My sister when watching the Louis Theroux's Manosphere Documentary: These look like fatherless behaviours. (degratory)
My sister when the documentary start exploring the men's back story: Vindicated.

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My sister when watching the Louis Theroux's Manosphere Documentary: These look like fatherless behaviours. (degratory)
My sister when the documentary start exploring the men's back story: Vindicated.
You can’t Abstain your way to a Better World.
The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you don’t buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.
If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.
The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.
It’s not enough to just not participate in society
If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.
You need Government.
STOP PROPOSING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS
LOUDER FOR THE FOLKS IN THE BACK
THIS IS WHAT REGULATION IS FOR
This is true and putting pressure on the government and political activism and organised movements is the most helpful (look at save the whales)
However! If individual actions help you feel more in control and less hopeless then they are not useless
Use being conscientious with recycling and trying to be as sustainably as possible is maybe at best putting a drop in the bucket
But a drop is better then nothing.
And if that drop makes you feel more motivated to do the campaigning and protesting and fundraising or whatever else you need to help put collective pressure on the government then it is much better than nothing
I don't recycle or buy sustainable clothing because I think that will stop the fast fashion industry. But because makes me feel less hopeless and less likely to give into despair.
And hey, it doesn't actually hurt anything. Including myself
If trying to abstain or take any individual action hurts you? Then it's not useful. If it motivates you, then it has purpose
Do any of u have decent recipes that are like 5 ingredients (not including spices) and take 45 mins or less to prepare i gotta stop eating sandwiches for dinner
yeah hang on
ignore the title of this google doc because it's a long story but it's a really solid recipe for southwest chicken alfredo
this is a vegetarian potato curry recipe that's about 75% spices; once you get the potatoes in there you can really do whatever you want with it
this is literally just pasta, broccoli, and cheese babey and you can live off that shit for DAYS it makes such a big portion
bro this spinach/pesto/3 cheese flatbread is so fucking tasty bro
also you can make the flatbread yourself it's super quick!!
oh hey I'm eating this white chickpea chili right now, much like the curry it's mostly spices and you can do p much do whatever you want with it
don't let the name fool you these potatoes are delicious any time. not just breakfast.
this is slightly more than five ingredient when you add them together but if you have time and really wanna fuckin treat yourself I recommend these chicken strips + this cornbread + either these potatoes or these buttered veggies on the side.
These are my two favorite comfort foods. They're very easy to make and dont take long to cook.
Garlic butter rice
Orzo mac and cheese (comes out a little bit soupy)
this recipe for gogumabap (sweet potato and rice) saved my life when i couldn't eat hardly anything for a long time. the recipe itself calls for a heavy bottomed pot but you can absolutely use a rice cooker and put the rice and diced sweet potato in together and just let the machine do its thing
Time for me to beat my little clown drum again for Indian-ish by Priya Krishna, aka The Easiest Recipes I Have Ever Fucking Made. Dal that takes 15 minutes. Easy aloo gobhi. Easy saag feta. Buy. Cook. Eat.
This Bulgolgi rice recipe!
Shred drained extra-firm tofu with a cheese grater (reccomended) or a fork (or however else) and either bake or air fry, times and temps inclused in video.
Make a sauce with half a grated fuji apple (one fuji apple can make this twice, double the size, or provide a snack while you cook), soy sauce, ginger, gochujang, sugar and minced garlic. There are more spices involved if you can afford them, but those are the main ones. I use ground ginger from the bottle instead of grated and i cant taste a difference between them. They can all be measured with a single 1/2 tablespoon used multiple times.
Make rice to go with it -i reccomend getting microwaveable packs of rice to keep the work low and so you dont need to multitask, but its also rice, so if you can babysit a pot of the stuff while cooking, go for it.
Once your tofu is done, mix it well with the sauce and gently fry on a pan if you want it to carmelize, otherwise just making sure its warm all around.
Delicious result, gets a nice texture to the tofu and super easy
best advice I ever got about posting fics on ao3 is this:
never talk yourself out of the tags
never talk others out of the fic itself
which is to say, if you tag something, stick to it. your gut instinct is usually on the right path. don’t think about etiquette or whether it’s “too dark” or what people might comment. tags are indicators; removing them can affect readership (if that matters to you) AND it can influence whether you take out characters or tropes if you’re hesitating to hit publish.
if you’re tagging in good faith on your fic (e.g. not tagging Superman if he never shows up in the fic, using archive warnings correctly, etc) you’ll only talk yourself out of it the longer you stare at the tags.
and if you do write, tag, and publish a kickass fic, don’t add a summary trying to talk others out of reading it.
if you hit readers with a “this is awful I don’t even like it” or a “I’m probably going to take this fic down later idk” you just slapped a “don’t read me” sticker on your fic that’s probably way better than you think.
you thought it was important enough to not only write but to publish online — why would you start taking potshots at it?
