#list of indicators

[astronomodome]

how much effort can you put into an ironic AU before it stops being ironic...

anyway uh... team ZITS-focused hermitcraft warrior cats AU, anyone?

#hermitclan AU #astro speaks #hermitcraft #i wrote most of this at like 3 in the morning so if it's bad that's why #bonus points to whoever can match each cat to the hermit they are- i indicated most of them but there are some that are tricky #why is cub named cloudscorch? idk. the firework stuff from this season came to mind and i liked the name cloudy for him #to me that's the least obvious name in this list #i'm actually very proud of this

[gothhabiba]

“poverty we have in favour of abundance we have yet to organise” i fundamentally disagree. Its fundamentally impoverishing to take away child from their carers and give them to a bunch of strangers. if thats not whats going to happen what is exactly? so far all i read is a dystopian nightmare and people saying “but no it will be great i promise”

[regarding this post and broader recent discussion of family abolition]

I'm getting a lot of responses in this same emotional valence (as does anyone who talks about "family abolition," and again, this is the exact emotional response which Sophie Lewis preëmpts and responds to at the beginning of Abolish the Family)—I'm chusing this message to respond to not to pick on you specifically but to try to unravel some of the assumptions that underlie this objection.

1.

I did my best to outline some of the major actionable demands of a programme of family abolition and include links to further readings that laid each of these demands out, including the abolition of parent's property rights over children & freedom to mete out "corporal punishment," the end of social and economic dependence on the family that works to impoverish 'family outcasts' or to force them into abusive situations, &c.

Yet, amongst all of these things, the questioning of the naturalness of the social/economic/legal/political category of "mother" (and investigation of how the category is sexed, gendered, & racialised) is what draws the most ire, and commonly the only thing that is responded to in people's objections to "family abolition"—as though it is the weakest part of the argument, and not the conclusion we necessarily come to through an understanding of the economic and social position of the "wife," the "single mother," the "single woman," &c.

What about the affective / emotional nature of the presumed "naturalness" of the mother relation causes the questioning of it to meet with such a disproportionate amount of resistance? Could we understand this individual emotional attachment to the concept of motherhood and its positioning as "natural" to be part of, or a result of, the naturalizing work that discourses about femininity and labour* do?

2.

Where does this spectre of an infant being "taken away from" its biological parents (actually, and tellingly, "mother" far more often than "parents") come from, and why does it keep being dragged forth? Communal raising of children is indeed part of the speculative programme for (most?) people who advocate for the abolition of the "family," but what part of that entails that a child must not be raised in part by, or anywhere near, their biological parents?

If no family abolitionist is saying that every child ought to be reassigned to some other random communal housing unit immediately upon birth (and, if anyone is, I have yet to come across it!), why is this the image that is brought up repeatedly in response to arguments for family abolition, as though the image is 1. an argument in itself, that 2. meaningfully responds to the programme being put forth? In what inheres the shocking nature, the emotional effectiveness, of this image? What assumptions and attachments does that effectiveness reveal?

3.

You've said that it is "fundamentally impoverishing" to a child for them to be "take[n] away" from "their carers" and "give[n] to a bunch of strangers." You haven't laid out how we can determine who a child's "carers" are—the "carers" fundamentally, properly, 'rightly' belonging to the child in your grammatical construction (in fact, in terms of property law, we ought to say the people the child belongs to—and we can see this arrangement reassert itself in your use of the word "give").

Incredibly, "carer" seems here to mean something other than "the people who are caring for the child"! "Stranger," similarly, must mean something other than "people the child has never had contact with," since in this fantasy these are the people who are raising the child... So if "carer" doesn't mean "person who cares for," and "stranger" doesn't mean "person who is strange," then where do these labels come from? What assumptions are you recreating when you use them in this frankly counter-intuitive sense with the assumption that I will know what you mean? (See also a message I got reading "i am not a mother but i already know i would rather die than have my baby call some strange women mom," emphasis mine.)

I think that probably you've used "carer" because you know that "biological parent" is a weaker proposition—and yet, in regards to the legal structures I'm talking about, it is biological parenthood which confers automatic, presumptive "rights" over a child upon someone (in default of other specific legal arrangements which someone must chuse to enter into in order to renounce those automatic, presumptive rights).

