Gay as in happy AND Queer as in fuck you

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[cosmicconstruct]

Hi this is a main blog that we use for reblog spam and the occasional post about our college classes. If you found us from communities you're probably looking for @cosmiccommune which is our sideblog about being an extranthaeic system.

[discoursedrome]

I really appreciate how the sociolinguistics of compounds mean that we have one suffix -vore, -vory meaning "to eat", and another suffix -phage, -phagy meaning "to eat (fucked up)"

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[good-to-drive]

My mom kept complaining that all of a sudden the Beatles are back and they're fucking everywhere and they're so obnoxious and were practically having an orgy in her garden under a cucumber leaf and that's when I realized she meant spotted cucumber beetles and not Paul McCartney

[guerrillatech]

[dogpuppy]

[orcboxer]

Should go without saying but never date a cop and christ never marry one. Rule of thumb if he's legally untouchable he's ethically unfuckable. You don't like that cop, you like buff men in tight clothing. I can show you more of those, better ones. Take my hand.

[orcboxer]

Hi guys. This post ain't about stereotyping random professions (farriers????), it's about how cops are effectively legally untouchable and if they hurt you, you have virtually no recourse. A quality that none of those other professions have. It's the inherent power imbalance of being bound to someone who can't be prosecuted.

The "firemen cheat" thing is actually a myth, union workers are both hot and professionally stable, paramedics are stressed out but otherwise fine, physical workers are not inferior to "thinkers" don't be fuckin classist, and "watch out for Farriers" is maybe the funniest thing anyone's ever said on this post.

[orcboxer]

like the fuck are they gonna do lmao

[marlinspirkhall]

Having beef with the horse cobbler is objectively hilarious

[puppygirllaika]

every farrier wants to be the next famous boeing engineer. You'll always come second in their book, and no one should put up with moving to enumclaw, even if "business is better there".

[crunchymayo]

[vocabulary-altering-posts]

PHRASE ADDED!

"YEOWCH! ᴛᴏᴜᴄʜɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴄᴀᴄᴛᴜꜱ."

[cosmicconstruct]

Love my film psychoanalysis class but 90% of it is pointing at things in movies and going "hey, this is just like vagina from real life!"

[macgyvermedical]

In the 1700s, blood transfusion was used to treat psychosis. Oddly, sometimes it worked.

So a question for my followers: Give your best guess as to why this could have worked without looking it up.

I will answer tomorrow.

[macgyvermedical]

Answer: A particularly common form of psychosis occurred in the final stage of infection with syphilis. Syphilis is an uncommon bacteria in that is is extremely sensitive to temperature- so sensitive that a high fever greatly reduced or even eliminated infection with the bacteria. In fact, once quinine became available to treat malaria, which caused repeated high fevers, intentional infection with malaria was used to cure syphilis, which would then be treated with quinine. But in the 1700s, they (Europeans, at least) didn't have quinine yet.

So how did a blood transfusion treat syphilis? Well, in the 1700s, blood transfusions were not done with human blood- they were done with animal blood, usually lamb or calf blood. Since biblically calf or lamb blood was pure and contributed to the sweet nature of the animals, it was thought that if given to someone who was experiencing paranoia and hallucinations, the psychotic symptoms would decrease. This was not the case.

The amounts were usually small enough that the person didn't die. But it did cause frequent transfusion reactions. These reactions frequently caused high fevers, which treated the syphilis and helped decrease the symptoms caused by it.

[headspace-hotel]

Made so many errors they accidentally added up into something sort of right

[armengoldira]

Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

[coughloop]

Guy freezes his hair and it stands tall.

[morwentrouble]

sound on for his adorable gremlin giggles and commentary in a lovely accent

[mikkeneko]

[max1461]

There is a standard media depiction of a "healed" person. Someone who has Gone To Therapy. I've noticed this in a few works recently. We often see them at the end of a story, maybe in a "ten years later" epilogue. They speak in a soft, serene voice. They have Accepted what they cannot change. They have let go of a lot, including most of what we see them actually care about in the story itself. They are Happy, At Peace, in some non-descript way. They bare little resemble to the person we were actually shown. They bare little resemblance to any person. We were shown, as we usually are in stories, an agent, a desirer, someone becoming. Now they have Become. And they look back on all that silly becoming as something childish that they have moved past. Fire, you know, fire is for children who don't know any better. To be Healed is to have your fire rightly extinguished; to not even miss it.

[despairtwins]

"DSM-5 seems to have no definition of happiness other than the absence of suffering. The normal individual in this book is tranquilized and bovine-eyed, mutely accepting everything in a sometimes painful world without ever feeling much in the way of anything about it." — Sam Kriss's review of the DSM-5 as a piece of surrealist literature

[jerrycummblr-deactivated2025012]

It's really simple. If you're born with a vagina and you naturally have elevated testosterone levels, you're a man. If you have a vagina and you take testosterone, you're a woman. But also if you have a vagina, you'll never be a man. But also if you have higher testosterone then you were never a woman. Woman never yes man a vagina testosterone no was an elevated. Vagina man.

[son-of-crows-and-rats]

[hemipenal-system]

good: i dont like radical feminism because it declares porn and kink to be unilaterally bad

better: i dont like radical feminism because it declares the systemic issues in porn production to be the fault of porn itself and not the production companies and kink to be unilaterally bad by a moral standard that is set by the radical feminists themselves

best: i dont like radical feminism because it declares the systemic issues in porn production to be the fault of porn itself and not the production companies, which is a problem that arises because sex has an inelastic demand and lack of regulation in the porn industry means sex workers and actors have virtually no labor rights. they also presume "sexual deviancy" and kink to be unilaterally bad by a moral standard that is set by the radical feminists themselves which is reliant on the inherently misogynistic assumption that any woman who willingly engages with things they deem amoral must have something wrong with them for enjoying those things

[thoodleoo]

reading ancient pompeian graffiti is a fun way to practice language partly because the grammar and spelling of graffiti is a whole different beast than literary language but also because the words themselves are delightful. anyway i've just discovered the cobbled-together adverb ceventinabiliter which means something along the lines of "buttshakingly (with the implication of "in a bottom sort of way")

[official-linguistics-post]

official linguistics post

[bloedgetuige]

guiltfree snacks are such a concept. i dont feel guilt for having a pastry. I'm not catholic

[orvillepeckspocketpussy]

one thing i am quite grateful to Brian David Gilbert for is the phrase "If you needed ME to tell you that... I'm glad I told you that."

it has been etched into my brain for the past six years, fundamentally altering how i consider knowledge gaps held by others, as well as myself. people usually need to be told stuff before they can know it! that's how knowing stuff works! this is an extreme example played for laughs but it's a legitimately helpful philosophy!!