Fragmented Images Assemble

Stuff spit forth from my brain and random photos of mine I want to share.

[gretagerwisg]

[acehardys]

i have been laughing for 10 mins

[tiktoksthataregood-ish]

[quellfy-deactivated20210728]

HOOOO WHAT THE HELL

[cop-disliker69]

There’s an incredible amount of discourse in the LGBTQ Extended Universe of people very angry that certain factions would perceive their sexual attraction to women as being inherently predatory. Various types of lesbians and bisexuals and trans people attracted to cis women, who all need to make it very clear that their attraction to women is wholesome and harmless.

Which would all be unnecessary if you just didn’t concede the radfems’ point in the first place: that hetero male attraction to women is automatically suspicious, probably inherently predatory.

If you concede that point, then various types of queer or trans people have to find a way to differentiate their own attraction to women as different than hetero male attraction. “How dare you imply that I as a butch lesbian/trans woman/male-attracted bisexual woman am in any way analogous to a hetero male in my sexual interest in women.” Since you’ve already conceded the point that hetero male attraction is bad, you’re stuck fighting a rear-guard action to prove that not all sexual attraction to women is bad, it’s only bad when it comes from cishet men–perhaps only when it comes from white cishet men because some of the more advanced woke people understand the historical atrocity of identifying black male sexual interest as dangerous.

And this discourse will never end. You’ll never effectively delineate who is ~wholesome~ when they want pussy and who is ~yikes~ when they want it. Not unless you’re going to be an out-and-out TERF who can easily cut through this issue by simply refusing to agree that trans women are women and trans men are men.

You could, of course, refuse to concede the point in the first place. You could say “no, it’s actually fine to be horny. It’s fine to want pussy. Men aren’t doing anything wrong by being sexually interested in women and pursuing sexual relationships with women.” 

But that’s difficult, because it undermines the entire basis of at least half of the feminist movement since its 19th-century inception, which is based in sexual repression and the identification of sexual intercourse as the primary site of women’s oppression. Which is why to this day the only concession the radfems can make to free love or sex-positivity is “well, some women are deeply damaged and traumatized, and for some unfathomable reason they want to have sex with men, and like with drug use or the sex industry, it causes harmful side-effects if we try to use force to stop women from self-harming in this way (by having sex with men), so we’ll bitterly tolerate women being horny, but male horniness is still absolutely unacceptable.” Hence “sex-critical” feminism, the reincarnation of sex-negative feminism. They happen to regret wholeheartedly allying with the Christian Right in the 1980s; but they still don’t think they made any moral or theoretical errors there, only tactical errors. 

[cop-disliker69]

Just found this old screenshot, detailing exactly what I was talking about. “Remember not to let your seething hatred of men bleed over into self-hatred just because you share a trait in common with them, uwu”

Also lol at putting the word ‘love’ in scare-quotes. Unhinged

[ms-demeanor]

Hey you know how i was talking about how framing patriarchy as the sole evil in a society is bad and that radfems are bad for doing that and it leads them to harmful conclusions regardless of whether they make room for trans folks?

This is the kind of thing I was talking about.

I’m also going to add to this that given the intensely connected world we live in it us natural and healthy to objectify people at least some of the time because it is impossible for you to carry the compassion and care for each person you interact with on a daily basis that you would need to to NOT treat people like objects sometimes and so you know what, it’s okay to only conceive of the pretty girl in your 300 seat bio lecture as just something pretty to look at and not as Jackie Marie, equestrian fast food worker with three siblings and a dog named Applesauce, because you CAN’T keep every person you meet as Jackie Marie, it’s not possible, it’s okay to think someone is pretty and never want to talk to them or get to know them so long as thinking they’re pretty doesn’t prevent you from thinking of her as Jackie Marie, whole person, when you get assigned to a group together.

Objectification isn’t inherently harmful so long as you don’t treat people like vending machines for nudes and therapy and while we’re at it nonsexual objectification IS a thing that can also be harmful and holding up stories about, say, one sex worker who hated the work as an example of why no sex workers should be allowed to do sex work, is an example of the kind of harmful objectification radfems use all the time.

