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nix | an assortment of my favorite things | I've been here way too long but I can't leave now |

about me

Basics:

Hi, I'm Nix!

  • queer lesbian
  • cake/cakeself, rive/river, and they/them pronouns
  • adult

On this blog:

  • politics
  • percy jackson
  • stranger things
  • star trek
  • hunger games
  • unwind
  • whump
  • m.a.s.h, sometimes
  • marvel
  • shadowhunters
  • memes
  • anything I find amusing

Other places to find me:

Love it when a character has the flu or a bad cold and isn't quite sick enough to be stuck in bed so they still feel obligated to Do Things-- but every step is exhausting and their knees are shaky, they get dizzy if they're upright for too long and constantly have to take breaks just to sit, they're shivering and have a relentless tickle in their chest and can barely stay awake...but they're still able to walk, right? They can manage...for a short time at least

Oh I see so it's not that the person who made it was cultivating the strangest vibe possible for the grimace birthday playlist it's that they put every song ever on it

The word "faggot" appears in the lyrics on this playlist multiple times. Dead Kennedy's are on here.

I cannot. Stress. Enough. It is on the grimace birthday playlist.

IT IS ON. THE GRIMACE. BIRTHDAY PLAYLIST.

Me: Its alright if no one else comments or kudos my fic. I wrote it for me and not only was it fun to create, but I can read and re-read it at any time. Plus there's always a chance that somebody else will find it and enjoy my story at a later time :)

Also me, 2 seconds after posting my fic and wanting immediate validation:

Hi Neil,

How much has your work been inspired by Goncharov (1973)?

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The whole of Season 2 of Good Omens was inspired by Goncharov. Dottie and Sadie, Aziraphale and Crowley's wives, were basically my take on Perdita and Brigitte, the two tourists who worked in the condom factory, and the whole Goncharov helium balloons and clowns sequence. For that matter, without Goncharov it would never have occurred to me to have made the comedy in episode 4 the fact that Dottie and Sadie and their husbands have unknowingly all been booked in the same hotel room, or to have had the Archangel Gabriel played by a chinchilla. Yes.

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Today, one of my second graders was working on shape name recognition, and we got to this picture of a pyramid shape with a wide-ish base. When he saw it, his eyes lit up and he turned to me with a huge grin on his face, pointed at it, and said "When the teacher forgets to assign homework" before bursting out into hysterics, covering his mouth and giggling. I don't understand what happened except this kid CLEARLY knows about the strong comedic and memeable value of mathematical shapes and emotions that I, an old millennial, cannot comprehend I did, however, try to recreate this moment as the meme this child must have seen in his head

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this post is spreading now which is cool and all, I'm glad so many people thought it was as funny as I thought it was, but I'm also starting to get a lot of "kids are memorizing memes before basic shapes? What's wrong with this kid/what is the world coming to/etc" and that is just not at all the feeling I had writing this post. You know what I had memorized before I was in 2nd grade? The theme song to Pokemon. The entirety of the 1985 TV Special "Poochie". Intricate lore about my stuffed animals and toys and the lives that they lead. Basically, what I'm getting at is that kids aren't bad or to be shamed for for knowing memes, or having random stuff memorized before they know some facts, or whatever. They're kids, they're little human beings with their own interests and personalities, and when this kid looked me in the eye and said this, I thought it was hilarious. I thought he was hilarious, and he shared with me something from his world that brought him joy and it brought me joy. So like, if you're going to be coming to my blog shitting on kids, you're in the wrong place. Kids are confusing, bizarre, and a lot of work, but ultimately I think they're awesome. If kids having a sense of humor or likes and interests bothers you so much, maybe go outside and touch some grass or something

Friendly reminder that LGBTQ+, Queer, and LGBT+ are the preferred terms for the community (x).

Friendly reminder that Queer is approved by 72.9% of the people, and the groups who don’t prefer it’s use as an umbrella term are straight people, exclusionists, transmeds, truscums, sex-negative people, and sex work critical people (x).

