Hello, tumblr. I regret to inform you that, unfortunately, the fuckin chocolate guy is at it again.
Sorry as someone who teaches rhetoric this is a wonderful response to the Paradox of Tolerance. I cannot tell you how many times my students have had debates about this. This is the response. This does indeed fix it. I cannot wait to tell this to my classes now. Philosophically and rhetorically this completely resolved the Paradox of Tolerance and I am floored by its simplicity and angry I never saw it before.
Just putting this out there to let people know to watch what they post because you can be found and if you think that the government can't do this ...
Well, you better think again!!
AGH HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!!! (ft., ofc, our favorite ot3)
Happy Workshop Wednesday!
Hi all! Between faire season and the workshop it's been a very busy few weeks but I wanted to take a quick moment to share some of the items available in the shop, including my new Black Stitch Bracers . (As seen on my fire dancing photos) :)
Thank you again to all those who have visited the shop, and for your patience as I navigate this busy but amazing time of the year.
Wishing you all a love, and rainbow filled Pride Month. Stay safe all.
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it seems so strange to me that the only people it is socially acceptable to live with (once you reach a certain stage in life) are sexual partners? like why can’t i live with my best friend? why can’t i raise a child with them? why do i need to have sex with someone in order to live with them? why do we put certain relationships on a pedestal? why don’t we value non-sexual relationships enough? why do life partners always have to be sexual partners?
My grandmother and grandfather more or less adopted my grandmother’s best friend back in the 50s. After my grandfather died (before I was born, back in 1968 or so) they continued to keep house together, platonic best friends, and they hung together until they died, a few months apart, in 2007.
It’s quite recently, as far as I can tell, that living arrangements like that have stopped being regarded as normal.
It’s absolutely a new thing to find this stuff weird, and it has a lot to do with media pretending that the nuclear family and marriage are the only reasons to live with other people.
I’ve lived in a 3 adult household my whole life. My parents and their best friend. This was never weird to me, even though everyone my age thought it was because the media never portrayed these kinds of housing arrangements. As far as i was concerned, I just had an extra non-blood parent.
According to my parents, it was very common in the 70′s-80′s to buy houses with your friends, because it was financially smart to do so (so long as you were certain they were close friends who wouldn’t fall out with you and fuck everything up). Houses and house payments are much more manageable when you split the bills 3-4 ways instead of just two.
Millenials aren’t the first to think it’s a great idea to just shack up with friends. That’s housemating without the hastle of living with strangers. It’s still a good idea to shack up with people you’ve known a long time so you know how you’ll get on living together, but still. In the current economy, it’s pretty much now our only option for affording anything.
I think, and I’m not researched on this, but I think conservatives probably tried to suppress images of non-nuclear families because they likely thought it would encourage ideas of polygamy, polyamory, open sexual relationships with or without marriage, as well as other relationship types they thought of as un-christian or unsavoury. I could be wrong, but that shit wouldn’t surprise me.
(And i want to make a note that there’s also a disturbing amount of asexual denial around that makes people go ‘if they’re living together they HAVE to be banging because why wouldn’t they?’ and that shit both creeps me out and annoys me no end. People can be in relationships without sex. People can live together without sex. Sex is not the be-all and end-all and people being taught to think it is really need to stop).
Don’t let the media fool you into believing you can only live with a sexual partner or blood family. Someone somewhere has an agenda for making these seem abnormal, when really it’s just practical.
A lot of people acted like it was super weird when two of my brothers decided to move states with me when I started my postdoc. I got really used to giving a little canned speech about it because it seemed to bewilder people so much. (Their leases happened to be up! We could share rent! They wanted to try somewhere new!)
The notable exception was my grandma, who was just like, “oh, yes, when we were young my sister and I decided to move cross-country together and it was lovely.”
More of this kind of thing for everyone, pls.
The implication that close sibling relationships must also be a warning sign for incest also peeves me off; what kind of society are we living in anyway
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Having a multi-adult household unit also just makes a shit-ton of sense, tbh. Much easier to split not only the bills, but also the housework and child-rearing responsibilities. Communal living ftw.
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It’s also super a capitalism thing.
With only two working-age people in the house, it’s very difficult to make ends meet without one of them (or increasingly, these days, both of them) working away the vast majority of their waking hours to earn enough money to support the household. The other person, if they aren’t also working similar hours, is there to support that working person, full time, with unpaid labour.
The end result of this is that nobody has any time or energy to spend together properly, and they just end up tired and miserable and shackled to their work, throwing money at their problems because it’s all they can do. It’s very easy to convince tired, miserable people to spend their money in the ways you want them to, and it’s also very easy to manipulate and oppress people who don’t have the energy or the means to fight for their rights. Convince a whole nation that this is the way the world is supposed to work, and you’ll be well away.
