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[charlesfosterofdensen]

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[archaicwonder]

Elizabethan Gold ’+BEHOLD THE END’ Mourning Ring for A N, Late 16th Century AD

A substantial Tudor D-section gold hoop with reserved foliage on black enamel field, scrolled capital to each shoulder and initials ‘A’ and ‘N’, the plaque a fluted hexagon with disc, legend to the perimeter ’+DYE TO LYVE’ and disc with ’+BEHOLD.THE.END’ surrounding a white enamel skull in three-quarter view. 17 grams, 26mm overall, 22.07mm internal diameter.

Watch this video for more info on this ring.

[snototter]

A pink sundew (Drosera capillaris) in Broxton Rocks Preserve, GA, USA

by Alan Cressler

[d4rksplash]

You ever just see a plush, go "hmmm that's cool :)" and then immediately get sucked into an absolutely wild mystery

Anyway if you have any information regarding the Y2K bug Pikachu bootleg, please reach out! So far I've connected it to some very similar keychains, a few bootleg Furby brands and quite possibly a different variety of knockoff Pikachu; I'd like to find out how much deeper the rabbit hole goes :) (Shout-out to HibbySloth on Bluesky and Longjumping-Fox5521 on Reddit, who showed me their plushies and gave me some insight)

[bogleech]

From the moment the y2k bug was news, businesses scrambled to merchandise it, and lots of overseas toy factories simply repurposed their assets to make "y2k bugs." Usually they were just actual bugs, a lot of existing insect toys got rereleased with "Y2K" or "2000" printed on them, wacky new colors if they were lucky.

[d4rksplash]

Ohhh that actually makes a lot of sense considering a similar model was released without the Y2K text!

Out of curiosity, do you happen to know if the @ symbol on some of the plushies has any relevance? I haven't seen it associated with the phrase "Y2K Bug" outside of the plushies/associated keychains.

[lakevida]

porn blog that followed me 2 years ago sent me a post at 5am this morning of a man getting his feet huffed

[i-hate-you3000]

[i-hate-you3000]

can everyone please stop reblogging this. this isn't even my post.

[lakevida]

you have custody on weekends and holidays

[drinkdrinkrevolution]

Early 19th century paint set

(photos by Jim Linderman)

[dominiqueramseyart]

Honey badger

[littleguysdaily]

This was a Patreon Request

[shiftythrifting]

double-used pussy rocks! I love it when the stones have been in as many people as possible

not the thirdhand yoni eggs!!

[princessnastyaromanov]

This is. really good deal!!!! USAmerikkkans are so privileged!

[charlesfosterofdensen]

Usually u gotta be personable and charm somebody to get a sample of their vaginal cultures. Two peeps’ pussy cultures for the low low price of $30 US and Zero charisma or interpersonal interaction? They’re practically giving that shit away

[postmanic]

Breezy is not larger than a cranberry grape juice

[postmanic]

BIG NEWS: Breezy IS NOW bigger than a cranberry juice!!!

[isuggestlandback]

With American Thanksgiving coming up, I'd like to remind everyone reading this that it's a day of mourning for the Wampanoag people. If you can, donate to help them preserve their culture, their language, and to fight for their legal rights and recognition.

If you live in the New England area, make a trip out to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribal Museum. Hear the history of the First Thanksgiving from the people who were most affected by it. They go into detail of the events and cultural impacts of the first five years after the Mayflower's landing.

Donations — Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe

Support the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and its efforts to protect their homeland and many programs.

[thewoodparable]

Tyrannosaurus rex (the name, not the animal) is 114 years old today! Happy Birthday! In her honour, I drew this quick colour sketch (limited to 1 hour) with some inspiration from watercolour god Frank Eber. It is not snowing in this scene. Hope youse all enjoy!

[escuerzoresucitado]

[wizardchampion]

[fleshengine]

Japan knows how to make a game show.

