Lacking in Reason

Description: I'm mainly here to occasionally spew words at @saint-batrick; it's probably their fault for being my sibling and BFFFFF. 40s, married, acon, bipolar, spoonie to the nth degree. Social justice bard (apparently!), not particularly cis, and definitely not het (but she/they, y'all). Kids, cats, house, and probably way too much yarn.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

Shared here today by Matthew Boroson on Facebook.

Tanith Lee was the first woman to win the British Fantasy Award for best novel, for the second book of the Flat Earth series. She died in 2015. You can buy Tales From the Flat Earth here in paperback or here on Kindle.

[the-moon-loves-the-sea]

More enlightening comments on the same post:

ETA: I don’t mind that the Graveyard Book was a retelling. Inspiration is fine. (Lifting passages and avoiding credit is not.) But if you can’t read Gaiman anymore and you want to look for his more satisfying sources—here’s a start.

[disabledprincesses]

People just d o n o t get how hard it is for disabled people to shower

You got autistic people who get sensory overload while in the shower from a not perfect temperature or the 700 different smells or the feeling of being too dry afterwards

You got chronically fatigued people who cant stay awake from standing for so long and need a nap afterwards

Theres chronic pain ppl who cant do the repeative motions needed to wash and again with the standing

People who have hallucinations who have this loud water running that can sound like whispers or the fan going or the mirrors in the bathroom and the paranoia of feeling watched

It takes so many spoons to shower, its genuinely a huuge hassel

[thebibliosphere]

Conditions like POTS where if you get too hot and the air is too humid/steamy you faint.

Chronic skin conditions where water regardless of temperature or soaps used, irritates your skin and no amount of lotion helps.

All of the above. 

Self care takes immense mental and physical energy for some people, sometimes to the point that it’s the only thing we can do that day. 

[smoldragonborn]

not to mention the amount of physically disabled people who live in inaccessible, unadapted houses and literally cannot get into the bathroom or their own shower or bath. or people who physically need someone else to transfer them into the bath and wash their body for them but are unable to get that help and support.

for so many disabled people, showers aren't just hard but impossible.

[missraeyn]

An affirmation I needed. We're in the middle of converting our tub to have a shower for the rest of the house, but I can't see myself using it for many reasons (to include the water not being hot enough, because I need to lobster up).

[tierras]

in los angeles, the historically Black community of altadena has been decimated by the ongoing eaton fire.

afropunk has created a spreadsheet of gofundmes of displaced Black individuals and families affected by the current los angeles fires. the list is constantly being updated.

please donate what you can and share widely.

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

HAVE Z AND ALPHA NOT BEEN MADE AWARE? HAVE WE FAILED AT CONTINUING TO MEME THE HELL OUT OF IT? ARE WE, IN FACT, THE GRANDMAS BECAUSE WE ARE THE ANCIENT KEEPERS OF THE INCEST COFFEE KNOWLEDGE???

[fatsexybitch]

[lizardbeths]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A fandom since 2011 guys

[quarra]

[marzipanandminutiae]

(If anybody is wondering “how could they write that and not anticipate the reaction?“ It’s because the sister was supposed to be much younger in the original draft. Like. An actual child. But they aged her up and never bothered changing the dialogue, so…)

[wemblingfool]

It’s honestly not the writing or the age, or even the acting that screams “incest.”

It’s the directing and camera work. It’s specifically the long lingering gazes.

[adulthoodisokay]

“You’re My Present This Year”: An Oral History of the Folgers Incest Ad

The best part of waking up is getting to read this incest oral history.

I’m begging you to read the oral history of this commercial. It features some banger quotes and also Timothy Simons, aka Jonah from Veep, who worked the camera for the auditions and callbacks.

[getvalentined]

Happy Folgers Incest Commercial season to all who celebrate!

