penumbra

n. a half-shadow a peripheral or indeterminate area or group

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

hi! do u have any works or essays (about anything! it can range from political to personal reflections etc) that i can read? sista wants to brush up on her essay skills. you’re amazing and i thank you for everything that you do 💛

ugh so iconic of u .. 💛 here are my all time favs: 

on being ill, virginia woolf

on self respect, joan didion

why is our quest for validation online becoming so desperate?, emily reynolds

illness as a metaphor, susan sontag

regarding the pain of others, susan sontag

laugh of medusa, hélène cixous

uncensored sylvia plath, joyce carol oates

myth of romantic suffering, kathy acker

women and honour: some notes on lying, adrienne rich

am i a bad feminist?, margaret atwood

looking for zora, alice walker

how it feels to be colored me, zora neale hurston

the affective politics of fear, sara ahmed

someday, i wanna wear a starry crown, jasmine ledesma

frankenstin’s mother, darcey steinke

what are master-pieces and why are there so few of them, gertrude stein

the figure a poem makes, robert frost

notes of a native son, james baldwin

they all just went away, joyce carol oates

grand unified theory of female pain, leslie jamison

racism and fascism, toni morrison 

[salemwitchtrials-deactivated202]

a list of my favourite 2019 reads (in no particular order)

‘view with a grain of sand: selected poems,’ wisława szymborska

‘the complete collected poems of maya angelou’

‘art objects,’ jeanette winterson

‘by grand central station i sat down and wept,’ elizabeth smart 

‘seam,’ tarfia faizullah 

‘play it as it lays,’ joan didion

‘war of the foxes,’ richard siken

‘midwinter day,’ bernadette mayer

‘in the pines,’ alice notley

‘death is not an option,’ suzanne rivecca 

‘the dead and the living,’ sharon olds

‘the melancholy of anatomy,’ shelley jackson

‘edinburgh,’ alexander chee

‘the woman destroyed,’ simone de beauvoir 

‘monster: poems,’ robin morgan

‘how we became human,’ joy harjo

‘ayiti,’ roxane gay 

‘our andromeda,’ brenda shaughnessy

‘second childhood,’ fanny howe

‘the lady in the looking glass,’ virginia woolf

‘the journals of joyce carol oates’

‘mathilda,’ mary shelley

‘flame & shadow,’ sara teasdale

‘go tell it on the mountain,’ james baldwin

‘stag’s leap,’ sharon olds

‘hyperdream,’ hélène cixous

‘devotions,’ mary oliver

‘the center cannot hold,’ elyn r. saks

‘sexing the cherry,’ jeanette winterson

‘the bloody chamber,’ angela carter

‘on earth we’re briefly gorgeous,’ ocean vuong

‘flesh wounds,’ virginia l. blum

‘the journals of joyce carol oates’

‘selected poems of frank o’hara’

‘the dream of a common language,’ adrienne rich

‘on beauty,’ zadie smith

‘the four chambered heart,’ anaïs nin

‘gravity and grace,’ simone weil

‘selected poems of anna akhmatova’

‘collected poems of t.s. eliot’

‘decreation,’ anne carson

‘collected works of susan sontag’

‘collected works of virginia woolf’

‘the woman destroyed,’ simone de beauvoir 

‘garments against women,’ anne boyer

‘the love of a good woman,’ alice munro

‘her body and other parties,’ carmen maria machado

‘the hour of the star,’ clarice lispector

‘good bones,’ margaret atwood

‘collected poems of sylvia plath’

‘selected works of joan didion’

‘devotion,’ patti smith

‘veil and burn,’ laurie clements lambeth

‘grief lessons,’ anne carson

‘the collected poems of audre lorde’

‘erosion,’ jorie graham

‘the empathy exams,’ leslie jamison

‘the beauty myth,’ naomi wolf

‘selected works of sarah kane’

‘waiting,’ marya hornbacher

‘sane,’ marya hornbacher

‘stigmata,’ hélène cixous

‘a field guide to getting lost,’ rebecca solnit

‘keith haring journals’

‘written on the body,’ jeanette winterson

‘night sky with exit wounds,’ ocean vuong

‘crush,’ richard siken

‘haruko / love poems,’ june jordan

‘bluets,’ maggie nelson

‘the collected poems of lucille clifton’ 

