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[ID: a graffiti on a brick wall that says ",life is beautiful it's the system that's ugly". There are some flowers near the floor and another graffiti on top that we can't see clearly. /end ID]
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sometimes what you need to get out of a deep depression is to start shipping a fictional couple that encourages you to read fanfiction until 3 am.
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One of these days The Amazing Devil will release a new album and I will never be the same again
singing the "I will be the man my father never was" bit in inkpot gods is so so important as a trans boy
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the humble "like" is oft mocked despite what it does for us. "like, three people" is a vastly different statement from "three people". "and i was like 'what the fuck'" is vastly different from "and i said 'what the fuck'". i love you "like" and anyone who says you make people sound stupid will be killed on sight
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[Transcript: Look, Penelope. Look. There is nobody out here. Nobody. Do you see that? Do you see that? Look- Look over here. There’s nobody. Look over here. There’s nobody! There is nobody out here. End transcript.]
me reading the end of the odyssey
(Penelope is a small black chihuahua, roughly the size of three bagels, and is being held out at arm's length.)
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got a bunch of wafffle lovers, not surprised
Cinnamon Roll is the item I would most want to eat, but I don't equate it with breakfast as much as French Toast.
Porridge's exclusion from this list is reason enough to have you all garroted.
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anyone else seeing weird mysterious failures on Tumblr
yeah but you didnt have to call us out like that
network failures network failures
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I desperately wish people would start actually reading the AO3's TOS before confidently making 'user guides' to the AO3 that are just blatantly, flatly wrong.
Yes the AO3 has banned content. They do not allow anything that's illegal under US law - though US law, importantly, does not ban fictional depictions of things - and they do not allow any commercial content. That includes your ko-fi link, or mentions that you do fic commissions. If you do post fic commissions to AO3 and want to mention the commissioner, the fic is a 'request' from the commissioner. This protects the AO3 and you from copyright law.
No the AO3 is not 'a creative fanfiction archive'. It is a fandom archive. Your meta, insights, and theories are absolutely welcome and encouraged there. AO3 also encourages you to post other types of fanworks, like fan videos, podfics, and art, but unfortunately isn't able to natively host those like it does text, so fic has kind of become what it's known for. That absolutely does not mean that other types of fanwork aren't allowed, or are discouraged by the site culture! Anybody who tells you otherwise is just plain wrong!
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And remember! From the river to the sea
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The social attitude regarding age is consistently getting weirder. You’re not ‘pushing 30’ you’re just in your late 20s. 30 is not old and neither is 40 while I’m at it. Growing older is an enormous privilege and displaying that age is a gorgeous component of life. Spending your days trying to reverse that grace breeds an eternally wasted life.
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People don’t owe you their downtime! And I don’t mean this in a harsh way, but in a “quit breaking your own heart” way.
It’s so easy to see a friend “active” and reblogging on tumblr, or maybe making a status update on Facebook and feel hurt they haven’t replied to our messages.
Different things take different energy. And someone being “online” but not actively talking to you does not mean they no longer love or care about you.
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just to ease my followers
To add to this from the notes:
- Yes, every year, and they look ridiculous
- It takes them 3 year to hit maturity and grow their first train with eye feathers- the other two years they have a very silly looking brown baby train with no eyes. Even at three, their train is usually shorter and smaller; it sheds and regrows the following year fuller and longer, until they’re about 6. No one is keeping these fragile ass birds alive for 3 years just to kill them, and certainly not until they’re 6. Here’s what the yearlings look like:
- Not impressive, no matter what he tells you
- 20 is the low end of their lifespan. There are plenty of peafowl that live into their 30’s and I’ve even heard of a few living into their 40s.
- “It should be a boy because-” actually it doesn’t matter. Hens sometimes feather in like boys when their ovary stops working through malfunction or age or not developing. Like this:
- I am tipping my hat to the tags that suggested we could have a world full of cruelty free peacock feathers… we do. but also they drop this entire train in about a week’s time in the fall. For people with 1 bird or just a couple, that’s a hundred to a few hundred feathers to collect in a week. It gets old. You stop caring about picking them up after the first hundred or so.
