#I cannot even fucking function

[quintessential-candles]

Don’t you love when a friend tells you about something and then you become horribly obsessed with it to the point where you cannot correctly function anymore?

Me too, bro

[sugarcoatednightshade]

thinking about how Humans Are Space Orcs stories always talk about how indestructible humans are, our endurance, our ability to withstand common poisons, etc. and thats all well and good, its really fun to read, but it gets repetitive after a while because we aren't all like that.

And that got me thinking about why this trope is so common in the first place, and the conclusion I came to is actually kind of obvious if you think about it. Not everyone is allowed to go into space. This is true now, with the number of physical restrictions placed on astronauts (including height limits), but I imagine it's just as strict in some imaginary future where humans are first coming into contact with alien species. Because in that case there will definitely be military personnel alongside any possible diplomatic parties.

And I imagine that all interactions aliens have ever had up until this point have been with trained personnel. Even basic military troops conform to this standard, to some degree. So aliens meet us and they're shocked and horrified to discover that we have no obvious weaknesses, we're all either crazy smart or crazy strong (still always a little crazy, academia and war will do that to you), and not only that but we like, literally all the same height so there's no way to tell any of us apart.

And Humans Are Death Worlders stories spread throughout the galaxy. Years or decades or centuries of interspecies suspicion and hostilities preventing any alien from setting foot/claw/limb/appendage/etc. on Earth until slowly more beings are allowed to come through. And not just diplomats who keep to government buildings, but tourists. Exchange students. Temporary visitors granted permission to go wherever they please, so they go out in search of 'real terran culture' and what do they find?

Humans with innate heart defects that prevent them from drinking caffeine. Humans with chronic pain and chronic fatigue who lack the boundless endurance humans are supposedly famous for. Humans too tall or too short or too fat to be allowed into space. Humans who are so scared of the world they need to take pills just to function. Humans with IBS who can't stand spicy foods, capsaicin really is poison to them. Lactose intolerance and celiac disease, my god all the autoimmune disorders out there, humans who struggle to function because their own bodies fight them. Humans who bruise easily and take too long to heal. Humans who sustained one too many concussions and now struggle to talk and read and write. Humans who've had strokes. Humans who were born unable to talk or hear or speak, and humans who through some accident lost that ability later.

Aliens visit Earth, and do you know what they find? Humanity, in all its wholeness.

[faemytho]

"Dragon Lord" - Dark Cacao defeated Mystic Flour with the power of the dragons

"Immortal" - Golden Cheese defeated Burning Spice by obtaining immortality

"Compassionate" - Pure Vanilla defeated Shadow Milk...

[blookmallow]

torn between "deacon is a Cat and will fully lay on you if hes decided you're one of his people" or "deacon claims to be averse to physical touch and is never physically affectionate with anyone. however, he is actually extremely touch starved and no one would have ever guessed it until sole survivor discovers it" what do y'all think. im leaning toward the second one. kinda want to draw a thing. can i even draw deacon. who knows probably not

i also think hancock is very casually affectionate with anyone he's close to. he's a "puts his arm around you anytime you're standing close enough" guy. a "rests his head on you when he's tired" guy. he is not concerned about being too affectionate at all unless you're giving signs you dont like it. i mean in a What Will People Think way

i feel like... nick valentine is emotionally affectionate but never physically until, one day, suddenly, wordlessly, he takes your hand without thinking. bizarrely automatic even though there was no precedent for this before. the second you acknowledge it if theres Any Hint of a negative or mocking response he drops it immediately and never does it again. but if not, could be slowly, cautiously convinced into a comfortable kind of unspoken unacknowledged closeness. holds your hand in the dark when he can tell you're scared. i think it doesn't come very naturally to him. i have no evidence for any of this but i feel it all in my heart

[0246h]

misophonia + sensory issues are torture. i'm so tired of all of this.

