#albertas-worst-nightmare

[markscherz]

yooo mr mark what kind of snake is that?

This is Limoncello (Lemon for short), my Euprepiophis mandarinus (Mandarin rat snake). She is now uhh… quite a bit too big to do this anymore.

[rongzhi]

hi wawa! hope this isn't a weird question, but do you know if trans people are generally accepted by their communities in mainland china nowadays? i myself am not chinese, but i do hope that my trans chinese brothers and sisters are living safe and happy lives in their country/communities.

Transgenderism is not as widely understood atm from my understanding but in recent years it has gotten more exposure, especially transwomen. Obviously people in the LGBT+ community are more knowledgeable about trans identity.

As to safety and happiness, like in most places globally, it depends on a trans person's socio/economic status and network of support;

Jin Xing, a famous TV personality/host and dancer, for example, is extremely popular and well-liked (even among older generations), and is openly trans. However she has had celebrity status for most of her life, being that she was a soldier and then dancer in the People's Liberation Army Dance Academy. There are multiple trans(woman) internet celebrities that I've seen who have a lot of fans as well, who can drown out detractors.

But if you're poor and/or don't have a support network, it's undoubtedly a tough existence. There is a relatively well-known documentary that came out a few years ago, The Two Lives of Li Ermao, that documents the struggles of a transwoman. It is rather grim but it sort of gives you a peak into one person's life dealing with social pressure and financial struggle.

Aside from that, I think, it is getting better in some ways in terms of visibility/exposure (leading to awareness and the possibility of social support), but there are other policies in medicine and broadcasting that are also making things more difficult. And it's not exactly rainbows and flowers for trans people anywhere, either, so idk what you expect there. Legally, there are no laws specifically discriminating against trans people but there are also few anti-discrimination laws, so unless China passes major LGBT law reforms, it's a social issue that gets neglected and left to wither in a gray area, often under the pretense of dealing with more important matters.

Some other articles if you're interested:

Public Opinion of Transgender Rights In China (the survey sample is pretty low but it's still worth a look)

China’s ‘Anti-Sissy’ Campaign Unleashes a Wave of Online Transphobia

Less political, more personal: The many struggles of China’s transgender population

Straightly Chinese: The Emergence of Systemic Homophobia in China (< I have linked this on my blog before and it is not specific to transgenderism but I think it provides a good insight into how the status quo of heterosexism and by extension, cissexism, is maintained in China, as well as perhaps, other Asian countries)

[heresylog]

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[neechees]

i'm not native, but is it okay if i reblog the white people nonsense reaction image post? it's fuckin hilarious <3

I might otherwise say yes, but my friend who originally made the post might only want Natives to rb!

[dylankeoghs]

did you and jack get that rat out from under the sofa?

somehow managed to not see this for 2 whole months but basically we created a huge rat run from the sofa to the back door only to find out after like an hour that the rat had fucked off and was no longer under the sofa. god knows where it went we think it made its way out on its own

[jack-is-lost]

BOY OH BOY AM GLAD YOU ASKED FOR HEADCANONS AND IMAGINES I GOT A WHOLE BUNCH OF EM *digs around in bag* HERE LOOK:

david's a horse girl and used to sneak out and ride grandpa emerson's horses

i have a headcanon that he was also a cowboy before he got turned so he actually knows how to get away with it

marko really likes video games and has stolen a bunch of arcade machines over the years

paul had the idea of stealing a chandelier from some stupid country club up north and bringing it to the cave

dwayne likes to swing from it and has also flung himself face-first into the opposite wall many times because of this

star is the one with the braincell like 50% of the time (david gets it the rest of the time) but as soon as she sees some harmless dumbfuckery she's all aboard

like for instance: star will see marko trying to paint a bunch of dicks on the ceiling of the hotel lobby and she'll be like "bitch why" and he'll be like "man idk" and then she'll grab the fuckin ladder and be like "move over shorty im painting tasteful nudes"

laddie just likes to collect bugs and other critters

and then put them in extremely weird places

grasshoppers in your jacket pockets? laddie

praying mantis in your leftovers? laddie

frog in your saddlebags? laddie

snake in your boot? laddie

iguana in the fountain? laddie

massive fuckoff spider in the bathtub? laddie

a whole-ass sea lion in your bed? laddie

michael just does normal teenager shit like accidentally hoard garbage and not move for seven hours a day

him and david also make out an obnoxious amount but that's a combined offense so it technically doesn't count

it is hella funny when they get interrupted while they're in really precarious spot tho

like they'll be making out upside-down and then paul or dwayne will just show up outta nowhere and be like "hey"

