A scientist is always fine

Girls will be like “oh I’m just running quick some errands” and then spend all day in the wetlands appreciating the unique flora and fauna

me reading the bunker's terminal in fallout 4

This shit terrifies me more than AI.

What could be worse than a billionaire putting a chip into your brain, who the fuck knows what they’ll do with it.

can’t wait for my thoughts to be interrupted by 30 second Spotify ads

I cannot begin to emphasize enough how much the problem with neuralink is that they DON'T USE NEUROTURGICAL SUPPLIES AND ALL THEIR TEST ANIMALS DIED HORRIBLY AS A RESULT

Like, yes, the Spotify ad jokes are funny.

But they miss the point.

This is a scam to torture and kill the disabled in exchange for investor money. It's straight up eugenics.

They aren't just 'putting a chip in your brain,' they're also putting in toxic adhesives meant for skin, loose bolts that drift around shredding brain tissue, and more.

In a normal experiment, the unforeseen death of a single test monkey is grounds to halt the entire experiment.

Dozens of test monkeys died for Musk, but because of his fame and money, his experiment was allowed to keep killing monkeys, and now he's moved on to killing humans.

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"I could be really brash and really loud and really dressed however I wanted to and almost made [Chappell] on purpose a drag version of myself so I can be whatever I want. It allows me to feel really safe exploring those aspects of myself. I’d never be able to do that if I took myself super seriously with pop. I think that the project has allowed me to be a part of the queer community in a deeper way because I'm not observing from the outside anymore. I feel like I'm in it. I am the queer community–it's allowed me to just feel queer, feel like a queer person and feel freedom in that."

"Famine is a useful word when you do not wish to use words like 'genocide' and 'extermination'."

- Frank O'Connor, Irish author.

I wish the world worked like it did in the stardew valley universe. If I'm strapped for cash I should be able to go grab some blackberries off the nearest roadside bush and go sell them to a grocery store for a quick ten bucks. I should be able to think "huh I wanna go talk to the wizard today" and then I go talk to the wizard in his wizard tower

new shirt ideas

things that made me stop wanting to die that require no effort whatsoever

Almost all of these are about variety. Humans need stimulation! We need enrichment! We literally cannot do the same thing every day!

The other day I was feeling miserable, so I hopped on a bus and rode it all the way back to where I’d started, and my brain, which had finally had some proper stimulation via new environments, was suddenly ready to go again!

This is why taking walks/drives and trying new hobbies are good for you! Don’t turn yourself into a sad zoo animal! You need some pumpkins to roll around in your enclosure!

ITS BACK!!!!!

god i fucking love the quote “dont turn yourself into a sad zoo animal” it has really inspired me!

Try a different hot drink in the morning!

Text someone you haven’t in a while!

Wear a fancy outfit while you have dinner!

Watch and episode of a show you used to love!!

thinking about “to know how it ends but still begin to sing it again” and “it’s a story about someone who tries” and “we raise our cups to orpheus not because he succeeds but because he tries. we understand implicitly that there’s value in his trying and even in his failure.” and “it’s a sad song but we keep singing even so.” even when you fail there is value in the fact that you tried and that you believed enough in your goal to try despite knowing you might fail. it is worthwhile to try, because you never know. maybe it will turn out this time! perseverance despite the odds is worth celebrating even if it ends in failure. success is not the only thing that matters. and you never know that the ripple effect of your actions might be. orpheus does not recuse eurydice but he succeeds in helping spring to come again and potentially in preventing other people from losing their loved ones as he did, and that is a good outcome. we do not see the effect he had on the other workers in hadestown. yes, orpheus failed, but maybe if they sing it again someone else will succeed. someone has to keep telling the story.

"I could be really brash and really loud and really dressed however I wanted to and almost made [Chappell] on purpose a drag version of myself so I can be whatever I want. It allows me to feel really safe exploring those aspects of myself. I’d never be able to do that if I took myself super seriously with pop. I think that the project has allowed me to be a part of the queer community in a deeper way because I'm not observing from the outside anymore. I feel like I'm in it. I am the queer community–it's allowed me to just feel queer, feel like a queer person and feel freedom in that."

Creature party

You lot see a woman dating a camp or "effeminate" man and go "haha does she know she's a beard" as if bi men don't exist and don't have cause to subvert gender norms/have a complicated relationship with masculinity, regardless of who they're dating.

There’s also this implication that these women who date “effeminate” men can’t be genuinely attracted to them and are naive and oblivious towards their effeminacy. It a complete refusal to acknowledge that not only do gnc bi men exist, but women can be and are actually attracted to them. There doesn’t have to be settling or smoke screens in the relationship for it to work.

The "opposite" is also true! You see men dating "masculine" or butch women and people be like "lmao we know who wears the pants in that relationship" like Let women date "feminine" men and let men date "masculine" women. It's none of your business. Leave them alone. No one's lying to anyone.

Both of the points are so *chef kiss* perfecto. Thank you!

Also straight people absolutely can be gender non-conforming. We really need to normalize that gender non-conformity isn’t just for same gender attracted people, nobody of any sexuality has to adhere to any gender norms. Gender non-conformity is for everybody.

Sexuality and gender expression are two separate things.

People who are some flavor of queer are much more likely to be GNC in my experience, but I think that's because the questioning/breaking of gender norms that is required to be queer and accept your queerness makes it easier to break other norms. Also, as seen above, gender non-conformanced tends to be more policed during m/f dating with straight people, from inside and/or outside of the relationship.

My partner is a bi cis man and I've talked to him about his relationships and it seems like often his cis female partners expected a certain performance of masculinity from him (there are some things in our relationship that he never got to do in other relationships, like try out being the little spoon). I think these same norms are not necessary true between queer m/f relationships (bi/bi, t4t, ace/aro, etc) and some totally straight non-LGBTQ people will question and break gender norms. But tere's a whole social system pushing people not to break gender norms, or if they do putting them in the butch lesbian or effeminate gay man role (then making fun of those roles :/). So there isn't room given for people to be GNC in m/f relationships, y society or sometimes from policing within the relationship itself, though that policing is also driven by society.

We have a long, long ways to go when it comes to accepting GNC people.

a lil doodle compilation of the SDV Bachelorettes i’ve done through the year.

Emily, Haley, Leah

Abigail, Penny, Maru

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me every day without fail: I'll do [chore] when I get home

me when I get home:

me every single week: I'll do it on the weekend!

me the entire weekend:

Ella Purnell plays characters who have no idea what the fuck is going on

I think people have forgotten what an album is supposed to be

hey boss i can't come in today it's a sunny day and there's a lovely breeze coming in through my window, yeah it's rustling the branches of the tree outside that's finally bloomed so it's pretty serious