AnaTovRocktail

no clue what the fuck is going on 95% of the time

[anatovrocktail]

247 acres of the New Forest (10 miles from my childhood home) went up in flames yesterday.

247 acres of heathland and ancient forest that are rarer habitats than rainforests.

I can see the smoke from Southampton as a haze on the horizon.

Thankfully there are no reported injuries or deaths but seeing the place you grew up in burn to a crisp, well I just want to cry.

We used to get rain in the summer. We've gone 41 days without any and only 2.2mm in 59 days.

This is not normal.

[anatovrocktail]

Multiple roads closed including the A31 due to damage and other roads around the area to allow emergency services to access the fire. One in the hamlet I lived for the first 20 years of my life.

A major problem the fire service is having is that the area on fire is peat bogs that have dried out so it keeps getting hotspots and reigniting because peat burns really well.

And two more fires happened in the next big village, one possibly started deliberately.

What the fuck is wrong with people? You are in one of the most beautiful places in the world and you want to set it alight?

[anatovrocktail]

Latest estimate is 200 acres burned.

It's nothing compared to what is going on in mainland europe or the american continent but when you come from a small place 200 acres is huge.

All the respect to fire services from out of area who are helping in full housefire turnout gear in 30° + heat. That isn't designed for a 10 hour shift on heathland.

[anatovrocktail]

247 acres of the New Forest (10 miles from my childhood home) went up in flames yesterday.

247 acres of heathland and ancient forest that are rarer habitats than rainforests.

I can see the smoke from Southampton as a haze on the horizon.

Thankfully there are no reported injuries or deaths but seeing the place you grew up in burn to a crisp, well I just want to cry.

We used to get rain in the summer. We've gone 41 days without any and only 2.2mm in 59 days.

This is not normal.

[anatovrocktail]

Multiple roads closed including the A31 due to damage and other roads around the area to allow emergency services to access the fire. One in the hamlet I lived for the first 20 years of my life.

A major problem the fire service is having is that the area on fire is peat bogs that have dried out so it keeps getting hotspots and reigniting because peat burns really well.

And two more fires happened in the next big village, one possibly started deliberately.

What the fuck is wrong with people? You are in one of the most beautiful places in the world and you want to set it alight?

[xiaq]

I’m fifty papers in to this round of grading. Please enjoy a selection of out-of-context comments I’ve left on students’ papers so far:

Further updates as warranted.

[xiaq]

Important update as we hit paper 70. 

Memo to all college writers. If you’re going to write a paper on country music for a born-and-raised Texan professor, make sure you’ve got your facts straight. 

[xiaq]

And with this, I conclude my first round of freshman grading. Hallelujah. In general, I’m quite proud of the work they turned in. Importantly: not a single person failed.

[ittybittytatertot]

I don’t think adding nonbinary to Victorian’s gender system would’ve fixed their weird sexism. If anything I think it would’ve made them weirder and sexismier

[ittybittytatertot]

Someone needs to write a satirical etiquette book in the style of a Victorian with rules for Ladies, Gentlemen, and Honorables in Polite Society.

[mrfandomwars]

Oh please someone do this

[ittybittytatertot]

It would go something like

Of course, fashionable Honorables may be consternated by the proper open collar blouses as there is no way to tie a bow or cravat around it. In such cases a bow may be worn upon the top hat. Or a slim ribbon may be tied around the bare neck, however, given the salacious reputation some hold for such an accessory, that is best left to married Honorables.

[ittybittytatertot]

YES. the way this hasn’t left my mind….Like okay they’re still Victorians. They’re still sexist and homophobic. My thought for this alternate history is third gender people are expected to only marry into already married couples. And they’d probably throw in a lot of Christian Holy Trinity and Mary Joseph God imagery to religiously validate triads.

Or three people (of all different genders of course bc again. They’re Victorian) could marry all at once but the courting situation would be a nightmare.

My question is,,, would Honorables have a dowry?

[bemusedlybespectacled]

First thought: coverture. Coverture is the legal idea that a married couple is one entity, with the wife not having an actual legal identity of her own. This is why there's the old-fashioned convention of women taking on their husband's entire name (e.g. "Mrs. Robert Smith"), why men could control any inheritance or money their wives had, and also the origin of some now-obsolete laws (like making it impossible for a wife to sue her husband for damages, because it's as if she was suing herself).

This is why it was so important for women to marry well: even if you worked as a married woman (and many women did), your money wasn't actually yours. It's one thing to have to live with a drunk asshole; it's worse to have that drunk asshole be the sole person who decides if that paycheck goes towards rent or more booze.

