The writers should spoil one show a day until their demands are met.
First day should be succession
Second day stranger things

The writers should spoil one show a day until their demands are met.
First day should be succession
Second day stranger things
I'd like to formally thank the people of the UK and Ireland today for their rhyming prowess and forcing the Royal Mint to turn off replies to this tweet in RECORD time lmfao
And last but not least, the pièce de resistance that inspired about 90% of the hidden replies:
For anyone wondering, it was in fact meant to be "sovereign on a sovereign" 🤦
Ach no, give it to the Irish, they win
fucking. what?
I feel like this picture really gives it context
you know how it is with spaghetti
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here’s a controversial fallout opinion. I think there should be less hardline defined. Limits? I guess? Where it’s like “this is a ghoul. This is a human. there is little to no in between” because. Idk, I feel it would be more interesting if people like prospectors or explorers had visible signs of irradiation and maybe something like maybe your leader’s ear fell off or something but it’s not like, immediately categorized as like “oh he’s ghoulifying” like maybe he’s just like that yknow. I know fallout radiation is unrealistic but like let me cook okay <- massive head cold haver
[via @media-illiterate and @guardiansofgahooleonwii]
some really good tags i want to show
i understand it's due to engine limitations but i always mourned the fact you didn't see a bigger variety in physical differences among wastelanders in general, when it's so heavily implied that people experience mutations post-war and there are so many perks referencing this. there was some minor effort towards this in fallout 1 & 2 where they had sprites for little people, but i wish we could legitimately see more npcs just walking around and reflecting more physical diversity in the games' current states. the varying degrees of "ghoulification" could have been a really interesting element of that.
This still blows my mind
I will happily delete this if I’m derailing or taking away from the original message (initially I put this in the tags, but a friend asked me to reblog as text)
If you don't want to pursue an autism or adhd diagnosis and you have access to a doctor or therapist you can get them to write you a note attesting to a symptom of your neurodivergence (rather than naming the condition itself) and stating the need for accommodation.
It's something my therapist told me about when we were still working in offices. I have sensory processing issues and on multiple occasions the noise in my office was so bad I broke the skin on my hand clenching my fist.
This work-around of course won't fix structural ableism and relies on you having access to a doctor/therapist who actually gives a crap, so still might only help a couple of folks.
dinosaurs trying to make us extinct
A note on the topic of trauma that I personally found helpful in accepting the idea that I am a trauma victim is that one of the most widely accepted facts in the field of trauma research is that abuse is often not the common factor in whether somebody will develop ptsd.
Many people can go through awful things without developing trauma based disorders as long as they receive compassion and support in processing those events as they happen. The most common factor in developing something like ptsd is emotional neglect. And emotional neglect on it’s own can be enough.
Whatever you went through was enough I promise, you’re not overreacting. Abuse and neglect are traumatic at any level, you don’t need to have gone through the worst possible experience you can think of to develop ptsd. If it hurt you then it hurt you.
…..oh.
And to support that, the number one determining factor on how badly something affects a person is how they’re treated afterward, not how objectively bad the event was. They’re called resiliency factors.
It looks like this:
Horrible brutal traumatic event + Family and community support + legal amelioration + closure and therapy and help
ONE MILLION TIMES MORE LIKELY TO RECOVER THAN
Event that the sufferer may think “seems minor” compared to what others have been through + Family neglect and abuse (you deserved it, name calling, support the abuser) + no legal means + denial and stifling and no therapeutic support
I have been raped, I have been abused by someone who was supposed to be family to me, and I have recovered and gotten my life back together. I have psychiatrists, psychologists, best friends, lovers, and family who support me. I did not get legal justice, but I got the person(s) out of my life.
My friend was repeatedly verbally abused by his step-parent, and when he was abused and hurt by others he was blamed for it by that parent. He had no support and no one to talk to about it for over 10 years.
He still feels guilty for even being affected by it and I’ve had long talks with him about how it isn’t “nothing compared to” what I went through.
