dragon age inquisition trying to tell you that the circle mages suck too because they don’t care about the tranquil and left them behind or didn’t look after them when they rebelled, and also saying that the rebellion was triggered by them finding out they could reverse tranquillity. make it make sense. who were they planning to cure then?? are you stupid??
The manga timestamps Honda leaving his castle room at midnight and then cuts to Atem monologue-ing and when it returns to Honda the next chapter it timestamps him again but at 2am. This implies Honda spent two entire straight hours wandering around Pegasus's house in the dark accomplishing nothing before he managed to find the basement where they were keeping Mokuba.
ALT
In the past fifty years, fantasy’s greatest sin might be its creation of a bland, invariant, faux-Medieval European backdrop. The problem isn’t that every fantasy novel is set in the same place: pick a given book, and it probably deviates somehow. The problem is that the texture of this place gets everywhere.
What’s texture, specifically? Exactly what Elliot says: material culture. Social space. The textiles people use, the jobs they perform, the crops they harvest, the seasons they expect, even the way they construct their names. Fantasy writing doesn’t usually care much about these details, because it doesn’t usually care much about the little people – laborers, full-time mothers, sharecroppers, so on. (The last two books of Earthsea represent LeGuin’s remarkable attack on this tendency in her own writing.) So the fantasy writer defaults – fills in the tough details with the easiest available solution, and moves back to the world-saving, vengeance-seeking, intrigue-knotting narrative. Availability heuristics kick in, and we get another world of feudal serfs hunting deer and eating grains, of Western name constructions and Western social assumptions. (Husband and wife is not the universal historical norm for family structure, for instance.)
Defaulting is the root of a great many evils. Defaulting happens when we don’t think too much about something we write – a character description, a gender dynamic, a textile on display, the weave of the rug. Absent much thought, automaticity, the brain’s subsconscious autopilot, invokes the easiest available prototype – in the case of a gender dynamic, dad will read the paper, and mom will cut the protagonist’s hair. Or, in the case of worldbuilding, we default to the bland fantasy backdrop we know, and thereby reinforce it. It’s not done out of malice, but it’s still done.
The only way to fight this is by thinking about the little stuff. So: I was quite wrong. You do need to worldbuild pretty hard. Worldbuild against the grain, and worldbuild to challenge. Think about the little stuff. You don’t need to position every rain shadow and align every tectonic plate before you start your short story. But you do need to build a base of historical information that disrupts and overturns your implicit assumptions about how societies ‘ordinarily’ work, what they ‘ordinarily’ eat, who they ‘ordinarily’ sleep with. Remember that your slice of life experience is deeply atypical and selective, filtered through a particular culture with particular norms. If you stick to your easy automatic tendencies, you’ll produce sexist, racist writing – because our culture still has sexist, racist tendencies, tendencies we internalize, tendencies we can now even measure and quantify in a laboratory. And you’ll produce narrow writing, writing that generalizes a particular historical moment, its flavors and tongues, to a fantasy world that should be much broader and more varied. Don’t assume that the world you see around you, its structures and systems, is inevitable.
arguing with a "the bible is all fake" person is so exhausting. "book of fairy tales!!!" well yeah it's the oral tradition passed down to us by our ancestors with the goal of teaching our children life lessons about how to live in the world. like every folktale. including fairy tales. "b b but its not true!!!!" yeah i know thats why i go to shul early on saturday mornings for torah study to sit down with my community and see what truths we can find in our traditional stories. "but somebody made it up!!!!!!" yeah, our ancestors did, to teach us how to live by our culture's laws and values. "but it didn't happen!!!!!!!!!!" no but what did happen is our ancestors cherished and protected and passed along these stories because the lessons they teach are so important to our culture so if you'd step aside please i'd like to continue studying what my predecessors worked so hard for me to have
op you must be fully aware that such arguments are not directed towards you and entirely directed towards young earth creationists and other biblical literalists who consistently shove their religion down others throats, usually from positions of power (notably, at the moment, whatever the fuck the US gov't has going on) and uses it to suppress the spread of science and to boost the voices of people spreading pseudoscience and hate? you must be aware of this. come on.
i made this post in response to a "bible's all fake" atheist arguing with me and another person on another one of my posts. how is it not directed towards me and "entirely" towards young earth creationists when i am not a young earth creationist and it was directed at me
due to the loud minority effect, most will see a christian who does not immediately disassociate themselves with YEC/biblical literalist beliefs and assume that they adhere to such beliefs. if your fellow christians behaved with a little more humanity, stopped going out of their way to cause harm to others, this wouldnt happen.
lots of people- especially on tumblr, a hub for queer people -have been hurt more than you can imagine by christianity.
OP is a Jew not an Xtian. I am also a Jew not an Xtian.
