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[anotherocean]

sensual experience is everywhere if you want it to be

[thesituation]

my 100% failproof way to handle reactionaries asking why i don’t shave at all is going “because i don’t want to” it works because what they really want is an argument about the merits of feminism, and they’ll draw it out and try to convince you it’s a cult or whatever, but you can avoid it all by sticking to “i just don’t wanna. don’t feel like it” and if they argue with you about it you can use your ultimate ability, which is “i’m sorry i thought it was a free country?” which, believe me, they cannot come back from. they’ll either drop it or start harping on something you didn’t say, and it’s important you don’t take the bait at that point. when they can’t argue with what you say, they assume your beliefs and attack those. and you crucially must be visibly baffled at their change of direction because it will make them seem and possibly feel crazy (which they are). “i don’t want to shave” is a perfect response because truly it all comes down to autonomy and the ability to do what you want. they’ll try to say “feminism makes you think you have to do that” and it’s important to not take that bait. to reiterate that you don’t know what they mean and you just don’t like shaving and that it’s really weird to look into it that deep. this works i promise

[thesituation]

won’t someone think of what people who shave have to go through? the 95% of afab people who shave? imagine the slurs they get called because they shave… that must be so hard…

[rambrandt-the-painter]

feeling a powerful kinship with the day gecko....

[daylights-rain]

Rambrandt boutta bite the shit outta me when i open her enclosure for feeding time

[rambrandt-the-painter]

That's you??? You're the weird sausage thing that gives me my food???

[daylights-rain]

if you just stay stuck to the ceiling the food shows up anyways and I dont end up bitten. you should try it. you should really really try it

[rambrandt-the-painter]

you don't know anything about my way of life. Don't tell me what to do.

[pjharvey]

i'm still a leftist but in my experience women are viewed as expendable in leftist spaces, spoken over, treated as stupid, on a level that is astounding. you can get away with an enormous level of vitriolic hatred for women if you couch it in the right terms

[pjharvey]

yeah they think it's bourgeois and childish and that you are bourgeois and childish if you are a feminist. sometimes the ones that want to act like Allies to Women will act like it's cute (read: naïve) that you're a feminist and expect you to be flattered by that. otherwise you're stuck up and obnoxious for acknowledging rape culture, caring about your own safety, and not believing in bullshit like "rich women don't experience misogyny"

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Like one of the big lies this society tries to sell to disabled people so that we blame ourselves and each other instead of the people in power is that if we really were properly disabled in the right way society totally would support us, but in reality there is no way to be disabled that consistently results in reliable sufficient support.

[huariqueje]

Cherries - Kate Jarvik Birch 

American , b. 1977 -

Gouache on paper , 6 x 6 in.

[accessible-art]

[ID: Realistic gouache painting of three shiny cherries on a gingham blue-and-white folded over fabric. The stems of the three cherries meet in the air, creating a pyramid-like shape. End ID]

[lightninggrave]

i really fuck with it when my oomfs start their posts in media res. they'll open it with a phrase like "it's just funny because..." and then i look at their blog to see what's funny and. nothing.

[aokozaki]

It's like how Beowulf opens with a call to attention.

[lightninggrave]

posting is exactly like beowulf

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

nip over to troy, bit of rough and tumble, big horse, bish bash bosh, back home to ithaca. simple as

[fallingtowers]

just thought you'd like to know that op of that post you just reblogged has a sex kink. yeah ive seen her porn blog and theres like zero inflation or latex or anything normal on there it's all gifs of naked people smushing their bodies together. it's disgusting

[loveridden1999]

when england lose, women bruise

[osmanthusoolong]

Seen in downtown Toronto as well

[kiwikiwikiwiii]

US based DV Advocate reporting live from my day off.

Predictable increase times, an incomplete list:

Holidays - not just the major ones either. Memorial day, labor day, and the 4th of July are all days with celebrations that center primarily around drinking. Juneteenth makes racists mad, so they pick fights with whoever is closest (their partner).

Sporting events - from the national to the babby's first concussion league. Weird increase in calls? Check the local child league game schedules.

Bad weather - I'm talking really bad weather. Wind storm knocks out power? Call increase. Thunderstorm floods half the town? Call increase. Blizzard piles snow too high to get out of the house? Call increase.

First freeze of the season - a lot of homeless couples are extremely dysfunctional and abusive, and the freeze is usually the tipping point.

Election season - see also: town council meetings about big topics.

The first couple of really warm weeks in summer - these calls are nearly always based around arguments that start out being about swimwear.

Police academy graduation season - [stares directly into the camera]

Ofc this is based entirely on my experience at work, idk if this holds true across the nation/world, etc etc

[papayajuan2019]

cuz everytime we touch i get this feeling

[identifying-cars-in-posts]

2013-2016 Hyundai Genesis Coupe

[teobug]

and every time we kiss I swear I could fly

[nando161mando]

[jacketslutjayse]

Source

How The Rise of Androgyny Changed Our Passports

The rise of androgyny and unisex fashion in the 1970s was apparently responsible for the introduction of a sex marker in passports.

[milf--adjacent]

Oh wow so me saying "no government documentation should ever include a gender marker for any reason" has been right all along. For exactly the reason I stated when people were giving me shit for not supporting x markers on documents.

