On top of all the other messages going on in kendricks performance, I wanted people who maybe didnt watch the game to see that not only did the people dressed in red white and blue form the US flag, but they also formed the trans flag:
The biggest celebrity in the world shouting out trans people during the biggest televised event of the year. Kendrick, the man that you are 💙🩷🤍🩷💙
Even in our increasingly homogenized world, there’s still a place for the quasi-local chain restaurant. Whenever you visit a town far away, do you get excited about meeting new people, having new experiences, seeing new sights? No. You want to eat at their Whataburger. You’ve heard so much about it from your other world-traveller friends.
Every time I go somewhere, I make sure to try all of their novel chain restaurants. I get a lot of food poisoning on the road, sure, but it’s all worth it in order to study the unique cultural contribution that these humble small businesses provide. These onion rings are slightly crispier. They throw a little garlic salt in your bag of fries here. This one forces you to look into the eyes of one of the employees while you eat, as they try to intimidate you into leaving your meal uneaten. Such diversity!
Of course, the experience goes both ways. Many people are unable to leave their home towns, and are forced to rely on the tales of those travelling through to learn about the greater world. When these poor folks find out that I’m not from around there, they ask me to tell them stories of my local restaurants. O'Shaughnessy’s, I tell a rapt audience of Culver’s patrons, puts a slightly spicier ketchup on their Irish Pounder than this one. They gasp. Tonight, I eat for free.
One day, we’ll be travelling to shitty chain restaurants on the moon. Just imagine how weird the hot dog buns will be up there! Maybe they’ll have those super skinny fries that I like that nobody here makes anymore. I only hope I can live long enough to see such a glorious future. My doctor says if I stop driving thousands of miles a week in order to eat disgusting fast food, I’ll probably get to see the first moon Burger King.
“Burger King?” I spit in his face, before toppling a cup of tongue depressors to the ground. “I recognize no such so-called royalty.”
every time i see trad gender roles people being weird about fibercraft i wanna tell them
-medieval and early modern knitting guilds were full of men learning and perfecting fancy knitting techniques to impress rich clients
-in cold, wet climates like the scottish highlands knitting was done by the whole family, in fact it was the perfect activity to do while a man was out on a fishing boat or in the pasture with his sheep and cattle
-men who were away from women for a long time had to know how to knit and sew at least well enough to mend their own clothes. soldiers knitted. sailors knitted. cowboys and frontiersmen knitted. vikings probably knitted (actually they would have been doing a kind of proto knitting called nalbinding, but that’s beside the point). all those guys the far right love to treat as ultra masculine heroes were sitting around their barracks and campfires at night darning their socks and knitting themselves little hats
Roman soldiers literally spun as they walked using kickspindles
every merchant marine I know can knit a rope hammock on broomsticks in a couple hours tops.
We have literal photo evidence of shepherd men knitting on stilt stools while watching their grazing flocks. Because knitting or spinning yarn was relatively easy and portable, kept them occupied enough to avoid boredom but also left them enough attention to make sure their flocks remained safe, and resulted in something they could sell to supplement their income from the fleeces, milk, cheeses and meat of their flock.
Once the knitting guilds dissolved as economic powers (partially due to the advent of semi-mechanised knitting machines, which outsourced knitting to “unskilled” croft and cottage-dwelling families rather than restricting the industry to select trained guildsmen), knitting throughout Europe was more likely to be an activity relegated to socio-economic classes than to gender roles, especially prior to the mid-19th century when it was slowly embraced as a leisure activity by wealthy women (in much the same way that embroidery had been embraced in earlier centuries).
And sure, there’s an entire conversation to be had about how patriarchal structures have forced women to be more economically vulnerable than men throughout Western history, which therefore meant that once knitting was spread beyond the guilds’ tight regulation, a lot of women began knitting because they were poor and it was a relatively portable form of work to earn an income.
Just as there’s a conversation to be had about why various occupations and activities are devalued once enough women begin practising them - and especially once the activities are practised by “ladies of leisure”, who were seen as being especially frivolous - and why we then collectively develop amnesia about the respect our society held for that occupation or activity just a few generations earlier (think also about teaching, nursing, secretarial and administrative occupations - all previously male-dominated careers that were paid well and seen as respectable, but have been steadily devalued as more women entered the field).
But if that conversation ignores the fact that men are punished and constrained by patriarchal and socio-economic demands, that men have just as much place in the history of fibrecrafts as women, but have been erased from that history by people whose ideology demands that they never have taken part in “feminine” duties… then that conversation will be disingenuous and only half of the true conversation.
I want so badly to get back into fibercraft demonstrations/living history and be an example to little boys that anyone can enter these crafts. I’ve done some needle felt demonstrating at a few craft shows this last year and children and adults were DELIGHTED to see the level of craftmanship and the niche I work in. Because even those who had SEEN needle felting before had largely seen starter kits, and when it comes to professional grade stuff, in general cutesy and “rustic” rough style art. (My niche is… 1lb+ smooth dense felts, super detailed without being Hyper Realistic). Felting can be whatever you want it to be. You can go super cutesy, you can go gorey. Fantasy, sci fi, horor, whatever. It’s the wild west out here, the stuff in mainstream promoted videos aren’t all there is to make.
