AH AAH SHA SA MA HA

im Arc, old enough to feel old people pain, young enough to still remember old Sailormoon, unfortunately not rich enough to buy myself perfumes and underwears. NO KIDS. NO CHILDREN. NO ONE UNDER 21 YEARS OLD. IM AN OLD HAG! MINORS DNI! ZIONIST AND NAZIS AND TRANSPHOBES ARE CURSED ON SIGHT!

[chandra-telescope]

hope is a skill

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

hope is a weapon you are trained to wield

[chandra-telescope]

favourite additions

[chandra-telescope]

[tenaciouswritingdragon]

You cannot hide this in the tags, bestie. This is too lovely to keep a secret.

[wonderwyrm]

[scrmnviking]

Theodor would approve.

[blumineck]

I’ve got a lot of Thoughts(tm) about The Odyssey at the moment, but damnit Blum I’m an archer, not a film critic, so here’s something in my lane!

[gaylor-moon]

[grippy3000]

fun fact one of the world champions in pepper-eating contests is a trans woman and she actually faced significant backlash because people somehow thought she had a biological advantage. to eating spicy pepper

[grippy3000]

update bc i went back and checked: her name is brianna “the chilli queen” skinner and she set a record in 2017 by slamming back 23 carolina reapers consecutively. she only stopped when told to by the referees, and the next year she stepped down out of boredom. queen

[pettyartist]

Here's a picture of her, by the way

And her super supportive wife

[nentuaby]

The championship, it should be noted, is unisex. Apparently being a trans woman gives you an innate biological advantage over both cis men and cis women.

[vexwerewolf]

The innate biological advantage of being cool as fuck

[transmechanicus]

SILENCE TRANSPHOBE

[arcsigils2]

SILENCE TRANSPHOBE

[satyrmagos]

Last year, I wrote a couple blog posts on how to get started experimenting with astrological magic. The tradition is old and deep and complicated, but your initial forays into it don't have to be (and, frankly, shouldn't).

All my astrological images and talismans and rituals started with something like these:

On The Uses of Astrological Images

and

A Bare Bones Astrological Ritual

[space-queen]

what advice would you give in terms of engraving complex images on small mediums such as gemstones for those who are less artistically inclined?

[satyrmagos]

my two big pieces of advice for that are: 1) look at extant magical gems (there are SO MANY from the Roman world) for inspiration

and

2) mistrust the written sources

as a full time professional artist, a jeweler and lapidary with 25 years experience at the bench, who can't carve those images with modern tools and lighting and magnification, and comparing the written descriptions to the aforementioned Roman examples, I simply do not believe that ancient magicians were carving the complex images they describe on tiny stones with the tools they had available (just note how many images have color notes that couldn't possibly apply)

elaborating on that:

do as much as you can in advance of the ritual

focus on the spirit contact aspect

focus on visualizing and articulating and vibing with the image as described

trial and error will teach you which rules/taboos apply to you and which don't

[space-queen]

this is great! and very validating for the work i'm already doing. thank you!

[satyrmagos]

I'm so glad!

It's my pleasure

[gendercensus]

The 2026 Gender Census is now open!

[ survey.gendercensus.com ]

The 13th annual international gender census, collecting information about the language we use to refer to ourselves and each other, is now open until 13th August 2026.

It’s short and easy, for most participants it takes 5 minutes or less.

After the survey is closed I’ll process the results and publish a spreadsheet of the data and a report summarising the main findings. Then anyone can use them for academic or business purposes, self-advocacy, tracking the popularity of language over time, and just feeling like we’re part of a huge and diverse community.

If you think you might have friends and followers who’d be interested, please do reblog this blog post, and share the survey URL by email or at AFK social groups or on other social networks. Every share is extremely helpful!

Survey URL: https://survey.gendercensus.com

The survey is open to anyone anywhere who speaks English and feels that the gender binary doesn’t fully describe their experience of themselves and their gender(s) or lack thereof.

Thank you so much!

[ Link to survey ]

PS: You can see some regularly-updated statistics about incoming data here, with lots of demography and graphs to peruse!

PPS: Image credits, bark and grass.

[mewvore]

"we detected a mature post" yeah I'm in my 30s

[professional-lamprey]

"all masculinity is toxic" that sucks for you, get more creative and weird with it immediately

[blumineck]

I have done some weird trickshots, and some difficult trickshots, but that last one is the most of both I’ve ever put together!

[arcaniumagi2]

PUT THAT IN YOUR DND GAME???? that looks cool as fuck????

[zootycoon-archive]

i got these knockoff boots online and instead of the brand name on the tag they have the name of an apparently nonexistent martin scorsese movie??? what the fuck

[loseremo]

[syzygy-yzygy]

THE ORIGINAL? ON MY DASH

[this-too-too-sullied-flesh]

this post led to a series of events that had martin scorsese himself reacting to his alleged movie goncharov and it has less than 400k notes almost 3 years later?

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

"if you're going to eat that rotisserie chicken please do it in an area where none of us can see" you hate me. you hate me because i have different eating habits than you and you want me to STARVE

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

look upon my works ye mighty and weep (im not done there's still plenty of good meat on there)

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

reviews are in

[hexfruit]

"plenty of good meat on there"

[achivement-unlocked]

Achievement unlocked!

RECONSTRUCT WHAT?!?!

THERES NOTHING LEFT.

