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On this sad day of Roe v Wade being overturned, I encourage all my fellow ovary-havers to take a peaceful walk in a beautiful garden of Queen Ann's lace, mugwort, cohosh, cinnamon, sage, pennyroyal, & cotton root 🍃✨
Knowledge is power. Tend your gardens.
this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????
Real, male bees don’t go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself
googling ‘bee genders’ as I dictate this post
The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that we’re applying the words male and female to them. Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen. The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs. Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage.
Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because they’re all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species. Bees don’t experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense.
diversity win, the freak sneaking into your garden and rubbing themselves all over your flowers does not fit into a human biological or sociopolitical framework of sex and gender!
less “if you see a man and woman together at pride be nice! they could be bi/pan/trans/ace/aro” and more “stop gendering strangers to harass them anywhere, but especially at pride holy shit”
you know what? i want this to reach the people who do this– especially the ones claiming to support trans folk (usually in really hollow ways lol i’m not bitter). keep reblogging– i want this sentiment to be widespread and for people to stop gendering strangers! especially in explicitly LGBTQ+ spaces!
Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?
Are you insinuating that regular pine needles aren’t spicy???
Regular pine needles are regular
Not by rosemary standards
…Have you eaten pine needles?
We’ve been friends for like four years, do you seriously have to ask if I’ve eaten pine needles or not
I mean I’m pretty sure you have but I don’t want to assume
Of course I’ve eaten pine needles. Various kinds. Singleleaf pinyon is weirdly the best
Are they…
spicy?
You know, I’d love to tell you but I’m pretty unclear about what marks the difference between “spice” and “strong-tasting plant that isn’t considered a spice”
I’ll have to eat some pine needles myself then to find out
Ok but it only counts if they’re PINE needles and not just any old needle-like leaf off a tree
I’m going to eat every needle-like leaf I see
Please Don’t Do That
Needle-Like Leaf Roulette
…I’ll accept this plan as long as you promise not to eat any yew leaves.
I can try very hard not to
Pine needles are distinguished by the presence of a sheath-like structure at the base of the leaf, almost always holding bundles of two or more leaves. Yews don’t have the sheath thing
It’s time for me to go out into the woods and stare at needle leaves
Finally you can gain real insight into my average daily life
this conversation reads like two shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief and then are never heard from again
god fucking dammit gimme a minute
Enter AERUH and MALUS SYL-VESTRIS, a pair of JESTERS.
AERUH I tell thee, rosemary is like a pine but with a spicy taste.
MALUS Art thou to claim that needles base of pine have not a spice?
AERUH A needle base of pine is merely base.
MALUS ‘Tis not when held, comparing, to anthos.
AERUH My dearest Malus, needles thou'st eaten?
MALUS How many moons have we as friends seen rise? How many suns have we as friends seen set? Thou sixteen seasons in my heart I’ve held, and hope that I in thine hast been the same. With brotherhood as rich and old as this, thou needst not ask me such frivolities.
AERUH I know thou likely has, to tell the truth, but I would not assume.
MALUS Well, yes, I have. A multitude of types I’ve eaten too. I’ll tell thee now: the best (though it is strange) is single-leaf pinyon.
AERUH And it has spice?
MALUS I truly wish that I could tell thee this, but now, i'faith, I cannot fully tell, the difference in classifying thus: to say “has spice” or merely “herbal strength”.
AERUH To tell this tale most clearly it would seem that eating needles from a pine’s required.
MALUS Aye, it would seem that that’s the task at hand, but caution tells that this is what’s to do: eat only needles of the honest pine, and none of lying leaf with pinelike shape.
AERUH I’ll eat them all.
MALUS I prithee, stay thyself.
AERUH Roulette with leaves.
MALUS At least restrain from yew.
AERUH I’ll do my best.
MALUS That is all can we do. The scholars tell that needles true of pine can be distinguished from the lying yew by sheathlike clothing all along the base; the yew has no such guard.
AERUH With this new truth I now will venture out into the wood and seek the pines and pinelike fakes alike to stare them down and learn their secret truths.
MALUS With this thou canst at long and weary last Discover for thyself my life’s own path.
Exeunt.
Enter MACDUFF.
MACDUFF. Yo dudes that king there’s dead. Like dead as FUCK.
