"ao3 is the modern day library of alexandria" no that title goes to the internet archive. ao3 is the omegaverse website. easy misconception.

discless steelbook? discless steelbook?? literally an empty case with a logo on it??

"An Empty Case With A Logo On it" is such an apt metaphor.

There's three pricepoints that go up to $90 and none of them have Wandavision in any way, shape or form.

I couldn't let this go, I needed to know what the fuck theyre charging $90 for if there's no discs.

Theyre paying $90 for stickers and postcards

‘Autistics always love talking to other autistics, it’s always effortless for autistics to communicate with eachother’ stop!

telling!

lies!

Autistics are, basically, min-maxed relative to allistics. That means we do often get along with eachother EXTREMELY well and quickly, like, to an extent that wouldn’t make sense to allistics- but it ALSO means that when we don’t get along, that’s fucking it. We’re magnets. We either attract or repel, and fucking Nothing will change how we react to eachother after that

Two incompatible autistics are like two male betta fish in a teacup. Peace Was Never An Option

Any autist saying ‘that’s not true’ 100% guarantee hasn’t spent enough time with a variety of other autistics lmao

Titans (2023) #4 variant cover by David Talaski

anger spiral thursday 🤪🤪🤪

literally no dermatologist on earth says acne is caused by bad hygeine/lack of a skincare routine btw. its genetic. every single piece of research ever done on acne says its genetic. feel like i need to restate this every time i see a post about skincare

a few years ago i made an identical post to this and someone tagged it with “yeah ive known this from personal experience. because i once spent an entire summer not bathing and the only water that ever touched my face was from public pools yet i never once had any acne” and every single time i see someone talking up their skincare routine this info forces its way back into my brain

dont be a fucking dumbass on this post btw im serious. actually read academic papers on acne dont fucking post correlation is causation shit on this post. every person who has acne has a half dozen multi billion dollar industries constantly trying to convince them its secretly their fault against all published research as it stands. so don’t fucking help them

this just in: eating like shit for no reason is bad for you

this just in: diet specifically made for children with untreatable epilepsy is really only good for children with untreatable epilepsy

every single time I install some indie software like for vtubing or any other specialized use I have to join another fucking discord because no one is putting their documentation online anymore. it's a serious problem. and discord is impossible to navigate. search doesn't work, threads are invisible if they haven't been bumped recently, no one keeps up with listing where things are or even maintaining a basic FAQ. this situation is really really bad and no one is going to understand exactly how bad it is until discord collapses and deletes all this shit off their servers

The last panel contains more emotion than anything you could find in a museum

I reblog this Everytime I see it because it just fills me with so many emotions

Why do I have to explain to some people that I have trauma involving the color pink before they’ll stop poking me about why I don’t like it

Most people are fine about it but once in a while I’ll casually mention that oh no thanks I don’t want that it’s pink and that person will just not stop ribbing me about it until I say out loud “I’m transgender and wearing the color pink reminds me of my trauma related to that” before they will shut up about it.

This sort of person is rare but it’s wild to me that they’re common enough that I’ve run into this problem more than once with different people.

I think there’s a group of people that went through a hating pink phase and then grew out of it and so they view me as someone that hasn’t seen the light yet or someone that is expressing toxic masculinity rather than a person who was forced to live in a particular way for a period of time that has trauma related to that.

I've seen dysphoric people (especially trans men) being accused of toxic masculinity because we have trauma/dysphoria related to certain clothes and accessories. I once had a femme tell me that all men should wear dresses and makeup, because breaking gender norms makes you a good person. I told her that I broke gender norms in order to transition, and I'm not going to break them again if that means disregarding my own boundaries. She told me I was being toxic.

The erosion of what "toxic masculinity" actually means is very dangerous. Toxic masculinity involves unhealthy expectations that are put upon men, to be stoic, superior, unhealthily masculine, and aggressive. These expectations are reinforced through violence and pressure.

A man being vulnerable enough to assert his emotional boundaries is not toxic. A trans man valuing a certain presentation is not toxic.