Death to the cancerous myth of the nuclear family.
this is exactly the type of thing us aros and aces are referring to when we talk about amatonormativity
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This is like, the pipe organ of bonking your siblings with the empty wrapping paper tube 😍
[Video description: a TikTok from @snubbyj showing a person playing “Mamma Mia” by ABBA on the RimbaTubes, an instrument made out of PVC pipes. The person uses paddles to whack the tops of the tubes and looks very happy. /end description.]
THE FINISHED INNER SEAMS WTF??????? Y'ALL WERE GETTING FINISHED EDGES????
Small Town Grocery Store Stories: LGBTQ+ friendly edition
Me: minding my own damn business in the grocery store
One of my students and a few of his teammates enter the dairy aisle.
My student is holding hands with one of his teammates.
My student: Oh hey, Professor X!
Me, who has both my student and his girlfriend in my class: …Hello
My student, looking at his hand-holding partner: Oh! Don’t worry. My girlfriend knows. Not that I’m cheating! I’m not cheating. I’m not gay.
Hand Holding boy: Not that being gay is a bad thing! It’s a good thing!
My student: Right! But no, listen. We aren’t together, we just hold hands in public sometimes.
Hand Holding Boy: Especially on Friday nights. And weekends. And at away games.
My student: Because sometimes people will say shit and then we can punch them! And if the fight started because someone was being homophobic, coach won’t get mad at us.
Hand Holding Boy: Always nice to punch a homophobe. And [gesturing to another boy in the group] maybe they’ll think twice about saying something to [other boy’s name] if he ever gets a boyfriend and wants to hold his hand for real. The Gay One, resigned but smiling: I’ve decided it’s sweet and not really fucking weird.
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This is what “boys will be boys” is meant to be
This is the best thing I’ve seen in a while.
A useful article from King Arthur Flour (my beloved) on baking while disabled.
This genuinely might make me cry. I already deeply appreciate King Arthur for making the best GF 1 for 1 flour. And having good recipes. But an article posted by them from someone with disabilities about how to do the thing even with disabilities? That’s just genuinely lovely. I know that my bad there is low, but it’s low for a reason and hopefully stuff like this can continue to raise that bar for disabled people like me.
I love to see this! Another of my favorites is the baking with arthritis post.
King Arthur Flour is great flour with an even greater website. (I say this as someone who is expected to make their pumpkin bread for the family every Thanksgiving.)
Not needlework related, but this is a very good resource for people who need it.
Their gluten free chocolate cake mix also makes very good cake donuts.
Scottish Diaspora Bucky Barnes
Hello and welcome to my totally self indulgent, salt-fuelled explanation of why I like to headcanon Bucky Barnes as part of the Scottish diaspora, inspired originally by the fact that I want more Scots speaking characters in the world and also by the fact that I am completely and utterly pissed off with being told that my first language is not a language. This is purely my headcanon and is in no way supported by anything in canon beyond the fact that "James" and "Buchanan" are both Scottish names.
So.
- Before she was married, Winnifred Barnes was a Buchanan. The Buchanan Clan historically comes from the west side of Loch Lomond--their historical clan seat is actually on an island in the loch. Winnifred's grandfather was a herring fisherman. Herring fishermen followed the fish, starting in the Outer Hebrides then north to Shetland and Orkney, then down the Moray Firth before heading south into England as far as Great Yarmouth and Lowestoft. The herring girls were women who were employed by curing firms for the season to follow the boats on land, to gut and pack the fish. Winnefred's mother was a herring girl from the North East of Scotland and she met her future husband during one of the herring seasons. When they married, they moved to her hometown in the North East of Scotland, where Winnifred was born and grew up.
- In the 1880s, the herring industry began to decline--it would be revived in the inter-war years--so Winnifred's parents decided to emigrate to America. They settled in New York, where Winnifred eventually met George Barnes and married him.
- For the first few years of his life, Bucky spoke exclusively Scots. He understood English but he spoke Scots because the majority of his family either spoke it or understood it. It was only when he went to school that he was forced to start speaking English, which he hated. As a result, he was held back a year, ending up in a class with a small, skinny boy who was sick a lot. He ended up saving that skinny boy from a fight and found out that his name was Steve. Steve helped Bucky with learning English.
- Despite Scots being his first language, Bucky couldn't read or write Scots because they had no books written in Scots. He knew stories and songs in Scots but he'd never seen it written down.
- As he grew older, Bucky modified his accent to sound more like the other kids his age because they made fun of him. Eventually, his accent was almost unrecognisable as Scottish, beyond the occasional faint "sh" sound on the "s".
- Bucky didn't stop speaking Scots completely though. He still spoke it with his family and he would slip into it around Steve because Steve never made fun of him for it.
