Lisa-Marie

She/Her, Cis White. Pan/Demi (I think haven't quite gotten that all sorted yet lol). Just a random person trying to live their life and escape the bullshit through copious use of fandom. Saying that, I'm always open to talk to people; so feel free to drop a convo about your least/favourite franchise or, if you need, something more serious.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

it's healthy for academics to have professional feuds. enrichment activity

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Holy shit. "The demese ef the Ne'enderthels: Wes lengege a fecter?" published in the Science magazine

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

short but sweet

[gigglepuffpixie]

[gothhabiba]

diet talk is so inexpressibly nonsensical the instant you know anything about "the human body" or "nutrition" or if you think about it for three seconds

[gothhabiba]

"this is a great, low-calorie meal for meal prep!"

okay how do I explain this to you. "calories" is the part of food that makes it food. you actually need calories to stay alive. so "low-calorie" is the opposite of a selling point. kind of makes it sound like I'm going to be putting in a lot of time and effort just to not be nourished

[gothhabiba]

"I then immediately ruined the nutrition of the broccoli by pouring cheese all over it, but, hey, I tried"

okay hang on tight because this is a tough one. I'm going to try to explain the concept of "addition" to you. so the broccoli has a certain amount of calories, vitamins, and other nutrients in it, right? and the cheese has a certain amount of calories, vitamins, and other nutrients in it. and when you add the cheese to the broccoli, well... the nutrition of the resulting food can be found by adding the contents of both of its components to each other. I hope this helps

[milf--adjacent]

People who actually know about nutrition tell you to eat cheese and butter with your vegetables, because each has unique vitamins and minerals and other nutrients that your body struggles or straight up cannot absorb without something the other has. When you eat only raw veg because it's "healthy," you're missing out on half its nutritive value because some of those nutrients require additional lipids or specific vitamins like vitamin A or D or E to be readily absorbed by your digestive tract and again to be used in different parts of your body. Dieting makes it so instead of just dumping out all your pieces in a pile and following the instructions you can build your flatpack shelf, it's like placing each component in a different place in your house, and the shelf never gets built because you got tired of waking every time you needed something, so there it sits until one day you decide it's garbage and throw it out. A little butter or olive oil and a quick stir fry turns your vegetables from expensive fiber supplements to bioavaliable nutrients. Have your berries with some cream or full-fat yogurt: it's literally healthier and more complete nutrition. Put plenty of dressing on your salad. Have a steak: you need the iron. Stop starving yourself in the name of health because that's not how that works.

[phantomrose96]

“Tumblr age verification will not be needed,” tumblr staff stated upon confirming every single blog on the site is more than 10 years old.

“If you were literate enough to be posting about Johnlock in 2015 we can kind of just assume you’re good,” staff elaborated even though we did not ask them to.

[funky-purple-sheep]

Oh... My... God, Legolas is moon moon

[potbelly-stove]

Source

“Image Credit: Carol Rossetti

When Brazilian graphic designer Carol Rossetti began posting colorful illustrations of women and their stories to Facebook, she had no idea how popular they would become. 

Thousands of shares throughout the world later, the appeal of Rosetti’s work is clear. Much like the street art phenomenon Stop Telling Women To Smile, Rossetti’s empowering images are the kind you want to post on every street corner, as both a reminder and affirmation of women’s bodily autonomy. 

“It has always bothered me, the world’s attempts to control women’s bodies, behavior and identities,” Rossetti told Mic via email. “It’s a kind of oppression so deeply entangled in our culture that most people don’t even see it’s there, and how cruel it can be.”

Rossetti’s illustrations touch upon an impressive range of intersectional topics, including LGBTQ identity, body image, ageism, racism, sexism and ableism. Some characters are based on the experiences of friends or her own life, while others draw inspiration from the stories many women have shared across the Internet. 

“I see those situations I portray every day,” she wrote. “I lived some of them myself.”

Despite quickly garnering thousands of enthusiastic comments and shares on Facebook, the project started as something personal — so personal, in fact, that Rossetti is still figuring out what to call it. For now, the images reside in albums simply titled “WOMEN in english!“ or ”Mujeres en español!“ which is fitting: Rossetti’s illustrations encompass a vast set of experiences that together create a powerful picture of both women’s identity and oppression.

One of the most interesting aspects of the project is the way it has struck such a global chord. Rossetti originally wrote the text of the illustrations in Portuguese, and then worked with an Australian woman to translate them to English. A group of Israeli feminists also took it upon themselves to create versions of the illustrations in Hebrew. Now, more people have reached out to Rossetti through Facebook and offered to translate her work into even more languages. Next on the docket? Spanish, Russian, German and Lithuanian.