If you wouldn't accuse a transfeminine person of being toxic because she embraces a very feminine presentation, and rejects clothes associated with her birth gender, then don't accuse transmasculine people of being toxic because we also value certain social signals.

Valuing one kind of presentation over another is transphobic and, at its core, gender e/ssentialist in nature. The idea that femininity is better, and masculinity is inferior (particularly if it's the masculinity of a man), is regressive and stupid.

Remember that most trans men and transmasculine people were assigned female at birth (with the exception of some intersex community members), and we have fought long and hard to look the way that we do. We are not less progressive because we refuse to wear certain things. We broke gender norms. We won our battles, and we're still fighting just to inhabit our most comfortable life. Refusing to see that is transphobia.

If I had grown up in a culture where men wore dresses, I wouldn't personally be dysphoric about dresses. But I didn't grow up in that culture. I grew up in a culture where I was forced to wear dresses, through punishment and violence. The inverse of toxic masculinity. If you're not going to take that seriously, you just hate trans men and transmasculine people, and want to treat us like cis blokes.

Fighting against toxic masculinity should not mean demonising all masculinity. I sometimes feel that our community has missed the point by an unfathomable degree. Y'all should be more concerned about allowing men to be vulnerable and emotionally honest. But that's not the mission, is it?

Yeah even if someone were to tell a cis person “you have to be gnc to be a good person”, I’d still find that very weird tbh. It makes gnc people’s gender nonconformity inherently a political thing when most of us are just…being ourselves? Most of us don’t dress or behave like we do as a political stance, we do it because we like doing it. Because it’s how we are comfortable. That shouldn’t have to be a political thing.

It’s perfectly fine for a man to be masculine and a woman to be feminine as long as they…aren’t shaming those of us who don’t fit in those boxes. Men, continue to exclusively wear your clothes from the men’s section if you want to, just don’t be cruel to your son who wants to wear a dress 🤷🏻 that’s all it boils down to. Wear what you want and let others do the same.

You shouldn’t date or become serious friends/partners with someone if you can’t stomach the thought of being stuck in a car or train with them for 16 hours.

Here’s my logic:

• You should be able to work together to solve unexpected problems like fixing a flat tire or getting lost in an unfamiliar station
• You should feel comfortable and safe enough around this person that you can sit in comfortable silence
• You should be able to keep each other interested and deal with each others boredom in a healthy way
• If you’re gonna form a long term partnership with someone you should probably be able to tolerate each other while locked in a small box for a few hours

These tags are hilarious even though I don’t think you intended them to be.

*pulls European closer* The most populous countries in the world are China, India, the United States, Indonesia, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Brazil in that order, with these seven nations alone making up 48.16% of the world population. You may note with the aid of a map that many of these nations are quite large, and would take several days of travel to go across either in cars or on boats. Almost half of the world's population lives in places where you can travel in a cramped vehicle for days and still be within the country. Your worldview is limited and Europe is a tiny outlier in travel time and standards for international relations.

please let me introduce you to NeverHappy, my most beloved pokemon ever.

i found her as a budew on someone else’s save file after buying a used copy of pokemon platinum. the name “NeverHappy” was a pretty obvious joke about how budew evolves from happiness, and since the previous owner was going to keep her in a box forever, never use her, and never evolve her, she would never be happy. this activated some feral response in my brain and i decided no. she WOULD be happy. i was still replaying through all my old gen 4 games at the time but i traded her off to my other gen 4 files for safekeeping until i could do stuff with her.

oh trust me game. i would.

so you might have thought my plans were to simply evolve her and beat the game with her, get her to level 100, maybe even EV train her - but i had much bigger plans. i was going to ribbon master her. the ribbon master challenge, or the process of “ribbon mastering” a pokemon, is getting every single ribbon possible on a pokemon from the game it was caught in to the most recent game it can be transferred to. if you weren’t aware, that’s a LOT of ribbons. there are 40 in gen 4 alone. i had a lot to do.

