WHAT is this tp holder...

pissyphus

Sisyphus had to roll stuff up a hill. You can clearly see theres no room to roll here. No, this poor figure is forced simply to hold his burden where it is for all eternity. Thus:

Shatlas

he was in arthur.

you’re thinking of Jill Eikenberry; I think this guy was an astronaut of some kind

that’s Neil Armstrong, I thought this guy was in How I Met Your Mother

That’s Neil Patrick Harris. I think this might have been the playwright who wrote The Odd Couple.

That’s Neil Simon. I think this is the musician who wrote Sweet Caroline.

That’s Neil Diamond. I think this is an astrophysicist

That’s Neil deGrasse Tyson. I think this is a river in Egypt.

That’s the Nile; I think this is the Irish guy who made the movies “The Crying Game” and “Interview with the Vampire”.

No no no, that’s Neil Jordan. I think this is the English author who helped write Good Omens.

You’re right! This is Terry Prachet’s tumblr. Good job everyone

ok I love this meme but like

Neil Gaiman actually was in Arthur.

This is true.

what were you doing in a falafel

Let a man live

no one:

asexuals before realizing they’re ace: isn’t it weird how we call people “hot” when we just mean, like, pretty? it makes it sound like you actually feel hot when you see them. which isn’t a thing. anyway

ok i am absolutely losing it over the sheer number of people who found out what hot means from this post

Ways to get Jehovah’s Witnesses to fuck off (as written by a former Jehovah’s Witness)

Additional reminders:

As a victim of the cult please please please signal boost this. Make sure it gets over 100,000 note, Normally I have dni standards but I want everyone to reblog this. No one deserves to be preyed upon by the JW org. Also to people who are tempted to call the police on the JW’s. There’s been quite a few videos  that have proven the governing body have friends in the court system. They’ve been sued many times,.and during the Montana case they managed to keep breaking court rules without being held in contempt of court. That to me suggests that they must have friends within the court who are letting them do this.  This cult know how to extort people into holding off on finally labeling the cult as a hate group globally. They couldn’t stop Russia from doing that but the governing body is still trying to stop other governments from doing the same. Not only is it a high control cult when it comes to silencing and demonizing its victims who’ve left. But its a high control cult that’s learned how to become mostly above the law. Also if anyone is curious to know more about what this cult teaches fee free to ask me too. I’ve been a JW cult victim since I was 22. I was 22 when I woke up to the reality that it was a cult. It was the only perspective I had on life for a long time until I turned 18 and began to try to mentally become more independent. I have a lot of info on how dangerous the cult is. I’ve told some of my other mutuals about how dangerous it is. But not all of my followers and mutuals know yet. So feel free to ask away. I don’t want any of you to be manipulated by this cult. (This cult also has real pedos in it so if you’re a minor  would not suggest you try to go out of your wa to confront adult JW’s. For the sake of your safety.)

Now I don’t feel so bad for chasing that JW around my front yard with a bloody meatcleaver after opening the door and telling him with a smile, “Oh good I don’t have to go hunting tonight.”

Truthfully I didn’t feel bad at all to begin with.

Hey what the fuck

“I take my cat on adventures but he just sleeps right through them”

(Source)

Oh to be a cat asleep on a raft

Intuition is real. Vibes are real. Energy doesn’t lie. Tune in.

This is actually called thin slicing. Your brain recognizes patterns from very small “slices” of information by comparing them to things you have experienced before. This all happens very quickly on a subconscious level without our conscious mind being involved. So intuition is actually really fast pattern recognition, and it can be very accurate. So yeah, if you have a gut feeling that a person or situation is not good, get the hell out. Your brain knows what’s up. 

When I was young - because I’ve always been a big skeptical pain in the ass - I thought that when people were talking about interpersonal “energy,” they were on some Gay Ass Shit.

Years later, after spending hundreds of hours reading studies about intuition and neuroscience and pattern recognition and the processing power of the subconscious mind, I realized that that kind of talk - “she has such good energy,” “you need to read the energy of the room,” “I just got some really bad energy off of that guy” - is a convenient shorthand for the lightning-fast, weirdly-accurate, real-as-fuck subconscious processing of the probability of positive or negative social outcomes likely to result from hundreds or thousands of variables. That “energy” isn’t a tangible thing floating around in the air. It’s your brain updating you constantly with information about your situation. Listen to it. Especially if it’s telling you to be nervous or scared. Your brain is very good at recognizing danger. Let the enormous processing power of your subconscious mind protect you. It’s better at spotting patterns than you are. 

