This isn't even my final form

mob murdering serizawa with autism

The true AO3 experience is trying to remember a very specific fic you read some time between 2013 and 2019 but you can only remember two of the characters, a vague idea of the plot outside of one specific scene, and you have no clue what the tags could have been.

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So are you an “art block feels like [textbook description of several major symptoms of unmedicated ADHD]” artist, or an “art block feels like [textbook description of several major symptoms of clinical depression]” artist?

Okay, that was needlessly snarky, so let me clarify – the point I’m making here is twofold:

1. As artists, we’re doing ourselves a disservice by characterisng our mental health problems primarily in terms of “art block”. If you had a broken arm, and were unable to draw for that reason, you’d understand that it would be ridiculous to describe the problem that you have as “art block”, even though the end result is that it impedes your art. It’s inappropriately identifying lack of productivity as the real problem, rather than the conditions that cause it.

2. We’re also doing other artists a disservice by doing this, particularly younger artists who may not have a good picture of what mental health problems look like. When they see extremely obvious symptoms of various mental health problems described as “art block”, they may think: “oh, so that’s what art block is – what I am experiencing is a normal part of being an artist.” Like, this isn’t hypothetical; I have literally met folks who didn’t realise they were depressed or what-have-you for the longest time because they thought they just had “art block”.

Food history has been so sanitized by the demonization of carbs. “Our ancestors only had fruits and veggies they didn’t have all these refined carbs” our ancestors drank beer 25/8 because the water was bad. Our ancestors drizzled honey on shit ever since we knew it existed. We’ve been making bread for our entire recorded history. It’s true that bleached sugars specifically are a new thing but high glycemic carbs are not new at all, we’ve been consuming them for thousands of years

Sorry but the "a woman just died and her family is mourning" speech doesn't really apply for the woman who's responsible for almost half the world's colonisation and the death of millions of people everyday for like 70 years

I hate the monarchy but.... She is not "responsible for half the world's colonisation". Do you think colonialism happened in the last 100 years? Do you know anything?

"Do you know anything?" Really now. Did you even look into it before defending this bitch

Um, no. They're not "defending" her by pointing out the original statement is inaccurate—that's just correcting misinformation. I mean, I am extremely vocal on this blog about my anti-monarchy views, especially in regard to my distaste for British imperialism as somebody of South Asian descent. But the OP is misleading at best, and just flat out wrong at worst, and I honestly find it kind of offensive that people would disregard the actual, real-life violent history of British imperialism in favour of some half-cocked statement that lets so many responsible parties off the hook for their crimes.

Like, firstly, if you're really dead set on solely laying the blame for expansion of the British Empire on one single member of the royal family, then that person, without a doubt, should be Queen Victoria. To quote this article, she was the "matriarch of the British Empire," as well as a major propopent of its expansion. Between 1814 (just 23 years before Victoria ascended the throne) and the heyday of her reign in 1881, the population of the British Empire literally QUINTUPLED in size. By the time she died in 1901, Victoria was ruling over roughly 400 million "subjects," in British-ruled territory that covered approximately 25% of the globe. It hit its peak in 1919 (7 years before Elizabeth II's birth) under the reign of George V, after Britain acquired a bunch of German territories under Treaty of Versailles at the end of WWI. By contrast, when Elizabeth took the throne in 1952—about five years after India & Pakistan kicked off a major wave of decolonisation efforts—Britain's global territory had shrunk by approximately 68%. By 1970, it had decreased even further:

Now, there's absolutely no disputing that Queen Victoria's imperialism is part of Queen Elizabeth's family legacy. That's true both from a historical and financial perspective, and something about which I am extremely salty! Victoria fucking ransacked India, and today's royals still have the spoils. If you want to join Desi people in hating Liz & Co. for never giving us our fucking stolen diamond back, be my guest. In fact, we will make you cups of chai and feed you rotis while you bitch about it with us. But saying that Elizabeth II was directly responsible for colonising half 1/4 of the globe is not only factually incorrect, but factually incorrect in a way that either outright erases the most devastating periods of British imperialism (if you're only including events from 1952-present), or effectively absolves the people who actually engineered the violence (if you're mentally replacing Liz for Vicky). Now, I admittedly have more beef with Queen Victoria, because my grandfather and great-aunties on the Indian side were literally born under her reign (yes, really, I'm old), but even so, it seems weird to just... rewrite the whole thing. And speaking of absolving people, like... yes, the monarchy is a ridiculous fucking institution built on ill-gotten wealth and oppression of the working classes, no argument from me there. But they are not solely responsible for colonialism, and I don't like the implication that it was masterminded single-handedly by one figurehead with a crown whose political role is largely ceremonial. Like, first of all, look up the fucking East India Company, an evil-from-the-depths-of-hell-level corporation built on greed and human suffering. They were acting as agents of British imperialism across swathes of Africa and Asia, eons before Queen Victoria was even born. The British government only got dominion over India after they intervened to stop the East India Company from exerting too much political and commercial control. Like, read up on Robert Clive and the Battle of Plassey sometime, and then imagine Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk buying the French army to invade the Indian subcontinent. While we're talking about ye olden colonising CEOs, ever heard of Cecil Rhodes? Of course, he had a lot of help in fucking over South Africa from the PM, Lord Salisbury. It was actually Disraeli's idea to confer the title of 'Empress of India' on Queen Victoria. It's estimated that around 3.8 million people died during the 1943 Bengal famine, which was basically the result of a Winston Churchill policy failure. And it was not any monarch, but Secretary of State for the Colonies Joseph Chamberlain, who said "I believe that the British race is the greatest of the governing races that the world has ever seen… It is not enough to occupy great spaces of the world's surface unless you can make the best of them. It is the duty of a landlord to develop his estate." Like, yeah fuck the monarchy for the role they played, but don't act like one single hand-waving, ribbon-cutting inbred royal was the British Empire's master architect, when this was very much one of history's worst fucking group projects.