[aroace-polyshow]

things i needed to do this weekend

essay stuff for history

study for pe test

do calculus hw review

work on my english final (literally just coloring a paper bus)

things i have finished this weekend

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[skelelephant]

HEY I’m also doing artfight for the first time this year, probably gonna add one or two more characters in the coming week, but I’m excited to try this out!!

Here I am!!

[aretarers]

its crazy how someone will come into your life and in such a short time youll forget what it was like before & wonder how the fuck you were doing things without them

[nexus-nebulae]

known we were a system for about 7 years now, probably been a system for far longer, and just realised. we got an intrusive self-fakeclaiming thought today and laughed it away

[khamori]

havent stopped thinking about how a kiss scene was filmed. i feel like eating dirt

[zooblesbutchpuppygirl]

I'm trying to decide if I should share or even use my discord because like. I am The most boring person in the world to talk to (< so traumatized they can't have or start conversations and really can only agree with things other people say)

Idk. All I know is since my therapist just Completely refuses to give me any sort of guidance or help regarding healing from the trauma of being abandoned by my ex friend I'm having to try and be my own therapist. I'm trying to push myself out of my comfort zone but like. It's Really hard without any sort of professional help

I think at least attempting to talk to people again is a good idea but again my therapist refuses to give me any advice or help in general so I'm pretty much on my own in figuring out How exactly to help myself

[delzinrowe]

i finally washed my hair after three weeks. are you proud of me?

[whenastrofell]

:|

[sunwukxng]

kinda really hate how I live my life like a bedbound perpetually-sick/fatigued/lethargic Victorian child who is ready to faint at the smallest amount of exertion and needs a fainting couch for when the vapors overtake me

[pearl-kite]

In other news that I didn't want to annoy people with, I got my pi-hole running like a month ago (and oh my GOD the number of trackers it blocks, holy shit) BUT it kept dropping every 24ish hours, and if I didn't stay on top of it to immediately get it back up, it completely crashed everything so that I'd have to go physically reset my router (which is super conveniently in a hole in the wall at the top of the closet, GREAT planning on the property owner's part there)

I can do some basic coding, I actually kind of enjoy it, but networking? Networking is an arcane thing that I don't really want to know. But apparently I had to. I eventually figured out that the 24ish hour thing was probably related to lease times, something something DHCP and DNS and idefk, but the solution I was seeing was that I needed to assign the pi itself a static IP, which I THOUGHT I had already done, but apparently not, because I finally just tried to assign it a static IP using a different method, and the time went from ~86k seconds to forever and I THINK/pray that it's finally fixed

Because I really really don't want to understand networking, please stop trying to make me learn networking, it sucks when you're talking about networking with people and it sucks when you're talking about networking with the command line

[fluxweeed]

hey. hope this message doesn't bother you. I love you. I love your work. you are one of my favorite fic authors, I am absolutely obsessed with everything you write. reread everything ten times over, drarry or not, fluffy or angsty - even when it absolutely shatters my heart (e.g. for lack of wanting, SUCH a great fic btw i'm so obsessed with it). the four doors? life changing. two to lie and one to listen? engraved into my brain for eternity. what's mine is yours? what a ride holy shit, im VERY normal about it. wrapped? my comfort read. and so it goes.

if I could aggressively smother you with kudos and love I WOULD!!!

awhile ago you said that there's no such thing as "big deals" in fandom and I 100% agree but at the same time you are a big deal TO ME!!! not in the sense of any kind of hierarchy but purely based on the fact that I think you are such a cool person and your writing is amazing and poignant and your presence in fandom makes it so much better. it's been a pleasure following you here on tumblr and just reading your tags and posts.

idk I just think you rule. that's it. thank you for hanging with us. MWAH 💛

ahhhh anon sorry for leaving this message sitting in my inbox for a couple of days but !! i have zero idea how to react to this!! you're so kind!! thank you!! please discard any and all inclinations u have that i am a cool person bc i can assure you i am NOT!!