i do not consume art btw it consumes me and its teeth are scary sharp
when youre a kid learning the word "penultimate" is like a drug
you can recreate that feeling as an adult by learning the word "antepenultimate" :)
Every pride, you must reblog this. No exceptions
I love that four different people on my feed scheduled this joyous person to reblog by 8am on June 1. I look forward to seeing this a dozen more times today.
also I promise this is unrelated to anything else I've been posting about but like. We're not doing the "rainbow capitalism" complaint this year. Sorry. I know pitching this particular hissy fit is really important to some of you. But years when the conservative movement du jour is to have a literally identical tantrum about any company that's putting rainbows on drink cans or reusable grocery bags because they view that as "supporting groomers and pedophiles," we don't get to throw fuel on that fire. Even if you disagree with the fire on an ideological level, it doesn't matter to the fire! This year, feel however you want to feel about any given company making their logo into a rainbow flag, but I promise the "boycott Anheuser Busch because they're supporting Deviants by making our beer gay" people do not give a shit whether you're supporting their cause from a gay standpoint or a homophobic one, they just care about the net result, which is that by getting outwardly mad about this, you are lending them support
Anonymous asked:
So what was the point of this Ficino guy? Because I'm pretty sure that they never reached that perfect form of Christianity that can't be argued against, if that were the case we would be all Christians. They never reached an endpoint.
Okay okay so this whole thing about trying to make a logically irrefutable form of Christianity happened because the church kept making Jews and Muslims "defend" their religion in the form of debates. Like "You're going to debate what's better, Christianity or your shit, but you're only allowed to cite the bible." It was a loaded game.
Thing is, every once in a while, a Jew or a Muslim would actually WIN the debate, which was obviously pretty embarrassing for the church.
The Churches response was eventually "Why are we even doing this. We should stop holding the debates." But Christian occultists like Ficino wanted to press on. They found the refutability of Christianity to be a sort of fundamental spiritual weakness that could potentially be rectified.
I can't speak or read Latin but I am desperate to see if I can't find a transcription of these debates. What a hat trick.
oh I know a Jewish joke based on these sorts of debates!
Several centuries ago the Pope decreed that all the Jews had to convert to Catholicism or leave Italy.There was a huge outcry from the Jewish community so the Pope offered a deal.
He would hold a religious debate with the leader of the Jewish community. If the Jews won, they could stay in Italy. If the Pope won, they'd have to convert or leave.
The Jewish people met and picked an aged and wise rabbi to represent them in the debate.
However, as the rabbi spoke no Italian and the Pope spoke no Yiddish, both sides agreed that it would be a "silent" debate.
On the chosen day the Pope and rabbi sat opposite each other.
The Pope raised his hand and showed three fingers.
The rabbi looked back and raised one finger and shook it at the Pope.
Next the Pope waved his finger around his head.
The rabbi pointed to the ground where he sat.
The Pope brought out a communion wafer and a chalice of wine.
The rabbi pulled out an apple.
With that, the Pope stood up and declared himself beaten and said that the rabbi was too clever. The Jews could stay in Italy.
Later the cardinals met with the Pope and asked him what had happened.
The Pope said, "First I held up three fingers to represent the Trinity. He responded by holding up a single finger, shaking it to remind me there is still only one God common to both our beliefs.”
"Then, I waved my finger around my head to show him that God is all around us. He responded by pointing to the ground to show that God is also right here with us.”
"I pulled out the wine and wafer to show that God absolves us of all our sins. He pulled out an apple to remind me of the original sin.”
"He beat me at every move and I could not continue."
Meanwhile, the Jewish community gathered to ask the rabbi how he'd won.
"I haven't a clue," the rabbi said. "First, he told me that we had three days to get out of Italy so I shook my finger saying no.”
"Then he tells me that the whole country would be cleared of Jews and I told him that we were staying right here."
"And then what?" asked a woman.
"Who knows?" said the rabbi. "He took out his lunch so I took out mine."
one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanity™ is the goal to strive towards for any True Artificial Intelligence™ if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically artificial intelligence?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"
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Can you do something for me, please?
