Victorian Comrade

Mickey | Adult Creature | they/them Weird Queer~Transgender Fool Strange Holmesian and Silly Rake Victorian hijinks, Autism, and Occasional Art

[homoidiotic]

i Love vaccines, autism, abortions, homosexuals, sex changes and crime

[kropotkindersurprise]

[rudeteens]

[cmdrcepicard]

How the conversation went in the Writers' Room

[aphrostiel]

spock and his cool sparkly space suit

[holespoles]

Japanese Old Match Label

[nariarts]

Spent a ridiculous amount of time last night obsessively editing my hand written zines in Photoshop to take away any tiny blemishes so they were definitely readable.

Whatever. Understand or don't.

[tpwrtrmnky]

It's really quite bizarre how much work in trans healthcare bases itself on the idea that a patient who deliberately seeks out the Penis Removal Doctor and says "Yes, Penis Removal Doctor, I am certain that I would like to have my penis removed" might be lying to the Penis Removal Doctor, so that they can have their penis removed without actually wanting that.

[clementine-kesh]

call me terminally academia-brained but i do think a lot of the fun of character analysis is figuring out how to build a compelling argument for a particular reading using lines of evidence from canon as well as meta/intertextual support

[clementine-kesh]

and you could say that what i’m saying here is basically “a lot of the fun of doing character analysis is doing character analysis” but let’s be real a lot of fandom character analysis is pretty heavily vibes-based. and i think that’s where i really chafe up against the traditional thought-terminating fandom attitude of like, everyone’s opinions hold equal weight and any interrogation of that is inherently hostile. because i think it’s fascinating to dig into where others are coming from in terms of their views on characters or dynamics or whatever, especially when they differ significantly from more commonly expressed views, and part of that digging is asking people okay what parts of canon are you drawing from to support your opinion? what parts of canon are you disregarding or downplaying? how does this argument hold up in the light of how race, gender, class, ability, etc. operate both in the piece’s in-fiction and real world contexts?

[byjove]

Ok so I found out recently that the UK has a problem with lots of Invasive deer species and they are trying to cull them. But unlike in the USA hunting is seen as to upper class, no one has guns and venison is also seen as posh ..,

THAT AND THE GREY SQUIRRELS! JUST EAT THEM ALREADY!!!

The UK needs to have a bowhunting trend. I feel like the UK would benefit from an archery rebirth.

[solomonaridropout]

please don’t make me imagine roadmen running around with bow and arrows 😭

[byjove]

you gotta be American with it and immediately nock an arrow on your own bow and point it at them

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

They're making it difficult to buy fucking kitchen knives in the UK. Like fuck are you going to get bowhunting legalized.

[onwardsandfourwords]

Wait, what’s that about the kitchen knives?

[a-krogan-skald-and-bearsark]

Knife crime is apparently enough of a problem that you need to show ID to purchase anything sharper than a butter knife, and they all have to come in safety packaging, and apparently there's a push to flat out ban some of the larger ones.

[byjove]

that’s what you need bows, you see someone running at your family with a blade and you get him in the leg with an arrow. this is a time honored British tradition.

[byjove]

also, banning large knives because people keep stabbing people is really funny. unlike guns, anything can be turned into a bladed weapon. banning knives hasn’t stopped people from getting stabbed to death in UK prisons. the roadman is going to be chasing you with a sharpened wooden spear next.

[sin-ophelia]

Fangirls Through the Ages by Lid Thom

[lestatslestits]

Do you ever see something that makes you laugh so hard that you have to buy it

[reverse-rainbows]

[nyxelestia]

#oh my god this IS TORAH#this is literally. like beat for beat. a story from the Talmud.

@aparrotandaqrow wait which one/what's the story??? 👀

[aparrotandaqrow]

It's the Oven of Akhnai!

Very briefly, a bunch of rabbis are arguing about how a kiln/oven should be kept pure. Rabbi Eliezer has his opinion, and all the other Sages disagree with him.

Eliezer tries every logical angle to convince them he's right. They won't budge. He declares that if he's right, a carob tree will uproot itself and move. The nearest carob tree uproots itself and moves 400 cubits. They still insist he's wrong, replying that we don't make laws based on trees. He declares that if he's right, the nearby stream will show it. The stream flows backwards. The Sages reply that we don't legislate based on streams. He declares that the very walls of the building will show it, and they begin to collapse inwards. Rabbi Yehoshua scolds the walls ("cut it out; this isn't your fight"), and in deference to his stature, the walls stop, though remain bent.

Finally, Rabbi Eliezer declares that if he's right, the Heavens themselves will confirm it. The sky parts, and the voice of God rings out: "Why do you disagree with Rabbi Eliezer? He is correct, as he always is in these matters."

Rabbi Yehoshua stands up, and replies. "The Torah is not in Heaven. We will decide the law based on majority rule, as it says in the Torah." (I.e. thanks for the Torah; we'll take it from here. The proper practice is whatever you can convince everyone it is.)

God smiles, and says to his angels, "my children have triumphed over me."

The Sages rule against Eliezer, burn anything he had declared pure in his oven, and ostracize him.

[invinciblerodent]

[invinciblerodent]

you guys are so right, I should have added the best part

[askrobouteguilliman40k]

This meme ages like a fine wine every year that passes.

[icebear4president]

The Artemis II crew filmed an 80s sitcom style video on their way to the Moon

[witchofanguish]

[bossymarmalade]

Decades before the New York City subway cars were lined with advertisements for niche dating apps, personal injury lawyers, prescription weight loss medicines, and alternative internet browsers, the interiors of many of the city’s trains were adorned with editions of the two-toned mock newspaper known as The Subway Sun. Primarily produced between 1936 and 1965 under the artistic direction of late cartoonists Fred Cooper and Amelia Opdyke Jones, the imitation periodical campaign by the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT) fulfilled a variety of purposes in the subway system for over five decades. It encouraged polite passenger etiquette, but also promoted local attractions as a way to entice New Yorkers to use public transit — from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

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