Me upon discovering an online game that helps you learn git: haha I’ve been using git for years now, I could skip ahead many levels, methinks hahaha no, no, I’ll be humble and start on level 1
Me on level 5: You can do what??? There are commands for what???
If nothing else, as a historian every time I get scared at the state of the world I have to remind myself that “uninteresting times” is a myth.
The world has always been in the throes of chaos and violence and fear, just in different ways and to different degrees. The anxieties of the past are no less real than our own, and we can learn from them. Normality and peace are fleeting, but we can always strive to increase those moments. We have to keep hoping and working for a better future. It’s all we have. We may not succeed, but if we don’t try, what are we living for?
I was actually just up in Ohio for the solar eclipse, and did you know, I’d never seen Spring before?
I thought I had, because down here in Florida we do get some flowers and nice green leaves as the weather shifts from cool to hot, but the trees are never bare and the flowers just blend in with the rest of the trees and in comparison this Actual Spring was some sort of magical wonderland, I swear to god, I’ve never seen anything like it
Apple blossoms???? are so pretty???????? the subtle changes of the colors, and they take up the whole tree and they’re so damn beautiful????????????????? I had never seen them before, we don’t have any apple trees down here at all, but now they might be my favorite flower
I’m familiar with cherry blossoms- we do have some cherry trees- but not like this. This tree was entirely pink and stood out so much! No leaves or anything on the trees, just flowers everywhere!!! I see why people like spring and cherry blossoms so much, I think.
And idek what these are but LOOK at that!!!!!!! Life and color!!!! Spring!!!!
So yeah. I went to Ohio and I thought it was beautiful and i wanted to share that with you. Your state is wonderful!!!
I just know squidward squirting and farting making babies up there in his hard wooden hut what with the stone henge
By up there I mean heaven because you know my boy died and went to hell with how he work that damn trombone or whatever fruited clay ass instument he be Jock-a-mo fee-no ai na-ney
We need to stop engineering blatantly stupid materials
“Hey guys if we make fairy floss out of glass it has all these cool insulating properties. Also we can layer it to make strong waterproof panels for building boats.” Counterpoint you’ve made fairy floss out of glass can we think for five minutes here.
Spell Of Lovely Warm Ten Billion Microscopic Knife Hug For Your House
You engineered stone guys aren’t off the hook either. We’ve seen the sick workers. Asbestos 2.0 For Cutting Your Fruits And Veg On, specially formulated to kill 20 year old craftsmen trying to pay rent
ok, after actually looking up the term and doing some goddamn research (my goodness somebody on the internet actually decided to look something up before forming an opinion, dear god what a day), i can pretty safely say that everyone hitting this post with the “that’s just a friendship!” bit is wrong! and i can explain why! i myself didn’t get this initially! but after looking into it, i realized that it’s mainly due to the framework i was thinking in! Yeah, there’s actually merit to what these people are saying, this is stuff that’s been considered and these are indeed terms that exist! they were also coined by ace people specifically to describe their relationships!
So what gives? What does Queerplatonic Relationship mean? well i certainly fucking didnt get it at first, but it stems from attempting to define a kind of relationship that there arent really words for in the standard english lexicon! the poster above me is a TERF, and wherever i see myself agreeing with a terf i also see that there’s possibly some flaw in my logic or understanding of the thing. Basically (mind you this is only some very cursory and basic research, just type the term into google lol), QPR’s are a way of defining a relationship that has many of the same obligations and aspects of a traditional romantic relationship, without any of the explicitly romantic parts that come with having a spouse or romantic partner.
the idea of living in the same place, or jointly bringing up children, and performing many other tasks as a kind of unit that society would often mislabel as something done by two romantic partners in a union of some kind (i use that term to loosely define an exclusive relationship, not actual binding marriage, though this can include such). the idea of the QPR isn’t just “friends”, it’s very specifically “individuals in a platonic relationship that perform a number of the social aspects of a traditional romantic partnership”.
like, be real for a second. if someone described their relationship with someone to you and said “Yeah we own a house together, we have a kid that we adopted and take care of, we decided to get a dog last week and we file taxes as two members of the same household.”, you wouldn’t look at that person and assume that they arent romantic/sexual partners of some kind, because… well, traditionally, that’s shit that married people do. getting hit with the additional “Yup! And we’re not romantically or sexually involved at all! She has a boyfriend that she visits on the weekends and I’ve never had a romantic relationship in my life.” would throw you for a goddamn loop! What would you even call that relationship? and that’s where the term comes from: an attempt to define a very specific kind of relationship that certainly can and has existed, but isn’t commonly recognized or talked about!
so i think everyone shitting on these folks owes them an apology, i know i personally do for making assumptions that clearly weren’t true!
Actually QPR was coined by aromantic people but asexual people do also use it!
Finally I have a reason to reblog this after cringing every time it’s come across my dash.
Reblogging for the person who decided to (gasp!) actually research before having an opinion - everybody please do like this and we’ll all be ok maybe.
