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THE WEST WING | Season 1 Episode 1 — Pilot

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I can't believe that "antisemitism is bad" is still a controversial take

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you don't have a personal responsibility to break stereotypes about your demographics. you don't have to be the perfect representation. you don't have to be a good representation. you are allowed to exist as you are, even if it somehow fits into stereotypes.

you're allowed to have your experiences, hobbies, expressions, traits, problems, symptoms, etc. even if they're stereotyped. you are not a living stereotype. you are a person. a person who happens to have some traits. you're not making the world less diverse. your existence already contributes to diversity.

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"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.

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I slept funny last night and that triggered my occipital neuralgia and now I think I'm getting a migraine :(

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DOCTOR WHO ○ Rose

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Cats by Léo Forest

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i think that other people have access to an Energy source that i don’t but that’s okay i’m happy for them i do wish that was me though

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THE WEST WING (1999-2006) ↳ 2.09 Galileo

+ bonus:

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Figuring the delicate balance between the coloured space and the overlaying linework delivers quite a challenge of looking for micro harmonies where the materials meet one another (and here they're even hiding an entire rainbow symphony underneath all the lines🌈) Plein air study painted with a mixture of powder paints & ballpoint pens 🎏

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The Doctor + calling Belinda Bel

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Hey, random writing tip: Instead of having something be a ridiculously unlikely coincidence, you can make the thing happen due to who this particular character is as a person. Instead of getting stuck on "there's no logical reason to why that would happen", try to bend it into a case of "something like this would never happen to anybody but this specific fucker." Something that makes your reader chuckle and roll their eyes, going "well of course you would."

Why would the timid shy nerd be at a huge sketchy downtown black market bazaar? Well, she's got this beetle colony she's raising that needs a very specific kind of leaf for nest material, and there only place to get it is this one guy at the bazaar that sells that stuff. Why would the most femininely flamboyant guy ever known just happen to have downright encyclopedic knowledge about professional boxing? Well, there was this one time when he was down bad for this guy who was an aspiring professional boxer...

I know it sounds stupidly obvious when written out like this, but when you're up close to your writing, it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Some time ago I finished reading a book, where the whole plot hinges on character A, who is 100% certain that character B is dead, personally getting up and coming down from the top rooms of a castle, to the gates, at 3 am, to come look at some drunk who claims to be this guy who died 17 years ago. Why would A do that, if he's sure that B is dead?

Because he's a Warrior Guy from a culture of Loyalty And Honour, and hearing that someone's got the audacity to go about claiming to be his long-lost brother in battle, there is no other option than to immediately personally go down there to beat the ever-loving shit out of this guy. Who then turns out to actually be character B, after all.

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It still just appalls me that people will look you square in the eye and tell you that they won't mask because it's inconvenient to them.

I find it fascinating that every time I say hey, it'd be great if more people were masking at this event, out of nowhere someone who calls themselves a medical professional (usually because they don't want to admit what that actually means, often because their profession doesn't provide them with any special knowledge about masking safety) to lecture me about all the things they suddenly think that I don't know, and half the time to present completely incorrect facts - most recently that people who mask incorrectly are increasing their infection risk.

If you have trouble hearing or understanding me through a mask, I will happily compensate, the same way I would anyone who has trouble hearing or understanding me regardless of masking!

If you don't like how masks feel, I guarantee you there are different types of masks or additional masking equipment that I can help you get that will make you comfortable!

In both cases of people more regularly wore masks, there would be a whole industry out there of products and services ready to help you handle the issues!

There are so few places that test or mask that unless you proactively make it clear your event does either or both, many disabled folks will just assume they can't attend. There are people out there who have genuinely given up even trying to be part of the world anymore. That's why you don't hear from them anymore, so many people made so many excuses that they gave up.

Masking isn't my accessibility issue. But I have had so many people mow me down, ignore me, or treat me like an inconvenience that I am willing to be the cranky and noisy person on behalf of people who do need masking, in hopes that other people will do the same for me when something is physically inaccessible. Most disabled people are just so fucking tired of being dismissed or derided for attending to their own needs, it's often easier to do your best to help someone else instead.

I don't know, this is just a venting post, but after I went to an ADA conference for work and was literally the only one wearing a mask for the entire conference, and then having my friends let me down again, I just needed to say it.

It feels like that everyone wants a revolution but no one wants to do the dishes kind of problem. I'd just love to see one able-bodied person run a fully masked event of any kind. Just once.

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french people will really be like “our société? culturally catholique? mais non, this country is laïque there is no public religion to be found here!” and then 5 minutes later say “oh we do not work tomorrow because it is *checks french fonction publique calendrier* the feast of the assumption of the holy virgin mary so every public building in the whole entire country is closed :)”

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fanfic writers will go "anyone gonna explore the kinda fucked up or emotionally impactful implications of this minor canon detail?" and then not wait for an answer.