the one with violets in her lap

aspiring ornamental hermit | chinese-american adoptee

[dajo42]

love the r/bald subreddit. just so many guys who are balding and embrace going full bald and posting before and after pictures and the after pictures are always so glowing and wonderful and they look so great. and all the comments are like hell yeah brother welcome to the club you look ten years younger and so much more confident now. i love it so much. im unironically so happy for these guys. very handsome lads

[dajo42]

hair loss is such a source of insecurity for so many people because of how hair is so closely linked to identity and gender expression, and drastic changes to ones appearance are very scary to go through with, and im just very glad all these guys get to feel good and free and be in the bald club

[awwcutefuzzyanimals]

Thinking about something

[centrumlumina]

[captainjonnitkessler]

>Join a union

>Hear people constantly complaining that the current union leadership is super corrupt, it's all just the same ten guys making all the decisions in secret and nobody else in the union ever gets to know what's going on

>Go to the monthly union meetings that are completely open to all 1200 union members

>The only attendees are the same ten guys every month, giving detailed reports about everything that's going on

[captainjonnitkessler]

I went to my union meeting tonight and the retirees' monthly complaint about our healthcare was that for some reason it only lets doctors prescribe six Viagra pills at a time, and they want to fuck more than six times a month. That's verbatim. Think about what you could be missing by not going to your union meetings.

[animentality]

[jv]

This is a reminder for everyone that a significant share of USian religious nut jobs doesn't think Catholics are Christian and they even are surprised anyone could think so.

[butchious]

i love the phrase "sex pervert" like. as opposed to what? abstinence pervert?

[poison-doll]

i think they're called catholics

[nyantara]

watching alice waters' chefs table and genuinely fascinated by the very very white world of us farm to table dining, its hilariously settler colonial mindset, its complete reliance on french or italian food culture and ignorance of native foodways or even like, broader latam culture or the reality of immigrant agricultural labour.

nature does it better, we must eat local, food is central to justice etc etc but it involves ignoring both the history of the land and the people on there and we must Retvrn to another culture on another continent with a completely different ecosystem.

[nyantara]

Our research revealed two imaginaries-sets of values and symbols that shape the discourses and practices of a social group. In what we call the white farm imaginary, market participants valorize the predominantly white vendors who “grow their food”, rendering invisible the low-paid, predominantly Latino/a workers who do the bulk of the cultivation. [...]

This imaginary ignores the justification of Native American displacement by white homesteaders, the enslavement of African-Americans, the masses of underpaid Asian immigrants who worked California’s first factory farms, and the mostly Mexican farm laborers who harvest the majority of food grown in the USA today. Therefore, it is quite possible that the romantic notions of yeoman farmers and rural culture do not resonate with many people of color whose collective history recalls the racism and classism of America’s agricultural past and present. [...]

The invisibility of farmworkers within the prominent alternative agriculture discourse prevents the movement from addressing structural forces that shape agricultural possibilities. For example, the white farm imaginary leads those seeking food system reform to assume that market farmers hire only relatives, making regulation of employment practices seem unnecessary. [...]

Customers draw upon the complimentary community imaginary to depict themselves, as well as their friends and neighbors, as ethically motivated supporters of struggling family farmers. Many managers, vendors and customers unwittingly draw upon the community imaginary to justify or obscure the structural barriers that prevent the participation of low-income people and people of color [...]

[Alice] Waters compared the Berkeley Farmers Market to the street markets in Provence that initially inspired her California-French Cuisine. Similarly, Marie Sarita Gayt´an’s (2004) study of northern Californian Slow Food convivia found that the group puts rural European food culture on a pedestal, rendering it discursively exclusive to people of color and the urban working class. In their allusions to European culinary and agricultural superiority, these institutions serve to strengthen the notion that alternative agriculture and food, both generally and in North Berkeley, is the province of whites.

Alkon, Alison & McCullen, Christie. (2010). Whiteness and Farmers Markets: Performances, Perpetuations  …  Contestations?. Antipode. 43. 937 - 959. 10.1111/j.1467-8330.2010.00818.x.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[lilli-sturmreiter]

[theemotionalera]

“てらす” (To shine) by Karin Hosono

Karin Hosono | 2023

[gothdolphin-deactivated20190409]

me: how do churches deal with gluten at communion

first response on a catholic forum:

[hvlthgxth-deactivated20241124]

The Roman Catholic church is the only Christian faith with any mettle.

[hvlthgxth-deactivated20241124]

It’s not bread. It’s Jesus, dipshit. Next question.

