Tiny Peroxide Cock.

Philosophical trash, 'exquisite Gothic skeleton', and that cunt. I write a lot, and struggle to understand people a lot. I only bite when provoked. Pronouns: she/he, whatever you feel like. This blog is NSFW.

[birlinterrupted]

it’s literally just absurd to act like women don’t structurally participate in the enforcement of gender norms on both women and men (esp as children, but continuing on into adulthood). plz look at society or consider normal social interactions for one minute i’m begging you

[moranion]

so, this is kinda weird thing to come back to tumblr for after like a month, but

anyone else of the opinion that B99 just genuinely and truly fucked up trying to represent a difficult subject for the first time ever?

like, i genuinely enjoy this show and i’ve no desire to bash it, but it’s kinda baffling that they literally just managed to deal with sexual harassment in a sensitive and nuanced way (not to even mention all the racism and homophobia they’ve been dealing with for pretty much the entire show) and then they pretty much went straight into a completely insensitive, stereotypical representation of a “do you want kids?” question and stamped THE ANSWER IS YES OR YOU’RE TERRIBLE on it to boot. on top of that, the “yes i do want kids” position (which, to be clear, is entirely legit) was presented as needlessly forceful, manipulative, and mean-but-somehow-still-okay, while the “nope i don’t bc valid reasons” position was presented as bullshit stance of a giant man child with daddy issues who has to be talked into saying yes to fatherhood or else his wife is going to leave him. And Terry, the only one with a sane and realistic opinion, was glossed over.  i hope like hell that either I’m missing smth here or the plan is to resolve this in future eps with much more nuance, bc tbh this was genuinely uncomfortable for me to watch and the more i turn it around in my head, the worse it looks. 

[vicivefallen]

Sometimes the pain in Childermass’s shoulder escaped from him and ran about the room and hid. When this happened he thought it became a small animal. No one else knew it was there. He supposed he ought to tell them so they could chase it out. Once he caught sight of it; it had flame-coloured fur, brighter than a fox…

[walterkov]

The last scientist who worked in the Library was a mathematician, astronomer, physicist and the head of the Neoplatonic school of philosophy — an extraordinary range of accomplishments for any individual in any age. Her name was Hypatia. She was born in Alexandria in 370. At a time when women had few options and were treated as property, Hypatia moved freely and unselfconsciously through traditional male domains. By all accounts she was a great beauty. She had many suitors but rejected all offers of marriage. The Alexandria of Hypatia’s time — by then long under Roman rule — was a city under grave strain. Slavery had sapped classical civilization of its vitality. The growing Christian Church was consolidating its power and attempting to eradicate pagan influence and culture. Hypatia stood at the epicenter of these mighty social forces. Cyril, the Archbishop of Alexandria, despised her because of her close friendship with the Roman governor, and because she was a symbol of learning and science, which were largely identified by the early Church with paganism. In great personal danger, she continued to teach and publish, until, in the year 415, on her way to work she was set upon by a fanatical mob of Cyril‘s parishioners. They dragged her from her chariot, tore off her clothes, and armed with abalone shells, flayed her flesh from her bones. Her remains were burned, her works obliterated, her name forgotten. Cyril was made a saint.

— Carl Sagan “Cosmos”

[barringtonsmiles]

cubanas/santeras with their cigars looking like the queens they are. 

[gremlinizer]

dysphoric trans person: I support non-dysphoric transgender people.

truscums, cracking their knuckles: Time To Misgender You And Call You A Trender Lmao. This is somehow helping the trans community.

[megairea]

– Eugenia C. Delamotte, Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic, 1990.

[gahdamnpunk]

This is insane

[maribelmayde]

holy fuck, this is A LOT

[red-stick-progressive]

Also that figure is way too low, modern population estimates might be as much as twice that. There were between 25 and 40 million in central Mexico alone, almost as many people in the North Amazon, almost as many in the Andes, and almost as many in the American South. All saw 80 to 99 percent population loss in the period of 2 to 3 generations.

The Greater Mississippi River Basin had a population somewhere between 5 and 12 million, the Eastern Woodlands had about as many, about as many in the Central Amazon, and almost as many on the American West Coast and North West Coast respectively. All of which saw 85 to 99 percent population losses in 2 or three generations after the others.

Multiple factions if European interests killed all the natives they could and destroyed all the culture and history they could. They were not limited by gender, language, religion, culture, ethnic group, nationality, geography, or time period; just every single person they could.

That’s not even genocide, it’s apocalypse.

[diasporangael]

Why are you all omitting the well known fact that it was not purposeful genocide but simply new microbes introduced that no one knew about at that time.