one of them ALWAYS falls

paul and marko are definitely both the "hey we're out of—stop screaming it's only me—we're out of milk" friends

david likes to serenade michael with never tear us apart by inxs

it's cute, but it can be REALLY inconvenient at times

michael: ow

david, his head doing a complete 180: WE COULD LIVE

michael: oh no

david: FOR A THOUSAND YEARS

michael: oh my god

david: BUT IF I HURT YOU

michael: YOU DIDN'T EVEN—

david: I'D MAKE WINE

michael: DAVID—

david: FROM YOUR TEARS

michael: DAVID IT'S JUST A BRUISE—

marko and paul cut off david's mullet while he was napping and he was so mad he got dwayne to ground them

david may be the leader, but dwayne is the mom

he's also the physically oldest, because even though david was the first turned by max, dwayne was 21 when he was turned, while david was 19.

paul and marko were both 18 when they were turned, making them tied for youngest.

david likes pop music but hell will freeze over before he admits it to the other boys

david: babe i need to tell you something

michael: sure, what's up?

david: promise you won't freak out, okay?

michael: …okay…?

david: i

david: i like pop music

michael:

michael: i mean i kinda figured since you hum "the edge of forever" all the time

david: i do what now

marko once found one of david's "secret" tapes and david almost had a heart attack

marko: yo david why is there a go-go's cassette by the boombox

david, sweating bullets: haha no idea hahahaaaaaaaa

this ask is kinda long so feel free to answer this privately, but i came up with these last year and put em in a google doc that i add to every now and then. i hope you enjoy these as much as i do!

Honestly, I've got nothing to add to this. It is all amazing and brought a smile to my face, sincerely. Especially them being little thieves in the night. A whole-ass arcade machine, really, Makro? I love that!

Plus, David and Michael having silly little interactions. That will always have a soft spot in my heart. I'm a sucker for it, dude, truly. Even if that means David is singing pop music — I might have choked on my soda while reading that.

Thank you for sharing these with me, dude! 💙🤣

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @albertas-worst-nightmare

this has the energy of a pet that has bitten one too many a romantic partner

text: im sorry did you need something you homophobe?

[joron1a-stardustlor]

yk what?

Screw it, mobility hcs

Alejandro

Cane user

The robot suit healed most of him but mobility is still strainful so the interns gave him a cane

It was hooked cane and it was quite old

He hated it it was bland,brown,old,short, and uncomfortable.

After All Stars Heather and Alejandro saved up money to get him an actual cane

It was tall and had a fake (but real looking) ruby at the handle, it was brimmed with gold paint at the top edge toward the handle and the bottom edge

It had a custom golden pattern painted on it of a snake and an eel twirling aroung the cane

(For reference, Noah calls alejandro an eel, while heather has been called a snake)

Heather found it stupid

Alejandro loves it

Heather always fetches his cane for him, but sometimes playfully puts it away so Alejandro has no choice but to cling onto her

Heather likes carrying Alejandro around, wether it be on her back, on the shoulder, or princess/bridal style

Whenever he finds out he get playfully angry at heather, but she always gives it back

Heather has to often give massages to alejandro or fetch his medicine

Alejandro alway apologizes for this and feels guilty that heather has to be constantly looking after him

He often pays his respect by making Heather a delicious dinner every night

Heather pretends to hate it, but she likes taking care of him

Heather does feel bad for Alejandro and tries to be the best for him, but will still be mean to him and vice versa

When he accidently sat a table away from Noah and Owen at a fancy resturant, he hit noah where it hurts with his cane

He made sure it hurt

Tyler often visits and hold Alejandros cane while Heather makes some coffee for them

He finds it really cool and always wants to hold it

He likes complimenting alejandro on how tough he is for living like this

Hehe cutie patooties

Scott

again, trauma chair fixed mostly fixed him but not everything

Had nearly died due to loss of blood, and had been taken in by the medical resort on Playa des Losers

Was fully aware of his surrondings, just paralylized

His sister (Alberta) and his Papi took care of him

His family is poor and Scott sleeps with a matress on the floor, they were unable to give him any proper medical care other than letting his body heal itself

Once he was allowed out of the chair he just laid there on his mattress not even a singular pillow on it

Alberta was basically stuck to him, hugging him and crying on his chest wondering if he would even be able to make a full recovery, even if he was a bitch to her for most of her life and many other people she missed him

Scott could move around a little bit, whenever his sister cried and hugged him he always attempted to hug her with one arm to thank her

Once he was fully unparilyzed he had to use Leg braces (not the cast looking ones just the strapped ones) over his legs

