#I know this is A Lot

[solarwynd]

Solar, we are getting a second COVER for WHO in the remixes. We are getting that no 1 on Spotify. We are we are we are. We GOTTA!

I feel like even if it doesn’t happen today, Wednesdays Spotify update has the strongest chance with the live performance on Fallon and the remix album being released on TUES.

[greatyme]

BL WRAPPED 2023

template by @loveable-sea-lemon here (thank u for making it, it’s so fun!)

thanks for the tag @celestial-sapphicss !!! I love reflecting on my stats and I actually keep a list (or several…) of all the qls I’ve watched ever so this was fun to put together!

you watched 85 bls (and 3 gls) this year. that's about way too many fucking hours! You are a completionist.

Taiwan (7):

Japan (14):

Korea (20):

Thailand (44 bls + 3 gls):

you primarily watched bls from Thailand, at a grand total of 47 qls.

you spent way too much time thinking about these characters: HiraKiyoi, SaifahZon (why r u), and YaiJom.

your favorite show was Utsukushii Kare. you kept thinking about it all year.

your overall bl mood was devoted beyond all forces of reality, like yaijom or palmnueng’s reincarnated romance, and hira’s godlike worship of kiyoi.

you read the most fanfiction about no one. you’re not an avid fanfic reader.

another of your favorites from this year was I Feel You Linger in the Air, Eternal Yesterday, My School President, A Man Who Defies the World of BL, Why R U?, and Last Twilight. they captivated your gay little heart more than you could have ever predicted.

the soundtracks you listened to the most were the My School President OSTs and Love Sick OSTs. it made you feel really normal.

your favorite acting pair was OffGun. there was just something so mesmerizing about them, as always… but Mii2 surprised you, the chemistry was way stronger than you could’ve imagined.

here's to another year!!

tagging: @pondphuwin @petrichoraline @justafriend-ql @loserlesbianongsa @iliketodecompose @troubled-mind @blmpff @sparklyeyedhimbo and anyone else who wants to do this rlly fun tag game!!

[wanderingmind867]

Howard the Duck's Black and White comic ended on a cliffhanger. Howard and Bev went their seperate ways in New Orleans, so they'd have time to think about their relationship. I'm assuming Bev goes back to Cleveland, while Howard goes to Chicago and has one adventure as a Private Detective. And then the book ends like that. And that's awful. I had heard Bill Mantlo wanted the comic to eventually feature Howard going to LA, becoming a big TV star, then losing everything and ending up held captive in a Zoo. And then the book would end with Howard and Bev's wedding.

And since Howard and Bev still aren't married, and nobody has touched Paul Same and Winda Wester and Bev's Uncle Lee and Claude Starkowski and all these other characters since Bill Mantlo in the 80s, i think it's now on me to create some ideas for a continuation of the 80s Howard the Duck Black and White comic. I can't write very well, but I can you a concept and storyline for a scripter to follow. And that's more than anyone else has done. We can call this "The Untold Stories of Howard the Duck" or something. How Howard manages to get back with Bev in time for their appearances together in the 90s.

So, let's pick up where we left Howard: In Chicago, unemployed and homeless. His job as a Private Eye, so now he's out job hunting again. Before he can get a new job though, I think it's worth it to revisit soofi. Although the supreme soofi was defeated again in issue #4 of Howard's Black and White magazine, I remember Steve Gerber's run saying soofi wanted to build a base in Peoria. So I want to revisit that.

And ideally, i would like to take this new head of soofi's midwestern branch (if not new supreme leader outright) and make them a parody of one of america's foulest figures in the 1980s. If I can't score a direct hit on Ronald Reagan, them perhaps we can target Jerry Falwell or something. And who knows, maybe we can take a potshot at Reagan's conservatism later. It's something I know Howard comics of the 80s probably would have covered (if Howard comics had run into the reagan presidency).

But anyways, my story would begin with soofi trying to take over Illinois. Howard manages to stop them, but it also leads to him needing to run away from Illinois. And since i want to slowly start working towards Bill Mantlo's apparent plans for Howard in LA, I'll start by having Howard hitch a ride on a train or something. He went from New Orleans to Chicago, and now he's going from Chicago to Parts Unknown once more.

[villanesus]

If you had to lose one of your senses but you could choose which: which could you most likely live without best? And which could you absolutely not live without at all?

Oh, Pistachio, we’re really in it now. You had no way of knowing this when you asked, but you have inadvertently wandered into the part of my brain that intersects one of my main special interests, my identity, and my socialist rage. 

Imagine I’m holding both your hands very gently and looking you earnestly in the eye when I say everything I’m about to write is not directed at you personally and that I fully understood the intent of the question (which I will answer, at the end). This is me shouting and shaking my fist at the sky. 

This is super pedantic of me, but I read the framing of this question, “could absolutely not live without,” as suggesting that life is impossible or not worth it without a particular sensory ability. By extension, it implies people who are born without certain sensory abilities or people who have lost sensory abilities have inherently worse or less fulfilling lives. 

