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oh ostrich, we’re really in it now

Big Bird and Snuffalupagus IRL.

Okay so I just finished Going Postal and started Making Money and I realized something.

Moist’s postmaster uniform is based on a statue of of a god in Discworld that’s inspired off of how Hermes looks with the wings and gold and all that. At first I wrote it off because okay, he’s messenger to the gods, makes sense Discworld had a version of him. But then the book mentions that moist might be an avatar for that god and I remembered something and realized it went so much deeper than that.

Hermes was also the god of theives, wealth, and travel.

Moist Von Lipwig was a theif/con artist before he became the post master.

Then the second book with Moist, Lord Vetinari has him take over the Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork and the Ankh-Morpork Roayal Mint.

And in his final book, Raising Steam (which I haven’t read yet so I don’t know the details) , he’s given a job where he works for the newly invented railroad in Discworld.

Theif, Postmaster, Banker, Railroad Worker.

Theives, Messenger, Wealth, Travel.

They literally made Moist Von Lipwig a mortal of version Hermes, and this totally has to be intentional! Especially with the avatar thing!

Moist von Lipwig: “I commend my soul to any god that can find it.”

WAIT. HERMES IS A PSYCHOPOMP. HE WAS LITERALLY THE FIRST GOD THAT FOUND IT.

@zetabrarian have you read the Moist von Lipwig Discworld books?

I own them and they are on my TBR list–exactly for these reasons. :D

Thank you for thinking of me!

hang on i have to look something up

okay yes that’s clever

I love this, though, because my favorite thing about Superman is he isn’t Batman. I love Batman too, but Superman isn’t a dude who decided to live his life in pursuit of a vendetta against society when he was eight and then just did nothing for the next two decades but get super jacked, become the world’s greatest detective, and memorize every strategy used by every winner in every field of competition in history. Superman is a very good-hearted person who knows how to bale hay, use AP Stylebook, and break meteors into manageable bite-sized pieces by hitting them real hard. And I’m not saying Superman isn’t smart. He’s a bright guy, he’s just not like, one of the celebrated geniuses of the DC Universe. The best thing about Superman is he is basically a normal dude who happens to be orders of magnitude stronger than anyone else. Normal dudes have brain farts. Normal dudes are presented with a life-or-death situation they have less than four seconds to resolve and make a decision that is not optimal. Normal dudes aren’t typically asked to rescue a child from a 10,000 ton machine bearing down on him at 85mph, but if they were, they would probably sometimes panic a little and do dumb shit like ruin a train when they could have just whisked the child to safety.

I think sometimes Superman makes the wrong decision, not necessarily to the result of extreme catastrophe, but something like this, where everyone is standing around clapping and cheering and the kid’s parents are weeping in gratitude and they want to pose for a picture for the 6 o’ clock news with Superman and the conductor, and in the crowd someone is like “Why didn’t he fly the kid out of the way?” and rather than rolling with the fact that the emperor is naked his friend just says “Shut up, Drew, it’s Superman.”

And then, because I also love Batman for very different reasons, I imagine that later on the same day Bruce Wayne gets a phone call and Clark Kent is like “Hey, Wayne, I uh, need a favor.”

“Do you now.”

“Yeah, I, uh, kind of owe the Union Pacific Railroad $60,000.”

“Oh, and why’s that?”

“Come on, don’t do this to me. It was all over the news.”

“I’m prepared to write you a no-strings-attached check for the full amount on the condition that you explain your entire thought process from beginning to end.”

Anyway, that’s why I like Superman.

I think this is very accurate. One time a tree fell on me in the forest and while it would have made more sense to simply jump to the side and avoid it my idiot brain went through the fight-or-flight options and apparently chose fight, so I reached out my hand and caught the tree, then dropped it on the ground beside me. Ended up fracturing my wrist and wondering why the fuck my brain thought that was the best option for survival. I don’t think people are good at really weighing the optimal choices in moments of crisis. 

Bruce: “New Justice League policy. I am willing to pay for whatever damages you guys do in the name of justice and saving lives, but you have to write up a report detailing how the damage occured, including your thought process. Every once in a while, I will complie them into a presentation that we will go through as a whole to determine how you could have mitigated the collateral damage.”

