im like oohhh i want people to send me asks but also when i get an ask i have to let it sit in my inbox for a long time while i try and formulate a response and then still end up giving a really dead and uninteresting response oh yeah i dont understand how to talk to people
Did you have a kid in your neighborhood who always hid so good, nobody could find him? We did. After a while we would give up on him and go off, leaving him to rot wherever he was. Sooner or later he would show up, all mad because we didn’t keep looking for him. And we would get mad back because he wasn’t playing the game the way it was supposed to be played.
There’s hiding and there’s finding, we’d say. And he’d say it was hide-and-seek, not hide-and-give-UP, and we’d all yell about who made the rules and who cared about who, anyway, and how we wouldn’t play with him anymore if he didn’t get it straight and who needed him anyhow, and things like that. Hide-and-seek-and-yell. No matter what, though, the next time he would hide too good again. He’s probably still hidden somewhere, for all I know.
As I write this, the neighborhood game goes on, and there is a kid under a pile of leaves in the yard just under my window. He has been there a long time now, and everybody else is found and they are about to give up on him over at the base. I considered going out to the base and telling them where he is hiding. And I thought about setting the leaves on fire to drive him out. Finally, I just yelled, “GET FOUND, KID!” out the window. And scared him so bad he probably wet his pants and started crying and ran home to tell his mother. It’s real hard to know how to be helpful sometimes.
A man I know found out last year he had terminal cancer. He was a doctor. And knew about dying, and he didn’t want to make his family and friends suffer through that with him. So he kept his secret. And died. Everybody said how brave he was to bear his suffering in silence and not tell everybody, and so on and so forth. But privately his family and friends said how angry they were that he didn’t need them, didn’t trust their strength. And it hurt that he didn’t say good-bye.
He hid too well. Getting found would have kept him in the game. Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. “I don’t want anyone to know.” “What will people think?” “I don’t want to bother anyone.”
Better than hide-and-seek, I like the game called Sardines. In Sardines the person who is It goes and hides, and everybody goes looking for him. When you find him, you get in with him and hide there with him. Pretty soon everybody is hiding together, all stacked in a small space like puppies in a pile. And pretty soon somebody giggles and somebody laughs and everybody gets found.
Medieval theologians even described God in hide-and-seek terms, calling him Deus Absconditus. But me, I think old God is a Sardine player. And will be found the same way everybody gets found in Sardines - by the sound of laughter of those heaped together at the end.
“Olly-olly-oxen-free.” The kids out in the street are hollering the cry that says “Come on in, wherever you are. It’s a new game.” And so say I. To all those who have hid too good. Get found, kid! Olly-olly-oxen-free.
— Robert Fulghum, “All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten”
in a rare moment of “huh i can maybe contribute to this”, i was reminded of this exerpt from Tim Kreider’s We Learn Nothing, a collection of his essays.
this one was written about a deceased friend of his, Skelly, who was known to spin tales about his life to hide the shameful parts from others. at his funeral, when all the secrets inevitably started to unfold, Kreider writes:
The worst part, for me, is imagining how alone he was. This is the most poisonous thing that secrets do to us—they isolate us from everyone around us and make us feel even lonelier than we already are. I wish he could’ve somehow brought himself to talk to us. I sometimes fantasize about how I would’ve reacted—what I would’ve said to him, how I would’ve tried to help. As Kevin once complained, “I wish he coulda just told us so we could’ve mocked him for it!” But not everybody gets to be free. Some have to stand guard at their own prisons for life. Some secrets we must take with us, as the melodramatic old idiom has it, to the grave.
I just checked and I have 791 followers? How did this happen? Why do 791 of you wanna hear what I have to say? Who sent you?!
Y’know what? For every 100 notes this gets I will add going for a stupid walk for my stupid mental health to my routine.
guys help me make him go on a stupid walk
@elgringo300 have you just scheduled this a bunch of times to further increase the notes and enlist as many people as possible by making it impossible to miss?
yeah I just queued it a million times, this man is going to go on a walk
Nice if we keep going we can force him to take 30 minute walks
I will defy you all and just do two 15 minute walks instead
Guys we’re so close to making him do 30 minutes of walking per day!!!
