Pèsols grocs

[theabigailthorn]

Love your work, Abi, you introduced me to philosophy. Just wanted to know why your new era videos are, and forgive me, fetish-y? Is it commentary on how women are forced to be overly sexualised in order to be successful? I know each video has a theme, so does it all tie in to one PhilosphyTube Extended Universe? Loved your work and can't wait for more!

They aren't, people just see them that way because I'm a woman now and people sexualise women a lot more readily, especially queer women. Before transition my videos had a lot more nudity, bondage equipment, and explicit sexual references in them than they do now - in fact I've gone out of my way to make them a lot more family friendly to make up for the fact that I'm likely to be sexualised more for being femme.

[mortalityplays]

ngl it's driving me a little bit fucking insane that the whole conversation about image scraping for AI has settled on copyright and legality as a primary concern, and not consent. my shit should not be used without my consent. I will give it away for free, but I want to be asked.

I don't want to be included in studies without my knowledge or consent. I don't want my face captured for the training of facial recognition models without my knowledge or consent. I don't want my voice captured for the training of speech recognition models without my consent. I don't want my demographic or interest profile captured without my consent. I don't want my art harvested for visual model training without my consent. It's not about 'theft' (fake idea) or 'ownership' (fake idea) or 'inherent value' (fake idea). It's about my ability to opt out from being used as a data point. I object to being a commodity by default.

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

"But only 2% of the population is intersex. It's not that common. Why should we reframe or perception of gender for intersex people?"

Completely ignoring the fact that empathy exists. You do realize that 2% of the population in the medical field is considered very common, yes?

2% of children and 0.5% of adults have a peanut allergy and that's so common that they have entire rules around in in public spaces.

0.24-1% of the population has Rheumatoid arthritis. That's an eighth to a half of the number of intersex people!

1-2% of people are estimated to have autism, and that's considered a common condition.

0.1%-2.6% of people will get melanoma in their life time, and that's considered common.

1.2% of people have epilepsy and that's considered common.

Completely ignoring statistics like 6% of women have PCOS (which is a condition that can fall under the intersex umbrella). 2% of the population in the medical field is considered a common condition, and ergo by medical terms intersex is in itself common.

I don't think you realize how big 2% is. That's 2 in 100 people. If you walk into 3 fully filled classrooms (when I was in school a full classroom was 40 students). Chances are you just saw 2 intersex kids and didn't even know it.

So yeah. I think intersex is common enough to include in our discussions around gender and how transphobic rules affects intersex people.

-fae

[i-am-dulaman]

Good tags for conceptualizing how much 2% is

[renthony]

Steven Universe got blatantly and unapologetically cancelled by the network because the creators pushed for a lesbian wedding, and instead of going, "oh, fuck, that's incredibly homophobic, we should give Cartoon Network hell for that for the rest of forever, holy shit," everyone collectively decided to blame the crew for "rushing the ending" as if it wasn't completely out of their hands. Fuck's sake.

[renthony]

"Ren why do you even care so much?"

Because I study queer media history as a hobby, am working on an intense project on media censorship, and the way Steven Universe was treated is a fucking textbook example of queer content getting shut down by the powers-that-be.

It was literally censored in reaction to its inclusion of queer content. This isn't a secret and it never has been. Rebecca Sugar has been completely open about how hard they had to fight against homophobia at Cartoon Network. Steven Universe is a case study of anti-queer censorship from a mindset of "think of the children."

Steven Universe is a historically significant piece of queer media, and watching in real-time as it went from "progressive queer show" to "the subject of the most rancid bad-faith discourse I have ever seen" is genuinely alarming to me as a queer media hobby-historian.

[renthony]

[ID: A screenshot of a comment from tumblr user mechfried, saying, "Wait, that isn't working out here, they wouldn't cancel the show for having a gay wedding, but than [sic] give the same creator a movie and a second show to continue that story." End ID.]

"Cancellation" doesn't just mean "immediately ended." Cancellations can include shortenings.

These photos are from the "End of an Era" artbook.

Transcript:

Rebecca Sugar: After the publication of The Answer in 2016, I was pulled into a meeting and asked to explain myself. I had been told to play down this relationship, and now it existed as a book. In every meeting like this, I would defend our stories and our audience of queer youth--they deserve cartoons and picture books, too. I would leave these meetings feeling rattled. I drew this self-portrait the night of The Answer book meeting. [Portrait not included in this photo.]