You, reblogger, wrongly assumed that OP and other people who agree with OP (e.g. me) aren’t not queer or hurt by Xtianity either (in the past or present). You wrongly assume that OP or myself haven’t talked about Xtianity’s harm: we have, extensively. I have an entire tag: Catholicism is not a joyride (which focuses on Catholicism but ultimately incorporated other critique towards Xtianity too) as well as supercessionism.
We’re not talking about Xtianity. We’re talking about Judaism and the Tanakh. At least since Maimonides and possibly even before, many Jews interpreted the Tanakh allegorically (not everyone but Judaism doesn’t seek converts). These arguments are absolutely directed towards OP when people explicitly go onto a Jewish post and make these comments rather than going to the Biblical literalist posts.
On an institutional level, Xtianity appropriated the Tanakh (ie the Bible) made specifically for the Jews, made an unauthorized sequel and shuffled the Tanakh to cherry-pick support for their doctrine, and then shoved it down many people’s throats to the harm of many.
- It is cultural Xtianity to assume that Young Earth Creationists/Bible literalists are the norm in Judaism.
- It is culturally Xtian to assume that people traumatized by Xtianity cannot find another religion that interprets “the Bible” in a way more compatible for them. You are assuming the only options for the Bible are Xtianity or nothing.
- It is culturally Xtian to use an explicitly Jewish post talking about Judaism and Xtian appropriation as a scapegoat for trauma caused by Xtianity.
OP literally mentioned studying Torah in shul and the scriptures being written by their ancestors. If those aren’t very clear indication that OP is Jewish and disassociated from Christianity (and thus Christian fundamentalism), I don’t know what is.
But Jews should not have to be constantly performing active disassociation from an entirely different religion that took and reworked Jewish scriptures for their own ends and whose adherents have killed and oppressed and owned Jews for hundreds of years just to practice their religion in peace and avoid being held liable and attacked for the harm that came from that different religion and they themselves have been harmed by.
MDZS zodiac signs!
I know they have canonical birthdays but I went rogue with Jiang Cheng and Jin Guangyao bc I thought these suited them better 🙂↕️
“you can’t hate ICE agents for wanting a fat paycheck” ah yes. people who are willing to disregard all morals for cash. congratulations you played right into their hands you uneducated piece of shit
you couldn’t pay me an amount even feasible to do this evil shit. you are lower than dirt
This. You can and should judge people for working for ICE, they're people who willingly signed up for an American secret police force that's violating the rights of people constantly in order to act as enforcers of a fascist government.
Basically everyone is not an ICE agent. Like, virtually all of us, the entire population, are not ICE agents. No matter how steep our bills are, very nearly every single American is not an ICE agent.
We can, and should, judge them forever. It should be the sort of thing their grandkids are ashamed to discover. The sort of thing that hamstrings a career forever. "What were you doing in 2025-26? Oh, you were with ICE? Thank you for your time, get out right now."
They should all be judged and shunned for the rest of their lives.
hey please be careful with 3d printed whistles. they can be cool and useful but the gaps from layer lines and stuff can allow spit to get trapped and build up and breed harmful bacteria. you really shouldn't be using these more than once, and throw them away when you've used them (preferably, you should recycle them). hot water can help clean them if you're super worried but ideally you should be using injection molded plastic whistles.
Thanks for thinking about safety! Hopefully it won't surprise you to know that we thought about this, and we definitely advise that everybody wash anything that they put in their mouths repeatedly, whether it's a fork or a whistle.
The above links to a peer-reviewed paper published by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and given at an IEEE conference.
tl;dr: with the same kind of washing with soap and water that you would use on any other utensil or item you would put into your mouth, these whistles will retain no more bacteria than any other plastic item, and certainly less than the cutting board you've owned for 10 years. They do not retain more bacteria than injection-molded items.
Anywhere bacteria can get, soapy water can get, too, and if you're concerned about biofilm, you can use baking soda or steritabs (the kind used by food service, which we keep at home to clean our water bottle caps and straws) for extra safety.
Reasonable caution is always warranted, but these items are safe for regular use as long as they are cleaned as you would any item you put in your mouth over and over.
Thank you for this opportunity to set people's minds at ease with science!
Don't forget, kinderlach:
Most forms of 3D printer filament are heat-safe up to or over 100 degrees Celsius.
Which means they can be boiled.
If you're worried you can't get to every area or you're disabled in a way that makes small items difficult (I see you, my peeps with Parkinson's/arthritis/CP/EDS), you can throw that sucker in a pan of boiling water for three minutes. Fish it out with a fork and it'll be hot enough to dry completely by evaporation in just a minute or two, and it'll also be sterilized.
@nerdykeppie I don't know what kind of filament you use, so it may be worth test-boiling one of the whistles to make sure I'm not advising everyone to melt their safety tool, but this is what I do with stuff like metal straws and it works great.
