A largely unread personal blog.

Doctor Beverly Crusher @SpaceDocMom Using all of your energy just to get through your day - as many chronically ill and/or disabled people need to do - is never laziness. It is the opposite of laziness. You are giving your all and I see you. I believe you. emojis: black heart, blue heart, masked, spoon 3:57 PM · May 16, 2024

I love your grandpa and this is gonna do NUMBERS here

This is delightful!

People wind up in charge through all sorts of avenues. Sometimes they win elections; other times they’re born into power, or trick or talk their way into it. Only two things are universal: that the people in authority expect to be listened to, whether they’re right or not, and that some of them don’t deserve their positions.

Serious wasn’t initially made that way. In the beginning, they called him Sincere, and he followed the people in authority in all their dealings.  It didn’t last for long. People existing in conditions of near-infinite power will always show their true faces sooner or later, and bit by bit, Serious was born. He is the quiet question and the ungiven answer, the necessary grit in the gears to keep things running honest and clean through his simple presence.

He is always watching, and he is always asking “Why?” and when he doesn’t receive an answer he cares for, he is always willing to ask again. And again, and again, until the answer changes, or the person in authority does.

He has outlasted regimes and administrations and more managers than anyone cares to count, including Seriously himself. But he never loses faith that one day, perhaps, things will change. After all, they’ve changed before.

If he can hold on for long enough, if he can ask sufficient questions, he may eventually find a form of authority that renders him extraneous.  Until that happy day, he’s content to serve as he does, holding the important to account, keeping them from growing too content in their absolute power.

Power corrupts. Serious Lee is always there to keep it from corrupting past the point of all return.

(toy poodle inspired by Trixie Mattel)

Digital illustration of a white toy poodle wearing thick eyeliner with bows in her hair. She's wearing a starry black dress and there's text that reads, 'queer and trans people make the world a better place just by being themselves.'

honored by the kind words of asexual buds just now learning about my NOT POUNDED BY series. you should know that while BURY YOUR GAYS is a love letter to fandom and creation, it is also for my ace buds and a rallying cry for ace validity in queer spaces

that is not an AFTERTHOUGHT with the book. when i set out to write BURY YOUR GAYS i was specifically thinking about the ace buckaroos who trotted with chuck and helped guide me through the first few NOT POUNDED BY BOOKS. i wanted to write something to honor their fight

What I love about this, though, is that the little nails will become an outline of where the water was. It will trace the shape, show someone later what was there once upon a time. It will be a testament to how much this guy wanted to capture the amazing things he saw and experienced, and though it will never truly keep it, it will hold a memory, something that in itself is beautiful and worthy of experience. We cannot describe the indescribable, but we can trace its outline, give some idea of what we experienced.

official linguistics post

people will hear you talk about struggling with mental illness and say “you can do anything if you just put your mind to it”. brother what part of the body does the mental illness happen in. what do you think is the problem

“Lift with your legs you idiot!”

“I have a BROKEN TIBIA! That needs support and time to recover!”

ADHD, also known as Can't Put Your Mind To Things Disease,

Don’t leave these in the tags

If anyone tries the “they wouldn’t say that to someone with a Physical-“

YES TH Ey DO

Y’know, Stede must have an inkling of his feelings for Ed. He doesn’t react badly when Ed kisses him. He doesn’t pull away or ask what’s going on; his only response is “you make Stede happy.” It’s like he exists for a while in this space where this is just RIGHT, where this is where he should be. He doesn’t run because he’s confused about his sexuality; he runs because of guilt and because he thinks he’s ruined Ed.

I don’t know that he asks Mary about love because he truly doesn’t know he loves Ed. He needs it voiced by someone else; he needs to understand his feelings through her. He’s seen her experience pleasure in love for the first time; he knows that she feels differently with Doug than she does with him, and he’s finally ready to admit that maybe that was what he felt with Ed. He needs her to say it, to give him that confirmation that this was real. But he does know already; it’s there right at the edge of his heart. That’s why his response is relief and CERTAINTY. There’s zero questioning or confusion. It all makes sense. It’s not a revelation but a confirmation that it was all real and true.

Stede’s journey isn’t just that he thinks he’s friends with Ed and then suddenly realizes that he’s in love. He progresses to that. He looks back after fine things well. He’s desperate to keep Ed interested. He’s jealous and heartbroken when Ed leaves with Jack. He KNOWS even when he doesn’t know.

This is Money Snake. She only appears every 312 years. 

If you reblog her picture within the next twenty-five seconds you will have good luck and fortune for the rest of your life. 

I reblogged her late last year and my 2024 has been very satisfying work-wise and (secure enough to not stress out) money-wise so far. Money Snake is wise and good.

OFMD MerMay day 14

Prime Video: So, Good Omens Season 2 

Neil Gaiman: Yes

Prime Video: What‘s the Story? 

Neil Gaiman: No story, just vibes.

Prime Video: Neil, we need a little more to work with. 

Neil Gaiman: Okay, do you remember Sister Theresa Garrulous and Sister Loquacious from Season 1?

Prime Video: Yes?

Neil Gaiman: They‘re in a coffee shop AU.

Prime Video: Aaaand?

Neil Gaiman: And they need to fall in love. 

Prime Video: But Neil what about Crowley and Aziraphale?

Neil Gaiman: Oh, don‘t worry. They‘re already in love. 

Prime Video: Not sure this is enough.

Neil Gaiman: Naked Jon Hamm.

Prime Video: OK, yeah, sold.

Actually I started with Naked Jon Hamm. But otherwise, yeah, more or less accurate.

This made me laugh way too hard

Some ppl are like "I'm a kinky sex-positive pervert freak!!!" and then make fun of virgins and asexuals..... sure, reclaim freakiness but keep working on that because teasing ppl for their sex lives (or lack thereof) is, unfortunately, very normie mainstream vanilla behaviour. the right to sexual determination includes NOT having sex. 101 shit. Like this isnt subversive dude, it's using the edge of an ideology for bullying

me, the motherfucker with over 50 abandoned works in progress: i have an idea

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