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[Image of two scripts created by Samala for speaking to your elected officials about the appointment of Steve Bannon as chief White House strategist. They read as follows:Ā
āFor Democratic Senators and Representatives (except for Harry Reid and Adam Schiff, CA, who have already denounced the Bannon appointment):
āHello, my name is [your name]. I am a constituent, living in [address, district]. I am horrified at the news of Trump appointing Steve Bannon, a white supremacist, as one of his closest advisors. Please publicly condemn this appointment
āDoes [legislatorās name] agree with Harry Reid that Bannonās appointment sends a dangerous signal that white supremacists āwill be represented at the highest levelsā in Trumpās administration? If so, please publicly condemn this appointment immediately.
āI am frightened by this as a [woman, as a Jewish person, as a Muslim person, as a black person, a queer person, etc.] American and I am asking [legislatorās name] to speak out against this appointment immediately, to make it clear that this is not acceptable. Can [legislatorās name] commit to standing with Harry Reid and speaking out publicly?
āFor Republican Senators and Representatives:
āHello, my name is [your name]. I am a constituent, living in [address, district]. I am horrified at the news of Trump appointing Steve Bannon, a white supremacist, as one of his closest advisors.
āHow does [legislatorās name] feel about this appointment? Does this appointment represent his/her views? I am frightened by this [woman, as a Jewish person, as a Muslim person, as a black person, a queer person, etc.] and I am asking [legislatorās name] to speak out against this appointment immediately, to make it clear that this is not OK with mainstream Republicans.
āI believe that Bannonās appointment sends a dangerous signal that white supremacists will be represented at the highest levels in Trumpās administration. Can [legislatorās name] commit to speaking out publicly against this appointment?ā]
I know Iāve posted a lot of potential scripts for speaking to your elected officials about the appointment of reprehensible white supremacist Stephen Bannon, a misogynist, racist antisemite, to the position of Chief White House Strategist. But these are some of the most useful Iāve come across.Ā They are customizable, concise and straightforward and make it easy ā even for those of us who consider the telephone a demon instrument designed to humiliate us ā to make these important calls. You can do it!!!Ā
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Having Ehlers Danlos Syndrome sometimes feels about the equivalent of being composed of jello and wet spaghetti. Nothing stays where its supposed to. Literally every single cell in the body is floppy, so fingers are definitely an issue for many of us. I can almost guarantee that for the majority of us, writing is not only slow and painful but nearly impossible at times. FIne motor skills? What even are those? An EDSer surely doesnāt have any of those. Even typing which is far easier than writing, is painful and daunting at times. But last year I joined the population of shiny zebras by getting fitted for a set of Silver Rings Splints and they are beyond magical.
For those of you who have not heard of The Silver Ring Splint Company, they are a company that custom makes finger splints that look like elegant pieces of jewelry. Donāt believe me? Well I canāt even tell you how many compliments Iāve received for them. Nobody even suspects that they might possibly be medical. But more importantly, they work amazing! I still have hand pain and finger dislocations when performing fine motor skills and writing is definitely not something I look forward to but I have saved myself thousands of painful dislocations, I can open doors easier, type faster, write longer and hold objects in my hands without looking like an alien from a sic-fi movie. With the rings on my fingers actually look like fingers rather than tentacles!
The company is also family owned and the people are so sweet and helpful!
If you are having trouble with hand pain, clumsiness and dislocations please check out this amazing company!
http://www.silverringsplint.com
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The different fanfic eras explained as lunch
Pre-internet era: You walk into a room and sit down at a table. Someone brings you a turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda. Perhaps you are a vegetarian, or gluten-free. Doesnāt matter; you get a turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda.
Usenet era: You walk into a room and sit down to your turkey sandwich, a bag of potato chips, and a soda. Someone tells you that over at the University they are also serving BLTs, pizza, coffee,Ā and beer.
