rabidchild:

rabidchild:

“Tomorrow Belongs to Me” - Cabaret

“You still think you can control them?”

My greatest fear lately is that I’ll be out in public somewhere feeling comfortable and then take a look around and realize everyone around me is a fascist.

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thesanityclause:

kananeski:

rabbit-rays:

i mean this so seriously if you have any sort of creative project you can and should be a little obsessed with it. you should reread your own writing and look at your own art and brag about your ocs its literally good for your health

This recently came across my timeline on Twitter ala @coelasquid and it’s too good not to include.

Kelly Turnbull is so fucking wise

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fantasyfillsmysoul:

Writing about body pain

Body pain happens all the time in real life. When writing your story, you want to bring your characters to life. By creating characters and an environment that is immersive and realistic (as possible), it helps your readers relate to your characters. This is a quick guide to body pain, that is especially useful for all those adventures your characters will be going on. No one survives a dragon attack or war without some kind of injury. At the very least, some muscle soreness.

3 stages of healing:

1st stage: Acute This is the start of the process after getting hurt. Depending on the severity, often lasts up to a week. Characteristics: severe pain, inflammation/swelling, dark bruises (red, black and blue), muscle weakness, muscle spasms, reduced range of motion.

2nd stage: Sub-Acute This is when your body is starting to heal the tissue by creating scar tissue to replace or repair damage. Can last several weeks Characteristics: reduced swelling, bruises are clearing (yellow, green, brown), range of motion is starting to improve,less pain than before.

3rd stage: Chronic This is the final stage of the healing process. It can last months, if not years. Your body is finally adapting to the changes. Pain is no longer associated with the injury, but instead how the body healed. Characteristics: no bruising, little to no swelling, mature scar tissue (usually tough, and harder to move than other tissue), pain is more of an ache, not sharp. If not taking care of, mature scar tissue can cause muscle tension and reduced range of motion. Pain mostly comes on at the end range of a movement, or with stretching.

Visceral Pain:

Visceral pain is organ pain. When one of your organs are causing problems, or are in pain, it typically feels more like a dull pain, or a pressure. The pain is usually vague, so it’s hard to tell where it’s coming from. Thankfully, visceral pain usually follows typical pain patterns, and you can easily find charts online. Example: Lung and diaphragm pain is usually around your neck and shoulders.

Nerve pain:

Nerve pain happens when the nerve is being pinched, compressed or was directly injured. Characteristics: shooting, tingling, zaps, numbness, stabbing or burning. Numbness is not like an analgesic. It can be a reduced sensory feelings, meaning you may not feel it if someone touches that part, but it can be very painful. Nerve pain will follow the length of the nerve.

Bone and joint pain:

These pains are directly associated with a trauma. Pain is localized to the specific bone or joint. Characteristics: Usually described as a sharp pain, especially with movements involving the painful area.

Muscle Pain:

Muscle pain is extensive. Muscles work hard to protect your body while injured. Muscles will tense when the body is in pain, which usually results in more problems. This pain can be caused by overuse, injury, emotional and physical stress, or compensation for other injuries. Characteristics: deep steady aches, sharp, shooting pain, soreness, burning in muscles, spasms. Muscles will have two main problems if not injured: tension and trigger points. Trigger Points (aka knots) happen in very tense muscles. Trigger points follows specific patterns in each muscle. Example: a trigger point in the upper traps muscle is felt in the head, neck and shoulders. Pains and tensions like these can often be the cause of headaches.

Pain priority:

Your brain processes pain in a specific way. Most often, your brain is so busy running everything, when it comes to experiencing pain, it can’t do it all at once. Thankfully. This means, if you have pain in your neck, your back, and your feet, there will usually only be one as the most painful while the others are background pain. The worst pain will usually be associated with your activities, and which part of your body you’re using the most. When getting rid of one of these pains, the next most painful one will be most noticeable. Have you ever had pain on one side of your body, then had it fixed with physio or a massage, then all of a sudden you notice pain somewhere else? It may not be new, it’s just that your body wasn’t focusing on that problem.

Let me know if this was useful to you, or if you have any questions or comments.
Please let me know if something I wrote is wrong.

Follow for more writing tips :)

Happy Writing!

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scriptlgbt:

Preface

I’ve been writing this for months now and will be perpetually updating it whenever I can and have enough information to update. Contributions and tips and whatnot are greatly appreciated, the link to give those is at the bottom of this page and should be linked on every page linked here as well.

The version you are currently seeing of the table of contents was last updated 2018-06-15. Please check the original post from our blog to ensure this is most recent version.

This is a guide of binding techniques aimed at writers depicting the honest experiences of these methods. This is not medical advice.

