bettedavisgf

it is so jarring and weird when a fantasy book is like “ok let’s go around the circle and have each character talk about which lgbt umbrella category they identify with” like ok your fantasy world doesn’t have to be feudal europe but can it not be 2023 twitter please

bonzai-bunny

tags from @bonesbuckleup

#there was a book I read a few years back#I'm not gonna name it#but like#all the characters would intro themselves as#HI I'M (NAME) AND I'M A LESBIAN#and whoever they were talking to would be like#HI (NAME) I'M (OTHER NAME) AND I'M TRANS#....#like#I love representation#would love to see more of it#but can we please not make it at the expense of actual good writing or storytelling???#queer characters are just like...characters#and should be treated as such#queerness is an aspect#like if a character is a pizza#then queerness is the cheese or the sauce or mushrooms or w/e#it isn't the whole pie#it can be critical to the pizza!#but we want full pizza characters#not none pizza left queer

zarohk

On the exact opposite end of the spectrum, one of the most elegant examples I saw of showing that a character was trans, was that a member of the protagonist team named Maia had stolen some important document that was an editable text file about experiments, and when the other characters read the file, it kept referring to “states of maiaer” and “antimaiaer”. One of her teammates realized that someone must’ve gone through and run automated find-and-replace on “Matt” to “Maia”.

thesaltofcarthage

I was just going to reblog this for "none pizza left queer" but "states of antimaiaer" is somehow even funnier

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foal for fun

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horse for fun

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ardri-na-bpiteog

I know I don't shut up about this but frankly not enough people are angry about the 5-day/40 hour workweek (and I am AWARE a lot of people work even more than that). I feel like a lot more people should be absolutely furious that we only really have two days a week and some occasional hours in the evening to socialise, run errands, do chores, or relax.

It's no wonder so many people are profoundly lonely and disconnected from their communities when maintaining a social life in what little free time we have is incredibly difficult. If you have kids, a second job, a very long commute, or other responsibilities, it's nearly impossible.

We literally aren't meant to live like this and I'll never stop being shocked how many people just take it as the natural state of things and don't want to throw a brick through a billionaire's window every time they think of it.

raven0276

What did people do for thousands of years before us who had much more difficult circumstances?

prismatic-bell

They also had a stronger sense of community. The isolation of modern work is a large part of the problem.

Also, for the most part, when they were done they were DONE. You fed the cows and the cows were fed. You didn’t have to send a message to Ye Olde Bosse that the cows were fed, or field angry questions about why the cows weren’t fed more quickly, or worry about the YoY efficiency of feeding the cows.

smallercommand

Seconding the importance of being DONE and stepping away. I've become much more aggressive about not doing work stuff (thinking about it, looking at email, texts) outside of work since quitting the burnout job.

Also, I keep thinking about how worker productivity has gone up in the past ~50 years (and probably longer). I'm probably trying to focus on shit for more hours in a day than a farmer or farmworker - they'd be working more, but (for me) it's easier to put your hands on automatic and your brain on exhaust than to participate in meetings and read up on how to do this or that.

recomvery

Positive self talk is so important. You can either speak life or death over yourself and it has such a big impact. Telling yourself every day that you can do this, that you are strong, that you are deserving of love, that you are doing your best, that you are proud of yourself will reduce so much stress. You will feel so much better if you replace the negative self talk with positive affirmations.

jabberwockypie

“Overuse of Healthcare” Like. How would that even work?

“Huh, this feels kind of … weird and “off” and not good, given my Universal Healthcare, I will go get it checked out. It MIGHT be nothing, but they MIGHT check it and find something serious before it becomes deadly or disabling, instead of just hoping it’s nothing serious and ignoring it until I can’t ignore it anymore”

Oh wait, that’s how healthcare is SUPPOSED TO WORK.

Cozy Saturday song recommendation:
↳✧˳ Obstacles by Syd Matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb1SkDjaXk8

paddysol

one fish two fish,,,

soupandcats

Sketchbook from yesterday⭐️☀️

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Indigo, the colour most often forgotten from the rainbow - and my art, by the looks of it! It is great for those pops of colour that draw your attention. 🐙 💜

vetyr

I was so so lucky to be able to paint Jenny & Madame Vastra, notable sword lesbians, for Magic the Gathering's Doctor Who set. They're partnered cards which I find very cute :)

AD: Matt Cavotta <3

bpdmum

you ever just sit and realise u can’t remember 80% of your childhood? like … what happened? who am i ..?

vanerdsa

Many people in the comments are saying “trauma”, but this is actually a very normal occurrence. It’s called Childhood Amnesia, and it’s a process which, as the brain reorganizes itself for cognitive thought that is developed in late childhood, it changes the Accessibility of those memories during recall. Many childhood memories are available to the person, but they will not be remembered during regular recall activity, you have to “trick” your brain into remembering with different tactics.

This is because there are two parts to memories - their encoding and their recall. The encoding determines their availability, their recall determines their accessibility. The reason why trauma memory and childhood amnesia are different is in this distinction. Trauma memory is often encoded differently, bypassing to the limbic system where it is stored as intrinsic memory. It can’t be recalled because it was never encoded. Childhood amnesia, however, seems to indicate that the memories are encoded, but we lose access to them as we age. This is most likely due to the development of brain structures that fundamentally change our encoding and recall of memory as we get older.

This is an important distinction, because trauma memory is “stored in the body”, i.e. you get triggers that send your body into a cascade of uncontrollable feelings, sensations and reactions. Whereas childhood memories won’t generally do that, they are just recalled at odd times with odd associations.

malcolmcooks

reblogging this because I’ve legit seen people freaking out when they realised they can’t remember some of their childhood, thinking they might have some repressed trauma.

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