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a practical effect too extreme to be seen in moves:
picturing a glasses-wearing character by giving an actor real glasses and, if needed, contact lenses that would balance out the unnecessary dioptries of the glasses
we can have monster eyes achieved by contacts covering most of an eyeball, on the other hand
not making a political issue out of it, it’s just a bit sad.
there’s an amusing parallel to the intelligence explosion hypothesis, in which having some way to acquire intelligence via AI or what have you grants you the ability to acquire even more intelligence via designing better AI in a virtuous cycle that ends with you having intelligence of a level capable of taking over the world: consider the somewhat less likely idea of an investment explosion in which having some way to acquire money grants you the ability to acquire even more money by virtue of investment or lobbying or regulatory capture or what have you in a virtuous cycle that ends with you owning the world, haha amirite.
I want to see someone do the take that the sex credential imbalance is proof we need to normalize gigolos
I’m envisioning the male equivalent of a geisha or courtesan or high-class escort, whom middle-class single ladies pay to make intelligent cultured conversation with them, be their date at social functions, and also have sex with them.
Honestly curious to see at what point in the Gender Wars this will become A Thing.
I have ran into the site of someone doing the woo-y “spiritual”/psychologizing/coaching side of this. “I’m not a whore, i’m a guide who will help you discover and heal your sensuality via... well, it’s not a handjob + massage, it’s an exercise in accepting intimacy and focusing on the sacred yoni energy! With my hand + virgin oil with natural plant fragnances. “ Seemed to be a thriving business, i guess many people do believe in post-hippie healing bullshit who would be (much more) uncomfortable w sex work. Also a lot of focus on consent, which is sad bc it points towards the fact that it needs to be said - i’m not blaming the guru here, the idea of fucking someone ‘till they stop having issues around it is looming out there (and this one is a conservative society). Interestingly, no mentioning on the quality of handwashing between clients.
yes, but which are the romantic solids?
chocolate, gold,
diamond
redstone
@twocubes a possibly debatable take:
Every solid is romantic if you use it the right way
we have clarified earlier that malachite is strictly platonic
The blank signature, 1965, Rene Magritte
Medium: oil,canvas
https://www.wikiart.org/en/rene-magritte/the-blank-signature-1965
tiny-sea-witch said: She never claimed it was a japanese thing, she just said its something she likes to do. Why is everyone so irrationally angry at this cheery woman who is showing people a way to keep their homes clean??
“everyone” isn’t, she’s successful and popular and receiving absolutely fawning media attention but on a planet of eight billion people there are going to be a few who find her viscerally irritating and that’s absolutely fine.
tumblr is a website full of AFAB people who were raised into official femininity and hate it for one reason or another, the skill she is selling is perfect housewifery without even the dignity of disliking it (you are supposed to do it filled with joy! not acknowledge that yes, this shit is what one gets for being too poor to pay a servant), she is extremely cute, peppy and looks perfectly feminine - the strange thing would be if people around here would not dislike her at all.
get a fucking load of this (nice guy|beta orbiter) bank. just an absolutely (creepy|pathetic) financial institution
Hoverhands Savings & Loan is performing assymetric emotional labor and 👏🏽 it 👏🏽 deserves 👏🏽 to 👏🏽 be 👏🏽 compensated 👏🏽
Bank partners with the Devil to aquire all our souls, is succesful, now legally obliged to inform us of becoming its property. Since being owned doesn’t classify as a relationship (as defined in civil law pertaining to cohabitation, common law marriage etc), the letter of the law is respected while the actual message is not transmitted.
Zsófia Keresztes - 2018
Facing Enemies,Melting Opposites_
my european ass: forced into learning three foreign languages just for basic survival
some overprivileged american idiot’s post, shared lovingly infinite times: Our civilization sucks because we are not making everybody learn sign language :) bc sometimes it’s noisy or one needs to be silent, and it isn’t like we would already have the concepts of “writing” or “having a personal mobile phone one can use to show written words to others”. I sure do love having no obligations in the way I spend my language-learning mental budget, and say, being able to talk with people whose Spanish is better than their English would be just too mainstream and lower-class, as a skill.
like, if it was some radical disability-rights logic in which everybody must invest a lot of energy into being nice to deaf people, i’d had at least got it, but it was explicitly about noisy environments.
