NOW THIS IS A MINECRAFT MOVIE I WOULD WATCH!!!

I was telling my partner about how sometimes I look at my own art tag to remind myself that I, like, did that & am in fact capable of creating things, & how I love that for me & how I love that for everyone else, because they get to see the things I make.

Me: "I've just gotta get all Joel Smallishbeans about it, y'know, what Marina & the Diamonds said, 'I feel like I'm the worst, so I act like I'm the best.'"

Them: "That's definitely a Joel song."

Me: "Yeah, it really is."

Them: "You know who else I associate that song with?"

Them: "Vriska."

Me: "Oh yeah totally, it's a very Vriska song. I've actually seen quite a few po-"

Them: "Ergo Joel Smallishbeans is Vriska coded."

Me:

Ok so the ICE arrests of US citizens and veterans of Hispanic descent.

Read Between Dignity and Despair by Marion Kaplan. Because this is part of a process called “social death.” We already have high level dehumanizing and quasi-genocidal rhetoric about Latinx Americans. We have internment camps. Now we have the Trump Admin and its just-following-orders ICE enforcers arresting citizens.

“Social death” is the process by which a group of citizens has its identity as lawful and ideological citizens questioned to such an extent that it becomes normalized among the “fits ideological notions of citizenship” group to view them as an inherently foreign Other before anyone starts revoking citizenship.

And we’re already ass deep into that process.

The USA is not a country in which ANYONE should feel as though they have to carry their citizenship/naturalization papers on them. That is not normal, and you cannot let the media normalize it.

Also, read Imagined Communities.

Rhythm Heaven minigame

Orache moth, Trachea atriplicis, Noctuidae

Photographed in France by Matthieu Berroneau

Shared with permission; do not remove credit or re-post!

Daydreaming about Steven and his bartender

oringe (they/them)

Also btw trump recognizing only "the two biological sexes" harms intersex people too. I am a researcher of sex and it's affects on disease, and sex is far more complicated than "two sexes" and it always will be. Sex is multifaceted and there are far more than two binary sexes. Keep that in mind too. Don't fall into bioessentialism as you fight for trans people and intersex people.

I keep forgetting that I have a drawing of Steven on my desk right under my lamp. So every once in a while I look over and get jump scared by a very depressed middle aged vampire man

u know ur fucked when u skip every song

The health insurance industry has a term for this sadistic practice. It's called "step therapy." If the choice is between a more expensive medication that works and a cheaper one that doesn't work as well and might have worse side effects, the insurance company requires that the cheaper drug be used first.

One benefit to the insurance company is that the patient on the cheaper drug might die before they get a chance to use the drug that works but is more expensive. That's money in the bank for the insurance company.

Or, the patient might be so worn down and harmed by the cheaper drug that they just give up the fight to get the drug that will help them. Again, that's bank for the insurance company.