what is THE worst thing you’ve ever drank. all liquids acceptable. please tell me what it was, bonus points for why
Hey whoa hi. Hello. I am looking directly into your ear canal. What do you mean you drank a tube of virus concentrate.
So, I was working in a lab, right? My job in the lab was preparing a pure, concentrated enough sample of virus. This is tricky since, y'know, viruses require hosts to replicate, but you then need to get the host cells (and the pieces of the host cells that died!) out of the sample while still keeping the viruses. Once I’d finished and the samples had been sent to the database for analysis as well as a second one sent to be frozen for future reference, there was still some left over that needed to be disposed of.
I, knowing that this was a once in a lifetime opportunity, waited carefully for the lab director to be deep in conversation with someone else on the other side of the laboratory. And then I took my chance.
Test tubes, as it turns out, are really bad as shot glasses. Their shape turns any liquid inside into a stream, so you really can’t knock it back quickly - it takes a couple seconds. Additionally, the best way I can describe the taste of virus concentrate was “sterile rot”. A very unique kind of bad! Made worse by the test tube’s inefficiency as a shot glass.
(by the way we were studying bacteriophages, not animal viruses. these viruses are too specialized on attacking prokaryotes to even recognize our cells as targets at all, according to studies.)
(but also like. if the viruses managed to successfully switch hosts and killed me with a violent infection, itd still be worth it.)
Porn fic that takes fifty thousand words to get to the fucking and it’s not even a slow burn, it just takes that much worldbuilding to properly contextualise the author’s incredibly specific kink.
You know shit’s getting serious when your serialised porn fic begins doing little between-chapters interludes where it switches to found document format and starts hitting you with excerpts from made-up textbooks and shit.
My fake woke job hates me for using gendered pronouns on binary trans passengers who are clearly nervous about going through security and would have their days made by an officer using the pronouns that correlate with how theyre presenting themselves
My fake woke job is demanding I use they/them for everyone in the name of inclusion when that’s often more insulting to someone clearly trying to present in a binary gendered way. Also we are in fuckass dark blue conservative alberta where beyond actual trans people i could and would get the shit beaten out of me for they/theming the wrong guy
My fake woke job is mad at me for changing their approved script of how we are supposed to explain to men why their chests are considered “sensitive alarms” because i keep saying “the chest is a very intensive search so we’re going to try to avoid doing it” instead of “because our body scanner is gender-neutral we have to treat everyone’s body as if that area is sensitive to pat down” in fuckass dark blue conservative alberta where i could and would get the shit beaten out of me if I said that to the wrong guy
My fake woke job is not seeing the irony in demanding a trans officer do these things in the name of trans inclusion
a printer error is an attempt from god to get you to kill yourself but you must be stronger and you must must must beat the printer to death with a large object like object
I am spoiling the live action Lilo & Stitch. And I am doing it up front and plainly.
Do not fucking see this movie. Do not waste your money on this. Period.
They made Nani give Lilo up to the American government. They made Nani LEAVE Hawaii and pursue being a marine biologist. They made a native Hawaiian character give up her sibling to pursue a dream that she originally did not have. This is imperialist propaganda at its FINEST.
The original fucking movie is about family staying together. It’s about indigenous people being able to stay with each other and stay in their home and be together! That’s the whole fucking point! Nani is Lilo’s last living relative on her homeland—it is jarring, it is disgusting and disturbing that Nani would not only leave her last blood relative alone, give her up to the very government that is harming native Hawaiians TODAY, but also travel to the “mainland” for her dream!
Not to mention, Nani’s actress isn’t fucking Hawaiian. She’s much paler in photos and real life. They fucking darkened her for this movie.
Don’t even get me started on the transgender subtext of Pleakley’s “human” disguise from the original movie being completely erased in favor of him being played by a regular ass white man. Jumba doesn’t have his accent, they made him more villainous, and his “human” disguise is a non-fat white man—which part of his original joke, I know, is that he was bigger and was more clumsy in the movie because of his size, but to have the main shape of his character completely removed is also fucking weird.
This live action movie is a desecration to the original. I encourage you to not see it, please. Don’t give Disney any of your money on this one. Just watch the original. Please just watch the original.
The new message in the live action movie is disturbing and gross.
This is one of the most disrespectful live actions I’ve seen and heard of. I implore you to not watch it.
