#physically for obvious reasons

[echhosworld]

DAY 6 OF POORLY DRAWING THE NAMELESS GHOULS UNTIL I CAN GO TO A RITUAL

hey there, it's me with a reminder that working from 6 am to 2 am with a 1,5 hour break is not fun 😃 (it makes you look like this rain)

again, lots of love to everyone reblogging these silly drawings. i reread your tags whenever i feel down and it helps so much <3

[dreamwinged]

selfshippers this is your sign to block that one canon x canon ship tag that bothers you. it doesn’t make you weak or a coward ok!!! your comfort comes first!!!

[allgremlinart]

I'm not hating but I do see some confusion around Zuko's flashbacks in Zuko Alone and the flashbacks in The Search re: people going "whaaaat this family dynamic is so weird Azula is acting so weird no one actually acts like this" and like IDK HOW TO TELL YOU THIS. BUT UHM. THEY DO. if they're fucking insane. and abusive. which was kind of the whole point

like hey its GOOD. that you have never seen this kind of shit irl but. it IS kind of textbook. idk how to break this news w/out sounding like a dick sdhsdhs

[reasonsforhope]

Crowdsourcing a question

Okay totally personal post here because, now that search engines suck, my research is failing me. So I'm crowdsourcing my question about the residential care work industry!

Hoping at least some of my followers have experience in/with the industry and some intel on this:

Actual question: How common is it for jobs in residential care work (residential centers, btw, not home care) to actually have two people on the night shift? vs. just saying they always have two people on the night shift in interviews and their official policies, and actually it's not true?

Because my current job was, it turns out, apparently totally lying about "you'll never be on shift alone with clients" at orientation (when it comes to the night shift, anyway). Which, holy fucking safety issues, Batman!

Suffice to say this was a very fun thing to find out like three days before my first regular shift

So, I'm thinking realllll hard about switching companies, and I'm trying to figure out if I could expect to actually have a coworker at a different company, or if it's like an open secret in the field that actually, basically all the night shifts end up being solo shifts, because the industry is so chronically understaffed or w/e

[satanfemme]

quick census 🐶

[burr-ell]

ngl gonna lie it may be basic but i love the idea of percy charming and romancing vex

not just bc it's terribly romantic and im embarrassing but also bc it's genuinely super meaningful? percy knows how hard vex has worked to scrape for anything good in her life, constantly fighting to prove her worth, and she's just. so strong and good, in all the ways that matter. and yet she's so vulnerable in ways she only shows him because she trusts him. and i think beyond any kind of archetypal notions about romance, vex wants to occasionally be taken care of, to know that she's worthy of being taken care of, particularly by someone who otherwise gives her the tools to fight for herself. she's fought for herself so much, and she loves it and she's good at it—but it's also become a mask. and she's been wearing those masks of strength by herself for so long, and having someone she can trust who accepts her weakness for what it is and still utterly adores her and dotes on her while also bolstering that strength is such beautiful closure for her as a character.

idk just percy courting vex and sweeping her off her feet and spoiling her and treating her like a princess sometimes is something that can be so personal

[hella1975]

'the final pages of the report include a few interesting details. they note that every hero at the scene explicitely said that no work study students participated in the fight against shigaraki. our part was erased from the record. that denial is the only reference to me, kacchan and todoroki in the entire document' IM SORRY? THE VILLAINS ARE RIGHT DOWN WITH HEROES. DENYING THEIR PART WHILE THEY'RE LITERALLY BEING WHEELED TO HOSPITAL UNCONSCIOUS? WHEN THE FIGHT WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST WITHOUT THEM? WHY DID KIDS NEED TO BE ON THE BATTLEFIELD ANYWAY AND THEN AFTERWARDS WHY ARE YOU MORE CONCERNED ABOUT THE LEGALITY OF IT THAN THE PART THEY PLAYED? i hope you all die

[boyjoan]

ACCIDENTALLY WENT INSANE IN MY LOCAL BOOKSHOP

[lighthouseas]

so uh

[theretherian]

i dont know when i picked up using my feet as hands - i.e. opening doors/cabinets, picking things up, the usual, but I also tend to do things like flicking switches, misc simple dexterous tasks, and i’ve also started trying to draw with my feet - but I wonder if it feeling very natural for me to lean into that may be related to being a bird of prey. Only hands ya got are your feet. And my legs to tend to function as better arms than they do legs anyways (but that’s just cause they suck as legs). but I’ve definitely done it since I was super young and I don’t remember ever being taught it, or where I would have even picked it up since I’m the only person I know who does it.

im kinda curious if anybody else has something similar? like a general “prefer accomplishing tasks without my hands” thing, particularly if your theriotype/kintype doesn’t have humanoid hands.

