Meret

This tumblr sometimes deals with adult topics. Please come back when you're 18 or older. I'm Meret on AO3. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Meret I don't use ai, and never will!

[meret118]

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[neroushalvaus]

Trevor Noah interviewing Judith “Badass” Heumann

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[neroushalvaus]

I’m glad so many people have discovered Judith “Judy” Heumann through this silly little gif set. I am sorry to say she has died at the age of 75. She was known as the mother of disability rights. In 1970 she sued the Board of Education to become a licensed teacher and she won. In 1977 she was one of the organizers of the 504 Sit-in, a 24 day protest for disability rights. You can learn more about her story from her book Being Heumann, the picture book Fighting for YES! or the documentary Crip Camp.

Judy Heumann believed in the inherent value of each disabled individual and would never back down on what she thought was right. Her friends and fellow activists remember her as a strong leader.

Judy Heumann

December 18, 1947 - March 4, 2023

May her memory be for a blessing.

[a-stray-thief]

So obviously Ilya will never let go of his grudge against Montreal. He will make it his personal mission to humiliate them every time they play, total shutouts while getting a hat trick himself, grind them into dust, obliterate their will to live etc etc. But even after he retires he won’t stop hating on Montreal. Trash talking them every chance he gets, whether the podcast he’s invited on is about hockey or the newest season of Drag Race. He’ll support every team that plays against them, frequently wearing a shirt saying I love the Centaurs and whoever beats the Metros. And Ilya’s still going to show up to Ottawa home games when they’re playing Montreal in thirty years and you just know the team will not disappoint him. Ilya fucking Rozanov, number one draft pick, five time Stanley Cup winner, husband of Thee Shane Hollander, bringer of glory to Ottawa, Russian menace now winning Olyampic gold for Canada, the fucking legend himself is in the stands so you better believe the Cens are going to crush the Metros. The Centaurs become the Metros’ Angstgegner (a delightful German sports term that means fear opponent). And you know how North American sports are rife with superstitions and curses. It takes a few seasons for the talk of a curse to go around. In the beginning the Metros just accept they’re a shit team without Hollander—the front office calls it rebuilding—and then once they have a decent roster again, they’re still playing against Hollanov in Ottawa who are dominating the East and winning the Conference finals almost every year. But then once they retire, the Metros still can’t win against Ottawa. At least not in Ottawa. They play there twice a season. The first season post Hollanov retirement is fine, Ottawa is still a great team, but then the years drag on and still Montreal does. Not. Win. In Ottawa. The fans acknowledge it first. They chased Hollander from the city and pissed off the queer hockey gods and now they’re punished forever. The players believe it too, though they think Rozanov hired an etsy witch to curse them or made a deal with the Baba Yaga herself. The way he’s glowering at them from the box at the games, maybe Rozanov is a Baba Yaga.

Eventually, to break the curse—although no one says out loud that’s why they’re doing this even though everybody knows that’s why they’re doing this—the Metros have a ceremony where they retire Shane’s number and hang his jersey in the rafters. The fans turn out in the thousands. There’s public viewing. They lay down rainbow symbols in front of the Bell Centre as offerings for forgiveness. They build effigies of Ilya but instead of burning them, they decorate them with flower crowns and wrap them in the bi pride flag. Shane attends the ceremony and he brings Ilya. Shane gives a short, conciliatory speech while Ilya smugly glares at everyone in attendance. The next game in Ottawa, Ottawa wins again. Someone suggests the Metros should also retire Rozanov’s number. The idea gains traction on social media but the front office decides to take further losses rather than embarrass themselves like that, because surely, at some point, the Metros will win in Ottawa again, right? right???

[meret118]

The jellyfish that never dies | BBC Earth

When the medusa (the drifting, balloon stage) of the immortal jellyfish Turritopsis dohrnii dies, it sinks to the ocean floor and begins to

Jellyfish start their lives as larva, tiny cigar shaped creatures that spiral through the water, looking for a rock or something handy to attach itself to. Once firmly in place, the larva metamorphoses into a polyp, rather like a tiny sea anemone. Colonies of these polyps are created as the polyp clones itself which means a colony can cover an entire boat dock in a matter of days. Some types of polyp form huge shrub-like bushes. When the conditions are right, these polyps bloom in vast numbers and when they bloom, what buds from the polyp are baby jellyfish.

If the start of jellyfish life wasn’t extraordinary enough, its death is where things get really exciting. When the medusa the immortal jellyfish (Turritopsis dohrnii) dies, it sinks to the ocean floor and begins to decay. Amazingly, its cells then reaggregate, not into a new medusa, but into polyps, and from these polyps emerge new jellyfish. The jellyfish has skipped to an earlier life stage to begin again.

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Peak evolution. None of this endless cycle of needing to eat, exercise, get clean, and sleep. Just going with the flow for eternity.