You are not wrong to be upset. You are not wrong to feel the effects of trauma. Your hurt cannot be measured against anyone else’s. Your resiliency is your own and your situation is valid to you. Perception is everything. The worst thing that ever happened to you might ostensibly be less bad than the worst thing that ever happened to me - but it still is what happened to YOU.
Trauma is so predictable that we can make tidy little equations out of it. The ones above are good, but the ones I’ve seen are a little simpler. Something like:
Overwhelming Experience + Isolation + Shame = PTSD
Whoa. I am going to have to think about this for a bit–it would explain the HUGE difference in two post-trauma experiences I’ve had (one without support and one with.) Wow.
that tidy equation is exactly why so many ‘symptoms’ of autism are just ongoing traumatic stress disorders. it goes like this:
-grow up constantly overwhelmed by ‘normal’ situations
-be constantly told there’s no ‘real’ reason for your pain, fear, and stress
-be given no support or sympathy or tools or training to deal with the pain, be given very few options to avoid the pain, be given no acknowledgement that you’re trying to recover from the pain
-get regularly shamed and punished for the stress behaviors you involuntarily display by your caretakers, teachers, and peers, especially if you become hostile
-withdrawing from people and society is basically the only semi-acceptable way to cope with chronic overload and avoid punishment
-self-isolation comes as a profound relief
-but then you’re alone with your damage
-CPTSD
I have very strong opinions on this subject, and I'm curious how others feel.
Hi, public librarian (lower case l, no degree) here, please don't.
We're already, in general, severely underfunded. Shocker, the capitalist hellscape we're stuck isn't great about allocating county budget to such a socialist outlet.
When you write in the margins, that's considered damage, and we just do not have the funding to replace every book we have to weed for damage.
Use sticky notes. Please. Write your margin notes on sticky notes in the book. You can even keep your place that way. But please please please don't write in the books, don't crack the spines, and don't dog ear them. That's just going to force us to weed them, and we can't always replace them.
#we flip through every book that comes in the drop off to see if the pages are loose torn damaged or written on #and we're supposed to set aside all of those for checking by collections #to see if its severe enough to warrant weeding #and frankly as the budget gets tighter i know im not the only one turning a blind eye to some damage #because i know we wouldnt be able to replace it anyway #better to let it slide til it gets worse #but its a serious problem
Hi, capital L Librarian here, if you think your notes enhance other readers' experience of the book 1) you're wrong and 2) no one's going to get to read them anyway because you damaged the book and we had to throw it away.
Good job breaking it, hero.
V grumpy today ok bye
Co-signed in grumpy solidarity, because some of y’all didn’t live through the gay-panic HIV/AIDS moral hysteria of the ‘80s, and it shows.
Hair-splitting internecine infighting is exactly what the people who want us dead want us to be doing. When you try to gatekeep queerness, you’re doing their work for them. Please, for the love of everything good, knock it off.
The first time I tried to transition was in Alabama in the the early 2010s.
To keep it brief, it was hell.
It was so dangerous, I was forced to detransition and did not get the opportunity to do so again until a decade later, when I lived a very different environment and time.
A lot can change in a decade.
But I need the younger or more privileged and sheltered queer people to understand something: if it was that bad for me, a skinny white trans guy who did not look visibly disabled? How fucking bad do you think that place and time was for anyone who didn’t have that leverage?
I survived by the skin of my teeth and through sheer luck; there were multiple situations I got caught in that nearly sent me down the river. And there are people who looked like me and identified like me who did not get lucky. And folks who were not white or skinny or any other factors? A lot of them did not make it. They fucking did not make it.
Because it was that bad. And in a lot of places, it is still that bad.
And that shit is what is coming. It is coming for your coastal blue cities, it is coming for your blue pockets and liberal schools, and for a lot of people, it is already here.
And the only thing that is going to keep that hateful, murdering cancer from eating us all alive is sticking together and fighting like our lives depend on it.
Because they do.
[Video transcript: @vaspider giving the following speech.]