‘complete poems of mariannne moore’

‘poems and prose,’ christina rossetti

‘the gentrification of the mind,’ sarah schulman 

‘power politics,’ margaret atwood

‘a girl is a half-formed thing,’ eimear mcbride

‘one secret thing,’ sharon olds

‘the silent woman,’ janet malcom

‘the white book,’ han kang

‘braiding sweetgrass,’ robin wall kimmerer

‘not vanishing,’ chrystos

‘sinners welcome,’ mary karr

‘cat’s eye,’ margaret atwood

‘zami / sister outsider / undersong,’ audre lorde

‘sula,’ toni morrison 

‘we sinful women,’ rukhsana ahmed

‘the house on mango street,’ sandra cisneros 

‘blood and guts in highschool,’ kathy acker

‘unbearable weight,’ susan bordo

‘rhapsody in plain yellow,’ marilyn chin

‘the hunger moon,’ marge piercy 

‘trash,’ dorothy allison 

‘the cocktail party,’ t.s. eliot

‘love lessons,’ alda merini

‘selected poems of marina tsvetaeva’

‘disorder,’ vanesha pravin

‘a strangers mirror,’ marilyn hacker

‘human acts,’ han kang

‘dearest creature,’ amy gerstler

‘when my brother was an aztec,’ natalie diaz

‘second childhood,’ fanny howe

‘when the ghosts come ashore,’ jacqui germain

[sortinghatchats-deactivated]

Official @sortinghatchats quiz!

The time has come! Who wants to try out our @sortinghatchats style sorting quiz? 

Go here and begin your adventure: 

https://ejadelomax.itch.io/sortinghatchats

If you run across any bugs or errors, let us know in the sortinghatchats ask box. If the whole thing just jumps to the top of the page and… shakes… that is a known bug and we’re not sure why it’s happening. But it doesn’t happen very often! (I think it’s to do with the hosting site?)

We had a blast making this quiz, coming up with wording and questions, and testing the paths people can take through the quiz content. We even made some new friends along the way! 

We hope you have as much fun with it as we did. We think this is one of the culminations of our system, especially in terms of making it more accessible for newcomers. Enjoy. 

[jazmanation]

Burned Ravenclaw Primary, Slytherin Model/Burned Slytherin Secondary, Ravenclaw Model. the sections about Ravenclaws basically building and shuffling a moral system instead of having an intuitive one was a call out for me lmao, and then the descriptors between the Slytherin and Ravenclaw models for secondaries ("last chance fall back methodology" = improvise -> Slytherin vs = data previously gathered -> Ravenclaw) was really well written.

[aplpaca]

That rabbit/hare post is messing me up. I’d thought they were synonyms. Their development and social behavior are all different. They can’t even interbreed. They don’t have the same number of chromosomes. Dogs, wolves, jackals, and coyotes can mate with each other and have fertile offspring but rabbits and hares cant even make infertile ones bc they just die in the womb. Wack.

[aplpaca]

These

are more genetically compatible than These

and that’s why morphology-based phylogeny has Issues

[thellamamongler]

@aviculor

[aviculor]

The problem is perspective. People always think dogs are the ‘standard’ animal, the metric to use for whether or not two organisms “look like” they’re related. When in fact they’re a massive outlier due to the fact that we fucked up this lineage of wolf beyond recognition with selective breeding. It’s why people always say “breed” when they mean “species”, especially when talking about groups like lizards which can’t even be defined cladistically since some of them are closer to snakes than each other. To say nothing of fish.

[thetinybutimportantthings]

I once read an article that emphasized there is no such thing as a fish. Sharks and rays, lamprey, lobe-finned fish like lungfish and coelacanth, bichir and sturgeon, and of course the multiple infraclasses of more “modern” fish groups are all only very distantly related to one another. They’ve maintained semi-similar body structures only because there are limited ways to efficiently move through water as a vertebrate. 

This

And this

Are more distantly related from one another than you and I are from a lungfish

Which is absolutely fuckin wild.

[bogleech]

Not only that, but all of us air-breathing land vertebrates, all the lizards and chickens and people and frogs, are closer to one another than those three “fish” are to one another as well.

