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[yamayuandadu]

While Yuyuko is mostly based on the works of the poet Saigyou, it’s worth noting part of her backstory appears to reference the legend of Zhong Kui, a popular figure from Chinese folklore (also known under the Japanese name Shoki). Much like Yuyuko, Zhong Kui commited suicide out of despair, but the yamas saw his abilities as too valuable to be wasted and gave him another chance at life, in the role of a ruler (and queller) of ghosts. Their personalities are quite similar too - Zhong Kui is typically portrayed as jovial, smarter than he seems, and arguably an enthusiast of fine dining.

This means that as far as I am concerned, art of Yuyuko riding on a tiger and brandishing a sword would be perfectly respectful towards the official material.

[spoonie-living]

[Image: Tweet by Emily Mullin (@EmilyLMullin) and tweet by Isobelle Winter (@IsobelleWinter), both about the dangers of Facebook’s new preventative health screening tool. Images have been modified for visual ease but information has not been changed.]

Something to know about Facebook’s new “screening tool,” and advice/info that can most certainly be used outside of this specific situation.

For spoonies, the biggest deal is how this data, if leaked, could affect you in professional and insurance spheres.

Here’s Emily’s full thread, which discusses the details of the tool, and here’s Isobelle’s full thread, which extrapolates on specific dangers.

In the end? It’s another data grab. Data is worth money; don’t give yours away, especially not to Facebook.

[blueandbluer]

PLEASE SIGNAL BOOST this shit is scary.

[teratocybernetics]

did everyone just forget the whole Facebook/Cambridge Analytica using personality quizzes to gather data on people and then use it to influence elections thing or what

[nflstreet]

[erykah-budew]

“Cars” reboot in the style of the movie “Cats” and all the cars are just humans walking around naked but with a metallic sheen and they have wheels at the end of their limbs. Their faces are human faces but with car headlights instead of eyes.

[crutchie-morris]

op i have some bad news for you about another andrew lloyd webber musical

[chongoblog]

I didn’t want this to be the way I learned about starlight express but here we are

[fruitsoftheweb]

“Grain attached to things, then explode“

[piledriver13-deactivated2018012]

FUCK MAN! FU–

[pseudomantis]

Posts a bug would make

[pseudomantis]

Getting thrown around

[pseudomantis]

Fell off a counter

[pseudomantis]

Stuck inside a light

[saturnzspawn]

This shit is infuriating

[ID: a tweet from aj plus featuring a picture of an island beach: A plane carrying mostly Mormon missionaries brought #COVID19 to Kiribati — one of the last places without any outbreaks. Passengers tested positive after arrival on the island nation, which closed borders for 2 years, despite being vaccinated. Cases there are now at least 181.]

[witches-ofcolor]

Oof I'm seething.

[polaehhh]

Of-fucking-course it was the people who want to "help" and "bring Jesus to them and save their souls" who brought the plauge to the natives. History loves to repeat itself.

[black-geek-supremacy]

👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿👆🏿

[moomoozuzu-deactivated20220918]

If you're a missionary, fuck you.

[mononomemenofuto]

An inspiration to us all

[sonicbible]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BIOLIZARD!!!! I can’t believe you’re one of the few characters in this franchise with a canon birthdate.

[birdsareblooming]

[redtemdeds-blog]

TAILS DOLL :]]]

[dooblebugs]

if you run a discord, get rid of Mee6

[elierlick]

But I actually can’t stop laughing at this awful graphic

[what-even-is-thiss]

Can cis people just chill for like two seconds

[daughter-of-sapph0]

me eating rainbow skittles

[dragongirlafro]

me eating cis gays to increase my dark magic

[dicksize]

surely those two trucks aren't gonna... no... I shan't say it...

[bisforbutch]

I want to preface this by saying this is not victim blaming. This not calling people online lazy or grifting or whatever.

But an underlooked proponent on why some people are nearing homeless and crowdfunding heavily rn is bc society has failed you by making it as inconvenient as possible to learn about social systems and programs that already exist to help your situation as well as not having enough programs and aid.

Lemme give some examples. I have been unemployed for 10 months. My mom told me about a paying job training program a month ago after I already decided to mive in with her to find work, because nothing was coming up in my own city. My best friend didn’t know about affordable housing assistance in my state until she talked to my dad about it on a chance encounter. Some people on here have to see posts about much cheaper alternatives to their current prescriptions or medical plans because its not in the interest of their doctors paychecks to tell them about it. I would have waited to get vaccinated and not have crowdfunded for Uber money if I had known they were going to give free vaccine rides the next month. But I wouldn’t have really known this until I opened the app once that program started, because it is in their interest to keep taking my money until its their desired time for me to reap their “generous” services.

