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are you interested in getting married and /or having children
no marriage, no children
yes marriage, no children
yes marriage, yes children
no marriage, yes children
NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 3 POLL 51
TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?
Sylvain Jose Gautier (Fire Emblem)
Yue Qingyuan/Yue Qi (The Scum Villain’s Self-Saving System)
PROPAGANDA:
[Sylvain]
"Those big sad honey brown cow eyes are full of complex feelings about family and have bewitched a corner of the fan base frothing at the mouth to get him pregnant (Definitely wouldn't fix him but it might calm the skirt chasing down if the other party sticks around)."
[Yue Qingyuan]
"The Sect Leader should get pregnant because the Sect Leader should be the picture of fertility and virility both, boost the usage of male child-bearing pills, and because the whole Sect would go crazy trying to find out who's the baby daddy. I think Yue Qingyuan could benefit from having to raise a child of his own instead of managing disciples, because Yue Qingyuan no longer has a family of his own and deserves one, and this way, perhaps he'd be forced to care about another person again. His strong and qi-rich body would also have an easy pregnancy and have a strong and happy child."
babe wake up ao3 came up with the only funny april fools joke in the history of the world
The blog post is pretty great too.
a while ago I read an omegaverse fic where part of the premise was that the guy had like, abnormally long and intense heats, which as you can imagine was used for horny reasons. but it was a fairly grounded omegaverse setting as far as it goes, and I could not stop thinking "he has pornworld endometriosis and needs to see an ΩBGYN"
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NEED👏THAT👏MAN👏PREGNANT *SEASON TWO* ROUND 1 POLL 202
TUMBLR! Who's getting pregnant?
Adam Faulkner-Stanheight (Saw)
Sylvain Jose Gautier (Fire Emblem)
PROPAGANDA:
[Adam]
"What better way to get him to stop smoking? He has tboy swag and he deserves it. He'd be a cute papa even if he has issues. <3"
[Sylvain]
"Those big sad honey brown cow eyes are full of complex feelings about family and have bewitched a corner of the fan base frothing at the mouth to get him pregnant (Definitely wouldn't fix him but it might calm the skirt chasing down if the other party sticks around)."
When my son was about to turn two, strangers would offer condolences. There’s a collective cultural dread of toddlers, who get described more like animals than people. Kids in their "terrible twos," I was warned, are illogical, unregulated, and feral. "Good luck," people would say. "He'll grow out of it."
I'm lucky: My son is a very easygoing kid. But I remember the first tantrum he threw for me. He was standing by our front door and asked to go outside. So I opened the door and grabbed his shoes. But as soon as he stepped onto the porch, he pointed back into the house.
"Inside," he said.
"Okay," I said. I picked him up and brought him inside.
But as soon as I shut the front door, he pointed outside.
"Outside!" he said.
You know where this is going. We went back and forth, inside and outside, again and again. He got more frustrated. And I got more frustrated. Eventually he wound up straddling the threshold of our house, sobbing. When I tried to comfort him, he screamed at me. "You go wherever you want!" I said. He just got madder. I felt trapped, convinced he’d concocted the whole episode as a pretext to unleash his rage at me. It was ridiculous. I consoled myself with the thought that he was just being a toddler.
But later I kept thinking about him wailing at our front door, one foot inside, one foot outside. His misery wasn't unreasonable, or trivial, or silly. My son was experiencing the agony of wanting two things that were impossible to have at the same time. What a fundamentally human sorrow! My son wasn't being a toddler; he was being a person. Adults may not walk around howling, but that same pain rages within us. In that moment, as a father, I was powerless to solve my son's problem. I told him he could go wherever he wanted, but of course I was wrong. To be where he wanted was impossible.
Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children by Mac Barnett
Bothers me when the distinction between Witch and Wizard is drawn according to gender. The Witch/Wizard distinction is one of class. Wizards live in towers and have cursed artifacts. Witches live in shacks and have crooked teeth.
Both witches and wizards can be evil, of course. But when a witch is evil they turn you into a frog. When a wizard is evil they try to tear a hole in reality or raise an undead army. You don't see witches doing that shit because they're working class.
The witch is looked down upon because they are competition to the hierarchical work of wizardry; they present an alternative to state monopoly on magic.
Absolutely. Witches perform folk magic--you'd never catch a wizard getting overly preoccupied with practical magic like soothing ulcers or curing the flu, but witches are always brewing up stuff for those kinds of reasons.
Magic is like programming. When it's seen as practical and tedious, it's "women's work." When it's seen as academic and intellectual, you get a huge salary and an audience with the king.
