post expiration date and non returnable

Rowling and other terfs can kick rocks in flip flops. Wizard posting and memes abound 25 he/they

[discount-wizard-spells]

casts spell of: check out my posts

[trangoldin]

Literally the main civilizational achievement of the Romans is being the first to build what we might consider a State in the Western world. Everything else is just them loving autocracy and slavery and eating endangered species.

[commiemartyrshighschool]

It's pretty great that this dude also thinks the Romans all lived in colonnaded temples and not what were essentially 5-over-ones (with strict height limits imposed for safety).

[trangoldin]

LITERALLY

[default-cube]

godddd what if i post something and the girls don't like it?? what happens then?

[discount-wizard-spells]

[portalibis]

Astronomisch-astrologische Handschrift für König Wenzel IV. von Böhmen - BSB Clm 826, c. 1400

[opendirectories]

[floatupstream]

shoe stickers (1991)

[byjove]

I do prefer when TERFs have URLs like vulvaclitoriswombyn instead of innocuous bullshit like opinionssideblog. It’s like when poisonous bugs are bright colors.

[byjove]

I’d rather deal with a TERF than a cryptoterf in pretty much any context. I’d rather not deal with them at all but at least be fucking honest about being a bigot. If I’m brave enough to be transgender, you can be brave enough to admit that you just dislike trans people instead of trying to obfuscate and intellectualize your bullshit.

[tlirsgender]

"Be gay do crime fuck the cistem radical kindness" types will tell you if transitioning is illegal you shouldn't do it. Like OK so did you just mean shoplifting pins from hot topic or

[tlirsgender]

I know the reason why you never see cool people on the internet is because we're trying not to incriminate ourselves and whatever but oh my god you people are embarrassing

[ilynpilled]

jensen ackles doing so much in that hanging himself gif he shouldve been a mime instead of the world’s first omega

[ilynpilled]

[kittensnax]

Few more before bed

[ryebreadgf]

jeremy allen white has whatever the opposite of iphone face is. he looks like he is late to a shift of guarding hadrian’s wall

[ryebreadgf]

pointing at the tv screen his ass does NOT know what facebook is

[wordsonapage2]

I wonder if part of the reason that the Game Changer's series is so broadly popular is that it positions homophobia to function as the same mechanism as classism in regency romances. That is, it's an unjust societal force that has elevated people in certain categories as better than others, but crucially, it is a force of societal disapproval, not of danger. The concern of classism that it will result in ostracism from 'polite society' has substituted in a professional hockey league. The dynastic concerns of scandal have been mapped to Russian laws against homosexuality causing Ilya to never be able to go home again. Losing one's inheritance becomes risking the single, lucrative job they are trained for. Crucially, class differences don't carry a risk of sudden, extreme violence so the concern about other players targeting them in a full contact sport is omitted.

It doesn't even cross Kip's mind that hate crimes exist when he asks Scott what's the worse that could happen, because that's not a consequence possible in regency romance. A demand to choose a partner over hockey polite society happens all the time in regency romances. The privileged partner not understanding the dark side of hockey classism, check. A partner caving to the societal expectation of his station and staying the closet is framed as an act of selfish cowardice that he needs to overcome to be worthy of love.

And usually in regency romances, like Pride & Prejudice, the solution to this barrier is for the couple to just choose each other and declare their love and it all works out (due to the man's extreme privilege shielding his wife, which doesn't map to homophobia) or for the couple to happily leave the nasty gossip-mill of polite society (Montreal) to more comfortable country social circles (uber-supportive Ottawa). This could be why the Russian issue is waved away, because regency stories usually end with the couple either winning over dynastic acceptance or with them in a more powerful position than their disapproving relatives. Neither of which can be applied to this situation, so there is no roadmap for Reid to continue the issue.

This could explain why Reid feels that coming out publicly is imperative to a happy ending. If homophobia is positioned by the writer as the modern take on romance novel classism, then remaining in the closet--in any capacity--functions as an adherence to social hierarchy, which the regency genre demands their love interest grapple with and reject.

Well, I'm not a romance genre devotee, so I could be totally off base.

[mybeingthere]

Diné Weaver Venancio Aragón

"From researching historic twill patterns in museum collections to dyeing wool with Kool-Aid, Diné (Navajo) weaver and instructor Venancio Aragón interlocks research and experimentation to expand the visual and technical vocabularies of Diné weaving. Working on the Diné upright loom, Aragón is part of a generation of Diné weavers who reinterpret ancestral knowledge through experimentation, carrying the medium forward on their own terms. As he stated in our interview with him, “I am not a purist.”

Based in Farmington, New Mexico, Aragón is trained in cultural anthropology and Native American and Indigenous studies, currently teaching at Diné College, the Navajo Nation’s tribal college. Before transitioning to full-time weaving and teaching, Aragón worked as an interpretive park ranger at the Mesa Verde, Aztec Ruins, Bandelier, and Petroglyph National Monuments, where he led tours and developed public education initiatives. He was born to the Tó’aheedlíinii (The Water Flow Together People) clan and born for the Naakaii (Mexican people). His maternal grandfather is of the Tsénahabiłnii (Sleeping Rock) clan, and his paternal grandfather is of the Naakaii (Mexican people)."

https://hyperallergic.com/dine-weaver-venancio-aragon.../...

[sistersorrow]

Understated and very funny issue the Catholic Church faces as time goes on: modern saints aren't gonna be depicted in robes or anything like that, they're just gonna be wearing t-shirts

The contemporary fit kinda clashes with the broader church aesthetic

Secondary problem: new saints means it's easier to traffic relics, cause the Church will prioritise parts of their body, meaning if you move fast you can throw things like their smartphone on ebay for a quick buck

[inthefallofasparrow]

I don't know much about the Catholic church, but reading about this kid is kind of wild. He tragically died of Leukemia aged 15, and the reason that he's now been canonized as a saint is, on two separate occasions long after his death, the families of sick people have prayed to him for intercession, and they were miraculously healed. Fair enough, I guess. But in terms of what he was actually able to do in his short life, apart from being very religiously active, wise and discerning beyond his years, one thing I found was that he designed a couple of websites for the church, and as a result has since been dubbed the 'Saint of the Internet' and 'God's Influencer', and is often depicted with a laptop. And I know it was because of the posthumous 'miracles', but it's fun to imagine a scenario where the Pope made a teenage kid into a Saint for doing some light coding, because nobody at the Vatican was tech-savvy enough to know how to do it.

[elierlick]

I don’t usually post about acquisitions from the NYC Trans Archives, but this one is too cool not to share. We recently obtained 1 of the 2 known remaining copies of the censored 1933 German booklet “Wie erlange ich eine vollendete Büste?” (“How do I achieve a perfect bust?”). It advertises an early estrogen compound using a patient who was assigned male at birth.

The text shows that not only were hormones readily available to trans people in the 1930s, but actively advertised to them. Nazis targeted this specific book in the 1930s, leaving only a few copies left in existence. This text, along with hundreds of other rare trans books, zines, and ephemera, will be available for viewing next year when NYCTA opens to the public.

[thingsfromthedirt]

Postcards distributed by Raphael Tuck & Sons. "Chromographed in Saxony", first used 10/12/1902

[theprofessional-amateur]

link to bluesky post

[theprofessional-amateur]

In addition to how to turn various things, it includes:

Other useful AI Removal/Detection links

How to spot AI Hallucinations like a Reference Librarian (originally on Substack)

Library Freedom Project has a lot of handouts about AI on their Resources page