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I can't believe I found this

Y'all I only knew about this game from YouTube. I didn't expect to find a copy at the local Flea Market yesterday. 😲

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He totally would. Bulkhead is such a precious softie

If Miko ever called Bulkhead dad in a serious manner I am 100% convinced he would burst into tears on the spot.

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I feel this applies to a lot of spaces. You can come across creeps on any platform through any means so please be careful when online. Even spaces that are supposed to be safe.

I still remember when I was playing on one of those chat room games in middle school and came across one. At the time I didn't think much about what the guy was saying, because I was just a kid and no one in my family had taught me the importance of staying safe online. Looking back on it now makes me feel unnerved, especially since the guy kept calling me "my princess". The game itself looked so cute and kid friendly, and most of the people I chatted with weren't like that, but the whole situation was like having a giant red flag waving over my naive head.

I don't want anyone else to be in a situation like that. If you really want to be a part of a community, please wait until the appropriate age. There are too many people in real life and online who won't hesitate to take advantage.

your art is so cute and soft though what do you mean you're 18+ 😭

Vore is a fetish. Even if I view it nonsexually, a lot of people still view it sexually, so Kids don't belong here. There are just too many creeps going around and taking advantage of them. It sucks but that's the sad reality :/

So if you're a kid, please wait till you're 18! Please, please, please. I am literally begging you. I waited till I was an adult before I entered this space and I am very glad I did. Too risky for a child. You never know what the person on the other end is thinking or doing.

Thanks for the compliment tho!

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i do sort of understand the arguments against self-diagnosing with autism To a Point since most medical professionals and even trained psychiatrists can't recognize it efficiently so how should a highly ostracized and vulnerable person who probably just wants some community be able to properly evaluate themselves objectively?

but like. no actually that's a reason FOR self-diagnosis as well. allistic people can study autism for decades and still not know nearly as much about the autistic experience and the way our brains work as actual autistic people. misdiagnosis is so common in women and people forget that countries outside of the US or Canada or UK exist!!! if you're eastern europaan and want an autism diagnosis you're basically Fucked if you mask to any extent

i only became kind to myself after being diagnosed. i forced myself to not "act autistic" because i thought it was, in some way, a mockery, which made just made me incredibly burned out. i was monitoring myself so closely that i became incredibly socially anxious and had no friends for five years. that's not something i want other people to experience. i want people to embrace their autistic traits even if they're not diagnosed. i want people to embrace autistic traits even if they're not autistic!! there isn't just one way to be, and the world would be so much more supportive of neurodiversity if we didn't act like autism is just the Other way of being, the antonym on neurotypicality

honestly, i think the discussion of self-diagnosis is very much a moral panic. people aren't going to "take away essential resources from actual autistic people" by claiming they're autistic with no proof, actually diagnosed autistic people barely get any benefits!! we have to prove over and over again that we're disabled and even higher functioning folks have an incredibly hard time getting resources!!

i think a lot of this comes from shame, and thinking autistic is a dirty word. "you're not autistic, you're just weird." that's such an odd thing to say, i think. you don't know these people.

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Literally the most useful tips I've ever heard. Definitely better than being told to "just deal with it"

I would like to add watch something you like to the list. Love Disney movies? Watch a Disney movie, been looking forward to thenewest episode of your latest show? Watch it. Heck make it a movie night with popcorn and cozy blankets and plushies.

I sat down in my bean bag chair the day before last and watched the Lion King while eating supper. It was great. Last night was the first disc of Scooby Doo Where Are You. You could even play your favorite game with some the show or some music on in the background if you prefer.

depression tips™

shower. not a bath, a shower. use water as hot or cold as u like. u dont even need to wash. just get in under the water and let it run over you for a while. sit on the floor if you gotta.

moisturize everything. use whatever lotion u like. unscented? dollar store lotion? fancy ass 48 hour lotion that makes u smell like a field of wildflowers? use whatever you want, and use it all over. 

put on clean, comfortable clothes. 

put on ur favorite underwear. cute black lacy panties? those ridiculous boxers u bought last christmas with candy cane hearts on the butt? put em on.

drink cold water. use ice. if u want, add some mint or lemon for an extra boost.

clean something. doesn’t have to be anything big. organize one drawer of ur desk. wash five dirty dishes. do a load of laundry. scrub the bathroom sink. 

blast music. listen to something upbeat and dancey and loud, something that’s got lots of energy. sing to it, dance to it, even if you suck at both.

make food. don’t just grab a granola bar to munch. take the time and make food. even if it’s ramen. add something special to it, like a hard boiled egg or some veggies. prepare food, it tastes way better, and you’ll feel like you accomplished something. 

make something. write a short story or a poem, draw a picture, color a picture, fold origami, crochet or knit, sculpt something out of clay, anything artistic. even if you don’t think you’re good at it.

go outside. take a walk. sit in the grass. look at the clouds. smell flowers. put your hands in the dirt and feel the soil against your skin.

call someone. call a loved one, a friend, a family member, call a chat service if you have no one else to call. talk to a stranger on the street. have a conversation and listen to someone’s voice. if you can’t, text or email or whatever, just have some social interaction with another person. even if you don’t say much, listen to them.

cuddle your pets if you have them/can cuddle them. take pictures of them. talk to them. tell them how u feel, about your favorite movie, a new game coming out.

