"Not everything is a poem it needs intent" yeah shut up you bitch.

Maybe accidents are beautiful. Ever think about that, dumbass?

“Not everything is

a poem it needs intent”

yeah shut up you bitch.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

for fuck’s sake—

I have played in LARP games where there was a safe word both to pause the game itself, and to call for help and have it be understood that you meant it out of game, rather than in-game.

I have played in LARP games on city streets where, because real world cries for help would be understood literally by those uninvolved, we had in-game codes for calling for authorities to assist in-game. Those games still had codes for making gameplay itself stop, and making it clear that real life assistance was needed.

ANY time it’s possible plain language might not be heeded or properly understood, having another layer for clarity is a useful idea.

This is pretty common in any kind of improv theater which has what we call "street work," like a Ren Faire. Because you're playing out scenes which may involve emulating distress, you need a way to say "there's a real problem." Thus, the ren faires I've been at use "in faith" and "in sooth."

"In faith, there's trouble brewing between X and Y!" = X and Y are play-fighting and doing a scene!

"In sooth, X and Y are fighting!" = No, really, the actors are really throwing down, help for real!

Anytime situations like this might occur, whether it's in TTRPGs, BDSM, or improv theater, you need ways to say "no, this is real."

The Renaissance Festival I work at has a code word where if a cast member needs to request assistance from another cast member while in front of patrons they ask for Captain Peabody. Captain Peabody is not an actual character at the Faire & just exists as a code word.

Love it!

I really like “in faith” and “in sooth” because they’re not strictly code words that everyone needs to keep straight, they’re just an older way of speaking that obfuscates it for the guests.

In faith: believe the story. *trust me,* friend, the other actors are having a tussle.

In sooth: in reality. *for real this time,* shit is going down.

A pregnant woman has had her baby forcibly removed by caesarean section by social workers.

Essex social services obtained a High Court order against the woman that allowed her to be forcibly sedated and her child to be taken from her womb. The council said it was acting in the best interests of the woman, an Italian who was in Britain on a work trip, because she had suffered a mental breakdown.

If you are not absolutely terrified and outraged by this you are wrong. The precedent this sets put every person on earth in danger.

oh my god read the article this is FUCKING HORRIFIC. she got back on her bipolar disorder medication and is in recovery but they won’t give her her child back “because of the risk she might relapse”. What you’re fucking saying with that is that mentally ill people shouldn’t even be allowed children even if they’re safe and well *just in case*, that we’re a permanent threat to ourselves and others even when we’re in treatment and recovery and living a stable life. I am FUCKING LIVID

Over a fucking panic attack. I’m fucking serious, all of this over a single panic attack. They took her baby in the most horrific way possible because she had a fucking panic attack.

From the Article:

It’s worth noting, that it’s very common for people on psychiatric medication to go off of their meds if they become pregnant, because of risk of side effects. 

I bolded the above. I wanted there to be no one to think that she was being irresponsible for not haven taken her meds regularly. She did it for good reason, for the health of her own baby. And she got punished for it.

i fucking cant

So she did what was best for her kid, has ONE SINGLE PANIC ATTACK WHICH IS A THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO ANYONE WHETHER THEY HAVE A MENTAL ILLNESS OR NOT and decide that they can literally violate her body in a horrific manner and take her kid away. But she’s the dangerous one.

Terribly sad. I hope this gets worked out in her benefit.

I can’t even imagine how terrifyingly awful that situation had to have been. Forcing a woman, against her will, to undergo sedation and then waking up in pain, without the fetus you’ve been carrying for 9 months? That’s beyond the pale. How much do the rights of an unborn fetus circumvent the rights of a full-grown adult? How much do we have to other the mentally ill, treating them (us) as less than human? She was literally treated like a breeding animal, with no cause of concern for her safety, mental health or well-being. Fuck. Fuck.

The British government won’t even hand the baby over to the Italian government. They’re keeping it in a British foster home. THIS WOMAN’S BABY MIGHT NOT EVEN GROW UP SPEAKING HER LANGUAGE IF SHE DOESN’T GET IT BACK.

The entire fucking world should be enraged over this case. What gives them the right???

British child protection services are the absolute worst. There have been horrible cases of children being taken from their parents for the dumbest reasons for years now. This case beats them all, though.

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT FEMALE BODIES ARE STILL TREATED AS PUBLIC PROPERTY

Oh I remember this case

it’s a few years old now

does anyone knows of she ever got her baby back?

Did she get her baby back?

I looked it up and the answer is: no. Her daughter will be 8 next month and was adopted by “good and loving people” and “Pacchieri later told an Italian newspaper she had been left traumatised by the incident, adding: “I want my daughter back. I’m suffering like an animal.”“

Pacchieri is the mom. She was left so traumatized that she gave up. She knows she’ll never get her daughter back and she’s now just trying to get over the trauma. It makes me so freaking mad. The UK always likes to praise itself on how they have great policies but they treat women like absolute garbage and always have.

