Hmmm...

[corporationkills]

now who kicked all those springs under the fridge

[zeetannas]

to be honest i think there’s a large number of people who conflate the very real and widespread phenomenon that women tend to be written off as just mothers or love interests in order to diminish their importance in a given story with the fact that a huge reason they’re sent to narrative purgatory in this way is BECAUSE the labels of “mother” and “girlfriend/wife” are systematically devalued and seen as inherently inferior because they’re terms that have been associated with ownership and/or control over women. like the amount of people who’ve told me that a certain female character is uninteresting or badly written because she happened to have a kid or be a man’s girlfriend or sister just to find out she was actually fleshed out very well and carried significant narrative importance frustrates me soo bad. there’s a huge problem with how those roles (specifically “wife” and “mother”) are systematically devalued and yet also perpetuated as the only viable options for women to achieve their societal roles in the patriarchy but acknowledging the devaluation of those labels to begin with is an important discussion in itself.

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

cr 苦瓜

[peppermintquartz]

Drift compatible test

[kilncreatures]

teacup goose horse small size suitable for apartment living

[todaysbird]

had….had someone been punishing them for this?

(source)

[untitledgoosegay]

It's common parrot-keeping advice that you shouldn't let your bird jack off because it can cause/exacerbate hormonal/behavioral issues, which can be unpleasant to deal with at best & stressful or harmful to the bird at worst. So, not "punishing" in the extreme sense, but taking away any particular object of affection, or interrupting them when they start getting frisky. [Skimming the article it says some vets even recommend surgical intervention?! which is nuts, I've never heard of that.]

I think there's probably a correlation/causation issue happening; i.e., masturbating is associated with hormonal issues, but as a symptom, not a cause.

Purely anecdotally, I've had one bird who jacked off on the corner of his cage pretty routinely, and never had any problems; and one bird who doesn't jack off (as far as I've seen/heard), but who flies into hormonal/territorial rages for a few days at a time, which nobody likes (we're working on it). So. Shrugs

[todaysbird]

interesting! maybe I’ve been spoiled by getting to work with so many “parrot people” who truly get birds - I’ve known many birds who exhibited these behaviors, and they never had their, uh, tools taken away or were punished for some self loving. skimming the comments, apparently some people were instructed to punish their birds for masturbating; glad we’re all learning something from this piece

[purpledragonwarhound]

Consider a dragon so good at sneaking the only indication you get that she’s interested in what you’re cooking, or is even in the room, is a snout poking into your peripheral vision, followed by sniffing and a curious trill.

[purpledragonwarhound]

…consider a dragon so good at anxiety that when you jump out of your skin with surprise she gets scared and jumps as well and puts 4 horn shaped holes in the ceiling… sorry ;>>

[hemipenal-system]

dangling. stuck. not funny. get a ladder and pull her horns out please

[xtec]

"you're just fucking the hints guy for hints"

-guy who's fucking the save guy for saves

[urmumsbriskit]

Am I missing extremely important context

[xtec]

Sounds like you should've fucked the hint guy

[importantdogimages]

[byjove]

if someone gets killed by a grizzly bear or a polar bear it’s like “Damn, that’s unfortunate. Luck of the draw.” but if someone gets killed by a black bear you’re like “What did they do to that bear to make it that angry?”

[byjove]

Grizzly bears? You’re usually fine if you’re minding your business but every once in a while one of them decides to go on a killing spree Sankebetsu brown bear incident style and that can’t be prevented in all circumstances. Polar bears? If it wants to kill you, it will decide to kill you and then do it, not your choice. But black bears? My uncle has been chasing the same bear around his property for years Looney Tunes style with no casualties on either end, what the fuck do you have to do to a black bear to make it want to kill you if chasing one with a broom after it was picking your apples does not provoke them to violence?

[transthatmasc]

Supernatural is very quotable, but unfortunately the best lines are “you gotta go be gay for that poor dead intern” and “freedom is a length of rope. God wants you to hang yourself with it.”