Hey what the fuck this entire thing scans
Holy Shit
100% TRUE
Pro tip: If you copy and paste a link that said “no free articles” into a private/incognito browser, it will let you read the whole thing.
also if u press the “esc” (escape) key on ur laptop before the page fully loads, it won’t load any pop-ups blocking u from reading. if the article has images, then this method sometimes does not u see them. but! the words will be fine :)
If the site is particularly badly designed, you might just be able to delete the overlay itself. Right click > Inspect element and delete the line of HTML (it’ll be highlighted automatically)
hey kids there is a website called outline.com that will let you read from pretty much any news site with a paywall for free
outline.com is amazing - it hasn’t failed yet on any site that I’ve tried it on.
There’s a chrome extension and firefox extension.
forgot to post this here but the inhabit manifesto is quite a sexy read with excellent graphic design. my fave part is the “instructions” section; for those who are already convinced that action is needed, it combines concrete steps with more speculative potential results.
it’s a good starting point for people who are stressed out about climate change/rising fascism but who feel helpless, & also might be nice to share with people who aren’t quite there yet. i enjoy the combination of optimism & determination:
Wellerman but an epic version that sounds like it should be playing in the background of a pirate fight scene
That’s got to be the greatest cover I’ve ever heard
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I love that Leverage really goes out of it’s way to show us that just because you break the ‘rules’, it doesn’t mean you’re breaking the rules. Rules and laws and society are all made up, at the end of the day, and all you really have is your own moral compass and sense of justice; is this just to you? Is it right? Should it be OK for companies to put people in insurmountable debt for the rest of their lives just because our medical care is so expensive in this modern day and age? No law or rule should change what you know in your heart is right and wrong, and I think that’s the key thing that makes someone a good person in my eyes.
#there was a time when parker wouldn’t have noticed, #not because she lacked the capacity to care, #but because she had narrowed herself, #to stay alive she cut off as many unnecessary things as possible, #watching her get them all back, #is one of the glories of this show (via @seananmcguire)
Leverage hands down has the best character development I’ve ever seen.
This scene hit me like a brick. My parents were hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt when I was 16 bc I’d had cancer the year before (my treatment ended up being free but the initial ER bills and such were not).
But somewhere along the line they just… Disappeared. My mom says they’re not being paid and they’re not in collections. It’s almost as if someone out there did…exactly what Parker did.
Ever since I saw this the first time, I’ve imagined it was Parker doing it. That she and Hardison had a free weekend and decided to take it out on a collections agency. That I was one of the lucky ones who got a little Leverage.
Okay but like yeah, that is actually a thing that happens, albeit not exactly like this. I don’t remember the exact process but basically there’s a booming industry to sell peoples debt - the business you owe money to sells it to someone else for a fraction of the money owed, wipes their hands of the whole affair, and now whoever bought your debt is riding your ass to get you to give the money to the. But it’s also entirely possible for people to just… buy up massive amounts of debt for pennies on the dollar, and then just. Forgive it. Because capitalism is a living nightmare, but the system is broken enough that it’s possible to exploit it for good sometimes.
Like, the main reason I know about this is because John Oliver did a piece on debt buying a few years ago, and ended it by revealing that he’d bought 15 million dollars worth of medical debt just so he could forgive all of it. Both to expose how broken the system was because some random fucker like him could buy millions of dollars in peoples debt with zero regulations, and also just to take the record for biggest TV giveaway in history.
A charity where you can do this, right here.
Be Parker!
RIPMedicalDebt was created by John Oliver to do that giveaway. They’re amazingly effective and efficient with donations
Can confirm! This is what happened to a lot of my college debt, I suspect. I don’t pay it, haven’t paid any of it, no one has called or asked me about it, and it has seemingly disappeared!
Stop demonizing riots.-@zellieimani
The main contradiction of liberal democracy is that it has largely been shaped through a history of various forms of illegal civil disobedience against entrenched power structures. Such civil disobedience is (retrospectively) seen as justified, and the people committing it are (retrospectively) seen as heroes…but each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.
each successive generation is asked to believe that any further civil disobedience would be unreasonable.
