The Pan with a Plan

Christian, Virgo, INFP, Demigirlflux (she/they/literally anything except he/his or it/its), The world may not care, but I've decided to anyway out of spite James 5:1-6

[hun9rybug]

I can't keep track of the record number of exes in this game so I made myself a chart, enjoy

[cyberspadeling]

i like to think that queen prefers to wear suits or pants. i LOVE all the art of her where she's fancy and regal in a stunning dress!! however in my mind her style is ... i can't explain it with words but please see my vision right here

[sartieparty]

so i remember i saw an au where tenna was a dreemurr, but i cant find the artist who this au belonged to so sorry- but then i thought what if queen was a holiday! so here are the results idk

[janusfnc14]

She would be both the Coolest and Most Insufferable Aunt Ever and I would LOVE to have her as my Aunt. Noelle, if you don’t want her can I have her?

[ooliecat]

doesn't matter if you're glooby, gay, or dumb. youmatter.

original tweet

[meandtheyeehaws]

i like berdley :]

[cupiidzbow]

there’s a notion I’ve seen people spread that I don’t like when it comes to deltarune human designs ( I don’t think it’s wrong to see the monsters as white bc I sure do for a few of them ). but when people hc characters as black ( say specifically Noelle + berdly ) people jump to “oh! Well Noelle can’t be black, she’s a corny preppy rich girl!” “Berdly can’t be black, he’s and annoying nerd.” What makes you think black people cant act like this 😭

Do you think being rich and living in the suburbs + being nerdy and corny is white exclusive traits 😭 do you think being silly or geeky or dainty and soft are traits black people cant have 😭 like it really shows that people think of certain personalities as “white default” and if a black person acts that way its unrealistic . I think you need to unpack what you think a black person should behave like for you to think this way 😭😭😭😭

[hustlerose]

Thought you ought to read this. It’s a callout post for Steven Universe. 

[christianstepmoms]

“did you just shoot precum at me?”

[checkyourasianbias]

[creatingblackcharacters]

Shit, the way things are going, racial slurs, racist jokes, and the N word have become socially acceptable too. The bar, already in hell, has gone lower and still!

[unamusedyams]

at least atem did his fucked up mind games for poetic justice jevil is def doing it for funsies

[creekfiend]

a funny thing about having conversations with people within institutions (academic in this case but also others) about gatekeeping, is that you end up having a conversation over and over in which you're like, "hey this alligator spike pit moat you have erected around your institution is keeping a lot of people out," and they're like, "well *I* navigated the alligator spike pit moat just fine," and you're like, "right. by dint of us having this conversation, you within the institution and me without, it is understood that you navigated the alligator spike pit moat. due to that being an inherent requirement of entering the institution," and they're like, "I don't think you understand the prestigious history of our alligator spike pit moat," and you're like, "is there a reason why there needs to be an alligator spike pit moat encircling the concept of higher education?" and they're like, "look, the alligator spike pit moat isn't for everyone. some people just aren't cut out for the alligator spike pit moat :)" and you're like, "right, yeah, like disabled people and people coming from poverty or unstable home environments or underserved communities or people dealing with difficult to navigate life events like pregnancy or abuse or prison or addiction or the death of a loved one, for example" and they're like, "how dare you imply that we are keeping those people out on purpose. it's their own problem if they can't wrestle the alligators and avoid the spikes while also disabled and/or poor and/or pregnant etc" and you're like, "well that seems evil," and they're like, "it sounds like maybe you're just bitter about the alligator spike pit moat because of your totally random individual experience with ONE bad alligator spike pit moat. have you considered therapy?" and you're like, "did you know that there's some patterns here in terms of how y'all are handling this stuff?" and they're like, "actually yes. we even have a department of alligator spike pit studies :)" and you're like, "that's great, how do I get access to and participate in those conversations?" and they're like, "well firstly you must cross the alligator spike pit moat"

[creekfiend]

if you can document that you have a medical condition that might make it challenging for you to navigate the alligator spike pit moat, they'll give you an extra 20 minutes to complete your navigation of the alligator spike pit moat

[creekfiend]

IMPORTANT: any injuries incurred as a result of navigating the alligator spike pit moat will be the sole responsibility of the injured parties. once you leave, the people who made you navigate the alligator spike pit moat and the institution that installed the alligator spike pit moat will never contact you again. except sometimes to ask you for more money.