Tangentially related, one of my fondest memories is when I was knitting in a lobby while my partner got a haircut and a dad pointed me out to his son and said look! he’s knitting. boys can knit. YOU could knit.
Since then, my partner (also a guy) has taken up darning and crochet! He’s in his thirties and has only just started and is going. While I’ve been at it since I was little, you can pick these things up at any point in your life!
Break down stupid gender roles and stereotypes and keep these crafts alive and thriving.
I still think it’s objectively fucked how the world is built for morning people and if you wake up later than everyone else you’re seen as a malicious aberration of some sort. I am that but it’s not because I wake up at 11 fuck yourself
I’m never being nice or understanding about republican voters ever again I literally cannot believe where we are.
I’m out of sympathy and soft feelings for other people’s willful ignorance and blind bigotry and general stupidity. Other people can be nice but I want people to crawl and beg I don’t care
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I remember seeing a post a couple months back of someone talking about printer troubles and companies making them bad deliberately, like pointlessly different screw sizes and a lying no-usb-compatibility sticker
If someone knows it please tell me, I’m pretty sure I remember it had good resources on a youtube channel that teaches you how to fix stuff!
Quietly losing my mind over the fact that Elon Musk has straight up orchestrated a coup of our executive branch and like….I don’t even know what, if any, system we have in place to fix this. Like… He’s just taken control of the money and locked out the actual appointed officials. What the fuck.
Nazis are taking over my government, and like, not even just the Nazis we fucking elected! And I’m…making hamburgers? Because somebody has to make dinner? I just feel completely unhinged.
I think that’s how random civillians generally feel in these situations. Someone’s gotta make dinner.
’Don’t Just Do Nothing: 20 Things You Can Do to Counter Fascism’ is a zine by Jewish anarchists on how people can organise and act in this changing terrain.
Download it (it’s free), read, print and distribute it IRL!
The next time someone tries to give you the “I didn’t do it on purpose” as a reason to refuse to apologise for unwittingly hurting you by mistake, stir shit by asking them if they ever apologise to people they hurt on purpose.
do u ever see someone elses headcannon for ur fave character and its like….. i completely respect that u have the right to that headcannon, i will not confront u at all and start needless bullshit over that headcannon…. but i will silently sit here and give you the sideways glance of the century
me, out loud: hey that’s cool we all have our own interpretations and i support you as part of fandom regardless
me, in my head: ….but you’re wrong
I would just like to remind everyone that this is the mature, reasonable, and sensible response.
“oh no we need to practice for our fake dating” is the funniest trope to me cause like. there are so many people who force themselves into a shitty relationship they hate just because of amatonormatiivity that it’s an ingrained part of popular culture to joke about hating your partner.
which is to say, oh my god you dont need to hold hands and go on fake dates, you don’t even need to agree on a single detail of your cover story beforehand. you can literally stand 6 feet apart at all times and look profoundly uncomfortable and all anyone will think is “yikes™. not my problem”
actually people should address this in fanfic more because “i know we could half-ass it, but i would never fake mistreat my fake husband, how dare you” is absolutely delightful
New trope: fake dating for spite.
“Look, my only goal here is for our pretend relationship to be demonstrably healthier than Aunt Rita and Uncle Carl’s fifteen year, three child marriage - which means the bar is so low we probably can’t fuck this up”
preserving @river-gale’s tags for posterity because yes. yes. this is it. you get it.
i’m so tired of authors not tagging correctly because they don’t want to “spoil the fic”
correctly tagging your fic allows readers who DON’T want to read things like major character death, gore, mpreg or whatever may be their squick to filter your fic out from the main ship/fandom tag. not including the correct tags on your fic is harmful to readers and i’m tired of pretending it’s not.
“don’t like don’t read” great! i won’t! tag your fic correctly next time ffs
100% yes. And - two additional points:
Correctly tagging your work means that the people who DO want mpreg or gore or mahor character death are able to find your fic. Because if they are wanting those story beats, then they will include the tags in their search. So, accurately tagging means people who don’t want that can filter it out, and those who do want it can filter it in. It’s to your benefit too, dear writer, to include accurate tags, because it means people who want to read your type of story will ve able to find it.
Two: there IS actually a way to refrain from using tags if you want to keep the contents of your story a total mystery. “Author Chose Not To Use Content Warnings.” Which can also be used alongside something informal like “other tags apply but have been excluded” or “reader discretion is advised” or etc.
In summary: tags your fic. And even when you choose not to, in that case, tag your fic saying tha content may catch some people off guard.
Did I ever talk abt the time i was at a bdsm club and one of the pups was on all fours and barking and being cute and the dom on scene was like “hi puppy! Do you do any tricks?” And he said “I can beatbox!”
I was like. Doubled over incapacitated laughing the entire time. He was really good and a big sweetheart and I felt kinda bad but I couldn’t stop thinking “why the am I getting the beatboxing puppy unskippable cutscene at the bdsm club”
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