H, pansexual, polyam, 20, English, Bassist, not yet a clone fucker, I'm going for the "slice of lemon wrapped around a large gold brick” aesthetic, he/him they/them
okay so like… are the bots getting worse for anyone else? I swear I only used to have a couple a week but now it’s more like a couple a day?? @staff ????
Reblog if you’re still seeing porn bots despite the NSFW ban. I’m still seeing them. Plenty of legitimate followers seem to be blocked from my feed, however. EDIT: I know a lot of you are looking for an alternative to Tumblr, so I’m building one now. Take a look at Libr, a replacement for Tumblr. Video here: https://librapp.com/
If you would report an undocumented immigrant to ICE you would have reported me to the Nazis and I don’t fucking trust you
A note:
I live in a state where you “have to” report anyone you suspect of being undocumented (that wonderful hellhole of Arizona). Now in practice this law has fallen far short, thank goodness. But if you live in such a place and they start enforcing it, here is how you get around it:
Assume everyone who doesn’t speak English is visiting.
Never ask about their job, because if they tell you they work here then you know they’re not visiting. You see them a lot for several weeks or months? Hm. Someone in the family must be ill. That’s terribly tough. They always dress in old, ratty laborers’ clothes? I feel you, my dude, I can’t afford new clothes either, and my dad has the fashion sense of an aardvark, so sometimes it’s not even about “affording” them. They say they’ve been here for years? You must have misunderstood. Spanish isn’t your first language, after all. First and last name? It never came up, or you don’t recall–you meet a lot of people.
And then, if you’re asked: no, you haven’t seen anyone residing illegally in the United States. Just people visiting.
Very good very important addition
Essentially, this is the civil society version of a work-to-rule strike.
Don’t do more than is expressly asked of you, and do what you are asked with such an intense attention to protocol that not asking you at all becomes more effective than even bothering.
In this case:
“Have you seen an illegal immigrant?”
“Could you describe an illegal immigrant, officer?”
*officer describes a person who is in the country without appropriate paperwork, or who has crossed the border illegally*
“No, sir, I haven’t seen any illegal immigrant.”
And this is correct. You have NOT seen an illegal immigrant, because you have no way of knowing if Jose Fulano is here legally or not. And since you can’t see his paperwork (or lack thereof), and did not personally see him cross the border illegally, you are only answering precisely the question asked.
I’m not American, and I have like, three followers, but this is important.
So, I’m a lawyer, who deals with immigration though does not specialize in it. But here’s the thing(s):
1) Even someone who’s working could be here on a migrant (or other sort of) visa (hey, there are a few thousand per year, and *someone*’s got to get them, right?) or could be waiting for their case to resolve in immigration court, after having come to America to join a born or naturalized American family member.
2) Even people who are working improperly could have come into the country legally – and just overstayed their visa or be violating the conditions of their visa, and you have no idea what the niggly little regulations that govern that might be.
3) If a law enforcement officer asks you about a neighbor/friend/etc., take this moment to remind them that, unlike them, you cannot ask a random person off the street for their ID and be entitled to a response.
4) Even if someone has told you that they are undocumented, you still don’t know, do you? Humans lie all the time. How could you know for sure? You can’t, because they can’t prove that they have a lack of papers. Just because you haven’t seen papers doesn’t mean they don’t exist!
5) Don’t ever talk to cops in general. Why are you talking to a cop? Stop that, as soon as it is safe and feasible.
Getting winded after walking quickly/upstairs with binder on, but able to catch breath
Chafing in the underarm areas
Soreness (during or after) in arms, shoulders, or back
Increased acne on chest or back
Mild anxiety about tightness
Chest sagging
No, take it off and rest, see a doctor if problem gets worse or doesn’t go away after taking the binder off (or after one week):
Nausea during or after binding, including nausea caused by pain
Bruising
Out of breath/can’t catch breath when not wearing binder
Skin rash
Sharp pains in ribs
Not able to cough or sneeze
Numbness in arms
Feeling too tired/sore to do everyday activities
Suddenly having any of the above symptoms even if you’ve been binding for years
No, see a doctor ASAP, could be a sign of serious injury:
Anything from the above category if you can just tell/feel something is wrong, better safe than sorry
Extreme claustrophobia/panic attacks
Sharp pain in chest/heart skipping beats or beating very fast
Not able to breathe
Dizziness
Blueness in lips or fingertips
Change in shape of ribcage
Fainting
good stuff to know if you wear a binder, especially if you’re new to it. this is way more informative than the basic “don’t wear it for more than 8 hours uwu!!!111!!” - although that is also good advice. sometimes the time you keep it on will vary because of your schedule, and you don’t have to panic if that’s the case. just pay attention your body, know what’s safe, and crack your poor back as often as you can.
