sorely tested

28. she/her. med student. dog mom. hobby baker.

[moonlitpage]

the frankel shinguard-rebound-glove-catch

[through-rosey-glasses]

Unfortunately work is scheduling stuff during the return of the PWHL and so I won't be able to watch a game until March 1st. But until then I thought I could satiate myself by hosting a few hockey card giveaways.

This giveaway is for a base Marie-Philip Poulin card:

To enter this giveaway: 

-be over 18 

- be willing to share your full address and name so I can ship it to you 

- this is open internationally but I am sending this from the US so please keep that in mind in case there are any limitations 

- reblog this post (likes dont count) 

- for an extra entry share a fun memory with the player or team on the card 

I will announce winners on March First while I watch the games scheduled that day. 

[through-rosey-glasses]

Unfortunately work is scheduling stuff during the return of the PWHL and so I won't be able to watch a game until March 1st. But until then I thought I could satiate myself by hosting a few hockey card giveaways. 

This giveaway is for a base card of Aerin Frankel:

To enter this giveaway: 

-be over 18 

- be willing to share your full address and name so I can ship it to you 

- this is open internationally but I am sending this from the US so please keep that in mind in case there are any limitations 

- reblog this post (likes dont count) 

- for an extra entry share a fun memory with the player or team on the card 

I will announce winners on March First while I watch the games scheduled that day. 

[galecstatic]

babe wake up the legendary editor sosaneitsinsane just dropped another hollanov banger edit spread the gospel

[shutout-tonight-queen]

call me Micah Zandee-Hart the way I mount other women's wives

[shutout-tonight-queen]

for you visual learners

[pwhlpolls]

What team do you root for?

Boston Fleet

Minnesota Frost

Montreal Victoire

New York Sirens

Ottawa Charge

Seattle Torrent

Toronto Sceptres

Vancouver Goldeneyes

I’m waiting on an expansion team

I root for multiple teams

Voting ended onFeb 7

[jennaflare]

I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm not fine

Song: Fine Not Fine by Spector

[beautifulduckweed]

In case you haven't seen this vid, please consider this reblog me taking you gently by the shoulders, pushing your ass down onto the nearest seat, and playing this for you until you've watched it all the way through. If you've watched it already--same thing, actually. Sit down, pal, it's time for your daily re-watch of Fine Not Fine.

It's perfectly edited; every lyric is synced up with the exact correct scene/character beat, and it's sustained through the entire song instead of 30 seconds to a minute. It tells a coherent story; it reveals painful things that the characters hold as true. All of this takes serious skill and effort.

I know this has thousands of reblogs and likes but I will personally not rest until it's in the hundreds of thousands. This is hands-down the best vid I've seen for this show so far and I've seen some absolutely bonkers edits.

[chickenfarmersan]

[yougottabeniceforwhat]

[desiccantdonoteat]

[needlepointcursewords]

[notsoterriblymisanthropic]

the one addition that truly makes this clip even more powerful is knowing that Mr Sterling is this guy:

I am in awe trying to imagine the sheer levels of non sequiturs they would be able to produce together.

[teaboot]

I needed context and THIS STARTED AS AN INQUIRY ABOUT RACISM?

[cyprozombiegirl]

tumblr removed my header which was literally just this image

[bloodied-dagger]

okay I know we’re only 4,000 notes in but look at the likes-reblogs ratio… it’s almost the same. Staff you done fucked up

[rainbowangel110]

12k now, there's a difference in the ratio now but still a close one. Wowsers Staff.

[bloodied-dagger]

Good lord, staff

[rainbowangel110]

Mother of pearl you guys

[hell0jon]

bam

[sometimes-nonexistent]

Oh my god tumblr staff what have you done

[wanderingnelipot]

Doesn't seem to be slowing down either.

[catboybiologist]

There is a MASSIVE uptick of posts being flagged as mature recently. It seems to be semi-random, but 100% with a bias towards picture posts made by transfems.

