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[bixels]

Watched Ernst Lubistch's I Don't Want to Be a Man yesterday for a class. 1910s transmasc yaoi goes fucking crazy.

[bixels]

Tomboyish girl hates acting feminine and family brings in a male doctor to "break her down" and teach her manners. Out of spite, she buys a suit and crossdresses as a dapper boy to sneak into a party. Immediately gets flirted with and chased by a literal crowd of girls. Runs into the doctor and decides to try and seduce his girlfriend for revenge. While she and the doctor are fighting (doctor thinks she's a boy), they realize his girlfriend's already gone and they get drunk. They start kissing and making out and fall in love (doctor still thinks she's a boy). They accidentally run into each other the morning after and flirtatiously promise not to talk about yesterday's "adventure." Later, the girl reveals she was the boy and teasingly tells the doctor that she'll "break him down." Instead of getting angry, the doctor smiles, knowing he got his ass handed to him, and they kiss again.

[bixels]

Do you guys think anyone fujoshi'd out in 1918.

[animentality]

[moonshinemagpie]

researching the history of education in japan and learning that, pre–Meiji Restoration, peasants/commoners formed their own schools to become educated because it was the best way of fighting tax fraud.

That is, when an official told you, a rice farmer, that you owed more taxes than you really did, it was very useful if you were good enough at math to know he was lying (and could prove it) and if you were good enough at writing to write a letter to your government defending your case.

all of which is to say it's crazy that mega-corporations are now pushing education to be "what if you paid us whatever we tell you to for the rest of your life and never do math or write anything ever again"

[madeline-kahn]

Farewell and adieu to you fair Spanish ladies Farewell and adieu you ladies of Spain. For we received orders for to sail back to Boston And soon never more will we see you again.

Jaws (1975) dir. Steven Spielberg

[chunkymonkeycupcake]

[wannabecosplayer]

Friendly reminder that if you are ever tempted to not wear your seatbelt because it is bothering you, there dozens of affordable seatbelt accessory’s that make them more comfortable and even correct the positioning to make them more effective.

[schrodingers-blursed-kitty]

This reminds me of the seatbelts are sexist discourse I saw going around a few years ago

[smol-catholic-bean]

...the what

[schrodingers-blursed-kitty]

Yeah the basic idea was that seatbelts are uncomfortable/don't fit well on boobs and therefore are sexist and shouldn't be worn.

It was absolutely stupid

[traveling-spartan]

Somebody even said seatbelts have caused injuries in crashes to include breast amputation; which is technically true but is also a classic example of survivorship bias.

[geekgirl76]

This!!! We rolled once when I was a kid. Because it was a low speed roll, I was the only one injured and it was because of my seat belt. Bruises from hanging from the "ceiling" by the seat belt, and I banged up and cut my arm on the rear view mirror glass (it was so low energy roll the ONLY glass that broke was the mirror) from when I landed after unbuckling... and I will still wear my seat belt every single time I'm in a car.

Because if that had been a normal speed roll, not even higher speed, I'd have been the only SURVIVOUR. I'd probably have been fucked up by it being a lap belt, but I'd be alive.

WEAR YOUR FUCKING SEAT BELT!

(And also, when walking your dog on country roads at night, have lights and visibility vest for both you AND your fucking dog. My poor mom, with two kids in the car, swerved to miss the dog, saw the person, had to make the call on person, dog, or ditch, and instead of taking out the fucking MORON in the middle of the road, she slowed as much as she could in the time she had and took the ditch. To this day, I don't know how she didn't beat the man to death after... I'd have pounded him into the gravel if that had happened to me with The Kid in the car.)

[tricky-pockets]

I've been in a rollover where the car blew a tire going 90mph and rolled 6 TIMES.

The seatbelts, which both people were wearing, kept us inside the frame. The frame held.

With the seatbelt, all I got was bruises and scared. Without it, my skull would have been basically an egg in a blender.

thank you, seatbelt ❤️

[xclowniex]

Also a reminder that if you are fat, pregnant or have an apron belly, the seatbelt goes under your tummy.

If you don't do that, it can cause harm in the event of a crash.

You want to use your pelvic bone as the part that receives pressure from the seatbelt in the event of a crash, not your organs.

[supermanstoddlerleash]

i was in a car accident when i was younger. (no one was at fault, just bad luck on an icy road when it was dark out.) because i had my seatbelt on, the worst injuries i got were a few ugly bruises.

the paramedics told me that had i not worn my seatbelt, because of the angle of the crash, my ribcage would've been pulverized.

wear your damn seatbelts, people.