[littlemissminu]

hmm i will maybe touch you but i am not committed

[littlemissminu]

Full Metal Touch You Bitch

[ak-nm]

[starfleetofficers]

[fatalism-and-villainy]

To elaborate on what I said here - One of the most compelling aspects of Julian Bashir’s character to me is the confluence of power and powerlessness.

It is absolutely significant to Julian Bashir’s character that his mind and body are repeatedly violated. His very conception of his identity revolves around his childhood medical trauma, which was enacted by his parents in order to make him a more suitable son. This is an experience he feels literally made him into a different person. Throughout the run of the show, he also experiences repeated kidnapping, imprisonment, and torture, as well as Section 31 treating him as nothing more than a tool to advance their agenda, and using and exploiting him for their own ends.

However, he also - for the most immediate example - has significant power over others’ bodies and minds through his choice of career. (Not to mention that being a medical officer in Starfleet grants him a limited degree of autonomy within the command structure.) And there is a risk of him abusing that power for his own personal reasons, which is most obviously dramatized in “Chrysalis.”

What’s more, these two elements of his character are, in fact, intimately intertwined. This is perhaps most apparent in his explanation to Dax as to what motivated him to become a doctor, in a line often cited as one that takes on a new meaning post-augmentation reveal:

BASHIR: They seemed to know everything. It was as if they held the power of life and death in their hands. I used to think that if I didn't behave, they'd make sure I got sick. Then as I got older, I decided that I wanted to know what they knew, be as smart as they were. DAX: And that's why you went to medical school? BASHIR: That's right. And you know what I learned there? That all I really wanted to do was help people. That's what doctors are there for, to help. So there's really no reason to be afraid of them.

Bashir’s motivation to help people is one of his most commonly recognized traits in fandom (and in broader criticism as well). But what he initially identifies as one of his motives in studying medicine is - very explicitly! - about the desire for power, specifically power through knowledge. While I’ve expressed trepidation about retroactively reading some lines from him through the augment reveal, this is a line that I think gains additional significance through the later introduction of the backstory of his experience with medical trauma. But that context doesn’t particularly alter my reading of the line, either, because the character work is still pretty much the same without it: Bashir was afraid of a specific kind of authority figure, and strove to conquer that fear by obtaining that same power and authority and use it in ways in alignment with his own values.

Of course, helping people is also a strong drive for him. But it’s interesting to me that, the way this exchange is structured, he offers that not only as a way of soothing Dax’s medical anxiety but as a corrective to his earlier fear of doctors. (And, if read in relation to the augmentation reveal, he learned that he wanted to help people… in contrast to the doctors who traumatized him. Sharply differentiating himself from those who abuse their power is very important to his self-image as well.) Because his childhood fear that doctors would make him sick as a punishment wasn’t coming from nowhere - doctors really can do that! Having the power to help and heal necessitates also having the power to cause harm. That’s the nature of power from knowledge, and power from institutional access to resources.

That is to say that obtaining power is not only central to Julian Bashir’s character (and obviously wrapped up in his generally being ego-driven and constantly striving for excellence), but that he has an impulse to do so in response to being stripped of power. That impulse is also present in his interactions with Sloan in “Extreme Measures,” in which he takes considerable satisfaction in enacting the exact same form of torture and violation on Sloan that Sloan enacted on him.

This, in my opinion, is an understudied part of his character, and I think that’s at least in part because our cultural model for people who grasp at power as a means of compensating for their own powerlessness often involves those people being villainous or cruel. It’s the image of an abuser from an abusive background, or the school bully who’s powerless in their home life. For a Star Trek example, it’s Gul Madred from “Chain of Command,” the torturer who was once a starving six-year-old boy. It’s less common to recognize that motive in a character who is genuinely heroic and benevolent in their intentions (even though heroism is itself a power fantasy, and one in which Julian Bashir explicitly indulges).

(I think another factor here is that many people do not instinctively model “care” as a manifestation of power - and thus, potential violence. “He’s motivated by caring for people” and “he’s motivated by having power over people’ are not mutually exclusive, and in fact can be one and the same. “Having power over people” is not necessarily a bad thing! But it does require vigilance.)