I swear to god one of these days were going to see a video of Amaury Guichon and he’s going to be making some wings and they are going to look dope as hell, the detail of each feather will be breathtaking, he’ll spray paint them to perfection, but as the video goes on, he’s not building any sort of winged creature, just the wings. And then there’s a human-sized harness (also made of chocolate, somehow, he can do it). And he’s attaching the wings to the harness. And he’s putting the harness on and he demonstrates how he can flap the wings. And then he’ll be off. Out the window and up and up and up. And we’ll be looking at the livestream (it’s a livestream now) and we’ll scream “No, Amaury, the sun! It’s going to melt the wings!”. But he knows this already. And he is free.
It’s looking like he’s going to do a dramatic retelling of icarus where the chocolate wings melt, but then, suddenly he takes a bite out of the sun, and smiles and nods to the camera as he chews.
Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.
It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.
no white gay boy will ever reblog this, watch:
no white gay will reblog this
no white lgb person will reblog this
Without Stonewall, without the efforts of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, the LGBTQ Community wouldn’t be where it is today. Don’t forget the roots, don’t forget the catalyst.
and then TERFs wanna be like, “hmm well the LGBT community existed before Stonewall!”
but like…Becky, of course LGBTQ+ people existed before Stonewall. We’ve all existed since the beginning of time. But the movement got a shock to its senses, a jump-start, a rocket-into-space when that glass shattered via Marsha P. Johnson, and when Sylvia Rivera was up on-stage protesting guess who was on the sidelines heckling her?
The same fuckers who won’t ever reblog or acknowledge this
My apologies to the original poster as I photo captured this post to add to the thread-I reposted this last year for pride and expect to repost it every year I have left-it’s our history people.
Marsha P. Johnson allegedly died of suicide in 1992, and her death was never investigated. Even I, a mere prole, could catch the “she was murdered” vibes from the circumstances surrounding the discovery of her body.
Without a trans black woman, LGBT+ rights would not exist. Never forget. Never “pay it no mind”.
There’s no way this is the maximally efficient way to do this
You would think, but actually it is one of the best ways. You know how there’s always a significant amount of unpopped kernels in the bottom of the bag or pan? This method pops basically all of it.
This is also the method for making puffed rice.
Let’s be real. You like it because it is basically a popcorn shotgun.
Megalopyge is a genus of moth! In the US, the most common species is the southern flannel moth. The caterpillars (usually called puss caterpillars), as you can see above, are very cute and fuzzy! They can be grey, brown, tan, white, or even orange-ish. The one shown in the post looks like a fairly large later instar, but they can be quite tiny:
But this dude is one of the reasons I tell people not to handle bugs they can’t ID. It might be cute, but it has venomous spines on its body hidden within the hairs. It could likely crawl on your hand like above without risking injury because the underside isn’t fuzzy, but I wouldn’t risk it. If you brush the top hairs against your skin it’ll cause a rash of fluid-filled raised red bumps that radiate terrible pain away from the area. And like it says above, the pain can be so intense that it feels like a broken bone, and it can last hours.
It’s recommended that if you come in contact with one, you use tape to try to pull out any remaining hairs, wash the area with soap and water, apply an ice pack, and take an antihistamine.
On the plus side, the adult moth is VERY fuzzy and 100% safe:
everybody in fandom could have so much more fun if they started playing around with aromantic identities more. why is it that the only time a character is headcanoned as aromantic, they’re headcanoned as aroace. why is it that the only aspec microlabels ever included in headcanons are the asexual ones. there are so many characters that would be infinitely more interesting to interpret as aromantic or aro-spec. ask me about it. ask me about it
imagine a CEO of a fortune 500 company having this pinned on their lapel
No dentist appointment is complete without the knuckle-whitening toe curling agony of having work done while awake I want to ruin my teeth in 2019 so I can feel the blood welling in my mouth like an untapped water source in a cave as the dentist bores holes in me with a drill
Fun fact: in the 80′s the Dutch Unemployed Union held ‘fridge raids’ to protest against poverty.
