god I wish I had a pair of menacing black gauntlets with really sharp fingertip claws I bet it feels good as fuck to have your hands resting palm-down on a surface and then scratch some deep fucking gashes into it as you clench your hand a little closer to a fist when your evil minion delivers some bad news to you
Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like “I’m not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it.” Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.
I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.
Taking these screenshots from Facebook because they make you log in and won’t let you copy and paste:
Most non-Minnesotans have no idea what this means, but to put it plainly: we’re raised with not just the expectation but essentially -programming- to assist others who get stuck during the winter. We’ll help people we’d otherwise punch on sight if they’re stuck in the snow and ice, for zero reward.
This is the level of rage we’re at with ICE. I’m not joking to say it’s almost physically painful to not help someone stuck like that, and it’s worth it because the people stuck are ICE.
The only way we have to express how mad we are above this is channeling the First Minnesota all over again.
The Scandinavians who settled in Minnesota brought with them their Norse understanding of the laws of hospitality: you do not fuck around with winter, that if someone needs help in the winter, you help them as long as they don’t actively try to hurt you or your neighbors. Food, shelter, labour, whatever, if you can help in winter, you do.
ICE has violated the “actively try to hurt you or your neighbors” bit of the laws of hospitality, and thus the hospitality has been revoked. They are free to feel winter’s wrath against those who would bring harm to the community.
I like to think that Lady Skaði would be proud of her distant children.
this reminds me of the mud wizard who walked through everything without any problems while the police officers kept sliding and falling and getting stuck, you can watch it right here.
for context, this was during anti-coal protests in lützerath which went on for days and included people being forcibly removed, injured, or otherwise violated by the police. they showed up in riot gear against people simply sitting and camping and wanting to protect their forests. it was a really big deal here.
Maria Skłodowska-Curie’s notebooks are crazy once you think about it. They’re so radioactive they have to be sealed in a lead box. Imagine a world where atomic theory is forgotten and a dude just goes “yea there’s a book that details the secrets of the universe, the machinations of the creation of existence down to its barest essentials, but if you get close to it you fucking die. The more you read it the more your body slowly disassembles into mush.” like wat excuse me
the difference between taught and taut is you have to be taught to add in the silent letters, but when you pull a word taut all the non-essential letters just bounce right off like it’s a trampoline
I honestly think Gen-Z and younger simply does not understand how recent widespread smartphone adoption is.
I am not that old, and I didn’t have a smartphone until probably late high school. For most of my life, many if not most people were not walking around with a magic internet machine in their pocket that they pulled out and used constantly for everything.
reblog if you remember having to ration your text messages and accidentally opening the internet on your phone was the end of the world
September Book Reviews: The Summer War by Naomi Novik
One of my anticipated new releases for this year. In The Summer War, young Celia accidentally curses her eldest brother in a fit of rage when he announces he’s planning to abandon his family and disinherit himself. Now older and betrothed, Celia must manage to free her brother while navigating the treacherous waters of her country’s politics and uneasy truce with the Fae.
The Summer War, like Novik’s earlier Spinning Silver, draws heavily from familiar fairy tale tropes but puts its own intriguing spin on them. The story’s strongest point is by far its characters: clever and genre-aware Celia, her improbably shining older brother and prickly awkward younger brother, her cunning father consumed by his grief. My only quibble is that the final resolution felt a bit too pat, but I greatly enjoyed this bite-sized novella overall.
A must-read for Novik fans and a good place to start for fairy tale lovers.
there was a bit of a tone in a line in the gq article that bugged me a little bit merely because it compounds onto the increasing narrative that i’ve seen a minor amount of heated rivalry fans espouse, where they talk generally about how there’s no way the sex scenes are 100% choreographed, they feel so real or things with a similar sentiment.
this on its own isn’t a big deal but the “at the risk of ruining the fantasy” quote and it being insinuated that the interviewer maybe was implying or inquiring about the “realness” of their sex scenes wouldn’t be a huge deal, but seeing this alongside the increasing dismissal by wealthy actors and actresses of the importance of intimacy coordinators e.g. mikey madison (anora), julia roberts (after the hunt), jennifer lawrence (die my love), gwenyth paltrow and timothee chalamet (marty supreme) is so fundamentally problematic.
i don’t know when it became normal to almost brag about not “needing an intimacy coordinators” because wealthy actors started believing that by having one it was almost a diss to their acting abilities, to their and their costars “chemistry” but i hope more than anything, that normal people, young royals, heated rivalry, bridgerton, all of these shows keep on highlighting what sensuality and beauty can be achieved when intimacy coordinators are brought in. while it’s great and important that actors and actresses bond and can form life-long connections, sets are a PROFESSIONAL WORKPLACE. it would be a work place VIOLATION for people to just be fucking out of passion. it’s fucking weird to assume that some decisions in sex scenes are “real” and it’s weirder to be like “oh it’s hotter cuz its real”. it is a TESTAMENT to the work of the cast and the crew, it is more impressive to achieve the technical feat of following a choreographed sex scene and that should be far more talked about rather than speculation on how 2 costars MUST BE TOGETHER because of how they must have improvised a hand grab or a longer kiss. make no mistake, agreeing prior to the coordination of the intimacy coordinator what people are comfortable with, allows space for “improvised” movements, etc. but this is all part of the work!! the importance of this is espoused later in this article but also has been repeated by jonathan bailey, aimee and connor swindell on the set of sex education (who were at the time a real couple) and so many more.
not only does this trend feel like a massive spit in the face to the #MeToo movement for enshrining intimacy coordinators as a necessity on sets but it also dilutes the necessity of them for actors and extras WHO ARE NOT WEALTHY HOLLYWOOD ELITES. if something happens on set that julia roberts, for example, thinks “hey that’s a violation of my autonomy and i was uncomfortable” you have in possession a fat bank account, a fleet of lawyers to helm an attack and protection that poor, broke extras and other actors do not have!!
the line being touted that intimacy coordinators are “optional” and that “we didn’t need one” is incredibly dangerous. they are mandatory and it is not just for actors but also for the crew!
THE BEST SEX SCENES YOU’VE SEEN ALL HAVE INTIMACY COORDINATORS!!!!!
and the intimacy coordinator behind young royals, one of my favourite and i would say leading the forefront of how intimacy coordinators TRANSFORM for the better sex scenes did an incredible interview talking about it all!!
I’ve read articles about actresses who would shake, cry and even vomit after sex scenes in the past because they felt violated. Intimacy coordinators need to be seen as the norm, as the smart thing to do, not the weak thing.
one of the lovely ladies I’ve been seeing got covid & she’s like “maybe you didn’t catch it?” Girl I was not a ‘didnt catch it’ amount of space away when we were- wheres that tweet about the vaxxed guy. you know the one
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