Hey, dol! Merry, dol!

TERFS FUCK OFF, YOU'RE LOSERS AND NOBODY LIKES YOU clara, she/her

[frostedmagnolias]

Ocean Blue Sequin Beaded Sheer Net-Tulle Mermaid Flapper Gown

1920s

Timeless Vixen

[clarascuro]

not to sound like a huge fucking bitch but on Friday I unloaded the dishwasher before I left for the weekend, and when I came back on Monday, the dishwasher was still empty, but the sink was full of dirty dishes. Neither of my roommates bothered to do anything about them until this afternoon, when I got back from work and one of them came out of his room and started washing a couple of plates by hand. Just put them in the fucking dishwasher!!!!!!!!

[guelwaar]

people love the idea of the mean girl nurse pipeline because it problematises medical abuse as a personal perversion rather than understanding it as a product of broadly held ableist values and its like, if this was only about ontologically evil teenage girls choosing to enter a profession because of their unique sadism then you really wouldnt expect to see the exact same forms of abuse pervading all arrangements of paid, unpaid, formal, ad hoc, and familial caretaking as well -- its more comforting to believe the nurse was just a preexisting bad person than that most of the world broadly hates disabled people and will abuse, neglect, and gaslight them if given power over their care

[antiquesintheattic]

Hey guys… 👋 did you know 🤔 that fashion 👗 is ART!!!?? Let’s explore that.

[lawrenceleemagnuson]

Charles Burchfield (USA 1893-1967) Dusty Road in July (c. 1955) watercolor and charcoal on joined paper laid down on board 88.3 x 127 cm

[hachinana87]

Helmet off

[tomatoluvr69]

I’m a rural French peasant living in a peauxdunque town

[bimbolimbospam]

marx failed to consider that anyone can just manifest what they want

[omtai]

this summer we WALK IN A RANDOM DIRECTION and NEVER STOP

[deanwinchesterapologist]

"free thinkers" when bruce springsteen starts rolling

[elliespectacular]

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The joke is already funny!

Further additions or permutations may weaken its potency!

[autistobrat]

scientists are experimenting on cross-breeding a crab and a cheetah; things could go sideways real fast

[thesobsister]

Dora Maar, (Untitled) (c.1935)

[fulda-gap-express]

who is the Toronto baseball warlock

[komakesthings]

Very excited to finally share some pictures of my Dread Pirate Frogerts build! I've been thinking about making this outfit for my Kermit for a while now, but the proper motivation to actually get this done was hearing that Cary Elwes was announced as a guest for my local comic convention! So with any luck Dread Pirate Frogerts will be getting to meet the real Westley very soon.

A shocking amount of work went into making this little outfit... I completely underestimated the amount of time I would need to put all this together. Though a good chunk of that was me getting way too wrapped up in perfectionism... ask me how many times I re-did the smocking on the sleeves (On second thought, don't, it's embarrassing). Here I thought I had been con-crunching with Piggy last year... technically, I only just finished Kermit today, and the convention starts Thursday. Lots of internal (and external) screaming was had with this build. I did film the majority of it, with plans to turn it into a full video and reel in the future... maybe once I've had a chance to recoup from aforementioned con-crunch.

[sextuspompey]

color me intrigued

[an-ruraiocht]

one thing that really makes you notice how popular conception of other literatures and mythologies is always filtered through a classical/greek and roman approach and mindset is some of the terminology people use. like i have never ever seen a medieval or early modern text or scholarly academic source call cú chulainn a demigod. so every time i see him referred to as one (on wikipedia or in social media posts or whatever) I'm like 🤔🤔

he has, kind of, a dad who is a god, kind of. that doesn't make HIM a demigod. he is actually described in considerably less supernatural terms than characters whose connection to the otherworld is more uncertain. that parentage is super de-emphasised; the parent whose patronymic he is consistently given across texts is the less otherworldly one (he's always "mac sualtaim/subaltach", though sualtaim himself is sídech, so it's Less otherworldly, not Not otherworldly). when for example lug does show up in the Táin he is initially referred to as a friend or ally, not a parent, though the word father is used once iirc; in the majority of texts he is not mentioned at all. and cú chulainn is not shown as belonging to the otherworld. his interactions with it are considerably less welcoming than those other characters experience. laeg has a bigger claim to belong there than he does. so he's just a weird guy (riastrad etc) and i don't think they conceptualised him in any way that we would think of a "demigod"

and part of this is also that the texts don't really talk about the otherworld in those terms because they are fundamentally christian texts that don't frame otherworld figures in terms of gods. but like. if you start saying "well what terms would they have used if they weren't christian" then I think that's missing the point. the christianity is not a thin veneer over the ulster cycle that you can strip off to get to what they "really" meant to say. it's pretty solidly embedded. there are centuries of active literary composition and authorship by christian authors. they made that guy like that and they didn't refer to him as a demigod because that didn't fit with the cosmology they were writing about and that is the literature as it exists. if you are describing a character like cu chulainn, describe what the texts actually say about him, rather than projecting a version of it that suits your preconceptions of what it's supposed to be like based on how other cultures would conceptualise a character with an otherworldly parent. i.e. how a similar character would be positioned in greek mythology or whatever. not everything fits a classical pattern or should be made to!

anyway you will never see me call cú chulainn a demigod and i will remove the word from anything I'm editing if I come across it because i don't agree with it as a characterisation of his status/nature