[alarm goes off]

Wellp. Time to put on my officesona.

haha I bet you have an officesuit and everything

This is my officesona his name is Dave and he has a gunmetal-grey suit with an eggshell shirt and a BRIGHT blue tie!! He has spreadsheet powers and can survive an ENTIRE DAY in a meeting when he has to (but he prefers to work at his desk)! His biggest weakness is when people try to make small talk before he's had his coffee! Looking forward to the RP!

Update: Dave died.

Batman: The Movie (1966) dir. Leslie H. Martinson

The world’s greatest detective.

D&D has become so much more fun since it clicked for me that I'm not the character, I'm the writer in charge of the character

If you're the character, bad rolls and bad calls reflect badly on you. You want to Win because that means you're doing D&D right, and if things go wrong, it's because you're doing it wrong.

If you're the writer, your number one job is to do things to your character that the character does not like because that gives them the chance to be interesting.

[choral theme intensifies]

its been about 10 years since she showed me this but i am STILL thinking about how my (then) 4 year old cousin drew birds

OBSESSED with this creature; she draws the body from above/below and the head from the side, with a giant eyeball that takes up the entire head and never looks in a specific direction. in a very old-fashioned sense: iconic

The bird is TURNING

People who have been dehumanized and go "fuck you, I'm a human no matter what you say" and people who have been dehumanized and go "fine then, I'm not a human and I'm happy with that" are equally awesome and should hold hands

Guess I'll hold my own hand.

retroactively updating all of my posts to end with "food for thought, haha!"

retroactively updating all of my posts to end with "but no worries if not!"

okay was anyone going to tell me that the theme song to Ya Boy Kongming was a Hungarian club track from 2013 or was I suppose to learn that from YouTube recs myself

I've often wondered if I could be hired as a background extra to awkwardly pretend to be enjoying a party, I think I'd bring a certain sweaty desperation to the role

Have done this before many times; it's either the most or the least fun you'll ever have on a film set, depending on your sense of humour.

hi i do not like how some of you people have been using the term ‘egg’ lately. i also hate how you talk to gnc people. thank you.

so ‘egg’ refers to a trans person who has not yet realized they are trans and are in denial. usually one refers to themself in this context. i dont see this happening much to gnc women because its much normaler for a woman to be butch than for a man to be femme. but like.

if you know a man who is more femme. they may very well be a trans woman. and that is for them to figure out on their own. but yall see any man who isnt masc in the slightest bit and go ‘this must be a closeted trans woman’ no. shut up. being a trans woman is more than being a feminine male person. not only do i think youre not normal abt gnc men but i also think you are not normal about trans women.

its incredibly rude to call someone an egg for being gnc. what if we all minded our own business.

When I was in high school, a very close friend of mine used to call me an egg, and honestly? It made it harder to eventually realize that I was trans. I didn’t feel safe exploring being a gnc man, because if I did, I would be called a girl, something that normally wouldn’t bother me, except that it was coming from someone who was serious. They actually meant it, and that caused me to get defensive, and I never realized that I might actually be trans until after I graduated. So, if your friend wears nail polish, or complains about not being able to grow their hair out due to a uniform policy, don’t tell them who they are. No matter what, actually, don’t tell anybody who they are. Literally just let people be who they are. Even if you know who they are more than they do, you don’t actually, so zip it.

when i identified as nonbinary, a lot of people joked that i was a trans guy in denial(i thought calling myself nonbinary was a safer way of being trans and that it meant i wasnt really trans, it was sucky) and it made it so much harder to tell people i was a guy, because i have a general attitude of “if you said i couldnt be this then im going to because fuck you!”

The Egg Prime Directive is a thing for a reason!! Never call someone an egg untill they have cracked, no matter how much you suspect they’re an egg or how long it takes for then to crack!

Figuring out you’re trans is a super personal and disorienting experience. It has to be your own realization or your brain will be like “outside attack, protect!!” You’ll end up entrenching them even further and making cracking harder for them.

Sometimes they’re not an egg, also. Sometimes they’re a nut: they’re incubating something different than you expected, and if you give them a warm, dark, quiet space to grow they’ll sprout rather than hatching. And that, too, is okay.

Sometimes they’re a rock: they might simply crack and reveal a glistening interior that always existed, but which they didn’t feel comfortable sharing with you. That is also okay.

