what skills do yall have that make you annoying abt seeing people do it in media. iâll go first i ran track for 6 years (first distance then sprinting) and i am physically incapable of not commenting on peopleâs running form
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what skills do yall have that make you annoying abt seeing people do it in media. iâll go first i ran track for 6 years (first distance then sprinting) and i am physically incapable of not commenting on peopleâs running form
Itâs like thisâŚ
Youâre fourteen and youâre reading Larry Nivenâs âThe Protectorâ because itâs your fatherâs favorite book and you like your father and you think he has good taste and the creature on the cover of the book looks interesting and you want to know what itâs about. And in it the female character does something better than the male character - because sheâs been doing it her whole life and heâs only just learned - and he gets mad that sheâs better at it than him. And you donât understand why he would be mad about that, because, logically, sheâd be better at it than him. Sheâs done it more. And heâs got a picture of a woman painted on the inside of his spacesuit, like a pinup girl, and it bothers you.
But youâre fourteen and you donât know how to put this into words.
And then youâre fifteen and youâre reading âOrphans of the Skyâ because itâs by a famous sci-fi author and itâs about a lost generation ship and how cool is that?!? but the women on the ship arenât given a name until theyâre married and you spend more time wondering what people call those women up until their marriage than you do focusing on the rest of the story. Even though this tidbit of information has nothing to do with the plot line of the story and is only brought up once in passing.
But itâs a random thing to get worked up about in an otherwise all right book.
Then youâre sixteen and you read âDuneâ because your brother gave it to you for Christmas and itâs one of those books you have to read to earn your geek card. You spend an entire afternoon arguing over who is the main character - Paul or Jessica. And the more you contend Jessica, the more he says Paul, and you canât make him see how the real hero is her. And you love Chani cause sheâs tough and good with a knife, but at the end of the day, her killing Paulâs challengers is just a way to degrade them because those weenies lost to a girl.
Then youâre seventeen and you donât want to read âStranger in a Strange Landâ after the first seventy pages because something about it just leaves a bad taste in your mouth. All of this talk of water-brothers. You canât even pin it down.
And then youâre eighteen and youâve given up on classic sci-fi, but that doesnât stop your brother or your father from trying to get you to read more.
Even when you bring them the books and bring them the passages and show them how the authors didnât treat women like people.
Your brother says, âWell, that was because of the time it was written in.â
You get all worked up because these men couldnât imagine a world in which women were equal, in which women were empowered and intelligent and literate and capable.Â
You tell him - this, this is science fiction. This is all about imagining the world that could be and they couldnât stand back long enough and dare to imagine how, not only technology would grow in time, but society would grow.Â
But he blows you off because he canât understand how it feels to be fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen and desperately wanting to like the books your father likes, because your father has good taste, and being unable to, because most of those books tell you that youâre not a full person in ways that are too subtle to put into words. Itâs all cognitive dissonance: a little like a song played a bit out of tempo - enough that you recognize itâs off, but not enough to pin down what exactly is wrong.
And then one day youâre twenty-two and studying sociology and some kind teacher finally gives you the words to explain all those little feelings that built and penned around inside of you for years.
Itâs like the world clicking into place.Â
And thatâs something your brother never had to struggle with.
This is an excellent post to keep in mind when you see another recent post criticizing the current trend of dystopian sci-fi and going on about how sci-fi used to be about hope and wonder. No. It used to be about men. And now itâs not.
Concept: Alternate surgical techniques for top surgery that mask what the scars are from, for stealth trans men
Ex:
Call this one Fought A Grizzly And Won
Call this one the Industrial Workplace Accident
This one is the Got Vivisectioned But Iâm Ok Now
Reasons Why Orym Appeals Specifically To Me:
Exhibit A: He Is So Fucking Gender
Hippie energy/fashion sense in a masculine/butch way. But not in a way that makes you feel like he thinks smelling good is unhealthy/unnatural (if you grew up in that community You Know What Iâm Talking About). The FLOWERS, the LEAF DECALS, the EARTH TONES, the SANDALS, also everyone who draws him with a pierced ear and/or a laurel wreath is holding my heart in their hands.
