samthegothgirl:
This is how I imagine genderfluid people
This is exactly how genderfluid people work.
#what is this from? (queerascake)
I don’t remember this specific scene, but the characters (I think this is supposed to be the female character having acted as a decoy for the male character) look like they’re from Danny Phantom.
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#reply via reblog #my childhood
IT BOINGED ONTO ITS OWN HEAD
it fucking
rolled up into a ball
and rolled.
!!! it’s a popple!!! a real life popple!!!
These are popples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9e0XDP_P9w
Oh! I thought you were referring to one of those toys where you suction-cup the top part to the bottom part and when the suction lets go the released energy flips it over. (I have a toy frog like that.) “Popple” seems like a reasonable word for such a toy, and the flipping looks a lot like that bunny.
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#reply via reblog #corrections
Ok so how many of you out there with Prosopagnosia also have other issues like synesthesia or no sense of direction or other? The 2 specific examples are additional issues/quirks I have. I don’t recall the source but remember reading somewhere that this was common with Prosopagnosia? Also does anyone else also have social anxiety either aggravated by or as a direct affect of Prosopagnosia?
Thanks!
Me too. I’m mildly sound-colour synesthetic, and I have a pretty terrible sense of direction. I never had much cause to notice the latter until I started learning to drive (I live in the kind of small town where all the places worth going to are on the same street), but the more I drive the bigger a problem it’s going to be. I really need a GPS.
I’ve also been meaning to practise navigating the nearby city with Street View. That way if I get thoroughly lost I have the option of giving up without being forced to find my way back home first, and I will have neither the stress of trying to both drive and navigate nor the stress of it all happening in real-time.
Yeah that was why my mom got me a GPS years ago…I don’t think she was entirely kidding when she said she was worried about me not being able to find home & never being seen again…it has definitely been helpful, just make sure you keep the device updated and also Mapquest where you’re going as a backup…
Eeek! I never ever ever mapquest. It’s gone horribly wrong so many times. I’m all about Google Maps (which is what I use on my phone as a GPS as well and it updates itself). I’m more of the type to bring my phone (as a GPS) and whatever I need to charge my phone.
I used to have a dedicated GPS, but no matter how often we updated it, it was still wrong. Google, on the other hand, seems to know when a road is closed for an accident (and when it’s open again), even, and reroutes accordingly. I’d be so lost without it!
Reason #746 why I need a smartphone.
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#reply via reblog #I don’t even have a dumbphone #we have one cheap basic cell phone shared by a family of four #and it goes to Mom by default #(also a landline) #(but actual ability to call people is not the issue) #in which Brin is acutely aware of the fact that she is typing this on a laptop that has existed for eight years #(I don’t really want to be an early adopter) #(but I wish I could be a *regular* adopter)
Ok so how many of you out there with Prosopagnosia also have other issues like synesthesia or no sense of direction or other? The 2 specific examples are additional issues/quirks I have. I don’t recall the source but remember reading somewhere that this was common with Prosopagnosia? Also does anyone else also have social anxiety either aggravated by or as a direct affect of Prosopagnosia?
Thanks!
Me too. I’m mildly sound-colour synesthetic, and I have a pretty terrible sense of direction. I never had much cause to notice the latter until I started learning to drive (I live in the kind of small town where all the places worth going to are on the same street), but the more I drive the bigger a problem it’s going to be. I really need a GPS.
I’ve also been meaning to practise navigating the nearby city with Street View. That way if I get thoroughly lost I have the option of giving up without being forced to find my way back home first, and I will have neither the stress of trying to both drive and navigate nor the stress of it all happening in real-time.
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#prosopagnosia #synesthesia #reply via reblog #sense of direction #I do not do well with real-time #ask anyone who has ever had a spoken conversation with me
AmoeBAND became a 2012 IDEA Award Finalist by innovating every possible aspect of the plaster (band aid).
The design revisions were:
– Strategic cut-outs shape to fit fingers in such a way that it is easy to bend them and not disrupt the bandage.
– An intelligent dressing material allows you to regularly check wounds from the outside, without upsetting the healing process.“According to research, the when an infection of a wound is detected, the pH value is between 6.5 and 8.5. AmoeBAND’s indicator cross turns purple, alerting the user needs to change it immediately.”
– Since the bandage material used exudes a leather-like feel, availability in different skin-tones helps it blend in, without overly highlighting the injury.
– The packaging has been redesigned to a matchbox style and includes Braille instructions.
Hat tip to designers Tay Pek-Khai, Hsu Hao-Ming, Tsai Cheng-Yu, Chen Kuei-Yuan, Chen Yi-Ting, Lai Jen-Hao, Ho Chia-Ying, Chen Ying-shan, Weng Yu-Ching, and Chung Kuo-Ting
it’s always funny when people improve on something and you look at the innovations and it’s like so fucking obvious what needed to be changed, but yet no one seemingly thought of it until then, yourself included
Ah, it’s been a while since the last time I saw this post going around. Still wondering when/if it’s actually going to come to market. Still wondering why they’re not emerald green.
(Is it somehow embarrassing to be obviously wearing a bandage? Why are only little kids allowed decorative ones? And if for some reason you don’t want decorative ones, there are already bandages out there that are transparent, which seems like a better solution than just having several shades of one-size-fits-no-one skin tones.)
