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thanks @bmoharrisbankofficial but unfortunately i can’t focus on the very important message here because i’m too busy being confused by the fact that apparently if you send an ask with only one letter tumblr will bold that letter in the “asked you” notification text?? why the fuck would that be the case
fascinating
what the fuck is the backend of this site like
I am officially at the point of responding to vociferous, passionate Astrology Hate with the same emotions that I use to respond to people vociferously, passionately pointing out that professional wrestling is fake.
People make much more substantial decisions and judgments of other people based on Astrology than on the outcomes of professional wrestling.
There's no analogous case to someone breaking up with you (or not hiring you for a job) because they found out you were a scorpio.
I’m fascinated by this reply (and others like it, one mentioned magazine articles with astrology-based dating advice) and have been thinking about it for well over a week.
Because it seems so flippantly right, but on a moment’s thought is so clearly wrong?
Like, the astrology is only doing a narrativist’s work here. If you’re super attracted to a guy you aren’t consulting a star-chart, and same if there’s no spark. The thing astrology categories are doing for you is giving labels to a personality mapping scheme. If you notice “I keep falling for dark, brooding, silent men who sweep me off my feet but are later emotionally withholding so I act out to get attention and then he--” well an upperclass person will say he has Dark Triad traits, but less medicalizing subcultures might say say “he’s a total Cancer and I’ve learned at this point Cancers and I don’t match.” It’s a way to give yourself permission to recognize bad relationship patterns, and opt out ahead of time.
Maybe giving up on dating people because you’ve slotted them into a bucket like past relationship disasters is not the fairest and healthiest coping strategy, but it sure as hell ain’t the worst one either. Yes, if your last three boyfriends were Aries and they all ended badly, I support you “believing in astrology” and not dating that Aries who’s dating your friend but texting you at night. It might not even be a legible personality archetype you’re avoiding, just bad vibes.
And that’s the real crux of it. This is tumblr isn’t it? Aren’t we supposed to have “you can refuse to date anyone for any reason” etched into our eyeballs. You can even say “you’re not ready to date yet” or you’re a lesbian or you’re ace and later change your mind and date someone else and that’s okay because your right to not fuck someone you don’t want to trumps your responsibility to be 100% honest about your interior conflicts[1]. We all know that someone is just trying to excuse “I don’t vibe with you” when they come up with bullshit reasons to say no - but we fault it if they mention stars?
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(Obviously not hiring someone because of their sign is much worse (and much less prevalent in the English-speaking world), but much of that is inherent to the power imbalance of the employer/employee relationship. If a friend told us they didn’t take a job because of the sign of the boss they’d be working for, how much would we fault them? And how much would we suspect they felt validly uncomfortable with the boss and struggled to put it into words so chalked it up to astrology.)
[1] It’s better to be honest to yourself, and eventually others, than to lie. Once you tell a lie, yadda yadda. But you can’t do that from a position of fear and pressure. You need to believe your preferences will be respected before you can be honest about them. And until then, I think most reasonable and empathic people understand you are allowed to say whatever you want to to shut down new connections with people, so long as you aren’t actively hurting anyone else with the lie.
Any false belief is harmless if your beliefs don't impact your actions, only help you rationalise whatever actions you wanted to take. In general, I don't think it's a good idea to assume that people who appear to disagree with you secretly on some level realise you're right.
There are absolutely people who check their star sign compatibility with everyone they date/consider dating, and take it extremely seriously, because they genuinely believe it is real.
(Also, even if you're using it to rationalise your decisions, it works just as well to rationalise bad decisions as good - "yes, he's dating my friend and texting me behind her back, but at least he's not an Aries like my last boyfriend, and our star signs are so compatible so I know he's the one!" Freeing people from the need to have the reasons they do things make sense is not necessarily helpful.)
They should make a medieval town building type game where wars happen but you aren't really actively involved. If "your side" loses the only thing that changes is that your churches look different now and you pay the same taxes to a different liege lord.
Sometimes a bunch of knights come and trample your crops while fighting each other, but it's just a randomly generated agricultural disaster, like bad weather, and has no further-reaching effects.
Yo check out this guy from valenciennes. bibliothèque municipale, ms 320, fol. 46
it kinda looks like somebody tried to shoot this fucker 5 times and missed because of his nimble movements
His coy and effeminate stance increases his maneuverability perhaps .
one shot left in this revolver and he's flowing like a winding river right in front of my eyes
Make it fucking count
shinzo abe day was incredible. still not over seeing all the rumours about what happened, joining everyone in wondering how the fuck a shotgun assassination could have happened in japan, and then seeing the first photo of the doohickey
Lemme look something up...
This is literally some Looney Toons level bullshit
Ah yes, the first Spanish astronaut
This bird is better at distinguishing shades of pink than me...
This is unironically the best thing i’ve ever made
shout out to me when i was really depressed a few years ago and painted my old room red and covered in demons
You are Superman, aren’t you? Lois, look, we’ve been through these hallucinations of yours before. Can’t you see what you almost did? Throwing yourself off a building 30 stories high? Can’t you see what a tragic mistake you almost made? I made a mistake? I made a mistake because I risked my life instead of yours. Lois! Don’t be insane! And don’t fall down ‘cause you’re just going to have to get up again! Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)
This scene features one of the best things about Chris Reeve’s portrayal, which is that he physicalized his different choices between playing Clark and Superman. Like, look at the difference:
He could go from Rick Moranis to Chris Evans with just his posture. It’s like his glasses are weighing his entire body down. Here it is, in motion:
Acting.
