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Multifandom blog! they/them. [Icon description: Simple digital art of a green beetle, laying on a blue backdrop with it's eyes closed. /end ID] [background description: multi-colour stripes, with various cartoon-y objects in front of them, such as clocks, envelopes, flowers, and birds, as well as eyes. /end ID] [header description: same as background. /end ID]

Making an intro post after 5 years on this site wowee !!

Hiii :) i go by bug, they/them for me!

I'm helping with @transcriptions, go check it out!

currently into a little mcyt, mp100, ocs, and jrwi!

i tag all of my art with #my art ! fair warning i dont post much anymore but who knows.. maybe soon, once again.

mutuals PLEASEE feel free to DM i probably want to interact but dont know how to initiate.

Dream stans DNI, other mcyt feel free to stick around :]

anndd thats about it! have a good day!

Ways to show a home in a show or movie belongs to a Jewish character that isn't just lazily having a menorah in the shot for 0.02 seconds:

-Mezuzah on the doorpost/s

-Hamsas hanging on the wall

-Shabbat candles on a shelf somewhere

-Basket or drawer full of endless monogrammed and logo-ed Kippot from past weddings, B' Mitzvahs, and holiday parties.

-A calendar with both Hebrew and Gregorian dates on the wall

-A collection of Jewish books

-Various Jewish ritual items scattered around

Ways to show a character is Jewish outside of their home:

  • Very passionate about bread on Fridays
  • Knows every lyric to the Prince of Egypt
  • Increasingly ridiculous daf yomi thought exercises
  • Leaves a stone when visiting the grave of a loved one or friend
  • Wears a kippah, hair scarf, or snood and no one comments on it
  • Says BH as a common exclamation of happiness or relief
  • Freezes halfway through a bite of food: "Oh shit, it's a fast day"
  • Unavailable on Saturdays, free on Sundays, has to be home for dinner Fridays
  • Checks packaging when buying food
  • Mental math calculations with a watch when deciding to eat meat or cheese
  • "No thanks, I keep kosher"
  • Brings their own food to functions or eats vegetarian/vegan outside the home
  1. “No thanks, I keep kosher”
  2. that one is often followed by “yes, these are the fish I can eat... no, you don’t need to use kosher salt... no, if it has both meat and milk I can’t eat it at all”
  3. the adjacent “no thanks, it’s Passover/Pesach”
  4. jewelry - chai/ חי or hamsa jewelry
  5. mentions holidays in the fall/spring
  6. scene in a sukkah/sukkah in the background (autumn special)
  7. counting the Omer (spring/early summer special)
  8. knows Hebrew (or Yiddish or Ladino) songs but not necessarily the language (Kol HaOlam Kulo, Eliyahu HaNavi, Am Yisroel Chai all come to mind)
  9. uses Hebrew names to refer to our holidays (Pesach rather than Passover, Shabbat/Shabbos rather than Sabbath, Yom Kippur rather than Day of Atonement)
  10. pronounces Loch Ness correctly despite not being Scottish (this is like half a joke) (also Bach)
  11. quotes Pirkei Avot
  12. 2 or more sets of dishes and pots/pans kept separate - my mother has milhig(dairy), fleischig(meat), and fleischig Shabbos china. might also have separate dishes for Pesach
  13. Says "blessed is the True Judge" (or "baruch HaDayan Emet") or "may their memory be a blessing" upon learning about a death

"he said this" "she said that" ok and??? The universe said I love you?? And the universe said you have played the game well?? And the universe said everything you need is within you??? And the universe said you are stronger than you know??? And the universe said you are the daylight?? And the universe said you are the night?? And the universe said the darkness you fight is within you??? And the universe said the light you seek is within you??? And the universe said you are not alone???? And the universe said you are not separate from every other thing?? And the universe said you are the universe tasting itself, talking to itself, reading its own code???? And the universe said I love you because you are love?????????????

Whatever happened to being a quirked up white boy with a little bit of swag? You guys used to love busting it down sexual style

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What able bodied authors think I, an amputee and a wheelchair user, would want in a scifi setting:

  • Tech that can regenerate my old meat legs.
  • Robot legs that work just like meat legs and are functionally just meat legs but robot
  • Literally anything that would mean I don't have to use a wheelchair.
  • If I do need to use a wheelchair, make it fly or able to "walk me" upstairs

What I actually want:

  • Prosthetic covers that can change colour because I'm too indecisive to pick one colour/pattern for the next 5+ years.
  • A leg that I can turn off (seriously, my above knee prosthetic has no off switch... just... why?)
  • A leg that won't have to get refitted every time I gain or loose weight.
  • A wheelchair that I can teleport to me and legs I can teleport away when I'm too tierd to keep walking. And vice versa.
  • In that same vein, legs I can teleport on instead of having to fiddle around with the sockets for half an hour.
  • Prosthetic feet that don't require me to wear shoes. F*ck shoes.
  • Actually accessible architecture, which means when I do want to use my wheelchair, it's not an issue.
  • Prosthetic legs with dragon-claw feet instead of boring human feet or just digigrade prosthetics that are just as functional as normal human-shaped ones.
  • A manual wheelchair with the option to lift my seat up like those scissor-lift things so I'm not eye-level with everyone's butt on public transport/so I can reach the top shelf by myself.
  • A prosthetic foot that lights up when it hits the ground like those children's shoes.

Ambulatory wheelchair user + chronic pain additions:

  • Temperature controlled seat
  • Android that brings my chair to me and is such a bro
  • Hovers smoothly over bumpy road and stairs and makes a woooowooooowoooo sound when it does
  • Chair wheels that light up when spun and charge my chair so it can be driven via joystick after a while of manual use
  • Alerts on my phone if the chair is being moved without my knowledge
  • Integrated GPS and the ability to dial emergency numbers
  • And autopilot to take me home if I get tipsy <3
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A few more things to possibly tack on! (Ambulatory aid user here, I use a wheelchair, canes, crutches)

For wheelchairs:

  • An auto-balancer for doing wheelies when I go up/down a big bump. (hypothetically you could even go down stairs if you had enough balance like that, but ay yikes I would be Nervous, haha)
  • BETTER POWER ASSISTS OH MY LORD. the current ones I know of are super heavy and have a bunch of tech issues
  • A seat you can adjust yourself without having to get out of the chair, for if you're doing something more active versus just chilling/relaxing (the best body positioning for really active movement vs just sitting is different, at least in my experience)
  • Literally, some sort of alarm system that discourages people from trying to push me without asking, or like... push handles that only manifest when I want them to.
  • Variable shock absorption - if I could make it super shock-absorby over rough terrain, but then "harden" it somehow on smoother terrain, that would be really efficient!
  • How about wheel gearing? Like on a bicycle. Add in a push-motion-reverser thingy (look up Rowheels to see what I'm talking about) and I'd love that.

For crutches/canes:

  • SHOCK ABSORPTION. Crutches and canes are hard!!
  • On that note, multi-terrain tips!!
  • A magnetic crutch cuff that can detach from the crutch if needed so I can reach across a counter and not accidentally kneecap someone with the stick.
  • Better collapsibility.
  • Have fun with the scifi aspect. Have your character tinker and add a load of gadgetry into their aids (and that goes for wheelchairs and crutches/canes). I don't know. Stick a grappling hook function into it. Have them be usable as defense weaponry. Have a cloaking device built into the crutches/canes themselves for stealth. I dunno. Use your imagination!!

And finally, if you've got a cool idea, feel free to run it by someone who actually uses whatever aid you're writing about to get an opinion! (With permission, please, don't just barge into a random person's inbox. I myself am totally open to questions like that, and I know @cripplecharacters is a good resource!)

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whenever i find a good world heritage post i do my best to carefully remove unnecessary "why is this so funny!!" or "i cant believe i found the original" reblog comments. sometimes it takes a bit of work digging back through the reblog graph to accomplish this but fine art restoration is tedious but important work

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are you freaking serious did they actually put steve in minecraft

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in my delirious half-awake state i appear to have typed the wrong game

Being obsessed with your own OCs but literally never creating any art or content for them is such a curse. You'll be like "this reminds me of blorbo from my head :)", and everyone else will just be like "? who thef uck"

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walter white wouldnt have killed all those people if he had decided to just put on the biggest talent show this town’s ever seen to raise the money instead of making meth

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i love how whenever something gets popular the underground tormented avant garde bloggers start becoming self conscious of liking it/finding it funny, and it eventually evolves into aggression towards it. doesnt matter what it is. unrelated but i saw someone call isopods cringe today

This is the most important post on this site

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I love how we got the introduction to TREE LAW a few weeks ago, when that story went viral on Twitter about the person whose neighbor illegally had all of their trees chopped down because they wanted a city view, so that we would understand what was happening when Universal thought it would be funny to deprive strikers of shade by "trimming" city-owned trees to the point of destruction.

This is an excellent example of organically teaching concepts without relying on tedious tutorials or forced, immersion-breaking expository cutscenes.

A++++ game design. 10/10, no notes.

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why is this site trying to become twitter. why must everything i love die

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(every CEO in the last 5 years for some reason) hmmm today i will catastrophically mismanage my company to the fullest most embarrassing extent imaginable