✦ Oh Yeah. They'd Be Friends.

can people please stop filming the entire fucking world around them for public consumption? and especially random fucking strangers who you did not ask???

I work at a park and man the front desk. and I'm photographed and filmed a lot. I'm talking easily 20+ times per day. most of the times, it's parents filming me swearing in their kids as junior rangers. which. they're intending to film their kids. what they get is me and the back of their kids' heads.

there's this recurring problem that like. people forget we're real people? like yeah you're filming your kid, but you're filming me interacting with your kid. I could count the amount of times someone has asked me permission to do this in the past year on one hand. and sometimes that's after they already start filming.

Like, I'm not an actor. I did not agree to this. You could be a dick and make the argument that I'm a public figure, but I'm not. This is not a persona and my uniform is not a costume. I'm a person trying to do my job and help people and teach them about science and history. And you know what makes it harder to do that? The knowledge that anything I say or do could end up shared with thousands of people. The fact that if I fuck up the wording of this kid's junior ranger pledge, or I sneeze, or make some basic mistake, it's not just a funny or embarrassing moment for me and this one family. It could end up on tiktok.

And okay, those are the people intending to film their own kids and not thinking or caring about the collateral. What's worse is the people who film everything. A few times a week some guy walks into the visitor center, phone already horizontal in front of their face, narrating what they're doing and seeing. They come up to the desk and ask me questions, phone in my face. They take wide establishing shots of the visitor center and every visitor in it. None of us agreed to this! None of these people consented to be in your youtube video! We are not the fucking set dressing of whatever travel instagram story you're making!

I don't know where I'm going with this. This is really only the tip of the iceberg. Sometimes people ask us to repeat what we just did - swear in their kid, or explain a detail, or hand them a fucking map - so they can get a second take, and they're already filming so if we say no we look like the asshole. Sometimes we're asked innocuous things like to point out a landmark, and next week there's a photo of us in the 15,000 member Rangers Pointing at Things facebook group (yep, real thing). One time my entire 45 minute evening program was filmed without my permission and I was informed after the fact. This happens all the time, and I'm giving park ranger examples, but this happens to so many people in service work or public positions every single fucking day.

I guess just, next time you go to film in a public space, take a second. Think about who you're about to film, if they agreed to that, what might happen if a video of them went viral. there's a reason I'm not out as trans at work. And then, maybe. don't. or at least fucking ask.

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT HUMANS ARE MADE OF STARDUST. INSIDE OF EACH OF YOU ARE CHEMICALS ONLY OTHERWISE FOUND IN SUPERNOVAS AKA GIANT RAINBOW DEATH EXPLOSIONS.

NO MATTER HOW MYCH YOU HATE YOURSELF, NO MATTER HOW MANY MISTAKES YOU MAKE, NO MATTER IF YOU THINK YOURE NEVER GETTING BETTER PLEASE REMEMBER THAT ALL OF YOU HAVE REMNANTS OF GIANT RAINBOW DEATH EXPLOSIONS INSIDE OF YOUR APE FLESH BODY. YOU ARE AMAZING.

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Misogyny.

I am a fictionkin and fictive, a person for whom in my own daily life there IS a blurred line between fiction and reality, between what I know about characters from what's written about them in their source and what I know as my own truth because I know them as people.

So why, tell me why, that 19 years later, since 2006!, why I am STILL the one here reminding people that you have to maintain a separation between those two things when discussing a piece of fiction in its context as fiction?

Your "headcanons" the things you "just know" about a character aren't TRUE in any meaningful way in terms of discussing the piece of fiction as a piece of fiction. They're not relevant facts to anyone else, they're personal.

Why am I still the one who has to be here saying this almost 20 years later?

If you're just talking about your personal experiences its fine not to acknowledge any kind of separation, but when you're dialoging with other fans or talking about the source material as a piece of fiction you have GOT to acknowledge that there's a separation.

union cut off my insurance so until may 1st im not gonna have some of my antidepressants :(((( what da hell!!!

That list i made was pretty slim

Heres a Google doc with tons of character creating resources

You can use these for alterhuman purposes aswell.

Google Docs

Character and persona maker resources

Id like to note that you can use literally almost any form of visual art to represent yourself, talent doesn't matter. Anti AI character de

Thank you to everyone who suggested on the previous post, I will update this list as much as I can

Reminder: never resort to ai.

not the twitter migrants putting "reblog heavy" in their bios on here... like yeah. that's what we do here

taboo kinks like pedophilia/rape/incest are not innate to transfemininity or to queerness or to autism and this current wave of attempts to naturalize them as such is alarming and suspicious