This is a flavor of ableism [1] and that flavor is ableist conflation [2]. It lives next door to inspiration porn [3].

The concept of ableist conflation is basically the assumption that to live as a disabled person is to live with suffering [4]. Essentially, able-bodied people expect/perceive the experience of disability as horrible and frightening. It, unfortunately, feeds into the misplaced fear and stigma society holds for the disabled community. 

What actually makes being disabled suck (but not the only thing) is the inherent ableism in all of our systems and spaces. If a system or a space is designed without consideration for and involvement of people at the margins, it automatically excludes them. Wheelchair ramps are the classic example of this—a building with stairs but no ramp is inaccessible to a chair user, lacking consideration. A ramp that is designed without the involvement of chair users can result in a shitty ramp that isn’t actually accessible [5].

This is, of course, skipping over all the additional dialogue we could have about the medical model of disability versus the social model [6], disability as identity [7], refutation of disability as a label [8], invisible disabilities [9], etc.  

I’ll add that while I identify as a person with a disability, I don’t represent anybody but myself. I don’t speak for the entire population of folks with disabilities. 

So, given all my shouting, here’s the version of your question I’m going to answer and the version I’m pretty certain you were intending: What ability would I miss the least, and what ability would I be most concerned about losing?

Personally, I think I’d be okay without my sense of taste (taste and smell are linked, unclear what the impacts would be on the latter without the former). A lot of my food experience has to do with textures, so I’d probably be okay eating food as long as I still got to enjoy the texture. And I had a family member who lost their sense of taste/smell, so I already have an idea of what to keep an eye on (e.g., expired milk). 

The ability I would be most concerned about losing is my vision. This is specific to me and not meant to reflect on individuals who are blind or have low vision. I personally find the world overwhelming as-is—I’m autistic and have some separate cognitive disabilities that affect my executive function. Navigating the world without vision feels like it would be hard for me. 

An incredibly significant amount of the internet is not screen reader accessible, the same is true for most applications [10]. It would make accessing information and services very difficult for me, not to mention wrecking the things I enjoy leisurely. In the physical world, learning Braille is not very common anymore [11] and the availability of Braille alternatives to most documents is even less common. 

Think about ordering a meal at a restaurant. Their website isn’t accessible, so you can’t decide what you want in advance. You arrive and they only have visual, printed menus. You might have an app on your phone that leverages OCR or crowd workers to convert printed text to speech [12], but you might not. Your option is to have someone read the menu to you. I would hate that, it triggers all of my independence issues. (Someone from a less individualistic culture might not mind this. This is about me and my obnoxious Westernism.)

As such, for me, I’d be most put out having to relearn all the ways I navigate the world and I believe I would have a hard time using things like screen readers because it requires a pretty impressive amount of cognitive processing to hold information in your working memory while you listen, comprehend, and navigate text. But I’d figure out training and workarounds eventually, it would just be a lot of work. 

You regret sending me asks yet, Pistachio? 🥲

[moodsandtenses]

There's something hilarious about how so much subsequent media has positioned Vampires and Werewolves as, like, binary opposite entities, and then you read Dracula (1897) and realize that wolves are that guy's preferred solution to every problem. You'd say something to Dracula about "ah yes, werewolves, vampires' great eternal enemies," and he'd just be like "you mean my subcontractors?"

[butchfalin]

the funniest meltdown ive ever had was in college when i got so overstimulated that i could Not speak, including over text. one of my friends was trying to talk me through it but i was solely using emojis because they were easier than trying to come up with words so he started using primarily emojis as well just to make things feel balanced. this was not the Most effective strategy... until. he tried to ask me "you okay?" but the way he chose to do that was by sending "👉🏼👌🏼❓" and i was so shocked by suddenly being asked if i was dtf that i was like WHAT???? WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY TO ME?????????? and thus was verbal again

[evilgoodguys]

caught them doing the SIN, cos, tan (bad trigonometry joke, I'm sorry, you have permission to euthanize me)

bonus:

[starrysharks]

ghanaian miku

[brightlotusmoon]

[yeepof]

Local PHD student at wizard school HARRASSED!! FOR SHAME!!

[tuttle-did-it]

David Tennant for Prime Minister, please.

edit- Since this is getting so much attention, edited to include descriptions of screenshots.

This woman has lost her fucking mind.

Jo, are you okay?

[starbuck]

i say i like tragedies and everyone’s all like ‘why do you like sad stories? are you depressed?’ and never ‘how was the catharsis? was the catharsis fun?’

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[visenyaism]

seven years ago in the name of tolerating free speech from all political perspectives my nasty ass evil university let an army of tiki torch wielding nazis shouting jews will not replace us march through grounds threatening the lives of students and community members with zero police presence. and today they retroactively changed campus policy around tents so they could send in the cops to bust up the gaza memorial vigil. genuinely fucking stomach turning

[oars]

girl are you sure???????????????

[aceofstars16]

Reblog if you are okay with people giving you lots of boops!