gamer boyfriend yells GODDAMNIT! from the other room and throws his headset and you walk in all what’s wrong babe :( and he’s playing a story-driven indie game
“…Really? I-” They sound surprised, but it shakes off rather quickly, and they’re already bounding up besides him. “You know what? I should have guessed that from the start. It’s literally the color of your fur and is associated with death.” They laugh. “It suits you.”
Narinder side eyes them, turning away when said color makes eye contact back.
@bamsara’s comics first got me into the game, and then their The Rehabilitation of Death got me into making fanart again a;lsdjkfdl;sajf. This section in particular from chapter 4 was awesome. It made the Lamb feel dark and unknowable somehow. I had to try replicating it in a drawing.
Yknow that post about that person watchin Parasite expecting there to be an actual flesh parasite monster.
Well I was readin “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, which is a good book about a man tryna find his way in a world that doesn’t want him after his entire life plan fuckin falls apart (the invisibility in this case is metaphorical).
And I was NOT reading “THE Invisible Man” by H.G. Wells (which does in fact star an actually invisible man)
So I’m readin like ‘damn, this dude fuckin goin through it! The groups of power present truly do not see him as the man he is, but rather what they wish him to be! Making him, metaphorically, invisible!
Yknow that post about that person watchin Parasite expecting there to be an actual flesh parasite monster.
Well I was readin “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison, which is a good book about a man tryna find his way in a world that doesn’t want him after his entire life plan fuckin falls apart (the invisibility in this case is metaphorical).
And I was NOT reading “THE Invisible Man” by H.G. Wells (which does in fact star an actually invisible man)
So I’m readin like ‘damn, this dude fuckin goin through it! The groups of power present truly do not see him as the man he is, but rather what they wish him to be! Making him, metaphorically, invisible!
god bless america death to america god bleath toamerica
five unique letters from each source phrase, and eight shared letters. perfectly aligned. representing my deep and absolute ambivalence on this nation.
I’ll have to disagree. It’s very symmetrical, but not perfectly symmetrical. Two letters from the first phrase are missing from the combined phrase, while only one letter is missing from the second. So proportionally more of the second phrase is being represented.
Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.
Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.
HR block also did this shit to me, fuck em
I’m sorry
You pay money to a private corporation
So that you can give the government its tax money??
How is regulating turbotax and the like out of existence not a top priority
Friendly reminder as we head into tax season (for US Americans), that the major tax preparation companies are fully prepared to lie and mislead you into paying for their tax preparation software when you might qualify for free software through the IRS.
Don’t fall for their bullshit. Visit IRS Free File and see what services are available to you. The requirements vary depending on your household status and income, but if you make less than $79,000/year (which is nearly everyone I know), you probably qualify for something.
I have never watched a mr beast video and every time I see his face doing that weird dead smile he does in every thumbnail, it just looks like that one photo of charlie from always sunny to me
i don’t understand, are they supposed to get nicer or just less bruised up?
by calling it “time theft”, the state created a crime that sounds even cooler than simply dicking around while on the clock, something which is already incredibly cool
Lately I’ve been getting an influx of comments from people going “What does this even mean 😂??” What’s up with that. Where did you all come from. I thought the UN agreed that we should all stop doing that in 2016
what do you mean elon musk did a nazi salute on live tv at the united states presidential inauguration twice and is now erasing the evidence off the internet by replacing the footage with the crowd cheering instead?
would be a shame if people reblogged this, wouldn’t it?
I’m italian and there’s something that people defending this shit don’t fucking understand.
they think the “Roman salute” is something unrelated to nazis or fascists but the “Roman Salute” IS the fascist salute. It’s not a different concept, it’s the same thing!! It’s not “good” because it doesn’t have the word “nazi” in it, It’s the same shit.
