I’m literally #galaxybraining whenever Jewish texts accuse anything of being an idol I’m like! Oh shit 📝👀🔍

Callout Post For G-d: making an idol of G-d when he IS G-d? 🤔 Seems a bit polytheistic to me

G-d: be fruitful and multiply

G-d: but don’t make anything in my image

humans: uh….we’re in your image so our babies will be in your image too????

G-d (probably): um uh, um……..hey guess what new rule! Don’t eat from this tree

Find your REAL Angel name

• First two letters of your last name • First vowel of your first name • Third letter of your middle name (or parent’s first name if you don’t have a middle name • Last consonant of your last name • Add IEL or EL to the end!

Mcbodiel

Fuck no oh my Chuck no save me

Culyniel

Muanjel. Ohhhhhkay, NOPE. I want a cooler name!!!!

Hueiliel ~ the fuck, I love it

Baarriel. Uh. Nope.

Miariel

Oh

Miobriel… help me

Snaewel or Snaewiel

Wwowowwo

Tuosriel

How do you pronounce this?

Biandiel.

Saainiel. 

Haandel.

Duartiel

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ok oh jesus gather round:

so my best friend friendlyfern made me a profile picture today and i posted it with a little innocent weeb comment

and uh well i forgot my grandma cares way too much about what’s going on in my life so a few hours later…

aND THEN I SAW THIS

mY GRANDMA HAS A WAIFU THIS IS WHAT U FUCKING WEEABOOS HAVE DONE TO THIS COUNTRY

your grandma has good taste

why i quit competitive yugioh - part 1

“the metagame and konami’s business practices”

i used to convince myself that the main reason i quit yugioh four years ago because of how badly the game was balanced. i’ve long since realized that it wasn’t the main reason, but the way konami handles their game is laughable, quite hilarious, actually. with all of the shit they pulled and continue to pull, i’m surprised yugioh is still going.

~balance~

for one, i don’t think konami knows what “balance” even means. it means that new ideas and archetypes should be able to compete with older ones without centralizing or dominating the decks people play. clearly, konami doesn’t understand this, because its balance philosophy is “print more and more broken cards that outclass the old ones”. this happens every set. about every four months or so? from what i recall. sometimes they’ll breathe new life into older archetypes, only to make them just as broken and make them eclipse everything else. every set, there was always some new archetype, some new support, some new fad that got everyone’s attention. x-sabers, blackwings, infernity, six sams, plants, TGs, dark worlds, wind-ups, dino rabbit, mermail, fire fist, noble knights, dragon rulers, prophecy, evilswarm, bujin, HAT, and finally, before i quit, shadoll. that’s just the digest version of the four years i played. all of those decks went from “the new hotness” to “completely unplayable” just due to new cards replacing them. who knows what kind of shit runs around now, but i’ll bet most of those decks are completely worthless now.

~rarity hiking~

a standard pack of yugioh cards costs $3.99. in that pack, you get 9 cards, one card in the middle will always a rare, and the card right next to it could be something better. the rest are, usually, worth less than actual garbage. nowadays, pack odds have supposedly changed, maybe they’re better now, or something, but i doubt they’re still anywhere near fair. in yugioh, japan always gets the cards first; they’re usually an entire set ahead at any given point. this means that konami of america gets to see firsthand how the new cards affect the metagame, and will literally increase the rarity of some cards solely to sell more packs. pot of duality, a card released in late 2010, merely a super rare (1 in 6 at the time) in japan, was made into a secret rare (1 in 23, a rarity that didn’t even exist in japan originally) in the US. solemn warning, released in the same set, was a common in japan, and an ultra rare (1 in 12 at the time) over in the states. rescue rabbit, released in late 2011, was a rare (1 in every pack) in japan, and a secret rare over here. all of these cards (and many, many more) were extremely meta-defining and important, and were purposefully made harder to get over here because money. konami couldn’t just make money, they needed all the money. and don’t even get me started on fucking short prints, which were there only to make certain commons (that konami knew would be good) harder to find.