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Ever wonder...

Does anyone ever wonder what the denizens of Dreamlight Valley think whenever the realm (game) or more specifically their ruler freezes? Like imagine Mickey or Goofy is just talking to them and then all of a sudden the ruler stops moving as if frozen in place. I kind of think of it like Bean's situation in Rango. Everyone else is fine and can move but the ruler can't.

What about when the game crashes. Say the ruler is mining with Olaf. He's chatting away about interesting facts he learned, when all of a sudden the ruler freezes before popping out of existence

Not like in the magical teleportation kind of way, but in the suddenly disappears in the blink of an eye kind of way. Olaf and the valley are fine from his perspective but the ruler is just gone. So Olaf starts looking around the area to see if he can find them but no luck. A little while later and he sees the ruler in front of their house, before they run up to greet him.

I've been playing Disney Dreamlight Valley on my Switch and although it's only crashed once, the lag happens occasionally. I think it's just a more interesting way to look at it. Also the mining with Olaf situation is based off of what happened earlier this afternoon lol

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The Dollar store has given me too much power. I am very tempted to start putting them everywhere

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i have a coworker at McDonald's who is a former construction worker. I'm going to have to show these to her tomorrow.

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truly a horrible feeling

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I was 6

it used to be 2007 you know

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i think we should talk about degendering more as a very real form of transphobia. you should not be calling a trans woman "they" when she's explained her pronouns to you. you should not be calling her a "person" instead of a woman. she's not too gnc, she's not too androgynous, you're not "confused" about her identity, you're degendering her. I fear we've gotten to a point we've forgotten the very basics of this movement is "trans women are women" and "trans men are men", and not just "trans people are someone who's pronouns you have to memorize so you don't offend them." you see her as a man in a dress and it pisses me off

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My child ☘️ 🤖

This is my child. He protects plants and collects trash. I love him. He is my baby.

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She also managed to zoom past a wave that could have easily washed her car away. The safety patrol was yelling for her to "Don't do it!" because they were afraid she wouldn't make it; but she did.

Coolest scene in the movie.

Also she managed to successfully rescue her kid from getting blown away by the wind. Wind tries to take her child, but she's like nope not yours.

She's one of my favorite mom characters ever!

i’m obsessed with the mum from ponyo. driving single lane on a cliff edge? drift those turns in your nissan cube. husband has to work an extra shift? tell him to fuck off in morse code. pet fish turned into a child on your driveway? adopt her. town drowned in a tsunami? leave your 5 year old in charge, he’s the man of the house now

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So here's what happened on Reddit:

A transmasc posted about how transmascs and trans men are often invisible, how our issues are dismissed, and how resources, especially medical ones, are almost always written with non transmascs in mind. They posted this both to r/Trans and r/lgbt.

A moderator of r/Trans responded by telling them to “stop bitching.” That’s the word they used. That’s the level of respect trans men get. Transandrophobic by the way, don't call trans men bitches.

The comment was deleted, quietly, after backlash. Then the entire post was removed. When asked why, a mod responded that the post was “playing oppression olympics,” and took the time to go through and dismiss each of the original poster’s points, including saying that trans men being sexually assaulted isn’t “unique to transmascs” and therefore not an issue, and claiming that access to testosterone isn’t any more restricted than access to estrogen, which is a straight-up lie, because T is a tightly controlled substance in most places and E is not.

The original poster was banned for three days.

Then a separate mod made a post saying, “nobody asked us our side of the story,” which is wild because people absolutely did, publicly and repeatedly. Users also started reporting that they’d had supportive comments removed or had been banned after disagreeing with the mods, some of those claims are still unconfirmed, but given the general behavior, it wouldn’t be surprising.

Then r/Trans locked down entirely. No new posts. The conversation was forcibly ended.

Some people posted about it on r/FTM, many of those posts were mass-reported, automatically removed by Reddit’s automod, or quietly buried. Meanwhile, r/lgbt also removed the original post, with no explanation.

