Month: February 2017

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somnilogical:

beaniemilliner:

Real talk; where are the good hypnosis communities at

Getting real tired of transphobic shit etc. and would like somewhere to hang out and be into hypnosis without having to put with garbage people

Neither @brin-bellway nor @bannableoffense are garbage people to my knowledge. (Though they may separately be sanitation workers.)

@adzolotl manages to hypnotize trans people without them being annoyed. (Though perhaps they’re too hypnotized to??)

And … none of them seem to know each other in a hypnosis-y way. But they may be able to *direct* you to community things if you ask?

>>(Though they may separately be sanitation workers.)<<

Well, I have been experimenting with dumpster diving…

>>And … none of them seem to know each other in a hypnosis-y way.<<

I’m aware of Banny, though I don’t read her blog. I’m aware of @adzolotl​, too, and I do read his blog. (I’m not sure we’ve ever had more than short, shallow conversations about it, though.)

>>But they may be able to *direct* you to community things if you ask?<<

The only members of hypno-fetish Tumblr I follow myself are @tennfan2​, @ellaenchanting​, and @hypnoticharlequin​, because I try to keep the amounts of naked people, non-con porn, and Discourse on my dash relatively low, and all of those really limit your options. (However, since the Discourse is often about social justice, and the hypno-fetishist is almost invariably on the pro-SJ side, you may actually find the amount of Discoursing around here reassuring.) I also read @diaryofasnowflake manually sometimes.

Tennfan, Ella: I seem to recall you’ve both done welcoming-wagon-type stuff before, right? Can you help show Beanie the ropes, so to speak?

>>#does tagging people violate the NAP?<<

The what? If you mean something about revealing somebody’s kink without their consent, all of the people you tagged have been pretty open about it on Tumblr, so it seems reasonable to me.

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#it’s kind of weird to be somebody’s central example of hypno-Tumblr #I think I’m flattered #reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof

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sinesalvatorem:

I know that, when I’m aroused, the easiest way I can defuse the feeling is to make myself laugh.

But it just occurred to me – are there people who become aroused when they’re amused? I mean, I assume such people must exist, given that every single thing is both negatively and positively correlated with sex in some people. What do you guys think?

I’ve heard of dacryphiles (turned on by crying, although the term often refers to watching others cry), and I’ve heard of tickling fetishists, but I don’t think I’ve encountered anyone who was into laughing per se. Definitely wouldn’t surprise me, though.

(I, too, tend to laugh when turned on, especially if someone else is watching. While there could be a defusion aspect, for me I think it’s mainly deflection: “I am having an emotional response to this thing. I don’t want these people to know what emotion I’m having. I’ll pretend to be having a different emotion instead, one that can serve as a plausible answer to ‘Why [do you like]/[are you interested in] this thing?’” It’s not always a conscious decision, but I suspect that it’s still a similar line of reasoning when subconscious.)

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#sexuality and lack thereof #I wavered on what method to use to reply to this #I settled on #reply via reblog #since I figured that way more people would see it and some of them might have an answer to the original question #nsfw?

The Nonbinary/Genderqueer Stats Survey 2017

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nonbinarystats:

nonbinarystats:

It’s time for the fourth annual nonbinary/genderqueer survey!

Last year there were over 3,000 participants, and I’d love it if we could beat that this year. If your gender isn’t fully expressed or described by the gender binary, you are enthusiastically invited to take part – regardless of the words (if any) that you use to describe your gender.

There are just 8 questions, and it doesn’t ask for your birth assignment or any identifying information.

[LINK]

If you’re nonbinary or thereabouts, or you know you’ve got followers who are, please consider reblogging this post. The statistics are really useful for visibility and activism worldwide.

You can see results from previous years here. The survey will be open for about three weeks, and closes no earlier than Monday 27th February 2017.

Thank you!