I want you to reblog this if you believe that two people can be very close and physically affectionate with one another, but still have a completely nonsexual, non-romantic relationship.
Even if the two people in question are capable of being sexually or romantically attracted to one another.
Because the friendship I share with someone I consider family in a way that transcends blood has been typecast as a romantic relationship ENTIRELY too many times, and I’m beginning to get sick of it.
anyone: hi, how are y-
me: Cheery Littlebottom is explicitly trans and people who disagree often simply misunderstand what being transgender means. They might think Cheery a cis woman who is presenting as cis woman, but being trans is not about the bits one might have, and Cheery's assigned gender is not a woman, but dwarf, the only gender her culture has. When she starts identifying as a woman, she takes on a gender not widely recognised by her culture, so if we were to draw parallels with our human society, she's actually closer to being non-binary.
It always struck me a bit like those “what if the minority was you” stories, but obviously with Terry Pratchett (GNU) it’s handled very cleverly. He really fleshes out the dwarf culture in Discworld and helps you understand why their gender is the way it is, and how Cheery transgresses her culture’s gender norms. In a world where you’re expected to present at agender, gendering yourself is being transgender by definition. I think the story also managed to avoid the more problematic clichés of similar types of works by having both dwarven cultural gender norms and the human cultural gender norms compared and contrasted in-story, and really walks the reader through the nuances of the issue.
reblog w the song lyrics in your head NOW. either stuck in yr head or what yr listening to
I don't think Ianthe and Gideon actually had anything sexual or romantic going on in-between HtN and NtN, but I do think Harrow would have preferred them having weird corpse sex over the friendship bracelets
Anonymous asked:
Have any of the witches from Discworld been submitted? I don't know if I could do them justice in terms of propaganda.
There have been 2 different witches from Discworld submitted (maybe 3? Is Sam Vimes a witch?)
Accidentally setting off a rigorous philosophical debate about a character I know nothing about
#a favorite debate! #the answer is: sam vimes is botanically not a witch (he's a copper) #but culinarily yes he's a witch (and also a copper) (via @tanoraqui)
Noticing more and more how people who would never take this kind of risk themselves expect Target employees to bear the brunt of right wing abuse and straight up terrorism because doing otherwise would "send the wrong message." Is pride merch at Target a cynical soulless ploy or is it worth low wage workers getting harassed and assaulted over? Which is it? That viral video of the target employee flippantly answers "yup" when a right wing chud accuses her of being a satanist is resurfacing with people saying "the recall never would have happened if this queen were in charge." She had to go online and specify that she was doxxed for it and had to take a LOA and that while she supports pride and doesn't personally want the merch recalled the whole ordeal was traumatic for her. The response was just another round of "yas queen." Target has an extreme level of security but do you really trust these former cops in deep red states to side with employees against fascists, or expect employees to put up with harassment that falls into the category of "homophobic/transphobic/sexual but not quite illegal?" I don't think it's unreasonable to bring up employee safety, especially when employees themselves have brought up these concerns, but the response is a resounding "oh so you're caping for a major corporation." You would think with the amount of groupthink and outrage going on that we have a sizable radical queer resistance in this country but we do not. It's all for show.
#like it is just. it's so weird to me#solidarity with workers except when it's even mildly annoying#like it genuinely is largely the same ppl who decry target pride merch as capitalist bs!#like you really can't have both!#but also i just#genuinely think that asking low wage retail workers to deal with that level of harrassment is terrible!#like it's nice if you also believe they should be getting a better wage or whatever#but even that wouldn't actually make it ok#and like. they aren't!#this is the actual world we live in!
disliking a character not because I actually find them annoying or whatever but because the people who like that character are insufferable
Something to the left of you is your gender now
funnytwittertweets
This feels like a good time add one of my favorite weird inventions from history: The book wheel, invented in 1588
i know i went for the more obvious/Basic choices so please expound in the tags/replies!! if there's a story or reason to your choice, tell us more!!
i was always a triceratops fan. i think it had something to do with the land before time.
deinonychus my beloved
