Heya! For the past couple months I’ve been working on an original comic story, more like, it’s been in the works for the past year but only in december i finally felt like I was truly there to start drawing it. It’s a science fiction tale and… that’s all i can say right now, haha! I’m halfway through chapter one with 14 pages up and plan to finish the first part in february-march. It’d mean the world to me if you could give it a read!
Me: in a non-reproducing mono-sexed (or zero-sexed, depending how you look at it) society, a strict gender binary makes little sense. If anything, natural social divisions should fall along the most obvious differences (i.e. frametype/size class) resulting in multiple gender qualifiers or even sub-qualifiers. In addition, a gender-based attraction model may not be useful even in canon, where we’ve never seen attraction or lack thereof based specifically on it (the only relevant example being Skids, who flirted with Firestar, referred to her as “he”, got corrected, then shrugged and kept flirting). Cybertronians also seem to have no trouble with cross-species attraction (see: Thundercracker’s Marissa fanfiction, Crankcase and his alien bf Cons4eva). Is it even meaningful to apply standard human labels to million-year-old 30-foot giant robots that turn into trucks?
Some fool, some absolute buffoon: I don’t like gay robots
Me: all robots are gay actually
Hot adulting tip: make a “responsibilitysona” and roleplay them when you have chores to do
I find that if I’m wearing Real Adult Business Clothes my worksona can do things like call people and check my inbox, whereas pajamas hellen mostly wants to shovel hamburgers into her face and set things on fire.
I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
(points my shaking fist at high school) WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME
Fucking hell
Hi Tumblr!
I know I’ve been gone for a while.
In part it’s because I’ve been working on an app!
I keep a lot of plants. I think everyone should!
- They clean your air - They give you something to name - They give you something to take care of - They teach you about care, needs, and resources - They make you look like you’re good at decorating
Here are some of mine:
But some people, because they’re overwhelmed or simply can’t figure out how to start, think that plants are out of their reach.
DRYP is for newcomers and experts.
If you think the world would be better with this app in it, please consider contributing to the Kickstarter!
I’ve tried to make it worth your while:
everyone says “i forgive but i don’t forget” whereas my dumb, bitter ass is over here never forgiving but always forgetting
once i remember why i was mad in the first place, it’s over for you hoes
If “Hozier” and “Florence + the machine” ever did a collab, it would be so dangerous to listen to anywhere apart from the middle of a forest, as moss would just start appearing around you, and branches would just grow from any surface you looked at
Hello everyone,
The Kickstarter that we’ve spent the last several weeks preparing for is launching tomorrow morning. I’ve been working on Pillowfort for over three years now, which seems like a very long time. I distinctly remember the moment that I first had the idea for Pillowfort: I was talking to a friend back in 2013 and she told me about how she’d been part of a forum for fiction writers that had been close-knit and supportive, but that the forum had eventually shut down and she hadn’t found any online communities since to match what that group had meant to her. And it reminded me of the amazing times I’d had on LiveJournal and other websites before they’d started changing into something else and the user-base migrated elsewhere, and how much I missed those unique experiences.
Thus Pillowfort started out as a simple passion project: to make the kind of site that would bring back the sense of community and togetherness that earlier social media experiences had brought me, while still keeping the ease of communication and global sharing that the newer sites enabled. To simply make the kind of blogging site that I was yearning for. But it was an ambitious project for one person; I worked on it on my own for a few months, sometimes wondering if sinking so many hours into this pie-in-the-sky dream was worth it. I ultimately decided to set up an ‘official’ Tumblr account for Pillowfort and make a little introductory post describing my ideas for the site, accompanied by some screencaps of the site demo, and see if people would be interested in what I was working on. I added some tags that seemed relevant and threw the post into the ether, telling myself that if nobody responded to it then that was that, and I’d move onto something else.
I checked the post the next morning to see that it had somehow, inconceivably, collected thousands of notes overnight, purely by being shared among people who saw the post and had connected with the idea. Over the next week the post would gather around 35,000 notes and be mentioned on other websites. It was far more than I could have anticipated. At that point I knew that I had something real, that thousands of other people wanted as much as I did, and it would be a shame to let such an opportunity go.
A lot is riding on this Kickstarter. Up until now the project has mostly been worked on by volunteers; even I as the site founder have had to find the time to work on Pillowfort in my free time, but it’s become increasingly clear over the last year that if Pillowfort is to truly grow into its potential, we’re going to need a committed and consistent staff that can put in the hours to develop the site as quickly as our growing base of users want it to. As proud as I am of the progress that’s already been made, the site is still very much in its infancy; there’s so much more that I want to do with Pillowfort, but to make it happen we’re simply going to need the funds so that I and my developers can afford to work on the site at least part time. I’ve made the decision not to seek out VC investments because I want the primary focus for expanding the site in the near future to be on how we can make the site the best possible version of itself, not on maximizing revenue to pay back our investors. I’ve seen the other social media sites we’ve all used start to make decisions that were geared more towards increasing earnings instead of improving user experience, and the dream for Pillowfort is to create a social media site that can stay focused on being user-friendly and efficient. It might be a naive dream, who knows, but I’m determined to try it.
