No, but this is actually crazy in the most dystopian sense.

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Some of yall repost with the funniest fucking shit and i cant even reply back what is this hell-

I think that 2023 is a good time for many of us, and allies in particular, to practice again the dying art of minding our own fucking business when it comes to the identities and lives of other people.

You see someone from one of your classes in a public place with a different gender presentation/expression than they typically have? Mind your own business.

You discover that one of your coworkers is in a same gender relationship, but they aren't out at work? Not your place to share that information in the workplace.

You notice that your neighbor in a red state takes a road trip across state lines with their transgender child every 3-6 months? No you fucking didn't.

You overhear students in your classroom using a different name and different pronouns for one student than you are used to using? If you live in a state hostile to trans rights, pretend that you don't know anything about this and report nothing.

You suspect that an acquaintance of yours might be gay, but they deny it when asked directly? Leave them the fuck alone.

One of your friends refuses to publicly label their sexuality? Good for them, you aren't entitled to that information anyway.

Your sibling comes out to you as questioning, but isn't comfortable sharing that with your parents yet? Keep your fucking mouth shut.

Don't out people; coming out is a personal choice not a moral obligation. Don't demand personal information about other people's sexuality or sex lives. You aren't entitled to information about anyone's gender identity, assigned gender at birth, or transition.

Bring back privacy, allow people to have control over the information that is shared about them publicly; it might save their job, their housing, their parental rights and their child's safety, or even save lives.

pros of corded headphones:

cons of corded headphones:

glad this was a hit with corded headphone users

i just think itd be funny if kittypets were a little more familiar to twoleg things such as: cars and bad words

I haven’t reblogged something related to Warrior cats since like 2012 but this is fucking hilarious

There's a handful of notes on this going "well fuck you, do you know how hard it is to BE the speaker and not have anyone greet you?" and uh, yes, yes I do, because I did those stupid ass soft skills/resilience/insert other assorted nonsense workshops for schools for a living for a while, and I still agree with this.

The key to being an effective speaker is the ability to understand your audience. You need to understand people in order to build a rapport with them. And you need to build a rapport with them in order to effectively guide them from where they are, to where you need them to be.

So. Here is the situation from the perspective of the audience: this random person, whom they have never met before and do not care about, is being paid by employers/school powers that be to come speak on a thing. In other words, the speaker is the one benefitting from being there. Meanwhile, the audience has likely been ordered to be there, for no immediate, tangible benefit in return. It is early in the morning, they are sleep-deprived and under-caffeinated, they have a shit ton of stuff on their to-do list, they are unconvinced whatever the speaker is going to say is going to be of any use or relevance whatsoever, and so they see this talk as a waste of time that they could instead be spending on sleep or at least finishing off things that are actually necessary for work/school. And now this rando, whom I repeat, is supposed to be the service provider, whose presence is already a pain, is asking for even more effort on the audience's part by asking them to smile and be chipper. All before saying a single other word that might convince said audience that they are going to get any benefit whatsoever out of being there. Fuck that.

You gotta understand, you are not some rock star that people are already invested in and actively want to see. Those get to do the "scream! I can't hear you! LOUDER!" thing. The fact of the matter is, you are probably someone your audience has no interest in seeing, and until you give them a reason for wanting to be there, you cannot ask them for even more emotional effort. That's not going to endear them to you.

I am by no means a particularly great speaker, but I can tell you now that I have gotten far more immediate rapport and engagement by simply going "hello hello, morning, how is everyone?" and then when I get the predictably unenthusiastic mass groaning and grumbling, and unenergetic "morning"s back in return, replying "heh, big mood. It's final project season innit; how sleep deprived are y'all? --yeouch, intense, well I'll try my best to keep this as painless as I possibly can; I'm here today to talk about--" etc etc. Simple, sympathetic, and while it's not the most energetic and enthusiastic thing in the world, it puts me on "their" side and opens a connection that I can build on for the rest of the talk, instead of instantly making my audience feel 10x more tired and hostile.

If you are not a speaker being paid to be there, but are instead someone giving a presentation for an assignment or presenting a paper or whatever, then I've found that being sincere and a little self-deprecating, possibly just a tiny bit vulnerable works pretty well: "Oh god, so full disclosure, I don't speak very often and I'm sweating bullets right now, and also I tend to babble like a bullet train when I'm nervous so if at any point you cannot understand me please ask me to slow down, but I have a thing I need to present, and I think it's pretty cool, and hopefully you do too." Your audience has probably been in your shoes before, and are now inclined to be nice to you out of sympathy.

In both cases, it's about understanding your listeners and where you stand in relation to them and using that to build that initial connection. You cannot demand connection; it never fucking works.

a scooby-doo origin story where Daphne, Fred, Velma, and Shaggy are all serving detention together and none of them (save for maybe Fred and Daphne) have ever really talked before, but they talk in detention. they have fun, they're bonding, it's a real Breakfast Club situation, and as detention ends they're walking home and they see a dog digging through the garbage of a local restaurant

he's big, but he seems sweet and he's obviously hungry, so the gang approaches him to see if he has a collar. Shaggy manages to get to him first, and the dog immediately takes to him, giving him a big dog kiss and cuddling up to him, but the dog seems to like all of them

upon finding he doesn't have a collar, Shaggy, scratching behind his ears, rhetorically asks, "What's your name, buddy?"

and the dog answers, "Scooby-Dooby-Doo!"

after a minute of freaking the FUCK out and asking each other "y'all heard that, right?" the kids decide to take the dog (who they immediately start calling Scooby-Doo, Scoob, or Scooby for short) home, and find that not only can the dog talk, he displays human-level intelligence and is easily frightened. when they ask where he came from, he doesn't seem to know, but when they walk past an old, abandoned shopping complex on the edge of town, he completely freaks out...and there are weird noises coming from that complex at night....and some suspicious sightings....

the first mystery they investigate together is the mystery of what in God's name is going on here

@imdefnotvanessa thank you for giving me indirect permission to talk more <3

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A little mockup of Sari using the twst character sheet! 