(You may recognize this pattern from “my child became autistic and now I oppose vaccines” or “my daughter got an abortion and then killed herself” bloggers/extremists and I’d just like to say that it’s a shitty, dehumanizing, objectifying way to approach discourse and I hate it and it’s bad and people who use it should feel bad)

[gen-is-gone]

Man the fact that I came up on the internet in the mid-2000s and have watched first hand as feminist online spaces went from cheerfully uncontroversial sex-positivity to seething anti-kink, sex-shaming radfem breeding grounds, is wild and frankly appalling.

Only semi-related to the issue of seeing all men as sexual predators, but still relevant to how horniness has become a fucking sin in leftist spaces, I once saw a group of gays on twitter hatemob a reposted video of a Tiktok LesbianTM being mildly horny in a potentially embarrassing way (which was actually honestly just “afab person being sexually confident and saying soft!dom things at the camera” how terrible) and every. fucking. comment. was people with rainbow flags in their urls saying things like “I wish Stonewall never happened” and “she looks a sexual predator” and cloaking it in the very thin disguise of mocking “white lesbian nonsense”.

Like, ceding the point that mens’ interest in (cis) women is inherently predatory opens the door back up to the idea that all sexuality is somehow bad and dehumanizing, but now with the added element that people who are open and confident in their sexuality (and no, not sexual orientation in the loud but somehow extremely sanded down and chaste way of the aforementioned twitter gays) are cringey and should be punished. And inevitably, folks on the margins of queer culture and identity, aces, furries, kinksters, sex workers, hell even just mspec folks who aren’t ashamed of being attracted to the opposite gender, get punished the first and the loudest.

[roach-works]

what’s also ironic is that i’ve also seen asexuals pushed back into the closet from when they were out and proud and connecting online, on tumblr, because of the idea that they ‘don’t have any problems’ and ‘aren’t actually queer because they’re not actually oppressed’, etc etc etc

like, again, sexual desire is the primary site of sinfulness, and thus asexuals have literally nothing to complain about… except, you know, yet another frontier of people being complete assholes to them. i’m so fucking tired of neo-puritans who drank all the radfem coolaid, went back for seconds, and have decided to make their inculcated terror of sex into everyone else’s problem.

[rowark]

[chidorinnnnn]

oh hey, someone put that thing i was mad about yesterday into words!

[dnibyf]

I couldn't agree more with OP here.

[adhd-vibes]

[prokopetz]

One of these days I’m going to write a one-shot RPG based on those illustrations people keep doing of, like, mice and frogs wearing wizard hats, and it’s specifically going to play with the issues of scale this introduces. Like, yes, your frog wizard can wield their phenomenal cosmic powers to call a meteor down from the heavens to smite their foes, but the meteor in question is the size of a pebble and the resulting explosion of all-consuming hellfire has about a six-inch blast radius. Better make it count!

[prokopetz]

@thetwistedlight replied:

An Acid Splash in the eyes is still a splash of acid in the eyes even if it’s of a frog magnitude !

Yeah, but the tiny frog version of acid splash only has a twelve-inch casting range. If you’re up against a human, you’re gonna need a boost to reach the target’s tender parts!

[prokopetz]

Actually, you know what?

Here.

Tiny Frog Wizards

A game for 3 to 7 players

You have mastered the secret arts of sorcery.

The very primordial energies of creation and destruction are yours to command.

You are two inches tall.

Keep reading

[prokopetz]

Updates for February 22nd, 2021:

Clarified that you cannot cast a spell with a pool of zero dice; you must increase your pool to at least one die in order to attempt a spell  

Added rules for counterspelling  

Updated the description of the Imprecation Arcanum to note that soft-hearted frogs can use it to produce relatively benign curses like “fall asleep” or “forget you saw me”. Messing with people’s memory still isn’t nice, but it’s easier for a heroic frog to justify than melting someone’s face!

Currently in progress: mechanics for tiny frog wizard duels.

