oh one more thing for new artists coming over here: PLEASE have a "my art"/"[username] art/doodles/whatever" tag so people can go through and find your work!! pretty please i want to see it all and rb it

genuinely enjoying seeing all the artists in the notes letting people know what their art tags are! another tip is you can put that tag in your pinned & tag it there as well for easy access

Can all the tumblr homosexuals agree to stop buying chick fil a. It's so depressing that across the board lgbt people and supporters are indifferent to chick fil a and feel fine buying it. Can we at least stigmatize it here

For those who actually like chick fil a sauce and refuse to boycott because of that:

It's ranch dressing, honey mustard, and barbecue sauce. Now free yourself

Fuck Chick-fil-A. That homophobic chicken isn't even that good, y'all are literally simping over chicken that tastes like it was made at a White cookout

The sauce:

The chicken (deep fried):

Air fryer version:

Fresh lemonade:

Lemonade milkshake:

Whatever thing you love at chikfila you can make yourself fairly trivially (if! you are able to cook! which I know not everyone can).

Simply look for a "copycat recipe" for the item, eg, "chikfila copycat chicken recipe."

There are literally thousands of extremely dedicated food bloggers out there who have long ago perfected there at home versions of stuff.

lol

This is fucking hilarious

pls god where is the fourth of julie goodbye 2007 hello 2008

dear dire

SVSSS vol.3,ch.18 English edition. “This isn’t the first time we’ve done this, so why is Shizun still so unaccustomed? Then how about we do it a couple more times and get you used to it slowly?”~Luo Binghe

Okay so we have this rusty old thing in our one flower bed that would make an awful noise when you turned it and Buck Buck absolutely hated the sound of it, freaking out every time, wanting to somehow fight it??? Anyway, I haven’t turned the Sphere of Rage for several years now and figured I’d see if it can still work its great and terrible magic.

Oh My God

I love how he runs past the other chicken like OUT MY WAY BITCH I’M ‘BOUT TO FIGHT

i assumed Buck Buck was the one in the foreground but NOPE.

Your chicken’s name is Buck Buck

What’s the other chickens name I must know

Skyler

“AFTER YEARS OF SILENCE, THE SCREECHING ORB AWAKENS AGAIN. I MUST DEFEND MY LAND, AND MY PEOPLE”

HI, CAN U HEAR ME? U WON’T BELIEVE WHERE I ENDED UP

Heyo guess what I found at the bird park?

a bird?

Weird looking bird. Anyone got an ID?

Happy 1 year gotcha day to truly the strangest bird I've ever met.

HAPPY SECOND GOTCHA DAY TO GRAVY!!! He now lives in a different state with my dad and little siblings but today is his day!!

I love you so much Gravy happy gotcha day 🥹

me: *sees the fourth gifset of independence day on my dash today*

me: *checks date*

me: oh, its their day

sincerely so sorry we're like this I cannot believe people are still celebrating anything we have going on as a country

@spinnerofink I cannot believe people are celebrating anything we have going on as a country EXCEPT YOUR BIRTHDAY HAPPY BIRTH 🎊🎂🥳

@parrot-parent please... do you have a picture of Gravy...

A general cane guide for writers and artists (from a cane user, writer, and artist!)

Disclaimer: Though I have been using a cane for 6 years, I am not a doctor, nor am I by any means an expert. This guide is true to my experience, but there are as many ways to use a cane as there are cane users!

This guide will not include: White canes for blindness, crutches, walkers, or wheelchairs as I have no personal experience with these.

This is meant to be a general guide to get you started and avoid some common mishaps/misconceptions, but you absolutely should continue to do your own research outside of this guide!

The biggest recurring problem I've seen is using the cane on the wrong side. The cane goes on the opposite side of the pain! If your character has even-sided pain or needs it for balance/weakness, then use the cane in the non-dominant hand to keep the dominant hand free. Some cane users also switch sides to give their arm a rest!

A cane takes about 20% of your weight off the opposite leg. It should fit within your natural gait and become something of an extension of your body. If you need more weight off than 20%, then crutches, a walker, or a wheelchair is needed.

Putting more pressure on the cane, using it on the wrong side, or having it at the wrong height will make it less effective, and can cause long term damage to your body from improper pressure and posture. (Hugh Laurie genuinely hurt his body from years of using a cane wrong on House!)