Clark: “This is going to be a ‘name and shame’ type of thing, isn’t it?”

Bruce, lying through his teeth: “Of course not, don’t be ridiculous. This is to improve ourselves.”

The ones who admit “I don’t know what happened here” get a pass on shaming but they still get the alternative suggestions list

And on nights when he really needs a break, Bruce pulls those presentations out, watches the video, and laughs his tits off.

Forget the edgy “batman contingency: here’s how I’d kill all my friends” that’s all over YouTube Shorts, THIS is the series I want to see!

Embroidered Ties // Manaki Designs on Etsy

i read the hobbit in 3rd grade and i thought it was really lame. however i liked bilbo baggins for some reason and i was fully convinced he was some sort of rabbit/mouse thing until i saw the lotr movies and was really, really confused

wait what? the fuck? this is the first time I'm hearing about this. christians have a Make New Minecraft World event?

man what the fuck?

Like I've said before they believe the Antichrist will take over the world specifically by creating world peace and paradise so that everyone will trust him as a global dictator. This is why they called Obama the antichrist, because he said he wanted to end war. They believe the world is meant to fall into ruin and anyone planning to end violence or poverty is working for the devil.

Out of all the wild mystical opportunities americans choose the ugliest most penitential self-loathing-infused narcissistic nightmare, starve and beat it in the garage and turn it loose on the world

American Evangelical Fundamentalist Christianity is literally a death cult.

me reading this.

BTW, this is one of the reasons people mask up at protests.

The cops are gathering data on who you are, and they are preparing to intimidate you.

for the love of everything that is good and nice DON'T DO THIS

Please do not do this! I'm happy to talk about 'what ifs' or 'what happens next' even if I can't write a whole fic but PLEASE don't put any fics into AI!

#i'm so exhausted#fic being scraped off ao3 by bots is bad enough#readers actually FEEDING fic into AI is breaking my actual heart#DO NOT EVER FEED FIC INTO AI WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S PERMISSION#99.999% of authors are THRILLED to discuss AUs for their fics#the 'what ifs'#the 'missing scenes'#the possible alternate outcomes#JUST ASK THE AUTHOR TO CHAT WITH YOU ABOUT THIS#most of us would cry with joy if you gave us the chance to ramble about our fics!#DO NOT FEED MY FICS TO AI PLEASE I BEG YOU -@cicerfics

the statue in the bottom right is Le génie du mal, carved by guillame geefs to replace a different lucifer (known as either Le génie du mal or L’ange du mal) carved by his younger brother. why did joseph geefs’ lucifer get removed from the cathedral? it was too sexy. the statue was too sexy by far.

st. paul’s cathedral in liége went from one lucifer, whom they called ‘too sublime’ and removed because he was distracting ‘pretty penitent girls,’ to another lucifer, who they’ve left there for 170 years even though he’s so hot that satanists visit the cathedral to meditate in the presence of this Most Sexy Of Lucifers

here’s how i imagine that went down.

liege cathedral: hmm. you know what we need? a nice satan for our church. let’s ask joey geefs

joseph geefs: sculpts this

liege cathedral: no!! too hot!! now we all want to fuck lucifer! we need a different satan. let’s ask… the sexy lucifer sculptor’s BROTHER. yes. willy geefs is older so he definitely doesn’t want to fuck lucifer

guillaume geefs, who DOES want to fuck lucifer, and the only sign of his being older than his brother is that the lucifer he wants to fuck is somewhat older: sculpts this

liege cathedral: shit. well we don’t have any more money for lucifers so i guess we’ll keep this sexy lucifer

mlm, straight girls, and satanists in the vicinity of liege: NICE

Oh, so twitter is DEAD dead

By intention, no less.

per the Emerald Boyking (whose picture I have thoughtfully cut in half, you are welcome)

I don’t LIKE this happening but it is amazing HOW it is

This too is yuri

diversity win! these birds that hate eachother are transgender

ATTENTION FELLOW FREAKS:

Musk just said that unverified users will only be allowed to view 600 tweets a day before being rate limited, so everyone should get ready to welcome some new tumblr neighbours

