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She/He/They, 20s. Canadian currently living in Norway. Interested in, among other things, cybersecurity, music, math (especially type theory even though I don't know much of it), corvids. Mostly reblogs, original posts tagged #self

[bunjywunjy]

yeahhh I lied.

one more time, HAPPY MOON LANDING DAY!

aaand gooodnight.

[prettysweetprettysweet]

i wish i could telepathically communicate to all the young gays that watching Xena is worth it even with our much higher standards today for lgbt characters in media. the cast crew writers and showrunners never panicked when they discovered that their characters were driven by romantic love and were pulled back only by the network to prevent it from becoming textual. by season 4 they established them as souls in love reincarnated together forever and never tried in earnest to pair them with men. by the end of season 5 they stopped that altogether. by season 6, it is as explicit as they were able to make it given the restraints at the time, and they did so much to signal to queer audiences that Xena and Gabrielle were one of us. like Xena presenting Gabrielle, a lover of written word, with a poem by Sappho as a gift (and becoming adorably shy and blushing as she reads it).

there is so much joy in seeing just how effectively they were able to convey the romantic nature of their love and companionship despite the opposition. physical attraction is clear in the s6 episodes “Who’s Gurkhan” and “When Fates Collide”. “When Fates Collide” and “Return of the Valkyrie” are so dizzyingly and overtly romantic that i still can’t believe they pulled it off. when viewed in its full context it is really an epic and beautiful love story. :)

[geshertzarmeod]

#i’d even go a step further and say that xwp is unique BECAUSE of the censorship#it forced them to rely on literally anything other than words to convey their love for one another#which made it so much more impactful#we believed their love because of the way they looked at each other the way they fought for each other and it was so CLEAR#but modern media is no longer pressured to tell a story this way and while that’s great for representation#i also feel like something got lost in translation#idk how to express my thoughts exactly but. in newer media I’ve watched wlw relationships don’t ever reach the same depth xwp did#i have my beloved blorbos don’t get me wrong it’s just that#xwp was epic. xwp was one love for a thousand lifetimes. xwp was romance at its absolute most egregious#xwp wasn’t the story that ends when the will they/won’t they couple finally get together and live happily ever after#it was a story devoted to everything after that#and I’m gonna sit in my corner and blow kisses at the heavens for placing it in such a precarious cultural climate#that ultimately nourished a tale of such overt devotion#one that is extremely hard to replicate today#xwp (via @shiryawashere )

[st-just]

You really don't appreciate how much you need a degree of privacy and space until having the apartment to yourself after having 1-2 more houseguests than it's designed for for a month and you just kind of emotionally collapse into the sofa for an afternoon.

[andhumanslovedstories]

There's something about lazily studying Mandarin Chinese that's made language learning seem far more approachable. It would be cool to be fluent one day, but I've always been clear with myself that I don't have an actual goal with this besides maintaining a streak in my language app for a certain amount of days. I can quit whenever I want, which is remarkably good at making me not quit. Sometimes I have days where I study Chinese for hours because I'm having a good time, but mostly I'm lazily plucking at this language for sometimes literally a one minute a day. After a year of doing that, even though Chinese is so difficult and different from English, it turns out I can still get from knowing absolutely nothing to knowing slightly more than nothing in a pretty short period. An incredible jump in knowledge with not that much work. In fact, the gap between English and Chinese is so vast that microscopic progress feels incredible. When I have to write out literally any pinyin by memory, and I get 75% of the letters and none of the tones correct, I feel like a genius. Today I almost spelled 音乐会/yīnyuèhuì correctly on my first try, and I wanted to call everyone over to see how I effortlessly nailed two-thirds of it.

It's much more encouraging than any of the "easier" languages I've studied. My primary emotion when studying Spanish was embarrassment that I was still so bad at Spanish. Meanwhile, now I'm like, "If I can suck at Chinese, I can suck at anything," which is very inspirational because doing something really, really badly means that you are in fact doing it. I saw an ad for Hebrew language learning course and had the realization that I could probably get really, really, really, really bad at Hebrew in what, a couple months? The thought made me very excited. I could get horrendous at any language in a couple months. I could get horrendous at anything. With a little time and not that much effort, I could nail two-thirds of shooting a basketball. The sky's the limit, but if you don't care about getting all the way up there, one inch off the ground can still be pretty impressive.

[havinghorns]

Someone has been slowly over the last few months making an avant garde art installation out of an abandoned Boston Market/Checkers. Their signboard messages keep getting torn down so their latest move was to make a flag of a photo of their previous masterpiece "PENIS WIGS FOR SAL" and run it up the flag pole

[libbydd]

an informational poster on domestic vehicles, now available on my inprnt!

[prokopetz]

Strictly speaking, "ultimate" means "last", not "best". It's often figuratively employed in the latter sense to suggest that the thing so described is the final word on the subject, after which nothing more need be said, but if we're being real technical, describing a game or movie that was so bad it killed its entire franchise as the "ultimate" is in fact correct.

[prokopetz]

@ffoxer replied:

Now I'm thinking about the prefix "pen," which as far as I can think I may have only ever seen in "penultimate"

It's Latin for "nearly" or "almost", and it does pop up in a few other English words. "Penultimate", "penumbra" and "peninsula" are the only ones I can think of that you'd even remotely expect to encounter in everyday speech, though; the rest are all medical or mathematical jargon.

[boobookittenartblog]

The Largest of the Molluscs by Joli Aqualslander

[prokopetz]

Hold on – I've gotta put this video on fullscreen so I can hear it better.

[ootori0704]

1670

[homoquartz]

squidward hospitalized for covid and they put him in the squid ward. the nurse is always coming at him, she’s always moving squidward. he can’t escape the room, they got a witch to put up a squid ward. he belongs to the hospital now, they’re calling him their squid ward.

[ffoxer]

Lost my hat :(

[dogpuppy]

[grapnel]

An example of why one should use the Oxford comma.

[sepdet]

LOL. I think they tried to fix it.

Nice try. Still no.

[oneheadtoanother]

[ffoxer]

Fantastic discovery today which is that one of the local fancy outdoor clothes outfits has a used/refurbished rack! Got (among other things) some high quality hiking pants and a rain jacket for 300kr a piece, what a steal

[idlelizard]

silly salt cellar