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”— Mignon McLaughlin
how many times do we have to say “you will never ever be able to tell with 100% certainty who is and isn’t trans in any given group of people unless they all individually want to tell you and policy based around the assumption that you can will fail terribly” before cis people start taking it seriously. just wondering
all of the following are true:
1. some trans people can and do pass very well
2. some trans people cannot or do not want to pass at all
3. pre-transition trans people who look like their AGAB exist
4. intersex people who do and don’t identify as trans both exist
5. pronouns aren’t an indication of gender
6. presentation isn’t an indication of gender
7. gender nonconforming cis and trans people exist
8. sometimes someone’s gender literally just isn’t any of your business
all of these things make it impossible to definitively, 100%, with absolute certainty, tell someone’s gender without them being okay with telling you.
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A little bit worried that witchtok sucked up the life of witch tumblr, so please reblog if you’re an active/practicing witch on tumblr as of July 12, 2021!
Please be POC/LBGT inclusive!!!
Sidenote: I am a beginner closet witch looking to find my path, interested in norse/celtic/hellenic pantheons. But all are welcome and the more folks I can follow, the more knowledge I can gain, and the more people I can meet!
☽☾ Thanks in advance, Blessed Be! ☽☾
Hey there’s this bar in Cheyenne, Wyoming that sells a violent, anti-LGBTQ+ shirt
https://youtu.be/mvB45sOoC6I
This video from Jimmy Snow does a great job of summing up what’s going on, but if you don’t want to/can’t watch the video, here’s a brief summary.
In 1998, an openly gay student, Mathew Shepard, was brutally tortured and murdered in Wyoming. I will not add the details of this murder as it’s incredibly brutal, but if you really want to read about it, here is an article:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-45968606.amp
The death of a gay student, tortured and tied to a prairie fence two decades ago, shocked the world.
As for how this relates to what’s going on in Cheyenne, there’s a bar called The Eagles Nest that sells a shirt that celebrates the murder of LGBTQ+ people and encourages continued violence against us. I will not include and image of it here, but (TW) it says “in Wyoming we have a cure for aids. We shoot fuckin’ f*****s”.
If you are thinking of going to protest the bar, DONT.
It’s a biker bar and you will be putting yourself in extreme danger if you go protest in person.
In his video’s description, Jimmy has the emails of the mayor of Cheyenne, a website to contact Wyoming’s governor, and the email of a guy who runs a tourist website that recommends The Eagles Nest to tourists. If you want to help make a change in a way that doesn’t put yourself in mortal danger, EMAIL THEM!
Here’s the emails and link and some templates you can send:
Contact Domenic Bravo (the one who runs the tourist site)
Will you remove The Eagles Nest from the Visit Cheyenne site (cheyenne.org)? If not, why do you include The Eagles Nest on a tourist site, knowing some tourists will be LGBTQA+ & they will be going to a place where they will be in danger? Do you condone this?
Contact the Mayor
Do you agree with the sentiment on the shirts that were being sold at The Eagle's Nest Bar? Will you make a public statement?
Will you now support an anti-discrimination legislation going through immediately for the state of Wyoming, or just for Cheyenne as the mayor?
Contact the Governor
https://governor.wyo.gov/contact
The bar in question sells merchandise that claims to represent all of Wyoming, saying that in Wyoming you exe*ute queer folk. Do you agree with that sentiment? Do you want LGBTQA+ people who live in Cheyenne to feel safe? Do you want them to visit the state? If yes, is it important to you that they feel safe? Will you support anti discrimination legislation?
And lastly, here’s a link to the Wyoming Equality advocacy group:
https://www.wyomingequality.org/
TL;DR a bar in Cheyenne, Wyoming sells shirts that condone and encourage the killing of LGBTQ+ people, emails and links to make change are included in the post above
I’m gonna be reblogging this semi frequently to try to get the message out to as many ppl as I can
ever think about how beauty and the beast was one big very intentional metaphor for gayness
christine what
howard ashman was a gay man and he was the composer & lyricist for batb. he finished it right before he died of AIDS, and it was dedicated to him. & alan menken who worked with him on the score said that the film was heavily influenced by his experiences/perspectives. he was already sick when he started work on it (which is why he had to be accommodated in that respect and write in new york, because he couldn’t be moved) and he knew he was going to die and that it would be his last work. honestly! there’s so much self-identification in it, biographers in a lot of the articles i’ve read (this one is good) talk a lot about how he had to conceal his gayness to pursue his career successfully. the entire movie is about like…people who are ostracized and isolated, and it’s all about belle showing the beast that he has humanity and he has worth and he’s not the image the townspeople project onto him. and his lyrics in almost every song! like: “it’s a pity and a sin, she doesn’t quite fit in” / “say a prayer, then we’re there at the drawbridge of a castle and there’s something truly terrible inside” / “grab your sword! grab your bow! praise the lord and here we go! we don’t like what we don’t understand. in fact it scares us” and for context this is all on the tail-end of the AIDS crisis when gay men everywhere are dying because nationally their health isn’t considered a priority, and ashman is about to be one of them…it’s so personal, there’s no way it isn’t imo!
