Laura. Right now I'm all about Sam Winchester, but lots of other random things may show up here :) Also, Dean and I are never getting back together, so I tag "dean critical" for either your blacklisting or perusing convenience.
why does this have 32k notes? itâs just a picture of a knife in a ranch bottle, is there some unspoken joke that 32 thousand people share? what is going on here, i dont get it. itâs just a fucking picture of a knife in a ranch bottle. is there some spiritual connection people have to this picture? is there some ominous and mystical reasoning that this has 32 thousand notes? do people reblog this because it makes them look like some indie blogger? or is there just something funny to this? someone please explain
okay so if you need more veggies/fruit, protein or fibre (bc most people do NOT eat enough) in your diet but you struggle to do so, hear me out:
look up recipes (especially snack recipes) that are child/toddler/baby-friendly
i can guarantee there is a woman with a cooking blog out there who has found away to pack a bunch of vegetables into a surprisingly delicious little snack for her kids. this process has never failed me when i feel like i am not eating enough fruits and veggies. my entire flat is eating spinach muffins at the moment, which doesnât sounding particularly appealing to most people and yet somehow. theyâre delicious.
"if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't" no but like. i really didn't. i have never in my life seen someone shoplifting because i'm not watching anyone else in the grocery store..? how are y'all noticing things like that. my only goals are enter the store, survive, exit the store
This version runs on an /e/ Google-free OS, though.
There are two configurations available: one with 6GB of RAM and 128GB of storage for $599 and another with 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage for $679. The storage of both models can be expanded via microSD, and the phone features a modular design that can be easily disassembled using a standard Phillips #00 screwdriver to replace broken components. It also has an IP54 rating, meaning the device is protected against dust and water sprays.
The Murena Fairphone 4 will ship to US customers with 5G and dual SIM support, a removable 3905mAh battery, a 48-megapixel main camera, a 48-megapixel ultrawide, and a 25-megapixel selfie camera. The phones will be available to order exclusively from Murenaâs webstore starting today.Â
I've been looking at getting one of these to replace my current phone. It'll break my habit of always passing my old phone to a relative, but I can live with that if it means I can fix the damned thing myself. Comparable price to a mid-range/lower high-end phone. It is, as far as I can see, the only smartphone that has ever achieved a 10/10 score for repairability in iFixit. Most don't get more than a 4 or 5, and only Nokias consistently get more than a 7. You can replace the cameras, the screen, the battery, the motherboard, the USB port, the speakers, the microphone, the case. All of it. If you want to upgrade, or if any one of those parts breaks? You don't have to buy a whole new phone. You just buy a replacement part, grab your little screwdriver, and swap the bits out. All without soldering skills, all without specialist technical knowledge.
They also make over-ear headphones that are similarly modular. Any one piece in it breaks, you can just fix it yourself. They used to do earbuds, but due to the size they're not self-repairable. But they still sell single earbuds for the folks who bought them, so they don't have to buy a whole new set to replace one lost or broken bud. They support the outdated hardware for quite a while. They're still selling replacement cables for the wired earbuds they stopped making years ago.
The operating system it uses for the US is /e/OS - it's a fork of Android, it just has all the Google stuff removed by default. Meaning you can download those apps if you want, or stay out of the Google ecosystem. (If you want a totally open-source free app library, look into F-Droid).
And if you need a laptop, there's the Framework. Same philosophy as the Fairphone. 10/10 repairability score on iFixit. You want to upgrade the CPU? Just replace one part of the modular mainboard unit. WiFi busted? Replace the card. RAM too low? Buy a new stick. Hinge busted? Grab a new one. Just about every individual component you might want to replace, whether for repair or upgrade, is replaceable using standard, easily available T5 and PH0 screwdrivers.
After âDo not stand at my grave and weepâ, author disputed:
Do not stand at your bowl and meow.
I gave you food. Itâs in there now.
I feed you at the dawning light,
I feed you at the fall of night.
I feed you kibbles mixed with meat
And wet food for a special treat.
I feed you even though you scoff
At all the food within your trough.
I feed you and still yet you yell
Like as a beast from deepest hell.
Do not stand at your bowl and cry.
I gave you food. You will not die.
Do not stand at my feet and cry
Itâs VEGETABLES, you silly guy!
Your begging will not change the food
Into a thing you think is good
Iâll give you things not cheese or meat
You sniff at them and then retreat
And yet, as soon as chopping starts
You run back in and beg for parts
You squint your eyes at plant-based food
And yet you wonât stop BEGGING, dude!
Do not stand by the stove and bleat
You donât like this. You will not eat.
I just saw some takes on âqueer codingâ that make me want to scream so I am going to post (part of) a paper Iâm writing on queer coding in Supernatural that some of my mutuals encouraged me to post when I talked about it a few days ago. Tl;dr is that queer coding is a negative thing done by othering and/or vilifying a character - this is undisputed in academia and if you use the phrase âqueer codedâ to mean otherwise you are misusing the phrase.