Chappell Roan, who left her talent agency when she found out the Ceo was in the Epstein Files, is getting more hate than people in the actual Epstein files. Pedophiles are currently presidents and starting wars, wife beaters are getting awards and selling out stadiums, but a lesbian who is not the nicest most cheerful person 24/7 is the actual devil and getting banned from performing. I think she should be meaner. Let her be the nastiest bitch in the world. Maybe more women will wake up from the fucking trance this world has put us through and realise being "not nice" is not the biggest crime in the world.
Jayce tansmigration fic draft
“Mel Medarda’s magic fizzled despite her desperate grasps, the Herald’s influence swiftly coursing through her vein. She felt her mother’s corpse slipping away as she was pulled towards the air, her grief washed away and replaced with a sensation of peace.
The last thing she saw was the world washed in a blinding white light and-
Eternal peace.”
Jayce huffed, heaving a sigh of discontent as he scrolled to the last page of the chapter. Another tragic ending warning about the dangers of arcane and all those who pursue it.
Classic.
Flowers of Medarda is a popular online novel series that reimagines the amorous events of the Medarda family in a vague historical, cyberpunk setting that apparently see harems as the pinnacle of high social status.
Its reimagining of the arcane fusion with technology is not particularly inspired, pitching it as a power source for weapons and what not. Besides,the hand wavy schematics of how the weapons came to be had Jayce physically shriveling in their inaccuracy. The plots in the harems were repetitive and unsatisfying, not to mention the portrayal of the Medarda family was so terrible that it bordered on slander.
Jayce had to hide his laughter when the character “Ambessa” pled for her consort (Piltoven, of course) to return to Noxus with her, dew drop tears trailing down her strong, handsome face.
The real Ambessa Medarda, which he unfortunately knows in person, would have slaughtered anyone who even dared to insinuate that she had tear ducts. If she is feeling generous.
He would have shared the beautiful, beautiful passage with Mel, if not for that the next immediate paragraph described how two characters fell in a haystack and tested out multiple positions in horribly descriptive details.
Despite lingering resentment over Mel pushing him to deal with the less savory side of politics, he wasn’t that mad.
Anyways, the novel is badly hidden harlequin and he would have put it down as soon as he read about his namesake appearing in the novel.
Its just that… he got hooked on a character. As convoluted as the plot may be, The Flowers of Medarda has its shining moments of exceptional writing. One of which is the creation of Viktor, a rare character that was described to be from Zaun. Wickedly smart and exceptionally ambitious, Viktor was introduced in the third book of the series as Ambessa’s first taste of the Undercity’s cuisine.
Ambessa stumbled upon the young man when he was trying to lock pick her study, and subsequently amused by his excuse of going into the wrong bedroom. Since it is a romance story, she did not behead Viktor (as opposed to the business tycoon that is his boss) and instead had him right at her desk.
Actually, that might be something she would do, just before the beheading of course.
“Why do you break into my study little one?” Ambessa crooned, fingers tight around the pale, delicate neck.
“When you do something great,” the boy hissed, voice hoarse from moaning. “Don’t ask for permission.”
It was love at first sight.
As a scientist with an outlawed niche interest, Viktor’s tenacity and unapologetic passion about invention and progress had Jayce re-reading his parts again and again.
Some dark, shameful part of him had hoped that he could borrow just a little bit of courage from his fellow scientist, fictional as Viktor is.
Viktor even crossed paths with Jayce’s namesake, which Jayce had found himself reluctantly excited about. Sadly, the interaction was briefly painted- wherein his character had stood by when Viktor’s work had been stolen by their mentor, and banished from Piltover in retaliation after Ambessa heroically razed down the Academy on Viktor’s behalf.
Viktor was enveloped into Ambessa’s massive harem soon after and was only briefly mentioned to have disappeared in book five (which prompted the reappearance of Ambessa’s dewdrop tears).
What kind of shit is this? Does Jayce’s dreams needed to be crush in fiction as well? He swore to himself that he would never read a single word that novel ever again.
Then, Jayce bought every chapter.
(And every published print.)
(And a shirt with a tagline of “Team Mel!” strewed across its back.)
(And a Viktor figurine.)