[creekfiend]

iiiiii love this framing, you're so right

[ismisesionnachan]

Some thoughts I had in response to this post:

A great many people who crossed the same alligator spike pit moats as me told me it's wasn't that bad, and then casually revealed they were gifted grandpa's spike-proof suit and had alligator-charming lessons starting in toddlerhood, and mom's map of the spike layout to study. They thought this was normal, and genuinely believed they had navigated the alligator spike pit moat without an unusual amount of assistance.

As a corollary, the alligator spike pit moat does not, in fact, weed out unserious and/or terminally mediocre individuals, because many of those people have been gifted alligator-grappling tools and spike-resistant boots. Alligators and spikes deter a great many enthusiastic, hardworking, and talented people who don't have a bunch of fancy protective gear and extensive training in alligator spike pit navigation.

As a second corollary, I am very grateful for the unusual amount of assistance I received in crossing the alligator spike pit moat.

A disturbing number of people did, in fact, acknowledge that the alligator spike pit moat was intended to keep people like me away from people like them and loudly expressed their displeasure that I was not eaten by alligators. One of them used the word 'besmirch'.

An equally disturbing number of people have attempted to use my successful navigation of the alligator spike pit moat as proof that my kind are not being kept out on purpose-- if I navigated it, everyone else is clearly just being lazy. Many of these people seemed to hope that my adventure in the alligator spike pit moat would make me see their point of view re: the alligator spike pit moat being necessary to ensure meritocracy bootstraps were happening in a meritorious and bootstrappy manner. It did the opposite.

TLdr: I have two STEM degrees from institutions known for the viciousness of the alligators and sharpness of the spikes in their alligator spike pit moats. This is not sour grapes. Fuck the alligator spike pit moat.

[haveyoulistenedtothispodcast]

Have you listened to The Hotel (2018-2025)?

Yes

Partially

No

Never heard of it

Remaining time: 6 days 4 hours

Summary:

It's not haunted... It's not hell... It's THE HOTEL!

From five star resorts down to seedy motels, each episode the Hotel changes her shape and a new guest checks in with The Manager, The Lobby Boy, and The Owner. Good and bad, innocent or guilty, Hotel policy is no one is turned away, and no one checks out. Not even the staff, old and new.

[the-quasar-hero]

Man who hates the very concept of life and all living beings: I should design portal websites for colleges and job applications

[lunammoon]

Admittedly I'm very eu pilled, but here's my theory.

Kuruk died young, and the reason why he died young was that Yangchen screwed up the balance by taking the side of mortals over spirits, even when spirits were in the right.

Spirit promises a village bountiful crops as long as they don't expand into a certain field. Villagers keep the promise for a bit, and then expand. The spirit gets angry at the destruction of its home. Yangchen's scolds/fights/the spirit.

Kuruk didn't want to ask for help and taint Yangchen's legacy.

So what I think happened, was that someone made a pact or a bargain or an oath with spirits. It was broken. Rather that defend whomever violated the oath the way Yangchen would have, Korra just took a step back.

[lunammoon]

So I think- Korra is blamed for what happened, because whatever happened was something she could have intervened with, but in the name of balance, she didn't.

[lunammoon]

Admittedly I'm very eu pilled, but here's my theory.

Kuruk died young, and the reason why he died young was that Yangchen screwed up the balance by taking the side of mortals over spirits, even when spirits were in the right.

Spirit promises a village bountiful crops as long as they don't expand into a certain field. Villagers keep the promise for a bit, and then expand. The spirit gets angry at the destruction of its home. Yangchen's scolds/fights/the spirit.

Kuruk didn't want to ask for help and taint Yangchen's legacy.

So what I think happened, was that someone made a pact or a bargain or an oath with spirits. It was broken. Rather that defend whomever violated the oath the way Yangchen would have, Korra just took a step back.

[avatarcompanion]

[dragon-in-a-fez]

doctor: cure is simple. go see clown

chronically ill patient: but doctor, I'm seeing a clown right now and he's not helping

[dragon-in-a-fez]

the intended reading of this joke is that the doctor is being called a clown, but I also like people's alternate readings in the notes where a) the patient's partner is a clown, figuratively or literally, or b) the patient is hallucinating a clown everywhere they go

[poetrylesbian]

[poetrylesbian]

[terpsikeraunos]

Women have consistently earned a larger share of humanities degrees than men, but the humanities constitute a diminishing proportion of the

Women currently earn the majority of advanced degrees in the humanities. This has been the case at the master’s degree level since 1970 and

sources for gender distribution of classics degrees

[archaeologistproblems]

Archaeologist problems: Women (in the US at least, likely similar in many other countries) currently earning 70% of recent archaeology degrees, but still being forced to listen to some random guy's (uncited and unfounded) sea peoples theories.