people who for very silly reasons want to market prepared food products without preservatives in them who then discover why we started putting preservatives in prepared food products in the first place (because without a preservation method food quickly grows stale, and frequently also moldy or downright toxic) is a consistently good bit. like people really seem to think we put Evil Chemicals in food on purpose for no reason.
OP left out the third tweet talking about asexuality haha
Bi asexual 😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Lesbian asexual????
GUYS I LITERALLY HAVE A POSTER OF HER ON MY WALL BECAUSE SHE WAS SUCH A HUGE PART OF MY GAY AWAKENING I FEEL SO VALIDATED RIGHT NOW
WE FEEL VALIDATED IN THIS HISTORY TONIGHT
Just wanted to share this for my ace lesbian followers! Marilyn Monroe was most probably one of us asexuals, even if she didn’t know about/use the terms we use to describe ourselves today. Reading these excerpts is almost the textbook experiences of aces before we find out community.
-FemaleWarrior™
I really like “it was like hearing all the time that stove polish was the greatest invention on earth.” Because yes, that’s exactly the sentiment of the disconnect.
OP left out the third tweet talking about asexuality haha
Bi asexual 😍😍😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Lesbian asexual????
GUYS I LITERALLY HAVE A POSTER OF HER ON MY WALL BECAUSE SHE WAS SUCH A HUGE PART OF MY GAY AWAKENING I FEEL SO VALIDATED RIGHT NOW
WE FEEL VALIDATED IN THIS HISTORY TONIGHT
Just wanted to share this for my ace lesbian followers! Marilyn Monroe was most probably one of us asexuals, even if she didn’t know about/use the terms we use to describe ourselves today. Reading these excerpts is almost the textbook experiences of aces before we find out community.
-FemaleWarrior™
I really like “it was like hearing all the time that stove polish was the greatest invention on earth.” Because yes, that’s exactly the sentiment of the disconnect.
A good friend of mine bought a house with his partner and 6 of their friends (8 total)
My bestie and I talk about living on the same floor of the same building just so we could walk into each others apartments like sitcom characters, complete with cellphone-aided leitmotifs and laugh tracks.
i feel like disabled people are expected to tolerate and put up with things that able-bodied people aren’t. (in my experience and from what i’ve witnessed).
disabled people shouldn’t be expected to put up with ableism, rude comments, invasive questions, and just bad faith remarks in general.
we’re people with boundaries and emotions, but firstly, we’re people. we shouldn’t be held to a different standard of what we should think is okay. we don’t exist to educate or inform. we’re allowed to not answer a question, even if you meant it well.
disabled people aren’t mean for setting boundaries or having their caretakers/caregivers set boundaries for them if they are not able to set them themselves.
please don’t reblog this post a devilish temptress tricked me into making it and she placed a hex upon it so that every reblog removes a molecule from my body
please stop reblogging this post a devilish temptress tricked op into making it and she placed a hex upon it so that every reblog mails a handwritten letter to elon musk that reads “kung pow penis” and he has to read it personally
Discussions of what “counts” as “canon” queer representation fall apart the second you start talking about media older than about five years or so. If your only metric for “canon queerness” is a character looking directly into the camera and explaining their identity in specific, modern, US-American-English terminology, you’re not going to get a good picture of what queer media looks like. If your barometer for what counts as “canon” requires two characters of the same gender to kiss on-screen, you’re not going to get a good picture of what queer media looks like.
Dr. Septimus Pretorius (portrayed by Ernest Thesiger in 1935’s Bride of Frankenstein) was never going to look directly into the camera and explain his sexuality in 2024 terms, but he remains an icon in queer media history. You cannot look at that character (blatantly queer-coded in the manner of the time, played by a queer man in a film directed by another queer man) and tell me that he isn’t a part of queer media history.
To be honest, even when discussing modern queer media, I would argue that the popular idea of what “counts” as “canon” is very narrow and flawed. I’ve seen multiple posts in the past few days that say the Nimona movie is “implied” trans representation, and I just…no, y'all, it’s not “implied,” it’s an allegory. The entire damn movie is about transgender struggle, and the original comic is deeply tied into N.D. Stevenson’s own queer journey. It isn’t subtle. You cannot look at that movie and pretend that it isn’t about trans struggle. It’s blatant, and to say that Nimona “isn’t canonically trans” is a take that misses the story’s entire message, and the blatant queerphobia that almost kept the movie from happening. (I wrote a five thousand word essay about the topic.)
