Reblogged washed-up-wurmcoil
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its girls and its boys will have its yaoi done by cowards and its yuri done by fools."
-Thucydititties
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Reblogged hyperactive-ho
sorry kids daddy lost all his money betting on rhinoceros beetle fights again there won't be a christmas this year
good news babies, momma just cleared some chump of everything. Two christmases this year. God i love beetles fighting
Reblogged daughter-of-sapph0
namesakes of temperature scales and how real they sound:
- Anders Celsius: yeah sure that's the name of a scientist I'll believe that
- William "Lord Kelvin" Thompson: there's something really british going on here with that title but I suppose it checks out
- Dan Fahrenheit: literally shut up
Reblogged level1cleric
Hm. Interesting. Apparently cortisol production depletes magnesium stores. And I have a lot of symptomatic overlap with magnesium deficiency. And it can apparently help migraine. And ADHD. I think I'm going to try supplementing magnesium glycinate. L-threonate sounds really interesting too as that's magnesium that can cross the blood-brain barrier and apparently is super useful for memory and shit.
this can't keep happening
Reblogged batmanisagatewaydrug
This is kinda out of nowhere but something made me think about it. I have a very close friend who is also my ex-girlfriend and it distresses me that every time that information comes to light, I always have to couch my statement that we are very serious friends with a very warm relationship with no lamenting or jealousy or animosity or whatever, and tons of people still remain real weird about us still interacting as friends, or start imagining a coldness to our relationship that doesn’t exist.
It’s insane to me that when you care about somebody and live with and sleep with them for years and then if the living-together and being sexual/romantic element of your relationship comes to an end the only societally acceptable ways forward are to develop a burning hatred for that person or at best never see them again.
Reblogged radio-jupotter
I mean, I don't want to sound stupid, but I always assumed that the Ancient Romans were mammals
Reblogged wormtoxin
i just learned about the official english version of Racing into the Night and i am so fucking baffled, i've never seen anyone do anything like this, what the FUCK
they translated??? the entire song??? so that if you aren't paying attention??? it still sounds like the original Japanese??? they tried to match the phonetics as close as they possibly could??????? so that listening to it, it literally feels like a soramimi of the original. what the fuck why huh what huh
listen to everything past the 1 minute mark here, it's like the uncanny valley of linguistics in music. i'm so enthralled, why did they go to the effort to do this
Y'know, as someone who does do translyrics sometimes, I do appreciate it on some level. A lot of people really underestimate how much the inherent phonetics of the Japanese language - namely, the fact that there are essentially only five vowel sounds - influence how lyrics are naturally written. It's almost hard to not do inline rhymes. Lean into it more and you have something catchy. Yet when translating the musical elements of English, people either don't try to replicate that feeling due to it being outright difficult or just not even recognizing that specific quality of the original Japanese music enough to try to transfer that element to English, even if it takes more of a Shakespearean and/or MF Doom mastery of English to convey the same feeling using English vernacular.
That being said... trying to preserve not the rhyme scheme, but even the specific vowels being rhymed, and even the consonants... is kind of doing a little bit too much. And only really pleases the people who are already familiar with the phonetics of the original song. Which arguably defeats the purpose of doing a translation to reach more people... unless you're just doing it for the sake of doing it which is also respectable.
It's crazy.
you know i've been listening to japanese music and translyrics of said music for most of my life and somehow the idea that internal rhyming is just easier is something that's never occurred to me? I was always wondering why my lyrics just don't flow nearly as well as the songs that inspired me, and i always figured it was just like. Due to syllabic count differences, but this makes so so so much sense.
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Reblogged radio-jupotter
btc-official-deactivated2024071
im gonna fucking cry
Reblogged maidthings
do you have the trans flag nuclear waste warning image i just found an awesome use case for it
Reblogged legokingfisher
"Friends outside of Minnesota please read. I'm sharing a post written by a personal friend and medical doctor: Friends outside MN, you need to know what is happening here. Everyone knows that ICE shot and killed a woman here on Wednesday. But that’s not the only thing that’s going on:
- ICE agents are cruising areas with immigrant-owned businesses, and kidnapping patrons and employees alike. Yesterday they abducted two US citizen employees at a suburban Target, one who was begging them to allow him to go get his passport to show them.
- ICE is going door to door in immigrant-heavy neighborhoods, asking residents where their immigrant neighbors live. Read that again. If it sounds like something out of your high school history textbook, that’s because it is.