“Life is easily spent when one possesses enough of it. Take a general. Give them a few good men and they value them. Their decisions are made with caution. Give that general a thousand men, a hundred thousand men, and see how quickly it takes them to make the decision that the numbers allow them sacrifices. To them, they are simply numbers on a page. They are not people.”
A nice thing to think about is that everything gets easier the more you do it. You can teach yourself most anything. Playing an instrument, making friends, applying to jobs, thinking more positively. Things seem hard at first but after trying them out 100 times they seem much more achievable. You can do a lot if you’re patient. If you don’t villainize yourself because you can’t do something after the first try.
Got an email to fill out a survey on the concept of tumblr Premium and related features, and while I’m assuming that I’m not supposed to talk about it too specifically in case some things mentioned in the survey aren’t fully implemented, the features listed as possibilities sound pretty solid. Limit increases, monthly benefits (both for the user and as gifts for others), special badges and decorations, etc.
There were no features listed that are already available for free, so they’re genuinely looking at offering new features for paid users rather than following in Xitter’s footsteps and locking existing features behind a paywall. Likewise, nothing listed would be obtrusive to the current tumblr experience or unfairly favor a paid user over a free user any more than dropping a few bucks on a Blaze already “favors” the person being Blazed. (Which is up for debate, since that whole feature is literally “LOOK AT MY POST, BOY” and is one of the most tumblr things that tumblr has ever done.)
I was extremely leery going into the survey, because “premium” features these days are generally not premium at all, but I’m feeling very positive about the upcoming features now. Overall—and I say this as someone who has worked in webdev and digital marketing, used to pay for icons on LiveJournal for multiple RP accounts, currently pays for ad-free here, and has been doing beta testing for so long I once had the personal email addresses of both the founders of deviantART—it sounds genuinely good! Nothing anyone can’t live without, but a good number of fun things that would actually be of interest to the tumblr userbase.
Now I’m just waiting to see how many of the features floated in the survey wind up in the final package, and how much that package is going to cost.
everyone is mocking her in the comments but I literally agree like I love taking pictures bc I love to look back on them but also taking ur phone out to film every 2 seconds or being on ur phone doing something else ….
i saw the trailer for the new feel-good “anti-racist” US war movie about the carpet bombing of North Korea and started writing up something for this blog, partially inspired by the absolute shit storm i got for sharing that post i made with pictures of everyday life outside pyongyang
and then i gave up, because what’s the point? westerners can’t even handle a single picture of a north korean not looking miserable without screaming propaganda
meanwhile, there are no stories about the horrors of life in the ‘hermit kingdom’ that are deemed too outlandish to be believable. i can’t remember who said it, but it’s like the entire country has taken up permanent residence in the western imaginary as some silly little cartoon villain, where the leaders of the country does evil things for no discernible reason. they’re just silly and evil like that, and the citizens, of course, are silly, too. silly and brainwashed.
i watched a video recently of a tourists visiting an auto dealership in pyongyang, and the entire time he was just gawking at the employees and costumers, shoving his phone in their face, and confidently explaining to his youtube audience that everyone he’s interacting with are actually actors.
what level of dehumanization do you have to reach for that thought to even cross your mind? to think that the people you see before you are actors? that entire cities and shops are erected with to sole purpose that you, a western, will see them and be impressed?
what frustrates me the most is the casual cruelty that seeps into any mention of north korea, no matter how small. if north koreans are not being evil, they’re being silly.
a north korean newspaper reports that a group of archeologists in pyongyang have discovered an old rock carving with the words ‘unicorn lair’ (mistranslated), and the western press reports that north koreans now believe in unicorns.
a tourist at a hotel in hamhung is told by the receptionist to be careful at the beach: the waves can get high. that day the tourists goes to the beach, and there are no waves. she retells the story to her instagram followers, explaining that the poor woman at the hotel could never have seen real waves before because north koreans are probably never allowed to travel.
she adds a little teary-eyed emoji.
one of the cities i included in the post was sariwon, a densely populated city to the south of pyongyang. below are some pictures from its “folk customs street”, which was built to showcase old korean traditions and customs
here’s all wikipedia has to say about it
Built to display an ideal picture of ancient Korea, it includes
buildings in the “historical style” and a collection of ancient Korean
cannons.
