Happy Post-Crab Day!
Thank you! Crab Day can have a long tail.
I said it in the tags on another post but I just thought I'd say it here too. I have no idea if Crab Day will actually help tumblr's bottom line. I do know that participating in it makes me feel like I'm part of a community. It makes me feel like I'm contributing. It lessens the horrors with its silliness and makes me feel good.
Even if Crab Day only does that, I think that's reason enough for me. 🦀
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
Is anyone else wondering why there's an accent grave over the e in "killed" in that Wikipedia article title? It's very important to pronounce it with two syllables?
Because GIFS don’t do this justice… ❤️❤️🖖
I am in love with this man’s squeal!!
fucking relatable master yupa
I think it’s really funny to imagine what sisko and garak’s off-screen interactions are like after in the pale moonlight - especially in take me out to the holosuite because I mean who do you think had to sew those baseball uniforms.
and sisko’s of course in the middle of taking the whole thing super seriously because he can’t lose to solok. he storms into garak’s clothiers with this grave, solemn expression on his face, garak thinks he’s about to be asked in non specific terms to kill someone again and is ready to say yes, but sisko just silently hands him a padd with the uniform design (that of course he did himself) and asks garak in a quiet, deep voice, “can you do it?”
Garak asks whether killing Solok is the backup plan.
The way that we learn about Helen Keller in school is an absolute outrage. We read “The Miracle Worker”- the miracle worker referring to her teacher; she’s not even the title character in her own story. The narrative about disabled people that we are comfortable with follows this format- “overcoming” disability. Disabled people as children. Helen Keller as an adult, though? She was a radical socialist, a fierce disability advocate, and a suffragette. There’s no reason she should not be considered a feminist icon, btw, and the fact that she isn’t is pure ableism- while other white feminists of that time were blatent racists, she was speaking out against Woodrew Wilson because of his vehement racism. She supported woman’s suffrage and birth control. She was an anti-war speaker. She was an initial donor to the NAACP. She spoke out about the causes of blindness- often disease caused by poverty and poor working conditions. She was so brave and outspoken that the FBI had a file on her because of all the trouble she caused.
Yet when we talk about her, it’s either the boring, inspiration porn story of her as a child and her heroic teacher, or as the punchline of ableist, misogynistic jokes. It’s not just offensive, it’s downright disgusting.
the reason the story stops once hellen keller learns to talk is no one wanted to listen to what she had to say
how’s that for a fucking punchline
Another part of the story that is often conveniently omitted is that Anne Sullivan, the “miracle worker” in question, was also a visually impaired woman (and abolitionist) who faced her own struggles finding accessible education. That was why she was able to teach Helen Keller and connect her with resources that would allow her to flourish in academia. When Helen Keller was railing against poverty-induced diseases that caused blindness, she was talking about things like trachoma which was what had caused her friend’s vision loss.
The fact that Sullivan is often portrayed as able-bodied in retellings of their story is indicative of the narrative that is most comfortable for an ableist society: that accessibility and equality are gifts bestowed upon the disabled by able-bodied heroes. Disabled children are never taught that they have the power to lift each other up, and that’s a crying shame.
Literally a crime Garak wasn't in Take Me Out to the Holosuite, he and Julian coulda made out in the dugout
i love characters that are just a cunt. no redeeming characteristics. just there to stir shit up and scheme. cause a ruckus. get on everyone's nerves.
Let’s not overlook how it always seems to be black women targeted either.
We need to stop playing on their terms.
They absolutely know the science doesn’t support them. They know there are white women competing that would be disqualified based on the hormones tests, so they selectively apply them. They know it’s inconsistent. It exists as a flimsy excuse to perpetrate systemic transmisogyny, specifically and most often transmisogynoir.
Explaining in detail how bullshit all of this is, is only beneficial to the audience, the systems can’t be reasoned away with logic, they will only end when they’re destroyed
My favourite Wikipedia page of all time is definitely the one of aptronyms - aka, names that suit the person who has them. Here are some gems:
This page also contains a section of IRONIC aptronyms, AKA inaptronyms. Here's a sample
Not to forget
so we all agree that lord of the rings is a musical
you. you get it
[ID: A tumblr comment from paradoxius, reading: Bizarrely, the films aren't but the books are. End ID.]