This woman had ONE panic attack and they took her daughter FROM HER FUCKING WOMB. They said they did that cause there was a risk of her womb rupturing if she had a natural delivery and that she may be uncooperative and let me tell you, anyone would be uncooperative if you were trying to take their baby away.

The news also states “British authorities said they liaised extensively with Pacchieri’s extended family and that adoption was only considered after all other options were exhausted.” which I HIGHLY doubt because no one who takes away a baby from a woman bc she had a panic attack is not trust worthy, especially if that woman is from an ethnic group that isn’t well regarded amongst those who took the baby.

I know I rambled but this just made me so mad.

Thank you for doing the research. This is heartbreaking and I hope the adopters know what they did.

This is horrifying.

And in ADDITION to everything said above:

- c-sections can have major health risks and should only be used when necessary.

- Babies should not be delivered early unless it is medically necessary, as prematurely delivered babies can have additional health problems

So the government put this mom and her baby in MORE danger “just in case.”

UGH.

Pregnant women are treated like absolute shit in the UK, from lack of support for miscarriage to straight up redundancy problems in the workplace when they take maternity leave. This story sickens me but doesn’t surprise me.

I think it needs to be said. This is what you get with state run healthcare. Utterly horrifying.

Yeah, I’ve said before that I know I’m not who the state would choose to live when their beaurocratic incompetence meant they couldn’t run the whole hospital and had to let people die to save money

I much prefer the option to be allowed to look out for myself rather than be required to answer to the state’s budget decisions with my life

Its happened in other places, it’d happen here, and with our bloated government STILL unable to handle the basic tasks it has, I guarantee it’d happen twice as fast

@cyan-opinions is right and she should say it

It’s wack to see my old posts with my old name lmao

And seeing that shitfest of a violation still makes me fucking livid years later. They STOLE that woman’s baby and did something to her that is at least as bad as a violent rape, then discarded her like a used fucking napkin. Because she went off her meds for the health of her child and had a panic attack.

I will reiterate: when the government is in charge of your healthcare, they own your body and will treat you like livestock. If you want state managed healthcare you want the government to treat you like the UK treated this woman and her child. And if you’re not a peak specimen, you’re going to get culled.

Five years ago shit like that would be a conspiracy theory, and then Canada started pushing euthanasia on people that they want to die.

It’s a conspiracy fact now kids

Link doesn’t work. Here’s a new one:

Fricking UK. This is why government needs to be torched.

Here’s the telegraph being awful and calling it an opinion. My big issue shows up with this paragraph

Did Italy not get any say in this since she’s a citizen there, most of the links in the story are dead now so I can find much of anything.

someone: and i’m a virgo, which means i’m way more organized ^__^

me who’s only experience with virgos is that they chainsaw men in half: yeah okay

its like a house of leaves in here

judy hopps is a cop who leverages a strangers felony tax evasion to get him to put his life in danger and work around the clock so that she can keep her job

she then presumably helps him cover up his crime to get him a job on the same police force

judy hopps has some very nice feet but we need to remember that she’s still a cop

just fyi for everyone out there using tumblr on this day that you can reblog a post without the extra commentary by clicking the OP’s URL on the original post

She is a cop and all cops are already unsexy

I’m sorrynotsorry to everyone in the notes just learning that Tumblr is a place for horny furries to blog about acab.

Unfortunately, Judy Hopps is very sexy AND ALSO a cop and therefore a bastard, and insisting that all cops are automatically unsexy is still attaching appearances to morality. Remembering that things can be sexy and evil, or ugly and good is imperative! Forgetting this derails and disrupts the conversation.

when i see pads advertised as for “night use”

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

THANK YOU

somebody please explain

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

Instagram and TikTok have successfully created the Torment Nexus from Jim Carrey's iconic work, "Don't put people in the Torment Nexus"

Been thinking a lot about reading and getting information from text recently as someone with ADHD so I'm curious

I hate to say reblog to increase sample size but my following is pretty small and I'd like to get actual input on this, so if you wanna toss a reblog after you answer that'd be much appreciated <3

hhhrk. gggrrrg. *changes several core aspects of your personality when you’re not looking*

wierd little girls who grow up to be weird trans men, and weird little boys who grow up to be weird trans women, and weird little kids who grow up to be weird nonbinary adults

This guy lasted 6 years doing this

And inspired others

Looks like he's still going too, I'd call this a win for charity over whatever the marxists are doing

"Lack of generational wealth/seed capital from ethically bankrupt sources"

So...is he saying that his communist business needed to be subsidized by capitalists in order to survive?

Hmm.

I heard Jon Bon Jovi has a restaurant like this too where you can buy food for others or work in the restaurant for like an hour to buy your meal.

Soul Kitchen

He does pay what you can and takes donations fo food for others too I think.

Also fills in as a dishwasher.

Now to see if Whalburgers will join in.

