The Bright Sessions
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Kiana Khansmith
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Sweet Seals For You, Always
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Noah Kahan
#extradirty
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macklin celebrini has autism
Game Changer & Make Some Noise
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@campfire-octopus
Not that I think all marriages are doomed but when deciding who to marry you should ask yourself âis this someone Iâd want to divorce?â As in, is this someone I believe would be mature and fair, even when theyâre upset and donât particularly like me at the moment. Is this someone I could continue to trust while going through an adversarial process? And if the answer is no, donât marry them.
Satin Ball Gown of Queen Louise of Denmark
c. 1881
Whitaker Auction
I really have zero patience with the whole "man vs. bear" / "you're alone in an elevator with three adult men BUT you feel completely safe. Who are they" / "male night joggers are the natural predator of female night joggers" thing. Like, it's jokes, but it's also sincere, and it reinforces the idea that it's normal and good for women to be afraid all the time, especially of men.
It is not good for women to be afraid all the time, and we should not encourage it! When you consume a media diet of mostly true crime, buy a surveillance device for your house, and commiserate with the girlies online about how scary it is to see a man in a public place, you are basically cultivating an anxiety disorder. This will make your life more unpleasant, because you have trained yourself to be scared all the time, and it will not benefit you, because your fears are based on memes, not reality. You're not protecting yourself from anything; you're just giving yourself an extra flinch response.
And it plays right into the hands of conservatives! The right wing would love it if all women, especially all white and/or wealthy women, were terrified to leave their houses alone because they might see a strange man. They want you to be on a quest for One Good Man who will protect you from all other men and to be too scared to go anywhere without him. They want you to be on a hair trigger, ready to call the cops on anyone who makes you uncomfortable, because that is your function within their hierarchy.
If you are a woman, especially a white woman, then your fear is used to justify violence against poor people and people of color, especially men. From the perspective of conservatives, this is what your fear is for. And your fear is, in large part, what you are for.
Don't let them use you. Don't cultivate your fear.
Also you can equally cultivate NOT being afraid.
As a kid, I used to get so anxious when me and my grandmother would have to walk home from her job at the pub, back to our house on the other side of the estate. It would be dark, the streets would be mostly empty, and the other people we saw would loom up out of the dark and be terrifying to a small child - What if this was Stranger Danger! What if they wanted to attack us, rob us, kill us? At this point the Yorkshire Ripper was either still active or only recently caught, and the news was full of how dangerous it was for women to walk alone at night.
So, my grandmother invented the game of "Who's that?" Where, when we saw someone, we had to make up a story of who they were. Oh, he has a newspaper and a big coat, he must be off to do a night shift at the shipyard. That guy is in a suit, and he looks exhausted, maybe his work kept him behind and now he's five hours late for his tea. Those kids in a little huddle on the street corner - they're smoking weed or drinking a bottle of stolen cider, they are just hoping we ignore them. Etc. The stories usually started out very normal, and gradually got sillier as I calmed down ("Maybe she's a soviet spy trying to discover the secret of HP sauce...") but the whole point was to teach that we weren't the centre of the world, and that it was ridiculous to imagine that total strangers' plans would revolve around us.
Jinkies
Jeepers!
Zoinks!
Ruh roh!
My favorite part of this post is that it implies Fred is the one saying âFUCKâ because we know who typically says the other 4 things
which makes sense as heâs the one who actually legally owns it
which makes sense as heâs
the one who actually
legally owns it
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
If you're a POC who has felt kinda terrible in fandom spaces recently just know you're not alone & you deserve to be here & you deserve respect and comfort and love & nobody has the right to make you feel like you don't
#idk i've been pondering recently that it's absolutely not the responsibility of poc to educate non-poc peers abt racism#like it just sucks that so often we are burdened with the task of education and it leads to poc being burnt out at alarming rates#but also if we don't say anything it will just continue because we can't really trust White ppl to recognise it for themselves#so you either burn out from speaking up all the time or burn out from a silence that eats you alive from the inside out#and that is just unacceptable. i have to believe these are not the only fates for poc in fandom (or life in general)#idk idk. i don't have anything insightful or new to say abt it tbh#i'm not sad necessarily just i guess a little tired. but it's ok there are still great ppl in this fandom of course#so ty to the ppl who do strive to make fandom inclusive and anti-racist and who speak out and who try to better themselves#& the environment around them. your effort does not go unnoticed at all and i love you â¤ď¸â¤ď¸â¤ď¸ <- OP's tags, if I may be allowed to add them this way, because I think this is equally important to hear. Sending you a lot of hugs and love đđŤ
this month you are the lucky emperor to get my period pains projected onto you. this is an act of loyalty and appreciation i promise. i don't want you to suffer. thank you for your qervice to the people.
I DO NOT GET PERIODS
Congratulations on your pregnancy.
I send my condolences to your unborn child.
I will send my army to your unborn child.
I AMN OT PEGRANT!!!!!!!
omg congratulations on the happy news bixia! đĽ˘đĽđšđ°!!!
(this is emoji for âbirth a son soonâ, the words âchopstick, peanut, rose, seedâ are homophones for 忍çč´ľĺ. I couldnt find a lychee so i used a rose instead).
NOT PREGAME
Technically, an Emperor is a type of government employee, which means that in Joseon (after my reforms), @qin-shi-huang-di would be eligible for 100 days of maternity leave.
Ying Zheng doesn't even take death leave to attend his own funeral; do you think he would risk two men, his son and the father of his son, usurping him during his heir leave?
getting followed by porn bots is weird and thatâs coming from a guy with multiple 𼾠concubines
this is really resonating with the subjects
step aside you old cut-sleeve, i shall court these maidens!
Iâm an emperor actually @chasingtheskyline
the marquis of homo WISHES he had a fraction of my imperial glory!
right so iâm one of the most well regarded emperors in the history of china and youâre the guy who had to put âshut up about the mercuryâ in his bio
I AM NOT OWNED! I AM NOT OWNED!!!
I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN EARN THE LOVE OF MY CITIZENS!
I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN ADEQUATELY PREPARE MY SUCCESSOR!
I AM A GLORIOUS EMPEROR, I CAN ESTABLISH A STABLE DYNASTY!
the Terracotta Army guy?
đ you build ONE funerary complex with 8000 life-sized statues of soldiers, horses and generals and suddenly youâre âthe terracotta army guy.â đ execution.
Stumbling across this makes me feel like a dad whos walked into their kids room beer in hand and seeing them roleplay starwars fights i do not belong here but god its entertaining
to be clear in this scenario im the jedi and im winning
One of my favourite things in urban fantasy literature is when an author clearly likes the idea of wizard boarding school drama, but wants to avoid getting any Harry Potter stink on them and tries to accomplish that by simply bluntly inverting all the stuff they regard as problematic, and in so doing independently reinvents the X-Men.
For those asking how that works:
secret wizards control the government > [wizard equivalent] are an oppressed visible minority
white British monoculture > Star Trek style multicultural pluralism that treats "being Black" and "being an elf" as basically interchangeable
Beyond that, it depends on which specific X-team they end up unwittingly re-creating.
"But won't children be confused by all the LGBT-"
Yesterday I saw a mother with a baby carriage, being followed by a girl of about 4-6 years old on a bicycle. The kid started ringing her bike bell like RING RING RING RING RING RING RING, and the mother turned to look behind them to see whether they were being followed by a cyclist who desperately needs to pass them for the sake of everyone's safety.
And the little girl - who just rang the goddamn bell herself 5 seconds ago - also turned to look.
Kids are confused by everything at all times. They don't know jack shit. About anything.
i remember being like 8 or 9 and being told that my dadâs ex-wife was no longer diane and we were to address her as daniel now. my reaction: âok.â
me and my brother later had a small discussion about whether that could happen randomly (conclusion: no, he probably had to file papers or something) and whether daniel should now be referred to as dadâs ex-husband (conclusion: yes but only to see the face heâll make) but at no point did we find it like... alarming? the world is big and weird. we were used to it.
finding out a sorta-relative could just change genders off camera, as it were, was a whole lot less head-splodey than finding out there were no squirrels in australia!
Thereâs no what
"Won't they be confused by all the--" So what if they are? Life is often confusing. That's part of how we learn. Part of the job of an adult is to help confused kids learn and understand things. There's no obligation to protect the kids from the confusing things. Quite the reverse.