[prokopetz]

Updates for February 23rd, 2021:

Clarified that you need line of sight to a spell’s target unless otherwise noted (though you don’t actually need to see the target; you’re perfectly free to cast spells in the dark if you don’t mind guessing what you’re aiming at)  

Clarified that if a spell uses the Target (Size) parameter, the parameter’s value needs to be sufficient to affect the whole target; you can’t bypass a low roll by affecting only part of it  

Cleared up an edge case regarding how Potency is calculated  

Added rules for overcoming Abjuration-based wards with spells  

Added a rule that the location you Conjure an object or creature into can’t already be occupied by another object or creature  

Added a rule that you can’t Conjure only a part of a living target

(Yes, those last two bullet points were prompted by something that somebody actually tried. You know who you are, you sick puppy!)

Still in progress: tiny frog wizard duels.

[ninewhitebanners]

This cute photo shows up a lot on tumblr. I have probably reblogged it before. I was interested to finally read a description of the photo by the actual photographer, written for a gallery showing in Los Angeles.

The Tsaatan (also called the Dukha or Dukhalar) are a small ethnic group in Mongolia, who live up in the mountains and depend for milk, meat, and furs on herds of domesticated reindeer bred to have strong backs for riding.

The photographer, Hamid Sardar-Afkhami, says:

On odd days of the waxing moon, [shaman] Tsuyan would transform herself into a deer and fly off to a place called the Dark Heavens, a twilight world full of light, sounds and voices from where the ancestors reveal their hidden messages in the guise of various birds and beasts. “We exist in relation to three things,” she would say, “…our forest, our ancestor spirits and our reindeer. If we lose this connection, our spirits ‘ongots’ will abandon us and the demons will take hold of our destiny.”

The Duhalar choose one reindeer and mark it as a ‘totem deer’ that serves as a mount for the invisible guardian spirits of the tribe. In addition, every individual person is ceremonially linked to an individual deer that is believed to protect them throughout their life and follow them into the other worlds.

I was very much keen to express this ‘spiritual’ relationship between man and deer in my photographs. But after traveling with the Duhalar for several seasons and shooting thousands of pictures, I didn’t have anything that came close to what I would consider an iconic image. One day, after a long Autumn migration, I was talking photographs of the women milking the reindeer with children playing nearby. A young infant-girl sat next to her mother and soon fell asleep. Her mother gently placed her on the side of a white deer and continued milking. Suddenly, there it was. The composition of the sleeping child lying on the side of a magnificent antlered creature who was looking down at her with a protective, almost transcendental expression, perfectly captured my thoughts.

No Strangers: Ancient Wisdom in a Modern World will be showing at the Annenberg Space for Photography until February 24th.

[anxietyproblem]

[razzledazzlewaffle]

Dyscalculia is a learning disability, a lot like dyslexia, but with math and numbers. Everyone knows what dyslexia is, but for some reason, dyscalculia isn’t as well known. I want people to know about this so no more kids are gonna believe uneducated adults who tells them that they’re just lazy and no more kids are going to think they’re just hopeless idiots when they try and try but just can’t understand. It happened to me, and I won’t let it happen to anyone else.

[emotionalmorphine]

It’s surprisingly common and is often linked to ADHD. If you’ve ever had issues, look it up - you might find things fall into place for you, too.

[bogleech]

Difficulty reading analog clocks[14]

 Inability to comprehend financial planning or budgeting, sometimes even at a basic level; for example, estimating the cost of the items in a shopping basket or balancing a checkbook.

Inconsistent results in addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.

Difficulty with multiplication, subtraction, addition, and division tables, mental arithmetic, etc.

Problems with differentiating between left and right.

A “warped” sense of spatial awareness, or an understanding of shapes, distance, or volume that seems more like guesswork than actual comprehension.

Difficulty with time, directions, recalling schedules, sequences of events. Difficulty keeping track of time. Frequently late or early.

Poor memory (retention & retrieval) of math concepts; may be able to perform math operations one day, but draw a blank the next. May be able to do book work but then fails tests.

