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the worst writing crime you can ever commit in my opinion is watering down the dirty talk because you’re self-conscious that it sounds like it’s from a bad porno…..i cannot stress this enough……leave it alone. the moment you tell yourself he would not fucking say that you’re doomed. people will say almost anything if their dick is hard enough
Stephen King wrote this.
the funniest and most tragic moment in steven universe is the scene that implies that Pearl pulls bitches like a professional dog walker but doesn't know how phones work so her place on earth is being a life-changing futch fling for every dyke on the east coast there's probably a gay bar in maryland where they talk about the twiggy bird chick that eats milf pussy like it's the last edible thing on earth and they dont even know about the city full of thousand year old neon lesbian amazons who are pent up 24/7 from The War and leaving room for jesus cause they're always hanging out with their softboy nephew who might be the second coming of christ
In a single sentence, no less.
I spent the afternoon arranging our books by size and color (and it’s so satisfying and looks amazing) and my partner came home and stared in shock at the bookcase and then said “i’m a librarian, you can’t do this.”
him: you split up all the song of ice and fire books
me: yeah i know, they’re all primary colors, it’s perfect
him: [self-destructs]
You’re a monster
As a former bookstore employee, this hurts my soul. I mean, sure it looks nice, but how do you find anything?
it has occurred me during this process that apparently not everyone thinks about books by what color they are? like, literally when i’m looking for a book, i picture it in my mind. i have a very…tactile experience with the books i read and idk! i thought everyone did that lol.
my partner was like “how will i find [this book] for instance” and i replied “easy, it’s purple” and he looked at me like i was a witch.
OP your brain is neat and I love you for it you funky little color-coded cupcake. But you’re still a monster.
This actually is interesting in terms of information-seeking behavior, which is a thing librarians think about a lot and often actually study (some library jobs require you to publish, and academic librarians, for instance, will often use the students at the college they work at to study how they search for information in order to figure out how to best provide them services).
When you go for an MLS (Master’s of Library Science, which is a thing, and which is usually required for “professional-level” library work [which is also a weird and contentious concept that I won’t go into here]), one of the things you study is the organization of information. This deals with how to determine what a book or other material is “about"—a concept we tongue-in-cheek call “aboutness"—and how to convey that to a potential user of the item and make it easy for them to find. Things like keywords and subject headings, do I put this book about how often wild birds attack aerial drones in with books about birds or with books about technology, if its a fictional novel do I put fantasy in it’s own section or mix it in with all of the other fiction, so on and so on.
OP is organizing books by how they would look for them. OP’s partner is thinking in terms of aboutness. This is a system that works for OP because it’s their personal library: they know basically what books they own and they only own books that are relevant to them, and if they know what the book looks like, that can be a quick way to find it.
In a library that assumes the public (or people who do not own that particular collection of books) are using the collection, that doesn’t work. Books are often re-issued in multiple covers, or re-bound in new covers when they get worn out, and if the user doesn’t know what the book looks like or is expecting a different cover, they’re lost. That’s why non-personal libraries used standardized cataloging systems like the Dewey Decimal System or Library of Congress System to organize a book by what it’s “about”, and then put books about the same or similar topics together, marked with labels and signage so a person unfamiliar with the book or collection can find their way to it.
Basically, OP’s system works for their own personal library, because it’s best suited to how the primary user—OP themselves—looks for books. OP’s librarian partner is coming from a background of thinking in terms of a public-facing collection, where aboutness is the key criteria and communicating it to a user unfamiliar with the collection is the priority.
And also, OP is a monster.
As a color blind person I want to get on the OP is a monster train. But… I might actually have them beat for idiosyncratic cataloguing.
Until my wife hard vetoed it when we merged our libraries, I arranged my non-fiction by Biblical day of creation. I went back to Genesis 1 and sorted everything into nine broad categories, presented below in roughly the order they were catalogued in within each day.
