@sleepyowlet / sleepyowlet.tumblr.com
Holy shit, fucking drag him
The highlighted portions are good, but I also really like this line:
"People do not go to war for abstract theories of government. They fight for property and privilege and that was what Virginia fought for in the Civil War."
me: “yeah I dated a guy in high school who came out as gay. it was before i knew i was a boy so needless to say it didn’t work out”
coworker: “damn dude was preordering”
other things this coworker (who is a cis guy) has done/said:
—got confused about why I’d never been a boy scout because he forgot i was trans
—told me he was gonna get top surgery scar tattoos to match me after i get mine
—laughs at all my trans jokes, even if they’re supremely unfunny
—calls me big dog (and him little dog) even though he is about as tall as two of me
— “I can’t believe she would say that transphobic thing to you. In June? Pride month?”
wait how could i forget!!!
—heard i was trans when i started working there but thought i was trans in the other direction so got offended on my behalf when he heard people calling me “he/him”
nothing I can say on this blog will be funnier than the things that come from this boy’s brain
When police officers, rich people, and other people with power are violent, it's because they know they'll be respected no matter what they do.
When oppressed people fight back and are violent, it's because they know they'll be hated no matter what they do.
You can't accurately compare them.
More than that, powerful people know they'll be safe no matter what they do, and commit harm out of entitlement because basically all our legal and social structures reinforce their right to commit that harm. They often believe they're doing a good thing by reinforcing the hierarchy and putting vulnerable people in "their place".
Oppressed people fighting back know what they're never really safe in the current structure and that they need to protect themselves because the current social and legal structures are meant to oppress rather than protect them.
I just saw thing. WHY IS A PRAISE KINK AND BEING CALLED A “GOOD BOY/GIRL” SUDDENLY CONSIDERED PEDOPHILIA BY ANTIS
sips from my smoothie. its the antikink ideology. and also the rampant conservatism in a gay hat.
As a nonbinary person it feels uncomfortable when strangers perceive my partner and I as a straight couple,
But it's hilarious to me when they perceive us as father and son.
"Does he have his own luggage?" the agent behind the check-in desk asks brightly, making eye contact with my partner.
"Just carry-on," I say as I slide my driver's license across the counter toward her. Confusion dawns on her face. She glances up at me briefly before printing my boarding pass in silence.
"A soap making booth!" I exclaim. I've been to the renaissance faire a dozen times but I've never visited this shop. "Let's make soap!"
"First you have to ask your Responsible Adult for five dollars," says the vendor in a measured, singsong voice, and wags her index finger at me.
I look around, confused. Who is she talking about? Does she mean the young man trailing behind me? I turn back to her.
"I have five dollars ..."
"Well you still have to ask him," she smiles sweetly.
As I open my mouth to ask why, I suddenly realize she has misjudged my age by at least two decades.
"I'm older than he is," is all I can think of to say.
"Would you like a children's menu?"
"Sure, and if you're taking drink orders, I could also go for a Corona."
Hey op?
HOW???
I'm short
Bringing this bitch back in this here 2023
around when I first started dating my boyfriend i bought myself this novelty blanket that looks like a photorealistic tortilla because I am SUCH A SUCKER for novelty shit. when he saw it in person for the first time his eyes lit up, which should have been a warning sign for the indignities to come.
so he’s a first responder and his day shifts start obnoxiously early as far as I, a pampered corporate asshole, am concerned. almost invariably when he’s at my place there will be an alarm at an hour that is downright unconscionable that will make him wake up and roll out of bed to get ready and will simultaneously make me burrow under the pillows grumbling about how surely nobody actually NEEDS their lives saved this early in the morning, after which I will promptly attempt to go back to sleep
he is a clever man and he knows this is when i am most vulnerable to attack.
every single time we do this dance, he quietly dresses, packs up, goes about getting ready to leave, and then when i have juuuust fallen back asleep, he returns with the tortilla blanket. He finds it no matter where I have hidden it.
He then creeps silently up to my side of the bed and uses his superior speed, strength, and reflexes to wrap me up in it incredibly tightly while i am still dazed and sputtering, so that i cannot move my legs or arms and am reduced to humiliating halfhearted magikarp flops that do not deter him from at least attempting to kiss my forehead.
then he goes to my bedroom door, opens it, then pauses, turns around, looks at me, the soft human filling of the facsimile of an enormous burrito he has just constructed, and says in his best romantic lead voice “I’ll see you soon, beans.”
you cannot understand how devastating it is to my ego that i am beans.
The way some people talk about treating minors in fandom spaces online is so wrong.
You're not doing them any favors by coddling them, worshiping them, centering them in every conversation, catering to them.
How do you expect anyone to grow in those conditions?
What happens when they start hitting 18, 19, their 20s, and at some point "leave them alone, they're minors!" turns into "why are you acting like that, you're adults"? At what point was that education supposed to take place?