Finally, a smaller correction, but that above "List of sovereign states headed by Elizabeth II" is mostly comprised of former colonies/Commonwealth countries. Now, is the Commonwealth a vestige of Britain's bygone colonialism? Absolutely, no doubt. But nonetheless, that's still a list of independent nations with their own governments who—at some point between 1952-present—chose to have the monarch as a state figurehead (albeit not a choice I understand). Also, if you actually look at the chart, it's presently only a total of 15 countries who still have the monarch as a ceremonial figurehead (including the UK itself, Canada, and Australia). You'll also note that more than half of these countries have severed ties already, including Barbados, who just became a republic last year (way to go, Barbados!), and I'm hoping that Charles's relative unpopularity will see more nations follow suit. Still, the point stands: It doesn't really make sense to post that as "evidence" of the fact that Elizabeth herself was personally responsible for "half the world's colonisation," when 1) It only dates back to 1952, well after the peak of the empire 2) None of the nations listed are current British Overseas Territories 3) The linked chart actually shows a decline in independent states using the monarch as a figurehead since the late 1980s. It's quite literally making the opposite point as intended.

Anyway, as somebody who doesn't like the monarchy, and thinks a lot about the irrevocable damage wrought by British colonialism, I am begging you guys not to downplay or rewrite its actual history for the sake of a pithy sound-byte on Tumblr dot com. "Queen Elizabeth spent a lifetime benefiting from the spoils of her family's imperialist endeavours, and may have recently used some of that tainted wealth to help her son pay out a settlement to the woman who publicly accused him of sex trafficking" is a perfectly accurate, and scathingly damning statement; you do not need to rewrite British history to make it sound like the woman personally conquered India with an army of bloodthirsty corgis just to make your point.

being overstimulated is like. the colours hunt me for sport and sound is the same as the texture of wet noodles in a sink

shapes no longer have meaning. the noise of talking is exactly equivalent to someone on the bus starting to touch your hair from behind. if i move all my bones will break so i am exiting this situation via the astral plane.

… he claimed to be genuinely surprised when, in March 1956, he received a letter from one Sam Gamgee, who had heard that his name was in The Lord of the Rings but had not read the book. Tolkien replied on March 18:

“Dear Mr. Gamgee,

It was very kind of you to write. You can imagine my astonishment when I saw your signature! I can only say, for your comfort, I hope, that the ‘Sam Gamgee’ of my story is a most heroic character, now widely beloved by many readers, even though his origins are rustic. So that perhaps you will not be displeased at the coincidence of the name of this imaginary character of supposedly many centuries ago being the same as yours.”

― The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien: Letter 184

He proceeded to send Mr Gamgee a signed copy of all three volumes of the book. However, the incident sparked a nagging worry in Tolkien’s mind, as he recorded in his journal:

“For some time I lived in fear of receiving a letter signed ’S. Gollum’. That would have been more difficult to deal with.“― J.R.R. Tolkien: A Biography

Holy shit the onion is going all in

“possessed by a race car” 😭😭😭

@is-the-cat-video-cute

Pretty sure yes, hopefully you get a good laugh.

yes this is so cute! this is a good safe way to interact with wild cats and still get an entertaining video.

wildcat ridge is a sanctuary with great accreditation which does not allow public viewing of their rescued wild cats. most of the servals in this video were previously pets before it became clear that they couldn’t be in a home and have honestly really sad stories. really drives home how unsuitable they are as pets. it’s really nice that these guys can now live in a more natural environment with lots of space, the right diet, and a lot of love and care.

Tentatively adding "attributes every failure of institutions and systems to intentional malice rather than ignorance or incompetence" to my List Of Conspiracy Theory Red Flags

You see this on every side of the political spectrum too so here's what I mean:

Imagine that there is a factory revealed to have been illegally dumping poisonous substances in the water supply of a nearby community, which is predominantly occupied by racial minorities

(This is a real situation that happens and has happened many times.)