Queer themes, queer coding, queer exploration, and queer representation can all exist in a piece of media that doesn’t seem to have “canon queer characters” on the surface. Most queer characters are never going to be able to explicitly state their specific identity labels, be it due to censorship or just due to the fact that scenes like that don’t fit in some narratives. Some stories aren’t conducive to a big “so what’s your identity?” scene.
Explicit, undeniable, “this is my identity in no uncertain terms” scenes are very important and radical, and I’m not saying they shouldn’t ever exist. I am saying that you can’t consider those scenes the only way for queerness in a piece of media to be “canon.”
the reporter is standing outside the prison walls, while the inmates are inside watching the news, and collectively screaming out one-word answers to questions loud enough to be heard by the reporter.
it disturbs me that a significant number of people think that the issue with sexual violence, gendered violence, and misogyny is sexual desire rather than dehumanization, so they are relentlessly suspicious of others’ (and their own) desires while simultaneously never at all interrogating others’ (and their own) dehumanizing beliefs about other people, both within and outside of sexual contexts
I hate that I understand how the child has reached this conclusion.
Ten is a smaller word than three?
This child is learning the concept of ascending numbers; at that age, spelling ‘three’ is probably difficult for them.
At the age where this question would be appropriate, this child would be learning the early concepts of base ten addition with these:
And this:
While they would have seen children’s posters and toys that count up to ten countless times, rainbow numbers are probably their current main association with the number ten. However, this child doesn’t understand that ten is a larger number than three. There are two main reasons why this might be:
- the child doesn’t understand how many ten is, and sees the numbers 1 and 0, which they do understand. When asked to explain their reasoning, they don’t know how to (this kid is probably about 5 years old), so draw what the number 10 makes them think of.
- the child misunderstands the concept of ‘smaller’ in this question, and thinks of 10 as ‘simpler’ or ‘more fundamental’ a number. This is a common conclusion for little kids to draw because we put so much emphasis on learning to ad and count to 10, so they may think of using rainbow numbers as a way to simplify and reduce down to 10. Again, a 5 year old doesn’t have the self awareness or vocabulary to explain this, and having misunderstood the question, won’t do what is expected (drawing 3 dots next to 10 dots or something similar). Their answer is ‘the rainbow number chart says so’.
Further questioning could help find exactly which misconception the child has, but there’s little point; as soon as the child properly grasps what 10 is, the misconception will resolve itself in either case.
I love people who work with kids and figure out their communication styles instead of just “kid stupid silly kid knows nothing”
look i’m hearing you we’re a noble people we do what’s right and good and just and so on and so forth yes yes we’re people who respect the powers on high i’m just saying have we considered that skeletons are really cool and dope so maybe a little necromancy is o- i’m just asking questions! i’m just acknowledging that skeletons are cool!
i have to have a paladin babysit me for 2 weeks because they’re “scared the prince is being taken in by necromantic influences” what is it a CRIME to think skeletons are cool and awesome with glowing eyes and big sharp swords. whatever.
he would make an awesome skeleton with that big armour & hammer…. hmmmmm… well one skeleton can’t hurt surely
I just appreciate that he did a valley fold in the hat instead of a teardrop. The “official” Indiana Jones fedoras that Disney sells have a teardrop divot in the fedora’s crown, but anyone who has watched the movies can see that it’s a valley fold. It is such a silly thing, but it drives me nuts that so much of the official merch fucks up the iconic hat.
Okay, this is finally some Indiana Jones content I can get behind.
“Yes, I completely agree that monarchy is, in general, unsustainable; no matter how robust the system is, it’s ultimately dependent on the person on the throne not being a malicious idiot, and given enough generations you’re bound to get one eventually. However, I personally am a just monarch, so as long as I live forever that’s that problem solved. Now pass the mercury.”
When you kill a healthcare ceo, it’s terrorism. When someone shoots your kid in elementary school, it’s thoughts and prayers for like a week and then they move on. It truly shows the fact that terrorism is whatever the american government wants it to mean.