~TCG exclusives and kevin tewart, PR disaster~

yugioh is a game broken into two distinct halves, the TCG (trading card game) in the west, and the OCG (official card game) in the east. the two halves have never gotten along, and the OCG always gets the cards first. someone at konami of america had the brilliant idea of introducing TCG exclusive cards in the new sets so there would be something more to look forward to, something to differentiate the TCG more from the OCG. problem is, TCG exclusives are so polarized in their rarities and power levels. sometimes they’re complete trash, other times they’re the best cards in the game. because konami of america gets to control this, they also have power over what rarities these cards are, and, you guessed it, most of them are secret rares. from tour guide of the underworld and reborn tengu to the noble knight, burning abyss, and SPYRAL archetypes, TCG exclusives got way out of hand really fast, and show no signs of stopping, according to people i know who still play.

not sure if he’s still working at konami of america or not, but a man named kevin tewart was the community director back when i played. he was…pretty shitty, and would blatantly misinterpret the rules in order to sell more packs. when Xyz monsters first hit the states, we’d already known due to konami’s official announcements from japan that the “xyz materials” on a monster didn’t count as “on the field” and were their own separate entity. mr. tewart, the wise sage that he was, decided to completely disregard this rule, making xyz materials count as “on the field” in the TCG, simply to sell more ‘tour guides of the underworld’. i can’t think of any other possible reason, because “faulty translation” is unacceptable considering people editing the fucking wiki do a better job at it.

~the banlist~

i’m convinced that yugioh can never be fixed at this point without some kind of major overhaul. they tried with link summons, i think, but that didn’t stop the core problem of the overwhelming amount of cards in the game. yugioh operates off a forbidden/limited list that changes every six months. normally you can have up to 3 of a card in your deck, but konami will limit cards to 2 or 1, or simply ban them from tournament play. seems nice, right? but, remember what i said earlier, about releasing more and more bullshit just to sell packs? well, konami also has a bad track record with its banlist, making very questionable decisions, but also kicking its playerbase in the teeth when it limits and bans the broken cards it just made. sometimes it takes up to six months, but other times, konami will just “emergency ban” a card that’s too broken. a card that they made, knowing full well it would be broken. suddenly, without warning, cards you spent a lot of money getting or traded a lot of cards for become useless. the most recent example of this (iirc) is a few cards from the performapal archetype, which were hit with emergency banlist action not even two months after the set they came out in was sold in stores. 

~the upkeep of being competitive~

so, to recap, konami prints bullshit cards to sell more packs, jacks up the rarities of those cards to artificially inflate the amount of cards people buy, then can ban them without warning, making people lose tons of money. seems good, right? in order to be competitive at the game, you need to constantly have the best deck (i.e. whatever broken deck konami decides to rarity hike this time), and the cornerstone cards of those decks will be incredibly hard to find. these decks are so strong that they can win by themselves. these “autopilot” decks, like dragon rulers, fire fist, blackwings, you name it, were universally shunned by the community, but were still played because they won. we’ll get into what that means later.

now, i know that you can win with “tier 2″ decks. it’s happened many times. there have been upsets, dark worlds won a YCS once, yadda yadda. however, one thing to note is that these decks, while infinitely cheaper to make, usually still require some amount of “competitive” cards that konami has decided to gatekeep away from people. in the dark worlds deck that won the YCS, it used a fair number of older cards, skill drain and dragged down to name a few, that were hard to find and still somewhat expensive. it essentially requires a pre-existing collection, which is why it’s so hard for new people to get into the game. these decks are also a lot harder to play and require more practice, more stress, and more time to perfect and pilot correctly. and i applaud those people. there’s nothing wrong with that. however, getting these cards without rolling the dice on card packs….oh boy. that’s for part 2.

I had to unfollow a blog today because they said autism “wasn’t a disability” and referred to the considering of autism as a disability as a negative, damaging thing.

I am on board with autism being regarded as just a different neurotype–to me it isn’t a disease, an illness or even a disorder. It’s just a word that describes how my brain works and certain similarities I may have with other people who also possess that neurotype.

