i am the narwhal

six word autobiography: my hands are my favorite part (30s, ace lady, crafter, baker, perpetual lurker)

[worst-roommates-ever]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

today's reason I fucking love the open source community: Ageless Linux, a brand new Debian-based operating system specifically designed to break the law by giving children access to computers that explicitly refuse to track their age.

[dragon-in-a-fez]

reblog this post to help a child break the law

[0x5742]

oh goddamn this whole page goes so hard actually, please go read it. what an impressive, visceral takedown of this dumb law

[girl-mercury]

nickname poll

So currently I answer to my full first name (which I usually introduce myself with) as well as two nicknames/diminutives plus my last name when people mistake it for a first name. There are two or three other nicknames I've also gone by in the past. I'm perfectly fine with this, or neutral at minimum-- I have a common name and have had to be flexible with how I'm distinguished for my whole life. I also don't feel a deep and fundamental connection of my name with my identity, though I think going by another name entirely would confuse me.

A number of friends have been appalled at me being called names I don't say are my name. Which is really weird to me, although I'd go to battle for anyone else who was getting either deadnamed or called something they didn't want. But this perspective seems surprisingly common!

How do you feel about being called something other than the name you introduce yourself with?

I think it's fun if people give me (non-derogatory) nicknames or shorten my name

I don't care if people call me something else and will answer to it

I'm mildly uncomfortable or annoyed but won't make an issue of it

I HATE being called something else and will always correct people

Nuance in tags/Vanilla extract/I'm bald

Remaining time: 6 days 2 hours

[thundergrace]

that's hot

[cognitiveinequality]

[yellbug]

one really really really funny thing you realize when you are studying history is that people pretty much always desperately wanted to post online and would have been soooooo fucking crazy on here. i wish hildegard of bingen was oomf

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

[cacodaemonia]

and if those are both in one fic, then bonus! 😙👌

[tzikeh]

More examples of the WORST mansplaining here.

[useyourblinker]

This might be my favorite

[lotsofcatsandcheapwine]

This is mine

[stockyardsyndrome]

[tikkety-tok]

I swear, even if you haven't seen FMA, I think you might appreciate the fucking talent! 🤩

[reallycoolsoup]

The hotdogs taped together with what looks like scotch tape really makes this for me

[russsiawave]

[postilionstruckbylightning]

I don’t like how you put these two photos together, as if to imply that the dumplings with the paw print have anything to do with this sweet, innocent angel who has never done anything wrong.

[creekfiend]

Idk which of you weird gay nerds needs to hear this but I just read "machamp" and my brain went "yeah. Marcel Duchamp's nickname."

[creekfiend]

Did you know the original of the fountain is missing? Thats hysterical. It could be anywhere. Watch out

[michaelnordeman]

Hooded crow/Corvus corone cornix/kråka aka gråkråka. Mariehamn, Åland (25 May 2026).

[flutterbvnny]

daddy has regretfully informed kitten that we need a dual income household to survive

[victusinveritas]

[hedgehogoftime]

Rereading the Lord of the Rings series recently, and it's so fascinating to me how much the series is a denial of the typical juvenile power-fantasy that is associated with the fantasy genre.

Like, the power-fantasy is the temptation the Ring uses against people It tempts Boromir with becoming the "one true king" that could save his people with fantastic power. It tempts Sam with being the savior of Middle Earth and turning the ruin that is Mordor into a great garden. It tempts Gandalf and Galadriel with being the messianic figure of legend who brings salvation to Middle Earth and great glory to herself.

The things the Ring tempts people with are becoming the typical protagonists of fantasy stories that we expect to see. and over and over we see that accepting that role, that fantasy of being the benevolent all-powerful hero, is a bad thing. LotR is about how power, even power wielded with benevolent intent, is corrupting.

And its so fascinating how so much of modern fantasy buys into the very fantasy LotR denies. Most modern fantasy is about being that Heroic power-fantasy. About good amassing power to rival evil. But LotR dares not to. It dares to be honest that there is no world where anyone amasses that power and remains good.

I guess that's one of the reasons its so compelling.

[yoohyeon]

ᴀ ᴄʟᴏᴜᴅʟᴇꜱꜱ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ɪꜰ ᴏɴʟʏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇ ᴀ ʙʟᴜᴇ ꜰᴏɢ ᴀɴᴅ ᴇᴍʙʀᴀᴄᴇ ᴍᴇ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ɪꜰ ɪ’ᴍ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀᴛʜ ɪ ᴡᴀꜱ ʟᴏꜱᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ᴡᴀɴᴅᴇʀɪɴɢ ᴏɴ ᴀʟʟ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ᴛɪʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴀʏ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ʙᴀᴄᴋ ɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴡᴀɪᴛ

PIRI - Dreamcatcher (2019)

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[theonion]

[ithappensoffstage]

I completely sold out of my jacob wysocki zine at paperjam today 😭🙏 thank you and much love