bare minimum stuff i wish all cis people knew:
basic understanding of what transgender/trans means
what a trans woman is, what a trans man is, and what a nonbinary person is (and recognition there are identities under that umbrella even if they don’t know the specifics)
what (gender) pronouns are and why it’s important to respect them
why it’s good for cis people to normalize sharing pronouns
how to use they/them pronouns
why gender-neutral bathrooms are important
basic knowledge of what kind of jokes are transphobic
basic understanding that trans people face violence and discrimination
like i do not expect everyone to have a degree in Trans Studies but this is basic basic stuff you can learn to help us be comfortable and have a foundation for deeper discussions on trans topics. it would take maybe a few hours or less to get a general understanding of these things.
i don’t want to have to explain all of this every time i ask if we can do pronouns in introductions, add gender-neutral bathrooms to accessibility info, introduce someone who uses they/them pronouns, etc. if people took just a little time to learn this on their own it would be so helpful.
(cis people feel free to reblog this, and i encourage you to do some reading on anything here you don’t know about)
i have this au i’ve really liked lately where ravenpaw becomes a kittypet after leaving thunderclan and his new owners train him to be a therapy cat and it’s all about ravenpaw dealing with his trauma and learning how to cope while helping humans do the same. idk i really like it
Random thought about Jack Harkness :D
So Jack comes from the 51st century, right? Even if his native language is called English (which I highly doubt), it sure isn’t 21st century English and he can’t understand or speak it. He probably speaks some universal language well enough as well as his native language. But he was a Time Agent, which means his job included interactions with people from other time and other cultures and they all certainly didn’t learn a new language every few missions. So the Time Agency used translators. But was it transplanted or something in his Vortex Manipulator? For all we know, Jack could actually be speaking another language all day long, and hear his own language in response.
But he does say things like “Ianto I need to hear those beautiful Welsh vowels” (or something like that), so he hears accents. I’m not an expert on hypothetical future implanted translator (I know, deception) and they could very well manage to translate accents, but let’s assume that by that time Jack is speaking fully English and hears the Welsh accent in English sentences (so he has a translator he can turn off on his Vortex Manipulator.)
What’s interesting is: that would mean that he actually had to learn English.
Now, do I want to imagine Jack asking someone to write everything he says and recording himself somehow and once alone he stops the translator and listens to try and see which words are which? You bet I do! Jack having trouble with English and questioning words like pineapple, really? Jack having a complicated mother language and finding English conjugation to be a big joke. Jack wondering what a coma is because it sure didn’t exist for him.
Yes, I want Jack very confused at the English language :D
Supporting evidence from the series:
Is often driven by empathy, and morals, hyper-empathy present.
13 struggles with socialisation, and had to learn social skills and cues.
Has several intense fields of knowledge - ahem! special interests!
Requires emotional support, and isn’t ashamed of that.
Info-dumps literally 90% of the time in all her adventures!
Excitable as hell, I’m surprised she hasn’t flapped at least once.
Takes great interest in the workings of everything.
13 has a great fondness for people with differences.
Has trouble figuring out emotions sometimes.
Volume control? 13 has never heard of it. Too busy shouting / running.
I’m going to go all out and say 13 is probably also an ADHD icon too.
13 invented analysis and observation- no seriously, she did.
“Still figuring myself out” is the biggest neurodiverse mood ever.
Head-canons:
13′s Tardis has a sensory room 13′s Tardis is a sensory room!
Info-dumps about every subject there is, wait, that is evidence too…
Supports educating ableists, but let’s be honest, 13 hates them all.
13 and Ryan probably vlog about Autism, ADHD, and Dyspraxia.
Ryan joked about a ‘sonic fidget spinner’ 13 wants one now.
Why do you think she wears a swirly coat? Stim. Stim. Stim.
13 loves hugs, but like a cat, she has to initiate the affection.
More evidence tbh, the sonic screwdriver is her comfort object.
I have a feeling 13 has a really messy room in the Tardis.
13 is the epitome of the ‘am I sad?’ ‘oh I was hungry’ experience.
Also, 13 doesn’t wear makeup because it is sensory hell.
13 loves good textures, and aesthetics, that’s just a fact.
I mean, have you seen Dr. Who? 13 can’t not be autistic.
Part two of the Autistic Character Series. Next Up > Jake Peralta
I spent 20 minutes laughing my ass off because I pictured the 12th Doctor landing his TARDIS in the middle of a huge Autism Speaks rally, hacking the PA system with his sonic screwdriver and being his Doctor-y self.
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Echolocalia (imitating the walls creaking in knock knock)
Makes connections most people wouldn’t (’These chairs are very far away. Do you have super stretchy arms like Mr. fantastic?’)
