Today on Tumblr a 14-year-old told me I was something-coded and said I should join their something RP. I am 36 years old, and I am not anything-coded because I am not fictional, I am a real person. Don't talk to real people like that. It's messed up.

Read/watched LOTR -> watched stuff LOTR cast was in -> really, REALLY liked Sharpe (Sean Bean miraculously doesn't die) -> went to Gettysburg College for degree in military history/Civil War Era Studies -> thesis professor said I should look into archives -> am now archivist with Master's degree

We're at the Middle Earth map. We're at the subway map. We're at the combination Middle Earth and Subway map! And you could be too! These maps and more are for sale on my Etsy page! They make great presents for yourself and others! #LOTR #maps #subway www.etsy.com/shop/Surpris...

I'm so tired. I'm so, so tired of being considered the worse option over literally being dead. There are people who think I would be better if I was dead instead of being me. It is exhausting to go through your entire life like this and know that every person you tell could want that.

Except it is an evidence-based claim and they think it's better to be dead than be like me.

A shame I can't put "preeminent expert on rail travel in the Pokemon video game franchise" on a resume because at this point I think that is who I am

Mine is less happy. When I was a senior in high school, Tyler Clementi was a freshman.

I analyzed the train from the opening of #PokemonZA because I need better hobbies: www.tumblr.com/1863-project...

STOP MAKING THE DISPATCHER HOLD ME, I DON'T LOVE HIM

My phone just autocorrected Chiitan to "Chattanooga" and all that likely says about me is that I don't shut up about trains. Anyway, what I was going to say is that Chiitan is going far, far further than how people use Gritty's image at this point and it is WONDERFUL.

You can love someone you love even if you don't love yourself🏳️‍⚧️ But if you love yourself, you can love both yourself and the person you love. Your love becomes twofold. So take care of yourself. Your soul is beautiful.

NJ Transit's app is down right now due to this, actually, if you're in NJ and having a hard time commuting this morning...it's the same Cloudflare issue described here.

My driver's license expires next year so perhaps I will finally be able to get a REAL ID appointment this time if I book it literal months in advance, because they make this as inaccessible as possible.

Woke up with a mild headache and of course it has progressed to migraine status so work hasn't been fun today. Sigh.

EEL SKIRT

Public transit should be free, and universal basic income protects disabled people (and everyone else!) from abusive situations. These aren't remotely extreme positions AND YET-

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I miss when grocery stores were less bright and less loud. All stores, really. Lighting is now too bright and retailers blast music too loudly (and it's the retail workers who suffer most due to the exposure). I also miss stealing coupons from the mounted red dispensers with the blinking lights.

Reminder that if there is stuff that's going to bring up trauma or trigger you in the news or on social media today you are under NO obligation to keep scrolling or "stay informed." Do what's right for your safety first and take care of yourselves, okay?

She will likely reconsider the second she finds out Hoboken also has a large issue with unhoused folks and not enough shelter or resources for them and all the friction that causes there, because those are the people she is afraid of (instead of supporting things to help them...like free buses).

One time in the 1980s my dad was in Ohio for business and someone asked him if gangs from NYC crossed the bridges to come attack people in New Jersey. (My dad was baffled.) People will really come up with the most outlandish narratives to justify their bigotry.

Boy, did I miss some stuff in the news when I was working today! Well!

Haru Urara! I don't play Uma musume but watching people play it and learning about the game through the socials, I absolutely adore this girl and her story. I also love her eyes. they're so unique and fun to render~

It's Armistice Day so I need to post this again, arguably the best ending to a television series I've ever seen. It's handled so beautifully. youtu.be/NgyB6lwE8E0?...

new yorkers:

Went clothes shopping today, discovered that I actually feel hot in a suit. I probably should wear more suits. I like the idea of being a pretty woman in a cool suit. The one I got today is green.

This genuinely does sound like a character name I would come up with, to be fair

I had to share the coat thread, I'm not even sorry. I am known for my deep love of giant overcoats and we are moving into the brief time of the year in which I get to break mine out and actually look cool for a few months. I am only fashionable in winter.

Fall is here and many of you may be shopping for an overcoat. Let me show what you can get as you move up the price ladder. 🧵

You from a different era: My prom photo from 2006. It always stings to look at it because this was from before I got sick. I was finishing up my junior year of high school. I still looked healthy. I didn't have Hashimoto's thyroiditis yet. I miss not being sick.

Watching POTUS actually attempt to starve people - including many people who likely voted for him - is astronomically infuriating. Marie Antoinette never actually said "Let them eat cake," but Trump now has via his actions here.

Alarmingly accurate, as someone who has spent her adult life deeply enjoying her status as designated driver because I hate the taste of alcohol and am extremely autistic about driving

THE ENGINEER CATS I'M SCREAMING

I keep forgetting India is getting E5 Shinkansen trainsets and then I remember and get jealous

EOS? More like EMU. No locomotive in sight so clearly this is a multiple unit. Selling makeup. In retrospect it is verrrry clear why I have never fit in with the neurotypical women.

oh wow New Jersey was mostly won on persuasion not turnout www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

I believe a certain Mr. Ohtani has one of these dogs, actually...Dekopin!

Have genuinely wondered this for years given how many people go there by bus or car. Putting a station here would be the logical choice, and yet...

I voice the brave Korok warrior CALAMO in HYRULE WARRIORS: AGE OF IMPRISONMENT. This character was an absolute joy to play, and it was really cool to get to be a part of a Zelda game. The game is available now on Nintendo Switch 2.

Thread. Study is peer-reviewed. This is potentially incredible.

This is because living with cats teaches you basic decency (/j)

Delighted to see folks learning about Eugene V. Debs tonight, who got his start with union organizing as a fireman. You can thank trains for the IWW in a roundabout sort of way. Debs was a member of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and American Railway Union at varying points.

Charlotte's transport referendum has won. 1% sales tax increase is expected to generate $19 billion/20 years, funding: —Transit (40%): Red Line commuter rail, Silver Line light rail, Gold Line extension, Blue Line extension —Road projects (40%) —Bus improvements, creating frequent bus network (20%)

It's election day! To all my fellow US folks: make sure you get out & vote. The eels demand it of you. Eels, of course, are citizens of the world. So they can't vote in local elections, and they have to rely on you to do it for them. Even if you won't vote for you, be a proxy vote for an eel! 🗃️🧪

Some really important autistic history in this book, including @autisticadvocacy.org's involvement with the diagnostic changes from the DSM IV to DSM V (many people don't realise there was some input), and so much more! Always a book I will recommend.

Important update: Forever Young did win on Saturday and his Uma Musume counterpart was teased within literal minutes

More and more I notice fewer and fewer people putting effort into Halloween costumes (especially over the past few years). It's actually really depressing and a sign of how people increasingly don't have the time or money to be creative.

Currently in the archives at work doing a workplace training module and thinking about how I walked in here as me but will be walking out of here in several hours as Gold Ship because I have to have fun to survive