chemins du désir

A blog mostly for srs and pretty things. sj, animals, nature, art, lgbtqia, mental illness, etc. // I have no interest in including my life history in my blog bio and tbh neither should you // I try to keep this blog welcoming to marginalized groups but I am human and therefore the potential to fuck up exists // terfs/trfs/radfems and exclus feel free to leave immediately, you all use literally the same flawed logic and denial of reality and I'm not interested in dealing with you. also, beyond logic? learn some fucking compassion. exclusionism of all stripes and respectability politics have no place here. autonomy and self determination should be the backbone of all policy.

[cheminsdudesir]

honestly kitten even daddy's worksona is having a hard time pretending to love their job and capitalism at this point

[katlovesshrimps]

does anyone have that tweet that's like "talking to the ace hardware employee: gonna remodel an old brownstone by myself can I get the fisher price tool kit and stupid white paint"

[twincanine]

[katlovesshrimps]

THATS EXACTLY IT THANK YOU SO MUCH

[analog-autistic]

we've definitely posted about this before but if i see one more person act like the only forms of childhood trauma that exist are abuse from family or sexual assault i will actually start crying and it will be so so so loud everyone will hear it from every corner of the earth

THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!! PEER ABUSE !!!!! ISOLATION !!!!!!!! RACISM !!! SEXISM !!!!!! MEDICAL ABUSE !!!!!! NONCONSENSUAL SURGERY !!!! POVERTY !!!! SO MUCH MORE !!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[analog-autistic]

!!!!!

[virtuevistavalley]

Natural disasters! I never see anyone talk about that one and as a result I spent years thinking that watching my hometown get destroyed on the news and subsequently having to uproot my entire life at the age of seven wasn't Real Trauma because there was no Abuser™

[beemovieerotica]

[natequarter]

not only are most people completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in the americas, most people are completely unaware of the devastation of indigenous languages in europe. never mind occitan, they don't know about basque! it's wild! bleak! existentially horrifying!!!

[natequarter]

the last few centuries of french history involved, amongst other things, a concerted effort to establish "french" as a legitimate country and cultural identity, and crucially as a language, which sounds like an absurd statement if you know nothing about the languages of france. french is a language, yes; it exists and existed in the late eighteenth century. but it was limited primarily to the north of france and was certainly not spoken or even understood across the country. other languages within france were banned and french was enforced following the french revolution and even to this day other languages indigenous to france have very little legal protection and are not recognised as official languages.

that's just one country in europe. one. and many people straight up have no idea about any of this!

[natequarter]

did you know france has celtic languages? breton is the only celtic language spoken outside of the british isles. did you know france has germanic languages? alsatian, for example, is spoken in the east of france, unsurprisingly in alsace. it's not even the only french germanic language. did you know france has a number of languages and dialects known as langues d'oïl closely related to french? norman and picard, for example, are spoken in the north of france. did you know that france has gallo-romance languages? franco-provençal (which has a number of dialects) is spoken in the east of france, as well as parts of switzerland and italy. did you know that france has a language most closely related to catalan, the langues d'oc? occitan is spoken in the south of france and has a rich literary history. did you know france is home to basque, or rather euskara, a language isolate which predates indo-european languages? romani dialects! corsican! so much more than just french! there are even extinct jewish dialects of occitan! extinct langues d'oïl like angevin! so much linguistic diversity and all anyone talks about is french.

[steakplissken]

In trying to create a modern state around a common identity, many nations in Europe forced the language of the power-holders onto the rest of the country. They forced children to go to schools and learn in the state tongue, and they would beat/shame them if they spoke their mother language at school. I think the Welsh Not might be the best known example of this, but it happened everywhere: The UK, France, Germany, the Russian Empire (especially to Ukrainian and Polish among others), the Kingdom of Italy. Nowadays, intentionally destroying a language and cutting children off from their heritage is something we consider genocidal.

In Austria-Hungary, the Austrians were trying to force German on everyone. Eventually, the Hungarians received a concession to keep Magyar in their half of the empire...and to start forcing it on different groups in their half.

All of Europe is so rich in languages that are dead or dying and so many people don't know it. It would be so good if effort was made to protect these tongues and let people speak and work and live in them again. It would make the world richer.

[kjandthediamonds]

[magpie-the-forest-gremlin]

Embroidered a magpie on my Converse 🪡

[thegreatlearning]

Dragon puppet by Gustave Baumann

[lastoneout]

there is a very fine line between good chai and air freshener

[lastoneout]

So there's good chai, which tastes amazing and warm and the spices are all mm nice good <3

And then there's "chai" which is bad and is the sensory equivalent of chewing on those scented Christmas pinecones you can buy at Joann's.

Sadly the only way to discover which is which is to try it, and in the US that means you drink a lot of Christmas decorations.

[lastoneout]

Smell also doesn't always work! Sometimes you smell it and it seems really good, but then you take a sip and guess what. Air freshener.

[lastoneout]

Many such cases!!

