Former social worker, current customer service manager, tumblr old person. Incapable of being normal about Sonic the Hedgehog, Splatoon, Kingdom Hearts, Undertale, Mass Effect. or Yakuza. DNI if Mr Rogers would be disappointed in who you've chosen to be
Hi folks who saw my wizard post - I’m looking for a few beta readers on a book i started writing a long time ago and plan to publish this year once i have a little more feedback to tighten up the first half. If you’re a scifi reader interested in a book about space colonialism and exploitation send me an ask! It’s got space pigs, space gays, humans behaving badly, and Gender™️ (and very positive early reviews).
*it may not seem like I can be, but seeing that someone needed to hear it and so they let me say it makes me so so proud. It’s a bit of an oroboros but we’re ignoring that. <3
Folks: you CANNOT censor trigger tags. When you block a tag, it doesn’t block other “spellings” of it. Writing it as “r@pe” or “r4p3” means that someone who has “tw rape” as a blocked tag will still see that post because you didn’t wanna say the word rape. You are hurting people. Do not censor words, because people do not have those filtered out.
And honestly if you can’t even write the word rape to protect other people then you probably aren’t old/mature enough to be on this website.
I love having a large Tumblr queue, something posts stuff months after i hit the button and it’s like “oh yeah! remember this hilarious thing you posted, mutual? loved that, just wanted to remind us both.”
these fuckers take their snooze all together as a group, floating vertically in the water column around fifty feet down. we think that they’re the only whales that do this, and they can only pull it off because they’re the only whale that spends their entire lives in a group!
most whales are lonely creatures, speeding through the deep blue sea solo except at certain times of the year- and that means that these whales have to use the dolphin method if they want to catch some Z’s, turning half their brain off at a time and leaving the other half to pilot their body slowly through the water and watch out for predators. and, uh, also to remember to breathe. that’s important.
sounds extremely unrestful, actually. can we introduce these poor guys to the concept of memory foam?
somebody call tempur-pedic and ask if they make a size XXXXXXXL.
but anyway, if you’re lucky enough to be born a sperm whale, you don’t have to do that!
sperm whales are able to enter a much deeper rest state than any other known cetacean, much closer to the traditional mammal deep snooze. they float vertically in the water and keep just enough of their brains on to swim up when they need to breathe, but other than that it’s light’s out for these snoozeville boys.
and the reason for this is very simple, yet profound- who the FUCK is going to pick a fight with a sperm whale pod?
when you spend your entire life hanging with a couple dozen of your closest friends, all of whom are 60-80 feet in length and weigh more than three school buses stacked on top of each other, you get to learn what the term “safety in numbers” really means.
I have sat in some really nice cars and some really dingy trains but I’ve never once sat in a train and thought ‘I wish I was in a car right now’
I’m serious, if trains were invented today by Elon Musk they would be described as the greatest invention of all time.
Trains are amazing on so many accounts,
Safer - its amazing how vehicles traveling along pre-ordained paths controlled by experienced workers is safe.
quieter - Outside of trains they’re so infrequent that most of the time it’s quiet. Inside of trains its jus quieter physically and also is a more consistent, its like white noise so I find it almost pleasant.
faster - trains go vroom vroom
efficient - both in fuel consumption and movement of people/goods.
smaller footprint - a train track is about 1.5m wide while. a single lane road is about 3.5m (ignoring pavements) and due to their higher efficiency you don’t need as many multiple lanes. Also for every car sold its estimated 3 car parking spots are built which take up so much space.
luxurious - this is an opinion but i think its a strong one; in trains you’re able to stand up do to it being safer and no need of seatbelts; you don’t have to do anything except get on and off (in cars you have to do a thing called drive); trains travel at constant speeds so the journey is less jerky; access to small or sometimes large tables; more legroom; etc…
night trains - some trains which run overnight have beds which aren’t the best but lying flat is luxuries when trying to sleep.
cheaper - cost of fuel, workers, maintenance is spread across all users and so is cheaper than cars which you have to pay for all of the above.
You may be thinking, trains are pretty cool but you can’t just build train tracks through the middle of cities like roads; well let me introduce you to a marvellous invention, baby trains (trams). they are the inner city version of trains and full of there own advantages.
disability friendly - due to the tracks being imbedded into the ground they pose little tripping risk especially for elderly and disabled. Also less cars is just safer overall.
human friendly - due to there slow speeds and preordained paths, they’re very easy for people to avoid and so can coexist in areas with people. This is a stark contrast to cars which dominate and own any surface they touch.
retake the streets - without cars streets return to the people meaning; children can play outside again, existing outside is better, more space for stuff like public markets.
If a fictional society had a transport system with a daily death toll in the thousands people would call it unrealistic
public transportation is objectively better 99% of the time and the only reason that big cities (in america anyways) are built around cars instead is because of corporate lobbying dating back decades if not centuries.
Also trains go choo choo and i think thats pretty cool
More trains need choo’s choo’s and I’m a big advocate for trams to play gentle music like ice cream trucks to mask the unpleasant sound of the tram and also make it easier for visually impaired people.
Your point about death is very interesting because they is a complex reason as to why we ignore the problem. When cars were first brought to the market in the US, people hated them due to the uncontrollable number of deaths and wanted them banned. To counter this, the US government in affiliation with the United States Motor Company lead a giant campaign were they convinced the entire country that people dying to cars wasn’t because cars are killing machines but instead those people are idiots or as they said at the time, Jays which is were we get the term jaywalker, it literally translates from historic slang as 'idiot walking’ which is a major case of victim claiming. This is only one of the reasons and the YouTuber Climate Town goes into it much deeper than I did, its worth a watch.
twitter is broken today 😭 are there any other ways that people search for anthologies to apply to?
The thread kinda devolved into an (admittedly justified) schadenfreudefest regarding Twitter. But can anyone help with this? Point at possible non-bluebird-based ways to go hunting for anthologies?
Going from being an introverted lurker on reddit to trying to post my own stuff here is so wild. I keep typing out a post, deleting it, then retyping because I think it’s not good enough but then I look at other posts and why am I so worried?
It’s like I’m at a fancy Italian restaurant and keep glancing around the room to see which hand people use to pick up the forks. But then I realize that everyone is shoveling spaghetti into their mouths using their bare hands and I’m like ah okay so I’m clearly overthinking this
This restaurant is absolute chaos and I’m giving it 5 stars
when a british actor does an american accent everyone’s like “i didn’t even know they were british until they were on colbert.” but when americans do a british accent everyone’s like “they’re supposed to be from east cocksford but their glottal e’s are north dicksford. shameful.”
Saw an interesting interview with Hugh Laurie talking about this (on playing House and ‘getting away with’ doing an American accent):
“…. because they’re much less interested…they don’t have that 'Professor Higgins’ ear for…. class and background and geography and the way the British are much more attuned to wait a second where are you from and what trick are you trying to pull on me by… with that particular choice of words. I think partly again because it’s such a big country nobody really…. it doesn’t bother people so much where you’re from or why you sound the way you sound. America’s a country that’s too big to know itself. Someone living in Florida’s go no idea how people behave or what they eat or how they dress in Oregon, it’s just so far away - whereas we know, of course, we know absolutely everything about… every British drama we watch, we’re like, well that’s High Wycombe, that could never happen because it’s a one way system there! whereas America’s so mythically grand, it’s too big to know it'self, and that actually has an affect with things like accent. ”
i love and admire you but not, like romantically as in wanting to get involved but as in like an old man going to the zoo everyday to observe the same incredibly aggressive bonobo that the zoo's too scared to try and put down as they both grow old and die
