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GO DO THE THING

This is a post for all of us procrastinators out there with projects and things they so deeply desire to complete but that have fallen to the wayside. First and foremost it is, of course, a post for me. Feel free to reblog this post to your blog and follow along with me! Pick your own "thing", whatever it may be, and if you finish your "thing", pick another! I have... like 12 Things??? But I'm choosing these two for right now; I want to finish them first.

the rules are as thus:

for every like and comment notification I get on this post I will work on The Thing for five whole minutes, a passion project from forever ago I want to see completed.

for every reblog notification I get I will work on The Project for five whole minutes, a newer passion project that I want to be able to finish, for me and my tiny collection of fans.

this is a message to all babytrans. you may come across a subreddit or maybe even a 4chan board that is made up entirely of the most miserable trans people you’ve ever met. they have their own lingo borrowed straight from incel communities. but instead of being an incel where cishet men tell each other that women will never want to fuck them because of 2 mm of browbone, it’s trans women telling each other that they will never be a woman because of 2 mm of browbone. it’s trans men calling other trans men pooners for having a round face instead of a chiseled gigachad jawline. but they swear it’s not a toxic community because they’re all hiding under several layers of irony, so you can never really tell if someone is being serious. and it’s very important that you never visit these forums, even out of morbid curiosity

since this post is making rounds i feel like resharing this for no reason in particular

(comic by @tpwrtrmnky)

I love that thing when people get a little bit tongue-tied and garble what they’re trying to say so they make a little “blegh” 👅 noise and start over. verbal reset button. hitting the top of the tv to unscramble the signal

[image of a pipe with a note saying ‘this is note a pipe’ underneath it] -commentary on art itself

[pipe stuck to a canvas with a note saying ‘this is not a pipe’ underneath it] -commentary on the use of objects defining their purpose

[image of a pipe with a note saying ‘this is a pipe’ underneath it] -technically accurate

[pipe filled with set resin with a note saying ‘this is not a pipe’ underneath it] -topologically accurate

[image of a rubber duck with a note saying ‘this is not a pipe’ underneath it] -technically accurate

[diagram demonstrating that due to the rubber duck having two holes it is in fact a pipe] -topologically accurate

[note saying ‘this is not a pipe’] -where did it go

[pipe that fell off the canvas] -oh there it is

[EXPUNGED] -violates community guidelines

[image of a donut with a note saying ‘is this a pipe?’ underneath it] -topologically curious

[sticky note saying ‘yes’] -topologically accurate

[empty canvas with a note saying ‘now where has my pipe gone’ at the bottom] -GARFIELD!

hot take comments like "I hope I get cyclosporiasis I want to lose 10 lbs" are not only obvious fatphobia but also part of mass illness normalization that has been an ongoing effort since 2020 to minimize the dangers of disease and infections

They want to act like high levels of sickness whether it be airborne or foodborne are normal and not the responsibility of agencies like public health or food safety regulation so they can get away with dismantling them.

Had a random thought that may or may not be influenced by my being in church today

We've seen 'accidental cult' au's for Danny. But have we seen any accidental religion creator danny? Where he becomes a preacher/priest/pastor/rabbi/guru/what-have-you/whatever-you-want-to-call-his-position?

One where he (either as fenton or phantom) begins by answering questions about the afterlife semi absentmindedly (lectures and explanations from various leaders in the realms running on repeat in his mind), so tired he doesn't notice when he starts explaining what he had been taught.

It started with him overhearing a question/conversation in school. Something small. He answered it and moved on. Forgot about it. But it keeps happening. Until people start coming to him with questions regarding the afterlife (realms) on a semi regular basis and he does his best to explain (if they understand maybe they won't be so eager to hate ghosts? Maybe they'll be able to foster understanding? Maybe he won't be so tired).

While he starts answering one person's questions others gather and hang around. Listen. And start asking their own questions. Soon, its simpler to just arrange a dedicated time and place to meet and discuss.

It starts as a simple Q&A. And over time grows and becomes more elaborate until its an official thing. He finds people who had been listening to him answering questions when they come across them (in person, online, etc). That some had taken videos and written transcripts. That those are being passed around. It grows beyond his hometown.

And Danny? Is really not sure what to make of this. (I wanna vote he doesn't become aware its a whole thing that he's been accidentally grown and run until someone who is notably *not* from Amity park calls him [insert religious leader title here]. Cue freaking out to Sam and Tucker (maybe jazz and/or Valerie too) who have been helping to run and organize this whole thing being like 'did you just realize this *now*??'

Oh that's a thing that DEFINITELY would happen at college? And it would start with "no, look, my family studied this" and said with such tired absolute certainty that clearly HE believes it? And? Psssh, okay buddy.

But like... it was kinda cool. Hey, hey, ask him something else!

And? The dude just? Keeps having answers. Internally consistent ones too. No one can trip him up. He can get REALLY into detail. People start thinking about it. Writing it down to try to pick holes in it or just to read later. And like... okay, screw it, they're kinda curious about this one thing, right?

And then how does THEIR religion fit into it? Lemme guess, one true God rig-... wait it fits? His too? Hers? In this great big patchwork of beauty and faith and life after death?

.....and this dude doesn't SEEM like he's selling anything. WE keep harrasing HIM. Huh.

.............hey, for a pizza, what's the manifestation of Time like? Do animals even HAVE souls? Did dinosaurs? How does Reincarnation work into all this?

And? It's like finding a prophet in the cereal isle. A messiah eating cold pizza in the square. Someone with such wisdom and power, that has made themselves look like YOU. Lives like YOU. Not draped in gold and finery, in wealthy halls high above. But in ratty jeans and a shirt that's washed half to death, tired but kind. Patient.

Who considers your questions. Does not hoard away his secret knowledge, to leave humanity struggling in the dark. But sits, waiting for you to just... to just ASK. As though all this time, all we had to do... was ASK.

He wears a NASA shirt. Studies the stars.

"Aren't they beautiful?" he says. "Isn't it amazing?" His grin suggests.

And when does amusement turn to curiosity? Turn to fascination? To belief? To FAITH? It's all so gradual. Like the change of a tide. Like falling in love. No one is quite certain how they found themselves there, but... but it makes SENSE. Like they have found a truth and discovered a secret.

They just want to share it. He's not making them. Not even ASKING them too! Not so much as hinting! But wouldn't YOU want to tell people? If you finally figured it all out? If you were happy and made friends and everything suddenly made SENSE?

Danny is gonna freak out. He Accidentally A Cult ™ and it's everywhere. He was just minding his business man. Being bribed with food and maybe making some friends. The Fenton Oblivious Gene's were working STRONG with this one!

Somebody calls him a Bodhisattva (I think thats the right term) and? Its not right but also not wrong!

He died. Became something else. And now he spreads his newfound knowledge freely whenever asked. Doesn't shove it at you relentlessly. He finds joy in the simple things. Everyday things.