Although it is considered an inaccurate romanticized recreation of an
ancient Korean street, it is frequently used as a destination for
foreigners on official government tours. Many older style Korean
buildings exist in the city.
it’s just north koreans being silly again. there’s no mention of what might motivate them to build a street like that
— why the preservation of old customs, culture and architecture might somehow be important for the city
could it perhaps have something to do with how the U.S. air force dropped
635,000 tons
of bombs, including
32,557 tons of napalm, over the korean peninsula during the war? the carpet bombings, which are now the topic of an upcoming hollywood movie about overcoming racism through warcrimes, destroyed an estimate of 85% of all buildings in north korea. some cities were entirely wiped off the map.
in sariwon they missed a few buildings, but not many
—
after an intense firebombing campaign the U.S. military estimated the destruction of sariwon to be at 95%.
none of this is mentioned on the wikipedia page for sariwon.
we destroyed entire cities. memory-holed the entire thing,
called it the forgotten war. and now, 70 years later, we’re convincing ourselves that the people living in the ruins are actors.
and somehow the north koreans are the brainwashed ones
reblogging this again because genuinely, if you can exorcise the western demon in your head that dehumanizes north koreans to the point of caricature, and tells you their country is not worthy of self-determination, you will also have discovered the antidote to US propaganda in the process
Been a critic since 2015-ish of the propaganda against the demonization of North Korea and to an extent many states/nations that operate in a left wing/communist system.
Definitely the propaganda against North Korea overlaps with the American -West Red Scare fear mongering and dehumanization, as well as even caricature. Remember the whole “article” about how North Koreans supposedly found a Unicorn Lair and the article continues to paint North Koreans as akin to Flat Earthers: that North Koreans believe in unicorns, etc.
Not to mention the innumerable amounts of stories of how NK citizens idolize and worship their leaders, to the point that these Western stories wrote how the citizens think Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger.
I’m not kidding!
As for the supposed Unicorn, it was actually NK’s archeology team digging up centuries old sites and artifacts of one of Korea’s kings, who was depicted with a Qulin, mythological beings of most of East Asia’s culture. In short, it was an educational and historical feat regarding Korea’s history and cultural links with an ancient kingdom.
As for the hamburger, many articles, even by Aljazeera, writes that citizens believe that Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger and specifically on 2009. Now 2009 is VERY important because, just a quick look at the history of fast food in North Korea reveals that a bunch of Singaporean business people went to North Korea AND took up a fast food business there, and called it Samtaesong.
And when did this fast food restaurant open? Around May of 2009!! Patrick Soh is the Singaporean businessman that introduced hamburgers or technically western fast food, in North Korea.
Samtaesong, as far as I am able to look into, is still in business in North Korea and has 30 outlets locally. Patrick Soh is likely making bank from this!
Look, no type of governing system is perfect. But oh my god the West’s continuing Orientalist/racist and conservative propaganda is a very regressive, very dangerous and nefarious, disinformational issue that’s plaguing the world.
Just look at Palestine now.