People realize that multiple stories with similar premises can exist without ripping each other off, right. Like, there’s no idea that can’t be compared to another idea, because humanity had been coming up with stories since we started thinking, right. Like there are times when someone is copying someone else on purpose, but more often than not, things are similar just because tropes exist, right.
i love having the hubris to go ‘sure i’ll try that, how hard can it be’ about every creative skill under the sun. jack of all trades master of shit fuck but who says you have to be a master??? maybe i want to sew a mediocre plushie and code a janky mod and write a bland song. im having fun. im in my lane. im learning and im thriving.
i love having the hubris to go ‘sure i’ll try that, how hard can it be’ about every creative skill under the sun. jack of all trades master of shit fuck but who says you have to be a master??? maybe i want to sew a mediocre plushie and code a janky mod and write a bland song. im having fun. im in my lane. im learning and im thriving.
obsessed with saying “both. love wins” when asked to make a decision between two things…it is not functional and nothing is solved but u know what? love won. what else matters truly
Theory that Rouxls Kaard is actually kinda OP (and that he talks in butchered English because whatever he says in normal speech can automatically become a rule)
mutuals can always dm me but be warned i talk like your coworker who is trying too hard to get to know you and my response times are akin to the response times you might get if we were communicating by letter
the more i learn about william shakespeare the more i lose my mind
his tragedy coriolanus contains the first recorded use of the word lonely meaning bill shakespeare might have invented the word lonely
the phrase the word lonely first appeared in is “like to a lonely dragon”
also on an unrelated note two of his distant relatives were executed in 1583 for a plot to kill the queen. they were beheaded and their heads were placed on pikes on london bridge meaning as young aspiring thespian william shakespeare arrived in london for the very first time, he might have been greeted by his relatives’ rotting heads. i woulda turned around and gone the fuck back to stratford
in his time period life expectancy was 35. monks were expected to drink gallon of beer a day. the names “agnes” and “anne” were interchangeable because the g was silent so it’s entirely possible shakespeare was married to a woman named agnes instead. the words “trash” “fart” and “slut” existed, but not the word “science.” speaking of language by 1600 “thou” had fallen out of fashion meaning shakespeare might’ve only included it to be more fucking dramatic
he never once spelled his surname “shakespeare” (he preferred “shakspere” apparently) and he once signed a legal document as “willm shaksp”
im sorry this is so fucking funny to me. they woulda taken my 8year old ass outback and put me down like old yeller
we laugh but this is the first step in criminalizing furries. which is the first step in criminalizing any deviance not already covered by criminalizing ‘traditional’ queer identities.
also, the fake stories of litterboxes in classrooms are usually brought out as a supposed slippery slope from trans rights, i.e. “if a boy can decide to be a girl and u arent allowed to question it, why cant a kid decide to be a cat?”
all our struggles are connected. never give fascists an inch
“Trans men and women are both suffering” and “trans women are often specifically targeted by bigotry and harassment even within their own communities and deserve to be able to talk about their own unique challenges without being talked over” and “trans men are often erased from conversations about how bigotry and transphobia targets them and are not exempt from all the horribly draconian laws transphobes are attempting to pass” and “being trans doesn’t make you immune to participating in horrible transmisogyny even and especially if you aren’t aware you’re doing it” and “holy shit don’t reinvent bioessentialism but for trans people like holy fuck men are not destined to be evil and women aren’t automatically incapable of harm” are all opinions that can and fucking SHOULD coexist
Also nonbinary people exist in ways that can’t and shouldn’t be reduced to “trans man lite” and “trans woman lite” and experience transphobia in ways that frequently can’t be generalized at all.
Also Intersex folks can have complex relationships towards their gender due to their experience and people should keep that in mind. Y'all also need to listen when an Intersex person tells you that you’re being intersexist.
I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.
The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.
So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”
1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.
Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.
Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! Hewrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.
It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.
RATING: RELIABLE
you can listen to the clip of the 1954 interview here and find him on wikipedia here
the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don’t. i’m outside his house with a gun. he’s not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he’s just an unforgivable asshole
I cannot emphasize enough that ppl with “feminine presenting nipples” showing their boobs/tits is not flashing. I don’t care how they do it, flashing is sexual assault and not comparable in the least.
If showing your tits was flashing, flashing wouldn’t even be a fucking crime ‘cause skinny cis boys would be flooding the jails in mass because they can’t keep their fucking shirts on. Don’t use words like that if you don’t know what they mean, please.
I love how different languages handle phrasing. Taken word for word, this is basically “Question: you want to-picnic parkly?” It sounds a little weird in English, but it makes perfect sense.
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