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I’m curious - people always seem surprised that multiple siblings are queer, as if it’s amazing the gay lightning struck twice so close together.

But human variation is down to our genes and external factors. Siblings are logically more likely to both/all be queer than not.

So a wee poll if you don’t mind!

Anyone can take part, there should be an option for anyone but please let me know in notes if I missed anyone.

For reference: queer is anyone who wouldn’t describe themselves as heterosexual or cis-gendered or allo-sexual. Anyone we would include in the queer group. And if you’re not including people by their own identification, we can have words after…

Notes:

If you only have one sibling use the relevant all option.

If you have an issue with the word queer I truly don’t want to hear about it - that’s your choice, this is mine.

Reblog if you fancy! If you don’t then no worries, but if you can it would be nice to get a lot of replies!

And hey everyone, happy Pride!

I gotta say, so much queer intra-community horseshit dropped off my shoulders when I decided to adopt a firm policy that everyone is the expert in their own identity, the single most knowledgeable person about what it's like to live life in their own skin, and that if someone describes their experience in ways I find contradictory or paradoxical I should do them the courtesy of presuming that they are striving to express something very specific and nuanced, rather than leaping to the conclusion that they're just dumb and using words wrong.

Sure, there are some combinations of identity terms that I look at and go "hmm, I don't get how that works." I'm still a human being. But there's a big difference between not getting how something works versus insisting that it doesn't.

Please vote for Lucina (AKA “Marth”). She’s my blorbo and she’s the reason I first started getting into Fire Emblem. To me she’s badass and cute and relatable and funny all at once and how did they fit this much awesome in a single character. I’m autistic and although her behavior doesn’t scream autism quite as loudly as that of some of the other characters in Awakening *cough cough Miriel* she seems very autistic to me with the overly formal way she speaks, her tendency to take things literally, her general lack of social awareness including a comically terrible fashion sense, and the way she often doesn’t get jokes. She feels personally responsible for saving the world and holds herself to such an impossibly high standard and doesn’t know how to rest or have fun because she grew up in a freaking apocalypse… I just love her so much.

Vote Lucina my blorbo ❤️❤️❤️

Round 1

Please, please support them. I can’t imagine being in this situation. Whatever you can spare would help.

Please help me be able to go to the mental hospital.

Hi I don't know where to start so uh if you don't know me, I'm Hollow. I have been medicated and doing therapy for a bit now. I had breakthroughs and ups and downs. But somewhere in me I'm not safe and I need to go get professional help instead of hoping I can fight it long enough it goes away.

But its not as easy as checking in. I have been denied disability and in the meantime we're without reliable income. Biggest issue is, its not just me. My sister, our pets, and our home rely on whatever pennies we can scrape up. If I leave without covering the bills, we'll lose our home and she'll have nowhere to go. So my options are hope I survive and pay the bills, or come up with the money asap so the bills are covered and I can admit myself to the hospital.

I'm gonna be honest, I am both ashamed and disappointed that I even have to make this post. But I have no other options.

TLDR; I need to pay the bills before hand so I don't lose everything if I get life saving care.

random image from my computer to catch attention (sorry i know some folks just don't look at plain text posts and i'm kinda in crisis)

a signed version of the fixed chart, for reposting

Do Bug Zappers Work? Yeah—About As Well As Any Other Indiscriminate Wildlife Slaughter.

Bug zappers kill bugs by the thousands. But there’s a problem: They kill the wrong bugs. They are ineffective against mosquitoes and other biting flies, and their otherwise indiscriminate killing can disrupt pollination and generally throw the environment out of balance. Plus, the force of their electrocution can spew a mist of disease-ridden bug parts out into the air. All of the mosquito experts we spoke with and every relevant university extension office we could find unanimously condemned bug zappers. To keep an area free of bugs or to prevent yourself from getting bitten, there are much better alternatives.

Read more:

Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World

Do Bug Zappers Work? Yeah—About As Well As Any Other Indiscriminate Wildlife Slaughter.

Bug zappers kill the wrong bugs—to control bugs without a spray repellent, use a spatial repellent or a fan instead.

I hate walking outside and hearing something crunch underfoot. I never know if it’s a stick or if I now have to mourn some hapless invertebrate I accidentally crushed.

Aww! What cute pigeons!

OMG. OP you have done something special for me: you reminded me of the name of the show I saw an episode of once at a friend’s house as a kid and really liked, but was thereafter never able to find again. Growing Up Creepie managed to speak so deeply to my bug-obsessed child self that fifteen-ish years later I still have some memory of the half episode I watched and I’m super excited right now. Like, I found it! I found that show I was half convinced I must have made up! I couldn’t pin down the specific episode I saw but aaaaa this is That Show skghjjhhg

I’m really curious as to what very short lived, premium channel series y’all remember if any.

Me, wandering around on campus late at night: Spood…. Spood… Spooder… I’m not drunk or high, I’m just thinking about arthropods….

[Imagr description from alt text: Tags reading “#vote for miriel and her autistic scientist swag”, “#Fire Emblem”, and “#Rick poll” by user takaska. End ID.]