(also pls if ANYONE has great articles i would love to read them😭so many pay walled articles are usually on my search results! I’ll need to find a way to dig deeper for good articles..)
i saw the trailer for the new feel-good “anti-racist” US war movie about the carpet bombing of North Korea and started writing up something for this blog, partially inspired by the absolute shit storm i got for sharing that post i made with pictures of everyday life outside pyongyang
and then i gave up, because what’s the point? westerners can’t even handle a single picture of a north korean not looking miserable without screaming propaganda
meanwhile, there are no stories about the horrors of life in the ‘hermit kingdom’ that are deemed too outlandish to be believable. i can’t remember who said it, but it’s like the entire country has taken up permanent residence in the western imaginary as some silly little cartoon villain, where the leaders of the country does evil things for no discernible reason. they’re just silly and evil like that, and the citizens, of course, are silly, too. silly and brainwashed.
i watched a video recently of a tourists visiting an auto dealership in pyongyang, and the entire time he was just gawking at the employees and costumers, shoving his phone in their face, and confidently explaining to his youtube audience that everyone he’s interacting with are actually actors.
what level of dehumanization do you have to reach for that thought to even cross your mind? to think that the people you see before you are actors? that entire cities and shops are erected with to sole purpose that you, a western, will see them and be impressed?
what frustrates me the most is the casual cruelty that seeps into any mention of north korea, no matter how small. if north koreans are not being evil, they’re being silly.
a north korean newspaper reports that a group of archeologists in pyongyang have discovered an old rock carving with the words ‘unicorn lair’ (mistranslated), and the western press reports that north koreans now believe in unicorns.
a tourist at a hotel in hamhung is told by the receptionist to be careful at the beach: the waves can get high. that day the tourists goes to the beach, and there are no waves. she retells the story to her instagram followers, explaining that the poor woman at the hotel could never have seen real waves before because north koreans are probably never allowed to travel.
she adds a little teary-eyed emoji.
one of the cities i included in the post was sariwon, a densely populated city to the south of pyongyang. below are some pictures from its “folk customs street”, which was built to showcase old korean traditions and customs
here’s all wikipedia has to say about it
Built to display an ideal picture of ancient Korea, it includes
buildings in the “historical style” and a collection of ancient Korean
cannons.
Although it is considered an inaccurate romanticized recreation of an
ancient Korean street, it is frequently used as a destination for
foreigners on official government tours. Many older style Korean
buildings exist in the city.
it’s just north koreans being silly again. there’s no mention of what might motivate them to build a street like that
— why the preservation of old customs, culture and architecture might somehow be important for the city
could it perhaps have something to do with how the U.S. air force dropped
635,000 tons
of bombs, including
32,557 tons of napalm, over the korean peninsula during the war? the carpet bombings, which are now the topic of an upcoming hollywood movie about overcoming racism through warcrimes, destroyed an estimate of 85% of all buildings in north korea. some cities were entirely wiped off the map.
in sariwon they missed a few buildings, but not many
—
after an intense firebombing campaign the U.S. military estimated the destruction of sariwon to be at 95%.
none of this is mentioned on the wikipedia page for sariwon.
we destroyed entire cities. memory-holed the entire thing,
called it the forgotten war. and now, 70 years later, we’re convincing ourselves that the people living in the ruins are actors.
and somehow the north koreans are the brainwashed ones
reblogging this again because genuinely, if you can exorcise the western demon in your head that dehumanizes north koreans to the point of caricature, and tells you their country is not worthy of self-determination, you will also have discovered the antidote to US propaganda in the process
Been a critic since 2015-ish of the propaganda against the demonization of North Korea and to an extent many states/nations that operate in a left wing/communist system.
Definitely the propaganda against North Korea overlaps with the American -West Red Scare fear mongering and dehumanization, as well as even caricature. Remember the whole “article” about how North Koreans supposedly found a Unicorn Lair and the article continues to paint North Koreans as akin to Flat Earthers: that North Koreans believe in unicorns, etc.
Not to mention the innumerable amounts of stories of how NK citizens idolize and worship their leaders, to the point that these Western stories wrote how the citizens think Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger.
I’m not kidding!
As for the supposed Unicorn, it was actually NK’s archeology team digging up centuries old sites and artifacts of one of Korea’s kings, who was depicted with a Qulin, mythological beings of most of East Asia’s culture. In short, it was an educational and historical feat regarding Korea’s history and cultural links with an ancient kingdom.