[red-stick-progressive]

Cuz that’s not true.

Tw genocide, tw violence

When Columbus realized the pigs they brought were getting the Islanders sick he arranged to loose as many as possible ahead of them primarily into the Benne region, I believe. Cortez loaded sickened corpses into Tenochtitlan’s aqueducts, Spain deliberately targeted the priests of Mexican society first because they knew it would severely undermine the public ability to treat disease. When the post Incan city states developed a treatment for malaria, the Spanish deliberately targeted the cities producing the quinine treatment and made it illegal to sell it to non-christians. The Spanish took all the sick and forced them at sword-point to go back to their homes instead of to the sick houses or the temples throughout the new world, and forced anyone who wasn’t sick to work in the mines or the coin factories melting and pressing their cultural treasures down into Spanish coins. The English were just as bad, they started the smallpox blankets. A lot of the loss was not deliberate infections like this but it was preventable at a million different crossroads and every European culture took the opportunity to weaponize the plagues when they could.

They knew what they were doing, just cuz they didn’t know what germs were doesn’t mean they have some accidental relationship with it. Alexander the great used biological warfare after all, so it’s not like you can pretend the concept was alien to them, they wrote about it.

Besides they did plenty of old fashioned killing too, there were Spanish conquistadors that estimated their own personal, individual killings might have numbered over the ten thousands. They were sure they’d killed more than ten million in “New Spain” alone. They crucified people they smashed babies on the rocks, they set fire to buildings they forced women and children into and cooked their meals over the burning corpses, they loosed war dogs on people. They sold children into sex slavery to be raped by disease riddled pedos back in Europe and if taking their virginity didn’t cure the sick creeps the native children would be killed or sometimes sent back.

The English were just as bad, shooting children in front of their mothers and forcing them to mop their blood with their hair. Turning human scalps into currency. Feeding babies to dogs in front of their mothers and fathers. Killing whole villages and erasing them from their maps so that historians would think God had made it empty just for the English.

The Americans after them burned crops and drove several species of bison to extinction just to starve the plains tribes. They pushed the blankets too. On top of the wars of extermination and scalp hunting and concentration and laws defining natives as non-persons so that we’d never be protected by the Constitution.

And even if you wanna live in some dreamy fairytale where God just made a whoopsie and then there were no natives left, nobody forced them to erase our history. The Spanish burned every document they found to erase the literacy and literary tradition of the Central and South Americans. There are essentially three Aztec documents left and some excavated pottery, and some archeological inscriptions and that’s it. The single most advanced culture in math and anatomical medicine erased probably forever. Same to the Inca, the most advanced fiber and alloy engineers and economists gone forever. Nobody made them do that. Nobody forced the American colonizers to steal political technology and act like they invented democracy or sovereignty. Nobody forced them to build their cities on top of native ones and erase them from history forever. Baltimore was built on Chesapeake, which translates roughly to “city at the top of the great water” in most Algonquin tongues. My favorite example is Cumberland in Western MD, they didn’t even reshape the roads or anything, they paved the steps and walking paths natives had used for hundreds of years and now it’s almost impossible to drive cuz the streets are too narrow or steep. The culture that built them didn’t have horses. Phoenix AZ, called Phoenix cuz the settlers literally found an old city and “brought it back to life.” Did they save any history or cultural artifacts? No. Most cities on the east coast are like this. Nobody forced them to erase that history.

Colonizers are not innocent just cuz the germs did a lot of the work of the apocalypse.

[ms-demeanor]

On page 158 and 159 of this document Captain John Smith lays out his plan to eradicate an entire tribe or chase them away from their homes in a single month, stating that it could be done with four thousand men and if that seems incredible he and his own crew have emptied whole villages with only 12 men.

Yes, that is in fact the main love interest in a Disney movie talking about burning winter stores and pushing people into such misery that they leave their homes or surrender altogether by STARVING FAMILIES IN THE MIDDLE OF FUCKING WINTER.

He ends that section (which is called “How to Subject all the Savages in Virginia”) by lamenting that the English haven’t been able to control or subject or kill as many native populations as Spain has and talks about how it wounds his national pride that England hasn’t bent as many people to her will.

So get off my dick with this “iT wAs MiCrObEs” shit.

Microbes didn’t chop off children’s hands. Microbes didn’t write about throwing babies into waterfalls in front of their crying mothers. Mircobes didn’t enslave children as young as nine for sex. (All documented things that the Spanish did in South America)

The purposeful genocide of native populations was so bad and so known to be bad at the time that the transatlantic slave trade was started because Bartolome De Las Casas thought it would be better to enslave Africans than to drive the Taino to extinction.

