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A rarely seen, highly endangered Andean mountain cat and her kitten in Santiago, Chile. Bottom right: older kittens following their mother through the snow. These small felines have long, thickly ringed tails and plush coats with a striking marbled pattern, handy for traversing the chilly, wind-swept ridges of the Andes.
One of South America's rarest felines, the Andean mountain cat is traditionally considered a sacred animal by indigenous Aymara and Quechua people.
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Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???
as a black gay person real like where y'all be finding this stuff pass the name
for real though, those DO NOT WATCH OR YOU'LL CORRUPT YOUR CHILDREN lists put out by conservative christian family groups is where I find all the stellar tv shows. Like, shit I didn't know half of those existed, thanks for finding them for me, gonna go watch 30 hours of gay tv now!
I think I know how this works.
For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.
So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?
Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?
Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.
Same as the journalists describing Black Rock City as all naked. Same as the right-wing religious culture warriors describing television as entirely mixed-race and gender non-conforming. Not because it's even vaguely true, we know that, but because they haven't gotten over their discomfort over the last one by the time the next one comes along. The anger, not the stimulus, is the part that's continuous, so their mind lies to them that it's "all" the thing they can't get over.
Similar effect for the presence/proportion of women in things, by the way: https://health.howstuffworks.com/mental-health/human-nature/perception/how-17-equals-496-the-amazing-multiplying-women.htm
Bravely: this also applies to sexually explicit content.
People (even in relatively liberal intellectual communities) often traffic in this truism that our culture is 'oversexualized' and that sexually explicit content is EVERYWHERE. ALL THE TIME. It's inescapable, allegedly.
When in reality, every major social media website in existence is engaged in an all out war against the stuff. Credit card companies have attempted to refuse to process transactions based on people trying to purchase things like OnlyFans subscriptions. And SPEAKING OF ONLYFANS, that site recently went through a bunch of drama when it was considering trying to tamp down on the selling of sexually explicit content, when that is like minimum 90% of its total business.
While the MCU is a bit passe these days, it was once THEE global cultural juggernaut to end all juggernauts. And it is FAMOUSLY so aggressively devoid of any actual eroticism you'd be forgiven if you thought people in this universe are all created in science labs. (Everyone is beautiful and no one is horny, as the famous essay asserts)
Exact same with the Star Wars franchise. To such an extent that one of the most iconic and important characters in the whole thing (Anakin Skywalker) LITERALLY, canonically is a product of immaculate conception.
Capitalism is actually TERRIFIED of trying to sell us sex, and it shies away from it at almost all opportunities. (Why do you think Hollywood was so fucking blindsided by Heated Rivalry's unexpected success?) ALL the ads on porn sites are ads for other porn sites. Social media can't stop trying to free itself from the stuff completely. ALL THE MAINSTREAM AI COMPANIES (who are currently trying anything else they can think of to get people to use their products) ARE STAUNCHLY TRAINING THEIR MODELS OUT OF PROVIDING SEXUALLY EXPLICIT OUTPUTS (whether written or image-based).
Granted, you can of course still find plenty of sexually explicit content in internet and entertainment spaces if you intentionally seek it out. Plenty of it is out there, of course. But the notion that it permeates every corner of cultural world doesn't hold up to even a cursory level of scrutiny. Its ubiquity is radically overstated. You often have to navigate significant barriers to access sexually explicit content; it is often heavily targeted for censorship and, at minimum, it is often kept behind heavy structural partitioning.
Sex isn't everywhere. It isn't the all-consuming presence of the cultural landscape. That's just not true. But a lot of people have strong emotional reactions to sexually explicit content, and ANY amount of it they encounter (particularly when they didn't directly seek it out) lingers in their consciousness to a much stronger degree than the other, more culturally 'neutral' things they encounter with way more frequency. So the sexual stuff FEELS far more ubiquitous to people than it actually is, objectively.
Season 8 of Supernatural starts tomorrow! Made some destiel for lily because I’ve been freaking out with her, and I miss her.
reminder for my us-based electorate that today is the day the birdcage is in theaters, and also if you're lucky singin' in the rain will be in theaters june 11th. (i am not lucky and it's not showing near me, but if you can see it big you should see it big.)
late to the party for restraintstiel week but I am here hi 🧍♂️
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This phrase has already entered my vocabulary re: media criticism where like. The viewer has a concrete view of what they expect a story to be based on the tropes and cliches they're used to seeing together, and when that doesn't happen, they judge it as a failed depiction of what they assumed it was going to be instead of judging it as what it actually is.
"This show is problematic because the hero didn't kill the villain at the end": When does he steal the bread?
"These two characters who were close friends throughout the series don't kiss at the end! What the fuck?": When does he steal the bread?
"This feels like it's missing a conclusion! Like, the protagonist does bad stuff and because of a critical decision he makes as a result of his major character flaws, meets tragedy in the end! Where's the part where he learns better and brings is love back from the dead and becomes a good guy and gets a happy ending?": When does he steal the fucking bread??
I heard this out as "When criticizing something, you must judge it for what it is, not what it isn't"
#this is why so many of us urge people to get a wider diet of stories
who's the bigger milf
cloth mother
wire mother
are you into bdsm or sucking titties and did you choose cloth or wire mother
into bdsm and/or sucking titties, cloth mother
not into either, cloth mother
into bdsm and/or sucking titties, wire mother
not into either, wire mother
ok I've been informed that full understanding of the cloth/wire mother experiment is a lot less than I assumed and it's likely affecting the poll results, so I have a few more polls
do you think you know the variables being tested by the cloth and wire mothers?
yes
no
Here's a link explaining the experiment
were you correct in what you thought the experiment was testing?
yes
no
now that you know more about cloth and wire mother, who's the bigger milf?
cloth mother
wire mother
oh I know how to make a poll's results look like the letter E watch this
what is the rightmost digit of the number of responses this poll has right now? (it should be visible before you vote.)
0, 1, or 2
3
4 or 5
6
7, 8, or 9
but i stay silly! *←said in the most world-weary voice you ever did hear*
“but I stay silly!”
Reblog you stay silly
on it boss
dystopia au where we are all assigned one of two chosen genders at birth
Thanks to ultrasounds, the genders can be assigned before birth. The people are so excited to conform they throw “Gender reveal parties” to make sure their offspring exist in a strict binary since before they can even form thoughts.
Children are color-coded according to their binary assignment.
One of the genders is seen as inherently inferior.
This all sounds really effing creepy when you put it that way
#BECAUSE IT IS
And if you deviate from the assigned gender you can be disowned by your family, fired from your job, and beaten by authorities.
Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:
Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need
The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to
You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking
No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)
Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.
Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!
Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.
This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.
[ anguish ]
should you vanish, so would I.
this^ gif choice is even more perfect cause the moment immediately after looks like this:
yeah sure. crazy gay destiel sex be upon ye i guess happy pride
yeah sure. crazy gay
destiel sex be upon ye
i guess happy pride
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
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this site gets accused of being way too usamerican a lot but i wonder what the actual proportion is
are you usamerican
yes
no
some other nuanced answer (pls elaborate in the tags i’m nosy)
okay but like. who did Leonide THINK was going to fucking show up? like. realistically. girl, i know you're smart. i know YOU know how effective this particular secunit is. who else could you have POSSIBLY expected to arrive that would have had any hope of getting your family past the world of hurt between their safehouse and a clean jettison to safety? a small army of humans wouldn't have been able to pull off what secunit pulled off, so WHO WERE YOU PROJECTING WOULD BE THE LIKELY OPERATIVE MENSAH WOULD HAVE SENT??
WHY was she surprised i do NOT understand lmfao; and! also! i am DEAD curious about who/what B-E was expecting to arrive, and how, and what their intel was, and how they'd gotten it bc i doubt janity would've known all THAT. would she?
and also i'm shocked secunit didn't ever again think about the interface it'd taken off Leonide's body, not even when Janity needed one
All gays will go to hellsite
What if in hellsite but not gay
NO!
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