As for the hamburger, many articles, even by Aljazeera, writes that citizens believe that Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger and specifically on 2009. Now 2009 is VERY important because, just a quick look at the history of fast food in North Korea reveals that a bunch of Singaporean business people went to North Korea AND took up a fast food business there, and called it Samtaesong.
And when did this fast food restaurant open? Around May of 2009!! Patrick Soh is the Singaporean businessman that introduced hamburgers or technically western fast food, in North Korea.
Samtaesong, as far as I am able to look into, is still in business in North Korea and has 30 outlets locally. Patrick Soh is likely making bank from this!
Look, no type of governing system is perfect. But oh my god the West’s continuing Orientalist/racist and conservative propaganda is a very regressive, very dangerous and nefarious, disinformational issue that’s plaguing the world.
Just look at Palestine now.
(also pls if ANYONE has great articles i would love to read them😭so many pay walled articles are usually on my search results! I’ll need to find a way to dig deeper for good articles..)
i saw the trailer for the new feel-good “anti-racist” US war movie about the carpet bombing of North Korea and started writing up something for this blog, partially inspired by the absolute shit storm i got for sharing that post i made with pictures of everyday life outside pyongyang
and then i gave up, because what’s the point? westerners can’t even handle a single picture of a north korean not looking miserable without screaming propaganda
meanwhile, there are no stories about the horrors of life in the ‘hermit kingdom’ that are deemed too outlandish to be believable. i can’t remember who said it, but it’s like the entire country has taken up permanent residence in the western imaginary as some silly little cartoon villain, where the leaders of the country does evil things for no discernible reason. they’re just silly and evil like that, and the citizens, of course, are silly, too. silly and brainwashed.
i watched a video recently of a tourists visiting an auto dealership in pyongyang, and the entire time he was just gawking at the employees and costumers, shoving his phone in their face, and confidently explaining to his youtube audience that everyone he’s interacting with are actually actors.
what level of dehumanization do you have to reach for that thought to even cross your mind? to think that the people you see before you are actors? that entire cities and shops are erected with to sole purpose that you, a western, will see them and be impressed?
what frustrates me the most is the casual cruelty that seeps into any mention of north korea, no matter how small. if north koreans are not being evil, they’re being silly.
a north korean newspaper reports that a group of archeologists in pyongyang have discovered an old rock carving with the words ‘unicorn lair’ (mistranslated), and the western press reports that north koreans now believe in unicorns.
a tourist at a hotel in hamhung is told by the receptionist to be careful at the beach: the waves can get high. that day the tourists goes to the beach, and there are no waves. she retells the story to her instagram followers, explaining that the poor woman at the hotel could never have seen real waves before because north koreans are probably never allowed to travel.
she adds a little teary-eyed emoji.
one of the cities i included in the post was sariwon, a densely populated city to the south of pyongyang. below are some pictures from its “folk customs street”, which was built to showcase old korean traditions and customs
here’s all wikipedia has to say about it
Built to display an ideal picture of ancient Korea, it includes
buildings in the “historical style” and a collection of ancient Korean
cannons.
Although it is considered an inaccurate romanticized recreation of an
ancient Korean street, it is frequently used as a destination for
foreigners on official government tours. Many older style Korean
buildings exist in the city.
it’s just north koreans being silly again. there’s no mention of what might motivate them to build a street like that
— why the preservation of old customs, culture and architecture might somehow be important for the city
could it perhaps have something to do with how the U.S. air force dropped
635,000 tons
of bombs, including
32,557 tons of napalm, over the korean peninsula during the war? the carpet bombings, which are now the topic of an upcoming hollywood movie about overcoming racism through warcrimes, destroyed an estimate of 85% of all buildings in north korea. some cities were entirely wiped off the map.
in sariwon they missed a few buildings, but not many
—
after an intense firebombing campaign the U.S. military estimated the destruction of sariwon to be at 95%.
none of this is mentioned on the wikipedia page for sariwon.
we destroyed entire cities. memory-holed the entire thing,
called it the forgotten war. and now, 70 years later, we’re convincing ourselves that the people living in the ruins are actors.
and somehow the north koreans are the brainwashed ones
reblogging this again because genuinely, if you can exorcise the western demon in your head that dehumanizes north koreans to the point of caricature, and tells you their country is not worthy of self-determination, you will also have discovered the antidote to US propaganda in the process
Been a critic since 2015-ish of the propaganda against the demonization of North Korea and to an extent many states/nations that operate in a left wing/communist system.
