My Life is Disneyland...

the increasing tendency in the last few years to use identities and descriptors as defensive statements or like, Marks Of Innocence is. really fucking odd. like, rather than 'I didn't do that and your statement is false', it's 'you're literally attacking a trans person'; i've seen people write 'i'm literally a minor' to try and avoid being held responsible for any type of action. i don't know! i find it really strange. it's possible to be vulnerable or to be from a minority group and also, additionally, be an asshole.

My child, who spends their entire life being transfered from home to car to school and back, and is not allowed to leave the house or talk to anyone and can only in their wildest dreams imagine a life free from constant surveillance, is very sad. Obviously they're dumb and lazy, like all kids these days.

kind of a tangent but i recently went to a bowling alley with my friend i'm 19 he's 18 and the woman at the door didn't want to let us in because there was a sign saying under-18s needed adult supervision. everything got cleared up and we were able to go bowl, but i'm still so mad about the fact that kids need adult supervision to go to a bowling alley and arcade. like okay maybe young kids should have supervision but what do you mean middle and high schoolers need to hold mommy's hand while they play video games. kids aren't just addicted to their phones because phones are addicting, we're addicted to our phones because there's nothing else to fucking do

I'm sure banning kids from online spaces while simultaneously not ensuring that they have access to offline spaces to socialize in (without having to rely on their parents who already don't have time for them) will help them feel better & less alienated from society.

there will come a time where you are grappling with the weight of your whole life and then you will listen to music. and the music will save your life by pointing a gun at you

Most classic Derin character is an academic that just fucking sucks at their job.

The only competent academic I've ever written is Smon, and that's only because she's viewed through the eyes of a tech illiterate alien whom she can only communicate with on an extremely basic level, and had no opportunity to look stupid.

Is there anything more human than assuming some part of how you see the world is fundamental to how everyone else sees the world?

Aspen assumes everyone wants to run from their problems. Specifically into space, where they'd never meet their loved ones again, nor ever tread upon their graves.

What can I say? My standards for the humanities and social sciences in science fiction are "Don't completely fuck up how people in that field act". Aspen clears that bar, and I can imagine how they got to where they are in their work. This is more than I usually get.

Working in a lab and reading so many truly bullshit published papers didn't make me jaded about a certain subset of academics at all.

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

it’s never a normal temperature anymore it’s always some fucking bullshit

In the 90's the record breaking summer temp where I lived was like 85 degrees btw. It's been over 100 for a week straight now.

Where I live, the deciduous trees have been losing their leaves in winter instead of autumn for several years now and the first time I got swooped by nesting birds this year was July 15th, the actual dead middle of winter. They're supposed to herald the spring.

Where I am every spring plant is blooming and a lot of animals are migrating back that wouldn't be yet. A guy at the lake pointed out one of the migrating duck species was back early recently and we both were kinda upset about it instead of hyped

the fact we never properly metricated time really is is big L for the SI project. like it's definitely one of the measures that was always gonna be hardest to metricate. but having to do both metric and sexagesimal conversion to move between kph and m/s is dumb. and don't get me started on the metric circle. 400 degrees in a circle is not a power of ten!

dragon who kisses you with tongue and deletes shinigami eyes from your web browser

Being annoyed or angry is not an excuse to be incredibly transphobic actually. One trans woman to another, go fuck yourself.

Source on the extension including nonbinary people and trans men as per their guidelines as far back and 2019 btw

I think more media should narratively punish parents for not listening to their kids and specifically I think it should punish them in cruel and terrifying ways. I want real life parents to go through life with a healthy fear that if they ignore their children's boundaries a witch might cook and eat them

Tumblr is the website where you ramble to yourself like a madman until someone decides they like you and put you into their pocket like a shiny rock. That's how you get followers

"have some idea of content you want to do", "have lots of drafts before posting" - no, silly, just post whatever comes to your mind at 2 AM. the best thing about tumblr is that you can start rambling about some obscure background character from a 3000 year old poem, and there'll always be someone equally invested

everyone socially awkward is autistic. everyone selfish is narcissistic. everyone overwhelmed is overstimulated. every hobby is a hyperfixation. everyone who is sad has depression. every homebody is an agoraphobe. if theres something different about you, we will give it a name and make a medication for it. dont worry

It seems like we're just feeding characters to Miss Piggy at this point