is there anything better than two morally shady ladies being partners
Okay, I really don’t engage with SPN much anymore after the trash way they treated the aftermath of Cas’ coming out (that fake out/w Lucifer was completely unacceptable) but I just saw the new spin-off trailer and I’m just...
How is this not racist, sexist, and homophobic? Especially in light of how they immediately buried their gays the second Cas came out to Dean.
Two (2) spin-off pilots aired, During the show’s run, and neither got off the ground. Those spin-offs starred POC, women of all shapes, sizes, and ages, and Sapphics!! And while Bloodlines was really not good, Wayward Sisters was actually solid, but was still passed on in favor of a reboot and a spin-off of a spin-off bc “the story wasn’t there” and NOW!!!! Now two years after the show’s end, they’ve picked up a spin-off retconning the story of how John and Mary met, thus necessitating that the main characters be a Cishet White man and woman.
Explain to me how that’s not completely f*cked.
big fan of platonic expressions of devotion actually. yeah we're best friends of course i'd find you and hang out with you in every universe.
Wow wtf HIV/AIDS was discovered by Flossie Wong-Staal, an Chinese-American woman, and she’s the reason the HIV test even exists. AND THEN she invented the molecular knife that lead to treatments for HIV/AIDS. And she’s STILL ALIVE. We don’t hear about the contributions of Women of Color enough, my word. Madness.
I will always maintain the headcanon that Sirius (much like Toph) knew all of this stuff about being formal. He just didn’t care for it. Because Orion and Walburga were the type to educate their sons to act rich and proper etc. And I love thinking about the moments where he DOES show this knowledge.
The Marauders are at a ball and everyone’s expecting Sirius to do some sort of crazy dance but he turns out to be a fantastic ballroom dancer.
He reveals overtime that he is fluent in French and Latin and knows his way around a few other languages.
“Peter, you cultured potato, that’s a salad fork! Not the dinner fork!”
He would know exactly how to dress.
He would know exactly how to schmooze (hence how he could charm anyone).
He would know all of these fancy meals and recipes.
He’d know which wines were the best and which ones were bloody awful.
The same goes for gold and silver objects (he’d be able to casually tell the difference between real gold/silver and fake items.)
He would know how to duel.
I just have so many headcanons about Sirius showing that he actually knows how to be formal and proper and dapper and is quite good at it. He just usually doesn’t like doing it.
‘Sirius,’ said Mundungus, who did not appear to have paid any attention to the conversation, but had been closely examining an empty goblet. 'This solid silver, mate?’
'Yes,’ said Sirius, surveying it with distaste. 'Finest fifteenth-century goblin-wrought silver, embossed with the Black family crest.’
Sirius was a total closet snob, it’s practically canon :P.
as much as i enjoy those ‘marauder handwriting’ posts (and i do, a lot) i have an issue with Sirius’ handwriting always being a messy scrawl like
this kid grew up in one of the most prestigious wizarding households ever, you think he wouldn’t write in cursive? Sirius Black’s handwriting is the most pretentiously elegant handwriting. flourishes everywhere. i bet he even does those extra little curls to embellish his capital letters.
Good news: if you’re currently laying around and not producing anything, you are a credit to your species.
I’m an ant biologist and I’d like to point out that ants also spend a significant percentage of the time doing nothing.
Turns out sometimes the most evolutionary useful thing you can do is chill and not wear yourself to shreds, whether mammal or insect. It helps you deal with emergencies and adapt to change. Plus, you can act as living food storage!
That last part is probably more an ant thing than a human thing, but hey, live your dreams.
it’s also a bear thing, which absolutely explains me
Doing absolutely fuck-all is how antarctic sea sponges live to be over 10,000 years old, so live your best, longest, laziest life.
Remember lions? Fellow apex predators?
Yeah, they spend 16-20 hours of the day laying around, socializing, raising Cubs and napping.
The last 4-8 hours are spent hunting.
Wait wait, they’re not a primate so they don’t count.
How about Orangutans?
Well, they spend 90% of their time awake just hanging out in food-rich areas, eating fruit and leaves, socializing, raising children, and chilling.
Well, they’re not people so it doesn’t-
How about Stone Age people in Europe?
They probably worked 3-5 hours per day, every day. (Though seasonal changes in food scarcity could change that)
Laborers in ancient Egypt worked 8 hours, with an hour break at lunch. They did this for 8 days, then rested 2 days. That sounds familiar. Except… they also had regular time off for festivals and holidays, and only worked for about 18 out of every 50 days.
Artisans in imperial Rome generally worked from 6am to Noon, and then had the rest of the day off… and only worked for half the year, due to all the holidays and festivals they got off.
But that’s too easy, what about a Peasant in medieval England?
6-8 hours per day, with Sundays off, Farm workers put in longer hours at harvest time but worked shorter days in winter when there are fewer hours of daylight. Economist Juliet Schor estimates that in the period following the Plague they worked no more than 150 days a year, due to the long holidays and many festivals.
