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So, uhh, yeah. Things have gone to shit and stayed there. I'm not super stoked about having my name in full here, but whatever. Things are desperate.
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from the names project's aids memorial quilt demonstration, october 10, 1992.
Source: archive.org
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HE 👏 WENT 👏 LOOKING 👏 FOR 👏 TROUBLE 👏
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The euros fail to consider the form: it’s not Johnny’s hubris that is the subject of the song. It’s the devil’s, who thinks his power is worth more than simple love for a craft
neither americans nor the modern era have any sort of monopoly on one-upping the devil. one of the oldest european folk tales is The Smith and the Devil, in which a smith makes a deal with the devil for his soul and when the devil comes to collect, the smith tricks him into leaving him alone forever. tricking that bastard is an old and storied tradition.
"average person who makes a deal with the devil is dragged to hell after 10 years" factoid actually just statistical error. average person who makes a deal with the devil uses their new hellish gifts to outwit the old bastard so they can keep both gifts and soul for the rest of their long and prosperous lives. faust, who bargained for knowledge of all things and then wasted his 10 years chasing a girl who wasn't all that into him, is an idiot and should not have become the cornerstone of modern understanding of the trope.
Hot take: This is the thesis of Puella Magi Madoka Magica.
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my collection
wrong blog but this is important
hey wait come back can it be the right blog
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situation dire. i've been saying 'huzzah', 'alas', and 'tis unironically for like a year now. harmless so far.
however. i hath noticed i now mark half of my goodbyes with 'i must away'. it's spreading
Dear Lord please not this post. I promise I'm cooler than this
The evil wizard found this post. Its so fucking over for me
you’re fucked. man
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GUYS NEW SHARK JUST DROPPED
Well, technically it's not new : it's a nurse shark. What's new, however, is that it's the first xanthic (imagine albinism but in yellow) nurse shark ever found !! Not only it's not common AT ALL to find fishes with xanthism (it's the first cartilagenous fish ever recorded with this type of genetic "anomally"), but if it's there and still existing as an adult, it means the species is chill-ish with other predators (it probably would have been eaten by then). Its eyes are white so it can also be a form of albinism, in addition to xanthism !!!!!
And most of all : ITS SO CUTE !! AND IT'S SUCH A COOL FIND !!
Please if a marine biologist or someone with more info can interact with this post to feed me some more info or correct me on wrong infos i'e given I'd love it !
(Also if you have pics of animals with xanthism, it's also very appreciated!!)
Nurse sharks are, generally speaking, pretty chill sharks as is. They're one of the shark species most often found in aquariums owing to their chill nature. They're very cute and adorable.
From what I recall, they don't really experience predation from other sea creatures, except other sharks, American alligators and American crocodiles owing to the type of habitat they're found in.
Nurse sharks tend to be found in relatively shallow, tropical waters, often near or around coral reefs, mangrove islands, and sandy ocean bottoms in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans.
They eat crustaceans and small fish and, as far as I can recall, there's no recorded attacks on humans by a nurse shark.
One theory for why this unusual pigmentation hasn't affected this particular nurse shark's survival stems from the possibility that sharks may be colourblind in some way. A 2011 study of 17 different shark species found that the structure of shark eyes differs to that of humans. We have three types of cones in our eyes that allow us to see reds, greens, and blues easily. Sharks, it seems possess only one cone photoreceptor cell type.
It's interesting to note that bright yellow tends to catch a sharks attention not because of the colour itself but the reflectiveness of it. In the case of this xanthic nurse shark, it likely drew attention in clearer waters and may have not been dissimilar to how a flash of light catches our attention out of the corner of our eye.
But nurse sharks tend to stick low to the seabed instead of swimming in open water like great whites so the fact is that it likely still managed to blend in with the seabed well enough to avoid predation.
Nurse sharks are also one of the few species of shark that can remain motionless and still continue to breathe. Unlike, say, bull sharks and great whites, nurse sharks employ a method called buccal pumping to pump water over their gills to enable them to remain oxygenated while stationary. So even if this particular nurse shark was at a disadvantage owing to the unusual colour pigmentation, the fact that nurse sharks can remain motionless on the seabed likely countered some of the drawbacks of the xanthism.
