#all autonomously

[payte]

My Girls

Honestly, Stella and Winnie became besties on set!

[hemlock-dreams]

Wip of Spiderman's berserker mode-

When Spiderman is in a legitimate holy fuck life-or-death situation, (or when his spider senses go from 0-Thanos Just Popped in and is Gunning for me) his body automatically burns its entire store of venom in one big burst, giving him a massive boost in all his powers for 10-15 minutes.

This is the ultimate state of fight-or-flight. He can't control when or if it happens.

When he's in burn, Spiderman's only objective is to survive- either by putting down the threat or getting away from it as fast as possible.

During burn, everything is enhanced- his speed, his strength, his healing factor, etc. He feels little to no pain and fights with the single goal of coming out alive on the other side. He's not necessarily mindless, but he also doesn't hold anything back and will fight to kill if that's what he thinks will give him the best chance of survival.

In this state, he's powerful enough to go toe-to-toe with a fairly serious Thor. However, going through burn is EXTREMELY traumatic for the body, and coming out of it is just as dangerous as going in.

When it's over, Peter is pretty much catatonic/comatose for a few days while his body heals- and basically as powerless as a civilian while his body restores enough venom to put him back into a balanced state.

To date, it's only happened twice (and is the original reason he caught Kraven's attention.)

TLDR: Spiderman's venom works on himself as well, but in a more extreme fashion.

[sorrelpaws]

They make such a nice couple. The king and queen are pretty nice too. Heheheh.

[3liza]

sorry to be a boomer about it (also an american, i know social norms vary on this topic) but sometime in the intervening years between when i was a kid and now, we switched over from "chewing or breathing with your mouth open beyond the age of about 7 or 8 if you have normal mouth function is just basic bad manners that all normal people find offputting at best and intolerable at worst" to "if you find open mouthed chewing and slurping and noisy snuffly breathing offputting, it means you have a diagnosable neurological audio processing disorder" and i just think thats a little interesting?? i read most of the notes on the open-mouth chewing post below this one, i didn't see a single person saying "chewing food with your mouth open is normal and fine actually", and although this is the autism website i also think you could go outside to do a tiktok street interview and ask most normal people of most ages and get the same answer: no, open-mouth chewing is not polite. everyone would care about it different amounts, but i think it would be a large majority agreeing that it was at least a little gross and certainly rude.

something similar but in some ways opposite has occurred in that i was born at the very tail end of the american generations where telling your kids to stand/sit up straight and develop a practical and non-shuffly/dragging gait was still basic home protocol. and now every computer millennial with gen x parents who didnt get this childhood training is shrimp-shaped (or fears they might be) and reinventing "your parents remind you to sit up straight at the dinner table" in app form in a last ditch attempt to avoid getting a dowager's hump in their 30s. so it seems like SOMEONE was supposed to be telling us to do all that shit

[hadesoftheladies]

anti-abortionists and pro choicers like me can agree on one thing: whoever creates the life can destroy the life. only the former have the male-self-insert god character who metaphysically acts as the one "knitting" the fetus in the womb, while those who observe the world as-is without invoking yahwhist lore rightfully attribute that ability to the woman.

[castawavy]

whilst dallas was out at work zara showed up to drop off some papers but lola and her had an argument. kody calmed everyone down and encouraged zara to speak to dallas, so when he got home they did & argued a bit, then they talked about the kids for awhile, but then things got a little out of hand and they hooked up leaving dallas VERY confused 😣

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[thepettymachine]

No you don't understand.. they love reading next to each other. .

[zukkacore]

Something about a Pygmalion take on Jaceporter is so appealing to me… in that way that Porter reveres power and domination… the tension between his desire to seek out and keep a Jace as a perfect spineless compliant lackey vs a need to remake Jace in the image of someone who is powerful and dominant and assertive. Jace that is complacent and cowardly and passive is a Jace he can use and control but never respect, and he loves what that Jace can do FOR him. But as Jace is transformed by rage, a Jace who is furious and oppositional and autonomous and actualized and powerful and is able to stand in the face of Porter and tell him he cannot stay even if it means death is a Jace he can respect and maybe even admire but no longer control. In the same way Henry Higgins cannot truly make a Lady until she has outgrown him, (“Eliza you’re magnificent. 5 minutes ago you were a millstone around my neck and now you’re a tower of strength. A consort battleship. I like you this way Eliza” “goodbye professor Higgins”). Because conflict is at the heart of war, Porter cannot truly anoint a Saint of the God of War until Jace has outgrown him.

