I have a prediction, I wonder if that will line up with what other people think.
DO MILO TOO I HAVE A PREDICTION FOR THAT AS WELL!
- Leon
(Source: tstarked, via drpepperslonelyheartsclubband)
and she and i have developed this great communication when, towards the end of the night I’m at the ‘can’t really focus, too hyper to focus, to spread out and no attention span’ point where the caffeine isn’t counteracting the adhd. and i’ll wander out of back drive and then forget why and she’ll just go ‘you were doing this’
and i can look at her and make motions with my hand and say something like (and I have said these exact words before) ‘[name]where’s the thingy for the thing on the thing’ and she’ll know EXACTLY what I mean and respond immediately without even having to think about it. (when I’m not focused the first thing to go is my vocabulary and i’ll say things like ‘not blue, the not any color at all’ to mean ‘clear’)
and sometimes i forget that other people aren’t adept at this form of communication. like the other day i made grabby hand motions at one of the other folks working with us and said ‘where did the thingys go’ and she’s just staring at me (I wanted clear gloves to put pies in the oven) so i go ‘the thingys so i can go get the things. they’re usually there by the thingamob, or sometimes on the food things by the thingy thing but i can’t find them’
and my manager just comes walking by (I don’t think she even heard anything, she just saw me making grabby hands) and goes ‘here’ and hands the glove packet to me (they were hidden) and the other person is just staring at both of us and my manager goes ‘i speak [name]’ and i smile and go off to put pies in the oven.
- Leon
I’m sorry i am really not trying to be a book snob here i wear but after reading the book that the movie Hugo was based on I am really unhappy with the film adaptation it’s so weird and forced and just ugh they could have done so much better if they had just had a narrator and not made every character into charactures of themselves.
OH MY GOD YOU READ THE INVENTION OF HUGO CABRET? OH MY GOD I LOVE THAT BOOK. IT’S LIKE A GIANT PICTURE BOOK OH GOD!
I did not see the movie, I haven’t planned on it but now i doubly not plan on it.
However now I want to get that book again and read it because omg it’s awesome.
- Leon
Before you roll your eyes and say “God, someone’s gonna rant and shout out their opinion on Tumblr” and scroll down, please take your time to read this and hear me out. I am a 19-year-old cisgendered female. Now before you start shooting hatemail at me, I am not hating on non-cisgendered people. I think you guys are fantastic for sticking up for yourselves and who you really are inside, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot of cis hate. A LOT. It’s gotten to the point where about every time I go on Tumblr, I end up crying because you guy seem to be painting a picture that cisgendered people are evil. I feel like a horrible person because I was born with a body that matches my gender.
I’m not saying that transgendered, bigendered, intragendered, etc peopel are wrong for sticking up for themselves, but I’m just throwing out the casual reminder that not all cisgendered folk are bad.
Thank you for reading this. You can continue scrolling now <:)
1) I’m trans*. My body matches my gender too. I’m non binary and gender fucked. I have a nonbinary gender fucked body. Because it’s mine. Cis people do not have a monopoly on their body and gender matching. Trans* people do not always describe their experience as having a mismatched body (plenty do, this is valid, it’s just not a universal trans* narrative like you’re implying with that statement). Someone is cis because they identify as the gender label given to them when they were born.
2) transgendered, bigendered, etc. is really not cool. There is no -ed ending for these words. They are descriptors, they are not verbs.
3) Yes yes, we all know not all cis people are like that, what you’re point, to give us information we already know, or are you just trying to tone police us?
4) Cis folks, as a whole, as an oppressive group, do a fuck ton of horrible shit, they’ve taken away trans* peeps rights, safety, comfort, lives. They perpetuate the shit that allows them to keep doing it, they have a million tiny and big ways to hurt us and they use ‘em all. Cis folks, as an oppressive group, do tons of fucked up shit. This is just fact. You wanna call that evil, than fine, but I don’t get the problem with pointing out that an oppressive group does horrible damn shit that hurts and even kills people. The only way I can see circumventing this is….. well shutting up about our oppression, which you know, is just playing into he status quo and silencing is one of those horrible things I mentioned earlier.
5) Little tip to you and anyone else who feels compelled to say ‘we’re not all like that’. Okay, prove it. Prove it and better yet fix other privileged peoples shit so that they aren’t like that. Because right now, you are ‘like that’.
- Leon
There are a lot of moments, where I’m pretty sure it’s really just about Joan Watson.
The entire end half of the finale is an example of that.
Seriously though, I mean there’s a lot of stretches where the show is clearly and obviously about Sherlock and Joan, while very important, fills that very important secondary character role. But this show meshs the ‘who’s it about thing’ a lot more than a lot of other shows I watch (that aren’t core cast shows that just flop that around a lot…. like Criminal Minds for example) and there are major stretches where the show is also clearly about them, the two of them, together. But there’s also a lot of stretches where it’s clearly about Joan and Sherlock is totally falling into that secondary character (albeit incredibly important secondary character) position. They flip flop a lot. And it’s smooth, it doesn’t read awkwardly at all.
I know I’m not explaining this well, like I got the idea in my head I just can’t articulate. “Cause it’s not just about who’s get character development, who’s past we’re seeing, who’s on screen, it’s more.
Anyway it’s really fucking cool and I like it a lot and I love Joan Watson and I kinda want more of that because JOAN FUCKING WATSON IS JUST ABOUT THE COOLEST FUCKING PERSON EVER!
