#aged like fucking milk

[asiogie]

im shaking while typing this. they didnt get home from that party and have old town road sex did t.hey

#aged like fucking milk

[lotusdumpling]

Are you having an existential crisis because you were never interested in Young Justice TV but now lack the context necessary to read fic with Khaji Da even though you read Blue Beetle, or are you normal?

#blue beetle #khaji da #jaime reyes #look #young justice tv is cool and all #but it was never quite my thing #that just means i have no context for fanfic #i cant even begin with how i wanna read more about miss martian from the comics #‟are you a white martian‟ ‟yes and no it's complicated‟ #WTF DOES THAT MEAN #I feel like I'll never get an explanation #as a mixed kid tho i choose to believe she's mixed #this is off topic #my point is god i love khaji da but ive not watched most of yjtv season 1 #much less whatever season blue beetle shows up in #im cringey and love ridiculous dumbass comic shenanigans #with spicy moments #thats why i read blue beetle! #and superboy i talk about that one a lot #aged like fucking milk #lotus rambles #lotus petals

[andthebeanstalk]

Today my therapist introduced me to a concept surrounding disability that she called "hLep".

Which is when you - in this case, you are a disabled person - ask someone for help ("I can't drink almond milk so can you get me some whole milk?", or "Please call Donna and ask her to pick up the car for me."), and they say yes, and then they do something that is not what you asked for but is what they think you should have asked for ("I know you said you wanted whole, but I got you skim milk because it's better for you!", "I didn't want to ruin Donna's day by asking her that, so I spent your money on an expensive towing service!") And then if you get annoyed at them for ignoring what you actually asked for - and often it has already happened repeatedly - they get angry because they "were just helping you! You should be grateful!!"

And my therapist pointed out that this is not "help", it's "hLep".

Sure, it looks like help; it kind of sounds like help too; and if it was adjusted just a little bit, it could be help. But it's not help. It's hLep.

At its best, it is patronizing and makes a person feel unvalued and un-listened-to. Always, it reinforces the false idea that disabled people can't be trusted with our own care. And at its worst, it results in disabled people losing our freedom and control over our lives, and also being unable to actually access what we need to survive.

So please, when a disabled person asks you for help on something, don't be a hLeper, be a helper! In other words: they know better than you what they need, and the best way you can honor the trust they've put in you is to believe that!

Also, I want to be very clear that the "getting angry at a disabled person's attempts to point out harmful behavior" part of this makes the whole thing WAY worse. Like it'd be one thing if my roommate bought me some passive-aggressive skim milk, but then they heard what I had to say, and they apologized and did better in the future - our relationship could bounce back from that. But it is very much another thing to have a crying shouting match with someone who is furious at you for saying something they did was ableist. Like, Christ, Jessica, remind me to never ask for your support ever again! You make me feel like if I asked you to call 911, you'd order a pizza because you know I'll feel better once I eat something!!

Edit: crediting my therapist by name with her permission - this term was coined by Nahime Aguirre Mtanous!

Edit again: I made an optional follow-up to this post after seeing the responses. Might help somebody. CW for me frankly talking about how dangerous hLep really is.

#hlep #original #mental health #my sympathies and empathies to anyone who has to rely on this kind of hlep to get what they need. #the people in my life who most need to see this post are my family but even if they did I sincerely doubt they would internalize it #i've tried to break thru to them so many times it makes my head hurt. so i am focusing on boundaries and on finding other forms of support #and this thing i learned today helps me validate those boundaries. the example with the milk was from my therapist. #the example with the towing company was a real thing that happened with my parents a few months ago while I was age 28. 28! #a full adult age! it is so infantilizing as a disabled adult to seek assistance and support from ableist parents. #they were real mad i was mad tho. and the spoons i spent trying to explain it were only the latest in a long line of #huge family-related spoon expenditures. distance and the ability to enforce boundaries helps. haven't talked to sisters for literally the #longest period of my whole life. people really believe that if they love you and try to help you they can do no wrong. #and those people are NOT great allies to the chronically sick folks in their lives. #you can adore someone and still fuck up and hurt them so bad. will your pride refuse to accept what you've done and lash out instead? #or will you have courage and be kind? will you learn and grow? all of us have prejudices and practices we are not yet aware of. #no one is pure. but will you be kind? will you be a good friend? will you grow? i hope i grow. i hope i always make the choice to grow. #i hope with every year i age i get better and better at making people feel the opposite of how my family's ableism has made me feel #i will see them seen and hear them heard and smile at their smiles. make them feel smart and held and strong. #just like i do now but even better! i am always learning better ways to be kind so i don't see why i would stop

