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The only thing worse than having a job is not having a job. And the only thing worse than not having a job is looking for a job. And the only thing worse than looking for a job is being 19 years old.
anyway blackout poetry not just as an art form, but as an act of violence against other works of art
taking a piece of text that someone probably put their heart and soul into creating and using it as your raw material, cutting out everything that you deem irrelevant to the point you want to make
i mean imagine cutting up a painting and using it to make a collage, or taking a marble sculpture and carving pieces out of it to make a different sculpture
just to be clear: i love blackout poetry, im not criticizing it here. i am just waxing poetic about it. i dont really know where im going with this i just have Thoughts about art being destructive
you cant even begin poems with “i will sodomise and facef uck you” anymore. because of woke .
Holy fuck
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I vaguely recall discourse about the dictionary pulling it’s punches when it came to writing the definition for whatever latin verb means ‘face-fuck’ because 'to be the recipient of oral sex’ is clean and true but doesn’t come close enough to describing what the word means.
Yeah, Catullus gets censored a lot! I suspect a bit of it is just that we often get this idea of poets and poetry as… Light and fluffy?
Probably just because of what gets taught in schools. You end up getting the impression that a poems are about one of
Being sad
Walking through nature
Being sad whilst walking through nature.
Which is a slightly reductive take on a whole fucking medium.
Anyway, Catullus was less the stereotypical “upper class guy with a lot of education who loves nature and being depressed” sort of poet and is more to the “battle rapper” end of poetry.
He’s got multiple poems that are basically diss tracks. This is exactly why Poem 16 (this one) comes straight out the gate with “I AM GOING TO BUTTFUCK AND FACEFUCK YOU” (lowercase letters wouldn’t be developed for a few hundred more years, by definition everything Catullus wrote was in ALL UPPERCASE): Catullus is directing this poem at Marcus Furius Bibaculus (Bibaculus to his friends), who had an affair with Juventius: a woman Catullus had a (possibly unrequited) love for. In fact, this sort of reputation is part of what Catullus is saying. He’s like “oh, you think I’m some weak pansy faggot because I’m a poet? Let’s see how you feel after I shove my huge* manly dick up all your holes, bitch.”
Anyway the whole reason I was supposed to be replying is to talk about how Latin is an amazing language to swear in. They’ve got some very fun words like irrumo, ittumare whichmeans basically “to fuck someone’s mouth”, but in a single word. Face-fuck is really the best translation English has, and that’s two words.
Plus Latin is an infected language! He didn’t just say “face fuck”, he said the first person singular future active indicative of “face fuck”.
Irrumabo is a single word that packs all this info into its infected form. It’s not just “what” (face fucking), it’s who and when and how.
Who: me, singular. “We” are not going to face fuck you, I, personally, and going to face fuck you.
When: in the future. This is a thing that’s going to happen. Latin has multiple moods for this, the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive.
He doesn’t use the subjunctive, which’d mean “I hope I facefuck you: it’d be great if someday I get to face fuck you”.
He doesn’t use the imperative, which is for stating commands. He’s not saying “get facefucked, idiot”.
He uses the indicative. This is for stating facts. He’s saying this as just a thing that will happen. As surely as the sun will rise tomorrow… I will facefuck you.
It’s also active not passive, which means it’s not “you will be facefucked by me”. It’s active, meaning it’s “I am going to facefuck you”.
The word is also derived from the word for teats? As in, it meant something like suckling?
Catullus is saying you’re going to suck his cock like a baby feeding from their mother, and he’s going to make you do this. This is just a thing that is going to happen.
And he says that all in ONE SINGLE WORD.
Latin is a lovely language for this sort of thing.
(there’s also a lot of fascinating stuff about the second line of the poem: he calls Aurelius as pathicus, and Furius a cinaedus. These mean slightly different things! Translating them as “cocksucker” and “butt boy” is definitely one way to do it, but there’s more to say about this, but this post is already way too long)
Anyway, while “first poet to ever get his bone on” is highly inaccurate (Sappho was centuries earlier! You think a woman who was so gay she gave us two of our words for WLW didn’t BONE?), he definitely was one of the poets who most noticeably Absolutely Fucked and he made sure you knew it.
* he wouldn’t have said “huge”, this is a localization for our culture. The ancient romans thought big dicks were ugly, unrefined, and comical. (They borrowed this from the ancient greeks, incidentally)
I must know if the original Latin was also written in a dick shape
sadly not. Latin has a lot of fun tricks you can do with word order (because it’s inflected, you can move words around for emphasis) and typography, but it wasn’t penis-shaped originally.
that’s a good way to localize it to english, though. Catullus 16 is 100% a poem about how Big* Catullus’s dick is.