- Leon
And honestly for me it’s less of a foreshadowing thing in the typical sense and more of a ‘most narratives work like this’ kinda of thing. Especially for something like a TV show, where I get used to the specific way the writers adapt and fit into the various narrative formulas. Movie genres I spend a lot of time in work like this too, or movie genres (and book genres) that are really predictable and main stream.
And not just like big plot twists but like…. general ideas and feelings and little character development things and shit, narrative shit you know (there’s this ep of Criminal Minds, one of the newer ones, where I got exactly what they were gonna reveal about the main bad guy character, like 5 minutes into the ep. they really led up to it heavily, really heavily, but Brian’s sitting with me and like ‘HOW DO YOU KNOW THESE THINGS! and Brian’s pretty good at this shit too….. my dad was better than both of us. He figured out the end to the village from reading the synopsis on this little thing outside the theater as we were going in to watch it…… he made a bet with me and everything….. but I mean that was kinda easy, but I was young and I didn’t see it coming and I got so angry at my dad ahahahaha)
anyway, after this big old long explanation, the Elementary twist (and I’m halfway through, I think I just finished the first ep of the two part)…. that very nearly got the jump on me, I figured it out just when Sherlock made his conclusion, I got the one step further.
But wow that was a moment. Wow that was a moment. OH MY FUCKING GOD!
LET ME JUST FUCKING LOVE YOU TO HELL AND BACK ELEMENTARY OKAY.
- Leon
Pumpcast News, Part 1 - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (by tonightshownbc)
Brian saw this on his facebook.
GAH THIS IS SO AWESOME!
- Leon
And I have finally finished the I want my Hat Back/Have you Seen my Hat PRONOUN QUEST EDITION!
Gah that took me way longer than I wanted it too….. and I got lazy at the end…… ah well whatever.
General Notes and Disclaimer: The original story this is a parody of is not my own (I Want my Hat Back - Jon Klassen)
This is not meant to be indicative of all trans* peeps or even all non binary peeps or even all non-binary peeps who use singular they. It’s only sorta indicative of me. Mostly it was just fun and inspired by Kay and a funny thing to do.
Moral of the story: if cis folks (or anyone else for that matter) doesn’t respect your pronouns. Bury them in the mud.
- Leon
(less so given the games I’ve been playing and much less so on the PC)
beyond the general control issues I have with console controllers.
I looks like you are holding a camera up to your face and looking through it
basically there’s no peripheral vision
that’s what bugs me.
why did it take me so long to figure out a pretty simple answer
- Leon
Adorable pronoun buttons for conference attendees (at University of Colorado Boulder)
Blanks would’ve been good too. Also, I know three people who use “it” and zero people who use “xe” (to my knowledge). Being called by the wrong pronoun is never okay, and “it” is a pronoun some people choose.
My preferred pronoun, which I never bother to ask anyone to use, is “per” — like person. I’m a person.
(Blank pronoun buttons would be amazing.)
Yeah blanks would be fantastic. I mean they have a decent mix (and I really like the different variations on not having a specific pronouns preference, or no pronouns preference, that’s actually really awesome) and I like the color variations but yeah blanks would be the major thing I would add to this, because then everyone would be able to get a pronoun button that fits.
- Leon
25% rolling around on the mats
70% percent discussing physics and body mechanics excitedly
5% fist bumps and missed high fives
- Leon
doesn’t matter, and as much as you had a right to express your feelings about my post, I had a right to mine too. I just think whether or not you have any actual obligation to be polite or whether the other person has any right to politeness, you should be polite anyway, because it’s, well, polite. But maybe that’s because I’m a very non-confrontational person. I don’t know. But I’m still sorry that I was ignorant, and I’m working on not being so anymore, and you have a right to do your thing
Politeness is great when you have the energy and the will, and when it isn’t a struggle to swallow down toxic shit that people are force feeding into your mouth, and when other people are also being polite to you (and just to be abundantly clear, bigotry is not polite. your original post was not polite) but no one is owed politeness as a response to shit that is actively harming them.
And, for reference, this ‘you should be polite anyway’ thing is often used as a silencing tactic against oppressed people to shut them up and handle their oppression on the oppressors terms. And it’s an arguable thing anyway, weather you should or shouldn’t be polite in the face of oppression. I am full force in favor of you shouldn’t be polite in the face of oppression (which doesn’t mean you should be rude, or should be anything else, just handle your oppression the way you damn well please, it’s all gonna be labeled ‘wrong’ by someone anyway, because at the end of the day it’s not the arguments that bother people, it’s the fact oppressed folks have the gall to exist).
And I didn’t say intent doesn’t matter. I said intent isn’t magic and isn’t as important as the actually bigotry happening. I actually said ‘intent can matter a whole lot’.
- Leon
scooterpiebanana said: He’s my great great uncle so I watched the movie and now whenever a movie/story has a character who’s like “I don’t want to kill anyone killing is wrong” and then proceed to be a war hero it’s who I’m reminded of…
Aww that’s neat. And sweet. I know that (from wiki) the Captain America comics and the Sgt. York movie came out around the same time, the comics a couple months before, which even if it’s a coincidental ‘good character for the time period’ thing is still pretty cool.
- Leon
void-symphony said: admittidly the context doesn’t mean anything to me (not my fandom, so). (but thanks.) your post was still all the truth.
Awww the context is lost.
Funny enough Captain America and the general Avengers movie verse sorta fandom is something tumblr sucked me into. Tumblr sucked me into knowing the context of that gifset. DAMN YOU TUMBLR. ahahahaha.
But yeah.
- Leon