[fairycosmos]

follows you online due to your posts. Lol

[dykedragons]

[vintagewildlife]

Elephants visiting the skeleton of another elephant By: Iain & Oria Douglas-Hamilton From: Wild, Wild World of Animals: Elephants and Other Land Giants 1976

[puppygirllaika]

every AI work tool out there is like "did you know you're wasting up to 90% of your time on pointless busywork that could be automated away? and i look inside and the "busywork" is like. learning how something important works or double checking the reading on the safety valve. AI companies love to say "why would you waste time learning that in the moment when, instead, you could always ask me about it later?" and it's like. the point isn't to "have access to that information", the point is to know it. The AI can only tell me how to fix that air compressor if i can tell it what the problem is, and even then its instructions might not warn me of potential hidden dangers or might not see that i've got my screwdriver on the wrong screw or might not even be telling me the truth. I need to know how the pump works. I need to know which lines lead where. I need to understand the system I am working with. If something goes wrong I need to know how to fix it, because by the time something tells me how to fix it, it might be too late.

[puppygirllaika]

someone please add the abigail sims poem chatgpt fucks my wife i am too high to deal with the results that duckduckgo search is giving me to sift through right now.

[houndmother]

[puppygirllaika]

Fail Safe (1964) never stops being relevant.

[puppygirllaika]

Also if you've never seen Fail Safe please go watch it. It's one of the best movies I've ever seen, it remains a personal favourite to this day, and especially if you are of the conviction that old movies tend to be stuffy and boring, this is legitimately one of the most tense, gripping, edge-of-your-seat suspense dramas you will ever watch. Even having seen it a dozen times before i find myself white-knuckling the arm of my couch through certain scenes, and on top of that the direction, cinematography, sound design, and action are all amazing. This movie uses close-ups and the power of silence better then any other I've ever seen. I think about this pair of shots all the damn time:

It also just. Has a lot of relevancy still today, and it's one of the things I recall most frequently when thinking about the efficacy of AI in the modern day. It's not about AI, it's about war, and weapons, and posturing of nations, and the way that secrets and hatred and dehumanization of our enemies and the increasing reliance on systems and automation, not just by machines but by humans told to act under orders and stripped of their agency, lead us into a future that no one is prepared for nor capable of preparing for, with the potential for devastating consequences. And it's a movie where you want to watch the credits all the way through to the end to feel the full impact of what you've just seen.

also +1 for having a character using forearm crutches throughout the movie who isn't a villain or treated as lesser, but instead as a highly respected, thoughtful, and considered leader. the crutches are never commented on, just treated as a totally normal part of his character. better disability rep then a lot of shit today tbh.

Anyway, you can find it for free on the internet archive, here:

Fail Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet : Sidney Lumet : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Fail-Safe 1964 Sidney Lumet

[santabunnies]

Watched this movie based on the recommendation. It's really good, I also recommend it. Only one issue, and I realize it's off topic to this entire post, but almost at the start of the movie, you'll know it when you see it, there's a line that goes "I'm not your kind." And it hits really hard (pun intended), but that scene lives rent free in my head for all the wrong reasons.....

[puppygirllaika]

ngl i couldn't figure out a way to work the woman who is really horny about killing everyone into this post, but that is definitely a feature. i also just. love how that "i am not your kind" line perfectly sets up how the professor fails to see himself the way that general black sees him. it's kinda perfect.

[natalieironside]

I think I was well-served in the long run by having already come to terms with being a freak and an outcast many, many years before I came out as a transsexual.

I heard all these horror stories like "You'll have a hard time finding a job and everyone will think you're a big weirdo and you'll be subject to a panopticon of social scrutiny and face violent bigotry" and I had thought Well all of that stuff is already happening to me anyways so why not, you'll hang for a sheep as well as a lamb

[natalieironside]

Feels like there's a significant intracommunity divide between those of us who were already living on the outskirts of life and those who see themselves as temporarily embarassed average citizens

[mumblesplash]

scurvy has got to have one of the biggest disease/treatment coolness gaps of all time. like yeah too much time at sea will afflict you with a curse where your body starts unraveling and old wounds come back to haunt you like vengeful ghosts. unless☝️you eat a lemon

[kata4a]

[guooey]

YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

[zoppzoop]

@froggied

[pinketine]

Rule of thumb: In every oppressed group, the women are having a worse time of it. This is due to a concept called "misogyny", which intersects with everything

[luminarycamille]

This is a shockingly difficult concept for trans men to grasp

[selene1311-n]

It doesn't cleanly intersect with everything. Trans people are not seen by society as their actual genders. That's literally the whole problem.

If trans men were seen by society as men, and trans women as women, and nonbinary people as nonbinary, then we wouldn't be having constant issues with transphobia.

By claiming that the patriarchy acknowledges trans men and thus grants them privilege, you're essentially claiming that transphobia as a whole functionally doesn't exist, because you're erasing the entire root foundation of it. And if transphobia doesn't exist, then by extension neither are any of its intersecting terms; transmisogyny cannot be taken seriously as a concept unless transphobia exists.

[sodomit]

In every oppressed group, people marginalized on the basis of gendered traits are having a worse time. This includes women of any gender modality, nonbinary people, genderqueer men, and intersex people.

This could be enough to fix this sentence.

But also, this is far from the only meaningful way of categorizing people from the point of marginalization, and I do wonder why it's always about gender and not something else. Like disability, access to education, citizenship, etc. Because everything intersects with everything, that's kinda what intersectionality is about. And believing that gender is a totally unique axis of marginalization that completely overshadows everything else isn't very interactional.