Difficulty reading musical notation. Difficulty with choreographed dance steps.

Having particular difficulty mentally estimating the measurement of an object or distance (e.g., whether something is 3 or 6 meters (10 or 20 feet) away).

When writing, reading and recalling numbers, mistakes may occur in the areas such as: number additions, substitutions, transpositions, omissions, and reversals.

 Inability to grasp and remember mathematical concepts, rules, formulae, and sequences.

 Inability to concentrate on mentally intensive tasks.

I can’t even comprehend what it might be like being a human who doesn’t have all of these characteristics. I don’t know how a brain can possibly just “remember” how to do long division or know what ten feet looks like.

I can’t even accept that a car is more than like nine feet long. Ours is fifteen feet long, and even standing next to it, my brain is POSITIVE it’s small enough to fit in a bathroom.

[arandomcollectionofstuff]

This is the most me thing I’ve ever read on this site. I can’t read analog clocks I can’t recall number sequences etc.

[phantoms-lair]

I remember reading a book where a character had this and my whole life fell into place. Being the kid of people who work with math a lot (Mom was a math major for crying out loud) and being ‘bad at math’ sucked. I never understood why I couldn’t do what everyone in my class could. 

Sadly, I didn’t figure this out until after I was out of school.

[azuretheshitposter]

oh

[galahadwilder]

Wait

What

[freedom-shamrock]

Dyscalcula (aka Dyscalculia) wasn’t really defined and recognized until 1974. It is thought to impact 3-7% of the population (and 11% of the people who have ADHD/ADD), but unlike dyslexia and dysgraphia it most often goes undiagnosed.

There are three distinct types of dyscalcula: semantic memory, procedural concepts, and working memory.  I have don’t have dyslexia/dysgraphia or global memory problems, so my type is semantic memory. I have all but one of the symptoms in the above list. I also have trouble reading maps and am almost always lost geographically (even when going somewhere I’ve been repeatedly). There are theories about the cause or contributing factors of dyscalcula, but none have been proven. As a result there are currently very few interventions (aka: special courses, teaching styles, or universal hacks) available, and those that exist attempt to treat the symptom rather than addressing the root cause. None of these interventions really have enough evidence to suggest that they are truly effective (but they are often quite spendy). And many sites/services that focus on helping folks who are not neurotypical suggest that adults with dyscalcula simply “brush up on their math skills.” Like that’s even a possibility (spoiler alert - ain’t got no skills to brush up).

I struggled with math throughout school.  Long division in fifth grade was when I stopped being able to fake math capability.  I was only required to take math up to geometry, and I very nearly failed it (it was very bad for my GPA). In university I took a computer science class to avoid the math I would have been required to take (two no-credit remedial classes plus the lowest level credit class).  My husband learned about dyscalcula from a broadcast on public radio a year and a half after I finished uni.

I thought I was stupid for years because I couldn’t memorize phone numbers and struggled with anything math related. I graduated high school with honors and finished uni in three and a half years. But I still thought I was stupid, because I still couldn’t do math.

Sources & starting points

Wikipedia

Dyscalculia.org

ADDitude: What is Dyscalculia overview

Child Mind Institute

[garlic-bread-addicted-vampire]

I-

I don’t-

I ended up relating to almost all of those bullet points ;-;

[ginnypoprocks]

Tumbler helping you realize who you are and that you aren’t alone

[all-things-witchcraft]

🌱The Basics of Witchcraft🌱

This is a small excerpt from my coven’s lessons. I’ll continue to post these so witchlings, or witches, can have this information! I hope it helps.

Witchcraft is, in my opinion, the practice of manipulating energy forces into your intent. This can also be simplified as the practice of magick. You can aid it by tools and materials, but no matter what, you are manipulating energy. That is why energy work can be very important.

