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there is nothing but the void after me.

@skippitydippity / skippitydippity.tumblr.com

nuclear throne, cyndaquil, king gizzard and masaaki yuasa enthusiast. queer! 21.
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reminder to worldbuilders: don't get caught up in things that aren't important to the story you're writing, like plot and characters! instead, try to focus on what readers actually care about: detailed plate tectonics

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funniest thing about the “reddit migration” is that I haven’t seen a single post shitting on anyone coming from Reddit. when twitter started bleeding users everyone was firing rent-lowering posts but with redditors skittering about we’ve left the doors open and put out food bowls

Tags were too good to ignore.

Context:

[ID 1: A tweet by Yang Wen-li (@Yang_wenIi): "I feel obligated to point out that the US flag code does not specify where the blue field is placed, how thick the stripes are, or what shade the colors of everything is, so this is a 100% code compliant American flag." Below is an image of an "American flag" with the shades of blue and red as well as the sizes and locations of the stripes made to resemble the Trans Pride flag.]

[ID 2: A tweet by WholesomeMemes (@WholesomeMemes): A photo of a jar of pretzels. The jar is labeled "Patriotic Red, White & Blue Pretzel Twists" but the red and the blue prezels look more like the pink and light blue of the Trans Pride flag.

Below the photo is an image of the character Cocoa from the anime GochiUsa. She is a strawberry-blonde girl with a cherry-blossom hairpin and purple eyes. Cocoa is saluting with a serious look on her face. She is standing in front of a Trans Pride flag background. On either side of her are a trans symbol and in the top right corner is a photo of a physical trans flag.

Below the tweet is the aforementioned reply tweet by Yang Wen-Li]

Source: twitter.com
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psyduck is probably like. the most achievable pokemon probably. like i don’t think i could teach a cabbage to grow legs and be a bulbasaur but there’s probably a certain threshold of mental torment i could subject a duck to that would make a psyduck

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“what about rattata” “what about wooloo” “what about pidgey” none of you understand me or my art. i don’t mean animals that look like pokémon or could be dressed up like ones i’m explicitly talking about what i could do to an animal that would make it capable of performing destructive psychic attacks

I think people need to be more comfortable with illegalism and I’m not kidding. Of course the more legal something is, the safer and easier it is to do, but the more people who disregard the law, the harder it is to enforce. There are plenty of laws on the books that people just ignore and are never or rarely policed.

Becoming more comfortable with little illegal activities makes you more comfortable with bigger more important illegal activities. Additionally, it is crucial to build a wall of silence. Nobody talks everybody walks.

People who give out food without a permit, hold a march without a permit, grow a garden without a permit, are more likely to be people you could turn to to work with on preventing an eviction, or keeping people out of cop hands, or helping your friend Jane get crucial healthcare when it’s not legal in your state.

Communities comfortable with these acts won’t call the cops, and then nobody knows that it’s happening.

People have got to shift from both the idea that lawful = good/ illegal = bad, and that the illegality of something means that’s the end of it, and the only fight left is to make it legal again.

Matthew Hodson: “ 20 years ago, 2 years after the arrival of combination therapy that effectively treated #HIV, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s LGBT newspaper ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline. It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.”

Y'all need to appreciate that this was practically fucking *yesterday*.

as of today: june 1, 2023, that headline is 2 ½ months shy of being old enough to rent a car

for everyone bad at math, like me lol: the original print date was August 13th, 1998