(Fine, multiple Viktor figurines.)
Look, once he’s invested, he’s invested.
Caitlyn can laugh at his beautiful shelves of Viktors but he has seen her sprawling conspiracy board. It takes one obsessive freak to know another.
He had taken her to enough cryptid conventions for her to look another way when he inevitably cashes grocery money to buy another Viktor merchandise.
Which, after the novel’s ending- might not be something she would need to do again.
(Grocery cash money will be diverted back to arcane research, which Caityln did not and does not need to know.)
Jayce closed the website with a sigh, frowning when he heard a loud thud from his office.
Strange, Caitlyn had mentioned that she is attending her annual shooting competition today.
“Sprout, you better not be breaking in from the window again,” Jayce warned as he reached his office door. “You’re mother would hang me-”
Jayce blinked as four children froze in his room- varying positions indicating that they were happily ransacking his office before he interrupted them.
“Run!” the rascals scattered in different directions, shouting and throwing smokes bombs while doing so. Which is completely unnecessary, Jayce would happily be robbed three times over if he could cite it as a reason to extend his research deadline.
He was quite comfortable choking on smoke, face down on his carpet when he caught a glimpse of blue glowing from one of the kid’s pocket.
Oh no.
The words choked in his throat as he grabbed blindly at the light.
His hands closed around thin wrist and all he hears is a high pitch scream-
And
It
All
Turned
White.
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No idea what I am doing, or will be doing with this, so I am just testing the waters to see if you guys have any interest in seeing Jayce transmigrating into a harem fic haha. If you have any feedback or trope that you believe a harem should have please comment or reblog below~
I have an inspiration about a transmigration fic regarding Jayce (and Viktor). I have the prologue ready and just wanted some feedback (and to bounce off some ideas) before officially posting it on ao3. Just wondering where can I post the draft where people are free to engage with it?
with ao3 down i hope this reminds us of what a fanfic-less existence looks like. don’t take it for granted! because it sucks not to have it.
fanfic would not exist without the hours of free labour from fanfic writers and volunteer staff. donate to otw if you have the means. taking a second to give kudos is nothing compared to months of work for writers. a comment will probably make their whole day! sharing and reblogging spreads their work. it’s so discouraging when you give your heart to something, only to receive nothing in return.
support fandom creators and staff. they are the heartbeat of everything we enjoy.
misspaperlilies said: What is this Sentinel/Guide business I keep hearing about?
Man, I wrote an entire short essay on The Sentinel’s place in fandom history, and then I went, “Hmm. She probably just wants to know what the trope refers to.” *g* So I’ll do the short (Edit: Not so short, I got carried away. LOL), tropey explanation, and then I’ll put the fandom history essay behind the cut for those who are interested.
The Sentinel was TV show that ran from 1996-1999. In it, Jim Ellison, an Army Ranger, gets stranded in the jungles of Peru, and his team is all killed. The isolation etc. causes genetic-but-previously-latent hyperactive senses to wake up. So he has super-hearing, super-sight, etc. He gets rescued and unconsciously suppressed the senses again and becomes a cop in Cascade, Washington. One day he’s on a long, isolated stake out, and the senses come roaring back and fuck him up because of the sensory overload.
Blair Sandburg is an anthropology student studying the concept of Sentinels, who he describes as “protectors of the tribe” and who have these hyperactive senses. He’s found people with one enhanced sense, but never all five. He hears about Jim, arranges to meet him, and convinces Jim to let Blair ride along on his police work so that Blair can study a real live Sentinel and Jim can get help controlling his senses from Blair.
The series is full of little details about the senses and how they work and the mythology around them. Here are the ones that usually come up in fic:
The zone out: This is when the Sentinel gets hyper focused on one sense and blocks out all other input, becoming almost catatonic. They have to be coaxed out of it with quiet talking and contrasting sensory input.
Spirit guides: In the show, Jim has several visions in the spirit world. While there, he has a spirit guide, a panther. When Blair ends up in the spirit world with Jim, his guide is a wolf. They also occasionally see their guides in the real world, usually trying to warn them of something or tell them something or lead them somewhere.
Territoriality: The Sentinel is described as having a primal instinct to protect his/her tribe. Jim’s interaction with another Sentinel that appeared on the show is…complicated, but fic usually just runs with the idea that Sentinels have a territory (the boundaries of which they determine) and that they’re extremely protective of it. They usually don’t like other Sentinels in their space, either.
