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heres most of the notes i have for brisbane meshi. i could draw this forever probably

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the letterboxd review, a hybrid literary genre equally born of the recipe blog personal essay and the desire to receive reddit gold,

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btw the "bare minimum decency" thing to do when a disabled person tells you to wear a mask is to wear a fucking mask instead of arguing or ignoring or gaslighting or soft blocking or blocking them. you're not an ally to disabled people (or PoGM especially Black people, who are hit the hardest by covid, source in link below) if you don't mask and if you are disabled yourself and you go out in large crowds without masking you are not an ally to your fellow disabled people. wear a mask, n95+ (cloth and surgical don't work for covid), in public.

if you are literally physically incapable of masking, don't go to superspreader events (but the VAST majority of people who aren't masking, Can and choose not to). just. please. i am so fucking sick of begging people to care enough if i live or die to take two seconds to put on a mask. one-way masking is miles better than not masking but it doesn't adequately protect immunocompromised people so we are forced to stay at home in self enforced lockdowns or risk death every time we go out. i know the social stigma sucks but this is literally a matter of life or death. maybe you didn't know before but you do now and it is your responsibility to mask. asymptomatic infections are just as if not more contagious than symptomatic infections. you can't assume you don't have it because you don't feel sick.

and you, the person reading this post, aren't immune either, covid is the third leading cause of death in the US (and a leading cause of death in many if not most other countries) and this includes young and healthy people. COVID fucks up your body worse every time you get it and YOU are immunocompromised if you've had COVID before. it's only a matter of time and repeat infections until you end up with organ damage and/or anhedonia and/or severe chronic pain and/or early onset dementia and/or cancer and/or countless other horrible afflictions and/or dead and if you do not mask you are responsible for spreading these things to other people. (85+ sources)

if you have sensory or other issues and need help finding a good mask for you, send me an ask and i will help you find one. read this post for recs including sources for free masks and read this post for more information on covid including more sources to the info in this post

we all know our governments don't give a shit if we live or die and we already know they're willing to let entire populations die (or kill them themselves) if it makes them a profit. covid is not an exception. we MUST take care of each other.

to those who have been masking this whole time and are sick and tired of being gaslit and talked over and ignored, i'm right there with you and we will get through this together. to those who stopped and started again once you realized how bad things were, and those who switched from cloth/surgical to n95, good on you for doing the right thing. it matters. to those who stopped masking, it is Never too late to start protecting yourself and those around you again. it's never too late to mask again!!

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The 2024 Gender Census is now open!

[ Link to survey ]

The 11th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th June 2024.

It’s short and easy, about 5 minutes probably.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful - it’s what helped us get 40,000 responses last year.

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

For the curious, you can also spy on some graphs and demographic data for the incoming responses here.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

Image credit: Malachite and rhodochrosite.

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Effeminate dentist: You need to brush more on your gums-- hold on why am I "effeminate?" What? I'm literally just a normal dentist. A masculine one, even.

Me: (struggling to speak through the dentist's fingers) youw weren't shupposhed to shee that

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i just wanna say, as a feeding tube haver, that it's so much more possible to get used to invasive medical devices than you might fear.

i grew up horrified by even being reminded organs exist. i was just so severely grossed out by human anatomy. i got a lot better about it through years of chronic illness, since you just have to get used to it. but that's the baseline i started from originally, in case you are also squeamish and wonder if it's possible for that to change.

so when i needed a feeding tube, i was pretty distressed by the idea. having a tube sticking through a new hole in my abdomen was a seriously horrifying concept, and i couldn't imagine coping with having a stoma (the hole) and caring for it etc. i did it because i needed it to survive but thought i might never get used to it.

and yeah, it freaked me out at first. but eventually i did just get used to it. it just feels normal now. i even feel affection towards it, because it is keeping me alive.

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bingqiu human/demon role reversal as requested by alliechickfics on twitter! for a modest donation to the listed organizations and individuals over at SVSSS Gotcha 4 Gaza, you too can get a prompt fulfilled in exchange.

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hey 14 year old me it’s me again. you draw neil too

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so.

i guess fanfiction wasn’t a phase….

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Sorry if you're already over 50, I ran out of room (you're welcome to leave your thoughts in the tags or replies!)

If you're younger than 10, get the fuck off Tumblr. People are saying swears on here!

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the mp100 fic i want to read based upon the tone and pacing of the thing: reigen chokes on takoyaki that is too hot and briefly becomes a spirit. mob uses his psychic powers to cheat on an important math test one time and feels so immediately guilty he becomes physically ill. dimple infiltrates the jehovahs witnesses

the mp100 fic that there is: 'whump' 'angst' 'trauma' 'death' 'abuse' 'torture' 'PTSD' 'blood and injury' 'hurt no comfort' 'vomiting' 'childhood trauma' 'character death'

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Now Showing: The Polaroid Starring Lu Guang and □□□

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night prince

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petition to bring back saying "huzzah!" when something goes your way and "alas." when it doesn't

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You ever just wake up from an incredibly graphic and realistic nightmare that was a pure psychological horror based on your own personal phobias and trauma and just roll over like “aw shit I got too hot last night I guess.” And then make toast like you didn’t just experience the nine circles of hell before 9 am