i think people should be nicer to schizophrenics

saying this because i've literally been subjected to panopticons and moral saw traps and had my every action examined and monitored my whole life and i just want to relax for once

thank you ao3 for being an archive and not an algorithm. thank you for letting me like things without consequences, thank you for being free with no ads, thank you for having lawyers to defend our freedom of speech. thank you tag wranglers. thank you to all authors and thank you ao3

Isn't it fucking insane that so many people think that IQs are real. Like people genuinely believe you are born with one set level of intelligence that can be measured on a scale from 1 to ~200. As if intelligence wasn't extremely nuanced and completely subjective. And the fact that the majority of scientists that have advocated for IQ tests in the past have been eugenicists doesn't seem to concern anyone either

Achilles and Patroclus Posting this while Hudson is in my Milan. This took way too long to draw (especially Connor's hair) but pretty satisfied with how it came out. There's another version on patreon with the bg and wallpapers!

please read this story of a man accidentally discovering his wife is the world's best Tetris player

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“It’s funny,” I told Flewin. “We have an old Nintendo Game Boy floating around the house, and Tetris is the only game we own. My wife will sometimes dig it out to play on airplanes and long car rides. She’s weirdly good at it. She can get 500 or 600 lines, no problem.”

What Flewin said next I will never forget.

“Oh, my!”

/end id]

TL;DR on the article

The husband was writing an article on classic video game records, was surprised to find out that holding the Tetris record is a bit of a big deal, and mentions how good his wife is at it.

The guy he’s talking to mentions that the record is 327, way lower than his wifes usual scores of 500-600.

They travel to a tournament, and she goes to do her attempt. Just after she beats 327, and is climbing higher, a judge brings up to the husband that the specific version she’s playing actually has a different record of 545.

She overhears that she needs to beat 500-something, and keeps going, setting the record at 841.

which, they later find out, is her second-best record

There was a decent but ultimately forgettable fantasy novel I read a long time ago that had a single moment that stuck with me.

The protagonist has just won the world famous sword fighting competition in the big, rich capital and is talking to his mentor, and says something about being the best swordsman in the world. The mentor frowns and tells him that no, he isn't. He is the best swordsman out of the people that could afford to show up to this tournament. There could be a mercenary way out in the mountains, patrolling a snow encrusted fort's walls that could kick his ass and there was no way to know until he was already losing to the guy.

I think about that a lot, and how for every apparently dominant competitor, there might be a fucking ronin out there somewhere capable of destroying them.

Always reblog tetris ronin lady

My new favorite genre of picture is a very special thing that most animals (and humans!) do: face nuzzling as an act of greeting/comfort/intimacy. thank God that this is happening all over the world right now

Isn’t it wonderful?!

had to continue the compilation:

Time Lapse of the Land Taken From Native Americans

via reddit

I will reblog this EVERY GODDAMN TIME so people can understand how the US government taking more and more land from Natives is nothing new (even the land originally promised after being kicked off their original, sacred lands) and they NEED to be fucking stopped. They need to be held accountable for the destruction of our people not just then but also now.

@i-add-sources do you know where we can read more about this? (Please and thank you!)

Article linked in the source reddit post :)

Also in turn links to the individual maps used.

This is true

Fact: The greyed out east coat was also taken from indigenous people. It just happened earlier than this time lapse starts.

/Wampanoag

/The apocalypse happened in 1620

The basic types of skirts in Chinese Hanfu: ↑Po Qun破裙, also known as Jiaoyu Qun交窬裙, was one of the primary skirt styles worn by women in historical China. Its distinctive feature is that it is sewn together from multiple trapezoidal fabric panels, creating a unique patchwork effect. This style dates back to the Warring States period, with the earliest known example being a plain silk skirt unearthed from a Chu tomb at Mashan in Jiangling. It gained popularity starting from the Han Dynasty (202 BC–220 AD) and Jin Dynasty (266–420 AD) and continued to be worn into the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD). "Jiaoyu" refers to a cutting technique that uses right-angled trapezoidal panels. This method is documented in the Qin-era bamboo slip text Zhiyi ("Garment Making"), held by Peking University, which provides details for its reconstruction. Poqun bears some resemblance to a modern A-line skirt, making it easier to integrate into contemporary fashion. Many people now incorporate Poqun into their outfits by mixing it with modern clothing pieces.↑

