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[luisonte]

[lyingfigure]

y’all working from home

[mistersmokinganddrinking-deacti]

SCREAM…..so what

[cheese24k]

Astronaut readjusts to life back on Earth

> Don’t give him a baby for a while.

[leradny]

HE GRABS THE CUP BUT THEN HE DROPS THE PEN 0.0003 SECONDS LATER

AND HE LOOKS UP AT THE CEILING INSTEAD OF AT THE GROUND WHEN HE CAN’T FIND THEM

[quasarkisses]

I CAN’T STOP LAUGHING HE JUST DROPS IT

IT’S NOT FUNNY IT’S VERY LOGICAL THAT HE WOULD HAVE ADJUSTED TO LIVING LIFE WHILE HE WAS IN SPACE BECAUSE IT’S DIFFERENT FROM EARTH BUT I CAN’T FUCKING BREATHE

*THUNK*

[emilyelizabethfowl]

i love it so much every time i see it

[official-aquarium-gravel]

“ugh stupid gravity” 

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IM FUXKING CSHAKING

[perfectlyhopeless]

I haven’t seen this post on my dash in *years* bless this

[flootzavut]

Bless, this is absolutely amazing

[mxbuster]

I love this. It’s so gestural and he’s so exasperated about gravity.

[cronchamonch-blog]

I feel like this doesn’t even need a caption lmao

[yo-its-matt]

‘Oh nice BOTW haha that man’s sure walkin funn-

BRIAN??’

[niuniente]

[rat-facts]

listen this isn’t rat related but I’m going off the walls right now this is literally so fucking funny

[corsolanite]

[depressionly]

[dicaeopolis]

everyone: percy you’re in huge danger from monsters and you don’t even have a school to go back to right now, why not just stay at camp? what does the mortal world have for you?

percy:

[blue-le-q]

Things come along like this that make the internet so special, I AM IN FUCKING TEARS

[nemmymouse-deactivated20170201]

IT’S BACK

[chillyfeetsteak]

i want this on my blog at least once every 6 months until the day i die

[sabertoothwalrus]

AFTER ALL THIS TIME I finally realized why this video is so funny to me and it’s that they manage to move exactly like an SFM animation and I’m not really sure how that’s even possible

[everythingfox]

“hoodie hamster is best hamster”

(Source)

[slifer96]

:)

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same energy

[retrogamingblog2]

Snom curling

[tawanzas]

funny concept: hatterene saying fucked up things

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I always find it kind of weird that matriarchal cultures in fiction are always “women fight and hunt, men stay home and care for the babies” because world-building-wise, it makes no sense

think about it. like, assuming that gender even works the same in this fantasy culture as it does in ours, with gender conflated with sex (because let’s be real, all of these stories assume that), men wouldn’t be the ones to make the babies, so why would they be the ones to care for the babies? why is fighting and hunting necessary for leadership?

writing a matriarchy this way is just lazy, because you’re just taking the patriarchy and just swapping the people in it, rather than actually swapping the culture. especially when there are so many other cool things you could explore. like, what if it’s not a swap of roles but of what society deems important?

maybe a matriarchy would have hunting and fighting be part of the man’s job, but undervalued. like taking the trash out or cleaning toilets: necessary, but gross, and not noble or interesting. maybe farming is now the most important thing, and is given a lot of spiritual and cultural weight.

how would law work? what crimes would exist, and what things would be considered too trivial to make illegal? who gets what property? why?

how would religion work? how would you mark time or the passage into adulthood? what would marriage look like? if bloodlines are through the mother, bastardy wouldn’t even be a concept - how does that work?

what qualities would be most important in a person? how would you define strength or leadership? what knowledge would be the most coveted and protected? what acts or roles are considered useless or degrading?

like, you can’t just take our current society and say you’re turning it on its head when you’re just regurgitating it wholesale. you have to really think about why things are the way they are and change that. 

[apprenticebard]

THIS IS SUCH A GOOD POST THOUGH.

I think what really bothers me about the whole “men take care of the children and tend house because they’re not in charge” thing is that it reinforces the idea that traditionally feminine work SHOULD be undervalued. That there’s no way anyone could see raising children and think, “wow, what a valuable contribution to society”. Even though families are what societies are MADE of, and if you ignore the welfare of your children the society falls apart in a generation or two.