What I’m trying to say is that this is an under discussed aspect of how capitalism fails people. When you are forced to make your life and work and finances so singular and self interested, you are cut off from community and equivalent social services to proper government assistance. You literally don’t know that there is help somewhere out there for you unless you’re told.

[memesnotwelcome]

I believe a professor I had called this “cultural wisdom” but I haven’t been able to find the social science articles that expanded on this. It’s a practical knowledge of local systems that allows someone to function and thrive in that system. The example she used was having an understanding that banks can hold your money, but the practical aspect of accessing your money (in a convenient and easy manor) was knowing about ATMs and how to use them. But unless you have an account or someone ready to inform you, there’s no dedicated time or milestone where someone learns this.

And that’s just with a machine designed to give you YOUR money, let alone complex social service programs.

[addamatic]

I want everyone who crowdfunds for hospital bills to know they probably don’t have to oay them at all. Just find the financial aid office of the hospital. It’s on the website BY LAW. Find the form. Fill it out. Get the bills canceled or lowered! You don’t need crowd money, you need the government’s money that’s already set aside for your medical care.

[euphoniousraconteur]

GO TO, MESSAGE, OR CALL YOUR LOCAL LIBRARY. Libraries are focusing more and more on community resources, support, and outreach. If you genuinely don’t know something or feel uncertain or are in a new situation, a reference librarian will not only help you sort your thoughts through their reference interview but then help you arm yourself with knowledge from reliable and often local sources. It doesn’t even have to be a question to Ask A Librarian. You can simply say “I’m in this situation now. I don’t know what to do next./I’m not confident I know everything I should or want to know.”

[andreii-tarkovsky]

To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar (1995)

Dir. Beeban Kidron

[brehaaorgana]

This was such a formative movie

[musicalhell]

This shit was revolutionary for the mid-90s. Among other things it helped me understand that transgender and cross-dressing were completely separate things.

[aqueerkettleofish]

To this day, I am in awe of the fact that Patrick Swayze not only campaigned hard to get the audition, not only auditioned in dress and makeup, but spent most of the day leading up to the audition walking around LA in dress and makeup.

This was a man who could sing, dance, act, ride a horse, fight, and walk in heels, he had nothing to prove to anyone, and he is MISSED.

[aqueerkettleofish]

Okay, I’m not done feeling about this.

If you’re younger, you may not know Patrick Swayze; he was Taken From Us in 2009. But Patrick Swayze was an icon of masculinity. Men were willing to watch romantic movies because Patrick Swayze was in them.

Patrick Swayze was fucking beefcake.

And this man didn’t just agree to do a movie where the only time he’s not actually in drag is the first three minutes, which involve stepping out of the shower, doing make up, and getting Dressed. He has ONE LINE that is delivered in a man’s voice, and it’s not during those three minutes.

And if you watch those three minutes, you see a stark difference between his portrayal of Miss Vida Bohéme and Wesley Snipes as Noxeema Jackson. (I am not criticizing Snipes’ performance. They were different roles.) Noxeema was a comedy character. Chi-Chi was a comedy character. But Miss Vida Bohéme was a dramatic role, played by a dramatic powerhouse.

When Vida sits down in front of the mirror, she sees a man. And she doesn’t like it.

Then she puts her hair up, and her face lights up.

“Ready or not,” she says. “Here comes Mama.”

And while Noxeema is having fun with her transformation (at one point breaking into a giggling fit after putting on pantyhose), Vida is simply taking pleasure in bringing out her true self. And when she’s done, she sees this:

And you can FEEL her pride.

All of this from an actor who, up to this point, walked on to the screen and dripped testosterone.

[jenroses]

It matters that this happened in 1995. It wouldn’t fly today, wouldn’t be the right choice, we’ve moved past it, but it mattered and was important that it happened the way it happened today. It’s one of the stepping stones.

[hellgrub]

instagram is not allowing accounts with BLM related links in the bio to post or comment until the link is removed.

here’s a twitter thread talking about the same thing. https://mobile.twitter.com/rauhling_bizzle/status/1469691121110437890?s=21

[polycement]