They encompass the full spectrum of the show from a complex interrogation of religion and free will to satirical borderline homophobic comedy.

[hemipenal-system]

Reverse Sphinx who has a (toned and muscular) human body with a lioness head and she just bluntly tells you facts

[hemipenal-system]

you tell her you think she’s hot (she is) and she just goes, flatly, “you would have a bad time fucking me. my tongue is very rough and would hurt your skin” (she’s right but you probably don’t care)

[tossawary]

Rewatching the original "The Little Mermaid" animated movie while working on something else... I can't quite recall at the moment (early into it atm) if this movie ever establishes Eric as the heir of the throne of his kingdom.

I think it'd be really funny if Eric was actually a younger brother. So, like, maybe he's a duke, actually, but he still gets the title of Prince. Travels the sea a lot, unlike a more landlocked heir. Hanging out at this summer seaside palace while the rest of the family is elsewhere for some reason.

Like, imagine Eric's parents and older brother and maybe sister-in-law and niblings getting that letter at the end of this movie. Nearly drowned. Miraculously washed ashore. Fell in love with a mysterious voice and then a mute girl. Got enchanted by a shape-shifting sea witch and nearly married her. Killed the sea witch after she turned into a giant. Married the aforementioned girl who turned out to be the beloved youngest daughter of the mythical King Triton instead and have now established a strong alliance with the merpeople. Wild summer! Wish you were here!

[nihilisticlinguistics]

adulthood notes:

The Rodeo Rule: you only have to do it for the first time once.

The Rohan Rule: if you are at a social function full of new people and you want to be liked, find someone doing important work like setup or food prep and offer to help.

The Tutorial Mode Rule: to navigate an unfamiliar situation where you fear you will mess up an interaction, preface the interaction by mentioning that you've never done this before, and let them know if you have a specific concern or question.

The Rocket Science Rule: most new things you want to try seem very complicated but are simple when taken step by step.

The [X] Will Remember That Rule: if you need to make small talk with the same person on a regular basis, try to save one fact or current event in their life from a given conversation and bring it up next time you talk.

The Cool Binder Rule: by wearing clothes and accessories that are to your taste instead of trying to blend in, people will be more likely to compliment you and show interest in you as a person.

[the-haiku-bot]

The Rodeo Rule:

you only have to do it

for the first time once.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[rosemehdee]

hurting ur friend with a really sad headcanon like 

[glassshine]

[earhartsease]

so our friend who goes by Irregular Joe in robot wars circles has crafted The Luggage, who is "a 13.6kg sportsman featherweight"

just look at it go!!!!

sound on, by the gods

[discworld-heritage-posts]

Discworld Heritage Post

[retropopcult]

Cosplayers at a Star Trek Convention, 1976

[foone]

in this house we have endless respect for cosplayers from the days before VCRs.

You couldn’t just rewatch the episode to look at all the details of the costume. You got lucky with press photos showing up in magazines or you just watched the episode/movie while sketching furiously

[silencedrowns]

thinking about that one woman who made a Star Wars flight suit in 1977 entirely from trading cards and sketching details in the theater. or stories I’ve heard about old school Trek cosplayers getting the bizarre seam placements right by photocopying magazines onto overhead transparencies and projecting them onto butcher paper.

I’m a semi old school cosplayer (started in 2001) so some of the old school techniques are still things I learned on (I’ve sketched from stuttering VHS tapes on pause and used the overhead transparency trick)… what we have access to now for costume recreation blows what they had out of the water just in terms of reference material, let alone specialty costume supplies like thermoplastics and cosplay wigs.

[meeedeee]

That Star Wars fan who made the flight suit from trading cards and movie sketches is TJ Burnside and she is still with us. In fact, I am adding to her Fanlore page with info about the flight suit (and how it went viral on Twitter and Redditt a few years back). Fanlore.org, is a fan run fandom history wiki. Stay tuned.

Her (sadly) barebones Fanlore page is here: https://fanlore.org/wiki/T.J._Burnside

[itheginger]

this is her! she was 16 at the time