It’s a sweet potato 🍠
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I made a bad comic and now you have to look at it
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do you think pheromones would be a mcas trigger in an omegaverse type setting?
I mean, I’m allergic to my own menstrual cycle so probably. Sometimes other people’s body odor if it’s strong enough can make me wheeze so I imagine scenting and pheromones might have the same effect in that setting.
There’s probably some poor omega with MCAS in an omegaverse world right now looking at their calendar, realizing their heat is coming up, and just sighing. And also bitterly listening to their friends and coworkers complain about their heat cycles.
Like oh, how sad for you, you get inconveniently horny for a week 🙄
Meanwhile they’re eating Benadryl like tictacs and hoping their asshole alpha neighbor is wearing their scent blockers because the last thing they need is alpha stink on top of it all. They’ve never actually met them, but they can smell them.
This leads to an unlikely meetcute after the alpha next door has to stick them with an epi pen in the elevator and ends up going with them to the hospital.
When they find out the extent of what their omega neighbor is dealing with, it pings every protective instinct in their big stupid alpha brain in an entirely non-horny way.
Inexplicably they find themselves looking up low histamine recipes at 2am and showing up a few days later with hopeful offerings that won’t cause flares.
They start a fight with the landlord over the laundry facilities needing to be fragrance free and win. When people ignore the fragrance free rules (required to be upheld by ADA, btw) they start camping out in the laundry room and growling at anyone who brings a single scented bead into the space.
The instinct to protect goes so far that they show up one day with a hepa filter vacuum like “hey, do you mind if I just…” gesturing vaguely at the omegas apartment, and the omega watches in total bafflement from their allergy friendly nest as the alpha goes to absolute town on their apartment.
It’s only then that they realize they can’t smell them anymore, and realize the alpha has been wearing the strongest scent blockers on the market and the omega realizes, oh, oh, and goes all hot and squiggly all over that for once isn’t an allergic reaction.
It’s not lust. But it might just very much be love.
No. You can’t do this to me. You can’t Ratatouille-me into starting another fictional universe.
Please. I have a family…
Why is this still getting notes?
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Mule Deer (Odocoileus hemionus), female, family Cervidae
This is an intersex animal :)
Natural variations in sex characteristics like this appear in many species, including humans! I think that's cool.
@elodieunderglass for your deer tag :)
A jaunty beast! Thank you!
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Excellent card at the local steam railway today made me think of @elodieunderglass
Oh thank you so much! It’s a very cool photo.
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Sage I beg you don’t keep this in the tags
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The UK may be about to ban VPNs!!!
RED ALERT! THIS IS REALLY BAD!
EVERYONE IN THE UK NEEDS TO PUSH BACK ON THIS NOW! LIKE RIGHT NOW!
If you live in the UK you should sign this petition against the age verification rules linked to this becasue they this law is already a legal and privacy nightmare!
and contact your MPs!
Contact Ofcom here:
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Woodland-inspired couture costume by Carly Jenkins of Killing Frost Farm. Photographed by Alex Brooks. Modeled by Berkeley Danysh x
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Will Ferrell: ‘If the Trans Community Is a Threat to You, Then It Stems From Not Being Confident or Safe With Yourself’
“There is hatred out there,” Ferrell told The Independent. “It’s very real and it’s very unsafe for trans people in certain situations. … But I don’t know why trans people are meant to be threatening to me as a cis male. I don’t know why Harper is threatening to me.”
“It’s so strange to me, because Harper is finally… her,” he added. “She’s finally who she was always meant to be. Whether or not you can ultimately wrap your head around that, why would you care if somebody’s happy? Why is that threatening to you? If the trans community is a threat to you, I think it stems from not being confident or safe with yourself.”
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X ray of Rose. Dr. Dain L.Tasker. c.1938.
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i love when bigots accidentally paint a picture of a beautiful new world. "the woke left want the government to be run by lesbians" "i went to pride and its 90% trans propaganda now" "theyre teaching your chldren to be communist in school" omg do you promise 🥺
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fullmetalwindbreaker
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This isn’t about anything.
This isn’t about anything.
This isn’t about anything.
