roma★
One Nice Bug Per Day
Claire Keane
cherry valley forever
No title available
No title available
if i look back, i am lost
Today's Document
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
sheepfilms
No title available
almost home
⁂
will byers stan first human second
@theartofmadeline
pixel skylines
NASA
Monterey Bay Aquarium
styofa doing anything
Not today Justin
seen from United States
seen from Spain
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States
seen from Australia
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Indonesia
seen from United States
seen from United States
@lilacblossoms
To anyone with adhd who needs it: I know it's very tempting to wait for the perfect ™ time for this thing you're supposed to do and half-assing through it probably sounds terrible, but believe me when I say that half-assing through something is better than not doing it at all. Get that thing done. You'll be grateful to your past self.
Today we were talking about how words can mean different things to different communities, and that people outside the community wouldn't understand. Like how a non-poker player wouldn't understand poker jargon the way other poker players would. Anyway, then my professor said he was gonna show us his "favourite example" and wrote a single word on the board that gave me instant psychic damage: beta.
Apparently sport climbers use this word with a meaning of "technique, method." But for a horrifying, horrifying second there was the possibility in my mind that we were gonna talk about ABO in my fucking linguistics class
Professor Betas Georg, who writes 50k omegaverse fics during office hours, boldy wrote "beta" on the board while observing which of his students went dead. still.
official linguistics post
happy fourth of july to the philippines ONLY
link to article
hi, filipino here. just want to say that our independence day is june 12, not july 4. july 4 is when the united states government decided that they would recognize our freedom, specifically because it is your independence day and they wanted to cement their cultural hegemony over our country. and because of their influence on our country this was recognized for a time as our independence day. we still commemorate it, but i hope you can understand why we don’t want our independence day to be associated so closely with our former colonizer. it wasn’t even a work holiday for us.
june 12 is the day that we filipinos declared our own independence for ourselves, and that is what we celebrate as independence day
happy june 12 to you
Just escaped from Hell thanks to the incredibly convenient road leading directly out! Apparently it was paved with good intentions? Thanks for those, everybody! They worked out great, just like always!
The road to hell is a two-way road.
The Romans could’ve learned a thing or two
Some Pratchett-ian shit right here, i could absolutely see someone talking to granny or vimes about "clawing their way out of hell"
"Why didn't you use the road." "what road?!" "You know, the road. That one with all them good intentions." "Thats the road to hell." "Never heard of a road you couldn't walk both ways.*"
* This was only true because they had never heard of the road built across the circle sea over the disc's great rimfall which was made by craftsmen who took the term terminus quite literally.
Boris "professional idiot" Johnson wanted to build an island airport in the immediate area.
it's fucking visible
This post requires authentication to view.
It is fun to learn.
Hey what the fuck
You weren't kidding they've been trying to get the masts off for 5 years and keep getting foiled because there's probably bombs leaking out of her
Fun fact: Doxing myself but I live in the blast zone if that thing ever goes up! It's even immortalised in a local artwork:
The reverse of cozy games that are actually psychological-horror: A psychological-horror game that is actually a cozy life-sim.
You start in a creepy abandoned town full of nightmarish horrors, and you beautify it bit by bit. You befriend the monsters and help solve their problems so that they don't want to murder people anymore.
In the same way that fake-cozy games still have the gameplay of cozy games, this game would still have the gameplay of a psychological horror game.
You'd be beautifying the town by solving obscure puzzles. Your monstrous residents communicate with you via cryptic hand-written notes.
You boot up the game on your birthday. There's a bloody note your welcome mat that reads:
"the day of emergence has come --- rejoice!"
Then a spider-creature made of baby limbs drops a rusty pendant from the ceiling and skitters into the darkness.
I’m a normal adult woman with interests appropriate for my age bracket. That said, Tom Holland should fire his agents and hire me. Tom Holland thinks his audience is primarily men and makes movies for mostly their viewing pleasure; Tom Holland is wrong and Tom Holland shouldn’t. Tom Holland, do you think MEN account for the 175 MILLION YouTube views of you performing “Umbrella” in drag? I assure you they do not. Tom Holland is married to one of the most beautiful and popular women in the world FOR A REASON. Tom Holland thinks he is Mark Wahlberg but Tom Holland is Hugh Grant. Tom Holland should be in Jane Austen adaptations. Tom Holland should be in romantic comedies. Tom Holland should be speaking with his natural British accent at all times. If Timothee Chalamet had even an ounce of Tom Holland’s effortless likability, he’d have won four Oscars already. Tom Holland is for women!
mother, daughter // a sandra lynn and figueroth faeth poem
here’s the contrapuntal poem I wrote as a part of @d20exchange 2025 for @complicatedwomenpodcast!!❄️
+ bonus short sandra lynn playlist here because I was feeling inspired
every time i remember that photo of the little inuk girl with her puppy i engage in inconsolable hysterics
this is it. this is the photo of all time
Comfy even
World History in a Year (Week 24) - Bronze and Early Iron Age Wrap-Up, and Introduction to the 'Classical Age'
The Bronze Age (from the late 3000s BC to the 1100s BC) and the early Iron Age (from around the 1000s to 600s BC) lasted some 2500 years: about as long as the entire rest of history from Ancient Greece until now. While the Bronze and Iron Ages were not characterized by these metals in all areas (for example, the Americas), they remain useful time periods conceptually: even in many areas without bronze, the Bronze Age was when early states and in some cases writing emerged. The “classical age” of around the 500s BC to the AD 500s is different in many ways from what came before, and I’ve set a break point here for that reason.
