#my life my choices

[jaybird-rising]

FINALLY A POLL THAT MATTERS

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[classycookiexo]

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Never been the type to wanna fit in, I will sit alone if I have to.

[thegnomecoquette-inactive]

Just so you know, if you're a pro-4n4 blog. Yes. I know what that means. And you try to harass me when I'm having a hard enough time as it is, because you decide to take me eating and trying to nurture myself personally. I will block you. Maybe even report you if I'm feeling salty enough. Don't fuck with me. I might be reclaiming my faith in God but I will not put up with bullies. So kindly FO. I don't need your unhealthy BS...

[chinko-kun]

things I have done today:

Roll out of bed and ran to the bus when I didn't need to.

buy a ice cream cone and drop it on the side-walk the minute I was outside the store.

Buy two bara yaoi manga at a used bookstore. Don't look at me.

Cry in a theater.

Walk in TWO city parks.

Cry 5 seconds into my first therapy session.

Buy three cakes.

Cry in some yum woon sen salad and drink my thai thai in one foal swoop.

[obnoxiouslyinsane]

WOMEN

I am a women they say

get slapped by your husband because that’s his love for me they say

dress properly because i am a women they say 

cry for everything because i am a women they say 

everyday in the morning get up and prepare tea for my husband they say 

take care of my children, husband, and parents they say 

where really are these ‘they’ ?

do they know what its like to have a womb?

do they know what its like to care and never be cared for for ?

where are they when one of their own try to touch me even when i am covered head to toe 

where are they when i do what i am told and still get all the cold 

where are they when i fall sick and no one takes care of me 

where are they when the one’s that gave birth to them suffer from their own creations

it is very easy to tell people what to do and show them their place 

but think about what makes you think you can do that and decide my life for me 

i do what i want for myself and the people i care for 

so if you don’t like it crawl back into the womb you came from  

[empowered-together]

You don't have to be disabled to care about the community

Or LGBTQ+ to be an ally and fight for their rights

Or part of a religious group to see we all have a right to practice whatever religion you want.

Or a uterus owner to care about feminism and equality

Or POC to realize that all lives matter

In short, you don't have to be a part of a group of people to defend them and fight for basic human rights and respect. So the argument of "why should I care I'm not [xyz]." Burn it to the ground and start being a decent human being.

[turq8]

day 8 of formatting and cross-matching object catalogs. no end in sight.

[kdyism]

um like my google search has given away to the algorithm that i am interested in lee jongsuk and all i did was search school 2013 more than once a day because i am searching for content <//3

[mxanunnakiraymarquez]

FACT: Some intersex people have genitals that have both male and female sex traits.

FACT: Some intersex people like being called #hermaphrodite!

REPEAT: "Self-Determination is my human right."

:) PLEASE ALWAYS ASK and do not assume. Some of us intersex people like being called hermaphrodite and some of us do not. :)

[jaybird-rising]

Are you a "Oppenheimer once again ignores that the first test bombs were dropped on Native Americans in New Mexico" gay or are you a "Barbie movie personifies the brand of Mattel into Barbie and points at her and says You're Making Her Sad to shift the capitalistic narrative of their company into that of Your Friend instead of as a product" gay?

[strapskinkstories]

Put your dick down, pick up the keyboard and FIGHT FOR OUR RIGHTS!

The nobleman does not fight his war with a gun.

The nobleman fights his war in an office.

The nobleman fights his war with a pen, a phone, and a keyboard.

Put your dick down, stop jerking off, and start fighting back.

It’s time to talk some sense into these senseless idiots and it’s time to tell them the real TRUTH OF GOD.

GOD said nothing about the LGBT.

GOD said nothing about abortion

Anyone who uses the Bible to make it sound like he did blasphemes GOD.

If you have a daytime Twitter account, use it. If you don’t then get one, or use your AD account if you can’t handle having two Twitters (You will need a second telephone number and email to handle two twitter accounts, it isn’t exactly the easiest, but it is pretty easy)

If you have ability to work with the LGBT and pro women rights activists on the Truth Social DEMFORCE INVASION then join up, hammer their servers, and show them what their website really means.

You can’t create a website and desire it to be free of political discrimination if you’re only going to support traitors.

Good news is they actually support everyone who attends. Trump founded it, DWAC took it over, DWAC could eventually get as sick as Twitter got of trump and kick him off. Especially if democrats become the driving force of the network. End of the day $ is what drives these companies, and shareholders. And their shares are worthless and they’re hemorrhagic loss of cash will be either their downfall or opportunity for us to steer the ship to a better place. A lot of people hate Twitter, especially around politics. Twitter has a right wing bias, they banned me for calling Lauren Boebert white trash. Ironically on Truth Social I called her White Trash a dozen times and not one thing happened aside from a few angry little trolls replying which I swiftly dropped my block hammer on.

I haven’t heard a word from their staff about being a democrat, and that’s because they don’t care. But at the end of the day if we flood the site and storm them with 50,000+ accounts the worst of the red men will leave just like they left Twitter.