If you can’t contribute to the Kickstarter but still want to help us out, the best thing you can do for us is to share the link to the Kickstarter on your other social media accounts– just spread the word, tell others how much you like the site, and that will help us a great deal. The fact that has always buoyed me most when working on this project got frustrating was that Pillowfort is something most people seem to really want, and that’s probably the biggest blessing we could have asked for. Thank you, to all of you who have supported us this far; I’m so encouraged by how far the site has already come and I hope that I can realize the rest of this dream with your help.
- Julia Pillowfort.io Founder
I feel like when people hear IDW Transformers is really gay, they assume it’s fans projecting, but no. I’ve done the math. Straight couples barely exist. I can think of like three off the top of my head, and that’s only if you count Thundercracker writing self-insert fanfic about Marissa.
So, come on down to the gay robot emporium, because we’ve got married ones! Single ones! Alien-dating ones! Screwed-up ones, because when you don’t have the one Designated LGBT Rep Couple™, it frees you up to do unhealthy as well as healthy relationships! We’ve got casual flirting not played off as jokes, because–as one of the writers said–it’s a homonormative society, and there’s nothing weird about assuming a guy and his friend are married! Hell, IDW Transformers has three trans lesbians. That’s three more trans lesbians than i’ve ever seen in anything outside Sense8. Holy shit.
100% Canon relationships/characters:
This isn’t even a complete list. Proxima’s girlfriend Acceleron exists, but hasn’t shown up in the comic. I’m not even going to get into the whole Tarantulas situation, or Orion Pax and the senator. It would not be a stretch to say a good bit of the story depends on Prowl’s (many) disastrous relationships. Brainstorm once punched a hole in space and time with the power of gay love. Chela and Metrotitan (the golden bird and blocky guy) are ancient, city-sized, semi-holy husbands. The reboot better be just as gay or I’ll riot.
I’ll leave you here with a panel of Soundwave flirting with an oblivious Cosmos.
activists at barnard college providing “labels”, photographed by susan rennie and published in off our backs: a women’s newsjournal vol. 3 no. 6, february 1973
Wow, David Jay really time traveled back to 1973 to start inventing asexuality. 😮
This makes my heart so happy
Just for the purposes of authentication…
Here’s a link to where you can view the image in-context (you must have a jstor account, which is free if you’re okay with only reading 6 papers a month, if you do not already have institutional access). It turns out that this image, along with another, was intended to be published in the previous issue of off our backs, but was not received in time.
Here’s the article that that image was supposed to accompany (apologies for the fact that this is another jstor link). It turns out this was from an event called “Lesbian/Feminist Dialogue” that those young women (from the Lesbian Activists at Barnard) were supporting. Now, before we get the hue and cry about “they weren’t really talking about asexuality in the sense that you mean it!!!!11! they were just spitballing label ideas,” here’s what the author of the article, Frances Chapman, had to say about it:
“I attended the workshop on asexuality lead by Barbara Getz. According to Barbara, asexuality is an orientation that regards a partner as nonessential to sex, and sex as nonessential to a satisfying relationship.”
Obviously not quite the definition we used today, but decently close to it.
Here’s the text in case anyone can’t access it on jstor
“ YOUR-OWN-LABEL
I can be honest without using the word “lesbian,” she said. Her advice about relating to women outside the women"s movement is worth repeating: Talk about lives, don’t talk about the issues of women’s liberation. She is a teacher in a public girls high school where “girls who come on butch, don’t stay in the school,” and there is little she can do to help them and yet keep her position.
Topic workshops included workshops on age-ism, how men keep women apart, trust between women, dealing with anger, oppression within the women’s movement, women loving women, coming out, the revolutionary woman, a and black attitudes toward feminism.
I attended the workshop on asexuality led by Barbara Getz. According to Barbara, asexuality is an orientation that regards a partner as nonessential to sex and sex as nonessential to a satisfying relationship. “The Asexual Manifesto” can be obtained from New York Radical Feminists, P.O. Box 621, Old Chelsea Station, New York 10011).
The conference drew a whole constellation of women’s movement stars. In addition to Jill Johnston, in chevrons, and Gloria Steinem, Barbare Love, author of “Sappho Was A Right on Woman,” Grace Atkinson, who now calls Joe Columbo “Sister,” and Kate Millet were spotted.