In my experience anyone using this BS excuse isn't worried about a child's potential confusion, but their own, which they don't want to admit to having.
theres no squirrels in australia???
Aussie here, I DIDN'T KNOW SQUIRRELS WERE ACTUALLY REAL FOR THE FIRST EIGHT YEARS OF MY LIFE NO JOKE I THOUGHT THEY WERE A MYTHICAL ANIMAL LIKE UNICORNS
WHAT??
Also kids are far less likely to be confused by something the younger they learn about it. Kiddo had queer people in his life and casual references to queerness before he could even talk. It was never confusing for him. It was normal.
Squirrels were an invasive species to Australia but they never managed to gain a foothold and were eradicated within a few years of their arrival.
I remember the Palm Squirrels in Perth... But I think they've been eradicated too.
Also my older sister thought Narwhals were mythical for an embarrassingly long time.
"Mario Mario" is an anachronism. He and his brother were only ever referred to by mononyms in their lifetime, like most residents of the Mushroom Kingdom at the time - multi-part names were typically reserved for members of the Toadstool dynasty, and even these were more like titles or Roman cognomina than what we would call a surname today. His putative ennoblement as founder of the "House of Mario" came centuries later as the collapsing feudal order sought additional sources of legitimacy
#mushroom kingdom folklore says that he sleeps beneath a warp pipe to arise in the time of the kingdom's greatest need #he's definitely shown up a few times but it's hard to tell if he has risen from the dead or is just in the middle of some time travel shit #historians hate him.
While the historical evidence for Mario having a younger brother is quite concrete, the name of said brother is less certain. "Luigi" is generally held to originate with a separate figure from a series of chthonic myths, who originally served as a sort of psychopomp charged with capturing spirits that escaped the underworld. The strongest case for a contemporary figure named Luigi comes from the Waffle Kingdom sagas; however, this Luigi's brother is a gladiator named Gonzales.
now I know that there's no way for me to respond to this without a bunch of fans of the modern adaptations ruining my inbox for the next week, but there's no evidence of Waluigi - or indeed Luigi - in any of the contemporary versions of the Mario-Wario sagas. The name "Wario" itself is a later invention, held to be a pun on warui that likely emerged after the adoption of Japanese scripts in the Koopa States.
The conflict between Mario and his "boyhood rival" was one over political influence on his home island and Mario's long absences - in particular his trip to Sarasaland. While later Sarasan sources would heavily reference Mario's brother, he is absent from both the preceding narrative and the unrest in Mario's homeland. The historical consensus is that the Sarasaland journey was one of Mario's earliest wanderings, with his brother attempting to manage affairs in his absence and proving unfit. The invention of a separate "Wario" character and its development into an explicit coup d'etat were later poetic creations, as is distancing of the "Wario" figure from the later depictions of Mario's brother as the more cowardly and reserved "Luigi".
(As an aside: "Mario Land" is a mistranslation. The original Mushroomer and Sarasan chronicles are better translated as "the land of Mario", without connotations of ownership. The modern scholastic consensus is that it refers to Yoshi's Island, where Mario and his brother spent their youth and later established a small manor, not, as commonly depicted, a "Mario Castle". The emphasis on Mario as king of "Mario Land" was a mostly successful political maneuver by the Yoshis to retain coequal status with the Mushroom Kingdom heartlands in the face of 18th-century expansionist pan-Mushroomism.)
The later emergence of "Waluigi" is an ironic recombination of two figures from the same historical source, and may have originated as a farce parodying the Mario stories. (The name "Waluigi" is also conflated with the early Norman figure Varr Yngwi, who is generally credited with the invention of tennis.)
âWe need a robust impersonal state-sponsored safety net for the elderly, disabled, and mentally ill, because not even severely antisocial people should be left on their own to dieâ is a statement that i agree with. But itâs an issue i think people tend to oversimplify, because well. caring for insane bigoted old people sucks ass
When people invoke this sentiment, i think they often make the same error seen in, say, calls for stronger online content moderation: a lack of consideration for who is going to do this work.
In the US today, around a quarter to a third of aides and caregivers for the elderly are immigrants [1, 2], the vast vast majority of whom are women. (From what I can tell) a major reason for this is that nursing or social work degrees/certification programs provide a straightforward (well, relatively) pathway to citizenship or permanent residency; and many simpler caregiver jobs only require a high school diploma, which is useful for immigrants in the US who may not be able to attend college. While I'm sure many of these workers have a sincere passion for caregiving, in a world without severe immigration restrictions and these obvious pipelines the numbers would not be this skewed. I do not think most of these people would put these careers as their first choice.
For starters, they do not pay very much. Average base salary on Indeed for caregiver jobs was $16.83 an hour. For seconders, how often have you had to deal with older relatives making sexist, racist, or otherwise uncomfortable comments at family gatherings? Frankly, lot of old people suck to be around! So do a lot of mentally ill people! Mentally ill old people (so, a lot of the ones receiving home care or living in facilities) can extra suck to be around!! Sexual harassment, violence, and abuse towards workers is common in home care and facilities. [1, 2, 3]. Many caregivers of color experience racism from coworkers, patients, or patients families. Now, many of these people are not fully in control of their thoughts or actions (hence why they require care). And even if they were, being a racist abusive serial harasser doesn't mean somebody deserves to be tortured or medically neglected or left to die.
But we aren't talking about abstract hypotheticals and who "deserves" what. We are talking about real people. When people say things like "the worst person you know still deserves care", it feels like they are expecting the care provider to just manifest out of the ether, and be willing to do whatever is needed without complaint. How much money would someone have to pay you to visit your shittiest relatives for eight hours a day? How long do you think you could retain a warm, kind bedside manner while being sexually harassed, called slurs, or physically assaulted? A week? A month? This is what providing care for the elderly, disabled, and mentally ill can entail, and this is what needs to be addressed if we want to prevent abuse and neglect of patients.
I feel like i didn't connect the first and the second two paragraphs very well... my point in bringing up demographics was that
1- most of the people in caregiver jobs currently are not people who can really have their pick of whatever careers they desire. This is relevant because people often bring up "care provided for people who need it regardless of their sociability" in the context of like, what we as a society should work towards as an ideal. But in an ideal world, how many people would choose the career path of "care for the assholes nobody wants to deal with"?
2- many healthcare workers are nonwhite and experience racial harassment
3- the fact that "who is going to provide this care" seems like an unimportant concern for people reflects how the needs of immigrant workers are often overlooked and invisiblised by those unfamiliar with them. Similar to when people say "We need more content moderation!" without considering the thousands of content moderaters who do exist (mostly in poorer countries) and are being traumatized constantly
Originals First - We are a people with a past, not a people of the past.
hey folks as the economy in various countries continues to plunge and governments actively make people's lives worse for more or less overtly murderous reasons
be wary of cult recruitment, including mainstreamed cults. If someone offers you shelter and food and community but the cost is being hurt, or hurting other people, or giving up increasingly more of your agency and worldly possessions, or being told that you're gonna be taken to paradise in this world or the next etc
Don't do it. I know so many people who think they are immune to cult recruitment tactics. The more arrogant someone is about this in my experience, the more likely they are to be swept up by cult recruitment tactics. I am an anti-abuse advocate and I've studied how people hurt each other for Years. And recently I learned I'm a survivor of ritual abuse from a nazi wannabe fuckhead, and I've almost fallen in with no less than four separate cults in multiple countries as well as actually getting pulled into multiple exploitative situations taking advantage of desperation.
No matter how much you know, nobody is Proof against being taken advantage of. That doesn't mean Trust No-one, but maybe don't trust people who do nothing but tell you that all of the rest of your social circle or the wider world can never or will never try understand you, especially if they're trying to get you to move house or getting money out of you regularly.
Just. Be careful and mindful at survivor support groups, addiction services, etc. And please even if you're as white as I am, learn about racist dogwhistles and ideology, because white supremacist cults all around the world are actively recruiting constantly including on this platform and I truly cannot emphasize enough how utterly deletarious to human life getting involved in one of those is.
They will tell you that you're under siege and that people who are different from you in harmless ways are the source of all of your suffering and pain, they will feed and house you, and then they will break you down systematically using every tool of atrocity in their toolkit to try and reform you in their image. People who get pulled into those end up being placed in horrifying situations where they have no choice but to hurt others or face punishment themselves, and that's what is waiting for a lot of people who are thinking that they can survive dire political conditions by hitching their ride to the wagon of the oppressors.
Stay safe out there, this isn't a "human traffickers are everywhere!!!!!" psa, it's a "hierarchies of abuse rely on desperation and isolation, and many of the hard right are trying to systematically target and isolate vulnerable populations for exploitation across every possible metric so it's good to know what to look out for" psa.
gonna do a quick tutorial on early modern english conjugation bc it bugs me to no end when people just do anything:
1. i am
you are
thou art
he/she/it is
[thou is often considered more intimate/informal than âyou,â but this isnât hard and fast like the modern german du vs Sie]
2. i say
you say
thou sayest
he/she/it says OR sayeth
[in 1649 richard hodges recorded that the -eth conjugation is more typical in written text while the -s conjugation is used in spoken language, but that pattern seems to have been less pronounced in 1600 and before]
3. i do, i have
you do, you have
thou dost, thou hast
he/she/it doth, he/she/it hath
[in an additional corollary, doth and hath seem not to have been subject to the above pattern and existed in both print and speech as the preferred third person conjugation for those words]
and a follow up for thou conjugation:
thou drinkest the juice
it is thy juice, it is thine apple juice
the juice spilleth on thee
thou seest thyself covered in juice
gonna do a quick tutorial on early modern english conjugation bc it bugs me to no end when people just do anything:
1. i am
you are
thou art
he/she/it is
[thou is often considered more intimate/informal than âyou,â but this isnât hard and fast like the modern german du vs Sie]
2. i say
you say
thou sayest
he/she/it says OR sayeth
[in 1649 richard hodges recorded that the -eth conjugation is more typical in written text while the -s conjugation is used in spoken language, but that pattern seems to have been less pronounced in 1600 and before]
3. i do, i have
you do, you have
thou dost, thou hast
he/she/it doth, he/she/it hath
[in an additional corollary, doth and hath seem not to have been subject to the above pattern and existed in both print and speech as the preferred third person conjugation for those words]
and a follow up for thou conjugation:
thou drinkest the juice
it is thy juice, it is thine apple juice
the juice spilleth on thee
thou seest thyself covered in juice
shane and jj rating the racist shit they hear on the ice. 6/10 okay that genuinely pissed me off. 1/10 yelling a slur takes no creativity no effort no pizzazz. booooo boring!!! 8/10 i broke a finger on your face for that one so i guess i have to give you points but also points off for being fucking evil. 4/10 okay i had to go to wikipedia for this one man, i actually didnt know that was a slur that existed??? damn
comeau says something really stupid and really White⢠at post-game drinks or whatever and jj makes direct eye contact with shane, then pulls out his phone and sends him this image (he edited it himself. he's been waiting for this moment)
and shane has to hold in laughter so hard that he actually has to excuse himself and leave the room for a minute. jj is SO proud of himself.
My personal headcanon for Ash Ketchum has always been that regardless of if his dream ever came true he'd never truly stop traveling and learning. Because despite "becoming a pokemon master" being his goal if you actually sit down and watch like Any episode of Pokemon the thing that always holds true is his curiosity and desire to learn everything he possibly can related to pokemon. And he'll try anything to! He did contests and the battle frontier. He'd do those silly little shows with Serena if they'd let him.
So I like to imagine him continuing on in life as this nomad who people don't automatically recognize as anyone important ya know? Just this goofy guy going from place to place always lending a helping hand and hes got a cute lil pikachu on him. And hes often lost somewhere with a friend just exploring the woods to see if he'll find anything cool. Ya know, as hes always been, but older now. And its only once hes drifted once more do you maybe stumble into an article on the pokeweb about him and are like... that guy??
thereâs a dedicated ashandpikachuspotter account somewhere on some social media. You tag a photo or search for a term and boom, thereâs pics of this guy. this dude. this man. with his pikachu. and itâs thousands of strangers from across the globe coming on line to talk about some stranger that they met briefly and then never saw again. theyâve compiled their stories and their approximate locations and mapped his journey from continent to continent, a long snaking pathway that spans decades and thousands of miles. Heâs apparently one of those Kanto kids that the government let just drop out of school. Its working out very well for him.Â
Thats so funny, to imagine him as a pokeweb criptid type character a la the florida man
the one thing about him is he's also not gonna think he's famous or ever mention it himself
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