So I was having a conversation with a friend about old anime and in the middle of it she forgot the word “canonical” and she instead inflicted a spectacular new aesthetic and slew of mental images on me by saying the phrase “Biblically Accurate Ouran High School Host Club”.
The term canonical does originally refer to biblical canon, so it is essentially a synonym for biblically accurate
Which is exactly why she used it! The problem is that I’m a feral agnostic and the connection I made was to the eldritch depictions of “Biblically Accurate Angels” so the image that popped into my head and that I’ve been compelled all week to draw was:
Blackout poetry exists on a dual axis from “banal” to “insightful” on the input side and “kind of deep” to “incredibly fucking dumb” on the output side, and while taking something banal and producing something kind of deep is well and fine, for my money taking something insightful and rendering it incredibly fucking dumb is where the real art is.
I wonder what kind of symbolism they’re trying to get at
“There are a lot of giant robot shows in Japan, and we did want our story to have a religious theme to help distinguish us. Because Christianity is an uncommon religion in Japan we thought it would be mysterious. None of the staff who worked on Eva are Christians. There is no actual Christian meaning to the show, we just thought the visual symbols of Christianity look cool. If we had known the show would get distributed in the US and Europe we might have rethought that choice.” -Kazuya Tsurumaki, assistant director/art director on Neon Genesis Evangelion
I’m sorry I just can’t get over this seal I found on tiktok. Why does it look like that???
pretty sure that’s a baikal seal, they live exclusively in a single lake in siberia and have huge fucked up eyes because they usually use visual cues to hunt during the day rather than tactile cues
incidentally, here’s an image of two mandarins in a 1:1 replica baikal seal skull to show how big their eyeballs are
bruh you mean lake baikal as in the deepest most fucked up lake in the world
FUCKING BRING BACK FORUMS. THEY RUN ON BASIC WEB SERVERS. IT JUST NEEDS PHP/MYSQL. THEY STILL EXIST. THEY DEPLOY OUT OF THE BOX. STOP ALLOWING THE MODERN WEB TO MAKE MONOLITHS.
TECH PEOPLE ESPECIALLY. FUCKING RUN YOUR OWN SHIT.
i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck
Hey you think necromancy would be more accepted if used for morally good things? Like reuniting orphans with their parents or bringing back dead pets? I’m ignoring what happened last time with the undead pets.
don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.
i’m 35 years old. i’ve been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.
i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.
spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.
sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i’ve been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i’m growing real fuckin weary of it.
i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she’s not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?
do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.
It may be weird to encounter because it’s not the trans narrative that the media sells to us as ‘the only valid way to be trans’, but the 'I always knew I was x’ is not all-encompassing.
Anon there are more people than you think who were girls who grew up into men, or boys who grew up into women, or girls or boys who grew up to be nonbinary. There is a rather obscure theory that girl and boy are distinct genders from man and woman and while the most common trajectory is that boys grow into men and girls grow into women it’s not the rule.
Let people define themselves.
also if you think genderfluid people are real and you’re not just humoring us, you by definition have to allow that gender can change over time. I was a girl once. I am not a girl now.
Chiming in with solidarity to OP.
I feel very protective of my former identity BECAUSE there’s so little room in the Mainstream Trans Narrative ™️ for allowing gender to change.
I was a girl. Now I’m genderqueer. Maybe later I will find different words for myself.
There has to be room for all of us in the trans community or there’s no point to any of this.
Ive been here long enough to see words like ftm/mtf, afab/amab, transmale/female, trans man/womanall go through the cycle of ppl telling you to “Dont use X word its out dated. Now use this Y word”. Only for a year or two pass and suddenly “Y word is outdated. Now use Z word” like yall this is exhausting. Just because a word is old doesn’t automatically make it a slur or offensive.
They’re pulling high school clique bullshit out and just replacing 'uncool’ with 'problematic’ and pretending it’s activism somehow. We’re trying to get work done here not everybody is going to keep up with the ever-rotating lexicon of words.
I used to be a member of the commentariat where I learned the phrase
THERE IS NO QUEER REVIEW BOARD
Which has kinda helped me be a bit better at being decent
‘we all came together after 9/11 as Americans’ no the fuck you didn’t, you started murdering and assaulting Muslims and people you thought were Muslim like directly after 9/11 happened, you all came together to religiously persecute and commit hate crimes. It’s not just Americans but internationally.
