except it casually makes a passing reference to "the polycule" without feeling the need to elaborate

Any academic paper can fail to elaborate on terms on the presumption that it is understood by the expected audience

The center symbol on the center plaque is the emblem of the US Army Chemical Corps (two crossed retorts over a benzene ring). (There should be a delocalized electron ring in the hexagon but apparently they didn’t bother.)

Love Dream’s off duty model looks in the comics.

If you are the child of wealthy parents, this does not make you rich: it makes you a possible client of wealthy patrons

I have encountered children of rich parents denied tuition funding bc they came out as gay. I have encountered children of rich parents forced into psychiatric confinement begging their parents on the phone every night to please let them leave. I have encountered children of rich parents accustomed to living a life of luxury, cut out of their family’s wills for their disobedient attitude, and left unsure how to live an ordinary life bc nobody taught them. I have encountered children of fabulously affluent and abusive parents who can effectively buy off judges and pay to have them hunted down if they run from home. If you don’t have discretion over your money, it is not yours; and if your “wealthy” lifestyle is subsidised with strings attached (which it always is), you are not wealthy yourself

Financial abuse is a real thing, and people should seriously look it up. I’ve seen people whose parents refused to fill out FAFSA forms so then they couldn’t get student loans to get an education away from their family. And people whose parents “expected contribution” was more than tuition so they got nothing, meanwhile they’re about to be kicked out of the house and off health insurance. I’ve heard stories of people who went into fields they absolutely hated because otherwise their families would cut them off, and people who avoided getting necessary medical care because while yes their parents insurance would cover it, it would mean being forced to live exactly the way their parents wanted them to (not being openly queer, not studying the things they want or living the places they want, not being able to escape). And while not all of them would count as Rich™️, they’re certainly in comfortable situations, enough so that they could absolutely destroy their children’s lives

I know at least two survivors of childhood SA that were continually controlled by their abusers well into adulthood through money. One was also institutionalized as a child despite being obviously an abuse victim because when your parents are rich they can just do that.

Another friend managed to get a criminal investigation opened against their childhood abuser who had a conservatorship over them and then it just… vanished. Their abuser paid off the police to make it go away. They had to flee across country, go into hiding and fight a multi-year legal battle to get out of the conservatorship.

This is what happens to the children of rich people.

just in case anyone sees this who is in this situation, if you're at risk of being homeless, you can fill out a FAFSA without your parents' information so it doesn't matter if your parents won't give your their information or if their expected contribution is high. initially my younger sibling was told by the aid office at their school that they didn't qualify for anything since they didn't have our parents' info, but that is incorrect. there's a different application if you're at risk and my sibling ended up with a full scholarship after providing documentation of their situation.

From studentaid.gov:

maybe this is bc i’m from the south and not fuckin uhhhh new york or wherever the hell but like. it is still not really normalized for a man to wear makeup or nail polish. women with short hair still get offensive comments about their appearances. like even small acts of gender nonconformity can still be scary and dangerous in 2021 and i feel like so many people just live in this progressive bubble where they think that all dudes being Remotely “feminine” in some way are like homophobic tiktok e-boys doing it for clout or whatever and that’s uh. fucking stupid. like i can PROMISE you that the vast majority of gender nonconforming people are not trying to do something that’s never been done before, nor are they claiming to do so, they’re just trying to live their lives and look the way they want to look. you aren’t helping anybody by trying to police who has the right to be wearing skirts or painting their nails or doing their hair a certain way.

anyway this is ur daily reminder that gender nonconformity is not a trend and it’s gross to attack people for being gender nonconforming in a way that you think “has been done before” or “isn’t that special” or whatever the fuck. like i’m sorry but it’s just cruel and hateful! being gender nonconforming still takes bravery and courage. people still face discrimination and harassment. whose cause do you think you’re helping by attempting to be the gatekeeper of nontraditional gender expression? genuinely, who do you think benefits when you attack people for stepping outside of the bounds of traditional gender expression? who? because it certainly fucking isn’t gnc people.

Hm. Your interpretation of this character displeases me. Guards! Take them away! Make them read the source material once more, and if that fails, the stocks.

it’s the middle of the night and i am now ready to start The Task!

right after i watch this short video

TT’s not releasing this one, so here’s some thoughts on purposeful deadnaming people.

things that happen

That shit reading like a metal gear solid dialogue

I truly hate the word "unalive." There are so many other euphemisms that fictional Italian mobsters worked so hard to provide you with and you just ignore them.