Literature and Bones

26 years on this earth

[animentality]

[demilypyro]

Oh yeah. I have been fighting this fight for over a decade. I consider it up there with the likes of Evangelion and Utena but its reputation as the Dumb Fanservice Show will never leave. People see bare skin and their ability to consider whether the media has anything to say goes right out the window. Everything is about something, except nudity, which can never be about anything. It drives me up the wall

[demilypyro]

I feel like every time this topic comes up people just don't understand that Kill la Kill is not just some "problematic fave" to me. it's not me excusing something obviously offensive just because I like it, or something. that is something I do; that's Danganronpa. but I've never pretended Danganronpa is good, and this isn't Danganronpa. Danganronpa is NOT as smart as Kill la Kill, or as full of meaning as Kill la Kill. and my enjoyment of Kill la Kill isn't motivated by nostalgia or whatever. I have no issue criticizing my darlings, there's plenty of stuff I used to like that I don't anymore because I went back and found it distasteful. hell, I'm pretty critical of the politics of the Mass Effect franchise these days and people know I used to be like a superfan of that series. but when I went back and rewatched Kill la Kill with a critical eye, I only liked it *more.* I genuinely just think Kill la Kill is a good, feminist, antifascist work. I think if you really look past its surface, if you're able not to flinch from your discomfort, there's just a lot of rich nuance and meaning to be found. I don't just excuse Kill la Kill, I *champion* it. and people just don't want to accept this.

[leftysupremacy]

i need you all to know that the five hundred cigarettes guys are gay married and have also had a child that lead to one of the most meaningful looks at both the sci-fi concept of a species with only one gender but also the very real issue of intersex children being forcibly assigned a gender and by proxy the treatment of transgender people and women in a society that treats men as the default, it is one of the most moving and personal storylines ive seen on television. directed by and starring peter “seth macfarlane” griffin i am dead fucking serious

edit: i have been reminded that dolly parton is also pivotal to this plotline. i feel like i must have hallucinated the whole show none of this feels real

[theorvilleincorrectquotes]

Kelly: Eat your soup.

Bortus: Uh… I see letters.

Kelly: Yeah, it’s alphabet soup.

Bortus: Oh.

Bortus: *poking around the soup* … “A”

Kelly: You don’t have to eat it in order.

[mischiefavenged1309]

You mean to tell me...

MAMMON is bribing Lucifer to come back WITH MONEY????

[geeses]

reblog to diminish the horrors from the person you reblogged from

[themusicdanceexperience]

Queer theory is so funny to me as African because I'll see all these people in the western countries trying to assign meanings to clothes and to pronouns and to parts of their personalities, they'll believe that changing their clothes or their pronouns or their language or their behavior will exempt them from misogyny. And while I understand that it is a condition of the System to keep us all separated, I can't help but bristle at the racism behind this all.

If any of these liberals had bothered to read, they would know that there exists many many communities indigenous to Africa whose languages don't have gendered pronouns, where clothing rules are different. Where men and women dressed the same, where the rules of nudity are different. Where men are effeminate. And in most, if not all of these communities, misogyny will still be rampant.

My community used to allow female to female marriages but all those women were still circumcised. My language does not have "she" or "he" but that did not save any of us from misogyny. My friend's community doesn't even have gendered slurs and she still had to run away when she was 11 so that she wouldn't be circumcised. There is no solution other than uprooting the whole system. Creating more categories does nothing.

[witchofanguish]

[mahead-ithurt]

Always remember that the EU did a study in 2013 about the effects of piracy on media publishers and found that there is no correlation between piracy and sales! (And then they tried to hide that study bc that's not the result they wanted)

So piracy is at worst not even a problem, and at best it's free advertisement.

