The fact that Microsoft Word has to be a subscription is upsetting. I already paid for it why do I have to pay again

Lol. Lolololol lmao. Yeah. I'd be ok.

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

A terrible thought has just occurred to me

A lot of the gamergater types complain when a female character has traits associated with having gone through puberty.

Do they... do they want pre-pubescent girls just with big titties? Is that what this fucking is? Excuse me. I need to go and be violently sick now.

My face is having uncontrollable spasms. Great. It hurts really, really, really bad.

I think part of why I have trouble explaining pain to the doctor is when they ask about the pain scale I always think “Well, if someone threw me down a flight of stairs right now or punched me a few times, it would definitely hurt a lot more” so I end up saying a low number. I was reading an article that said that “10” is the most commonly reported number and that is baffling to me. When I woke up from surgery with an 8" incision in my body and I could hardly even speak, I was in the most horrific pain of my life but I said “6” because I thought “Well, if you hit me in the stomach, it would be worse.”

I think this is why the Star Trek episode "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" was effective. Yes, it was as subtle as an anvil to the cranium, but it emphasises repeatedly that the prejudice was based on NOTHING other than a superficial outward appearance. I'm legit struggling to think of another example that doesn't go the "yes, but..." or 'both sides are bad' routes.

hey writers if you want to make a metaphor for racism, please maybe remember that racism is literally based on nothing. Africans weren’t enslaved en masse because the Robo-Musa threatened to destroy the world, they were enslaved because it was economically rewarding and politically convenient. If at any point your allegory for racism includes “so <oppressed group> did this major catastrophe and” then you have not only missed the point but you are literally reinforcing the ideas that racism have let racism self-perpetuate (that e.g. black people are naturally dangerous and violent and must be contained or begrudgingly accepted by the Nice White People)

ARGH!. Another thing trying to be edgy and funny by claiming Transporters in Star Trek 'kill' you and make a new version of you at the target destination.

That's explicitly not how Transporters work in the show. You have continuous consciousness in the matter stream.

Stop making this dumbass claim.

Gentle reminder here that there are elder queers out there. Real elders, people in their 80s and 90s who survived, who are here. You can get there, old age does exist for us.

I know an old lesbian couple who have been married since the moment they legalized it. One woman can hardly walk anymore but she loves Hallmark ornaments, so her wife supports her against her walker during Christmas so she can look at them more easily.

I know a transgender man who started transitioning only 10 years ago at 60, and he's brilliant and funny and brings his grandchildren by to get sweets.

I know an asexual woman who, beamed and told me she absolutely loved not having a husband, and that she "never once regretted not getting married. I never felt that way about anybody! Why force it?" She lives with her parrot and loves salsa dancing.

Our elders exist. So many of us have been wiped out and erased on purpose, but we're here. And that means you can get there. When you're old and grey, when you're retired and done, there will be people who will love you and will care for you.

Right, considering the current state of corporate politics on this site, and that it seems that only those affected seem to be actively speaking on the matter, it is up to I, the only fucking cishet on tumblr, to drag this out to a wider audience.

REBLOG IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A TRANSFEM SAFE SPACE.

We need to show these higher ups how much we truly value them.

I swear for a second I could have sworn @novawulfen reblogged this

I hope all my fellow FFXIV players are enjoying the influx of Xbox sprouts. I know it's easy to get frustrated, but they're new to it. Guide them if you can. Not everything in the game is obvious, a few helpful words go a long way.

And Xbox players, plug in a wireless keyboard. You will thank me later.

I'm not sure if this is cool or horrifying

Source: youtube/C28 Music

Today I learned that in early 20th century Austria, bronze & glass bat lamps were a thing (sources in captions)

I think this means I get to summon a phoenix.

I think I'd be OK?

soappppp