As Is The Style

Euro descended Gen X queer fat anarchist animist inclusive Heathen

[depsidase]

[jarl-deathwolf]

If anyone would like to read a thorough take down of Sparta as a state not worth emulating, then ive got just the series of articles for you!

[heroineimages]

Reblogging because pissing on Sparta is one of my hobbies. And yes, totally check out the link above. Brett has a lot of great discussion and scholarship on why Sparta was proto-fascist garbage, and he presents it with both snark and accessibility.

[fierceawakening]

Holy shit. That’s… that’s worse than I thought it would be. Yikes.

[doctorjanedee]

Reblogging because more people should read the ACOUP Sparta takedown and fewer people should get their concept of history from fucking 300.

[fierceawakening]

No one should get their concept of history from 300, and I say that as someone who enjoyed 300. 300 is a comicbookification of a legend, and legends are already exaggerations.

[disorganisedautodidact]

A Great Divorce has also done an audio version of the ACOUP Spart takedown if audio is easier for you!

[not-freyja]

Can everyone who makes video content do a Deaf bitch a favor? Watch your shit with the captions on and the sound off, and then do another round of editing to fix things including but not limited to:

Captions cover the spot on the screen you put the information I need

The dialogue is captioned but not the song you have playing that the dialogue is responding to

You only captioned the person on the screen, not the person off screen who is also talking

No captioning of critical sound effects (alarms, bells, dogs barking, etc)

Speakers are not labelled at moments where it is not clear on the screen who is talking.

Captions cover the spot on the screen that you put the information I need!

Other d/Deaf people welcome to add.

This post brought to you by the fifth video tutorial I could not follow because the bad, auto-generated captions covered what I was trying to watch today.

[antifainternational]

Some Free & Downloadable Antifa Resources

Continuing with our 7th anniversary celebrations, we have a site set up where we've dropped some antifa resources for you to look at read through, print, and share! On-tap: The Antifa F.A.Q.:

Spencer Sunshine's/Pop Mob's 40 Ways To Fight Fascists:

Destroying White Nationalism comic:

Tough Mind Soft Heart: Nurturing Solidarity in the Struggle Against Fascism 'zine:

Making Sense of Fascism by Matthew M. Lyons:

2020 - The Year In Fascist & Far-Right Extremist Violence:

The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund flyer:

Online & printable versions of all of the above are now available here!

[cephalopod-celabrator]

I think it's really funny that reading the discworld witch books (at least the ones that are Weatherwax+Ogg+Magrat), Granny immediately seems like the scariest one by far. She seems like a terrifying force of nature accompanied by a jovial old grandma and an insecure young woman. But as the series progress, the times when Granny holds back and Nanny and Magrat jovially engage in brutal physical violence add up. Now I'm not saying you *shouldn't* be scared of Granny, I'm just saying that she has a rather strong conscience in her way, whereas Magrat and Nanny will both sucker punch you, kick you between the legs and happily step over your groaning body. Granny is to be feared, but Nanny doesn't fight fair and Magrat will kill a motherfucker. Terry Pratchett really knew how to write female characters.

[oma-goodness]

Too right to stay in the tags

[krakenartificer]

image transcription

#Granny fears what she might do too much to ever do it #the other two have no such limiter #because Magrat believes she’s a good person #and Nanny doesn’t care

[wizardarchetypes]

i think avoidance is such a little-recognized ocd compulsion. all the time i talk to people with ocd who are like "i was always having intrusive thoughts about using kitchen knives and harming myself or others but i'm okay now because i just stopped using knives ever 👍 so i'm good now"

and i'm like unfortunately i have bad news.

[wizardarchetypes]

heyyy that's an awesome avoidance ritual you got there. i think we should chop carrots together and yes you might stab me to death and kill me and the police will take you away and your mom will cry in the court room asking why and you won't know what to say and your life will be ruined forever. but that's just a risk we have to take.

[charmcoin]

quite callous how the general societal reaction to allegations of child abuse increasing in frequency seems to have been "all these millions of people are lying and faking on the internet for clout, parents are the only real protectors for children" instead of "perhaps there is something wrong structurally with how we treat children"

[charmcoin]

"why are millennials/gen z/etc going no contact with their parents?" is really not a difficult question to answer

[fullcravings]

Lemon Blueberry Mousse Cake

[erzvolnes]

immortal words

[wildernesswanderess]

Some photos from this years Boise Pride Parade 🏳️‍🌈

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said I can’t be a pessimist because I’m alive

[stuckinapril]

when James Baldwin said to be a pessimist means that you have agreed that human life is an academic matter. So I am forced to be an optimist. I am forced to believe that we can survive whatever we must survive.

[cipheramnesia]

If I did an alien abduction story it would be about someone who got abducted and came back and went out to live in isolation, but when the aliens come back to try and abduct her again they discover she has prepared a series of looney tunes home alone style lethal traps, and it becomes a comedy where bugs bunny is abduction survivor with ptsd and alien grays are an infinite supply of wile e coyotes, but all the traps specifically rely on alien abduction clichés to set off.

Like she's being hit with the bright antigravity spotlight and as she's about to be dragged off she crawls behind something. Then you cut to the aliens on the ship watching a spec rising towards them, except as it comes into focus, it's a huge anvil and not a person. Cut back to the aliens frantically pushing buttons and then back to the girls on the ground as she sees a tiny little *pfft* of a distant ship explosion in the sky

[cipheramnesia]

Flying saucer gets lower and lower towards her, slowing, slowing. When it stops, it comes clear that it is pushing against a pair of giant rubber bands, and they slingshot the ufo back into space.

[cipheramnesia]

Alien leaning over her sleeping form under the covers, but we see her leaning over behind the alien until she goes like, "Ehmmm whatcha lookin at there?" Then the alien jumps up and spins arouns but when it tries to grab her, she shoves a gift wrapped box into its hands and then it opens the box which immediately explodes.

[rikmach]

Wasn’t there an entire episode of Animaniacs with this exact premise?

[cipheramnesia]

There's an entire looney tunes character with this exact premise

[sweetoothgirl]

Tiramisu Brownies

[phaeton-flier]

Bear religion probably fucking rocks. You're a fucking bear, you're the deadliest thing on earth, once a year an endless supply of salmon just flings itself up the river to gorge on and then you nap for 3 months.

[phaeton-flier]

The most delicious food in the world is protected by tiny demons who can defend it from everyone except you. Your natural armor is thick enough that you can just eat the damn hive while they buzz around you. God's chosen animals right there

[theaudientvoid]

[centrally-unplanned]

Regular bears tell stories of angel bears sent by the Bear God, pure white and twice as strong as any normal bear could be, who rule the summit of the Earth and kill all who stand in their path.

And they are right, those bears exist and totally do that. Humans just have fake angels as a cope.

[theabigailthorn]

love the idea of bears being the chosen species actually. having a near death experience and glimpsing heaven and realising it's just full of bears, no humans at all, humans not ensouled actually, humans an accidental byproduct of God's plan for bears

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

Hey, what’s Winnie the pooh’s favorite color?

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

Yellow

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

No it’s red because of his shirt

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

No, it’s yellow because he loves honey

[never-kill-on-the-first-dat-blog]

You have no idea what you’re talking about

[taco-bout-a-shit-blog]

DID I FUCKING STUTTER?

[voaga]

Things heating up at the Winnie the Pooh fandom

[sun-of-a-watcher]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[moveslikekeithrichards]

the role of the person in the passenger seat is not only navigator but secretary as well. you have to type up the drivers messages to random ladies on facebook about cbd cream & google whether that billy joel song was the theme song for that show or not

[moveslikekeithrichards]

you also have to provide a henchmans disdainful scowl at whoever the driver is flipping off in the target parking lot

[the-apocrypha]

other assorted roles may include

retrieval team for objects in the backseat

custodian of the parking garage tickets

"All clear my way"

en-route dining concierge

announcing "Horses!" when there are horses

[lynx-girl]

Don't forget the Tommy Gun

[help-my-ocs-breached-containmen]

You should never forget the Tommy Gun

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[anxiety-banana]

hello i would like everyone to know that sometimes you can sob your eyes out and have an existential crisis one moment and then suddenly you're booking your driver's test and applying for jobs and crocheting a blanket and maybe life isn't so bad anymore!! maybe you can feel awful and fix your life anyway!! maybe you're allowed to be a wreck and still be good enough!! i am a full on adult and have avoided getting my license for years but now i'm finally doing it because i've grown around the fear!!!! the world didn't crash and burn when i was fifteen!! i did this for myself and i'm going to be okay!!

[stevishabitat]

[anxiety-banana]

the way i am shaking with tears is an understatement I'VE BEEN QUOTED

[stevishabitat]

I'm printing it and taping it to my mirror BTW

[the-haiku-bot]

I’m printing it and

taping it to my mirror

BTW

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[liberalsarecool]

Centrism and incrementalism are done.