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[werewolfetone]

It kind of fucks with me that somebody killed ötzi the iceman because ötzi himself is like whatever but the silent presence of human hands that drew back the string of the bow that shot the arrow that killed him is crazy. the idea that there were various people involved in that situation and while one of them has had his last hours painstakingly reconstructed and studied to no end, the others now only exist insofar that an arrowhead had to get into his shoulder somehow. imagine killing someone and then suddenly your entire existence is only a vague shadow implied by the fact that you killed them. much to consider

[werewolfetone]

Testing the mummified bone marrow of ötzi to figure out his ancestry whole time there’s definitely another person, maybe more than one, standing in the room with us but I can never see or speak to them because I only know them through the assurance that they were there too in the form of one single arrowhead. I hate prehistory so much it’s unreal

[angel-derangement]

I hate it too tbh

[noknowshame]

why is religious Christmas imagery all so joyful and pleasant? where is the inherent horror of the birth of Christ? A mother is handed her newborn child, wailing and innocent. Her hands come away sticky. Red. Simply by giving her son life she has already killed him. He is doomed from the beginning. Her love will not save him from suffering. Because the thing cradled in her arms is not a baby, it is a sacrifice: born amongst the other bleating animals whose blood will one day be spilled in the name of what demands it. the night is silent with anticipation. Mary, did you know? That your womb was also a grave?

[noknowshame]

[frigidmusings]

Tags via @noknowshame

You don’t get to leave this in the tags

[quasi-normalcy]

Reverse Mulan about a young man who disguises himself as a noblewoman and has to learn how to do passive-agressive politicking at dinner parties.

[batsarebetterthanpeople]

He does so to dodge the draft

[geneticdriftwood]

honestly? abandoned/on indefinite hiatus/very slow to update fics, even and especially AUs and longfics, are often some of my absolute favorites. and people who refuse to read them are missing out!

for one, stories don’t have to be finished to be enjoyable and worth reading. but also? an unfinished fic is a whole little universe that just keeps on existing in my head! their world stays alive for me in a way that doesn’t always happen with fics I binge read and finish, and i love it. i don’t know how their story ends, so it just keeps going! and even when those stories DO update and finish years later, they’ve been in my head for so long that they stick around like old friends.

so to any author with unfinished works: thank you SO much for sharing what you had without waiting to finish it first. you’re just giving me the gift of getting to spend more time with your story and your idea. if you do update again someday, i’ll be delighted to jump back in! but if you don’t, just know a little piece of your world still lives on in a beloved tiny terrarium in my brain. i promise i’m taking good care of it :)

i don’t normally ask this, but if this resonates with you please reblog it, so it can reach the authors who need to hear it <3

[specialagentartemis]

2025 in Land Back

The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians purchased back 2,000 acres of deeply historically significant land in Oregon in January.

A Wabanaki food sovereignty group secured a no-strings-attached land deal to buy 245 acres of farm and forest in Maine in January.

1,327 acres were acquired by the The Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians in Maine in February.

680 acres were returned by the US Fish and Wildlife Service to the Spirit Lake Nation in North Dakota in February.

Shabbona Lake State Recreation Area (approx. 1500 acres) was returned to the management of Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Illinois in March.

The Fort Wayne Burial Mound (a half-acre site) in Michigan was returned to the control of Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi in April.

312 hectares (770 acres) of Vancouver Island were returned to joint ownership of the Lyackson First Nation and Cowichan Tribes in May, though I think this is the land title transfer ruling that is facing legal challenges from non-Indigenous Metro Vancouver area property owners.

47,000 acres of the Blue Creek watershed of the Klamath River in California was reclaimed by the Yurok Tribe in June.

351 acres of Monument Mountain in Massachusetts were reclaimed by the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohican Nation in August.

50 acres were purchased by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band to be put into their Land Trust in California in September.

17,030 acres were reclaimed by the Tule River Indian Tribe in California in October.

53 hectares (130 acres) were purchased back by Ngāti Toa Rangatira Māori on the North Island of Aotearoa in October.

80 hectares (194 acres) were returned to the Snuneymuxw First Nation by the Canadian government due to a ruling on treaty obligations in October.

900,000 hectares (2,223,000 acres) of land and sea were formally given over to Wuthathi, Guugu Yimidhirr, and Yiithuwarra traditional owner groups in Far North Queensland in Australia in October.

900 acres were returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation in California in December.

New Zealand courts and Crown government agreed that 3068 hectares (7581 acres) of land should be returned to the control of the descendants of the original Māori owners, as well as a $420 million compensation payment, in Aotearoa in December.

The Penobscot Nation is working with the Trust for Public Land in an ongoing process to reclaim 30,000 acres of land in Maine. I am not sure if this is part of the same process that involved the Appalachian Mountain Club transferring 1,700 acres of land into Penobscot Nation control in September, but that happened too. First Light is a cool and fascinating organization coordinating and fundraising for Land Back projects in Wabanaki lands.

Added up, it doesn’t come to a lot, really. But it’s a reminder that it’s happening, that it keeps happening, and that organizations exist that are fighting for land return and environmental justice. Even if the federal governments are antagonistic, even though a lot of bad things are happening, state, local, and private actions are more powerful than they seem. And if you make regular donations to environmental protection groups, I encourage you to choose ones mentioned here that work with tribes and support land back policies!

[wafflelovingbatgirl]

There’s more too! Here’s another one I know about because I did my field school with a project partnering with this tribe:

With their largest land acquisition, the Rappahannock Indian Tribe is returning to its river

Over the past weekend, the Rappahannock Indian Tribe gathered with the community of donors, volunteers, federal agencies, conservationists a

[specialagentartemis]

That’s fantastic! I tried to keep track through the year but it’s awesome to learn of more I hadn’t known about!

[morethanslightly]

apologies if this has been mentioned already, but here's one more: some Catholic nuns transferred a parcel of land back to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians this year

[specialagentartemis]

I had not heard about that one! Oh wow, reading the article, that’s particularly hard-hitting because their order ran an Indian Boarding School in the 19th/20th centuries… This is a model for restitution that more should follow.

[buffyannesummrs]

now what does it mean to read fanfiction about the gay hockey show which is based on a book which was based on a fanfiction which was based on the avengers 2012 which was an adaptation of a comic book

[libertineangel]

[milfsisyphus]

[rowandriftwood]

This is what we call a layered text.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

[tronmike82]

I don’t mean to be rude; but I don’t think I’ve ever seen this, does anyone have any examples?

[darkshrimpemotions]

Supernatural

Doctor Who (Steven Moffat specifically)

Sherlock (Steven Moffat specifically)

Actually Steven Moffat is basically just this sentiment given human form.

A version of this happened with The Magicians, tbh. Though instead of expectation: men, reality: women it was expectation: smug nihilists, reality: mentally ill queer folks.

Arguably Game of Thrones.

If we broaden it outside of television…I think Star Wars falls into this, at least the sequel trilogy. Maybe the MCU as well. And I can’t help but think of every band that’s ever complained that their fanbase is mostly women. 5 Seconds of Summer comes immediately to mind.

In general, most white male creators seem to have this massively entitled mindset where they want–and think they deserve–the time, attention, and enthusiasm that creative fandom (i.e. the side of fandom more dominated by women) is known for.

They want our eyes for ratings, our word-of-mouth for free publicity, our metas for social media buzz, and our spending power for merch and cons. But they don’t want us. And they don’t really want the responsibility of telling a story to a thoughtful, engaged audience, regardless of that audience’s demographic makeup. They just want to be praised for whatever schlock they cough up.

And like any other spoiled brat, they will break their toys before they share them.

[pessimisticfanboi]

It goes all the way to the top for kids shows. Toy sales will crash a show. Makes sense, but if those toys are gendered for boys instead of the female viewers, they won’t usually switch up the marketing and move them to the girl aisle. They cancel the show outright.

Mind you it is perfectly possible to make the switch in marketing, but execs would rather throw it all out than have something that doesn’t perform well with male viewers. For example the Rey merch was not expected to be popular, for some reason, there had to be public outcry to get merch of one of the main 3 protagonists. A PROTAGONIST. The fact that she wasn’t a huge part of the 1st launch says a lot already.

And what happened when female fans got too invested in the Sequel Trilogy? The entire writers room didn’t necessarily lash out, but they sure forgot how to behave.

Young Justice

Paul Dini: Superhero cartoon execs don’t want largely female audiences

#WhereIsRey (initial)

#WhereIsRey (ongoing)

'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' owes its box-office success to women

The older, male generation of 'Star Wars' fans may be losing interest in the franchise, but female fans are stepping up.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker was designed to be the opposite of The Last Jedi

[drunkenhills]

You’re all sitting on the hot take of the decade tbh

[vbartilucci]

And yet when they fond out that boys were watching MLP:FIM in droves, they had NO PROBLEM with it.

[jediorgana-deactivated20260403]

#SONS OF ANARCHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!#LITERALLY SONS OF ANARCHY IS THE BIGGEST EXAMPLE OF THIS LIKE EVER#kurt sutter wrote that show for MEN and ended up with an overwhelmingly female audience#because he’s actually a good writer and knows how to develop characters well and wrote excellent female characters#but once he realized that his audience was almost entirely women he literally took it out on tara and gemma in the show#but like tara specifically#he resented her character for being a huge draw for female viewers so he tore her development to shreds and killed her#in the most brutal gut wrenching way possible#kurt sutter you will pay for your crimes#i actually wrote a manifesto about this on one of my old blogs i should try to find it sldkjsldfjsdljf#long post (via@m-oonknight)

OMG YES. I LOVED Sons of Anarchy, especially the women and then I got to season 6 and it was like - everything was just tossed in the trash? And like, why did Sutter hate that Tara drew tons of attention? That should have been a good thing! He should have been like “Hey folks, this girl’s getting us more viewers, let’s put her in more scenes!” It just doesn’t make sense to me. MEN don’t make sense to me.

[geraltcirilla]

The 100 too. I’ll never forget how Jason Rothenberg would attacked female fans on Twitter and mock them in interviews, and then post links to male fan discussions on Reddit to praise and thank them. In his goodbye letter to the show he SPECIFICALLY thanked Reddit and it was so disgusting.

[annaknitsspock]

Star Trek from TNG on was also a boy’s club, even though the TOS fans were mostly women. Women, in fact, who literally created modern fandom with their zines. But after TNG it was all, “Women don’t understand Star Trek, only smart men hur dur.”

[help-help-i-need-an-adult]

I think it would be harder for us to find examples of when this DIDNT happen than when it did. It happens all the time.

[nova-arcania]

Doesn’t stop it from boggling the mind

(though it could probably start to make some sense if you follow the money past audience bases to maybe a couple of investors or like a rich patron … 🤔)

[ridleymocki]

Stooooop I just wrote a masters thesis on this shit. Media creation and distribution is a means by which dominant power structures consolidate their hegemony. Dominantly situated creators get upset when the audience they attract isn’t the audience they wanted, because they view the whole creation and sharing of the fiction as an exercise to sustain kyriarchal conditions that benefit themselves. When the audience is Other, they see it as a failure of those efforts and lash out.

Simply, they’re trying to assert a particular worldview via fiction, and upon getting confronted with something else, begin foot stamping. It’s not just men wanting male attention and gatekeeping. It’s that the fiction in the first place was an attempt to curate dominance and whoopsie! they miscalculated.

(anyway if anyone wants to read 35k words of philosophy about this, hmu)

[ridleymocki]

Hey folks, for anyone that was interested in the thesis (firstly thank you so much for reaching out I really appreciate the interest) the following is an open access link to download it. Please let me know if it doesn’t work for some reason. Comments are now restricted so can’t put it there, but I hope you see this if you were interested!

I’d also love to hear your thoughts, as I literally wrote it for communities like ours to read, so, thanks.

Fictions are a cornerstone of human cultures: they are created, shared, discussed, modified, and valued. Yet, philosophical accounts which p

[taraljc]

can confirm, Nielsen rating system used to legit try to weed out female fans from being able to be Nielsen families because it’s skewed the curve.

also I will straight up never understand why advertisers think only men buy big ticket items like cars when in reality women 18 to 35 with no kids have more disposable income historically, and are significantly more willing to be vocal in their support of their blobos. It’s as if somebody from the ‘50s is still running things and going ew girl cooties every time somebody fills out a survey honestly.

[dduane]

Heads up if you're a sewing hobbyist...

Buy those patterns you've been thinking about while you still can.

Parent Company of the Big 4 Sewing Pattern Brands Sold to a Liquidator - Craft Industry Alliance

The legacy sewing pattern brands Simplicity, Butterick, McCalls, and Vogue, commonly referred to as the Big 4, have been sold to a liquidato

[schadenfreudessa]

[sycamorality]

so we all know the image of the cat covered in packing peanuts from the static cling page on wikipedia, right?

you know, this delightful little guy? an image from 2017?

not only is it on the static cling page, it's also on the pages for static electricity, triboelectric effect, electric field, eletrostatics and electrostatic induction (and you can also find it on this user page captioned "my fav photo", which i thought was delightful, and way down on this user's page)!

it's full description on wikimedia also reads: "Styrofoam peanuts clinging to a cat's fur due to static electricity. The triboelectric effect causes an electrostatic charge to build up on the fur due to the cat's motions. The electric field of the charge causes polarization of the molecules of the styrofoam due to electrostatic induction, resulting in a slight attraction of the light plastic pieces to the charged fur. This effect is also the cause of static cling in clothes."

except, i left out the last bit. the last bit reads: "Image cropped losslessly from File:Cat and styrofoam – electrostatic charge (235112299).jpg using cropgtk"

now, this means this isn't the full image.... so what is the full image? it's this!

now, what i find really endearing about this photo, is that, while this file was uploaded to wikimedia in 2015 (as opposed to the cropped version being done in 2017), the original picture is actually from february 2006! you can see this in the summary!

the picture itself actually originates from flickr, and it has a DELIGHTFUL little description:

unfortunately the original source and picture is long gone, but we can delight in the fact that it was preserved a decade ago on wikimedia after being transferred via Flickr2Commons :]

[mydonkeyfeet]

I forget if I showed the beautiful Tyrian purple that they made in the synthesis chemistry lab that I collaborated with at the art museum. They’ve been synthesizing mostly blue pigments and dyes from throughout history. This was my first time seeing Tyrian purple in person and I was so excited!

Historically it was made from murex snails and was hugely expensive and used by royalty, but chemically it’s similar to indigo so the class was able to create it in the lab without snails.

[romanceyourdemons]

i am doomed to sometimes become desperately infatuated with an idea for a work of art stupid enough that no one will make it except for me, but also complex enough that i don’t even have one third of the requisite skills for making it. i want there to be a hip hop concept album about shangguan wan’er and princess taiping so bad

[romanceyourdemons]

do you guys see my vision. two women, protégés of the woman who rose to heights no woman had risen to before, a woman who raised them into a nest of enemies but raised them to the level of their enemies, the two of them watching her decline and fighting against the forces that would pull them the same way. doing things they regret, doing things they regret not regretting or things they don’t think about at all, fighting together, fighting apart, until one betrays the other because she’s greedy for the half-inch of advantage she hopes she can get. watches her friend greet her scared and smiling, watches her friend die worse than her mother, writes her friend a long epitaph about how her friend deserved to live. and that half-inch of advantage she was so greedy for doesn’t last her long, because she’s alone in a nest of enemies, no longer at the level of her enemies, and the sky that was the limit is falling down fast. princess taiping died of suicide on her nephew’s orders. her sons were all killed. at the time of her death her wealth was so great that when the state seized her assets, it spent several years counting them all. please tell me you can see that as a hip hop concept album

[theconcealedweapon]

[rosslynpaladin]

Look we have records of Medieval Knights crying out in their sleep, having emotional outbursts or flinching at the sound of clashing metal. We have records of people all through history who were treated badly by people who should have loved them, and having problems knowing who to trust. We have years worth of artists putting their human pain at broken hearts and broken promises into music that makes us cry.

Yes people have been traumatized by awful things for all of history and just like them You didn’t deserve to be hurt either.

[nebylitsa]

“suffering doesn’t make you better, it just makes you suffer” - maus

[shinraalpha]

"Pain doesn't make people; it's love that makes people. The pain is inconsequential; it's love that saves them." - caduceus clay

[quasi-normalcy]

Where's that post about how Van Gogh didn't make art because he had depression, he made art because he had a brother who loved him and tried his best to support him and keep him alive through his depression.

[asmeesh]

1$ flea market score. Tiny glass 1960s perfume bottles. I love them.

[shit-show-no-go]

Can you swap their heads ?

[asmeesh]

omg you can

[asmeesh]

Their meeting was foretold in the ancient texts

[theinvisiblespoon]

[dancinbutterfly]

I can never leave here

[charlesoberonn]

I spent my whole life thinking that Wiki comes from Wikipedia but it's the other way around. Wikis predate Wikipedia by 7 years.

[charlesoberonn]

It's Hawaiian for 'quick' and is specifically named after the Wiki Wiki shuttle service in the Honolulu international airport.

[confusedpaladin]

[marlinspirkhall]

A Vulcan named Stork works at the Terran adoption agency. Parents always request that he be the one to deliver their child to them.

[taken-aurally]

It’s years before anyone explains it to him.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

People keep gifting him robes with long white birds on them.

[thetimetostrikeislater]

[whetstonefires]

The fun thing is he would understand why people were getting him outfits with storks on them. That’s a word, it’s his name, straightforward. All the humans get him the same gag gift, but like, they’re putting effort in at least. This is a genuinely nice outfit. Stork will be a walking zero-effort pun sometimes, rather than waste a perfectly fine robe.

It’s fine. This is a readily comprehensible human illogic. Exactly the kind of thing he expected from moving to Earth.

Six years in he finds out about the stork bringing babies.

[thesaltofcarthage]

Stork has a good long meditation session about this myth, his name, his job, the outfits, the whole shebang (or whatever Vulcan concept is the equivalent).

And he decides he’s honored by it, in a humanly illogical way.

The humans are asking him to do what is after all his job, and specifically requesting him for the joy his name brings them on top of an already agreeable and satisfying task. He has no objection to engendering positive emotions in others. Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so happiness must logically slow it down. 

Plus, Vulcans of his generation love puns. There were two decades of punning competitions in colleges across the planet. So when he realizes that he is a walking zero-effort pun, and that the humans also love the pun, he is all for it. He is the Joe Cool of the entire Vulcan population in his city. 

And via this pun, the humans are including him in a cherished and traditional myth, by casting him as the literal bringer of life and the expander of families. 

There’s no downside. Stork wears his robes, pins, keychains, and other bird-related tchotchkes with genuine pride. 

[shinobicyrus]

YES IT’S BACK ON MY DASH AT LAST

For real though working together with some human social workers, a Vulcan would be an excellent caretaker for children in an adoption center.

