In my defence, the moon was full and I was left unsupervised.
this is such a deranged thing to say, especially in the context of the usfuckinga. do we live in a "culturally christian" country or not. people assume that you're religious for being alive.
it would be a pretty normal thing to say where i live though. just goes to show cross-cultural knowledge and/or humility is important when talking about stuff on the internet!
#in my generation and younger you’ve even got some muslims dipping their toes into it#bc they recognise just how much of a secular national holiday it has become#that’s obviously not to deny its roots or the christianity-centrism of having Official eg School Holidays follow a christian calendar#but the foundational text of the British Christmas is 100% Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol#which is really not very religious at all and definitely not specifically so#(‘God wants you to be charitable’ is ofc a message Muslims can get behind#but i’d argue that the message is even more centrally ‘you should be charitable because of our common humanity#and because not being charitable damages your humanity)
*coughing blood and covered in wounds, on one knee, gripping my sword planted on the ground… And yet, smiling* Heh… And yet, despite everything… *I start glowing with mysterious power* I stay silly!
I have to say, I just started casually watching ofmd after basically watching it through you guys. I am already spoiled. I thought there would be no surprises. I am already aware of the best jokes, the foot touch, the plot beats. You can become an expert on any show simply by scrolling past gifs of it for months.
However, NONE of you prepared me for this little guy here:
It is profoundly obvious visually, through dash osmosis and general visible evidence, that this is a little man with a lot wrong with him. but what you cannot grasp from gifs is his voice. His voice is amazing: I did NOT expect it: I cannot describe it: the actor chews on his lines like a menacing guinea pig. It is like hearing Kermit the Frog trying to strangle his own puppeteer. Like someone has trapped a vengeful spirit in a balloon and is allowing it to speak prophecy, but only in short, squeaky bursts. No, I can’t describe it at all. I was expecting the character to be “scrungly” and was aware that many of you wish to place him in a jar and shake him vigorously, but I didn’t know he sounded like something that would cause all greyhounds in hearing distance to instantly go cross-eyed and launch themselves into outer space. He! Is! Scrofulous!!!!
If you watched the show on its first principles you probably wouldn’t have noticed this because you would have accepted it as part of the full sensory experience of the character, but if you have only encountered it as gifs for the best part of a year, the sound of this chap is one HELL of a shock . Definitely adds to the flavor. Enhances the sensory experience. Sign on today.
…Okay, what am I about to learn about Supernatural
Castiel looks like a baby in a trenchcoat and sounds like someone trying to do the Christian Bale batman voice but is also insanely in love with the person he is speaking to.
BAHAHA YOU’RE RIGHT
The guy who looks like the crying cat meme, the guy from memes, the little guy, he really DOES sound like he is being dubbed in by an entirely different species of guy!!!
I feel 200x more appreciation for Supernatural having learned this about him. This is a small terrier with a Doberman voice actor. This is a Voice around which someone has draped a frumpy coat to give it some shape. The beigest little Ringwraith. Love this for all of you supernatural fans.
Determining the spiritual health of a location by viscously disassembling a burger at the local burger shop like an urban American haruspex
viscously
My "Yes I have interiority" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already anwered by my T-shirt.
The "no i don't have interiority" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by the shirt.
My "yes I have interiority, no not the person wearing me, I'm a sentient shirt" shirt has people asking a lot of the questions that the shirt can understand but is tragically incapable of responding to
Everyone reblog with your most unemployable traits
okay so-
Anonymous asked:
What do you mean "neither homosexuality nor heterosexuality existed before the 1800s"?
I mean it very literally. The concept of gay and straight did not exist until a few theorists started discussing them starting in 1869. Before this point, most societies thought of sexuality in terms of behaviors rather than orientations.
In Puritan-era New England, they basically only had two notions of sexuality: those having straight + married + procreative sex, and those participating in sodomy (including all forms of adultery and premarital sex as well as gay sex). If you were an unmarried teenager having straight sex in Massachusetts in 1650, you were a sodomite, and there was little distinguishing that activity from any form of homosexual activity. That's how it's been for most of history, though of course understandings of these matters varied widely from one society to another. No one was gay or straight or bi or any of these ideas until pretty recently
Anonymous asked:
I think lesbian chasers are kinda hot, I've had some mindblowing sex with girls who were absolutely fetishizing me, dunno if I should feel good about that or not
Been right there with you. And honestly? I salute them
FEMALE CHASER: you’re like the perfect form. a beautiful blend of man and woman. I used to fantasise about people like you existing. you’re so brave and perfect and you’re my good girl and everything’s going to be okay forever I promise
MALE CHASER: will you dress like my daughter
this is so funny to read as a gay trans masc because my experience happens to be like
Male Chaser: you are an otherworldly creature of pure light. i cant believe i am getting to have sex with you right now. your body and what it can do is incredible. i can barely contain myself. would you like to ride on my sibian for hours while i fetch you various beverages from my fridge.
