Shira, 36, US. Lesbian, she/her. An idealist, a bad poet, and an honest woman. ADHD writer and filker who wants to be your friend. Solshine on AO3, AnsleyLC on tiktok.
"The tallest homosexual I know" - @99leadballoons
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I’m BACK with another Sherlock Holmes filk! This one goes out to @contact-guy whose latest Watson’s Sketchbook installment inspired me to finish this one that’s been sitting in my drafts. I JUST GOT A LOT OF FEELINS ABOUT THE BOYS.
Lyrics under cut!
poor carlotta really just wanted a safe workplace and you know what? that"s not unreasonable. osha rep giudicelli please
if I got publicly crushed by a giant object at work and my day-old manager tried to blow it off as nothing I would also go fucking nuclear
What would you guys consider the worst movie you"ve ever seen? Not something that"s fun to make fun of, nothing you ironically enjoyed, I mean just an absolutely miserable moviegoing experience that you paid for, hated every second, and wish you had walked out of and asked for a refund.
For me, no joke, Madagascar 3: Europe"s Most Wanted. It did not even feel like a real movie to me. It made me see red! I was SEETHING with anger and annoyance throughout the entire thing, and I cannot for the life of me articulate why. I saw it once in 2012 when I was 15, I remember almost nothing about it now, but it struck a nerve with me like no other movie ever has before or since.
Tell me in the tags, which movie makes you disproportionately angry just thinking about it?
To reiterate:
yesterday i had something of a personal revelation regarding my internalized ableism.
i have pretty bad vision and extreme audio processing disorder. i can see about six inches in front of my face clearly without glasses and i frequently have to ask people to repeat themselves or get really confused because i mishear things or just don’t understand the word that someone said.
yesterday i was talking to jessica who was across the room except i didn’t have my glasses on. and i stopped her and said “hold on baby pause, i can’t understand you because i don’t have my glasses on”.
and it took a bit of buffering time but i realized that a huge part of the reason that i couldn’t understand what she was saying was because i wasn’t able to see her mouth moving while she talked. and suddenly it dawned on me, that reading lips, something i’ve always been inexplicably good at, is actually a skill i developed as compensation for my disability.
and a new level of understanding regarding my various disabilities and internalized ableism unlocked in my brain. all of the times i have been told im bad at listening from my parents. all the times my teachers berated me for not paying attention. all of the times a friend of partner was upset with me because they assumed i wasn’t listening to them. i developed a skill just so that i wouldn’t disappoint them by pretending that i didn’t have a disability.
to my younger self, i’m sorry that i wasn’t kind to you. i’m sorry you didn’t get the support or understanding you needed as a child. i’m learning now and im beginning to forgive myself for it.
in retrospect, after rewatching and coming back to s4/5, it"s very noticeable that the writers were setting up sawyer and juliet. like, maybe from her introduction??
as a kid, (thats how long ive been a fan lmfao) when lafleur premiered i found their pairing to be sudden and a little jarring. but really paying attention to their character arcs (and also just growing up), it"s obvious it couldn"t have been anything but them.
Executive orders do not change the Constitution or laws passed in Congress.
Push back. Use your voice. Stay engaged.
DO NOT SUBMIT IN ADVANCE.
There are more of us than them.
Too many writers are using generative "AI" to make their book covers, so I"ve written a guide on how to make your own cover for free or cheap without turning to a machine.
If you can"t afford to pay an artist, you CAN make your own!
I hope this is a helpful overview that covers the basics and points to some free resources.
I annoyed my cat by writing this and not playing with her; you might find it useful?
This is a fantastic guide not only to the technical aspect of cover design but the aesthetic aspect as well!
This is GREAT STUFF. Highly recommend! Exactly the techniques I have used on covers in the past, and they look great!
Anonymous asked:
So are we ready to admit the world is doomed yet <3
balaclava-trismegistus answered:
No cuz I’m not a little bitch
Love is an observable force, evil is an illness to be cured, light will pour from the sun long after we need it, I have a gun and I swear to GOD I"m not fucking around
I"ve been having so many thoughts about Bunny Manders the Unreliable Narrator and the absolute tragedy that is Raffles" very real and in my opinion reciprocal romantic feelings of genuine love for Bunny that Bunny simply does not see because he"s stupid blinded by his own affliction to the point of rewriting history through the lens of self-loathing bias. Sooo many words of meta under the cut.
Trump is probably going to remove the TikTok ban shortly after his inauguration and secure a chunk of the youth vote.
Lol…literally lmao. Enjoy the propaganda👍
I guess for some people, a racist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic fascist destablising the world and cementing in an oligarchy which will take a dozen decades to undo is fine as long as they can use tiktok.
He was literally calling for a ban for tt just a little while ago-- until he realised that young people would cheer fr him if he kept it on.
Christ, people are so fucking naive and awful.
Remember Trump was the one who called for the ban in the first place!
i think the near-extinction of people making fun, deep and/or unique interactive text-based browser games, projects and stories is catastrophic to the internet. i"m talking pre-itch.io era, nothing against it.
there are a lot of fun ones listed here and here but for the most part, they were made years ago and are now a dying breed. i get why. there"s no money in it. factoring in the cost of web hosting and servers, it probably costs money. it"s just sad that it"s a dying art form.
anyway, here"s some of my favorite browser-based interactive projects and games, if you"re into that kind of thing. 90% of them are on the lists that i linked above.
if you"re ever thinking about making a niche project that only a select number of individuals will be nerdy enough to enjoy, keep in mind i"ve been playing some of these games off and on for 20~ years (Alter Ego, for example). quite literally a lifetime of replayability.
since this post blew up, i"ve been wanting to do an addition with all of the recommendations from the comments and tags. but there"s a lot of them. some people might be crazy enough to sit down and seriously put them all in one post with descriptions. those people are honestly sick in the head.
anyway, here"s all of the recommendations from the reblogs. not all of them are text-based, but it"s a great mixture of styles. also don"t forget the links in the second paragraph of the OP which will take you to FMHY where there are a bunch more games listed.
thank you to everyone who contributed and the creators. please be sure to show them some love where possible.
Reblogging the update too
"porn brain" is a far right conspiracy theory, misogyny in porn is a result of structural societal misogyny and not the cause of it, the way to help sex workers is decriminalization and worker"s rights, banning sexual expression is fascist. i will not be taking questions at the time.