Pre-Creation: Things which either textually or self evidently existed In the Beginning, ie before the seven days of creation. This is primarily mathematics, but in early versions of the system it included geology, hydrology, and weather. In later versions I included anything abstractly about gender as a topic, for C.S. Lewis related reasons.
Day 1: Physics.
Day 2: Oceanography, weather.
Day 3: Geography, botany.
Day 4: Astronomy
Day 5: Marine Biology, ornithology.
Day 6: All other zoology, general biology, anthropology.
Day 7: Religion
Post-Creation: History, art, so on.
I enjoyed this system which has been called ‘stunningly off-putting, even for you’ by some good friends and ‘I just brought you to church because I wanted you to have a healthy moral grounding, I don’t know where you got all this’ by my mom.
OP, you’re not a monster. I get you. In a general sense. As previously mentioned I am color blind so please do not rearrange my books.
I ate a couple slices of apple this morning before my estradiol finished dissolving under my tongue and the taste was… unique. Call that the Eve Special.
I wish they would realize that universal healthcare doesn’t mean they HAVE to get healthcare through the state, just that it is there. You can still pay millions of dollars out of pocket for your own treatment at a private hospital.
America actually has terrible healthcare compared to a lot of nations with socialized medicine:
But you can see how powerful the ‘America is the greatest country on earth’ propaganda is in our schools.
In fact America does have the best health care in the world… among countries without universal health care.
I can't believe home depot literally produced a wildly successful science fiction musical and we all just pretend it didn't happen. on one hand yes it had a boring white guy main character but like.... home depot just... Made it? And it had shit ton of box office sales? and no one even talks about this. this is like avatar (2009) all over again
OK so. After a lot of frantic googling I realized this was all a dream. home depot did not in fact produce a wildly successful science fiction musical. I was on allergy meds and took a nap and my brain simply prophesized this. slightly disappointed because I wanted to watch it.
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I was fully prepared to believe this whole deal. After all, an automotive repair manual company did publish one of the greatest science fiction novels of all time.
"I asked ChatGPT" well I asked Rupert Giles and he sighed and took off his glasses and started cleaning them
*my wife and I are lying in bed reading on our phones*
Me: They don’t call it drunk driving in England, they call it… drink-drive?
My (English-born) Wife: Drink-Driving. Yeah.
Me: *pause* How did they ever rule the world?!? Ridiculous country.
*long pause*
Her: Well… you know. Swings and roundabouts.
Me: I’m going to scream.
“But it’s not about the owl monster statue in the basement!”
“It’s always about the thing you’re hiding in the basement.”
Random lines from comedy shows sometimes just blow your heart out the back of your chest. Thank you Dimension 20.
“bits to use in everyday conversations”
When people compliment my name I say "thanks I got it for my birthday"
My deadname wasn’t very common, but my new name is reasonably common and all the time now when I introduce myself and someone will say something like, ‘My daughter’s name is Abigail!’ and the first time someone did that I discovered my instinctive response was to say something like, ‘Oh wow! My mother’s daughter’s name is Abigail!’ in a surprised voice. I have made one person laugh of the dozens I’ve said this to, a lovely old lady with whom I made fast friends.
when i was a kid i was so mad all the time bc i thought someday i'd have to be somebody's wife i didn't know it was optional. is everybody reminding the young girls in their lives that it's optional.
AND SO IS BEING SOMEBODY'S MOTHER‼️
it is about being a woman. hope that helps!
reading comprehension questions for the notes:
is wanting to be a wife and mother a requirement for being a woman?
why might OP be annoyed with replies assuming that this post is about being aroace or transmasc if a woman doesn’t want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to sexuality and romantic interest that might make a woman not want to be a wife or mother?
are there reasons unrelated to gender identity and expression that might make a woman not want to be a wife and mother?
core concept: what is gender essentialism?
is it gender essentialism to imply that all women inherently want to be wives and mothers? could this be what OP is critiquing?
look at the notes OP responds to. is it gender essentialism to imply that being a wife and mother is so affixed to womanhood that to not want to be those things means you’re incapable of sexual/romantic feelings, or not a woman?
what trait are you perpetuating when you assume that women who do not want to be wives and mothers must be aroace or trans? is it gender essentialism?
sometimes I think about how far we still have to go with consent
my worst relatives try to sneak meat or meat products into my food despite the fact that I'm a vegetarian
my ex's brother gave his mother an edible without her knowledge and when she got freaked out and paranoid they laughed, and people I've told that go "yeah that's shitty but it's just weed"
when I go to the doctor and ask them to describe what they are going to do before touching me they get frustrated
when I ask a friends of a friend who is a small influencer to keep me out of frame in videos they film for social media in public they look at me like I've pissed in their cereal
idk man, we've got a long way to go.
I think this person is (or hopefully was) just surrounded by shitty people.
I know lots of people with food restrictions, some for ethical, some for religious, some for medical, and some for sheer preference reasons and I don’t know anyone who would fuck with their food by trying to sneak something in they didn’t want to eat. I know one or two people who won’t fuss about cross contamination and they make sure that’s known - some people with non-trace sensitivities are okay with that (a little soy isn’t going to kill me, just don’t feed me tofu) and some aren’t. But no one would meaningfully add something on someone.
I don’t know anyone who would drug someone against their will. Some of my friends let it be known they’re willing to be dosed by surprise, but no one would ever drug someone without their general consent. I don’t know what we’d do if we knew someone did that. Maybe call the police? Certainly no one I know would speak to them again. It’s a fully shocking thought that someone would do that (let alone to their mother). And I don’t live in a drug free context, but folks are careful. If you told me that story I wouldn’t say ‘yeah that’s shitty but it’s just weed,’ I’d say, ‘it doesn’t sound like she’s safe there. We need to think about safeguarding procedures and getting her psychological assistance and maybe a new place to stay.’
And you definitely need a new doctor. I’ve never had a doctor lay hands on me without telling me why ahead of time. They don’t get affirmative consent for every thing they do, it’s a presumed consent situation, but they’ve never failed to warn me or give me an opportunity to say ‘no’ to a particular thing or ask for clarification.
And I’ve also asked someone to keep me out of a shot when they were recording a thing. They kept me out of the shot. Obviously. It’s basic courtesy.
Maybe I’m surrounded by folks with an above average sense of consent. But I think that’s just how people are in general? At least in my context. I hope your people get better, or you find better people.
Yet another new study debunked the basis for the anti-trans sports bans. It was never about sports but for creating legal avenues for exclusion and abjection. This is one of the largest analyses ever conducted, involving 52 studies and 6,485 trans people. Read the study here.
post so nice had to reblog it twice and force it down everyone's throats
post so nice had to
reblog it twice and force it
down everyone’s throats
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Note as someone who has visited and driven in most of the 48 lower contiguous states of the 50 small countries in a trenchcoat that make up the USA;
The drivers of all states suck, of course, this is a given. HOWEVER. There are some very special places that stand out among these. In order of how in fear for my life I was.
3. Houston. Drivers in Texas in general treat speed limits as a lower limit for how fast you should be going and the drivers in Houston show no regard for life or limb.
2. Atlanta. The drivers of Atlanta do not fear death for themselves and would rather you both die than let you merge.
Fucking. New Jersey. If I never drive I-95 or the Turnpike again I will die happy. You've never known fear until you see someone neglect to use turn signals and Jersey Slide through 4 lanes of near bumper to bumper 80 MPH traffic and cut in front of you to make their exit as you slam the brakes on and miss rear ending them by about half an inch.
On the flip side, the BEST driving I've ever seen? Suprisingly, New Orleans. Now, I went NOT during Mardi Gras, but I found the drivers there to be courtious and cautious with a very few exceptions. 10/10.
Side note; New Orleans also has the best food, hands down bar none. Ya'll down there know how to COOK.
