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Thoughts of a Thinker

@thinkingredwizard / thinkingredwizard.tumblr.com

I am the Wizard Red. Superintelligent shade of the colour red in the shape of a wizard. 30~ years in this current form, before that spent 4000 years in a bog.
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The Red Wizard ✔️

Red, The Wizard ✔️

Red Wizard, The ✔️

Wizard Red The (?)

Wizard The Red (?)

The Wizard Red ✔️

It's interesting that I feel like only two of these are not representative of me. I like looking like a wizard, and I dress all in red, so the first one is an obvious moniker. "The Red Wizard" is nicely descriptive.

There are people who call me "Red" due to it being very easy to remember from looking at me (sorry colourblind people) and I like that, and so "Red the wizard" seems like "my name" + distinguishing trait from all the other nonbinary people who call themselves Red. like, yeah! I'm Red! Which one? The Wizard! I like that. Feels personal.

"Red Wizard, The" feels like how I'd be cited in an index or academic reference, and I do enjoy a university environment, makes me feel at home.

The last one just feels like a fancy version of "Red The Wizard". It's a bit grander, like, "The Wizard Red" is how I'd be summoned to something official in a fantasy setting by Diana Wynne Jones. Less personal, but respectful.

"Wizard Red The" and "Wizard The Red" just feel a bit too removed from the others? "Wizard The Red" in particular. Wizard is not my name, but my gender, whereas "Red" is both [my/a] name and gender. Feels impersonal and not quite accurate. Maybe I just haven't thought about them enough yet.

#how am i going to tag this so i can find it later?#the red wizard#hopefully I'll remember it is tagged that#i guess i could pin it
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Reblogged itsachristastrophe
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ppl who don’t make an effort to listen to their partner(s) abt their interests bc they “don’t like it” scare me

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exactly. it’s not about whether you like it or understand it. it’s about sharing their joy and learning about who they are.

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Real and true

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Reblogged jaegershund
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hey uh if you have an unemployed person in your life and they haven't volunteered information about how the job hunt is going, it's probably because it's going badly!!!! and asking said unemployed person how it's going will only make them feel Bad because the job hunt is Bad. I guarantee you that when the unemployed person in your life has a substantial employment update they will tell you about it. otherwise don't ask unless you're literally going to offer them a job. thank youuuuu

#the job hunt is bad and the job hunt is going badly
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Reblogged angrylittlesliceofpizza
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you know when you're hiking and see something so cool you just have to pick it up because it's such a great find it would be a shame to leave lying around? anyways i have the completely intact severed head of a stag beetle. suggestions on what the hell to do with it?

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like i could NOT leave this behind, look how gorgeous.

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Mount it on a tiny piece of wood, and add a plaque underneath with the species listed. Then, hang it on a wall with a little figure of a fairy in hunter's gear underneath.

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oh my god that's insanely good, i might do that. world's tiniest mightiest hunter brought down a great prey.

#excellent idea
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Happy First Contact Day, I hope you remembered to put out some plomeek broth for the Vulcans (and a subspace beacon so they can find it)

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Reblogged melodramaticmonopoly
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you've all gotta stop acting like "overweight" is a gentle PC alternative for the word fat and not itself an assertion of the ontological wrongness of being large. Over What Weight Precisely

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Reblogged wooden-turtle
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sex is not supposed to be about what you can tolerate!!!!! sex is supposed to be about what you genuinely want and enjoy!!!!! and if you’re traumatized and/or not straight, believe me, I know it’s not that simple to figure out what it is that you actually want and enjoy.

you’re not a bad person if you do something that you don’t particularly enjoy because, for example, it makes your partner happy, but always remember: you have no obligation to engage in sexual activities that you don’t fully like and enjoy. 

and you don’t ever, ever need to justify that - if your partner has an issue with “It makes me kind of uncomfortable” or “I don’t really like it”, then that person does not deserve a moment of your time, in or outside of the bedroom. you don’t have to prove yourself to anyone; you don’t have to meet anyone’s standards of acceptable vs. unacceptable activity (or lack thereof); you don’t have to force yourself to be comfortable with something because of any perceived political connotations of performing or refusing that act.

saying yes because you feel guilty about saying no is not consent. saying yes because you’re scared of what will happen if you say no is not consent. saying yes because you figure you might as well just endure it is not consent. sex ed on here and elsewhere doesn’t give a single shit about traumatized people and I wish someone had told me all of this a lot sooner. 

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Certified Sex Ed Post!

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Very important for ace people as well in a world where everyone will tell you that You Can (And Should) Have Sex but no one is willing to be patient with you having your own complex relationship to it.

You’re never obligated to have sex you don’t want. Not “to please your partner”. Not as a “compromise”. Not for any reason.

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