[simelune]

knitting, but with a friend this time

[twinliches]

I'm new here but very curious about your upbringing being spent more on the sea than on land!! how did that come about?

my dad is a captain and my grandfather owned a sailing school, so my first sailing trip was when i was one month old! my dad just used to hang me from the ceiling while steering the ship while i slept, rocked by the waves. this has given me the superpower of never having been motion sick in my life - you have to start early, i guess.

when my brother and me were little, we spent almost all our summers and autumns sailing on the baltic sea with my grandfather's students. these summers are some of my most treasured memories, sitting on the jib with my cousins and watching the baltic islands pass by. i always loved numbers and graphs so my dad taught me traditional navigation, and i have been yelling at grown men telling them to go where i want them to while waving a compass at them since i was eight, which i think really shines some light on adult me's authority issues.

we still go sailing every summer, but on a smaller boat, and it's very often just my immediate family or my brother and me sailing up to denmark or sweden for a few days. my brother is studying to be a captain and uses our excursions for navigation practice, so i have now become the grown man steering the ship getting yelled at and threatened with a sextant, so it all comes back around.

[apricote]

she's so evil................

[thattheater-kid]

Shoutout to child hosts of teen/adult-bodied systems. System spaces tend to be inherently not accommodating to people like us, and there’s still so much stigma surrounding child alters being “allowed” to do “adult things” in adult-bodied (and adult-minded) systems.

[happytripper]

tried to make reml layouts! this was my first time doing something like this so i hope they're okay!

all art is from reml songs— i believe they're all demos for its cevio but i'm not 100% sure. they're listed in order in the tags!

tried to post this before but it didn't go through so i'm trying again. if the first one goes through after this oh well. so nice you see it (reml) twice!

[carsthatnevermadeitetc]

Mitsubishi HSR VI, 1997. The last in a series of Mitsubishi HSR (Highly Sophisticated-transport Research) vehicles, the HSR VI featured four wheel steering, active yaw control, traction control and an autonomous driving system. Presented at the 32nd Tokyo Motor show, the entire passenger cabin could be raised for ease of entry and exit and to improve visibility when the car was being driven rather than driving itself. It was powered by a 2.4 litre GDI 4-cylinder engine driving all 4 wheels

[episims]

Sara "-can you roll around? Like this-"

Duke "Wrrfh."

Emil "I feel like we ought to get him to understand the difference between a dog toy and a chair leg before other commands."

Sara "Aw. But chair legs are yummy too, amirite??"

Emil "Chair legs for you then, more fish for us-"

Sara "Blah, blah. Can you hear a word of what he says, Duke? 'Cause I sure can't."

Becca "Oh... Emil, you didn't need to cook."

Emil "I wanted to try this recipe! Smells good, at least."

Sara "Uh, it does. Figures you're some kind of cooking prodigy, just your kind of nerdy thing to do."

[statementlou]

So I see folks pointing out that Louis' circle A tattoo is more likely an aesthetic choice than an announcement of a political commitment to anarchism, and saying basically that that maybe makes him a bit of a poser and I mean- I GUESS. But I don't like to look at things that way and I don't think it's useful. As I see it the subversive sexiness of the symbols of resistance have ALWAYS been gateways for people who are drawn to the struggle in vague ways and that's GOOD. Aligning yourself with those values is good no matter the reason, in my book, especially given the wretched options available out there, but also the journey doesn't necessarily stop there. Gatekeeping queerness victimizes people who are just trying things out and starting to discover that it may run deeper than just trying on a new look who should instead be welcomed and helped along their path, and I fail to see how gatekeeping political affiliations is any different (plus how counterproductive to actual movement building is that?)

ANYWAY. What I really want to say about Louis is that while I KNOW that Louis is probably not secretly a theory reading anti-state communalist anarchist, I think that actually Louis' optimism and idealism (and his unwavering commitment to allying himself with the working class and embracing those roots) are a perfect fit for the philosophy and always have been. I know that anarchism is mostly understood as being about throwing molotov cocktails and fighting the state (and the allure of its symbols are that they signify this, a terrific aesthetic for him to choose to sign on with in my book), but that's honestly largely cartoonish stereotyping that comes directly from anti-anarchist state propaganda. That resistance is necessary in this hellscape of oppression we live in and is super important, but in its heart anarchism is only about the state in that the state and capitalism currently stands in the way of its goals. The whole point of anarchism is that it's NOT about the state! It's about being able to imagine something better than a state, it's about how we live and about how we SHOULD live, it's about HOPE and picturing something utopian and something free of the ways capitalism pits us against one another! What could be more Louis than that?

"I need you and you need me and I love that" is as beautiful a way of talking about the cornerstone of anarchism that is mutual aid as any long winded essay I've read (even if what he meant was contextually different), and I think when he talks again and again about how special the space fans have made around him is he is expressing an intuitive understanding of the importance of autonomous zones, places and moments outside of the shitty life imposed on us by the system (also a huge part of anarchist thought). Maybe I'm just being an optimist but I think that Louis DOES understand that caring for people and wanting self-determination and freedom for all and allying himself with the working class involves a certain amount of resistance to and positioning yourself in opposition to the state. Thinking the symbols of smashing that state are cool isn't meaningless; it's a CHOICE. There are other cool symbols out there and I just happen to think that feeling a resonance with certain ones is something in and of itself, even if at this moment he does not choose to start a fight with the media about it all.