Tales and Rantings of a Showghoul

33. she/they. Queer. Autistic. Biologist. Teacher. Feminist. Socialist. Activist. Showghoul. Vulture.

[lunasalix]

Anyone remember this iconic moment?

[portraitoftheoddity]

My favorite part of youtube is the part of it that is middle-aged-to-old guys with zero production value who have made a simple, low-quality video on their phones about how to repair the exact fucking appliance that has been giving me grief so I can fix that fucker myself instead of spending hundreds of dollars to hire someone.

These men are all my honorary uncles and I love them.

[sandersstudies]

“They’re just looking for attention.”

Oh, a human being is seeking a social response? Human being, the social animal wired to make and track social connection? A human desires the vital blood that permitted their species to survive for millennia? The human being who was born completely helpless and primed in every way by nature to seek attention and help from their community?

Wow that’s crazy. How embarrassing. Humiliating even. Should we isolate them from community? Should we call Wire Mother?

[unconditionedconsciousness]

[shakespearesdaughters]

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

[staticwaffles]

ANDOR: 2x08 "WHO ARE YOU?" (2025) // ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

[patrick-stewart]

I am hopeful that those of you who know me will vouch for my credibility in the days to come. I stand this morning with a difficult message... ANDOR | 2.09

[starwarsfangirl]

Today’s lies about the murder of Alex Pretti in Minneapolis

[melodramas]

With 16 nominations, Sinners makes history as the most Oscar-nominated film of all time.

[mysharona1987]

[manykinsmen]

“men can’t be oppressed” -> men of colour

“white men can’t be oppressed” -> gay men

“heterosexual men can’t be oppressed” -> trans men

“cis-het men can’t be oppressed” -> intersex men

“perisex men can’t be oppressed” -> disabled men

“able-bodied men can’t be oppressed” -> neurodivergent men

“cis-het perisex white able-bodied neurotypical men can’t be oppressed” -> buddy let me tell you about wealth and class and homelessness and immigrants and minority languages and cultures and being a child and being an elderly person and and and

we can keep doing this all day but the reality of the world is that very few people don’t face any kind of oppression at all and everyone exists in a complicated, intersecting web where they have privileges over some people in some contexts and some others are have privilege over them in other contexts. no one individual is incapable of enacting oppression and if you think that about yourself you need to go away and interrogate that belief.

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

re: that recent post an interesting thing about being an any pronouns user is that most cishet people will hear that and immediately go "oh thank god I can just call you the normal girl pronouns" and many queer people will go "okay got it I'll use they/them and apologize if I ever fuck up and use a different one" and it's like. okay. you're actually both kind of whiffing it in different ways.

[beatainfernaluz]

Art by Roberto Díaz

[skinny-dipping-sasquatch]

Reblog daily for health and prosperity.

[extrafabulouscomics]

[jellogram]

Any conspiracy theory about people going missing in National Parks is automatically silly to me. Like "Why are National Parks such a hotbed of disappearances???" because they're full of idiots. You've got thousands of people who've never pissed outdoors in their life wandering around the woods/desert/mountain with zero experience and zero gear and zero understanding that this place can kill them. You don't see as many disappearances in wild areas because people don't go to them unless they have some background knowledge. Whereas you get tour buses full of old folks and suburban families shuttling people into National Parks 365 days a year. If you took the same amount of buffoons and dropped them in the actual wilderness the disappearances would be significantly higher than at the parks. Use your brain.

[jellogram]

Some fun stuff from the notes:

park ranger who has seen people spread bacon grease on their campsite in the hopes of seeing a bear

British person who is appalled that North American national parks kill people

people who lure bison calves away from their mothers to photograph them

a lot of it involves bison

a LOT of it involves people trying to swim in the yellowstone thermal vents

woman who tried to retrieve her dropped cell phone from a pit toilet and FELL IN

Lots of people reminding me that caves are a problem too. I know, I just try to forget that caves exist because I hate them.

Guys who tried to hike the entire length of Florida in flip flops

Someone who approached a bear cub because they thought it was a raccoon

Someone who works at an unspecified national monument and says dead bodies keep turning up at the picnic area (Hello???)

A few Alaskans laughing at everyone

Scottish person who wishes their parks were as effective at killing tourists as ours are

A few NPS staffmembers saying the NPS is far, far too incompetent to wage any sort of large scale conspiracy about disappearances

Several death threats against David Paulides

People accusing me of being Bigfoot (I plead the fifth)

A group who got on a raft in a river assuming it would loop back around... like at a waterpark

Person recalling a time they saw a hiker "saved by monkeys" but did not elaborate on that

BISON

[ghw-archive]

The Dodge Sisters, by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1929