Room to grow

I don't even know anymore

[997]

What do you do for a living

i try my best

[pyrlspite]

honestly a big indicator of a good game for me is the ability to just chill in it. if you can enjoy yourself just stopping to take in the scenery and listen to the music and ambience, or hanging out on the title screen, or ignoring the main gameplay to go off and screw around picking flowers, or even just mousing over all the menu options for the tactile feedback, chances are it’s a good fucking game

[trans-corvo]

[eastern-bloc-party-archive]

[sofriel-archive]

The first immigrants to Europe arrived thousands of years ago from central Asia. Most pre-contact Europeans lived together in small villages. Because the continent was very crowded, their lives were ruled by strict hierarchies within the family and outside it to control resources. Europe was highly multi-ethnic, and most tribes were ruled by hereditary leaders who commanded the majority “commoners.” These groups were engaged in near constant warfare.

Pre-contact Europeans wore clothing made of natural materials such as animal skin and plant and animal-based textiles. Women wore long dresses and covered their hair, and men wore tunics and leggings. Both men and women liked to wear jewelry made from precious stones and metals as a sign of status. Before contact, Europeans had very poor diets. Most people were farmers and grew wheat and vegetables and raised cows and sheep to eat. They rarely washed themselves, and had many diseases because they often let their animals live with them. Religion infused every part of Europeans’ lives.

Europeans believed in one supreme deity, a father figure, who they believed was made of three parts, and they particularly worshiped the deity’s son. They claimed that their god had given humans domination over the earth. They built elaborate temples to him and performed ceremonies in which they ate crackers and drank wine and believed it was the body and blood of their god, who would provide them with entrance into a wondrous afterlife called heaven when they died. Many wars were fought over disagreements about the details of this religion, each group believing their interpretation was the right one that should be spread across the land.

Now imagine that is part of a textbook that has entire chapters on the Mississippian polities of the 1200s and a detailed account of the diplomatic situation of the southeastern provinces in the 1400s and 1500s, an enormous section that goes through the history of the rise of the Triple Alliance in Mexico and goes through the rule of each tlatoani and their policies, the heritage of Teotihuacan and its legacy in later Mesoamerican politics, elaborate descriptions of the trade routes that connected and drove various nations in North America. Long explanations of the rise of various religious movements such as the calumet ceremony and Midewiwin, and how they affected political agendas and artistic trends. Pages and pages and pages going through the past thousand years of American history century by century.

And these three paragraphs are the only mention of European history before the year 1500.

[undertheteacup]

More from the essay because it’s really really worth reading:

If your textbook of North American history goes into the details of the Middle Ages, the Reformation and Renaissance, the Silk Road, and European monarchies, and you don’t include equal description of the Mississippian coalescence and dispersal, Haudenosaunee-Algonquian relations, the Woodlands, trans-plains, and southwestern trade systems, the Mexica conquests and the Fifth Sun ideology with explicit naming of various places and leaders, then your textbook is inadequate.

Why do you include those “pre-contact” European things? Because they explain the motivations and reasons for what Europeans did. But people largely imagine North America as this timeless place and don’t recognize that pre-contact American history had just as much of an effect on post-contact history because it provides explanations of the motivations and reasonings behind indigenous peoples’ actions.

But of course, that would require people to recognize that indigenous people had their own histories and agendas and agency that affected the course of history rather than making them a passive recipient of European historical force.

[electrictype]

some of you have never spent 100 years frozen in an iceberg while the world you were responsible for protecting fell to war and it shows

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

some of you have never been painfully disfigured by your own father at the tender age of 14 in response to an simple misstep and it shows

[electrictype]

some of you were never forced to invent metalbending as your only escape from a hostage situation and it shows 

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

some of you have never lost your first love when she gave up her physical form to become the spirit of the moon and it shows

[electrictype]

some of you have never confronted the man that murdered your mother by turning the rain above him into ice daggers only to give up your pursuit for vengeance out of pity and self-love and it shows

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

some of you have never been raised to believe that you are an unloveable monster and that your enemy is your own brother rather your evil father who carefully groomed you to be his greatest weapon and it shows

[electrictype]

some of you have never lost your entire livelihood due to a group of rowdy teenagers’ recklessness and complete disregard for the value of cabbages and it shows

[weaponsofclairvoyance]

[maplebunie]

today is the only day you can reblog this ever

[midtown120blues-deactivated2018]

judging by how angry the headline is I think he was actually successful

[maxknightley]

[through gritted teeth, veins visibly bulging] Actually you’ll find that I’m not mad at all, and also, that everyone who disagrees with me is a moron anyway

[fullpraxisnow]

Math proves that capitalism sucks and that capitalists are greedy.

[brosefvondudehomie-deactivated2]

So he gave millions and you gave $40 and feel like you’re doing more?

[pebbleofgod]

[teesadutta]

[archatlas]

The Colbert Report 11.19.14

[kyssthis16]

You see how she explained how race is a social construct (it is) while ALSO SAYING THAT RACISM EXISTS AND IS FUCKED UP? You see how she did that? Don’t mistake this for colorblindness because it clearly isn’t.

[r-dart]

[timemachineyeah]

  I’ve said this before and I’ll point it out again - 

Menstruation is caused by change in hormonal levels to stop the creation of a uterine lining and encourage the body to flush the lining out. The body does this by lowering estrogen levels and raising testosterone. 

Or, to put it more plainly “That time of the month” is when female hormones most closely resemble male hormones. So if (cis) women aren’t suited to office at “That time of the month” then (cis) men are NEVER suited to office.

If you are a dude and don’t dig the ladies around you at their time of the month, just think! That is you all of the time. 

And, on a final note, post-menopausal (cis) women are the most hormonally stable of all human demographics. They have fewer hormonal fluctuations of anyone, meaning older women like Hilary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren would theoretically be among the least likely candidates to make an irrational decision due to hormonal fluctuations, and if we were basing our leadership decisions on hormone levels, then only women over fifty should ever be allowed to hold office. 

[eroticmirotic]

Reblogging hard for that last comment.

[nyardynn]

I WANTED TO SAY THIS BUT THEN SOMEONE ELSE DID and I’m damn proud.

[cushfuddled]

GLORIOUS

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

Smash that mf reblog button if you stoically ignore all labelled washing instructions and everything your mama ever told you about laundry and just send those bastards hurgling around in an overfilled tub to meet either death or glory

[aphony-cree]

Something I learned from a costume designer: if an item can be washed multiple ways the designer is only legally obligated to put one of the ways on the tag, but if there’s only one way to wash that item they have to put Only on the instructions

If the tag says “Dry Clean” it’s safe to machine wash but the designer thinks it looks better if you get it dry cleaned 

But if it says “Dry Clean Only” you will destroy it if you wash it any other way

[fuzipenguin]

Reblogging for that last bit which this 37 yr old adult did not lnowy

[exciting]

where! has! my! passion! gone! I had it abundantly when I was a child, and I must have dropped it along the way, but I cannot figure where!

[exciting]

oh hey folks fun update, i found my passion again? i just had to find my right outlet, get to a place where I have aspirations, dispel apathy and pursue what I love, it’s all good and swell!

[skyderman]

reblog this to find the right outlet, get to a place where you have aspirations, dispel apathy and pursue what you love, and rediscover your passion.

[gracklesong]

Idg why people are against busty women in turtlenecks, literally who cares if you have “uniboob”? To whom do you owe separate and defined titties? Only cowards and fools fear the breast monolith

[dragon-in-a-fez]

do you ever just suddenly learn there’s apparently a whole Discourse you’ve never heard of before

[xelbleedsglitter]

Sick brain says: “… does fire have weight?”

[indigobluerose]

Husband is chemist and he says the gases that react to make the fire have weight, but the fire itself is energy and therefore does not have weight as we measure it.