- ICE is targeting schools and school buses. They pepper sprayed teenagers and abducted two school staff members at the high school up the street from me on Wednesday. Police are literally escorting school buses to ensure children can get to school and home safely. The Minneapolis Public Schools have moved to virtual learning for the next 4 weeks because it’s unsafe for children or teachers to physically come to school.
- They are targeting hospitals and clinics. Patients are scared and are cancelling their appointments or just not showing up. Kids are missing their checkups and vaccines, folks aren’t getting their cancer care, etc.
- They are smashing windows in cars and homes.
- ICE is increasingly picking up Native Americans—again, targeting folks based on skin color alone.
- They are arresting and beating legal observers. A friend of a friend had her arm broken yesterday. Folks are showing up at local hospitals, brought in in ICE custody, with severe injuries that are absolutely inconsistent with mechanism of injury reported by ICE. (Think: patient appears to have been beaten unconscious, while ICE agent says he slipped and fell.) I can’t emphasize enough that these ICE agents do not have warrants. There are 2,000+ agents here and they are simply hunting for anyone that’s not white. It doesn’t matter if you’re a citizen or a green card holder, they will kidnap you first and ask questions later. But the community is fighting back.
- Protests are happening every day.
- Community groups have been leading know-your-rights sessions for months, often to packed venues.
- Whistles are being distributed by the thousands, carried on keychains and worn on coat zippers, always at the ready to be blown in warning if ICE is spotted.
- Drivers are following ICE vehicles, blaring their horns in warning.
- Businesses are locking their doors even while open to keep employees and customers safe. As I type this, I’m standing guard at the locked door of our neighborhood burrito joint while I wait for my takeout order, so the employees can focus on their jobs. The place is packed with neighbors supporting this small business.
- Anti-ICE signs are posted everywhere. The community is making it crystal clear that ICE is not welcome here.
- Parents and neighbors are standing guard outside schools, organizing carpools, and escorting kids to and from school on foot.
- Parents of kids in Spanish-immersion daycare (there are a LOT of these daycares here!) are keeping their kids home so the teachers don’t have to take the risk of coming to work.
- Churches and community groups are holding fundraisers to buy and deliver groceries to families who don’t feel safe leaving home.
- Mutual aid money is going out to folks who can’t make rent because they can’t work or because a breadwinner was abducted, or who need a warm place to stay after their home’s windows were smashed. THAT is what is happening here. This fight is ongoing and it’s horrifying to watch. But we are not backing down. To my friends in other cities and states, don’t think for a minute that this won’t happen in your town. It will. Be ready. Learn from us, as we have learned from Portland and Chicago and New York. Fight back. Don’t let us get to the last line of Martin Niemoller’s poem.” -Grant Boulanger
Reblogged sapphicjigsaw
i dont think whites understand how being white makes literally everything easier.
it effects everything.
being trans is easier when youre white.
being gay is easier when youre white.
being disabled is easier when youre white.
being a woman is easier when youre white.
being autistic is easier when youre white.
oppression is eased when you are white, as you get extra privileges, and your whiteness is seen as a positive characteristic that in some ways counter-balances your other forms of being a minority. whiteness controls everything.
you are automatically way more innocent in your own oppression as a gay, trans, disabled person because of your whiteness.
never forget this.
three things:
1. it’s true
2. white people get pissed when i bring this up/wear this shirt
3. the comments to this thread melted my fucking eyeballs seriously why the fuck are y’all like this
white people you don’t need to say you’re white when you reblog this btw. you don’t even need to mention it btw
I wish more people understood this. if you are white, you are white before anything else. before EVERYTHING else. they see your skin color, and decide how much respect, decency, agency, rights, you “deserve”. you disliking this fact doesn’t make it less true.
Reblogged daughter-of-sapph0
"Not beating the ___ allegations" is such a 'now' turn of phrase, implying as it does a world where everyone's behavior is always on literal trial by a guilt-presuming judge and jury that consists of anyone who happens to be paying attention.
Not beating the panopticon allegations
Reblogged sapphicjigsaw
idk if this video has made its way to tumblr yet but i think about it all the time
Reblogged batmanisagatewaydrug
we're the daughters of the witches you couldn't burn, and also the daughters of the men who wanted some freaky witch pussayyyyy 😛🧙🏻♀️