It’s time that we pushed these tinfoil hat wearing thugs back where they belong, into their basements without a computer “preparing for the lizard people”

Get on, have fun, and remember to use the block button judiciously.

Our goal is to swing people hard enough that they realize what they are doing isnt Christian. 

Righteous Anger is RIGHT. Preserving human rights is RIGHT. Decimating womens rights, forcing them to become baby dispensers? DEAD WRONG!

Wake up you scumbags. The orange man has put you all in a spiritual coma, some of you have even called him god. If you worship a fleshly man who is not truly the lamb of God JESUS CHRIST then you have blasphemed Jesus’s spirit and the Holy Spirit. Nobody can save you except yourself. You must rebuke the false prophet, you must rebuke the nations that strip away at human freedom. For we were created sovereign over our bodies and minds by GOD. And GOD himself spoke “Love Everyone Always”

“I Don’t care if you’re loving another man, a woman, or you’re a pair of men or a pair of women, as long as there is love in your soul, it is good!” “black white asian, rich or poor, you are colorless to God. To God you are but a strand of code. For GOD is a scientist who wrote you into life.”

For every code out there is a code in for the DNA code is what we are.

Christ is within all but some have killed his spirit off or have placed it into a deep coma.

There is a time for entertainment and there is a time for righteous anger.

Now is not a time to entertain. Now is a time to rise up and be loud.

Remember Stonewall? 

LETS STONEWALL THESE MOTHERFUCKERS AGAIN!

GET LOUD AND GET PROUD! (I unfortunately cannot do a daytime Twitter account so I fight through Truth Social. My NSFW After Dark account predates my vanilla account, so they left it alone. I cannot talk much politics on it because I respect separation of sexuality & state.)

[avarkriss]

listen. listen to me so carefully right now. (if you're in the eclipse path/planning on viewing). please don't stare directly at the sun tomorrow. i am begging you - do not stare at it. if you got eclipse glasses off of amazon/other, please put them on in your house and make sure you can't see anything; if you can still see like regular sun glasses, they are not safe for eclipse viewing, you will burn your retinas, and we cannot fix that. eclipse glasses should be iso/ce certified, and aas (american astronomical society) approved. please make smart choices and protect your eyes. please.

[firedragon1321]

Pokemon Games Based On How Much I Can Scream About Them Version 2.0

I remembered this post and decided to make a new one including some spin-off games. I only included the ones I played, at least in part. This is rated not by overall game quality, but the amount of feels I get from the lore, and also how long I can rant about them. The longer I can go, the higher it ranks. Near the bottom of the list, it does get kind of game quality-ish, simply because there's less positive things to discuss.

So the updated order is-

Sun/Moon

Ultra Sun/Moon

Scarlet/Violet (including DLC)

Black/White and 2

Colosseum/XD

Mystery Dungeon

Sword/Shield (excluding DLC)

Red/Green and Remakes (excluding Let's Go)

Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee

Ranger

Legends Arceus

Diamond/Pearl and Remakes

Ruby/Sapphire and Remakes

X/Y

Sword/Shield DLC

Battle Revolution

Conquest

Trozei

Gold/Silver and Remakes

And here are some notes-

I have so many FEELINGS about the Teal Mask and will have feelings about The Indigo Disk 100 percent. I just have more FEELINGS about the Aether Foundation.

Most of what I have to say abut USUM is actually bitching about how the original is better. Maybe it should be lower?

Black and White and their sequels are still about even.

Ranking Let's Go separately now because it's a separate story, but not connected directly like Gen 5. there's not much to say about it that I can't also say about the original games. So I put it right below Red/Green.

I originally forgot Ranger, which is a crime. It's been years since I played. I only played the first game. Most of what I have to screech about is nostalgia, but there's some great designs for certain NPCs (read- Spenser). If I ever play/beat the other two, I might rank it higher.

The Hoenn and Sinnoh remakes are about equal to the originals for me.

Rated SwSh DLC separately. It was useful for training, but story-wise? Kind of a waste of money. Placed where it is because Peony and Calyrex.

Also because it was my childhood- Battle Revolution. I wrote shitty fanfic about Battle Revolution, and I like its vibe. But there's not much meat to it canonically.

I added Trozei because it was also my childhood and hella fun. But that's all I can say about it.

I wish I got more into the Mystery Dungeon series, but I kept dying. So I'm just living via memes. They're good-ass memes though. I should play it again.

I ranked Conquest just because I played it, but ehhh...not that high.

Everything worth talking about Gold/Silver/HGSS is either directly or indirectly connected to Kanto (except PokeWalker, but you're technically not playing the game while using it). Taking Johto as an individual region, it will always rate dead fucking last. Though HGSS does have PokeWalker/good quality of life updates, and all the Johto games have the Red boss battle (Kanto-adjacent but still). So I'll give them credit where it's due.

[andthebeanstalk]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

[sirenetica]

Thought I'd take a crack at the Life Series In Your Style board (courtesy of @/xmaruu11)

Tell me which ones your favorite :)