* metaphorically, you understand. He’s say he’s got Big Dick Energy, not a literally big dick, because that wouldn’t have worked for his culture.
when i was a kid i used to pray to god every night that he would “create an invisible hole somewhere”. to me an “invisible hole” was a deep pit that would look like regular ground until you stepped on it, at which point you would presumably fall to your death - an illusory floor. it was very important to me that it was just at some random location, because it had to trap a person i didn’t know and would never meet, though in my attempt to actualize my prayer through whatever focus my 4 year old brain could muster up i did start to imagine the future victim’s face as they met their sudden demise. i was not motivated by any potential personal gain, i simply wanted to test god’s power.
omfg im laughing so hard i fell asleep on my keyboard last night and i just found this
PAGE 1 OF 184
One entire row of ‘f’s takes 10 seconds to type. There are 45 lines per page, so you take 450 seconds per page. You claim to have typed 184 pages, which would take a total of 82800 seconds, or exactly 23 hours. You are a liar
You forgot that she was holding down the key. This accelerates the rate at which the f’s appear; once the ‘f’s appear at a rapid rate, it’s about 3.4 seconds per line. Also, 45 lines per page is generous - I counted and given that the page is Times New Roman, 12pt font, it’s about 41 lines.
This means that it’s 139.4 seconds per page, times 184 is 25649.6 seconds, and that rounds out to about 7.1 hours, or 7 hours 7 minutes.
People have insisted to me that masculinity is not punished in women/“women” because tomboys are accepted. This excerpt from Female Masculinity puts my thoughts on it into words really well:
Tomboyism may even be encouraged to the extent that it remains comfortably linked to a stable sense of a girl identity. Tomboyism is punished, however, when it appears to be the sign of extreme male identification (taking a boy’s name or refusing girl clothing of any type) and when it threatens to extend beyond childhood and into adolescence. Teenage tomboyism presents a problem and tends to be subject to the most severe efforts to reorient. We could say that tomboyism is tolerated as long as the child remains prepubescent; as soon as puberty begins, however, the full force of gender conformity descends on the girl…for girls, adolescence is a lesson in restraint, punishment, and repression. It is in the context of female adolescence that the tomboy instincts of millions of girls are remodeled into compliant forms of femininity…as even a cursory survey of popular cinema confirms, the image of the tomboy can be tolerated only within a narrative of blossoming womanhood.
– Jack Halberstam, Female Masculinity (1998)
Yes, it does look different from the way “boys” are punished for expressing femininity regardless of age or context. But tomboyish girls being accepted in some contexts does not mean we don’t still get the gender non-conformity beat out of us when it can no longer be considered some girlish phase. And it certainly doesn’t speak to how masculinity is treated in adult “women.” All I’ll say is I got called a dyke at age 11 and I still get called one now.
When I was growing up, boys considered me a “cool girl” because I liked the things they liked. But after I hit puberty, everyone, even my relatives who should have known me better, started sending me makeup, dresses, and other “girly things”. My tomboyism was no longer cute and now I had to Woman like every other girl.
One unexpected thing about being on T is the way that cis men are also jealous of you
Trans men being jealous? Especially those who aren’t on T yet? Yeah fair, expected that one
I did not expect cis men to start being like “how are you 4 months on T and already have a deeper voice and more facial hair than me” lmao
But also it really just goes to show you that testosterone affects everyone differently and that 100% includes cis men as well. Chances are that if you’re dysphoric about your voice, height, etc. there is also a cis man out there rn insecure about the exact same things
Make your own 💀
Cisgender men are extremely jealous of the way I travel through Boston
genuinely fucked up that if i want to interact with someone online i have to say words and have a conversation instead of just mashing my face against them like a cat
reblog to mash your face against your mutuals like a cat
Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel
IT’S BAD
PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS
EDIT: If you’re still having problems, it might help to switch from “Save/Save as” to “Export (as a) Single Layer”. Just. Make SURE the box labeled “Expression Color” is set to RGB. I’ve been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ITS NOT JUST A MAC PROBLEM
GUYS IT HAPPENS WITH KRITA TOO
is there like….a way to check how to do that for procreate?
cause I’ve noticed the same thing so I’ve just been eye picking colors for like…two years now
THERE IS!
ive been noticing the EXACT SAME PROBLEM whenever i would export an image from procreate and it drove me CRAZY that my art would desaturate all the time. anyway, if you’re in a canvas, go to settings > canvas > canvas information > color profile
once youre in color profile, if your current color profile is display P3, CHANGE IT!!!!!! it is desaturating your colors. you’re gonna want to change it to sRGB IEC6 1966-2.1 instead
if you’re starting a new canvas, you can just go to color profile and change it that way. im SO grateful for this post for giving me the push i needed to experiment with procreate files and finally see what was changing my art to be so desaturated
like LOOK at this!!!!