Please don't boil these whistles. They will melt. The glass transition temperature for this filament is 85°C. If you wish to be extra careful about bacteria on these whistles, please use the information laid out in our previous response on this post. While cleaning with soap and hot water as you would clean your dishes should be sufficient—and if you don't have particularly nimble fingers, putting a few drops of soap in a jar with hot water, closing it securely, and shaking the shit out of it will do the trick very nicely—Steramine sanitizing tablets are an appropriate additional line of defense. This is the tool used in food service for sanitizing all food prep surfaces and dishware, and is what Spider has previously posted about using to regularly sanitize his water bottles and lids.
The linked bottle will allow you to sanitize whatever can soak in a gallon of hot water once a week for almost 3 years at a cost of $.092 per week. Your whistles and water bottle lids plus any other important items should fit in a gallon of water, and $.092 per week should be an accessible price point for the vast majority of people.
Use whatever source you prefer for them; I'm linking Amazon for ease of explanation.
You can also rinse with baking soda in water and then clean water if concerned about biofilm.
We use PETG filament for these whistles; this is the generally recommended filament type for food contact. Other filament types are either just slightly more liable to harbor bacteria or contain styrene and are thus not recommended for putting in your mouth.
Here is a link to the safety information for the company whose filaments we use for this project:
Q: Do your pigments contain heavy metals such as lead and other toxic products?
A: All of our pigments come from a major US color lab, they are non toxic & ROHS compliant. While our raw PETG and PLA resin is approved for food contact , we are not a FDA approved facility nor is the final filament product FDA approved.
To address one of the other common scare "facts" which we have seen: no, you will not get measurable amounts of lead in you from the brass nozzles used on 3D printers. You get more lead on and in you by picking up a brass key once than you could ever get by using a 3D whistle a hundred times.
EDIT: @apocalycious has supplied the additional information that all of the nozzles on her machines are steel or tungsten carbide anyway so the lead is literally zero.
tl;dr: Do not boil these whistles. Wash with soap and water & soak in hot water with steramine tabs or baking soda followed by a clean water rinse if very concerned.
[Hanfu · 漢服] China Ming Dynasty (1368–1644)Traditional Clothing Hanfu Photoshoots
Everyday Court Attire of the Ming Empress: The Yanju Crown and Garment (燕居冠服) and Its Symbolism
The everyday attire of empresses in the Ming dynasty of China was also known as Yanju Crown and Garment（燕居冠服）. Its function ranked only second to formal ceremonial dress and it was used for various ritual occasions. For example, after an empress was officially invested, once she completed the thanksgiving rites in full ceremonial dress, she would return to the palace, change into the Yanju Crown and Garment（燕居冠服）, and then receive congratulatory greetings from her inner-family relatives, as well as from the Six Offices female officials (六尚女官) and the eunuchs of the various supervisory directorates (各监局内使).
The Double-Phoenix Supporting Dragon Crown（双凤翊龙冠） was the Yanju crown of the empress （燕居冠）. The Collected Statutes of the Ming Dynasty (《明会典》) provides a detailed description of its form:
“The Double-Phoenix Supporting Dragon Crown （双凤翊龙冠） was made of black gauze （皂縠）, adorned with kingfisher-feather Boshan ornaments （翠博山）. On the crown was one golden dragon （金龙）, flanked by two pearl-and-kingfisher phoenixes （珠翠凤）, each holding pearl pendants （珠滴） in their beaks.
At the front and back were two pearl peony flowers （珠牡丹花）, each with eight stamens （蕊头八个）, thirty-six kingfisher leaves （翠叶三十六叶）, and two side ornaments inlaid with pearls and kingfisher feathers （珠翠穰/镶花鬓）.
There were twenty-one pearl-and-kingfisher cloud motifs （珠翠云二十一片）, one pair of kingfisher mouth rings （翠口圈）, and nine golden treasure floral ornaments （金宝钿花九）, each set with one pearl （上饰珠九颗）.
A pair of golden phoenixes （金凤一对） held pearl knots （珠结） in their beaks. There were six Boshan side panels （三博鬓，左右共六扇）, decorated with luan and phoenix motifs （鸾凤）, twenty-four golden treasure ornaments （金宝钿二十四）, with pearl pendants hanging from the edges （边垂珠滴）.
The crown was also fitted with one pair of golden hairpins （金簪一对） and one pair of coral phoenix beaks （珊瑚凤冠觜/嘴一副）.”
As everyday attire, the Yanju crown （燕居冠） was worn together with the everyday robe （常服大衫） and the ceremonial cape （霞帔）.
