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pangur-and-grim

I felt bad accepting financial aid for my medication, but also, I DID NEED THE FINANCIAL AID. so maybe that’s alright.

and now I can finally get my immunosuppressants and pay zero dollars for them, so that’s good!

pangur-and-grim

this is very good advice, boosting this so more people can see

nudityandnerdery

mankillercalledbunny

The answer to "How did these Ancient People do this????" is basically always

1. A lot of dudes. Just a ton of fucking people from beginning to end of the process.

2. Ancient people weren't stupid, they just figured shit out the same way we do: fuck around until you find out.

3. We're gonna plan this out and it's gonna take ten fucking years, and you will cope.

4. Sticks and string are surprisingly versatile and can be used for a variety of purposes, like moving stuff and making sure things are even and go in the spot you wanted to put them in!

5. I want to make this easier and more efficient to move. If I put this on the round thing and push, it will move. If I put this in water, it will move. If I get some animals and rope and have a whole bunch of them drag it, it will move. All of these things are a better option than one guy trying to pick the whole fucking thing up.

mankillercalledbunny

"I'm not calling the people who believe in this conspiracy theory racist" I am. They're racist. Maybe not out of malice, but the fact that they believe in this is in itself racist. These conspiracies are always about brown people. Machu Pichu, the Pyramids, Göbekli Tepe, Easter Island, it is ALWAYS POC. It's never the Parthenon, it's never the Colliseum, despite the fact that these were built around the same time as some of the other sites these conspiracy chucklefucks like to throw around, it's never something fucking European. It's always "primitive people" with "stone tools" and "no understanding of modern engineering" so "clearly someone must have taught them this or given them the technology because CLEARLY they were just too Primitive and Savage to figure it out themselves." Fuck off with that shit.

hellspawn-enjoyer

Sometimes you need a good cool down between battles😌

mysharona1987

o-blivia

If you're wondering why there's so much resistance to the idea of a 4-day work week, or why automation hasn't actually led to people working less like it was supposed to...

manicpixiedreamguy

Dr. Alan Hart, a trans man from the USA who pioneered the use of X-ray photography in tuberculosis detection (saving countless lives according to researchers), was "reclaimed" by the lesbian community after his death in 1962, which means he was deadnamed and described as "a women loving woman who had to transition because at the time transsexualism was a quick medicine against sexism and homophobia" by numerous gay and lesbian associations and activists (including Jonathan Ned Katz whom I just quoted and who received many awards for his contributions to... I don't know, transphobia against trans men I guess), even though his widow always expressed how offensive it was to both her and her husband to refer to them as lesbians.

Hart was on testosterone, legally changed his name, and had gotten a hysterectomy (that was described as "unfortunate" by the Right to Privacy gay and lesbian political action committee), making him the first documented trans man to transition in the USA, yet he was characterized as a lesbian woman because cis gays and lesbians had the nerve (when do they NOT have the nerve, dare I say) to think they had the right to "honor [his] life as a woman" by having fundraiser dinners with his deadname attached to them, having college lectures where they talked about him as a lesbian hero, and using she pronouns for him until 2000. The USAmerican trans community, including trans activist Lou Sullivan, had to fight to defend Hart's identity and to have his manhood recognized by the wider community by protesting these lectures and dinners and having a conversation with the Portland chapter of the Lesbian Avengers association, which ended up having a favorable response and joining the trans community in the battle.

I want to end this by reporting the words of Candice Hellen Brown, a trans woman from Portland who wrote a letter to Just Out magazine in 1994 defending Hart's transness:

The Right to Privacy Political Action Committee in Oregon has a big fundraiser every year that is called the [deadname] Hart Dinner. When asked if I am going, I indignantly answer, "Not until they stop using the wrong name and gender for one of our heroes!" His name is Alan [. . .] He never wavered from his identity as a man, and upon his death, his widow continued to insist that he was a man. Why would such a straight man be called a lesbian by the gay community when today we would certainly call him a female-to-male transsexual? [. . .] He was transsexual or, at least, a transgenderist - a true pioneer. One who is seen as a hero by today's transsexual community. Please don't let him be taken away from us by allowing his old name to be used as though it were a badge of honor.

Think about this story every time the "trans men never contributed to anything in history" discourse resurfaces again. If this can happen to a famous historical figure from the USA and from a relatively recent time who medically transitioned and was explicitly out as a trans man, imagine how many others from other countries, historical periods, and situations have been erased or "reclaimed".

cosmicretreat

The return of Shameless Fled Cruz

lavender-linens

To all the people in the tags joking about Rafael Edward Cruz being the most accurate severe weather alert system in Texas, the news has you covered!

thesummerstorms

DFW Local source:

A photo of Senator Ted Cruz on a plane to Laguna Beach as Texas braces for a winter storm is drawing a lot of attention.

Houston source:

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/ted-cruz-california-winter-storm-21307035.php

Supposedly he said he would be back before the storm but there weren't any actual updates that he is as of the first few links in the Google search. And I'm not holding my breath.

autistichalsin

One thing that just doesn't get talked about enough with Halsin is the implications scattered throughout that deep down, he is afraid of himself. He is afraid of becoming a violent person who could harm the vulnerable, even children, if something went wrong and his inhibitions were removed.

Which leaves two possibilities.

He once DID get violent where the situation didn't cause it, to disastrous adults (I think this possibility, makes sense for the cut story where he killed Isobel [even if it was in self-defense, he clearly thought he acted disproportionately] but not as much in canon)

This is an extension of his guilt complex giving him irrational fears about himself. There is no reason for him to think he could do such awful things but he fears being Bad so much that he can't stop thinking about it.

Both possibilities are heartbreaking.

faaavor-right

I always really, really loved how afraid he was of hurting people as 'a big strong man.'

I think some of his experiences have taught him a wariness of becoming that (i.e. how horrendous the lolth-sworn drow were to him, that one bear attacking him) but I also wonder if there wasn't some childhood experiences there.

I'm so used to 'big strong men' forgetting what it means to be a smaller/weaker person. It makes sense, because they grow out of it, but not everyone does. It is one of the very obvious contrasts between Minsc and Halsin, because Minsc seems to lack an awareness of that, and Halsin (despite, in my headcannon, being bigger and taller) does not.

Around Minsc, I would always be a little wary of him- because he does not seem to have that much awareness of that- but Halsin understands what it feels like to be a rabbit around a bear, and for that-that sharing of the psychic load-whether his awareness/fear/understanding of it is reasonable or not... I would rather be around him.

If you go to a metal concert with Minsc, he might accidentally knock you over, but Halsin would never.