I Mean.

I made a comic of one of my favorite Network Effect scenes!

This was so fun!! I love Murderbot!

Parent of non-binary kid here. I concur. You’ll pry her dresses from her cold dead hands.

Also… Murderbot can look like a tall, muscular, broad-shouldered man AND STILL be non-binary. Not male-aligned, even!

people really need to stop conceptualizing nonbinary as a third defined gender. there are countless ways to be nonbinary and nonbinary genders are personal and unique to each individual. stop assuming things about nonbinary people. stop telling nonbinary people they’re not nonbinary because they don’t present or act or call themselves in the specific way which you have conceptualize nonbinary.

99% of queer discourse stops right before they define the true difference between bisexual and pansexual!

There is still value in understanding the darkness and the dirt.

Yes. Preach! If I can’t love my deeply fucked up fictional and RL historical characters, what is even the point of reading?

some ppl thought that adding black ppl to iwtv meant they were gonna "wokeify" anne rice and the bigots got mad at that mere promise while the leftists with poor media comprehension got mad at the failure to fulfill it but. anne rice works cannot be wokeified. she wrote about horrible lil gremlins with these nasty lil disrespectful unorthodox kinks lol. you will find sweeping romances in there and 0 of them healthy. the optics are bad, bad, bad! she would never get a publishing deal today because one of her characters would psychologically abuse the other one, and there wouldn't even be an after school special moment in the book where someone mentions the word "gaslight"!

the amc iwtv creators did not set out to distance themselves from the atrocities anne rice wrote, they set out to lean into them! to get closer, uglier, deeper in the dirt! how could you not recognize this from the very first episode when instead of making louis a white plantation owner they made him come from a black family who enslaved black ppl for capital gain and didn't feel real bad about it! perverse situation from the get go. you've recognized the ways in which the characters are evil and can be morally improved? congrats on step 1! step 2 is knowing these stories are not really interested in doing that. now you can finally begin to use your critical thinking as intended to ask: if these stories are not morality plays, what are they for? what do they say? well. great questions, now we're talking!

have your intersectional readings but kill the dichotomy, seek the nuance, bask in a narrative layered and baked in the complex stench of humanity! there is still value in understanding the darkness and the dirt. and sometimes when everyone's a murderer in your sandbox we can bury the word "problematic" and just have some fun ✌️🏽

OP: noahwaybabe

Dealing With Executive Dysfunction - A Masterpost

The “getting it done in an unconventional way” method.

The “it’s not cheating to do it the easy way” method.

The “fuck what you’re supposed to do” method.

The “get stuff done while you wait” method.

The “you don’t have to do everything at once” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be permanent to be helpful” method.

The “break the task into smaller steps” method.

The “treat yourself like a pet” method.

The “it doesn’t have to be all or nothing” method.

The “put on a persona” method.

The “act like you’re filming a tutorial” method.

The “you don’t have to do it perfectly” method.

The “wait for a trigger” method.

The “do it for your future self” method.

The “might as well” method.

The “when self discipline doesn’t cut it” method.

The “taking care of yourself to take care of your pet” method.

The “make it easy” method.

The “junebugging” method.

The “just show up” method.

The “accept when you need help” method.

The “make it into a game” method.

The “everything worth doing is worth doing poorly” method.

The “trick yourself” method.

The “break it into even smaller steps” method.

The “let go of should” method.

The “your body is an animal you have to take care of” method.

The “fork theory” method.

The “effectivity over aesthetics” method.

I've been trying to find good references for drawing/painting double chins and GOD BLESS DUANE BRYERS!!!!!

That man did God's work!!!

my one wish for the murderbot series is I want b-roll of ratthi totally reevaluating his relationship to all machines ever

like I want murderbot in its pod panicking about getting treated like a person and then we cut to ratthi gently asking like, a space roomba if it's comfortable and if it has enough food because you don't know, gurathin!

For my kids, who refuse haircuts and want masc/nonbinary looks.

Some long hair ideas for TransMascs!!

Inclusive of all hair-types.

(If your hair is pin-straight, I'd recommend using some kind of sea-salt spray and scrunching it up in the mornings to give it more volume, so it gets wavy. That's how I do it, at least. If you don't wanna make it wavy you could always just go the Penguinz0 route, but this is more about specific styles rather than laying it flat on your head. Remember, Pinterest is your best friend!)

These will be separated sections by hair-type, but protective styles will be in a separate category from 3 or 4-type, simply because I know some people have sensory issues and prefer to keep their hair loose so I wanna have more options for everyone here :)

1A - 1C

2A - 2C

3A - 3C

4A - 4C

Protective

Springtime Hilda! Floral Hilda! Hilda of bright and colorful Nature!

(Part 1 of 3 because Tumblr only allows 10 pics per post - the rest will be in reblogs so stay tuned!)