[patheticwhimsy]

Why don’t we ever talk about the fact that leonard nimoy had to walk off set because of tooth pain and show up at his dentist dressed as spock

[ears-and-eyebrows]

Also Brent Spiner broke his mandible during the filming of ‘The Game’ and had to be taken to hospital dressed as Data

[jeshala]

Jonathan Frakes got hit with a part of his quarterstaff when it was smacked with a sword and had to go to the hospital dressed in his Q-pid Robin Hood rags.

[necrofuturism]

Tracy Scoggins didn’t have to go to the hospital, but while she was filming “Destiny” in full Cardassian makeup, she “took the opportunity to walk around the lot at Paramount and scare the schoolchildren on buses. Until finally Security called the stage at DS9 and said, ‘Could ya’ll do something about keeping your aliens contained over there?’”

[source]

[nephrysai]

Robert Duncan McNeill had an episode of Voyager where his first major make-up day gave him the appearance of gnarly burns all over his face & hands and he said he then ‘gleefully skipped off to the nearest 7-11 to bask in the horrified looks as he casually shopped’. XD

[theladyshenanigan]

I remember when Nana Visitor told us a story about going to the hospital in her Star Trek outfit (I cant remember what for) one of the interns there was freaking out until it was explained to him that it was just makeup and that her nose did not, in fact break and crumple like an accordion, and that she was there for something else.

[iamthecutestofborg]

I remember reading that Armin Shimmerman once had to race home to his family after an earthquake still in his quark makeup.

[narwhalsarefalling]

Andy Robinson also went home after that earthquake in full Garak makeup and the traffic lights weren’t working so people had to make eye contact at the intersections and he says everybody always let him go first

[memegetter]

(for those who haven’t watched all the treks yet)

In order of appearance, Leonard Nimoy and Brent Spiner:

Jonathan Frakes in his Robin Hood Rags (in the fur), Tracy Scoggins in Cardassian makeup:

Robert Duncan McNeill (not sure if this is from the right ep) and Nana Visitor:

Armin Shimmerman and Andy Robinson:

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Why couldn’t traditional Chinese Yinpiao银票/silver drafts be forged if they were merely slips of paper? (cr大明宝钞，渐越)

Traditional Chinese yinpiao/silver drafts were paper vouchers issued by private banks starting from the Song Dynasty(960–1279). People could exchange these slips for physical silver at bank branches across the country.

Silver drafts were made in multiple copies with matching serrated seal edges. One copy went to the customer and others stayed at the bank. All edges had to fit perfectly together to withdraw silver. The unique split edge marks were almost impossible to copy.

This mechanism is known as qifeng骑缝 (split-joint seal) in China. It first originated in the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046–771 BC). The Rites of Zhou records that contracts were written on bamboo or wooden slips in duplicate. Notches and marks were carved in the middle before splitting the slips, with each party keeping one half. The two halves would be matched by their notches for verification.

During the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods (770–221 BC), this idea evolved into hufu虎符/tiger tally tokens. A military tally was split into two pieces with identical inscriptions carved along the split edge. Troops could only be deployed if the patterns and characters on both halves perfectly aligned, serving as a metal version of the split-joint anti-counterfeiting system.

The technology matured in the Tang Dynasty (618–907). Government documents and private contracts commonly used split-joint seals stamped across the dividing line. The Chinese character "hetong合同" (contract) was written across the middle before the paper was torn apart, so the complete characters would only appear when the two halves were put together. This split-coupon system was later adopted for Song Dynasty (960–1279) jiaozi paper money and yinpiao/silver drafts of the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368–1912).

Official Song dynasty paper money (Jiaozi交子) was abolished in 1107. Private silver drafts issued by Qing-era piaohao票行 (ancient exchange banks) vanished completely in 1951, hit hard by modern banks and currency reforms. Nowadays silver drafts no longer circulate as currency. Their collectible value depends on their rarity and physical condition.

Split-joint seals (骑缝章qifengzhang)are still widely used on important paper documents in modern China, an anti-tampering technique passed down from ancient times. They are applied across the edge of multi-page contracts, bidding documents and official archives. If any page is removed or replaced, the broken seal pattern can prove the file has been altered.

[ariaste]

OMG I got so excited about this because they used a really similar (though far less refined) version of this for contracts in the European medieval period!

First they were called "chirographs", but later the word "indenture" (in its earliest meaning as just a legal document of any kind between two people) came to be used, originating from the practice of a contract being written twice on a single piece of parchment and then cut in half with serrated edges (as in dent, "teeth" -> indents -> indenture) in order for each party to take one half, so they could later piece them together and verify that there had been no forgery -- same as the Chinese silver drafts!

(Charter of the Clerecía de Ledesma, 1252, showing the serrated indents at the top -- presumably they are cutting rather than tearing because they're using parchment, which I expect is much harder to tear than wood-pulp paper like the Chinese were using)

Delights me when human beings find similar ways to solve the same problem at two different ends of the world. <3

[cnc-pet]

Hhnng cute petnames like “fucktoy”, “breeding bitch” and “fleshlight”

[nyanbinary-perineum]

onahole, fucksleeve, precious little set of holes, fuckpet etc etc :3

[dwinkus]

peasant visionary: & then it stood before me, a towering wheel of flame that beheld me with 10,000 shimmering eyes!

me: idk man it still sounds like an ocular migraine

peasant visionary: #MyGrain

[chateau-bluerose]

thats fucking it. im force littling you until you're just barely 54 inches tall and on the razor's edge of being able to ride the big girl roller coasters at six flags and they will ALWAYS take out the measuring stick to make sure