An academic by the name of Sean Griffin talks about this in his book on Disney and queer theory, Tinkerbelles and Evil Queens. You’ve mentioned most of it here, but Griffin comments on something else worthy of note: the symbolism of the rose, which parallels impending death and oblivion. Wilting day by day, petal by petal, it mirrors the immune systems of those suffering from AIDS during the 1980s/early 90s. The Beast has a limited amount of time to find love and happiness or he will forever be entombed by his condition. Although he is revived by some magical force, he closes his eyes in death right as the last petal falls.
Griffin mentions the state of the castle’s west wing in conjunction with health decline. The painting of his former self is damaged by his own anger, embarrassment, shame, and loneliness.
Griffin quotes the academic Cynthia Erb, “The visual contrast made between the deteriorated form of the Beast and the painting of him as a beautiful young man possibly sets up a stereotypical opposition between ugliness and beauty … but in this context the ugliness/beauty dyad also supports a tension, crucial to the film’s AIDS allegory, between the issue of having health or not having it" (Erb qtd. in Griffin 134).
Griffin also mentions how “The Mob Song” serves as “a parallel to AIDS panic that many individuals, as well as religious and political groups, expressed during this press of the disease.”
Source: Tinkerbelles and Evil Queens, Sean Griffin.
If The Little Mermaid echoes the coming out process, familial discord, and first romantic pursuits of the gay man, Beauty and the Beast corresponds to his possible subsequent experiences. During the AIDS crisis, this concerned the fear of sickness and/or impending death.
Y’all are fucking idiots if you think a thousand year old fairy tale is a pro-gay message.
It’s not a thousand years old. It started with Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne de Villeneuve (1695-1755) though it has some parallels with The Brothers Grimm The Singing Springing Lark.
Still, obviously it far predates the birth of the gay rights movement and the AIDS epidemic. Y’all reaching like whoa lol.
im not talking about the original story i’m talking about disney’s adaptation and lyrics and narrative choices that are specific to it. y’all know that but you just had to come on my post and bore us all anyway.
ur right tho, historically speaking gays weren’t Out There in the big wide world in the 18th century…we actually all came into being simultaneously when ellen aired in 1994, before then we didn’t exist! good catch
I hate to tel you this but most fairy tales are absolutely about the issues of the day, and those issues have to do with bigotry of all kinds. So yes, the monster in the forest? Almost always a metaphor for the outsider. That witch in the woods? Almost always humans trying to distance themselves from caring for the elderly or women in general.
Fairy tales and folklore aren’t pro-queer, my ASS.
There is LITERALLY a Romanian fairy tale about a princess who spends an entire quest in disguise as a man called Fet-Fruners and then is turned into a man thanks to a hermit’s spell. The hermit intended it as a curse, but the newly-minted man rejoices, since he now feels he is as he was always meant to be. And I quote:
The hermit followed at their heels, but seeing it was impossible to overtake the thief, he fell on his knees and called his most deadly curse down on her head, praying that if the thief was a man, he might become a woman; and if she was a woman, that she might become a man. In either case he thought that the punishment would be severe.
But punishments are things about which people do not always agree, and when the princess suddenly felt she was really the man she had pretended to be, she was delighted, and if the hermit had only been within reach she would have thanked him from her heart.
Fet-Fruners ends up marrying the emperor’s daughter and by all accounts, they live happily ever after. It’s called The Girl Who Pretended To Be A Boy, originally published in Sept Contes Roumains and later collected by Andrew Lang in The Violet Fairy Book.
“The Little Mermaid” is literally about Hans Christian Anderson pining for a male friend who he was in love with who ended up marrying a woman.
And don’t even get me started on Greek mythology.
Queer people, trans people, and gender non-conforming people have always existed, and folklore clearly reflects that. If the modern queer community is finding themes in these stories they can identify with, it’s hardly a reach.
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