Hopes And Dreams

Monsoon

I heard that war has been declared by @thetrueratking. Shall we be fighting?

- @rat-detector-8x

It was not that false king’s declaration, but my own. My stance is clear. Raise war. Light the fires. Raise the banners! We march under the standard that brings death to false kings.

Gather the others @rat-detector-8x

Let them know it is time to rally their own. And go to that damn king’s blog to wage our war. We must burn it all.

"you're squeakin' me!"

—me when you're squeakin' me

"Successful associates enjoy and thrive in developing solutions in machine learning, artificial intelligence, simulation, optimization, forecasting, data mining, statistics, deep learning, buzzword, buzzword, etc."

--an actual Kroger job listing

Yo I just remembered that queer people are a minority and it's freaking me out

documenting my journey to really actually making a podfic!

this post is gonna be a series of links (in the replies) for posts that inspired me to DO THE THING! pretty much reverse chronological order. it's like tracking what bits of tumbr i was interacting with almost in real time.

to everyone i reblogged and/or who replied to me: i just wanted to tell you that your post was part of the inspiration & motivation that led me to making & posting my very first podfics!!!

baby's first podfics:

https://www.tumblr.com/xiaokuer-schmetterling/772475114852892672/podfic

https://www.tumblr.com/xiaokuer-schmetterling/772482920534376448/thank-you-for-the-validation-no

https://www.tumblr.com/xiaokuer-schmetterling/772441206958571520/podfic-2025-01-11-3-xksreads-free-download

tyvm for the support & encouragement in chats:

@ferntasie @maelstrom-of-emotions @travelingneuritis @keriarentikai @geck-motj

ao3 resources:

A Newbie's Guide to Podficcing (10897 words) by Azdaema Pods

[Meta] A Breakdown of Podfic Hosting Options (1804 words) by GoLBMeta

A Basic Beginner's Guide to Podfic Creation (3647 words) by Flowerparrish Arts et al

pinyin pronunciation resources:

"frank zappa" is what i call my electric hotdog cooker

I’m getting fed up with this whole “feminism as an identity” thing. Time for “feminism as an action.”

So instead of asking “can a feminist do x?” ask “is doing x a feminist action!”

Can a feminist take her husband’s last name? Mu. Null. Question un-valid, please un-ask question.

Is taking your husband’s last name a feminist action? No it isn’t. It doesn’t challenge the patriarchy in anyway, it is the status quo thing to do, it is what is expected of women, and it carries a lot of historical baggage about ownership and shit like that.

But that’s okay, your life choices don’t have to be 100% dictated by your politics unless you want them to. And it’s okay to really want to take his name while recognizing that you also want to do the feminist thing and keep your own, and it’s okay to feel conflicted and have a hard time making the choice. But no more of this enabling “as long as I made the choice myself it is a feminist choice” -bullshit. Own your choices, even the ones that aren’t informed by your feminist politics. You are still a human being and people do shit that contradicts their politics and even interests all the time. Just stop pretending that everything you do is feminist because you are a feminist, that’s not how it works.