Only fandom people can understand the joy of finally getting to the book in the series that's all about your favorite secondary character.
And only special fandom people can understand the joy you feel when you and the author of the series have not only the same taste in characters but the same taste in how much sweet, sweet suffering they should be subjected to. >D
*longing sigh*
No matter which textile craft you look at, it has weaving in ends, and everyone hates it with a burning passion.
I'm about to start looking for a real (non-freelance) job, so I'm psyching myself up to pretend that even if I didn't have to make money, I'd sit around correcting people's grammar...
OK, I probably would do that, but I'd be a lot meaner than my work lets me be.
yeah yeah the mortifying ordeal of being known, I know. look, sometimes it's not being known that's the problem, it's that generally you do have to be perceived first. which, of course, is a wet ham sandwich of an experience with little to recommend it.
it'd be much more pleasant to just arise in someone's mind like a. a whatsit. an epiphany. no faffing about with perception, skip directly to knowledge.
As we enter the Christian holiday season, just your friendly reminder that "non-Christian character discovers the magic of Christmas" is not a trope you should be writing for a holiday themed fic. Cut that shit out.
I don't want any character forced to discover the magic of fucking Christmas because it invariably happens by returning to her shitty-ass hometown and, instead of realizing exactly why she left it, she ~*~learns the true meaning of family~*~ or some fucking thing.
I'm absolutely writing the story where the high-powered career woman stays in the evil big city and finds a cute girl to spend the holidays with, and her parents who want her to move back to her shitty-ass hometown can just shut up and suck it.
So I've got a bit more beard to fill in, but hey!! Check it out!
Still drawing my boy Onfim.
Onfim was a little boy from Novgorod in the 13th century, and his drawings on birch bark survived until today.
*also known as français, langue française
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oscar wilde said he was “addicted to cock-sucking”. also, oscar wilde said “penis-sucking” gave him inspiration
“love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling” I choked
So did Oscar Wilde
can't believe there are still people out here in the year 2023 that genuinely think aang should have killed ozai
"even avatar yangchen said—" that's not the POINT, the point is that aang is the LAST airbender the LAST air nomad the LAST person following these teachings, the point is that if he breaks his vows the air nomads will truly die out with him, forever. the point is that the monks taught him all life is sacred and even if ozai is a piece of shit who everyone agrees deserves to die, aang refuses let ozai force him to give up the last thing he has of his people, their lessons, refuses to let ozai wipe the last air nomad from the earth and finish what his horrible family started. the point is that aang beats ozai because his spirit is unbendable, the point is that he takes the man whose ancestors set his on fire and robs him of the ability to hurt anyone ever again, the point is that the Fire Lord ends the fight kneeling before the Last Air Nomad and THAT is the ending aang deserved
What I really like about the Mononoke fandom from what I’ve seen so far is that people here treat discussions as actual discussion of text and value the lengthy responses that offer different readings. As opposed to nearly everywhere else where there’s a high chance that your addition to what you thought was a discussion where you share different ways to interpret a work gets misappropriated as an incendiary rebuttal and offering a differing reading is treated akin to disobeying the Word of God
they’re literally so stupid like
Reminded of how my nephew made a card for me after my house was hit by a tornado, and it said, "You are still standing strong, and so is your house, well, mostly."
Gaza Updates (1:30PM, EST, November 13, 2023)
Gaza's health ministry's director general, Ismail al-Thawabta confirmed that 11,240 Palestinian people have been killed. Al Jazeera added this as apart of his updates:
"Dead in Gaza include 4,630 children and 3,130 women." "Number of killed medical personnel now 189, including doctors, nurses and paramedics." "Ten people – “kids, babies, patients and wounded” – died at al-Shifa hospital due to operation rooms being shuttered as a result of a lack of fuel." "If fuel shortage continues it will cause a communications and internet blackout. Al-Thawabta said this is projected to happen on Thursday and will lead to “all the crimes of Israel” being “hidden from the world”, and turn the humanitarian crisis from “bad to worse”. "Fuel must be allowed into Gaza and the Rafah crossing with Egypt must be fully opened." "Israel and the international community – particularly the United States – are fully responsible for “crimes against civilians”. "The fighting has also destroyed 41,120 residential properties; 94 government headquarters; 71 mosques destroyed; and 253 schools have been damaged." "There has been $181m in direct agricultural losses, with 25 percent of agricultural farms destroyed." "4 governmental headquarters, 253 schools, 71 mosques and 3 churches destroyed in Israeli raids."
