Ojisama to Neko Chapter 3: The Cat’s Name

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Museum Guide: These items are not for sale.

Killmonger: How do you think your ancestors got these? You think they paid a full price for it? Or did they take them like they took everything else?

Some knowledge ✊🏾

We should be more pro-active or we’ll see more of such sad fates of honest people.

And the utterly ironic thing is I’ve seen repeated tumblr posts of that iconic photo absolutely slagging the shit out of Peter Norman as “lol white guy so uncomfortable”   “Why the fuck isn’t he supporting them”, etc etc.

Every day I learn something new about queer history.

I can never understand how Snape apologetics can stand up for him when he CANONICALLY does this shit.

I can maybe, maybe, understand those who haven’t read the books standing up for him, because honestly the movies don’t cover all the horrible stuff he does. But those who have read the books and still stick up for him baffle me.

I mean, you don’t see anyone sticking up for the Dursley’s or Umbridge, when they do the same stuff to Harry as Snape. How is Snape any different?

@elletry food for thought?

bi culture is being attracted to every hamilton cast memeber

me realizing my experiences with sewing have been a lie this whole goddamn time:

My granny taught me these. We called them.blind stitches.

I might get hate for this but

CIVILIANS👏 DON'T👏 NEED 👏 ACCESS👏TO 👏 ASSAULT 👏 RIFLES 👏.

I feel like with the new ~fandom drama~ or whatever going around, I should re-introduce my favorite theory of fandom, which I call the 1% Theory.

Basically, the 1% Theory dictates that in every fandom, on average, 1% of the fans will be a pure, unsalvageable tire fire. We’re talking the people who do physical harm over their fandom, who start riots, cannot be talked down. The sort of things public news stories are made of. We’re not talking necessarily bad fans here- we’re talking people who take this thing so seriously they are willing to start a goddamn fist fight over nothing. The worst of the worst.

The reason I bring this up is because the 1% Theory ties into an important visual of fandom knowledge- that bigger fandoms are always perceived as “worse”, and at a certain point, a fandom always gets big enough to “go bad”. Let me explain.

Say you have a small fandom, like 500 people- the 1% Theory says that out of those 500, only 5 of them will be absolute nutjobs. This is incredibly manageable- it’s five people. The fandom and world at large can easily shut them out, block them, ignore their ramblings. The fandom is a “nice place”.

Now say you have a medium sized fandom- say 100,000 people. Suddenly, the 1% Theory ups your level of calamity to a whopping 1000 people. That’s a lot. That’s a lot for anyone to manage. It is, by nature of fandom, impossible to “manage” because no one owns fan spaces. People start to get nervous. There’s still so much good, but oof, 1000 people.

Now say you have a truly massive fandom- I use Homestuck here because I know the figures. At it’s peak, Homestuck had approximately FIVE MILLION active fans around the globe.

By the 1% Theory, that’s 50,000 people. Fifty THOUSAND starting riots, blackmailing creators, contributing to the worst of the worst of things.

There’s a couple of important points to take away here, in my opinion.

1) The 1% will always be the loudest, because people are always looking for new drama to follow.

2) Ultimately, it is 1%. It is only 1%. I can’t promise the other 99% are perfect, loving angels, but the “terrible fandom” is still only 1% complete utter garbage.

3) No fandom should ever be judged by their 1%. Big fandoms always look worse, small fandoms always look better. It’s not a good metric.

So remember, if you’re ever feeling disheartened by your fandom’s activity- it’s just 1%, people. Do your part not to be a part of it.

this is great!

It also complies with the “killer theory”. I don’t remember exact names, but people in online games are generally divided into four groups:

- explorers research game opportunities, they don’t mind playing alone, usually don’t hurt others, but sometimes they can exploit game weaknesses

- achievers play to win, to gain points, popularity. They need both explorers who know all perks, and socializers - as their followers and support

- socializers - they play because their friends are all here, they like to be together, they are usually most of the players, they can be easily led astray

- killers - for some reasons they come to hurt others, be it hurtful remarks in the chats or disturbing behavior

A tiny amount of killers is manageable and even profitable. (All four types are important). Killers raise stakes for the achievers, give socializers something to talk about in their groups and give explorers incentives to invent something new.

Angered explorers are the top predators here - but they must be seriously offended, and since they play on the outskirts of the game, killers rarely fight them. Killers usually go for the weakest (socializers) or most noticeable (achievers).