[hyphenemdash]

ilya rozanov counts shane hollander’s freckles because he is obsessed with them

shane hollander counts ilya rozanov’s moles because he’s deeply anxious about skin cancer

[nealashitposts]

A year or so ago I went to wood carving club with a bruised eye from my dog slamming his nose into my eyesocket and like every old lady there pulled me aside at some point to ask if my partner hit me here are some of the solutions they had in case he did.

-Replacing his vitimens with poision

- getting her brother to invite him out onto his boat and then killing him and dumping him in the ocean and saying he got drunk and fell off.

- get tboned with him in the passenger seat and then once he was in the hospital theres all kinds of easy ways to kill him like not washing my hands after a poop and then touching his wound casually.

-replacing his drink of choice with moonshine!?

- take him on a hike thats locally notorious for a rapid otter attacking hikers and once he had rabies I could just kill him any ol way and say self defense.

-One lady just cheerfully informed me she had a gun and only a few years left anyway

[janedrewfinally]

Accurate tags:

#and this is why no-fault divorce brings down the murder rate

[thorn-amidst-roses]

Small realization about the framing of the two shows

Interview with the Vampire, given from Louis’ perspective, almost always shows Lestat as put together and beautiful, sometimes scary

So far, The Vampire Lestat, given from Lestat’s perspective, shows him as kind of a sloppy mess and sometimes ugly and kind of pathetic

I’m really enjoying this visual translation of the source material, the details are crazy

[lesbianshepard]

if an archaeologist says an artifact was probably for “ritual purposes” it means “i have no fuckin clue”

but if they say it was for “fertility rituals” they mean “i know exactly what it was for but i dont want to say ‘ancient dildo’”

[thecringeandwincefactory-deacti]

Back in the day I worked at a certain very famous and very high caste art museum in the US as a junior curator. Part of my job was to catalog the objects in the museum database. This includes details like provenance, measurements, and a visual description of what the object looked like.

Like I said, the museum was a pretty snotty institution. It’s got a LOT of objects it’s way famous for possessing, but nobody knew about the absolutely massive collection of Moche erotic pottery it had because the curators were totally embarrassed by this stuff.

Some examples:

Pretty hot shit, right? They never, ever put any of this stuff on public view or published it in any catalogues but - we legit had like several hundred pieces of Moche ceramics in the “dirty pots” category. Anyway, I was left alone to just do my job with regard to the database for several years, ok? And I figured, well, these’re accessioned objects in the museum’s collection - better get down to bidness. 

I catalogued every goddamn bestiality, necrophiliac, cocksucking, buttfucking, detached penis, and giant vulva drinking cup in that collection. I’d be like, 

A drinking vessel in form of a standing man wearing a tunic and cap. He holds an oversized erection in his hands and stares into the distance (note I did not say “like he’s hella-constipated”). The vessel has a hole at both the tip of the penis as well as around the rim of the figure’s head, thus forcing the drinker to drink only from the penis or risk spilling wine all over themselves from the top of the vessel. Red and orange slip covers the surface of the piece.

Pretty straightforward, right? Apparently the deep seated fear of these objects that the curators exhibited was meant to spread to me as well, but - no one ever gave me that memo, because I guess Midwesterners reproduce asexually. When the curators understood that I had catalogued all of these objects in addition to the other, non-sexy pieces in the collection, they were apparently livid, but knew they had no legs to stand on in terms of getting pissed at me for it. 

I visited the museum’s online public access database a few years back and - every single description I wrote of these pieces has been totally neutered to say something like Male figural vase. 

Long story short? Just call a dildo a fucking dildo. It’s all gonna be ok, I swear.

[workfornow]

This is absolutely the MOST unusual reblog I have ever tagged with what is probably my second-favorite tag, “talk to me about your work.”

Plus it’s hilarious.

[cloudfreed]

I love ancient art history !!!!!

[clockshunddachshund]

@lowercasetrashwriter

[scrimblobimblobadimbo-deactivat]

Museums should have sections dedicated to artifacts like these with a warning that says “There’s a lot of private parts in here but we’re dedicated to displaying history so we won’t censor these. Enter at your own risk” or something. It’s prudish to deliberately hide history because of some ding dongs.

[dovewithscales]

Fucking Puritanism.

Unpopular opinion: Sex exists. Making body parts taboo is both psychologically bad for us and kinda stupid.

[waywren]

when i went to the travelling Pompeii exhibit a few years ago it was nice to have a section just gently sectioned off with all the fun phalloi and graffiti. they had a warning on it, but they ALSO had a warning on the ‘hey this is where the simulated eruption happens, if you have trouble with flashing lights or loud noises let us know so we can show you the shortcut’ bit, and I appreciated both.

[penandinkprincess]

"ummm actually that wouldn't happen because-" playing!!! i am playing!!! come play with me!!! i even set up the sandbox with extra shovels!!! don't smack the barbie out of my hands!!

we are doing improv!! pick up a blorbo and yes and with me!!