This is good. You should watch it.
Except that we Jews had to put the bodies of our dead into the incinerators ourselves.
And the Nazis who burned books cared very much about the Final Solution.
Magnus Hirschfeld's Center for Gender Studies was targeted and his writing was burned for degeneracy because he was a Jew.
Torahs and Jewish writing was burned because we were Jews. Or the Nazis and their supportors across Europe put the Jews inside the the synagogue and burned it down with the doors barracaded from the outside - although this was a fairly common practice throughout history.
But it is not okay to excise Jews from your broad Auschwitz metaphors when it was created to kill us, specifically.
And you don't get to build an Auschwitz style incinerator with a human body inside and expect us not to make that connection.
The Holocaust was not about everything.
You could have put one(1) thing in this film referring to Jews.
A Jewish book. Night by Eli Weisel. Maus. Freaking....Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. Freaking... A DVD of Schindler's List! Anything. Anything! To show you honored us as you used our collective suffering for your art because you took the time to make sure we could read the spine on Octavia Butler and Irish fairytales so we knew you were thinking about the suffering of a collective people after all.
But the actual people who were famously put in incinerators of the kind you depicted, in numbers in the millions, of whom survivors still are alive today? Where is the thought for us?
...all of this is to say....
This was a very good work of art that is profoundly hurtful.
It is always deeply deeply hurtful when people think they can mine my cultural trauma for art without recognition of my people.
No one thinks they can make art about American Chattle Slavery without giving recognition to African Americans experiences or the Trail of Tears without recognizing the Native American tribes who were forced from their homes.
Yet people make Holocaust metaphors without ever bringing Jews into the conversation.
Jews have not died out despite the Holocaust. Jews are still watching what's happening in the world. Jews can hear you when you do that.
Our family were there in the Holocaust. Our friends were there. Our family died there. Our friends died there. Entire branches of our tribe are wiped out and we mourn them. Every yontif we mourn. Every Yom HaShoah, we mourn. We will mourn every year for the rest of time.
But when you do this, without even a nod towards cultural acknowledgement? You tell us - "Eh, what's 6 million dead Jews, am I right gang? Because look at this amazing metaphor!"
And it just...it really hurts.
Reblogging with permission from dancinbutterfly.
This is a good and courageous piece of art by someone very brave and clever, and a good and courageous response by someone speaking truth. It is not a tumblr drama exchange, and before boosting I want people to process and reflect the seriousness, importance and bravery of both statements.
The original piece tells a story of a mild-mannered government employee who runs an incinerator, showing us how she incinerates “whatever people bring her” and “doesn’t ask questions.” She initially, obediently, incinerates a handful of rubbish(?) then progresses pleasantly to books, a cat, and a person pleading for help. She portrays herself as equally unmoved by what she burns even as it escalates. By playing the role of the bad guy, she is very bravely telling a story about book-burning and the current political climate. It is, very much, meant to be upsetting.
Because the Jewish people have literally been gassed and incinerated, the image of “putting people into a people-disposing machine” cannot help but reference and evoke their deaths. Especially in this story.
If the Jewish people are going to be referenced and evoked, then naming what is being evoked is, at least, providing credit. If people have died to make an image powerful, the image cannot be separated from the sacrifice, and the sacrifice should be acknowledged.m
This is not an anti-Semitic piece of work. It is, intentionally, a hurtful one to the people it intends to challenge. It can also be unintentionally hurtful to unintended people, causing a different kind of harm. That is not going to be what the artist intended at all.
but to strengthen the work, acknowledge the material reality of why this imagery is different from other imagery - of exactly who have famously been burned, and where the metaphor came from - is a good and worthy piece of work.
I’m adding my words to frame this intentionally, because I do not like how many people on social media view post -> response as “fighting” or “drama.” Before I allow you to get down to the reblog button to add your two cents, I want you to have to scroll past and think about a lot of brave things being said here. Both the piece and the response ought to exist.
How are you going to create a climate in which they CAN be said? (Not by being rude to anyone in the reblog chain. So don’t be.)
If you need advice, I would say that “thank you for sharing, it was brave, I’ll think about this” is a response to both the art and the criticism.