TATTOO SLEEVE TATTOO SLEEVE TATTOO SLEEVE TATTOO SLEEVE TATTOO SL-
Crew cut but in a soft Gender way, not an Aggressively Heterosexual Dudebro way.
Hot Manlet Representation (I am not even two feet taller than this man, short hot men give me life)
Built like a male ballerina/Greek athlete, just, yeah⌠yeah.
Exhibit B: You Are My Dad Boogie-Woogie-Woogie
It is very possible Orym may have kids, presumably (hopefully) grown adult kids. We donât really know how old he is. Halflings live to 150-200ish, Scanlan may have been the oldest PC chronologically but he was only like, a tenth of the way through his life and had a full grown kid. Long lived races just Do That lol. We know thereâs probably a dead husband in there somewhere so like, maybe?? Regardless of whether heâs an actual dad, his DILF energy is off the charts!
Unfortunately For Him, he is the smartest, most practical party member two campaigns in a row. #Relatable
âYou really tied the whole room togetherâ DAD JOKES
He Is So Tired, but heâs super sweet and patient anyway.
Treating not knowing Jack shit about magic being treated like not knowing Jack shit about technology: wigging out after being sent messages, the Sending Stone Shenanigans. Again #relateable
Exhibit C: Built to Protect and Serve aka He Is So SOFT
Literally built mechanically to protect his friends. Designed to take hits for other people by either leaping in front of them with his shield or goading them to pick on him instead. Amazing.
Is immediately ready to throw down bow matter how cautious he was being before if someone, NPC or PC, is in danger.
Absolutely REFUSED to take a healing potion unless it was suggested he could save someone else with it. (And then he did!)
Generally being the moral compass/soft leader of the group, soft steady handed direction, love it.
Not really soft boy thing, but that investigator shit is like, sexy but in a Columbo way. Unassuming guy being really good at checking shit out.
Exhibit D: Heâs Just A Little Guy Come On Heâs Just A Smallest Little Tiny Dude Aww Man And Also Itâs His Birthday Heâs Just A Little Birthday Boyyyy
Climbing creates in order to open them
The âto scaleâ sandwich situation
âI pat him on the hipâ
Jeezus I am a short king myself, and this man is canonically up to my elbow like what
He is just So Small
Just a tiny little man
He fumkin BOUNCE, like the worlds most lethal Tigger
Weird hang ups about pie
Flirting with Dorian just a wee bit (just like he is wee)
âWorldâs Littlest Punching Bagâ D:
Liam method acting and constantly reminding us physically and verbally he is Oh So Small to distract us from the fact Orym has the most HP aside from Ashton
In Conclusion
I Never Stood A Chance
She mocked up everything been pressed by hydraulic compressor
Okay but vi's design is so perfect there's NO way a lesbian wasn't behind it. The arms??? Majestic. The hair??? Beautiful. The slight nick on the lip??? Pornography on main. What were they thinking just unleashing her on touch-starved pandemic-isolated gays she is literally a health hazard she is haunting my dreams I have an ache in my chest that is entirely related to the way she looks at Caitlyn in that one scene what am I supposed to do with all these feelings
I know Iâve said it before but itâs impossible to find my old posts on tumblr so Iâll say it again; if you feel insecure about having nerdy/âchildishâ hobbies as you get older, watch Critical Role. Marisha is the baby of the gang at 32, most of them are in their 40s now, and theyâre all still a bunch of goofy nerds who have fun playing make-believe while rolling dice and openly love comics and cartoons and video games. Taliesin dyes his hair bright colors, both him and Matt paint their nails, theyâve all got nerdy tattoos, they cosplay and wear silly outfits and I know several of them own kigurumi. They cuddle with each other and get unabashedly excited about things that happen when theyâre playing a game where they pretend to be elves and wizards and shit, and several of them are known to cry when they talk about how much they love their friends.
Look, if theyâre allowed to do it, you are too. Be nerdy, be silly, be open, let yourself get excited and feel things, have fun with life! Youâre never too old for it!
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havenât watched CR in ages, but love all the hot boi Essek art iâve been seeing, so have some from me! (partly thanks to @horacia putting said content on my dash :) )
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I'm still processing how fucking funny it was to watch the Crows run around during the events of Shadow and Bone. Like on the one hand they accomplished pretty much NOTHING they set out to accomplish and every single one of their plans went horribly awry, but on the other hand??? They snuck into the little palace? Inej killed TWO Inferni? They carjacked the Darkling? Jesper went up against a heartrender who had on a bullet-proof kefta with a gun and won? The Darkling tried to use the cut on Kaz and he got out of it with what was basically a magic trick? They snuck onto the skiff? Inej STABBED the Darkling? Kaz fought off a fricking Volcra with his CANE? Accomplishing nothing but with STUNNING proficiency. And at the end Alina's just like "gotta appreciate the effort, fam. Have these priceless jewels and go back to being crime lords in Ketterdam, please."
Shadow and Bone + đ
I think one of the most disturbing things about the popular narrative we teach around the Holocaust is how the âNo one knew,â myth still flourishes and is still widely spoken and believed. âNo one knew what was happening until the camps were liberated! The world was shocked!â was taught to me when I was a child and was likely taught to many of you too. Iâve even heard it said aloud in Holocaust testimonies classes, even after weâve read testimonies that directly contradict this falsehood. People are really fucking attached to it.
âNo one knew!â has been repeatedly disputed and disproven, to the point where the mass narrative of it has become terribly indicative of peopleâs need to dispel feelings of guilt and shame above all else. Even above telling the truth.
Im p sure the original narrative of âno one knew!â was in part the result of low-level German and Polish bureaucrats seeking to avoid arrest and prosecution, because there was a dearth of specific written orders in regards to outlining the machinations of The Final Solution. Which allowed many to claim ignorance and innocence. But it also has been useful in the reimagining of the allies role in the Holocaust, reimagining their complicit silence and inaction into the shock and disgust of witnesses and good liberators.
Because people DID know. Jan Karski infiltrated the Warsaw ghetto before it was liquidated and witnessed firsthand exactly what was happening to the Jewish people. He was sent by the Polish Underground to the UK carrying a message for the UN titled âThe Mass Extermination of the Jews in German Occupied Poland.â He had a direct audience with Roosevelt, where he attempted to provide details of what was happening to compel the allied forces to act before it was too late. This was in 42-43.
In 1944, the New York Times published a story about the Warsaw ghetto uprising WHILE IT WAS HAPPENING. This wasnât a mystery in the states. People knew about the forced ghettoization of the Polish Jews and what they faced as they fought back.
Lanzmannâs Shoah presents several interviews with Polish onlookers outside of Treblinka who, in laughing and awkward remembrance, explained how they would slash their fingers across their throats at Jewish people arriving in cattle cars to âwarn them about their fate.â This was in the early period of the Holocaust, before the mechanized, mass exterminations of Auschwitz.
Also in Shoah, several Polish women and men in villages outside of Sobibor (who smilingly explain that their lot in life improved after the local Jews were rounded up and transported to the death camp) acknowledged that yes, at the time, they knew of the fate of their neighbors. They knew they were going to their death and would not be returning. Which is the only way we can explain how quickly Jewish homes and businesses were taken over by their neighbors and city councils.
Like. Iâm neck deep in Holocaust testimonials lately and keep knocking my head against this specific Holocaust myth and I feel horrified that it continues and people keep fucking saying it with little introspection on why the narrative is so attractive to them.