Definitely the propaganda against North Korea overlaps with the American -West Red Scare fear mongering and dehumanization, as well as even caricature. Remember the whole “article” about how North Koreans supposedly found a Unicorn Lair and the article continues to paint North Koreans as akin to Flat Earthers: that North Koreans believe in unicorns, etc.
Not to mention the innumerable amounts of stories of how NK citizens idolize and worship their leaders, to the point that these Western stories wrote how the citizens think Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger.
I’m not kidding!
As for the supposed Unicorn, it was actually NK’s archeology team digging up centuries old sites and artifacts of one of Korea’s kings, who was depicted with a Qulin, mythological beings of most of East Asia’s culture. In short, it was an educational and historical feat regarding Korea’s history and cultural links with an ancient kingdom.
As for the hamburger, many articles, even by Aljazeera, writes that citizens believe that Kim Jong Il invented the hamburger and specifically on 2009. Now 2009 is VERY important because, just a quick look at the history of fast food in North Korea reveals that a bunch of Singaporean business people went to North Korea AND took up a fast food business there, and called it Samtaesong.
And when did this fast food restaurant open? Around May of 2009!! Patrick Soh is the Singaporean businessman that introduced hamburgers or technically western fast food, in North Korea.
Samtaesong, as far as I am able to look into, is still in business in North Korea and has 30 outlets locally. Patrick Soh is likely making bank from this!
Look, no type of governing system is perfect. But oh my god the West’s continuing Orientalist/racist and conservative propaganda is a very regressive, very dangerous and nefarious, disinformational issue that’s plaguing the world.
Just look at Palestine now.
(also pls if ANYONE has great articles i would love to read them😭so many pay walled articles are usually on my search results! I’ll need to find a way to dig deeper for good articles..)
In this case “chat” is as in Twitch Chat, like when streamers talk to their twitch chats directly, like “hey, chat, what’s happening?” Not sure what they mean by 4th person pronoun - I would consider “chat” a 2nd person plural (you all) but I can see the potential for defining it as a completely separate thing due to the nature of “chat” being a undefined person instead of a specific one? Idk it’s fascinating tho
4th person is referring to the hypothetical collective of people beyond the fourth wall. the fourth wall is the invisible barrier between the stage and the seats, the actor and the audience. and actors ‘break’ the fourth wall when they address the audience directly and acknowledge that they’re a person playing a character for entertainment. in some styles of performance this should never be done, like opera or musicals, because it can collapse the weight and momentum of the story. in others, like improv and game shows, audience participation is encouraged because it’s explicitly a collaboration.
in the streaming era (in our panopticon culture) the fourth wall is extremely permeable in interesting new ways. streamers aren’t just playing to an audience, they’re able to read and respond to messages from that audience too. it’s a collaborative improv, there’s a call and response, the audience knows the streamer relies on them for attention as they rely on him for entertainment.
so, yeah, 'chat’ isn’t second person, it’s fourth. i’m not referring to the 'you’ that’s here with me on this side of the stage, im referring to the people beyond this situation, watching our funny little problems. all the world is a stage, now. don’t forget to like and subscribe.
Bisan’s recent post. I think it’s important for you to read it. Tonight 03.12.23, journalists in gaza share their last messages. There are no words to describe the horrors unfolding in gaza right now.
I no longer have any hope of survival like I had at the beginning of this genocide, and I am certain that I will die in the next few weeks or maybe days. I have been sick with severe viral infection for days and cannot move from the mattress!
I suffer from nightmares that are so closely resemble reality that I no longer differentiate between reality and dream.
