My past is my own.

Jo. 34. Ace. Agender. They/them/their pronouns. Come say hi!

[noperopesaredope]

I wish we had more female characters like Eleanor Shellstrop. One of the most unlikable people you've ever met. Read a Buzzfeed article on most rude things you can do on a daily basis and decided to use that as a list of goals. Makes everyone's day worse just by being there. Dropped a margarita mix on the ground and tried to pick it up, only to get hit by a row of shopping carts which pushed her into the road where she was hit by a boner pill delivery truck, killing her instantly. Cannot keep a romantic partner despite being bisexual. Had a terrible childhood but will die before she gets therapy. Best employee at a scam company. Just the worst but also can't help but root for her to improve.

Absolute loser. Girl-failure. Bad at almost everything. Literally perfect female character.

[helila]

[what-eats-owls]

listen............

[shaniacsboogara]

liking dnd is so funny because yeah you play the actual game sometimes but mostly you just think about the game and watch other people play the game and slowly go insane thinking about how much you wish you could play the game and hoping that buying more shiny rocks will fix everything

[gwydionmisha]

No Second Season for 'A League of Their Own'

A short second season for the LGBTQ-inclusive series had been announced, but it won't happen now because of Hollywood strikes, sources say.

A better take would have been: it won't happen now because Amazon Prime didn't care about it's audience and the greedy rich people in charge hate paying writers, Actors, etc. fair compensation for their work.

[beaujes]

on one hand i don't understand homebrew classes in 5e b/c a lot of times it's things like alchemist which easily could be a sub-class of something else.

but on the other hand it think it's basically a reaction to the fact that someone wants to play an Alchemist with a capital A, because it's much more evocative.

like circle of spores druid sparks your imagination much more than druid. I get it's confusing hence why there's the illusion that there's only like 13 classes. but also there's really not, there's 13 types of classes and a bunch of other classes that fit those categories.

games that name their classes highly specific things like "bee mage" are right because it's much more evocative and says something about the setting you're playing in.

[justlookatthosesausages]

Mary Poppins really was out there in 1964 being feminist, anti-hunt, anti-capitalism while also being a catchy crazy fantasy live and animation musical with incredible visual effects for its time

Bert has like 47 jobs at once. Mary asked for her weekly leave on day one. They have iconic energy

[womenofmcu]

You took their bait.

SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW S01E09: Whose Show Is This?

[anexperimentallife]

"You're going to miss out on all this media because of the strikes!"

Y'all shot a whole-ass Batgirl movie and refused to release it so you could get a tax break, constantly cancel popular shows after a single season, and remove stuff from streaming while refusing to sell it on physical media, so maybe shut the fuck up.

I hope every major studio and streaming service crashes, all your executives end up permanently unemployed, and that all we're left with is indie media produced by people who can see beyond the dollar sign.

[thundergrace]

This!!!! No one thinks twice about supporting the strike. Of course we will. We've got nothing to gain as an audience with or without it. We have our own grievances with the studios. Before the strike, we were barely getting media and barely hanging onto what little we've gotten recently. Then they started taking shit away?! Now they want us to turn against the writers and actors? Lol goodbye!

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Best way to organize a museum's History of Life/Fossil Exhibit(s)?

By Time (going from precambrian -> today)

By Clade (grouping things by evolutionary relationship)

By Location (grouping things by continent found on)

By Ecology (grouping things by their ecological niche)

By Human History (oldest discovered -> most recent discovered)

By Size (small with small, big with big)

Some Other Way (put in tags)

Chaos. Just put whatever wherever and see what happens

Voting ended onJul 17, 2023

[demi-shoggoth]

Almost all museums do it chronologically. I'd love to see a museum with a cladistic approach

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

The AMNH does cladistic and it’s a huge mess. I’m kind of always secretly trying to prove that NYC ain’t shit.

[duct-tape-heart]

CMNH in Pittsburgh does it by time, and has the fossils staged in realistic poses/environments.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Field museum does by time and clade with a few exceptions (burgess, mazon creek, and hell creek all have ecosystem spotlights) and it is still the best fossil exhibit I have ever seen. And given I want to go into museum exhibit design, I’ve seen a *lot*. It’s intuitive, easy for non scientists to follow, and helps to emphasise the progression of life. Plus the exhibit itself isn’t too crowded, and you can actually take pictures of the specimens through the glass. It’s a great introduction to prehistoric life for laypeople, and a fun non-overwhelming series of excellent specimens for enthusiasts/professionals to enjoy.

[duct-tape-heart]

I always appreciate museums that treat dinosaurs the way other animals are treated, rather than kind of static art pieces. Emphasize that they were real and alive and inhabited ecological niches just like extant animals, rather than big, dumb creatures that plodded around and died off.

I work in education at CMNH (I have an MA in Biology- focus on informal science and conservation education) and I work pretty closely with our exhibitions team, which wasn't always the case in the earlier days of my career. It's so nice to give input from the perspective of not only the people teaching our guests in gallery, but also directly from the guests. It's so easy for a casual visitor to become overwhelmed if they aren't recieving information in a way that they can process.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Best way to organize a museum's History of Life/Fossil Exhibit(s)?

By Time (going from precambrian -> today)

By Clade (grouping things by evolutionary relationship)

By Location (grouping things by continent found on)

By Ecology (grouping things by their ecological niche)

By Human History (oldest discovered -> most recent discovered)

By Size (small with small, big with big)

Some Other Way (put in tags)

Chaos. Just put whatever wherever and see what happens

Voting ended onJul 17, 2023

[demi-shoggoth]

Almost all museums do it chronologically. I'd love to see a museum with a cladistic approach

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

The AMNH does cladistic and it’s a huge mess. I’m kind of always secretly trying to prove that NYC ain’t shit.

[duct-tape-heart]

CMNH in Pittsburgh does it by time, and has the fossils staged in realistic poses/environments.

[stardustedknuckles]

"How do I know which is the real Diana?"

"Well if you come across someone who looks exactly like me and she shows any interest in you as a man, that's the bad one."

[luulapants]

Reminder that associating hair length with gender is not a culturally universal concept and that many indigenous folks in North America don’t cut their hair for cultural reasons that have nothing to do with gender.

Reminder that a native guy should be allowed to wear his hair in long braids without people calling it gender nonconformity or saying he’s breaking gender norms, because hair length has nothing to do with his gender norms.

Reminder that a queer native woman should be allowed to wear her hair long without being automatically read as femme presenting, that she can be butch with long hair, because long hair is not associated with femininity in her culture.

Reminder that many native folks cut their hair for solemn reasons, usually mourning, and remarking on it as a reflection of personal style or gender presentation can be deeply disrespectful. No, she didn’t just get a fierce butch haircut - she cut her hair because someone died. No, he didn’t cave to a gender conforming haircut - he cut his hair because someone died.

Reminder that this is not universally practiced by native folks and, like all cultural practices, some people are more strict in their adherence than others.

[miseceltic]

Shirley is the perfect example of why we need lgbtq+ education in schools. Shirley wasn't hateful, she was fearful because she was taught to be. When she was confronted with the truth she took that on board and changed her views. There are far too many people in this world teaching our children that queer=bad. They need to hear the other side.

[madeupbyshay]

semi unpopular opinion but I like the juxtaposition in ALOTO, as in the script written in contemporary speech and sometimes ahead-of-time music choice. it makes the bigotry more obvious and uncomfortable when it’s present. is it painful to watch sometimes? yes, but it’s not overly done. it also makes the story more universal. as a POC who grew up queer in SE Asia, I can relate to the story a lot even though there’s no Asian character in this US-centric period show about sports. things happening in the show are still happening today in a lot of places in the world. ALOTO is not a doco, fiction can (and should) have some room for creative choices that aren’t historical correct but are beneficial to the narrative.

[duct-tape-heart]

I think less people would find the show so relatable if they had rigidly clung to using 1940s slang and speech patterns. The language (and music) takes the show from being just a period piece to giving it a sense of timelessness and rebelliousness.

[loonylodestone]

Ana Blair: not just a benchwarmer

(character notes and headcanons about Ana Blair from A League of Their Own + buncha gifs under the cut)

Ana is the backup catcher 

3rd base coach

and later, 3rd baseman

of the Rockford Peaches.

Keep reading

[betsofthorn]

ALOTO fans: I'm really curious. Reblog and tag which character you relate to most and which character you're most into.

[trihkru]

I think I’ve just been holding on to it so tight, I don’t even know how to look at myself anymore. I feel like I am just tying myself into knots all the time. And I don’t know how to untie ‘em. And it doesn’t matter whether or not I’m playing ball or not because there’s just… There’s no version of myself that makes sense for the world.

Chanté Adams as Max Chapman — A League Of Their Own

[moghedien]

I think its really cool how there's a lot of hair symbolism throughout the show and importance behind changing hair, and pretty much all of the Peaches have like a signature hair style that's kept throughout the show and what that says about them as a character like

We have Maybelle with her very stylized bob that's very stylish and put together but is also a bit unusual for the time period

We have Jess always having her hair in a tight braid behind her, out of the way and she's almost always wearing this absolute dad hat

We have extremely sheltered Shirley always wearing her hair in pigtail braids

and we have Carson with her "just fucked in Bev's car" rats nest, which symbolizes all the times that she and Greta fuck in Bev's car