(an animated GIF of a cane matching the natural walking gait. It turns red when pressure is placed on it.)

When going up and down stairs, there is an ideal standard: You want to use the handrail and the cane at the same time, or prioritize the handrail if it's only on one side. When going up stairs you lead with your good leg and follow with the cane and hurt leg together. When going down stairs you lead with the cane, then the good leg, and THEN the leg that needs help.

Realistically though, many people don't move out of the way for cane users to access the railing, many stairs don't have railings, and many are wet, rusty, or generally not ideal to grip.

In these cases, if you have a friend nearby, holding on to them is a good idea. Or, take it one step at a time carefully if you're alone.

Now we come to a very common mistake I see... Using fashion canes for medical use!

(These are 4 broad shapes, but there is INCREDIBLE variation in cane handles. Research heavily what will be best for your character's specific needs!)

The handle is the contact point for all the weight you're putting on your cane, and that pressure is being put onto your hand, wrist, and shoulder. So the shape is very important for long term use!

Knob handles (and very decorative handles) are not used for medical use for this reason. It adds extra stress to the body and can damage your hand to put constant pressure onto these painful shapes.

The weight of a cane is also incredibly important, as a heavier cane will cause wear on your body much faster. When you're using it all day, it gets heavy fast! If your character struggles with weakness, then they won't want a heavy cane if they can help it!

This is also part of why sword canes aren't usually very viable for medical use (along with them usually being knob handles) is that swords are extra weight!

However, a small knife or perhaps a retractable blade hidden within the base might be viable even for weak characters.

Bases have a lot of variability as well, and the modern standard is generally adjustable bases. Adjustable canes are very handy if your character regularly changes shoe height, for instance (gotta keep the height at your hip!)

Canes help on most terrain with their standard base and structure. But for some terrain, you might want a different base, or to forego the cane entirely! This article covers it pretty well.

Many cane users decorate their canes! Stickers are incredibly common, and painting canes is relatively common as well! You'll also see people replacing the standard wrist strap with a personalized one, or even adding a small charm to the ring the strap connects to. (nothing too large, or it gets annoying as the cane is swinging around everywhere)

(my canes, for reference)

If your character uses a cane full time, then they might also have multiple canes that look different aesthetically to match their outfits!

When it comes to practical things outside of the cane, you reasonably only have one hand available while it's being used. Many people will hook their cane onto their arm or let it dangle on the strap (if they have one) while using their cane arm, but it's often significantly less convenient than 2 hands. But, if you need 2 hands, then it's either setting the cane down or letting it hang!

For this reason, optimizing one handed use is ideal! Keeping bags/items on the side of your free hand helps keep your items accessible.

When sitting, the cane either leans against a wall or table, goes under the chair, or hooks onto the back of the chair. (It often falls when hanging off of a chair, in my experience)

When getting up, the user will either use their cane to help them balance/support as they stand, or get up and then grab their cane. This depends on what it's being used for (balance vs pain when walking, for instance!)

That's everything I can think of for now. Thank you for reading my long-but-absolutely-not-comprehensive list of things to keep in mind when writing or drawing a cane user!

Happy disability pride month! Go forth and make more characters use canes!!!

Happy Jeremy Bearimy Day!

Anyway if you see this you have to reblog and tag with a delight from ur day -- even the littlest thing counts

this is the cutest thing i've listened to in my entire life !!!!

john green quit tumblr because of the cock monologue

No, he didn’t.

This all happened a long time ago, and my memory is imperfect, but here’s my memory: The cock monologue certainly hurt my feelings! But when people are trying to force someone out of a virtual space, they sometimes resort to behavior that is similar to bullying except it’s not completely identical to bullying because the person they’re making fun of has a lot of power. (As someone who got bullied a lot in school, the feeling was similar in 2014 but it wasn’t identical–because I was aware of the fact that I was okay, that what was in danger was certain aspects of my identity/self-value that I treasured but not my entire personhood itself.)

Anyway, it hurt my feelings, and still hurts my feelings when I see it shared (it feels to me like a joke about my sexuality, although I understand other people don’t see it that way; but yeah, you don’t know much about my sexuality and I don’t really want you to but it feels like a joke about that to me, which just bums me out). 

But all of that stuff is a side effect of my job and having been successful at it, and I like my job. It is a great job. All jobs have aspects that suck. My job has fewer such aspects than other jobs I’ve had.