They’d find out when a politician of big boss who upheld poverty and starvation wages was speaking at some public even, then they’d carefully break into his house with a LOT of people and they would eat EVERY piece of food in his house and leave the empty dished behind without taking anything else.
Direct action at its finest.
I theoretically disapprove, but at least it’s ballsy as fuck.
I no longer disapprove.
Growth
One time my brother’s construction crew didn’t get paid on time. So he went to the boss’ house at dinnertime and when the boss opened the door my brother walked right in, asking “what’s for dinner?” And while the boss sputtered and protested, my brother started going through his fridge, calmly explaining that since he didn’t get paid, he didn’t have money for groceries, and his kid was sitting hungry at home because they didn’t have dinner. The boss’ family looked on in horror as my brother commented on how much nice food the boss had in his fridge. Until the boss finally loaded my brother up with a bunch of stuff out of the freezer and managed to get him to leave. Everyone got paid the next day and, as far as I know, they got paid on time as long as my brother worked there. Who knew that being supremely annoying could be such a gift?!
Talking about Belgians like how people talk about bisexuals.
“Are they French? Are they German? They refuse to say. I find it suspicious and untrustworthy.”
“Okay but I’ve literally never heard you speak German so you’re basically French right?”
“OP don’t you mean Dutch not German?” The Dutch are literally just swamp Germans. Like why do you snowflakes want a whole new label for your microidentity.
I like how there’s a category of careers (cowboy, pirate, spy, princess) that have a very specific historical and political context that they get stripped of for the entertainment of children
I will miss you if they finally realize about you, Tumblr the website and app Twitter account. You shined bright, you magnificent being.
And some of you may not have heard this peak of human culture, but… just after Twitter purchase by Elon Musk got confirmed, a bunch of (serious) journalist put together a Twitter Space (a live audio streaming where any of the attendees can ask to participate) about what was going to happen next, and … @tumblr joined. And… they invited tumblr to speak. I can’t describe how much joy this moment brought me and how fucking proud made me of being part of our little entropy generator here:
Last twitter space
canon Tumblr voice
I DONT KNOW WHAT I EXPECTED BUT MY EXPECTATIOBS WERE BY FUCKING FAR EXCEEDED
God ykno that panel of marcille saying yeah it was highly illegal magic so don’t tell anyone about this and chilchuck makes a fucking expression and then is like sure whatever and starts drinking from the bottle. That’s how I feel reading some people’s posts
if the claims adjuster was actually an anti-woke libertarian that’s fully hilarious. dude’s gonna get off scot-free once the conspiracy theories about government false-flag crisis actors get off the ground.
me when i’ve spent over a decade mocking conspiracy theorists for not understanding that people look different based on the angle and the lighting and what took the picture: “this crypto-loving rando on twitter is right, this is a different guy for sure”
i joke but i’m definitely seeing some tumblrinas who are going to be way more open in the future to hearing about how a school shooting victim is actually a crisis actor based on the shape of his earlobes
I understand that most of your calls can be resolved by telling the dumbass on the other end to plug it in properly, or maybe turn something off and back on again. But I, an advanced dumbass, have already tried that and I’m afraid it’s worse than either of us thought going into this.
