ancient wisdom

18yr old loser

[areyoudoingthis]

the importance of being earnest gdrive link for anyone who missed it or wants to watch it again ✨

[gggoooohh-deactivated20251210]

John Constantine: Hellblazer - City of Demons | Spencer/Murphy

[thedissenters]

John Lennon & Bob Dylan in London, England | 27 May 1966

[soracities]

"Absolutely no one comes to save us but us."

Ismatu Gwendolyn, "you've been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress)", from Threadings, on Substack [ID'd]

[paper-mario-wiki]

HEY wanna read but annoyed on where to find copies of books?

Here's an archive with millions of PDFs of books and papers and magazines and essays and stuff.

[meltedgarment]

I've been looking for such archives, thanks

[fealty-to-thee]

you’ve been traumatized into hating reading (and it makes you easier to oppress).

i was not going to publish this essay because i don’t like to yell but here the fuck i am.

the first link broke, here you go

[roseillest]

AFRIQUE, JE TE PLUMERAI // AFRICA, I WILL FLEECE YOU (1992) dir. JEAN-MARIE TENO

[bpd-dylan-hall-deactivated20190]

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again but it is absolutely an example of civilizational inadequacy that only deaf people know ASL

“oh we shouldn’t teach children this language, it will only come in handy if they [checks notes] ever have to talk in a situation where it’s noisy or they need to be quiet”

[raginrayguns]

My mom learned it because she figured she’ll go deaf when she gets old

[manyblinkinglights]

My family went holiday SCUBA diving once, and a couple of Deaf guys were in the group. I was really little and I spent most of the briefing overcome with the realization that while the rest of us were going to have regulators in our mouths and be underwater fairly soon, they were going to be able to do all the same stuff and keep talking.

[tell-the-stars-hello]

The only reason some form of sign language is not a standard skill is ableism, as far as I can tell.

[emoracreations]

For anyone interested in learning, Bill Vicars has full lessons of ASL on youtube that were used in my college level classes. 

https://www.youtube.com/user/billvicars

and here’s the link to the website he puts in his videos:

https://www.lifeprint.com/

[naurielrochnur]

Update: you guys this is an amazing resource for learning asl. Bill Vicars is an incredible teacher. His videos are of him teaching a student in a classroom, using the learned vocabulary to have conversations.

Not only is the conversation format immersive and helpful for learning the grammar, but the students make common mistakes which he corrects, mistakes I wouldn’t have otherwise know I was making.

He also emphasizes learning ASL in the way it’s actually used by the Deaf community and not the rigid structure that some ASL teachers impose in their classrooms

His lesson plans include learning about the Deaf community, which is an important aspect of learning ASL. Knowing how to communicate in ASL without the knowledge of the culture behind it leaves out a lot of nuances and explanations for the way ASL is.

Lastly, his lessons are just a lot of fun to watch. He is patient, entertaining, and funny. This good natured enthusiasm is contagious and learning feels like a privilege and not a chore

And it’s all FREE. Seriously. If you’ve ever wanted to learn ASL

[tedrakitty]

@official-linguistics-post

[sistertaxon]

i do think people need to be like, more aware of the distinction between "there are no women in this story because the author is sexist" and "there are no women in this story because the author is saying something about the absence of women"

[sistertaxon]

in the movie The Thing (1982), a film about an isolated all-male group wherein they are the only people they have contact with and yet are so resistant to homosocial contact that they are unable to tell the difference between their friend and an alien that has replaced them, what could it mean that the only "woman" in the movie is a computer that the main character destroys in the first act after he can't beat it?

[tinytimism]

“the monster is supposed to be good-looking” “why didn’t gatsby just move on” “romeo and juliet is about two teenagers being stupid” “of mice and men is ableist” “wuthering heights romanticizes incest” “lord of the flies is about the innate evil in human nature” “holden caulfield is a whiny brat” “if i was orpheus i wouldn’t have turned around”

[leonardcohenofficial]

genuinely insanity evoking

[hungwy]

theo van gogh was the one who suggested that his older brother vincent start seriously painting. as soon as theo was gainfully employed he gave vincent around 15% of his own yearly salary for art supplies, lodging, and food. about 2/3rds of vincent's surviving letters were to theo (including vincent's earliest and last letters), all of which were found stored in theo's desk. theo's child, vincent willem, was born on january 31st, 1890, and vincent was so delighted by his nephew that he painted almond blossoms for him. vincent shot himself half a year later on july 29th, 1890. theo's distress at his brother's death worsened his syphilis symptoms and he died half a year after his brother on january 25th, 1891 (four days before vincent willem's first birthday). theo was reburied next to vincent in auvers-sur-oise at the request of theo's wife johanna.

[nutropes]

Almond Blossoms, 1890, Vincent van Gogh

[butchdykekondraki-moved]

hey enjoyer of media who participates primarily in fandom of said media. whats your opinion on this female character and DO NOT use the word "girlboss", "mother/sister", or allude to her being the groups guardian. you have five seconds or else the saw trap goes off btw

[butchdykekondraki-moved]

hey enjoyer of media who participates primarily in fandom of said media. can you explain to me why you have decided the soft and/or kind and/or caring and typically clumsy male character is a tgirl. answer quickly or else the saw trap goes off

[butchdykekondraki-moved]

hey enjoyer of media who participates primarily in fandom of said media. can you explain to me why you've decided the only female character in the main cast is a tboy. and dont say its because he's "rough" or "rowdy" or "loud" or else the saw trap goes off

[butchdykekondraki-moved]

hey enjoyer of media who participates primarily in fandom of said media. can you explain to me why you've decided that you dislike this female character who has the same traits as a male character you love. and don't call her whiny or annoying or bitchy or a brat or else the saw trap goes off

[strangeblazer]

everytime john constantine is described as a hero or anti-hero I die a little inside. I view him simply as a protagonist in a narrative that dooms him for his working class and queer background, where his involvement in the paranormal world simply serves as a form of absurdism to further perpetuate the issues in British society and politics.

[brucespringsteencomments]

[zeetannas]

hi guys. not even that she’s not even that

[stephexmachina]

literally impossible to read comics w/o being bombarded w subtext abt girls being less than nothing....... dirt beneath men's feet..... like sure it's true to life men are v vocal abt this irl but dear god is it exhausting

[untildarknesscomes]

A Red Hood story where Jason, instead of being a crime lord, helps victims of abuse to take revenge on people that hurt them and got away with it. He reaches out to them with an offer and a promise that they will not face any consequence for what they'll decide to do. Once their minds are set, he abducts the abusers, ties them up and takes them to a secluded place. He never pushes any of the victims to murder, allowing them to choose whether they want to end the objects of their nightmares, inflict pain or scream their souls out before leaving. But Red Hood always finishes the job. No monster will walk the streets and hurt anyone else while Jason's alive and breathing. So, the perpetrators die either way.

The main antagonist? Not Batman. Not Nightwing and certainly not Robin. But Batgirl. Cassandra “Not-Even-The-Law-Is-Allowed-To-Execute-Abusers-On-My-Watch” Cain. She's angry, so she hunts but never kills. They have a whole “Catch Me if You Can” sequence until they meet face to face, but never reach a conclusion that would suffice both sides. Jason wants to help fellow victims find peace, one he himself was never granted. Cass can't let him to murder more people.

A lot of grey areas to explore (did they deserve it? Yes. Will the victims be able to live with themselves knowing that their hands are painted in blood? Who knows). No happy endings for anyone. None of the “batfamily-makes-peace” bullshit. Just pain upon pain upon pain. And so much projection from both parties.

[girlballs-archive]

the dogy

[diaryofaphilosopher]

"The shift from the Afro-Caribbean zombie to the U.S. zombie is clear: in Caribbean folklore, people are scared of becoming zombies, whereas in U.S. narratives people are scared of zombies. This shift is significant because it maps the movement from the zombie as victim (Caribbean) to the zombie as an aggressive and terrifying monster who consumes human flesh (U.S.). In Haitian folklore, for instance, zombies do not physically threaten people; rather, the threat comes from the voduon practice whereby the sorcerer (master) subjugates the individual by robbing the victim of free will, language and cognition. The zombie is enslaved."

— Justin D. Edwards, "Mapping Tropical Gothic in the Americas" in Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture.

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