Madam's Wyrd Blog

adult men ripped my little pony out of the hands of girls, so trans women getting big into warhammer 40K is reparations

I wish they could invent a medical device that temporarily transfers your symptoms and pain to the doctor treating you and it worked like a shock collar. “I think light exercise would-.” and then bam they’re rolling around the floor clutching their stomach in agony and dry heaving.

“Have you tried losing weight?” And then ZAP their spine feels like it’s collapsing

“I think it’s your hormones” and BOOM they’re having aggressive heart palpitations that scare you into thinking you might be having an actual heart attack

“It’s all in your head” and suddenly when they stand up they breathe like they’ve ran a marathon

Gaining weight for political reasons

Anyways getting fat + being trans have made living in this body worth it. I love being a big soft tgirl

Why is this heat so hot 😩

It’s the heat

Source?

This is a heritage post. To me.

can imagine a primarch asking you to move to their home planet with them and youre like "?don't u live on a death world?" and they go "haha :) nooo ;) whatre u talking abtt" (actively deploying their entire legion to make the planet habitatal)

See this is cute and all but my primarch, Mortarion, would just get me a gas mask and tell me to tough it out. Which while extremely sexy of him is less than ideal when the air is just every Novichok agent mixed together

Ok so imagine some ancient human group, and at night they sit around the camp fire and tell each other stories. One individual in particular is known for telling wonderful, creative stories, and everyone wants to hear them tell more stories. And so they do. And People hear those stories, and they discuss them with the story teller, and they learn about each other and grow close as a community.

But something happens and less people listen to the stories. Less people talk to the story teller when they do listen, preferring just to sit and listen. Discussion dries up, there is no more sense of community, the joy is significantly lessened. the storyteller decides they are not going to tell stories any more because its hard to tell stories and without the community it's just not as fulfilling anymore.

So now there are significantly less stories told around the fire.

Imagine the story teller tells someone this, someone who used to enjoy their stories and says they wish they would tell more. And their reaction is "ugh, you are so selfish! People don't owe you anything! Storytellers should tell stories for their own satisfaction, not the attention of other people, only fake storytellers care if others listen."

That person would be a massive dick head, wouldn't they? Pretending that community was never a critical part of why story telling was fulfilling is a transparently selfish attempt to get what they want without having to contribute. They want the benefit of community story telling without any obligation to participate in the community.

Anyway you don't have to comment on fanfic but if you are one of the people who get pissy when fan writers ask for comments they should be legally and morally in the clear to drop kick you in the balls with steel toed boots.

A good rule of thumb for AI is "would you trust a trained pigeon to do this?"

"We trained a pigeon to recognise cancerous cell clusters and somehow they're really good at it" okay great, that's something that could plausibly be a thing.

"We trained a pigeon to recognise good CV:s and left it in charge of sorting through all our job applications" uh perhaps consider not doing that.

Yall I hate to break it to you but sometimes disability isn’t the most eco-friendly sustainable practices 100% ethically sourced thing.

I have no idea where the metal in my leg is from. Or where all of the surgical instruments or medications i’ve taken are from.

I can guarantee the knee brace I rely on, my cane, my (future) wheelchair, etc aren’t made in the best ways either.

I use single-use things. KT tape for my joints, individually packaged things, etc. I would love to use something more sustainable but that’s not an option for me.

In an ideal world some of this stuff could be better (like sourcing materials in a more ethical way), but some stuff wouldn’t change (needing single use products). Stop holding disabled folks to impossibly high standards, especially ones that majority of ableds can’t even live up to.

Spin this wheel first and then this wheel second to generate the title of a YA fantasy novel!

(If the second wheel lands on an option ending with a plus sign, spin it again)

Share what you got!

yurimaxxing 😭

new least favourite animal discovered. WHAT THR FUCK.

it appears i am causing a scene in the hartebeest community. im sorry but your guy looks like he was in a cartoon and he got 2 cymbals crashed against the side of his head its sad but its true.

