I made another thing.

With apologies to Neil Gaiman.

No apologies needed.

[mage description: still of David Tennant as the demon Crowley and Michael Sheen as the angel Aziraphale in Good Omens. Crowley is standing in front of a greenish escalator, and Aziraphale is standing in front of a bluish one. Crowley and Aziraphale are looking at one another with serious expressions. Crowley says “Fuck them up?” with the caption “WGA” underneath, and Aziraphale is saying “Oh, yes. Let’s,” with the caption “SAG-AFTRA underneath. The humor turns on the plot of Good Omens, wherein Crowley and Aziraphale rebel against both Heaven and Hell, on the concurrent strikes by the WGA and SAG-AFTRA. /end description]

yeah as an asexual person i have really cool powers like dividing into two identical selves

For disability pride month (and the rest of the year) here's a shout out to

- people who have to take "scary" meds like antipsychotics, tranquilizers, schizo meds, lithium, opioids, and steroids because they're the only things that work

-people taking medicinal drugs that may be illegal in some areas

-people who have to get dangerous procedures and treatments

-people who will literally die without their meds and can't stop taking them

- people whose meds cause undesirable side effects

-people whose meds damage their bodies, but improve general quality of life enough that it's worth it

-people who get told to get off their meds constantly by people other than their doctors (or their doctors didn't want to put them on the med bc they're "too young")

-people who can't take medicine other than ibuprofen or Tylenol due to allergies, interactions, etc.

-people who are addicted to their medicine and don't want to stop taking it

-people who are addicted and want to stop taking their meds

-people still suffering from unforeseen side effects that still affect them even though they got off the meds

Our relationships with our medicines/treatments are complicated and no one body is ever exactly the same. Please be respectful of people's choices and feelings about their meds.

-people with a rare disorder with no proven treatment to ease the symptoms

Shoutout to disabled people who are well enough to drive and shop and manage their life, but are not able to work, and are worried about losing their benefits because someone decides they are "not disabled enough". One of my worse fears. And I'm not even on SSI yet. *crying laughing*

@rrcenic Neil said no apology was necessary, but I want you to know making one was actually a huge show of good character on your part. All too often we double down when we’re wrong and burn bridges as a result.

I’m incredibly sorry this happened to you at all, but especially at such a young age. With that said, the fact that you stopped, thought, and chose to learn at FOURTEEN is quite the show of emotional maturity. (I’m 34 and only just learning to do this consistently instead of being defensive.) You should be proud of your ability for introspection. Never stop using it, that’s a hell of a tool to have in your arsenal. Especially as you face down your high school years, where having a strong sense of self can be the difference between swimming and sinking.

I hope your future days on Tumblr are happier, and that perhaps some of the people who chose to be absolute fuckheads to you will see this follow-up and decide to do their own stop-and-think.

I’m curious as to where you all stand

Reblog for demographics!

Has either union called for a boycott? Because boycotting can disrupt their plans and make negotiations harder unless they’re actively asking for one. I’m boycotting reality TV (which every studio is going to be pushing because it’s the only content they can make cheaply and without writers or professional actors) but nothing else unless we are asked to.

#i always understood that boycotts and strikes were sort of two opposing strategies#if a strike is happening you want demand to continue as normal because the point is to prove what would happen without your labor#a boycott is reducing demand and the point is usually in response to a practice that cant be solved by employees walking out#for instance a boycott might be ideal for protesting AI generated content (via @displacedlabrat)

This is correct. If anything, I want the execs to be terrified because the consumers are demanding more from them and they have nothing in their reserves to sell and no way of making anything else to sell.

Also "new" content is going to keep coming out for a while because it's already been written and acted and edited. (I'd actually expect a lot of bad-but-finished movies that would normally never be released to get released once they start running out of the good stuff) There is less than no point to boycott anything right now.

Neither union has called for a boycott! Please continue watching shows as normal-- in part because actors and writers still get streaming residuals, minimal als they may be. If you want to show support you can also throw some money at the strike fund / snack fund! This post has a bunch of links to places you can provide monetary support.

Happy Day of Visibility for Non-monogamy

[Image From Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko!]

Today is Day Of Visibility for Non-monogamy, I am polyamarous, I've written about it a few times in recent days so feel free to ya know search Polyam on my blog and you'll see plenty of writing if you want more but today is gonna be completely personal chat. So strap in for my asexual lesbian polyamarous life.