The Craft started wayy back, from the start of human civilization. Before we started to get scientifically advanced and didn’t know that much, we would believe in the supernatural, that a god or spirit did this and that. Witches were the mediators between humans and the higher powers. Religion and Witchcraft may have gone hand to hand back then, but it isn’t always the case. You can practice witchcraft without believing in a higher power or deity. Here are just some things to know before stepping into the Craft:

Witchcraft ≠ Religion

It isn’t a game(To specify, don’t half-ass a spell. It either might not work, or worse, create chaos. We can learn about this next lesson when we learn about Energy work).

Witchcraft can be used for anything and everything you want it to be, It’s really flexible.

There are morals and ethics to learn about in the craft you should pay attention to

It is an enhancement, not a replacement to your life.

To elaborate on the last point, here is a document by Brian Windvexer that should be looked at:

Don’t Let Witchcraft Erase Who You Are:

Don’t become dependent on Tarot readings to make decisions

Don’t feel like the day is ruined if you left the house without drawing your card for the day

Don’t feel helpless if you can’t figure out a spell to help

Don’t rely on witchcraft alone to improve your relationships

Don’t forget how to speak out because you can hex at home

Don’t forget how to be confident without a candle spell

Don’t forget to discover for yourself because there are so many free resources online

Don’t get panicky if you can’t explain it with your new beliefs

Don’t lose your friends because they don’t understand the new you

Don’t avoid going out with friends so you can buy more herbs and candles instead

Don’t give up your other hobbies to practice endless energy work or Divination

Don’t neglect your job or studies to read witchcraft books instead

Don’t ask yourself ‘what would a witch do’. Ask yourself, ‘What would I do.’

Witchcraft is an enhancement to life, not a replacement for life.

There are different types of witchcraft and I’d say they are all valid. But with every practice, there are certain basics to them.

They are:

Protection

Grounding

Centering

Meditation

Visualization

Protection - To guard and prevent harmful energies to an area/being, especially in Magick practice.

There are 3 types:

Wards: protection of an area (ie. House or room)

Shields: protection of a being (ie. You, someone else, maybe a pet)

Circles: Temporary protection ground for rituals

Here’s the best part of protection, you can think of protection in so many ways, may it be a ring of fire, a giant bubble, a castle wall, whatever your heart desires! You can even more than But, I suggest putting up protection that is similar to a membrane, so things still flow freely, letting the good things in and the bad things out.

There are plenty of techniques to set up protection, starting with visualization. Imagination is a powerful tool, and is very important in practicing energy work and the craft. Some added protection is made by adding protection-associated materials, like Salt for example.

Grounding - To stabilize your energies and stay down to earth

Grounding is a great recommendation to keeping your energies in control and staying connected to the earth. It can help recharge you with energies.

One technique to help ground yourself is to visualize a root shooting from the bottom of your spine and digging into the earth like a Tree. Gather the energies from the earth, and give off all of the negative energies you feel. Cycle the energies until you feel refreshed. You can make 2 roots and have one give the good energy and the other giving to the earth the negative energies.

It can also be as simple as shaking off and stretching!

Centering - Getting your shit together (shit as in energy).

Centering is great as it can help make a state of mindfulness and gets you to stay present in the present. It’s great mentally. It helps get scattered energy into one. Literally, getting your shit together. Centering can help as well in controlling your energies and gathering yourself up so you stay together. How energy works is that you tend to throw bits and pieces of your energy all around different areas(sometimes you may not even know it), and sometimes you just need to recharge. Most of the time you should ground after a centering.

Here’s one technique to practice centering: visualize scattered energy, making you less bright and more dull, very dim as a person. Then, imagine the pieces of energy flying back at you, morphing around you into one bubble, like a puzzle piece. You start to glow brightly again.

Meditation - Being one with the thoughts/self, calming yourself down and staying mindful and aware.

Meditation can do soooo much. It helps you mentally, physically, and spiritually. It can help your energies stay in check, and It can do so much more than that. Before you astral travel, you must fall into a state of meditation. There are two types of meditation, Concentrated and Mindful. Concentrated is when you focus on one object, sound, or mantra. Mindful doesn’t focus on anything specific, just being aware of everything that passes by in your mind. In witchcraft, if it used to help discover who you are, as well as communicate to others(spirits/deities/etc).