Approximately 5000 terminally ill orcs volunteered to die in fight scenes. This is what real bravery looks like people!
Viggo Mortensen was so dedicated to his role that he had Peter Jackson write down all of his lives in advance so he could MEMORIZE THEM
Shrinking technology hadn’t been perfected in the early 2000s, so every cast member who wasn’t a hobbit (including the horses!) had to take experimental growth hormones in order to reach the right apparent size.
Shrinking technology has since gotten most of them back to normal, but Ian McKellen stubbornly refuses, saying he likes his ‘big stompy stompers and flappy flappers’
The Entish Actors Guild is run by the deeply conservative Church of Orome, which forbids entwives from acting. Peter Jackson came up with the story about all the entwives leaving to explain the lack of women. (In fact, *every* Ent in the cast is happily married)
There were contractual difficulties with the Eagles (the birds, not the band. Peter Jackson had nothing but praise for the band) throughout shooting.
This is why they show up so rarely, and in fact most of Frodo and Sam’s journey was written in two days by a manic Peter Jackson after the Eagles refused to film the original ‘just fly them straight to Mount Doom’ script
The surprise on Pippin’s face when the Eagles show up after Mount Doom erupts is genuine. No one knew they were going to show up that day, and it was assumed that Elijah Wood and Sean Astin would just die in the eruption after filming their tearful goodbye.
Hugo Weaving plays the ~7000 year old Elrond, despite being only 2000 years old himself
Peter Jackson has a cameo in *every* scene. Usually he just took his clothes off and played one of the animals in the background, but he also played several boulders hurled by catapults, Saruman’s beard, and the smoke ship Gandalf blows in the first movie.
They wanted to have a real dragon show up at Bilbo’s party, but it was otter mating season and Bendyflip Crimblejimblejammer was unavailable for filming
Aragorn’s entire speech at the Black Gates was ad-libbed. He felt that the original line (‘Let’s wrassle!’) was too serious, and some humor was needed to counterbalance the scene.
Lurz was actually several large Italian sausages on a scarecrow.
No one in the cast or crew could tell Merry and Pippin apart, and they used this to switch roles more than once. Watch again and see if you can tell who’s playing who in each scene!
Amazing! Every detail I learn just makes me appreciate this fantastic movie series even more.
For people who might not know - Wendy Carlos is a trans woman who was deeply influential in early electronic music and hugely involved with the push to have synthesizers seen as real instruments.
Some of the movies Wendy Carlos did the soundtracks for, that you may know:
A Clockwork Orange
The Shining
Tron
She has three Grammys, and a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States.
Oh and she also takes photos of eclipses that are so good Nasa uses them.
I grew out my hair, then shaved bits of it, then grew it out again, then shaved it again. It’s been blond, purple, blue, red, and black. I also got a binder.
19. What was one nice thing you did for yourself?
I started saxophone lessons ^_^
40. Did anything happen that you were sure would change you as a person but it really didn’t?
I started antidepressants and I was scared they’d change me but they haven’t, they’ve helped me be me
41. Did anything happen to you that you were sure wouldn’t change you as a person but it did?
Buying a binder tbh, like I’d figured out by that point that I wasn’t cis (I thought I might be genderfluid) but putting on that binder and feeling how great it felt and how much I loved my chest being flat was a real big realisation and helped me realise I was a nonbinary dude and there was no way I could go back to IDing as female
50. What do you wish for yourself?
A speedy referral to a psychiatrist so I can figure out what’s going on with my mental health so I can get on the right meds and effectively deal with it