I personally attempt to be as non hierarchical as possible, I am engaged [and have been] to my Fiancé whom i've dated since I was in Freshmen year of high school so obviously we have tons of history and in these 15 years of love i've never felt like I needed monogamy in my relationship with them. I've dated a set of long distance partners for around 8 years now and I love all of those women and wouldn't replace them for the world, we spend hours and hours every single day talking. I had a recent ex girlfriend whom I almost dated for 2 years before our break up and I have a non traditional subby dommy kinda thing going on with a really sweet girl that's been going on for over a year now.

My Fiancé has been dating another amazing girl who I think is amazing [as a friend] for like 5 years now and she has a boyfriend who is married to another woman but he lives with her. My Girlfriend has been dating another girl who is like one of my best friends ever for a lot of years now too. I have a pretty good relationship with the whole polycule and I am really happy to be able to not just have all this love but to have all this love for my partners. It's super fun to see my partners date and fall in love and explore themselves in new ways, it's fantastic.

This little dude here was hovering too close to me for comfort, so I tipped a few drops of my strawberry lemonade onto the arm of my chair for her, which she greatly appreciated. I try to remember that most of the time, yellow jackets are just thirsty, and that I can be kind, and brave, and share my bounty, especially when it's very, very hot and dry out like it's been. I hope she eats a lot of pests and has a nice day.

once I spent like 15 minutes trying to cut a yellow jacket free from an abandoned spider web. It was very windy and it kept flinging around so I let it cling to a paper clip while I freed it. 

Thank you for freeing it!

Please feel free to share more stories of kindness to wasps on this post!

I was at the county fair and there was a wasp right in the middle of the busy walkway. She kept trying to fly away and falling back down. At first I thought she was hurt, but after I let her crawl on my finger and moved her to an out of the way tree, she flew away just fine. I think she kept getting caught in the little eddies of wind from everybody walking past

I was at a folk music festival (in the before times) with my best friend and there was a really popular sweet iced tea/fancy juice stand. There was like four flavors and if you bought their fancy cup you could get unlimited refills, so we did. Bees and yellow jackets were OBSESSED with these drinks, buzzing around the stand and following around anyone with the fancy cup, cause it was hot and dry and they were sweet and wet. Basically the same reason all the humans were obsessed with them!

Anyway, lots of people were willingly giving sips to the bees but chasing off the yellow jackets. Which is kinda understandable cause they're often more agressive than bees. But all they wanted was a sweet drink on this super hot day like the rest of us. So my best friend and I let them have some of our drinks!

At one point an older guy, trying to be helpful I guess, was like "those big ones are wasps not bees". But we were like "yeah. If you let them have a drink they leave you alone 🤷" he definitely thought we were weird but hey, wasps gotta drink too!!! (And are an important part of the ecosystem, even if they scare me when they fly at my face)

They scare me too, that is why I am teaching myself to be kind to them! Thank you for sharing!

At my grad school orientation, a yellowjacket had got herself stuck in the potato salad. I lifted her out and held her in my hand while she cleaned the mayo off her wings, and the people around me in line helped me fill my plate. Once her wings were clean, she flew off, and I gained a rep as crazy/wasp whisperer.

Recently I was eating a bagel sandwich outside for breakfast, and there was a yellowjacket buzzing around me, clearly interested in the bacon in my sandwich. Swatting at it probably would have gotten me stung, which is not what either of us wanted, so I pinched off a tiny piece of bacon and set it a foot or so away from me. The yellowjacket immediately landed and started chewing away at the bacon very excitedly, then flew off. For the price of a thumbnail-sized bit of bacon, we both got to have breakfast in peace.

A few weeks back I was outside eating lunch and a wasp was lingering around (we had some soda cans open), but she seemed to be especially entranced by my turkey sub. I ripped off some small bits of turkey and put it on a napkin for her because sharing is caring :) she was very fiesty though and decided she wanted to pick out a piece for herself, so she ended up crawling on my sub to bite a chunk off and fly away with it

She came to pick out turkey twice, and brought a friend the second time. Well...im glad the naughty lass enjoyed herself at least

Short-Tailed Pygmy Tyrant, part of my “Life Sized: Birds” Project Final and WIP (to show size)

Happy nonbinary people's day! Here's a little infographic I made for the occasion - keep being you!

Image transcript:

International Non Binary People's Day July 14

Nonbinary is an umbrella term for a spectrum of gender identities that fall outside the gender binary of man and woman. "Nonbinary" is also a label many people use to describe their gender identity. Some of the other nonbinary identities are listed below.