This is a perfect example that proves that the Clark Kent disguise actually does work….and how it works….
Christopher Reeve was the best Superman and still is
Are we gonna discuss that Lois Lane rationalized that Superman wouldn’t even feel a bullet, thus wouldn’t even know he hadn’t been hit, causing Clark Kent to reveal himself for who he truly is without her having to risk anybodies life?
God I love Christopher Reeve’s Superman because some of Clark’s clumsiness can be seen in Superman too. The fact that this man didn’t realize it was a blank even though he can see things move in slow motion is really funny to me
Like he grew up thinking he had to hide his powers and I just assume that sometimes he forgets he has them because Clark is Clark. He might be superhuman but he’s still a clumsy dumbass and that’s his biggest flaw.
You don’t need kryptonite when you’re dealing with a good honest clumsy man and Lois knows that because she knows Clark!
It’s why I don’t like pretty much any other Superman movie as much. They make him too perfect, that’s not what makes this Kansas man so charming!
Reblogging specifically for the shot with the glasses (so fabulous a transformation) and also for the emotional context of the scene, which his face continues to do extraordinary things—including signaling a kind of vulnerability that has nothing to do with being proof against bullets.
often middle-class leftist obsessions with the guilloutine unsettle me not because im against violence (im not) (especially not against an unjust nationstate) but rather i am against executions especially by literally any state ever. & i cant fuck with people who are like "okay but we will execute people morally this time" girl thats what you said the last 5,000 times it never works give it UP.
person with $95 guilloutine earrings telling me excitedly about how they cant wait to watch a class of people be publically executed and i just think maybe someone should tell you that your outright glee to see violence-as-spectacle especially if you are not a part of the vulnerable population is something you should be deeply ashamed of. this isnt to tone-police those who have been acute and vulnerable victims of capitalism, but those populations are all too aware of the potential consequences of politicized violent unrest, AND are the first to be harmed by those consequences in a situation such as this. your obsession with violence is not terrifying to me because i feel some need to protect jeff bezos or whatever, but rather because the fallout of your bloodlust WILL hurt victims you did not intend if you are not careful, and harm reduction should be more important to you than exacting revenge.
you should want the violence to be unnecessary
you should want it to be minimized
if you truly care about things getting better, you should not be excited for the violence
Sharing, as ever, Against the Logic of the Guillotine.
I’ve found no indication in the game that Zelda and Link are roommates actually. There’s only one bed and it’s not exactly made for two and everyone just refers to it as Zelda’s house. It seems like she just sort of took over Link’s house. No wonder he buys a new house from Hudson. He’s probably been couch surfing.
Zelda: Cool you got a house ready for me
Link, who was raised in the royal guard and can’t physically move himself to say no to a princess: …
Zelda: Where have you been staying anyways?
Link: …
Purah: You just let her kick you out?
Link: Well technically I don’t need to sleep so it’s fine.
Purah: What?
Link: …
Purah: I know that look on your face. I won’t experiment on you this time.
Link: Sometimes I don’t sleep for weeks.
Purah: That’s not normal.
Link: …
Purah: I’ll leave you to think about that.
Zelda: You don’t sleep? That’s awful!
Link: Gamers don’t sleep.
Zelda: What did you say?
Link: …
Zelda: Link what did you say?
Link: …
Zelda: I know that you use your selective mutism to get out of situations sometimes.
Link: …
Zelda: *sigh* fine. Let’s just go. We’ve got a meeting later.
I CANT OVEREMPHASIZE
how bad my cat wants to be on the quilt im assembling rn
ZENOBIA, FOR THE LOVE OF FUCK
@lazeecomet suggested:
MY SWEET BABY…
The solution to “the cat is in the way” is almost always to give them a way to mirror you.
obsessed with the way that zopilote machine has no track listing. anywhere. the back of the cd case just says "kid you fell in the milk". the booklet is mostly latin
@catilinas HOLD ON. THATS what that means??? Wait wait please explain
the orphic gold tablets are these 4th century bcs tiny sheets of gold leaf found in burials, inscribed in greek with Mysterious Instructions for navigating the underworld?? becoming immortal?? reincarnation?? unfortunately the texts themselves are all scholars have to go on and they are super cryptic. no-one really knows what's going on with them. but several of them mention the 'kid falling into milk' image. i was thinking of this one (translation by sarah iles johnston):
if you want to know more i recommend the book 'ritual texts for the afterlife: orpheus and the bacchic gold tablets' by fritz graf and sarah iles johnston :-)
@dahniwitchoflight coming at us with some BANGER theories in the comments
'One River North' Colorado that includes a descending nature trail on its façade.
These are renderings, not photos. Current progress looks more like this-
It’s gonna have luxe apartments and shit. Good luck to all involved.
quick tips for creating fantasy language(s) that look believable if you squint
Congrats! You now have a conlang you can dust over your wip like an appropriate amount of glitter. Conlangs can be intimidating, just because there’s so much you can do, but that doesn’t mean you have to do it all. So yeah anyway here’s what I would recommend; hope y'all have fun :D
‘Chalice of Saint John the Evangelist’ by Hans Memling, c. 1470–1475.
Wuh oh!
Better watch out!
Snake in there!!
