Reblog if, no matter the size of the role, you would agree to work with the Muppets if offered the chance to do so, no questions asked
THEY WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO FINISH THE PITCH BEFORE I TELL EM I’M IN
Recruiter: Hello, I’m with the Muppets and…
Me: Where do I sign?
Any artist who had worked with the Muppets said their call went just like this.
I only remember hearing about one person talk on a podcast about missing the chance because of a scheduling conflict. Sis was devastated. She was ready to upend her whole career to meet Kermit.
Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).
When you’re talking about the design of the boat, you say “it”.
When the boat is still being built, your say “it”.
When the boat is nearing completion, you can say “it” or “she”.
When the boat is floating in the water you probably say “she”, unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say “it”.
When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say “she”. If you continue to say “it” at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.
If you are referring to a boat you don’t really know anything about you may say “it” (“there’s a big boat, it’s coming this way”). But if you know its name, it’s probably “she” (“there’s the Waverley, she’s on her way to Greenock”).
If you are talking about boats in general, you say “it” (“when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over”)
If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it’s “she” (“she’s a grand boat”). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily (“it’s as ugly as sin”, “she’s a grotty old tub”).
If she has a boy’s name, she’s still she. “Boy James”, “King Edward”, “Sir David Attenborough”? The pronoun is she.
If it’s a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it’s a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.
I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.
its beyond fucking sad like. tumblr as a site. as a function. is great. it arguably still holds a pre-internet 3.0 concept up and keeps it alive (blogs as a community tool). It functions completely uniquely from other social media. parts that haven’t been eroded away by idiot companies playing hot potato are still great (i can still look through all of my posts with my archive tool, or make a new blog theme entirely).
All that had to be done was Not Dip Their Toes into the Transphobic Pool. Which isn’t a hard request. It’s literally just “respect the people that want to be trans and be happy and tell people that are slinging harassment at them to Fuck off”.
Sure, they also need to not let the site erode more and more into this ugly little amalgam of a barely functioning ad-ridden Twitter wannabe that requires at least 2 different mobile add-ons to even function properly. But like. I’d happily support them monetarily if they weren’t the most cartoonishly Scummy site.
Like I’m still on twitter and it’s a cesspool. But there at least it’s funny that “Cis” is considered a word that Musk wants censored for “Spreading hate speech”.
Here I have to confront the fact, every few days, that whoever moderates the site will happily either Delete Trans/POC blogs without hesitation, or, if we wanna be generous, nobody moderating the site Gives a Shit and just lets Transphobe/racist hategroups run rampant on the report system.
And don’t fucking forget what happened to Avery/Rita! I don’t want to spread word about her without her approval, but I will say, people have no fucking clue how bad things got for her after what happened, and the fact that she’s put up such a strong face when she was literally in the “Public’s” Eye as a Trans Woman the CEO of a website stalked and harassed even after he personally demanded all of her blogs be Permanently erased, is beyond the pale of what should be asked for her, or any trans or poc person.
I don’t know why i’m “lucky” enough that, even though i have a respectable amount of followers, i rarely have to deal with “issues” or hate. maybe it’s because i grew up on forums, and have learned that the best way top deal with Shitheads is to just block them ASAP. but i’ve been on this site since 2011, and it’s the reason i have my girlfriend, and all my current friends that i want to meet one day. And the fact that it’s eroding in probably the worst way possible, for such an easily fixable and specifically targeted reason, drives me insane.
It doesn’t have to be this way! Staff literally just has to Actually Give a Shit about its Trans and POC bloggers! We like it here even though people make it hard to!
Apparently people who don’t have executive dysfunction think that actually working on something is the hardest part of doing something. And that’s why they get mad that you call the rest of the project “easy” after you’ve finally worked through doing the plan and know what to do when you’re working.
So when you’re through with the epiphany of how to make it physically possible to make the thing you’re making, and you’re sharing the plan with excitement, because the hard part is over, and now you only have to get your hands moving and do it, they get mad at you like
“it’s not that easy! It’s a lot of hard work! >:C”
they mean it, because
to them, working is the hardest part.
They don’t have to fight their brains to get started. They don’t have to fight their way through making the choices, making the plan, making yourself make the thing. People who don’t suffer from executive dysfunction think that the hardest part is actually doing the thing.
when you have executive dysfunction, it’s like… you’ve just clawed your way up a long steep embankment of loose gravel, and you flop exhausted into the construction site, and you’re like “oh thank fuck, time to lay some bricks, i absolutely could do this all day” and the guy who drove to the site goes “what’s wrong with you man bricklaying is hard graft!”
not as hard as crawling up the gravel mountain bro
there’s also good hard and bad hard. doing the thing might be hard, but at least you’re doing it; it’s good hard. just getting to the thing in the first place is hard and it’s fucking miserable. executive dysfunction puts so many bad hard things in your way before you can get to even the good hard things.
sometimes i describe it as my transmission is broken, every thing else works fine but no matter how hard I pump the gas pedal, I ain’t getting anywhere because I can’t
Keep seeing that post where OP starts like ‘Thinking about…grieving the undead’ and then adds on about like. Real life situations where people have not died but have left your life and you would have reason to grieve them.
All respect, that’s an important concept, but that is not what I am thinking about when I read ‘grieving the undead’.
No need to keep this in the tags, you’re completely right about this scenario!
tfw a tumblr post makes you yeet out of bed at approximately 4am to turn on the lights and rummage through your closet in your underwear because you KNOW you have a relevant poem printed out in a folder in the crate on the top shelf!!!!
anyway here’s “Adjusting to the Light” by Miller Williams
furries with complex identities are the coolest people to be around. like i see you autistic, plural, queer, objectum, therian with a slime/pooltoy fursona. you are realer than all of us babygirl.
