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Lady of The North

@loganofthenorth

Wattpad account: @Loganofthenorth
An Autistic OSDD 1b system, and a Published Author! Usually the host (North) posts here. I use She/They pronouns, and I have written a book! It is on Amazon, it is the first of a series!

Hey guys!

Are you LGBTQ+ or Neurodivergent?

Of course you are, you’re using Tumblr

If you’re not part of these groups, however, read this anyways because my target audience is basically Tumblr

Do you like simple, cliche plots like saving the world from an evil God that are fleshed out by complicated characters and world building?

Do you like lonely people finding each other and forming strong bonds?

How about complicated conversations about everything from your favourite colour, to healthy relationships, to the meaning of life?

Well then, I have the book for you!

It’s the first in a series, actually.

A series I am writing called The Chaotic Chronicles of Calasmic.

The first book is called Time for her Prime, and it’s about a disabled woman named Margaret who lives in a retirement home and her slightly mentally unstable volunteer worker Jean. They are both very familiar with loneliness, and they form a strong friendship with each other.

One day, Margaret gets a letter from her missing spouse, Mortimer, explaining that they have been in a realm of magic called Calasmic, trying to solve a problem that could cause the destruction of both words. Not wanting to be left behind, Jean accompanies Margaret to the magical world of Calasmic, where the Elven pirates and transphobic wizards that existed in Margaret’s stories of the realm are the least of her problems.

The book discusses co dependency, independence, communication, consent, disability, chronic illness, and more

It also has a lot of comedy, fluff, and some romance (Romance becomes a bigger theme in the second book)

As well as mental breakdowns, manipulation, and a Demi god who flirts with people they want to murder but can’t because it’d be a shame to get blood on their roses… Oh and also because their boss said they can’t, that too.

It’s a book I love, and I’m sure I’ll write plenty of fan fictions about it

Yes fan fictions about my own book

And I’m really hoping to build a fandom for it so I can make friends with people that enjoy this world and it’s characters as much as I do!

It also has a lot of representation. The only straight white cis allosexual neurotypical man I can think of that exists in the story is dead before the story even takes place

The main protagonist is a plus sized woman of colour in a wheelchair and the secondary protagonist is a tall girl with ADHD and undiagnosed mental illnesses and mental disabilities as well as an undiagnosed chronic illness.

Two of the supporting characters are gay and pan and they have a love story over the first three books and one of them is Autistic

The story is character driven and I will happily gush about it

Anywho you can get it on Amazon (I don’t like supporting Jeffery Bezos anymore than the next person but unfortunately this was the easiest way I knew to independently publish it) here’s the link!

I really hope you enjoy it if you read it!

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Concept: You walk outside one night and notice that there are two full moons. A few hours go by and they don’t seem to move.

You stare up at them.

They blink.

You blink back. It’s only polite to return the greeting of the Big Night Cat.

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I meant for this to be all spooky and ominous, but fuck it, this is way better. I love the Big Night Cat. She is beautiful. I support her.

hand slipped so heres a gif

Reblog to respect the Big Night Cat

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So apparently last year the National Park Service in the US dropped an over 1200 page study of LGBTQ American History as part of their Who We Are program which includes studies on African-American history, Latino history, and Indigenous history. 

Like. This is awesome. But also it feels very surreal that maybe one of the most comprehensive examinations of LGBTQ history in America (it covers sports! art! race! historical sites! health! cities!) was just casually done by the parks service

This is really great??

Let me explain what is happening here, because I don’t think that this post is very representative of why this matters.

The purpose of the theme studies, this one included, is to locate the physical remnants of the past, so that they can be properly preserved by governmental and nonprofit entities. They are not just descriptions of history, they are documents that can be used for grant work, for preventing places from being destroyed, or for promoting the restoration of those places. This theme study is a statement from the federal government that the preservation of these places is important, and that can be translated by the states into these places being legally required to be protected.

The theme studies are also really important because they recontextualized what it means to locate history in a place. This started before the LGBT theme study, there’s a lot of this in the Latino theme study, but they present a reconsideration of what you can call historic when the actions of a group left no physical traces on the spaces that they used. We are now seeing the possibility of considering places like cruising areas as historic properties because they represent the patterns of a culture.