Transcription:

We decided it would be an inexorable part of the story. And then the back-and-forth started, and no one wanted to say the real concerns, so instead it was, "Will this appeal to our demographic of six-to-eleven-year-old boys?" But Ben 10 had an alien wedding, Powerpuff Girls had a wedding--there was no question that the Cartoon Network audience would definitely watch a wedding. Arguments were made that it was "out of character" for Steven to want a wedding, but we'd covered our bases there with the episode "Open Book" [S1E51], which had already aired ages ago. It's old news that Steven loves weddings. I wouldn't bend on the story, and every time there was a concern about it not being entertaining enough, I would add more: A big musical number! A huge fight! A half-hour special! This thing will be so entertaining it'll blow kids' hair back!

"But if Steven Universe gets a gay wedding, then every show is going to want a gay wedding!" "YES!" I said. "GOOD! WHY NOT???"

Eventually the decision came down from on high: We could have the wedding. I knew that was an extremely difficult call to make, and that we were going to be censored heavily and pulled in many countries because of it. And we didn't know at that time if this would mean the end of the show. It looked as if the writing was on the wall, and we were working toward the end.

I had been told this would be the final pickup for us, and I campaigned for an additional six episodes on the end of the season in order to wrap up the story--this became the Era 3 arc.

Navigating a cosmos of relationships was a lot for a young person like Steven as he attempted to find the good in everyone and hook that connection that would allow positive change to blossom in the minds of others. His powers were going to be put into the test in so many more ways as the series moved through this slate of episodes, building steam toward an interplanetary conflict.

End transcript.

[lyinar]

I will never understand people who don’t care about context.  Rebecca Sugar fought as hard as she could for what we got, and there was a hell of a price to be paid for it, and people shriek about how the show is horrible because it doesn’t do enough.  The same people accuse the writers of Legend of Korra of cynical, intentional queerbaiting because it didn’t do enough.  They’re whinging about how She-Ra didn’t do enough.  Are they already bitching about how The Owl House sucks because IT doesn’t do enough?

And not fucking once have these people stopped to think that Korrasami being confirmed with handholding and a loving gaze was literally as far as things could be pushed at the time, or that Ruby and Sapphire’s wedding could not have happened without that.  She-Ra and The Owl House couldn’t go where they did without Legend of Korra and Steven Universe going where they did first.

You know what that’s called, where things get better one step at a time?  Progress.

[theabigailthorn]

As someone who is trying to make queer things in the world of TV and film (because anything you’re involved in when you’re a trans person is inherently “queer” in the eyes of the powers that be - our presence is never neutral, the way cis people’s is) this story is really disheartening and simultaneously encouraging? Cause it’s like, well, what I make might not be perfect, but it can be one more step.

[homunculus-argument]

Never forget, if someone asks you an invasive question, you can always reply by asking them "do you think that's a normal thing to ask people?"

Do it in a super casual and cheery tone, like you were asking about their favourite food.

[catchymemes]

[difty-dift]

positive reaction from onion lovers

[formeganpage]

source

[petrenocka]

There is no way the first person to make one of these was neurotypical

[93pigeons]

I am currently in your tumblr feed

[catchymemes]

How to protect yourself during stampede

[demilypyro]

tumblr won’t let me post any more audio right now so have this

[callese]

refseek.com

www.worldcat.org/

link.springer.com

http://bioline.org.br/

repec.org

science.gov

pdfdrive.com

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Worldcat is my bestie and my one true love!! Not only does it tell you what library a book is at, but it also price compares different used book sites against each other for easy view! It's how I got Tarot For the Master for $10!!

[catchymemes]

[vtmb2spoilers-deactivated202112]

hope u dont mind me keeping ur tags because ur right:

[calmdowncalmdown]

I’ll reblog this every time I see it.

[moki-dokie]

this is why i steer clear of hard drugs. i’ve seen a fair share of stories similar to this. it’s good and great and awesome until it’s not and then there’s little hope for escape if you either don’t have help or can’t break out of the cycle for a second to realize you need to get that help.

anti-drug campaigns should absolutely be run by recovering addicts. shit, that’s what the anti-smoking campaigns do.

[al-mayriti]

graffitti i just found while on google street view in salamanca 🥰

[pesolsgrocs]

May I reply with some slight bandalism found on a plaque on the side of Deià's church, Mallorca, trying to glorify "him"

[bonbonlanguage]

You know what I think is really cool about language (English in this case)? It’s the way you can express “I don’t know” without opening your mouth. All you have to do is hum a low note, a high note, then another lower note. The same goes for yes and no. Does anyone know what this is called?

