Fangirl on a Bicycle

46/queer/cis woman/poly/Portland, Oregon/walks or rides a bicycle pretty much everywhere/yes those are my legs in my icon More about me and my blog at the link below or /about I read and write at AO3 as fangirl_on_a_bicycle Twitter is @on_bicycle Background image (on desktop) from She-Ra (2018)

[aprillikesthings]

Welcome to My Pinned Post, which is edited as needed.

My current hyperfixation, as of early 2024: the 2018 Netflix reboot of She-Ra (aka #spop)

My queue posts fifteen times a day and varies a great deal in length, just a heads-up

My "about" page is here

My sideblog for religious stuff is @aprilsjesusblogging

The tag for my fic writing is #april writes

My ao3 account is here

You can read all the posts where I live-blogged rewatching all of She-Ra a year ago starting with the first episode here (if you're on mobile that link won't really work but you can read them starting from the end here)

And if you want to see me re-re watch random episodes (or just...specific scenes) after doing weed, I keep reblogging this post in order to do that, so uhhh look in the notes? Personally I think those posts are funny as hell sometimes

I've started watching it in the Spain-Spanish dub to help me learn Spanish, and my posts about that are tagged #hola adora

And you can see progress on my Catra cosplay (and photos of the whole thing once it’s done) here

If you screenshot one of my tumblr posts to put it anywhere else, please mark out my username

I really do not want to change my tumblr name because I've had it since 2012, but also I do not need people I know IRL finding my tumblr, yes I know it's my own fault for having a name/icon/account that is painfully obviously me, but like, c'mon

That said, I know I have a few posts that have gone semi-viral and/or have tens of thousands of notes, and I talk more about them in the readmore:

If you got to my blog via my post about rayon: it's just a minor hyperfixation of mine, I rarely blog about that kind of thing. I'm actually not real fussed about "sustainable fashion," I own plenty of polyester and WAY too many clothes--but I do try to take good care of those clothes and make them last. I just get pissed off when people try to pass off "bamboo" or "eucalyptus" as anything other than rayon. (I like rayon. I shouldn't have to use fifty search terms to find soft socks.)

"Why is your queer love post not rebloggable" hahhhhhh well. Browse the notes sometime. But also I explain a bit more here.

Landlord discourse: Hi, I'm not an expert on affordable housing or anything, I just know that The Rent is Too Damn High, and housing is a human right. I got pissed off, I ranted, it blew up.

"The first link on your boobs post leads to a super problematic website" yeah I didn't realize that until it was too late and there's jack shit I can do about it now, sorry. Also, stop tagging official-boob-posts, they already reblogged it.

If you found my blog via a screenshot of a post about no-fault divorce or that bonsai apple: where the fuck are people still finding those lolol

[horsemotifs]

joining the war on pigeons on the side of pigeons

[hexjulia]

forgiving yourself for failing and trying again is always so much harder and more painful than just punishing yourself and wallowing in misery (because it involves allowing for the uncertainty of hope vs the comfort of not having to try again) and you may think you know where i'm going with this but 'being kind to yourself' is an unreasonably difficult goal for many. soooo the trick is to convince yourself 'trying again' is the superior punishment. you deserve to roll that boulder. yeaaaah you. you deserve it for fucking up last time. it feels deeply awful to admit to mistakes and try again. it's like stepping into boiling oil, which was just the kind of thing you were looking for. rise and shine. sisyphusgrind.

[depsidase]

[victusinveritas]

Please go learn how time works.

[phantomrose96]

“Cook at home to save money” sounds all well and good until you get a little too into it and suddenly you’re bookmarking recipes that call for The Preserved Grace of God and that shit is $13 at the specialty store

[riotdyke]

Man, remember when Free The Nipple was a thing and there was an actual substantial amount of feminists who believed even public nudity wasn't inherently sexual and now if you date a short person hundreds of anonymous idiots online will call you a pedophile.

[michaelnordeman]

Blackbird/koltrast. Värmland, Sweden (March 31, 2023).

[nattousan]

[idyllvisa]

*spongebob narrator voice* later that evening

[aprillikesthings]

Me and @bluedandylyon are at a goth night. And yes I DID request Strangelove and he DID play it and we DID think of Blood in the Cut (as in the fic lolol)

[aprillikesthings]

Bahahah @foolforshera they played Head Like a Hole

[bluedandylyon]

April and I listening to confessions of people telling us they're gay after pride month

[aprillikesthings]

Me and @bluedandylyon are at a goth night. And yes I DID request Strangelove and he DID play it and we DID think of Blood in the Cut (as in the fic lolol)

[aprillikesthings]

Bahahah @foolforshera they played Head Like a Hole

[aprillikesthings]

Me and @bluedandylyon are at a goth night. And yes I DID request Strangelove and he DID play it and we DID think of Blood in the Cut (as in the fic lolol)

[the-library-alcove]

A few years ago, I was explaining to some non-Jewish friends why there are kosher rules specifically for milk. Not milk products, but just "milk".

