I, of mostly sound body and spirit, request that if I’m ever to die, someone post a new work on my AO3 that says “sorry, she died, ongoing stories postponed forever” because don’t I want my fanfic buddies to think I ghosted them. Amen or whatever you say in a will.
This was written as a joke, but for those who don't know, this is an actual optional service that AO3 provides called Fannish Next of Kin.
being a writer leads to a genuinely helpful but also very stupid kind of mindfulness where you'll be having a sobbing breakdown or the worst anxiety attack of your life and think "okay, I really need to pay attention to how this feels. so I can incorporate it into my fanfiction."
- Yes, this is stupid
- It does work to disrupt unhelpful behavior
- If it's Stupid but it works, its not stupid.
disabled people are worth whatever cost or resources is needed to keep them alive. disabled people are worth it even if they don't live long. they're worth it even if they will need extra support and resources for every day of their life. they're worth it even if they spend all they life indoors. none of it is wasted. none of it is in vain. time, effort, money, resources spent on a life are not wasted. these things have served their purpose. the joy of someone's existence is not undermined by not lasting forever. there's no meaningful point, some threshold where you can say "okay this is enough. after that it's not worth it." it's always worth it.
This is resonating deeply with me today. People have constantly been blocking the ramp out of my apartment lately and it makes me feel like I am not worth the effort. I'm glad there are still people who think otherwise
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Imagine having an alien encounter, but the first person who makes contact has no idea what the fuck these creatures are or why they're in her backyard, and when they try to approach her she just gives the first one a brisk open palm slap across what she figures must be this creature's face. And the alien just goes "oh woah that's sharp. I like it." And they start looking for more people who do that.
Gradually they start mapping out which humans are most likely to just flat-out slap them, and figuring out how much of it is nature vs. nurture, start introducing the hardest slappers to each other, with a surprisingly good success rates as the kind of people who would be down to slap an alien life form are also the kind of people who are down shag somebody who would also do shit like that. While some people insist that these "breeding programs" are dehumanising and an insult to human dignity, the people who would slap an alien without hesitation are treating it like a free matchmaking service, that works better for them than Tinder anyway.
Eventually the descendants of the most powerful slappers have developed into a distinct new type of human, who have honed their slapping skills and capabilities to perfection, and any alien who isn't experienced with getting slapped by humans could no longer handle it, and one brisk smack would just make their head explode.
And that's pretty much what humans did to chili.
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Studies show that approaching youth with a bystander-intervention model is actually a lot more effective for reducing sexual assault, and it is also more enthusiastically received than programs that bill themselves as anti-rape.
We can tell youth that they are basically “rapists waiting to happen” (anti-rape initiative), or we can tell them that we know they would intervene if they saw harm happening to someone and we want to help empower them to do that (bystander intervention). The kids jump in with both feet for the latter! It was amazing to see children (and young boys in particular) excited to do this work and engage their creativity with it. Also, studies show that not only do they go on to intervene, but they also do not go on to sexually assault people themselves. Bystander intervention also takes the onus off the person being targeted to deter rape and empowers the collective to do something about it. It answers the question in the room when giggling boys are carrying an unconscious young woman up the stairs at a house party, and people are not sure how to respond and are waiting for “someone” to say or do something.
Richard M. Wright, “Rehearsing Consent Culture: Revolutionary Playtime” in the anthology Ask: Building Consent Culture edited by Kitty Stryker
This is also, btw, how the US drastically reduced drunk driving in the US. Telling people they shouldn’t drive when intoxicated made absolutely zero difference. A slogan-and-ad-campaign for “Friends don’t let friends drive drunk!” changed drinking culture. Going after the bystanders is quite often the most effective thing to do in any social change.
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i really like looking at google image searches for “firemen rescuing cats” or something because you get super cute pictures like
AND THEN THERE’S THIS ONE
mufasamonsta
“THAT’S RIGHT TWAS I that set the house ablaze!!!”
Dying.
Every fucking time I know what’s at the bottom and every time I still lose my shit.
I’m so happy this post is back again asdlkfjsa
HAPPY TEN YEARS TO “TWAS I THAT SET THE HOUSE ABLAZE”
while they share a similar base flavor, dick tastes more umami while pussy tastes more acidic, though recent menstruation conveys an overwhelming metallic flavor that some diners object to (though i am not one of them). recommended wine pairings are
(today i learnt that if you don’t know how a post should end, just post it unfinished anyway and someone else will come up with an ending)
We talk about this website's hate mail game, but the "yes, and..." game is pretty solid, too.
tumblr please stop telling me to wd40 a mouse
If you have the time and flexibility, you can also try out libreoffice.
Just did this on November 14th, 2024, so this is very current!
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Somehow got a fellowship for teaching people how to build and train AI and I literally have not programmed or made any piece of software since COLLEGE and they KNOW THAT and they were like “yeah but you have that fancy pants degree so dust off that ole math brain and get to work”
Cool pay my bills then
Also I just wanna point out that yall don’t act like this towards gas station workers or Walmart employees 🤔🤔🤔🤔 so I’m left wondering if it’s actually the environment you’re mad about here
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The Four Sacred Artistic Motives:
-what if this bad thing was good instead
-how about Make-Believe Land can have whatever I want
-would that be fucked up or what
-I think that shit's hot
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outdoor cat defenders really are simply some of the most Delusional people on the planet, like you can list fact after fact all with verified sources about how bad it is to let cats outside for both them & the environment around them and people will cover their ears and be like "umm not my frumpkins he knows not to play in traffic & he has magical resistance to coyotes and disease"
thinking back to the time that a random girl told me how her cat would always find injured wildlife and bring them to her to try and heal them.
the mental gymnastics genuinely had me speechless