#their first response in a crisis is

[frankensteinposm0]

Lil bro got stuck in my head and doesn't want to get out of there

[coredrill]

[hanakihan]

i just love how my brain came up with implication of why Salieri’s minions started to receive enough mana to manifest constantly and have more human like appearance

‘… Count, don’t you think that Salieri’s minions also kinda resemble you—‘

‘How about we do not talk about it, master‘

[aro-absol]

I hate how when I come out to other people as aromantic I'm so often met with a version of "don't you think you'll find the one?" and them telling me that I should be open minded and not rule out dating completely.

Like, why do they feel like they need to tell me that? Those words just revive all my doubts that I shouldn't call myself aro and that I'm not "valid" as aromantic. Do they not understand that it took a lot of courage to tell them this personal thing about myself and that them immediately questioning what I've said won't make me feel better?!

It took me over a year of soul-searching to gain the confidence to use this word to describe myself and my experiences, and their first reaction to me letting them in on this knowledge is that I have to be wrong and that it's not okay for me to call myself that.

I literally would have been fine if they just said, "okay, cool."

I hate that aromanticism is still seen as something so negative that people's first reaction to a coming out as aromantic is to console the person coming out (by invalidating them).

[creepyscritches]

Stinky is in a bad way :( He became lethargic last night and I noticed signs of dehydration (I don't think he drank yesterday???). For the past 12 hours I've been syringe-feeding baby food, pedialyte, and water while keeping him warm with blankets and a space heater. It's been working and perking him up, but he's really weak still :( He's been having issues that we thought cleared up, but he'll be at the vet tomorrow when his doctor is back in office. Poor guy!

[uchiha-gaeshi]

Tumblr's stupid queue doesn't work.

Ok y'all it has just come to my attention that tumblr doesn't let you have more than 1 000 posts in the queue (mean), and I gotta clear out my queue so that I can move the 1 000 posts in my drafts into the queue. This would mean that for the next couple of weeks I might have to increase the post frequency from the queue. By a lot. I'm indecisive though, so I'm putting the burden of making a decision on how many times I should post on my own blog onto anyone who sees this post. Right now I post 12 times a day from my queue.

[izzyspussy]

we went over the 14yr long torture session in my last therapy visit actually, and i told her that toward the end i was fantasizing about and then actively considering walking into traffic because if i got catastrophically injured then they would have to treat my pain. and she told me that's not an uncommon thing for people to do. that she has heard that many times before.

like think about that. we are so moralistic about drug use and have politicized a particular type of medicine so much, and doctors are so uncompassionate toward and even suspicious of patients who are in pain because of it, that it's NOT UNCOMMON for people who are otherwise not suicidal to start completely genuinely longing to get hit by a fucking car just for the chance to be oh so graciously provided the absolute bare fucking minimum of care.

think about how many different things have pain as a symptom. how many things have pain as the only symptom the patient is aware of. how many of them are life or death crises. heart attacks. blood clots. strokes. bleeding ulcers. those are just what i can think of off the top of my fucking head, AND I'M NOT A FUCKING DOCTOR.

what i had, for example, feels exactly like appendicitis. and they left it for fourteen years because my only symptom was excruciating pain and i didn't fit their stupid little (completely unsupported by evidence, btw) diagnostic mnemonic. if it had been appendicitis, or anything else as immediately deadly that "just" hurts, i would have fucking died the same night i got sent home from the emergency room with "medical" "advice" to take some tylenol and rest - for the first time, that is. out of dozens. how many people do die that way?

because addicts are Bad. and because doctors are too arrogant and biased to practice medicine on the basis of evidence and informed consent when the profit model and conservative propaganda make it soooo easy to stay in the good old days of paternalism instead.

[incomingalbatross]

Many thoughts head full about the contrasts and parallels between the openings of the first and third BTTF movies.

First movie: opens on the mess left by Doc's days of sudden absence, followed by Marty walking in and saying "YIKES," accidentally adding to the mess, and then bolting away and leaving it behind when he finds out he's late for school.