Ugh, let’s go poorer. 17th century France. Starvation was afoot for the working poor!
During the reign of King Louis XIV, the workers of France had it tough, and hunger for the poorest was a fact of life. The typical working day was as much as 12 hours long, but two hours were set aside midday for lunch and perhaps an afternoon nap. Nevertheless, the Ancient Régime is said to have also guaranteed peasants, labourers and other workers a total of 52 Sundays, 90 rest days and 38 religious holidays off per year, meaning they worked just 185 out of 365 days.
So what changed?
The industrial revolution, baybe~~
New factory owners could work their employees to the bone due to a lack of regulation and abundance of cheap labour.
The typical factory worker in mid 19th-century England toiled away for a soul-destroying 16 hours a day, six days a week, 311 days per year!
THAT nightmare became the standard by which western society began to judge “work-life balance” and anything gentler than the industrial factory’s unfettered brutality is considered “softness”
(So many people died being mangled in those machines. Hair handkerchiefs went into style during American industrialization because working women would otherwise get their hair caught in the machines, and be either scalped or be bodily pulled inside to die…. But that’s a horror for another time)
Americans in 2020 worked an average of 8.5 hours per day on weekdays, plus another 5 hours on weekends.
Taking out federal holidays and weekends, we work 262 days per year. Most of us get 5-9 sick days to take per year. (Yes, a fixed number, no matter how sick you really are), and usually either no paid vacation, or 7-15 days paid vacation, depending on seniority and the company. Unpaid vacation doesn’t have a max, but taking it often risks you getting fired.
Even comparing against the poorest laborers in ancient history the current working structure for humans is, frankly, inhumane.
We are mammals. Let us rest. Let us celebrate holidays and attend festivals. Let us attend to our homes and families.
Even the ultra wealthy folks who got their heads chopped off gave us more time off than this!!!
Someone in the comments said something like “humans are instinctively industrious and productive, as social creatures!”
Buddy, that’s a lie fed to you by capitalism.
In our default state, we attend to our families yes, but we also party like hell, lounge around, and make fantastic works of art just to be proud of ourselves. We made beautiful things for the joy of creating them.
Stone Age humans may have spent a couple hours hunting and gathering, but DEFINITELY spent loads of time painting every available surface. Time and weather washed most of it away, but some places like Arizona and Colorado still preserve a few of the endless murals made by ancient hands.
Evidence shows that the ancient world was COVERED in paintings and etchings - just saturated with images of birds and beasts and humans, sunsets and cool weather. We invented mythologies and painted about them. We did something impressive, and painted about it. We taught our children how to paint and lifted them into our shoulders so they could mark the ceiling.
In our most base state, humans will work enough to survive, but our instincts demand we use all other time to create art. We want to communicate. To make connections.
“Working” or “being productive” is not on that list.
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On the topic of feeding your friends it's crazy to me how bad people are at accommodating their friends who have allergies.
I don't have any allergies but I have a friend who's allergic to both gluten and eggs and it makes me sad to see how surprised they get when I offer to bring snacks they can have to an event we're going to, or when I invited them over for dinner. And just how they're already prepared to not be accommodated and will preemptively say it's okay to not make food for them when it's actually not that hard to work around their allergies.
And I have another friend who is allergic to onions (except for garlic) and we became friends because they'd never had ranch and my partner made them a thing of ranch without onion powder in it. Like even coming from a culinary background that is so based in onions my family has a running joke about it I'm able to modify recipes to just not have onions in it.
Idk it just makes me sad to see people who are so used to being told their allergies are a problem that they are genuinely surprised and happy when people are able and willing to accommodate them, even when accommodating them is not that difficult. If you don't have allergies but you have friends that do just accommodate for them and don't make a big deal out of it because people don't deserve to feel like an inconvenience because of dietary restrictions they have no control over
Disability pride month
July is Disability Pride Month. The first Disability Pride started in Boston, MA in 1990 but it has since become an international celebration. The aim of Disability Pride is described by the founders of Disability Pride NYC to “promote inclusion, awareness, and visibility of people with disabilities, and redefine public perception of disability”.
The disability pride flag
The Disability Pride flag has some very interesting symbolism interpreted by the artist which include:
The Black Field: this field is to represent the disabled people who have lost their lives due to not only their illness, but also negligence, suicide, and eugenics.
The Lightning Bolt: the shape of the lightning bold represent the non-lateral lives that many disabled people live, often having to adapt themselves or their physical routes to get around an inaccessible society.
The Colours: each colour on this flag represents a different aspect of disability or impairment:
Blue: mental illness
Yellow: cognitive and intellectual disabilities
Green: sensory perception disabilities
Red: physical disabilities
The white stripe stands for invisible and undiagnosed disabilities. So even if you are struggling to get a diagnosis or worry your lack of diagnosis means you don’t belong, you absolutely do.
You are part of our history, our community and our fight.
Happy Disability Pride Month.
Loki: Dear Santa.
Loki: I’m writing to let you know. I’ve been naughty.
Loki: And it was worth it, you judgemental bastard.