Christmas gifted myself a code for Pillowfort.
My brain has been in “don’t like change in things that have been a constant, and therefore will create low mood” mode most of the day.
Like, tumblr, could have waited until daylight savings time was over to do this? No?
@staff: We totally have your best intersts at heart and want you to be able to create freely! That’s why we want you to oppose Article 13! We have absolutely no ulterior motives whatsoever.
@staff: . o O (Man, sure hope they forget that we’re literally the representatives of a $300 billion telecomms corporation, and thus fundamentally at odds with end users over intellectual property rights.)
150k people on tumblr dot com: Okay!
@staff: Whew!
Me: You, uh. You know they’re lying, right? The only concern they have for your creativity is if they can make a buck off of it.
@staff, less than 2 hours later: Anyway we’re gonna arbitrarily ban huge swathes of queer content and basically a random assortment of images. Because if we don’t someone might accidentally see a nipple, or think they’re not alone in this hellish world.
Mutuals if you are leaving Tumblr (ever for any reason) please let me know where else I might find you so we can remain in contact.
just to be clear, I’m staying here as long as this site functions. I have 0 intentions of deleting this blog, I will go down with this ship if only to see exactly how bad it gets
So like. If we’re mutuals, you can add me on the Twitter at kirkwllhllmouth. No e’s because apparently the regular spelling is too long. IDK what I will do with the twitter, but it’s there.
Protect autistic girls who get ostracised by the peers for talking about their special interests too much.
Protect autistic girls who don’t get diagnosed until they’re much older or never at all because autism is considered a “male” thing.
Protect autistic girls who don’t conform to gender expectations.
Protect autistic girls of colour and are even less likely to get diagnosed and the support they need.
Protect autistic girls who are LGBTQIA*.
Protect autistic girls who stim, regardless of whether or not it makes people uncomfortable.
Protect autistic girls who go on to have successful careers and relationships and fit in to neurotypical society.
Protect autistic girls who don’t.
Protect autistic girls who are rejected by their famiiles.
Protect autistic girls.
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read this guys, read.
Just appreciate him. If for no other reason then because he appreciated Hermione.
Victor Krum was ready to fight Xenophilus Lovegood of all people in the goddamn street because he was wearing the wizard Nazi symbol from ww2. Like no holds barred throw down.
Protect my foreign son and his goodness. Let Victor punch Nazis 2k17
Also in the wedding he told Harry that “that symbol” [the one xenophilus was wearing] would be graffitied here and there in durmstrang by students who “agreed with grindelwald” (neo nazis, in a sense). But victor and his friends kicked their asses to show that kind of thing would not be allowed.
Boy straight up had his own gang of nazi-punching bros, heck yeah
The deathly hallows symbol is equal to the swastika?? What?
I think you mean the dark Mark? But yeah.
That’s why death eater merch is so controversial. They’re literally wizard nazis.
Nope, Krum and a lot of people who lost family to Grindelwald viewed the Hallows symbol the same as Harry & Co viewed the Dark Mark.
From ch 8 of Deathly Hallows:
Krum glowered over the top of his drink, watching Xenophilius, who was chatting to several warlocks on the other side of the dance floor.
“Because,” said Krum, “If he vus not a guest of Fleur’s I vould dud him, here and now, for veering that filthy sign upon his chest.”
“Sign?” said Harry, looking over at Xenophilius too. The strange triangular eye was gleaming on his chest. “Why? What’s wrong with it?”
“Grindelvald. That is Grindelvald’s sign.”
“Grindelwald… the Dark wizard Dumbledore defeated?”
“Exactly.”
Krum’s jaw muscles worked as if he were chewing, then he said, “Grindelvald killed many people, my grandfather, for instance. Of course, he vos never powerful in this country, they said he feared Dumbledore – and rightly, seeing how he vos finished. But this” – he pointed a finger at Xenophilius – “this is his symbol, I recognized it at vunce: Grindelvald carved it into a vall at Durmstrang ver he vos a pupil there. Some idiots copied it onto their books and clothes thinking to shock, make themselves impressive – until those of us who had lost family members to Grindelvald taught them better.”
[…]
“Are you – er – quite sure it’s Grindelwald’s -?”
“I am not mistaken,” said Krum coldly. “I walked past that sign for several years, I know it vell.”
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So as far as a lot of people in places Grindelwald held sway in and took over? Yeah, the Hallows sign is essentially a swastika equivalent.
Caught glimpse of local tv news with story headline thing of “1 in 3 Americans have pre-diabetes.”
My reaction, “I don’t care what their life is like, I will punch or headlock anyone who implies it is totally the person’s fault if they develop it or that they deserve it if they develop it.”
I think the headlock would probably work best; I have decently muscled forearms, but I have decidedly small hands.
Or maybe tackle. It would not be expected. I am 5’3”/5’4” and around 217lbs, built pretty much like a pudgier, less muscular Dragon Age dwarf.
Officials release video from gender reveal party that ignited a 47,000-acre wildfire
If you absolutely feel you must participate in the unnecessary phenomena of gender reveal parties or stunts…avoid guns and/or explosives.
It is hard to learn to be gentle with yourself when you spent decades beating yourself up for things that you didn’t realize you couldn’t help/needed help with because you didn’t know your brain was wired differently, which caused certain things to cause you hardship and anxiety (which you also didn’t know was a thing for you for decades). It is especially hard in light of living in a society which holds the cultural backgrounds of the Puritan Work Ethic™, the Gospel of Wealth (and Health)™, and Anyone Can Achieve the American Dream™ If They Just Try ™. All of which is bullshit, but insidiously deeply ingrained bullshit.
Having entered my 30s, my body/brain has also decided that Daylight Savings Time is also bullshit.
Also capitalism is bullshit, as is for-profit health care (among many other thing that should NOT be run in a for-profit way).
And in a completely different way, winter is also kind of bullshit because there is no good way to do Crafty Things that would involve Lots of Wood Dust, because wood dust and carpet are not great together.
Kirkwall Was Totally Built On a Hellmouth 