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“but what if you abort the baby who’ll cure cancer?!” sir the baby who will cure cancer is an organic chemistry major who works at a Home Depot because you use AI to go through your resumes

mel-155-a

"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops." - Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

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prokopetz

I sometimes get pushback when I describe Warhammer 40K Space Marines as eroticised figures, usually on the grounds that canonically, Space Marines can't fuck – then you look at the source material and it's like:

The text frequently dwells on long, luridly detailed lists of the various ways in which Space Marines' bodies have been modified. A disproportionate number of these modifications involve bodily fluids and/or the mouth.

The text tells us that Space Marines' power armour actually makes them less scary to other humans, because the mere sight of a Space Marine's unclothed body causes unenhanced humans to experience primal terror – and sure, you could interpret this as a body horror thing, but it's really not framed that way.

The text tells us that the only way to make a new Space Marine is to cut out part of an existing Space Marine and put it inside you, and that each chapter has a specific guy whose duty is to pick over battlefields and harvest the "gene-seed" of dead Space Marines so that their lineages might carry on.

Frankly, at this point, the fact that they're biomechanically incapable of fucking only makes it more horny.

prokopetz

(My actual controversial 40K opinion is that the whole "heavily marketed brand-flagship faction of genderless-in-theory-but-exclusively-male-in-practice eroticised caricatures of butch masculinity who are as a matter of explicit canon biomechanically incapable of fucking" thing actually pops up twice, because this description applies equally to 40K's interpretation of Orks, and that the distinction between the two hinges entirely on whether you prefer your blue balls upper class or working class.)

atmosphericradar

I think that's an oversimplification of the Orks. If the Space Marines are unexpressed masculine homosexuality, then the Orks are expressed masculine homosociality.

Orks are derived from English football hooligans, and they intentionally inherit the particular masculine competitiveness of factionalized sports. Orks are an eroticization of that combative/competitive masculinity, to the exclusion of sex as a practice.

Orks collapse the masculine connection between fighting and fucking into a single point. War is their orgiastic release, in contrast to the repression surrounding Space Marines. Orks want to fight because fighting makes them feel amazing! Ork societies revolve around fighting to such a degree that I would say Orks resemble a globalized fetish fiction; it's just not a fetish based in sexual pleasure.

doctorpotatomd

I don't think the Space Marine's homosexuality is unexpressed. Space Marines also collapse that masculine connection into a single point, it's just more formalized and ritualized. War is the Space Marine's sexual release as much as it is the Ork's; you can't really call it orgiastic for the Space Marine, but that's just a different flavour. Space Marines societies also revolve around fighting to such a degree that you could say they resemble a globalized fetish fiction for a fetish not based in sexual pleasure; it's just that they have layers of ritual and formalized structures that spread the eroticism from combat itself to combat-adjacent things: both things that are already erotic like maintaining weapons, male camaraderie between squadmates, and military/monastic hierachy; and to things that weren't already erotic like logistics and tradition.

I think the key point is that neither Space Marines nor Orks are erotic at all in-universe, they're only erotic to the audience. A Space Marine is not sexually repressed, they canonically don't fuck and don't want to fuck, just like an Ork. And from an out-of-universe viewpoint, they're both hunky beefcakes who love Gun like it's dick and spend all their time in close, sweaty proximity with a bunch of other hunky beefcakes who love Gun like it's dick. The only real difference is the "football hooligan" vs. military/monastic source materials for the male homosociality, and the resulting flavour thereof; they even both reproduce by fighting, it's just that the Space Marine's reproduction is, again, more formalized and ritualized. So I think that the "upper class or working class" thing definitely holds.

dajo42

i quit cold turkey

quit what?

cold turkey

yeah but what did you quit

im telling you, i quit cold turkey

alcohol?

no i quit cold turkey

i wasnt offering, im trying to figure out what you quit

and im telling you i quit cold turkey

wait. you quit cold turkey?

yes i quit cold turkey

like the meat?

no i dont like it thats why i quit it

cold turkey?

no im gradually weaning myself off it

prokopetz

Sometimes you send something you found online to a friend because you want to brighten their day, and sometimes you send something you found online to a friend with the precise attitude and bearing of a cat very carefully lining up their paw with the back of another cat's head.

viejospellejos

What the duck?

humanbeanisnotamused

[Description: the video is captioned "Find the duck game", and we see several blindfolded women in hijabs groping around an enclosed ring while spectators look on, cheering and laughing . After a few seconds the camera pans so that you can see the duck, who is waddling around, casually yet resolutely resisting capture. Periodically the women collide with each other. They do not find the duck. End ID]

elvashayam

#it is a beautiful day in indonesia and you are a terrible duck

tags via @humanbeanisnotamused

catasters

gallusrostromegalus

tags by @ultramarineblues: #deeply curious about how this person discovered the cat liked this game

remakesihavetoremake-deactivate

I know everybodys talking about the article but its this tweet itself that makes me lose my shit

loismacgiver-deactivated2018061

tinder link in bio.

swoopyswish

the replies:

newtgeiszler

*tapes scissors to my dick* why won’t anyone fuck me, edward scissordick?

funnelcloudd

probably-crazy-writer

I’m sobbing

kleefkruid

I love going trough the notes every time bc there’s always someone in the notes insisting we’re all mean and that you can just wear thick dish gloves over your fake nails as if I wouldn’t assume you’re going to Patrick Bateman my ass if you walked into the bedroom with claws and yellow rubber gloves

ballzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

ihavemace

bisexual-engineer-girl

her pussy

transfeminine-anarcho-post-egg

OUTTA MY WAY IM BOUT TO GE- ouchie. Ouch. Ouchie.

gigglepuffpixie

get back here and share that with the class

gremlingirlsmell

like, it's insane we now need to go around and warn girls to NOT read the cognitohazard spiral-causing anxiety-inducing ableism article, because SOME ""transfeminists"" decided to say its "actually fine" and side with that transmisogynistic ableist piece of shit article now.

do not read the article titled "dump your puppygirl", if you're in a bad mental state, are mentally ill, like anxiety, depression, fear of abandonment, prone to spiraling etc.

it is laser precision written to trigger your anxieties and dysphoria and make you feel as bad and guilty as possible for being mentally ill/disabled, and that's not an understatement. it's as if it was handcrafted to harm every disabled/mentally ill transfem who reads it, it has already harmed multiple already. please do not harm yourself by reaading it trying to satisfy your curiosity.

storyweavingspider

Ima be blunt, I’m normally mostly immune to shit like this article unless it catches me in a spiral or mental break, and this article has had me in and out of spirals since I read it around midnight last night.

I live alone. I don’t have a polycule or even a committed irl support system I’m able to rely on as a mad/crippled transfem. I am ostensibly “not a puppygirl” in every sense related and it’s STILL fucking me up. Do not fucking read this article if you’re disabled/mad PLEASE.

rabbitkinglune777

we bleed the same - we live the same

rabbitkinglune777

my last self reblog for this: I know ppl want furry tiddy art or whatever but I'm black and I wear that proudly while also wanting to depict my vulnerability when it comes to it. it's something I wanna do along with my general queer furry art

sweaterkittensahoy

shout out to everyone who has any sort of maintenance job whether it's a custodian or a mechanic or a furnace repair person or a pool cleaner or a housekeeper or anything where someone shows up or I go to you, and my shit is taken care of.

big appreciation for the maintenance people

derinthescarletpescatarian

Huge fan of when I have a problem that I have no idea how to handle (or no time/tools/physical strength to handle) and I call A Guy who knows how to handle it and they come and handle it for me.