I live in a world other than the one I claimed to be building! I am a community activist who lived on the fantasy that the world was free and just, and I sought to bring rights not only to my people, but to many men and women in third world countries!
I was shocked that I was not from the third world! Indeed, we are the most humane and moral! Yes, because the world approves, supports, and finances the genocide we are being subjected to, legislates it, and gives reasons for for 58 days! While we are a people who have been living on occupied land for 75 years and are still searching for our rights and communicating our voice to the world!
My message to the world: You are not innocent of what is happening to us, you as governments or peoples that support Israel’s annihilation of my people. We will not forgive you, we will not forgive you, humanity will not forgive you, we will not forget, even if we die, the history will never forget .
A Message to friends: Thank you and the supporters around the world. You have been compassionate and very strong. We ask you not to lose hope, even if the world seems completely unfair and your efforts have not yet resulted in a ceasefire.
Got a terf in my sideblog and the reply is not worth deigning with a response but the pinned post?
This? This is a trap. This is concern baiting. Be very sure that shit like this is not in your best interest and does not care about you. The goal of rhetoric like this is conversion.
You’ll be welcomed and asked to ignore transphobia. You will be asked to side with transphobes at the expense of trans women. Eventually, you’ll be asked to see that, hey, maybe you transitioned to escape how terrible it is to be a woman?
This may seem obviously a trap but I see people every day buy into this. People like this do not care about you! They want to “rescue” you and don’t let them convince you otherwise.
Hey this one got the terfs pissy so like. To say again. Clearly if they’re mad about this, this post hit on something. Maybe reblog it?
a nonzero amount of TERFS are people who were seriously considering transition to male but got talked out of it by other terfs and now want to do the same thing to other people who are questioning their gender. i’ve seen a whole lot of them say the quiet part out loud: they don’t like being women, they once considered transitioning to escape the pain and discomfort, and they were made to believe that suffering is an intrinsic part of womanhood, which is a good thing, because being a man is much much much worse.
do not talk to terfs if being a woman is unpleasant for you: their entire ideology revolves around noble suffering, righteous misery and attacking people who make different choices and are happier and more comfortable than them. they hate trans men who ‘escape’ and ‘betray’ womanhood, they hate women who are too ‘stupid’ to be miserable, they hate straight women who find peace and happiness with male partners, they hate bisexuals, they hate queer women who are too butch or too femme. they hate themselves. they will not rescue you. they are drowning.
sometimes you just gotta listen to music at a volume that you know will be part of the cause of your hearing loss at the age of 28
hey yall. im 25 now and i already have tinnitus <3 dont do this. LOL
oh btw for those saying “i already have tinnitus haha it cant get worse” YEAH IT CAN BITCH! if you want to listen to music loud do it on speakers at least. headphones will Beam Pain Waves Directly Into Your Cochlear Hair Cells and a 10kHz Tone Loud Enough Will Give You Psychic Damage Forever
if i have to fucken, translate it to something you’ll understand? Imagine theres a picture of garfield here saying
In this case “chat” is as in Twitch Chat, like when streamers talk to their twitch chats directly, like “hey, chat, what’s happening?” Not sure what they mean by 4th person pronoun - I would consider “chat” a 2nd person plural (you all) but I can see the potential for defining it as a completely separate thing due to the nature of “chat” being a undefined person instead of a specific one? Idk it’s fascinating tho
4th person is referring to the hypothetical collective of people beyond the fourth wall. the fourth wall is the invisible barrier between the stage and the seats, the actor and the audience. and actors ‘break’ the fourth wall when they address the audience directly and acknowledge that they’re a person playing a character for entertainment. in some styles of performance this should never be done, like opera or musicals, because it can collapse the weight and momentum of the story. in others, like improv and game shows, audience participation is encouraged because it’s explicitly a collaboration.
in the streaming era (in our panopticon culture) the fourth wall is extremely permeable in interesting new ways. streamers aren’t just playing to an audience, they’re able to read and respond to messages from that audience too. it’s a collaborative improv, there’s a call and response, the audience knows the streamer relies on them for attention as they rely on him for entertainment.
so, yeah, 'chat’ isn’t second person, it’s fourth. i’m not referring to the 'you’ that’s here with me on this side of the stage, im referring to the people beyond this situation, watching our funny little problems. all the world is a stage, now. don’t forget to like and subscribe.