[susie-heart]

There is plenty of good meat on there.

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

"if you're going to eat that rotisserie chicken please do it in an area where none of us can see" you hate me. you hate me because i have different eating habits than you and you want me to STARVE

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

look upon my works ye mighty and weep (im not done there's still plenty of good meat on there)

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

reviews are in

[hexfruit]

"plenty of good meat on there"

[achivement-unlocked]

Achievement unlocked!

RECONSTRUCT WHAT?!?!

THERES NOTHING LEFT.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

Y'all acting like you've never stripped a chicken before

[dragongyrlwren]

I have actually done this, but not to immediately eat. These work well when you need chicken for soup or enchiladas or something. You can actually get a good bit of meat off it, and if you keep the jell-ified meat juice that's at the bottom of the container, you can Def use that for soups n things. That's concentrated chicken flavor, it's basically chicken stock with less water.

[shower-thoughts-last-responder]

Definitely. But. You can also rip it apart with your teeth to eat

[pandora-autistic-enby]

I don't see why ppl are reacting like that. If I left a chicken like that, my mother would tell me the same, there's still meat there.

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

"if you're going to eat that rotisserie chicken please do it in an area where none of us can see" you hate me. you hate me because i have different eating habits than you and you want me to STARVE

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

look upon my works ye mighty and weep (im not done there's still plenty of good meat on there)

[colestyle-deactivated20231123]

reviews are in

[hexfruit]

"plenty of good meat on there"

[achivement-unlocked]

Achievement unlocked!

RECONSTRUCT WHAT?!?!

THERES NOTHING LEFT.

[likorys-shimenawa]

Excuse you? Meat right there at brief glance:

Some of you never made broth on poultry necks and then picked the vertebrae apart to to get to the meat and it shows. /deregatory

[destiel-news-channel]

[Image ID: The Destiel confession meme edited so that Dean answers 'JK Rowling posted upskirt photos of a woman on Twitter' to Cas 'I love you'. /End ID]

No one doing this should be allowed to call themselves a feminist.

JK Rowling deadnamed and posted 'upskirt' photo of trans woman on X

The wealthy author escalated a social media spat that resulted in posting a photo from a 2023 event at the Institute of Economic Affairs in

[solarishashernoseinabook]

Let's not beat around the bush: Children's author JK Rowling sexually harassed someone. In some jurisdictions, this would count as sexual abuse. JK Rowling has committed a sex crime against a woman and fell back on the old rape apologist standby of "she was asking for it".

I hope your nostalgia is worth it

[ivy-michaels]

We need to lay more blame for "Kids don't know how computers work" at the feet of the people responsible: Google.

Google set out about a decade ago to push their (relatively unpopular) chromebooks by supplying them below-cost to schools for students, explicitly marketing them as being easy to restrict to certain activities, and in the offing, kids have now grown up in walled gardens, on glorified tablets that are designed to monetize and restrict every movement to maximize profit for one of the biggest companies in the world.

Tech literacy didn't mysteriously vanish, it was fucking murdered for profit.

[anoraktrend]

Linux is a very good and powerful alternative.

[ivy-michaels]

[transarsonist]

reminder: you cannot Personal Choises your way out of an Intentional Structural Problem

[yurigirldick]

Fun fact! School Chromebooks block Linux. It's not an easy alternative. You are missing the point

[marian-devotee]

I took my little brother (autistic, mostly non verbal) out and he was using his voice keyboard to tell me something, and this little boy (maybe 4 or 5?) heard him and asked me "Is he a robot??" I tried to explain to him that no, he isn't a robot, he just communicates differently, but my darling brother was in the background max volume "I am robot I am robot I am robot I am robot"

[marian-devotee]

My little brother insisted if I was going to post about him, he wanted a cut of the "profits". When I explained to him that Tumblr isn't monetized, and is pretty pointless, he and my older brother pointed out that he'd still be bringing me "fame and notoriety" if the post got "big". So we agreed, if the post hit 10k notes, which seemed extremely farfetched and silly at the time, I'd take my little brother out for sushi (his favorite food) and let him eat as much as he wants.

I guess God wanted the little robot to enjoy some sushi 🍣 🥲

[thetruerarkher]

[heyfruitcake]

Now that everyone is discussing Nolan's Odyssey movie, I feel like it's a good time to let non-Italians know that the production dumped plastic props into the Italian sea. Weirdly enough I could not find any article in English about it but it's a fucking problem nonetheless.

I might translate this article later today. This one was the most complete one, even in Italian news it's not talked about that much.

L'Odissea di Nolan tra "scheletri spazzatura" e relitti: Arpa al lavoro in Sicilia, che succede

Non è la prima volta che la produzione solleva un vespaio in Sicilia. A Lipari una squadra di sub sarebbe però già impegnata a bonificare i

[ignitelimelight]

They dumped plastic skeletons in environmentally protected areas, against the literal contracts they had to sign to get the permits to film in environmentally protected areas. Like they not only did a bad ecological thing that freaked out some divers, they literally broke environmental protection laws and their contract with the Italian government

[fuckyeahdavidandyonatan]

They also filmed in illegally occupied territories in western sahara

'Cultural parasites': Calls for boycott of The Odyssey over filming in occupied Western Sahara

Sahrawi filmmakers criticise Christopher Nolan for complicity in Moroccan exploitation of Sahrawi land