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Human Is is a 1955 Philip K. Dick sci-fi short story where a guy goes to another planet for work and when he comes back to Earth his personality has flipped from an asshole to a sweet, kind, considerate man. Everyone's immediately convinced that an alien has taken over his body, this goes all the way to court, and in court his wife testifies that she's noticed no changes at all and so the charges are dropped.

And then there's a bit right at the end of the story as the wife and the husband are walking out of court:

Jill turned abruptly. "What is your name? Your real name."

The man's gray eyes flickered. He smiled a little, kind, gentle smile. "I'm afraid you would not be able to pronounce it. The sounds cannot be formed..."

Jill was silent as they walked along, deep in thought. The city lights were coming on all around them. Bright yellow spots in the gloom. "What are you thinking?" the man asked.

"I was thinking perhaps I will still call you Lester," Jill said. "If you don't mind."

"I don't mind," the man said. He put his arm around her, drawing her close to him. He gazed down tenderly as they walked through the thickening darkness, between the yellow candles of light that marked the way. "Anything you wish. Whatever will make you happy."

And I. God. There's something there. A soupcon of monsterfuckery. To tell your partner in a moment of intimacy that yes, you're something so inhuman that the lips you're stealing can't speak your actual name. You're a parasite that not only had the ability to burrow under this man's skin and take over his life, but you were so desperate to escape a dead, dry, blasted planet that you did.

And for your partner to then turn around and go "I know, I've always known, and I love you" is just. God I know it's not a great Dick story but something about it is making me lose my mind

thestuffedalligator

Also it's explicitly stated that the guy's consciousness is still alive and preserved on the alien planet. Jill is told this and then proceeds to defend the alien anyways, ensuring that her husband's brain is stuck in a jar on a desert planet. You love to see it

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garaks-padded-cell

americans be like dude learning to drive isnt that bad but they dont know youre in ireland sharing a lane with a horse who is a bad person. And the horse and the instructor are friends and he keeps dapping the horse up through the window. And the horse called you a bitch under his breath so quiet the driving instructor is trying to convince you that you must have misheard him but you didnt. and theres a roundabout coming up and the horse didnt indicate

#I learned to drive in a grid-based city that's like learning to drive on Weenie difficulty mode #if you had tried to teach teenage me to drive in Europe or even Winnipeg I would simply have never left the house again

tiktaalic

The most beautiful phrase in the whole entire world. Is. What are they gonna do. Fire me?

awakefor48hours

Every once in a while, I wish the friendship meter from the Sims was real so that way when people tell me "I used Chat-GPT" they can visually see just how much respect I just lost for them in that moment.

berkelbites

One time an acquaintance told me she entered Snape's star chart into chatgpt and I could physically feel that meter dropping three separate times over the course of her sentence

#I hear you but I think I'd become insatiable about this person #I would not be able to stay away

kayla-denker

Hey, you, cis girl that's very (correctly) vocal about women being allowed to talk about their periods, do you include trans women in that?

I ask because every single time I've tried to talk about it to anyone that isn't a trans woman they get fucking angry. Which has caused me to have to just suffer in silence every single month. So I really relate to cis women when they talk about literally the exact same thing; being shamed by everyone around them their whole lives for talking about their periods, so they just suffer in silence every month as it negatively impacts their work and social lives. But I don't even feel like I can voice that I am literally dealing with the same exact thing because most of y'all react like you want to throw me in front of a bus for saying it, even those of you who act like your such big great transfem allies.

kayla-denker

I guess I'll take this opportunity to talk about trans women periods. The first thing any tme person thinks when they hear this is always "how can trans women have periods? They don't have uteruses!"

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.

"But you can't call it a period then because that refers to MENSTRUATION!" is another one I hear all the time. This is incorrect. You use the word "period" instead of just "menstruation" because it doesn't just refer to menstruation. It refers to a period at the end of the hormone cycle where we experience a host of symptoms. And not all cis women experience all of the symptoms that encompass the period. Not all cis women get migraines, or body aches, or have severe depression. If a cis woman gets a hysterectomy she doesn't menstruate either! In that instance she experiences an identical period to what trans women experience. Yet, I doubt you'd insist that cis women who've had hysterectomies don't have periods.

#we are so incredibly lucky to have trans people.

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bloodyveinsoflove

I feel genuinely sorry for non-Brazilians (at least non-latinos, I guess) because wdym the rest of the world can’t understand that “olhinhos de jabuticaba” (little jabuticaba eyes, if you will) is the absolute on point description of cats’ blown out pupils when they’re hunting?