Once had an IT guy tell me the only possible explanation was a localised black hole under my desk disrupting the space time continuum, and I’ve always been obscurely proud of having an error that severe, even though it definitely wasn’t me creating localised gravitational anomalies
I once had a computer problem so weird that it was escalated through like 4 different tiers of Apple Care until I was on the phone with this incredibly earnest guy who told me [in the thickest Eastern European accent imaginable]: “Oh my God… This is so strange… Haha!! Oh my God!!! Charlie, I will tell you, I have never encountered anything like this in my seven years of working here! All my days are spent usually helping people with stupid nonsense, but Charlie, you have brought me a PUZZLE! You have brought me a GIFT! I am FASCINATED! Now, I am going to get my manager, but Charlie, I PROMISE you. I PROMISE YOU, I will be back soon. PLEASE, Charlie, stay with me, and I PROMISE I will return to you and my manager and I will take care of you. OK?” and yes thank you i did tear up
I understand that most of your calls can be resolved by telling the dumbass on the other end to plug it in properly, or maybe turn something off and back on again. But I, an advanced dumbass, have already tried that and I’m afraid it’s worse than either of us thought going into this.
Once had an IT guy tell me the only possible explanation was a localised black hole under my desk disrupting the space time continuum, and I’ve always been obscurely proud of having an error that severe, even though it definitely wasn’t me creating localised gravitational anomalies
I once had a computer problem so weird that it was escalated through like 4 different tiers of Apple Care until I was on the phone with this incredibly earnest guy who told me [in the thickest Eastern European accent imaginable]: “Oh my God… This is so strange… Haha!! Oh my God!!! Charlie, I will tell you, I have never encountered anything like this in my seven years of working here! All my days are spent usually helping people with stupid nonsense, but Charlie, you have brought me a PUZZLE! You have brought me a GIFT! I am FASCINATED! Now, I am going to get my manager, but Charlie, I PROMISE you. I PROMISE YOU, I will be back soon. PLEASE, Charlie, stay with me, and I PROMISE I will return to you and my manager and I will take care of you. OK?” and yes thank you i did tear up
Shinigami eyes is a browser extension that was meant to mark someone as trans friendly or not trans friendly, based on user data and guidelines. A username/site/etc would be marked as green if they were trans-friendly. Red meant not trans friendly.
Due to the developer (developers?) being a trans radfem (meaning they believe that anti transmasculity doesn’t exist and afab transfems are trolls (when the latter is usually intersex folks) and intersex people are inheritly anti-trams and “theyfab” isn’t a slur… etc.), SE has basically become useless. People who will call enbies “theyfabs” get marked green, while people who believe in anti-transmasculity or believe that sex isn’t binary get marked red.
Shinigami eyes is a browser extension that was meant to mark someone as trans friendly or not trans friendly, based on user data and guidelines. A username/site/etc would be marked as green if they were trans-friendly. Red meant not trans friendly.
Due to the developer (developers?) being a trans radfem (meaning they believe that anti transmasculity doesn’t exist and afab transfems are trolls (when the latter is usually intersex folks) and intersex people are inheritly anti-trams and “theyfab” isn’t a slur… etc.), SE has basically become useless. People who will call enbies “theyfabs” get marked green, while people who believe in anti-transmasculity or believe that sex isn’t binary get marked red.
The health insurance industry has a term for this sadistic practice. It’s called “step therapy.” If the choice is between a more expensive medication that works and a cheaper one that doesn’t work as well and might have worse side effects, the insurance company requires that the cheaper drug be used first.
One benefit to the insurance company is that the patient on the cheaper drug might die before they get a chance to use the drug that works but is more expensive. That’s money in the bank for the insurance company.
Or, the patient might be so worn down and harmed by the cheaper drug that they just give up the fight to get the drug that will help them. Again, that’s bank for the insurance company.
I think a lot of people are getting the wrong idea when they call Tolkien a freak because he invented this elaborate framing device whereby the Red Book of Westmarch was actually written by Bilbo and Frodo (with some addenda by Sam) and he, Tolkien, was merely an editor and translator. Throughout history it’s actually been a very common literary device for an author to represent their work has having been written by a character who appears in the story, with the author themselves variously positioned as a translator, editor, and/or literary executor. At the time that Tolkien was writing, such a device would have been seen as somewhat old-fashioned, but certainly not eccentric. Like, Tolkien was definitely a freak, but not for that reason.
My favorite example of this is Frankenstein.