He became very sensitive to sudden movements,loud noises/areas ,and bright lights

developed such a great fear for water he sprayed himself with a hose to shower and refused to even spill it on himself

His fear of water decreased over time,to the point he allowed himself to swim in pools but not open ocean,but the Galeophobia stuck with him forever

He tries to go someday without his Leg braces but he often just squirms and struggles to walk for a second before collapsing on the floor

Developed the worst sleep schedule, he has nightmares about when Fang attacked him often

Undiagnosed ptsd,depression and paranoia

Sam,Lightning and Brick go out with him often to hangout

Sam always brings candy incase he feels like jes about to pass out, Lightning and Brick are the huggers and scott brings his headphones to listen to music if it gets too loud

They take good care of Scott and try to make sure he lives happy

(Everyone in that friend group is mentally ill

Team dude >>>>>

Cameron

Occasional wheelchair user

Had a leg deficiancy as a kid and had to use a wheel chair for most of his childhood

He had to drink milk and take a lot of medicine to cure him of this when he was 13

Near death moment due to an accidental overdose but lived and made a full recovery

Diagnosed autism, he fixates on science,math,chemistry,robotics,etc and socially awkard,doesnt understand social norms and introverted cmon

Doctors office was basically his second home, visited about twice a month

He has other physical restraints that have physical activity be a difficulty for him

At the All Shits Finale after he had boulders dumped on him he was in the same wheelchair he had as a kid

He didnt grow much in height so it still fit him

For anyone wondering;

He had it customized for himself with a neck pillow, joystick and had painted parts of it red

Him,Gwen,Zoey and mike helped decorate it more with stickers,more paint and a small attached photograph of the four in a small slip

Huuurhfsggg them <33

Edit: pls speak ur mind in the rbs, id love to see if you have more or what you think about these hc :]

[cbsghostsmetasandtrevor]

Episode 3x7

It's Thursday and Alberta's episode!

LOL - Sam is not good at this.

Thor's issue with the hat!

Thor and the Freak thing!

Sam doing this stalling thing! Awe Alberta has a crush!

He was hit in the head???

WHY wouldn't Alberta just follow the guy up the stairs?? Instead of making Sam looking wacky.

JUST FOLLOW HIM!

Wow, he can't go more than 5 feet from the guy????

OMG - DINO THEME??? Isaac's really into the dinos now! Someone called that!

Hetty 'this idea is bad I'm side with Nigel'

Trevor's excited about this. Trevor vs Pete in Atlantic City.

"You two are made for each other."

Trevor's just like "OH GOD."

Awww this is cute. I like Alberta getting some fun. Why can't he stay?

The groom's beard on fire????

Sass doesn't know about Lap dances??

OMG Jenkins!!!

Thor appreciates the artistry???

That is creepy! OMG 3 times!

Jay's got a point.

He heard the humming. OMG Sam - NOT EVEN CLOSE.

It's SO bad.

Sass and Car ghost! He's like "REMEMBER THIS" - no Sass.

Jerk my body off?? OMG.

Saul is STAYING!!!

LOL - shower morning or night - loves a surprise!

Jay's WORST NIGHTMARE.

OMG I just realized Jay's not getting any while Sam would see Saul around. Sorry, Jay.

Saul likes the hat! Alberta being upset that Sam is in HER room!

Jay would've been better off not knowing!

This is TERRIBLE for Sam & Jay. And yet, they are more understanding for Her than Trevor last week.

Oh god, Trevor! I do like following rules.

Thor listens!

OOOOOOH, Nigel definitely wasn't going to tell.

"A real Stripper" - Sam agreeing - REALLY?? "You caught me on a good week".

"I'm a person too, Sam!!!!"

HE's RIGHT!!!!!

Jay's hearing "jerks off".

What is this guy thinking???

Thor and Trevor are really getting into this!

OMG POOR SAM!! Wonder why Jay's not there. That would be interesting!

There's some weird shit going on during this episode.

"Just 'cause they say it, doesn't mean you have to"

Honestly, Alberta's the one that is being selfish here. Letting Saul stay, being inconsiderate of how JAY FEELS.

Or how it's impacting Sam's life.

They should've at Saul following they've hired. Well, I suppose that's like Sass/Jessica.

This commercial is very HMoney.

It's been like 2 days, guys.

Alberta is freaked out about Saul wanting to be with her.

She doesn't like nicknames????

Lap dances are innocent fun! :)

OMG Isaac!!! All because of Dinos!

This is hilarious, i love it.

NO SAM - YOU DON"T.

