Bungacowa!

30+,ace panromantic,she/they pronouns I try to tag everything as well as I can, but I use mobile a lot. If you need anything tagged that I don't already feel free to ask. I track gloriousskivvies if anyone wants to show me something neat.

[gallusrostromegalus]

I Have No Teeth And I Must Fundraise

Hey everyone,

It's Your Local Bardic entity, Gallus Rostromengalus of Bread Jesus and other Weird Tumblr Story Fame.

Despite my best efforts to mitigate mt Terrible English Dental DNA, today two of my teeth broke.

I don't even have a fun story about this, it's literally terrible genetics and stress-grinding my teeth in my sleep.

I just got back from emergency surgery to get the pieces pulled and the hole in my jaw closed so I don't get an infection, but a second reconstruction surgery to give me a bone graft and dental implants will be needed so I can actually chew and use my mouth for it's intended purposes.

I do not currently have dental insurance. I haven't talked about it here much, but my husband was unemployed after getting laid off for almost all of last year. He has a job again, but it pays like 2/3rds of his previous one and the benefits are crap. Like no dental insurance until he's worked there at least a year.

So I'm on the hook for the full cost of Today's emergency surgery, Medication, and the necessary follow-up reconstruction, which my dentist estimates will cost between $5000-$7000. Our dentist has given us every discount she can and we have a payment plan, but losing half our household income has left us with no savings and credit cards at their limits. Even though I only need to come up with $500 this month to go ahead with the reconstructive surgery, I do not have any money to spare. It will also be VASTLY cheaper overall to pay for everything up front rather than pay interest over the months with the payment plan, but literally anything will help me right now.

Link To My GoFundMe

Link To My Ko-Fi

Thank you all so much, Gallus

Pic of Chaleston Chew lounging on his pillows because pics generally help these posts but I do not want to inflict images of Dental Trauma on all of you.

[kuttithevangu]

On a more productive note, since Sold A Story came out there have been campaigns in at least 40 US states to establish science-based literacy curricula

How the ‘science of reading’ is reshaping literacy education

Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy instruction in schools

The Reading League, a nonprofit dedicated to the project of science-based literacy education, has chapters in 46 states and have collected materials on reading-education science here:

Find science of reading resources, recommended books, and professional development videos to build your professional knowledge.

[crippled-peeper]

“You think every citizen should have access to free and accessible healthcare?”

Wrong!!!

I think that Asylum seekers and Migrant workers and The Undocumented and Everyone Else should get free healthcare too

I love immigration

[crippled-peeper]

This one made the fascists and the racists really really mad. I get hate mail daily for this post

Imagine getting mad because someone else’s child’s chemotherapy doesn’t cost them 100,000$ .

[gloriousskivvies]

new deltarune Kris/SOUL/Player theory

I just finished watching Snapcube's playthrough of Ch5 and I have Thoughts. This might be a kinda obvious theory, and I think @friendlyfrankenstein might be kicking it around already? But here goes, spoilers for ch5 so under the cut

The Soul really is Kris' soul, but the Player controlling both is new!

We know Kris can't really survive too long without the Soul, they looked like death-eating-a-cracker when they fell into their room at the start of Ch5. What if when Whatever Happened happened, the two got split apart somehow? Kris' soul got dislodged and took some of their personality/Self with it and there's this disconnect now?

We also know that Tobyfox loves to forshadow shit with NPCs, so with Pink and her whole thing? And the huge emphasis on not being able to hate one part of yourself without it hurting all parts? And Dark Worlds reflecting their creator, and all that

And there's obviously evidence of Kris having the Soul before the game ever starts, the cage already being in their room and the blood on the floor, but their friends they had before the game seem to think they're behaving differently enough recently enough to remark on it.

