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Things, Stuff, & Other Generalities

30 | Formerly worked in publishing, picture books --> YA novels. I like fandom, geeky things, academic nerdiness, memes and shitposts. Good luck.

May 16 '23

despazito:

Young people and old people’s complacency and acceptance of autoplay terrifies me if I’m finished a video and another begins playing THAT I DIDN’T CHOOSE I’m already loading my gun

May 16 '23
May 16 '23

selfconfessedfangirl:

no tv show will ever be able to resolve a m/m/f love triangle as perfectly and as weirdly as Hannibal, in which the woman kisses one of the guys, sleeps with the other one, then decides “actually, never mind, you’re both awful!” and marries a rich lesbian instead - and, while this is all going on, the guys develop a weird homoerotic obsession with each other culminating in them going off a cliff together. truly unhinged and unmatched

May 16 '23

gatheringbones:

gatheringbones:

still reading elvira’s memoir and this is the most romantic shit I have ever read in my entire life

we go from meeting her wife

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to falling in love with her wife

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to KISSING her WIFE

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followed by a two page POEM about how much she loves her WIFE

May 16 '23
May 16 '23

dollettefemme:

i mean this completely seriously but… a cup of coffee can save your life a little, a shower can save your life a little, making your favorite meal can save your life a little…….little things actually add up to really big things in the long run if you let them, the secret to surviving everyday is infusing a little bit of magic into the mundane i truly believe that

May 16 '23

dravencore:

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this has probly been done before but

May 16 '23
May 16 '23

mihai-florescu:

mihai-florescu:

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How tf does a deactivated account still have blue checkmarks

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May 16 '23
May 16 '23

marcotheraz:

marcotheraz:

marcotheraz:

hey… so i was sexually assaulted and need to leave missouri so i can get to an abortion clinic asap

found out 2 months after the attack that i’m 2 months along. don’t have enough money to cover moving expenses and there’s no fucking way i’m telling my transphobic parents either. my cash*pp is $marcotheraz in case you’d like to donate there instead.

Hey, so some people have complained about payments not going through on fundrazr. If you run into that, you can also try giving through my kofi: https://ko-fi.com/marcotheraz

Thanks so much. 

update: to everyone who donated, I can’t even begin to express how much it means to me … it’s a huge weight off my shoulders in the midst of a really fucking awful time. 

i upped the goal since I didn’t expect to even scrape it,  and realistically for the travel + first month of rent, I’m gonna need more to survive. 

Anything donated above the goal will be used toward gas, hormone treatments, procedure costs, rent, and food. Thanks again y’all. x

May 16 '23

thenightmaregrrl:

dragonanon:

chicagosfinest2021:

turboalienjesus:

Still a good precaution. And definitely necessary for everyone for when life has returned to normal in like three years just in case you meet the love of your life and they’re positive.

Couldn’t share this fast enough.

Rebloging this to add a little more info because it’s very important:

Antiretroviral therapy when used correctly can cause the user’s “viral load” (your viral load is how much of the virus is in your bloodstream), to drop because the medicine prevents HIV from creating copies of itself.

Regular blood tests are done to monitor your viral load, and after taking the medication long enough, it can drop so low that it becomes “durably undetectable”. This means that the HIV virus in you has become so miniscule that it can’t be detected, and by extension can’t be transmitted either. It’s important to note that in order to be considered durable undetectable, you MUST test as undetectable for at least 6 months after testing as undetectable for the first time.

Also very important, being durably undetectable does NOT mean that you’re cured or that the virus is gone, not by a longshot. The HIV virus is still very much there, but instead of being active, it’s gone dormant in a small number of cells called “viral reservoirs”. This why it’s EXTREMELY important that even after achieving durably undetectable status, you continue to take your Antiretroviral medications correctly. Because if you stop, the HIV virus will reemerge from the viral reservoirs and pick up right where it left off in creating copies of itself, and you will have to start all over again if you want to become durably undetectable again.

