Spiritually, I'm a Sock Monkey

Call me Lake. Adult. I switch between hyperfixations pretty regularly. I'm an aroace autistic transman and I love media analysis. I mostly queue.

[peren-gren]

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[ieafy]

mantises

[loveridden1999]

for those unaware today india experienced one of its biggest protests in half a decade. there were protests all over the nation for various causes but the major one was in delhi. all we asked for was the resignation of the education minister because he's failed the students of this nation time & time again. but we were met with brutality, the police had barricaded the main site of protest (jantar mantar). metro stations were shutdown, the public was restrained from reaching the protest site and all the adjoining areas had signal jammers to make sure the crowd had no access to constant updates. they had us blocked from all the sides. they were lathi (baton) charging students from one side & releasing tear gas from the other. you couldn't walk 100 m on streets without having a tear gas shell thrown at you. there were many students, women & kids bleeding — some from their head. some couldn't walk anymore. the police had removed their nameplates & acted with full impunity to resort to unprecedented levels of violence. they were pelting stones at us, beating up people for no reason, forcefully detaining them and attacking us constantly with tear gas & rubber bullets. they wouldn't let you exit either. the crowd was peaceful & looking out for each other yet they were met with violence. i made a friend who was all alone & she asked to join me & my friend because a policeman wouldn't leave her alone. he constantly prodded her for personal info, invited her back to the jeep saying they have food there, wouldn't stop following her around. you couldn't call or ask anyone for help, we were left to fend for ourselves & be on a constant lookout if you did not want to be beaten up to death by police. all for what? asking a resignation? shame on this country.

[loveridden1999]

Tens of thousands of Cockroach party protesters defy police with Delhi march

Youth-led movement calls on education minister to quit in one of India’s largest anti-government rallies in years

Police attack Cockroach activists as thousands march on Indian parliament

More than 10,000 protesters braved tear gas and baton charges in their largest challenge yet to PM Modi's government.

[romanceyourdemons]

fond memories of that year in high school where a girl in my homeroom class spent homeroom every day showing me the world of mid-2010s bl anime. we had to watch it on a string of shitty pirate sites that kept getting taken down, and i have distinct memories of one time when my friend was like “what site were we using again?” and i was like “kawaii-waifu.com” and she was like ??? so i had to repeat “Kawaii. Waifu. dotCom.” and it was defffffffinitely loud enough for other people to hear

[romanceyourdemons]

in retrospect that was the only part of the whole affair i actually felt shame about. the watching bl in the middle of the classroom part was fine

[laserwalnut]

Strong as fuck ice piggy

[kataangoogie]

drew them again wearing outfits of each other's culture! 🧡💙

[spiribia]

people are like glinda didn't come up with the nickname 'elphie' in the book, that was boq. first of all boq didn't come up with it, he played with her when they were both small children, nanny already called her elphie by then, he would've picked it up from her if anyone. second of all, glinda overhearing boq calling her elphie, being delighted by it, stealing the nickname, and then getting mad at boq for calling her elphie later, which is what happens, is so much damn funnier to me

[penny-anna]

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

[penny-anna]

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

[penny-anna]

perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.

[assiraphales]

luffy when the baratie workers try to trick sanji to go to sea:

luffy when zoro (a pirate hunter) doesn’t want to be a pirate:

[lacefuneral]

the word empathy is WIDELY misused, even in mental health spaces. 

empathy:

is responding to a person’s emotions by experiencing the same emotion as them (i.e. feeling sad when something sad happens to that person, or happy when something happy happens to that person.)

is an automatic response that cannot be controlled

cannot be learned

sympathy:

is recognizing that another person is in pain, even if you do not experience that pain, and offering comfort to that person

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

compassion:

is showcasing care and support via words and actions

is something a person must actively choose to do

can be learned

if you need an example of a person with no empathy who practices sympathy and compassion, look no further than data from star trek: the next generation. he doesn’t have emotions at all, but he’s still kind to people and wants to help them.

stop telling people that they’re evil because they don’t experience empathy. stop equating empathy with morality. stop equating empathy with caring. stop saying that cruel people “lack empathy.” stop throwing neurodivergent and mentally ill people under the bus. 

[cansofbees]

tongue in cheek art about weird bodies and waiting for a diagnosis

[biomaterialart]

Shen Jiu vs Shen Yuan!

Based on the post by @ablaze-stan

I love thinking about all the differences in the characters from pidw to svsss. Shen Yuan just slightly misinterpreting how SQQ is described to be different enough when trying to emulate him 🤌

[unpretty]

nothing has surprised me less than the part of the Count The Rice behind the scenes that showed all the grants having conversations with each other using nothing but the word "grant" like they were pokemon

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[libraryleopard]

my sister (massive hotd fan) didn't appreciate me saying that tom glynn-carney "looks like the someone they'd cast as young wormtongue in a lord of the rings prequel" so i had to quickly whip out canva to prove my point

[an-ruraiocht]

which of these classical texts have you read?

the iliad, the odyssey, and the aeneid

the iliad and the odyssey, not the aeneid

the iliad only

the odyssey only

the aeneid only

the aeneid and the iliad, not the odyssey

the aeneid and the odyssey, not the iliad

I have read none of these

Remaining time: 14 hours 47 minutes

"what if I've read part of it" if it's a large enough part that you would consider yourself to Have Read It in general contexts, then it counts. if it's not, then it doesn't. only you can be the judge of that, but I'm not giving you a nuance button.

any translations count, but abridged retellings don't

obviously, there are lots of other classical texts out there. you might have read none of these and be an expert on greek tragedy. I'm not judging your classical knowledge so you don't need to tell me all that. I'm just curious about combos of these specific texts and their popularity, bc a post i just saw got me thinking about it

[a-bowl-of-soup]

"i asked chat gpt-"

well I asked the Glow Cloud (all hail) and it emitted a low whistleing and dropped a lizard on my head.