Child has a meltdown? Imagine Stork, perfectly calm and unbothered, approaching the kid and saying “You appear quite upset, Eliza. If you would please allow me to relocate you to the ‘bean-bag-chair,’ we can discuss the source of your distress.”

A Vulcan educated in medicine and child psychology would be endlessly patient with a kid with behavioral issues. Stork wouldn’t get or upset or frustrated. After all, these are children with medical and psychological conditions. It would be illogical to blame the child or to not treat them with the appropriate care.

Even if the a little one was having a bad day or was just overtired, Stork wouldn’t get angry. He might even be a calming presence. Any new kids acting out would learn real quick that they’d have better luck trying to arm-wrestle a Klingon than get a rise out of Stork.

Not only that, Vulcans live much longer than humans. Imagine Stork looking virtually unchanged as decades pass. Kids he’d helped years ago would turn up fully grown, maybe there to adopt their own kids, and run into Stork, looking almost exactly as they remember him.

And he’d probably remember them too. “Welcome back, Eliza.”

[departmentq]

“…Harm hastens the heat-death of the universe, Surak teaches, so logically happiness must slow it down…”

Will reblog every time it crosses my dash 🖖🏾

[trekheritageposts]

star trek heritage post (November 14th, 2020)

[marlinspirkhall]

Periodic reminder that the compiled tag I use on AO3 is “Stork The Vulcan (fanon)” and so far there are 6 fics featuring him:

Heed The Stork

There’s Always A Chance and

Not Logical by MarlinSpirkHall (hi)

What Stork Brings by AfterIWake @mousedetective

One (1) Daily Shoulder Pat by Android_And_Ale @android-and-ale

Just This Once, Everybody Lives by @alternatefuturesao3

Various iterations of this thread ^ have also been bookmarked under the tag for future reference 🖖

[aevarswall]

did hope fail to come with the dawn or am I just sick?

[aevarswall]

Using the scale I made back in high school, I’m about a 1.4

[kizunafatiigue]

I think the funniest thing I learnt today was that antis DID try to make their own ao3, but the restrictions made it impossible to do anything.

Nobody on the site could agree on one solid concept of "moral" and "immoral", so it spawned a plethora of huge arguments and the site had to be shut down.

And the tagline was "good fiction for good people."

Make of all that as you will.

[biblicallyaccurateptarmigan]

This is the funniest thing I've heard in such a long time. I knew that was gonna happen because antis are so obsessed with being the most righteous person that not even people who agree with them can be as morally pure as them.

Meanwhile, I'm over here like, "Let's be friends, fellow freaks. Perhaps even lovers. There is no hierarchy in the freakdom. We are all equal in our freakiness."

[plotbunnyfarm]

Hey OP, what was the website called? Because I searched on that tagline and the only thing I found was this post.

[kizunafatiigue]

Unfortunately I legitimately can no longer find it, most likely because it was taken down. It's good to note that this was something I heard through my friends, so I'll most likely pester them again about it.

I've been trying to ask around, and will make a post once I locate an archived version of the site, or even its name.

[kizunafatiigue]

Update: I found YET ANOTHER PERSON who is aware of the site's existence, but also can't find its name. All we know is it's a site that claimed to host "pure fiction only". It's like an urban legend, so many people have heard of it...nobody knows it....

[kizunafatiigue]

Update: Same person reached back to me saying this.

More of our conversation if it makes me sound any less crazy.

Users cropped out for privacy reasons.

And here is the first time I heard about it:

I'm quite bothered by people thinking I'd instigate discourse for fun, so I'm trying to post these screenshots to prove that I'm being completely honest when I first said "I think the funniest thing I learned today was.."

If whatever god there is up there loves me enough, people will find this post.

[kizunafatiigue]

I'VE FOUND IT

i told you I'm not crazy

Link to an archived version of the site if you still don't believe me (the site itself has since been deleted.)

@plotbunnyfarm I figured it'd be good to ping you so you see this.