Third movie: opens on Marty bringing Doc home, followed by a pan over the interior where we see he has not only carried the unconscious Doc inside and put him on the couch, but has taken off both of their socks, shoes, and coats, hung them to dry over the fire (that he may also have lit), and laid Doc's dressing-gown over him, before letting himself collapse into the nearest chair. It's a cozy, domestic scene that Marty created while bone-tired.

And that. That is GROWTH. That's responsibility. That's maturation! That's the shift between a child's assumption of "messes get cleaned up somehow, and if they don't who cares anyway?" and an adult understanding that "this mess HAS to be dealt with and if I don't do it right now it won't get done."

On the one hand, obviously, this makes me very proud of Marty. But it's simultaneously a little distressing. Because that's not a mentality shift someone should have to go through completely in under ten days. It didn't happen normally. And, as it turns out, that same new response of "this HAS to be dealt with and I have to step up and do it" is half of what leads to Marty's problems in the third film, because he doesn't have the experience to balance it against the actual situations he meets or other people's responsibilities.

[octarineblues]

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please sign! the deadline is 18th April.

[tomorrowusa]

Not everybody is a highly informed political junkie. And with the decline of legit news outlets, it's increasingly difficult for average citizens to keep up.

On top of that, people have surprisingly short memories. There are actually some who regard the Trump era as an era of prosperity; they have apparently forgotten that his incompetence botched the pandemic response and sent the economy into almost instant recession.

This lack of credible information along with sketchy memories have given Trump a boost - for now.

Celinda Lake, one of President Biden’s top pollsters on his 2020 campaign, was recently conducting a focus group with swing voters for another client when a response stopped her cold. Lake had asked how the voters felt about former president Donald Trump’s pending criminal court cases related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. “They go, ‘What court case around January 6?’” she recalled. “These were swing voters, and about half of them weren’t sure what we were talking about. And I said, ‘Well, you know, the insurrection and that he was the one that provoked it.’ They go, ‘Oh, yeah. I kind of forgot about that.’” For journalists and the types of highly engaged voters who watch the news every night, Trump’s lock on renomination has been near-certain for at least six months, and his various transgressions and incendiary comments are well known. But it’s easy for political obsessives to lose sight of how little attention many normal people pay to day-to-day politics.

We've all heard the expression "low information voter". This is a problem we need to address.

The New York Times’ Jennifer Medina and Reid Epstein tackled this question earlier this week with a piece aptly headlined “Do Americans Have a ‘Collective Amnesia’ About Donald Trump?”  It’s very much worth a read. They write: “More than three years of distance from the daily onslaught has faded, changed—and in some cases, warped—Americans’ memories of events that at the time felt searing. Polling suggests voters’ views on Mr. Trump’s policies and his presidency have improved in the rearview mirror. In interviews, voters often have a hazy recall of one of the most tumultuous periods in modern politics.”

Another group to take into consideration are younger voters. An average graduating high school senior this year was in the 8th grade when Trump was telling Americans to drink bleach and take quack medicines for COVID-19 in the early months of the pandemic.

Part of the problem is that many voters, especially the crucial bloc of younger ones, simply don’t remember Trump that well. Those turning eighteen and eligible to vote for the first time this fall were just ten years old and in grade school when Trump won the presidency, in 2016; the January 6 Capitol riots happened back when most of them were just starting high school. The rest of us don’t have memories that are as sharp and reliable as we’d like to think—it’s not just Joe Biden and Donald Trump who regularly get names wrong or forget in what year things occurred.

And if this cohort was just 13/14 in early 2020, then they would have been 8 or 9 when Trump started running for president in 2015 when he was calling Mexicans "rapists" and "murderers".

Case in point: When Trump launched his 2016 campaign by calling Mexican immigrants “rapists” and “murderers,” it dominated the news and became one of the most-remembered lines of the campaign. His recent claim that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” generated headlines but didn’t dominate coverage. On Thursday, he declared in his State of the Union “prebuttal” that Biden is “keeping the hordes of illegal migrants and illegal aliens pouring into the country,” and claimed that “many come from mental institutions, many come from prisons, they’re terrorists.” Few major news organizations wrote stories focusing on the comments.

We can't assume that people may be as informed as we are. We need to patiently explain, while providing sources, how Trump is not normal and is a danger to the country's future.

