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behold, my life's work: redrawing these two screenshots from Bleach Episode 32

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Hey, if you're a USAmerican and care about trans rights, please call your senator and ask them to invoke the Byrd Rule to have the trans healthcare ban stripped out of the budget bill. The tl;dr is that trans healthcare's budget impact is very small, and therefore shouldn't be in a bill that gets passed by reconciliation. This ban affects people on Medicaid and ACA plans, and a) that's bad enough and b) there will be worse bans if we can't stop this one. This is the best shot we've got right now.

Here are some very helpful phone/email templates for both Democratic and Republican senators.

and if you need contact info for your reps, remember that 5calls always got you.

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It’s not a party till the pigeons join in

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This weekend I was told a story which, although I’m kind of ashamed to admit it, because holy shit is it ever obvious, is kind of blowing my mind.

A friend of a friend won a free consultation with Clinton Kelly of What Not To Wear, and she was very excited, because she has a plus-size body, and wanted some tips on how to make the most of her wardrobe in a fashion culture which deliberately puts her body at a disadvantage.

Her first question for him was this: how do celebrities make a plain white t-shirt and a pair of weekend jeans look chic?  She always assumed it was because so many celebrities have, by nature or by design, very slender frames, and because they can afford very expensive clothing.  But when she watched What Not To Wear, she noticed that women of all sizes ended up in cute clothes that really fit their bodies and looked great.  She had tried to apply some guidelines from the show into her own wardrobe, but with only mixed success.  So - what gives?

His answer was that everything you will ever see on a celebrity’s body, including their outfits when they’re out and about and they just get caught by a paparazzo, has been tailored, and the same goes for everything on What Not To Wear.  Jeans, blazers, dresses - everything right down to plain t-shirts and camisoles.  He pointed out that historically, up until the last few generations, the vast majority of people either made their own clothing or had their clothing made by tailors and seamstresses.  You had your clothing made to accommodate the measurements of your individual body, and then you moved the fuck on.  Nothing on the show or in People magazine is off the rack and unaltered.  He said that what they do is ignore the actual size numbers on the tags, find something that fits an individual’s widest place, and then have it completely altered to fit.  That’s how celebrities have jeans that magically fit them all over, and the rest of us chumps can’t ever find a pair that doesn’t gape here or ride up or slouch down or have about four yards of extra fabric here and there.

I knew that having dresses and blazers altered was probably something they were doing, but to me, having alterations done generally means having my jeans hemmed and then simply living with the fact that I will always be adjusting my clothing while I’m wearing it because I have curves from here to ya-ya, some things don’t fit right, and the world is just unfair that way.  I didn’t think that having everything tailored was something that people did. 

It’s so obvious, I can’t believe I didn’t know this.  But no one ever told me.  I was told about bikini season and dieting and targeting your “problem areas” and avoiding horizontal stripes.  No one told me that Jennifer Aniston is out there wearing a bigger size of Ralph Lauren t-shirt and having it altered to fit her.

I sat there after I was told this story, and I really thought about how hard I have worked not to care about the number or the letter on the tag of my clothes, how hard I have tried to just love my body the way it is, and where I’ve succeeded and failed.  I thought about all the times I’ve stood in a fitting room and stared up at the lights and bit my lip so hard it bled, just to keep myself from crying about how nothing fits the way it’s supposed to.  No one told me that it wasn’t supposed to.  I guess I just didn’t know.  I was too busy thinking that I was the one that didn’t fit.

I thought about that, and about all the other girls and women out there whose proportions are “wrong,” who can’t find a good pair of work trousers, who can’t fill a sweater, who feel excluded and freakish and sad and frustrated because they have to go up a size, when really the size doesn’t mean anything and it never, ever did, and this is just another bullshit thing thrown in your path to make you feel shitty about yourself.

I thought about all of that, and then I thought that in elementary school, there should be a class for girls where they sit you down and tell you this stuff before you waste years of your life feeling like someone put you together wrong.

So, I have to take that and sit with it for a while.  But in the meantime, I thought perhaps I should post this, because maybe my friend, her friend, and I are the only clueless people who did not realise this, but maybe we’re not.  Maybe some of you have tried to embrace the arbitrary size you are, but still couldn’t find a cute pair of jeans, and didn’t know why.

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While I'm talking about social stuff I had to learn as an autistic person

There's a LOT of social interactions between human beings whose purpose really boils down to being like that thing dogs do where they go "omg YOU'RE a dog??? I'M a dog!!!!!" And that's not a bad thing. Highly ritualized "meaningless" displays of human connection like friendly greetings and talking about things like weather actually do serve a purpose which is like idk ritualized displays birds do. YOU'RE a human? Omg I'M a human!!!! Wow!!!

And they don't have to be your favorite flavor of interaction. You can even think they're silly. But they DO serve a purpose or else they wouldn't be a thing.