In this case “chat” is as in Twitch Chat, like when streamers talk to their twitch chats directly, like “hey, chat, what’s happening?” Not sure what they mean by 4th person pronoun - I would consider “chat” a 2nd person plural (you all) but I can see the potential for defining it as a completely separate thing due to the nature of “chat” being a undefined person instead of a specific one? Idk it’s fascinating tho
4th person is referring to the hypothetical collective of people beyond the fourth wall. the fourth wall is the invisible barrier between the stage and the seats, the actor and the audience. and actors ‘break’ the fourth wall when they address the audience directly and acknowledge that they’re a person playing a character for entertainment. in some styles of performance this should never be done, like opera or musicals, because it can collapse the weight and momentum of the story. in others, like improv and game shows, audience participation is encouraged because it’s explicitly a collaboration.
in the streaming era (in our panopticon culture) the fourth wall is extremely permeable in interesting new ways. streamers aren’t just playing to an audience, they’re able to read and respond to messages from that audience too. it’s a collaborative improv, there’s a call and response, the audience knows the streamer relies on them for attention as they rely on him for entertainment.
so, yeah, 'chat’ isn’t second person, it’s fourth. i’m not referring to the 'you’ that’s here with me on this side of the stage, im referring to the people beyond this situation, watching our funny little problems. all the world is a stage, now. don’t forget to like and subscribe.
lmao the worst thing about being Palestinian is you’ll be fucking grieving and you are STILL expected to articulate all your thoughts in the most coherent manner IN ENGLISH and have at least 25 citations backing up any point you make, even if you’re just talking about the way you are feeling . otherwise the west is just going to paint you as a barbarian
So I saw this tweet and all that came to mind was the men who came up with those terms who probably lived in terrible fear that an unmarried woman might reach the ancient age of thirty and ascend to True Royalty, then proceed to dethrone the current rulers and become the rightful Queen of the land.
You know the parable about how the foolish man built his house upon sand and the wise man built his house upon rock and it’s always about having a sturdy foundation well there is also the fact of location which is that the sand probably used to be rock except it’s been eroded to sediment because it’s a FUCKING FLOODPLAIN
I feel like a dumbass, but @rapidashmascot just revolutionised my understanding of that parable.
My family quotes that parable loudly every time another planned housing community on a former floodplain gets inundated with water.
hey quick test, reblog or like this if you DONT think neopronouns are stupid im trying to prove a point to my sister and her partner
for context my sister is a binary trans lesbian dating a genderfluid lesbian and today she came up to me saying that her and her partner as two trans people have both decided neopronouns are stupid
Browsing through Facebook Marketplace, looking at aquariums, and some of these listings are bonkers.
My fellow fishnerd, you are not going to receive $3+/gallon for your used, mineral-encrusted tanks. Aquarium stores regularly have $1/gal sales, and anyone willing to pay more than that is looking for something way more expensive than your gently loved Aqueon. I’m not even willing to match that for something I need to spend an hour scrubbing with alcohol, water-fastness unknown.
Honestly people would be better scrapping the glass tank and just selling the stand, especially if it’s one of the heavy, solid wood ones that you can’t find sold anywhere now. I don’t think any company is even making them, given that the stands carried at the same retail price now are all particle board. Not even plywood. Particle board.
Enshittification has finally reached the aquarium hobby.
In UI/UX design, menus have different names depending on the aspect they have, I knew about the hamburger menu and so I figured the “meatballs menu” could exist too, and it does…
thats it, im not posting the rest of the day, this is the best fucking thing ive learned in the past 3 weeks
this is what we needed to learn in distance learning