It’s an inspiring show of global solidarity, but the message of Rossetti’s art is clear in any language. Above all, her images celebrate being true to oneself, respecting others and questioning what society tells us is acceptable or beautiful.

“I can’t change the world by myself,” Rossetti said. “But I’d love to know that my work made people review their privileges and be more open to understanding and respecting one another.””

From the site: All images courtesy Carol Rossetti and used with permission. You can find more illustrations, as well as more languages, on her Facebook page.

[silentauroriamthereal]

Oooh. I reblogged a partial version of this recently but I didn’t know how many more there were! I LOVE these!

[nohhh-varrr]

OK SO THERE ARE TONS MORE OF THESE OF THE ARTISTS FB PAGE. GUYS THESE ARE AWESOME.

LOOK

AT

THESE

LETS APPLAUD CAROL ROSSETTI EVERYONE

  LOOK

[eninkahootz]

Um, these are like the best thing ever.

[goddessofwaifus]

I wish i got nice things like that. Everyone is always judging me based on my choices.

[cc-the-pathetic-nobody-deactiva]

Everyone needs to see this! Spread this post!!!

[salmon404]

A few of these I absolutely needed to save to remember at times

[saturnic-vapour-deactivated2019]

I’ll send it again because this is wonderful

[lizord-lord]

My favorite thing about this is how there’s diversity in the women even when it isn’t relevant. There are more fat women than just the illustrations regarding body image. There are multiple women in wheelchairs even when the text isn’t focusing on it. there are so many different races and ethnicity even when that’s not what the words are focusing on. One of them doesn’t have a left arm and it isn’t the focus. It’s beautiful, showing the overlap between all these things.

[nonbinary-octopus]

Yes! I was going to say that too.

[foopsie-daisy]

Ok but wouldnt it be really funny

[depsidase]

[itsjustkori]

[depsidase]

[thememedaddy]

[theprofessional-amateur]

For no reason here is a library story

[theprofessional-amateur]

There will be millions of actions like this over the coming years. An important thing to remember is that for them to work (anywhere, not just libraries) is people absolutely can’t announce that this is what they are doing.

Not seeing constant acts of resistance doesn’t mean it isn’t happening all around you all the time. Some very effective methods require silence and secrecy.

Something to keep in mind.

[sarnai4]

First family dinner back in Ithaca

Penelope: Want some pork for dinner, Darling?

Odysseus (gagging): No, Beloved. I don't think I'll ever look at a pig the same way.

Telemachus: Ooh! Dad, how about some bee-

Odysseus (terrified): No! Don't even finish that suggestion! (Whispering) He'll hear you.

(Penelope and Telemachus look at one another with concern)

Penelope: Well, we also have some fish.

Odysseus: Perfect!

(Odysseus proceeds to stab it as violently as possible)

Telemachus:...Mom, was he like this before or...?

Penelope (swooning): No, but I'm into it.

[funky-purple-sheep]

Okay, how is it that the collective ship name for odysseyus and Penelope is odypen and not ~penelody~

[dandylion-s]

Bastille was right. How am I gonna be an optimist about this. Also right about eh eho eho.

[clearancecreedwatersurvival]

Please never forget that ēheu, what the background chorus is repeating in Pompeii, just means ‘alas’ or ‘oh no’ or perhaps ‘shucks’ in Latin, which is of course the correct response to realizing you’re right next to where a volcano is exploding.

[vexwerewolf]

This is the exact sort of passive-aggressive Rich Old Man Grumpiness I can get behind

[waitineedaname]

"we don't have girl talk, we have creature talk," my roommate Julia just said while rolling on the floor, "put that on your fucking tumblr, they'll love that shit"

[waitineedaname]

she just asked how many notes this post has and I told her eighteen and with restrained glee she said "this is going to do horrible things to my ego"

[waitineedaname]

I'm out of town rn but I told her this broke 500 notes and sent her some of yall's tags

[bugsybaritone]

Hey op why is the contact icon a T if their name is Julia? *condescending tone* do you have your roommate saved as “trash” in your phone?

[waitineedaname]

nope!

[wizardarchetypes]

nothing is more frustrating than when I’m leading a serious discussion about the importance of learning how to properly research folklore & cultural stories from reliable sources and someone pipes in like “why does it matter if it’s all made up anyway?”

yeah dude vampires are made up and the whole “vampires couldn’t see their reflections in antique mirrors because of the silver backing” is made up so you can combine those however you want for fun.

but you can’t say “the Victorians believed vampires couldn’t see themselves in mirrors because of the silver backing, which is why Dracula has no reflection,”

because the author of Dracula was a real man who never said that and the Victorians were real people of a real era and you can’t just make up things about real people because it’s important historically for us to understand what people believed about the world and why.

