you heard of "hating female characters for traits people would find interesting and morally grey in male characters", now get ready for "calling female characters annoying for traits they would consider interesting or quirky in a male character" and its twin sibling "accusing a female character of 'holding grudges' and 'being selfish/unforgiving' over something that people would consider 'traumatised' and 'still feeling hurt' in a male character"
I just remembered I forgot to water the seedlings in the greenhouse so I went back outside, and I was too lazy to look for the small watering can for seedlings at this hour so I just knelt down near the fish tank and took some water in my cupped hands and started tossing it towards the seedling tray on the table behind me
—only the fish are starting to be very friendly by now, as soon as they see me they come wriggling happily to say hi and check if I have a little insect or some other snack to give them, and suddenly I found myself accidentally catching a friendly little fish in my cupped hands and throwing it in the air behind me. I literally realised what I was doing as I was doing it
I have bad reflexes usually but this time I jumped up and flailed around desperately and managed to catch the little guy mid-flight!!!!
The fish was very confused but unharmed 😭
(sorry for the poor stick drawings, I felt I could not adequately convey our mutual jolt of surprise and terror with words)
pictures in " nonverbal emoji " style . one say nonverbal is not temporary . other say nonverbal tag is not for emojis . end pictures .
maybe if put this way in pictures that make people listen .
please please please stop use word nonverbal at all when post emojis !!! just make flood search and can not find each other actually discuss socialise anything . is not help nonverbal people to make impossible find anything relevant . if want emoji would search emoji , when search nonverbal want actually see nonverbal people .
shaved pits make me so sad like I understand but I wish you didn't feel that way. I want you to live
you have a sickness of the soul. May you find peace
#i shave mine just because it makes them easier to clean#and i find that armpit hair can be a pain#i dont do it because of societal pressures#so i think its unfair to assume that everyone does#of course a lot of people do#but not everyone#just to be clear i fully support those who chose not to shave#its just not for me and im sire there are others who feel the same
The lack of pb&j duo content makes me crazy so I I CREATED SOME CONTENT MYSELF 💥💥💥💥 TC3ST DNI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Something that I first applied to working with children, and have applied in a limited form to working with adults: you don't need to tell someone when they read your instructions wrong. Sometimes it's enough to point out what they did right and then whatever they didn't do? You ask them to do it in more precise words, and you make it sound like it's a new request. Remarkable how fast things get done this way.
This is also a habit I built up from emergency response training. If I say "I need you to bring me a first aid kit and an accident report" and you bring me just a first aid kit, it's so much more efficient to say "thanks now can you bring me an accident report" than "I asked you to bring an accident report why didn't you bring me one".
Once you've internalized "a person bleeding out is one of the worst times to start an argument" you start to wonder what other tasks could get accomplished without arguing
This is what posting your artwork after a mutual posts a big life update feels like
Mr Janesh Part 1
Written by @piwiikiwii and illustrated by me. Italian translations provided by @andva-ri.
This is the first time Janesh debuts on my Instagram but the second time he makes an appearance on my socials! Anyone who followed me on Twitter has seen a photo or two of him. But really, JANESH belongs to Kiwi. Everyone please go over to their acc and badger her into posting more Janesh. She thinks no one will care. Well, i just made an entire comic about him, so now all of YOU will care. Go. Go forth.
<- The Car, Next
everytime I get a negative covid test I think of the big vaxxed papi tweet
this one
Found another idiotic accounting mistake from my predecessor that I have to fix and I was like "WILL THE SPECTER OF THAT MAN'S INCOMPETENCE EVER CEASE TO HAUNT ME" and my coworker was like "Why do you talk like that"
Have you guys seen that clip
Go off Kermit
we're just normal men
"The trannies should be able to piss in whatever toilet they want and change their bodies however they want. Why is it my business if some chick has a dick or a guy has a pie? I'm not a trannie or a fag so I don't care, just give 'em the medicine they need."
"This is an LGBT safe space. Of COURSE I fully support individuals who identify as transgender and their right to self-determination! I just think that transitioning is a very serious choice and should be heavily regulated. And there could be a lot of harm in exposing cis children to such topics, so we should be really careful about when it is appropriate to mention trans issues or have too much trans visibility."
One of the above statements is Problematic and the other is slightly annoying. If we disagree on which is which then working together for a better future is going to get really fucking difficult.
I think this is something young people in particular are confused about. My dad has always had a slightly off color sense of humor, he always feels the need to privately ask me “boy turned girl or girl turned boy?” if I mention a friend and stress said friend’s pronouns, and yet when we had repair work done in the house and the worker was listening to a podcast discussing the evils of transgender people and how to cleanse society, he went out of his way to contact the owner of the business to discuss his disappointment with that worker’s conduct and stress the negative effect that could have had if there had been trans kids in our home.
Our allies will never be perfect. They will never use the perfect language or have the perfect politics. But we have to appreciate those allies and meet them where they are, especially if they are willing to learn.
being in your early 20s is crazy bc there’s people who are literally married and people who’ve never even dated and people who are trapped in their childhood bedrooms waiting to get out and people who are trying to live out romanticized dream lives and people who are completely on their own and people with multi tiered support systems and we’re all supposedly peers and none of us think we’re doing it right at all
"this work is problematic because of how it handles [subject]": reasonable premise for media criticism
"this work is problematic because it depicts [subject]": do not pass go do not collect $200 this is, as a general rule, a functionally reactionary and conservative argument
take your meds right fucking now or I will kiss your dad. after that I'll become your dad. I'm not replacing him. I'm gonna make your dad polyamorous. I'm not gonna ruin your family, I'm gonna join it