The New York straight press didn’t think the conference was a story. Maybe it wasn’t for the male everydailies, but for women who survived the sexuality splits within the movement, an attempt to unify with allowance for sexual variety was an herstoric occasion. Why didn’t someone think to rent a hall in Seneca Falls?
by frances chapman”
Also, the article mentions “The Asexual Manifesto” which it says can be obtained from New York Radical Feminists. I would love love love to be able to find that. Anyone know how I might be able to get my hands on it? (The group disbanded in the 1970s and I have no idea where their writings would have gone)
Thank you for confirming what exclusionists have always been saying! That asexuality is often (and was historically) defined as not wanting sex and that asexuality’s issues are about MISOGYNY and the movement best serving asexuality is the feminist movement–a movement separate but allied to the LGBT community. This especially makes sense in the context of the NYRF who were often taking stances against how sex and pornography was (is) used to malign women.
This is literally what we’ve been saying, all neatly confirmed. :’)
don’t read the notes bc it’s basically people without reading comprehension saying things like “yeah we’ve always been here! suck on that” when it’s actually saying ^^ the above. idiots
Actual activists: Literally say that asexuality is an orientation listed with lesbian and bisexual, defines asexuality as finding sex non-essential
tumblr exclusionists: THIS MUST MEAN THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT IT SAYS! HAHA EVERYONE ELSE SUCKS AT READING COMPREHENSION!
You can lead an exclusionist to sources, but you can't make them read. :')
activists at barnard college providing “labels”, photographed by susan rennie and published in off our backs: a women’s newsjournal vol. 3 no. 6, february 1973
Wow, David Jay really time traveled back to 1973 to start inventing asexuality. 😮
This makes my heart so happy
Just for the purposes of authentication…
Here’s a link to where you can view the image in-context (you must have a jstor account, which is free if you’re okay with only reading 6 papers a month, if you do not already have institutional access). It turns out that this image, along with another, was intended to be published in the previous issue of off our backs, but was not received in time.
Here’s the article that that image was supposed to accompany (apologies for the fact that this is another jstor link). It turns out this was from an event called “Lesbian/Feminist Dialogue” that those young women (from the Lesbian Activists at Barnard) were supporting. Now, before we get the hue and cry about “they weren’t really talking about asexuality in the sense that you mean it!!!!11! they were just spitballing label ideas,” here’s what the author of the article, Frances Chapman, had to say about it:
“I attended the workshop on asexuality lead by Barbara Getz. According to Barbara, asexuality is an orientation that regards a partner as nonessential to sex, and sex as nonessential to a satisfying relationship.”
Obviously not quite the definition we used today, but decently close to it.
Here’s the text in case anyone can’t access it on jstor
“ YOUR-OWN-LABEL
I can be honest without using the word “lesbian,” she said. Her advice about relating to women outside the women"s movement is worth repeating: Talk about lives, don’t talk about the issues of women’s liberation. She is a teacher in a public girls high school where “girls who come on butch, don’t stay in the school,” and there is little she can do to help them and yet keep her position.
Topic workshops included workshops on age-ism, how men keep women apart, trust between women, dealing with anger, oppression within the women’s movement, women loving women, coming out, the revolutionary woman, a and black attitudes toward feminism.
I attended the workshop on asexuality led by Barbara Getz. According to Barbara, asexuality is an orientation that regards a partner as nonessential to sex and sex as nonessential to a satisfying relationship. “The Asexual Manifesto” can be obtained from New York Radical Feminists, P.O. Box 621, Old Chelsea Station, New York 10011).
The conference drew a whole constellation of women’s movement stars. In addition to Jill Johnston, in chevrons, and Gloria Steinem, Barbare Love, author of “Sappho Was A Right on Woman,” Grace Atkinson, who now calls Joe Columbo “Sister,” and Kate Millet were spotted.
The New York straight press didn’t think the conference was a story. Maybe it wasn’t for the male everydailies, but for women who survived the sexuality splits within the movement, an attempt to unify with allowance for sexual variety was an herstoric occasion. Why didn’t someone think to rent a hall in Seneca Falls?
by frances chapman”
Also, the article mentions “The Asexual Manifesto” which it says can be obtained from New York Radical Feminists. I would love love love to be able to find that. Anyone know how I might be able to get my hands on it? (The group disbanded in the 1970s and I have no idea where their writings would have gone)
wow and here you go nerds, the Invader Zim guide never intended for public release. Have fun
I invite my closest friends and family to a gender reveal party, but when I open the box with maniacal flourish instead of pink or blue balloons, a television screen is revealed.
I dim the lights remotely as we hear Cate Blanchett say, “The world is changed. I feel it in the water.”
Too late, they realise.
The pregnancy? A scam.
The Lord of the Rings editions? Extended.
The doors? Locked.
