The other day I politely returned the question “how are you doing?” at a driver who asked the same of me, and he replied “oh, you know, same soup just reheated” and I can’t stop thinking about that
holding yourself back from saying faggot is very difficult when the person you’re discussing can only be accurately described with the aforementioned term
This christofascist agenda has been literally killing people throughout the world
Project 2025 includes a detailed plan to do similar with abortion, launching world-wide programs to discourage abortion and to ultimately prevent access to and education about abortion
It’s a publicly available document. You can look it up
They will say that abortion increases breast cancer risk (it doesn’t) that abortion is more dangerous than childbirth (childbirth is 14 times more likely to kill you) that abortion is high risk for causing mental health issues (it isn’t) but it will not matter that these are lies, just like it doesn’t matter that abstinence-only sex education Does Not Work.
This christofascist agenda has been literally killing people throughout the world
Project 2025 includes a detailed plan to do similar with abortion, launching world-wide programs to discourage abortion and to ultimately prevent access to and education about abortion
It’s a publicly available document. You can look it up
They will say that abortion increases breast cancer risk (it doesn’t) that abortion is more dangerous than childbirth (childbirth is 14 times more likely to kill you) that abortion is high risk for causing mental health issues (it isn’t) but it will not matter that these are lies, just like it doesn’t matter that abstinence-only sex education Does Not Work.
Haven’t figured out a politic way to word this but before saying someone/thing “makes you uncomfortable” please ask yourself this important question: is it any of your fucking business
At least say “I am uncomfortable with” instead. Own your own shit
“This person is making me uncomfortable” suggests they’re actively doing something to or at you. And sometimes people are! But sometimes. You are just uncomfortable with people when they aren’t doing anything. And that’s on you not them.
“The homeless man on the bus is making me uncomfortable” verses “I am uncomfortable with the homeless man on the bus.” You see the difference
online friends never say they love you like a normal person, it’s always gotta be “if we lived close to each other i would get mental health bagels with you” or something like that
shaming and making fun of people for still engaging in fandom activities once they reach a certain age is so embarrassing because why are you giving yourself an expiration date of time you have fun? why are you not-so-indirectly saying you will stop having fun once you reach a certain age? or do you really believe you have to stop engaging in fandom activities and having fun once you turn (x)? do you not think you will, what, live that long and turn that age too? do you think fun will suddenly stop for you and life will all of a sudden lose its meaning once you reach a certain age? how sad to be giving yourself an hourglass and just waiting for your time of having fun to run out.
adults can and should engage in fandom activities if it’s what makes them happy.
adults can and should continue doing whatever they like doing as teenagers if it’s what makes them happy.
age is just… part of life. it’s a part of me and it’s a part of you. shaming people for something you will have to go through (unless you don’t think you will live that long) is such a loser behavior. indirectly saying you will stop having fun once you reach a certain age isn’t the flex you think it is. it doesn’t make you look “cool and edgy”, it makes you look miserable.
A bargain with a demon to write your novel is okay
Only if you specify in the contract that the demon can’t use chat-GPT
I’ve been thinking about this - and why asking the demon is also a bad idea
Tartini was a composer and violin teacher and no one respected him, he was generally broke, and he started having weird dreams in which the devil asked him to teach him violin
despite being catholic tartini agreed - although everything told him this was a bad idea
so he taught the devil violin in his dreams and when he had taught him everything he knew the devil offered him payment, he played an original composition in his dream
Tartini woke up weeping and struggled to write it down
we have a historical version of “couldn’t remember the greatest song in the world, this is just its tribute”, and the song he wrote down made him “Sonata in G Minor, aka the devil’s trill” it’s usually played by 2 violinists because it’s evil difficult,
now imagine you make a deal with the devil to write your novel, he writes it but only lets you read it in a dream and you have to transcribe it from memory the next day…. 150k of the best prose and plot you’ve ever seen in your life and you have to remember it
chatgpt is evil, but that’s just mean
This brings a whole new element to my understanding of Devil Went Down to Georgia
I hope this doesn't come off as disrespectful, because I'm genuinely curious, but like...is alchemy "real"? Because the way you speak about it is how I wish I could, myself, appreciate it and you're the closest I've ever found to a real world wizard which excites me a great deal. I totally respect if for you it's actually just an interesting academic study without intention, I'm just curious for how you view it in that lens.
Short answer: Yes, as in alchemists were real people who could actually do cool shit sometimes, but they weren’t actually transmuting lead into gold, you need a particle accelerator for that.
In the 4th century, you weren’t a scientist, that word hadn’t been invented yet. You were a Natural Philosopher. You studied everything from the stars, to mathematics, to medicine, to the nature of herbs and stones.
In the medieval era, you weren’t an astronomer, you were an astrologer. Telling people’s horoscopes involved a lot of astronomical math. There wasn’t really a difference between astronomy and astrology.
In the renaissance era, you weren’t a chemist. The term chemist didn’t exist yet. You were an alchemist. You tried to make gold sometimes, but you also manufactured dyes, glass vessels, cosmetics, paints, and medicines. You were kind of a whitesmith, and a glass-blower, and a doctor, and sometimes just a con-man.
Alchemy and chemistry have a relationship similar to Astrology and Astronomy. But, don’t think of alchemy as just “Chemistry with magic.” Alchemy is the father of modern chemistry. It is the cocoon that chemistry sprouted out of.