Fandom has a long-lasting tradition of reading queerness into works of fiction â dating back to the original airing of Star Trek in the 1960s. Supernaturalâs fandom has been no different. The show has, in fact, influenced the fandom subculture as a whole more than any other individual TV show this century â though to explore this in detail is beyond the scope of this paper.
The popular queer readings by fans largely center around the intensely macho elder brother, Dean Winchester. While the characterâs overperformance of masculinity may lend itself to such readings, it is important to note that he is not traditionally queer coded at all. The vast majority of the traditional queer coding which goes on in the show instead applies to the more sensitive younger brother, Sam Winchester. The extent to which fans refuse to engage with this queer coding is what this section of the paper sets out to explain.
I propose that this reluctance stems from the fact that queer coding is negative. Characters are queer coded through Othering â a process by which they are shown to be different from their communities and from the heroes. The use of this in queer coding is well established â âall the analyzed [queer coded] characters somehow fitting the form of an outcastâ (SvobodovĂĄ, 2022) exemplifies queer coded characters as outcasts. There is also the theme of âmonsters as the Other, representing queer peopleâ (Mudry, 2022) and that â[queer coded] characters are meant to symbolise everything that is bad. In the process, they also become the Other,â (Veera, 2023). Queerness and monstrosity are linked through the process of queer coding, and this link makes queerness villainous. Historically this has been used to discourage deviant behavior and encourage conformity to the norm.
The way that this Othering is almost always part of the process of setting up a character as a villain is well established by scholarship that has focused on queer coding broadly (âqueer-coded characters are almost always villains,â (Kim, 2017), âmost of these [queer coded] characters are villains,â (Brown, 2021)). While many queer people have become fans of villains in response to seeing representation in them as the Other, villains or the monstrous do not appeal to everyone, and queer people are no exception.
While this may very well be a matter of preference, preferences do not form in a vacuum and, especially in the context of politically fraught topics such as queerness, are often indicative of deeper political issues. Even those who are Othered may recoil at unpalatable representations of the Other in fiction. In The Big, the Bad, and the Queer: Analysing the Queer-Coded Villain in Selected Disney Films, it is stated that âSeeing villains that behave in particular, perceivably queer ways creates âa psychological associationâ between âqueerâ and âevilâ in the minds of children.ââ This psychological association has been created through decades of queer coded villains in media and applies to present day characters that exhibit traditionally queer coded monstrous traits. The negative perception of queer coded and monstrous characters can apply to queer people as well as straight people.
Sam Winchester is a traditionally queer coded character. His arc over the first four seasons focuses on him having supernatural abilities that work to Other him. In the world of hunters â those who hunt supernatural beings â all supernatural beings are considered to be evil and are indiscriminately killed. Sam is one of these hunters, as are his family â his brother Dean and his father John. The development of his supernatural abilities over these seasons Others him in relation to his community and his family. The narrative positioning of such abilities as evil also work to position him as an anti-hero in a traditional queer coded villain role.
The show focuses on themes of the monstrous in its monster of the week format, broader plot arcs, and in relation to its main characters. This is often done by paralleling Sam with the monster of the week, done with the werewolf Madison in Heart (2.17) and the rugaru Jack in Metamorphosis (4.4). These parallels further work to place Sam in the role of the monstrous, even while working to humanize the monster of the week.
Queer people who have internalized the messages of queer coded characters as âeverything that is badâ from other queer coded media are likely to dislike characters that are queer coded and may wish to distance their own queerness from such portrayals.
[id: three cats in art style of neko atsume, the first is a white cat with a sheet over its head like a ghost, the second is an orange wrapped in bandages like a mummy, the third is a black cat with bones painted onto it]
while i slouched, nearly stooping, suddenly there came a booping, as of someone gently booping, booping at my chamber door. tis some mutual, i said, booping at my chamber door. only this and nothing more.
recently saw a post about how negative posts about a given character shouldn't be main-tagged with that character's name, implying that it's "basic tumblr etiquette" and I wanted to know if that's considered universal or not
is it basic tumblr etiquette for posts criticizing a character to be kept out of that character's main tag?
I've heard of this and I think negative posts shouldn't be main-tagged
haven't heard of this but I think negative posts shouldn't be main-tagged
I've heard of this but I think people should curate their own experience
haven't heard of this and I think people should curate their own experience
I'm bald/there's nuance (feel free to give your take in the notes)
Voting ended onOct 11, 2024
personally, I don't feel strongly about either but the assistance that it was part of tumblr etiquette kind of threw me bc I haven't really seen it mentioned outside of this one instance
(reblogs appreciated to obtain a larger sample size)
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