[amanitaphalloides]

I worry a little bit that people who refuse to learn about ai as a part of their anti ai position are going to be extremely unprepared to understand what’s actually scary about it and already have their digital literacy at risk tbh

[amanitaphalloides]

not that I am some genius in this regard but if you follow ai developments even slightly you might change the things you are most worried about. do people know the extent to which ai is already eating itself and how meaningless this is making swaths of the internet. do people know that there are plenty of random mid-sized companies today buying their employees’ likenesses to create digital clones and using these to make hundreds of videos. I am so much more worried about labor and surveillance and abuse than people becoming lazy about writing emails. and idk man I sort of like and respect people who are willfully ignorant about it as a way of minimizing its force in their lives and I am in some ways jealous but also when I see posts that basically still boil down to “chatgpt will never fool me” I am like 😭😭😭 for one thing not the only thing to be concerned about, for another thing I am really sorry but I don’t think you’re right

[valtsv]

it fucks me up that tolkien only died in 1973. dude has the vibe of a victorian scholar who wrote all his manuscripts by candlelight but then you look him up and realise that he knew what color tv was. what the fuck.

[tiwaztyrsfist]

Tolkien had personal beef with the Beatles

[solepunk]

He actively encouraged Led Zeppelin to write songs based on the LOTR series and considered it an honor

[sillymarillion-comics]

[luccorvus]

When the current queen of Denmark was young, she made illustrations for his books and sent them to him under a pseudonym. He liked them and they were printed in the Danish version of the book.

[kaispeakshermind]

WHAT

[helenakey]

The Queen of Denmark drew LoTR fanart 😮😩

[iconuk01]

Well, it started as fanart, it became canon published artwork approved by the author.

[spartanlocke]

Also he strictly forbade Disney from making any sort of cinema of his books. 

[source]

Not only did this dude see the moon landing, know what color TV was and hate the Beatles, but he knew Walt Disney was a piece of shit before anyone else, and all because of some dwarves. 

[elodieunderglass]

In 1937, in communication with American publishers regarding illustrations for The Hobbit -

It might be advisable, rather than lose the American interest, to let the Americans do what seems good to them – as long as it was possible (I should like to add) to veto anything from or influenced by the Disney studios (for all whose works I have a heartfelt loathing).

Tolkien in 1961, being a crunchy parenting advocate, lmao;

God help the children! I would as soon give them crude and vulgar plastic toys. Which of course they will play with, to the ruin of their taste. Terrible presage of the most vulgar elements in Disney.

(That’s so Montessori of him, hahaha.)

[signatun-e]

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[sloppystyle]

[sapphling]

let's all have a fun time looking up new words when we encounter them to see what they mean before incorporating them into our vocabularies

[wileycap]

[peachfromcmbyn]

I don't get why people outside of the US think that Yankee is some sort of devastating insult. You sound like Robert E Lee.

[zaprowsdower27]

it IS a devastating insult though, painful and offensive to be called

Citation: Mets fan

[pagecommando]

I think calling yourself a Mets fan is punishment enough, no?

[andthentheresanne]

Yankee (socio-political): cool, makes it sound like I'm about to go for a little walk down to the Atlantic Ocean, if you know what I mean

Yankee (sports): ew gross no stop

[yorickish-deactivated20240629]

energy policy would be much better if we still had a tradition of animal sacrifice I think. people would be way more chill about nuclear energy if they could see a large and proud bull being ritually sacrificed every month or so at the base of the cooling towers to keep the plant safe

[yorickish-deactivated20240629]

[grad-student]

[happyk44]

[Text ID: 1. #so when I was in schooling for power plant work #my applied electrical theory instructor told us about this thing his crew had #called The Load Toad #who was a totemic frog statue that was long ago bought for the plant #and displayed over the switchboard for all the distributd loads (hence the name)

#apparently The Load Toad was a force everyone in the electrical division sincerely believed needed to be appeased #and the ritual for doing so involved the blood of a virgin (easy to get in a nuclear power plant tbh) and chicken bones #you'd burn the bones in a burning bowl after splashing them with the virginal sacrifice

#ANYWAYS apparently one time they got a new head who was either devout Methodist or Mormon I forget #and he made them stop like all of that with firing threats and criminal threats too #then every day for a month 4 loads would randomly inexplicably fail #at first he blamed the men for acting out the Toad's vengeance #but after babysitting down in the pit himself he could see that all the failures were borderline miraculous and impossible to anticipate

#so without admitting his wrong he just threw a kfc bucket full of bones into the breakroom and curtly said "just make it stop" #moral of the story I actually agree with this sentiment #prev [left arrow]

2. #humanity can have a little magical thinking if it gets them to stop global warming /end ID]

[casgirl]