Okay. Having now seen a tweet where someone said that a couple that is a trans man and a trans woman is a straight couple and is not queer, I have, I think, just about reached the end of my rope. And y’all need to really think about the way that queerness is viewed, not by us, but by people outside of our community.
So, when you are asking yourself, does this identity ‘count as queer’?, what I want you to do is think of the most conservative, hateful place - the most conservative, hateful people - you’ve ever known, and I want you to ask yourself: in that place, with those people, would someone with that presentation; with that identity; with that relationship form; with that sexuality; with that gender; any of it – Would they get fired? Would they get evicted? Would they get the shit beaten out of them? Would they get killed?
And if the answer to any of those things is yes, then that identity is in solidarity with us; that identity is queer. And of course, before someone pops in my, like, notes, saying something ridiculous, of course I’m talking about relationships between consenting adults, so we’re gonna stop right there, okay?
“But does that include kinksters?” Yeah, it includes kinksters. “Does that include polyam people?” Yeah, that includes polyam people. That includes ace people; that includes aro people; that includes, you know, straight trans people who live completely stealth, like, heterosexual trans people who live completely stealth. Because if you think that, you know, a “het-presenting” - whatever you want to call it - a trans man and a trans woman, aren’t in danger from homophobes… I mean, a completely stealth trans man isn’t in danger? Well, why don’t you ask Brandon Tenna? Oh, I guess you can’t - because he got the shit beaten out of him and he died, right?
So… y’all grew up in an environment that is very different from the one I grew up in. And I think, to a certain extent, some of the younger folks in this community don’t understand what’s coming and the danger that we’re in.
We do not have time for all this penny-ante nonsense! We just don’t have time for it. You can fight over who doesn’t belong, like, later, when we’re not literally fighting for our lives.
Untill then, I don’t want to hear any more of it. I’m done. I’m absolutely done.
[End caption.]
@vaspider, let me know if I should remove the caption - like, if TikTok has some kind of scraper or something that’ll get the video pulled - but I wanted to transcribe this for readability reasons.
Nah it’s all good, friend.
I am only transitioning in my 40’s because the 80’s and 90’s were a totally different time. I cannot adequately express the difference of what it is like now vs growing up with zero sources of information or resources and the only pieces of media were almost all universally scary or sensationalized in some way. We have to stick together. The people who hate us will use any and all methods to divide and distract and drive whatever wedge between us in the community as they can. They always have. None of these bullshit arguments about labels and respectability or whatever are new. Listen to your elders who are still here. A lot of the same inter community arguments are just coming back around to where they were 30 or more years ago because it’s easy to be scared and look for whatever ways to be legitimate in the eyes of cis het people that you can find when it feels like that is the only or best option available.
“So, when you are asking yourself, does this identity ‘count as queer’?, what I want you to do is think of the most conservative, hateful place - the most conservative, hateful people - you’ve ever known, and I want you to ask yourself: in that place, with those people, would someone with that presentation; with that identity; with that relationship form; with that sexuality; with that gender; any of it – Would they get fired? Would they get evicted? Would they get the shit beaten out of them? Would they get killed? And if the answer to any of those things is yes, then that identity is in solidarity with us; that identity is queer.”
by this definition, a cis-het partaking in kink counts as queer… and honestly im okay with that. you can argue that there are for more queer ways to be if you really really must, but maybe queer should be seen as all spectrumy and more inclusive, as oppose to just the “absence of hetero” and nothing else. imean it should really just be a given that a hetero trans person is queer, but the skies the limit when you gatekeep i guess
Basically, yes. :)
It is possible that somewhere off the coast of Newfoundland there is an iceberg shaped like a giant dick.
IT'S REAL
AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER COMES FROM DILDO, NEWFOUNDLAND
ITS REAL
Mr. Pretty from Dildo, Newfoundland photographed a Giant Penis Shaped Iceberg
On their way to sink the Titussy.
“this ship, why, she will be unfuckable!”
Feel free to ignore the ask if it’s already somewhere in the pipeline or you Don’t Do Asks, but a comic I just saw brought it to mind…is there a Small God of Unions?