Now, the number one thing to focus on when meditating is to breathe. Long, regular breaths help calm down. Get into a quiet area. Now get into a comfortable position, either cross-legged or laying down. Breathe. 4 counts in, 4 counts out. Clear your mind. Now, be aware of your mind.

Disclaimer: Now not everyone has to follow these things, It’s just a suggestion. Experiences vastly differ from mine.

[tomcats-and-tophats]

You can be bisexual and prefer women.

You can be bisexual and prefer men.

You can be bisexual and agender, genderfluid, and any other non-binary identity.

You can be bisexual and prefer partners with nb identities like yours.

You can be bisexual and unsure of what your gender is.

You can be bisexual and feel attraction to some genders like this and others like that.

You can be bisexual and feel no difference at all.

You can be bisexual and have no preference at all.

You can be bisexual and polyamorous, or bi and monogomous.

You can be bisexual and love sex, or want nothing to do with sex.

You can be bisexual and single. You can have never dated anyone.

You can be bisexual and young, or bisexual and old.

You can realize you’re bisexual at any age, with any partner.

Bisexual can look like anyone, bisexuality can be anyone’s life.

You’re allowed to be bi, you’re allowed to be yourself.

[lgbt-tiktoks]

[emilysidhe]

Baby It’s Cold Outside discourse is the same as Macbeth discourse. 

[dont-spoop-yourself]

Explain?

[emilysidhe]

OK, so one of the big debates in Macbeth involves the scene in which Lady Macbeth talks Macbeth into killing King Duncan.  People debate strenuously over whether it’s a scene of Lady M pressuring her reluctant husband into it, or whether it’s a scene of her sensing, due to their emotional intimacy, that this murder is something her husband secretly wants and has partially internally decided to do, and is arguing him into it in order to help him give himself permission to do it, in the same way that people see their loved ones wavering over the dessert menu and jump in with things like, “Go on, get the cheesecake, it’s your birthday!”  Readers and scholars disagree strenuously about this - we even studied an incident in college in which two 18th century illustrators attended the same performance and happened to draw the scene the day after, producing two images that advanced opposite interpretations even though they’d seen the exact same actors do the exact same performance.  It’s a big deal.

In the same way, the Baby, It’s Cold Outside discourse is about whether this is a song about sexual harassment, or whether it’s a woman singing about how she wishes she could spend the night with the guy she just had an excellent date with if only the neighbors wouldn’t talk, and him responding, “Stay, baby, it’s cold out!  No one could expect you to go home in this!”

[ms-demeanor]

I really don’t know (baby stab his side) King Duncan’s a bro (baby cut through his hide) I like him a lot (That decrepit old sot?) This plan ain’t so great (But what a king you’d make!)

The guards might worry (Darling, do it in a hurry!) His sons will rush the door (So knock them on the floor.)

I’m not such a knave (Bash his head with a stave) But I’d be a good king (Now you’re starting to think)

The dukes might all talk (But their chatter means naught) Say, love, what do you mean (You’d make such a king)

I simply must go (baby cut through his hide) There’s a war on you know (baby cut through his hide)

But what of his wife? (And what of his life?) It feels like bad luck (But that don’t mean much)

I’ve got a bad premonition (And I’ve got a mission) But that’s just superstition (My love, you’re a vision)

The witches said I’d rule (If they lied they were cruel) So baby let’s stab Stab his siiiiide!

[acosmodot]

@spiritspodcast

[doctorslippery]

127551 views and 2809 votes on Imgur

So this is a cheat-sheet I’ve made for personal use to just have an overview over all the basic D&D rules. The first page covers most of the text rules. The color divides the sections more or less from one another.

The second page covers most of the important tables and stats, that you’ll probably need through the game. Hope you like it and find some use for this! Cheers.

[bardicknowledgeblogger]

SUPER handy! I might use this for the kiddos in my beginner d&d camp this summer!

[monstrous-ideas]

I should print those out for players

[willowwickertop]

Fuck my players I need this

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]