It is the idea that biological parenthood (or adoption, or "using" a surrogate, or any of the arrangements people may enter into that fall between these categories) ought to give one or two people complete control over another human being, such that that human being has no recourse at all from abuse, coercion, forced isolation, being raised in a cult, being denied transition or other medical care or put through conversion therapy, &c., so long as their caretakers do not in theory fall afoul of the very high standard of legal "child abuse" in a way that someone in practice actually cares to pursue—it is this reality, which is ideologically baked into your assumption of who a child's natural, automatic "carers" are for them to be "taken away from" in the first place, that family abolitionists want to change.

But nothing about biological parents no longer having automatic, presumptive rights to do basically whatever they want with or to their children automatically means that children will be taken away from them in the sense of enforced physical distance!

I think we need to look at what is ideologically entailed in assuming that a) parenthood in which a parent does not have quasi-property rights over their child is not "real, natural" parenthood, such that removing "parental rights" equates to "taking a child away"; b) certain people are just inherently strangers or strange to a child by virtue of the circumstances of their birth in relation to the circumstances of the child's birth, regardless of the actual social relationship they have with that child, and the ways in which this division between "naturally connected" versus "naturally distant," "natural proper and correct" versus "naturally strange," "inside" versus "outside," and the concept of the "stranger" (and the foreigner as the "eternal stranger," the racialised as the "eternally foreign") play into a situation where you can say "a bunch of strangers" and assume that you will be understood, and that this will be understood to be obviously bad.

*E.g., women are naturally caretakers, having a child is naturally the ultimate fulfillment for any woman (thus women who do not or cannot give birth are not fulfilling their function or are not "really" women), women love and are never exhausted by any aspect of gestation, childbirth, or childcare and they certainly don't need any help, &c.

#trying something different with the structure so that I can make something like a bullet-pointed list but include paragraph breaks #that don't indicate a new bullet point #family abolition #nuclear family #questions

[ratwavegamehouse]

So GREED is a really cool game. It's got a super engaging voice, a vivid setting and it looks like it's really fun to toss characters into the meat grinder that is the Plerorealm.

If you haven't checked out GREED yet you absolutely should.

Gormengeist so made a Letterbox list of GREEDlike films and that's honestly such a simple but cool idea I was surprised I'd never seen it before. I've seen (and made) lots of Spotify playlists which is in the same vein.

So I was inspired by this (and also I'm having a bad fibro flare and can't really leave bed much) so put together some Letterboxd lists for some of my own games. Check them out here:

Terminal

Fear the Taste of Blood

Wild Duelist

How to Embrace a Swamp Creature

#the logic of these lists is a little different between each #Terminal and Wild Duelist are more focused on things that i soired or evoke vibes #Fear the Taste of Blood is literally a research watch list I did while making the game #Swamo Creature is stuff I figured was in the primordial soul #but like that gives little indication about how the game itself is #unlike the Terminal ine for instance #also got me thinking about games of mine where I couldnt really do this

[confusedgoldenflower]

MIZU x AKEMI x TAKAYOSHI

I except nothing less. Taigen is allowed IF AND ONLY IF he mans the fuck up, doesn’t get butthurt over Mizu and grows.

Akemi and Mizu, if they get a man, need a real man, not a man child clinging to falsities his daddy and master told him. He’s obnoxious. He’s a good, loyal but annoying friend at best as it stands. They’re not compatible romantically/sexually (if memory serves, the flashbacks of nonexistent dick Mikio overlapped w her time w Taigen/some scenes that could be read as romantic, a man who caused her great hurt who made it so she’ll likely need a LOT to be able to be vulnerable w a man ever again), neither is he with Akemi anymore. I’m hoping the overlap was just there to show her starting to think about it or as a weird red herring for his bi/gay awakening. He could get someone else in S2, who knows. As S1 is, they don’t deserve each other. The throuple. Mizu and Akemi as a pair with some more development, but not w him.

Takayoshi, however, has shown that he can be understanding and he should be a trained swordsman. He didn’t seem to mind allowing Akemi to lead and there’s a big hint that she’ll be the “pants wearer” of the relationship going forward. I think Akemi’s moved on from Taigen, maybe not realizing it but has, and Taka also has a pretty significant “fault” being his stutter.

I just see more potential with Taka not Tai.

Having throuple representation would be incredible regardless!

But bringing in a new character for it could also really work. Like a gentle lady Mizu finds in England—oh, that’s an idea…👀👀 no I have enough fanfic wips damnit. She could free someone from a work house or mine!

#blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai ideas #mizu blue eye samurai #akemi blue eye samurai #mizu x akemi #mizu x Akemi x takayoshi #takayoshi #Taigen #ALSO. WHAT IF MIZUAKEMI GOT W THE MIXED SEX WORKER IN KAJIS HOUSE #I cant find her name or at least indication the name belongs to her in the character lists #I’m sure these r just crack ideas now #shooting for a lesbian throuple is prob too much #but a perosn can dream #the other “girls of Kaji aren’t accounted for at the end tho #I’m sure miss white hair blue eyes didn’t do w them for obv rsns #but I’d assume Akemi will be sending for the others? #I’d be just as happy w that as the pair getting a gentlelady too #just pls don’t be Taigen. pls pls pls. his ass is too annoying and self serving and obstinant #not that Mizu doesn’t have leaps and bounds to make but he makes my brain angry #god the next season is gonna be even darker w what F said about the other two #how can the writers and artists and voice actors be mentally ok #I’d need so much levity #I think words r getting away from me now

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Wait where do you post your writing cause I wanna read it if that's ok

unless you like DC comics, specifically Batman / the batfam, i doubt you'll find anything of interest to read On My Ao3! i have posted 53 works over the past few years and they're all That

but then on this blog, my tag Snippets From The Bog has little unedited tidbits/scenes from my more recent wips and imaginings. currently all of it is some flavor of Welcome Home

#also disclaimer #the first one is Not indicative to my skills as a writer. it admittedly is not good #i wrote it sleep deprived and didnt even give it a once over. i wrote it and posted and never looked at it again #i can literally provide a list of my better works so then yall can read the shittier ones and know Im Better Than This lmao #but yes absolutely feel free! i post publicly For A Reason! #posting fic feels like flaying my soul open but its so so rewarding #ahhh... i miss the days when id post at least a fic a month... #whether it be a oneshot or multi... #rambles from the bog #also fun fact! carrioncarnival was what i wanted this blog's name to be #but while it was available on ao3 it sadly twas Not here on tumblr...

[ayrennaranaaldmeri]

Saw these tweets a while back and I think they're pretty clear cut re: Midnight and whether or not her personality or identity has any meaningful influence on My*tra's current incarnation. It's also pretty telling that any instance of M*stra using an avatar of Midnight would be an act. (Source: X)

#midnight the mortal is tragic I think you can honestly add her to the never ending list of mortals fucked #over by the gods they worshipped and were chosen by & like all the other chosen of m*stra was a vessel for her power nothing more #she wasn't made a part of m*stra as an equal piece of the whole - using subsumed specifically indicates that she is under and wholly #suppressed by m*stra the god. #anyway i'm not tagging this bc i don't wanna talk to m*stra stans #but i am also shall we say tired #stfu fae #fae's bg3 rambles #yes a new tag for organising purposes i guess #tbd

[hannie-dul-set]

blocking empty blogs.

hey, there! this is to inform everyone that i will be blocking empty accounts (no pfp/no posts/no reblogs) from my followers list from december 11 onwards. i’m making an announcement ahead of time because if you’re a real person and not a bot behind those empty accounts, please do what you’re generally expected to do here on tumblr— start reblogging.

#rlly you don't even have to reblog my posts specifically 😭😭 just give me the indication that the acc is being used bcs #this site's bot problem has gotten worse #and clicking on seemingly active accs following me with having no posts no reblogs just make me think.......u rlly don't know how this site #works don't u #pls!!! pls start reblogging!!!! giving y'all a little over a week before i start purging my follower list!!!!!

[hairtusk]

mutuals... if you've been working on a baby name list since you were 14 (regardless of if you actually want children or not) can you reblog and let me see them ..........

#star indicates my favs but i'm so in love with them all. this list of a decade in the making.

[lycanthropicture]

hey just fyi i updated, organized, and removed broken links from the resource guide i made a while ago! it's originally from the resource dump channel of the spn amv editors discord, but it's got helpful stuff for any spn creators (editors, gifmakers, meta-writers, fic writers, etc) and any video editors from any fandom! Here's the link, and here's a lil info on what kind of stuff you'll find on each page:

General Resources - links useful for amv editors from any fandom. things like tutorials, overlay packs, and software downloads.

SPN Scenepacks - big list of links to downloadable scenepacks sorted by character, ship, and season

SPN Episodes, Clips, & Deleted Scenes - what it says on the sign.