Assuming the odd possibility that someone will actually see this, please be introduced to jabuticaba. I rest my case

#this is not *specifically* nimblerbait in that I'd have reblogged it regardless #but I am tagging it #nimblerbait #so you will see it.

dontliveinthefuture

fast car by tracy chapman isnt even a song thats God

#one of those songs i can only listen to like once a year #<- GOD YEAH

nonasuch

Me, looking at a vintage haori in passing: oh that’s pretty

Me, looking closer: wait. are those french knots???

#they're so *perfect*#I can do a French knot just fine - they're fun! - but the consistency on these things...

draconym

Coca Cola flavored Oreos taste like if you could eat clipart

draconym

These taste like an abstract concept. Summer Vacation flavored. Yankee Candle ass cookie.

errant-light

this just keeps being relevant

thelawfulchaotic

This skit absolutely slaps forever but I have to tell you guys the secret.

The weird Oreos don’t sell… but the weird Oreos just being around and visible make people buy more regular Oreos.

That’s why.

draconym

The weird Oreos DO sell, but my housemate is the one buying them all

unfavorableinstigation

I think they add an important element of randomness to the environment. My father in law bought 6 or 7 boxes of the Selena Gomez Oreos so he could set a Selena Gomez Oreo alarm to go off mid workday and then say to his coworkers, "Oh, my Selena Gomez Oreo alarm is going off!" and unearth from his locker his 6 or 7 boxes of Selena Gomez Oreos so he and his coworkers could distribute them around the neonatal ICU ward where they work. He said it livened up an otherwise extremely dreary day.

unfavorableinstigation

I was so pleased to finally have a story proving it that was repeatable to an audience not already used to Nurse Humour. Usually the way he puts us all on the floor is by telling work stories that end with lines like "But they sure showed him; they sewed it right back on!"

ammnontet

the haunted game

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apolladay

Hyperspecific poll but it's all common things that are just rare on Tumblr

cishet and neurotypical

have an active sex life

gym at least once a week

consider yourself completely untraumatised

not interested in creating any form of art/storytelling

none of the above

multiple of the above

Remaining time: 19 hours 40 minutes

#everything but gym once a week #and I did once have that #I keep trying to figure out how to start it up again bc it *was* great for me

draconym

Coca Cola flavored Oreos taste like if you could eat clipart

draconym

These taste like an abstract concept. Summer Vacation flavored. Yankee Candle ass cookie.

errant-light

this just keeps being relevant

thelawfulchaotic

This skit absolutely slaps forever but I have to tell you guys the secret.

The weird Oreos don’t sell… but the weird Oreos just being around and visible make people buy more regular Oreos.

That’s why.

draconym

The weird Oreos DO sell, but my housemate is the one buying them all

unfavorableinstigation

I think they add an important element of randomness to the environment. My father in law bought 6 or 7 boxes of the Selena Gomez Oreos so he could set a Selena Gomez Oreo alarm to go off mid workday and then say to his coworkers, "Oh, my Selena Gomez Oreo alarm is going off!" and unearth from his locker his 6 or 7 boxes of Selena Gomez Oreos so he and his coworkers could distribute them around the neonatal ICU ward where they work. He said it livened up an otherwise extremely dreary day.

#the local T&T always has the ones they release on the Asian markets #the sesame one is a bit bizarre #there are plenty of sesame desserts out there but the sesame Oreos definitely go the *savory* sesame route

neiljostenpussyindulgence

I love gay people theres a guy in my neighborhood who named his one singular dog “simon and garfunkel”

omgitzlongdennis

malcolm: ugh my life is the WORST i HATE BEING A TEENAGER!!

*meanwhile*

jigsaw: hello francis

mockeryofnature

THE WAY THIS ISNT EVEN EXAGGERATING LMAOOO

unfavorableinstigation

As far as the Canadian Shack trope goes, this is much closer to being aligned with true Canadian heritage. I do believe Malcolm in the Middle would have made Francis fuck a literal mammalian bear if they could have.

#oh Canada

Why did they make Michael into a squat little homunculus called Markle. Why did they do that. Markle haunts me.

#YES I'm on this again #NO I'm not tagging it #i know why. cynically I know why #it's because anime cannot meaningfully stylistically distinguish ages between about 14-35 #and they didn't want to confuse the romantic direction of the thing by including what would look like Another Young Man to rival Howl #but. MARKLE. what the fuck.

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tahthetrickster

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

o-craven-canto

NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

your move, Hemingway

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