perpetual disarray

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[butchtoks]

[magicallysweetshelter]

Israel has not officially recognized the Armenian genocide as genocide, and never will...

[astra-the-dragon]

that is 100% a lie, you don't have to make up lies for political convenience.

not only has Israel recognized the Armenian genocide, there is a large population of Armenian Christians living in the Israeli part of Jerusalem, in peace. there are large posters and museums all about the Armenian genocide open to the public.

[chatul-shachor]

החתולים של טלי

[astra-the-dragon]

did you know that increasing military collaborations between two nations is LITERALLY the same as one of them (the smaller one ofc) taking over the other by force? wow

[jornaldafenix]

"Echad mi yodea" vem do Êxodo, no Antigo Testamento (Torá): "Um só é o nosso Deus, no céu e na terra". O primeiro versículo diz: Quem conhece um? Eu conheço um. Um só é o nosso Deus, no céu e na terra. O segundo versículo: Quem conhece dois? Eu conheço dois. Dois são as tábuas da aliança; um só é o nosso Deus, no céu e na terra. ...e assim por diante. O último versículo é: Quem conhece treze? Eu conheço treze. Treze são os princípios de Deus; doze são as tribos de Israel; onze são as estrelas do sonho de José; dez são os Mandamentos; nove são os meses de gestação; oito são os dias antes da circuncisão; sete são os dias da semana; seis são as seções da Mishná; cinco são os livros da Torá; quatro são as matriarcas; três são os patriarcas; Duas são as tábuas da aliança; um é o nosso Deus, no céu e na terra."

[chatul-shachor]

^^

[kuviraissues]

doppelgänger

[murphysletsdraw]

Here's some more of my paintings and their respective reference photos! murphysletsdraw on inprnt if you want to buy prints!! It's my bday month so if you buy some prints I could maybe buy myself a lil gift hehe

[draculadhd]

[brehaaorgana]

I'm really jealous of this one tiny feature of the Japanese tax system called furusato nozei which is the "hometown tax." Basically you can choose to pay like, some locality taxes to your hometown rather than say, just the big city you currently live in, AND, as a bonus, some of that tax money can be exchanged for select goods from the locality you're paying taxes to.

So if you live in Tokyo, you can delegate some of your tax money to like, another prefecture instead.

So you get like, a "gift" box of stuff from that town. It's not actually a gift, you're getting the item at a slightly higher than retail price, but it's from the tax money you already paid. So it FEELS like a gift. AND you can tell that other place that you want your tax money to go to like, x or y specific thing.

Example 1 (music loud unfortch) and example 2

And I just think this would be fun to do in the US, maybe on a state level (+ inclusive of reservation funding) Imagine being like "yeah I grew up in Arizona so I'm sending some of my state tax money there and telling them that I want it to go to education. and in return they're going to send me a box with some jars of prickly pear jelly, a bag of masa, a bolo tie, a bag of oranges, and a USB drive."

I'm very jealous.

[mr-crocodile]

This becomes a lot more meaningful and sad of a feature when you remember that the main reason for the hometown tax is that the demographic collapse of Japan combined with the emptying of its rural areas as older people die and younger people move to cities has resulted in many rural municipalities becoming insolvent.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

You've been turned into a mythical creature, spin the wheel to see which one!

Are you happy with it?

^^^^^^

https://wheelofnames.com/5k9-xsu

Are you happy with it?

yes!! I love it

yes!

It's okay I guess

no

NO.

results/other

Remaining time: 5 days 22 hours

(if you don't consider some of these mythical creatures please don't come for me)

[astra-the-dragon]

Basilisk... which would be SUPER awesome except that for the rest of my existence I'd have to choose between being insanely deadly / killing everyone remotely nearby, or living blind, and I'm not a fan of that.

[lucybellwood]

[hbystuff]

Luminance

[fallout-lou-begas]

there is a particular kind of lesbian t4c pornographic art that is common among, like, "sapphic" "spicy" patreon artists on twitter/bluesky that i don't think is deliberately or malevolently chasery per se but kind of stumbles assbackwards into it. what happens in my assessment is that the artist (not a trans woman) projects onto the submissive cis bottom characters, which is fine, but then the artist tries to project all of her other kinks onto the other character all at the same time -- which is also not necessarily bad, except, well, when those kinks are "size difference" and "muscles" and "breeding" and "PIV" and "lots of cum" and "getting cummed inside of for real," and the lesbian artist wants to put them all together simultaneously, and especially if the artist may genuinely but naively want to be inclusive of trans women in lesbian art, you end up with very sleek but offputting trans woman top fetish pornography that i can really only describe as "pronouns futanari"

[fallout-lou-begas]

everybody saying they know what artist i'm vagueing here is almost definitely all thinking of different people, anybody wondering how to avoid falling into this pitfall ought to consider trans women who don't use their dick and trans women who don't even have dicks at all (but my theory is that in addition to tasteless and kneejerk aversion to neopussy, a lot of artists would very genuinely have no idea how to signpost that a character is trans otherwise because their imagination just straight up does not extend that far - but IMO, that's exactly what this is about! you're telling me that for one reason or another, this artist seems to have a lot less interest in "trans women" and everything that could possibly entail, and a lot more interest in an almost fantastically rendered category of "women who just so happen to have [working!] penises" that you can't help but feel is treated as something distinct from the former? nihil novi sub sole, even if there's maybe a little more lip service)

[fallout-lou-begas]

now i have not seen K-Pop Demon Hunters but what I have seen, as the perfect example of this, is score upon score of artists drawing the half-demon one fucking the other ones (but usually the smallest one) with the penis that the artist implies that she would simply and obviously and naturally have on account of being half-demon. i have tried and failed to look it up but there is another post floating around somewhere about how common it is for sapphic teratophiles to treat every even slightly monstrous woman as ultimately just a phallus and it's a very similar, overlapping concept

[fallout-lou-begas]

i can understand your point here but part of my frustration -- and the crux of this entire phenomenon in all cases, to me -- is how conspicuous it is that there seems to be zero universes where rumi has gotten bottom surgery. or, like, even just Is A Bottom. i coined pronouns futanari as an indictment of the very limited imagination that seemingly well-meaning artists tend to have toward the inclusion of trans women and their (mandatory) sexual function in pornographic art. often times the reason for this is "well, then she won't read to the viewer as trans if she doesn't have a penis," but like i said in my first addition to this post, i think that that is actually a symptom of that same limited imagination!

[todaysbird]

Today's bird is this pigeon I saw inside a medieval castle!

[undergroundwubwubmaster]

New Waterdeep NPC, my monk’s old apprentice named Abi!

[wizardarchetypes]

scariest thing is when you're a kid in a huge family run by women and then you go over to a house that's deeply patriarchal & misogynistic. i remember when i was 8 years old and i got invited over to my friend's house for a big birthday party with her entire extended family. after the enormous lunch that served over 30 people, i got called into the kitchen to do literally hundreds of dishes, alongside all the other little girls and women. not only were the boys our age all excused from the meal to go play, but all the grown men went to the living room to watch sports together and drink. i couldn't believe it. i asked why some of the grownups were watching TV but the girls had to clean up and all the women just laughed and laughed at me.

[wizardarchetypes]

as a teenager when i learned the word "sexist" and used it the older women balked at it and tried to convince me this arrangement was a good thing actually because women need space from men, and cleaning in the kitchen after parties is a sacred domain of safety. and i was like actually i think needing private safety from your own husbands, sons, and brothers sounds even worse. like do you understand you somehow made this even more troubling than it already was

[wizardarchetypes]

like i think it's fine if a bunch of sister-in-laws/wives want time together without their husbands & brothers to talk together in camaraderie. i'm not judging that. obviously. but dare i ask why the women's meetup could only take place while doing manual labor for a nearby room full of men

[wizardarchetypes]

it's also interesting how this ingrained rigid social structures in children bc i was mostly friends with boys at that age and in fact was at the birthday party of a friend who was a boy so i remember complaining to him at school that it was weird all the girls had to help clean up because i didn't know any of the other little girls so i felt really left out that i didn't get to hang out with my own friends for a chunk of the party and he and the other little boys were like "that's just the rules."

[wizardarchetypes]

yeah growing up in the Appalachian bible belt I absolutely often saw this re-enforced by women.