Imagine you Margaret Saville, living in comfortably in Victorian England. Your brother will be back from his expedition to the north soon. And then the afternoon post arrives and you get a novel’s worth of delayed mail from aforementioned brother. And he writes about how they found a crazy, kinda cute, guy out on the ice of the North Pole. And the crazy guy tells your brother his life story, which your brother then takes notes on (and mails to you for some reason).
So now you’re reading the incredibly detailed notes from your brother about the life story of a crazy guy from the ice. After skimming through multiple chapters detailing the youth of a crazy guy you don’t know, you read something about constructing a living man out of the pieces of a corpse? and it’s fluent in French? So you keep reading and at one point of the account the Corpse tells Crazy Ice Guy what it’s been up to.
So now you’re reading your brother’s incredibly detailed notes about the story told by Sad Crazy Guy, in which an articulate Corpse is now telling a story about living in a poor family’s walls and watching them (which is how it learned French btw). And then the Corpse overhears the villagers tell the story of how they became impoverished.
So now you’re reading your brother’s shockingly detailed recording of the Hot Crazy Ice Guy’s ramblings about the Frech-speaking Corpse’s account of some random Villagers’ story about how they were betrayed by the Turkish merchant they broke out of jail back in Italy that one time.
And then your brother walks in the front door and you’re like Robert What The Fuck Is This?
I wanna bf that has a life like those characters from fast & the furious and he come home n I bandage his knee and urge him to b careful out there bc I’m pregnant
Idk why I said this. I need an accountant
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I love birdwatchers they’re like “I just saw my ALL TIME FAVORITE BIRD SPECIES! I’ve always dreamed of seeing one in the wild! I am ECSTATIC!” and it’s the most boring looking little brown bird you’ve ever seen.
And I’m watching the video like “whoaaaa what’s it going to be! woodpecker? red-headed woodpecker? eastern whip-poor-will? northern mockingbird? it’s a Bachman’s sparrow? oh, okay. neat.”
I feel like I need to show you a Bachman’s sparrow for this post to truly land.
Oooooh the most bird ever.
omg this is so me my favourite bird is the short-toed treecreeper and.
like. yea…
I’m sorry to admit this and I would never do it in real life because I have an immense respect for wildlife and specifically the delicate nature of birds. That is the most grabbable animal I have ever seen. It looks free for the taking.
Some doodles of Finor and Lambert, also a little explanation as to why Finor is an elder despite having a Golden Skull Necklace. She took it off for a few decades because elders don’t have to work lmao
Listen, if you want to understand how emanations work, it’s like this:
If you’re an infinite thing like God, and you want to become a finite thing like the world, how do you go from infinite to finite? Answer: emanation.
You know when youre at a wedding, and there’s a big pyramid of wine glasses? And they fill the wine glasses by pouring champagne into the top, so it overflows and then fills all the glasses beneath it? Imagine the wine bottle is infinite. That’s God.
Each of the glasses is called a hypostasis. God can emanate through many hypostases to reach it’s final emanation.
As for how many hypostases there are, and how they’re arranged, that’s the tricky one. Every religion has a different answer, and it’s never simple.
Wow the wine pyramid metaphor is genius. Mind if I steal that?
hmm. gandalf big naturals kind of rubs me the wrong way. i mean its not that it like “is” “transmisogynistic” but i think the comical use of it draws from the cultural undercurrent that both-androgyny, androgyny that contains both male and female secondary sexual characteristics, is funny and ridiculous (as opposed to neither-androgyny, generally neotenous androgyny that contains neither secondary sexual characteristics. note also that gandalf in particular is old).
oh this is good discourse, let’s absolutely run with this one!
Putting a pin for a minute in the matter of Gandalf big naturals, the general phenomenon you’re describing absolutely exists, but it’s important I think to emphasize that what you call “both-androgyny” is seen as funny ans ridiculous because it’s seen as shocking and transgressive, and humour is downstream of that for the usual reasons (left as an exercise for the reader, as it’s a post in itself).