The littlest things we know to be small = debut literary fiction

The dark wife: thriller, adapted into a Hulu original

The mailman’s niece = historical fiction

The mailman of Warsaw = also historical fiction but about war

The gate of wind = fantasy

The gate of wind and bones = young adult fantasy

A gathering of pelicans = mystery, part of a long running series that takes up a whole shelf at the library

The Group Project Partner Gambit = romance with a cartoon cover

Wendy Jenkins is Scared of Commitment = romance with a cartoon cover of gay people

[watcherscrown]

this is my magnum opus

[memecucker]

if you’re white and wanna write a poc character and feel awkward about it i implore you to ignore any twitblr stuff treating it as a massive ethical burden and instead come in more with the same mindset you’d have if you wanted to write about idk firefighters but didn’t know anything about firefighters so you do... research. Like fuck off with the weird kinda creepy calls for spiritual introspection you’re not writing about god damn space aliens you’re writing about humans and if you think you need more perspective of different life experiences just read?

[mala-taste]

If I were writing about firefighters I'd also, in addition to just reading about them, take advantage of Our Blessed Internet to ask actual firefighters about how shit works. I'd do the same for a minority I'm not a part of.

I remember when there was this LiveJournal community where you could just ask about anything you needed for your novel - medicine, professions, vehicles, how things function in country X - and people who knew something about that would answer.

We need to bring this back.

[mala-taste]

And apparently just this summer they DID bring it back - it's called Little Details and it's on Dreamwidth!!!!

[alexseanchai]

[crazy-pages]

Remember, a world where everyone stays in their own boxes and only writes about their own narrow demographic is straight up a goal for racists. If you ever find yourself attempting anti-racism so hard you've looped back to "functionally the same thing racists want", stop, take stock, and ask yourself where things went wrong.

[grosezero]

Breaking bad = Undertale

Better call Saul = Deltarune

[grosezero]

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

I do wish we could make it a little more socially acceptable to wander the streets at night weeping inconsolably I feel like that would have a great catharsis factor for a lot of people

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

listen it was a lighthearted goof but I am a little sick of people going "um what's stopping you?? no one will care." I'm glad that you live somewhere that people walking around showing signs of loud emotional distress never get harassed or bothered or have the cops called on them! not everyone does.

[estro-boi]

ngl kinda hate that "this has been discussed extensively you're just 21" tweet cos it was directed at a trans woman who was getting dogpiled for saying that the "dangerous man in a dress" horror trope is shitty

[estro-boi]

she was born in 2005, the right wing culture war against trans people has been going on for half her life, if she independently arrives at a correct take then how is that something worth mocking?? you got flowers sprouting through concrete, water them dumbass

[estro-boi]

my dipshit six year old: if the earth is round how come we don't fall off??

me: lol we learned that in science class 20 years ago 🤣 prick

infinite strangers online: okay this is an all time dunk

[batshit-auspol]

In a 1996 by-election, one of the candidates for Australia's parliament changed his name to Steve Grim-Reaper so he wouldn't get mixed up with other candidates

[batshit-auspol]

Update: Thanks to some brilliant suggestions from you all, we have an even better contender - A man who ran in the 1998 federal election named 'Prime Minister John Piss the Family Court and Legal Aid' who received a whopping 183 votes for the party 'Abolish Child Support'. Sounds like a lovely guy.

Unfortunately for Mr Prime Minister Piss, this name change came back to haunt him after he was denied a passport a few years later due to the name. This led to this quite incredible entry into Australia's case law that is still frequently cited today:

Unfortunately for Pisso, the court ruled that the government was right to deny him a passport, on the grounds that the phrase "Prime Minister" might be considered by some to be offensive.

Australia went on to change the laws around name changes as a result of Mr PM JP, making him the first and last Prime Minister Piss we'll likely ever see on the ballot in our lifetimes, and democracy is all the poorer for it.

[batshit-auspol]

Honourable mention to this headline from a South African newspaper:

And this quote from Time magazine:

[potted-orchard]

There was more than one of them!

[batshit-auspol]

"BRUCE THE-FAMILY-COURT-REFUSES-MY-DAUGHTER'S-RIGHT-TO-KNOW-HER-FATHER"!!!!!

Truly one of the names of all time

[matrixdragon]

That is a name that answers every question about why he's not allowed contact with his daughter, I feel.

[acethememelorde]

HELLO???

[batshit-auspol]

How does this post keep getting weirder.

So we looked it up and yes, it was indeed the 'Dane' recording studio owner who attempted to stage a fascist uprising in Melbourne (of all places) in the 90s.

This was the last update we could find on him in the news, sounds like he's doing well for himself: