Rambling

33 y.o. who spends too much time online and at the stables. Grey-ace lesbian

[radgepacket-deactivated20241030]

big day today

[buryymeinblack]

queued for the next wednesday the 12th

[buryymeinblack]

happy wednesday the 12th everyone

[mediamania63]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT!!!

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

It's so hard to find good plant based and/or vegan recipes cause they always veer off into the "honey fights bacteria" and "garlic is anti inflammatory" pseudoscience nonsense. Just tell me how the dressing tastes.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I get where it comes from and I understand how people reproduce these misconceptions but that is in fact what they are. Does honey have antibacterial properties? Yeah, in vitro. But stuff working in a petri dish doesn't translate to working in the human body. The reason why we have aspirin instead of just gnawing on willow bark for pain relief is because advances in pharmaceutical manufacturing means we can isolate the properties of things found in nature and make them effective at a scale that can be applied to people as medicine.

All of the food stuff especially is like this. Claims about garlic and tumeric and all that do have some element to them, sure, but like. Adding a tablespoon of honey to a dressing isnt going to give you protection against that nasty cold that's going around. We have medicine for that. It will however, taste very good. Especially if you get the fresh local stuff from a guy named Mark at your monthly farmers market.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

"make this super food cocktail and you'll never need a flu vaccine!" Your immune system works better when you give it nutrients, yeah it does do that. You know what will stop a bug tho? Special bug killing juice. You can get it right in your veins.

You should still do that tumeric shot though. Nutrients.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

"I'm so much healthier now that I incorporated all these special foods into my diet! It's the natural medicine." Wrong. Nutrients again.

[jauntylittlefrillyboy]

I'm so sorry. I'm spreading misinformation for the sake of a funny sound bite. Vaccines are intramuscular, they don't go in your veins.

[pangur-and-grim]

For the longest time, I thought it was "The Ignorable Invasion of Prince Proculo", as in "Ignorant", like the invasion was something you should know better than to do. At some point I thought I had a eureka moment and realized it was actually supposed to be "Ignorable" as in "could be ignored", as though the invasion is mediocre, low scale, or nonthreatening.

Now these titles both sound decent to me, but today I read the tags on one of your posts and it said "The Ignobable Invasion of Prince Proculo". So I guess I was wrong twice, and I have no clue what Ignobable means. Thought I would share, it's a little amusing.

ignoble basically = shameful, not noble, etc. and he's a evil colonizing slug from space, so the 'ignoble invasion' could be his infiltration of the fantasy world (as he intends to conquer it), or it could be....... no, I shan't say. just, something else. it could be something else.

[pangur-and-grim]

[makingqueerhistory]

Hello! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for books on asexuality (both fiction and non)? I tried searching through your blog but I didn't see anything other than The Bone People (which is already on my list).

Thank you in advance, and thank you for this project! I haven't read all of your articles, but the ones I have were wonderfully written and very insightful. ^.^

Absolutely! We have a few to recommend!

Ace

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality

I would love to read some more recently released books though, does anyone in our audience have any recommendations?

[scorpio-system]

AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

[vanshira]

#‘that goose keeps laying golden eggs. that’s stagnation. I’m going to kill it and go look for a goose that lays diamond eggs’#‘that goose normally lays golden eggs but this time it laid a silver egg. I’m going to kill it because even though I can still make good#money with that it’s not as good as a golden egg’#‘that golden egg laying goose only lays an egg once a day instead of constantly shitting them out. I don’t care that golden eggs take time#if they’re not constant the goose is worthless to me’

@thebaldursmouthgazette y u leave all the good stuff in the tags

[ndnbutch]

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist

[ndnbutch]

hey can y’all maybe ask yourselves why when people of color say things like “this movement I generally agree with has a racism problem” your gut instinct is to downplay and dismiss and say it’s only a few bad apples and that we’re co-opting the larger conversation by talking about it? can y’all examine this instinct in yourselves for a second?

[captainjonnitkessler]

How much discourse do you think there is in the kpop demon hunters universe over Huntrix's breakup? I assume half the fans are analyzing every second of footage from the last three years looking for signs of tension and arguing about the whose fault it was and half the fans are posting that it's actually kind of fucked up to ruin the Idol Awards with a fake onstage breakup just to build up to dropping a new song, even if it is kind of a banger

[captainjonnitkessler]

@sagewiththyme You know that's a fascinating point because I figure the two options are a) no one really remembers what happened at the end because of magic bullshit or b) they play it off as a really elaborate but fully planned performance.

And the second one - can you fucking imagine.

Imagine one of the most popular bands in the world have this ongoing lore bit that they're actually demon hunters and they're always referencing it in their songs. And then one day a new boy band pops up and gets wildly popular with an over-the-top-cutesy hit. They're so soft and sweet and respectful. They're called Saja (Lion) Boys and they're all like "join the pride!" How cute!

And then they announce a new concert and you get there and it's fucking this. They're all dressed as demons/grim reapers. Surprise, "Saja" meant Jeoseung Saja all along! They're singing about how they're here for your soul and they relish in your pain, just a stunning 180 from their previous personas.