The Bronze Age lasted nearly two thousand years: almost as long as the time from the rise of the Roman Empire until now. States from the early Bronze Age, like Akkad, were remembered in the late Bronze and early Iron Ages similarly to how Greece and Rome were remembered in the 19th and 20th centuries AD. When Han Dynasty historians in the 100s BC wrote histories of ‘ancient China’, they meant the Xia, Shang, and Zhou. These were the states and empires that were ancient to the ancients. Classing everything before around AD 500 as "ancient history” can obscure just how long a period that was.
The main states of the Bronze Age and early Iron Ages are summarized in the table below. It’s not intended to be comprehensive, or exact in its dates, just to help keep track of some of the main players we’ve discussed, especially in regions where the major states differed between eras.
So, how was the “classical age” of ancient history different from the Bronze and Iron Ages?
First, as mentioned in previous posts, the 500s to 300s BC brought the transformative change in religion and philosophy called the Axial Age, centred in China, India, and Greece. (Judaism and Christianity were part of the same transformation, but the former was earlier and the latter later than the core Axial period.) This time period was also characterized by new forms of thought about many other subjects, with the origins of academic disciplines like political theory, history, and the natural sciences. People questioned things that had previously been taken for granted; opposing schools of thought debated with each other; writers developed overarching theories and methods.
A second change, which played a major role in stimulating the Axial Age, was the expansion of literacy and writing. In Western Asia, Mediterranean Europe, and China, the volume of written material went from mainly (though not solely) government documents in the bronze and early iron ages to a huge expanse of texts in the classical age: histories, biographies, philosophy, drama, poetry, science, and much else. In India, writing reappeared for the first time since the fall of Harappa and grew rapidly in volume. The first writing in Mesoamerica originated in 600s BC, right before the start of this period. Written documents in and about Southeast Asia date from early centuries AD. This is when our historical knowledge of many areas (especially in Eurasia) goes from “archaeology supplemented by texts” to “texts supplemented by archaeology".
A third change was economic. While inter-regional trade existed even in the early Bronze Age (for example, from Harappa to Mesopotamia), both domestic and international commerce really kicked up a notch in the 'classical' era, especially with the pivotal invention of coinage in the 600s BC. The Persian Empire, originating in the 500s BC, facilitated trade across a vast area, from the borders of India to the borders of Europe. By Roman times there was significant maritime and overland trade between the Roman Empire, India, and Han China. In the early centuries AD international commerce played a role in the rise of new states in eastern Africa and Southeast Asia.
Fourth, there was a massive political change: this was an age of empires, ushered in by Iron Age Assyria. It was the age of Persia, Alexander of Macedon, Rome, the Qin and Han empires, the Mauryan and Gupta empires, in Mesoamerica the empire of Teotihuacán and in South America the Moche. The power of states, both intensively in terms of control over their populations and extensively in terms of geographical scale, reached new heights.
There were also some political shifts specific to particular regions. During the Bronze Age, Mesopotamia and Egypt had been the political centres of gravity in Western Asia, while Europe and Iran were on the periphery. The classical age, in contrast, was marked by conflicts between successive powers based in Persia and those based in Greece or Rome, often competing for control of the territories in between. In Mesoamerica, the period from the 1200s to 600s BC was dominated by the Olmecs of Mexico’s Gulf Coast; from the classical period onward, the gulf coast was eclipsed by new powers in the central Basin of Mexico (Teotihuacán), the Zapotec area of Oaxaca (Monte Albán), and the Mayan regions to the south.
So, that’s a brief overview of where we’ve been and where we’re going!
I want to conclude with a disclaimer: my knowledge of ancient Greco-Roman history is very limited. Not necessarily more so than my knowledge of, say, Chinese, Indian, or Mesoamerican history - in truth, probably less so -but the expectations for how much a person should know about ancient Greece and Rome seem larger. I will be covering very broad patterns, and I am not going to know the nuances of the many, many historical debates in this field, and I may get things wrong. For the purposes of this blog series I’m primarily interested in how the overarching patterns connect with what was happening in the rest of the world at the same time.
One fun thing about learning new languages is reconsidering the structure of words and language in your mother tongue. It seems with each new language I study, I get more little insights into English, either in how it's similar or how it's different.