Female Chaser: *rubbing my arms greasonously like theyre trying to start a fire* I just broke up with my boyfriend and im ready to Experiment
Your whip
this is NOT my whip
long hair on a man is the worlds most powerful aphrodisiac
why... did you reblog the post then.
this is literally my post
hey bro you want to go mini golfing w me
yes :)
omg u got a hole in one !
omg yaaaaay !!!! hahahaa ! lalalaaaa~
yayyyyy! yayyyy! WHEEEEEE!!!!!
fuck the love languages they’re bullshit written by a conservative asshole with zero counseling credentials anyway
rb this y’all because i am surprised at this result and maybe i’m just not getting enough people voting
If you're really tired and about to go to bed and hear a voice saying, "it's okay, you don't have to take out your contacts now -- you can sleep and do it in the morning",
That's the devil talking
Done this for the past several weeks and once even did it two days in a row. Im going to get flesh eating eye bacteria <3
Why do you prefer contacts to glasses?
Less likely to break in a mosh pit
Fair enough, there are specific use cases, but I was more alluding to general use.
when this came up on my blog my conclusion was that some of us just perceive life as containing far more mosh-pit-like situations than others and/or value the theoretical ability to seamlessly dive into them more
(i mean also, there is a for-me-very-noticeable objective benefit in how contact lenses actually let you perceive the world as if you had perfect vision in your own eyes, rather than through lenses with perceptible edges that exist some distance from your corneas and distort what you see a little as a consequence of that distance. everything you see appears slightly further away than it really is! i don’t really get how people can choose to live like that.)
If you're not too busy, would you mind blinding me with library science? Infosynth sounds like a useful skill and I'm far too dumb and lazy to go around reinventing the wheel all the time.
it is! unfortunately it’s not really something there is a lazy approach to - the lazy/time-strapped approach here is really to get someone else who has spent the time developing these skills to do infosynth for you: - this is why health librarians are an increasingly important part of healthcare provision, for instance, and it’s what I do as a freelancer for people whose time is at a premium.
it’s also something i have less experience teaching than a lot of other infolit skills; I do think you can really only get good/quick at it with a lot of practice.
but, if you’re interested in learning the good news is there are a lot of free librarian-compiled resources on this and other infolit skills available on the library websites of universities, which are usually accessible without an institutional log in.
Here is a decent one with links to some more in depth sources.
These are going to be aimed at an audience of people who are using these skills in an academic context, but the core skills are pretty cross-applicable.
What comes with practice is being able to very quickly evaluate things like
- whether this source is worth using (relevant, reputable)
- how much of it you need to read,
- and how much information you need to save from each source in order to be able to do the synthesis part later without revisiting the source.
(There’s also finding good sources to begin with, but that’s a different skill.)
What is key imo is to start with a well-defined research question, or more informally a good sense of what you’re trying to find out and for what purpose, and who the audience of your synthesis is.
I like to use something like OneTab or Zotero that lets me easily save a bunch of pages that i can go back to later. I also like to do a decent amount of just reading around before i even try to do anything else. It’s important to sorta just get oriented with stuff so that i have the relevant context for making decisions about how i go about it when it comes to doing anything more rigorous.
But ultimately with infosynth you need to be at peace with the fact that you are the one doing the legwork. Yours is the long boring task of somewhat-rigorously locating and reading lots and lots of stuff in order that you might tease out the seeds of a good synthesis.
I hope this helps somewhat; this is one of the domain skills i turned out to be Just Good At and i do think that often makes me worse at teaching things!
if you have any sort of a connection with a university (or work in healthcare) it’s worth checking if tuition in this sort of thing is available to you through your library. Many of the people who have the option to take this up aren’t aware of it. you can sometimes get infolit tuition at public libraries too
My dinnar 💪💯❗💥
This is one of your worst posts yet man
You called me dirt sucking poor and told me my carrot looks like a cock
both @triviallytrue and @the-real-numbers are straight guys but they post much like girls. they post with a bit of girlish flare. it may be their youth or it may be the influence of mathematics. anyway new type of guy I encountered when I joined this website but now one of my favorites.
It's true. Even now he is a girl to me.
i actually find the new york times/guardian-style concern trolling on trans healthcare way more worrying than garden-variety religious bigotry. the religious bigotry is really bad, especially for people trapped in those communities, but it appeals largely to other religious bigots and people who were not going to be on the side of LGBT rights anyway. the TERF/ROGD/they’re-transing-our-kids shit is an effort to give rhetorical cover to people whose considered political opinions might position them as liberals, but who also don’t want to have to examine or confront their bigotry against trans people, or their personal investment in an immutable gender binary. it plays better in environments where outright religious bigotry doesn’t, and (as we have seen in the UK) can have some successes at building larger coalitions in which conservative and far-right talking points can circulate.
if transphobia is to have a future in politics, it must expand beyond bible-thumpers. i think it’s an issue the transphobes will ultimately lose, but the longer it stick around the more harm it will do in the meantime.
#truefacts#i think in this case the existence of the NHS didn't help as well#inasmuch as every discussion about the provision of a type of healthcare in this country is in effect#a discussion of its provision at taxpayer expense#in a way that might not pervade the narrative as much in other countries