"But it's just milk from a cow? Why would that be unkosher?" they asked.

"Well, it's simple but really disgusting. You see, the reason that kosher milk standards explicitly state that there needs to be a Jew present for every step of the process--from milking the cow to drinking the milk, ideally--is because of contamination fears."

"What kind of contamination fears?"

"The kind where Medieval Christians would milk pigs and try to sneak the sow's milk into cow's milk, just out of Jew-hating spite."

"..."

"Yeah. People would go to the trouble of milking a pig and wait for their chance to try to pour that milk into a bucket of cow's milk, just because they hated Jews so much that they wanted us to accidentally break kosher rules. So the kosher rules evolved because of that sort of environment of active spite."

In the last year, pretty much everyone who was involved in that conversation and who hasn't hopped onto the Jew-hating bandwagon themselves has admitted to me that at the time, they didn't believe it, not fully, and now they do.

Because, being blunt, that environment of active spite is in the process of returning after a seventy year absence.

[frances-kafka]

So much of kashrut makes so much more load bearing sense when you consider a community having to survive but being unable to trust the authorities who process their food. If this didn't keep people alive over generations, it would've died out by now.

It's worth thinking about if we lose any of our safeguards over our food supply.

[sighinastorm]

How is it hard to believe, when every vegetarian has a story about people trying to sneak meat?

[shofarsogood]

With the FDA being what it is now (going down the toilet), I believe that we'll see a resurgence of food borne illnesses. We've already seen botulism in baby food, ffs. And since Jews follow incredibly strict laws, we're less likely to be affected. Not totally free, because we're obviously going to be affected by things like E. coli or Salmonella on produce. But we won't be affected by tainted meat and dairy as much.

And I think, unfortunately, this will further antisemitism. "Why aren't the Jews sick? They must be contaminating our food!"

Alberta, Canada, has already tried to pass a law banning halal and kosher school lunches. (So they're putting pork into all school lunches? I don't understand how they thought this would work.) It won't be long until someone tries to do that in the US, too.

[short-wooloo]

Literally on the second to last paragraph, the black death was less (relatively) devastating to Jewish communities than christians because per their own laws, Jews had stricter standards of hygiene and bathed much more regularly

So naturally christians concluded it must be the Jews who called down the black death because what other reason could there be for them dying to it slightly less

[a-s-fischer]

When I see posts like this, I think it's important to say that we do not have good evidence that Jews died at lower rates of plague than Christians in the middle ages, and we know that Muslims had virtually identical hygene practices to Jews, and Muslim terretories were very hard hit by the plague.

Medieval Christians did not need Jews to be actually dying at lower rates of the plague to claim we were, and kill us over it. This is important to understand. Bigotry does not need evidence.

@short-wooloo blocked me when I sent this info over message, probably because they thought "who tf is this person?", an understandable reaponse. If I made them uncomfortable I would like to appologise, and will of course not persue any further contact.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Anything that claims that it can sort all humans into neat categories is bullshit, sorry to say. The sex binary, the gender binary, astrology, MBTI, love languages, whatever. Humans are hugely complex and unique and not a single person on this earth can be accurately described using simple terms like that.

[renthony]

Executive dysfunction so bad I feel like I'm holding myself hostage at gunpoint and issuing incomprehensible demands to the negotiator, who is also me. Christ.

[aprillikesthings]

Yesterday @bluedandylyon (Azul) and I were at the grocery store nearish my house, and they had a tea called Dandy Detox.

Azul said, "Hah, that's me. Because I rearrange your guts," and I turned to look at them, and they'd thrown their head back and were cackling.

I can't get past remembering them saying that and then whipping my head around to catch them howling with laughter at their own joke.

[aprillikesthings]

Just now we were discussing reusing plastic bags

And I said, "They have many uses.....kind of like your mom" and then laughed so hard I hurt my own abs

[aprillikesthings]

Yesterday @bluedandylyon (Azul) and I were at the grocery store nearish my house, and they had a tea called Dandy Detox.

Azul said, "Hah, that's me. Because I rearrange your guts," and I turned to look at them, and they'd thrown their head back and were cackling.

I can't get past remembering them saying that and then whipping my head around to catch them howling with laughter at their own joke.