#non used essentials

[rouge-the-bat]

"i just want non-queers to just see me as a normal person just like them" cool good for you. meanwhile ive been a weird little freak since i was a kid and the world is gonna have to learn to accept me like i am or ill start burning shit

you can be down for simple assimilation for yourself but many of us just want to be respected as is because theres nothing wrong with being different. especially those of us who are also neurodivergent on top of queer or many other things people often ostracize in society.

if you want other queers to water themselves down or just completely close off parts of their identity and self expression so that you wont be associated with those ~freaks~ and can be more easily accepted by The Normies, then you are not caring about your fellow queers at all.

we arent doing any harm, and we should be pushing for people to accept others no matter how HARMLESSLY strange and unusual they may come across. challenging the norm is the only way to get more people accepted across all communities.

#queer #just kinda stream of thought i hope i worded well #essentially: you shouldnt be trying to control how other queers express themselves #if you want something more ~tame~ to be seen at first by some non-queers then just make ur own space #find a non-kink pride or something idfk. just dont try to say pride shouldnt have kink #or stop us from being loud and rainbow and flamboyant and gnc and flashy and drag queens/kings and etc etc

[uncanny-tranny]

Your fears that you don't have a body that will transition "well" are, sure, understandable, but there isn't truly such thing as a body that's unworthy of transition. Perhaps your changing body won't suit everybody's taste, but would you rather live for yourself or for the whims of random people who don't care about your happiness as long as they're attracted to what they see?

Transition is for anybody who wants it. It's okay to be fearful. It's okay to be uncertain. But it isn't the end of the world. You are in control, and if you choose to transition to any capacity, it should be at your behest. You and your body are worthy of transition. I hope you are able to seize transition and do what you truly want for yourself.

#trans #transgender #lgbt #lgbtq #ftm #mtf #nonbinary #have been seeing a small resurgence in some trans spaces that there is such thing as an 'untransitional' body #there are people out there who cannot transition for medical/financial/social reasons but that isn't what people often mean #kill the person in your head that says you need to adhere to cishet standards. it's okay to be trans and *look* it if you want #transition because it makes you feel happy or fulfilled. transition because it is something *you* want #while yes it's complex because appearing trans can be dangerous i ultimately want people to have the freedom to make decisions solely... #...on what *they* want y'know? #i have seen this idea that some people just aren't 'able' to transition because they won't 'appear cis' for years now and it's heartbreaking #like i used the whole 'i don't look cis' against myself because it's impossible for me *to be* cis... #...i will never be non-trans. i will never not be a transsexual and i used to hate that about myself... #...because i was taught that being trans is bad. i was taught that looking trans is a curse that nobody should EVER inflict upon themselves #and that the goal was to essentially distance yourself as far away from transness as you can #and it's okay for people to not want to 'look' visibly trans. it's neutral. what was harmful was the idea that TRANS was bad #there's a huge difference between 'i don't want to be visibly trans' and 'i think being trans and looking it is bad'

[beaulesbian]

The layers this movie has, almost like an onion.

#glass onion #knives out #im still not over all the parallels OTL this movie #its about how miles always uses someone elses work and words for his own #and so helen and blanc use his own monologue against him in the end #how the shitheads truly cant do anything on their own #either the puzzle in the beginning or stand up for the truth as helen asks them or basically their whole live to be non dependant on miles #and how blanc is essential for the help there but the final actions and words belong to helen *mhaw* #glass onion spoilers #glass onion a knives out mystery #daniel craig #janelle monae #benoit blanc #helen brand #mine #gif:knivesout

[thebisexualwreckoning]

They are dead.

Babies, their first cry not heard by the world before they become orphans

Toddlers, taking their first steps among the rubble of places they didn't live in long enough to call home

Children, not yet old enough to know what is happening but who still know that something is very very wrong

Teenagers, watching their friends starve and unable to do anything about it

Parents, who cannot go on any longer as they watch their children being murdered

Grandparents, who have seen the start of this war but fear that they will not live to see its end

Students, watching as their schools go from teaching them to housing them to being the only thing between them and certain death

Journalists, documenting the horrors every day because they may die any second but they will not die without a purpose

Doctors, refusing to leave their home because rivers will flow full of their blood before they stop trying to save their people

Millions of Palestinians, still hanging on to hope that despite everything One day From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free.

#im going back to my roots #making art in the hope that somehow it will help #this is me begging you to follow the global strike #call out of work or school #dont buy anything non-essential #do not spend any extra money #especially at pro-apartheid Israel companies #use your voice for those who have none #scream about the injustice of it all from the rooftops #support palestinians #spread information #support palestine #Kismet ki Kahaniya #creative writing #ceasefire #ceasefire now #free gaza #gaza #gaza strip #gaza genocide #gazaunderattack #palestinian genocide #free palestine #palastine #stop the genocide #stop the occupation #stop genocide #palestine #i stand with palestine 🇵🇸 #i stand with palestine

[br1ghtestlight]

"what does hfjone stand for" "we don't know and uh. nothing"

#trying to explain this to non osc people LMAOO #an acronym that nobody knows the meaning of and a random string of letters. awesome #its essentially just a nonsense indicator used to refer to the show vs having any real meaning. like a string of numbers #that translates to someones birthday #txt #hfjone #sorry i have hfjone brainrot today except more of these posts

[the-matron-of-ravens]

I just gotta make peace with the fact that I see the relationship between FCG and Dancer VERY differently than the majority of the CR fandom.

But ho boy every time I see a post about how FCG is abusive and Dancer is standing up for herself I just die a little inside

#critical role #cr spoilers #four sided dive #four sided dive spoilers #Fresh Cut Grass #FCG #Dancer #you’re telling me that there’s nothing wrong with treating an obviously sentient automaton as a non-sentient Helper Bot for years #we know from FCG’s mechanics that his stress goes up the more and more he’s used without rest or recovery. #so what does that tell us about how Dancer treated him? #that she used and used and used until he broke #and sure it makes sense she’s traumatized and I don’t even think she’s wrong to not want to be around him #but I just can’t ignore the fact that she essentially placed this freshly born bot in servitude with no plans to let him go #or tell him he’s a person #and if we’re saying FCG is manipulative for needing to fix dancer and not knowing how to take no as an answer - well… #who taught him that his entire purpose was to serve fix and help dancer??? #that doesn’t just go away #and don’t tell me she didn’t know he was sentient #we’ve seen every NPC with two brain cells to rub together recognize he’s sentient

[youngestdaughtersyndrome]

Really glad to see so many of my mutuals hating on the word girlhood. Welcome ..... ive been here the whole time

#clicking on the tags subjects u to My Rant btw #1. i automatically dislike it when a specific phrase or wording is used to turn an incredible diversity of experiences into a monolith and #with that particular word the monolith is 'ouughhh all we do is suffer we have no joy *jennifers body foundation gif*' like ok?? shut up #2. if youre unable to talk about feminist issues without using some post format like 'girlhood is ___' than i dont trust u fr!!!! #3. the particular phrase 'girlhood is ____' fills in the blank w hyperspecific experiences bc thats what the format is. and genuinely 80% o #the time the mentioned experience is one that only applies to a specific subset of women. and that subset is always white thin non-disabled #middle class cisgender and probably conventionally attractive. which by NO means covers all womens experiences so it just feels exclusionar #and bioessentialist most the time. like if something fucked up happened to u and youre able to talk abt it with the format then maybe just #talk about it instead of publicly defining your experiences as the essential rites of passage to being a girl or woman. come ON #sorry for ranting lol im just so tired of people only being able to talk about oppression with a fucking meme format #hollyws

[kyxworld]

i remember some anon told me i wrote sigh, or my wrist hurts and they went off. but seriously that’s how i talk, that’s how most ppl on tumblr speak ngl 😭💀. i mean this side, plus loa and such everyone talks pretty much normally. yet other “normal” side of fandoms and such. every writer you’d see screams in the tags. very expressive ppl generally. even ppl tell me that the way i talk is quite animated 💀. i’m sorry for being too expressive, anon.