For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"
Then I stopped for a moment, and for the first time in my life, thought about seriously about the meaning of English word for the place where you buy things, "a store."
Because I was now a man, I could not speak about what it was like to be a woman. Because I had been a woman, I could never really speak about what it was like to be a man. Do the math: I could not speak. It was a double erasure, a double bind, in which every experience I had was false, and so nothing I said was credible. I could no longer derive authority from my experiences before transition, and shouldn’t even cite them — I had never “really” been a woman, so those things hadn’t happened — but those experiences could always be weaponized against me to prove I wasn’t “really” the man I claimed to be. They call it erasure, when this happens. I wasn’t prepared for how literal the term was. Every day, I could feel myself disappear.
— Eraserhead: On writer's block and being a gender traitor by Jude Doyle
There are many good paragraphs but this stuck out the most:
"If “man” and “woman” are opposed and mutually exclusive categories, if men can only ever be predators and women can only ever be prey, then trans men can’t exist. We are logically impossible under the terms of the current system. You either “treat us like men” by voiding out half our lives, or you write us back into womanhood by denying our male identities. I knew all that, at least in theory, but when I came out, I actually saw my life story disappearing into other people’s blind spots. I watched myself become unthinkable in real time."
Also these:
"This wasn’t about accountability. This was people tactically forgetting my entire life,including incidents from my life they had personally witnessed or been involved in, so that they could shame me for transitioning. It was bad for me to be a man; if I was a man, I was a bad man, I was all the worst things men are. I was hulking, I was threatening, I was predatory, I was violent."
"I was treated as both genders, but only the most monstrous stereotype of each one."
Because that is exactly it. Anti-transmasculinity is being both erased and vilified, and then gaslit out of speaking about those experiences by the people who are erasing and vilifying you.
This resonated:
"The idea that I had always occupied a privileged position within patriarchy was, frankly, untrue; nor did it seem to me that a trans person was any less gender-marginalized than your average cis woman. What privilege I had was conditional, and these books were no guide. Men who wanted to “forge a positive masculinity” (and everyone was very clear that I needed one of those) were encouraged to get in touch with their “feminine sides.” Maybe that was healthy for cis guys, but I had been forced to do feminine things, and present in feminine ways, for the entirety of my young life. Whatever liberation I had achieved came from giving myself permission to stop."
As did the ending:
"When I write these days, I try to remind myself that whatever I’m afraid of saying is already true, and denial will not change it. I remind myself that the wrong people benefit from my silence, and will use it to write a version of my life I can’t recognize, or just write me out of the world. There is no established story or role for me; I belong to a category the world is still learning to imagine. I cannot account for the world as other people imagine it. I cannot give you every man’s story, every trans man’s story, every trans person’s story; I don't know them. What I do know is that every new story helps map the territory. All I can do for you, from where I'm standing, is tell you how things are."
the place I work at remodeled these split gendered restrooms into “inclusive restrooms” and never told us what they meant while construction was ongoing. I need you to know every atom of potential criticism or whining that could’ve happened disappeared when people found out this meant we got 10 fully separate private bathrooms with sinks inside. I’ve not heard a single person crack a joke about the inclusive signage. this is the world TERFs are trying to steal from you
This is called a "superloo" and terfs are actively trying to steal this from you, in the UK they changed bathroom regulations to mean new buildings have to prioritise gendered toilets rather than build superloos.
This also upset a lot of architects and designers who like the superloos. They're also typically more like small rooms rather than having doors you can look under.
From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest
ilya's bisexuality really is such a vital part of his character and his identity and i Do get a little bothered when people (usually normies/straight people) just refer to him as gay bc he's in love with a man....but that's just my personal feelings as a #bi person
ACTUALLY i'm adding onto this bc there's something i always notice in ep 6 that i wanna talk abt briefly, and that's yuna & david's faces when shane says "ilya likes both" - especially yuna
there's concern there. it's obvious. and it's SO common when it comes to bisexuality bc there's this huge and annoying misconception that bisexual people are unfaithful unloyal cheaters. and you can see it in her face as she processes the information that this is an immediate concern for her and for her son.
and now let's look at ilya's face
now he's concerned, because he knows he has to explain himself (which he does. he shouldn't have to but he does) and he's basically throwing out a hail mary to shane's parents that says hey, wait, no, i'm not gonna cheat on your son. i love your son. just because i'm bisexual doesn't mean i would hurt shane.
and this is something bisexual people deal with all the time btw. not just from straight people, not just from gen x & boomers, but from our own community too. it's incredibly exhausting. anyway i just notice this every time it makes my heart hurt a bit for ilya.
proud victim of the tumblr accent. it's fading out of public consciousness as the tik tok accent takes precedence; a linguistic evolution that makes the tumblr accent 85% funnier to unsuspecting civilians. it's like releasing a disease on a non-inoculated population. coughing baby versus hydrogen bomb.
