Lucy

I mean the snow depth is half a phoenix, what do you need the measuring tape for?

I GOT A FUCKING RAISE THE POTATO WORKED WTF

This potato works. Every. Fucking. Time.

I would enjoy some good luck from the potato.

I need some luck right now, so all hail the Lucky Potato. Do your magic, Potato. I respect you so much I am capitalizing the "P" in Potato.

The spirit of Diogenes is alive and well

This is funny, obviously, but even if you don't go to the extreme of the example above, this is a separate seat for one person, with a back and 4 legs:

But it's not a chair. It's a bar stool.

This, however, are all chairs:

Each one is missing at least one component of the chair definition above.

So like... it's almost like strict definitions are exclusionary.

Reblog to hit a transphobe with a separate seat for one person

I think I'm suddenly in a Romcom. will update if it goes well

it didn't go well and also I think I'm aromantic so maybe that means it DID go well LOL

— Kurt Vonnegut

Spectacular post in /r/geology today

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alright I found the video.

hey white people listen to this video.

Video Transcript:

First person: Black people are treated like a sexuality. And I do not-

Video cuts to second person: See, I actually like this video. And I think I got a explanation for you.

The reason that blackness almost acts as a sexuality is because antiblackness is something that is so innate in the minds of nonblack people when growing up, that them preferring not to date someone who is black is almost as normal as them preferring not to date someone who isn’t their preferred sex.

Did y’all follow that? Like, let me give you an example. Like, a straight white male saying that they don’t date black girls is just as normal in society as a straight white male saying that they don’t date boys. And straight white women saying that they don’t date black boys was almost as normal as them saying they don’t date women. And granted, that example might not be as prevalent as the last one, but still.

And I know in both of those examples, they were white, but it applies with nonblack POC too. And to add a little bit of intersectionality, let’s be honest, it probably applies to some black men, too. And that’s a shame, that we would treat our own women similarly to that of a sex we don’t prefer.

Oh, I just thought of something! Antiblackness is something that is so innate in the minds of nonblack people that they would almost have to come out! Come out! And say that they like black people. It’s like homophobia was so innate that you would have to come out and say you’re homosexual.

That’s the one. I’m not even gonna lie, that’s the one. End Video Transcript.

Worth noting that interracial marriage became legal in 1967. 1967. That’s about 52 years ago.

Oh this.

EVERY single one of my relationships, once we get to meeting the parents? I have to ask them three questions:

Do they know you're gay/bi/pan/whatever?

Do they know I'm transgender?

Do they know I'm black?

Sometimes I've gotten "I don't see how that could be an issue" for the last one and I tell him I don't care, warn them in advance that I am black. You know most of them have reported back to me "they were really surprised, I don't understand, it's more surprising to them that I'm dating someone black than someone gay and transgender?"

I've been through this song and dance with friends already, friends who neglected to mention to their parents that I'm black prior to me coming over and whose parents had less than fantastic reactions to seeing their kid playing with a little black kid in their yard. I'm not doing a surprise round with a partner I'm trying to determine if I want to spend the rest of my life as part of that family. My sister still has not met her white husband's family because she insisted on the same prior warning before walking into that house, and a good thing too because his parents basically disowned him for even considering marrying a black girl. They've been married more than a decade! They have children together! They're straight! And he had to 'come out' to his parents and get kicked out of his family for his attraction to a black woman.

It is one of the major reasons I stopped actively pursuing relationships with people who are white.