Whenever someone posits that people are ‘lazy’ I’m reminded of the fact that if you leave humans in a room with some blocks and no instructions they will literally make up their own tasks to carry out because humans just fuckin love having stuff to do and objectives to work towards
In one of my psych courses we learned about a study where a person was left in a room with nothing but a box that would SHOCK THEM painfully if they touched it. After awhile, everyone touched the box and got shocked to hell and back. Now, this isn’t that abnormal. What’s abnormal is that everyone then sat there for a few minutes and then TOUCHED THE BOX AGAIN. And got shocked AGAIN! Moral of the story: People fucking hate being bored. They would rather be in IMMENSE PAIN than be bored.
Maybe humans aren’t lazy maybe we’re being kept by neglectful caretakers in understimulating environments & enclosures lacking in enrichment
Don’t let this die. Taylor Swift is the Pollution Queen now. We need meme edits with her photoshopped onto backgrounds of wildfire-ravaged landscapes and oil refineries chugging out black smoke.
Photo of smudgy black eye shadow? That’s THE Taylor Swift-inspired look now, it represents fossil fuels.
We need parodies of Taylor Swift songs about pollution and killing polar bears.
Give her representatives a full-time job for the rest of their lives defending her from the phrase “Pollution Queen.” Make this meme a the figurehead of an entire fleet of other celebrity-terrorizing memes.
“But this doesn’t dismantle the system that—” Shut. Don’t care. Isn’t it great that such a huge portion of environmental damage is being done by human individuals with egos, whose feelings can be hurt when people are mean?
Money can save you from physical harm, but can it save you from looking ridiculous?
I need minors to learn how to lie online again. Your name is Derek, you’re 25 and work in accounting now. Please for your own safety learn how to fucking lie. And if you don’t want to lie, then don’t put your age anywhere. Don’t even say whether you’re a minor or not. It is perfectly easy to avoid adult spaces without signposting that you are doing so because you’re a child.
Stating your age doesn’t protect you this only makes you a target.
It’s weird how anarchist and anti-police symbols have been diluted so much
You might actually care about other people or you might just be angry the police set up a perimeter around the pride parade to prevent you from brutalising someone there
It’s also insane that there are fascists here
Like, what do you mean you write nazi symbols on bathroom walls with permanent markers??? Have you ever actually listened in history class??? Our people were declared non-aryan and were put in concentration camps!?!? If you were there they would have killed you
one of my coworkers has a matching tat w her fiance. hers says “beauty” in cursive and his says “beast” in like an edgy Masculine font & that’s what straight culture is
it’s with a heavy heart that i must announce…. they broke up and now they have this goofy shit on their bodies forever
Holy shit the CEO shooting is actually inspiring wider revolt against his predatory industry. Other insurance companies are even removing the photos and names of their CEO’s from their websites. They’re terrified.
We finally found him: the legendary good guy with a gun.
i feel like this is less ‘sparking outrage’ and more like when divers demonstrated to sharks that lionfish are edible
the really funny thing about the steven universe kiwifarms guys is that (& we also saw this with their ketamine aesthetic counterparts wrt the Notorious Angry Birds Porn Incident) they always seem genuinely shocked and perturbed that nobody cares as much about their niche online beefs as much as they do and will just breathlessly reiterate that some tumblr user/youtuber youve never heard of in your life did whatever over and over at you as if they expect each repetition to be the time you say “OH, I SEE, WELL CARRY RIGHT ON, YOU’RE DOING GOD’S WORK SIR”
like as much as both of these people like to posture about touching grass saying to them “i dont care what this online stranger did” totally short circuits them and theyll just keep repeating it over nad over again hoping that theyll get through to you that SpuddoTV96’s awful beahviour actually Does profoudnly affect your life and everyone Does need to hear about it
I was sad seeing the ‘inclusivity flag’ did not mention disabled people at all. Disabled people are often left out of pride events due to a lack of accessibility, being thought of as being unable to communicate their queerness and infantalisation of disabled people.
I propose this flag which includes zigzag stripes and more muted colours as a reference to the disability flag. Because queer, disabled people are so often left out from pride events it is important we be remembered.
[Alt text two versions of the inclusivity flag - one of which includes the intersex flag.
Both of these inclusivity flags have been made to have more muted colours and the rainbows zig-zagging down the flag, akin to that of a disability flag.
There is a dark grey background in the gaps at the top and bottom of the flag.]
i am afraid of people who reblog things with no tags. not even any identifiers like the show it’s from or anything. just silence. what are you thinking?? hello??
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