hey btw if you're in the USA at 2:20 p.m. ET on Wednesday, Oct. 4, they're testing the emergency broadcast system. your phone is probably going to make a really loud noise, even if it's on silent. there's a backup date on the 11th if they need to postpone it.
if you're not in a safe situation and have an extra phone, you should turn that phone completely off beforehand.
additionally, if you're like me, and are easily startled; i recommend treating it like a party. have a countdown or something. be surrounded by your loved ones. take the actions you personally need to take to make yourself safe.
i have already seen mockery towards any person who feels nervous about this. for the record, it completely, completely valid to have "emergency broadcast sounds" be an anxiety trigger. do not let other people make fun of you for that. emergency sounds are legitimately engineered to make us take action; those of us with high levels of anxiety and/or neurodivergence are already pre-disposed to have a Bad Time. sometimes it is best to acknowledge that the situation will be triggering for some, and to prepare for that; rather than just saying "well that's stupid, it's just a test."
"loud scary sound time" isn't like, my favorite thing, but we can at least try to prevent some additional anxiety by preparing for it. maybe get yourself a cake? noise cancelling headphones? the new hozier album? whatever helps. love u, hope you're okay. we are gonna ride it out together.
I'm browsing the WWI shelves (as you do) and notice a very old book about the war. I glance at the first pages that talk about how one day the war will be over and we'll look at this place and not see any signs of the battlefield.
Then it hits me. And I check the publishing date.
This book was printed before the war's end. Not written. Printed. The physical object was created in 1918, while the war in question was raging and the end was as yet uncertain.
Now I'm standing on the other side of the apocalypse, with this physical link to that era in my hands. I'm living proof that the war did end and life did go on and we can all look at the end of the world as a long-ago memory.
Reading old books is cool enough, connecting our minds and hearts through the ideas of people who lived long ago, but there's something extra profound about holding a copy of the book that comes from the time that it was written. It's a physical link between the past and the present connecting me to those long-ago people. A piece of the past come into the future that gives me the chance to almost take the hand of some long-ago reader, to hold something they could have held, connecting not just mentally but physically to their era, a moment of connection across more than a century.
we as a fandom do not talk about this scene enough. what the fuck is this. why did he feel the need to install this? so he could stare at his boybestfriend all day without having to get up?
I’m fully expecting matt’s twitter behavior rn to be an intentional harassment campaign of constantly poking and prodding at trans women until they say something that could potentially be construed as a death threat and then retaliating in full force to attempt to get them banned off of twitter as well. I mean, he really, REALLY wants to interpret these things as death threats.
The body positive/plus size art has been great! But you can’t expect people to think there isn’t a discrepancy when you talk about being that, and then posting the pictures you do. You’re allowed to be average, especially now after the reduction. Super skinny people also have a different experience too. It’s just that you talk about being plus sized and people relate to that and the art and then look at pictures of you, and suddenly feel dysmorphic?
it’s always “i want a stalker bf” until i start leaving love notes around your house and sneaking through ur window at night, then it’s “how did you find my address” and “put the knife down and please don’t hurt me🔪🌹
season 4 jesse pinkman makes me wish i had always been dead. we know he has suffered tremendously and has acted out because of it in a variety of usually emotionally explosive ways, so seeing season 4 jesse literally shut down because he can't cope is so jarring and excruciating. nothing brings him any pleasure. everything is just a way to distract himself, to silence his thoughts. he self harms by detaching, he tries to die by living with no concern for his wellbeing. seeing him fucking sitting there in the middle of his now wrecked childhood home (the purchase of which was a little triumphant story beat for him, something significant), surrounded by strangers and loose cash that he doesnt care about having or spending, body pressed up to a thrumming subwoofer so the deafening music and violent vibrations can physically prevent him from forming a coherent thought or feel Anything. it's "show don't tell" at its absolute best: we dont need an outburst, a diatribe, a breakdown to know that jesse is massively traumatized and depressed. no one needs to point out that he shaved his head or ask why he did it. we Know. all too well
It's still so wild to me that its 2024 and people still act like having a dick inheritly makes anyone with one a fucking perpetual horn dog or pervert. And the way y'all project this sentiment raging from goofy responses to sexual humor on here or worse, demonization of trans women with one (especially those that enjoy their penises) is proof of that.
Even if you want to talk about cis men and their relationship to their dicks, their dicks arent the problem. It's their misogyny, it's their entitlement to sex, other peoples bodies, the freedom they have to be sexually expressive or active without judgment, etc; its a result of misogyny and patriarchy. Your genitals themselves will never dictate shit about you all on their own, they're just an organ, like WE LIVE IN A SOCIETY IDK!!!
i truly think it is so beautiful that dip and pip share so much with us now and dont really have to hide anything anymore?
obviously they have their boundaries! but they laugh and joke with us about things they never would have circa 2012-2015ish era, and probably 2015 to 2018ish/prehiatus era too.