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and…

these

are genetically closer than these

[i-have-approximately-4-bones]

and my personal favorite, it really fucks with people…

these

are more genetically similar than these

[uminosclassroom]

Naruto Mission Payment Rates

Naruto canon uses the ryo, which is a real Japanese currency from before the Meiji period. I went ahead and converted the given mission payments to Yen, USD, and Euros (sorry to all the other currencies out there). 

This is based on the current exchange rate of yen as of 11/23/2016 so there will be variation over time and a margin of error. Currency measures are always rounded up to the hundreths place. I am also unsure if these payments are split between the squad or if this is the individual’s payment though I suspect the former. 

1 ryo= 10 yen 

D-rank missions- 5,000- 50,000 ryo

¥ 50,000- 500,000 

$ 443.66- 4,436.64

€ 420.66- 4,206.57

C-rank missions- 30,000-100,000 ryo

¥ 300,000- 1,000,000 

$ 2,661.98- 8,873.28

€ 2,523.94- 8,413.13

B-rank missions- 150,000-200,000 ryo

¥ 1,500,000-2,000,000 

$ 13,299.77- 17,733.02

€ 12,612.49- 16,816.66

A-rank missions- 150,000-1,000,000 ryo

¥ 1,500,000-10,000,000 

$ 13,299.77-  88,645.50

€ 12,612.49- 84,083.28

S-rank missions- 1,000,000+ ryo

¥ 10,000,000+ 

$  88,645.50+

€  84,083.28+

[mentally-unstable-like-a-fox-de]

Worked out roughly how much Kakashi’s earned for the village (working out a median payment per mission rank and rounding up the pennies)

D-rank missions -  € 439,586.90

C-rank missions -   € 1,039,022.60

B-rank missions -  € 6,091,840.30

A-rank missions -  € 14,407,674.20

S-rank missions -  € 3,531,497.80

Total -

€ 25,509,621.80

$ 26,961,884.60

£ 21,643,560.30

O_O

So I think the ninjas must only get a teeny tiny cut of the payment…or they’d all be living in mansions…

[chaisteabox]

So lets be honest they still probably pay taxes, but also kakashi never pays for anything so he must be that ho over there that has a damn swiss bank acc or someshit his pockets so deep XD.

But save for fic wroting purposes! Im betting taxes are a good 20% too…

[blackkatmagic]

Time Reference (?)

Plz ignore the ask where I’m flailing about this impossible thing, because I cracked it down! I want to believe I did crack it down. I did a little of research about the Ninja World Wars because Kishi’s logic is utter garbage and Math simply doesn’t add up with some of the years in which he sets the Wars apart.

I took Jiraiya as my main reference point because he fought 3 wars and survived 2 ½ and interacts WITH THE MAYOR PART OF THE KEY CHARACTER INSIDE THIS STORY. All of this starts, ends and FOCUSES with Jiraiya, I keep adding Key Characters to prove some logic with the research that I did and the Math that I did.

This the order: EVENT (AGE) Character - (AGE) Succeeding Character

==========================================

Fourth War Starts (“Peace” Duration and Shitty Canon Planning: 17 years) 54 Jiraiya (DIES) -30 Kakashi- 16 Naruto Chuunin Exams 50 Jiraiya - 26 Kakashi - 12 Naruto Nine Tails Attack 38 Jiraiya - 24 Minato (DIES) - 14 Kakashi - Naruto Borns Third War Is Over (Time Duration: 5 years) 37 Jiraiya - 23 Minato - 13 Kakashi Third War Starts (Peace Duration: 6 years) 32 Jiraiya - 18 Minato - 8 Kakashi (Sakumo dies) Peace Time in Between 30 Jiraiya - 16 Minato - 6 Kakashi (<- Graduates the Academy) Second War Ends (Time Duration: 8 years) 26 Jiraiya - 12 Minato - 2 Kakashi Gets Genin Team / Fight with Hanzo 24 Jiraiya - 12 Nawaki (DIES) - 10 Minato - Kakashi Borns Second War Starts (Peace Duration: 10 years) 18 Jiraiya - 6 Nawaki - 4 Minato Conflict on Piece Time 14 Jiraiya - 2 Nawaki - Minato Borns Peace Time (AKA Shenanigans Galore, Wild Little Sannin Wreck Havoc) 12 Jiraiya - Nawaki is Born First War Ends (Time Duration: 10 years) 8 Jiraiya Academy Graduation (Hiruzen Becomes Hokage) 6 Jiraiya Second Year of the First War Jiraiya is Born