“Bad energy” isn’t some hippie shit. It’s your brain setting off a claxon because it knows something’s not right.

Thin slicing is wonderfully helpful, but be aware that if it’s doing its pattern recognition from bad sources, you need to actively override it. We’re raised in a racist society, inundated with racist media, and bombarded with subtly (or unsubtly) racist advice. Thin slicing can save your life, but it’s also the cause behind the unconscious elements of racism (and misogyny/ableism/antisemitism/islamophobia/etc.) that we all suffer from

Trust your instincts, but if your instincts tell you something that seems prejudicial, double check their work.

A+ addition

AAAAAAHHHHHH AGONY!!!!! AGONY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Anyways hehe how is everyone

every year around christmas me and my grandma play this fun family game called “maybe you want to put jesus in your room instead, sweetie? :)”. now, it’s important to note that the jesus referred to in our game is not actually the real jesus christ, but instead a wooden figure i made in 2011 that has an uncanny resemblance to the lord and savior himself

so what happens is that i place jesus in our living room, and my grandma smiles and asks me if i don’t want to decorate my room with him instead. i ask her in return if she thinks my jesus figure is ugly (which he is), but she reassures me that this is not the case. however, a couple of days later jesus mysteriously disappears from our living room, and appear in my room instead

now, the real jesus christ might have been able to perform a miracle like this, but please remember that the jesus in our story is only a figure made out of wood. he can not move on his own, so i think we can safely say that my grandma is the prime suspect here

the first year i would often confront my grandma about this, but she would always make up an excuse and never straight up tell me she moved him because he’s so ugly it’s an embarrassment to the family

eventually i grew tired of her lies, so now we only move jesus around in silence. one second he’s in the living room, the next he’s back in my room. in a way i think this adds an extra element of excitement to the holiday season, because you never know for sure when jesus is going to be moved again

and so it begins..

i was not fucking ready for this photograph

I’m NEVER ready for the fucking photograph, holy shit.

i saw the words “ur not the first person in your lineage to be queer” and it’s rocking me to my core. how many generations down the line did one of my ancestors feel the way i did, feel differently than i did and so damn queerly it was a crime? how many of us were there? did they have hope? did they find peace? i don’t know. at the very least, maybe i am proof their identity was never wasted. reincarnated.

that last line is absolutely phenomenal is this why yall are so keen on therapy??

[Image description: a series of tweets by two twitter users. The first, by @alonesoul, reads “do you ever wanna just sit face to face with someone who did you dirty and have a deep talk with them as to why they did what they did?”. The replies are by @motherjuniper, and read “My therapist says it’s not healthy to be wondering what’s going through the minds of grown people who you can’t think for. You'l literally drive yourself mad”, and “If you can’t rationalise why someone hurt you it’s because you’re not like them and hat should be your closure”. End id.]

if someone asks me what i did this year i will scream my lungs out and run away to a forest

Cis people do know that they can change their names too right

Like from what I’ve seen it seems like they don’t know that.

My first college roommate’s name was Sarah but decided our freshman year that Sarah was too common of a name and decided that she was going to go by Phyllis instead. It’s not her middle name or anything, it’s just a name she liked the sound of. Our entire friend group called her that for years.

My uncle-in-law is called Keith and apparently a lot of his nieces and nephews didn’t find out until they were adults that his legal name is John. I knew one of the supervisors at work as Rose for so long I was shocked when I saw her legal name on a piece of paperwork. My cousin was named after my grandfather, but with a name so outdated that he’s gone by a different one since birth.

And you’ll find that nobody challenges them on this topic either :) nobody insists “you should go by your real name.” Interesting.

One of my local friends legally changed her name purely to represent her better. She’s cis.

I wish my aunt didn’t know this because she changed her name to Larceny. Like the crime.

Tell your aunt she has my full support. Would love to be her accomplice

It’s that time of year again!!

An older man is finally able to leave the Soviet Union in the late 1980s for the first time in his life.

His wife and son have already left and settled in the States, and he’s finally able to go and join them.

On his way out through the Soviet border, the guard looks through his luggage and finds a bust of Lenin.

“What is this?” he asks.

“Don’t ask me what this is, ask me who this is! This is Vladimir Lenin, the great hero that fought for the rights of the people in our country, and I’m bringing him with me to remind myself to continue that battle in America!”

The guard lets him through, and he is able to go on the plane to America. Once he arrives, the American border guard goes through his luggage and finds the bust of Lenin.

“What is this?” he asks.

“Don’t ask me what this is, ask me who this is! This is Vladimir Lenin, the fiendish monster who destroyed my beautiful homeland! I am bringing him with me to remind myself the the mistakes of the past.”