The reason for this is important to understand! It’s an arbitrary norm in the sense of being socially constructed, but not arbitrary in the sense that it could just as easily be the other way round. The reasoning is because people think of gender as binary, but they also think of it as having a strength, which flows directly from experience: the salience and visibility of someone’s gender is its strength, and this varies a lot in real life, to the extent that we see people whose gender (and even the underlying sex it relates to) is unclear regularly in day-to-day life. That doesn’t make it safe, within a gender paradigm, of course. Outside of normatively desexed categories – the very young and very old, sometimes also the very fat or sick or physically disabled – it’s risky to fall within the “none-androgyny” group, and others will take their inability to gender you as threatening. But it’s an everyday thing.
“Both-androgyny” is much rarer because it involves strong signals in both directions at once, which explodes the entire classifcatory regime. Suddenly you need, at minimum, something like the BSRI, which if adopted in that capacity would force a complete reworking of all social relations around gender. “None-androgyny” can be understood as a corner of the Bem scale, but it can also be understood as simply a person whose Gender Strength is weak on a spectrum built around a binary “hinge”. It’s thus more expansively flattering of people’s prior gender models than “Both-androgyny”, which can’t be understood in the latter way. Moreover, while all these patterns occur in nature with regard to sexual characteristics, they don’t occur with equal frequency: the “conspicuously heterogenous” arrangement really is rarer, and that rarity in combination with how it undermines the model makes it more likely to be interpreted as “chimeric” where the weak-characteristics form only seems “empty.” So all this relates to natural salience biases, as well as binarist and heterosexist and essentialist ones. And like all memorable and dangerous things, it’s a well of humour.
But, okay, let’s return to Gandalf big naturals specifically. I think that while all the above seems true and I found it energizing to hear you bring it up, it’s only a small part of the humour in tis specific meme, most of which ties in with the idea that it’s Gandalf. The joke is about the incongruity of the presentation with regard to Gandalf specifically, as a highly familiar character, but all the above is just one aspect of it. It’s also about the fact that Gandalf is not just seen as iconically masculine, but as representing a kind of low-key, avuncular masculinity, humble and elderly and firm, and “big naturals” has a nearly opposite set of connotations. If you had, like, Gandalf wearing a thong with his whole ass out, or catboy Gandalf, that would get you 60% of the way to the same place without any of the gender-binarist elements.
I think the Gandalf angle probably bears some deeper inquiry at a future date because of how tightly coupled he is with the understood cultural archetype of the “fantasy wizard”, particularly the “wise fantasy wizard” as distinguished from the mad-scientist variety, and how all of this including Gandalf himself is downstream of Odin, whose ability to use magic is instrumental to the wizard archetype but was also, contextually, extremely female-coded to the extent that doing it would preclude being seen as masculine for anyone but Odin. I think that sort of got lost in translation but that there are still weird echoes of it in the whole “wizard archetype” that maybe bear some untangling. However, this is not really visible much in Gandalf at all, as any latent gender tension is completely overpowered by his extremely strong Dad Energy.
90% of arguments about media could just be solved by saying “different people like different things in their stories” and leaving it at that
this person probably humanizes cops/racists, rape, child abuse, incest etc as long as its fictional lol
this is a good and normal leap in logic to make from this post!
I certainly hope they do, and not just when it’s fictional. Humanizing them is an important step in stopping the actual real-world harm.
If you recognize that they’re human, then you can understand it’s an issue of rationale and perspective, not Inherent Evil - and you can learn to think like an adversary. This is the first step in developing a good security mindset. That mindset, in turn, is the first tool you need to build functional safety measures and protections for your community.
There’s an added bonus, too - if you recognize that they’re people, you’ll notice that not many people are villains in their own narratives. They aren’t choosing to be evil, they’re rationalizing their harmful choices. And you start asking questions.
