I'm just tired, I saw a video of This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthrie and these, were the response?? Girl, huh? How????
told my coworker “they’re accusing the chivelord of chive fraud” and it turns out she doesn’t know what any of that means and i look crazy
HE CONFESSED TO THE CHIVE FRAUD
context for the people not following along with chivegate: chopping a cup of chives is a pretty standard test of a chef’s knife skills, so about a month ago a redditor on r/KitchenConfidential started cutting a cup of chives every day until reddit says they’re perfect. he quickly became a wildly popular character, his chives posts regularly hit the front page of reddit. ah what happy larks we’ve had. chive montage break.
but earlier today someone posted that for the past two days he had posted the same cup of chives, just a different photo and flipped. investigation, accusation, excuses, and despair followed in the comments. a few hours later the chivelord himself posted an apology, stating that he had been having car trouble and was unable to get and chop chives and had been too embarrassed skip a day. he offered to submit to the most-upvoted reasonable punishment, which as of right now is, in second place, buying a tripod and posting videos of him chopping his chives, and in first place, simply sitting with the weight of his betrayal
what gets me is that there's no equivalent tma-tme language for any other system of oppression that i can think of. i saw a post a few weeks ago saying this wasn't true because of terms like ablebodied and nonblack, but like. that's very much not the same thing, when i say this i mean the [type of oppression] exempt/affected language specifically. like, i wouldn't say i'm "racism-exempt," i'd just say i'm white, and that already communicates that i'm not a person of color and therefore not targeted by racism. or, like, i wouldn't say i'm "audism-exempt" i'd say i'm hearing - i'm disabled, so i experience ableism, but i'm not deaf/hoh so i don't experience audism. and it'd feel not just weird but actively wrong and dehumanizing to call people racism-affected or audism-affected instead of just saying they're a person of color or they're hard of hearing. and we already have words for "tma" or "tme" too: "transfem" + "trans woman" or "not a trans woman/transfem." which is more specific and a million times less dehumanizing. but considering how often "tme" is used to mean "transmascs" without directly saying that, & to imply trans people who aren't transfem have it easier (because we're not "transmisogyny-affected" & they consider that the most Important axis of oppression), i don't think people are going to be willing to actually hear out criticism of the term anytime soon
drug dependence is real, but sometimes people use this to further this idea that it means those drugs are a categorical harm in all contexts. sometimes you are already experiencing the thing that they warn would happen if you take drugs and then stop later. sometimes the worst case scenario is already your life before the drugs, and people will still try to present it like a scary consequence to avoid through abstaining from the medication that would alleviate it.
like I've had chronic insomnia for most of my life. I cannot sleep at night without drugging myself. is this great? no, it sucks. but this was the case before I got access to the drugs, too! and yes I tried everything anyone recommended about sleep, trust me.
people warned me like, "if you take those, you won't be able to sleep without them." ...I literally already could not sleep. I couldn't sleep without them before I had them. I can't sleep without them now. nothing has changed except now I have access to drugs that allow me to sleep.
at a certain point you just need to make peace with the idea that some people need drugs to survive. sorry if it makes you uncomfortable, but that's just how it goes.
#I initially thought this was about currently illegal drugs or nonprescription drugs and I was still like yup #then I realize this is about MEDICATION #either way
100%. I phrased it the way I did (using the word "drugs" instead of "prescription medication") because this applies no matter what the current state of criminalization is of a given substance.
people use drugs to survive. we will continue to do that no matter how stigmatized or criminalized it is, because the other option is not surviving.
I firmly believe that disability justice requires decriminalization of all drugs and complete bodily autonomy over what substances we decide to take or forgo.
I made that joke about dudes dying like pet hamsters but I swear every 5 years there is a major update on a missing person’s case where the man is found mummified in his own crawlspace or behind an industrial refrigerator or in a ceiling or in a hollow decorative pillar or in a boarded up chimney. No foul play evident, just some guy who decided to enter an extremely small and dangerous confined space without telling someone and died in there and wasn’t found for a decade. And it is so sad but also baffling. Just a reminder to keep your hubris in check and tell people if you’re going potentially dangerous work in cramped spaces and chimneys are not the best point of ingress if you’re breaking into a building. I’ve come across some of these cases that are so sad because as an autistic person, I really do love small, dark spaces and used to hang out in the crawlspace as a child so I was one degree of separation from falling victim to one of these accidents.
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Watching Buffy for the first time and this shit slaps so hard. Bad guy vampires just resurrected a big, ugly blue demon called 'The Judge' who reportedly 'can't be killed by any weapon forged' and stupid me was like "Oh, I bet she'll light him on fire or kill him with her hands or something of that nature." No. Rocket launcher. Launched a rocket at him and he fucking died. Awesome.
Me, the first time though this episode: You can cast a sword! Or an axe! Or a cannon! I hope it's a cannon.
Long-suffering friend: I mean, you are kind of on the right track.
Mario creepypasta fundamentally doesn't work because you know what Mario would actually do if we saw some dimension-warping hundred-handed cosmic horror? He wouldn't lose his mind; he'd take one look at that Shin Megami Tensei looking fucker, pull out his dorky little mushroom-shaped cell phone, hit the fourth number down on his contact list, and go "hey, Kirby, I think-a one-a your boys got lost".
"Or he'd just fight it himself" no, he would not, for two reasons:
- This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of Mario's central plot structure. Mario always gets his ass beat in his initial encounter with an outside context problem, then spends the bulk of the game going around gathering allies and kicking the legs out from under the outside context problem's support structure.
- This sort of thing clearly falls into another protagonist's idiom, and Mario is a union man – he's not going to scab on Kirby. Perish the thought!
"I wouldn't take-a the food from another video game mascot's plate!"
"I don't think Kirby gets paid for this."
"That's-a not what I said."
*off-screen vacuum sounds*
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