And if you feel like maybe I’m full of shit or exaggerating please feel free to look up the writings of Christopher Columbus (Letter to Luis de Sant Angel), Bartolome De Las Casas (A Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies), Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca (The Relation), and John Smith (The General History of Virginia) because as it turns out we have the actual words of the people doing the colonizing explaining their motives and methods.

I can’t speak to the veracity of the earlier parts of this post but everything I’ve brought up here is directly from the writing of people colonizing the Americas.

Trying to fucking retcon what these people actually wrote about their intentional efforts to eradicate and enslave three fucking continents worth of people as “it was microbes” is fucking ghoulish, learn some goddamned history.

[beautytruthandstrangeness]

It was primitive but enthusiastic germ warfare, and it is one of the worst things one group of humanity has ever done to another. And the effort to wipe out what remains is still continuing. 

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

They waited literal years because they knew they couldn’t defeat the native numbers, but if they waited then their illnesses would think them out.

They knew.

It’s documented.

They intentionally allowed native populations to die of disease so they could wipe them from the earth and steal everything.

I highly recommend you check out John Leguizamo’s Latin History for Morons if you want to learn more about the way we were intentionally and strategically killed off.

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

“why,” you may very well ask yourself, “has he made some old curtains into a full Tudor outfit?”

and the answer is I have no idea but it DOES have pockets. . . . . . #sewing #costume #noimpulsecontrol #gay https://www.instagram.com/p/BvFc1h_BqtQ/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1lll0o4ipg9f2

[moranion]

I mean

This is fucking insane and you look incredible

[mr-oscarwilde]

velvet goldmine (1998, dir. todd haynes)

[nicoletriestolearn]

Dynasties rise and fall but homosexual activities are a more permanent feature of city life.

‘Queer Sites: gay urban histories since 1600’, ed. David Higgs (London: Routledge, 1999), p. 1

[vardaelcntari]

That’s it, the Professor is truly the King of Sass

[nimium-amatrix-ingenii-sui]

The letter didn’t come from the Nazi party, but from the publishing house which had expressed an interest in the German translation of The Hobbit. Tolkien’s response really is a thing of beauty, though, so it deserves to be quoted in its entirety:

25 July 1938                                              20 Northmoor Road, Oxford

Dear Sirs,

Thank you for your letter. … I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride.

Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearings whatsoever on the merits of my work or its suitability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung.

I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully

J.R.R. Tolkien.

(Letter 30)

The Hobbit wasn’t published in German until 1957.

[correspondingnerd]

This might just be the politest “fuck you” ever written.

[geekandmisandry]

W.h.a.t.

[bramblepatch]

Not just “I wish I had Jewish ancestors, but I don’t,” but also “you do realize that’s not what ‘Aryan’ actually means, right,” and “you guys are making it pretty hard to be proud of my German heritage.”

[steakplissken]

Nazis: Are you Aryan?

Noted linguistics freak Tolkien: Are you?

[terrypratchettparadise]

GNU Terry Pratchett

28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015

FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT… .

[nettlewildfairy]

Not to get political but my philosophy is fundamentally that all people should suffer less. That it’s everyone’s responsibility to try to make the world a little better for everyone else. And anyone trying to do the opposite is an asshole who needs to stop.

[tommy-liddell]

There she was; patiently awaiting me once more. Her raven-black fur swayed gently in the breeze. Her wings majestically unfolded to embrace me. Feathers glistening like obsidian glass. Her name was night and she besieged me with mystery. “Rest your head upon my shoulder. Lay your weary mind to rest and lick your wounds in the safe haven of my most silent hour.” I was mesmerized. The night truly is a gracious mistress and she devoured me in all my peacefulness.

“I am what you dream”;

a sphinx who left me with many unanswered questions.

[onlinepunk]

Some of you need to learn the difference between skinny girls being made to feel insecure about their body from certain people and fat girls being made to feel like their entire life is worthless because of their body size from literally the entire world

[onlinepunk]

People still don’t get the point of this post…….wild

[softboypassing]

anyways i was thinking recently about that particular brand of sex negative rhetoric that’s like “no one actually enjoys sucking dick” and “no one without a prostrate actually enjoys anal” and how it’s all kind of heterosexist and selfish. like are you really telling me that the only truly fun sex acts are the ones that directly get you off? is there any consideration at all of the eroticism of doing things specifically for your partner’s pleasure? or is doing things for other people patriarchal and un-radical

[moranion]

This might be one of the reasons so many people think at least 80% of bdsm is ridiculous and unnecessary