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the thing is that childhood doesn't just end when you turn 18 or when you turn 21. it's going to end dozens of times over. your childhood pet will die. actors you loved in movies you watched as a kid will die. your grandparents will die, and then your parents will die. it's going to end dozens and dozens of times and all you can do is let it. all you can do is stand in the middle of the grocery store and stare at freezers full of microwave pizza because you've suddenly been seized by the memory of what it felt like to have a pizza party on the last day of school before summer break. which is another ending in and of itself

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This paints such a beautiful picture

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rukia sketches

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let's form structures with mamas

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Rukia and the Magic Lantern

Today I went to a magic lantern event, which briefly introduced the history of magic lanterns (a 19th century precursor to modern projectors) and demonstrated the types of animations made possible by the magic lantern.

I feel like after the excitement of the Seireitei Film Festival, Ukitake takes it upon himself to 1) show off his lit magic lantern, and 2) manifest some Rukia bonding time. Rukia is beginning to dial in for her lieutenancy candidacy, after all, and is also mourning the way she and Ichigo parted ways. Who wouldn't be cheered up/kept sane during a period of vocational intensity by a magic lantern?!

Why Ukitake Would Own a Magic Lantern

We know from omake Ukitake owns an old-timey camera, so he could conceivably have other old-timey technological devices. And I feel like if you've lived a thousand years or whatever stuff from the 1800s probably still mentally logs as "new" (in the same way that I think of PS3s as being "new") gadgetry, even in a world where his colleagues are printing money off their denreishinki.

We also know he publishes a wildly popular children's story column in the SC, so why wouldn't Ugendou periodically host magic lantern storytimes?

Mass slide production was coming into being at around the same time as the Treaty of Kanagawa and the end of Japan's isolationist period. As Soul Society adjusted to the changing nature of the world to which they were connected, I feel like magic lanterns would totally be part of that.

Why Rukia Would Be Into Magic Lanterns

Fun new format for her Substitute Shinigami chronicles!

Opportunity to enjoy a technological fascination she hadn't had the opportunity to in Inuzuri!

Ukitake is into the magic lantern, therefore so is Rukia.

In the slides we were shown, all the transition images were of snowflakes! Many of the slides were about how the moon works, and how shadows on the moon work! A weird number of the slides were also about... pigs? And riding pigs?? So I feel like we 100% saw Ukitake's actual slide deck, some of which were supplied by the Kaien.

And I feel like this is a time period where Rukia is really trying to figure out how serious she should be, what her self-confidence levels really are, who she is to people like Byakuya, and the rest of the 13th, and maybe even Ukitake. Because on one hand it won't do to take herself so seriously she thinks too much about her near-execution, or about Aizen having used her to incubate a hougyoku (or whatever misplaced guilt there might be attached to that), or all that transpired in Hueco Mundo between her and Aaroniero. But she wants to be taken seriously as a shinigami--as a Kuchiki, as someone who is unseated but only recently learning that maybe she shouldn't be. And while she'll brazenly defy Yamamoto orders or push the envelope on film festival hijinks, there's some part of her that thinks, wait, should I? Is that okay? Or should I-- And one part of her shouts YES and another part of her doesn't want to fuck this up and another part hasn't stopped mourning what she's lost.

Those evenings with Ukitake and the magic lantern, marveling at the beautifully painted slides and learning how to use the lantern (and learning that Ukitake also does not really remember how to use the magic lantern, so they need to work it out together, slowly and carefully) is her assurance that it is okay to have things like this, Rukia. These moments, you can keep. And there will be more.

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Rukia the artist

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Random Stuff for Your Story

I have bookmarks saved for random, different, interesting topics that don’t really fit into any single category, so I decided to just put them all together in one list.

A list of resources on miscellaneous topics to help make your stories more interesting.

Writing Accurate Heist Scenes A tumblr thread that discusses accurate heist scenes for heist movies, and what it’s like to work as a security guard.

Friends, Not Love Interests Helpful advice for anyone who is writing two characters as friends (particularly when one is female and the other is male), in order to help minimize the chance of readers wanting them to fall in love.

The Writer’s Guide to Distinguishing Marks on Characters A basic guide on different types of distinguishing marks for characters, such as freckles, birthmarks, scars, and tattoos.  

Don’t Use Specific Numbers in Your Story A tumblr thread that explains if your story doesn’t need a specific number for something (whether a date, age, span of time, etc.), then you don’t need to use a number. Includes helpful examples.

Pet Peeves in TV Shows and Movies A tumblr thread with different lists of things that people find annoying in TV shows and movies. Many of these things can also apply to situations in stories.

Types of Paperwork That Characters Could Do A tumblr thread that discusses how fanfiction writers often give their characters “large amounts of paperwork they hate doing,” but don’t describe the type of paperwork.  Provides a list of different types of paperwork that characters could be working on.

In Time Travel Movies, When the Time Traveler Asks... A tumblr thread that discusses more realistic responses for when a time traveler asks what year it is or where they are, instead of people automatically thinking they are weird or crazy for asking.  

Reasons for a Character’s Death Explains the reasons why you might kill off a character, and offers advice on how to make a character’s death meaningful.

Dialogue Responses to “I Thought You Were Dead!” A list of different responses that a character could give when someone else says, “I thought you were dead.”

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i love antique stores you go to check out & theyre like “where the hell did you get this”

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Wren 🐦

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