21, she/her. Bad at everything, including usernames. I’m not that interesting tbh but I have recently started a journal blog if you want to know more about my life just let me know
imperial jewels love being looted actually, its a vital part of their natural life cycle. you need to do it to them every so often or they will grow bored and start becoming destructive
Can people please stop spreading this rhetoric. They were pieces of art, created by skilled craftspeople, that were up until recently displayed in one of the most visited museums in the world for millions of people to see. Now they’re almost certainly going to be destroyed, broken up and sold in parts, or at best end up in the private collection of a billionaire.
I am loving the implication that “imperial jewels need to be stolen every so often because otherwise they get restless” is somehow a more prevalent and influential statement than “it is bad to steal things from museums”
I feel like if humans swallowed rocks like birds do to help grind up food we’d have so much fun with it.
Can just imagine all the girlies on tiktok going “I know this is a bit controversial but I honestly love using limestone as a gastrolith. Not only can you readily forage it but they are just so pretty when smoothed out after regurgitating them”
and then all the comments would be like “ girl 😭 😭 calcite dissolves in stomach acid!! Just use quartz if you want a pretty gastrolith like 💀”
I like this site. Y’all just shotgunning counterfactual timelines
*Valley Girl voice*: I must, like, not fear. Fear is literally the mind-killer. Like it’s basically the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will totally face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me, and? When it’s gone? I’m gonna like turn the inner eye to see its path! Where the fear has gone there will be literally nothing. Only I will remain.
the persecution of lefthandedness is insane to think about because it was so intense for so long, in some places still is, without any clear profit motivation. sheer love of the game. as late as the 70s at least they were smacking my stepdad’s hands for it with a wooden ruler at school, to this day he’s in weird ambidexterity situation where he’s not great with either side and notably clumsy due to poor hand-eye coordination. just wtf
It is fascinating to me that people also think of handedness as an example of bigotry that just…went away. As you note, it…hasn’t in some places. I know people who grew up in the mid-late 90s who still had this problem.
But also, and this is really important to keep in mind regarding bigotry that still causes in many ways larger problems, that the structural problems are not actually fixed.
If you go to any computer lab or public library, the mice will be on the right side of the computer. Sometimes they can be moved. Sometimes they can’t. Many computer mice are curved to only fit in right hands.
It is impossible to find lefthanded scissors without going to a specialty store, because most scissor makers don’t even make them. And it’s not just a matter of grip; the slicing side of the blades is obscured if you use righty scissors in your left hand, so your cut is off.
All those signing pads with the little chained styluses? Almost always on the right side, often not even long enough to stretch to the left. Makes signing for lefties extremely difficult.
I caused actual muscular problems in college having to twist around in order to write at right-handed desks in college when there weren’t enough lefty desks–and there never were. Some classrooms didn’t even have a single one.
I could go on.
But the point is, bigotry isn’t just a mindset shift. People can’t just decide they’re not bothered by that particular difference anymore and everything’s fine, because society is still structured and designed to cause problems for marginalized people. And they’re never even going to notice all the little ways their life is bent to convenience them that inconveniences others.
(getting a taste of my own medicine) actually this is okay. Is this what you guys have bene whining about? Jesus christ
image description: screenshot of tags reading #not to be more serious on the funny post #but that reminds me of the one video of the lady with her like 2 year old daughter #captioned something like #‘the curse worked and i got one just like me. they lied; she’s easy to love’ /end description
I can’t remember where I first heard it, but here’s a joke that’s lived rent free in my head for years:
two friends, a Jew and a Christian, are talking about holiday customs.
the Jew says “on Rosh Hashanah, it’s traditional to blow the shofar 30 times”
the Christian looks at him awkwardly and says “wow. all we give our chauffeur on Christmas is a bottle of wine.”
shana tova everyone
really enjoying the fact that people have said “this too is Torah”, “y'all need Jesus”, and “by Allah you people are dogs” in the notes. I hit the Abrahamic tumblr trifecta
Latest reblog reminds me of how much it pisses me the fuck off how every queer person alive has to adapt to the usamerican style of queerness lest we get shunned by the community for being too different. I bring this up a lot but bro that time I got death threats for having ele/dele in my bio bc “by using neopronouns I was making a mockery of REAL trans people” when those are literally just my pronouns in my native language, and when I said that I got hit w the “well you’re on the internet so speak english” I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS I HATE GRINGOS
I feel the need to miss out a crucial detail I missed out in this post I made out of anger, and no, it doesn’t add any silver linings or good context, it honestly only serves to make it worse.