[adh-d2]

It's not so much that I needed Tech to be alive.

I wanted Tech to live, but I grieved his character when he died.

Then the hints started coming. The narrative focus shifted to this mysterious new character and signaled that he was important somehow. The theories started spreading. Week after week the 'camera' lingered on long, slow shots of a helmet that wouldn't come off.

So yeah, I stopped grieving. The longer it went on the more convinced I became that this must be Tech, because clearly it was someone important. Otherwise it would just be poor writing. This show isn't written poorly.

Case-in-point, what a beautiful finale. My heart was in my throat the entire time. I cried. I loved it. Taken on its own, I'd go so far as to say it was perfect.

-

Except for the fact that the CX plotline came to nothing. Seriously. We've followed it all season, and it came to nothing? I'm not even clear on what happened. There were more of them. They were kind of an anti-Bad-Batch? Except not really? There was a big one that pulled Wrecker's signature move. There was one with knives. They were regs? I think? One lost its helmet in a background shot so I guess we can conclude they were all regs. With different builds. And different accents. I suppose it doesn't matter, since they all died after a few minutes of screentime having meant nothing to the protagonists. They were a boss fight. The plot marches on.

-

It's entirely possible I got too caught up in the speculation. Maybe when I look back on all the posts I wrote and liked and reblogged it will be obvious that we were reaching. But right now from here in the thick of it, I swear there's so much to see! Do you mean to tell me they really didn't notice it in the writers room? That it was all a complete coincidence?

Would it have been better if someone on the creative team had just come out and confirmed that Tech wasn't coming back? I don't know. I don't think they were obligated to. But when a good 50% of the discourse about your show ending is speculation on this particular CX character, and the answer isn't even a different plot twist, but that the character means nothing at all...well, you can see how the team could have avoided some disappointment.

Maybe this is a bad take. I don't know how I feel. I wish I could have enjoyed the finale without having to grieve again for a character we'd already lost.

For now I'll end by saying that I loved this show and I can't wait to rewatch it someday on its own merit, without the spectre of 'is-it-could-it-be-no-please-let-it-be' clouding my judgement.

#the bad batch #the bad batch spoilers #tbb spoilers #tbb season 3 spoilers #tbb season 3 #sw tbb #tbb meta #the bad batch meta #tbb discussion #the bad batch discussion #tbb analysis #the bad batch season 3 spoilers #the bad batch analysis #tbbs3e15 #The Cavalry Has Arrived #star wars meta #the bad batch season 3 #tbb Tech #sw meta #CX 2 #CX Tech #tech lives #fuck that tag hurts right now #damn this post was a novel #thank you for listening if you made it this far #you trooper #ADH-D2's Patented Bullshit #well this whole blog just aged like milk #it's been a wild ride

[thiziri]

Anne really chose well, If you look at Andrew and Mark, Tim's still outshining them he's still sexy and gorgeous unlike those two.