And to people saying “He is throwing out his heart to the crowd” tell me if YOU would do it at a 45 degree angle with your thumb tucked in and your fingers closed together. Personally, a throwing motion in my imagination has your palm completely open and your fingers spaced out
Regardless, This is what propaganda is, They do bad thing and then they say “no it good actually” and the population goes “Ok then it’s all good” it’s not all good, They’re making you think it is. It sucks
Politicians gain power through the Ignorance of the people, don’t trust people just because “They said it”
When you say you're anti-CAM what does that mean? Like what does CAM mean in that context? I genuinely haven't seen that acronym before and I'm assuming you aren't anti-camming as in like the form of sex work
I am capable of turning off my inner annoying atheist, I am incapable of turning off my inner annoying quackwatcher.
I have had real life fights with people I genuinely love about this and I do not regret it. I will absolutely not regret shitting all over someone’s $500 herbalist certification.
Warding spells are real, if you want me to stay far away from you forever tell me that you practice reiki.
The nice thing is that I will probably never bring this kind of thing up. I’m never going to go out of my way to figure out if the people around me are, like, really into homeopathy. The less nice thing is that if you bring it up with me I am never, ever, ever going to shut up about it and if you attempt to show me a *study* on the healing power of prayer or the use of chiropractic to treat asthma we are forever enemies and I probably won’t talk to you again but I will use the several hours of furious debunking that I did after our conversation to make arguments against your beliefs in the future. You are already a lost cause to me but other people are less stupid about the way that ice crystals form and I can work with them.
I *loathe* medical woo, it kills people and the people who engage in it are shitty human beings who are hurting other human beings.
RE: Herbalism
I don’t think that there’s a proponent of science-based medicine alive who doesn’t understand that plant compounds are important in medicine and it is important to research them. We *DO* get a lot of medicine from plants.
But “medicine from plants” and “herbalism” are not the same.
The example that most people like to bring up is aspirin and willow bark tea. You can use willow bark as a painkiller, you can collect your own and brew it up when you’ve got a headache.
What you can’t do is control the dose. You can’t do this for a number of reasons, including having little control over the conditions the tree grew in and variations in preparation technique. If you’re measuring very exactly you can control for some of these things, but even if you were in charge of the willow tree you collected the bark from it’s not going to be the same at different places on the trunk or in different seasons.
That’s not a huge deal if you’re using aspirin for a headache, it can be a much bigger deal if you’re using aspirin as a bloodthinner.
And the example that people LIKE to use is aspirin because it *isn’t* a big deal. The example they *don’t* like to use is foxglove (digitalis, which produced digitoxin, which can be used to treat heart failure) because that’s a medicine from a plant that you can’t fuck around with using herbalism, it needs extremely careful extraction and preparation because if it’s done wrong it’ll just straight kill you.
And then you get into herbal treatments that are generally safe and largely not harmful even if they may not do anything, and it can feel totally reasonable to recommend red raspberry leaf tea to a friend who is having cramps. As long as that friend isn’t diabetic because red raspberry leaf interacts with insulin. And as long as your friend isn’t on an anticoagulant because red raspberry leaf can ALSO act as an anticoagulant.
And those are just examples of what can happen if you know you are actually getting the plant that you think that you are getting and that it is unadulterated with fillers and uncontaminated with anything else and is properly prepared (or is prepared the same way as the last batch you bought and so it can be dosed the same way).
There are two ways that Kava Kava can be prepared; do you know which of those two ways is associated with more deaths and liver transplants? Do you know not to take Kava if you have a history of liver issues or if you are on antidepressants? (ctrl+f for “Hema Ketha” for the study from that overview that goes in depth on that; for whatever reason you can read the whole article in the overview but if you click on the link you only get the abstract)
One of my big, big problems with CAM - including herbalism - is that people turn to it because they think it is safer than “allopathic” medicine. They think “it’s better to drink raspberry leaf tea than it is to take midol because midol is full of chemicals and raspberry leaf tea is just tea.” But midol doesn’t interact with insulin, and most people are *aware* they’re taking a blood thinner when they take NSAIDs.
