"its so sad that everyone who knew how to do film lighting or cinematography died in 2017" 🚨WRONG🚨 They are working on canadian government funded yaoi

Tragedy alignment chart. Feel free to use, but please reblog if you do.

And of course the second part of the tragedy, which is: which quadrant did you think you were in vs. which one you were really in

Shane being like for the next two weeks I’m begging you to just tell me what you’re thinking this is my two weeks off a year I am not spending it trying to read social cues I am exhausted

my mom, discussing furries with me: but I don’t get all the cats and dogs, why wouldn’t you want to be a sexy animal? like a kangaroo

me: mama what the hell does that mean

my mom: so muscular

”This portrayal of a marginalized group was wrong then and is wrong now” and “This portrayal of a marginalized group was very progressive for the time period and paved the way for more representation while likely limited by factors outside of the creator’s control” are two statements that can and should ABSOLUTELY coexist and be kept in mind when interacting with older media

#this is what an extermination camp looks like while its operating

I love the amount of hatred the 2021 car is drawn with. because I agree

just when i thought i was calming down about this show, i find out shane was protecting his man from the wolf bird in actual fluent bird

saw a radfem post about how there's no female version of emasculation. bestie yes there is

"masculinity is empowering and dominant and femininity is degrading and restrictive. there's no humiliating way of being stripped of chains" i want you to look women of color & disabled women in the eyes and tell them this. that there is no humiliating way to be stripped of your womanhood.

people are reblogging this again so I wanna add that on top of women of color and disabled women you can also just talk to trans men&mascs and nonbinary and intersex people raised female about this.

it's very funny to me whenever people who insist they are the final voice for Trve Feminism and have such an accurate understanding of misogyny, also completely ignore how much the cover-up of the violent policing of failed womanhood plays a role in patriarchy. babe stop believing everything the patriarchy says!!!!! IT IS LYING TO US CONSTANTLY!!!!!!!!

lots of good talk in the notes of different ways different groups are affected by this (lets call it unwomaning, but feel free to workshop lol). but! i want to prompt us to go a little deeper. clearly, this does happen, and it happens to a lot of different people. so how can people - and not just any people, but feminists - claim it doesn't? why does nearly everyone understand the concept of emasculation, but unwomaning is a non-topic?

ill talk about my own ideas later, but i wanna hear yall discuss this!

#important to add here that not just transmascs or trans people 'born women' are effected by this#trans women are too#constantly#and they also deserve to be in this conversation

yes! very true!

thats also part of why its important to talk about why this happens and what purpose it serves in feminism. all trans people (& intersex people for that matter) have unique relationships with different gender-spheres and are affected by the social processes of emasculation and dewomaning in different ways. exploring what role these social tools play in patriarchy connects us back to what role transphobia (in all its forms) plays as well, & why these forces exist.

#ooh im thinking about that last part and how it relates to transmisogyny#like most patriarchal oppression its always an endless feedback loop of imposed gender and being stripped of gender#obv so much of transmisogyny is about how 'men' need to fight for their manhood#and because transfems refuse to participate in that they are the shining example of a 'failed man'#but when they assert their womanhood... because it's transgressive there's no way for it to be natural and effortless!#trans women are unwomaned! obviously!#just like how trans men are emasculated! our manhood is transgressive and no amount of fighting for it will make it not be transgressive by @tr1ppykay

another really good observation. trans people Do Gender On Purpose but also in ways which fundamentally break the rules for who is allowed to do what gender. trans women's womanhood is always too purposeful, too self-aware, too thoughtful about what it means to be a woman instead of passively swallowing whatever lies the patriarchy spoons into people's mouths. it reminds people that womanhood is more than something seen but not heard, something that can self-directed and expansive. trans men are seen as the biological opposite of true manhood, and yet they insist on their manhood anyways, fully aware that the world doesn't believe they've "earned" it or that they ever can, and showing that men can simply refuse to play the game, that manhood can be something you just let yourself relax into instead of something you need to fight for every scrap of.

Oh you're writing a gay smut fic with a fantasy setting? Don't forget to give one of your characters a

It’s not that mysterious though.

Anyone carrying a bladed weapon carried oil. (More on that in a sec) Oil is what you use to clean and condition steel, especially, since water will rust it.

Many people in the Middle Ages used scented oils for their skin and hair from noblemen to lowly serfs.

Oil was incredibly abundant and quite cheap. The TYPE of oil however does matter in this.

Sheep oil (rendered from their fat) was very common and used for all manner of things from making soap to treating skin conditions. Rendered sheep fat has a very light texture and is a decent carrier oil without too pungent of a scent. Unfortunately it did rancid fast so it was common to add lots of herbs to it to help preserve it, especially rosemary, borage, marjoram and citron peels. This is how it became a common “perfume” oil used to scent hair skin or clothes. Nearly anyone would have had this handy somewhere.

Rendered pork oil was very common too and was most popular as a cooking oil.

Vegetable oil made from walnuts, almonds and flax seed was by far the most common non-animal oil. Nearly anybody had a bottle of almond or walnut oil in their pantry or on their person. These were by far the most popular oils used for conditioning steel, with walnut oil preferred because its tannins also gave armor a patina that kept it better. Only the absurdly wealthy ever wore polished armor. Everyone else blackened it to make it keep better. Walnut oil is good at doing that.

Walnut oil also works well as a lubricant. People back then DID use sexual lube by the way. No prostitute would be caught dead without it. Their favorite types were walnut and olive oil, though almond oil might be used in a pinch. They also used watered down acacia gum in southern Europe, which was sticky but slick and easy to re-wet.

Olive oil though was THE oil in Europe. It was expensive, comparatively, but obviously people considered it well worth its cost because it was found everywhere south of the Seine and frequently seen in even minor lordly houses or knights quarters much farther north. Considering quite a few people of the time thought it had aphrodisiac qualities when applied as certain way (likely because raw olive oil has a warming effect) I think you can imagine the most common reason it was sought after by men in particular.

Olive oil was also used in medicine and just about any church had some floating around somewhere because it’s conveniently good at treating minor infections and is wonderful for toothaches.

So the mysterious vial of oil isn’t at all mysterious and even if he were carrying it around with the sole intention of using it for sex, that wouldn’t actually be that strange either.

lol i litereally stopped reading right before one of his most important quotes. including it with a lot of added context because i always see that quote on its own without the rest of the conversation which is really fascinating.

recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.

hey. we're all remembering to center fat people's experiences in the fat liberation movement, right? we're not just using the work to feel better about ourselves, right? we're all listening to people in fat bodies and doing the- hey. hey c'mere, get back here.

hey quick PSA but “reading before bed to wind down” only works if you’re normal about books btw. if you aren’t you are going to end up awake at 2:52am after finishing the whole book just trust me on this one

what you learn from hobbies:

The Baltimore Sun, Maryland, January 1, 1921

people talk about how we need to bring back "don't feed the trolls" rhetoric for modern internet ragebait and I agree but also I think the most useful thing from the Old Internet that I miss is LURKING

be a lurker. just read things and think about them without feeling the need to weigh in or call out or disseminate everything you encounter. it's so nice and so freeing and it's a good way to learn things.

I have frequently regretted getting involved in shit that didn't involve me online but you know what I've never regretted doing? Lurking. literally lurk moar