#that’s why my tags #i speak a lot #bc that’s what they’re used for 😭 #tagging yeah. true #but essentially #it’s for talking again. #😭💀 #i’m sorry but this is how i talk here #anyone here knows #TAGS are the best part of the post 🧍🏻‍♀️ #even reblogs #i’ll shut up 🧍🏻‍♀️ #⚠︎︎ non related spews

[nemesis-is-my-middle-name]

one thing i'm really really fascinated by is the fact that everyone in the modern pokemon world seems to consider the deities a power source, nothing more. the games generally imply that knowledge of the legendaries has been lost to time and legend and only preserved by a select few who keep to the Ancient Ways but i don't really think that sounds likely. i think they might be common knowledge people just don't seem to. conceptualize them as greater than in the way that we generally think of them. "this is a divine force that underpins reality and has been worshipped since antiquity" is not a thing that seems to have any problem coexisting with "i'm going to put this thing in an engine and make it my tool." and it's very frequently the baddies doing this which maybe weakens the point a little but very rarely is the point of contention with the bad guys "hey you shouldn't do that to god" that's kind of like, never the part of their thing that people object to. it's always their motives, never their methods. when the Good Guy (local ten year old) catches god and makes it their new partner, nobody has a problem with it! and people joke about this but i'm saying it might imply a way deeper facet of society than people give it credit for.

and is this maybe trying to force the round peg of pokemon legendaries into the square hole of actual religion. very possibly! the games aside from pla certainly seem only very occasionally interested in treating these creatures as gods or godlike or worshipped in any way, and far more often just want to treat them as regular pokemon But Stronger. so it's maybe not reasonable to try and say these entities are deities. but the problem is they are! it's not like this isn't supported textually, it's just... not a part of canon that canon is actually interested in. dialga, palkia, the lake trio, kyogre, groudon—these things are gods. canon can mince words and call them legendaries and "worshipped as deities maybe sometimes" but when you get to the point where you're discussing something that represents a fundamental force governing reality and/or can end the world on a whim then idc what you call it. that's a god.

but the problem is that they are gods and also pokemon, they're both simultaneously. and people in the pokemon world seem to have worked this out, and have had the collective realization that the gods are truly not exempt from their own rules. they can be captured, they can be subjugated, they can be used. this also ties back in with the whole anarchism discussion obviously but it's just the fact that like. it goes way deeper than everyone being fine with the ten year old putting the lord of time in a ball. the entire world operates on the premise of "eat your gods."

does that like... contradict worship? can you be faithful to something knowing it's been used as a tool?

#the nemesis speaks #pla analysis #this is essentially one long rambling conversation with myself because i should really be going to bed #this all also hinges on the pokemon/trainer relationship conceptually which ive never had a chance #and/or willingness to really try and dig into that bc it's like. #an idea that feels intuitively easy to grasp but would be way more difficult to explain in words #it's not... it's really not like anything we have in the real world. it's Different. #but like. gestures vaguely. also relating to the distinction btwn Tool and Partner in that relationship #and how the former is generally how the Bad Guys lean wrt both their pokemon AND the gods #whereas the latter is how the protagonist and most non-evil people approach it. #anyway. going to bed now promise promise #but im not even talking about the key players in the games i'm talking about the regular guys! the everyday randos! #religion is so integral to our societies and it's clear that this was at least in the PAST a thing that the pokemon world people possessed #but... what about the modern day? are dialga and palkia still worshipped? reshiram and zekrom? xerneas and yveltal? #another of the many. many many reasons i want to Do Something with the hypothetical history sitting around in my notes #cause it also comes back around to this concept of people using gods as tools #OKAY. SLEEP. NOW.