And then while you're trying to process the emotional whiplash the fucking demon hunter band bursts in and beats the shit out of them with the most insane pyrotechnic show you've ever seen in your life. They "kill" the boy band demons and then you never see them again. The whole band was a fucking psyop for Huntrix to play up the "demon hunters" bit.

I would never recover. The cheesiest fantasy power metal band has NOTHING on that level of commitment. I'd be stanning Huntrix for the rest of my life.

[nebulations]

[ID: A comment by @‌sagewiththyme that says, "Didn’t they also say that the Saja boys were fighting onstage and that’s why they swapped time slots with the girls? Double breakup and makeup type thing". End ID]

[ave-aria]

"Yeah, the Saja Boys were a fake band. We paid them to steal the limelight for a little bit while Rumi's voice was out of commission. We thought it would be a cool setup for a triumphant return, you know? The cute little Lion Boys end up being secret demons trying to steal your souls, and Huntrix steps in and slays them in a triumphant return? ...Yeah. We planned it all, the songs, the heel-turn, the special effects, the whole shebang.

Except, uhhhh. We didn't expect them to get so popular so fast? They For Sure weren't supposed to make it to the final round of the Idol Awards. Like, for Legal Reasons. We were almost visibly panicking on stage when they announced that! I mean, do you know how it would look once it eventually came out that Saja Boys were working for us? "Oh, you planted a fake band so you could win the competition!" No joke. I mean, that is a pret-ty clear conflict of interest there. You know?

The Idol Awards are all about the fan's choices, and we just accidentally rigged the game.

The Saja Boys had to win the Idol Awards, now, but there was no chance. They only had two songs, Soda Pop and Your Idol. We couldn't have them push up the debut--I mean, we thought about it, Your Idol's a banger song and it totally would've given us a run for our money--but we'd have to follow it up with This Is What It Sounds Like, first off, and second, 'killing' the Saja Boys onstage would be like. The Media equivalent of announcing we won, like the Fans didn't have a choice in the matter. At the Idol Awards? Ha. Yeah. That's a no-go.

And I mean. Soda Pop is catchy but not that catchy guys, c'mon. We were totally gonna cream them with Golden.

So we were all scrambling. Rumi and Mira and I were trying to write and choreograph a brand new song, Takedown, something good but not Good Enough To Win, to maybe prolong the Rivalry, you know? To make our comeback all the more sweet. But it was all such short notice, and the song wasn't working, and Huntrix never gives a shoddy performance, on principle. We couldn't do it. But it was looking like the only way we were gonna legitimately lose was if something... happened during the competition.

And then Rumi had this brilliant idea..."

[spacetime1969]

Memes

[whispersinthetide]

And then it becomes even more complicated once it’s been awhile, and it becomes clear that no one’s heard anything from any of the “real” boys since the awards.

Like, obviously the Saja Boys weren’t a “real” band, so it makes sense they’re not coming out with new music, and since they’re “dead”, of course all their official band accounts have gone quiet, but like… someone would have had to be portraying the band members, right? Even if you wave that off as them being some of the same actors who portray the “demons” at their concerts, someone would definitely have to be lending their voices for the songs. Who were they? They couldn’t have been well-established in the industry, otherwise they’d have been recognized too quickly and the ruse would have been up, and something like this would have been a huge break for new performers.

So why’d they just disappear?

Where are the actors?

I’d imagine this would never gain too much traction within the fandom, but it still lingers long after the dust has settled and the scandal clears up. Go deep enough into the comments on any HUNTR/X-related posts, and you’ll find someone commenting #WhereAreTheBoys.

[thetiredprometheus]

[blueskittlesart]

witch hat atelier’s handling of gay representation is arguably just as funny as it is painful because straight out the gate shirahama throws two unmarried men cohabitating and raising multiple children together at you in that special manga way where you can kind of just assume that they’re not officially together purely because it’s not legal in japan. but then in like chapter 50 she introduces two side characters who stare directly into the camera and tell you that gay marriage is legal in zozah so you’re forced to spend the next entire 30-chapter arc wondering what the HELL qifrey’s problem is. and well. then she tells you

[bagelbarr0n]

Really funny one two punch on my dash this morning

[jordanbolton]

To the Person Who Asked If I Was OK

Pre-order my new book here

[kosmogrl]

[fucking-relax]

this is helpful to getting started on anything regardless of what you call it (from this post)

problem solving steps

IMPROVE distress tolerance skill

[bogkeep]

the sinks never stopped being weird

[bogkeep]

this is my legacy

[foone]

once again a promising erotic story ruins the sexiness by concentrating on sex, the least sexy part of sex.

[clytemnestraaa]

always such a struggle when you get to the sex scene part of the fic you're writing and you're not horny at all. i don't know. their things were touching. without ANY underwear. the end.

[kuttithevangu]

Being a calm, gentle, non-reactive person is really hard work, which is probably why many people are none of these things. Personally I think it’s worth it but sometimes one does want to just roll around on the floor wailing at the top of one’s lungs

[kuttithevangu]

People in my notes who think I’m repressed or dissociating: you will feel better when you learn emotions are not a binary of Not Feeling It vs Being Overwhelmed By It

[clytemnestraaa]

always such a struggle when you get to the sex scene part of the fic you're writing and you're not horny at all. i don't know. their things were touching. without ANY underwear. the end.