Idk there's probably more lore things I've missed and it may end up being completely off-base but it's a fun idea to kick around

[kunaigirl]

just casually leaving this here for no particular reason

[kunaigirl]

You know what? Fuck it I'm adding more context. Sesame Street has talked about the topic of death more than once and it's done with such gentle carefulness without watering down or censoring the heaviness of the situations. It treats heavy subject matter with respect and dignity and has been for DECADES. From the early 1980s:

To 2025:

Hell, they even cover the devastating heaviness of MASS SHOOTINGS without censoring or watering anything down.

They've been doing this for YEARS, and it's ALWAYS handled with dignity, respect, seriousness, understanding, and love.

Whenever I see people censoring words because it "might offend" someone or the big ad companies that are currently trying to run everything? I just want to say to them: "What? Is Sesame Street too mature for you?" Because really...what the hell are we doing.

[kunaigirl]

I'm back with even more examples! Sesame Street once again to this day is out here handling extremely difficult subject matter with incredible care and respect. "We can't let kids learn about uncomfortable things!" Oh, really now? Even though they're things that happen in everyday life that they'll face one day at some point anyway? Interesting. Let's see what else this show has covered that people (for some reason) think should be avoided and hidden. Here's more on death of loved ones and greif:

Or how about when someone is put into the foster care system because their home isn't safe anymore and their needs aren't being met?

Maybe some discussions about group therapy/getting help and support?

Hey look! Here's a segment about gender expression vs taught expectation, including unlearning harmful biases and what to do when you hurt someone on accident because you didn't know it was wrong!

Look! The topic of race and diversity! The importance of unity and equity!

They even also have a more allegorical take on discrimination and being looked down on for who you are, featuring Big Bird. The conflict is about how he's not being let into a club because the one bird running the club personally decided he didn't want someone like Big Bird there.

Big Bird goes out of his way to keep changing parts of himself in order to "prove" he can fit into this club if he just changed enough. The truth comes out though, and there's nothing he can do to gain the approval of that bird. He will never be good enough in his eyes, and Big Bird starts to hate himself. His real friends see this finally put their feet down, emphasizing that you should never change yourself just to fit into one singular narrow idea someone else has.

There's A LOT of different situations this can be an allegory for. Racism, sexism, homophobia, basically ANY form of exclusion is put on full blast in this 15 minute clip. Sesame Street can be both blunt and allegorical when approaching difficult topics, and it NEVER misses or looses the point.

It does an exceptional job in both styles of representation WITHOUT watering anything down. The more sanitized everything gets, the more radical Sesame Street is suddenly considered, hence why so many "particular groups" want it gone. Hmmm! I can only imagine why that could be, in this current political climate! (I'm being sarcastic)

When Sesame Street is suddenly labeled as "questionable" or "politically/agenda motivated" content...it says A LOT about where we currently are and who gets to decide what's "best" for kids or not. Don't fall for the censorship and topic-dodging excuses that are covered by the "But think of the children!!!" movement. Never fall for it, because you know which side you're on if you do.

Sesame Street proves kids can be taught and trusted with learning about these topics when it's handled with the right amount of understanding and care. It shows what all this "controversy" is all really about. What it's always been about, actually.

Don't fall for it, always side with Sesame Street.

[timmyreads]

'RGB V. MR. PUZZLES: Copyright Infringement Claim' Information and Research Masterpost

It's been a while since I promised to have this masterpost out, but I think I finally have everything roughly organized together

This is a masterpost compiling most of the information and resources I've collected while researching Modmad's copyright infringement claim and case related to SMG4/Glitch/ZAMination. Some of this information is collected from points I've touched on in previous reblog chains, some are new points I've come across since, and some address arguments/points I've seen brought up by others.

As some of the information or research I've done can apply to a few different points covered within the posts listed below, there may be times where certain pieces of information are repeated.

Just as a note, I've set many of the individual posts in this masterpost as not rebloggable, as I think they'd be missing too much context as stand-alone posts.

