A Series of Personal Explosions

sometimes i wonder if we have forgotten that sharing creative work is, fundamentally, a bid for human connection. like I'm not posting art or fic for 'engagement' i'm posting it looking for other sickos to play with! i'd be making it anyway for my own gratification because there's something wrong with me, i'm sharing it hoping we can have something wrong with us together <3

There is a new vaccine going into Phase 3 trials from Valneva and Pfizer as well as a monoclonal antibody-based prophylactic treatment being researched at UMass!

"the only cure for this weird disease is the special lizard blood" is a Star Trek TOS plot that escaped into the real world

they dont tell you this but like half of adulthood is just washing the same FUCKING pan

Well, one never knows if it will be the really good pan when one buys it... and then those particular pans are all gone when one goes back...

imagine you have a movie with oscar isaac and john boyega and people fixate on adam driver instead. this actually happened

working with kids and one of them says “you know you eat 8 spiders a night on average right?” and another goes “no no no those statistics are actually skewed by people who like eat spiders recreationally for fun and stuff” and my head snapped up like a fucking sleeper agent

what a beautiful day to not be in high school

This is the like those “remember to be grateful you don’t have a sore throat right now” posts. It IS a beautiful day to not be in high school! Thank you!

If he has three arms, is he the T-1000?

wait i just realized the whole "i can't save buffy i have no breath" thing that angel says in season 1 is actually so funny because like. lungs are basically just balloons that you inflate using your muscles. breathing is not a special power it's just your diaphragm muscles. also vampires can talk so obviously they have the capacity to inflate their lungs and use the air for their vocal chords. so there is really no reason angel couldn't have given her cpr?

Angel is constrained by the whedonverse analogue to Roger Rabbit rules. Instead of “I can only do it when it’s funny” it’s “I can only do it if it makes things Buffy’s life worse.”

you understand that there's nothing wrong with wanting people to pay attention to you, right? it's not intrinsically evil, you are allowed to want to be seen. you can do it in soft and nice and good ways, but you don't even have to. you can just want to be seen.

had a friend who used to make new ones up on the spot. The only one that stuck with me was 'good golly jelly beans'. If something catastrophic happens I go for 'that's not ideal.'

Props to the late, great Susan Garrett for "Set me on fire and fuck me running!"

getting lost in boston is fun because I turned around on a street corner three times and some guy yelled "hey stupid! the bus is that way!" very helpful interaction and accurate insult, 10/10 no notes

one time I walked around a building a couple times looking for a bathroom and this guy went "this bitch thinks she's on a merrygoround, where the fuck are you tryna go? bathroom? one floor down to the right behind the door that says bathroom."

My very first time in Boston. I was absolutely miserable, trying to drag my giant suitcase up a lengthy set of stairs in the pouring rain. This guy who had already reached the top looked back at me with the most pure expression of disgust I’ve ever seen in anyone’s eyes, marched back down the stairs, grabbed my suitcase, carried it to the top, left it there for me, and walked away without ever saying a word. I think about him often.

Please give credit to Matthew Cortland, the disabled lawyer and activist whose work is reflected in that last screenshot. They work hard on documenting what Trump and his cronies have been doing & they deserve credit.

*peering down at my intestines in consternation* u need to get a Fucking Grip

digital selfharm is real. do NOT check up on that ex-partner/ex-friend. do NOT reread those old messages/conversations that you know will hurt your feelings all over again or that will otherwise make you feel like shit. do NOT block evade to see if you’re being talked about. inhale. exhale. let it pass and you’ll be better for it.

im srry but transmalehood actually does not come with Gender Baggage. theres no unique responsibility placed on me to Be the Right Type of man any more than just…anyone on planet earth has the responsibility to be a decent person? I don’t need your permission to be a man or your concession that its ok for me to be one as long as I’m “careful” about it. It’s dehumanizing and transphobic and your baggage with malehood is not my problem.

some people just want performative guilt from trans men, theres no other way to put it. you can say, “yeah I’m gonna try to be a good person like everyone else” and someone will tell you “no you need to be a good person specifically to make up for your gender” because somehow that will make the world a better place. I’m not catholic dude I’m not begging for your forgiveness lol.