- BIG breeders (like, 30-100+ breeding birds) sometimes just. burn them. Because they have not enough people to give them to. They clean the pens by relocating the birds, and using a portable little flamethrower thing to torch all the collected feathers. Because it’s *so fucking many.* If you want to collect feathers, find a breeder by July, and ask if they’ll let you collect feathers when they start dropping.
- They do not require “the strength of a grown man” to pluck from dead birds, even at the height of breeding season. Source: I just preserved one of my male’s train after he passed away from genetic health complications, and have done so with the first male I ever owned when he passed. You sit down, you pinch at the base of the feather where it hits the skin and rotate to loosen the skin’s hold, and while holding there, you pull near the base with your other hand. Should slide out. I hope none of you ever need this knowledge, but I’d rather you treat the dead with some dignity than not say it.
- If you ever see something (crafts, jewelry, clothing, art, whatever) with peafowl feathers in it, they are probably not fake. There are a lot of feathers that can be made out of plastic or whatever and still look kinda like real feathers… peafowl feathers are among the most difficult to replicate and also there’s no real reason to.
- peafowl do NOT fall under the MBTA. It is a USA-only act and peafowl are not native to the US. It is illegal to hunt or kill Indian peafowl in India, though I BELIEVE it is legal still to own naturally-shed feathers.
- re: the above, there ARE poachers of wild peafowl in India, who kill native birds for their feathers. Chances are STILL better that the feathers you see for sale have been naturally shed.
- Yes you can eat peafowl if you wanted to. I’m told by friends that have tried them that they taste almost exactly like chicken, though that may be because they were farm raised like chickens, instead of wild caught. That said, my understanding is that the birds are best harvested as yearlings, before the meat gets gamey, and at which point (as explained above), they do not yet have the train full of eye feathers.
- The entire train (frame feathers and sword feathers included) is around 200 feathers, but large eye feathers only account for around 100 or so of those. This dress apparently has 2009 eye feathers in it; more than I would have guessed, but not a surprising amount either. I’m guessing towards the body of the dress, smaller eye feathers were used, so (accounting for damaged or otherwise unsuitable feathers being discarded) my guess would be it contains around 15-20 trains worth of feathers. It also, iirc, took eight people 40 days to craft.
- It’s a wedding dress, in case you were wondering.
- By me, a peacocks full train collected by some random farmer (and probably not containing all the feathers) costs between $30 and $75. So, even though the feathers are naturally shed, the raw material feathers would have been quite expensive.
- Hell of a piece of fashion.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk
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transness is about shaping yourself in ways that make you fall in love with yourself, it is not defined by dysphoria or discomfort- you don't have to carry misery around with you forever.
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[Image description: Tweet from Dan Sheehan saying "No more 'smart' appliances. If an object from my kitchen greets me I will hit it with a bat." End description.]
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So, my spouse has been exploring his gender lately; he also just built himself a new laptop. Today he told me that he in an attempt to process some genderfeels through metaphor, he made a post on a trans forum along the lines of: "I'm a lifelong Windows user and I think I'm pretty good at it. I want to find out what Linux has to offer but I'm afraid I wouldn't be any good at it. And how do you choose the right Linux distro, anyway? Do you have to try them all?"
The responses, he said, were a mix of useful advice about feeling out your gender and useful advice about choosing a Linux distro.
I love trans people so much
Spouse (still he/him for now) recently decided to pick out some more feminine glasses -- he was going for the librarian look, he said. He noted his pick was "subtle enough" he'd "probably" feel comfortable wearing them at work. Of course, he's been wearing his old glasses while waiting for the new ones to be ready.
Well, today these two things happened while he was at work:
- his old glasses snapped in half at the nose bridge, and
- he got a call that his new glasses were ready for pickup, days earlier than expected.
I don't usually read coincidences as signs, but,
Update: She really liked Linux
(Also, her name is Eve now)