january

whumper that is just as much of a whumpee as the person they keep locked in a cell. whumpee was confused at first, whumper seemed to turn green when they first drew a blade across their skin, whumpee is sure they heard the sound of vomiting once they were back in their cell. they’re still frightened, still shake and fight back whenever whumper comes with their new toys, but there’s something- something about whumper that whumpee just can’t understand.

it starts to make sense when whumper stretches to remove whumpee’s chains, bandages peaking out from under their shirt. there are days where whumpee seems more frightened than whumpee, when they step into their cell with a black eye and bruised hands they know didn’t come from their last session.

“i’m so sorry.” whumper says one day, bruised hand shaking as they grab their pliers.

I am Obsessed

Imagine if you met someone who can't eat watermelon. Not that they're allergic or unable somehow, but they just haven't figured out how to do that. So you're like "what the hell do you mean? it works just like eating anything else, you open your mouth, sink your teeth in, take a bite and chew. If you can bite, chew and swallow, you should be able to eat a watermelon."

And they agree that yes, they do know how to eat, in theory. The problem is the watermelon. Surely, if they figured out where to start, they'd figure out how to do it, but they have no clue how to get started with it.

This goes back and forth. No, it's not an emotional issue, they're not afraid of the watermelon. They can eat any other fruit, other sweet things, and other watery things ("it's watery?" they ask you). Is it the colour? Do they have a problem eating things that are green on the outside and red on the inside?

"It's red on the inside?"

Wait, they've never seen the inside? At this point you have to ask them how, exactly, they eat the watermelon. So to demonstrate, they take a whole, round, uncut watermelon, and try to bite straight into it. Even if they could bite through the crust, there's no way to get human jaws around it.

"Oh, you're supposed to cut it first. You cut the crust open and only chew through the insides."

And they had no idea. All their life this person has had no idea how to eat a watermelon, despite of being told again and again and again that it's easy, it's ridiculous to struggle with something so simple, there's no way that someone just can't eat a watermelon, how can you even mange to be bad at something as fucking simple as eating watermelon.

If someone can't do something after being repeatedly told to "just do it", there might be some key component missing that one side has no idea about, and the other side assumed was so obvious it goes without mention.

Yep.

https://drmaciver.substack.com/p/how-to-do-everything had a nice list of additional examples like this, with (non-)obvious major insights with regard to opening stitched bags, cleaning your bathroom floor, using a search engine, catching a ball, pinging somebody, proving a theorem, playing sudoku, passing as “normal”, improving your writing, generating novel ideas, and solving your problem.

My fiance played the clarinet when he was in school. When he was first learning to play, he rented an instrument from the school to learn on. He was the last chair clarinet, had been for years, because he could not make notes that required the register key. For years, they kept making him do embrature exercises and he started to get a few notes, with lots of effort. Eventually he had to get private lessons to stay in band.

Every time he tells me this story, his frustration by this point in the story, years later, is evident. He still sounds frustrated by it, despite all the time that passed. Teachers had been giving him crap for years because he hadn't been making much progress with the instrument.

When he got to the private instructor, she acknowledged his frustration, and asked him to try to play for her. He did, and she saw all he was doing. She then did something no one else had done before. She asked him to put his mouthpiece on a different clarinet and try to play the same notes. Like magic, it worked. She looked at the clarinet he had been using and found that the school's clarinet needed it's pads replaced.

He went from last chair to first chair nearly overnight, having been taught far more techniques than typically taught at that age just to overcome the broken instrument preventing him from making noise.

Sometimes you don't need to brute force a problem. Sometimes your clarinet is just broken.

Last thing to blog for the day then I need to pretend to be productive.  Little Miss has multiplication she’s still struggling with. Anyway - I was promoted at work and asked to fix the injury and accident problem in a particular warehouse.  I was “the safety guy” and I was really really good at my job. When I went in I had to find out “why are these folks having more injuries per 100,000 hours than the rest of our facilities” and so I dug in.  This facility was having 2 - 3 injuries reported A DAY.   Was it the people? Nope, same hiring pool as others.  Hours? Nope, almost every station has the same hours.  Lets check the training for our new hires.  Let me see their training packs.  “Uhh... let me find them”  Excuse me? You should be training them you should have them here with you.  Okay, what are the four options for loading a package?  “ummm....”  DUDE you’re supposed to be training these folks and you don’t know.  Who trained you?  “I never loaded before”  Okay fine, who trained you how to be a trainer.  “no one” ...  See where this is going?  So now all of a sudden I’m holding training classes for the top-level management team all the way down to the front-line supervisors to make sure THEY know the job that they’re supposed to be teaching to others.  We broke it all down to the very basics and slowly, day by day.  But you know what?  The first few months, reported on job injuries went up because we raised the awareness and stopped management team from hiding the injuries and just giving a couple days off.  We’re reporting them, recording them, getting treatment and care where needed.   Then we went a week with no injuries.   Then a month Darn broke out streak.  Why? What happened, where was the breakdown? Another week. A month WE MADE IT  A YEAR  Then another six months Then I got promoted again and replicated this across the country and that original operation went nearly 3 years without an injury.   So start at the very beginning if you’re having trouble with something or having trouble teaching someone something.  If they want to write, they have to be able to hold the pencil.  