"That Clinger has got to go!"

My thirst is quenched! OMG.

Aw Jay "Trying to do the things that an interesting person would do."

This is awkward! Saul getting too attached - resulting in these things.

"Jay's taking me to sonic three times this weekend."

AWWWW Jay.

That's like .... sooooo he's having a rough episode.

I feel for him.

Finally Alone!

Aww cute Sam/Jay moment.

Candy Shop??? Is it because of the stripper?? GET IT!

Overall, I think I like Isaac's plot better and I think we know why Alberta's not into Pete -> worried he'll be a clinger.

[anarkissm]

A BOY RAISED IN HELL.

since he was 6 years old, frank morrison has experienced vivid nightmares. frank would guess that it started on the third night that he was separated from his parents. as a little boy, the visions terrified him; he would wake up screaming, thrashing. startling his foster families in the late hours of the night, every night. frank dreamed about one thing: a knife. attached to a hand, attached to a man, attached to a bloody, grinning mask. the setting was never the same, but it was always a place that frank recognized. remembered. the public park in calgary. a school campus. the bus stops and train stations that moved him from boroughs to suburban echo-chambers to middle-of-bum-fucking-knowhere towns. in every setting, there is blood. on the walls. over the furniture. on people, mouths gaping in terror, tear-stained faces twisting into horrible knots of suffering. in the dreams, he can hear people crying, screaming, begging for help, begging for mercy. the masked killer ignored their blubbering, and drove his knife into their backs, chests, stomachs. he cut deeply, made a point to make it hurt, as a dark, lurking thing watched the man from above him. whispering. encouraging. comforting. social workers would tell annoyed foster families that he was just having a difficult time adjusting. but frank never stopped dreaming about the man. never adjusted. by the time frank was 13 years old, the nightmares stopped scaring him. ultimately, they were not comparable to the hell of his waking hours. frank was treated as an inconvenience, at best. property, at worst. moved around alberta like baggage. four months shy of his 14th birthday, a foster parent attempted to beat him with a belt, like every other foster kid under his roof. frank unloaded several years of rage into beating him so badly that his jaw was broken into three pieces. consequently, frank spent 2 years in calgary's juvenile detention center. consequently, the dreams started to change. showing him places he did not recognize; a snowy mountaintop, an abandoned ski resort. frank stopped watching the killer, and started being him. feeling the weight of the mask over his face, the shape of the knife's hilt inside his fist. and when it was over, and he was wide awake, sitting in his cell, frank looked at his hands. the same hands in his dreams, big and calloused and inked. but it was not a dream, not a nightmare. it was a premonition. the killer was frank. it was always frank. by the time frank was released from juvie and moved to live with clive andrews in ormond's trailer park, the dreams, and the entity, had become the only consistent, familiar thing in frank's life. it enabled his anger, it fed his resentment. it told him secrets, and promised him that the world would burn; suffer; finally, finally end. frank has a vague idea of what the entity is, and what it intends to do with the souls it lures into the fog. it eats feeling. it eats life. all life. and frank decided that he was not going to get in its way. he was going to help. hopefully, speed things up. it was a rotten, ugly world, anyway. a world that rejected him before he was even born. he was already dead. fuck 'em.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

@albertas-worst-nightmare i think she should beat the shit outta the hyuga elders

[markscherz]

what does "et al" mean?

It is an abbreviation of the Latin phrase et alia, 'and others'. I am the Scherz in Scherz et al. (obviously), and the 'et al.' in the case of the Mini species refers to my coauthors: Carl R. Hutter, Andolalao Rakotoarison, Jana C. Riemann, Mark-Oliver Rödel, Serge H. Ndriantsoa, Julian Glos, Sam Hyde Roberts, Angelica Crottini, Miguel Vences, and Frank Glaw. All wonderful people to work with, without whom we could not have published those frog species, and honestly much to important to reduce to 'and others'. But alas, having the full author list is somewhat cumbersome. So here we are.

[fuzzydreamin]

tell me which muse: 2, 7, 21, & 30

2. Which of them is the worst at cooking?

✝ Alberta. They could burn water.

7. Which of them is more likely to suffer from insomnia?

✪ Nora. Most of them have trouble sleeping at some point or another, but after waking up from cryosleep Nora struggles with nightmares and has trouble sleeping if she's alone. It helps if there's someone she trusts nearby, and cuddling someone, like Dogmeat, helps the most.

🎖 Nate suffered similarly before the bombs thanks to trauma from the battlefield, and would have continued to do so even more if he had survived. Nora sorta gained his sleep troubles.