Modern social media landscape makes dogpiling SO easy and I'm not calling for that or saying kids don't deserve ANY grace for their inevitable bad opinions, but saying something terrible and experiencing pushback is how you learn what's acceptable in shared spaces.
If you expect every adult online to be a parent, you can't be too upset to find that some of us are disciplinarians. /hj
Venue owner honest god just fucking told me I had to go find the "lanky, scruffy guy with brown hair in a plaid button-up and thick glasses" at open mic comedy night.
Imagine you went to a drag show and someone earnestly asked you to go backstage and get the person wearing a wig and glitter eyeshadow for them. That's what I'm working with here.
Please tell about the second defense mechanism i can't find anything online about it
yeah i wasn’t sure how much was online abt it so here’s a video 👍
narrators spitting
im so fucking serious when i say that no one is crueler to visibly disabled people than girlies with blue wolfcuts and sharp eyeliner wearing hundred dollar sweaters from shein.
like. there's a weird misconception that it's old people, but i have never once had an issue with anyone over the age of, like, 55. they are fine with me muttering to myself or making weird faces or not hearing them the first five times they call my name. that's not a problem for them. when my brother goes out with a cane, they're the ones who compliment it, and tell him the spikes and ribbons are a cute addition.
yesterday this pink haired girl in the bathroom told me that i needed to stay away from movie theaters if i was going to act like a schizo. ten minutes later an 80 year old woman complimented me on my bright red hearing aids and said she wished she had that confidence when she got hers.
anyways to the anon who just said that maybe i shouldn't be in public spaces. thank you for proving my point
a very important addition.
ok this post was originally about psychosis and plurality, but this is also a really good addition.
via reddit.com
so you’re telling me that “stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni” would be like saying “wrote a G on his belt and called it gucci”
that’s…a pretty good analogy actually
US moron came to town
Hunting for some coochie
Wrote a G up on his belt
And this bitch called it Gucci
Seeing my notifications get flooded with this every July 4th is the only thing I respect about America
me: i don’t want to see jellyfish so i will blacklist the tag #jellyfish
people with no common sense: je11yf1sh, je11¥fi5h, j*llyf*sh, je//ÿf!sh, j3ï||yf¡sh, gel lee fisk
result: cannot account for the sheer amount of possible ways to alter the word jellyfish
conclusion: i have to see jellyfish now.
Once again, tumblr is not tiktok, tag properly.
I get that this is an unpopular opinion, but I’m really not a fan of how the Chiss were retconned from being formal and professional, cool, and a bit stuck up in legends to being #relatable and essentially human (read: American) in canon. For one thing, I liked that they were alien and “other” and lived according to their own mysterious moral code outside the light/dark binary. The other issue is that now Thrawn’s personality, mannerisms, fears, and motives make no sense.
For years, Zahn said that Thrawn is the way he is because he “has an alien mind with alien morals.” Now we have the Chiss doing the pearl clutching over Thrawn’s “colder” actions, actions they wouldn’t have batted an eyelash over in legends (with the exception of his over-involving himself in the affairs of non-Chiss). Rereading Outbound Flight it’s clear how very typical his manner was among his people. His entire demeanor of formality, solemnity, hyper-pragmatism, and capacity for cool ruthlessness was due to his Chiss biology and cultural upbringing. His attitude toward preemptive strikes, his open-mindedness, and his incredible tactical skill were the only things that separated him from the rest of his kind.
I understand that they were trying to make sure that the reader would relate to the POV Chiss characters (as per a Q&A with the editor of the Ascendency novels), but what they’ve done is basically the equivalent of taking Spock, whose behavior is largely due to his (half) Vulcan biology and cultural background, and then decided “you know what? Let’s make every Vulcan but Spock Midwestern Americans in space.”
Across the country, judges increasingly are sending defendants to rehab instead of prison or jail. These diversion courts have become the bedrock of criminal justice reform, aiming to transform lives and ease overcrowded prisons.
But in the rush to spare people from prison, some judges are steering defendants into rehabs that are little more than lucrative work camps for private industry, an investigation by Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has found.
The programs promise freedom from addiction. Instead, they’ve turned thousands of men and women into indentured servants.
The beneficiaries of these programs span the country, from Fortune 500 companies to factories and local businesses. The defendants work at a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Oklahoma, a construction firm in Alabama, a nursing home in North Carolina.
There’s little drug rehabilitation going on at these labor camps. Some of the companies that utilize the slave labor are so dependent on it that they’d go under without it. Some of the industries these men are forced to work in are notoriously dangerous. When they’re injured, the companies file workers compensation claims – and keep the money for themselves, even though the workers are typically not employees but clients.
Warning: no matter how bad you think this story is going to be, it’s worse
dangerously close to a realization
My older brother went to a rehab that basically was just a work camp they had them out in the central California summer heat doing landscaping work for no pay six days a week, under threat of being sent to prison, they are literal slave camps and for profit rehab will NEVER work and will always be disgustingly exploitive of some of societies most vulnerable people