I Am Not Your Asian American Doll: a comic for AAPI Heritage Month 2023

I usually spend a lot of time editing and fine-tuning my comics so that they come across as polite and inoffensive. But honestly, I’m really tired of the way Asian cultures and countries are treated / talked about while Asian people themselves are excluded, and thought it was about time I really let my rage out lol.

id in alt

I was thinking of making a few whump related things that we can all use:

1. A website where there can be competitions. (I also feel like it will feel more official to put peoples work on a website, its also good portfolio material.)

2. A pic-crew style website but you get to invent a scene. Like you start with an empty room and you can move stuff around and change the colours of the room and the people. Like a theatre meets the sims

3: I want to encourage people to make shit they can sell because I see so many AMAZING writings and art on here and, like me, you're probably worried your grandma's gonna see it if you post it on Instagram and you feel like you can't sell it because of this so, a Whump shop!

4. A prompt generator that randomly generated you with a scenario based on a whump genra, then random generated a whimper and a whumpee and an option to generate a caretaker, at the end the site merges them to give you an ultimate prompt.

Let me know what you think

It would be VERY helpful if you could guides could reblog this! If you have any ideas, shoot me an ask or put it in the comments.

Thank you!

officially decided that anyone who tries to divide the lgbt community is a fed. i dont care if you're not actually a fed, if you're causing infighting in a minority community then you're a fed who just isnt getting paid to be one. either apply for a job at the CIA or shut the fuck up

some people understood this post. some people revealed themselves to be feds

#except panse-- no shut up.#except asexu-- no shut up#youre a fed. a fed whos learned how to talk like a tumblrina#coming back to this because it makes me so mad. it always happens. theres a cycle to it of which posts get deemed okay and funny#quipping snotty pathetic little comments at the designated 'cringe gender cringe sexuality' like youre some kind of tumblr funnyman#when you all fucking sound the same. all the discourse buzzwords were hand selected for you by a person even meaner and slimier than you#youre a truscum and you dont like terfs? actually terfs are your best friends#youre a wounded person. wounded from people you cant hurt in return#and youre frothing. foaming at the mouth. to find someone who CAN be hurt by you. it feels good to be the bully for once  hey @seafoamplant​ I hope you don’t mind me borrowing your tags bc you fuckin NAILED it

Reblogging this because I still see people starting shit about mspec gays/lesbians unironically and y'all thats the same thing too.

Exclusion of good faith identities will never accomplish anything good and if you argue like a terf, you're basically a terf.

YASSS DEH SWEEP

dear evan hansen sucks ass and if you disagree you are very wrong

be more chill also sucks ass but at least their original cast had racial diversity.

I was a low verbal autistic kid that used plushies to communicate with people, and boy howdy did teachers/adults in general not like that past a certain age. Jokes on u fukkos, cool people absolutely adore seeing plushies just hangin out

Surnames are just as important as given names. So, I compiled a list of the websites I use to find my surnames.

For whoever needs these.

I NEED THE ITALIAN LAST NAMES SO BAD

We are like fireworks…: Surnames Master Post.

Chinese surnames

Indian surnames

Indonesian surnames

Pakistani surnames

Bengali surnames

Japanese surnames

Filipino surnames

Korean surnames

Syrian surnames

Mongolian naming and clan names

Thai surnames

Asia is not a single country.

actually hold on this is something ive always been curious about. i know so many people who HATE seafood and very few of them are poc or neurotypical and i feel like theres probably some kind of correlation there SO.

bonus points if you specify in the tags (e.g i'm mixed black and asian from australia, im neurodivergent and i fucking LOVE seafood. fish in particular. im eating a tuna sandwich as i type this.)

rb this btw im nosy

oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3/22/23, 32223, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3/23/23, 32323, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3/24/23, 32423, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3/25/23, 32523, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3/26/23, 32623, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3/27/23, 32723, palindrome day

oh shit, it's 3,28/23, 32823, palindrome day

well folks, we did it. we survived to day 9 of palindrome. 3/29/23, 32923, palindrome day the last.

I want to thank you all for being here when it happened.

my first post to go viral was the one where we all celebrated palindromes.

I wouldn't have it any other way.

peace and love on planet earth.

THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH

You know what’s such a good trope

When, in hurt comfort fics, the injured/sick one looks so vulnerable that the other characters have a realization about how small/young/fragile they are and get a renewed surge of protectiveness

especially when the character is big/old/strong on the surface!!!

because everyone has that terrified child inside them. imagine discovering it at someone’s lowest point, and the shame one might feel for seeing it without permission, or the relief the injured/sick one might feel upon finally being treated like somebody who needs help.

sigh. i'm back on lydia bennet.

let’s be friends with benefits. the benefits? you get to be friends with me

Cops are trained to be bad. Anyone who insists on being good is not welcome.

they need to make an emoji that's the 🤨 emoji but with sunglasses

compilation of the ones in the notes

I want to see how much of tumblr is ace

Pls reblog if u vote :)

They're having fun, trust me lol 💖

Context is my poll on twitter-