Black Earth, by Timothy Snyder contains this, thematically similar chestnut:
âThe big ghettos, such as Warsaw, took on a kind of colonial appearance, as rickshaws replaced automobiles (stolen by Germans) and the streetcar service (restricted by Germans). The luster of subjugation attracted German tourists, who often returned home with a pleasant sense of imperial mastery.â
Snyder points to Elisabeth Harveyâs âWomen and the Nazi East: Agents and Witnesses of Germanizationâ for more details about early/prepatory elements of the Holocaust as a purposefully tourist-accessible spectacle.
From the beginning, the Holocaust was driven by publicly visible violence and deprivation, and often was deliberately made as visible as possible because it served as propaganda to a huge cohort of Germans who actively supported the Nazi regimeâs actions and in many cases specifically participated in them.
To claim otherwise is to deny history and give fascists a means to claim ignorance (and hence innocence).
Y E S.
Also what needs to be acknowledgedâŚthe public spectacle of starvation and degradation went part and parcel with antisemitic propaganda forwarded by the Nazis. When people witnessed the degradation of the Jewish people in the ghetto, they felt disgusted. This disgust was very strategically directed at the Jewish people themselves, not at the regime who had created their degradation. The nazis specifically considered this in the creation of their uniforms, to be neat and clean and sharp. Juxtaposed with the unkempt, starved, sick and foreign-seeming Jewish people, onlookers were encouraged to place the blame of degradation and dehumanization on the victims instead of on the SS, who were neatly dressed, healthy, cleancut. This propaganda was scarily effective and still is, in the way young white nationalists lean towards rehabilitating the image of Nazi Germany over accepting this history of violence and genocide.
Not to wear out Black Earth but-
The next morning the âscrubbing partiesâ began. Members of the Austrian SA [the Nazi paramilitary], working from lists, from personal knowledge, and from the knowledge of passerby, identified Jews and forced them to kneel and clean the streets with brushes This was a ritual humiliation. Jews, often doctors and lawyers or other professionals, were suddenly on their knees performing the menial labor in front of jeering crowds. Ernest Pollak remembered the spectacle of the âscrubbing partiesâ as âamusement for the Austrian population.â A journalist described the âfluffy Viennese blondes, fighting on another to get closer to the elevating spectacle of the ashen-faced Jewish surgeon on hands and knees before a half dozen young hooligans with Swastika armlets and dog-whips.â
Admittedly, thatâs from the Anschluss period, which usually is framed as preparation for rather than the enactment of the Holocaust. That said, Snyder lays out the clear historical case that from those kinds of specifically public humiliations to later attempts to incite pogroms in conquered territory emerged the ideas of ghettoizing, then starving, and ultimately systematically killing Jews.
The Holocaust originated as something to be seen, but which people have been taught to believe was invisible as it occurred. Thereâs a kind of question being begged by that weird discrepancy - why are people so routinely taught something so wildly wrong about it?
I cast haste
As someone who works in retail, let me tell you that it is exactly like this. Its been over a year of this pandemic and people still do shit like this all the time.
Yarn Types and Feelings:
Worsted: Nothing to see here. This is the archetype of yarniness and I am the archetype of knitting. Stable. Secure. Can pass off hobby as casual if need be.Â
Bulky: I am a WIZARD and I am making VAST amounts of cloth appear by MAGIC. You get a hat! And you get a hat! Everybody gets a hat! Also my scarf is now 18 ft long but thatâs justâŚyou know. For fun.Â
Baby/Sport: I am making littol things. Every stitch represents tender love. Yes I did listen only to horror podcasts while making this but what does that matter? Thereâs a lace flower but a babyâs existence is all about showing off what you can make, just because Iâm not a parent doesnât mean I canât be part of that.
Sock/Fingering: Completely unhinged. Every project is the building of an obsession-washed edifice, that will never, ever, ever be done. Time ceases to exist. Worse podcasts must be found, worse movies must be found, because the most important parts of the brain must serve THE PATTERN.
Lace/Thread: [content locked until level 32]
Not a knitter but I admire yâallâs madness.