There’s this tea shop I go to that has maybe a hundred different kinds of herbal teas, some of which are clearly supposed to be medicinal, but the one that always stands out to me is the St. John’s Wort tea that has “NOT FOR PREGNANT” on the label. It’s good that they’re recommending that pregnant people don’t select that tea, but that tea is also not for people on antidepressants, triptans, birth control, warfarin, stantins, protease inhibitors, or people who have had solid organ transplants.
But it’s just tea. And what could just tea do, right?
(It could make your anti-rejection meds so weak that it kills you. That’s what just tea can do. But maybe one cup of older tea, or one cup that is more leaf than flower, or one cup that wasn’t steeped as long doesn’t hurt, so you drink it and you think it’s fine, it’s not a problem, and it isn’t a problem until it is but you don’t know the difference between one cup of tea and the next because this shit is impossible to dose)
This is also why I’m extremely leery of the “you can try CAM as long as you are using it alongside your doctor’s care and you do what the doctors say” thing because that is relying on:
Doctors being aware of all of these possible interactions (which is a stretch; pharmacists are likely to have a better handle on it but even then, there are all kinds of supplements being labeled all kinds of things all the time; medical woo scammers LOVE to rebrand their supplements)
So long story short I’m not particularly bothered if you try herbalism on yourself after looking into things that you think will help you. I do have a problem with people who *recommend* herbal treatments without A) a full medical background understanding of the person they recommend the treatment to and B) comprehensive knowledge of whether the thing that you’re recommending will interact with any medications they might be taking or exacerbate any conditions that they might have and C) some kind of accountability mechanism in place - like a malpractice suit or the loss of license - like a doctor might if they prescribed a medication that was dangerous to their patient.
Because that’s the other infuriating thing - CAM practitioners often aren’t held to the same standards as medical professionals. Patients who trust CAM practitioners often think of them like doctors, but they don’t have the same protection from CAM practitioners like they would from doctors. If your herbalist tells you to treat your cancer with apricot pits or black salve - even if that’s in addition to chemotherapy - it could end up seriously injuring you and they’re not committing malpractice because there’s no legal standard for their practice. Nobody can remove their license because there’s no such thing as an herbalist license, so whatever harm they did to you can be done to other people after you with no professional consequences.
begging ppl to recontextualize their understanding of the word “trauma” because its either “everything is trauma” or “you dont have trauma unless you witness a literal war otherwise its insulting to people with trauma disorders” and neither of those are right
it doesnt take a huge violent event for you to be scarred by something mentally and suffering from it. when people say “triggering content” or put up trigger warnings what they usually mean by that is that the content is “graphic”, “gorey”, “drastic”, and while yes, of course these could be huge triggers for people who have been in direct contact with violence, its a huge misunderstanding of the issue. you have no way to know what triggers someone personally. because trauma occurs when a person doesnt know how to cope with something and resolve it emotionally, what is traumatic depends more on the individual than the stimuli in question. multiple people could experience the same event and only one develop ptsd for example. its an undoing of a persons internal sense of safety and belief system. because of that a trigger can be a sound, sensation, even certain phrases or words. its irresponsible to pretend otherwise.
case in point: complex post traumatic stress disorder, a disorder which is caused by a long lasting trauma due to things like abuse and being held captive. it doesnt take one singular drastic event for it to develop, it just does because youre mentally carrying a sense of danger wherever you go.
I think my favorite memes are the ones about insignificant but universally relatable things
this is gonna be relatable forever, unless they somehow make butter that you can spread and that isn’t stretched with water that squirts out when you do spread it.
Every romance book promoted on tiktok is just full to the brim with horrible “steamy” taglines that are just like… Eyes on me, Little Beast. I’m here to make you Damp
When you only have 4 Tupperware containers and the 3 smaller ones are in the freezer, the avocado gets the penthouse suite.