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If you’d like to help promote, you can also retweet this tweet, visit this post on Reddit, post the URL on Facebook, or send it to someone you think might be interested: http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/NBGQ2017/

In the ~7.5 hours since this survey was created there have been 1,000 responses, or 2.2 responses per minute. That’s pretty amazing! Thank you, everyone, for spreading the word so efficiently! :)

Something I’m quite happy to share with you before the survey is closed is the sites respondents are referred by…

Nonbinary Stats Survey

As you can see, we’re pretty Tumblr-heavy! So if folks were open to it, thinking about places you can share in addition to reblogging is a big help. :)

1,000 responses in under 8 hours is incredible! I’m hoping for around 3,500, just to aim a little higher than last year, and we are well on the way. You are all awesome.

Tags:

#gender #survey #signal boost #I’m binary myself but some of my readers might be interested

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myprettynightmare:

Anyone else terrified that they are toxic and manipulative and just can’t see it? Or is that just me?

Tags:

#tag rambles #TMI #abuse cw #…sort of but not in the way this seems to mean #lately it’s been bothering me a lot that…look #if I had the option of being toxic and manipulative and *chose* not to take it #that would be one thing #but I don’t #because I’m *not smart enough* to successfully manipulate people #it takes a certain kind of cleverness to hurt people and get away with it #that I don’t possess #it sounds weird but it bugs me #even the position ”scum of the earth” is one I could only aspire to #I get so tired sometimes of always being the least terrifying person in the room #but also: #if you can be terrifying enough to scare people into submission and not know it #then you don’t get to take any sort of pleasure in that capacity #not even the twisted power-tripping kinds of pleasure #perhaps the people who’ve hurt me *weren’t even enjoying themselves* #perhaps they *still believed* they could-only-aspire-to-scumbag #zero-sum situations are bad and all #but it’s negative-sum that most chills me deep down #that I might have hurt people and *not even benefited from it* #an interaction that nothing good came out of at all #not even good things at somebody else’s expense #I wonder if I’ve ever been in a fight that both sides believed they’d lost #I wonder if any of the people I am haunted by are haunted by me #neither of us ever getting even the visceral satisfaction of knowing the blow struck

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shantrising:

 

captoring:

this is from a store in los angeles called The Echo Park Time Travel Mart, and it’s pretty much the coolest place

Time Travel Mart 1
Time Travel Mart 2
Time Travel Mart 3
Time Travel Mart 4

 

printscharming:

WHAT?! @themaskedman, I think I know where our next adventure has to be.

 

themaskedman:

@printscharming Looks fun! I’m down haha.

 

knitmeapony:

HURRAY 826!  This is a national organization that sets up awesome kids literacy tutoring groups and puts hilariously dorky storefronts in front of each one!

Chicago has the Secret Agent Supply: 

Time Travel Mart 5

Ann Arbor has Robot Supplies:

Time Travel Mart 6

Boston has the Bigfoot Research Institute:

Time Travel Mart 7

And there are more:  http://826national.org/stores/

 

Great for Christmas shopping!  All proceeds go to the local chapter of the charity!

 

w4rgoddess:

OMG, I knew about the one in Brooklyn but didn’t realize it was a chain!

 

sinbadism:

How can you not mention the original, 826 Valencia in San Francisco? They are amazing organizations

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#long post #time travel #oh my god

Part 6, Page 16 (Parts Unknown)

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parhelioncomic:

Parhelion update! The new friends have some things to say.

Also: Worldbuilding Wednesday on warp coils and FTL travel!

Reblogs are greatly appreciated!

Start of chapter | Read from the beginning | Patreon (Read one page into the future)

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#Parhelion #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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reanimateobjects:

I picked up a worm, and it wrote something in my hand with a tiny pencil. Unfortunately it was too small to read. An autograph? A spell? An angry note?

 

reptonic-art:

Worm Self-Portrait

@reanimateobjects

I’ve decided to line up with their writing and whatever they wrote appear to be…. phallic.

I don’t how to break the news with you, but, I think that worm drew a penis on your hand…. Congratulation?

