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HUGE FUCKING REMINDER

“delulu” is not funny or cute. it is an insult to actual delusional people/beasts. DO NOT say it. it is gross

“so psycho” is also NOT funny or cute. it again is a HUGE slap in the face to actual psychotic people/beasts.

a few examples of dumb terms they are disgusting and insulting. if you say them you don’t support the mental ill

you know what, shoutout to the neurodivergent people with "scary" symptoms.

the ones who:

-say dark things without realizing

-talk to themselves

-have homicidal thoughts

-get really, really angry

-make others uncomfortable on accident

-don't tolerate bullshit

-can't/won't mask

-have dark interests

-have genuinely hurt others before

-have been in a psych ward before

-obsess over people

-have intrusive thoughts about hurting people

-have sexual intrusive thoughts

-don't really care about others much

-always choose themselves first

-have low/no empathy

-are seen as creepy or scary by others

this goes out to my folks with autism that isn't "uwu cute". personality disorder havers. schizospec people. ocders. odd and ied havers. and anyone and everyone else.

this post does not support intentionally hurting people. but people who have hurt others in the past and have changed or are trying to change/in the process of changing are more than welcome here.

GUYS GUYS GUYS WE'RE GONNA HAVE AN AROMANTIC VISIBILITY DAY!!! IT'S BEING CREATED NOW !! IM SO EXCITED AHHHHH

Reminder that:

Neopronouns are entirely valid.

It doesn't matter if neopronouns are "cringe" or "weird". In the eyes of someone who dislikes a group of people, everything about them will be "weird". Why not have fun while being weird?

Neopronouns can be hard to use or understand, but they do get easier with time.

Neopronouns being confusing or new does not mean someone can insist on referring to others with the wrong pronouns. (Of course, don't get hung up on calling someone the wrong pronouns by accident, but especially don't hateful.)

Neopronouns are not limited to anything at all. They aren't exclusive to nonbinary people, they aren't only for people who present a certain way, they aren't for people who also use xenogenders. They're not closed. They can be used by whomever.

Neopronouns can be anything. Nouns, consonants, vowels, entirely new words, symbols, emojis - they're what you make them.

Neopronouns are constantly evolving. Their entire existence is based around being new. You can use neopronouns for yourself, learn about the history behind neopronouns, practice using neopronouns, create neopronouns - everything is free to do forever. Be cool and have fun.

i've seen people talk about this, and from that perspective it kinda makes sense i'd say? though there are some things id point out

first of all, from just quickly browsing the splatoon wiki and going over the splatfest wins (if i am reading them correctly), other idols have had similar streaks to what shiver has going on right now, and at least i don't recall there being this much backlash (but at the same time, just like you mentioned, two teams get upset at the same time, instead of just one team, so i guess that's where the extra uproar is coming from) but this isn't really the first time that this has happened? with callie going in a 6 win streak in north america, and marina going on a 6 win streak as well in japan and a win streak of 7 in europe

and just to say that, idols have already been on long win streaks, even with regional voting, though i can still see how the worldwide tallying probably is/could be an issue, though i doubt that anything at this point is gonna be done to it at this point, it's already been implemented for a whole year, i doubt that they are going to suddenly change that whole thing, so sure, maybe some transparency of how the votes are split could work? not sure for the fix of it... but i feel like we just have to get used to this system now

and with the shiver being the fan-favourite... for one, i do hope people realize that it isn't, just, about picking the idols? i mean sure, some people definitely do that, no doubt about it, but i genuinely believe that the majority of the player base picks for the theme, like the amount of people that are always conflicted when a new theme drops is hefty, just going to show that, if it were for the idol, they would've just gone with that idol, but instead are genuinely conflicted with what team to pick, so if shiver gets the popular vote, well then so be it, clearly most people preferred that theme over the rest (though i will admit, some of the choices are rather questionable, i mean who would pick nessie over aliens? /hj)

that's all to say that, while i do somewhat understand the perspective, and the fact that all these things can pile up, it is still a bit confusing to me, as to why these results are being taken so seriously, since, at least from my perspective, like, is it because people are so heavily invested in that game? if so, why? is it like a special interest type of thing, a comfort game, etc. or is it something else

(also apologies if anything sounds incohesive, it's rather late and i'm tired lol)

on a semi related note? why are people getting genuinely mad? i am seriously curious

and it doesn't have to be related to be this splatfest, i mean like, for all splatfests, why are people getting this angry

the thing about working on childcare these days is that I'm blown away by how open minded and genuinely curious these kids are. there are multiple openly queer kids, who are aware of the intricacy of the queer community and the multi-faceted nature of queer identity.

none of that was around 10 or 20 years ago. queerness wasn't even necessarily taboo during my childhood experiences, it just,,, wasn't taught or talked about, even from one child to another. I just didn't know it was a thing. but these little kids know about intersectionality!!!

and then when I was in high school, kids used 'gay' as an insult, but these kids at my job don't even blink differently when I told them the little queer flag pin on my messenger bag was the aroace flag. some of them ask what it means, because perhaps they've only heard of gay lesbian and trans. (and they've heard of gay lesbian and trans!!!!) I explain my flag and what it means, and it makes sense to them. that would have been alien for me as a ten year old.

some of these little lesbian girls and aroace and bisexual boys, the pan, poly, demigirl and nonbinary little ten year olds are the best friends that little me needed.

it's refreshing and heartwarming to see that the young ones of today are the kind of people this world needs.

PROTECT QUEER KIDS!!!! EMPOWER QUEER KIDS!!!!

I wanna share these memes real quick lmao

I'm so sorry if anyone has made these before! Please let me know (:

It is done (enough)!

I would hype it up more but this is really really simple. It randomly generates a set of symbols, colors, and a word, and then the expected thing to do with those is you draw some sort of character based off the result you get. So it's just an art challenge toy thingy.

There are also some practical features like you can lock parts of the result in place to rerandomize the rest, or hide parts of the generation you don't care about (like if you want to pick your own colors or hate the words being there)

You can try it out over on itch.io!

It should run in browser, but there's also a downloadable version for Windows if you want to use it offline. (No mac/linux versions for now, because I don't have appropriate computers to test those on and I...don't want to deal with mac's developer accounts or whatever their problem is...)

Here's something I made from one of the results I got for the sake of example:

(It's a bit of a rushed drawing sorry I just wanted to get the actual generator out there)

I hope everyone has fun with it :]

i love you disabled people with feeding tubes

i love you disabled people with colostomy bags

i love you disabled people on TPN

i love you disabled people with carers

i love you disabled people with rare disabilities who never see themselves in posts about disabilities

i love you disabled people with high support needs

i love you intellectually and developmentally disabled people

i love you disabled people who live with incontinence, need assistance with hygiene, or have other needs that ableist people consider "gross"

i love you homeless disabled people

i love you fat disabled people

i love you disabled people who use AAC

i love you disabled people who don't see yourselves in other disability positivity posts

i love you.

the more time i spend on otherkin and alterhuman tumblr, the more i feel at "home", a sense of community and belonging thats never been there before

i like it, im glad im here, its pleasant