- During the war, Bucky let slip a couple of Scots words and phrases every so often. But it wasn't until one day, after being pinned down under fire for hours because of a bad order that everyone found out that Bucky spoke Scots. He ripped into the Major responsible in broad Scots and the Commandos couldn't do anything but watch. Except for Steve. Steve was grinning and snorting occasionally because he understood every word.
- Then Bucky falls from the train and becomes the Winter Soldier, and Hydra wipes away Scots like it wipes the rest of him.
- After SHIELD falls, Bucky slowly starts to regain himself. The first time he speaks Scots again is completely instinctual; he drops something and swears a blue streak in broad Scots before he realises what he's doing. He doesn't know where the language came from but he knows that it didn't come from Hydra but Before. So he clings to that scrap of himself and uses it to hang onto when things get rough. He speaks in Scots after nightmares to remind himself that he's not under Hydra's control anymore.
- Then he joins the Avengers and confuses the hell out of them when he throws out random Scots words and phrases. He mutters for a good ten minutes in Scots one day after fighting an army of robot spiders--because come on, robot spiders??--and everyone just stares at him in confusion except for Steve, who is grinning from ear to ear.
- Bucky starts to learn more about his heritage. When he finds out that Gaelic is much more prominent now in Scotland, he's excited and thinks that Scots must have the similar funding and prestige. So when he finds out that the majority of Scots speakers don't even know that it's a language, he's furious on their behalf that they've been robbed of their identity.
- Bucky joins Twitter and starts tweeting in Scots, partly because it's good practise for learning how to write in Scots and also because he wants more people to know that Scots is a language.
- Scottish Twitter promptly freaks out because he's Bucky Barnes and he's talking in Scots.
- Bucky starts following all kinds of people who tweet in the different dialects of Scots and talks to them.
- Anyone who makes the mistake of going after any of his followers has their notifications flooded by Bucky but he's not threatening. No, he just provides articles and citations and links to the Scots Language Centre because before he was the world's greatest assassin, Bucky Barnes was the worlds biggest dork.
- Steve retweets every single one of Bucky's links.
- Bucky records all the stories--folk tales and family history--and songs that Winnifred and his grandparents taught him when he was a kid, in Scots, for the Scots Language Centre and Scots Language Society so they're preserved forever. He grew up with a mixture of North East Scots and West Central Scots, so he can contribute even more to their studies of the language.
- Linguists love him. Anyone wants to interview him for their dissertation, he's there.
And there we have it: Scots Bucky Barnes. This is just my personal headcanon and like I said, there's nothing in the MCU that supports this. But I will be using this as basis for Bucky in future fics and if anyone else wants to use this as inspiration, link me the fics! I'd love to read them and I'm not picky about ships.
For some facts about Scots and links, check below the cut.
“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”
a hero emerges
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And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.
And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.
Teenage girls are amazing.
Sometimes they’re not even teenagers
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Reblog every time a girl is discredited/ignored
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Who they are:
Emma Gonzalez
Malala Yousafzai
Ruby Bridges
Greta Thunberg
Mari Copeny
Autumn Peltier
Afreen Khan
Sophie Cruz
Charlottesville Black Students Union
Naomi Wadler
DAPL protestors (names not found)
Ahed Tamimi
This isn’t a coincidence. Revolutions almost always happen when the population of a country is at its youngest and that’s a lot more true nowadays with social media.
Claudette Colvin was actually the first one to refuse her seat in Montgomery, Alabama to a white passenger. The movement chose to promote Rosa Parks as the figure for that form of protest because Claudette was a pregnant 15-year-old girl.
Barbara Rose Johns was a 16-year-old who organized a student strike protesting segregated schools. This strike, after gaining support of the NAACP, became a lawsuit that turned into Brown vs. The Board of Education and resulted in the desegregation of U.S schools nationally.
7th-grader Mary Beth Tinker, disturbed by the Vietnam War, decided to wear an arm band with a peace sign on it in protest. Her school suspended her. Her family filed a suit, Tinker vs. Des Moines, which reached the Supreme Court and ruled in her favor, ensuring that students and teachers maintain their right to free speech while in school.
Freddie & Truus Oversteegen were sisters who joined a Dutch resistance movement in WWII in their teens. They lured, ambushed, and assassinated Nazis and Dutch collaborators. They also blew up a railway line, transported Jewish refugees to new hiding places, and worked in an emergency hospital.
Our history books may like to showcase male figures, but behind every movement is a young girl ready to make a change. It was true then, it’s true now, and future generations of teenage girls will go on to inspire progress, whether they’re credited or not.
We were raised on these stories of fighting back against oppression, but then the people who wrote them or read them to us act shocked we turned out ready to fight facism even while being anti-social.
There are many reasons why women’s history is so often elided or erased in our education. But one of those reasons is that so MANY of the women who made history, did so for reasons that challenged existing structures of power…and usually in accessible, related ways that modern day institutions feared students learning from.