This is the Park Service’s job. This is what you should be expecting from them. There are theme studies and special resource studies on dozens of things. A really important Civil Rights one dropped like last week. The Park Service is charged with running our national parks, sure, but the bulk of their work is like this. This is the type of shit that you can and should expect out of your National Park Service. Nobody else is gonna do it.

emperor kuzco was clearly gay

hes 19, with unlimited power, and he ain’t got a gf. the only time we see him interact with any women his own age is when he’s rejecting like 7 of them rapid fire. he pretends to date pacha in a gag that lasts like 10 solid minutes. listen to me god damnit

Okay, but just in case anyone is coming to tumblr dot com for my hot takes on 20+ year old kids' movies: Kuzco super WAS gay (or at least coded as such) and of course, I didn't get it until I watched it as a gay grownup.

He is played obviously camp and dramatic, for a start, and there is the aforementioned "hate your hair/not likely/yikes yikes yikes/let me guess you have a great personality" summary dismissal of all his potential brides. Then he spends dinner asking Yzma about Kronk ("so he seems nice? He's what, in his late twenties?") and otherwise being slightly obsessed with him.

Then there is the whole Adventure of Doom with Pacha, him being ever huffy about the Kiss of Life, and then the restaurant gag where Kuzco takes to playing Pacha's fake wife and dressing up in ladies' clothing with great gusto (reinforced by the waitress' "bless you for coming out in public" remark when Pacha says they're on their honeymoon). Then when he is finally de-llamafied, we don't see him paired off with the obligatory girl from the lineup earlier, as might otherwise be expected in a Disney movie. Instead he is still single, but goes to found family it up with Pacha, Chica, Kronk, etc, which dare we remark is a very queer trope.

In short, I have no idea how a Disney movie with no white people (all the characters are Indigenous/people of color), a gay king, cross-dressing jokes, and the most offbeat plot of all time actually ever got made (can you imagine the Family Friendly Mouse doing that today? Let us also talk about Kronk because he is a brilliant deconstruction of both toxic masculinity and the musclebound henchman stereotype.) Other than that this was the Chaos Hour of animated movies in the late 90s/early 2000s, and yes.

So yes. There you have it. I will not be taking criticism at this time.

In response to the question “How did a movie like this get made at all much less by fucking Disney?” there was a recent Vulture article that outlines the whole shit show of a history behind this film according to everyone (writers, directors, VAs, Stings) involved. The gist of the story is that they fucked up making a whole, true-to-form Disney musical that never came to see the light of day SO BADLY that Disney switched directors, locked the writer’s room, and didn’t review a single script until weeks after the film was in theaters.

Please, read this article if you have some time. This story is wild, and involves directors being pitted against each other Bake-Off style and a shockingly intimate documentary created by the wife of Sting who, himself was heartbroken by the decimation of the songs he wrote for the film including cutting a fantastic Yzma villain song sung by Eartha Kitt that is SO DAMN GOOD but would not ever have fit the more nailed-down Yzma we would eventually come to know and love. It’s so catchy though, I’m doubling up on calls to action but please listen now:

holy shit read the article. it’s worth it and completely batshit

This is fucking insane

I've never adequately appreciated the batshit brilliance of this joke, I've taken it for granted

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microwave mimic that just eats the food instead of cooking it

tags written by microwave mimic. "oh just reach in the moment the food is 1 second from ready. yeah your whole arm."

people always talk about how pretty the cherry blossoms are or the browning autumn leaves in the north hemisphere but no one appreciates the humble Ipê of Brazil

she does literally so much for us, and for what? Y'all don't give her her due respect.

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We call them lapachos in Argentina, and there's nothing prettier than seeing one on the road, tall and pink above all other trees.

They also do the cherry blossom thing in late fall

people when I tell them I'm disabled: omg take your time, lmk if there's anything I can do to help 🥺

people when I actually take it at my own pace and communicate my needs: 😡

I went to the local aviary today and they had some really mean things to say about owls.

I want everyone who’s been reblogging this viral post about owls being stupid to know that I made this post immediately after my first in-person date with a woman who, as of last Saturday, is now my wife!