But, in a world created by, created for and dominated by allistics and the needs of allistics, with allistic expectations for my behaviour and social interactions, and allistic-favoured composition of the settings that surround me, autism is to me a disability. Autism combined with social anxiety means I mumble, which has made a few social situations difficult and stressful. The sensory processing disorder that comes with autism means I can’t bear it when people wear perfume. The prosopagnosia that comes with autism means I can’t remember faces and can’t match names to faces. The sensory processing disorder that comes with autism means I can’t process sound in a loud environment, meaning that I can’t follow conversations. The difficulty I have with spoken communication when stressed or tired, solely a factor of autism, has resulted in my being abused. I had to quit a retail job in part because of customers being unhappy with my facial expressions, expressions that don’t fit allistic norms. And so on, so on, so on. There are many things I cannot do, or cannot do easily, or can only do in certain circumstances or with certain supports, or cannot do in the ways expected of me, because of autism–and yet society unfairly and unquestioningly expects everything I listed above to not be any kind of difficulty. Society seldom even comprehends the difficulty in all of the above, never mind providing suitable and accessible supports in order that I can more easily interact with the world or be understood by it.

All of this is exactly the same as my experiences for my other main disability–chronic pain. Something else that also means there are many things I cannot do, or cannot do easily, or can only do in certain circumstances or with certain supports, or cannot do in the ways expected of me, despite society expecting me to navigate all its demands while unaffected by pain. Something else that is seldom comprehended by society, and something else that doesn’t result in my receiving suitable and accessible supports so I can more easily interact with the world.

The social disability model gives me a pretty clear map for regarding autism as a disability, because it is not accommodated by society in any significant way, and that lack of accommodation is what so often makes a wide variety of disabilities disabling. If my pain were fully accepted and accommodated by society, if I had free access to a variety of technological aids and human supports, it wouldn’t disable me anywhere near as much as it does–it might not even disable me at all. But I don’t have those things, and so it does. Autism isn’t any different.

If we lived in a world where providing for the needs that accompany my neurotype were as commonly accepted as the provision of clothing against freezing or burning (and clothing is an accessibility aid, for it lets us do many things we cannot do without it), then no, I wouldn’t consider it a disability.

I don’t live in that world.

Maybe you don’t consider autism having any relationship to disability, and that’s fine. But please, please don’t erase those of us who do consider autism a disability. Please don’t treat our considering autism a disability as a bad thing that should be corrected or stopped. I don’t regard autism as a disability from a place of negativity. I don’t want to be allistic; if I had the opportunity to become allistic, I wouldn’t take it. Autism shapes how I create and how I think; it is far too entangled in my creativity and identity for me to choose not to have the struggles that come with it. Yet I have needs that still go misunderstood and unaccommodated by wider society, and that is too close to my experiences with chronic pain for it not to be, to me, disability. That’s all it is.

The framework of disability is how I make sense of who I am as an autistic in a world that is set on trying to erase my struggles and provide me the least amount of recognition and support possible. It isn’t a negative thing any more than calling my chronic pain a disability is a negative thing. Disability is, in fact, an empowering term that gives me understanding, connection and community. Rejecting it won’t support me–it only does me damage.

If you want to separate yourself from that, by all means do so–for you.

Please don’t deny me that framework and identity, as someone who considers myself disabled in part because I am autistic.

I don’t live in that world.

That right there is what it all comes down to.

God, thank you. I just saw someone do the same thing on a FB group, and everyone’s nodding and agreeing, and I can just tell if I say what you said (though not as well-put as yours), I’ll set off a shitstorm. 

I don’t know if this helps beyond an expression of sympathy, but I quietly unfollowed the blog in question and made an unconnected post just to avoid the debate and arguments I don’t have spoons for. I too had this feeling that it would end badly if I replied directly. I didn’t even put this post in the #actuallyautistic tag from that fear; I am extremely relived to see the positive responses to this.

I don’t have words to describe just how relieved I am, honestly. Writing this post terrified me. It shouldn’t be an unsafe thing to say, but it very much felt as though it was.

It seems to me that “not a disability” is perhaps the progressive-feeling upshot of “not an illness/not a disease” to some, and perhaps that works for an individual’s relationship to autism and disability, but to push it as a community-wide belief is dangerous to me.