So, having a trinity/three parts of one whole entity would totally fit Victorian ideas of coverture. I think you'd still have it be men > everyone else, because they'd expect some kind of hierarchy, and even within the Trinity, God is still the leader.

Second thought: separate spheres. The Victorian era was very heavily focused on men being involved in the "dirty" business of work/politics/etc., and women being more morally pure and better suited to the domestic sphere (the whole "angel of the house" thing). Obviously this wasn't actually or practically true a lot of the time, but it was the aspired-to standard, the thing you'd measure people against to say if they were acting appropriately as members of their gender or not.

So you'd need a third sphere for Honorables to inhabit that is completely separate from the work/domestic dichotomy, or create an entirely different three-way dichotomy. Basically, you'd need a thing to point to, like "X is very ladylike" or "Y is not manly," but for Honorables.

So, extrapolating:

You'd still have "Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith," it'd just be, "Mr., Mrs., and Mx. Robert Smith" (differentiating by title, not by first name). I could actually see there being a different title for unmarried vs. married Honorables, like Master vs. Mister or Miss vs. Madam/Missus. Mix vs. Max, maybe?

I think Honorables would definitely need to have some kind of dowry. It actually might be even more necessary, because unless the guy is insanely wealthy on his own, you're going to need enough money to support three people, not just two.

I'm having trouble coming up with a third sphere, but whatever that third sphere was, you'd need to heavily police it. "You can't do X, that's for Honorables" has to be part of the culture. And you'd need to police it with as much weird pseudoscientific and/or religious justification as possible. Like, you need "women's brains physically can't handle the strain of learning math" but to explain why Honorables can't swim, or whatever.

[startedwellthatsentence]

Non-leadership admin, teaching, and academia as the third sphere.

The idea of who should be in charge of household accounting has always waffled between a man’s job and a woman’s job. Is teaching the realm of governesses and school mistresses or lecturers and professors. Academics are too weak and frail to be masculine but too logical and rigorous to be feminine.

Clerks and accountants and secretaries and teachers and scholars.

[lwoorl]

I can see it becoming a Mind (Honorable) Heart (Woman) Soul (Man) kind of separation, all three together making up the body. Women are suited for feelings, nurturing, caring. Honorables are suited for the pursue of pure knowledge, but lack the Will to put it to any practical use. Finally men are the one leading force that brings all the parts together and leads it into an action.

Thus, men, even if they're unqualified on whatever area of knowledge they're dealing with, and even if they have no understanding of their or other people's feelings whatsoever, still possess an inherent and intangible quality that makes them the only part truly suited for decision making.

Woman: Caretaker

Honorable: Assistant/Advisor

Men: Leader

[johanneswinstonwileyatmse]

Just gonna leave this here....

[none-ofthisnonsense]

@animate-mush

[burnedouticarus]

@derinthescarletpescatarian did something similar with brennans

[salvadorbonaparte]

"on god's green earth" is way too fun to say even when you don't believe in god and know most of it is blue, actually

[ashlgcostumes]

Tag via @ bluehairedspidey and vocabulary updated

[anatovrocktail]

Most of the green in southern England is yellow right now.

[anatovrocktail]

247 acres of the New Forest (10 miles from my childhood home) went up in flames yesterday.

247 acres of heathland and ancient forest that are rarer habitats than rainforests.

I can see the smoke from Southampton as a haze on the horizon.

Thankfully there are no reported injuries or deaths but seeing the place you grew up in burn to a crisp, well I just want to cry.

We used to get rain in the summer. We've gone 41 days without any and only 2.2mm in 59 days.

This is not normal.

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[anatovrocktail]

So Jeremy Clarkson, arch twat and tax dodger has said people on benefits should write a thank you letter to a random taxpayer each month or lose them.

So riddle me this. Since the age of 18 my life has been almost wholly funded by taxpayers but I've worked for almost all of it. How? I worked for the civil service, the NHS and charities in projects that were funded by either the CCG or Southampton City Council.

I also pay tax and since the arrival of Dev, also claim benefits.

Can I just write "thanks me" in the steam on the bathroom mirror?

[anatovrocktail]

So Jeremy Clarkson, arch twat and tax dodger has said people on benefits should write a thank you letter to a random taxpayer each month or lose them.

So riddle me this. Since the age of 18 my life has been almost wholly funded by taxpayers but I've worked for almost all of it. How? I worked for the civil service, the NHS and charities in projects that were funded by either the CCG or Southampton City Council.

I also pay tax and since the arrival of Dev, also claim benefits.

