caffeinatedrogue:

caffeinatedrogue:

having ocs is so fun tho. It’s like playing with barbie dolls except we’re hallucinating it all vividly in our heads and everybody is emotionally scarred

after carefully reading the notes I can safely say that most of us are just continuing the childhood tradition of treating our dolls in ways that could easily be considered violations of the Geneva Conventions

gayarsonist:

sorry for romanticizing the mundane but the fact that laughter is infectious is so incredible to me. like yeah it’s just a reaction to stimuli but the way it feels to hear someone laugh and feel yourself compelled to share that joy is really something. and it’s so simple and requires no skill but it’s so special and important to me.

schafpudel:

hundondestiny:

tohellandstay:

hundondestiny:

hundondestiny:

Folx is not supposed to be more “gender neutral” than saying folks. It’s meant to be a political statement in the sense that “x” has represented a lack of something or rejection of something esp. I’m American civil rights movements.

I started seeing it in radical groups for people of color and many of the people who used it were also queer/LGBT, neurodivergent, etc. and although everyone had a different way of relating to it, the common theme was a rejection of some status in some space / not fitting into the status quo of some space.

One of my Black friends related their use of it back to Malcom X using “x” to denote his rejection of his slave-descended surname and they felt it was a way to distinguish politically idenditifable “others” in certain spaces.

Like whether you think that’s necessary or not I don’t think it’s worth mocking to the extent that y’all do like if that’s how someone or some groups want to distinguish political otherness then??? It’s literally hurting no one.

crazy how I said this in 2018 and the jokes never stopped nor got any more creative. get a new bit 💜

“it’s not hurting anyone” it’s lessening accessibility. can we at least talk about how this affects people who use screen readers which don’t know how to read words with the x while talking about this

it’s so crazy how you ignored the part where this is also a part of disability conversations… that doesn’t mean we can’t also talk about how screen readers and accessibility tools in general are not actually made to give people equal access.

but that is a systemic issue, not something that is solely unique to the ‘x’. even using the italics to convey emphasis the way you did technically isn’t accessible because it usually doesn’t translate to screen readers, which means the meaning and intention of it is lost. but you still used it. because you probably weren’t aware of a systemic deficiency that applies across a gazillion things we do daily.

i have talked about this extensively before which you would’ve seen w like, two scrolls on my blog but alas.

#as a legally blind person who regularly uses a screen reader #(in conjunction w a magnifier but on worse days im 100% reader) #it’s honestly like…sooooooo weird how people will get up in arms about #screen readers when it comes to stuff like this #but this is the only time screen readers come into the conversation at all #they won’t transcribe text #they won’t label buttons #etc etc etc #this is the only time it ever comes up! #so like why are you even bringing blind people up at all #if you won’t remember us except to justify #u finding something (which is harmless) annoying

thirdtimecharmed:

parasitichoney:

Just came across this on Reddit and felt it was important enough to share here.

If you have family or people in your life who do this to you, please click on this link and read this

If that’s too much, the most important thing to highlight is below

If you’re an estranged adult child and you’re looking for a way to get your parents to hear what the problem is, I’m sorry, but you have your answer already. They don’t want to know. They may be incapable of knowing. There are no magic words that will penetrate their defenses.

The good news is that you’re free. You can stop now. If you need permission, I’ll give it to you: You are hereby allowed to stop trying to get through to your willfully deaf parents.

Please stop.

mythicaliz:

aztechnology:

omghotmemes:

This is what he would have wanted

op link the video it’s fucking hilarious

10/10

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen

mossrag:

mossrag:

i hope this baja blasts you well

yours dewly,

mountain

going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi:

“its okay that person does [weird thing] because they have [condition]” no its okay that they do the weird thing because its not hurting anyone and sometimes people just do things you might think are weird and it doesn’t have to be explained

amishsicario:

segasister:

risingphoenix87:

renniequeer:

People keep ragging on me and telling me I’m not “really” from a rural town if it “only” takes half an hour to drive into the next city.

Living in a town with a max population of 200, and having to drive at 60 miles per hour for 30 to 45 minutes to visit the next town, which has a total population of less than 135,000, definitely qualifies as rural, dipshits.

Also, I grew up on a farm, which is pretty, like…quintessentially rural.

Stop being weirdos just because you’re bored and feel like picking fights in my notes over asinine crap, lol.

Why are people gatekeeping rural living…?

Because the more, “rural,” someone is, the more, “American,” they are, because, as you know, only REAL Americans live in smalltown, rural areas, and not in the big, heavily populated, urban cities. I mean, they must be, since the residents of such towns make such a big fuss about it when election season comes around.