cheers me dears

Leigh | 24 | they/them | 18+ blog

[solshroomii]

what are you bringing to the barricade?

actual supplies and furniture; this is not a game for rich young boys to play

a guitar (in place of the piano which was used last year)

even bigger coffins than last time resulting in even bigger symbolism

water gun full of the potion sellers strongest potions

a tote bag full of buzzballz and also one chair

pirated copy of drag race season 7 we'll watch instead of singing drink with me

obligatory barricade cow

happy meal bought from the mcdonald's where the cafe musain was

Remaining time: 2 days 8 hours

year 2 of barricade poll baby now with even wackier options (a reminder of year 1)

mcdonald's suggestion brought to you by @enjscurls

[lixel-5]

[genderkoolaid]

it is really funny that "Adonis" is used to mean an ideal sexy masculine muscular man, when Adonis in Greek religion & myth was an androgynous young man, known not for his strength but his beauty, who Aphrodite and Persephone essentially had shared romantic/sexual custody over (in an arrangement that interestingly mimics Persephone's own), who "acted as a man with Aphrodite and a woman with Apollon," and the Attic festival in his name (the Adonia) is about Aphrodite mourning his death after he was killed by a boar.

Adonis is a lot more similar to other androgynous "beautiful youths" who die young, representing the Greek fascination with life/beauty and death/aging and the border that a dead youth represents. and it interests me specifically that, in his myth, his divine lover/s are primarily feminized beings, who actively desire and pursue him and have control over his life, and he dies not through being a Brave Manly Warrior but is passively killed. its similar to Ganymede and Hyacinthus, but in both of those stories their divine lovers are masculinized (Zeus and Apollo) and one might think that their androgyny / feminized role in the story is the product of being in a homosexual relationship. but then here we have Adonis, who is said to have "acted as a woman" for Apollo, yet his story is centered around his heterosexual relationship with goddesses and he is still androgynous and narratively passive.

anyways. people hear "epitome of male beauty" & assume that Adonis must represent a modern, Western binary "male beauty" which is just the equivalent of being a handsome, strong, tough man. but ancient Greek culture was full of examples of idealized male warriors, and Adonis was not that. male youth had its own kind of gendered connotation in ancient Greek culture (as did female youth, but that ended much sooner, as adulthood was defined around ability to get pregnant as opposed to civic participation/military service). but (at least in the US) the modern idea of Adonis is so filtered through Western gender norms & Christianity that essentially nothing other than the notion of him being a Hot Guy has gotten through the game of cultural telephone.

[boccher]

it does feel good as fuck to walk around in underwear only.

[odyver]

alright I've got to do some quick math to explain attitudes towards AI to my boss.

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

please rb for larger sample size!

Question 1/3

What is your age, and do you feel AI is a net positive or net negative in our lives today?

under 18, AI is a net positive

under 18, AI is a net negative

18-29, AI is a net positive

18-29, AI is a net negative

30-45, AI is a net positive

30-45, AI is a net negative

46-60, AI is a net positive

46-60, AI is a net negative

over 60, AI is a net postive

over 60, AI is a net negative

Remaining time: 5 days 19 hours

[odyver]

Question 2/3

How often do you visit or interact with museums/archives (whether in person or online)?

Frequently (multiple times per month)

Often (multiple times per year)

Occasionally (a couple times per year)

Rarely (once every couple of years)

Never :(

Remaining time: 5 days 20 hours

[odyver]

Question 3/3

If you saw a museum was using AI in exhibits, marketing, research, etc., would you be more or less inclined to visit that museum?

under 18, more inclined

under 18, less inclined

18-29, more inclined

18-29, less inclined

30-45, more inclined

30-45, less inclined

46-60, more inclined

46-60, less inclined

over 60, more inclined

over 60, less inclined

Remaining time: 5 days 20 hours

Thank you for helping with this data collection. Please rb for as big a sample as possible!

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[rage-against-the-dying-of-light]

Ppl who give Rocky a human-sona/turn him into a human so he can fuck Grace are cowards and will not survive the winter. Have that man fuck that rock and his fucked up mouth/cloaca.

[wumbsie]

needy little rock

[stiffyck]

Heck, if he wanted to do open-heart surgery on me, I’d probably let him.

[skysthelimit57]

Non-binary people can't use they/them because they're only one person. Non-binary people can't use it/its because it's dehumanizing. Non-binary people can't use neopronouns because they're too confusing. Non-binary people can't use he/him and/or she/her because that's not gender neutral. Non-binary people can't use no pronouns because that's too hard to use.

No matter what pronouns a non-binary person uses somebody will get mad at them.

[sjweminem]

[fatfangs]

eww dude keep your skinny fetish to yourself

[wanderinginkpot]

"I asked chatgpt-"

Well I asked the host of the community radio station of a small desert town and he said "Don't let numbers tell you what to do. You are blood and earth, not theory and chalk", so maybe think about that.

[mlarayoukai]

life changing tweet

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[koheletgirl]

guys not to alarm anyone but i feel like lamarque is ill and fading fast

[koheletgirl]

fuck

[problemnyatic]

the most valueable skill a white leftist can ever learn is how to take an L with grace.

[problemnyatic]

You gotta be able to take an L if your moral and ethical belief systems are to be capable of guiding you. Otherwise you just have an idealized self where you get really mad and scared when anyone points out it isn't actually you. How the fuck are you gonna walk the walk if you can't handle being told when you are not, in fact, actually walking it

[problemnyatic]

you cannot just socially transition into being a good person you are going to have to settle for being a messy human being who has to try and fail and keep trying to get better like everyone else. yeah even when it's embarassing and sucks for you a lot.

[livseses]

Ya gotta learn to earnestly and honestly say "Oh shit, my bad."

[tartrazeen]

And to then end the sentence there, not launch into a paragraph of explanation or panicked super-apology.

[revolutionnaire-farouche]