Table of Contents

• READ FIRST: Writing Considerations and Health Information
  

Methods of Binding

• 1920s bandeau 
• Addition methods
• Bandages (ace/tensor), Back braces
• Cling wrap
• Commercial binders
• Compression bras
• Compression shirts
• Corset
• DIY binders (elastic, neoprene, tights)
• Sarashi
• Tape (Trans tape, kinesiology tape, duct/packing tape)
• Wrapped cloth

Comments, corrections, clarifications, resource suggestions or requests?

Send it here!

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fun-with-colors:

theprinceofsnark:

birdandmoon:

How to tell a raven from a crow. Made with corvid researcher Dr. Kaeli Swift for her blog post on the subject!

These are all well and good (accurate and informative and also fun) but here’s the best way to tell the difference between the two:

Ravens are FUCKING huge.

The best advice I’ve heard about this is as follows:

If your thought is “wow, is that a Raven??” It’s a crow.

If your thought is “Holy shit is that a CAT?!” It’s a raven.

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destructrice:

Not trying to go on a rant (and yet already ranting) but I’m sick of people faking that “granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn” isn’t an AWESOME feminist catchphrase, and branding it as white feminism because “Karen your granny is a christian conservative” like yesss it’s true my granny is a christian conservative but she also secretly had her tubes tied in an illegal clinic because my grandpa was against birth control, and my great-grandma ran away from home at 15 because her parents were against interracial marriage, and my great-great-grandma fled her country because there were no job opportunities for poor women there, and my other grandma also fled her country because her boyfriend tried to force her to have an abortion and she wanted to have her baby, and my mom never married and chose to raise a child on her own, and I am a feminist butch lesbian, and this is what this quote is about, it’s not about your granny being pagan, it’s about valuing your matrilineal lineage of subversive women, even if their subversion was minimal, because they could have been killed or maimed any time by men for not conforming to gender roles even in the slightest way, after all, the witches who indeed were burned were more often than not also just regular, mostly christian conservative, women that somehow pissed off a man

jimnutto-deactivated20230114:

christopher575:

unicouniuni:

Uni.

HEY LADIES … … … … … … … DID YOU KNOW

UHHHHHHHHH

(via seananmcguire)

theglitchywriterboi:

I hope every writer who sees this writes LOADS the next few months. Like freetime opens up, no writers block, the ability to focus, etc etc you’re able to write loads & make lots of progress <3

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athelind:

cosmologicalhedgehogephemera:

cosmologicalhedgehogephemera:

Panels 1 - 10

I found this on twitter by user Kingfisher & Wombat. https://twitter.com/UrsulaV/status/1568685612168892423?cxt=HHwWjsC-2ZjQi8UrAAAA

Thought it was too good not to share. First comic in quite a while that’s got me in tears, ‘cos it felt like hope, and, well, what with everything…

Of course, it’s from @ursula-vernon. I should have recognized.

Thank you.

microsff:

The demon looked around. There was a summoning sigil drawn in the ruddy sand, but nobody… It shifted its perception to the spiritual plane. Ah. A dust devil.
“Why hast thou-”
“A battery.”
“A battery?” The demon looked around. “What need for a battery on Mars?”
“For our friend.”

dannnnnnnnnnnnex:

inkvoices:

lightningladybug:

inkvoices:

inkvoices:

charlataninred:

blitzlowin:

eater-of-hopes-and-dreams:

meraarts:

charlataninred:

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

1. The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)
2. The Monster of Sentan
3. The Witch’s Cat
4. Raise Both Children
   
5. Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)
   
6. Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)
   
7. My Arch Nemesis Cynthia
8. Pirates and Mermaid
9. Eindred and the Witch
10. The Demon King
11. The Cornerwitch
12. Grandmother Beetroot
13. Apocalypse Daycare Worker
14. Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon
15. New Year Saga
    
16. A Story About Changelings
17. Ranger in the King’s Forest
18. The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit
19. Goblin Men (Canines)
    

I am in love with you /p

Adding Faceblind Prince Charming and Cinderella

21. The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

22. The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

adding the Doctors Without Borders one

I LOVE tumblr storytime, so here’s a bunch more your weekend reading. Enjoy!

24. The Queen with Three Cursed Children

25. Tiny Dragon with one coin hoard

26. Haunted house

27. Shark hero was about to go rogue

28. Grandma lives in the woods comic

29. A Different Aftermath comic

30. Battery (microstory but I love it so much)

31. It’s A Date comic

32. Supervillian kidnaps rival’s kid and they want to stay

33. Narrative Town

34. I have been hired to clean the wizard tower comic

35. Robot Apocalypse

36. The Statues That Do Not Weather

37. Kushiel

38. Tooth Fairy

39. Alien abduction

40. Felonious wish-granting

41. When humans met actual space orcs

42. Space cousins

WAIT REBLOG THIS VERSION INSTEAD

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i-just-like-commenting:

Text: decoupling pregnancy from femininity means accurate and more inclusive language and treatment, but it also allows cis women to refuse motherhood without refusing womanhood, which is great for feminism and terrifying for misogyny.

–THIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIS. As a sterile cis woman who doesn’t want to have children anyway I feel this is every ounce of my being. “Define woman” types tend to do so in a way that excludes me too, so I got to stand with my trans sisters.

(via trans-corvo)

thewolfofthestars:

You know what? No. No, Hatsune Miku did not write Harry Potter.

J. K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter. And we need to accept that.

Harry Potter isn’t some pure unproblematic beacon of perfection that we can just choose to erase the scummy author from and enjoy without guilt. Harry Potter is very much rooted in Rowling’s view of the world. The blatant antisemitism in the portrayal of the goblins, the entire race of slave creatures that actually really like being slaves and Hermione’s attempts to free them are largely played off as a joke, the almost complete dearth of canon characters of color (and then when she does put canonical characters of color in, they’re… Nagini…), the complete lack of respect for other cultures (the Japanese wizarding school literally translates to “Magic Place” in Japanese, Cho Chang is not even remotely a proper Chinese name, don’t get me started on her usage of Native American folklore), the almost complete lack of LGBTQ+ characters, the “Dumbledore is gay!” baiting, the lycanthropy-as-HIV metaphor that involves one of the werewolves intentionally infecting as many people as he can, with a preference for targeting children, no less…

These are all very much present in Harry Potter. They’re not things you can just ignore. And they’re there because Rowling wrote them in.

I know you read Harry Potter as a kid and loved it. I know when you read Harry Potter as a kid you probably didn’t even notice how shitty all this stuff was. I certainly didn’t. But you can’t go back to that time. You can’t go back to when you were 10, when you were consuming this media and loving it uncritically without notice or regard for its more problematic elements. You can’t go back to being a kid again.

And that’s okay. It doesn’t mean you’re required to wholeheartedly condemn this important part of your childhood. You can still enjoy these books while acknowledging that they’ve got some really shitty things in them. You can enjoy Harry Potter as a mature adult. You don’t have to be a kid again to like it. And you’re perfectly allowed to hate on Rowling for her shittiness, past and present, while still loving Harry Potter.

So don’t say Harry Potter was written by Hatsune Miku. It wasn’t. It was written by J. K. Rowling, warts and all.

disasterhimbo asked:

Why are you still participating in the Harry Potter fandom if you truly believe in trans rights and BLM?

the-toughestest-hufflepuff:

Hi! This kind of question is 100% valid, and I honestly appreciate you asking it. I think many other people in the fandom have been able to answer this question more eloquently, especially those who are POC and trans, and too be clear, I default always to their experiences on this topic because it is not my place to speak on behalf of anyone POC or Trans.

The last thing I want to do as a white and and CIS person is speak from a place of outrage that I will never fully be able to fully understand coming from the place of privilege that I have being white and CIS.

Please bare with me as this is a much longer answer than I intended, but I literally have no idea how to use less words to explain my personal experience. Which is unfortunately the only experience I have to speak from. I could also literally write a full like 10 page paper on like this if given the energy, but I would much rather invest that time into writing gay fanfic.

So, this is my story and why I defend my participation in the fandom on tumblr and AO3(not the author)

When JKR was originally open about what a dumpster fire she was, I basically purged what was left in my life of all things Harry Potter. I stopped watching the movies, buying anything pertaining to it, and I stopped talking to other people about the series as well. I grew up with this series and as a younger person, the fandom made me feel safe and accepted when I was a teenager and RP-ing with my friends, beginning to write terrible fanfiction. So the fandom meant a lot to me at that point, but when I became a healthcare worker I started working 50-60 hour weeks and stopped doing everything from high school I enjoyed.

Like everything that brought me joy besides singing in my car, stopped.

When JKR outed herself as a TERF and I started hearing out POC and Jewish people pointing out the injustices, as well as the blatant missed opportunities for characters, especially Harry and Hermione to be POC, I was so disgusted with her and embarrassed by the fact that I backed the story for so long, I really did not touch it at all until last November when I was doing in home care and saw the movies playing on a cable channel, so I watched them. And then I immediately turned to tumblr for the fandoms opinions, and I’m glad I did.