He aged like fine wine ✨

#HE'S SO HANDSOME #AND SO FUCKING HOT #sir 🥵🥵🥵 #this man will be the death of me #AND THEY GOT WHAT THEY DESERVE #AGING LIKE MILK ✨ #tim laurence #timothy laurence #asks

[my-slideshow-wmv]

few questions i wanted to ask. i know the video's like 9+ years old now, but whatever happened to that video you had on your old youtube that was just a still image of raj from camp lazlo with you narrating over it telling people to not watch montage parodies, and what was the tune that accompanied it? because i completely forgot it was for years now. also, are there any aspects of florida that you kinda miss which you feel like you really can't get in chicago?

basically asking "song name?" on a video i not only made but also DELETED a decade ago is admirable dedication. here u go homie ur journey finally ends tonight thank u for the patience✌️🤝

#regarding chicago: i miss the atlantic ocean but sometimes when its super windy lake michigan gets choppy sorta like the sea❤️💔 #regarding the vid itself: im sorry if u feel different but that video was cringe as fuck its just me circa 2014 complaining abt meme trends #momentary pettiness always ages like milk its healthier to let it get vanquished to an abyss than immortalize it forever imo

[mystarwarsmatters]

Don’t worry y’all, Twitter is still trying to convince everyone that TLJ was a good movie and SW fans are the problem 6 years later.

#Happy anniversary you absolute fuck of a film #anti disney star wars #anti tlj #anti rian johnson #anti kylo ren #anti reylo #It was in fact not a good film #not just as a Star Wars movie but actually as a movie by itself #it’s very hard to watch bc how can you care about anyone in it? #not including the real life actors #Continue to age like milk TLJ

[kaz-oooo]

I mean out of everything in Hbomberguy’s new video, I think the thing about James Somerton that just irks me the most is just… he’s a queer man who is so lazy and self absorbed that he cannot take the time to even learn about the queer history and media he is presenting.. about his own history!

I just! Look, with all the other creators I understand the laziness —they’re all just churning out content as fast as they can (save for internet historian cos he posts pretty infrequently), none of them care about the games and films they’re reviewing, about MLM’s and shitty corporations or about guys getting trapped in caves. They don’t care y’know, it’s easier to disrespect the sources they’re stealing from if they have no emotional attachment to the topics.

But James is gay.. he’s a queer man… he is apart of this community, I mean not to excuse his shitty misogynistic rants (cos they’re shitty and there’s no excuse for them) but that hatred comes from somewhere, Harris joked that “some straight woman hurt him” and like… I wouldn’t be surprised if James genuinely has felt pushed aside and forgotten because of his identity as a gay man….. but like if that’s the case then he understands queer erasure, he has experienced it firsthand and fucking… it’s incredibly disappointing to see him plagiarise queer voices on such a massive scale!

But idk. I originally found James Somerton because I was watching video essays about queer history and queer media analysis — y’know, actively going out there to learn my history and how it affects media in the present — James can’t even be fucked watching the shows he’s talking about. What is Arthur? Who is Mako?? Wtf is a Shonan??? Calling Becky Albertalli a straight woman, misgendering cast members in Owl House and Shera because (and I severely hope this is the case! Though at this point nothing would surprise me) he assumes they are all straight women, the whole thing with Disney’s gay nights and gay days… these are all such basic, simple facts that anyone could learn by looking at a fucking Wikipedia article (or in the case of mispronouncing Mako’s name.. just watching a single clip from the show).

It just really goes to show how little he actually cares about the content he’s making.. his videos aren’t passionate video essays, it’s content, views, money, sponsorships, it’s taking the 3 or 4 articles he read when he typed “movie gay” into google and making them look flashy and professional with pretty lighting so he can just shut out all the voices he doesn’t want to hear (actual queer people.. and I guess one right wing nut head) and make a quick buck off the content they worked hard to make!