I would love to make one post about aotearoa without people bringing up hobbits on it to be so honest with you guys
listen I understand. they're amazing movies and I do think it's awesome that they were filmed here!!!!! but holy shit! it's the only thing anyone seems to be able to talk about when there is ANY discussion of these islands!! I would super love to be able to discuss our ecology, politics, culture, landscapes, and people without needing to hear about hobbiton every single time
I don't knowwww. it shouldn't be a huge deal but at the same time, the image an overwhelming amount of people have of aotearoa comes from those movies. our struggling ecosystems get overshadowed by fields and grassy hills and other non-native biomes that were explicitly chosen to depict the england-inspired fantasy land of middle earth. these same biomes only exist here because english settlers historically slashed and burned massive swaths of forest to create them, and now they're framed as famous and beautiful. mass deforestation of precious native forests. I don't know man. it annoys me juuuuust a little when every other post I make about this place gets a lotr joke plastered on it.
hey, do you have any cool facts about aotearoa i can pivot to when people bring it up in conversation
there are 53 volcanoes in the most populated city in the country
the largest eagle to ever exist (pouākai) was endemic to aotearoa
same with the tallest bird to ever exist (moa)
tuatara is only remaining species in the order sphenodontia and only exists here (for context- the other three extant reptile orders are snakes+lizards, turtles+tortoises, and crocodiles+alligators+caimans)
only two native land mammals and they're both tiny bats
kea is the only alpine parrot on earth
wētāpunga is the heaviest insect on earth
hard to condense into a quick "fun fact" but matariki is an incredibly celebration that has a lot of fascinating history and tradition behind it, totally worth researching!!
less of a fact more of a "check this out" but showing people photos of rotorua's geothermal areas is a favourite of mine
we were the first nation to give women the right to vote in 1893, almost a decade before any other country on earth!
we have the most colourful fungi out of anywhere on the planet!! this is due to our massive abundance of native birds. the fungi mimics the bright colours of fruit, causing birds to eat them!!
I read somewhere that embroidered clothes need to be washed differently. Is this true? I read that right after getting a bunch of embroidery floss to visibly mend some clothes
Washing embroidered clothes
Yup! Check out my post on securing embroidery thread, which includes laundry instructions. My embroidery tag's also a good resource.
Handmade embroidery tends to be fragile, so it's important to properly secure your thread and take good care of the embroidered item. If you don't, you risk for your threads to come loose.
If you're not careful when washing embroidered items, your embroidery threads could get snagged on things like buttons or zippers in the washer.
Try to either wash them by hand (safest), or use your machine's delicate cycle combined with a laundry bag. Always let the item air-dry.
Side note, especially with antique or vintage traditional european folk clothing… sometimes they were made not to be washed at all (heavy color embroidery on a white cloth, gold thread) or to be cleaned with snow during frosty days (woolen thread embroidery). You take your item outside on a freezing winter day, throw copious amount on snow on it, hang it outside and at the end of the day you pat the snow out together with all the dust.
Thank you, that's an interesting addition.
I can confirm the snow technique. One of my family members recreates historical textiles in their spare time, and they occasionally use it to clean their wool items.
(Always make sure the item is completely dry before storing it afterwards to avoid mold.)
Friendly reminder that you're not required to publicly take sides in any geopolitical conflict you don't understand.
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Gentle reminder that very little fandom labor is automated, because I think people forget that a lot.
That blog with a tagging system you love? A person curates those tags by hand.
That rec blog with a great organization scheme and pretty graphics? Someone designed and implemented that organization scheme and made those graphics.
That network that posts a cool variety of stuff? People track down all that variety and queue it by hand, and other people made all the individual pieces.
That post with umpteen links to helpful resources, and information about them? Someone gathered those links, researched the sources, wrote up the information about them.
That graphic about fandom statistics? Someone compiled those statistics, analyzed them, organized them, figured out a useful way to convey the information to others, and made the post.
That event that you think looks neat? Someone wrote the rules, created the blogs and Discords, designed the graphics, did their best to promo the event so it'd succeed.
None of this was done automatically. None of it just appears whole out of the internet ether.
I think everyone realizes that fic writing and fanart creation are work, and at least some folks have got it through their heads that gif creation and graphics and moodboards take effort, and meta is usually respected for the effort that goes into it, at least as far as I've seen, but I feel like a lot of people don't really get how much labor goes into curation, too.
If people are creating resources, curating content, organizing the creations of others, gathering information, and doing other fandom activities that aren't necessarily the direct action of creation, they're doing a lot of fandom labor, and it's often largely unrecognized.
Celebrate fan work!
To folks doing this kind of labor: I see you, and I thank you. You are the backbones of our fandoms and I love you.
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she should have said this in response to every obstacle they faced
Mmm... I know a lot of people think Boothill was some model father who was always there for his daughter etc and they're allowed to think that but I honestly really doubt that... Im not saying he was a deadbeat or anything but that he wasn't as perfect or present as people imagine him to be
Like, Boothill used to be involved with bounty hunts and gunfights on Aeragan-Epharshel and had a separate base away from his family + its kinda implied that bandits and gangs were very common on the planet. It's not exactly a safe environment for a baby, especially when Boothill himself was involved in the violence. I'd say its more accurate to say that his daughter would stay with Nick and Graey (as implied in his character story) and that Boothill would drop by to take care of her and spend time as often as he could
remember in p.e. when they'd take a bunch of insecure teenagers & be like "today we're going to play basketball" and then not teach you how to play basketball. and then put you in a group with guys who were obsessed with basketball and would get mad at you for not knowing how to play basketball. why did they do that