[tiktoksgay]

[youweremovingyourfeet]

god i know i've said this before somewhere on this blog but I cannot get over Ilya's dress shirt. The weight and opaque white of the fabric, the tiny black buttons, the complete absence of wrinkles, the double fabric layer above the waistband of the pants for a crisper look, the collar, the perfect armscye placement. you can tell that ilya cares about his appearance and picked that suit with care.

and then you can also tell that mr. nordstrom off the rack does not yet employ a stylist lmao

[meret118]

Ilya should help him shop for clothes.

[hollandcr]

Thinking about "Oh, so this is my fault?" and how that never really feels like it gets resolved (at least not in season 1) and it's making me sick

I love them both so so much but I also could not blame Ilya for feeling genuinely hurt by that. I need to talk about it someone talk to me about it!!

[gayhockeyshowenjoyer]

this feels like an instance of their classic style of miscommunication to me. like what shane is trying to say is that he probably would have told his parents he's gay by now if he was just normal gay and not fucking-his-arch-rival gay. he might've told them by now if there was any chance of him having a relatively normal gay dating life. but he knows that there's no chance of that. bc of ilya. i think he hesitates so much to agree that it's ilya's fault bc its not like he blames ilya for this. but like yeah i guess technically you are the reason so in that sense its kinda your fault.

but i can also totally see ilya taking this as meaning something more like "i haven't told them because I'm ashamed of you. I'm ashamed to be with you and i don't ever want my parents to have any reason to even suspect we could be together." because thats closer to the narrative ilya has been telling himself. that he's unlovable. that shane would never want him or want to be with him for real. that he couldn't possibly fit into shanes perfect little life. taking to heart that this is his fault might actually just solidify for him the place that he thinks he occupies with shane. that he's the villain in this story who seduced the golden boy of hockey and ruined his life.

and while thats upsetting to say the least, in their usual style of miscommunication this will never come up again. at least not directly. because shane doesn't know that ilya took it that way. and ilya doesn't do anything more to illuminate that for him. so they both just come out of it with very different ideas of what was actually communicated in that conversation.

[hollandcr]

Yes I think this is it exactly!! It very clearly hurts Ilya based on how he withdraws and how he kind of works his jaw for a second. I know that's not at all what Shane meant but I think he probably wasn't expecting Shane to agree when he said that? And idk, leaves so much space for hurt to fester.

And all this while Ilya’s wearing those fuckass shorts.

[gayhockeyshowenjoyer]

and MY GOD the fuckass shorts...

[acexualien]

Things NOT To Say To People On The Asexual Spectrum

❗️CW: aphobic comments❗️

What are YOU sick of hearing/reading?

❣️ If you've ever asked invasive questions similar to these, this is your chance to reflect and do better in the future 💪🏼😊

💡 (These are just a few examples of possible replies to invasive questions and rude remarks. You can always rephrase them according to your situation.)

[thoselovelythings]

[bee-a-ts]

the bi/pan alliance and the aro/ace alliance in my city did the funniest possible thing for pride today

[7pleiades7]

Glorious pink roses spilling through the Merton railings into Deadman's Walk, Oxford

[indelicateink]

“No, your eyes did not deceive you — Jarda, Lestat's bumbling body double, is also played by Sam Reid. If you couldn't tell that it was Reid under all that VFX makeup, consider it a mission accomplished.

"‘That's the dream, isn't it, that you don't want people to recognize him?’ Reid tells TVLine. ‘We do have a little bit of prosthetics to try and distort me a bit, but he exists for a reason.’

“Reid admits that when showrunner Rollin Jones first pitched the idea of him playing Jarda, the actor was hesitant to take on the dual role, fearing that ‘it could go so badly.’

"‘It's such a fine line, and I'm really grateful for the editing and all of that which allows me to walk on the thinnest edge imaginable to hold him together,’ Reid says. ‘He's a wild character.’"

“Adds Jones, ‘We have so much on the cutting room floor that is gold. I'm trying to figure out how to get it out there.’”

The Vampire Lestat Team Answers Our Burning Questions About Gabriella, Sam Reid's Dual Role, And More — Grade The Premiere! - TVLine

The stars and EPs of The Vampire Lestat answer TVLine's burning questions about that game-changing premiere... and what we can expect from t

[meret118]

"Lestat isn't like Louis," executive producer Hannah Moscovitch tells TVLine of the show's narrative shift. "He doesn't not remember big chunks of his own experience, so there is a difference between how their subjectivities work in the show. Lestat's version of not dealing with his own memories is just to go forward and to not think about any of it. Then he starts to do art, and then all of his memories of his 265 years start to come out of him. Art is undoing him. It's making him understand and see himself. And all of that happens. That's like his version of subjectivity, whereas Louis' was more like, he doesn't see it, he won't look at it, or he misremembers it.

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Thanks for posting this! I thought this was interesting.