As an autistic scientist in training (currently in college majoring in biology) I agree with these tags

Wow. Just wow. I’d heard about bees playing, but I didn’t know some of the other cool things mentioned in this video, like the fact that bees can learn by watching others. 💛🐝

This is why I don’t squash insects that happen to wander into the house. This is why I am against that sort of careless killing. Because we so drastically underestimate what insects are capable of. They are living beings, quite possibly each with their own desires and fears and inner lives. Many people forget that insects are animals. Many people forget that so are we.

honestly, the things that insects are capable of will never cease to amaze me

Normally I don’t approve of “reblog if you’re not an asshole” type posts because they pressure people and make them feel like if they don’t reblog, people will think they’re bigoted. But this… this is pretty great. I would like to show OP’s dad that homophobia is not cool and not the majority opinion :)

EDIT: I didn’t realize when I shared this that it’s from 2012… lol…. OP I hope you’re doing well and your dad has changed his mind.

Reblog if you're not homophobic

Every url that reblog’s will be written in a book and shown to my homophobic dad. 

Frisk and Chara my autistic body-sharing blorbos let’s goooo

Doubles Round 1

Please vote for Miriel, I like Sully and all but Miriel is personally relatable to me as an autistic, awkward nerd lol

Like, everything is science to her, from the study of magic to the study of her friends’ social behavior, and she has to approach socializing in a detached and logical way because her social skills are pretty much nil 😆

Also she hyperfocuses extremely hard when she’s reading (just like meeee), shown in her support with Henry when she entirely fails to notice a snake dropping onto her from a tree and in her support with Lon’qu when he has to stop her from accidentally walking off a cliff because she’s just that into her book.

And yeah Sully is a feminist icon but in my opinion Miriel is also feminist and cool. We support women in STEM here lol

Edit: I made a typo and so I had to go back and fix it because I thought “Miriel would not stand for this.” 😆😆😆

Happy birthday Lucina, you deserve a break and some happiness 💙🦋

Happy birthday Lucina, again! (And everyone else… again)

Generations on Tumblr

Blue Footed Booby from Real Life for the win lol

Semi-Finals, Group 1

So with all the Oakie shenanigans, I have lost (much of) my anxiety around posting my art, including fanart and OCs. The floodgates have been opened XD

Today y’all get to see my silly little robot OC Lian, courtesy of me several months ago arbitrarily deciding that April 10 was her birthday (day she came online/was finished).

She’s young and kinda naive and has autism vibes and wants to learn and do All The Things. Her lesbian moms/creators are a robotics expert with autism and anxiety and an ex-military android with zero fear but Much Trauma, neither of whom have very good social skills, lol. So their kid doesn’t have good social skills either, but unlike her kinda isolated parents she’s very extroverted. Her mode of social interaction is based on my own, aka walking up to random people and being enthusiastically weird at them hoping someone will want to be your friend. (This is surprisingly effective in real life, for anyone wondering). To me she’s kind of like a fanchild for a story and characters that only exist in my own head, in that she’s not even part of the main story, but I wondered “what if these characters had a kid” and then the thought would not leave my brain.

The last character you drew/wrote about is now stuck in the last game you played. How screwed are they?

Vote for Norman, he’s from a disturbing song about religious abuse. Don’t know the source media? Spend less than 5 minutes listening to this song.  (Trigger warnings for religious abuse/religious trauma, disturbing imagery, and bugs including spiders.) Now you do. Also, the name “Norman Minecraft” was decided by the fans. 

major bracket round 1 group d

Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate! 🐰🪺💐

So. The acorn we were all rooting for lost the poll. Wolfie the Seawolf has been announced the victor. But! It was the closest race in the 10-year history of Mascot Madness.

Thank you all for joining me and supporting the silly acorn with me!

Especially, I ought to thank those I haven’t made an art post for! Thank you @gelatinous-jellyfish

Enjoy some insect doodles!

Thank you @neon-draws-sometimes

I drew this on one of those scratch-off things. They’re such fun!

Thank you @ephemeral-system

This is similar to the last one, but I edited the photo of it and I couldn’t decide whether I wanted to post the original or the edited version. So I made a collage with both!

Again, thank you all!

😊

One hour left- last chance to support Oakie! I will post art pieces if you do :)

suny.edu

Mascot Madness - SUNY

SUNY Mascot Madness is the battle to decide New York's favorite college mascot.

Seriously, my family and friends are all going crazy about supporting this acorn. Please vote for them.

Thank you nervoussaladbard! Enjoy this Art Thing. No, I don’t know what this creature is either.

Vote for Oakie: SUNY Mascot Madness

Remember when I asked if people would vote in a tournament poll hosted somewhere other than this hellsite? Well, the final round begins now! Please vote for Oakie the Acorn for me, they’re a quirky little acorn and it would make me very happy! Plus, just like last time, 1 new vote for Oakie = 1 post featuring an art piece by me*! Please like or comment when you vote so I know :)

suny.edu

Mascot Madness - SUNY

SUNY Mascot Madness is the battle to decide New York's favorite college mascot.

*which might just be a doodle, but I will try to share things people enjoy!

Reminder about this because I am passionate and will not shut up about it lol

This is a little drawing I did in order to stick it to my laptop because I don’t have enough stickers as many stickers as I want :)

After I stuck it to my laptop, it tore, so I decided to fix it and make it look intentional. It’s a Shade from Hollow Knight- I love these funky little blobs of void

Thank you @printerpenguin for voting for Oakie :)

hello I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. The anonymity of tumblr means that I associate my idea/image of you with your icon and sometimes I look at people’s icons and I’m like ‘hmmm….what is that and why?’ 

so pls reblog this and comment in the tags the meaning behind your icon and why you chose it. this is a social experiment. do it for science pls.