21. Which of your muses is the biggest gossip?

☣ Calamity. He's also a big fat liar though and will tell you fake things just to see how you react.

30. Which of your muses is the biggest pet person? How many pets did they have in their life?

🏕 Jack

Pre-war his family had some cats and dogs and probably other critters when he was growing up, and when he went hunting with his dad they had a friend that would bring hunting dogs. He was quite fond of dogs, and animals in general.

Post-war though he doesn't really have a proper pet. He does keep chickens though, and he might keep some live animals for observation and testing to see how they've mutated, but they wouldn't really be considered pets. Just livestock and test subjects. The closest he might come is having a cat move onto the property to catch mice, radrats, and other pests that go for his crops or chickens.

Despite his own love for dogs, Beckett has trauma related to them and doesn't, so that's simply a no-go for them. Thanks to his mutations he's sorta the dog eventually anyway...

[heresylog]

my sister @aaaaasneakattack doesn't believe me when i say that regular(?) catholicism and roman catholicism are different from each other. can you help explain the differences?

Define regular Catholicism? I’m a Roman Catholic, which is the largest form of Catholicism. There’s Polish, Ukrainian, Assyrian Catholics. I think in total there are 23 different types of Catholic.

[kabretoss]

OC-tober 1: Evan

A parka and no gloves or hat, sneakers and jeans, lazy gestures at winter wear. A melted circle around a fire that licked lovingly at a night sky painted heavy and low with rolling clouds, themselves stained dirty orange-purple to the north with the lights of the city. A log, rather than the nearby bench, a thermos, a textbook, and a boy.

On clear nights that sky was full of low-hanging stars, made huge and bright by the clear-aired prairies, and he’d be looking up at them. Tonight was biology homework, though: a sheet of lined looseleaf was crammed at a slight diagonal on the page opposite the one he was reading, filling slowly with crabbed little notes, clumsy for the angle and in the darkness. It was a bubble of quiet, the little scratches of his pen and the lazy pop of the fire kind companions to his concentration.

“Hey, nerd.”

He almost kicked his thermos over and was immediately embarrassed by his own surprise, frowning it over his shoulder at Cassie. “What?”

She circled around and sat beside him, picking up the thermos cup-lid and stealing a sip of his hot chocolate and wrinkling her nose at him right back. “Seriously? I can sneak you out some schnapps or something to put in this. A big sister always provides.” Doing a little flourish she sketched a shitty little bow, a pitch-perfect imitation of their dad.

She was twenty-one and he was sixteen, and this was a familiar dance. “I’m good. I’ve got homework.”

“You’re so fucking boring.” She made a face at him and he made one right back. “Half the wolves are drunk off their asses already. It’s the same thing every month. I’m so bored. They’re playing charades,” Cass whined.

“What time is it?” January in Alberta meant dark at like four, which played hell with the technicalities of a werewolf’s shift cycle. If they were still human enough to be playing charades and boring Cassie, it couldn’t be much past seven. Soon the pups would be under Evan’s mom’s babysitting house-arrest, and the adults would be partying it up drunk on the moon rather than on schnapps. A thought occurred. “Is Nora going out with the adults tonight?”

“I don’t fucking know, she’s your friend, not mine.” Cassie stole the half-full thermos and more of his hot chocolate. She was giving him a good solid gimlet-eye, some horrid thing dawning behind her judgy gaze. “You want I should distract that meathead brother of hers so you two can sneak off and make out?”

Firelight and cold gave great plausible deniability for blushes, but Evan was the easiest read in his family. “No, um, I’m good. We’re not, uh. And I have homework.” He patted his palm on the textbook, as if its friendly presence would save him from meddling sisters.

Cassie leaned back, almost far enough to topple, and groaned. “Come on, little man, give me something to work with here. You’re the worst! I’m going go to tell her you’re out here pining and playing with fire! You know she loves that shit, she’ll come running.”

“Don’t you dare, you absolute nightmare.” He straightened urgently.

“I’m doing it.” Cass was up again. He’d made a mistake: she’d gotten a reaction out of him and now she was a dog on a bone, grinning at him all teeth as she backed out of the comfortable circle of the fire, which was crackling with increased urgency itself. “You’re never gonna make a move. You need that big-sister magic.”

“I hate you so much,” he moaned, heart rabbiting away in his chest. She laughed as she kicked her way through the snow back to the farmhouse; he looked at his textbook and wondered if he could finish his chapter before he had to find out whether or not Nora would come out after him if she knew he was here.

[dylankeoghs]

who won eurovision?

ukraine! and somehow….. god knows how but we came second