new friend: gosh you are so intelligent and well-spoken
me: :)
me internally: you fool, that is because you are on level 2 friendship, by level 5 I will be mumbling nonsense and finishing every half-baked sentence with ‘ya know?’
Twenty-One Things You Don’t Say to a Transsexual by Riki Anne Wilchins.
The fact that I am the only transsexual you know only emphasizes that…we are secretly plotting to take over the planet Earth, and infiltrating your prevailing nontranssexual culture is just our first step
In TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 3, volume 1. 1994.
Games make us happy because they are hard work that we choose for ourselves, and it turns out almost nothing makes us happier than good, hard work.
We don’t normally think of games as hard work. After all, we play games, and we’ve been taught to think of play as the very opposite of work. But nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, as Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading psychologist of play once said, “The opposite of play isn’t work. It’s depression.”
When we’re depressed, according to the clinical definition, we suffer two things: a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity. If we were to reverse these two traits we’d get something like this: an optimistic sense of our own capabilities and an invigorating rush of activity. There’s no clinical psychological term that describes this positive condition. But it’s a perfect description of the emotional state of gameplay. A game is an opportunity to focus our energy, with relentless optimism, at something we’re good at (or getting better at) and enjoy. In other words, gameplay is the direct emotional opposite of depression.
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Reality is Broken, by Jane McGonigal
This book is fantastic and well worth reading even if you only play games and aren’t interested in making them. It’s about how games make us better and how they can change the world, by making it more gamelike and thus more motivating and rewarding.
I’m reblogging this because I’ve really been struggling out of a pit the last few months, today was especially bad, and this post gave me an immensely useful way of framing my attempts to refocus my brain. The opposite of depression is: being busy and energetic. And finding things that can provide “busy” and “energy” - finding ways to play - is actually INCREDIBLY useful for me.
It may not help at all for you. That’s okay. But this is something I’m going to try to carry with me, going forward.
question, why do delicious cakes cost so much to bake? okay cakes are cheap, but delicious ones cost like 30-40$ to get non pantry staple ingredients for
Take a cake mix from a box. Betty Crocker, Pillsbury, Duncan Hines, whatever the hell is on-sale.
They usually ask for you to add in some water, some cooking oil, and egg whites.
Fuck that bullshit.
Instead, replace water with milk (or buttermilk), use butter instead of oil, and use the whole goddamn egg. Toss in some extra vanilla extract.
If you want to make it a bit spiced, add in some cinnamon/nutmeg/allspice
Want to make it gently lemony? Zest some lemon peel into the batter.
Want it extra dense and moist? Add another fucking egg, half a package of vanilla pudding powder mix, and make sure to whip that batter extra hard and long.
they should remake breaking bad but instead of making and dealing meth it’s a suburban white mom who makes soap and the same levels of violence, gore, and drama remain
written by, directed by, and starring Chris Fleming
"The time has come," the walrus said, "to talk of many things."
Jesse, nerd extraordinaire. Trans man, queer-identified, anarcho feminist, and a gender-binary refusenik to boot. My idea of flirting is "Do you eat? I do. Want to do it in the same room sometime?"
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