Web 1.0 (aka The Great Schism): You walk into a room. The room is lined with 50 unmarked doors. Someone tells you, āWe have enough food to feed you and a hundred moreā¦but weāve scattered it behind these fifty doors. Good luck!ā
Web 2.0 (present): You walk into a room. Someone points at the buffet and says, āEnjoy!ā You turn to see a 100-foot-long buffet table, piled high with every kind of food imaginable. To be fair, some of the food is durian, head cheese, and chilled monkey brains, but thatās cool, some people are into thoseā¦and trust me, they are even more psyched to be here than you are.
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So in lore, vampires have this trait that Iāve almost never seen used, and thatās the fact that vampires are OBSESSED with counting things. Like, the Count on Sesame Street was almost certainly created specifically as a vampire because of this piece of lore.
Like, I read this vampire book years and years ago that explained that a surefire way to protect yourself from vampires getting into your house was to spread a ton of seeds on your doorstepāpoppy and mustard seeds were particularly recommended for the purpose. Basically, if you suspected someone to be a vampire, all you had to do was drop a sackful of seeds on the ground in front of them.
If they didnāt immediately start counting them, they were not a vampire. However, if they WERE a vampire, theyād be seized with the urge to count all the seeds and they would not budge from that spot until they knew how many seeds there were in total. The point was to keep them there until the sun came up and killed them, because if they hadnāt counted all the seeds by sunrise they wouldnāt be able to leave. Presumably you could just go about the rest of your evening as normal, though no word on whether itās possible to make them lose count and start over.
Having remembered this piece of lore, I want fewer stories about brooding tortured Edward Cullen-esque vampires. I want to start seeing more stories about math nerd vampires.
Vampire accountants who are an honest companyās best asset and a corrupt companyās bane because they are frighteningly accurate with the accounts and will not hesitate to blow the whistle on a CEO scamming money because fuck you for making the numbers wrong.
Vampire cashiers that donāt need to look at the register screen because they already mentally calculated your total. 10-items-or-less vampires who know goddamn well you have 20 items in that basket and NO, you cannot just slip in with the rest.
Vampire math tutors who are constantly in high demand and have to hold lotteries to see who gets to be tutored by them.
MATH NERD VAMPIRES
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Things Iāve gained since last on Tumblr:
A half-elf divorced DnD character that started out as a joke but I now care way too much about about.
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Guess who's back in full garbage glory
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"F--- Actors (But Actually Don't, That Creates a Complicated Backstage Dynamic)"
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Oh, wow. This is super rad. I donāt suppose youād post a download link somewhere?
Hi everyone,
In an endeavour to deal with Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell feelings,Ā a-still-deeper-shadowā, mymascotsolvedyouā and yours truly also performed the The Ballad of The Raven King. The text comes from the book.
If you canāt play the song on your dashboard, go here (x).
If youād like to hear another song we performed, go here (x)
Lyrics:
Not long, not long my father said
Not long shall you be ours
The Raven King knows all too well
Which are the fairest flowers
The priest was all too worldly
Though he prayed and rang his bell
The Raven King three candles lit
The priest said it was well
Her arms were all too feeble
Though she claimed to love me so
The Raven King stretched out his hand
She sighed and let me go
This land is all too shallow
It is painted on the sky
And trembles like the wind-shook rain
When the Raven King goes by
For always and for always
I pray remember me
Upon the moors, beneath the stars
With the Kingās wild company
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The first argument of the day always arises from the tying of Mr Norrellās binder: Gilbert insists on respectability, John insists on his master being able to breathe.
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If I could somehow find everyone who ever bullied me and ask them why they targeted me, not a single one would say it was because I was autistic. None of them even knew I was.
Instead theyād say it was because I liked Pokemon too much after it stopped being cool, or my clothes looked ridiculous and I wore the same pair of jeans 3 days a week, or that I was just weird/nerdy/unpopular. In many, many cases, that is what neurodiversity looks like. Not someone with an obvious disability, but someone whoās just weird.
I see so many allistics and neurotypicals on here that claim to be anti-ableism but turn around and make jokes at the expense of people who are eccentric but harmless.
If youāre an allistic that claims to support autistic people, but then you turn around and make fun of the woman who wears a bizarre outfit or the guy who speaks in a monotone or the teenager who carries a teddy bear everywhere, youāre a bad ally and I donāt trust you.
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