Guides: Guides are fanon. People sometimes forget this, but literally the only place that guiding comes up in the show is when a guy in the spirit world tells Jim that “he guides you”, referring to Blair. However, it’s fanon that is 100% accepted by everyone in Sentinel fandom and the resulting trope. So. The Guide is assumed to also be genetically determined. They’re usually presented as someone who is good at calming the Sentinel, who has a strong connection to the spirit world, and who are generally a stabilizing influence on the Sentinel. Guides are also presented as the people who are most capable of getting Sentinels out of deep zone outs.
Bonding: This comes from a scene in the series where Blair is dead. Like, the medics call it. No heartbeat. Dead. Jim flips out, and goes over to Blair, and we cut to the spirit world, and stuff happens, and then the panther and the wolf run toward each other, jump up and merge in a giant flash of light. And Blair comes back to life. Fandom takes that merging of spirit guides and runs with it, usually giving them an awareness of each other’s location and empathy. Other effects of the bond vary depending on the author.
I think those are the major elements of the trope! Damn, that got longer than I meant it to. *g*
And if that wasn’t enough, and you’d like some fandom history, check out the additional info behind the cut:
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I was today years old when I learnt about what those symbols in Aboriginal art represented I honestly can't believe we never got taught that, even when I was studying art. I always assumed they had meaning but no one [no white person] had ever bothered to mention it. I'm glad I learnt something new today.
Yeah, I think a lot of people tend to look down on Aboriginal art because they think it's a form of abstract art that is just lines and shapes but almost all of them tell a story. Sometimes it's a very obvious story, such as the emu dreaming where the waterhole flooded, and sometimes it's more symbolic.
the circle in the middle is a waterhole/dam or billabong. The squiggly lines coming out of it are small rivers. the dots represent the earth but because they are in neat lines, it almost feels as if they have been flattened by the flooded water, especially as the vector lines draw out from the waterhole in the middle. the emu tracks are heading toward the waterhole, and the three lines in the middle are marks left by their tail, implying that they are wading through the mud to get there.
It's a birdseye view of a moment just after the waterhole floods and afterwards the emus go looking for food.
It's Interesting, because the original artist D. J. Ross was from Yuendumu which is in central australia, so this would have been a rare time that there was enough rain to flood the waterhole.
Dreaming stories, kinship links, sacred rites, keeping track of biodiversity and songlines are some other topics covered by Aboriginal art.
In the same way monet painted the middle class and the local landscape in the late 1800's/early 1900's Aboriginal people also paint the average lifestyle of our people. It just looks different.
For example, this picture shows a LOT of activity. The men at the top left of the picture are doing a cultural burn near and around a sacred site, the women at the bottom left are digging for food. across the river, on the right the people are preparing food and in the center, two people (presumably elders) are preparing for a ceremony.
I wouldn't say these all happened at the same time, more that this was a common undertaking over a set of time.
it takes time to understand and not all symbols are the same in all areas, but once you do understand them it becomes easier to see the story being told.
So yeah, I hope this gives you the chance to look at Aboriginal art with new eyes
My boyfriend, again blending together fanfiction tropes: So what if when you finally find your soulmate, that’s when you discover if you’re alpha or omega, right?
Me, hands shaking as I frantically search for pen & paper: KEEP TALKING
Me: Seems hellish
Boyfriend: So does being an ant person
Me: Again, baby, they’re not ants
Boyfriend: YES THEY ARE. They communicate via pheromones— LIKE ANTS.
Me: So back to the soulmate thing….
Boyfriend: You could trick them into following orders and thinking they’re dead by spraying them with a spritz bottle. I think they need a queen.
Me: So back to the soulmate thing…. Seems hellish!
Boyfriend: Not really. If being around the other person is what triggers the changes, if you want to go back to normal… all you need to do is leave.
Me, writing: (You found your soulmate. It’s changing you in scary ways. All you need to do is leave… how difficult would it be to leave? What pressures exist to stay?)
Boyfriend: So these ant-people—
Me: OMEGAVERSE IS NOT ANTS!!!!!!
And they would have a queen! As beautiful and terrible as the dawn, all would " love" him and despair
do y'all even know how much i hate being an "elder queer" at 40? a whole goddamn generation before me was wiped out by a plague that politicians deemed not their problem bc it was killing the "right" people. like. this was OPENLY STATED. i spent a large chunk of my childhood going to funerals. nevermind the fact that killing queer people for being queer wasn't codified into law as a hate crime until i was a junior in high school.
i should NOT be an elder queer, i should be middle at most. i am a middle aged queer. most of the elder queers died.
when i was growing up i didn't go to pride parades, i went to pride marches. because that's 100% what they were in the 80s and 90s.
from the absolute bottom of my heart, LEARN OUR FUCKING HISTORY. a generation was nearly wiped out so you young queers could be here. don't let that have been in vain, please.
the fact that people have reblogged this and tagged it "q slur" makes me want to eat glass.