I've collected and organized most of the information in this masterpost myself, so I'll apologize ahead of time for any mistakes or weird wording I may have missed while writing out these posts - I'm sure there are bound to be a couple, at least. Hopefully a lot of this though will still remain relatively informative

LINKS TO POSTS/TOPICS COVERED

Legal Information

Difference between 'plagiarism' and 'copyright infringement' [X]

Standards of Copyright Law and copyright infringement [X]

Relevant copyright terms and tests [X]

Berne Convention Overview - regards law on international copyright recognition [X]

Potentially relevant copyright infringement cases [X]

Copyright Laws and Standards - Sources [X]

Case Relevant Information

Background and Timeline [X]

Copyright Law and Standards in relation to current case [X]

Outside perspectives noting similarities between RGB and Mr. Puzzles' designs [X]

Argument against 'Common Source' [X]

Relevant Clothing/Style References and Notes [X]

Breakdown of Cube/FM's statement on the matter [X]

Character Information

RGB and Mr. Puzzles - Brief similarities overview, images [X]

RGB and Mr. Puzzles - Isolated differences/design elements [X]

Compiled list of established TV head characters [155] [X]

Spreadsheet comparing relevant shared similarities across established TV head characters [155] [X]

Design and development breakdowns of 'similar' characters; Tenna and Vox [X]

Modmad

RGB - Specific design elements and reasoning behind them [X]

RGB - Theming [X]

Modmad's re-known and popularity in the online artistic space [X]

Modmad popular fanworks compilation [X]

Claims and arguments against or referring to Modmad [X]

SMG4

SMG4's design culture and general reliance on outside IPs [X]

Mr. Puzzles' reception in SMG4 community [X]

(please note - Modmad, at this point, is working with a professional legal team on this matter, so the sole intention of these posts are to provide information and context about this case to those who may not have it yet)

(I fully encourage others to do their own research if there's additional questions they have that they're curious about that I may not have included, or if they think what I have is either incorrect or lacking - I always think it's good practice to get into the habit of fact checking for oneself and practicing independent research when the opportunity comes up for it!)

[modmad]

Another huge thank you to Timmy for compiling all of this so that people can understand- many folks have been asking how this situation is going, so I've asked my lawyer and I am allowed to say this: I am continuing to defend my work against infringement, but can't say more now due to pending litigation on the advice of said lawyer.

Thank you all for your support and understanding, and please do keep sharing this information so that people are better informed.

[maykitz]

the persecution of lefthandedness is insane to think about because it was so intense for so long, in some places still is, without any clear profit motivation. sheer love of the game. as late as the 70s at least they were smacking my stepdad's hands for it with a wooden ruler at school, to this day he's in weird ambidexterity situation where he's not great with either side and notably clumsy due to poor hand-eye coordination. just wtf

[seeingteacupsindragons]

It is fascinating to me that people also think of handedness as an example of bigotry that just...went away. As you note, it...hasn't in some places. I know people who grew up in the mid-late 90s who still had this problem.

But also, and this is really important to keep in mind regarding bigotry that still causes in many ways larger problems, that the structural problems are not actually fixed.

If you go to any computer lab or public library, the mice will be on the right side of the computer. Sometimes they can be moved. Sometimes they can't. Many computer mice are curved to only fit in right hands.

It is impossible to find lefthanded scissors without going to a specialty store, because most scissor makers don't even make them. And it's not just a matter of grip; the slicing side of the blades is obscured if you use righty scissors in your left hand, so your cut is off.

All those signing pads with the little chained styluses? Almost always on the right side, often not even long enough to stretch to the left. Makes signing for lefties extremely difficult.

I caused actual muscular problems in college having to twist around in order to write at right-handed desks in college when there weren't enough lefty desks--and there never were. Some classrooms didn't even have a single one.

I could go on.

But the point is, bigotry isn't just a mindset shift. People can't just decide they're not bothered by that particular difference anymore and everything's fine, because society is still structured and designed to cause problems for marginalized people. And they're never even going to notice all the little ways their life is bent to convenience them that inconveniences others.

[gloriousskivvies]

Just saw a turkey vulture! Such a pretty bird!