[assiraphales]

you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you people are next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

[megmelodia]

Good news, she is out with all charges dropped

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

This is apparently false (a lie, given the Polk Co Sheriff's reporting), she has not been released without charges, she has been placed under house arrest pending trial

https://www.wfla.com/news/briana-boston-case-how-would-attorneys-defend-against-threat-accusation/

Do not take your eyes off her case. The announcement that she had been "released without charges" is almost certainly an effort to disrupt the immediate groundswell of public sympathy this exhausted and persecuted single mother is receiving.

[soupwife]

i love wikipedia and i think it is good and right to give them money but all their funding drive messages are “well… we’ll be killing ourselves tonight. we asked so little of you and yet it seems that simply nobody cares about lil ol wikipedia anymore….sad…”

[leakingbrainz]

I'm cursing my followers with this one, bestie

[earsandtailsarefeet]

@sunspotpony This is the realest shit and perfectly expresses my feelings about the messages that fucking owl and his friends send.

[missraeyn]

*wheeze*

[dargonsunited]

I think more games with romance should include polyamory as an option. Not just because of inclusion purposes but also because a lot of these games are super long RPGs and I sure as hell don't have time to replay the game 5 times to romance everyone I wanted to.

[dargonsunited]

Also even if I do play again I will feel bad not romancing my girl. Like come on I don't want her to be lonely.

[missraeyn]

500% down with this.

[mickstart]

You know what really fucking Annoys Me about internet censorship is stuff like swear words being heavily censored because that's entirely an American cultural hangup being forced on the rest of us. I don't know a single country where swearing is as taboo as it is in America. In fact most languages have swear words that would have the same effect on an American as giving a Victorian chimney sweep a pepsi max cherry.

[mickstart]

Demonitizing Irish people's videos for having swear words in them is a kind of hate crime and psychological torture I think.

[missraeyn]

I have occasionally gotten in trouble here in the UK for using 'bloody'. Because that's not a swear in American English, and I read enough fantasy over the years that it made its way into my normal speech. *laughs*

[simoneashley]

Are you trying to kill your mother? Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)

[the-dracologist]

[mexican-texican]

Group of us were sitting underneath a staircase in the back of a bar huddled over the only table that would fit all six of us when my friend asks another for something in Spanish.

“A what??” Asks the second friend, Cuban.

First friend, Salvadoreñan, repeats while pointing at a straw. “A pajilla.”

“You mean an ABSORBENTE?” the Cuban says a little too condescendingly, because across from them the Colombian goes “Not a napkin dumbass, a pitillo” to which the Puerto Rican snaps “It’s a fuckin sorbeto, a pitillo is a joint” to which I screamed “Why do your people refer to it as Italian ice cream it’s a god damn popote what is wrong with all y'all” and that’s the night when we realized there’s 11 different ways to say “straw” in Spanish

[felixcloud6288]

This reminds me of the time I (a Floridian) was in a voice chat with A New Yorker, A Texan, A Canadian, a Brit, an Aussie, and a Brazilian; and the Brazilian was the only one not having any trouble understanding what anyone was saying.

[mortimermcmirestinks]

this is all fantastic and valid but in the movie the reason he’s failing spanish is because he missed like eleven classes due to various minor life inconveniences such as his rebellious nature and the fact that he is spider-man

[6qubed]

skill issue

[fetus-cakes]

wait do US schools really teach fuckin Spaniard spanish instead of latino (Latin American)??? won’t most people in the US have nearly all their interactions with Spanish-speakers be with Latin American ones? I mean just by sheer proximity

[anotherdayforchaosfay]

Yup! Spain Spanish only. I had a classmate from Texas, and her parents were from Cuba, and she spoke fluent TexMex, Latino, and Cuban. The teachers in middle school and high school gave her a failing grade because she wasn’t speaking Proper Spanish. I got to see her parents tear one of the teachers apart with some of the most violently spoken language I have ever heard. The teacher had no ides what they were saying because she knew only Fancy European Spanish.

Also why the coworker I had who excelled in Spanish class couldn’t comprehend what any the Mexican brothers in the kitchen were saying.

We are taught a version of a language that isn’t used here.