Making up facts about vampires is folklore & literature. Claiming random people in the past believed that, with no evidence, is just lying.

Am I making sense??

[wizardarchetypes]

“What if eye of newt is code for mustard seed and witches used strange ingredient names to conceal their spells’ true, more mundane contents?”

Fun, modern take on witches in classic literature.

“In the 16th century, eye of newt was code for mustard seed, and witches used it to disguise their spells. Shakespeare knew this code and used it in Macbeth.”

That’s a lie. Now we’re just lying.

[bigmouthlass]

Mirrors being a giveaway for vampires because of silver backing makes sense to me, because silver (mercury too) has mystical properties in the folklore of many cultures.

True, Stoker never said that was his rationale . . . but did he ever confirm where he did get it? Was it pure invention? Was it part of an existing vampire mythos? Is it something he borrowed from a different subject of lore-- like silver being dangerous to werewolves or some such?

Inquiring minds.

[wizardarchetypes]

Awesome question! Firstly, you highlighted the trap so many people eagerly fall into in convos about folklore: "well, it makes sense."

It does make sense that the Victorians might have believed the purifying properties of silver cleansed a mirror of the Vampire's hideous visage. It sounds so plausible (not to mention extremely compelling) that it's easy to accept as fact. In fact, if you Google, "why doesn't Dracula have a reflection," the first page of search results is full of websites claiming that as fact! As is painfully common in Folkloric studies (even in popular publications by much-loved authors) no one has the real, verified source. Everyone's just citing each other. It's what my sister and I crudely call "the citation circle-jerk."

Unfortunately, things aren't true just because they sound cool (else werewolves would be real and one of them would be my wife).

As far as we know, Vampires in Western media & lore lacking reflections is an invention of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. It's no more a piece of genuine, ancient Vampire folklore than Legolas' body traits would be to English fairy folklore. If you're writing a Vampire with no reflection, that's technically a little bit of Dracula fanfic in your story, which is fun! Although I'd believe it's become such a mainstay in modern Vampire lore that someone might include that without thinking about Dracula at all.

Unfortunately, Mr. Stoker never said exactly why Dracula has no reflection, so we're left to guess. That's why we can't say with certainty why he wrote that, much less what people of the era believed. Someone 150 years from now can't (or shouldn't) say that The Cruel Prince by Holly Black reflects a genuine, 21st century cultural belief about Redcaps. Even if Bram Stoker did say silver cancels out Dracula's reflection, that's fiction he made up. It's creative writing, not a cultural touchstone. We can only guess what inspired Stoker's choice on Vampire reflections. Mirrors have been extremely spiritually significant in cultures across the world for thousands of years. Bram Stoker was Irish, so we can look to Irish folklore & customs, although we can't know whether he was familiar with all of these stories. There are old Irish stories that use mirrors for divination, such as looking in a mirror at a certain time or performing an apple ritual to see the likeness of your future spouse (1 & 2) Mirrors might also reflect monsters instead of the viewer, if used at night (3)

It's custom in more than one culture to cover mirrors as a mourning rite, including Irish funerary customs. There is more than one reason for this custom, but one thought is that the dead person will never be able to look upon themself again (5). Perhaps exposing them to mirrors is insensitive. Mirrors can capture spirits so that the living can still see them inside, and those ghosts might especially show up if you looked in the mirror at night (6, 7, 8) If mirrors have the ability to capture, hold, and display souls, and to reflect the souls of our futures, we might imagine that Dracula has no reflection, because he is damned and lacks a soul. However, I don't know that Dracula actually lacks a soul, explicitly, in the novel. I can't find any reference of his absolutely having no soul. However, at one point, Lucy, once she becomes a vampire, is said to be only herself in body, but lacking her soul. We might make an argument out of this that Vampires in Dracula have no souls.

Then we might say that mirrors can't reflect these Vampires, because what mirrors truly reflect are souls. It's another fun idea, but at the end of the day, it's all supposition!

[datasoong47]

Not to mention that in Dracula it was also stated that a vampire cast no shadow. And apparently earlier drafts also had it that a vampire could not be photographed nor could an image of one be painted. So, it really seems to me that it's more of a "not entirely of this world" thing

[snogfairy]

bram, sucking his pipe and totally saying this: "ohh maybe vampire evolution made them unreflective so they could better sneak up on their prey" (source: it came to me in a dream)