“A tongue-in-cheek program called sdate outputs the current date, formatted using the Eternal September calendar (September X, 1993, where X is an unbounded counter for days since that epoch).[11]”
Supernatural was a show about hetero American masculinity that was never made for queer people, that got reclaimed by the queer community, who managed to find their own experiences within the lines of the text.
The show then became a meta representation of itself, where the characters that started out as stereotypical masculine action heroes turned out to be trapped in that role against their will. In the canon of the show, they were literally being written into a trope that didn’t fit them.
Cas was a character who was never meant to stay in the show, but ended up lasting longer than any other side character because of what the fans wanted.
In the show’s canon, Cas was an angel who was never supposed to play the role in the story he ended up playing, but ended up gaining free will against the wishes of a vindictive writer.
Writers tend to lose control of shows in an utterly unique way that no other media tends to experience, and Supernatural is the logical extreme of that idea.
The queer community reclaimed this show so thoroughly that they made it their own, and warped it until the writers had no choice but to put the queerness into the very text of the show itself.
Supernatural could have ended as a show about the power of reclaiming your own story and breaking out of tropes, both literally and figuratively. It could have been a beautiful statement on the power of interpretation and a groundbreaking queer love story.
But it wasn’t. Because it’s Supernatural, and Supernatural is garbage, and it frankly makes sense that they would fuck up their one chance not to remembered as garbage, even when it was all written out for them.
But it doesn’t matter. Because in the end, queer people still managed to reclaim a story written with such a strong dislike for them. They managed to inject their own interpretation of that and continue to do so to this day. And that’s pretty fucking awesome.
judas was probably like “jesus has pulled off so many wacky things, he’ll get out of this one lickity split, and i get three shiny coins out of it, too”
“this work is problematic because of how it handles [subject]”: reasonable premise for media criticism
“this work is problematic because it depicts [subject]”: do not pass go do not collect $200 this is, as a general rule, a functionally reactionary and conservative argument
I think even more importantly:
“this work is problematic and you should be critical of the viewpoints it presents while engaging with it”: reasonable premise for media criticism
“this work is problematic therefore everyone who engages with it is evil”: do not pass go do not collect $200 this is, as a general rule, a functionally reactionary and conservative argument
obsessed with my partners cishet friend because he is literally only friends with transmascs. don’t call yourself a cis ally unless 90% of your circle is trans
fellas you are never going to believe what happened to her
every single instance of this post i can find cached on google leads to a deleted post for some insane reason so im gonna just repost the screenshot because ive been thinking about it for days
tumblr is special because I can make someone unhappy just by writing down my thoughts & then they’ll thank me and ask me for more
How dare you be right about this. Please continue
due to plaque buildup, human arteries are sometimes crunchy. also, the arteries themselves are made of a smooth, elastic (possibly gummy?) type of tissue.
therefore, I imagine that eating a diseased human artery would be a similar experience, texture-wise, to slurping one of THESE babies
Fun Fact! Two Weeks Notice is not a REQUIREMENT in any sense of the word. It’s a nicety. A polite gesture, and only polite for the MANAGEMENT because THEY want time to find someone to replace you. They cannot withhold your last paycheck if you refuse to give two weeks notice, and they cannot force you to work the two weeks. Additionally, they cannot report that to any future employers who call them regarding your work history. In fact, they’re not allowed to comment on your performance AT ALL! Legally they are only allowed to confirm that you were an employee during the dates you list - anything else and they open themselves up to civil lawsuits in which they can be sued for damages for any number of reasons. So fuck Two Weeks Notice. if you work for a fucked company, they deserve to get fucked in return.
If you ever feel bad about not giving two weeks’ notice, or like you’re being unprofessional/unfair, think about this:
If your boss fired you, would they give YOU two weeks’ notice? Or would they have you escorted out of the building then and there?
Anything they don’t owe you, you don’t owe them. Fuck ‘em.
Oh these are therapeutic
I’d just like to add a classic:
Recently quit my job with a whole lot of fuckery going on surrounding it, but I wanted to be professional and give my two weeks instead they told me your done at the end of the current week. I had a coworker who I was quitting with who submitted their letter at the same time who was kept for the full two weeks they said they were staying. Fuck two weeks notice. Just get the fuck out when you’re ready and make sure you’re taken care of.
My last job tried to whine about my lack of two weeks notice. I ended up giving a 13 day notice because I wanted my birthday off before I started my new job. My boss tried REALLY hard to guilt trip me. I laughed