Sari’s just built for Ignihyde, she would be the only one who could even come close to beating Ortho in video games lol

(source for the sheet, edited by me)

Brain spat out "Zhongli Predacon" and here we are.

Once one of the mighty Predacons, and closer to the other Cybertronian races than most of his kind, he managed to escape the insanity and death of his fellows with his shielding abilities (and by following the rest of the Cybertronians underground). He later reawakened from stasis to a world devoid of his kind, and decided to just quietly blend in among them to live out the rest of his life, making a living by performing funeral rites for the fallen. Like there was no one left to do for his brethren.

Occasionally someone will become cognizant of the fact that they've never actually seen his vehicle mode, but he's gotten very good at coming up with interesting conversation topics to distract people from that train of thought.

(The two other bots in the second image are my ocs lol)

before going to bed i wanna post this here

i came across an account that had reposted my art without permission. there were two videos that featured my art, both of them having more likes than the original (one of them getting 10k likes.)

this is the account. looking at their other videos it looks like they have also reposted other people's art that i am assuming that they never asked permission for either.

honestly i dont know how to deal with these things and i dont know what to do, i just hope that the reposter sees my comments and deletes the videos

A friendly note for the Danny Phantom Phandom

With A Glitch In Time coming out, the Phandom is seeing new, GOOD, content for the first time in a long time.

New content brings in new people.

These people do not know Phandom conventions. Heck, even people who've been around a while but just haven't jumped into the deep end don't know a lot of conventions.

This includes people who come in and see DPxDC crossover content and want to be involved.

Passive-aggressive posts about how people "need to follow the agreed-upon rules" about posting and tagging are just going to make people feel guilty about posting "wrong" and not feel like they're welcome to join in and interact. Please be patient with people just joining in, or coming back from a long time away. Not everyone is in the Discord or wants to be in the Discord.

For those who ARE new or who want to know why there's apparently a "right" way to tag Danny Phantom and DC crossovers:

There is a lot of dpxdc content. So much that it clogs up the normal tags like "dp", "dc", "danny phantom", etc.

So, a general fandom consensus has been agreed upon that such crossover content should be tagged dpxdc (and/or dcxdp), and not the general fandom-only tags, to help keep from clogging people's tag tracking.

Note: you do need to make the tag without spaces for it not to show up in the other tags.

Wow there’s some fucking bullshit going on in the replies here. Moderate your fucking spaces on the internet, kick racists and other bad actors to the kerb or you risk losing everyone else. This guy has the right of it (scroll up to top).

Quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices

For anyone who can’t/won’t read that twitter thread, it’s by Michael B. Tager (@IamRageSparkle) and it says: 

I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, “no. get out.”

And the dude next to me says, “hey i’m not doing anything, i’m a paying customer.” and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, “out. now.” and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed

Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, “you didn’t see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them.” And i was like, ohok and he continues.

“you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it’s always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don’t want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too.

And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it’s too late because they’re entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down.

And i was like, ‘oh damn.’ and he said “yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people.” And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven’t forgotten that at all.

[ID: Screenshot of a tweet from @/AmazonChique that reads ‘Pathfinder FB fan group banned all racist members. The next week, they saw a drop in harassing & threatening posts of ALL kinds. From the mod: “I encourage every community to quit thinking you need to be fair to unfair voices. Get the rot out and you’ll have a healthier community” End ID]

Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty And peace treaties are not unilateral. They have obligations running in both directions.

You are not bound to tolerate people who have a stated intent to not tolerate you. Nor should you tolerate people who have a stated intent to not tolerate people who are tolerating you.

Thank you for sharing this everyone, for image IDing and all of it, thank you.

Tolerance is not a moral absolute; it is a peace treaty

Tolerance is not

a moral absolute; it

is a peace treaty

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Gooooood morning everyone! And happy clown week!

Alright hear me out, a kirby au but everything is normal. Kirby just goes to an ordinary school.

Being a black woman is always being made to feel insecure about your hair no matter how you choose to wear it

It's too nappy if you wear it natural, If your hair is short it's because you're too "bald headed" to grow your hair out. If you wear a natural wig with a different curl pattern than your own you're trying to trick people or you must secretly wish you were mixed. If you're hair is blonde you secretly wish you were white this goes double if you wear straight hair. If you wear dreads you're unprofessional. Colorful weaves? Same problem plus you're ghetto now.

There can be powerful discussions about yes blk woman are often ridiculed from a young age and end up assimilating (usually bc of our parents) to wear weaves and perms this is a consequence of white supremacy and misogyny. The solution is not- for the whole world to make us dammed if we do or damnned If we don't.

The solution is actually to shut the fuck up

do you all remember in the early 2010s where people were talking about freeing the nipple and that mixed-gender sports should become a thing and the removal of period tax and all of that and then some people realised that would mean trans people too ans they instantly decided to revert to bioessentialism 101 and now i have to see grating sentences like Well maybe jeopardy should be gender-segregated because males have a biological advantage in pressing a button

I wrote a YA virtual reality isekai with a transfem protagonist, a sapphic romance subplot, and tons of non-binary representation. I got into writing to tell stories that were gay as hell, and I’m going to keep writing to do that.

Bracket 2, Round 3

We've conquered the rat, but we're not losing to pizza either.

Vehicon Steve! Vehicon Steve! Vehicon Steve!

What able bodied authors think I, an amputee and a wheelchair user, would want in a scifi setting:

What I actually want: