The Rose of the Sun

She/Her. Currently obssessed with the Wheel of Time. In this house we do not talk about the show. I reblog stuff I like. Formely looktheresapurpleninja.

[genderkoolaid]

the way people use the word "femme" drives me fucking goddamn coocoo bananas. what is the point of that word if you use it in ways that makes it clear you think "men" and "femmes" are not overlapping categories. its just like with people using TMA supposedly to include people who aren't trans women & then just defining TMA as "trans women and transfem nonbinary people" like. at this point just be OPENLY exorsexist it will make everything so much more straightforward

[genderkoolaid]

like in the vast majority of cases where i at least personally see this phrase used, its people trying to talk about marginalized genders/people affected by misogyny and recognizing that just saying "women" wouldn't cover everything but instead of actually critically reflecting on what they are trying to talk about and the most inclusive and accurate way to cover the people actually included, they just tack "... and femmes" onto their cissexist feminism.

"[xyz example of misogyny] affects women and femmes" and its something that also affects trans men and nonbinary and genderqueer people. and it also affects gnc men / people perceived that way but then the person saying "femmes" makes it clear they aren't thinking about femme men at all. and also while masc/butch women may be covered under "women," given how often masc women & people perceived as masc women are left out of conversations of misogyny & have their experiences erased & deal with hostility within "women's spaces." its just like, if we are gonna be inclusive about how we discuss misogyny, can we actually put thought into it.

[love-ardour-anarchism]

This has also been a core part of my experience with alienation and exclusion from certain spaces.

"Women and femmes" - I'm a trans butch. I am neither a woman nor am I femme.

Using "femme" and "fem" interchangeably is something that annoys me in the same vein. They are not the same thing. I am "transfem" by way of my transition, I am not "femme" by any means.

People are all too eager to adopt the most recent virtue signaling terminology while not even cultivating the slightest hint of an understanding of what the terms they use actually mean.

[danielkanhai]

it would suck being a new immortal. like it’d be 2109 and people would go, “what was it like seeing ancient civilizations rise and fall like that? seeing the pyramids being built? watching the expansion and growth of the new world?” and i’d just be like, “no…no i was born in 1991. so like, wow i’m gonna see some cool stuff, but, i mean i’m not that much older than just a really, really old person, you know? phones were big back then. so big. but only for like ten years, then they got like, as good as they are now. uh. rhinos existed. don’t think i ever saw one in person. cool, good talk.”

[ayellowbirds]

even worse, imagine being an immortal who keeps missing stuff. “What was it like seeing the pyramids being built?” “Fuck if I know, I was in Madagascar.” “Oh, okay. Well, how was the Renaissance?” “I fell down a hole in Scotland and people thought I was an enchanted well for four hundred years, it was over by the time I convinced someone to get me out.”

[erkhyan]

And now, a lesson in biases:

We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

Oh, buddy, you better go and make a bunch of anthropologists and archeologists really happy RIGHT NOW instead of feeling bad about missing everyone else’s pet Major Event.

[ayellowbirds]

It’s been a decade since we left that comment and you have the best reply anyone’s left to it.

[murderbotched]

[trangoldin]

[thiefking]

actually you know what that's exactly it i would rather someone add 5 parantheticals after every sentence than use tone indicators it's 1. accomplishing SO much more in terms of clarity 2. extremely funny to look at depending on how they're used

[thiefking]

observe:

"is this real? /gen" — i thought /gen meant "general" for ages. i would not be able to understand this on first sight a few years ago and is thus ineffective

"is this real? (genuine question)" — i fully understand this without issue

"is this real? (genuine question) (can't tell) (very realistic) (looks real) (scary) (photoshop?)" — is not only incredibly clear it's also very funny to read all of these thoughts stapled together while also in their own parentheses. it's also the most useful because now i can actually address all parts of what they are asking me with as much specificity as BOTH of us need

[lady-sanguis]

parentheses my beloved (they are for bonus thoughts) (and questions) ( and sidetracks) (like a 2nd conversation on top of the first)

[kaijuerotica]

i hate that diet culture means all the tasty drinks everywhere are loaded with stevia now. this isn't even a stance about health, I just think it tastes so fucking bad

[genderqueer-rat]

stevia is cross-reactive with a common environmental allergen: ragweed! if you've been drinking your fun little drinky drinks & have been feeling off there's a chance you're actually allergic!

I can't have artificial sweeteners because they give me migraines. I can't have stevia because I have an anaphylactic reaction. this new wave of "make everything 0 sugar" coming back into fashion could literally kill me if I'm not careful. nothing is safe, nothing is sacred, if I'm getting a little treat, better check the ingredients in case they changed em! :)

[rabbitindisguise]

*head in hands* it's like ragweed??? Ragweed?? Oh my god everything makes so much sense

Ty for sharing that I had no idea

[ibenology]

the average twitter vs tumblr community experience

[fourohfourlifenotfound]

[kropotkindersurprise]

We salute an absolute icon 🫡

[gaylor-moon]

[captain-price-unofficially]

[ladyofspoons]

this blog supports punching fascists

[drmajalis]

Matt Frank (@mattzilla85.bsky.social)

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[notthegrouch]

This is so important though: "You're gonna get in trouble for that" reveals so much. He was planning on nobody doing anything, not because nobody stands up to him, or nobody objecting to what he says. He expects good people to be goody-two-shoes rules followers, and he expects the rules to protect him no matter what he does.

Important lesson to learn from this standing up to fascists means getting into good trouble. Get into trouble if it's worth it. Fascists will never expect it.

[excitementshewrote]

[brw]

Already seen some X-Men fans get a little bit too moralising about how much better the comics are. Like I dunno bro I don't think we need to be glazing the works of Chris "I based my female characters off IDF soldiers" Claremont to make a point about how bad the MCU is.

[brw]

We should criticise the MCU obviously. And I don't think the contributions or negative impacts of the MCU versus X-Men comics are the same. But equally. I don't think we should pretend X-Men comics as a cultural object have that much moral high ground over it either.

[wineauntgenna]

[anistarrose]

if you are a parent, or may become one, or you are otherwise likely to arrive in the situation of caring for a child while they eat, promise me this: if a child doesn't like a certain food or food group, you will ask them WHY. and specifically, you will pay attention to either confirming or ruling out "it makes my mouth itch" or "it makes my stomach hurt," both of which are medically important info that children may not provide unprompted. which i know because this PSA has been brought to you by "i spent my entire childhood and much of my early teens eating peas and lentils while wondering why everyone else liked the Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation so much, like were they a bunch of legume masochists or something, before i finally realized that Violently Itchy Mouth Sensation was in fact a sinister demon appearing only to me, and her true demonic name was: Legume Allergy"

[anistarrose]

with nothing but affection and care for many of you reporting itchy mouths and "spicy" foods in the notes:

Oral Allergy Syndrome: Why Foods Make Your Mouth Itchy

Learn more about oral allergy syndrome, an allergic reaction to certain foods, including fruits, vegetables and nuts.

[ID: edited conversation screenshot:

Blue: what are u trying to say

Yellow: (image of the Cleveland Clinic's Oral Allergy Syndrome article) go here

Blue: in the oral allergy syndrome information ?

Yellow: go in the OAS information

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[lakevida]

when youre inadvertently 1% too nice to a straight guy you can usually pinpoint the exact moment where he decides you must be acting that way because you want to fuck down on him crazy style and it is at this point that one would be well advised to have a cyanide capsule under a false tooth or an equivalent fast acting response

[creamsiclemelt]

I picked the hill I'm dying on today btw

[creamsiclemelt]

kip sucks and put scott in a deeply unfair situation. he signed up for something knowingly and then got mad at that thing + blamed scott for things that weren't his fault (go spend time with ur dad girl who's stopping you)

[creamsiclemelt]

great tags here via @jocknerd

also omfg I'd literally kill murder maim if ur family member said that in front of me omgggg

[key-pair]

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

[key-pair]

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

I love visiting people who have some kind of pet reptile because they're always like "would you like to hold the reptile" and I'm like "of course I would" and then the rest of the conversation happens with me just holding a random reptile and the reptile Has No Feelings about the situation. They always just sit there, probably vaguely wishing to return to their heat lamp but clearly exuding an energy of This Might As Well Happen. and then I put it back in its enclosure and go home and the reptile very clearly has no strong feelings about the situation.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

#my environmental science teacher in sophomore year had a classroom snake. and it was exactly like this#just a bunch of teenagers gently passing a snake to each other and doing lab work#and the snake would be like. yup. im just here.

[wertfi-penguin]

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

[geekyhistoriansunite]