Your fat body is not a placeholder for a "better" you. It IS you. And you deserve love and respect NOW.
we have to stop moralizing the human condition and start jerking each other off while making out
I have had so many bad takes on this post and not only is this a breath of fresh air, I’m gonna kiss you for it, you get me
obsessed with the way my robotics team lead talks
she’s reinventing hieroglyphics
Speaking of fanfiction.net, did you know that while it was seven years ago and therefore obviously well out of date (though given the declining traffic over the past few years, that's not the biggest issue), some insane person (positive) on archive.org managed to do the unthinkable and archive a full snapshot of the site despite its infamous unarchivability; I didn't until I went looking for if anyone had good tips on downloading from there easily and found a reddit thread from 2016. It's here. So while I continue to fret about how goddamn difficult archiving the website in full will ever be when it inevitably collapses on us randomly, at the very least we have a snapshot of it as of 2016, in fact.
in case you were wondering why we haven't just done this again, the original re-pack is described as follows:
in the latest cyber-news: the internet archive has lost their case against 4 major publishing houses (verge article). they’re going to appeal, but this is still a bad outcome. the fate of the internet is currently hanging in the balance because 4 multibillionare publishing groups missed out on like $15 of combined revenue during the pandemic because of the archive’s online library service. it’s so fucking stupid.
for those who don’t know what the internet archive is, it’s a virtual library full of media. books, magazines, recordings, visuals, flash games, websites - a lot of these things either don’t exist anymore or cannot be found & bought. heard of the wayback machine? that’s part of the internet archive. it is the most important website to exist, and i don’t say that lightly. if the internet archive goes down, the cultural loss will be immeasurable.
so how can you help?
- boycott the publishing companies involved in this. they’re absolute ghouls, frankly, and don’t deserve a penny. the companies involved are harpercollins (imprints), wiley (imprints), penguin random house llc (imprints), and hachette book group (imprints). make sure the websites are set to your location as it may differ worldwide.
- learn to torrent. download a torrent client (i recommend transmission), a vpn (i recommend protonvpn - sign up and choose the area that’s closest to your continent/country), and hit up /r/piracy on reddit for websites. with torrenting, you can get (almost) any media you want for free in high quality, with add-ons such as subtitles, and with no risks of loss. i would also recommend getting into the habit of watching stuff online for free. the less you can pay to a giant corporation, the better.
- get into the habit of downloading and archiving materials. find a TB external hard drive, ideally the higher the better. it’ll probably cost around $60 for 1TB and continue to go up, but they’re so so useful. if you can’t afford a drive, look for any GB harddrives or memory sticks you have lying around and just fill them up. videos, pdfs, magazines, songs, movies, games - anything you can rip and download and fit on there, do it, because nothing is permanent.
- donate to the internet archive. this is the most important option on the list. the IA relies entirely on funding, and it’s going to need more to fight this case. whatever you can donate, do it. i promise it’s helpful.
and finally…
im so fucking serious when i say that no one is crueler to visibly disabled people than girlies with blue wolfcuts and sharp eyeliner wearing hundred dollar sweaters from shein.
like. there's a weird misconception that it's old people, but i have never once had an issue with anyone over the age of, like, 55. they are fine with me muttering to myself or making weird faces or not hearing them the first five times they call my name. that's not a problem for them. when my brother goes out with a cane, they're the ones who compliment it, and tell him the spikes and ribbons are a cute addition.
yesterday this pink haired girl in the bathroom told me that i needed to stay away from movie theaters if i was going to act like a schizo. ten minutes later an 80 year old woman complimented me on my bright red hearing aids and said she wished she had that confidence when she got hers.
anyways to the anon who just said that maybe i shouldn't be in public spaces. thank you for proving my point
no offense but if you're autistic or adhd and you're thinking of adding on your story, i very much cannot stop you, but i beg of you to remember this post was about psychosis and physical disabilities. there's a problem with people taking over posts about physical and more stigmatized disorders and making them about autism and adhd
it's kind of nuts how many people on here say they are critical of America, but retain these impossibly strong American puritanical values.
I've talked to so many liberals who were horrified by the idea of communal baths and freak out when I talk about going to Korean bath houses or a nudist hot springs where gasp, children can see naked bodies of all genders. Like, you are the weirdos if you think grandma's tits are an issue, that's you problem my American friends.
Nudity is not inherently sexual and sexual things are not inherently bad. In fact, seeing a bunch of naked old people growing up probably helped me resist the ubiquitous problem of body issues as a teenage girl. If you see enough saggy ass you realize we're all headed to the same place and also secondarily, if you watch them playing naked volley ball you also no longer afraid to die.
actually gonna cry reading about the guy who created miffy he looks so jolly
[image 1: a photo of dick bruna sitting on a chair, holding three different miffy plushies. he is a senior white man with grey hair and a mustache. he looks very happy.
image 2: text reading, “He would start each day by drawing a little picture for his wife Irene, of something related to her day, such as a visit to the doctor or a game of bridge. He told the”. the text cuts off there. /end description]
Pride needs more fun activities that you can enjoy while drinking or sober. There should be ring toss booths and ski ball and other carnival type stuff.
Pride already has such a fun county fair energy we should lean into that
NEVER try to make a post meant to be reblogged on a specific day. Worst mistake of my life.
Happy Specific Day Sunday
Just a PSA that tumblr monitors our messages for explicit content.
I cannot see anywhere in the guidelines that states messages, only posts. Is that even allowed?
This email is a reply from my appeal, but even the termination email doesn’t state it.
signal boosting
this obviously sucks and is worth being upset about, but also reminder to treat any unencrypted online communication as being subject to monitoring by both corporations and the state.
The fact that NSFW PRIVATE MESSAGES aren't even allowed is ridiculous. It is also ridiculous that they give us an "adult content filter" then basically shoot you if you use it like??? Why did they even bother.
LGBTQ+ Pride in New York City, 1994
For the 25th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots in 1994, flag creator Gilbert Baker was commissioned to make the world’s largest flag. The flag took months of planning and work done by teams of volunteers. The flag utilized the basic six colors of the rainbow and measured thirty feet wide by a mile long.
zelda AU where all the things i like are in it and all the things i don't like aren't in it
the gerudo are no longer weirdly sexualized & their bizarre gender thing is changed into like. just having kinds of gender Expression that read as "they're all women" to people with Hylian expectations of gender but there's actually like 4 gerudo genders. the "one male every 100 years" thing is now "gerudo are long-lived like the zora and the traditional presentation expected of political leaders looks a lot like what Hylians think of as masculine"
also wouldn't it be cool if goron physiology was different based on what kind of minerals are in the area they live in. imagine ruby gorons
Feeling brave today I’ll release the gay laios comic