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henrie | he/him | 🇵🇸✊️ | as long as you're a decent person you're 100% welcome here 💚

[crowleystolemyshoes]

[profile picture ID: a picture of the highwayman from over the garden wall against a plain background with light blue veins drawn on his face. end ID]

[header image ID: a picture of just a whole bunch of multicolored polyhedral dice. just so very many dice. end ID]

I occasionally vent about shit. block #vent tag if you'd rather not see that 💚

I tag any potential triggers/content warnings I can think of, please let me know if there's something you'd like me to add! spoilers won't be tagged.

I make an effort to reblog media from people who've described it, and sometimes write my own descriptions when another isn't available, but descriptions won't be consistent. (as a note, it's quite easy to write descriptions, and you can help make tumblr more accessible by practicing writing them for posts you see and think you could describe easily! even one short description more is helpful. here's a compilation of guides and tips if you're lost.)

I have a side blog about dice! @all-the-dice-puns-are-taken

I also have a side blog about my plants :-) @plantsareprettyneat

look under the tag #the deboobing for my live blog of top surgery and recovery!

fun dickery is encouraged! bigoted dickery will not be tolerated. we do radical inclusionism here. be a decent human, it's not hard. mwah

please don't follow me if you're under the age of sixteen. I will be blocking anyone younger who follows me. please also don't follow if you're an active fan of harry potter--I won't argue about that, I will just block you.

wear a mask, get vaccinated. these are basic human decency things if you're able (yes, still. COVID didn't go anywhere and disabled people deserve to exist around other people without risking their lives.)

if you don't completely and wholeheartedly support the victims of ongoing (and past) global genocides, you are not welcomed here. same if you're against the land back movement (and if the land back movement feels like a threat to you, a) investigate why you feel entitled to the land you live on and b) actually google what the land back movement is). ALSO same if you are white and not actively and intentionally anti-racist. it is not enough to act neutrally on this issue. you need to be continually putting active effort into educating yourself and advocating for your community.

about me! I'm henrie, I'm queer, I'm an adult, and I'm finally ready to accept that I'm disabled lol. see the blog title if you want to get a general idea of my personality, because that's 75% of it

emojis should have noses. every single one

[avoidbeing]

An obsidian mirror found at Catalhoyuk, 8,000 years old

[old-flesh]

“get the fries, you’ll need the energy in the coming days”

[grimeclown]

Cmon man

[frawgs]

putting ketchup on fries is too permanent for me … i have to dip . i control the sauce

[fieldexplores]

Never Learned - Gator Days

[twenty-fourth-order-simulacra]

...the alt text?

[virtualgirladvance]

i love alt text that itself is a part of the art

[dragongirlsweetie]

when people say "death to america" they mean they want the communist death army to storm every city in america and kill everyone there including babies and old people and animals too and then they are going to take a bunch of bulldozers and dynamite and such and demolish all of the buildings and trees and mountains and everything until the entire country is just a smoldering crater. just wanted to clear that up

[innerchildabortionclinic]

berries ranked by importance below readmore

you FOOL. every berry is equally important

[mangonetics]

"why was the ending so rushed it was so good up until the ending" the answer is the same every time no matter the media you're talking about: the author is a bee and had to go back to the hive to defend the queen

[homunculus-argument]

One interesting element of being a part of a conversation consisting of multiple ADHD people is the backtracking. At some point you realise you're all talking about granny oil wrestling or trying to remember what lobster blood is made of, and you all just go "wait, how the fuck did we get here?" and then you all start retracing your steps to figure out what you had been talking about before, and how it led to this one, until you get back to how you jumped from normal conversations to how one would logistically arrange an ostrich brothel.

[shadowtherat]

Its time to play GUESS THAT FOOD RAT! Anyone want to take a crack at this girls name (there a few subtle hints in these photos - look closely! 😉😆) Also I will be adding one of these photos to this years food rat calendar - let me know which one you like best!

[fervent-bookwomb]

i think that soy sauce fish and honey bear must be the very very best of friends

[fervent-bookwomb]

look at them. look at them!!! i bet they have tea parties together when the spice cabinet is closed.

[emtearzz]

buddies!!

[gayvampyr]

[ID: a photo of a bottle of honey in the shape of an upright bear and a photo of a bottle of soy sauce in the shape of a fish. the third image is a digital illustration in a cartoonish style of the two bottle-animals sitting in front of pink tea cups and blushing. small pink puffs dot the air around them. beneath their shadow is a signature -EmTea- @emtearzz . /end ID]

[foldingfittedsheets]

Oh my god. I need to share another story of my new friend making today. So my friends husband says, very casually, as we’re about to leave for the ren faire, “Yeah, it’s like my story about fucking a chicken.”

And of the four people present I was the only one who was shocked. The others all nodded as if to say, yes yes, we know, the chicken fucking.

So he explained, when a progressive person is analyzing a behavior they will typically use the metric, Harm/No Harm. They may not like things in the No Harm category but they wouldn’t object.

Conversely, a more conservative mindset used something like eight metrics. Authority/No Authority Moral/Not Moral, things like that.

So, he posited if you want to sound out someone’s mindset (and you’re willing to live with the repercussions) you can ask: if a man buys a dead chicken from the store, cleans it thoroughly, then fucks it, and then eats it himself…?

