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I feel like a lot of people engaging in torture are not treating their victims as if they could have blood borne pathogens š¤
Is what my wife said apropo of nothing as we were silently drifting off to sleep
Uh oh
Is what she said when I immediately reached for my phone and opened Tumblr instead of responding
is jake gyllenhaal gay??
why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this
happy pride month to this post specifically
Now obviously the hard part of launching a land invasion of Heaven will figuring out where they hid the hole. Finding the miniscule aperture, the hole in physical reality to which all souls are translocated at the moment of death, and then jamming something sturdy in there, getting it in reallll good and working it around until it's big enough to fit some guys with guns through. But the nice part is that the nature of Heaven means that, one, not many people get in in the first place, and two, none of them are good at fighting, because people who're good at fighting mostly don't go to heaven. Except us, when we find the hole. The point is that once we're in there's not much they're gonna be able to do. Pretty much we'll have free run of the place
Update! So we forgot about God
I started my year unable to work for 2 months because of a medical emergency that came on top of my pre-existing disabilities. I've been able to start working the past few weeks, but I haven't been able to work as many hours as I recover, so my paycheck hasn't been as large as it was. The new health issues have also necessitated an adjustment to my diet to prevent issues with my recovery, meaning new staples I didn't get the chance to stock up on before.
Obligatory photo of me before my second surgery and a Frank photo to lighten the mood.
I'm hoping to get some money to cover a Costco order to get enough of what I need to last me a while! The total for the order and delivery is $170.
0/170
Please help if you can and thank you for your time/consideration.
CA: $ mismedusa
DM for paypal or venmo
The problem with having a child with an attorney that has spoken to the child like an adult since birth is that she's 4 years old and she's negotiating the order in which we're going to complete tasks as a family to best suit her idea of an ideal day.
Penny: We go home, we play the mirror game, we have dessert, we play more games, we have fun deal?
Me: Okay well actually we're going to go home, have dinner, then dessert, then we can play your video game, then tubby then bed
Penny: Okay no tubby, games first, deal?
Me: This is not - what is happening right now?
Penny: Dada?
Dada: Arbitration?
Penny: DEALS!
Every single thing in our lives has become a negotiation and it is frankly ridiculous as it is hilarious.
Penny: I want to use bare foot when we go outside
Me: I didn't know we were going outside but you have to wear shoes girl
Penny: okay but what about I use bare foot's but at Penny's house? This deal?
Me: you know what yeah fine if you agree to not fight about shoes when we leave the house you can be barefoot in the back yard, deal.
Penny: -sticks her hand out expectantly- we deal?
I think I just made a verbal contract with a 4 year old.
She's attempting to establish evidence I think
Penny: but I want to go shool pwease
Dada: okay well it is 8pm, so you have to go to sleep now
Penny: okay but I see my fwiends at shool now please, deal?
Dada: Darling no one is at school, all your friends are asleep as well.
Penny: all Penny's fwiends are sweep? What about we... get in Dadas car and check to see watch them sweep, yes deal?
Dada: I cannot begin to explain to you why that can not happen
The great thing about being beholden to Penny the Deals Warlock is that she is also beholden to the art of the deal
Me: (watching Penny scoot her step stool over to where we keep the candy jar): hey honey we're literally walking out the door to go get dinner, maybe we wait on the candy okay?
Penny: Oh but I will have some candy?
Me: Why don't you come have some mac and cheese and then when we get home you can have some candy, deal?
Penny: (running out the door) oh, yes this is deals!
We are visiting my family and Papa has quickly had to pay patronage to Penny the Deals Warlock
Papa: (yesterday morning, when Penny was a little grumpy) What about you come downstairs and we'll have some waffles and then tomorrow Papa will take you to the Diner in town for breakfast?
Penny: (extending her tiny hand to a VERY confused man) this is deal?
Papa: (not knowing hes entering a literal contract) uhm yeah deal.