[rk8con]

[suspendnodisbelief]

These are called vocables, a form of non-lexical utterance - that is, wordlike sounds that aren’t strictly words, have flexible meaning depending on context, and reflect the speakers emotional reaction to the context rather than stating something specific. They also include uh-oh! (that’s not good!), uh-huh and mm-hmm (yes), uhn-uhn (no), huh? (what?), huh… (oh, I see…), hmmn… (I wonder… / maybe…), awww! (that’s cute!), aww… (darn it…), um? (excuse me; that doesn’t seem right?), ugh and guh (expressions of alarm, disgust, or sympathy toward somebody else’s displeasure or distress), etc.

Every natural human language has at least a few vocables in it, and filler words like “um” and “erm” are also part of this overall class of utterances. Technically “vocable” itself refers to a wider category of utterances, but these types of sounds are the ones most frequently being referred to, when the word is used.

[classicfern]

Reblog if u just hummed all of these out loud as you read them

[g-00-m]

And the best reaction goes to

*drum rolls*

THIS ARGENTINIAN TV HOST

I swear I know 0 Spanish but I understood it all in my soul and this is still the funniest thing I've seen today

(I've heard he might be a fascist but honestly I've got no idea, I don't even know who he is)

[pesolsgrocs]

Translation time:

//the title shows with big white letters on a red background//

THE OLD SHIT DIED

//happy music introduces the reporter//

The old son of a bitch is finished once for all! A huge aplause to Satan for taking her! She's no more! The oldie died! The English cover it! She's dead and stiff like a log thrown in a room! Old shit! It's done!

I promissed you guys that we would cheer and we'll cheer eating sandwiches.

This brittish trash, this lucifer's filth, this amazon rubbish, has exited planet Earth and it's good news for everyone! Finally dies someone correct //he means: someone that deserves it// in this life! Right? Look look look look

// Champagne bottle pops open, more cheerings follow //

Let's all cheer a bit, eh? For the death of the trash that was the queen of England. Foam for all! //champagne foam // The son of a bitch of his husband died already and now she dies and we are fully celebrating it. For the death of every filthy fucking shitty English that belongs to that crown: filthy, pirate, robber, genocidal, murderer, that's been a torment.

This nazi son of a bitch, that admired Hitler and did the Nazi salute when she was young, has finally found an end.

[dogpuppy]

[useless-catalanfacts]

On the public radio of Spain (RNE), payed with tax money.

I would like to know what do they think is so funny.

For those who don't understand Spanish, they're making fun of Catalan language use in TV. Transcription and translation:

SP: Van a hacer remakes también como Stranger Things será "Coses Estranyes" [risas], El Juego del Calamar será "El Joc del Calamar" [risas]

ENG: They'll remake it like Stranger Things will be "Coses Estranyes" [laughter], Squid Game will be "El Joc del Calamar" [laughter]

But this is already the case in Spanish. If you have Netflix Spain, Squid Game is called "El Juego del Calamar" (which simply means "Squid Game" in Spanish), that's just how translation works. Why is "El Juego del Calamar" (Spanish) normal but "El Joc del Calamar" (Catalan) so unthinkable that it causes so much laughter?

Besides, the woman who is speaking (who obviously doesn't speak Catalan), didn't even learn to pronounce those words right (estrinyis? really?) and is using an exaggerated mocking accent to ridicule Catalan.

Catalanophobia is so normalized in Spain and so integrated into the minds of so many people (as a result of, precisely, listening to this kind of sh*t all the time on radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, irl conversations, politicians, etc) that the mere thought of the Catalan language being used in public in something like Netflix become absolutely risible and unthinkable.

And this affects us too, because Catalan is so mocked that people want to distance themselves for it, so the use of Catalan language is quickly declining among young people because they think it's "uncool", "ridiculous" and not fit to talk to their friends or in public (thought they'll often speak it to their parents and grandparents), while Spanish has been made to be "cool", "respectable", "the normal thing", "the international language that everybody understands".

The Catalan language and culture have been persecuted for centuries, illegalized for half of the 20th century. Now we are legally allowed to speak it in some ambits (not all, we still cannot have a full life in Catalan) but at the cost of being ridiculed, not taken seriously, and facing consequences (for example, in Catalonia only 7.4% of trials are conducted in Catalan -the rest in Spanish- because many people fear they'll get harsher punishments for having defended themselves in Catalan).

I don't want my tax money to go to mocking my existance, nor the existance of other national minorities. But this is how Spain keeps us in line, police violence and this. This is how you make a culture so ashamed of itself that it gives up.