Most guy of all time. What the crap

[forgetting I am mentally ill] why do I feel so Bad

[Forgetting I have physical health issues] why do I feel so Bad

i didn't say it was good, i said it has bewitched me body and soul

“fanfiction is an act of resistance”, says harry potter fan who doesnt participate in any other acts of resistance

why are you all so dedicated to a shitty white supremacist novel by an author who poured 78,000£ into anti trans legislation that PASSED in the uk. i dont care if you put the cop in a dress i dont care if the nazi grows out her hair all emotionally I WANT THE STUPID FUCKING SERIES TO DIE!!! WHY DO YOU WANT IT ALIVE SO BAD??? IS IT WORTH THE SAFETY AND COMFORT AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS AND SIBLINGS IN THE UK??? LET IT FUCKING DIE

people on this website be like “it’s actually school’s fault that i don’t know how to read because i wanted to write my essay on the divergent trilogy and that BITCH mrs. clarkson made us study 1984 instead. anyway here’s a 10 tweet thread of easily disproven misinformation about a 3 year old news story and btw, who is toni morrison?”

i KNOW most of y’all are lying about being in the gifted program as children because none of you could pass the basic reading comprehension assessment they give third graders today

this post is mean and I never read divergent or whatever the fuck but 1984 sucks and is rape apologism so if somebody wanted to write about divergent or whatever good for them

this reply is like literally exactly what op is talking about lol. like firstly ops point isn’t “1984 is good”, ops point is that analysing complex stories teaches you how to form opinions and think for yourself. and like secondly in 1984 you’re supposed to think damn it’s fucked up that he’s thinking that way about her, i wonder if this ties in with the central theme of “a society like this will fuck you in the head”? (this is the thinking for yourself part). like do you think orwell just put that in for fun? do you think that just because winston is the protagonist you’re supposed to agree with everything he does?

You know I feel like this post just gave me an epiphany for what is wrong with how Tumblr Fandom/Internet Fandom responds to media-or not *wrong* but makes it very hard to respond to anything but a morally correct, and heroic protagonist. 

When an English teacher, or reader, taught or picked up 1984, it wasn’t with the intention they were going to love the protagonist. They picked it up with the intention of reading a whole story and trying to grasp the theme or catharsis from the story. If the protagonist was a *shitty* person it played into the the themes or the story, because it wasn’t about morally judging the book or *liking* or feeling attachment to the protagonist. Sometimes and often times, books were just about gaining another perspective. 

No one read Lolita expecting to endear, or like, or be inspired by Humbert. You are supposed to be upset by his behavior, you don’t read Lolita with the intention of being inspired. You read it to learn more about what the fuck is going on inside someone’s head when they behave like that. How children get sucked into abusive situations. Or read “The Great Gatsby” not because they want to fall in love with Gatsby or Nick, but to better understand and analyze the experience of the 1920s or destitution of the American Dream. 

A lot of internet and fandom culture has changed that though. When we say something like “I love the Great Gatsby” it comes with the idea or association that means you must *love* or relate to one of the characters. And maybe you do, but the first assumption is not longer about the quality of the work or themes, or cathartic impact-it’s about character admiration. And with that character admiration, in tumblr stan culture, or kin culture, or exalting characters with fanart/romance/so on you don’t just ‘admire’ or find that character ‘compelling’ it now translates to ‘you LOVE that character’ or you ‘DIRECTLY relate to that character.’ 

You can’t say “I love how Humbert is written, it’s so fascinating and dark”, without it directly translating you somehow relate to a child abuser or condone his actions. Taking in media has become an act of worship and connection. We no longer watch meant to just see the story as a whole, we watch expecting to connect to a character and if we offer them our “worship” as it’s become, as opposed to just attention or interest study as it traditionally was, it means we are condoning the character or saying we directly empathize with all their actions. 

I think that’s why there is often now so much fuss over *toxic* characters or not. Or whether that classical novel is showing good or bad things anymore. We’re treating the characters as people we should love or want to draw or write about. Sometimes a story is just about getting the the theme or catharsis or learning another perspective. We don’t NEED to like the character. Or we don’t HAVE to like a character to be impressed by how they’re written or intrigued by their behavior. 

I think if internet culture could learn to view stories as small insights into other lives or single takes of one perspective instead of purposeful moral inspirations we’d be a lot less worried about how toxic or not toxic they are.