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They/Them. Exmormon
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Alright today is July 4th so I'm permitting myself one (1) patriotic post

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FUCK THE METRIC SYSTEM 🇺🇸🇺🇸🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸🎇🎆🇺🇸🫡🇺🇸 PUT MORE TEA IN THE BOSTON HARBOR 🎆🎇🫡🎆🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🫡🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🎆🫡🇺🇸 THE BRITISH MONARCHY SHOULD DIE I'M NOT JOKING IN THIS PART 🇺🇸🫡🎆🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🎇🎆🇺🇸🇺🇸 FOOTBALL AND SOCCER ARE DIFFERENT USA USA USA 🎆🦅🇺🇸🎇🇺🇸🇺🇸🎇🎆

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hello this is my favorite post ever and also life goals

Awww,,, goalsssss

Not scene but reblogging anyway cuz this is my blog and I think it’s SO FUCKING IMPORTANT as a young trans person to see older trans people that are still happy and alive and in a good place in life with people that love them. We all deserve this <3

Clarifying for everyone who doesn’t read usernames but the delayed release is just a rumor but an extremely LIKELY rumor right now. Considering how people who are working on Beyond the Spider-Verse say they’re barely in the animation testing stage.

A good movie is NOT worth unsatisfactory and mentally unstable, exhaustive, and dangerous working conditions. If you can support the artists who worked on atsv financially through commission or other means DO THAT!

I will happily wait another year or  two so that the animators aren’t worked to the bone. I want my entertainment to be produced as ethically as possible.

what do you mean you're a streamer

i thought you just were just silly tumblr blog

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People have jobs sometimes

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the funny thing about being a big blog on here really is the number of people who will follow you for months while having absolutely zero idea about who you are and what you do

That's a good point random kitty blog. I'd be stunned to find out that you leaked the no fly list or something

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fuck those other ship dynamic the real height of romance is risk analyst/the risk

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immovable object (every situation is an intricate game of 4d chess and i am both player and pawn in this endlessly shifting contest of will and wit) v. unstoppable force (eating the chess pieces when they're not looking)

happy disability pride month! this is your friendly reminder that you do not have to be nice to ableists! you do not have to politely answer any questions about your disability that you’re not comfortable answering! you don’t have to tell them your diagnosis, how long you’ve been disabled, whether it’s going to “get better” or not, none of it.

you do not have to smile and nod. you do not have to be their inspiration. you can be the grumpy fuck that gives them the cold shoulder, and there is nothing wrong with that.

This is why fat shaming can have tragic consequences.

If this sort of weight-based medical bias happens to any of y'all, politely tell the doctor (during your visit) that you want them to write in your file that they are refusing ordering tests for you because of your current weight. This usually causes them to order the test anyways because they do NOT want a malpractice suit. Remember: You want to make a paper trail to hold them accountable.

I would have been such a faggy lil caveboy, they'd be like "grug come learn hunt and throw spear now" and id be like waaaa no let me pick berry with old gran. I'm the best berrypicker and all the elders love me and are soso sad seeing me cry getting dragged off to do hunting.

At dark around the fire, uup the wise would say some shit like "different flower bloom different way, let grug bloom" and everyone would be like "aaaaaa thog see now, thank you uup the wise." so next day im allowed to pick berry and seed with old gran again and she lets me eat the juiciest ones (o^-^o)

Idea for a Generic Medieval Fantasy Setting: The characters refer to their nameday as an apparent stand-in for birthdays, celebrating it annually according to their respective preferences and perhaps family customs, as one does. People talk about things that happened before someone's time as having gone down "before you were named", someone grievously insults an opponent on the battlefield by going "your mother should never have named you." So with the way naming is always talked about, as a reader you start to somewhat assume from context clues that these people have some sort of a taboo about the word "birth" or something, and naming is used as some sort of an euphenism to avoid naming the process in which people come into the world.

Then somewhere halfway through the story it turns out that in this setting, people aren't named immediately after being born. This is a semi-realistic-gritty fantasy setting, after all. Due to the somewhat high infant mortality, to at least somewhat soften the blow of potentially losing a child, babies just aren't named before the parents are pretty confident that the kid is going to survive. The naming ceremony is where a baby is officially aknowledged as an entire individual, a member of the family and a legally existing person, instead of just a gurgling extension of the mother who may or may not disappear from this world. And that timespan between birth and being named is - depending on the situation and the family - somewhere between 1-4 years.

And suddenly the whole bunch of annoyingly-too-mature teenagers and other weird remarks about age start making sense in hindsight. The heroine protagonist who celebrated her 16th nameday at the start of the story is actually 19 years old. The wild difference in maturity between two characters who were both named the same year wasn't just a difference in backgrounds, The Rich Idiot isn't just rosy-cheeked and naive due to being sheltered growing up, but actually literally years younger than a peasant "of the same age". A character who's sickly and was frequently remarked to look much older than their years hasn't just been harrowed by their illness, but was not named before the age of seven because their parents didn't think they'd survive.