In portuguese, much like spanish, we have no gender neutral pronouns. People who do not use ele/dele and ela/dela (he/him or she/her) all use whatever neopronoun suits them best in portuguese (ie elu/delu, eli/deli) because we have no access to a universal gender neutral pronoun like gringos do. When I brought this up upon them making fun of my “neopronouns”, they said to suck it up, and that being foreign does not make neos valid.
In mocking people who use neopronouns in english, you are mocking a very large sum of latin american genderqueer and trans people.
I know various latin language speakers that struggle with their identities in their native tongue due to us not having they/them equivalents, so they are forced to let go of their, in example, brazilian queerness, to appease to anglos who would harass them and call them mockeries of trans people for not sticking to what The Cis want.
When non-anglos tell you the usamerican and british dominance over queer spaces ruins things for them, they mean it. We are forced to repress our identites because you people think they’re too “out there and problematic”. We are forced to suppress our own queer culture because we don’t fit into your neat little boxes of what makes someone gay what makes someone a lesbian what makes someone trans or what makes someone anything else.
You tell us to remember “our queer elders”, but do you know of any queer latin american figures? We learn your history, and you refuse to learn ours because you already have “too much on your plate”. You disregard us and shame us for not fitting your ideals of queerness and using labels for ourselves you dislike, and try to baby us and tell us the proper way to be gay.
Your culture is not universal.
You are not saving queer people by making jabs at other queer people you don’t personally get. Odds are you are harming an entire group of foreign queers you never bothered to consider, because your anglo bubble is too self important.
If you want to do queer people a real favour instead of getting mad at identities that existed long before you were even born, here. Make yourself useful. Donate to queer brazilian housing and support programs. Your beloved dollar is worth a lot more than the Real. Even five dollars help.
On Saturday I said to my partner, as I have said for months, “A ten thousand dollar a year raise would solve so many of my problems.”
As of this morning I was reluctantly looking for jobs because I love my job and don’t want to leave it, but see: $10k raise problem solver.
As of noon today this was no longer an issue, because my boss called me with the news that I was getting a $10K merit raise.
I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. This is roughly $200 extra per paycheck. Enough to pay off debt faster, rebuild my savings, and spend a weekend a month in Milwaukee getting obscenely laid. The sex I’m going to have on $200 extra per paycheck. You can’t even.
May all of you get the $10K raise your soul has yearned for. And whatever level of sex you can be satisfied with for $200.
hey bestie i think ur post might be charmed ‘cause you aren’t gonna fuckin believe what happened today
bingewatching will never come close to bingereading. there is nothing like blocking out the entire Earth for ten hours to read a book in one sitting no food no water no shower no bra and emerging at the end with no idea what time it is or where you are, a dried-up prune that’s sensitive to light and loud noises because you’ve been in your room in the dark reading by the glow of a single LED. it’s like coming back after a three-month vacation in another dimension and now you have to go downstairs and make dinner. absolutely transcendental
“Racialised” is much better than PoC but I’ve been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like “the name Jamal is racially marked in USA”. Rather than saying something like “Jamal is a PoC name”, a nonsense statement, saying it’s racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.
It’s a concept I’ve kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who’s doing the marking. A statement like “womens’ speech is more marked in Lakota” necessitates that we understand that it’s the Lakota who are marking womens’ speech. A foreigner can’t tell the difference and probably doesn’t understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn’t understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.
You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying “racialised” or “racially marked” without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.