↑Jianse Qun间色裙(Alternating-color Qun) is a type of Po Qun distinguished by its construction, which involves splicing together strips of fabric in two or more alternating colors. Jianse Qun originated in the Wei and Jin Dynasties (220–420 AD) and reached its peak during the Sui and Tang Dynasties (581–907 AD), becoming a popular garment for women at the time. It typically featured two alternating colors, though combinations of three or more were also used. The skirt was characterized by a wide hem, formed by joining multiple panels of fabric—the more panels (or "breaks," pò), the wider the skirt. During the Tang Dynasty, broad and long skirts were fashionable, with most skirts made from six panels of cloth. When worn, Jianse Qun was wrapped around the body with a certain amount of overlap. Common variations seen today include the Eight-Pò Skirt, Twelve-Pò Skirt, as well as more complex versions like the Thirty-Six-Pò Skirt and Forty-Eight-Pò Skirt.↑

↑Xuanqun旋裙 (Whirling Skirt) was a popular women's skirt style in the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD), also known as the "Two-Panel Skirt" or "Open-Hip Skirt." It is considered a classic example of Hanfu that balances functionality and aesthetics in historical China.

Structurally, the skirt is made by cutting and sewing four fabric pieces into two main panels. These panels are not sewn together along their length but instead overlap only at the waistband, creating front and back open sections known as the "overlapping hip panels."

Every two pieces are first sewn vertically into a block. Three such blocks are then arranged with the middle one wider than the two on the sides, overlapping vertically in an offset manner. The top edge is sewn together, while the hem remains unstitched, allowing the two skirt layers to move and separate freely. A separate waistband is added at the top, with ties attached at both ends for fastening.↑

↑Sanjian Qun三裥裙(Three-Pleat Skirt) rose to prominence during the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD). Its full name, "Four-Panel Three-Pleat Skirt" (四破三裥裙), refers to its construction from four square pieces of fabric skillfully joined together—hence the term "four-panel" (si po). The "three-pleat" element describes the three distinct pleats, each arranged in a box-pleat style and positioned at the top section of the skirt. These pleats could either be sewn down or left unstitched for movement.

This design has been verified through artifacts excavated from the tomb of Lady Zhou of the Song Dynasty in De'an, Jiangxi Province. ↑

↑Mamianqun马面裙 (Horse-Face Skirt), which evolved from the Whirling Skirt of the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD), became the dominant style of women's skirts during the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644 AD). The skirt consists of several components: the waistband, skirt panels, decorative borders, and patterned ornaments.

The waistband is typically made of white fabric and fastened with cords or buttons. Decorative motifs are primarily concentrated around the skirt's lower section, frequently depicting flora and fauna that convey auspicious wishes. The most distinctive feature of Mamian Qun is that it appears extremely narrow from the side, while the front and back have rectangular, flat panel sections.↑

↑Manzhe Qun满褶裙(Full-pleated skirts) had already appeared in the Tang Dynasty. A one-piece pleated skirt excavated from the Famen Temple existed alongside the Jiaoyu skirt. By Song Dynasty, the one-piece pleated skirt had become very popular, with increasingly diverse styles. Compared to Tang skirts, those of the Song Dynasty used more fabric panels and featured finer, denser pleats. The full-pleated skirt had no front panel and was entirely covered in uniform pleats. In the Ming Dynasty, Manzhe Qun was also highly popular and, like the Mamian Qun, became a basic style for daily wear.

As recorded in the Song text Qingyi Lu: "During the Tongguang era, the emperor ascended the Xingping Pavilion at dusk, admired the charming colors of the sunset, and ordered the dyeing workshop to create gauze in sunset hues, which was then made into thousand-pleated skirts and bestowed upon palace ladies. From then on, the style became popular among the common people."↑

↑Baidie Qun百迭裙 (Hundred-Fold Skirt) was one of the most common skirts in the Song Dynasty, wearable by both men and women. Designed as a one-piece garment, it features pleats in the middle section and flat panels on both sides, with all pleats facing the same direction. It offers versatile styling—the flat panel can be worn at the front or the back. In contrast, the Mamian Qun is designed to be worn only with the flat panel positioned at the front and back. (cr 糖叔)↑

This is a simple demonstration include jiaoyuqun(poqun), manzhequn, jianse poqun, baidiequn, qixiong poqun, qixiong zhequn:

Every time I'm forced by circumstance to hand-sew something, I remember a fairytale I once read. There are lead-up shenanigans as the humble protagonist helps small animals and meets the princess and all that, but in the climax, the princess rigs a contest for her hand by setting her own task: sew her a dress in a single night.

The noble suitors, who have never sewn a thing in their lives, sabotage themselves by their own ambitions: they choose difficult fabrics to work with and cut huge, elaborate patterns and select gems and pearls and beads to sew onto it, and snip such long bits of thread that they lose time detangling their stitches, and ultimately resort to pinning bits together as they run out of time, so that their offerings initially look beautiful and flashy, but when the princess tries them on they stick her with pin ends and fall apart as she moves.

The humble protagonist uses a very simple pattern without embellishments and sews using short lengths of thread (snipped off and threaded for him by little birds of course) which don't tangle and therefore save time. His dress is plain by contrast, but holds together and the princess is able to move freely in it, and so he wins the contest and her hand.

I particularly think about the bit about threading the needle with shorter lengths of thread, needing to tie off more often but avoiding tangles and thereby saving time.

I then ignore that piece of wisdom passed down through who knows how many years and proceed to cut the longest damn length of thread I can manage because I hate tying off beginning or ending knots and I will not subject myself to more of that even if it does mean more tangles along the way.

joker with an earring voice. bi so curious. sorry. fuck. sorry. this post sucks so fucking bad.

Just because zionism, like all ethnosupremacist settler-colonial ideologies, has an extreme far-right faction doesn’t mean that any manifestation of it is salvageable. All zionism is violent, predicated on violence, and sustained through violence. A lot of so-called ‘antizionists’ are actually just embarrassed liberal zionists who don’t want to be called what they are.

If your answer to “does Israel have a right to exist?” is literally anything but a no, you are definitionally a zionist.

Fun fact: if you, as an adult, tell miserable children that their youth is the best that life will ever be, and that it's all just downhill from there, there's a percentage of them who will hear this and think "well, I guess I better kill myself before that happens." And a certain percentage of those will proceed to do that and succeed.

Anyway what I'm saying is that any time you feel tempted to say that, you should instead consider shutting the fuck up. Just because you peaked at 16 doesn't mean anyone else did. Most peoples' lives get better than that.

Some of you think of Cops as kind of a symbolic figure representing "telling you what to do" & you're Posting things like "acab includes fandom discourse" and I thuink the 80% white website needs to remember the reason why we hate cops is because they kill people

We hate cops because they're a weapon for enforcing the state's interests through violence. Like, they kill & imprison people. The antis don't have a Quite Literal boot on your neck please god log off or talk to a Black person or something

To be SO fair like really generous there is something to be said for unlearning the habit of figuratively "policing" other people especially in the context of, like, not being a fucking snitch, "kill the cop in your head" etc etc, but can we not completely lose the plot re: what cops Are

Hi! I'd like to point out that ACAB is a generalisation that doesn't take into account the different jobs within the police force. My father is an ex-cop in NSW, and his dream job was crash investigation (of which he was in for several years), and even had to do several crash related stuff whilst he was in general duties due to the lack of people in crash investigation. He made sure to check through everything and get as much information as he could, but generalising that 'All Cops Are Bastards' is plain wrong. He didn't go to crash investigations with body parts strewn across roads, or an incident late at night with black ice that killed two sisters who he was heartbroken for, just to be called a bastard by people who generalise. Yes, police have more power than the average person, but as a queer person, it feels the same as calling all queers pedophiles. It's incorrect and a tiny minority, of which seems to be massive at times due to the incidents that are heavily publicised. If my father, as an ex cop who retired due to PTSD and other issues is a bastard, then why did he make sure to capture some beauty like a sunset in the background of his crash investigation photos when he could? He didn't have to, wasn't told to, but he did it so in court where he provided evidence, not everything he would show would be suffering. He did his best, was a kind man where he could be, and even asked people if he could pray over them for their loss, saying he was religious and even if they didn't believe, he only had one person in his 32 years in the police force who said no.

It's people who generalise, and don't see others as humans that makes the situations worse. Not all cops are bastards. It's a small few who get that power and abuse it, and it's saddening because I hate seeing posts like this where people generalise a massive group of people. I know that in Australia, our First Nations people have higher deaths in custody, and police brutality does exist here, but not all police are evil. He has spoken about how some police would rile up some drunkards occasionally after they say a thing or two to get them to snap back so they can arrest them, and he would be disappointed. Not all cops are bastards, because if my father was, he wouldn't have joined the police force, because my father loves everyone. Even as a Christian man, he doesn't care about race or gender identity, and he understands that some people have a different religion, and that's okay, but he still loves them all and wants the best for everyone.