That's pretty cool. Honestly as awful as the coffee shop people sound I wish it had worked out for them. They at least tried to do some good for the community. Unlike a lot of filthy commies who expect the government to do it all for them they actually put their money where their mouth was. It's dumb that they blamed capitalism for their failure, but I gotta give them credit for making the effort.

Coffee shop only did pay what you can for the drip coffee, had to be all kinds of poor management going on if you can't sustain that.

Reading the quotes from the dude I imagine he managed to piss off a lot of people by giving them dirty looks because they took him at his word and only gave a quarter for their coffee while using ipay.

academic publishing explained

A) this is hilarious and kids are fucking incredible comedians with devastatingly frank takedowns of adult nonsense

B) for people in the tags, I am absolutely certain it’s not “I sell paper”!!! It’s “hice el paper” = “I made/did the paper”

Everyone may *think* they hate country music, but when Jolene, Before He Cheats, Take Me Home Country Roads, or Life is a Highway comes on, everyone is suddenly a liar.

I know this is a funny post but

There are a few major points in Country Music’s history that got the entire genre labeled as ‘annoying’

Now looking at the songs op listed there is

But it is easier to say that one hates country while privately enjoying select songs than explain why one doesn’t like the current market oversaturated with our nation’s problems of nationalism, sexism, and so on

see also jhonny cash/willie nelson era songs which were deeply emotional stories often about painful and deep subjects. prison, loss of loved ones, hard labor, facing despair, passion. ‘ghost riders in the sky’ and the like are also deeply satisfying as they bridge more into folklore then ‘murica fuck yeah im sponsored by bud light yall’ another example- ‘midnight in montgomery’ where hank williams junior sings about the ghost of his father

“ … And felt the wind die down, And a drunk man in a cowboy hat, Took me by surprise, Wearin’ shiny boots, a nudie suit, and haunted, haunted eyes, He said: “Friend, it’s good to see you, It’s nice to know you care” Then the wind picked up and he was gone, Was he ever really there? ‘Cause when the wind is right, You’ll hear his song, Smell whisky in the air, Midnight in Montgomery, He’s always singin’ there, “ the reason we ‘hate country’ is because we know its supposed to have FEELING and its infuriatingly absent now

70s country - bluegrass traditional

80s country - power ballads

90s country - pop crossover

00s country - white supremacy

it’s about the folkloric story-telling tradition of oppressed poor folks vs marketable capitalistic ass-kissing.

Yes. So much yes. See Dolly Parton and Wille Nelson and Johnny Cash sing about something real and they mean it and they are amazing. Modern country with some rare exceptions doesn’t start with something meaningful to say, it analyzes the market trends to figures out what will sell and then they do that. That or it just plain caters to white nationalists.

But there’s some damn good country out there. It’s just crowded out by utter garbage written and performed by sell-outs.

Can confirm.

“Curses” by The Crane Wives is a great song, and I legitimately have trouble singing along to it because I choke up at a couple lines.

…though I do tend to listen to it at 125% speed.

Oh I love that song!

Colter Wall and Corb Lund also understand the assignment! Dig Gravedigger Dig; Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier; The Devil Wears a Suit and Tie; Sleeping on the Blacktop: all bangers. Even Poor Man’s Poison, who got really popular for a minute via memes, consistently puts out good songs because they mean something!

I have new music added to playlists now

I would like to add a recommendation for my close personal friend and amazing musician, the First Lady of Queer Country, Cindy Emch aka the Secret Emchy Society.

Let’s not forget the OG punk

Woody Guthrie

The actual story of the conception of Adonis is super messed up. Idk why the Greeks made a habit out of making their minor gods be conceived like that. Like they knew certain things were gross.

Feels like a bunch of dudes were sitting around telling each other “Hey you know what would be gross?” and then it got written down

So this one city used to be super into Aphrodite but then over time they started to get super into Dionysus instead because who doesn’t like getting high and dismembering cows

Aphrodite does not take this well. What a shock. So how does she decide to take revenge?

She makes the princess. Fall in lust with her own father. To get revenge on the whole city. I guess.

So the princess goes into her dad’s bedroom in the dark and. Yeah. And the king thinks it’s a slave or servant girl coming in to do the thing with him in the dark. And she never identifies herself when she comes in so he starts asking around if anybody knows which servant girl is coming into his bedroom at night.

The princess, understandably once Aphrodite’s gross love spell wears off, is super ashamed. She’s so ashamed in fact that she runs off into the woods and turns into a tree.

And nine months later the tree that was formally the princess cracks open and a baby falls out. And Aphrodite named him Adonis and takes him to Persephone.

And then later Aphrodite makes Adonis her boy toy and Ares kills him with a boar. And then he got a really popular cult and he might’ve also been the Mesopotamian god Tammuz.

The end.

So anyways would that be messed up or what

What do you mean killing isn't an act of devotion

they call it committing murder because it's a commitment. it's a more serious commitment than marriage