Alas, poor Hadrian. One of the most competent emperors, forever known only for his love of walls and twinks
issuing correction on a previous post of mine, regarding "the butcher of Judea". you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to him"
The Construction of the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Station by Oleksandr Vovk, 1955
“Great Tits!”, inspired by the Great Tit, a small insectivorous bird with a black and white head, blue wings and tail, olive green upper body and yellow underparts.
Tbh I am hugely supportive of just going around clothed as long as it’s consensual. Like obviously you should not be infringing on anyone’s autonomy getting clothed around them if it makes them uncomfy or coercively involves them as part of yr sex thing (wearing sexually charged clothing eg: dresses, suits, leather coats). But as long as yr not being weird about it? Literally cover up whatever body part you want!
It’s yr body and u make the rules <3
empathviv
Gay Winston from Overwatch: Excuse me for... being gay
He doesn't need a fucking excuse honey that's the point of PRIDE Winston !!!!
empathviv
PROUD Gay Winston: Did somebody say... penis?
Anonymous asked:
mozi would fuckin love modern construction equipment i think. i want to show him an excavator and let him drive it around and pick up the dirt and whatnot
oh he would absolutely go apeshit. I just got high and it makes me so happy imagining mozi with an excavator. he loves it so much.
- None of them are gonna be physically violent
- The Reddit users are going to judge you if you express any religious or “unscientific” sentiment
- The Catholics run the gamut from “hardcore pro-lifer” to “Nun who invented communism”
- The Protestants have brought lots of food but are going to proselytize the entire time you eat
- The crystalists are split 60/40 on whether or not vaccines cause autism, and you don’t know who has the majority until you’ve been there an hour
- The Anglophiles have good pastries, but 1/3 of them are in Sherlock cosplay
- The girlbosses are all within 10° to the left of the center of the political spectrum and will try very hard to get you to invest in their MLM
- The vegans brought food but will turn hostile if you let slip that you’ve used animal products in the last year
- The reenactors have booze, but your phone is dead and they’re giving a very pro-America history lecture
- The influencers have a pool, a jacuzzi, and lots of drugs, but they have a combined net worth that teaches seven digits and won’t let you forget it
- The retirees have great weed but they’re gonna ask you a lot of invasive questions and give you a lot of unsolicited advice.
Okay, last headcanon and I'll stop harassing y'all after this.
So you know how Mark Vorkosigan has been trained to have the same body language as Miles Vorkosigan, whose body language is really a less effortless rendition of Aral's? And then Dono is told to just imitate Aral whenever he's scared he isn't passing well enough and, well, do you ever imagine these four men being somewhere together and just accidentally striking the exact same pose or making the exact same gesture at the same time?
Like someone is explaining something and they are listening attentively, brows elegantly furrowed, hands in their pockets and feet spread apart in a manly, assertive way, and when the particularly complicated part comes along they all rub their chins in contemplation and it goes from manly dignity to absolutely fucking ridiculous?
Anonymous asked:
I know ao3 is supposed to house transgressive works but like, what’s the value in hosting actual racist screeds? Like a racist can post racist fanfic on their own blog or whatever. But why do we need to protect the rights of racists to be hosted on ao3
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It's the same question we ask everywhere about free speech vs. protecting community members.
The biggest issue is that it's hard to find clear cut-offs. On smaller sites, it makes sense to have a mod make the call. When you're small enough for human curation by a few people who can talk things over, it's easier to sort through the gray areas. Small forums can have taste-based curation, and they're often nicer for it. AO3 is way too large for this, however.
I know it seems obvious which things are just completely beyond the pale, but it's difficult to make clear rules that will hit only those and not other things. Like it or not, every rule on every site is instantly weaponized by assholes. In the case of fanfic content rules, that usually ends up as people reaching really hard in order to attack a rival ship or fandom or explicit fic or shipping in general. Often, readers attack a fic because they can't imagine anyone could have genuinely found it hot or could have written it to work through personal trauma... but it turns out the author was absolutely in earnest and this is just a failure of imagination. And this doesn't just go for majority groups having oppressive fantasies: often, minorities grappling with things that affect them more are the ones who make dark or contentious art and then get attacked for it.
Thinking it's simple to sort different types of art is the black and white thinking of a child.
If an author is calling people slurs in the comments, we can judge their intent by their behavior. If the work itself seems offensive, it's harder to tell what's going on.
There can also be value in archiving such bigotries for analysis and dissection.
Let me give an example from Real Life, not from AO3.
There was a incredibly antisemitic romance novel written back in 2014, called "For Such A Time", which was literally a Nazi Romance, that featured an antisemitic slur in the cover blurb. It was written as part of the Christian Romance genre, and it won awards. As a novel, it literally romanticizes the Holocaust, blames the Jews for the genocide (as punishment for not accepting Jesus), and the Jewish lead (I won't call her a "protagonist") converts to Christianity at the end of the story.
Now, why would I be advocating for the inclusion of such a hateful, bigoted book in an archive?
Because it gives insight into the culture that produced it and that enjoy it.
It's not a coincidence that less than two years after the book was published, 7 out of 8 American Evangelicals voted for a fascist and supported him for years, and are growing ever more fascistic as time goes on. Seeing a book like this, and others that they write, tells a lot about their viewpoints and outlooks, and having access to it--and other bigoted works--can be valuable to get an insight into the minds of the people who write them.
(Also, speaking from personal experience, bigots hate it when you take their works like this and treat them with academic dispassion for analysis. They have no response other than bluster and volume to being taken apart in such a manner)
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Round 1 Part 3
Talia Al-Ghul (DC Comics) vs Mother Gothel (Tangled)
Talia wins!
i need some maths help here. how many votes is point two per cent of 215?
0.2% of 215 is 0.43 votes (which is to say that the two results are separated by about 0.86 votes total). The numbers you're seeing are a result of rounding. Idk how to check the vote count on a poll, but my bet is that the results are:
Talia = 108 votes/215 = 50.232% ≈ 50.2%
Gothel = 107 votes/215 = 49.767% ≈ 49.8%
(Essentially, in a poll with 215 votes, every vote is worth about 0.45%. Therefore you should expect the results to be separated by a multiple of 0.45% - in this case, 0.45 * 1)
Just assuming old people will be a small percentage. I will redo if I am wrong.
RED AND BLUE GAY COMPETITION ROUND 3
the ones that got the most attention last time, let's see which yuri wins!
Submission notes!
Korrasami:
THEY HAVE IT ALL. Rivals to lovers! The red and blue! Tomboy and girly-girl! Even water and fire if you squint! There’s something so special about the world’s most powerful bender falling for a nonbender who holds her own in combat just as well. The slow burn friendship turning into pining. Let’s also not forget how Asami was there for Korra when she needed her most and very nearly almost confessed in one of her letters! They love and support each other and are PEAK bi-con energy!
Red/Blue (Time War):
They’re canonically enemies to lovers lesbians. TIHYLTW was the first sapphic book I read as a closeted bi 14yo so they’re near and dear to my heart
Fighter: Why do wizards and mages and shit always have to use a fucking stick or staff to do magic. what's so special about a gotdamn tree bone
Wizard: There's a huge occult explanation for that but long story short: if you miscast do you want a stick to explode or your hand?
Warlock: Also good for hitting people
Bard: Twirly. Dramatic flair
Druid: Tastes good
For the first time in [redacted] years of being alive, I actually sat down and hemmed a pair of pants and I gotta say this is really great? Why didn't anyone tell me that clothing is better when it actually fits?