Anyway. Top tier video from Hbomberguy as per usual. Im fucking mad but hey! At least I got an epic list of new YouTubers to check out and like a *shitload* of articles and books and documentaries I can go watch :)

#hbomberguy #james somerton #for the record when I heard Defunctland and Hbomberguy were gonna be uploading videos around similar times again #I messaged a friend and joked that *at least Hbomberguy’s video will cheer me up like the Oof video did* last time #fucking aged like milk there.. I am like genuinely so angry about the fucking scale of this shit!!! good video but goddamn!!!!!!!! #so keen to go through that list of other queer creators though.. some of them looked great #(also if y’all know other creators shout em out #im always keen to find new creators.. especially queer ones!!)

[ozzieinspacetime]

Forgot to post abt the last few tmagps but. I'm sensing a polyarchives 2.0 and I am THRILLED about it,, Gwen/Teddy/Alice/Samama/Celia I believe in you <3 you can succeed where Sasha/Tim/John/Martin failed. You can be the miserable polyamorous rep I need!!! Trust me guys I can see it.

#I am the CEO of polyam crackships btw. i loooove to shove people together and say they should snog eachothers boyfriends #anyway. polychives 2.0 need a better name #<- maybe OIARmory or government sanctioned horror polycule or some shit idk #also i dont know if Collin should be involved for some reason i get aroace vibes from him. i can see it tho! #watch this age like MILK when next thursdays episode comes out. watch one of them fucking die or something #the magnus protocol #tmagp vague #polyarchives #tmagp #edit: i. dont know why i wrote trevor instead of teddy but its fixed now!! be aware!!!!

[roychewtoy]

impaled

#nathan being impaled on that tetanus inducing loose steel pipe. tho tetanus is the least of his worries on account of. well u know 🕳 #nathan can be a body horror fans best friend if u let him into ur heart. living human crash dummy #i really cant believe he gets impaled. twice. #hole moment! #love turning nathans immortality round in my head. but healing factor....? #thinkin today about how the video game guy tim threatens to cut one of them in half with a chainsaw and simon is like: #[😐nathan u obviously have to volunteer] #but what woulda actually happened if that followed through [probably why it didnt lol] #would the others have had to drag each severed bit of him back to the community centre and let his guts re fuse #fucking hold him together with gaffer tape and plasters. cause i doubt he coulda regrown a whole half #his 'healing factor' only comes into play when he dies. fresh canvas etch a sketch reboot and all that. hes not fuckin wolverine #all the deaths r: impaled on fence. impaled on pipe. beaten to death. blows his own brains out. falls and snaps his neck #but chainsaw... ? one can ponder. fingers to head i can imagine anything image #readin his wiki rn 'his body will never get sick. rot. age. or truly grow old' #may not get sick but he can still shit his guts out. hashtag oblivious lactose intolerant king hashtag milk drinker #forever the worlds most annoying twenty yr old #and then the wiki goes 'the user does not need to eat drink or breathe' ....hello #ive rotated him not aging any further cause it lines up with the whole stuck in his ways. never changing [kelly voice: its just who u are] #but eatin and drinking and breathing??? we know he still experiences hunger [<-kebab] #and he dunks his head in a bucket of water when hes testin for powers with simon. gaspin for air afterwards right #firm believer in the. he suffocated to death several times in the coffin before they dug him up #oh waaait. is it stating this like. he doesnt need foodwaterair. cause it doesnt matter if he dies.. ohhhhhh..... Oh..😃 #staring at nathan sleeping in the community centre surviving on bags of crisps from the vendies so hard i burn holes through my monitor #this got away from me. uh. living crash dummy. oil pastel guts and water colour jumpsuit yessir #having fun doin art. expect more hole art. sorryfor putting this in the misfits tag hehe. not really #gore #blood #misfits #my art #chewtoy

[friesian]

i've been a bloke who's done fuck all today. and by fuck all i mean i've been watching a large chunk of the beverly hillbilly video.

#petticoat junction has aged like SPOILED MILK. #however quintons dad is fucking hilarious. i love him. i wish he was my dad. #ly talks

[jinzouactor]

Mayfly in Milk - links masterpost

Like a Mayfly in Milk - A Minegishi-centric (shimamine) fancomic, concerning the events before and after the downfall of Claw. This is a masterpost of links to each chapter for ease of access, tb updated as I go.