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#bandages #the current ‘vague beige’ is so unlike pale skin #that the only way you can tell it was *meant* to be like pale skin is through the way it clashes even *more* with dark skin #embrace the clash or don’t have a colour at all
remember when you put your glasses on for the first time and you realized you could see leaves on trees
how many fucking people on this website wear glasses jfc
it’s always the leaves oh my god
it was streetlights for me
Rocks on the ground for me.
Trees on the mountains.
I was really excited to find out that grass is made of individual pieces.
People have faces.
“Oh, birds! There’s actually something up there in the sky when my mom points!”
No, I don’t remember, because I was too young.
(I remember when I was still a fairly young kid getting glasses back after having to go for…I dunno, maybe a couple months without, but that’s different. Yes, I was happy I could read the road signs, but–having had glasses previously–I had already been aware road signs had text even if I couldn’t currently perceive it.)
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#glasses #I do feel bad for people who were old enough to remember #but not old enough to know this wasn’t how the world was supposed to look
What’s better at facial recognition, Facebook or your brain?
Ever wonder how your brain can recognize and remember so many faces? Ever wonder how we train computers to do the same? Vanessa from BrainCraft looks the science of recognizing faces square in the… face?
Bad: It joins in that annoying way that many things about relatively-unusual conditions have of assuming their audience doesn’t contain anyone who experiences it (a falsely-inclusive “we” to refer to “normal” people).
Good: Finally a non-proso who’s noticed that facial recognition technology cries out to be used in assistive tech. (I swear to god, it’s like the people in charge of this sort of thing are deliberately trying to come up with every possible use for artificial facial recognition except the obvious one.)
(Come on, The Future, you’ve been a good home to me. You’ve given me those lovely photographs of Martian desert, full of colour and detail, the next-best thing to being there. You’ve given me multiple pieces of tech that are literally out of Star Trek. Give me a glasses-mounted HUD that flags passing acquaintances with their names. I know you can do it. Google Glass has been dancing around the edge for, what, a year now? I’d prefer an attachment to the glasses I already have, but as long as I can get them in prescription and they cost less than, oh, say twice as much as regular prescription glasses, I’ll settle for buying a new pair. Please, let me have this.)
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#prosopagnosia #(cell phones and e-readers) #(and I suspect you could turn a smart-watch into something very like a combadge without much tinkering) #the power of science #with power comes responsibility #and that responsibility takes many forms
Yes, yes, legalize gay, sure. But have you ever considered weaponizing gay?
Unfortunately, yes, yes they have.
IM GONNA PISS
I am grateful to live in a world in which we do not actually have weaponised sex pollen, gynephile-specific or otherwise. Not so grateful to live in a world where people in charge of this sort of thing have explicitly indicated they would do it if they could.
(…and if they were making progress on sex-pollen bombs, they’d keep that a secret as long as possible, wouldn’t they?)
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#creepy #not sure why people seem to be amused by this
“you make my heart beat in iambic pentameter.”
no you don’t understand shakespeare literally writes to the beat of your heart
- that’s why shakespearean actors will sometimes pound their chests in time to the words during readings
- that’s why you use fluctuations in the rhythm to track your character’s emotional state – any irregularities in the scansion are like the character’s heart stuttering or jumping or skipping a beat
- that’s why when characters share the rhythm – switching off in the middle of a foot – those characters inevitably have an extraordinarily intimate connection
shakespeare fucking writes viscerally, he is literally in your body, and that, my friend, that is why the best shakespearean actors don’t posture and emote
you have to be fucking alive and passionate and electric – it can’t be intellectual, in the end, it has to be about connection and the sweating, cheering, jeering, bleeding masses you’re performing to, because make no mistake, shakespeare may go to lofty heights, but he only works if you’re just as grounded in the earth. he has to be in your body. he has to be in your body.
holy motherfucking shit i love shakespeare so much, get him in your bones, breathe him in, stomp and rage and pine, dadum dadum dadum dadum dadum, it is literally to the beat of your heart
Whenever I teach verse or direct a Shakespeare play, this is the FIRST thing I say. People need to be reminded that Shakespeare is human. It’s maybe the most human text you’ll ever encounter. It’s easy to forget that, especially because so many of his words are so iconic. But those words are as alive as you. Hell, they even breathe the same way.
Am I the only one who finds this creepy?
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#you are sure as hell not in *my* body Shakespeare #my heart does not beat to another’s tune
do you ever wonder what you’d be into if you didn’t start reading weirdly kinky fics when you were like 12
i didn’t start reading weirdly kinky fics till i was like 25, it didn’t help much ^_^
I was 17 myself. (Only lying by a few months!) I…don’t think it’s really had an effect on my sexuality? It’s made me more aware of the variety of other people’s sexualities, sure, but not given me any more kinks than I already had.
(Thinking about it, I suspect it’s because of my lack of any vanilla desires. Genitalia aren’t sexy, and therefore cannot make things sexy through associative learning. You’d have to start from something I’m actually into.)
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#sexuality and lack thereof #appears to be my tag for this sort of thing #the first time I ever saw a picture of Paul McGann #it was that picture of the Eighth Doctor #you know the one #the one people use when they want an example picture of Eight #(or at least they did pre-Night-of-the-Doctor) #(not so sure now) #him standing #facing the camera #holding a pocketwatch in a suggestive manner #(it is somewhat tricky but possible to hold a pocketwatch in a *non*-suggestive manner) #(but that is *very* not how you do it) #(that is about as far away from how you do it as it gets) #it was quite the first impression #I think of that picture every time I see another one of Paul McGann #*that’s* how you go about this
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