Heya! For the past couple months I’ve been working on an original comic story, more like, it’s been in the works for the past year but only in december i finally felt like I was truly there to start drawing it. It’s a science fiction tale and… that’s all i can say right now, haha! I’m halfway through chapter one with 14 pages up and plan to finish the first part in february-march. It’d mean the world to me if you could give it a read!
Me: in a non-reproducing mono-sexed (or zero-sexed, depending how you look at it) society, a strict gender binary makes little sense. If anything, natural social divisions should fall along the most obvious differences (i.e. frametype/size class) resulting in multiple gender qualifiers or even sub-qualifiers. In addition, a gender-based attraction model may not be useful even in canon, where we’ve never seen attraction or lack thereof based specifically on it (the only relevant example being Skids, who flirted with Firestar, referred to her as “he”, got corrected, then shrugged and kept flirting). Cybertronians also seem to have no trouble with cross-species attraction (see: Thundercracker’s Marissa fanfiction, Crankcase and his alien bf Cons4eva). Is it even meaningful to apply standard human labels to million-year-old 30-foot giant robots that turn into trucks?
Some fool, some absolute buffoon: I don’t like gay robots
I find that if I’m wearing Real Adult Business Clothes my worksona can do things like call people and check my inbox, whereas pajamas hellen mostly wants to shovel hamburgers into her face and set things on fire.
I honestly believe the whole “adults require less sleep” thing is honest to god probably a myth created by capitalism
It is.
i honestly believe that sleep deprivation is the biggest ignored/neglected root cause of health dangers that prematurely kill adults
ask me sometime about the role of sleep in the leptin ghrelin cycle and how its interruption destabilizes weight homeostasis
or about the new research showing that heart disease is not caused by fat, like we thought for years, but by inflammation in the circulatory system whose root cause is unknown but one of the prime suspects is, you guessed it, sleep deprivation
but nobody wants to hear that lack of sleep is killing people. employers don’t want to hear it. and god knows that having sold their waking hours to capitalism to survive workers don’t want to lose the only time they have left to them to live their lives, mostly stolen from sleep
i mean even i don’t want to do anything about it and i love sleep, i just love overwatch more
this this this this this
our society places almost zero value on sleep
on enough sleep
on uninterrupted sleep
on regular, predictable, cycling sleep
all the evidence we have suggests sleep is really, really, really important to the processes of the human body, including both mental and physical health, and yet when was the last time you heard somebody suggest that people had a *right* to sufficient, regular sleep?
Reminder that
- Humans are not meant to sleep for extended periods of uninterrupted sleep.
By this I don’t mean “humans shouldn’t have 8+ hours of sleep a night”; I mean that we are supposed to sleep for four to five hours (ish), then get up and do something relaxing like reading for a half hour to an hour, then get another bout of four to five hours. This is what our bodies were designed for.
Sleeping the whole night through was a fad started with the advent of the lightbulb. Sleeping the whole night through is so recent (and artificial) that First Sleep and Second Sleep are mentioned in Dickens’ novels.
- Lack of sleep for even a single night severely compromises your immune system.
If you’re planning on getting little sleep or pulling an all-nighter, make sure to eat lots of fruit and veggies/take vitamins that day. Or even better, get yourself some bee propolis. It’s a natural remedy used for thousands of years in Latin America and is insanely good for boosting up compromised immune systems (if you get the drop kind, put 3 to 4 drops in a spoonful of honey and mix well with a 2nd spoon to mask the strong taste). It has no side effects and is all but impossible to overdose on.
- According to several government bodies around the world, chronic lack of sleep is literally tied for 1st place as the worst kind of torture (the other is solitary isolation)
- Expecting a teen to get up for 8:30 classes is the equivalent of expecting an adult to be at work at 4 am.
After babies, teens are the age group that needs the most amount of sleep. Puberty is exhausting, and the body needs time to recharge. Ideally, a teen should be getting between 10 to 12 hours of sleep at the bare minimum. Most teens are lucky if they manage to get 8. And that’s a gigantic problem; not only does lack of sleep affect mood (which is extra significant when your hormones are already riding a rollercoaster to begin with), but also has massive effects on growth, which is kinda what the whole puberty thing is supposed to be about.