So yeah, I did not quit tumblr because of the cock monologue. (I also did not ask tumblr to make reblogs un-editable.) .

I quit tumblr because a few people started to make extremely specific threats. One might, for instance, send me an ask that featured a google streetview screenshot of my home and tell me which window they were going to break into because they figured that’s where the master bedroom was, and how they shoot me in both knees before shooting me in the head. (The window they focused on was in fact the window to my son’s room.)

I was super scared of these people (or possible person pretending to be a few people?) because they seemed to have a lot of knowledge about me and my family. We lived in a normal middle-class neighborhood in Indianapolis and I felt very exposed and nervous all the time in my real life, and that’s why I quit tumblr.

I SHOULD’VE quit tumblr much earlier–I needed to realize that people at the time weren’t comfortable with me in their virtual spaces and that to them I came across as cringey or even creepy, but at the time, I wasn’t nearly self-aware enough to quite for any of those reasons, and plus there was a lot of pressure from movie studios etc to stay on the social Internet so I could continue to promote my books and the stuff around them. So I didn’t quit when I should’ve, and as a result had and caused quite a few negative experiences for people. I’m sorry about the role I had in causing those negative experiences. I should’ve had a better understanding of not just how I experienced myself but also how other people might experience me. That’s something i’ve worked on over the years but still come up short on sometimes.

At any rate, I might delete this later because it makes me feel a bit like all my nerves are exposed to the air but I did just want to clarify that the, like, Tumblr Legend of this whole thing is at minimum a bit over simplified. 

Evansville Press, Indiana, February 5, 1912

it’s a leap yeap

SON: May I speak? MOTHER: You may not. SON: But I have just cause to do so. MOTHER: But you do not have the right. SON: I can tell you have vex coursing through your veins at this point in time, mother, but I want you to know that what I did was a lesson that needed to be taught. MOTHER: And pray tell, you forlorn fledgling, what lesson is learnt by breaking your brother’s tablet? SON: That the world is cruel, harsh, savage - MOTHER: Those adjectives are best suited for you, brood of mine. SON: Speak louder, mother, my ears are burning. MOTHER: Oh, continue your teachings, boy, I’m finding them most enthralling. SON: As I was saying before I was so abruptly heckled, the world is meant for teachings of desolation. Whether the lesson be taught by the almighty hand of fate, some supreme being, or by someone who didn’t want their essence taken by a camera. MOTHER: Ha! SON: The seminar that I indoctrinated was an important one, mother. MOTHER: Are you talking about ‘this’ picture? SON: How on earth did you get that? MOTHER: The cloud that me and your brother share knows all. It was saved onto our family Billo before you terminated the tablet… Oh, no, boy, this shall remain with this family forever as a constant reminder of your wrongdoings unto your brother. SON: I performed wrongdoings unto him?! … Inverse that statement, mother, then you have the truth in front of you! MOTHER: He wronged you? SON: HE LAUGHED AT MY DISTORTED IMAGE. MOTHER: Me and your father laughed heartily at it too, boy. SON: Father knows?! MOTHER: Father knows, yes … and he has already started the shipment of Christmas cards. SON: AHH! You’re showing the masses? MOTHER: Be grateful that I did not show them the annihilated tablet. Let that fall on the noble men and women who are trying to right the wrongs that you performed unto the tablet, your brother, and your kinsfolk. SON: If they restore it, I shall lay it to waste once again. MOTHER: Then the image shall be sent for birthdays. SON: AND AGAIN! MOTHER: THE JUBILEE! SON: AAND AGAIN!! MOTHER: AT THE RRRAPTURE! SON: There won’t be laughing amongst the assemblage, mother! MOTHER: Oh? SON: There will be charges brought amongst you for mistreating a minor! MOTHER: There shall be laughing, boy, and perhaps I should start now, don’t you agree? Ah-ha, yes, very good! SON: Discontinue! MOTHER: Yes, yes, very amusing, yes! SON: CONCLUDE THIS! MOTHER: Ha Ha! The mirth I am experiencing is considerable in size. SON: CEEEAAAASSSE!!!

SON: Stop laughing! MOTHER: Sorry, you are very bad for breaking you brother’s iPad. SON: But he made me look stupid. MOTHER: It does look a bit funny though. SON: MUUMM!