I listened in dawning horror, both rapt and disgusted. But into the growing pause I whispered, “No harm…” because it really has no effect on me or anyone else if a man fucks a dead chicken. I don’t like it, I think he’s a weird dude, but like. That’s his dick. But a more conservative person will hear that and object on moral grounds despite not being harmed.

It’s been haunting me all day, so please enjoy.

[tartrazeen]

This is also a handy probability scale for who's gonna be wearing your skin in a week.

[foldingfittedsheets]

I know you’re joking but this joke is absolutely the point. You’ve assigned a moral judgement to the act, rather than acknowledging it as not harmful.

In the current climate sex has so many moral judgements applied, and I can tell you that perfectly bland every day people do some Crazy Sex Stuff. When I worked at a sex shop they’d tell me all about it. It didn’t preclude them to murder or being serial killers. If someone wants to fuck a warm cantaloupe or a dead chicken it doesn’t matter. It doesn’t harm me or anyone else.

Your morals should not be applied to anyone else’s sex life unless there’s actual harm, and a time where public indecency laws are rearing their heads again creeping toward the immoral queers, it’s something to actively push against.

[jurph]

To read more about the serious research underlying this, look up Moral Foundations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_foundations_theory). The original hypothesis has five or six axes, along which different people make different value judgments:

Care/Harm

Fairness/Cheating

Loyalty/Betrayal

Authority/Subversion

Sanctity/Degradation

Liberty/Oppression

One of the features of conservative populism is that it leans heavily on Sanctity/Degradation for its emotional hook. You can see this in their revulsion at queer sex acts, for example, but it's also a feature of propaganda that casts some races/ethnicities as "dirty" or "filthy" or "animals". Mis-casting these feelings of revulsion as something they should have the Liberty to put into law - rather than something which writing laws about would constitute Oppression of others - is a key feature of modern conservative/traditional movements.

Dr. Jer Clifton has done similar work on a 26-dimensional measurement of attitudes that he calls "Primal World Beliefs" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_world_beliefs). In one sense these theories are both really reductive... but in another they're incredibly useful for understanding what makes an argument so compelling to others when it sounds preposterous to you.

One more reason you should care: the people who build the structure of political campaigns absolutely have read these theories, and use them to structure their broad arguments.

[cryoverkiltmilk]

This post got way more scholarly than I expected for starting with hypothetical chicken-fucking.

[ralfmaximus]

Years ago back when I worked in cubicle land, we were hiring junior software developers. They didn’t have to have a ton of experience, just a willingness to learn, and some demonstration of their software skills. Like: show me a program you wrote (any language) or a web site you designed. Anything.

And there was this one guy I talked with who seemed super sharp, but had virtually zero experience writing software. When it came time to do the show-n-tell part of the interview he whips out his laptop, brings up a website, and spins it around to show me what he made.

A website of tiny ceramic frogs.

Not for sale. Just… all these ceramic frogs, organized into categories. Frogs on bicycles, frogs with hats, frogs sitting on lily pads. It was a virtual museum of ceramic frogs in web form.

I scrolled through his online collection of frogs, slightly baffled.

“This is your website?” I asked finally.

“Yep!”

“You coded this yourself?” I popped into view-source mode and poked around some incredibly well-formatted, well-commented html. I nodded slowly. This guy was meticulous.

“Yep!”

“So… where’d all the frogs come from?”

“I made those too,” he says, beaming. 

And while I’m processing this he rummages in his bag and pulls out a little ceramic frog working at a computer terminal. He places it on the table before us, next to the laptop.

“And THIS one,” he says, “I made for you! As a thank you for the interview.”

It was adorable. I hired him on the spot. I mean, why not? Worst case he’d wash out in 90 days and we’d hire somebody else. He turned out to be one of the best developers on our team. 

And yes, his cubicle was loaded with ceramic frogs.

[just-in-cays]

the order of rodentia sounds like a circle of knights from ages past but you may be surprised to learn these noble warriors are still fighting their holy battles to this day

[miscelium]

rpf is compelling because it exposes the self as a performance in the same way that drag exposes gender as a performance

[raelemond]

blood spray is just another kind of cumshot

[crowleystolemyshoes]

my kitties #mykitties

[crowleystolemyshoes]

and the stray kitty I'm taking home after work today #mykitties

[crowleystolemyshoes]

update: the stray kitty has Bitten Me

[theblogginggoth]

By Czeck writer Karel Čapek, inventor of the term ‘robot’ as well!

[nadiacreek]

This is one of my husband’s favorite short stories. He quotes it from memory. I’m pretty sure he can recite the entire thing from memory.

[elodieunderglass]

This is a tremendously impactful short story and every time I see it, it serves as an excellent reboot button for my state of mind.

[tildytwo]

According to Karel, his brother Josef was the inventor of the word “robot.” Josef died in a concentration camp in 1945.

[omgshiftercat]

Since the OP didn’t add alt-text, here it is:

From the Point of View of a Cat

This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some!

He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs.

Let me out!

I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime.

He keeps my rooms clean for me.

In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love.

Often at night, when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood.

But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices.

By Karel Čapek, Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.