every morning i wake up and make the worst possible time management decisions anyone has ever made

IMAGE ID: A post from John Perricone that says:

Several years ago I invited a Buddhist monk to speak to my Senior elective class, and quite interestingly, as he entered the room, he didn't say a word (that caught everyone's attention). He just walked to the board and wrote this: "EVERYONE WANTS TO SAVE THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE WANTS TO HELP MOM DO THE DISHES." We all laughed. But then he went on to say this to my students:

"Statistically, it's highly unlikely that any of you will ever have the opportunity to run into a burning orphanage and rescue an infant. But, in the smallest gesture of kindness -- a warm smile, holding the door for the person behind you, shoveling the driveway of the elderly person next door -- you have committed an act of immeasurable profundity, because to each of us, our life is our universe."

This is my hope for you for the New Year -- that by your smallest acts of kindness, you will save an other's world.

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so here’s your regular reminder to not spend any money on this woman or her garbage franchise – that means no videogame, no books, no movies, no direct-to-hulu specials – even pirating the content gives her hatespeech more of a platform & exposes more people to her fascist propaganda.

consider, instead, donating a couple dollars to a trans woman in need, or a charity aimed at supporting trans youth.

I reblogged a similar post, but I’m reblogging this one for the links to actually HELP trans people, not tear them down like she wants you to.

When cats lie on their backs and look at you upside down with their little vampire tooth sticking out reblog if you agree

I wish I could blaze a post telling people to test their smoke alarms but I have literally no money so if y’all could help me spread this the old fashioned way

Test your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors

U.S. conservatives always talk about creating jobs but get SO MAD whenever anyone mentions banning prison labor like imagine the insane ammout of jobs that would be created literally overnight if companies in your country had to actually employ people instead of using slave labor from people that got caught with weed 10 years ago.

why was this so sweet, what did he expect people to say, "no mr. brian may from the band queen, you do NOT have permission to play the sea shanty, put down the guitar and go back to the astrophysics" like,,,, what a silly goose

"no mr brian may from the band queen, we absolutely do not want you to play sea shanties for us on your guitar so that we can all pretend we're Freddie Mercury, please stop asking"

this is such a weird vibe. the glasses on a chain hanging around his neck. the extremely 80s hair, but grey and grandpa-esque. the angle. the couch. the soft fuzzy blanket. the simply drum beat in the background. the absolute PHENOMENAL guitar. what a vibe.

There is nothing about this that has not filled me with squee.

Excuse you, that is DOCTOR Brian May. The man did not return to Imperial College after a thirty year break for you to disrespect him like this.

YOU hates terfs

rb if u hates terfs

— Emily Gorcenski, Source: https://twitter.com/EmilyGorcenski/status/1088180524504571908

I don’t think a lot of people understand that transphobia is, in fact, inherently racist.

it never would have occurred to me that transphobia has roots in racism or that TERFs are a gateway into white supremacy.

information like this is vital.

It’s inherently racist because it assumes all cultures follow the western concept of the absolute gender binary rooted in what genitals you have.

It’s also racist because it defines womanhood using conventionally attractive white women as the baseline.

Women who have facial hair, have thick or “excessive” body hair, have broad shoulders, have “masculine” facial features like angular jaws, have deep voices, are taller than “average”, have receding hairlines, are muscular, etc are immediately assumed to be men because they don’t fit white European ideals of womanhood. And these standards do affect white women of course, whether they’re cis or trans, but they mostly target Black and brown women.

There’s a reason why Black women, particularly athletes, are the ones who get targeted with so many accusations of being men. Why they’re expected to undergo hormone testing. Why they’re accused of having “excessive” testosterone. Why they’re expected to undergo physical examinations to “prove” that they’re “real” women.

Radical feminism, trans inclusive or not, is based around biological essentialist white supremacy whether radfems want to admit it or not.

Link

A reminder that this is what censorship leads to and that it wasn’t all that long ago when purity culture was going after ships that antis would consider to be “normal” today.

