VERIFIED GOFUNDME ME LIST #8

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You know what’s always bothered me about this intro?

That’s not a raven.

[ x ]

HI. SEVEN YEARS LATER I JUST REALIZED

it’s Eadweard Muybridge’s Bird in Flight.

GOODBYE

Extremely funny as a USAmerican reading this but also hell yeah

Unmute

I've posted this before, but every time I've seen it since I can't stop watching it repeat over and over. Like the man says, "Unmute"

Mutuals do this.

this guy is so unbelievably good at making music videos of himself dancing with himself in different outfits

i had a dream that time travel was invented and too many people choose to travel back in time to save the titanic from sinking (the question of whether unsinking of the titanic deserved so much attention in the face of human history was the subject of both heavy academic and online discourse), which caused a rift in the space-time-continuum that led to the titanic showing up indiscriminately all over the world’s oceans and sea in various states of sinking.

this caused a lot of issues both in terms of fixing said space-time-continuum and in terms of nautical navigation, and after a long and heavy battle in the international maritime organization it was decided that the bureaucratic burden of dealing with this was to be upon Ireland, much to their dismay. the Irish Government then released an app for all sailors and seafarers so they could report titanic sightings during their journeys, even though they heavily dissuaded you from reporting them given the paperwork it caused.

anyway i woke up with a clear image of the app in my head and needed to recreate it for all of you:

no you don't understand. i do international regulation of emerging technologies for a living. this WAS me stress dreaming about work

Everyone is so weird about people who cry easily. Fellas, is it evil and manipulative to *checks notes* have an involuntary stress response?

I had to get used to this with my wife. She has parents that were very supportive of her emotional well-being as a kid, and thus cries easily because she was never shamed for it.

Don’t shame people for showing their emotions. I get it, I do: my instinct when someone cries is to freak out because a) in my family the only way you were allowed to cry was if you were Really Badly Hurt, so seeing someone else cry sets off alarms in my head and b) my other instinct is to stop her from crying before Someone Else Sees, because they’ll be angry and mock her for it. But that’s my shit! I gotta deal with that! Her crying is lovely and wonderful because it means she feels safe enough in the world and with me to express those emotions.

(ALSO: if you are like me and just Can’t Fucking Cry, even when you’re really upset, you gotta find other ways to communicate that to someone who is used to crying. Because like, they’re used to people crying as an indicator of upset, and if they don’t see that, they’re maybe not gonna know that you are! I’ve gotten in the habit of saying aloud, “if I could cry, I would be crying right now.”)

I'm sure others have made the point by now but also: being calm and respectful about someone crying is also the perfect counterspell to performative/manipulative crying anyway.

If someone is in the middle of an argument and they start crying as an involuntary stress response, they'll probably be pretty relieved to be respectfully asked, "Do you need a moment to collect yourself?"

If they were seeking a fawn-response or an "automatic argument end/win," they're not getting it, but in a respectful way they'd have to really work to feel victimized about.

And if the truth is (as is so common) somewhere in between, it gives them a chance to step back sort their shit out--which is not a gift offered by either "I gotta make them stop crying (fawn version)" or "I gotta make them stop crying (angry version)"

! URGENT PLEASE HELP !

Today (Tuesday September 24th, 2024), pest control visited and declared my flat unliveable. They told my landlady that she has to shut it down, so she's given me until the end of the week to find a new place. I am broke and unemployed so that will be more than a smidge difficult, so if anyone who sees this could spare some money towards helping me be able to make a deposit and find a new place, I would greatly appreciate it. Only do so if you can spare it, I know there are people worse off than me.

every day i regret getting my cats a tree thats nearly as tall as the ceiling because they look down on me like a medieval prince watching the peasants toil in the field

literally sketched what he looks like right this moment. who does he think he is

genuinely, i think watching live theatre can improve your media literacy so much

like people who look at doctor who and are like 'lol the effects are so rubbish'

maybe watch a stage play where there's no backdrops and half the characters are played by the same three guys in different hats and maybe you will calm down

People who were raised on Marvel movies simply don’t understand the beauty of a well made and executed practical effect

You ever seen a person in all black operating a bird puppet? No you haven’t because we’ve all agreed to ignore the people dressed in all black. That’s a bird.

The struggle is real

A lot of people were asking for a reversed version and I am nothing but a man of the people 🫡

Lil trans rat pixel art!

Ok but what if trans rat was animated?

I’ve been waiting a year to post this

"victims should be able to kill their abusers"

But do you think victims should be able to have affordable housing? Should they have have access to well funded shelters that actually have spaces available? To be able to access social welfare without needing to disclose traumatic events? To not get caught up in vicious cycles of discrimination and poverty which make people vulnerable to abuse in the first place?

As a feminist and an abolitionist the mindset that you can neatly divide the world into victims and abusers, that sexual violence is a personal and moral failing, that you just need to get the bad guys, rather than a structural feature of the patriarchy, is something I oppose. The obsession with punishment and revenge will lead to the expansion of prisons when victims need support and care instead.

I'd highly recommend reading Sisters Uncut Feministo for a short read or Feminism Interrupted by Lola Olufemi for a longer one

the sexless lesbians who say every horny thought makes them "no better than a man" might kill me for this but regarding chappell roan's ass in the tight chainmail and thigh-high plate armor forming a pseudo-garterbelt situation, it needs to be said: AWOOGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA HUBBA HUBBA WOWEEEEEEEEEEEEE HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

it felt important to add a visual aid to this post

I just want queer safety and queer happiness

and a queer $500k

self-recognition through the other (concerned)

damn. that guy needs help. yes i'm sure. no i'm not telling you why.

dont be afraid to be a cunt ... its the only thing we have left ...