I can’t help but wonder if there is also a quiet ableism behind the disconnect with “disability” on a community level—that disability is still a bad word we should reject, that we are not disabled (unlike those other people). Something that throws our DD cousins, autistics with greater inability to fit into allistic society and otherwise-disabled autistics under the bus. If we argue that we autistics belong in general ND spaces, that we have experiences in common with other developmental disabilities in particular, then how can we discard the word disability on a community level without causing damage to others?

The more I think about this, the scarier it feels.

“I can’t help but wonder if there is also a quiet ableism behind the disconnect with “disability” on a community level—that disability is still a bad word we should reject, that we are not disabled (unlike those other people). Something that throws our DD cousins, autistics with greater inability to fit into allistic society and otherwise-disabled autistics under the bus. If we argue that we autistics belong in general ND spaces, that we have experiences in common with other developmental disabilities in particular, then how can we discard the word disability on a community level without causing damage to others? ”

Yes .

it happen . a lot . from autism People . with very big voices . almost all autism People . on internet and not . have some measure of this .

this is part of what the pixie calls . ASAN People , because of where such ideas most often come from .

it is so very like . what many “ normal ” homosexual People done ( and still do ) to noticeable queer and trans People .

it is DANGEROUS .

this hurt everybody .

this kills most fragile People in Community .

this destroy all possibles of ANYBODY having any safety .

evil comes first for the People nobody hears .

evil comes first for the People nobody hears .

Pixie is a hundred percent right and this is exactly why we should make sure she and every other unheard autistic are heard.

It’s respectability politics, pure and simple, and we have so, so many examples of exactly who gets hurt most from it that there’s no excuse anymore.

Developmental disabilities are called disabilities for a reason, and saying that someone who’s autistic isn’t disabled by living in a neurotypical world denies us the language we need to describe our experiences and fight for our right to live happily and healthily.

Disability isn’t a bad thing, and if you feel uncomfortable and disgusted by being under the same label as people who are nonverbal, or need full-time care, or wear diapers, or have meltdowns or stim in public, or any other thing that can’t be hidden away out of shame, then you need to stop immediately and think hard about why exactly you think anyone who does or experiences these things is worth less than you.

“Are you saying that murderers are right in the head??”

No there’s definitely something wrong with someone’s way of thinking if they can justify killing innocent people, but this doesn’t necessarily mean that they have a mental illness.

Extremist beliefs isn’t a mental illness.

Bigotry isn’t a mental illness.

Entitlement isn’t a mental illness.

Hate isn’t a mental illness.

Having a dysfunctional moral compass isn’t a mental illness.

We need to stop categorizing all these things as some undefinable “mental illness” and start looking at what we do as a society to develop and justify these things to a degree where people use them to justify killing.

ANGER IS NOT A MENTAL ILLNESS

Dissociation feels

Welcome to my

*grabs your dick and twists it like an Indian sunburn*

TWISTED mind

This is a post for Bigmeatted individuals. Smallmeats don’t interact

why would you make a post youre excluded from

This was supposed to be private

I didn’t say this

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okay but this is a power move above any other

It gets even better, because he was doing all of this on a pitch black night. This dude swam towards a lure, slapped at it with his glove, and when it got caught; he let himself float and tugged on the line so the fisherman thought he had hooked a 100+ pound salmon. Once he was finally up to the shore, he turned a flashlight on in the guy’s face and walked out of the water, saying “good morning, gentlemen. State fish and game warden, you’re under arrest.“

At this point, the guy who had reeled him in had literally fallen over in shock, and the other people with him were scared shitless. The warden whipped some citations out of a plastic bag in his wetsuit, made the trespassers sign them, asked if they had any questions, and then gathered all of their fishing gear. And he just. Walked back into the river. And quietly swam away, without another word.

This man is a legend.

warden coming out of his river to shame fishermankind

I need more body positivity on my dash

Posting to my main that I barely use so people will see this! Please comment on this post if you are specifically abbody positive/fat positive blog or a fat blogger who posts about body positivity, I want to follow you! Everyone else please feel free to reblog this so more people can see it! I’m thinking of making a body positivity sideblog too so feel free to hmu if you’re interested in that!

Took my african dad to see Black Panther

*no spoilers*

He does not like superhero movies and normally he falls asleep in the cinema. But not this time, he was on the edge of his seat and he said that he didn’t wanna miss a single moment. He absolutely loved the movie, the first thing he did when we got home was to call his african friend, yelling at him to go watch it as soon as possible. The second thing he did was ask me when the sequel will be out.