We’re not all gone. Some of us survived. Those funerals OP went to as a child? My friends and I were the ones arranging them.
I was always kind of grateful that the marches slowly became parades. That the protests slowly gave way to parties. It was progress, it was healing.
I was grateful for that because I never healed.
I’m still remembering how straight society turned their collective backs on us and let us die. I will never forgive or forget that. Maybe that’s a shortcoming on my part but it’s true. I’ve tried and I can’t. That scar runs too deep.
And now we’re back to the same shit again. Straight society is turning their backs on my trans brothers and sisters. Ignoring their pain. Trying to legislate them out of existence.
Even our so-called allies are saying shit like “well if we want to appeal to a broader base we can’t keep going on about the transgender thing.” Fuck you Gavin Newsom. In particular.
Make no mistake: they want us dead. Not just closeted, not just silent. Gone. Non-existent. And I say us because they’re just starting with the trans people. They’ll come after the rest of us if they succeed.
I am old and so, so tired.
But I’m alive. And I’m not going anywhere.
For anyone who hasn't heard, the OP here, @saint-batrick, passed away about a year and a half ago. So yeah, please... love the queers that are still here, still alive. Love us while we're all still here, and learn why so many aren't.
i want to share some non-american context about aids pandemic
AIDS is often talked about as an event that changed queer history, and sometimes I see people frustrated about how cruel it was to think that aids is "God's punishment" for gays. It could be different if society was not that homophobic.
It's interesting that if you compare it to the situation with aids in USSR, you can see the issue was also in USA medicine + social stratification where middle class+ people saw themselves as kinda *biologically* separated from others.
The USSR had aids pandemic started at the same time, and at first the government was trying to tell that soviet people are safe from the "capitalistic disease of gays, addicts and sex workers" (the language was much more dehumanizing, I just don't want to use it). And you know what? Soviet people did not believe it. They were scared as fuck, especially when the knowledge spread and they saw the first results of misinformation and secrecy around AIDS.
The propaganda did not work because people knew the medicine is the same for everyone in the country but the most powerful politicians. Soviet citizens had no control over if they will receive the donor blood of an ill person or the injection from the same reusable syringe as aids+ gay or whoever. There was not enough medical equipment, it was not sterilized properly, and nobody was protected. You could behave as the most "dignified" person ever, to remain celibate and stay out of drug usage, but if you need a vaccination, got hurt at work or have diabetes, you are damned. Every visit to the hospital was a risk. It's the matter of accident if you catch aids in the hospital or not.
It was evident in practice. Because children were first to suffer of aids. Many of them.
The first victims of the aids pandemic in the USSR were an adult man and a 12 yo girl. Almost 10 years later there was an outbreak in the children's hospital in the Asian republic, Kalmykiya, and a lot of really young children got ill. I mean newborn babies and toddlers. They had no chance to misbehave to deserve a punishment, you know.
AIDS pandemic was one of the minor reasons why the USSR collapsed. It was obvious that this government could not protect its people. It tried to use the queerphobic rhetoric borrowed abroad, and it led to the bad stuff, not only for gay people, but for every part of society. And if for the USA the homophobic negligence was at least based on reality - homosexual men were the first victims indeed, - for the USSR it was total fantasy!
There were a couple of gays and bisexual men who brought aids from abroad and were diagnosed because they confirmed the homosexual contact somewhere. But there were foreign students, who formed partnerships and families with Soviet people; there were tourists, children of aids+ parents who had no idea about aids at all, sailors working in Africa and having contacts with locals and etc. Putting the blame on gays did not work because officially the soviet union had no gays! And even when they caught some, it did not look credible.
The history went wrong and now it's forgotten that soviet gays had nothing to do with aids. The tale of gays bringing aids was told so many times that it started to seem the only one. Ehhhh, it's not that simple.
And usa was the origin of this tale, which is upsetting. May be for you the aids pandemic is mostly in the past, but oh boy it's getting only worse for post-ussr space and homophobia rises
My source is the book "Вспышка", Ирина Ролдугина, Катерина Суверина
@brightlotusmoon a perspective of AIDS from the USSR side.
I am hugging everybody.
This is the hill I will die on. What is the point of a government and a society if not for the betterment and sustainability of us all.
happy new year everybody