Can I just write "thanks me" in the steam on the bathroom mirror?

[talayse]

When I find myself in times of trouble

Granny Weatherwax comes to me

speaking words of wisdom:

I can't be having with this.

[partypuppy-nastja]

Shout-out to this fascinating combination of kinks and DNIs that I saw in the wild:

Let's see, we have:

Our glorious: mommy kink ✅

Their wicked: incest/fauxcest ❌

Our glorious: femboys ✅

Their wicked: sissies ❌

Our glorious: CNC ✅

Their wicked: rapeplay ❌

Our glorious: boys, twinks, femboys, service subs (common theme is that there are multiple of them) ✅

Their wicked: non-monogamy ❌

[daughter-of-sapph0]

[gnomebutch]

every man who says women have it easier because they can make porn when financially unstable legitimately have to kill themselves I am 100% serious

[prismatic-bell]

Men can too. They'll just have a bigger audience if they--

Wait--hang on, I'm getting reports that--

--ah, I see. That means putting your body and potentially your personal safety on the line by putting yourself in front of a bunch of men who may see you as a sexy human, or may see you as a convenient hole.

[a-blessing-of-ravens]

So like, men thinking women have it easier because they can do sex work when faced with financial instability, is the exact same energy non sex workers have when they say "Well, I can always quit my job and be a stripper."

Sorry to tell you darlin', but selling sex is hard. Full service sex work is hard, being a stripper is hard, making content for only fans is hard. And the bigger the sir gap between you and the client, the harder it is. Fssw isn't easy by any stretch of the imagination, but at least you'll be paying some bills from the get go. But selling porn through only fan? That can take months if not years to build up a fan base, and you need to be putting out multiple bits of content a week.

Then there's admin, dealing with clients, some of who will give you the absolute ick. Fssw comes with the danger of seeing clients face to face, so you need to vet prospective clients. And even once you've gone through the entire process of getting a client to come see you, spent an hour or more getting ready, it's like a 50/50 chance the dude will just no show.

Seriously, respect sex workers, and respect the work we do, because its way harder than most civs think it is

Also: Decrim now

[gnomebutch]

every man who says women have it easier because they can make porn when financially unstable legitimately have to kill themselves I am 100% serious

[prismatic-bell]

Men can too. They'll just have a bigger audience if they--

Wait--hang on, I'm getting reports that--

--ah, I see. That means putting your body and potentially your personal safety on the line by putting yourself in front of a bunch of men who may see you as a sexy human, or may see you as a convenient hole.

[ryan-sometimes]

When people try blaming my father for my horrible personality I’m almost insulted, because my father is a very kind man who treated me like a princess. I chose to be a bitch

[anatovrocktail]

I get "you're a credit to your parents"

Mum died when I was 8 and my dad was a wanker. I developed this personality to counter his racist, homophobic arse.

May he rot.

[peri]

digital selfharm is real. do NOT check up on that ex-partner/ex-friend. do NOT reread those old messages/conversations that you know will hurt your feelings all over again or that will otherwise make you feel like shit. do NOT block evade to see if you’re being talked about. inhale. exhale. let it pass and you’ll be better for it.

[blue--deer]

*slides this across the table* you're going to want to read this

[elodieunderglass]

There are Experiences behind this sign

[anatovrocktail]

They have encountered Mr Bolly.

Owned by a local cafe/small art gallery owner/art teacher/with 30 years hindsight should've been on a register, Mr Bolly was a Labrador x Great Dane in all the worst ways.

He was built like a tank lab but great dane sized, still thought he was a lap dog despite weighing more than 12 year old me, ate EVERYTHING, loved water and was a massive wuss that would body slam sideways at approximately 40mph if a squirrel looked at him funny.

My first paid job was walking him and walking stallions past mares in season was less nerve wracking.

[only-tiktoks]

[britney-j-christ]

[softservecanine]

You’re completely correct. Out of my way, able-bodied losers. Fuck you.

[aetherograph]

It's called an EZRide+ and you can learn where to find them here. They're about $1100 US as of June 2026, but you might need to buy additional parts to attach them to your chair, depending on the style of chair.

Remember to put links to products like this, they're usually hard to find and a lot of people need to know they exist.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

THIS IS SO COOL

[anatovrocktail]

Oh look @a-blessing-of-ravens its you.

[a-blessing-of-ravens]

Does it come with the freebird soundtrack as standard or is that an upgrade kit?

[anatovrocktail]

We'll strap a speaker to you with the neighbours from hell playlist and you can do zoomies along their fence