Friendly reminder that aros and aces are excluded only 9.2% / 8.1% of the time respectively while being included  78.9% / 81.2% of the time (x)

Friendly reminder that exclusionists are in the minority and aro/ace people are included in the LGBTQ+ community by the people within the community.

Also, i checked out the survey the second claim sources a while back: this is not OP choosing the words truscum, exclusionist, etc. These are labels that the survey gave people the option to self-identify as. It’s self-proclaimed exclusionists who dont like the word queer, not random accusations

yeah that’s super important. 

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This one gets reblogged on main. The reclassification of ‘queer’ as an inexcusable slur is a recent development which stems in part from exclusionist rhetoric. We reclaimed it decades ago. Learn our history. You are not immune to TERF propaganda, but you can absolutely choose to educate yourself to spite it.

Be kind. 💜

saw some asshole on twitter who thinks adhd isn't real mockingly be like "yeah I have this horrible disease where I would rather goof off and hang out with friends than stare at spreadsheets" and, rancidness of the take aside, it's so hilarious to me because like brother adhd people fucking love spreadsheets. microsoft excel is like a brother to me

ok. listen. it’s about your girlfriend. you know how we thought she was a crop-blighting witch and we were planning to stone her? so, here’s the thing. every stone we threw drew not blood but like, the black and fathomless rage of a race of titans that were once slain but could not die. and she like, rose from her hastily-shoveled roadside grave as their resubstantiated champion or something. yeah, we’re suffering the onslaught of her vengeance right now. yeah. I guess we inadvertently created that which we had so feared. yeahh. could you like, answer her texts and ask if she’ll stop sloughing our flesh with her baleful gaze every time she sees us. thx in advance

you’re simping. calves are stillborn in the fields, food rots on the plate, holy symbols for miles around are tarnished black, and you’re simping.

DAMN RIGHT WE ARE. YOU SOWED. YOU REAP.

I simp for my girlfriend and her totally justified rampage. I'm going to make her her favorite meal for dinner tonight because I know she's gonna need a mood lifter after you freaks pissed her off so bad.

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my mom finally bought a toaster

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why did this get notes

we’re happy for you

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its just a toaster

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it’s been three years since i made this post. stop congratulating me on the toaster! stop asking me how the new toaster is doing!! i don’t know!! i haven’t lived with my mom in almost a year! i haven’t seen that toaster in months!! she might even have a new new toaster now!!! who knows!? not me!

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@egberts how’s the toaster?

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well the 10 year update to this saga is that I don’t talk to my mom and I have my own toaster 👍 don’t let your dreams be dreams

I love it when you can pick up an animator’s quirks. 

     I’ve read in old interviews with Milt Khal’s fellow animators that he did the swaggle to purposefully show off. Moving the head in 3-d space is an exceptionally hard thing to do but Khal upped the level of difficulty to a place many animators wouldn’t go.      Not only are they all doing the swaggle you’ll notice they are all TALKING while they are doing it. This is back in the days where you had to use a timing sheet to pace your animation and a head swaggle doesn’t work if its too slow or too fast so he had to figure out the right speed so it looked natural while the character finishes what they have to say while not interfering with the distinct mouth shapes.       Not only did Khal do it without any shifting weight problems or timing issues he would often do it while moving the rest of the body. This isn’t his signature move just because he was good at it.This is his signature move because he was one of the only people skilled enough to DO IT AT ALL.

Milt Khal was a MASTER.

God, I can’t express to you how fucking DELIGHTED I become whenever they Milt Khal Head Swaggle Post graces my dash with its presence again.

It's nice seeing the reddit users realize they can relax here. The danger on reddit is trying to guard against a broader community of annoying pedants. But understand that here, the danger is trying to guard against Wandering Savants.

If you fuck up on reddit, you get 1000 people correcting your grammar or w/e. If you fuck up here, you get one really smart weirdo writing a 10,000 word essay intricately disassembling your post with sources.

yeah and the advantage is once you have identified the Wandering Savants you can just follow them directly

Oh that's why there's so many people behind me.