Is that why it's down right now?? Or is that incidental to some other bullshit

like intellectual disability much more than just social but social is impact even without autism because … have problems learn things and problems understand and problems follow . of course that will make social hard .

even autism people always always always expect for gwydion learn social rules - even if different autism rules and not " normal " ones - but still could not do that !

look . when gwydion brain focus on something and want talk about that , there is , nothing else can say . not something that can try harder to be polite . not something that choose do because self obsess and hate listen .

brain get on one track , and , that is only track want ride until brain choose is done now . can do best listen and have conversation with people , but , sometimes can not help if brain do not stop talk talk talk about same thing about self . and need for others know that is not try be rude thing , that if try interrupt and make listen , that just make for sure will not be able follow . need let brain follow path until tired , so that can able listen back .

and even after brain done focus on own stuff , still have really hard time change topic and say lots , answers often short , like exclamations and smile faces . not mean not interest , but , take time for brain understand and process new topic , figure out how feel and what want say . sometimes person say something , and only have " real answer " 10 minutes or 30 minutes or even hours after say .

these , is things people not want understand . decide these make rude and weird and should go away never have any friends . people always say break social rules make people uncomfortable but never never never explain why . hurt until meltdown then say is rude for tell to go away shut up .

and know . yes sometimes really done things wrong . but many more times , is people not understand these important things , pretend to self that rude on purpose . and in all all all case not help to just say done something wrong and never say what !!!

see more and more “entire life told/thought i high function but actually am just very high support need” (autism context) and get more and more annoy at that

everytime see everytime click into page and everytime realize by “very high support” (yes see multiple include the “very”) they mean comorbid anxiety depression cptsd trouble make friends because people think “weird” bullied lose speech need remind shower need remind things (but able do and if no remind after a while will do) trouble school trouble job etc am forget.

and all that hard struggle yes no deny. deserve all the help and am not say it easy.

but it not “very high support need.” not even “high support need.” have higher need than what nondisabled neurotypical society expect you to is not “high support need.” yes, know many people do this because want validate self and past and trauma. but. not need be high support to be valid or to receive support. not need be high support for past trauma & past neglect & past not get support to be valid.

and. it water down definition of “high support need.” kick actual high support need out. us who extra vulnerable because need physical help most or all bADLs. need constant 24/7 supervision to be alive to not accidental harm self or die. need medical services for stuff people (include these people) take for granted, like just be able communicate, walk (yes many high support need autistic people struggle with that even without specific physical disability dx), feeding, etc. no awareness of self or other people or surroundings or danger. need 24/7 behavioral support. experience explosive emotions that even terrify self self no understand and cannot control behavior so destructive. many very high support, if not get support they literally die. not exaggerate. that how high of support they need.

(and even debate about whether should write this list. because. unless you high support yourself or experience these same amount yourself or close to someone who is or give care for them, very high chance you not get degree of symptom am talk about. plenty autistic struggle emotional regulation, for example. some struggle with severe intense lose control explosive behavior, include some level 1s. but unless you experience it self or read lot lot lot lot about & by people who do, found that average person include average autism community person not know what am mean by explosive emotion.)

it not “gatekeeping” or “call fake.” it me get frustrate at people misuse medical term that used describe extremely vulnerable population, who rely on other people to keep basic alive, many us have trouble or have limited language communication or have none at all, we need keep medical term describe us because many us cannot explain cannot list you our support need, either because long or private or make us feel awful or literal no communication/intellectual ability.

by validate self you harming us. “well it just one person identify themself not affect you [eye roll].” no, not just one person. but even if just one person, people around them see, and think, oh, that high support need, that very high support need, am educated. and that spread. and actual high support need people like am describe are ignored people don’t think they exist.

please. talk about own experience. no matter “there people more struggle than me.” am not say cannot. am not say “look at these actual struggles yours mild shut up.” it autism spectrum, there spectrum of experience. there more than “no support need” vs “high support need.” there things in middle. even low support need—that just mean low compare to other autistics. not “your support need your trauma not important.”

but please. remember us. leave our terms alone.

never let the haters get to you