Call me Sylph. They/Them. AAA Battery. Aro. Ace. Agender.
Aroaceagender flag for AAA batteries like me. Someone else probably already did this but here is what i managed to throw together for myself and the colour hexcodes
Black: 000000
Grey: a9a9a9
White: ffffff
Purple: 800080
Light green: b8f483
Dark green: 3da542
All codes were eyedropped off the official flags so voila.
remembering that time I explained on Twitter that Jews are 0.2% of the world’s population and control like 1.2% of its wealth
while Christians are 30-something percent of the world’s population and control 55% of its wealth
so, like, there IS a minority of the world’s population controlling the majority of its wealth
Christians.
and of course a bunch of utter walnuts were like “SEE??? this proves that Jews ARE disproportionately wealthy!!!”
which, like, sure
sure
we have $1.20 to Christians’ $55
but sure, individually we average out to having a bit more pocket change than the world’s average
a couple of things, though:
-those are AVERAGES—it doesn’t mean that every Jew you meet is wealthy, especially because…
-we are such a small population that the existence of *one Jewish billionaire* would skew the average, learn what an average is ffs, if there are 10 of us and 1 is a billionaire and the rest of us have $0 dollars, on average we each have $100,000,000 but in reality 9 of us still have $0 dollars
-y’all killed off a LOT of our poor people less than a century ago which also tends to skew the average
The minority group (in the sense of being less than half the population; they’re still the largest religion) controlling the majority of the world’s wealth is Christians. Sorry about your favorite conspiracy theory.
y’all killed off a LOT of our poor people less than a century ago which also tends to skew the average
i want to print that out and staple it to ppl’s foreheads. a lot of the jews who fled extreme violence, genocide, and ethnic cleansing were only able to do so because they had the funds. those who couldn’t afford to leave were killed. and those who were barely able to scrape by enough to escape usually were forced into assimilation wherever they immigrated because poverty doesn’t give you much of a choice.
Reblogging again because I got an anon last week whining cause they did this to one of my unfinished series and the bot killed Y/N so now they want ME to give them a happy ending. Like. No. Suffer, bitch.
AI is the death of creativity. Anyone who does this to my stories and is stupid enough to brag about it will be blocked from ever reading my work again, AND I’ll let everyone on tumblr know that you do this. We’ll see how much fic you get to enjoy when every author blocks you forever.
Fic is a gift. I’ve said it before. Don’t shit all over your lovingly handcrafted gifts, m'kay? This should be fucking obvious, but apparently for some of you it’s not.
THIS GOES FOR AI ART AS WELL.
I know this doesn’t really apply to my content because I make one off headcannons, but DO NOT PUT OTHER AUTHORS/ARTISTS WORKS INTO AI! If you do you’ll be blocked from my page. It’s incredibly disrespectful to the people who work so hard to make amazing content. Don’t do it.
One thing I urge adults to unlearn is the stigma surrounding forgetfulness.
Perfect memory retention is rare. A faulty memory can be the result a host of mental illnesses, from ADHD to PTSD. It’s not a sign that someone wasn’t listening. I have a friend that has a four year gap in her memory due to trauma. I have another with poor short term memory retention because that’s one of their autism symptoms.
Your brain can also trick you into misremembering things. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve remembered putting my keys somewhere and unearthed them in a completely different place. I have to remind myself what my birth date is because I said it wrong once and now the wrong date is in my memory forever. I have to come up with mnemonics for birthdays, anniversaries, and events because my brain doesn’t do numbers for some reason.
I see people bicker about forgetting a person’s favorite food or what their mothers favorite color. I think it’s important to forgive people who forget easily.
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Hello Mr. Gaiman, I hope this isn't too silly a question but I figured if anything it might serve as a small break from Good omens related questions, which must be an awful lot so close to the release date: I noticed that you mention The Beatles more than a few times in your replies and I was wondering, do you happen to be a fan of them or do you just mention them in a Generic-famous-band kind of way when you need to make examples? Do you have a favorite album or songs of theirs?
Again I apologise if the question isn't particularly deep, thank you for taking the time to read this and have a nice day :)
I figure that the Beatles have lasted and that people know who they are (or were) in a way that people might not follow if I made a Velvet Underground or Magnetic Fields reference.
Talking about which, the Magnetic Fields are going to be playing all of 69 Love Songs (over two nights) over 6 gigs in 5 US locations in 2024.
I’d taken the L from Sheepshead Bay into Greenwich Village to have an adventure, leaving my mother and father behind with my grandparents to see Neil.
My family was unhappy that I’d put my own wants ahead of Father’s Day expectations. But then they were so often unhappy with everything. Still are.
Blueberry Girl captured an aspirational relationship, not the one my mom experienced raising a crying, irrational being. The expectations of the time were that it and her arguably more rational husband were now focus of her identity. She was only 24 when I showed up.
I’d kissed 24 goodbye almost a decade before 2001, yet I was still a tremendous fuck up at meeting family expectations. I failed at doing the things that I saw made my parents miserable. Blueberry Girl was a beautiful poem, but that it would relate to real mothers and daughters was a bit of a laugh.
But I wished it wouldn’t be. And I’m glad it’s no longer a secret.
Here are some of Charles Vess’s gorgeous illustrations for Blueberry Girl:
Written for Tash Hawley when she was still an idea…
After being entrusted to look after an underwater Shinto shrine, Hiroyuki Arakawa, 79, got to know the marine creatures that lived in the area. He started diving when he was 18.
Among the shrine’s residents is a female Asian sheepshead wrasse named Yoriko whom he became friends with about 30 years ago.
Whenever Arakawa dives to visit the shrine, all he needs to do is knock on metal, and Yoriko will be swimming toward him, Atlas Obscura said.
…At one point, when Yoriko was exhausted from struggling to find food, he fed her five crabs every day for 10 days. He also helped her on another occasion when she was badly injured.
For the priceless bond they’ve made, Arakawa couldn’t be more fulfilled.
“I have an amazing sense of accomplishment in my heart,” he said.
