”i asked chat gpt” okay well i asked orpheus and he just started singing lalalalalalalaaaaaa

The final, brilliant word on passive voice.

“She was killed [by zombies.]” <— passive

“Zombies killed [by zombies] her.” <— active

This is legit one of the best ways to identify passive voice.

uhh are parachutes normally this shaky

how it all feels lately

"Because I Love You" by Lex Marie.

She spent hours upon hours just beating the canvas with a belt...

when you look at the finished painting, you can almost see letters - but there aren't any. It's all noise. a lot of adults process this sort of beating by insisting there is a lesson in it. with the title and artist statement in mind, it's like they're trying to read a message of love written in that chaotic canvas.

Yes but also:

Unbelievably fucking cool

Between that and new preventative shot, we might be able to eradicate HIV in the near future.

Do not forget this. No matter what happens do not forget we’re this close to finally ending this awful virus

This is such stunningly good news. To be reaching a point where you can actually imagine AIDS getting treated like cancer. That AIDS could be cured in my lifetime on a large scale.

Holy shit.

In the New Scientist today - seventh person!

Oh fuck yes

I want to live in the universe where we get to say

HIV WAS

my concept art for a new type of top surgery

. i drew fanart of our doctor

while i love seeing portrayals of eurydice in wait for me (reprise) where she trusts and believes in orpheus completely and think that is a beautiful interpretation i so desperately need to see a portrayal where eurydice knows

she knows orpheus loves her and therefore knows that he will turn around but she follows him anyway because she loves him too and needs him to know that she would have been there

jack wolfe portrays orpheus as if he knows he is in an eternal loop and i need to see a eurydice who knows the same because the point isn't that they get out of the underworld the point is that he tried

"eurydice who knows and loves him anyway. who loves him because of it" - @lilliesinthevalley

i don’t remember how big canadian geese are but this felt about right

Pikmin

Autism diagnosis questionnaires are kind of like if the only way to diagnose blindness was by having someone list all the things they don't see. Like imagine being brought into a room where you can't see shit and being told "okay list all the things in this room that you can't see or perceive in any way. No you can't feel around that'd be cheating."

"Uhhh furniture?"

"No there's no furniture in this room. If you were truly blind you would have known that."

How dare you leave this in the tags.

I'm wondering if, as a society who cares about vulnerable people, we could stop saying "traumatize" when we truly mean "upset"?

I am sick of hearing sad books or movies "traumatize" their readers. I simply do not believe that happens. A traumatic experience might be adjacent to books (I have vivid memories of books I was reading around certain experiences and even how the contents of those books affected my processing of the experiences). But it's not caused by the book. And, y'know. The weather is Christofascist Censorship Attempts outside.

Meanwhile from the other side I continue to be surprised at just how badly people fail to understand trauma and traumatic experiences in general. Watering down the term isn't helping. Find other hyperbole to express that The Bridge to Terebithia gutted you, chewed on your heartstrings, and made you cry your first pair of contact lenses right out of your preteen eyes.

#meanwhile actual trauma is not always experienced as consciously upsetting! #people may act extremely chill while being traumatized! #only to then be judged by a peanut gallery on how they handled things

I added those tags as an afterthought but upon reflection I want them in the main body of the post too.

This post is taking off and I'm wondering if it may have been because of my tone, which was harsher than I truly like to be. Still,

I feel like we need a word for trauma that's less big. We need a way to talk about things that are distressing but don't cause actual psychological harm. Like, "Hey, that was intense, I need a minute."

We have one.

It's called "disturbing."

I fucking hate it when people do this for a word that they are misusing into unintelligibility.

“Ok so if gaslighting is reserved for talking about systematic abuse designed to make you stop believing your own senses, then we need a different word for when it’s just someone trying to convince you of something that’s obviously false.” We have that, it’s called lying.

“We need a word for low-level OCD that isn’t about dealing with intrusive thoughts and anxiety, it’s just about being super particular about things.” Fastidious. Perfectionist. Hyper-organized. Neat freak.

“We need a word for super mild intrusive thoughts – like, thoughts that are unpleasant, but that don’t actually intrude into your consciousness in a way which is difficult to stop or get rid of.” Thoughts. Those are just thoughts. You are describing the normal process of experiencing a bad emotion or idea, and you do not need to appropriate a medical term of art to describe that, or create a new term out of whole cloth.

Like come on, people, this is getting ridiculous.

as a trans man, so many of the things cis men consider to be “emasculating” are so fucking funny. you are our gender’s weakest soldier. you would kill yourself if you were a trans man for a day. how are you going to tell me I’m ‘not a real man’ and then start cheating on your wife because she makes more money than you and it makes you feel ‘emasculated’? your masculinity is as fragile as a champagne glass and you’re throwing stones? lmfaoooo

God made me trans because he knew you couldn’t handle it

Who is this CHARACTER??

Freed like 3 weeks of my life to play it