Also I thought Fiction Alley was that one archive that Msscribe got shut down with her shitstirring

This is what people tend not to realize when they complain about the Ao3 not havng all the bells and whistles, not offering a way for fic writers to make money, hosting content they don’t like,etc….AO3 just isn’t those things. Their whole existence and purpose is like a preservation site or a museum. Nothing stops you from hosting your content elsewhere and even if you never donate AO3 will be a place where your work will be preserved and protected that is it’s function and it’s a necessary function.

By all means host your work somewhere fancier where you can make money but try and value AO3 for what it is, a place where anyone fan fic writer –for better or for worse– can host there content and you will never be asked to remove your content for censorship reasons no matter what trend is currently rampaging through fandom.

As an aside, AO3 legally cannot offer a way to make money, because they are a non-profit organization. This is part of the reason why they’ve been largely left alone (and also the lawyers they have on retainer to fight those Fair Use issues like the one in the Twitter post) and why they will suspend accounts for mentioning commissions period. AO3 can get in legal trou le if they were allowing people to market themselves.

I can’t stress enough how you should not ever, ever mention, hint at or otherwise infer that a fic was commissioned on AO3. I’ve seen accounts get warnings even without a direct Patreon link.

Even if I felt comfortable with the idea of making money off fanwriting (which I don’t because I Was There, Gandalf and it’s still blowing my mind to have this flexibility) I would still rather have AO3 be my main hosting site than to support Wattpad and their lack of fucks to give about the rampant plagiarism.

Fascinating, and important to know. 

There are three pages of tags mentioning commissions if you search “commission” on AO3′s tag search. This is, bluntly, not good. If you have tagged it, delete the tag, delete anything in the fanwork notes that mention commissions, and never do it again. It is flatly against AO3′s Terms of Service because of all of the above.

Nothing wrong with doing fic comms, but they are NOT LEGAL, and you need to keep them on the DOWN LOW. DO NOT even breath a word about them on your AO3 unless you want your account nuked

Frankly, it’s probably wise to just. Never admit to doing commissions, ever.

Instead of “this fic was commissioned by Username,” say “this fic was requested by Username.” People give out fic prompts all the time; people request fics; gift fics:; etc. If you commission fics (which, oh my god, I personally would never) then for the love of God don’t admit to it. Don’t promote it. And certainly don’t ever even allude to it on AO3.

Know your history:

Gay:

LGBT:

Queer:

Homosexual

Think what you want, believe what you will, but every word we have ever used to describe ourselves is coated in blood.

Op ur so brave to assume people on this site can read well enough to get this

I actually talked to an older queer guy who said he was amazed to see how many young people call themselves gay. When he hears it, he just hears a slur…but he also said he was glad that people are able to reclaim it, and he’s happy to see a generation of lgbt+ people comfortable with it.

People on this site could learn from him

“… every word we have ever used to describe ourselves is coated in blood.”

wait wait i want to know about the group sitting in a circle behind the firefam on the roof i want to know their deal what shenanigans are THEY getting up to what’s THEIR show about

“There they are again,” Garcia mutters as Buckley comes up the stairs, the bitterness coating her words. “The darlings of the A-shift.”

“You think any of them know our names?” asks Parker, an expectant sort of grimace on his lips.

“Cap knows our names,” Travis offers.

“Cap has to know our names, dumbass, for like, legal purposes,” Parker replies, taking a sip of his hot chocolate, non-alcoholic, because they’re still on duty.

“The other day, I said to Diaz, I said, ‘Hey Diaz, cold morning, huh?’ and he’s all, ‘You got it, Tana,’” says Tara, not Tana.

The group groans sympathetically.

“Buckley once handed me his load of dirty laundry so he could chase after Wilson,” Garcia admits. “Never came back for it. Had to dump it in the laundry room. I think it’s still there, actually.”