Interracial marriage was legalized when my parents were teenagers. My parents grew up not knowing they would enter an interracial marriage, not thinking it would be possible. It remains a major factor in why my parents hesitated for YEARS to get married, thinking the ruling would be overturned and they would have to end their marriage and not wanting to do that to their future children. Or that they would have to constantly uproot their kids and move around the country to stay safe. I remember growing up repeatedly having to explain how I could be black even though my mom is white [passing], because everyone jumped to 'adoption' and not 'her husband is fucking black'

I'm just going to put this here again so you understand I'm not just ranting alone by myself

Gay transgender activist Lou Sullivan spent years researching the life of Jack Garland, an obscure early 20th century transgender man who evidently loved men. He rifled though archived newspapers and letters in local libraries for any scrap relevant to Jack, and finally managed to get the completed novel published only very shortly before his death by AIDS in 1990. The book made a single run from a now-defunct publishing company, so a very limited number of copies of the book exist today. Approximately 30 libraries carry it across the US and certain sellers have another handful of copies available for upwards of $200+ each. However, I could afford to shell out that $200, and I think Lou would want his book to be accessible to the modern trans population. So I've bought a copy and scanned it and converted the pages into a PDF,

which is now public on google drive

and also Archive.org

Hey Hector

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absolutely hysterical and also not hysterical at all to me that some people view 13 as "too young" for getting your period when a bunch of us are like, uh yeah I'd already had my period for years at that point in my life

like I've talked to moms with adolescent children and discussed that yeah, your 11 year old may be getting her period any time now and you should be prepared. in fact, the younger they are, the more you should prepare them because everyone has a different body. I got mine when I was 10 and my sister was 15. you really have no idea and if you are super young, it's even scarier if you haven't been prepared.

I was nine... everyone told me my first one would be minimal blood/spotting. not true at all there was SO MUCH

please reblog this i spent way too long on what was supposed to be a quick edit

Marriage is about having good sex and committing unspeakable acts of violence for one another

"it's about love" yes and love is tearing a man's heart out of his chest and presenting it to your beloved wife because he dared to disrespect her. And then getting absolutely railed.

every day i am percieved™️

There is a reason for this though!

The original tweet summarizes it pretty well. Fanfic tends to be popular among certain types of neurodivergent people (aka people most likely to read excessively as a child, and have burnout as an adult) for the same reasons that we tend to hyperfixate–neurochemical signaling (I hope I’m using that phrase correctly). What I mean is, for people who are really dependent on changes in dopamine/serotonin/neurotransmitter levels, who have low levels or wonky neural reward systems (perhaps the most common types of neurodivergence)…people like us rely on dependable external sources of those neurochemicals. In order to function, we spend a lot of our free time trying to level out our brain chemistry using things that can reliably bring us a steady stream of joyful moments (rewards) without costing too much of the mental effort that is already in short supply. 

significantly: the investment of reading has to be balanced with a steady “return on investment”–and this return has to start fairly quickly. because again, we don’t have a lot of attention/energy to invest on tiring things. we have perpetual “low batteries” in that regard.

that doesn’t mean these stories are “simple,” or that they lack complexity or value–only that the reward has to come in short regular intervals, and it has to have a low “upfront cost.” these stories are only “easy” to read in the sense that the effort we put into them is rewarded in a timely manner. which is why fanfic stories are so perfectly formulated for neurodivergent readers–they are often beautifully written, but skip a lot of the upfront costs (of introducing new characters, of world-building, of getting the audience emotionally connected to the story elements).

the nature of fanfiction is that the reader has a pre-existing relationship with this world and these characters. that–combined with the shorter average length of fics–means that fan fics very quickly start rewarding the reader in a way that traditional fiction struggles to. that’s not a bad thing! and maybe it’s something more traditionally published writers should be paying attention to.

Fanfic, as a genre, has been uniquely helpful and accessible to many neurodivergent readers who would otherwise struggle to immerse themselves in stories. I’m glad so many of you have found a way to love and enjoy reading again! The important thing is that you are spending time inside stories you love–the way those stories are published or presented to the world is just one detail. The fact that you find joy in the process of reading (or listening!) to stories–that is what matters.

I feel understood 🥰

a bunch of people have reblogged this with the default “i feel called out” reaction….and i know when we say that we mean it tongue-in-cheek….but this comment sorta blew my mind & shifted my perspective up and to the left a little thank you♥

The Serotonin is stored in the Ao3