(the above clean screenshot was taken by backing up my cartridge save and screenshotting a battle video in emulator. however, i did all of this on my actual DS! i don’t like playing on emulator. not as fun)

i had to beat every contest (normal-master rank in all 5 categories) and do a bunch of other random stuff but my favorite part of the process was defeating the battle tower… 6 times. the battle frontier contains the most challenging battles in gen 4 by far, as opponents have good stats and competitive movesets. there’s 6 battle tower ribbons in gen 4 - two for singles at different points in the win streak, one for doubles, one for multis /w NPCs, one for multis /w another player (i just played with myself on two dses), and one for ranking up in the wi-fi room, which is now accessible again due to fan servers restoring internet functionality for gens 4 and 5.

NeverHappy was randomly caught in the wild and did not have a competitive nature or stats, so i figured that she would just be tagging along in the back while i took out all the win streaks with 2 good pokemon, but she ended up clutching out wins in times of dire need… multiple times. she even ended up being necessary in the wi-fi room to stall out prevalent hacked pokemon like no guard sheer cold machamp, which hits 1 hit KO moves every time, with a gimmicky and convoluted leech seed + substitute strategy.

i could go into all of my team members and the excessive lengths i went to get them all (don’t even get me started on my shiny competitive latias from pokemon emerald) but that’s a story for another day.

by the end of gen 4 i was extremely emotionally attached and she was already becoming one of my favorite pokemon, now with 40 whole ribbons after days and weeks of effort.

i have ribbon mastered pokemon before, so all of my save files in gens 6, 7, and 8 were already set up to transfer neverhappy into and grab all of the ribbons. i had a lot more battling and little tasks ahead of me. it’s really cool how ribbon mastering forces you to interact with pretty much every feature of every pokemon game.

and so i transferred her! gen 5 doesn’t have any ribbons, so it was just an intermediary to transfer into gen 6. at this point, i had also acquired a shiny luxray from pokeradar chaining in platinum named Nightlight, and i was ribbon mastering them together, but once again, a story for another day.

first into gen 6… getting the super training ribbon was really annoying but the battle maison was pretty easy. i had a team in multis with terrakion and a whimsicott with beat up that could 1 hit KO all of the boss battle’s legendaries in one hit LOL

then gen 7… this one went by pretty quickly but i opted to get the best friends ribbon here instead of in XY or ORAS because it was really simple to get with rainbow pokebeans, since all you have to do is max out affection and it only takes a couple rainbow beans to do that in USUM.

and gen 8! you can see nightlight to the left in this picture. by far the hardest part of gen 8 was getting the ribbon awarded for winning a battle in master rank in online VGC against other players. i definitely had to grind that one for a while.

then, she even got an award in BDSP for being a pokemon originating from the original diamond/pearl/platinum games, which was really cool.

oh, and since i had cloned neverhappy back in gen 4 with a glitch so that i would always have a copy of her in her origin games, i was able to take this neat picture! how the times have changed LMAO

luckily she was even a part of PLA’s roster and i was able to take a picture with her there, too… which actually might end up being important since there’s an invisible flag somewhere in the game’s code that gets turned on when you take a picture with your pokemon in the photo studio, which could potentially become a ribbon in the future in another game.

so, trainer Platina from 2016, you were wrong! NeverHappy is in fact happy now and has done more than most people’s pokemon have seen in their entire lifetime. she is my most cherished pokemon and i love her more than i love myself. i think i would die for her

i abbreviated this story a lot because i didn’t want to make this post longer than it already was but i was randomly inspired to talk about this today since SV is coming out soon and there will be more ribbons to collect for any of my ribbon masters that can be transferred into SV, which got me thinking about her. my journey with ribbon mastering has taught me more about pokemon games than any normal person should ever know and if you were interested in any details i left out or how i accomplished certain ribbons (including battle frontier strategies) feel free to shoot me an ask! :D i love talking about pokemon at any time any day of the week.