I was connected with teams of people from every aspect of the spectrum of LGBTQIA and POC. Hearing the reasons they continue to be apart of the fandoms, their reasons for not letting this trash human being steal the enjoyment of a story (though problematic) that affected a lot of us in a positive way and brought so many of us together to form a community of people that continuously criticize the original work and creator, and making new stories and characterizations that are realistic and inclusive and that are reflections of people’s own lives. OR reflections of a world we wish to see, which is also insanely valid in escapism.

In addition, Kirby Alice on TikTok discusses A LOT of the social injustices, and the egregious problematic writing issues in the series. Highly recommend her content as someone who doesn’t just jerk off JKR whenever they talk about HP.

Our response to a rigid bitch that hates fanfiction of her work, hates gay and trans people, hates fat people, hates hyper-feminine women, clearly has an issue with the Jewish people and POC as well as people with mental illness or any kind of disabilities is to write her characters with those attributes.

We write Pansy thicc and curvy and Ginny Trans, and Draco gay and Trans and we give him the redemption a 17 year old should have been given because people should be allowed to admit to mistakes and correct the wrongdoings, and Harry bisexual and Trans and POC, Hermione pansexual, Demi, Jewish and POC, etc. We give them complex and complicated journeys through the mental health issues, and physical disabilities that there’s no way they don’t have after being children of war. We write the wixen world with the corruption that wasn’t fixed or really fully addressed in the books at all, as well as so many other tropes that directly challenges the original series.

As a fandom, we do our best to listen to each other about the injustices, and condemn JKR for her shitty opinions, and show her that she is not taking away our ability to still love these characters, and expand the world to our liking. Ya know like every other fandom is allowed to do?

Because being incredibly frank, there are tons of books we still read on mass levels that were written by the worst kinds of people. Dr. Suess is my exhibit A for that.

I think that’s one of the more frustrating parts? like it’s assumed that anyone left in the fandom loves JKR with our whole chest? Cause we don’t. She wrote like 100 queer baited characters and the one she “wrote gay” (after the fact) is possibly the most morally grey character in the entire series.

She allowed a child to remain in abuse for years until the plot device of a love connection? When it was very easily debunked that that was necessary. Snape is somehow 100% redeemed by just being in love Harry’s mom? Even though he hated all the kids he taught and was like actually torturing and abusing Neville. SPEW was written like everyone was annoyed with Hermione for wanting freedom for the house elves. Like what the fuck? She’s also arguably not a good writer for many other reasons including plot holes and the mere factor she couldn’t just walk away from her work and be done with it? Also don’t even get me started on the infuriating mistake of an opportunity that fantastic beasts was. They basically pissed all over the idea of having the center of the plot being about the cool mythical creatures with no other than Albus fucking train wreck Dumbledore

We’re not supporting the multi-trillion dollar franchise, we are honoring the characters in our own way to fill whatever hole we have in our childhoods from a story that lured us into a false sense of security and comfort of a family and something that understood us, then ripped it away.

And also we’re ultimately creating art and stories for free for each other to just look at and enjoy.

I don’t buy anything with licensing or royalties attached, I only purchase Hp things from small businesses on Etsy. And I don’t support people who talk about HP things without knowing they’re ally status. It’s why it’s on my bio, because I know it’s something people look for when they follow someone.

I don’t defend the books, they are not infallible, I defend what they meant to a lot of us growing up and how they helped a lot of us become the people we are today who have found each other in this community. Who are free to be who we are here. Open and compassionate and empathic and supportive and creative.

I personally don’t regret the decision to be in this fandom. It brought me a connection with friends on here that I’m forever learning from, growing from, and overall helping me to be a better person. It brought me back to my passion in creative writing. It literally helped me realize that I am Bisexual.

It’s highly horrific that she has turned around and denounced and ostracized an entire subculture of the fans that related most to a little kid literally stuck in a closet by people that were meant to love and protect them.

This really got out of hand, and I am really sorry at how much I’ve tangented, but like I stated at the beginning of this, I didn’t just immediately find justification to the fandom. Like the true Aquarius sun, Virgo moon, and Libra rising I am, I looked to those who knew better, who lived the lives most affected by JKR in question. I was away from this fandom for a while before JKR was vocal about being a TERF and etc, and in reentering HP tenuously, I quite literally refound myself through this fandom.

You are allowed and are valid in having a different opinion than me or anyone else. You are fully valid in critically questioning those of us in the HP fandom to ensure your safety. You’re allowed to hate me even after learning my story. It makes sense, and it won’t hurt me at all if you do, though it is upsetting to think that someone thinks of me a bigot. And to be honest, if this was a different day, or if I had addressed this before I probably wouldn’t have responded in this way, especially not this long winded.

If you read all of this, I hope it made any sense, and I hope this comes across genuine to people who read it, because I love this fandom and I love my friends here so much.

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