If you recognize that cops are people, you learn to ask yourself “Am I being reactionary, authoritarian, and needlessly violent?”
If you recognize that racists are people, you learn to recognize and unpack the racist lessons you were taught.
If you learn that rapists are people, you learn to actively verify consent.
By recognizing that terrible people are not Inherently Bad, but choosing to do terrible things for reasons they think justify them, you get better at protecting yourself from them - and protecting everyone around you from your worst tendencies. It’s a difficult and ongoing process, but it’ll protect you far better than any list of specific Bad Things to watch out for.
There’s a flipside to this, of course, and it’s important:
Anyone who tells you that your enemies are inhuman monsters is using you.
Either they’re trying to convince you that they couldn’t possibly be an Enemy because they’re a normal person… or they’re trying to keep you from noticing the little rationalizations. To convince you that atrocity is okay when you do it.
90% of arguments about media could just be solved by saying “different people like different things in their stories” and leaving it at that
this person probably humanizes cops/racists, rape, child abuse, incest etc as long as its fictional lol
this is a good and normal leap in logic to make from this post!
I certainly hope they do, and not just when it’s fictional. Humanizing them is an important step in stopping the actual real-world harm.
If you recognize that they’re human, then you can understand it’s an issue of rationale and perspective, not Inherent Evil - and you can learn to think like an adversary. This is the first step in developing a good security mindset. That mindset, in turn, is the first tool you need to build functional safety measures and protections for your community.
There’s an added bonus, too - if you recognize that they’re people, you’ll notice that not many people are villains in their own narratives. They aren’t choosing to be evil, they’re rationalizing their harmful choices. And you start asking questions.
If you recognize that cops are people, you learn to ask yourself “Am I being reactionary, authoritarian, and needlessly violent?”
If you recognize that racists are people, you learn to recognize and unpack the racist lessons you were taught.
If you learn that rapists are people, you learn to actively verify consent.
By recognizing that terrible people are not Inherently Bad, but choosing to do terrible things for reasons they think justify them, you get better at protecting yourself from them - and protecting everyone around you from your worst tendencies. It’s a difficult and ongoing process, but it’ll protect you far better than any list of specific Bad Things to watch out for.
There’s a flipside to this, of course, and it’s important:
Anyone who tells you that your enemies are inhuman monsters is using you.
Either they’re trying to convince you that they couldn’t possibly be an Enemy because they’re a normal person… or they’re trying to keep you from noticing the little rationalizations. To convince you that atrocity is okay when you do it.
Bear in mind that this is a technique that anyone can use on anyone about anything.
For example, you probably want to be suspicious when megacorporations start rebranding themselves as “diverse” and “sustainable”.
“Vegan leather” replacing “pleather” as the most frequent term for the material, as the greater populace began thinking that anything vegan is good and anything plastic is bad, is another good example if you want something specific.
This is why reading the opinions of people who disagree with you is important and critical thinking is vital
There’s something that I find equal parts hilarious and terrifying.
On one hand it is so funny watching the generation previous to mine (I was born in 84) absolutely say the most unhinged shit online, doxx themselves, and get fired, after spending my entire childhood teaching me online opsec because every stranger was a potential murderer. Social media done rotted their brains.
But on the other I’m seeing kids coming up, seeing them spew all their personals online, and using that to model their unsafe behavior and put themselves at incredible risk because the internet actually got way more dangerous than it was, ironically, when I was coming up being told I had to basically outsmart the fuckin CIA. Now the actual CIA and other bad actors (government, private, and individual) really are out there and these kids are watching fucking meemaw post a photo of the front of her house practically captioned with her fucking SSN and thinking, “yeah, sure, the adults know what’s safe.”
I gotta be a fuckin millennial about this and beg younger folx to listen to the VCR generation: hide yourself online. Nothing should go there you wouldn’t want in the hands of the person who hates you the most.