Why is there a sudden influx of people reblogging this post about an avocado I made 5 years ago?? How do you explain shit like this to the folks from Meta/Twitter??
Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s
And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights
Thank God someone paved the way for them…
if you think jk was the first woman author, you don’t actually care about women authors.
Mary Shelley didnt fuck on her parents graves for this level of disrespect
Murasaki Shikibu didn’t invent the novel for this.
Christine de Pizan did not sit down at her desk and write The Book of the City of Ladies, advocating for women’s education and finding value in women of all social classes and backgrounds, in 1405 for this.
🎶SHAHARIZADE HAD A THOUSAND TALES🎶
This……….isn’t even true in 20th century fantasy or childrens books? Pierce, Lackey, Applegate, McCaffrey, Bradley, Butler, whomst?
Casual reminder that
a woman was the first known author/poet in 2300BC - Enheduanna
the first novel in recorded history was written by a woman in 1010AD - Murasaki Shikibu
the earliest example of science fiction was written by a woman in 1666 - Margaret Cavendish
horror science fiction was popularised by a teenage girl in 1818 - Mary Shelley
a Scotswoman expanded childrens’ stories from moralising tales into anarchic adventures in the mid 1800s, well before it became popular in the early 20th century - Catherine Sinclair
the masked/costumed hero archetype that inspired Batman and Zorro was created by a woman in 1905 - Baroness Emma Orczy
And while she is problematic as all get out, we all know who is to blame for popularising Boarding School fiction (which is a huge inspiration of She Who Must Not Be Named) from the 1930s onwards - Enid Blyton
And do I even need to mention what a badass pioneer Ursula Le Guin was for women author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre?
Not to mention Agatha Christie is literally second only to Shakespeare in terms of works sold – 4 billion compared to JKR’s paltry 500 million
Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s
And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights
Thank God someone paved the way for them…
if you think jk was the first woman author, you don’t actually care about women authors.
Mary Shelley didnt fuck on her parents graves for this level of disrespect
Murasaki Shikibu didn’t invent the novel for this.
Christine de Pizan did not sit down at her desk and write The Book of the City of Ladies, advocating for women’s education and finding value in women of all social classes and backgrounds, in 1405 for this.
🎶SHAHARIZADE HAD A THOUSAND TALES🎶
This……….isn’t even true in 20th century fantasy or childrens books? Pierce, Lackey, Applegate, McCaffrey, Bradley, Butler, whomst?
Casual reminder that
a woman was the first known author/poet in 2300BC - Enheduanna
the first novel in recorded history was written by a woman in 1010AD - Murasaki Shikibu
the earliest example of science fiction was written by a woman in 1666 - Margaret Cavendish
horror science fiction was popularised by a teenage girl in 1818 - Mary Shelley
a Scotswoman expanded childrens’ stories from moralising tales into anarchic adventures in the mid 1800s, well before it became popular in the early 20th century - Catherine Sinclair
the masked/costumed hero archetype that inspired Batman and Zorro was created by a woman in 1905 - Baroness Emma Orczy
And while she is problematic as all get out, we all know who is to blame for popularising Boarding School fiction (which is a huge inspiration of She Who Must Not Be Named) from the 1930s onwards - Enid Blyton
And do I even need to mention what a badass pioneer Ursula Le Guin was for women author in the fantasy/sci-fi genre?
Not to mention Agatha Christie is literally second only to Shakespeare in terms of works sold – 4 billion compared to JKR’s paltry 500 million
guy with 60hz monitor: i am enjoying playing this game
guy with 240hz monitor: Honestly if you were to conceive of the most efficient possible torture in terms of purely causing agony for as long as possible and also have your firstborn son killed in front of you during the torture it would not even be a tenth as bad as playing a game at 60 fps
Guy with a laptop: Yeah I’m happy if it runs at 20 fps
also, as has been pointed out, all fetuses technically start out female before the Y chromosome is activated around 6-8 weeks in. So if we were to go by the first section of this definition, then all men are trans