Demigirl

Bigender

Genderflux

Agender

Genderfluid

Demiboy

Nonbinary people come from all over the world. They are of all races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

Nonbinary people can use whatever pronouns they feel comfortable with, and some may use multiple pronouns.

People of all genders, including nonbinary people, can dress however they want. There is no "right" way to be nonbinary!

There are a lot more nonbinary people than you might think...

1.2 million nonbinary people live in the US alone (Williams Institute)

1 in 4 LGBTQ+ youths today identify as somewhere on the nonbinary spectrum (Trever Project)

All nonbinary people are different, but we all want to be treated with respect.

Here's how you can be a good ally to nonbinary people:

End of image transcript.

y'all are absolutely free to use tumblr however you please but I want redditors to know that they could, hypothetically, start a sideblog about a particular topic, add moderators to it, turn on submissions (and asks), make an "about" page laying out rules and such, and create a good tagging system. If you want it to be a bit more familiar.

In honor of nonbinary awareness week, here's a friendly reminder that:

-nonbinary people don't need to "prove" anything to you

-nonbinary people can dress however they like

-nonbinary people are diverse and come from a wide range of backgrounds

-there's no "right" way to be nonbinary

-you should respect everyone's pronouns, regardless of their gender identity

-if you're nonbinary, you are valid and I'm sending love your way

So I just saw a Spider-Man 2099 fanart where in one he’s shirtless and with all his abs and whatever and I. Tried, okay? REALLY tried to look at him not respectfully . I stared so much time at him just to figure out how people like this stuff. Love even. And then I gave up and scrolled down and saw the same fanart with him wearing his suit and went OH MY GOD WJBSBSNSNSBSNSNSN SO BEAUTIFUL OH BRUH ONSHSBSNSNNSNSNSJS SO FUCKING BEAUTY THE THING OMG

And I just realised I am but a vessel filled with all the aesthetic attraction ability you could fill in it. Such an ace moment fr

also the way that the nimona movie showed that hate is a taught behavior?? the way that gloreth, the hero worshipped for slaying monsters, was fully accepting of nimona until her mother told her what to believe? until that generational bigotry was passed down? the way the director’s motive wasn’t even power like most evil government figureheads in media, but rather a fear of monsters destroying the kingdom because that hate had been instilled in her too, like it had in gloreth? the way ballister was also indoctrinated into hatred of “monsters” until he was just as outcast as one? because only then was he willing to change and learn?? and how even people with good hearts and good intentions like ballister and ambriosius and even the queen herself are still capable of perpetuating bigotry and unnecessary violence when they don’t take the time to understand or learn about the “others” they supposedly hate????????? i need to lie down

[Image ID: A digital painting of a fluffy grey cat running with a nonbinary flag on its back like a cape. There are some big random lines in the nonbinary pride flag colours next to the cat's face, and a light yellow messy rectangle background. The rest of the image is transparent. The cat is smiling. /End ID]

My favourite thing about the latest Twitter meltdown is all the artists reanimating their dead Tumblr accounts today and immediately being greeted with hundreds of notes because even a Tumblr account they literally have not posted to in 3–5 years has more active and engaged followers than the Twitter account that they've been updating daily.

Romance or something, IDK I'm aro.

Happy aro visibility day, buds!

[ID: a digital map of the city Rome with ants of different sizes photoshopped into the surrounding area. End ID]

You should never have to feel ashamed of your mobility aids or anything that helps make things more accessible to you. You deserve for things to be easier.

I have so many thoughts on the chess board.

So so many.

First, the figure most in opposition to Derek is Kate. Not the nogitsune, which, once you know Kate is alive means it’s not a warning about season 3 at all. Stiles while under the control of the nogitsune somehow became aware of Kate being alive. ‘On the board’ so to speak.

Notice the color of her tags indicate her allies are Argent and Allison. And Stiles has always been deeply skeptical of hunters, even when he claimed to dislike Derek.

We see that Jackson (whos in London) is nearly off the board and useless, as is Deaton, who is shown to be neither in Derek’s color nor opposed… which very much fits his canon actions toward Derek.

In the context of season 3B, at first it seems to be saying ‘keep the twins near you to protect against the nogitsune. But that’s not what the warning is about. It’s about KATE.

And if the twins had been with him at the end of 3B when Kate shows up, Derek would likely have gotten away.

I think about that chess board an awful lot to be honest.