Not in the Conspiracy Zone: "This kind of thing tends to happen in impoverished communities occupied by minorities, because people view the lives of those people as more disposable and don't think as much about the safety of their living conditions. Also, the companies are potentially less likely to face consequences than they would if they were illegally dumping stuff in a densely populated, wealthier community."

The Conspiracy Zone: "Notice that this stuff always happens in impoverished communities occupied by minorities. That's because they don't care about you—they want you to be too sick to protest your own oppression, and ultimately they want to eliminate you."

^This sentiment isn't conspiracy theory itself but the thought pattern is a step in ending up there.

A big factor in these large-scale fuckups is prejudice-driven neglect of problems—things go unchecked because the bad things happen to people that get less media coverage, less sympathy from the general public, and when people are marginalized the System isn't interested in actively asking "Hey, are y'all okay?"

Something I've noticed about conspiracy theorists is that everything is a feature, not a bug.

E.g. birth control doesn't have negative side effects because medicine just...has side effects, but maybe these side effects are ignored too much because birth control is predominantly taken by women—birth control has side effects because They want you to be sterile and depressed and docile all the time

As you can see, there can be a systemic element to something (doctors don't believe women about their distress a lot of times) without the negative effects actually being intentional features (birth control is a conspiracy to stop white, *cough* i mean nice women from having kids and feeling the presence of the holy spirit or...something)

This is a really important thing to understand if you want to be an ally to Jews, btw.

This type of conspiratorial thinking that attributes malice to what are in reality large scale logistical problems and institutional neglect that track onto social prejudices, always, always needs a villain to make sense. It's psychologically attractive, because it gives people whose voices often go unheard a fixed point to target their (completely legitimate) anger at.

It gives them a villain, a motive, and an evil plot. Something people can solve with a silver bullet, or a guillotine, or a pogrom, because that's a hell of a lot easier and more satisfying then going to 900,000 tedious meetings and town halls.

Guess who has historically borne the brunt of that.

i hate when ppl complain abt hot glue guns like sorry u havent gotten to know ur beast. its like a horse you have to have a bond and work together

honestly being bonded to my hot glue gun is 90% of the problem

i support prev tags wholeheartedly. you all are like “i love torture labyrinths” “i love mazes that lead nowhere” to no end all day but ohhhh JEEZ the second someone inthe tumbly wumbly leaves ya a trail a breadcrumbs suddenly THATS too much! BIG FREAKIN DEAL people. you never heard of LIVIN WITH IT???

just realized the way i typed this sentiment out makes me sound like a minotaur who’s been living in the new york metro for 40 years

big fan of media thats too homopobic to admit gay people exist yet nontheless operates with a homoerotic subtext so insane that none of the characters’ motivations make sense unless they carnally desire each other

Y'ALL THIS IS THE NEW WHITE HOUSE MONKEYPOX COORDINATOR HOLY SHIT

Biden really said "I think we need a raging queer leather daddy doctor to run the country's monkeypox response" and he was RIGHT

yeah this is based

Oh fuck that is a good call: that's a gentleman whose career started while AIDS was in full swing within his community, who has championed harm reduction approaches to infectious disease, and who is pointed in his insistence on destigmatizing high risk communities rather than setting himself apart from them. This is someone who understands harm reduction and meeting people where they are without judgement, which is precisely the attitude you want to have when you grapple with a stigmatized epidemic.

Here's an article about his appointment to director of HIV/AIDS prevention from February 2021. Look at his career: he's been working in HIV/AIDS nearly his entire adult life and career. He's been working on increasing public health within stigmatized populations by focusing on harm reduction that entire time. Hell, this is someone with the institutional memory to remember Anthony Fauci's piss poor treatment of HIV during the Reagan administration and carry a grudge because the man didn't go far enough.

By the way, this is absolutely an example of harm reduction in terms of exercising your right to vote: there is zero chance that an advocate like Daskalakis would have been appointed under a Trump administration, but the incoming Biden administration installed him in the previous director position (which he still holds, as he adds monkeypox to his case load) as early as late 2020, before Biden was even properly inaugurated. That doesn't mean this administration is perfect or that we can't continue to agitate for better change, but it does mean that things are better and fewer people are going to die. That's basic harm reduction in action: you focus on survival for the most people as your metric, you take the route that results in the best outcome for the situation you have, and you do not ever let the imaginary perfect become the enemy of the tangible better.

Fuck, this is delightful good news. Well done Dr. Daskalakis, and all the best of luck to you and yours!

I love how Zuko's perception of the gaang must have done a complete 360 after joining them like

Zuko, before joining: this is a group of extremely skilled benders, i must be prepared for any possible situation when i run into them

Zuko, right after joining: wait a minute these aren't trained warriors they're bunch of goofy kids that have somehow survived without adult supervision all this time, i shouldn't have been so worried

Zuko, seeing Katara bloodbend: what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what-

casting a spell of finish your wip rb to pass it on

to all my demotivated girls

​no lie I had to get up to shake my ass this is potent