[sunspotpony]

Yeah I live in America and my limited Spanish education includes Vosotros and even our AP Spanish teacher had an emphasis on Spain spanish. If we didnt lisp our s’s like the Castillian Spanish, we’d be glared at.

[missraeyn]

The Spanish speaking kids in my school by and large took Spanish... and yeah, didn't do so well because they didn't speak 'proper' Spanish. So dumb.

[assiraphales]

you guys made luigi mangione trend for days and I need to see the same energy for brianna boston. she is a 43 year old mother of three who ended a phone call with blue cross blue shield (after being denied a claim) “delay deny depose, you’re next” and is now being held under a 100,000$ bond and could face FIFTEEN years of prison if charged. she has no weapons, her record is clean, and yet she is being held behind bars. they are afraid of the public and are trying to subdue. do not let them!!!! say her name!!! be outraged that our freedom of speech is being threatened!!!!! deny defend depose! free brianna boston!

[assiraphales]

According to the arrest affidavit obtained by ABC news when Lakeland police confronted Boston, she apologized and said that she “used those words because it’s what is in the news right now” Boston told police she did not own any guns and is not a threat. But she did say that healthcare companies “deserve karma” and were “evil” according to the document reported by ABC.

Boston was charged with threats to conduct a mass shooting or act of terrorism.

x the guardian

[luxwing]

If Jesus came back right now his ass wouldn't be in a church he'd be at the soup kitchen then he'd go home and play Fortnite for 16 hours straight then post a tweet saying "the pope doesn't know shit about fuck" before passing out

[thememedaddy]

[hithewall]

@ all my tumblr mutuals

[livelyspaghetti-blog]

When I tell people to delete anon hate, to not publish it, it’s not me saying “ignore it and it’ll stop; don’t fight back.” It is 100% petty and spiteful. Honestly, I can’t think of anything better than the person who sent the hate obsessively checking your blog and refreshing and refreshing, waiting for you to reply, and getting increasingly frustrated when the ask they so masterfully crafted never pops up & you just keep posting cute pictures of your pets and talking about how nice your day was.

[beggars-opera]

That’s what “don’t feed the trolls” means! They are doing it for their own self-satisfaction of causing chaos and anguish! Don’t let them have that satisfaction!

[dodariddr]

More of Alan cumming by David Lachapellle

[missraeyn]

*sigh* And @mother-entropy not here to delight in this with me.

[katrafiy]

now more than ever I think it's important for people to remember that puberty blockers *were* the compromise position.

if you start from a position that trans people should have equal rights in society, then it becomes obvious that all the faux concern about "irreversible changes" is utter bs, because puberty itself is irreversible, and these people want all trans people to be forced to go through the wrong one

the people calling for our healthcare to be banned don't give a single solitary fuck about the "irreversible changes" that they want every single trans person to be forcibly subjected to

[missraeyn]

Also keep in mind here in TERFland, puberty blockers are not available. Not on the NHS, not in private healthcare. They. Are. Not. Allowed.

[allaboutrings]

Instagram.com/victoriasterlingjewelry

[missraeyn]

All the opals in my beloved @saint-batrick's memory

[apolladay]

There's a stereotype that USAmericans tolerate very long car rides.

USAmericans, can you easily tolerate driving in a car for an hour?

No, usually I cannot tolerate driving at all

No, usually I can only tolerate 5-15 minutes

No, usually I can only tolerate 15-30 minutes

No, usually I can only tolerate 30-45 minutes

No, usually I can only tolerate 45-55 minutes

Yes, but usually around 1 hour it stops being tolerable

Yes, but usually around 1.5 hours it stops being tolerable

Yes, and it usually takes 2 hours or more to stop being tolerable

Nuance

Not USAmerican

Voting ended onOct 4, 2024

[mollyjames]

op I think you may have wildly underestimated american's car tolerance

[lastoneout]

I've done a 26 hour car ride twice and the only real issue was hydgene and sleep deprivation.

[missraeyn]

I regularly made 5 hour drives across Texas by my lonesome. I would usually stop about 4 hours in for gas and a stretch.