Semi-nonverbal (especially around new people)
Space is her special interest
She bolts when things that she doesn’t like
Can’t always control her facial expressions
Info-dumps whenever she gets the chance
Notices details that other miss
Observes and then tries to act on those observations
Happy stims by bouncing
Ace: ADHD
Adric: Autistic
The Doctor: ADHD, Autistic, BPD, C-PTSD, depression, DPD
Jack Harkness: C-PTSD & Bipolar Disorder
Tegan Jovanka: Anxiety
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart: Addiction & depression
Jamie McCrimmon: ADHD
Donna Noble: Anxiety, depression
Nyssa: PTSD
River Song: C-PTSD, HPD, depression
Romana: OCD, PTSD
Vislor Turlough: depression, PTSD
Rory Williams: PTSD
Clara Oswald: ADHD, PTSD
The Doctor was her childhood special interest.
Had trouble making friends as a child, partially because she was so invested in her special interest and didn’t want to talk about much else. What friends she did have, including Rory, learned to indulge her in this.
Doesn’t like wasting time. Always wants to skip unnecessary questions, socially expected small talk, loitering around, or other time wasting activities and cut straight to the chase.
Not afraid to ask questions. Isn’t concerned over whether she seems ignorant or is annoying anyone by asking lots of questions.
Very straightforward and matter-of-fact in her speech and expression.
Not outwardly emotional. Uses jokes, sass, and sarcasm instead of displays of emotion and avoids potential emotional confrontations, specifically when this would involve confessing her own emotions to others.
Wears leggings and skinny jeans as a pressure stim, and bright colors and fun patterns as a visual stim (and also to look cute).
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My little brother just said this exact sentence: “Or maybe you’ve been watching too much Supernatural and can’t stop thinking about Dean Winchester’s sexy abs.”
I do not know what to think.
alright I’m not sure how this works but here we go. so my friend saw this post:
and didn’t think much of it until she got a text saying the very thing the post was warning about.
SHE’S 14 GOD DAMN YEARS OLD. PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD SIGNAL BOOST THIS! THAT LINK COULD POTENTIALLY BE DANGEROUS. PLEASE SHARE THIS AND PLEASE, PLEASE BE SAFE & CAREFUL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME
the whole “mermaids are all colourful and friendly and wear seashells as clothes and collect sparkly things and sing to the fish” is definitely appealing, 10/10, but let’s be realistic for a sec.
the ocean is scary as shit.
as humans, we have only explored about 5% of the ocean. meaning, we have seen very, very little of what lives in the ocean.
in that mere 5% we know about, while we have found some awesome stuff (coral reefs, starfish, dolphins, fish that glow!!!), we have found some absolute fucking monsters. huge sharks, giant squids, eels, some pretty freaky fish, the list goes on.
so, let’s be realistic.
you’re gonna look me in the eyes and tell me that all mermaids are dainty little figures with brightly coloured tails, long, flowing hair, big blue eyes and perfect white teeth? no. way.
show me the mermaids that live in the deepest parts of the ocean, of places man has never, and will never, get to. show me mermaids who hunt in packs, who don’t sing, but rather shrill and screech, or are so silent that you don’t notice them until it’s too late. show me the mermaids with grey, silver, multicolour, scaly skin and eyes that glow yellow in the dark and teeth that make great whites look friendly. show me the mermaids with coral and plankton and barnacles growing on their skin, with kelp in their hair.
give me mermaids who can camouflage into their enviorment, who can shoot ink, who can electrocute unsuspecting prey. give me giant mermaids with tails like eels or like jellyfish or like sharks, that will kill anything they see, that can cause tsunamis with a wave of their hands. give me mermaids who are ripped, with no hair, with fangs. give me mermaids with armour similar to crabs, with flesh harder than rock, with nails like talons. give me mermaids that have hidden themselves away from man in the furthest reaches of the depths, who have slowly evolved to look more monster than girl.
bring me the mermaids that no one wants to acknowledge, the ones that fuel nightmares and folk tales and urban legends.
bring me the diversity, the reality, of the ocean into mermaids.
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Where was the rape joke? It’s been a few years since I last watched AOU, but now I need to know so I can point it out to people.
okay, so i saw a post on my dash about the aou scene with thor and tony, and i obviously didn’t want to comment on the post, so i’m writing my piece here.
age of ultron was trash. that movie was garbage and joss whedon and his mannist bullshit perpetuated most of that movie. otherwise, we wouldn’t have so much sexism, so much deterioration of characterization, so much alpha masculinity between the superheroes.
tony making a rape joke. in which universe would tony stark make a rape joke????
thor (a god) lifting a human up by his neck in front of his friends and his friend’s lack of reaction.
natasha’s entire arch with bruce
all of these scenes illustrate just how much joss whedon doesn’t understand the character’s he’s writing. he wants a macho showdown between thor and tony (parallel to his first movie), he wants macho men all sitting around and laughing at rape jokes, he wants minimize natasha’s entire character into being a broken mary sue because she can’t have kids (because adoption doesn’t exist).
joss whedon is trash, his writing is trash, and every problematic thing that happened in aou is joss whedon and thanos looking ass.