This is great advice for people struggling with or know someone who has HIV.

May 16 '23

foone:

ADHD in the era of the personal brand is wild.

You get into a thing and hyperfocus harder than anyone ever has hyperfocused. Dozens, hundreds of posts across multiple platforms. You discover things no one knows, you create many new things, you intangibly weave your very digital soul into the threads of this niche thing’s fabric. You are now known as “The Thing Guy” on several websites (despite not being a guy). People screenshot it and crosspost it to other websites, and the comments are like “OH IT’S THE THING GUY AGAIN!”

three weeks later, you drop it like a stone. You still want to do it, but you have no more motivation, and you can’t force yourself to touch it again. Your brain just goes “bored now” and moves on. 

Mere months later someone goes “hey, aren’t you The Thing Guy?”. You are suddenly smoking a cigarette. You take a deep drag. “Used to be, long ago… back in March”. They look at the calendar. It’s halfway through May. 

May 16 '23

todays-problematic-ship:

astraltrickster:

folieadeuxsday:

folieadeuxsday:

watching a video about this cargo ship that blew up in texas in the 40’s and it’s like . i know that with a lot of incidents especially older ones like this the reason that the safety standards were so shitty was because they literally did not know that these kinds of disasters COULD happen (and in many cases these disasters are what MADE the safety standards better) but sometimes you just learn about this shit and you think. how could all these people be so stupid

- cargo of the ship consisted of twine (flammable) peanuts (flammable, oily) and cotton (FLAMMABLE) from houston and POST WAR AMMUNITION (OH MY GOD) FROM CUBA

- additional cargo they were picking up in texas city was LOOSE BAGS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE that the dock workers described as being ANOMALOUSLY WARM UPON BEING LOADED INTO THE SHIP ??????

- small fire breaks out in cargo hold, instead of putting it out with water that could damage the cargo the captain decides to close all the hatches to try to make the cargo hold airtight and smother the fire (stupid but you can kind of understand how they got there)

- the heat of the trapped smoke in the cargo hold instead causes the aforementioned LOOSE BAGS OF AMMONIUM NITRATE to undergo a chemical reaction and turn into nitrous oxide, massively increasing the pressure inside of the airtight hold

- one of the hatch covers fails

- mfw all the pressure in the cargo hold is released at once causing an explosion that fucking levels everything in the port within 2000 feet

- mfw the shockwave shatters windows up to a hundred miles away

- mfw on-fire twine and peanuts and fucking grenades are raining down over texas city

- mfw some of the pieces of the ship got launched into the sky faster than the speed of sound

- mfw they found the ship’s anchor inside of a ten foot wide crater over a mile and a half away

- mfw this was one of the largest and most devastating non-nuclear explosions in world history

- mfw this could have been avoided if they’d just taken the L and put the fire out with water

also worth a mention: the SECOND boat that exploded in a very similar manner the next day which was an even more violent explosion, but less devastating because most of the port was. you know. already leveled and evacuated

someone running rescue and recovery after the FIRST boat exploded noticed that the second boat’s cargo was on fire and reported it….and this just went. ignored. for several hours. until someone was like “oh shit better get this under control” and tried to move the boat to no avail and they just gave up and evacuated

next day it started raining glowing-hot metal boat chunks all over the city. AGAIN.

Today’s problematic ships are the Grandcamp (first explosion) and High Flyer (second explosion).

May 16 '23

mysharona1987:

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I appreciate Karl Jenkins bemused reaction to the theory that he, a 79 year old white Welsh man composer, is, in fact, a 41 year old black American woman from California.

I mean, how else do you respond to an accusation like that?

“Look, my moustache isn’t that cartoonish and silly, surely?”

Like, what is this scenario? It’s Scooby Doo and Fred rips off the mask to reveal: “Oh my God, it’s the Duchess of Sussex!”

And she would have gotten away with it too, if it weren’t for you meddling hardcore royalists.