It has also been confirmed "all primary care for pregnant women has been lost"
"Dr Haya Hijazi, who works at al-Hilo Hospital in Gaza City, has confirmed: "there are no prenatal, neonatal or postpartum services catering to pregnant women, new mothers and newborns."
"UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, said that Gaza is home to 50,000 pregnant women."
It also said:
"70 percent of those killed and injured so far are women and children." "5,500 women are due to give birth in the coming month – more than 180 births per day." "Fuel, medicines, blood supply and other essentials for hospitals are running out." "Two truckloads of Inter-agency Reproductive Health Kits have arrived in Gaza containing individual clean delivery kits and supplies and equipment for emergency obstetric care, including anesthesia and supplies for cesarean sections." "Some 238 attacks against health care have been reported in the occupied Palestinian territories since the beginning of the hostilities, killing 517 people, according to WHO"
All of this information/everything I quoted can be found on Al Jazeera's live updates on their website -all credits to Al Jazeera journalists:
I need folks to continually keep understanding that everything happening right now in Gaza in NOT a war, it is a genocide. Israeli military and government is systematically destroying infrastructure for their Zionist agenda, and are massacring Palestinian people mercilessly and without remorse -nowhere is safe in Gaza, and reading these updates should continue to enrage you.
Keep posting, keep re-posting, keep researching and keep reading, stay informed, go to sit-ins and protests if this is accessible to you, and most importantly -keep fighting against Israeli and American propaganda.
Free Palestine 🇵🇸
these are the questions about history that the people really need to ask
I love these sorts of questions, truly I do. I have a bachelor and masters in history, i love history, but I understand that not everybody feels that way! In elementary school we are often only taught about big wars and made to memorize dates and the names of kings and all that, but history is so much more than that!
These are the types of questions that can help people get into history because you get to find out that not only did people do backflips in ancient times, but then I as a historian, get to tell you that there was a whole fun cultural tradition in the Minoan period colloquially referred to as Minoan bull leaping where people ran straight at bulls and did a flying front flip over them!
Which might then lead you to ask why did they stop? And I get to tell you that it didn't! Its still practiced in Spain! And in that moment I have given you at least a 3000 year span of history that you know people did flips in cool ways which might prompt you to want to know more about cool acrobatic traditions!
Anyway I love history, especially the history of the every day, if you ever have a history question no matter how silly you think it is please always either look it up or find someone to ask, our ancestors were a lot more human than we give them credit for.
I encountered the concept of "Hittite cheese fighting" in a book I edited, and I was so intrigued that I looked up a paper with a lengthy passage about it, which turned out to be well worth it because it has possibly the coolest footnote I've ever seen in an academic paper, to a passage describing a possibly-similar Italian game:
"Here the players, usually grouped into teams, throw round and ripe cheeses along an arranged path by means of a rope twisted around it, trying to reach the finishing line first.[116]
"116 I owe this comparison to my girlfriend Lucia Raggetti, whose uncle smuggled a great number of cheeses over the Allied-Nazi lines near Perugia in 1944 by pretending to play this game, a brainwave which succeeded in deceiving the German troops" (Cammarosano, 2014, p. 161).
The author concludes, though, partly because the stock phrase used in inscriptions is "fighting with cheese," that cheese balls or wheels were likely used as projectile weapons.
