Ty For The Tag Aaaa!!!

My players were using Message and saying how it's so useful that it's a cantrip, and I go "It's like a short range phone system!" and immediately realized what I had described was a walkie-talkie.

Iceberg videos are just top 10 lists for this generation

GEHEHEHEHE im never gonna get over that <333

SOCIAL MEDIA "ACTIVISM" IS KEEPING YOU FROM ACTUAL ACTIVISM - HERE'S THE TRUTH

You think you're staying "informed" by doomscrolling through your social feeds 24/7? That's exactly what they want. It's literally designed to keep you angry, scrolling, and - most importantly - doing absolutely fucking nothing.

HERE'S WHAT NO ONE TELLS YOU:

It's OKAY to edit your feeds so you don't see that shit when you're just trying to exist

You do NOT have to consume the world's suffering every second of every day to be a "good activist" - and by the way? You're not even getting "informed" by scrolling. You need to actually look up real articles OFF of social media to understand what's happening

Hitting like and share isn't activism. Sorry. It just isn't.

You wanna actually do something?

Learn your neighbors' names. ACTUALLY TALK TO THEM about what's happening

Join your school board and ask them face-to-face why they're against queer education

Stand up to your racist uncle instead of "keeping the peace" (peace for WHO exactly?)

Find out what abortion rights groups are ALREADY DOING in your area instead of reinventing the wheel

Join an actually inclusive church (you know, like Jesus would've wanted) and see what they're ALREADY DOING to make the world better

And for fuck's sake, stop saying "oh I don't talk about politics" - YOUR SILENCE IS POLITICAL

NEWSFLASH: You don't have to start the fucking underground railroad by yourself. That shit ALREADY EXISTS - you just never had to use it before. Lucky you. So volunteer if you're a safe person, at whatever level works for you:

Send money

Show up in person

Pack supplies

Make pamphlets

Whatever you can do

Not everything's gonna get you in the history books and you know what? IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER.

And here's something else that matters: Going to trauma therapy - REAL trauma therapy with a therapist informed in decolonization practices - is a RADICAL ACT. If you have the means to do it, DO IT. Healing yourself is part of the work too.

AND LISTEN UP BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT: IT'S OKAY THAT IT TOOK YOU THIS LONG IT'S OKAY THAT YOU'RE STARTING SMALL IT'S OKAY THAT YOU DON'T KNOW EVERYTHING

NO ONE EVER PUNISHED THEMSELVES INTO SUCCESS.

You grew up with some racist/sexist views? Yeah, most of us did. You can't get stuck there. There's too much at stake. It's time to deconstruct. It's time to do the work.

But scrolling and sharing posts while feeling guilty? That's not the work. That's what they want you to think the work is.

Get off your phone. Talk to your neighbors. Show up at meetings. Stand up to family. THAT'S the work.

feeling so utterly inconsolable today that not even bandit heeler could help me

Posting this on my main because uhhhhh!!!

I made my own fishgender flag!

[ID : A PNG of a five-striped pride flag. The palette is a saturated green-blue, with the stripes darker at the top and gradually getting lighter at the bottom. In the center of the flag is a simple silhouette of a black fish with eyes and gills etched out.]

Fishgender is a xenogender that relates to a love of fish, not as a product but as an animal. Where one’s gender is related to or is a fish

Pronouns are fish/fish/fishes/fishes/fishself

Examples*:

Nominative // Fish // Fish went to the store

Accusative // Fish // I met fish today

Pronominal Possessive // Fishes // That chair is fishes

Predicative Possessive // Fishes // If I need a phone my friend will let me borrow fishes

Reflexive // Fishself // My friend has to drive fishself to school

*Made with the help of Pronoun Fandom Wiki!!

I know xenogender as an identity is not an identity that is mainstream, and part of me is worried that friends or family will find this post of something that I identify as and make fun of me for something that they do not understand. However, at this point, I don’t care too much? Even if I’m the only one who feels this way, I don’t mind, because it makes me feel comfortable with myself and that’s all that matters

Fishless version as well!

[ID : A PNG of a five-striped pride flag. The palette is a saturated green-blue, with the stripes darker at the top and gradually getting lighter at the bottom.]

Both these flags are free to use! You are also welcome to make your own versions of this flag, for example if the colours are too difficult to look at or discern from one another

sometimes when u cut ur lip

Working on a dataset of roadkill reports. state agency personnel CANNOT spell

Okay so I need to reblog because I HAVE to share this story

But when I was in Socorro, one night the chef cooked pasta salad. I’m a picky eater with texture issues, and the crew knew this. I had only been really eating bread for dinner up until this point, and I LOVE pasta. I was super excited!!

They had rotini, which I love, penne, which I hate, and what looked to be spaghetti, which I also love. The crew hostess, a lovely woman named Anie, said that there was still pasta left that was completely plain. Garnish free. Which is the only kind of pasta I eat. I thanked her endlessly, she just needed to know what kind I wanted

I went for rotini, only for her to tell me that there was none left. That’s fine, I could take the spaghetti. I took my seat at the dining booth and she gave me my plate of spaghetti

Only it wasn’t spaghetti

You know how spaghetti is cylindrical? When you look at an uncooked strand from above, it’s a circle. It was NOT CIRCLE SHAPED!! It was shaped like an X?? It was tubular like spaghetti, and yet it wasn’t. Circular?

I cannot find the name of this noodle to save my LIFE. I didn’t even notice it at first, instead just slurping it in my mouth. Yeah. I ate bread that night

curious to hear y'all's suggestions for the worst possible pasta shape

(Assume that "pasta" needs to be made of sheets or strands of dough with enough surface area relative to thickness so that they can be cooked.)