One of the r/Trans mods eventually posted an “apology,” which was really just a soft-scrubbed PR post full of noncommittal language and distancing. They said they didn’t mean to call a trans man “a bitch,” they just used it synonymously with “complaining,” and they didn’t think about the implications until later even though the first post was about microaggressions just like the mod committed. They did not apologize for anything else, not for wrongfully banning people, not for accusing a transmasc venting like any other user of playing oppression olympics, nothing at all. They said they’re on break and can’t do anything about it. They said, and I quote, “please don’t be mad at the rest of the team.” even though the rest of the team are just as culpable for not stopping their behavior.

They also added that trans men are “a welcome part of the community” and tried to point at moderation history as proof. Because apparently we should be grateful that people occasionally get banned, every so often, for implying trans men aren't oppressed at all, wow, thanks, that is like below the bare minimum, cool.

The current state of things is: r/Trans has over 600,000 members, and trans men and transmascs were silenced, banned, and told to shut up for bringing up their own oppression. And the subreddit is locked down. There’s a mass exodus happening to the new sub, r/trans4every1, but let’s be real, the damage has already been done.

Now let’s talk about what this actually means.

This is not “just more Tumblr discourse.” This isn’t some random blog saying they don’t like transmascs. This isn’t a Twitter reply guy. This isn’t a niche zine or a spicy personal take. This is a massive trans-focused subreddit with over half a million users. It's easily one of the largest public facing trans community online, maybe even the largest, I've certainly never found a bigger one myself. And the moderation team made it crystal clear: they do not want transmascs to feel safe or welcome there.

This is what transandrophobia looks like on a slightly larger internet scale. When it’s in the hands of people who get to decide who gets heard and who gets deleted.

And for anyone who’s still stuck on “well they apologized” listen: trans men are told all the time that we’re being too loud, too angry, too entitled, too manly, too feminine, too confusing, too “binary,” too "Nonbinary", too much. We’re told that we’re “oppression olympics-ing” just for talking about our lives. And now we're getting banned and locked out of the spaces that claim to represent a huge portion of online trans people.

This isn't just online drama. This is a bellwether. And if it isn’t setting off alarms in your head, it should be.

The way transandrophobia manifests in online spaces absolutely bleeds into real life, into medical gatekeeping, into poor data collection, into the erasure of sexual violence against transmascs, into advocacy groups that write us out of the picture, into educational materials that treat us like footnotes, if they include us at all.

And if you’re sitting there thinking, “well it’s not that deep,” you’re part of the problem.

We need to start being more honest about this: Transandrophobia is real, it is widespread, and it is growing. We need to stop giving people the benefit of the doubt when they’ve shown us they don’t want us in the room.

And frankly?

We need to start making TRFs [Trans Radfems & transmasc-exclusionary feminists alike] deeply uncomfortable being open about their beliefs. We need to make them afraid to be TRFs, the way they’re trying to make us afraid to exist.

The same way we don’t coddle fascists. The same way we don’t tolerate TERFs. We need to stop tiptoeing around transandrophobia.

Because this growing wave of transandrophobia is going to kill people. Full stop.

Protect trans men. Protect transmascs. Protect your siblings; all of them!

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I was accidentally left at the Dollar General

Ok so as I was finishing up my last post my dad pulled up to a Dollar General. He said "Ok we're here" and then walked inside. I didn't even know that we were stopping there so I just walked in after him to look around a bit.

I looked in the snacks section for a minute then I went to the toys section because my dad likes seeing what kind of Hot Wheels and Rainbow High dolls they have (he's a collector of both dolls and hot wheels) He wasn't there so I checked the next 3 aisles. I still didn't find him so I assumed "Ok I guess he's in the bathroom" so I looked at the nice bed rest pillows they have and thought 'well we're here so might as well buy something'. I picked out this really nice purple one and immediately went to check out.

I check out and walk outside with my big purple pillow, and the car is gone. Like just gone. Luckily I had my phone in my pocket so I call Mama. (She didn't go in with us) Neither of them had realized that I wasn't in the car so she was very confused that I was calling. They immediately turned around and we had a good laugh about it during the 13 minutes it took to wait and explain what happened.

Absolutely wild thing to happen but it was the highlight of my day.

(My dad felt a bit bad about it so he bought me some chips and a Yoohoo drink as an apology. I wasn't even mad I just thought it was funny.)

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Disney Dreamlight Valley & Billy and the Leviathan's Curse

i had never noticed how similar these two games are. From the themes of growing up, keeping the magic of childhood alive, and giving your all to understand others and become a better person, to the charming characters and story. Both games even have a shadow version of the main protagonist dealing with abandonment issues.

Both games look and feel different of course but the similarities make them both even more special to me.