Other SPN Resources - various links to spn-specific resources like timelines, transcript search, the amv archive, etc!

anyway, i am asking that you please do not post the link to this drive elsewhere, and especially not on other websites (cough the bird one cough)!! pls keep it on tumblr <3

#if this gets over like. 300 notes i will probably break the link so copy the sheet while u can #also if you see this post and the link is broken feel free to shoot me an ask and i will send u a new link privately #i think thats all #hope it's helpful! #ohh also the ''server source'' column just indicates which user sent the link into the discord! #dont ask to join the discord it's really not active anymore LOL #however besties who are listed as sources pls feel free to lmk if you want to be removed/have ur name or url changed fdjiaghldas #i think i updated all names and urls but im not sure #slay. #👍 #resource guide

[jenhoneys]

fave autistic-coded sitcom characters

abed nadir (community) -- a fan favourite, a must love, if you will. also his special interest is refreshingly films and videography (like me !1!1!) instead of anything stem related.

frankie dart (community) -- look, if abed is on this list, frankie needs to be too. lesbian queen. strong principles. tells it like it is (but in an autistic way). is the only character to explicitly be shown to understand abed's view of life and the way he exists in the world.

jessica huang (fresh off the boat) -- if you don't think jessica huang is on the spectrum, have you even watched the show? doesn't understand the 'rituals' that people partake in when making friends (as an autistic immigrant who grew up in a white neighbourhood, i can relate), needs a schedule for Everything, hates when things don't go her way, is honest to a fault. special interest: stephen king, murder mysteries + christmas.

mary (bbc ghosts) -- love her, little ray of sunshine who has been through too much. her stims are everywhere and she never feels the need to hide them <3 plus she's played by queen katy wix (who is also autistic!)

gregory eddie (abbott elementary) -- a relatively new addition to the sitcom family, but instantly iconic. i love the way he talks about his relationship with food.

orla mccool (derry girls) -- peak Weird Girl representation. unapologetically herself and into her special interests, takes things so literally in a way that frames her as charming instead of stupid, and covers her ears when people are yelling/being too loud <3 also nb.

adrian mallory (space force) -- just a stubborn, 'sassy' man who loves space and has a very, very rigid moral compass.

keeley jones (ted lasso) -- stunner, icon, bicon, all around amazing person. also she's autistic. the Teeth thing, obsession with the colour pink (in EVERYTHING, not just her wardrobe), needs clarification a lot. doesn't feel jealousy for other women in a Strong Feminist way, a bisexual way, and an autistic way. no i do not take criticism.

coach beard (ted lasso) -- is incredibly knowledgeable about the things he is interested in, has a vast compartment of fun facts (to the extent that ted always asks when he needs more information). extremely observant, king of the deadpan face, is mostly non-verbal. special interests: chess + coaching.

tina belcher (bob's burgers) -- i don't personally watch bb, but i can dig it.

maurice moss (the IT crowd) -- like sheldon cooper, but better, but unfortunately british.

#feel free to add -- i know there's more but my brain is tired #autistic experiences #autistic characters #based on my personal thoughts hehe #lists lists lists !! #i would have put maura isles just because she's the first character i ever kinned #which should have been a bit of an indicator to me #but i don't think r&i is technically a sitcom #community #fresh off the boat #abbott elementary #bob's burgers #the it crowd #ted lasso #space force #adrian mallory #dr mallory #mary bbc ghosts #bbc ghosts #katy wix #zay speaks #derry girls #orla mccool #coach beard #keeley jones #abed nadir #frankie dart #jessica huang #tina belcher #shut up kiki

[spacetrashpile]

ok so now that i'm done with the booster gold backlog i was working through i need more stuff to read so. hi dc fans. if any of you have reading lists/recommendations for the following characters:

bea and tora/fire and ice

scott free/mister miracle

ray terrill/the ray

jaime reyes/blue beetle

kyle rayner/green lantern

alan scott/green lantern

please send them to me. thank you.