I've never driven in Houston (and plan never to do so) but I can confirm that Dallas traffic is similar. It's absolutely ridiculous. The description of Atlanta is spot on. I made the mistake of using my turn signal and I swear five cars sped up to keep me in my lane.
As to New Orleans, agreed. It was an absolute pleasure driving there though going up a two hundred foot tall bridge is a bit nerve wracking.
Legit was filling the car up and one NOLA resident heard us talking about where to get lunch, and the man wandered over, introduced himself, gave us a reccomendation for a little resturant, detailed directions, and offered to lead us there.
We found it without him leading us there but like, great city, great people, and the food was in fact fantastic. Some of the best biscuits I've ever eaten.
I thought the huge bridge was cool, but then I'm used to driving enormous bridges over the Mississippi!
I grew up and live in New Jersey and you’re not wrong, that’s just how it be. But I’m don’t taking shit about Jersey driving since I drove in Italy. Never mind the traffic in the cities that can best be described as ‘improvisational’, it’s once you get out into the country that it gets fully wild. Those fuckers will do seventy up and down series of hairpin turns on mountain cliffs without the least safety rails IN TOTAL DARKNESS.
I’ve driven in some fucked to situations. I’ve changed a tire on a bridge on the Turnpike in the pouring rain, waiting for someone to hit me. I’ve had fuckers Jersey slide within six inches of me. Never have I been more sure I was going to die than when I drove through the back roads of Tuscany at night. It’s a whole other thing guys.
chose a hill but i won't die on it. feel free to come and be killed on my hill
Hang on, I need to look something up.
So, I’m sorry that took so long, but I had to travel to the White City and look long through the archives of Minis Tirith, but I found not all I was seeking and so I rode for Isengard to take council with the leader of my order where I learned what I sought and also that Saruman the White has been turned after gazing too long and too deeply into the Palantir and has thrown in with the forces of the Dark Lord and he imprisoned me atop his fastness of Orthanc until I gained rescue by the aid of Gwaihir, the Lord of the Eagles, gaining me both my freedom and that critical information I needed to make here my reply.
Yeah, that’s funny.
really losing my patience for any 'feminist' statement to the tune of 'we need feminism because women fill a fundamentally different and necessary role than men and will be better at doing x y or z'. like actually i think we need feminism because it is an unbearable death of the spirit by inches to exist in a world where you are not seen as a fully realized human being because of a single cultural determination, and because a world that enshrines such things creates systems that are fundamentally sick to the core
Any system that assigns different roles and responsibilities to different classes of people and includes ‘determining what roles and responsibilities are assigned to whom’ as one delegated exclusively to one class is inherently suspect and must be presumed to be functioning in bad faith unless affirmatively justified.
i recently saw a tiktok where a woman asked "girlies: what are some things you do to be more whimsical? I love knowing cute little habbits"
and i've never loved a comment section more. some of my faves:
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I talk to basically everything as if it's a person. I greet passing crows as my "cousins." I respond conversationally to my cats. I yell "same to you!" when inanimate objects make loud noises. I say good morning to plants. I thank my phone when an alarm goes off. When objects don't act the way I want them to I explain what I need them to do, or tell them they're being rude. I tell my car when we're stopping for gas.
I reassure credit card readers who are struggling that I know they are doing their best. Bless you, you funky lil machine, I'm sorry my dad is part of the reason people hate you. :(
If an object looks like it's about to roll away or fall over I'll put it in its place and then raise my index finger and one eyebrow at it like it's a naughty child or a cat about to push a glass of water over, like "Ah ah ah! Stay where you are!" I did this to my groceries last week and the checkout lady saw me and said "That was adorable."
Whenever my wife or I are leaving the house and the other one isn’t there we let our stuffed animals know which one is in charge. Ceri (the triceratops) and Stabitha (the blahaj) are well known as the most responsible. George (the five foot tall penguin) had never been in charge and we were a bit dubious, but we decided to leave him in charge once and the dog got something she should have and made a mess, so he hasn’t been in charge. Son of George (the three foot tall penguin) has and she is very responsible.