[gloriousskivvies]

God the brain is so fucking weird. I dreamt that I broke my leg, right on the shin area, and spent most of the dream trying to find a way to wrap it and hobbling around and Actually Feeling The Pain! Which you're not supposed to be able to, right?! And now that I'm awake my brain keeps trying to tell me my leg is broken, like it feels weird that it's not??

[gloriousskivvies]

So I like listening to "true" scary stories right? And I'm listening to the backlog of Mortis Media rn, he gets most of them from reddit posts so it's kinda fun to check what the comments on the original post say. Most of them are spooky ghosts or demons, paranormal stuff, but sometimes it's more realistic stuff like stalkers or break-ins. Since they're mostly coming from reddit I know they're mostly all bs, even the realistic ones, none of that true crime crud for me.

But one of the stories in a hiking compilation was really dumb, and the reddit post is like a decade old at this point so no comments allowed anymore, and the video is from like 7 years ago so I'm not gonna bitch in the comments there, right? So I'm gonna do it here. Under the cut because it's long lol

it starts pretty normal for these things, inexperienced hiker taken on a longish trek in the Appalachias by experienced friends, the shitty friends abandon them and they get lost, the writer starts panicking but decides to try and follow the path out. So far so good, right? Maybe they'll run into A Creature, or be lost a few hours and be found days later without knowing how much time passed, or a ghost will lead them out?? But no. They talk about how hot it is and how they drink their whole water pack dry, they start to list all the horrible symptoms of dehydration, disorientation and headaches and desperately wanting to drink from a creek they find but avoid because bacteria, until they think about giving up and dying on the trail. It's all very dramatic, and you really think they've been time-dilated or something, right? Then they finally come to a dirt road and follow it until they come across a bed and breakfast where a tourist family presses them to take their picture, the writer not understanding how they can't tell they're in distress. The writer finally gets inside and goes straight to the bathroom, drinks from the tap and "pees the darkest urine in their life", looks at their dry and cracking lips and disaster hair in the mirror, cools off and decides to wait for their friends. Their friends arrive and they apologize for leaving them behind and... That's it.

No time-loss, no creatures or aliens, no murder-hobos. Just a very dramatic, medically unsound, retelling of a shitty but boring hike. You were lost for a couple hours, scared sure, but like, unless you were already dehydrated or sick before the hike there's no way you got That dehydrated and fucked up in a few hours. You had one of those water camel bags that you drained in a very short time. You could have hiked back to the trailhead and waited for your friends at the car. Instead, you chose to hike an unfamiliar trail without a map, take random off-shoots, chug all your water within hours, and panic-spiral about how nobody would find you? Like, sorry but, while your friends shouldn't have left you, you did absolutely nothing to help your survival and Also! Weren't lost that long! No way did you get that dehydrated that fast! So was the whole thing fake and badly written or was the writer just a drama-llama who got scared on a hike?

Anyway. Mort usually has really good stories but that one was just so absurd and boring, it sucked lmao

[msbarrows]

I hope I'm online when it happens. I want to see a sudden flood of crab rave memes right after refreshing my dash, and in the middle of it all, the Castiel news meme. That's how I want to learn of it; not through anything solemn or serious, but via overwhelming silly celebration.

[victusinveritas]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.

Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.

Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.

Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event

Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.

Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.

[creepymutelilbugger]

you know I never put it together that he built his platform on draining the swamp and then like went and made a swamp and now refuses to drain it

[solarpunk-nightbird]

Actually, fuck the myth of the Tower of Babel. The real beautiful utopia where we can all finally truly understand each other doesn't lie in sameness or uniformity, it lies in the giant and digital Rosetta Stone we are going to build and broadcast across the entire world

[solarpunk-nightbird]

So, genuinely no hard feelings, I get where y'all are coming from, but that was actually kind of my entire point

The Rosetta Stone was and is real.