Source: (the link to the actual study is in the article)

EU withheld a study that shows piracy doesn't hurt sales - Engadget

In 2013, the European Commission ordered a €360,000 ($430,000) study on how piracy affects sales of music, books, movies and games in the EU

[whatacartouchebag]

#piracy is always a net good in my eyes#because the fact someone is saving and archiving that shit is what I want the most #also idk sometimes it’s not like a certain thing is even readily available in my country #so hey whoa thank god there’s a piracy site with this obscure show I wanna watch

[laserbobcat]

Anyone: windows sucks maybe I should try another OS

All the nerds:

[laserbobcat]

[what-even-is-thiss]

I’m kinda surprised that nalbinding isn’t as popular as crochet and knitting tbh because it has an even lower barrier of entry tools wise and unlike crochet and knitting it makes fabric that you can cut.

I guess it’s because it’s slower or something.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Nalbinding aka needle binding is when you use yarn and a big sewing needle to make fabric btw

It also has a lot of different kinds of stitches you can do that make different densities of fabric.

Some people even make rugs.

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

I feel like part of it might be casual people are generally aware of the existence of crochet and knitting, even if they don’t know very much about either, but have never heard of nalbinding

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yeah I hadn’t heard of it until recently and I ordered a big bone needle for myself to try it out and that should be arriving soon.

I was surprised that I’d never heard of it though. It’s older than knitting and crocheting and even though it’s been done all over the world it’s super relevant to Nordic culture and my grandmother and I are both into keeping in touch with our roots a bit so I’m surprised I’ve never heard of it.

It seems like the sort of thing that would be popular even if not as popular as crocheting and knitting, considering the low barrier of entry.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You also don’t need a bunch of different sized needles for nalbinding or whatever. The size of the stitch is controlled either completely freehand or by pulling it against one of your fingers. Most people who have a lot of nalbinding needles seem to either have tried out wood, bone, and metal ones to see which kind they liked or they enjoy carving wood or bone and like making their own needles as an extra hobby.

It’s also a lot easier to freehand and adjust as you go than crochet or knitting and you mostly go by inches instead of rows and number of stitches so a large number of accessories like stitch markers or whatever isn’t really necessary.

Maybe the lack of accessories also makes it unpopular idk. People do like collecting things in their nests.

[the-color-of-sound-is-space]

I've been wanting to do so, I cannot find anyone who can teach me, and any books I can find on it are Ass in the Visual Learning department. Otherwise I'd be making the hell outta some nalbinded fabric

[what-even-is-thiss]

I found this channel by a nice man who makes up close tutorials

Happy Needlebinding

I create videos on YouTube to learn people how to needlebind using two fingers and your thumb. Needlebinding helps people to relax, relieve

[depsidase]

[swidney67]

Are there any DragonVale truthers on here PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! I cannot be the only guy who’s played this PLEASE.

[animentality]

[ober-affen-geil]

Ok extra context from your friendly neighborhood Master's Degree holding archivist:

Archives are "curated" according to what's called a "collection policy". That means a policy that dictates what you collect; usually along a theme. For example at the university I used to work at the collection policy was to collect archival material pertaining to the local area and its history/important figures. At the historic home I currently work at, the collection policy covers materials pertaining to the person who lived at the house.

AO3 collects fan works and original writing. That's it. That's how they "curate". They don't allow a copy paste of published works (for legal reasons) and they don't allow commissioned works (for legal reasons) . Everything else that falls under fan works and original writing is part of their collection policy. Everything. That's how archives work.

[pitviperofdoom]

Librarian for 6+ years with an archival background, the entire premise of the initial argument is laughably untrue anyway.

Like yeah, a master's in library science is a prerequisite for most existing library/archival jobs, but any ham-and-egger who wants to start their own archive is allowed to do that, there's no High Council of Archivists who's going to swing by to check your credentials and shut you down if you're not properly licensed. The creators of the archive are highly qualified with the academic credentials to back it up, but even if they weren't Oakly would still be wrong.

[fromhersoul]

may you attract someone who treats you like they’ve been waiting their whole life to find you

[lobstabear]

To my 25 - 35 year olds, you've reached the age where people around you are starting to give up on themselves because they think it's too late. Don't let that energy rub off on you. It's not too late.

[knittingontheroad]

I became a tattoo artist at 49.

Married the love of my life at 50.

Got my Class A CDL at 59.

You've got time.

As long as you're breathing, you've got time.

[anarchistmemedistro]