MY BROTHER JUST SAID THAT GIRLS DON'T HAVE GENITALS. WHAT.
Can anybody point me towards somewhere where I can get a comprehensive summary of the Ingress plot/lore so far?
My shitty little brother (Who is 11) has struck again.
He said that I was semi-gay. I identify as queer/part of the LGBT community, as I can’t seem to find a label that fits me. He won’t seem to understand that gay and every other orientation are different things. He then proceeded to say these things:
- “You gay fuck!”
- “You gay motherfuckers!”
- “Move it, your gayness!”
- “Move your butt, your gayness!”
Heavy sigh
My little brother said this, less than five minutes ago. I quote: “Girls shouldn’t be allowed to lift weights.”
He’s eleven. What the actual fuck.
NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT A GOD DAMN RELATIONSHIP AND LOSING WEIGHT AND BEING BEAUTIFUL FOR GODS SAKE GO OUTSIDE AND ROB A STORE AND FEEL ALIVE AS YOU RUN AWAY FROM SECURITY
(Source)
Demon: *Kills somebody*
Dean: WE GOTTA EXORCISE IT
Jace: NONONO KILL IT
Sam: Calm down, guys!
Dean: YOU DRANK DEMON BLOOD FOR LIKE A YEAR YOU HAVE NO SAY IN THIS
All Shadowhunters: He did WHAT!?
Castiel: *Gives Dean lovestruck eyes*
Dean: *Is oblivious but smiles at Cas*
Clary: Why do you have an angel hanging around!?
Alec + Magnus: Those two are so in love.
Sam: Yeah, I know. Dean still thinks he’s straight.
Magnus: *Sighs pitifully*
Stark Tower has literally got the best wifi in the whole of New York and Tony makes it free as well so sometimes he’ll walk out of the ground floor and just see like a dozen or so people, usually kids, just sat on the doorstep on their phones or laptops and like it’s such a little thing to do but yknow. He’s Ironman. Give the kids some damn fast wifi.
Nobody told me Supreme Family was A Thing™? Why????
Stephen helps Peter obey his curfew.
If he’s in the middle of patrol at 11:58, a portal will suddenly open up in front of him and he’ll find himself swinging into his room by 11:59.
Tony is not amused.
Stephen: “What? You want him in by twelve, I get him in by twelve, what’s the problem?”
Tony gets frustrated and the fastest way to calm him down is to fluster him (which Stephen is very good at).
Peter has been complaining for months about an unfair teacher that hates him, and then report cards come in.
Straight A’s in all his classes, except that teacher’s, even though Peter did all the work and knows all the material.
The High Maintenance Dad Duo™ is absolutely not having it.
Stephen goes down to the school and spends no less than three (3) hours correcting every factual inaccuracy the teacher has ever said in his life.
Tony calls the principal/superintendent/any higher-up in the school system and has him fired within hour 1, but still listens as Magic Husband goes off on his ass.
The cloak has a serious interest in Peter’s happiness.
It’ll go with Peter to any convention or other Nerd Gathering™ as a part of Peter’s cosplay.
If someone tries to pick Peter’s pocket while he’s busy soaking up all the cool stuff everywhere, it will smack the hand away and Peter is none the wiser.
Peter will fall asleep on his homework or whatever he’s working on in the lab, and no matter how far away it is, the cloak will zoom to Peter to drape around his shoulders.
Approximately twenty-one (21) windows and seven (7) priceless artifacts at the sanctum have been broken this way.
If Tony or Stephen is already there with a blanket ready, the cloak will physically fight them to get to Peter first.
Stephen does something similar with Tony. He doesn’t get why Tony calls him a hypocrite for chastising the cloak.
I’ve got more that I’m gonna put in a part 2
“I want a relationship where we can get drunk at midnight, just the two of us and sit up talking and making out all night, and go to the beach at four in the morning. I want someone who’s down for adventure. I want someone who will go camping with me, and boating and fishing, and travel. I want someone who wants me for life. I want passion that doesn’t burn out.”
-to all the couples out there
Sam Winchester + Mystic Weapons
Sam Winchester kills the Pagan God Beau with the Hammer of Thor
Sam Winchester kills the Prince of Hell Ramiel with the Lance of Michael
Sam Winchester kills the Alpha Vampire with the Colt