“I gave Chimney his nickname,” laments Travis, and the group gapes at him. “And yesterday I overheard him telling a probie he gave it to himself because of some chimney he’d climbed into to daringly rescue someone.”

“That’s cold,” Tara says sympathetically, reaching over to squeeze his shoulder. “That’s full-on Travis erasure.”

“You ever feel like they get the more exciting calls?” Parker asks. “Like, they get to go giraffe-hunting and that same day we had to explain to a nine-month pregnant lady that she was having contractions, not intense period cramps.”

“I heard they have barbecues like, every week,” Tara says.

“I heard Wilson was like, a second away from becoming a doctor,” Garcia says.

“I heard Diaz made Buckley his son’s legal guardian,” Parker says.

Travis furrows his brows. “Well, yeah, aren’t they married?”

“Divorced,” Tara amends.

“No, fuckers, they’re literally just stupid,” Garcia assures them. “Act like they’re married and divorced sometimes but they’re just Like That.”

There’s a moment of silence.

“That sounds so annoying,” Tara finally says, and the rest of them make varying sounds of agreement.

“Maybe it’s better they don’t pay us any mind,” Parker finally seems to settle on. “No offense, but I’m pretty sure 90% of this station’s hospital stays are all them.”

“Oh, shit, yeah, like when Diaz was shot and stuff,” Garcia reminds them.

“Wait, I thought that was Cap?” Parker asks.

“Him, too.”

“So was Buckley, right?” Travis chimes in, and Garcia shakes her head.

“No, he was just held at gunpoint on a highway sign.”

“I don’t think I’ve seen a gun once in all my years as a firefighter,” Parker says. “And they’re coming across them like pennies on the ground?”

“They were drugged, too,” Tana — shit, Tara, her name is Tara — adds helpfully.

“Kidnapped.”

“Stalked.”

“Held hostage.”

“Joined illegal fight clubs.”

“Sued the department.”

“There was the rebar through the skull.”

“The faulty traffic light.”

“Did one of them steal our trucks for a minute there?”

“To have sex in them, yes.”

They’re all quiet for another second, until Travis finally sighs.

“Shoulda moved to the B-shift with Ravi,” he mutters.

The group agrees. The wind picks up.

omggggg

that kitty really went

It’s actually so fascinating watching its eyes expand and dilate

Ben Carson is such a great example of how the concept of raw intelligence doesn’t exist, and that people can have wildly varying types of intelligence. This man is the best brain surgeon in America. Possibly the world. He invented a new way to treat seizures. He separated conjoined twins in a surgery that everyone else said was impossible. And he thinks going to prison makes you gay. He thinks the pyramids were grain silos built by the biblical Joseph.

So maybe you suck at something because in one area you’re Ben Carson The Politician but in another area you might be Ben Carson The Neurosurgeon.

this is tremendously inspiring and utterly horrifying at the same time

When you spend all your skill points in medicine and have got nothing left for common sense.

PSA to New Tumblr Users

DON'T CENSOR YOUR TAGS. DON'T.

Write out 'Suicide' Write out 'Rape' Write out 'Abuse' & 'Assault' & 'Gore'

If you don't use the real words in your tags? People won't be able to filter those out and stay SAFE.

You need to tag properly to keep everyone safe.

Don't water down warnings just because social media has trained you to water them down.

lions are like transgendering lol

Explain

LOL theyre just transgedering :)

Game over, Republicans

TRANS PRIDE

This is trans chicken erasure culture

If something happens to a hen’s ovary and it ceases to function for whatever reason, the other gland will turn on, producing male sex hormones. The hen will grow longer and prettier feathers, a claw on their feet, a bigger comb, and they will begin to crow. Some, especially if they are influenced by other roosters, will begin to act aggressive, and protective over hens. The only way you can really tell if they were born a hen at that point is if you notice the rooster isn’t impregnating any females and by doing a blood test. Some people also say that their trans roosters tend to be a little bit sloppy at being a rooster if they didn’t have any roosters to teach them.

The Chicken are what

TRANS CHIMKEN