dandelionofthanatos:

The words “fun fact” should never go near the phrase “researching the Nürnberg Trials” except in cases like

“FUN FACT I WAS DOING RESEARCH ON NÜRNBERG AND DURING THESE SCHOLASTIC ENDEAVOURS I DISCOVERED NEW AND EXCITING WAYS FOR MY EYES TO GO TO HELL!”

Or maybe

“FUN FACT my liver has just threatened to hire a hit man on my happy little ass if I ever ‘cope’ with Nürnberg-related soul-deep existential despair via Consume All The Scotch again.”

Like—straight-up copypasting IRL atrocity into a mediocre book about dragons and orcs is fucking ignorant and classless on a cosmic level. Especially when your writing otherwise just parrots and perpetuates gross stereotypes.

Also it’s awfully disgusting to tack the crimes of IRL white assholes onto the heads of coded-as-not-white-at-all antagonists.

Also also much of the ~south American dictatorship~ stuff Golden appropriated was perpetrated by individuals banked by the CIA or some shit. SO!!!!11!1!!!1!!

In honour of diabetes awareness month…

mottorolaa:

Here’s a little bit of diabetic etiquette for people who DON’T have diabetes!

  • DON’T offer unsolicited advice about my eating or other aspects of diabetes: You may mean well, but giving advice about someone’s personal habits, especially when not requested, is not very nice. Besides, many of the popularly held beliefs about diabetes (You should just stop eating sugar) are out of date or just plain wrong.

  • DO realize and appreciate that diabetes is hard work: Diabetes management is a full time job that I didn’t apply for, didn’t want, and can’t quit.

  • DON’T tell me horror stories about your grandmother or other people with diabetes you have heard about: These stories are not reassuring.

  • DO offer to join me in making healthy lifestyle choices: Not being alone is one of the most helpful things for me.

  • DON’T look horrified when I check my blood sugars or give myself an injection: It’s not a lot of fun for me either. Checking sugars and taking medications are things I have to do to be healthy. If I have to hide while doing so, it makes it much harder for me.

  • DO ask how you might be helpful: If you want to be supportive there may be lots of little things I would probably appreciate your help with. However, what I really need may be very different from what you think I need, so please ask first.

  • DON’T offer thoughtless reassurances. When you first learn about my diabetes you may want to reassure me by saying things like “Hey, it could be worse; you could have cancer!” this won’t make me feel better. And the implicit message seems to be that diabetes is no big deal. However, diabetes (like cancer) IS a big deal.

  • DO be supportive of my efforts for self-care: Help me set up an environment for success. Please honor my decision to decline a food choice, even when you really want me to try it. You are most helpful when not being a source of unnecessary temptation.

  • DON’T!!! Peek at or comment on my blood sugars without asking me first: These numbers are private unless I choose to share them. It’s normal to have numbers that are sometimes too low or high. Your unsolicited comments about them can add to the frustration, disappointment, and anger I already feel.
  • DO offer your love and encouragement: As I work hard to manage my diabetes, sometimes just knowing you care can be very helpful and motivating.

The thoughtless reassurance one… grrr.

    Also, note to self: Next time you go to the gym, pick ONE of the weight machines per muscle grouping now that you’ve pretty much gotten the “try all the things!” part out of your system. Because while you are surviving, the whole “let’s multi-work those pecs and then try to sleep on back with THOSE boobs” = “…nope, nope, must lie on side ow.”

    Had stick-on-to-iron-on letter patches, and space, so I stuck my nickname on the patch vest. Going to be doing sewing to fill up the blank space around the letters. Probably going to do ace flag colors since, lol, perfect letter to color match up.

    Have also ordered two patches that will go on either side of the name under the stars.

    date-a-jew-suggestions:

    date-a-jew-suggestions:

    I’m so fucking tired of goyim ignoring antisemitism. They ignore everything until something so extreme happens, like the recent shooting. How about you start caring about us BEFORE WE FUCKING DIE. Just fucking LISTEN for ONCE when we say we’re angry or scared or sad about the injustices we as a people have faced OVER AND OVER AGAIN. I don’t know one single Jewish person who hasnt been touched by antisemitism. I’ve been called a kike more times than I can count. I went to elementary school with a boy who told me he wished Hitler had won the war. I was shouted at and threatened by a stranger for wearing a Magen David. My grandpa has had to respond to bomb threats at our synagogue. My grandma had to switch roommates in college because her roommate was violently antisemitic. My fucking Jewish PRESCHOOL had to have ARMED GUARDS to keep people from fucking MURDERING PRESCHOOL AGED JEWISH CHILDREN. I thought all preschools had armed guards until I was like 12. Just fucking LISTEN when we say things. Here, I’ll give you a list of things you NEED to listen to us about.

    • Holocaust deniers are violent antisemites, no exceptions. They are dangerous and do not deserve a platform to speak.
    • Jewish people cannot be nazis, no matter how much you disagree with them. Ben Shapiro is a piece of transphobic racist shit, but he’s not and will never be a Nazi.
    • Trump and many people in his cabinet have repeatedly used antisemitic dog whistles, most recently calling himself a nationalist.
    • We. Are not. All. White. Stop being dicks to Jewish people of color.
    • And we’re not all ashkenazi!!! Google is your friend if you don’t know what that means.
    • Don’t do that “Nazi puncher” bullshit if you don’t actively uplift and defend Jewish people. Punching nazis is a great thing but you need to uplift and support jews at the same time.
    • Stop pinning Israeli war crimes on random Jewish people. And stop demanding we tell you our opinions on Israel before you treat us with basic human decency.
    • GOY IS NOT A SLUR
    • Judaism is an ETHNORELIGION. I am both religiously AND ethnically Jewish. It’s not that hard to understand.
    • Stop tone policing us
    • Just fucking listen when we speak

    Goyim please reblog

    Have officially been accepted into my local community college! Thus begins my journey into learning a trade.

    Planning on going into welding, and hoping they’ll let me minor in cabinetmaking instead of the house building side of the carpentry/cabinet making program.

    And I was reassured that more than likely, my degrees will cover the academics side of things so I can go straight into my shop classes.