I don’t like “oh well it’s fine if you never TELL them you think they’re an egg” because look, fuck you, no one has more information about what kind of best, truest self a given person might become than that specific person. You do not have all the facts about a person’s interiority. You cannot have those facts. They aren’t yours to know until and unless your friend cracks open and chooses to let you know what’s inside. Not all enigmas in your life have known outcomes, and it is the height of hubris to tell yourself that you can peer inside them without damaging the growth within.

Even if you know who they are more than they do: no you don't.

But what if my name isn't Nate

if were all catpeople there would be trans catboy forums devoted to how to dye over calico markings so you can pass better and another group of trans catboys who insisted that the only way to deal with it is to normalize catboys having calico markings. the discourse would be insane

meanwhile all the far right commentary catboy youtube channels would have videos titled ‘HAS “MALE CALICO” ACCEPTANCE GONE TOO FAR?’ with the thumbnail of some random calico catboy who was shown in 0.001 second of a popular clothing brand’s pride month ad

there would be a whole other discourse over why we should stop talking about calico catboys when no one knows the struggle of transitioning from a girl orange cat (cute) to a male orange cat (stupid)

Thinking a lot about how exclusionary/reactionary ideology is so incredibly easy to fall into and act upon because it preys on and weaponizes people's existing insecurities. It gets people saying things like:

or

or

or

or

All of those lines of thinking follow the same pattern: "I am hurting, I am oppressed, I am beaten down, so why should I care about other people that either make me uncomfortable or I deem as having more privileges than myself"

And it is okay to hurt. It is also, genuinely, okay to only really feel passionate about issues that impact yourself. Compassion fatigue is real. It's very easy to get so swept into caring for others you forget to care for yourself.

But you can't let your pain harden you so much you stop viewing others as complex human beings trying to live their lives and start seeing them all as adversaries to your existence by virtue of existing themselves. That's no way to live.

I really do think a lot of this relies on our deeply conditioned belief in aggression and conflict as ways to problem solve and get our needs met. People don't just naturally, inevitably become bitterly parsimonious when hurt -- distress is pretty universal, but our reactions are very, very informed by our beliefs about what will elicit help from other people.

Getting help from others [and tracking social expectations to know HOW] is a behavior most of us have from infancy, and neither the behavior nor the learning stops in adult life.

Now look at the world around you and all that you know of it: can you see how a lot of people rationally conclude that establishing pecking orders and seizing power at others' expense is going to help? All around us are powerful people, appearing to thrive and have no problems because of privileges they get at the expense of others -- I genuinely think most of us absorb that, and implicitly think that empowerment=power over. Inequity is so commonplace we often can't even IMAGINE forms of justice or comfort that don't rely on conflictive hierarchies.

I think it's important to keep in mind as well that

and

are both thoughts that can and must exist together.

There are active, documented attempts to play "divide and conquer" with us, to our detriment, by people who literally don't want us to exist.

And you're still responsible for what they do when they get to you.

“your rent should be a third of your income” well wouldn’t that be nice. wouldn’t it. lower the rent pussy

Casual observation from someone old enough to remember: in the year 2000 financial advice was that rent should be no more than 1/4 of your income.

Until the mid 80s, the advice was that if you must rent instead of owning, then that 20% of your monthly income (oh yes, only 20%) should include all your utilities too.

After all, rent costs more than a mortgage, so it should offer more too.

The housing market is a fucking travesty.

Hmm what happened in the mid eighties....

vicious but silent war between the person who sets the agenda and the person who takes the minutes until they are both outflanked by the person who schedules the meetings

tensions build when a routine inspection catches the janitor carefully applying a potent mixture of nerve agents and aphrodisiacs to the boardroom table.

The Community Season 4 we needed

koala police, arrest this-- wait, koala police??

Did you know that in the majority of reported drop-and-assault cases, the perpetrator is a current or former member of the koala police

AKCADB (all koala cops are drop bears)

hiiiii, does anyone want to become evil with me?

Update from the WGA on negotiations

THIS IS NOT A DRILL

I REPEAT THIS IS NOT A DRILL

please don’t start reblogging this again this post ruined my life

Ceci n'est pas une drill

Ceci n'est pas un dril tweet