Sometimes I forget how alien the world used to be. How our earth used to be entirely diffrent in so many wonderful ways. How we can never see it, but as humans we can understand and know, we can know, we can know.
My favorite pastime is finding archived queer buttons online. Heres some of my favorites-
This is from at least the 90s! Lesboys win again-
Is this term still used? If not, I think we should bring it back -
Me-
I think this is Allison Bechdel’s work? I know she did a lot of commission work in the 80s but this kind of art style was also popular amount queer artists around that time so idk-
Mom sent me a facebook link to a PBS news hour post about how the anti-lawn movement is growing. The vast majority of the comments on it were stuff like this:
Most people are on our side here, even the so-called “boomers.” We just have to be spreading ecological knowledge and practical means of creating useful habitat in back yards! Educate! Protect! Resist!
Mom sent me a facebook link to a PBS news hour post about how the anti-lawn movement is growing. The vast majority of the comments on it were stuff like this:
Most people are on our side here, even the so-called “boomers.” We just have to be spreading ecological knowledge and practical means of creating useful habitat in back yards! Educate! Protect! Resist!
Something that pops up in my notes from time to time is folks thinking I’m being excessively kind in my criticisms of Dungeons & Dragons, and I’m going to spin this off into a separate thread to address that without putting anyone on the spot.
First, if your own critique of Dungeons & Dragons is rooted in the idea that it’s the Worst Game Ever, that speaks more to the limits of your experience than it does to anything else. Dungeons & Dragons in any of its iterations far from the worst the tabletop roleplaying hobby has to offer – like, you have no fucking idea!
Second, I tend to be even-handed in my discussion of D&D’s rules because, fundamentally, the rules are not the problem – or, at least, not the principal cause of the problem.
In many ways, the indie RPG sphere has never escaped the spectre of Ron Edwards, sternly pronouncing that the mechanical process of playing traditional RPGs causes actual, physical brain damage, and that this brain damage is responsible for the bad behaviour we often observe at the table. We don’t say it that way anymore, but on some level a lot of us indie RPG designers still kind of believe it.
This is understandable. As game designers, we’re naturally inclined to think of problems at the table as game design problems. When we see a problematic culture of play, our impulse is to frame it as something which emerges from the text of the game, and which can therefore be mitigated by repairing the text of the game.
Confronted with the obvious toxicity of certain facets of D&D’s culture of play, we go combing through its text, looking for something – some formalism, some structure, some piece of rules technology – which we can point to and say: “this is it; this is where the brain-worms live.”
The trouble is, this is not in fact where the brain-worms live. Certainly, the text of a game, particularly a very popular one, can have some influence on the game’s surrounding culture of play, but that text is in turn a reflection of the culture of play in which it was written. The Player’s Handbook isn’t an SCP object, spewing infectious infohazards everywhere when you crack open the cover – hell, I’d go so far as to say that many of the problems of D&D’s culture of play operate in spite of the game’s text, not because of it!
Basically, what I’m saying is that I don’t see any contradiction between being the sort of pretentious knob who writes one-page indie RPGs about gay catgirls talking about their feelings (which I am), and speaking favourably about this or that piece of rules tech from whatever flavour of Dungeons & Dragons is in favour this week (which I do), because I recognise that you can’t game-design your way out of a problem you didn’t game-design your way into.
The fact that one of the biggest problems facing the tabletop roleplaying hobby is something that can’t be repaired by fucking around with dice-rolling procedures is a bitter pill to swallow for a lot of indie game designers, and I won’t say I wasn’t resistant to it myself, but it’s something that’s both useful and necessary to accept.
(None of this means that the text of Dungeons & Dragons in any of its incarnations is beyond criticism on other grounds, of course, and I’ve never been shy about highlighting those criticisms where they’re warranted. The only way you’re gonna arrive at the conclusion that I’m some sort of D&D apologist is if you’re starting from the presumption that The Real Problem Is The Rules.)
I showed this to my partner to gently tease them and they said so sadly “the thing is when you came in I was eating peanuts and reading the Wikipedia page for peanuts”
I showed this to my partner to gently tease them and they said so sadly “the thing is when you came in I was eating peanuts and reading the Wikipedia page for peanuts”
I showed this to my partner to gently tease them and they said so sadly “the thing is when you came in I was eating peanuts and reading the Wikipedia page for peanuts”
modern day L death note would make a uquiz called ‘What’s Your Personality Type?’ and carefully map out the answers he knows light would pick to give him the answer ‘You Are Kira!’.
For those not tapped into Australian politics, King Charles is in Australia to conduct his “historic first tour to the commonwealth realm” i.e visting countries that King Charles is supposedly a monarch to.
Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe had requested an audience with King Charles for weeks prior to this visit, she wrote countless letters to speak to him. Unlike other commonwealth nations and other former Brisitish colonies, a treaty with Indigenous peoples in Australia was never formed. Their land was never ceded to the British Crown. After being denied and ignored, Lidia Thorpe, draped in a traditional possum skin cloak, stormed in the Great Hall during the reception for Charles at Parliament House in the capital shouting the following:
I literally can’t even look at these photos without getting goosebumps.
it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of “I’m a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS” girl no it doesn’t. that’s meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
I’d say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn’t the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I’m being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven’t even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it
it does still make me insane specifically how many queer people lovingly embrace astrology. I went to a poetry workshop yesterday that was genuinely quite good but also included an option to disclose astrology designations during introductions and so many people broke out some variation of “I’m a [x] sum but I have a [y] placement and it SHOWS” girl no it doesn’t. that’s meaningless correlation you completely invented the causation
I’d say that rejecting biological determinism in favor of space gas determinism isn’t the slay the astrology queers think it is but if I’m being completely honest I fear that many members of our community haven’t even really rejected biological determinism so much as sprinkled a layer of glitter on it
I just realized the fundamental disconnect for people who think they can “boycott” voting:
People who threaten to withhold their vote are thinking of the government like a business. If you don’t like what a business is doing, you can refuse to shop there, and that hurts them.
But your government is not a business, no matter how much the GOP tries to pretend it is, and refusing to participate doesn’t hurt it. If you refuse to vote, you still have to live under that government. I know we’re all fundamentally broken by late-stage capitalism, but you get that you can’t “Well, you just lost a customer” this one, right? YOU AREN’T A CUSTOMER.
Refusing to vote isn’t like refusing to buy McDonald’s. It’s like walking into a McDonald’s, handing the cashier $20 (because you still gotta pay taxes whether you vote or not), and saying “Surprise me.”
(Oh and during this particular trip, one of the two McDonald’s options is maybe not your favorite food, and the other is deadly poison.)
In case anyone needed a reminder that most of the people urging you not to vote are trolls.
Millennials have essentially been forced into a perpetual teenagerhood by socioeconomic circumstance, we desperately want to grow up, and we’re worried that we’re running out of time to do so
interestingly, i feel like the opposite - i’ve grown up, unwillingly and unprepared to do so, and i want more time to figure my shit out before i’m ready to be seen as an adult. i’m almost 36.
Oh man, I know that feeling.
I’ve seen a lot of older people scoff at the word “adulting”, but pretty much everyone my age or younger that I’ve talked to about it knows exactly what it means and feels it keenly, and I wonder if on some level this is because many older people think of “adult” as just an age category - one you’re in your twenties you’re an adult, by definition, and so anything you do is “adulting”, also by definition. But to our generation and younger ones, there are a bunch of things we associate with adulthood; it varies based on culture, socioeconomic status, etc. but everyone I know seems to have at least one thing that they think of as an “adult” thing - maybe having a steady job, or owning a car, or having time to go big with your hobbies, or having the energy for activism, or raising 2.5 kids in a nuclear family with a white picket fence in the suburbs, or even just going grocery shopping regularly instead of “in a panic because you’re out of toilet paper” - that they not only don’t have, but can’t even really imagine having.
And so we need the word “adulting” so we can separate “doing the things adults are supposed to do” from “being old enough to be an adult”, because by age we’re obviously all adults as nouns but most of us can’t fully adult as a verb, so maybe we’re not actually adults? Or maybe we’re “fake” adults, because a REAL adult would have organized their life by now and would be adulting all the time with ease, because adulting is just, by definition, all the things you’d do if you were a real adult.
you have beautiful hair, I bet it would look even better clogging my shower drain
you have consigned my robovac to a life of constant struggle and torment 🤩
This is an under-appreciated problem with long hair. I finally got mine to hip-length and it does not play well with shower drains. I want a drain from normal people’s nightmares. One with sharp metal teeth that spin around, kind of like a garbage disposal, to chop the hairs into bitty pieces so I don’t have to get out the plastic drain snake and pull out hairs longer than my arms.
genetically engineered creature with insatiable hunger for human hair sounded like good idea at the time
I can’t get it right in the photo but going absolutely bonkers over the way the colors just like. blur across from the rothko (1950) to the turner (1845). this whole room is full of these abstract colors it’s like they’re bleeding between the picture frames with no regard for time
There was a reviewer or commenter who said “I always keep track of how many mistakes the protagonist makes and after three, I stop reading the story and never look back”.
I think about that person pretty frequently. We read for our own enjoyment, and therefore there’s no wrong way to read a book so long as you’re enjoying yourself, but … maybe I don’t actually believe that. Maybe there are wrong ways to read a book, and this guy found one.
prev please share the tea, i have to know
I dont wanna hijack this post, but just this week I had to sit there and hear that a book by a black author was racist because it didn’t explicitly state how racism was affecting the lives of the black main characters. According to the person doing this critique, it was racist specifically because the author was black woman, and he, a white man, was expecting to be educated on the matter by her. She had an obligation to talk about it, as someone who’s an activist on black rights, but she failed to do so in a way that satisfied him.
I just think that ‘animals are living intelligent creatures that have feelings and deserve to be respected’ and 'when done properly farming is beneficial to both people and animals and there’s nothing wrong with raising and killing animals for food, clothing, and other products’ are concepts that very much can and should coexist
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