Imagine if women were seen as the ideal political leaders BECAUSE they’re the ones best suited for raising young children. What if it was assumed that government positions were sort of scaled-up households, and that only a leader who saw their subjects as their children could be fair and compassionate enough to rule effectively? What is a village, or a country, but an extended family?

On the one hand, the ability to use physical force effectively is super important for a low-tech society, and there’s always the threat of hostile military takeover, either from outsiders or via internal revolt. On the other hand, a society where all the men want to rebel is probably not a society that’s being run at all effectively, and there are other ways of maintaining control (ie religion, cultural traditions, propaganda, etc). Women could be the more educated group–in some ways that’s even intuitive, since a non-magical preindustrial society is one with a high infant mortality rate, which means it has to have a high birth rate to compensate, which means women will be pregnant a lot. If they have trouble consistently working physically demanding trades, why not assign them to jobs that require more mental exertion? Why not a society where all the lawyers are female, all the doctors are female, all the historians and most respected poets are female? If you keep that up for long enough, eventually that gets seen as an inherent sex difference, and men don’t exert physical force because holy shit they’d have no idea what they were doing once they gained power.

It doesn’t have to be these specific differences, of course. But I think that’s the thought process that most of the best worldbuilding comes from–why are things this way? How have they stayed this way? Just saying “what if women could tell MEN what to do!” is so boring compared to asking why we value the things we value. Besides, fictional societies that are created without asking why things are the way they are are not going to stand up under close scrutiny, whether they play into or subvert our expectations.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

This is such an excellent addition to my post, @apprenticebard, I am rubbing my hands together with glee.

[clockworkcanary]

Also, how are the relationships structured? Our western society tends to treat one man+one woman marriage as the default, but, that isn’t the case everywhere. It tends to be enforced in all the areas that Christianity colonized, but, in a matriarchy would that be the way things are? How about one of these two scenarios: 1. Extended families with a matriarch in charge as the last word in judgements and what projects get done and how. The line is passed down through the daughters, and men often leave their own families to join their mate/mates. Women are the ones deciding which fields are planted or fallow, and which kids get trained in what professions. Or/and: 2. The excess daughters or all daughters of the houses go off to travel and decide what trades they want to pursue. They make friends along the way and decide to form a household with 2 to four other women. Maybe they pick up a guy or two, but, fathers for babies aren’t hard to get for city or merchant households.

System one sounds more rural to me, and system two sounds more like what might happen in a city or with a lot of trade caravans or ships moving people around.

Childcare in either system is built in with the assumption that no woman is off by herself. (Maybe she is off by herself for periods of time but leaves the kids with family) Maybe the women time pregnancy so that they can be milk mothers to each other’s kids. Maybe they decide to pick one guy to be the father of several of their kids so their kids will be half sibs, or because they like him and keep him around, or because he is valuable in some way(a skill he can teach, maybe, or he’s a storyteller or musician). Maybe the men are traded between families for alliances or to share skills or teach languages.

[whetstonefires]

This post really gets at what I think is a major reason patriarchies are so common worldwide, too–there are solid logistical reasons that if you’re going to gender combat, you give it to men.

And in a society that extends men preferment, fighting thus acquires inherent honor for its masculinity, and people work harder at it, and will even seek out opportunities for it. (Or it could go the other way around, and valuing fighting winds up lending value to manhood.)

This means that matriarchal and egalitarian societies, where they arise, are less likely (all else being equal) to have comparable military force to their patriarchal neighbors, and will tend over time to be conquered and obliterated. Even if they are militarily capable for some reason they’re still rather less likely to have the motive and priorities to be expansionist, and thus will wind up outnumbered.

Since fantasy and sci-fi stories are so often about war-type situations, where the good guys winning is the goal, and the writers don’t want to depict the female-led society as ‘weak,’ there’s a certain structural motivation to follow the existing trend and make women the warrior class. It’s easier, especially in a story that isn’t about sociological worldbuilding, which most aren’t, than trying to build up a believable justification for a society that doesn’t consider fighting all that important to still be able to stand up for itself on the field.

Especially when there are so many existing tropes about it, from the Amazons to the various Depraved Matriarchies of 20th century fiction. (Some of the latter do feature men as expendable troops, usually ones where the women hold sway through unnatural magiks.)

[cheycupcakes]

love how wholesome this is

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