"My cop dad watched his coworkers harass drunk people for the express purpose of manufacturing reasons to arrest them, but he was really sad about it :((((( :((( :'((("

Look. I understand your point of view, I genuinely try to be as open minded as possible, but the specific reasoning for my phrasing there is because hate is too strong. My father doesn't hate people. He didn't hate his coworkers, but at times their opinions clashed. This was back in the late 80s, where he wasn't in a position to speak up due to his low rank within the force at the time. He has mentioned that it was something that some police would do, because there was a time where police were paid extra depending on how many people they arrested, but he always said those officers were idiots, who he disliked. They wanted to do something fun for them, and get paid more. My father jokingly mentioned recently that the traffic control people who hold the signs up earned significantly more than he did, and he should have gone into that instead, but he didn't. Policing wasn't his first career choice. He was a motor mechanic for a long time beforehand. He didn't go in to harm people, and I simply wanted to point out how generalisations do more harm than good. I may not believe in some of the things he does at times, but that's what being human is. We learn from others, and it's a choice if you decide to believe me or not.

I'm not trying to say that all cops are great and amazing, but that there are some that don't do it for the power. He wants to help people, all his life he has wanted to. I understand this may be controversial to you, but not everyone in a specific job is evil. Your tone is condensing where I try to inform. I didn't just write that out because I wanted to say 'all lives matter, treat cops well too!' but to say that cops are people too. I don't watch my father have panic attacks and shut down as he tries not to cry when things get really difficult, and he doesn't approve of ICE or how America is going right now, but he also knows that none of us in our family are in a position to stop what is happening. We live in a rural place, barely making a difference if at all. I just wanted to bring awareness that not everyone who chooses to be a cop is evil. He joined to help people, and if you choose to dismiss that and believe that I am either taking this the wrong way or lying, then so be it. I'm not fully sure if your tone is meant to be as condescending as it is, as I am autistic and tone is difficult for me via writing, but if it is meant to be, then simply, sorry that my response by stating something I have grown up around and wanted to state made you so upset by clashing with your views. I've been there, but hate doesn't do anything other than make the world worse. I'm a firm believer in black lives matter, and that there is a lot of discrimination, but we can only fix it through finding solutions rather than yelling things that are not completely true. Anyhow, I genuinely wish you a good day, and even if you choose to respond again, I would happily talk to you about specific things that prove that not all cops are bastards. <3

Fuck your dad and every other Australian cops too

Archived unpaywalled version. She even failed the drug test (she’d smoked weed in the days beforehand) and still got hired!

wild watching the rest of the us talk about ice invading their state or city and how they're doing this or that and its terrifying that our nation has descended to this and this is the biggest or worst or lowest or whatever other superlative....

and they're just describing what daily life has been like in el paso for upwards of twenty years. but no one cared when it happened here, because it was happening to the people its "supposed" to happen to; mexican immigrants, many undocumented.

just feels. fucked. that this city has been under the boot of ice for so fucking long. and i have never once seen it mentioned or talked about or acknowledged. i'll bet you money the vast majority of ice's arrests are still undocumented mexicans in texas.

but no one talks about that, because thats what is "supposed" to happen, and everyone decided over a decade ago when mexican kids were being put in cages outside our town and that made national news, that they were fine with it.

~Impulse ^Vic

a big part of the reason we have the fear of cops we (me and my systemmates) have is from growing up with ice sweeping where we lived. sometimes neighbors would disappear and we'd be like "where did my friend beto go?" and someone would say he and his family didn't have papers, so they got taken. just disappeared, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

under the biden administration we saw ice taking people just about every month. just pulling over trucks and arresting everyone inside. no one cared then.

all of the ice activities that have been making national and international news trace their origins back here. el paso sent ice agents to chicago. and i don't say this to downplay the horror, everything ice is doing is absolutely terrible, but we were on tumblr in 2009 trying to get people to care and the only ones who did were overwhelmingly other latine people and a handful of Black bloggers.

people here are just really thoroughly defeated and broken. there are still protests every now and then, and at least one small activist group, but nothing has anywhere near the energy or presence other places have because we as a city and as communities have been crushed for decades. people here don't expect things to get better, they haven't in twenty years.

-- tocaya

Hey listen everybody the Prairieland case is a real "all hands on deck" type of situation. They're gonna hang these folks out to dry and use that as further precedent for making protesters disappear. It's fucked. Like I can't stress how important it is to get as many eyes on this as possible. Tell everybody and their grandma.

Like I know some of us has got friends with media connections and some of us has got like ten hundred bazillion followers and all that type of stuff. Use it for somethin.

(and plz actually reblog the linked posts instead of just reblogging this post)

Outside links to click on and repost:

Tunglr Dot Com posts to click on and reblog:

yeah

Please write to them too. They may not be able to respond but the support means a lot.