Hi folks, I'm the Sylversmyth! ā90s baby, aro/ace-spec, she/they NB/agender. I'm an artist and a metalsmith/jeweler. I draw some too (and very occasionally post it). I love reading but donāt do it enough (unless you count fanfic). Since I work with my hands I am CONSTANTLY listening to podcasts and audiobooks. I'm a big fan of way too many things, so you can expect basically zero consistency on this blog!
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the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into āinclusive restroomsā and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that couldāve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. Iāve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you
This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.
This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.
I have a friend who was strongly against inclusive bathrooms because he felt that ābathroom stalls are already really exposed due to how theyāre constructed, so no wonder women donāt want men in the same bathrooms as themā and when I pointed out that we could justā¦ build better bathroomsā¦ with less exposed stalls, he got really quiet and then said āhonestly that sounds so much better, but there must be some problem with building them like that, because otherwise wouldnāt we already be doing it?ā BESTIE we are. WE ARE. Old-style bathrooms are cheaply made, poorly designed, and all around bad. Havenāt you noticed that menās restrooms rooms get weirdly sticky? Havenāt you noticed that womenās restrooms end up with giant lines? This is because these rooms are architecturally awful. And we can do better now, because we know more! And we are!!! People are actively designing better bathrooms that address known problems, and guess what: those bathrooms are āinclusiveā in the same way that curb-cuts are inclusive. It doesnāt matter if the ramp was built for a wheelchair or a stroller; it doesnāt matter if the bathrooms were designed specifically for gender inclusivity or just because fall-apart-if-you-sneeze-on-them metal stall dividers with giant ass peek gaps suck. We can in fact improve our built environment to better meet our needs. Stop cutting off your nose to spite your face; stop settling for less just because someone else might also enjoy it.
Seattle's SEA-TAC airport has an all gender restroom that's a row of about a dozen fully enclosed separated little rooms that lock, with a shared bank of sinks and it's great. Love it. Lot of very strange encounters at the sinks, feels odd the first few times! But people laugh it off almost instantly. Because it's not actually a big deal to share a sink.
Also, these "superloo" type bathrooms are usually LOTS more accessible than regular bathrooms with just one accessible stall. They're fat friendly too!
Everyone: Californians are such whimps about the weather. "Oh no there's half an inch of rain, whatever shall i do?"
Also everyone: When there's a hurricane you should never drive through water more than six inches deep, water that's a high as your ankle is enough to sweep you away.
Every major street in southern California when there's half an inch of rain: I used to be a dry riverbed in a desert, but today I am a river again :)
Reviving this meme from when Australians and the British were complaining about our weather and not being taken seriously. I absolutely feel you, best of luck with your rough weather
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was thinking about this again, and now i'm considering a situation where (tos) mcspirk AREN'T together (yet) -
maybe mckirk is together, though, maybe they've been off-and-on over the years as they've been stationed in different places, and then the first night mccoy arrives on the enterprise, kirk walks into his quarters and is very, were you just signing up for the mission, bones, or is there something else you might want to sign up for, as well, and mccoy, smiling a little, his eyes cautious, says, i don't know, jim, five years is a long time - if it doesn't work out, then - and kirk cuts him off with, the only reason it hasn't worked out before is become you kept running off to save the universe with one ship or planet in need or another. you gonna run off on me again, bones? and mccoy knows, he does, that kirk's always been ambitious, always been focused on climbing the ladder towards his own command, and he knows it's not just his fault that they never lasted - never tried to last, because their friendship is too important to ruin on anything with an end date before it starts, but he still folds, just like he knows kirk knew he would.
what's gonna happen at the end of those five years? he asks, because he's had a relationship end messy before, and he'll give kirk most anything he wants, but he still - he still worries.
we'll figure it out, kirk says, so certain it should come off as cocky, but it doesn't, somehow. after all, five years should be just enough time to finally make you fall in love with me.
you don't need five years, mccoy doesn't say. he just smiles.
anyway the point of this is that: so, they're together. they've been together for ohhhh say a year, now. and they're both, hmmm, Aware of a Certain Vulcan. a certain vulcan who just got divorced. so there's an Awareness, there, but it's mostly layered underneath friendship and bickering and affection and respect and teasing.
and kirk and mccoy aren't very open with their relationship on the ship - they're both very private, professional people, and they have very clear lines about where their personal and professional lives intersect. they relax that around a few people, even spock (especially spock), although mccoy worries they're going to make him uncomfortable at first, although kirk trusts spock to speak up if they do - this is chess games and social calls, after all, far outside the command structure. spock certainly Notices when they slide from cmo and captain into leonard and jim, but somehow the human courting behaviors, rather than separating them, serve only to....include him, he thinks, in their small circle.
but then a bonded couple is needed for a month-long ceremony on a planet looking to join starfleet. and how convenient for starfleet command that they can send over a captain over as part of said bonded couple to handle this! (actually: it'd be funnier if TWO bonded couples are needed, and sarek and amanda are also sent over. let's go with that lmao)
and this culture, specifically, just so happens to have incredibly similar expectations for bondmates......
as vulcans.
and spock has been Aware of the relationship between kirk and mccoy, and he's been Aware of his own deepening respect and, yes, it would be illogical to lie to himself about it, so yes, his own deepening affection for them.
but to see them, right in front of his salad, performing vulcan bonding behaviors....
to see them performing vulcan bonding behaviors, even as they still so easily offer him entrance in their small circle, as if -
it is one thing for humans, with their ill-defined boundaries, allowing their lines between friendship and relationship to blur, but to see it so starkly with vulcan behaviors....
(it's definitely funnier if sarek and amanda are there as well, providing Commentary, let's definitely say they are)
listen, spock is all for the exchange of culture and ideas among peoples, but this is practically indecent.
(the real question is do mccoy and kirk figure out spock's into them before spock figures it out? i think so.)
(i think they do, and then they up their ante and try to drive that vulcan wild, bless <3)
āitās also good to learn that life isnāt fair!ā i donāt WANT children to accept unreasonable discipline from adults!! i donāt WANT children to expect the adults in their lives to punish at random and ignore their explanations!! the world isnāt fair but we could sure work to make it fairer
I need you all to know that I think about 13 Latvias so much that now every time I meet someone from Latvia I have to resist the urge to ask "which one"
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Iām sorry for adding directly to a post but I went to a wedding once where the groomās name was Loren and the brideās name was Lauren and at the end the officiant was all āintroducing Loren [surname] and Lauren [surname], husband and wifeā and the entire assembled lost it
also sorry for adding on but at my high school there was a Dominic and a Dominique who were dating and everyone just called themĀ āDom and Dommerā which is honestly the funniest shit ever
I know a woman with 2 first names, whose last name growing up was Chapman. She married a man whose last name was Chapman. So her name is Something Someone Chapman Chapman.
Me when I catch myself thinking "I wonder what it's like to be chosen by somebody" but then I remember my best friend chooses to be my best friend and my mutuals choose to follow me and the minimum wage employee chooses to give me sincere kindness that I remember years later because I was going through a hard time and it meant a lot
every now and then I see people passing screencaps of these posts around, and in the months after I made this post there were people checking in on me assuming I was going through grief or depression or something
to set the record straight, the context is that I had covid and was bleeding from my throat and lungs, but for some ungodly reason, I was feverishly driven to drink lemonade and kept screaming and writhing because I was pouring fizzy lemon juice on open throat wounds
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I love when people are like "oh you think you're such a good person huh" when you never said or implied that because it tells you a lot about how they perceive themselves
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