Ever since our first date at the aviary we’ve had a running joke about stupid owls, and I even wrote a poem for her about the experience:

So next time you think about how stupid owls are, I hope you’ll also think about how beautiful love is. Or maybe just the importance of shared jokes in bringing people together. Or whatever other tie-in lesson you want to come up with, I mostly just wanted to brag about how much I love my wife. :’) 

here’s a transcript:

>walking home from a party late one evening >several guys were following me, as my drunk ass managed to piss them off by existing >try to walk faster, to no avail, as I’m drunk as shit >catch me in some random student neighbourhood >oh shit, my ass is about to be beaten >still in talking phase >lights flick on in a house >three guys in full musketeer garb walk out >leader is some blond guy with a beard, eyepatch, and some weird-ass accent >“What sort of ruffians would be accosting someone outside our residence? Stand and deliver!” >guys start yelling at them to fuck off, that I deserved to get my ass beaten >“Very well, then. Draw steel, you blackguard!” >all three of them draw rapiers on their belts >guys run >“I know not why those foul men sought your harm, but come and tell us the tale, stranger!” >spend remainder of evening drinking mulled wine with lunatics >bunch of Swedish re-enactors live there >blond guy is actually missing an eye; lost it in an machine shop accident >stagger home completely drunk with a hat

I had no idea people like that existed. Or had the money to rent a house.

in addition to two comments reading “FUCKING EPIC” and “THIS A THOUSAND TIMES THIS” op elaborated further in another post:

Holy shit, is this still being posted?

I figure I owe /tg/ a bit of an update on these guys.

Their leader, O he of one eye and little common sense, nearly had his visa revoked for these kinds of shenanigans. One too many arrests meant that his right to stay in the country was contested, and he had to go to court to defend himself and prevent his visa from being revoked.

I was his ride to court, and had to testify to the board that he shouldn’t be deported for lack of common sense or social normality.

His defense? A written speech, about three pages long, about the rights of man, the education he has received here, and the opportunities for a one-eyed machinist. The spirit of his crimes were all in defense of people who would otherwise suffer. For other witnesses, he had some of the random people he’d helped out, including one memorable point where a woman, nearly on the verge of tears, pointed out how he’d taken on a guy threatening to rape her and carrying a knife by whipping out a fencing saber, disarming him, and mocking him in his thick Swedish accent so that the girl could call the cops. Something like a dozen people all showed up, explaining how this dude, despite his eccentricities, made the country better.

He was not deported, and lives here to this very day, stalking the streets in musketeer garb, rescuing drunks, and dispensing his own brand of justice.

Oh my God

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oh u can have this post i don’t want it

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Gee, thanks mista! Oi Avent had a post to me own since and mum n pop died of influenza! I'll be certain to cherish it as if it were me little brutha who died from influenza also

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Woss-all this then? You cheeky li’uhl buggah, wheh’d you get that post? Didn’t I tell you wha’ ‘appens to li’uhl boys that steal posts, hm? If your dear old mum knew she’d catch influenza with shame.

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Oh no, Officer! I know ‘im, and ‘e’s a good lad; ‘e ‘elped me find daddy when I was lost in th market! I’m sure my father would be happy to let me pay for th’ post! Father is just around the corner getting influenza

'Ere offisah, dahn't truss that littuw giwl, orrite? She's the one wot stole foive bob from me larse week she did, when i was recovering in St. Urchin's 'Ome For Those With Influenza. And I sorer shewwin 'er ankles to some poor gent dahn the pub yesserday arfernoon while 'er ol' dad stole the poor bugger's influenza roight aht the man's pokkit. She's a baddun orrite. Fling 'er dahn the nick.

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if i knew they were gonna make my post british i never would’ve gave it away

World Heritage Post

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Every time there's a new tumblr meme there's always people like "this isn't funny anymore, it's gotten boring/cringe" We are on tumblr, we drag dead jokes around so that their blood decorates the place like a children's hospital

I was reading one of my childhood diaries the other day and there was a whole paragraph saying how hopeful I was that my writing will help the archeologists in the far future. Then it proceeded to describe my lunch that day and how my dog was probably secretly able to talk. 

there is a fucking statue of a kid who lived sometime in the 1200s, around 800 fucking years ago, because we have pieces of his homework that he doodled on while learning how to write. this is one of his drawings:

when I was googling him (because I couldn't remember his name), I stumbled across this twitter thread about him, which includes a different doodle by an italian boy in the 1400s of knights besieging a castle:

ALL WE KNOW OF THESE KIDS IS STUFF THEY DREW WHILE THEY WERE BORED AND IT'S STILL HISTORICALLY IMPORTANT.