This is indisputable. You can go see the Rosetta Stone on display right now!! I'd say you could even it touch it, but there's museum glass in the way, so that the oils on human skin can't further degrade this 2,000-year-old stele, which is one of the most important surviving historical texts in the world.

The Tower of Babel is not real, and it never was.

The Tower of Babel is a millennia-old religious story about a mythological tower, which serves as a mythological explanation for the origin of different human languages. Yes, there are some religious historians who speculate that the myth was inspired by one or another physical tower, but no, that doesn't prove anything other than "this is how many people in this cultural explained or understood that sort of event."

The Rosetta Stone, on the other hand, is an object of translation that actually exists

Photo credit: By © Hans Hillewaert, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved from Wikipedia article "Rosetta Stone." https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3153928

That picture is of a real object. It is not of a picture of a 3,000+ year old myth.

Our attempts to understand each other will not result in us being struck down by some force from on high!

And the true path to a world where we can all understand each other does not involve us all speaking the same language. That's racist bs

True understanding depends on ethical translation and language preservation, not on unity of language

[tiktaalic]

I was born in the exact right generation I love being an unmarried woman in my twenties with my own bank account and no children

[tiktaalic]

This getting reblogged with “and my thirties” “and my forties” “and my fifties” “and my sixties”

[gloriousskivvies]

Something I haven't seen in a lot of discussion about the fail-war against Iran is how the US ran out of so much ammo so quickly? We have the highest military budget in the world, but we don't have enough weapons and ammo for a 4 month war on a single country?

And yeah, some of the budget is going to the 2.2 million people who work for the military but I did some quick math (it might be wrong because math isn't my strength but) and it looks like if you divided the budget between every worker they'd be paid roughly 436k each. And we all know that ain't happening. The highest salary is about 257k so even if everyone working for the military made that it would come out to 539 billion. That still leaves 421 billion to buy supplies/ammo and other expenses.

I know most of the excuses the administration is making amount to "we ran out because those greedy Ukrainians are taking all our ammo!" But like, I think we should have more than enough to give some to an ally while still having a shitton for ourselves? What if we hadn't attacked Iran, what if someone else attacked us and we had to defend ourselves? (Unlikely as that is, it's something you'd think the Right would consider) We'd run out just as fast!

Just how much are the various contractors padding their invoices to take up that much cash and leave us with hardly any stockpile?! This might be something to bully your congressperson about, if you can?

[gloriousskivvies]

which isn't to say no one's talking about the lack of ammo, they're just talking about not having it in general and how that's bad, rather than how we spend so much on military and somehow we don't have enough and where our budget is going if not towards ammo like The Brass claims. Like, they justify our huge budget by saying they need it to buy ammo/weapons and pay The Soldiers. But if we're not spending it on either then???

[gloriousskivvies]

Something I haven't seen in a lot of discussion about the fail-war against Iran is how the US ran out of so much ammo so quickly? We have the highest military budget in the world, but we don't have enough weapons and ammo for a 4 month war on a single country?

And yeah, some of the budget is going to the 2.2 million people who work for the military but I did some quick math (it might be wrong because math isn't my strength but) and it looks like if you divided the budget between every worker they'd be paid roughly 436k each. And we all know that ain't happening. The highest salary is about 257k so even if everyone working for the military made that it would come out to 539 billion. That still leaves 421 billion to buy supplies/ammo and other expenses.

I know most of the excuses the administration is making amount to "we ran out because those greedy Ukrainians are taking all our ammo!" But like, I think we should have more than enough to give some to an ally while still having a shitton for ourselves? What if we hadn't attacked Iran, what if someone else attacked us and we had to defend ourselves? (Unlikely as that is, it's something you'd think the Right would consider) We'd run out just as fast!

Just how much are the various contractors padding their invoices to take up that much cash and leave us with hardly any stockpile?! This might be something to bully your congressperson about, if you can?

[gloriousskivvies]

Wow now I know it's been too long since I studied Japanese. I literally Just got Usopp's name being a play on Liar. Because he lies a lot. -.-