ok who confused the archaeologists again
please don't baffle the archaeologists, it triggers their alcoholism
common misconception but confounded is NOT the natural state of the archaeologist. stop confounding them
all archaeologist know how to do is dig, brush, and forage for sherds. a group of archaeologists is called a 'survey'. any and all info they source from 'real people with real skills and knowledge and common sense duh'. resourceful little creatures
These are the skeletons in my closet.
can i come over and make you extremely uncomfortable with my lack of social skills
Had a friend (let’s call her Maddie) who didn’t exactly try to pass, whose parents weren’t supportive, and didn’t really have other irl friends. Claimed to “not care about her name or pronouns, so I should just call her by her ‘real name’ (birth name). And I did. For a long time, I did, because she never told me she used anything else. One day she asked for my insta and I added her, and I noticed her displayname on there was “Maddie”. I asked her about it, and she said it was just a “silly online name”.
Later that day we went to the movies to watch that new Captain America film. I cringed the whole way through, while she waffled on in my ear about “comic-accuracy” (I love her, but she’s a nerd.)
‘Maddie, I’d love to hear this after it’s over but please let me listen to the dialogue.’
She looked like she was about to cry, and I thought I’d made her sad by essentially telling her to shut up, but then she smiled and I don’t think I’ve ever seen so much joy come out of a single person from such a simple thing to say.
Later I dragged her to the makeup store and essentially role-played as a straight couple with an apathetic boyfriend so she could pretend not to want to be there while I explained what everything did, dropping the man voice I’d been trying to hold in public for years just to yap about different lipstick shades like a valley girl.
And I went up to the register with her, and she was practically shaking when she handed one stick of eyeliner to the woman behind the register and she commented on how nice it was for “him” to be buying me something.
And we played it off, until we walked out the store and made a dash for the family-bathroom where I did her eyeliner while she cried and giggled and took a million pictures of herself and wiped it off and tried to do it herself over and over until it looked decent and then she hugged me so hard I nearly cracked a rib.
I can’t really explain what that afternoon meant to either of us. She and I drifted apart after a few months because meeting up became really hard, but still I remember that day like it was yesterday. I think I’ll remember it forever.
Spread trans joy. It’s the purest thing in the world.
I am not joking when I say that after seeing so many white and non-Latine healthcare professionals condemn my people's traditional cuisine as greasy and unhealthy — including a recent incident involving a gringa dietitian — seeing this British doctor say that authentic Mexican tacos are healthy is making me cry
Just as a little add on - it should be known that is a general rule of thumb that traditional cuisines are generally quite healthy and good for you. Like, there is a reason they have stuck around for centuries, if not more. They have kept people fed and healthy generation after generation.
Indeed, there is probably a lot more to say about how "non-western" cuisines are often condemned as unhealthy due to their fast-food-ification and how poor health outcomes in migrant communities often ties into difficult socio-econonic conditions more than anything, but I am too tired for that right now.
Just wanted to give my two cents.
Heiss et al 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231696)
Just as I sort of promised, here are some of my finished minis! These ones in particular are a group of firstborn Bladeguard Veterans, a Captain, and an Ancient made out of the Horus heresy Command Squad. I really had a lot of fun with these guys (: they were cool (apart from assembly, that was oddly difficult).
Of course, they are in the purple/gold/black colour scheme of my Praetorian chapter. However, they do feel like they might need a little bit of weathering so... might have to give an updated when I get around to that.