Of course journalists have to compete with the upcoming tsunami of ads and even disinformation.

Potential voters who don’t read the news won’t be able to escape what could be a combined $1 billion in campaign spending in the swing states. It’s been a lot easier to avoid Trump since he left the White House and Twitter. That won’t be so true in the heat of a presidential general election. Journalists have to keep in mind that voters in swing states may not be thinking of all the details now, but they’re likely to be much more attuned by the time they vote. 

When we run across articles or news vids about MAGA Republicans which are well produced and don't require a lot of background information to understand, we should share them with low information voters we know. If there's a good cartoon which amplifies the points made in the article, send it along. There's no rule which says you can't be informative and entertaining at the same time.

This applies to current stuff as well as the disastrous Trump presidency. Reminding people that Trump sabotaged immigration reform and improved border security through his House flunky Speaker "MAGA Mike" Johnson is essential.

A sure way to lose the election is to assume that we don't need to do anything. As I've said before, the era of slackerism is over; being politically and civically engaged is the price of democracy.

[mangle-my-mind]

Why do I never see anyone talk about the TVL scene where Lestat returns to Renaud's, realizes he hungers for Nicki's blood just as easily as he does for the "criminals" he kills, and in his mania, rage, and grief, barrels onstage, starts copying the acrobat's entire routine, discovers that he can fly, and freaks out the entire audience with his inhuman movements and ear-piercing voice?

[crowempress]

Having gotten back into DMing more this year the amount of old DMs I had that would straight up guilt trip over canceling or cutting sessions short is INSANE. like I cannot imagine running a session when someone isn't feeling it like... DMing is only fun if I know my players are happy and having a good time wtf 😭 I cannot imagine someone being tapped out or upset at the table and still forcing them to continue?? Or making them feel bad for being busy??

[hecksupremechips]

Posts about bpd need to stop being so damn relatable to me 🤨

[thewhizzyhead]

you know when you get a friend that was even more "tomboyish" than you were in your teens and then as the both of you grow up and enter college, you see them explore expressing themselves more femininely and absolutely fall in love with it and with the concept of womanhood - while you on the other hand become all the more estranged with "being a woman" because good God you really don't fucking get it and that seeing your once-tomboyish friend find joy and an emotional connection to womanhood makes you really realize that you have no such connection whatsoever, hence making you feel left behind in actually "becoming a woman"? Anyways what I'm trying to say here is I'm definitely not fucking cis-

[pochapal]

mind you every single one of her siblings is lying dead and disfigured in a garden shed while she's doing this

[partnersincrimesuau]

Do you think that in canon, Spinel wishes she could’ve first met Steven in a MUCH more pleasant, peaceful, and non-“I want to kill you and your planet” way? Like she really has extreme guilt and remorse for what she did when they first met and she wished she could undo all of her damage? I imagine a scene where Spinel looks in a mirror or her reflection in a puddle where she sees her previous “evil” self with the crazy eyes in shame and guilt, but promises to not be that same person anymore.

OOOOH I HAVE DONE A THING VERY SIMILAR TO THAT IN ONE OF MY UNFINISHED FICS!!!! With the reflection thing I mean!!! I've also seen a lot of art referencing a scenario like that...

(for reference, I am talking about CANON spinel and NOT PIC spinel from here on)

It's obvious - Spinel feels so much guilt for what she did. I refuse to believe she doesn't think about her actions all the time, and I REFUSE to think that she wouldn't have nightmares about herself being a villain if she ever fell asleep.

I've said it before and I'll say it again, Spinel had no plan to do anything if her plan succeeded (or, if it failed. Which is why in PIC, she didn't succeed OR fail - her plan just worked differently than she expected). And the sad but very believable possibility is that she would HAVE nothing to do and nowhere to go... and would lead to her realising there's only one way out of her trauma.

Spinel in canon would ABSOLUTELY want to go back in time and undo everything she did to Steven. I believe that very often, in secret, she wishes she never met him... for his sake.

(I love being able to ramble about this kind of stuff on my own blog, hehehehe) (THANK YOU ANON FOR THIS ASK!!! <333)