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Baby, you were born this way

Found this on Dina's blog, so decided to do it myself. Pride Month survey time! 1. What’s your gender? Trans female. 2. What are your pronouns? She/her. 3. Is your family accepting? Yes, which I'm very grateful for. I know a lot of trans girls (and LGBT+ people in general) whose families aren't accepting at all, so I consider myself very lucky that mine is. 4. What do you wish you could tell your past self? My past self was kind of a self-absorbed, arrogant prick, so while there's a lot I'd like to be able to tell her, I doubt she'd actually take any of it to heart. 5. What is your sexuality? I'm a lesbiab. Lesbiam. Less Bien. Girls. 6. Favorite color? Purple. 7. Sun gay or moon gay? I have no idea what this means, but... moon? 8. When did you find out your sexuality? It was a very gradual process. I started getting more comfortable presenting as female online around 2011-2012, but I never fully realised I was trans until around 2013-ish. ...

Don't be astounded by the things they make you do for amusement's sake

Time for some pointless trivia about Warner Bros. cartoons, mostly Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies. Duck Amuck is one of only three Chuck Jones cartoons to be included in the National Film Registry, the others being What's Opera, Doc? and One Froggy Evening . Chuck Jones created Duck Amuck to speak directly to the audience. He wanted to prove that people know Daffy Duck as a character, not just a cartoon. Bugs was a last minute addition to Duck Amuck . Jones also considered putting footage of himself in the last scene. Sylvester's name comes from the scientific name for the wild cat, Silvestris. Originally, Tweety was a pink baby bird, but the censors thought he looked naked, so they made him yellow and turned him into a canary. Canaries are known for being more territorial than other birds, which explains why Tweety fights off Sylvester so well. Bob Clampett based Tweety's initial appearance on pictures of himself as a baby. Tweety's characteristics are b...

Serious Post: Dealing with Depressed People

Disclaimer: I am not a psychologist or a psychiatrist in any sense, this is just what I've learned from experience and reading random stuff on the internet. What Not to Say to a Depressed Person "It could be worse." - Yeah, but it could be a lot better, too. Saying this just invalidates their pain and makes them feel like they don't "deserve" to be depressed, which will inevitably make them feel worse. "You have no reason to be depressed." - Yes, that's exactly the problem. They have no reason to be depressed, but they still are. "Just cheer up." or "Just snap out of it." - If it were that easy, they wouldn't be depressed in the first place. "Other people have it so much worse than you." - This comes off as trying to make them feel bad for feeling bad. It's like telling a happy person that they shouldn't be happy because other people have it better than them. "It's all in your head....