- Humans were not designed to have the same sleep cycle across the species. Much the opposite in fact.
Night owls and morning people are an actual thing. Because we’re pack creatures, Nature came up with a clever way for our ancestors to always have someone on the lookout for predators and threats: make people naturally alert at varying times so that there’s always someone alert to keep watch.
Forcing night owls to follow morning people’s sleep cycle means night owls live with what researchers have referred to as “permanent jetlag”.
(points my shaking fist at high school) WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME
- They clean your air - They give you something to name - They give you something to take care of - They teach you about care, needs, and resources - They make you look like you’re good at decorating
Here are some of mine:
But some people, because they’re overwhelmed or simply can’t figure out how to start, think that plants are out of their reach.
If “Hozier” and “Florence + the machine” ever did a collab, it would be so dangerous to listen to anywhere apart from the middle of a forest, as moss would just start appearing around you, and branches would just grow from any surface you looked at
The Kickstarter that we’ve
spent the last several weeks preparing for is launching tomorrow
morning. I’ve been working on Pillowfort for over three years now, which
seems like a very long time. I distinctly remember the moment that I
first had the idea for Pillowfort: I was talking to a friend back in
2013 and she told me about how she’d been part of a forum for fiction
writers that had been close-knit and supportive, but that the forum had
eventually shut down and she hadn’t found any online communities since
to match what that group had meant to her. And it reminded me of the
amazing times I’d had on LiveJournal and other websites before they’d
started changing into something else and the user-base migrated
elsewhere, and how much I missed those unique experiences.
Thus
Pillowfort started out as a simple passion project: to make the kind of
site that would bring back the sense of community and togetherness that
earlier social media experiences had brought me, while still keeping
the ease of communication and global sharing that the newer sites
enabled. To simply make the kind of blogging site that I was yearning
for. But it was an ambitious project for one person; I worked on it on
my own for a few months, sometimes wondering if sinking so many hours
into this pie-in-the-sky dream was worth it. I ultimately decided to set
up an ‘official’ Tumblr account for Pillowfort and make a little
introductory post describing my ideas for the site, accompanied by some
screencaps of the site demo, and see if people would be interested in
what I was working on. I added some tags that seemed relevant and threw
the post into the ether, telling myself that if nobody responded to it
then that was that, and I’d move onto something else.
I checked the post
the next morning to see that it had somehow, inconceivably, collected
thousands of notes overnight, purely by being shared among people who
saw the post and had connected with the idea. Over the next week the
post would gather around 35,000 notes and be mentioned on other
websites. It was far more than I could have anticipated. At that point I
knew that I had something real, that thousands of other people wanted
as much as I did, and it would be a shame to let such an opportunity
go.
A lot is riding on this Kickstarter. Up until now
the project has mostly been worked on by volunteers; even I as the site
founder have had to find the time to work on Pillowfort in my free time,
but it’s become increasingly clear over the last year that if
Pillowfort is to truly grow into its potential, we’re going to need a
committed and consistent staff that can put in the hours to develop the
site as quickly as our growing base of users want it to. As proud as I
am of the progress that’s already been made, the site is still very much
in its infancy; there’s so much more that I want to do with Pillowfort,
but to make it happen we’re simply going to need the funds so that I
and my developers can afford to work on the site at least part time.
I’ve made the decision not to seek out VC investments because I want the
primary focus for expanding the site in the near future to be on how we
can make the site the best possible version of itself, not on
maximizing revenue to pay back our investors. I’ve seen the other social
media sites we’ve all used start to make decisions that were geared
more towards increasing earnings instead of improving user experience,
and the dream for Pillowfort is to create a social media site that can
stay focused on being user-friendly and efficient. It might be a naive
dream, who knows, but I’m determined to try it.
If you
can’t contribute to the Kickstarter but still want to help us out, the
best thing you can do for us is to share the link to the Kickstarter on
your other social media accounts– just spread the word, tell others how
much you like the site, and that will help us a great deal. The fact
that has always buoyed me most when working on this project got
frustrating was that Pillowfort is something most people seem to really
want, and that’s probably the biggest blessing we could have asked for.
Thank you, to all of you who have supported us this far; I’m so
encouraged by how far the site has already come and I hope that I can
realize the rest of this dream with your help.
Asexual panromantic. She/her.
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