I'm guessing that accounts that have accumulated a certain amount of reports over time are under some kind of increased algorithmic scrutiny.

[libertineangel]

I was going through some old posts adding them to my selfie tag last night and that was enough to get them flagged, perfectly fine for three years but literally as soon as I give them the tag known to feature a visible transfem they're Potentially Mature Content

[nsync-bi-bi-bi]

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

@seesfunbucks you can't leave this in the tags

[teaboot]

God I love Apothecary Diaries. Maomao is like a dog with a mouth full of Lego bricks to me. Babygirl don’t eat that

[teaboot]

So imagine you go to a brothel and when you get there it’s full of beautiful women but then also there’s this dog. And when you ask “hey what’s with the dog” they’re like oh the dog, we love the dog, everybody loves the dog, the dog collects rocks from the yard. And you’re like “okay” but later you find the dog gathering piles of rocks and cementing them into a beautiful river-stone wall to protect the building. And you’re like “I didn’t even know dogs could do that”. And they’re like “that’s nothing, check this out” and then the dog starts doing multiplication with the rocks. You’re like “what the fuck” and they go “nahh she’s just getting started”. And they start giving the dog complex mathematical formulas that the dog answers by laying out the rocks. And you go “holy shit that’s the smartest dog I’ve ever seen”. And they go “it’s the smartest dog in the world” and you’re like “wow that’s amazing”. And then you look outside and the dog is eating the rocks. And you’re like “can the dog eat rocks?”. And they’re like “no”

[teaboot]

One day you find out the dog went missing. “We don’t know where the dog went but we miss the dog”, the beautiful women tell you. A year later the dog comes back. The dog is accompanied by the Duke of wales. “My gardener stole this dog but now I would like to buy it”, he says. “The dog has built me a beautiful castle and solved the viscount’s mysterious murder.” You aren’t sure how the dog did that by stacking rocks but you’re still incredibly impressed. The beautiful women are so happy to see the dog again. “Did you know that the dog can ride a bike?” The Duke asks. You look at the dog. The dog is obviously concealing a mouth full of gravel

[unstablecryptid]

[ayouuni-deactivated20250907]

in da clurb we all boop

[weedcellar]

Eminem isn’t violent, Slim Shady is. Get it right.

[kimbras-deactivated20150415]

[hoebutmadefashion]

im robbing a bank tomorrow and when the cops come for me imma tell them it was my alter ego countess boochie flagrante

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[samwisethewitch]

Homemaking, gardening, and self-sufficiency resources that won't radicalize you into a hate group

It seems like self-sufficiency and homemaking skills are blowing up right now. With the COVID-19 pandemic and the current economic crisis, a lot of folks, especially young people, are looking to develop skills that will help them be a little bit less dependent on our consumerist economy. And I think that's generally a good thing. I think more of us should know how to cook a meal from scratch, grow our own vegetables, and mend our own clothes. Those are good skills to have.

Unfortunately, these "self-sufficiency" skills are often used as a recruiting tactic by white supremacists, TERFs, and other hate groups. They become a way to reconnect to or relive the "good old days," a romanticized (false) past before modern society and civil rights. And for a lot of people, these skills are inseparably connected to their politics and may even be used as a tool to indoctrinate new people.

In the spirit of building safe communities, here's a complete list of the safe resources I've found for learning homemaking, gardening, and related skills. Safe for me means queer- and trans-friendly, inclusive of different races and cultures, does not contain Christian preaching, and does not contain white supremacist or TERF dog whistles.

Homemaking/Housekeeping/Caring for your home:

Making It by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen [book] (The big crunchy household DIY book; includes every level of self-sufficiency from making your own toothpaste and laundry soap to setting up raised beds to butchering a chicken. Authors are explicitly left-leaning.)

Safe and Sound: A Renter-Friendly Guide to Home Repair by Mercury Stardust [book] (A guide to simple home repair tasks, written with rentals in mind; very compassionate and accessible language.)

How To Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis [book] (The book about cleaning and housework for people who get overwhelmed by cleaning and housework, based on the premise that messiness is not a moral failing; disability and neurodivergence friendly; genuinely changed how I approach cleaning tasks.)

Gardening

Rebel Gardening by Alessandro Vitale [book] (Really great introduction to urban gardening; explicitly discusses renter-friendly garden designs in small spaces; lots of DIY solutions using recycled materials; note that the author lives in England, so check if plants are invasive in your area before putting them in the ground.)

Country/Rural Living:

Woodsqueer by Gretchen Legler [book] (Memoir of a lesbian who lives and works on a rural farm in Maine with her wife; does a good job of showing what it's like to be queer in a rural space; CW for mentions of domestic violence, infidelity/cheating, and internalized homophobia)

"Debunking the Off-Grid Fantasy" by Maggie Mae Fish [video essay] (Deconstructs the off-grid lifestyle and the myth of self-reliance)

Sewing/Mending:

Annika Victoria [YouTube channel] (No longer active, but their videos are still a great resource for anyone learning to sew; check out the beginner project playlist to start. This is where I learned a lot of what I know about sewing.)

Make, Sew, and Mend by Bernadette Banner [book] (A very thorough written introduction to hand-sewing, written by a clothing historian; lots of fun garment history facts; explicitly inclusive of BIPOC, queer, and trans sewists.)

Sustainability/Land Stewardship

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer [book] (Most of you have probably already read this one or had it recommended to you, but it really is that good; excellent example of how traditional animist beliefs -- in this case, indigenous American beliefs -- can exist in healthy symbiosis with science; more philosophy than how-to, but a great foundational resource.)

Wild Witchcraft by Rebecca Beyer [book] (This one is for my fellow witches; one of my favorite witchcraft books, and an excellent example of a place-based practice deeply rooted in the land.)

Avoiding the "Crunchy to Alt Right Pipeline"

Note: the "crunchy to alt-right pipeline" is a term used to describe how white supremacists and other far right groups use "crunchy" spaces (i.e., spaces dedicated to farming, homemaking, alternative medicine, simple living/slow living, etc.) to recruit and indoctrinate people into their movements. Knowing how this recruitment works can help you recognize it when you do encounter it and avoid being influenced by it.

"The Crunchy-to-Alt-Right Pipeline" by Kathleen Belew [magazine article] (Good, short introduction to this issue and its history.)

Sisters in Hate by Seyward Darby (I feel like I need to give a content warning: this book contains explicit descriptions of racism, white supremacy, and Neo Nazis, and it's a very difficult read, but it really is a great, in-depth breakdown of the role women play in the alt-right; also explicitly addresses the crunchy to alt-right pipeline.)

These are just the resources I've personally found helpful, so if anyone else has any they want to add, please, please do!

[elucubrare]

Star Wars is Greek; Star Trek is Roman. 

[elucubrare]

The comments have very valid points, and if you see this reblog, you should read them as well, but the initial idea was that Star Wars has a lot of focus on individual heroism - there are teams saving the day, but in the end the OT is centered on Luke’s personal struggle with himself and the Dark Side, and there’s much more of the sense that a single person can affect the galaxy with wits and/or a lightsaber - it’s more Iliadic or Odyssean. 

Star Trek, on the other hand, is about crew cohesion and bringing the ideals and material benefits of the Federation to other worlds, and serving the Federation or your crew above yourself, which feels like the ideals of Republican Rome - you’re not going to get Scaevola, sacrificing his hand, not for personal ideals but to show the virtues of his people, in Star Wars, but you might in Trek. 

[eightyonekilograms]

Every ship captain we see in Star Trek (but especially Picard) is a philosopher-king, while Star Wars has the fall of the Republic and the rise of the Empire.

I guess you can go either way with this question, depending on whether you’re comparing the series to Greek vs. Roman art or Greek vs. Roman politics.

[westbrookwestbooks]

I love finding things like this on this site. It’s like coming across graduate-level discussions free-range