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In the Wikia it says that the first war lasted 10 years and the peace time was that of 20, but that is really impossible since we see Tunade interact with Hashirama (I speculate that she’s like 3-4 on the flashbacks we’re given) We have a total of 20 years marking the Period of the first War, 10 years of conflict + 10 of peace. The second one is a bit unclear of its Canon duration and it says that the build up to the Third one is 10 years.

But like the stubborn person that I am I’m gonna say Fuck Canon and Kishi’s lack of Math and Logic.

The numbers I came up with (after comparing the ages) for the Real Durations of the War and Peace times make a little sense to me. If we take that in the 2nd one Tsunade made a fucking Improvement on Squads by entering Medic-Nin, it gave Konoha the upper hand. Peace duration also makes sense because let’s be real, given that we have Danzo as our favorite Conflict Catalyst, the other Countries were really paranoid, all that was needed was a really bad excuse or something gone really wrong.

Which brings us to the beginning of the 3rd one, Sakumo is our Scapegoat and all shit brakes loose, Minato builds up a reputation, [Cannabi is a small Catalyst for the 4th one] and the 3rd one ends because The Yellow Flash is scary AF. So this one was the quickest.

4th one, we all know how it goes.

ALSO

I would like to add that Minato graduates at age 10 from the Academy and he and the Ame Orphans have a 5 years of age difference, so I find it kinda Illogic that just when Jiraiya gets his Genin team he abandons it like nothing. So I headcanon that Minato takes only 1 year to pass the Chuunin exam because he’s one of the prodigies inside his generation, then Hanzo’s fight happens and Jiraiya stays with the Orphans (wich are 6) and Minato starts rotations with the Chuunin Corps at age 11.

————–

Now that I finished, with these small calculations that I did, I can see clearly the ages of the other characters that were born on those periods, and I really hope this helps someone to have some age / event reference or smth. Thanks for reading!

[misfits-den]

@blackkatmagick this one?

[grendelsmilf]

whenever people are like “I don’t want to have to critically analyze every piece of media I consume sometimes I just want to be able to have fun” i’m just like ….but that is how I have fun :(

[shiroi0015-deactivated20200713]

talon pop/stars

[silly-overwatch-stuff]

[ollies-gay-blog]

ohmygod

[admiralrainbow]

everything is never as it seems

[minute-men]

hey Op, do you accept criticism 

[admiralrainbow]

i DO accept criticism but i WILL cry

[anneonomus]

That relatable (older) Gen Z memory: when all the projectors and white boards got replaced by Smart Boards™ around like fifth grade and none of the teachers knew how to use them but they Had To Use them otherwise the school just wasted a bunch of money and it was a rlly weird transition

[space-ex]

an addition: when they calibrated the board by pressing the dots and everyone in class lost their minds

[papa-mint]

[ieshatacos]

chaotic good

[thejungleofmufasa]

Direct action

[porterr-robinson]

[vladthelordofdoomandpancakes]

Translation: “I am fucking tired of the soviet car industry” *the standard effect of touching a soviet car* *laughs in russian*

[davidxn]

I can’t get over the sheer poetry of how the car falls apart - the perfect chain reaction escalating as it travels round.

[zaryanovax-blog-deactivated2024]

Moircy Phone Wallpapers for @frenchfry-dva

Please Like, Reblog, or give credit if you use! <333 [Requests are closed at the moment, but they will be opened again soon!]

[606hp]

my wife…..

[paladinsconfessions]

Um, so I did a thing I made a Paladins character meme And, uh,,, yeah. Tag urself, I’m Jashper AND YES I KNOW THERE’S NO TERMINUS I MADE THIS BEFORE TERMINUS AND HE’D RUIN THE FORMATTING SSSHHHHHH

Made by Mod Sha Lin 🏹