As shown in the images above many China Ming dynasty empresses are depicted wearing the Yanju crown （燕居冠） while dressed in bright yellow or nearly orange colours robes reflecting a standardized and recognizable visual representation of empressly attire during the Ming dynasty.Although the Yanju crowns worn by each empress differ in their specific details, this variation reflects the fact that each crown was individually crafted by artisans for a particular empress, and, following the empress's death, was required to be buried together with her as part of the burial goods.
There are also extant crowns excavated from Ming dynasty imperial tombs. Among them below crown belonging to Empress Xiaoduan (孝端皇后), unearthed from a Ming imperial mausoleum, as shown in the following images
Unearthed in 1957 from the Dingling Mausoleum of the Ming Thirteen Tombs in Changping District, Beijing （1957年北京市昌平区明十三陵定陵出土）.
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I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?
- Supernatural
- Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)
- Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)
- Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.
- A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.
- Arguably Game of Thrones.
If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.
In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.
They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.
And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.
It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.
Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.
And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.
Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences
#WhereIsRey (initial)
#WhereIsRey (ongoing)
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi
You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh
And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.
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#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)
OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.
The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.
Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”
I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.
Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind
(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)
Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.
Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.
(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)
Hey folks, for anyone that was interested in the thesis (firstly thank you so much for reaching out I really appreciate the interest) the following is an open access link to download it. Please let me know if it doesn’t work for some reason. Comments are now restricted so can’t put it there, but I hope you see this if you were interested!
I’d also love to hear your thoughts, as I literally wrote it for communities like ours to read, so, thanks.
my dad (Maori) works on a ship with all Maori/Tongan/Samoan fisherman- and one Aussie guy called Jake.
And that wasn't done on purpose just sort of how it ended up, but Jake recently got an injury so they put him on a Different boat just for a little bit (a sit in the wheelhouse and scout type of boat, instead of the main fishing one) and he only got back to my dad's ship today and he was apparently like Shaking. He was Traumatised.
Dad said Jake kept pulling him aside and going "They were all yelling on there, but in a MEAN way" "They didn't clean... Like at ALL"
Jake experienced what a boat full of old school Aussie fisherman is like. That is the norm Jake. You just happened to be on the all Island boy boat on your first go out. "It was time for dinner and they had FROZEN nuggets" Jake that's what they have on ships that are out at sea for months at a time.
On my dad's boat they are eating fresh fish and coconut milk Ceviche. They're grilling steaks on an open bbq on the deck that probably is not regulation. All the guys have their own special knives to prepare sashimi every couple days. Everyone is happily doing their own work so they can clock out early and set up a movie on the deck. Jake did you genuinely believe that's what every boat was doing.
Local Australian man is fed fresh juices and smoked fish for first time- refuses to go back to beef jerky boat life
jake that first night when they served a freezer tray tv dinner and not an overflowing plate of fish that's probably going for conservatively like $40-$80 bucks a kilo but the guys decided Eh we'll catch more let's just fry it up:
i want to ensure that noone ever calls me a liar on the internet and want to confirm that island boy dinner is very real and it's waiting for you
You ever see something innocuous, minding its own business on the clearance shelf at Michael’s and before you know it, it takes over your life for a few weeks?
So it was with this desktop greenhouse.
I took it home and after taking an appropriate time to “season” my idea in my mind (read: a month or two) I set to make my vision of a mini botanical garden a reality.
I started by removing the heavy glass panels and building a raised floor above the latch. I wanted to use the base as a foundation on the building.
I wrapped the foundation in plastic stone textured flooring (meant for Christmas villages) and built a pond at one end of the same. I then gave it a more realistic paint job and designed a rough layout for my plants and displays.
I also knew I wanted to make the ironwork significantly more intricate, but I wasn’t sure how just yet…
Up next - PLANTS! I went wild making all kinds of plants. Some were specific species and some were more conceptual.
I made several trees with polymer clay and moss, cacti out of beads and flocking, cattails out of raffia, hot glue and coffee grounds, and giant monstera leaves out of paper and wire.
This part should have taken me a long time, but it really came together fast. I loved finding ways to replicate natural shapes and patterns using bits of this and that.
I did make adjustments to my plans as I went like eliminating benches in favor of a simpler overall design.
Then I needed to fill my pond with water. For this I used resin. Lily pads were added to the top layer, and I wired in simple LED fairy lights. The batteries are kept in the box under the foundation.
In a weekend frenzy I added more plants, metal (paper) steps, new (plexi)glass windows, a roof, wrought-iron vines (paper again), doors that open, and a hose reel disguising the latch. Suddenly, a project I thought would take months was finished…
I love my desktop botanical garden. Right now it sits on a simple lazy Susan in my office. But I’d love to get it a proper display box to protect from dust.
Thank you for coming on this little journey with me. This piece packs a lot of joy into a tiny space. I always love building miniatures, and I’ll be doing more in the future I’m sure.