[jaytherat-hometothereblog]

Voyager is literally held to gather with duct tape, strained family bonds, and Janeways coffee addiction. And that's why we love it.

#janeway x coffee #star trek voyager #voy #st voyager #star trek #tom paris found the tape in his box of 20th century nick nacks and then gifted it to b'alana as a joke anniversary presents #he totaly didnt forget #now b'alana uses it on all non essential fixes when ever something brakes in the last five minutes of her shift. #ill fix it later #these coffee in that nebula

[udurghsigil]

not to sound anti-science or anything but i feel like a big reason for general human suffering right now is because we know too many of the secrets of this world

#x #like an ant doesnt give af abt what lays beneath the earth's crust they r just like 'lol frolicking playing etc' yknow #idk i was just thinking the other day abt 'whats the point of being spiritual when natural phenomena is explainable' #also smth smth atheists and westerners with the obsession with science and logic #maybe its just me but i think that some sort of spirituality #even non religious is essential to living a decent life #like to keep it real everything we've discovered is just a testament to humanity's capability and one of our greatest achievements #thinking abt this bc of a convo i had w my therapist abt carl jung's theories and how i connect w them despite knowing they arent exactly.. #idk... widely accepted as Current... yknow what i mean #i just think of the idea that if we one day manage to explain all natural phenomena except for a few that are just out of our reach #(i.e. the hard problem of consciousness) #how are future humans gonna react to that yknow... maybe the progression of science has led to so many of us having anxiety #anxiety = fear of uncertainty so the constant search of answers or certainty is....... #augh. anyway. food for thought

[rosymiel]

idk guys my life has turned into a messed up romcom so i haven't even looked at sims 4 i'm sorry

#like the guy that i've been seeing is just so incredibly sweet to me and caring and i've been having a good time with him #but then my ex sometime last week sent me what was essentially a love letter saying how he's still in love with me and how badly he's messe #up by walking away from us #so i'm in a lot of emotional turmoil. alexa play screaming noises from hell #non sims

[championsofthegate]

//honestly I'm feeling a little blah tonight so I'm probably not really gonna be here

but we're supposed to get hit with a bunch of snow tomorrow and I'll get the day off so hopefully I'll feel better then

#down by the river || ooc #//well I'll take the day off #they used to let non essential personnel stay home during storms #but now that people can work from home we can't just fuck off #even tho I literally cannot work from home #it's not possible lol

[bethama]

I am delighted to announce that I deleted my account at the (e[x]-) bird site.

#non-tumblr social media #i essentially never used it for my own posts anyways #but yeah going forward if you happen upon a bethama account there #and the content seems sus #not me ya'll

[clouseplayssims]

I don't know what it says about me and how afraid of myself I am, but there's multiple games I will not allow myself to buy or play because of the Skyrim incident in 2011.

#non sims #I've been playing sims since it released #if that tells you anything about my obsessive nature #but my skyrim problem was uh #essentially 8-10 hours a day for close to 5 years #everyone else in my family uses their addictive personality to be boring alcoholics #I chose to be Dragonborn #(I'm just being silly over here. but also. I'm genuinely scared to buy Baldur's Gate 3.)

[theadventurek9]

For the first time in a while I took the camera out for some photos. I think I have a few cute ones, but none are really great quality or in focus. ( 17 year old cameras!) Yet it felt good to get out and try it again.

When I find the cord to download the photos I'll have a few up.

I can't wait until the day I'm not fully paycheck to paycheck, able to pay the trials I want to attend and then be able to afford a nice new camera.

#i want a new camera but its kind low on my list #currently my non essential purchase list is whatever classes it takes to qualify us for obedience and rally finals #obedience is covered for utility #she wont have enough trials for superdog finals but thats a lot of work and is hard #but as long as nothing major happens and we dont NQ a rally class we are going to get into rally finals #then i just got to afford rally finals #i probably wont do agility this time