Agreeing that queerplatonic relationships are more of an aro thing than an ace thing. The categories can co-occur fairly often (aroaces seem pretty common) but there are also many aces who have or want romantic relationships (some of which have a sexual component and some of which do not) rather than QPR ones. Just wanted to say this since too often people hear “I’m ace” and assume that also means I am aro, but nope, very much not. But, still, there is nothing preventing non-aro aces, gays, or heteros from choosing to build a queerplatonic relationship - I’m sure it must happen sometimes, just less commonly. I’m not trying to police it.
Blocking the terfs/aphobes.
Honestly, I would prefer to be in a QPR than a romantic relationship.
something ive noticed after being a hobby cosplayer for years is that in a lot of places the general consensus seems to be that wearing costumes in public is weird and/or socially unacceptable, but whenever I’m in costume in public while on the train to the con venue or having a photoshoot on location or something, people by and large fucking love my costume. they think it’s so cool. kids think my costume rocks. their parents are impressed that I made it myself. random grandmas tell me my armor kicks ass. I was at a japanese garden once and barely got around to doing the photoshoot me and my homies came there to do because swathes of visitors who had never heard the word cosplay before were lining up to take a picture with me.
it’s the same thing with adjacent hobbies like larp or reenactment or fursuiting, the general image of the hobby is that you’re weird nerds (and probably also sex perverts) for playing dressup despite not being a child but when you’re actually in costume the response from random normies is categorically positive. I inevitably get weird looks from the kind of people who think having a tattoo is an affront to god but they give me that look for just existing with blue hair and pronouns too and the people who actually talk to me always do because they wanted to tell me they love my costume. and the response that always gets me the most is when they say it looks fun but they would never dare to do the same. it’s such a shame. why did wearing a silly little costume have to become an act of bravery.
A couple of years ago, a bunch of Star Wars costumers went to a state park and met for a photo shoot. The organizer notified the park staff that we were coming only to take still pictures, no video, no commercial use items. We gathered together and lugged our stuff into a fairly low traffic location, set up a portable changing tent for those who needed it and got dressed.
Our scout troopers and Jedi and Sith posed against the rock crags and forests and in dappled sunlight. We got great pictures.
And every once in a while someone would come around the bend and find something TRULY unexpected.
Most people scrambled backwards or ducked behind the nearest tree, apparently thinking they’d stumbled into a film shoot of some kind. A few took pictures from a distance.
Once we explained, all of them were delighted. How strange. How wonderous. Two little boys took pictures with every single costumer, a woman sat on a rock and just watched, one guy called home to FaceTime his brother.
The world is mundane and predictable and painful sometimes. And breaks to that are magic. Little bursts of a world turned on its head. In the best way.
Across the wide world of the Tingleverse, one thing is clear: love is real
But, for many buckaroos, their preferred kind of love has nothing to do with sex or romance. Whether asexual or just not feeling it at the moment, this collection of completely sexless tales is perfect for the desires of any readers who are looking for a non-sexual trip through the alternate timelines of Dr. Chuck Tingle.
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NOT POUNDED BY ANYTHING VOL. 4 is out today as a paperback trot. six more platonic tales for your collection of no sex tinglers. LOVE IS REAL
Saw this frame on a different reblog by @thatssroughbuddy but why does it look like Iroh is using his phone to take a photo of his nephew at a landmark
“Uncle, make sure you get that glowy light in the picture and send it to my dad to let him know I’m about to capture the Avatar!”
This was so cute I had to draw it
and of course Iroh is doing what-
!!!!!!
Iroh posts it on social media with some caption like “look at my beautiful nephew” and Zhao comments like “is that the Avatar in the background?”
And Iroh responds, “no, it’s the northern lights.”
My ideal date? You release me into the wild to hunt me for sport on your remote island BUT I’m not very good at hiding so you find me within 20 minutes. You hold the gun to my face but there is something so earnest in my eyes and hands that you cannot carry through. You pick me up and carry me back to your mansion. I am so polite and charming that you nurse me back to health. You grow to love and trust me despite the fact you’re holding me hostage after I fell of a charter vessel bound for Brazil. You buy me new clothes and have them shipped to the island. I kiss you good morning every day. You propose marriage. I accept. We skype in a priest and get married with the butler as our witness. That night I kill you and the butler. I redistribute your wealth. I live in the mansion on the abandoned island for the rest of my days. I study snail ecology. I never remarry. You were the love of my life but you were too dangerous and evil to live. I am buried next to you. The tides eventually wash our bodies away. Into the depths of the ocean, together.
“Why did you divide the country up like that?” these are the regions and sub-regions the US Census divides the country up into, I stole the map from a website about the Census.
55 years for a unsuccessful burglary, theft, and the murder of a friend that was killed by police, when his only crime was breaking and entering when he was 15 years old.
As of March 2023, his sentence was reduced to 30 years. I know there’s a lot going on in the world, but if you can even just spread his story, please do! It makes a difference.