The thing is, alchemy is more “real” than astrology is. You know what a common use of astrology was in the medieval era? Diagnosing diseases. You’d check someone’s horoscope to determine what medicine to give them. This didn’t work. A medieval astrology textbook isn’t going to be useful for diagnosing why your stomach hurts.
But!
Medieval alchemy texts are actually useful sometimes. If you want to dye some copper so it looked more like gold, there are alchemy texts that can tell you how to do that. If you want to distill the mercury out of some cinnabar, alchemists could do that. They didn’t really know how or why that worked, but they could do it! If you want a potion that could make you immortal, the alchemists could make a philter of mercury and lead that would definitely 100% kill you and it would hurt the whole time you were dying. You can’t win em all.
SOMEONE PLEASE BE PROUD OF ME I WAS FEELING SO SHIT AND I STILL CLEANED MY ROOM AND BRUSHED MY TEETH AND WASHED MY FACE AND I FEEL SO PROUD OF MYSELF :33333333
I just wanna say the original is like a thousand times funnier than all the edgy sex joke versions. Some of us are just autistic about reptile phylogeny, bitch.
In Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, characters have smoothed moving parts, and naturally we can see how certain characters move. For example, when Paper Mario walks, we can see his feet swinging like a pendulum. This brings an interesting question: how does Paper Peach walk under the skirt?
Indeed, nobody seems to ask this question but that means it’s also a question begging for some natural suggestions, and off-the-wall ones. This idea initially started out as a mere sketch and some strange suggestions, but eventually I wanted to use it as an opportunity to draw animation.
This animated piece is my serious attempt, whereas previous ones were just small stuff. Indeed, the real challenge is coming up with how the legs move in motion. Some, they were easy, but many of them were difficult. For example, the Regular one features normal walking, but animating a walk is not so easy.
A couple of them got revisions. Float had less feet movement but I decided to redraw it to give it clearer movements. Also, wheel initially have the feet moving clockwise until someone pointed out that it looked like it moves backwards, which is a good call because I didn’t notice it.
Hopefully these look good enough to get some laughs! I felt accomplished looking at all the animation I spent nights doing.
There'a a character named Vivian in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door who we only know is trans because one of her sisters constantly misgenders her. Her character arc includes her standing up to her sisters and learning to respect herself while travelling with Mario. In the English localisation they made her sister mean and removed the transphobia, thereby also removing all references to her gender identity. There is a remake releasing soon, if the transphobia is back that means that they’ve decided to put the trans rep (that was once absent from the english release) back in.
Trans and intersex people in the UK need you to be loud and angry about the new “deception as to sex” guidance released which makes trans and intersex people legally guilty of rape if we don’t disclose our gender identity and/or the sex we were assigned at birth to sexual partners.
This is particularly going to harm trans and intersex sex workers, who often have a higher number of sexual partners who we might keep our trans or intersex identity from for our safety.
“To summarize this guidance in the simplest terms, it treats a trans or intersex person not disclosing their gender identity and/or the sex they were assigned at birth as a form of deception which negates consent.”
This guidance will put trans women into men’s prisons with sex offenders for the “crime” of having consensual sex without declaring that they’re trans first.
This guidance will put trans men into prison, likely in isolation, for the “crime” of having consensual sex without declaring that they’re trans first.
This guidance will put intersex people into prison for the “crime” of having consensual sex without declaring that they’re intersex first.
The British press is sweeping this under the rug. It will devastate so many trans and intersex people’s lives. I need everyone else to share their rage because I’m scared and devastated for myself and those I love and I can’t be screaming all on my own.
This gives the cis sexual partners of trans and intersex people so much power over them because unless you disclose it in writing (through a text message or something) it’ll be your word against theirs and the court will not side with transgender or intersex individuals.
There WAS a sit-in in a different bathroom in the Capitol on the literal same day, two of them happening simultaneously actually, one of men (mostly trans men) outside the women’s bathroom and one of trans women inside the bathroom.
We can do multiple things, y'know? One of which isn’t trying to “shoot up” one of the most secure places on the planet. Also you’re hiding shit in the tags, you’re significantly more of a coward than any of the people in this video.
How is this protest any less valid than an “actual” sit-in? Because there is joy? Because there is dancing? Because the oppressed are expressing anything but dour resignation?
Invention of a Feminist Sound Bite
by Alix Kates Shulman
December 24, 2001
“IF I CAN’T DANCE I DON’T want to be in your revolution,” said Emma Goldman.
Or did she? Perhaps she said, “If 1 can’t dance I don’t want to be part of your revolution,” as my purple T-shirt claims under a picture of Emma looking demure in a widebrimmed hat. Or was it rather, “If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution,” as the quote appears in a 1983 Passover Haggadah?
In fact, though the sentiment is indeed Emma Goldman’s, she wrote none of the above, notwithstanding that each of these versions and more have been attributed to her on buttons, posters, banners, T-shirts, bumper stickers, and in books and articles, for nearly twenty years. Here, rather, is what she did say, in her 1931 autobiography Living My Life:
To quote Emma Goldman in her 1931 autobiography:
“At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of Sasha, a young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance… My frivolity would only hurl the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, .should demand the denial of life and joy… If it meant that, I did not want it.”
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