#dc comics #beatriz da costa #tora olafsdotter #scott free #mister miracle #ray terrill #jaime reyes #kyle rayner #alan scott #green lantern #i do have a reading list for bea and tora in my save tag but i wanted to ask just in case there's stuff that list is missing #i also am currently making my way through jaime's solos and the teen titans vol 3 stuff he features in #but idk if there's anything else i should read for him that i don't know about #everyone else on this list i have NO foundation for though so any help would be very appreciated #OH also i have already read fire and ice: welcome to smallville #as my post about the surprise cannibalism may indicate

[distant-screaming]

I found an old presentation I made during online class bored out of my mind and

#this list is not indicative of what media I was consuming at the time btw #I don't actually remember why I chose these characters specifically and not others #but I do love all of them #anyway #she ra #umineko spoilers #ange ushiromiya #omori aubrey #omori spoilers #kazuma asogi #tgaa spoilers #arthur pendragon #caitlyn kiramman #yosano akiko #gojo satoru #keith kogane #zuko #maki zenin #haruki nakayama #atsushi nakajima #kakegurui #haikyuu #shi long lang #bernkastel #endeavor #byakuya togami #slideshow #distant screaming screams into the void

[ereborne]

Top 7 Comfort Films

Tagged by @piratefalls Hi Kelly!!!!! I also watch the same movies on rotation lol

The Three Musketeers (1993)

The Swan Princess

The Blues Brothers

Hansel and Gretel, Witch Hunters

The Martian

Charlie's Angels (2019)

Logan Lucky

Tagging: @goingsparebutwithprecision, @acountrygirlsfun, @tulmultuous, @zahnie, @ialpiriel, @alwaysboth

#tagged by #piratefalls #I was having a really hard time figuring how to narrow this list down because there's quite a few more I watch #eventually I decided to only include the ones where I don't 'skip to the good bits' #(Fast Five and Mr & Mrs Smith and The Italian Job and Avengers 2012 I do all watch incredibly often but mostly only the back halves #and my animated movies and musicals I mostly watch the songs and the ends. not the Blues Brothers though) #and then the rest of these I put in order by when I got them because that's probably the best indicator of how often I've seen them #also worth noting that The Martian could easily be swapped for Star Trek (2009) or Charlie's Angels for Ocean's Eight #I tend to watch them back-to-back because they fill similar niches in my brain #Logan Lucky has recently beat out a lot of the other heist movies I rewatch because the characters and accents make me happy #(if anybody has heist movie recommendations though please please share I always want more)

[oopsallfictives]

I'm starting to see even more tone indicator hate and it fucking sucks. I know they don't work for everyone, but you'll never find a method of communication that does. If there's a different way you prefer to communicate tone over text, that fine, but this is what works best for some of us /gen

As an autistic system, tone indicators were the first thing that ever made us feel like it could be safe and not terrifying to talk to people online. Sure, we still did it, but it was so much harder and scarier before tone tags. Having a conversation online was like trying to navigate a minefield with a blindfold on. With tone tags, at least the blindfold came off

And yet we've never used them as much as we would like, because people have always been making fun of them and trying to paint them as inherently worse than any other method of communication. We got shamed out of using an incredibly important tool

But yeah, it's totally unfair that people expect you to know what a handful of acronyms stand for /s

#the quicksilvers say #also there are lists of tone indicators and what they stand for out there #you can look them up #save one to your phone #or dont #but please dont mock people for trying to make online communication easier for themselves

[thesituation]

i swear putting minors dnf in my pinned does absolutely nothing cause kids don’t fucking listen!!!

#i just softblocked 4 kids that were following me #& they don’t list their age or any indication in their bio anymore so i gotta guess based on like the minecraft and fnaf posts #.txt

[beefy-babe-showdown]

Women who are guaranteed placement in the beef babes showdown

(as in, you can keep submitting these women if you want, it helps for seeding purposes, but you don't need to be worried about them)

Scorpia | She-ra and the Princesses of Power

Luisa Madrigal | Encanto

Gideon Nav | The Locked Tomb

Sakura Ogami | Danganronpa

Yasha Nydoorin | Critical Role

#listed in order of submission numbers #although gideon and sakura are technically equal #and then some women I had in mind who have less than 5 submissions jsyk: vi arcane‚ abby the last of us‚ kassandra assassin's creed #korra legend of korra‚ mirko mha‚ clarisse la rue pjo‚ urbosa botw‚ and bobbie draper the expanse #vi and abby have the most submissions of those #I know that those women would probably do fairly well if actually put in the contest #so I can probably put them in anyway if I have room #especially since the submission numbers aren't an overall indicator of popularity #it's just the audience of people who have actually found this blog and submitted something #but still. little worried about my girls #beefy babe showdown