When getting the Reddit rss feeds for my feed reader, I never got any feeds from political or news subreddits yet every other post is somehow about the US election.
Everything from r/pics and r/videos to r/adviceanimals and r/insaneparents
People just can’t shut up about Donald Trump and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris and the damn election
Worst of all if I actually open these posts on Reddit, many of them are already removed for violating rules regarding staying on topic
Why is literally everywhere being absolutely spammed with this????
You’re not immune to being the bully btw. You’re not immune to being in the wrong
“But i’m-” there is no identity or state of being that makes you immune to hurting someone. You can be convinced that you are in the right for doing so. You can be convinced that you’re defending someone by doing so. You have always got to examine if you’re taking pleasure in hurting someone or if you’re actually doing something good.
[Image text: there’s actually no political label or identity that absolves you of doing harm.]
so I’m a lifelong atheist and I’ve never actually read the bible but this guy sure seems like he has ADHD
you’re telling me he hyperfocused so hard he created the whole world in 6 days, then got kinda tired of it and didn’t really do anything until the project started going wrong at which point he tried in frustration to flood the whole thing so he could start over
“with the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day” bestie it is time to get tested
I unironically love the theological hot takes on this site.
I forget which comedian said it, but I still remember this one joke that went like “honestly so much of religion makes sense if God is a 10 year old autistic boy”
okay guys but in all seriousness the trump attempted assassination is going to rally the right like crazy. voter turnout will be going up. it is more crucial than ever that you SHOW UP AND VOTE IN THIS YEARS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Yeah that isnt a joke, google Brazil’s 2018 election. The fascist guy got stabbed in the guts, survived, and proceeded to use this a platform and he won the election. He then fucked up our lives for the next four years.
Already seeing people say that Trump’s assassination attempt was staged. Remember: no evidence, no conspiracy.
Shooting hard. Takes a lot of consistent practice to be able to hit your targets. That’s why people regularly go to ranges- to keep in practice.
Smaller the target, harder the shot is. This is why one is trained to aim for center mass rather than the head, as center mass provides a much larger target. The farther you are from your target, the more you want to aim for center mass.
Shooting someone in the head would be difficult for the majority of people, especially anyone who is not trained and practiced. As we know, it is easy to miss and be off target.
If this were a ploy for political clout, “they” would want to shoot him in a non-lethal spot. Center mass and the head would be poor choices, as it is too easy to make a fatal shot even without meaning to. It is a HUGE risk.
As we know, his ear was grazed. Three problems: 1) the ear is an even smaller target to aim for than the head; 2) the aiming would need to be extremely precise to avoid shooting him in the head; and 3) the list of people capable of making such a shot INTENTIONALLY is pretty short.
So far, it is easier to believe this was the actions of a lone individual than it is to believe it is a conspiracy or something akin to it.
sorry but everyone else has the punchlines handled so I am going to be a broken record: do not let high emotions, low info, and narrative compulsion make you a soft target for conspiracy grifters. it does not help. it does not end well.
remember, even entertaining baseless hypotheticals out loud passes them on to your followers. get on the disease model of unevidenced conspiracy: mask up, do not be a vector.
Idk about this one boys, Cookie Monster always refers to Cookie Monster’s self as “Cookie Monster”.
no he doesn’t. he refers to himself as “me.” elmo’s the one that talks in third person. that’s the joke. elmo doesn’t use pronouns and cookie monster is blue. how dare you assume i made this post and didnt know my fucking sesame street history. christ
even more than my blog being an unsafe place for terfs, this is a place of love and support for trans people and especially the trans women who single-handedly keep this website funny
its been so long since the last time i post art, im gonna be really busy with university but i still want to draw cotl fanart (╥﹏╥)
here r some of the sketches and me ranting about some ideas and my cotl ocs
the bishops as followers were hard to design and i might redraw some of these ε-(´・｀)
grumpy Nari and his sons ദ്ദി≽^•⩊•^≼
rough relationship with his ex-vessel ( •͈૦•͈ )
my ocs are based on the animals that can be found in Vietnam, their names also based on ingredients in traditional Asian medicines (cuz im suck at naming my ocs) (*꒦ິ꒳꒦ີ)
Linh Chi is a chameleon
Cam Thảo is a Pseudoryx Nghetinhensis or Sao la
Kim Ngân is a carp
Atiso is a striped rabbit
i wanna make them siblings to parallel the bishops, they do fight sometimes but they still love each other (｡•́︿•̀｡)
long story short, the Lamb saved Atiso’s siblings so they vowed to forever be in debt to Lamb and would do whatever the Lamb asks them to (｡o_o｡)“”
Cam and Chi really likes to stick their noses in the affairs of the ex-gods ( • ᴗ - ) ✧
I would really love to draw some comics about them in the future, i have plenty ideas for cotl fanart too .·°՞(≧□≦)՞°·.
and if i made any spelling mistakes, please dont correct me because i have no respect for English ദ്ദി ˉ͈̀꒳ˉ͈́ )✧
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