[regrettablyjake]

It’s jesus, but also jesus’ body activates Celiac’s

[uovoc]

English has different words for mouse and rat but in Chinese they're both the same creature (laoshu) so I asked my mom well how do you differentiate between mice and rats. She, clearly having never felt the need to do so, was like uhh big laoshu and little laoshu I guess. Then I went online to see how the difference between (the English words) "mouse" and "rat" was being explained to CN->EN learners and there are numerous articles delving deep into the analysis. Bigger vs smaller, indoors vs outdoors, cute and favorable connotations vs evil and ugly, tail length, fear factor, emphasis on the fact that you cannot call it a "computer rat." Much thought is being expended on this little mystery of the English language

[xiangqiankua]

Last time I was looking for an apartment, the guy showing me a room that opened directly to the alley was like 你怕老鼠嗎？and I, hoping to distinguish mouse vs rat, asked 大的還是小的? To which he replied, with great satisfaction: 都有!😃

[onlytiktoks]

[revcleo]

Thoughts and Prayers — Stanley Tong Ceramics

[mousegirlheart]

*wokely* tell me what genitals you have, stranger i just met

[talesfromthecrypts]

They actually make physical media for a much larger percentage of movies than they ever did in the past. Often with a lot more care than any small release was treated in the early dvd days. Its just if you only watch streaming stuff or the big new recent box office hits you won't see that. It is so ridiculously easy to get physical media for movies that even 5 years ago you couldn't even find. Like yes Netflix is a stingy bastard but so many things are available on disc WITH special features than ever before

[talesfromthecrypts]

And here is where you can get them! (mostly American)

Diabolikdvd

Grindhouse Video

Deep Discount

OrbitDVD

Barnes and Noble

And specific labels:

Kino Lorber

Criterion

Arrow Films (UK based)

Shout Factory

Eureka (UK based)

Vinegar Syndrome

Synapse

Warner Archive

Indicator/Powerhouse (UK based)

Severin

Second Sight (UK based)

Umbrella (Australia based)

And many of these have sales several times a year so if you're patient you don't need to buy full price for any of it.

[atlas-andromeda]

For operas, ballets and theatre:

Opus Arte

[cesarescabinet]

Two stores I've used personally (In the U.S)

Thriftbooks<--sells second hand dvds on the cheap.

Samuraidvd <--great resource for obscure Japanese jidaigeki!

[zetrystan]

Technically true.

[zetrystan]

He got the job.

[zetrystan]

He takes his job seriously.

[zetrystan]

Prof Rad over on youtube dubbed the Wolf Hunter comic (click here)! 

Go check it out and give them some support! :) (also the end killed me haha) ₍ᐢ•ﻌ•ᐢ₎

[zetrystan]

The farmer sheared the sheep, and it was used to make a gift for Wolf Hunter, so…

[zetrystan]

Wolf Hunter goes to the village markets.

[zetrystan]

Wolf Hunter and his conga line of sheep.

[zetrystan]

Wolf Hunter was looking for them for a while.

[moonshynecybin]

malort pope.

[moonshynecybin]

[closet-keys]

someone: this beauty standard was constructed with specific political purpose, and effectively dismantling the power structure that justifies itself through it requires us to give up using aspects of the body as a metaphor for morality or social worth

the notes:

it’s just a personal preference, it’s not that deep, go outside, touch grass, get married, work a hard job, have kids, stop thinking

so you’re saying I have to fuck people with [trait]? you’re going to show up at my apartment and force me to fuck strangers? your analysis of beauty standards is literally rape. OP wants to fuck me specifically, a random hostile stranger in their notes. they’re turned on because their body disgusts me! (no I have never seen them but I vividly imagine their body as disgusting because why else would they make a post like this)

did you know that another society/culture/time period had a different set of beauty standards? I bet OP didn’t even realize this

actually beauty standards are evolutionary instinct and you’re anti-science. you want us to ignore biology?

I actually WANT to fuck people with [currently devalued trait]

we should remind people that [currently devalued trait] was valued in a different society with another brutal hierarchy based on bodily ideals as proof that [currently devalued trait] is good actually. this definitely does not replicate the exact politics OP is challenging

once I met someone with a stigmatized bodily trait and they were a bad person. I’m sharing this anecdote absent any context so others can draw their own conclusions. if you go to my blog every single post is me sharing totally real stories of people with this trait doing mean things. I’m not saying certain bodily traits create inferior morals, I’m just compulsively curating an entire blog to imply it over and over and over

I used to think [stigmatized trait] was disgusting but I’m trying to unlearn it right now. I assume anyone with that trait would feel me saying this publicly is an act of kindness I’m bestowing upon them rather than a casual cruelty just like all the other comments about how disgusting the trait is

[malleusmaleficent]

ok guys am i stupid for feeling like folding chairs were a modern thing? i saw this folding chair from the 16th century in the ming dynasty and it's blowing my mind

not that they'd be difficult to manufacture im sure they could've made one a thousand years ago, thinking about it now. it's just like, in my dumb lizard brain you'd never invent the folding chair without first inventing the enormous auditorium conference hall for mediocre businessmen yk

[licker-of-guns-offical]

This post forgets to take into accout that in the Ming dynasty there were also enormous auditorium conference halls for mediocre businessmen.