[chaos-in-one]

Nah because lately I have seen so many people unironically say “AFABS can’t identify as transfem, only AMAB and intersex people can!” and like

It’s so telling that they don’t know jack shit about what being intersex is or is like Intersex people can be AFAB. In fact it’s SIGNIFICANTLY more common that intersex people are either AFAB or AMAB, only having that they’re intersex listed on their birth certificate and not having male or female put on there is really fucking rare in comparison to the number of intersex people who are AMAB or AFAB

Intersex =/= right in between male and female (in fact the intersex variation that is *exactly* in between the two does not exist in humans from what I understand)

Intersex =/= ambiguous genitalia

Intersex is a term that covers a wide variety of conditions. While there *are* intersex people who where born with ambiguous genitalia (many of which have surgery forced on them to make them fit more in the boxes of male and female so they can assign them one or the other at birth) a lot of intersex people also do not have that. There’s intersex people whose difference is in their hormones, or chromosomes, or gonads, in a way that doesn’t show an immediately obvious difference in genitalia. Hell, a lot of those groups of intersex people don’t have it confirmed that they are intersex for years, sometimes even DECADES. There are several variations that don’t show symptoms until puberty or adulthood, and some who don’t cause overtly outward symptoms at all and the only way people find out is through medical tests.

And guess what? It’s not particularly easy to get a test for that shit. A lot of doctors will not listen to patients who say they suspect they might be intersex unless they believe the person is being damaged by their symptoms. Hell, there’s intersex people who NEVER get diagnosed because of this.

So, long story short, if you think all intersex people are allowed to use a label (like the example given at the beginning), don’t say people of a certain AGAB can’t use the same label as a whole because intersex people can be either of the two binary AGABs.

[greetings-inferiors]

It kinda sucks that I basically shut down when I get emotionally stressed. Like there are some things I want to talk about but when it actually comes to it my conscious is overrided and my autopilot starts navigating how to get out of the situation as quickly as possible. Sometimes I don’t even do that and I just sit there and my eyes glaze over and I can’t move, talk, or even think. There are some topics where I’m completely normal about them but when it starts to relate to me I’ve been traumatised into literally being incapable of talking about it. It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s that my body genuinely thinks that I’m in danger and rescinds my control. Maybe I should go to actual therapy.

[scarecrow-teeth]

it's a valid question.. at least, it thinks so.

Momentous Attractiveness uses It/Its <3

[grassbreads]

I'm gonna have to really tighten up my budget soon (the student loan pause is ending 😔), so I decided to give myself one big manga buying last hurrah before I sit down with the finance spreadsheet. I also, for unrelated reasons, ordered a couple volumes of manga, a webcomic printing, and a book earlier this week.

I have more packages coming in the next month than I've had at literally any other point in my lifetime. It's Hanukkah in August for Andromeda.

[snowberry-pie]

discussion of incest and sexual abuse tw

been thinking about how orin’s idea of familial love has been twisted by her relationship with saarevok and how that bleeds into how she views and interacts with kit, her sibling, who yk Obviously refuses to sleep with her. and how orin sees that refusal (along with their advice to stay the fuck away from saarevok) as them wanting to isolate her and deprive her of affection, and how this interaction is essentially the catalyst for fifteen years of resentment

[unopenablebox]

i made a longer more irritating post about this that i deleted but ive been getting intensely sleepy between 6 and ~10pm lately so i decided to try actually going to bed around 8:30, since 🌸 is out of town and i'm often up until 2 bc im staying kind of synced to their schedule and am usually very sleepy

entirely predictably the result of this was that i fell asleep instantly, woke up at like midnight, and now it's 3:20 and i am simply not going back to sleep