The guard lets him through, and he is able to go into the country, where he takes a taxi to the house his wife and son are staying. After reuniting with them, the son sees the bust of Lenin, and asks, “Papa, who is this?”

The man smiles and says, “my son, don’t ask me who this is, ask me what this! This, my son, is 18 pounds of gold!”

THESE TAGS

KallMeKris has a whole series with these and other characters and it is GREAT.

“ There are no managers here”

GOT HER ASS

If These Walls Could Talk 2. Chloë Sevigny as Amy, a butch lesbian.

@mtsainthelens You're not dumb!! I think binding advice has been somewhat reduced to slogans. Additionally, many people don't share images of historical binding practices because they fear that might inspire unsafe binding (which is a legitimate worry), but this has the side-effect of meaning being obscured, and danger being taken less seriously than it should be.

I think engaging with older media, and outdated depictions of binding, is actually very important. It's a passion of mine, as a trans man.

I'm gonna do an infodump here ^v^ Because I've been wanting to address this for a while, and this seems like a good opportunity.

For what it's worth, I bound very dangerously prior to surgery. Bandages were one of the tactics I tried. If you (or anyone you know, or any of your followers) ever wish to try binding, please do not use bandages.

Not only are bandages severely unsafe, they're also quite painful, and the media depicts bandage binding unrealistically. Bandages are shit. They often don't work.

Check out these depictions of bandage binding, taken from 3 Generations, Boys Don't Cry, and Degrassi The Next Generation.

This is not the outcome you get if you try to bind with bandages on your own. I guarantee that these actresses (all of whom were playing trans men) had help, for those bandages to sit so straight and untwisted. Binding with bandages is difficult, uncomfortable, and suffocating. A person binding with bandages is more likely to get this kind of outcome (film still taken from 52 Tuesdays):

Many mainstream depictions of gender non-conformity and transgender masculinity like to portray bandage binding as an easy option. Because we're all slender, underweight, small-chested people who have someone to help us wind bandages around our ribcage... right?

To my immense disappointment, gender non-conforming star Ruby Rose perpetuated the myth of easy bandage binding in her video Break Free, which has (to date) been watched over 53 million times.

Her video, much like other media depictions of bandage binding, cuts from footage of her manually wrapping herself in bandages, to footage of bandages perfectly wrapped around her, and clipped down... behind her back.

She had people to help her bind with bandages in this scene, I am certain of that. But thousands of vulnerable (and probably young) gender non-conforming people have been given the impression that this is the kind of effect you can achieve on your own. I know I got that impression from this video. I was put at risk by this video.

It's important to push back against the myth of easy bandage binding, because gender non-conforming people shouldn't have to be in agony just because they're exploring their identities. We need to kill this myth for the sake of AFAB LGBT+ health.

Thanks to Ruby Rose's video, I used self-adhesive horse bandages to bind my chest. They were what I had available, and it seemed like a quick way to alleviate my gender dysphoria- and I didn't know there was any risk, so why not?

The equine bandages were the same as normal bandages, essentially, but the fabric of the bandage adheres to itself and wraps tighter and tighter with every movement. I can't describe the amount of pain this caused me. I was unable to bind for months. I had to seek medical attention. I lived in denial because I was just so, so happy to have a flat chest. But that denial didn't help me when I was in severe pain, and unable to even wear a sports bra beneath my shirts.

It's really important that gender non-conforming lesbians, questioning people, trans men, and transmasculine people (whoever the hell wants to bind) know the dangers of binding. Especially unsafe binding. Binding is never 100% safe. The so-called "8 hour rule" is not universal. Some people can only bind for 4 hours. Some people can only bind for 2 hours. Some people can't bind at all. It's just not physically safe.

I recommend watching these videos about binding.

Binding (once I started doing it safely) saved my life. Not only through the alleviation of dysphoria, but also because I was protected from judgement and transphobia. Being a man with a prominent chest meant people would do a double-take and question my gender, sometimes putting me in danger. In some situations, I simply had to bind.

But I'm an advocate for binding to be taken seriously. Binding is portrayed as a fun, acceptable thing for anyone to do, if they want to. Which is good in one sense, but bad in another. Binding will simply not be safe for everyone.

having one of those executive function days where everything is too many steps

by which i mean, like, here's how my brain parses the steps in making coffee

good day:

regular day:

bad day:

anyway this is a "14 steps to make coffee" kind of day

This is actually a really good way of explaining this

the fact that yhey kicked you out of therapy after all that instead of like. doubling it.