I understand the argument that while transformative and derivative works have always existed, “fanfiction” as a medium is inherently connected to the concept of IP law and thus is a specifically contemporary art/craft movement, I get it I really do, but also twenty years after the canterbury tales were finished an english monk wrote his own additional chapter and added himself as a character, and I’m sorry but that man should have been on wattpad
you can tell kris is tma because the go-to pronoun people have for this therian nonbinary teenager who wears the same dysphoria sweater every day and has a cabinet in their dark world room that mentions being able to wear whatever they’d like and has a can of unused Pizza Spray Deodorant For Boys in their bathroom and uses apple shampoo and has a dark world palette that is essentially the trans flag and who explicitly hates the starkly heteronormative-esque abuse ( which is topped off by putting a ring on a finger , no less , ) that you put noelle thru in the weird route so hard they beat the fuck out of you in a trash can and is implied to be suicidal or previously suicidal or perhaps even self harms ( or is at the very least weirdly into knives ) and has weird repressed memories that include such bangers as ManCountry ( you used to belong there but now you don’t ) is. He/Him.
and they’re textually possessed and their mom takes them to church every sunday. do you get it yet
just, like. i’m about ten years too old to call kris “kin” per se but god damn if this kid isn’t presenting a solid platter of the problems i had as a small nonbinary transfem-who-doesn’t-know-they-can-be-transfem and therian-who-doesn’t-know-what-therianism-is teenager to the T. minus the possession part ( remembers the plurality ) gah fuck
I scrolled past this without second thought. Paused. Thought, wait, I’ve never seen a crane on the road. Scrolled back up. No answers. Typed this response, then noticed the book’s author. What a whirlwind
Basically they bring it in piece by piece and assemble it on-site, using a smaller mobile crane (trucks with crane attachments) and once the crane itself is assembled, the top part can use hydraulics to climb up and down its own mast, so it builds itself taller like this
Question:My boyfriend won’t stop talking to me about whether or not I would eat Pokémon steaks. We think maybe Mr. Mime steaks would have white meat and ooze a purple liquid. I feel like you’re the only one qualified to tell us more - hyrellion
listen the ONLY part of a mr mime thats edible are the red spots, and thats ONLY after being properly cooked - if you bite into any part of their body while its still raw youll suffer near immediate food poisoning
luckily, just like red kidney beans, the potential toxins are easily to remove provided you take the right steps
once theyve been safely removed from their inedible surroundings, the larger red spheres are ready to begin working with - its worth noting that the smaller spots on the hands and cheeks also fall into this category, but theyre almost always too small to be considered harvesting by most professionals
youll want to start by cutting away any flesh thats still directly touching the pale parts; when in doubt, a wider cut is always preferred. better safe than sorry ! one benefit of working with mr mimes is that, along with many others in their typing, their bodies are held together with physic energy and thus dont require deboning
the next part is going to require boiling in a large pressure cooker- some may find it a challenge to to find a pot big enough to host all the parts, so cooking them individually is fine. remember to follow the instructions to the letter
after theyve been removed and dried, an easy way to text if theyre safe to eat is to cut them in half and check the spongy center - a darkened purple core means theyve been boiled long enough, while any lighter, greenish tints means you probably needed a bit more time
once theyre out of the danger range, you can now safely use them in variety of dishes ! their almost mushroom-like texture means they absorb flavors well, and pictured above is one of my personal favorites
THIS guy though, you can just pop em into your mouth whole. its fine
There’s something about atheism that I’ve repeatedly tried and failed to put into words on several posts on this blog but I think I finally got it.
Atheists are the only religious minority who, even (or sometimes even *especially*) in ostensibly progressive spaces are not allowed to ever act like they’re sure of their beliefs.
Like I’m not even an atheist, I’ve considered myself an agnostic for as long as I’ve been able to articulate my own beliefs, but it’s not lost on me how often atheists in leftist spaces are hit with rhetoric like this:
Why is it bad that atheists are 100% sure that no god or any higher power exists? I mean. That’s what they believe.
Everyone else is allowed to be 100% sure in whatever belief they hold and express it, but atheists are held to the higher standard of constantly conceding that “yeah I *could* be wrong haha of course I’m not saying it’s impossible for gods to exist I’m just personally unconvinced” because openly expressing any confidence on the certainty of their own beliefs will immediately be perceived as close-minded and invalidating everyone else’s belief systems when like.
When you get down to it “all this shit is made up” isn’t really a meaningfully more close-minded or invalidating position than “all this shit is made up except for this one, which is the real and correct one”. Atheism is just held to a higher standard when failing to immediately back down and cede ground in any situation where it doesn’t align with anyone else’s belief system is inherently seen as a mark of close-mindedness and intolerance, a standard to which no other religious minority is ever held in these spaces.
“Oh well it’s because the New Atheism movement was shitty and Reddit Atheists™ were intolerant and-”
Okay so some guys were shitty about atheism in 2013. I have bad news about every single religious belief system on the face of our planet.