There is absolutely a Small God of Unions. In fact, there are several Small Gods of different kinds of unions. And while the Small God most relevant to the current writers' strike is frightfully busy at the moment, we do hope to get a snapshot soon. Ideally before the Directors Guild has to follow the writers' suit...
Listen, I know it's very much a thing that utopian leftists think that religions will simply stop existing once all of our material needs are met, but that is just not the case.
Human beings need ritual. If we are deprived of ritual, we make new ritual. It does not matter if you call it religion or state or whatever it is you call it, human beings will keep making up new rituals.
You cannot stop us, and saying 'this ritual which I like and doesn't hurt anyone else is fine, but that ritual which you like and doesn't hurt anyone else is bad' is just bigotry.
When I say 'you cannot stop us,' I literally mean you cannot stop human beings from making up rituals and religions. Leave a group of six year old girls alone near a mud pit for an hour and you will come back to a newly-minted faith. We make ritual. We make culture. That is what we do.
No, Judaism will not 'naturally cease to exist' when all of our material needs are met. What will happen then is that the Jews will get Jewier, because we will have all the time in the world to study Torah and write stories and make Jewish art. If you met all of my material needs tomorrow, two days from now there would be six more hamsas, a complete bound copy of all the volumes of the Talmud, and a shit-ton of giant Jewish art prints in my house.
You cannot stop people from making up culture and religion. It is, arguably, the thing which makes us human, one of the defining features of our collective humanity. We will always make up silly songs and new religions, and the idea that we'll just give all of that up for some vanilla yogurt and taupe jumpsuits utopian existence is absurd and beyond belief.
If you don't think you need rituals, ask yourself: what is a holiday if not a day of ritual? It doesn't matter if you avoid Christmas like the plague or can't get a day off to take your kids trick or treating: if someone sings happy birthday to you or wishes you a Happy Holiday, you have participated in a ritual.
There is a reason my magical school and system recognize Faith as a major source of magic, and that holidays are taught as a part of said Faith studies.
a great thing about people transitioning is it presents us with scenarios where we have the perfect control variable to undeniably reveal sexism in the workplace. I read about a trans man neuroscientist who was told he was “so much smarter than his sister” (his sister being his pre-transition self)
and damn i knew the gaming industry was notoriously sexist (even more sexist than other stem fields, and that’s saying a lot) but seeing it laid out so clearly like this is so demoralizing.
Ben Barres was that neuroscientist
life actually gets better when you leave the house consistently btw like im serious
if you don't know where to go, just wander! go to the store and don't buy anything, go to the library just to sit and do whatever you were going to do at home, go to a park and just walk around/sit outside for a bit (weather permitting, of course)
just put some headphones in and walk around the block a couple times if you really have nothing else to do, just getting a bit of air and change of scenery is so good for you
me the first few weeks of forcing myself to go on daily walks (it gets better tho)
i really need tumblr to learn the concept of “if you physically cannot do this then this post is not talking about you” because jesus christ.
@a-spectacular-pigeon you get it.
cant stop thinking abt this bit from a psa about activated charcoal flushing your medications from your system
5'2 shy goth tgirls. or something. idk
yeah facebook is terrible but sometimes you stumble across pure gold. there are dream animals i want to see in the wild and there will be posts like
ma'am that is the critically endangered regent honeyeater. There are less than 300 of them left in the wild
she was worried he was breaking probation
The funniest bit about Spock running off to join Starfleet as a "fuck you dad" moment is that there's no way Starfleet was happy about it either. Spock's family is extremely important, T'Pau wields massive influence, Sarek is the Ambassador, ect.
So Starfleet is in this horrible position where they can't say no to this extremely competent and well-connected Vulcan joining up, but it also causes a massive diplomatic headache because his whole family resents it. And then if anything were to happen to him? Major diplomatic incident.
Good thing he's level headed and never throws himself headlong into needless danger---what's that? He's completely unhinged? Oh, well, nevertheless
As long as he's on a ship with a captain who is calm and cautious, and who generally avoids danger, it should be okay.