But if the game, by its design, somehow attracts to much killers, who scare socializers, leave achievers without their rewards and - by choking the environment - make it boring for the explorers (what I gonna explore here? ten kinds of dick-related-nicknames? Pff!) - they effectively kill the game.

This is awesome. In fandom terms, I think whether a fandom tends to be, in general, a pretty decent place to be with a small tire fire here or there, or one big flaming dumpster fire, probably has a lot to do with who the 1% in that fandom are. If you’re unlucky enough to be in a fandom where a couple of the tire-fire people are the ones who run the exchanges, or the most influential shippers of your particular small pairing, or the big BNF, you are screwed. Even though the vast majority of the fandom undoubtedly still consists of sane and decent people, it’s going to be really hard to avoid the 1%, and they’ll actively drive people out. 

On the other hand, some of my best times in fandom have been in calm, sane corners of fandoms that I knew had raging dumpster fires going elsewhere, but I never had to deal with them because my part of the fandom was quite nice.

Large fandoms are a mixed blessing that way … more and bigger tire fires (and more visible to outsiders), but also, with more people and more ships, it’s easier to find cozy little pockets of sanity in which to nest.

This is a great bit of meta! I liked it so much, I put it on fanlore: Fandoms Have 1% Toxic Fans Theory

oh man, this got so many notes that I missed this- thanks my dude!! I feel honored to have made it onto Fanlore, haha.

The statue in Crowley’s flat. “it represents,” said the Production Designer, Michael Ralph, “Good and evil wrestling with evil triumphing.” “…are you certain that they’re wrestling?” I asked.

“Well now that you’ve said that I’m certain they’re not, but that just makes me even more convinced that Crowley should have it,” said Michael Ralph.

“Fair enough,” I said, and then we stared at it for ten minutes, lost in thought, until David Tennant asked what we were doing and we abruptly tried to look very busy.

man all of these really rock something amazing

I love it

These are amazing.

I’ve never seriously questioned my class alignment before, but these make me kinda wonder a bit…

Monk artwork by Jimmy Xu.

Barbarian artwork by Aditya777

Bard artwork by Shadow-Net

Cleric artwork by Alexander Casteels

Fighter artwork by Genzoman

Sorcerer artwork by Sergon

Paladin artwork by unknown

Ranger artwork by Supanova89

Rogue artwork by ChrisCold

Wizard artwork by tadp0l3

^^^ Hero

Yeah, this is what the D&D party thinks they’re gonna be like, and then they show up and it’s all screaming and rolling 1s and the gnome’s on fire and the druid is making sarcastic remarks while the paladin disarms traps with his head.

Book Burning Memorial

‘In the center of Bebelplatz, a glass window showing rows and rows of empty bookshelves. The memorial commemorates the night in 1933 when 20,000 “anti-German” books were burned here under the instigation of Goebbels. There’s a plaque nearby that says something like “Where they burn books, they will also burn humans in the end.” ’

Interesting but rarely mentioned: most of the content burned that night came from the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (institute for the science of sex) headed by Magnus Hirschfeld. The institute and Hirshfeld himself were some of the first to openly campaign for the right to have sex with someone of the same gender, the right to transition if you did not identify with your birth sex and for the general acceptance of queer people. The team had already performed the first SRS operations in Germany and in addition, the institute advocated sex education, contraception, the treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, and women’s emancipation. Photographs of the night of the book burning are plastered across history books world wide, but the queer movement that was destroyed that night often goes unmentioned.

reblogging again for that^

They basically burned the Alexandria library of sex research including the most advanced research on gender at the time anywhere.

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From the wikipedia page:

I wonder where we’d be on trans rights if the Nazis hadn’t destroyed their work. 

look at where you are / look at where you started

my favorite subtle taz fic goof is kravitz described as being “dressed down” or “in casual wear” or “half dressed” and it’s still like. a button down shirt and pants. half a suit. 

barry: you know, you don’t have to dress up just to come to family dinners

kravitz, genuinely confused: … this shirt has barrel cuffs and a point collar

barry, in jorts: … what does that mean?

taako, in pajama shorts and one of lup’s t-shirts that says “FLAME ON” on it: really, barold, you don’t even know what a point collar is? have we taught you nothing? 

okay but the thing is barry is a brilliant, dedicated multiclass nerd who is bffs with two very fancy, very opinionated fashion elves. there’s no way by now that he doesn’t know everything they know. 

i am 100% certain that barry sometimes goes into a boutique, picks up a sweater, and says to taako, provokingly: ‘i don’t think there’s any real difference between rayon and satin.’ 

Written by James Miller. Art by The Oatmeal.