im trying to be authentic and true to myself but she’s very elusive which is sexy but hard to work with
Shown the world my freshly improved form, and this is the part when i’ll fake-it-’till-i-make-it the ability of doing productive things, instead of checking and rechecking the relevant corner of the internet for feedback from the particular person i went out to meet. Much usefulness, zero antsily waiting for a message, fuck damn it.
this did actually work, so if i wasn’t against magic, and also on a shinking ship of a site, i’d joke somewhere in the direction of “reblog for you to get an awaited message, too”.
me managing to go to sleep early vs. waking up unreasonably early :/
since this old sketch had chosen this moment to surface from the depths of wherever tumblr keeps its semipublished shit, let me add the third part of the triptich: me, after going back to sleep, sleeping in and being late from work
Shown the world my freshly improved form, and this is the part when i’ll fake-it-’till-i-make-it the ability of doing productive things, instead of checking and rechecking the relevant corner of the internet for feedback from the particular person i went out to meet. Much usefulness, zero antsily waiting for a message, fuck damn it.
the particular feel of disagreeing with the ~necessity of x status-raising cosmethic thing, but still being glad for having the energy, occasion and non-sadness level needed to do it
...to be perfectly fair, I do have, erm, nationality privilege - on this level, as an ethnic minority I can freely identify with the following things:
- my region, which really has a semi-independent history and a lot of family-related stories
-my nationality, with all the language and literature and pop culture
-my state, which I’ve spent my life living in, again, with history and inside jokes, plus I am finally mastering the language, and I really enjoy its nuances and implicit concepts in hard-to-translate words and in-jokes and expressions...
-and if I ever got bored, I could totally claim to be part of a sub-nationality its enthusiasts describe as “we have shat out the [main nationality]!” Again, I don’t care much, mostly bc the people fetishizing it tend to be on the conservative nationalist (and further) side, but some traditions do actually come from there, and some are actually pretty/interesting, and the dialect that sounds most like home to me is, technically, that dialect. And we have a nice little genre of jokes about ourselves.
I hope my last post didn’t overshoot the mark.
A post of americans longing for their particular forgotten european traditions/blaming white supremacy for that has crossed my dash, and well
on one hand yeah, homogenizing people is an opressive thing, and people still having “weird" non-WASP-y things in their families should be allowed to celebrate them, if they prefer.
What these americans seem to forget, though, is that national identities other than american... are just as much constructed as the american one. Making people feel like a nationality (which oh so conicidentally is the nation making a state) takes a lot of effort, and the price to be paid is to forget a lot of local particularities. Even in “neat” states like France, as opposed to the mess of the Balkans - at the time of the Revolution, most peasants didn’t exactly speak French. But they had the infrastructure of making everybody speak the same, in the end, and creating a culture that is unifying enough.
What people do, in the vaguely defined category of culture, is resulted from what we need, but also all kinds of political and commercial powers. Everywhere, including America.
And the thing is, left alone, people can develop identities at the drop of a hat. Villages can hate each other and have folktales about how stupid the neighbouring one are. They can have myths about a cave behind the barley field belonging to a particular family. In the long term, we did live in small hoards. So, because national identity was made up, we still have the power to make new identities up! Nothing is lost! Unless people are too overworked/busy/poor to actually hang out, that would make community-building complicated. But having no idea about one’s particular ethnic roots does not mean that you have lost the one chance you had to have rituals you can care about, to belong etc.
If people feel alone and unconnected, I think that’s caused mostly by economic alienation, having to move around too often (having to severe one’s roots each time), and not having time to build communities. Having an ethnic backstory is not necessary at all to build a community around, and I suspect that the posters on the thread do care about their political and aesthetic preferences too much to feel any kind of Brotherhood to a conservative old man whose one passion in life is the equivalent of yodeling in their ethnicity, when it comes down to it.
And also, being able to get rid of uncomfortable traditions is a crucial part of freedom. WASPs are allowed to stop being protestant. When my own ethnicity’s nationalists say silly things, I am allowed to not listen to them. Imposing homogenization is bad, but keeping people tucked away in sterile enclaves is also unethical.
Americans can be weird.
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