[xelbleedsglitter]

cold medicated brain thanks mister indigo for his service

[just--space]

Hubble Images a Galaxy with Threads of Blue : A ripple of bright blue gas threads through this galaxy like a misshapen lake system. (via NASA)

[starlightgakuen]

[yuramectoo]

Me as a mom

[lord-dio-official]

She fucking flash stepped her way to the store lmao

[loremerchant]

Advanced tech

[agibufuziogaru]

Ashura Senku

[jeremy-ken-anderson]

Kosher?

One of my favorite kinds of discussions are points where people ask rabbis about obscure, impossible stuff and what the law would be regarding these strange situations. What I love about the discussions is that, generally, the rabbi will tackle the problem head-on, as if it were a serious issue, near as I can tell because they find a fundamental satisfaction in grappling with thought experiments. (Which makes sense - they’d have that in common with most clergy I’ve ever met)

So, like,

Fresh fruit is broadly considered inherently kosher. But if a fruit grew from a Bulbasaur - a creature clearly both plant and animal (unlike say Oddish or Bellsprout which are clearly ambulatory plants) - is it possible for that fruit not to be kosher? What would we need to know about the fruit in order for it to be okay? Would we need to be careful about how it’s gathered from the pokemon? Would you be limited in what other foods you could pair with it?

[realsadjewishhours]

This is such a interesting question and about a topic I researched the least about. But going off of what I know, which again keep in mind is very little other the plain and simple rules of what is and isn’t kosher and kind of general idea why. I’d say uhhhh… let’s eat some balbasaur fruit.

Look. All fruit, unless it comes from a tree planted in the last three years, a hybrid or infected with insects is kosher. So I see no reason for it to not be kosher

Unless it’s to be considered something akin to milk and a cow, in which case this would be different, and there may be dietary restrictions concerning when it can be eaten, but I doubt this would the case. Because you know, it’s not milk but a fruit. Unless the Law says something different.

So yah… let’s eat some fucking Pokémon fruit.

Any ideas Jumblr?

Again, if I said anything wrong keep in mind Kosher is my least knowledgeable subject but this conversation is interesting.

[cannibalisticshadows]

Coming from a living creature, there certainly would be some restrictions. I imagine the fruit must be picked on a weekday, not on shabbos, similarly to milk. Secondly, the Bulbasaur would have to be treated right and the fruit plucked humanely, like meat. Maybe it would even have to be plucked by another Jew. 

But yeah it’s a good topic of discussion.    

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

You can’t eat the fruit of a bulbasaur with the flesh of a bulbasaur maybe? But surely you wouldn’t eat a bulbasaur… right?

[magnetoisright]

No cloven hooves, Bulbasaur is not kosher, so that problem evaporates.

[realsadjewishhours]

Bulbasaur has hooves!?

[mockiato-deactivated20200315]

Those are his toes! They’re like little turtle feet. But turtles aren’t kosher either… if Bulbasaur isn’t kosher, does that mean the fruit of greens aren’t either?

[keshetchai]

He’s a grass type and therefore a PLANT. kosher.

[virtual-beit-midrash]

I think a better example would be bees and honey.  Bees are not kosher, honey is.

In the Mishna (tractate Bechorot, chapter 1), it says that whatever comes from a non-kosher animal is also non-kosher:

for that which comes from an impure species is impure and that which comes from a pure species is pure.

Therefore, milk that comes from a kosher animal is kosher, milk that comes from a non-kosher animal is not kosher.

In the Babylonian Talmud (Bechorot 7b), the sages ask: What about honey? 

Their answer:

It is because they bring the nectar from the flowers into their body, but they do not excrete it from their body as a bodily excretion.

That is, the honey is not a product of the bee (as is the case for milk).  The bee is just a facilitator for turning the nectar into honey.

So the question here is not whether the Bulbasaur is kosher or not, but whether it actually produces the plant in question, or just facilitates its growth.

[5amchicken]

I think what everyone seems to be missing is the mention of hybrid fruit not necessarily being kosher, and what is bulbasaur if not a plant-animal hybrid?