I asked my dad what he liked about the movie and he said everything. He loved that almost everyone was black and that they spoke Xhosa. He was so happy that they captured what life is actually like in many african cities in those scenes when they were walking around in wakanda. Seeing the people sit in cafes, buying food from food stands, kids running around with school bags, just people living their everyday life all the while being unapologetically african. He said he felt as if he was back home. And he was so happy that there finally was a movie where africans weren’t starving, or warlords, or dealing drugs. He told me that this is the kind of movie he has wanted to see for years, not alluding to the superhero stuff but the fact that they portray africans the same way that most if not all movies portray white people and not criminalize or dehumanize them but uplifting them. He loved every single character and especially M’Baku but his absolute favourite was the Queen mother Ramonda because she was so calm and collected while simultaneously being this strong queen. My dad, coming from a culture that really uplifts and value mothers and holds them above all, felt like the movie really captured that in Ramonda and that’s why he loved her.

He loved the soundtrack and how they mixed in djembe drums and traditional african singing with modern western music and he loved the costumes because a lot of the clothes look like the things people are wearing at all the african parties we go to.

The only complaint my dad had was that the sound was to high, which was his own fault for insisting that he sit at the end of the row right next to one of the speakers.

So yeah, representation do matter. I’ve never in my life seen him so happy about a movie. And he wanted to talk about it after it had ended which never happens normally. We joked around with the idea of him being a wakandan wardog stationed here and we did Shuris and T’Challas little handshake saying that is the only way we will now greet other africans. This movie gave my dad pure joy and happiness and it gave us a bonding opportunity because we finally have something that we both could geek out about.

[Image is of the word ‘Important!’ written in purple, in all caps, underlined, and with a small doodle in the left-hand corner.]

The doodle is a “mini”, a small drawn version of the girl who drew the picture!!

it’s arospec awareness week

be aware of me. be very aware.

This shit is too dope

Dont watch lord of the rings high off your tits. This shit will blow your mind away. God look at those little guys go

is there a way to queue a post directly into your mind because i want to remember this post at least once every hour for the rest of my life

please raise your children to wash their hands after they use the restroom I’ve watched too many men walk straight out of the bathroom from the stall without a second thought and it’s keeping me up at night

I mean if you taking a piss who cares if you don’t wash your hands, unless you just like go full power and spray yourself like a out of control fire hose

stay the fuck away from me

people who wash their hands after peeing are weak and must be culled

The only excuse for not washing your hands after you piss is mastering the art of pissing without touching your genitals.

You wash your hands every time you touch your dick? How grimy is your dick?

I’m literally never shaking a man’s hand ever again in my life y'all need jesus

remember how i told y'all?

(they don’t wash their hands after shitting either)

What I’m learning is that men are the reason for “employees must wash their hands” signs and why I never put 2 and 2 together is beyond me

Just out of curiosity, do yall wash your hands every time you touch your arm or the back of your hand or any other part if your body?

wash your fucking hands, dickfingers mcgee

what the fuck is wrong with these dudes bruh

I want to spray this post with Lysol

AHEM.

“According to epidemiologist Richard T. Ellison III, it doesn’t matter what you do in the bathroom when it comes to keeping your hands clean. ‘The rationale is that when toileting, it’s possible to have fecal material and fecal bacteria get onto your hands … So it’s wisest to always wash with soap and water even after urinating. Neither plain water nor alcohol hand sanitizers are effective at removing fecal material or killing bacteria in fecal material.’ 

“According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, handwashing can prevent various illnesses and infections. Ellison added that it can also keep us from coming in contact with E. Coli and hepatitis.This is especially important for men to bear in mind because of perianal sweat. This type of sweat forms around the perianal area, which is the patch of skin outside the rectum. It can then spread to one’s underwear and to other parts of the body like the penis. Biology professor Pat Fidopiastis explained, ‘The point is that simply touching the penis in an effort to direct your urine flow can be more than enough to transfer harmful microbes to your hands, and then on to the pretzels sitting in bowl on the bar.’“

WASH.

YOUR.

HANDS.