 

reanimateobjects:

Ooh! Thank you for this valuable contribution to the field of worm linguistics and/or art. It is still unclear to me if it’s meant as a rude message to me, if it’s just putting its tag there, or something else. Further research is needed!

 

americanpipedream:

I think the idea of it being a penis is anthropomorphism. I mean, the worm doesn’t have a penis itself, nor proper eyes with which to see one. No, I’m afraid this is something far more interesting: a self-portrait. You have been touched by an aesthetic annelid, and now your life will never be the same.

 

reanimateobjects:

Now I will forever try to communicate with all the worms I find, but I worry that I’ll never meet this one again.

 

rollerskaq:

My name is Werm
I liv in ground
And thru the darck
I skwirm around

The peepl tell me
All the tym
I’m farr too yuck
With too much slym

But I think Werm
Is gud to be.
I find a styck

I draw a me

 

valadilenne:

This precious and holy Chaucer Animal Poetry meme is just so perfect for tone-setting 2017. 

 

onecornerface:

found another fremb, this one is an artist

@funereal-disease

 

sinesalvatorem:

This is the cutest worm post I’ve ever seen.

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#bugs #i lik the bred meme #unsanitary #nsfw? #adorable #an interesting collection of tags

mistytpednaem asked: bad luck brian, bee movie, we are number one

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itsbenedict:

  • Bad Luck Brian: Have you ever had a string of ridiculously bad luck?

Have I ever told the story of why I’m terrified of bees? Like, the conventional wisdom is that they don’t bother you if you leave them alone, sure, but… when I was five, I was playing out in the yard, and I got stung, and BOY that hurt. And my mom gave me the standard wisdom to reassure me- and also dropped a factoid that most people only get stung once in their whole lives, so I’m all set now because that’s how probability works for sure.

SO later that same day, Mom takes me to watch my cousin’s baseball game. And even though I was five, I could already tell that baseball was incredibly boring to watch, so I wandered off to the field nearby to pick dandelions, and GAAAAAH I stepped on a bee and got stung again. I feel shocked and betrayed and also I feel a lot of pain from a bee sting on my foot. Mom marvels at the unfortunate coincidence, and reassures me, and we go home.

And then I get out of the car, and walk across the lawn to the front door of our house, and BAM. THIRD TIME IS THE CHARM, THE HAT TRICK, LIGHTNING STRIKES THRICE, A FUCKING BEE STINGS ME AGAIN

i haven’t trusted those little yellow fucks since

  • Bee Movie: What’s your weirdest ship?

since perinaldo, my life has never known peace. the following day, snake people started manifesting in my house.

But no yeah I don’t tend to really ship stuff unless it’s obviously canon or whatever. The closest thing to a crack ship I have is like… there’s discourse around Mei and Junkrat from Overwatch, and frankly yeah, those two would never get along- and most of the girls in that series I can’t see going for Jamison. There’s a couple plausible Junkships, I think- Sombra, Lucio, and D.Va all seem like they’d gravitate to his wild attitude.

i didn’t ship junkrat and d.va but then i saw this comic and now,

now...hooboy...now i like it
  • We Are Number One: If you were a fictional character, would you be a villain?

short answer: YES

less short answer: i would go all in on the mad scientist supervillain aesthetic, but my evil schemes to take over the world would never be that evil, because i don’t want to be a dick, right? i’m thinking like a Dr. Doofenshmirtz situation. probably the heroes vanquish me at the end of season 1 and then i fall into that “becomes the team’s weird uncle” role

(or at least it would seem that way until the series finale where it turns out i’ve been preparing a scheme all along and manage to usurp the new big bad’s power source, OH SHIT, WHAT UP KIDS, BET YOU DIDN’T SEE THE GUY NAMED BENEDICT BETRAYIN Y’ALL, GAHAHAHAHAHA)

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#bees #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(”BET YOU DIDN’T SEE THE GUY NAMED BENEDICT BETRAYIN Y’ALL”) #home of the brave