anyway yeah. tldr if youre using procreate, make sure your color profile is sRBG IEC6 1966-2.1
blue
Why is this on by default
so I have krita and in a panic (idk why I was panicking but still) I googled:
Just to make a point, every time I finished a panel of this I would export it as a PNG on the perceptual setting and use it as a color reference for the next panel
IT’S BAD
PLEASE CHECK YOUR COLOR SETTINGS
EDIT: If you’re still having problems, it might help to switch from “Save/Save as” to “Export (as a) Single Layer”. Just. Make SURE the box labeled “Expression Color” is set to RGB. I’ve been messing with this all day, and it looks like this combination of settings will allow exported PNGs to maintain their colors perfectly. To you. So far both Discord and Toyhouse still only display desaturated images and I cannot for the life of me figure out why
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN ITS NOT JUST A MAC PROBLEM
GUYS IT HAPPENS WITH KRITA TOO
is there like….a way to check how to do that for procreate?
cause I’ve noticed the same thing so I’ve just been eye picking colors for like…two years now
THERE IS!
ive been noticing the EXACT SAME PROBLEM whenever i would export an image from procreate and it drove me CRAZY that my art would desaturate all the time. anyway, if you’re in a canvas, go to settings > canvas > canvas information > color profile
once youre in color profile, if your current color profile is display P3, CHANGE IT!!!!!! it is desaturating your colors. you’re gonna want to change it to sRGB IEC6 1966-2.1 instead
if you’re starting a new canvas, you can just go to color profile and change it that way. im SO grateful for this post for giving me the push i needed to experiment with procreate files and finally see what was changing my art to be so desaturated
like LOOK at this!!!!
anyway yeah. tldr if youre using procreate, make sure your color profile is sRBG IEC6 1966-2.1
blue
Why is this on by default
so I have krita and in a panic (idk why I was panicking but still) I googled:
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
“Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak.”
Willem Arondéus (22 August 1894 – 1 July 1943) was a Dutch artist and author who joined the Dutch anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II. He participated in the bombing of the Amsterdam public records office to hinder the Nazi German effort to identify Dutch Jews and others wanted by the Gestapo. Arondéus was caught and executed soon after his arrest. Yad Vashem recognized Arondéus as Righteous Among the Nations.
Their attack, which took place on 27 March 1943, was partially successful, and they managed to destroy 800,000 identity cards, and retrieve 600 blank cards and 50,000 guilders. The building was blown up and no one was caught on the night of the attack. However, due to an unknown betrayer, Arondéus was arrested on 1 April 1943. Arondéus refused to give up the rest of his team.
Arondéus was openly gay before the war and defiantly asserted his sexuality before his execution. His final words were:
“Tell the people that homosexuals are not by definition weak.”
Queer 👏 people 👏 are 👏 not 👏 all 👏 fucking 👏 activists 👏
Stop quizzing us on queer history and asking us questions we aren’t qualified to answer about the world and about politics and about our identities
Stop trying to back us into a corner so you can justify your discrimination on the basis that we don’t know what we’re talking about or can’t “defend” ourselves to you
Stop treating every queer person that stands up and says “I want to be treated like a person” as if they’re an activist
Cut that bullshit out
Marginalised people just want to exist and be happy
I don’t know everything, and that doesn’t make me undeserving of your respect or my human rights you fucker
I don’t even owe you the stuff I do know- I still am entitled to basic fucking respect
TLDR; Queer people shouldn’t have to be historians or scientists for you to not be a fucking dick
I wish people understood more that animals go through puberty just like people do, and that “teen” animals will have new and often unpleasant behaviors as they grow and try and figure out their place in the world.
Many of the animals I see being rehomed are right at the one to two year old mark, when maturity is still an ongoing process and their behaviors get more intense. Be patient with them! They DO grow out of it!
Aster was a holy terror until he was almost 3 and now he’s the best cat I’ve ever owned. If you can’t deal with these changes, adopt a mature animal instead of getting a puppy or kitten, because it’s more likely than not they will have a turbulent teen phase.
“The target of the latest consumer protection rule unveiled by the Biden-Harris administration’s Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday is, as one journalist said, "one of those things that sounds minor but is at the heart of many of the frustrations of American life”: The hoops people in the U.S. are required to jump through to cancel subscriptions or services they no longer want or need.
The FTC announced that its “click-to-cancel” rule, part of the agency's review of the 1973 Negative Option Rule, was finalized and will go into effect 180 days after it is published in the Federal Register.
Under the rule, sellers will be required to “make it as easy for consumers to cancel their enrollment as it was to sign up,” said the FTC.“
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