Read it on my website for improved navigation

tumblr links below;

Act I

1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3

read full (pixiv)

Act II

2.1 | bonus | 2.2 | 2.3a | 2.3b | 2.4 | 2.5 | 2.6

read full (pixiv)

Interlude (illustrated by Kesobun)

Act III

3.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.5

obligatory disclaimer:

yeah i know about the fanbook and its massively unfortunate. im really not in support of that kind of age gap in fiction or real life. ive never seen shimamine or minegishi through that lens and i dont plan to start. i want to continue to write aged up version that I'd been writing long before the info was released.

check chapter 2.1 for the ages i established them at like ~7 years before the wd-arc which would put shimamine at about 29 and 30. this comic will have shimamine i'd fully understand if that makes you uncomfortable. i encourage you to block me and i avoid putting overt shimamine content in generic tags.

also, please if you like shimamine while accepting the large age gap i also don't rly want you to follow me. i don't want my work viewed under that lens.

#if anything is inconsistent its because i didnt know how big this project of mine was gonna be at the time #so i didnt give any thought to chapter conventions or whatever #minegishi toshiki #shimazaki ryou #shimamine #mp100 #like a mayfly in milk #edit: dont come at me about the fanbook、it came out just as shit was getting good in mayfly #its fucked up that shimamine aren't the same age. im ignoring it #peep chapter 2 for the ages i guesstimated them to be at when they joined the s5 #so that puts them both just over/under 30 in a post-claw setting

[astrobei]

if @wiseatom ends up predicting s5 i’m committing homicide

#please #PLEEEEEEEASE #THIS ENTIRE MESSAGE CHAIN AGED LIKE MILK #fucking crying #thea oh my god #will byers #/astro posts

[7-ferrets-in-a-coat]

Well, this aged like fucking milk

This was like 2 days before the whole situation was uncovered

#aged like milk #support victims #fuck wilbur soot

[scalproie]

"story in fighting games doesnt matter" maybe so but mk12 had me so mad I made myself sick with despair for a few days meanwhile for every second I dont think about tekken 8, one of my braincell dies

#wheres that one post of mine that aged like milk? the “tekken story is worse than mk” one #anyway t8 has been the one (1) thing that kept me going this january and I owe it my fucking life #it gave me so much #tagging later

[spaciebabie]

Remember when you said "I dont go here and probably never will" about cotl? That's hilarious to think back on now

BWAHAHHAHA YEAH i dont think it'll be a hyperfixation type deal but i am quite enjoying playing the game :3

gotta thank the people on my dash and friends for being coocoo crazy about that game otherwise i never would have gotten it lol

#LOL YOU REMEMBER THAT ASKJHFJA #see this is how the tumblr ecosystem is supposed 2 work. find new interests and cool games via diffusion #if this ask ages like spoiled milk. well. i guess thats how the tides will be #see i thought it was a turn based rpg and i fucking hate those they're so boring 2 me #undertale and deltarune are the only exception b/c there's bullet hells and im actually playing something sjdfsdhf #spacie splains #but then i got the game and it was killing thangs and i love killing thangs :3333 #it does a good job at balancing the dungeon crawling cult building and other stuff #im very picky so i wasnt sure i would like it ajfhjfdhs #like i started playing omori but its like. pokemon type mechanics and . ive heard the story is worth it #but i cant slog my way thru these boring ass battles 😭 #im probably gonna play it thru multiple times at different difficulties (heh get it) #i started playing it at 9pm yesterday and then played for like 5 minutes and all of the sudden it was 1 am AHGUAUAAHAHHA #BLOO WAS RIGHT ITS VERY ADDICTING #i think imma get a controller 2 play it. using a mouse is quite hard 😭