-smash cut to 6:30 AM this morning-
Penny (running down the hallway in bare feet) š¹BREAKFAST DEALSš¹
Penny has a canker sore to end all canker sores, to the point where she hasn't been able to eat so we had to make some deals surrounding getting some medicine on it because a hungry Penny Rose is like a angry demon queen
Me: Okay baby this is going to suck. This is going to hurt real bad for a second and then it's going to feel weird and then it's going to feel good. You're going to hate it. But if you let Mama get these three medicines in and on you [Listerine, Antacid, Tylenol] you can scream it out and then we'll go get some ice cream! Deal?
Penny: (obviously not thrilled with this idea) okay, three big shreams, three medicines, ice cream ... it will suck... ice cream ... deal. (Sticks out hand and we shake on it)
Me: okay let's do this I'm so sorry (starts the process)
Penny: ( In between her big screams ) IM GONNA GET LOTS OF FRINKLES
My husband is trying to make a deal with Penny to get upstairs and get in the bath tub
Penny: I will go upstairs and get my body clean but you hafta titch me, deal?
Dada: I would love to make this deal with you kid but I literally have no idea what you are saying- I don't know what the terms are, you're speaking a language I don't speak
Penny: you have to titch me like mama does okay DEAL!? (Sticks tiny hand out aggressively)
Dada: (looks at me bewildered for help)
Me: ( starts making a quick tick tick tick sound imitating a stop watch like I'm timing her, while penny jumps around yelling YES TITCH ME LIKE THAT)
Dada: In what world was I ever going to figure that out, thank you for acting as our legal interpreter yes deal let's go!
and off she sprints.
Penny does not want to go to bed, but man is it time for her to go to bed
Penny: But I don't want to be sleeping, I want to stay up now! I want to see Grampy and Cozy and Guppie and Papa!
Mama: What if we video call all the grands and say good night to everyone? If we do that will you then go to bed no fussing?
Penny: Oh yes, this is deals! -sticks her hand out to shake-
** we make the rounds and video call all her grandparents, they are all already in bed and say good night and penny hangs up the last video call and toddles into bed with minimal fussing **
Penny : (after a few minutes of silence, over the video monitor, to herself in her dark bedroom) I hafta respect da deals.
Every morning Penny wakes up, and she asks if we have decorated her house with "Halloween every where" and every morning I have had to tell her not yet baby but soon. This last morning Penny had to go to pre k a little earlier then she is used to cause Daddy had court and I had a dentist appointment, which made her a little bummed out... or so I thought
Me: Hey baby do you want to make a deal about school?
Penny: (immediately sticks out her hand, literally no hesitation, her entire demeanor changing in an instant) yes let's deals, I will be big and brave and go to school no fussing, and you will put Halloween every where all over my house, okay this is deals Mama??
I think I just got hustled by a 4 year old...
A tangentially related update :
Penny: (is doing some strange interpretive dance to let us know she's not a fan of the cup we've chosen to put her juice in, mind you this is the only clean cup at this moment. She is hopping up and down, and swinging her arm like an elephant trunk, she is pirouetting, her hands are on her hips. Shes is completely silent)
Husband: (exasperated) okay but DID you make a deal with SOMETHING while you were pregnant ? It's the only explanation I can come up with.
sometimes people will ask me if penny is still making deals and here is an update for you to let you know:
Husband: okay, you can not leave your room until someone comes and gets you okay? You're getting up way too early and we're guests in Papa and Guppies house so you stay and play in your room and someone will come get you when you can come out of your room tomorrow morning, deal?
Penny: (hand extended, plotting) deal
-smash cut to the next morning, penny is NOT in her room at the allotted 7:30 AM retrieve Penny Rose Time, we find her in bed cuddled up with my mom and dad watching a movie-
Penny: (hands out in a "calm down" gesture) LISTEN LISTEN I DIDNT LEAVE! I DIDNT- I didn't break da deals! I just knocked on the door until Papa came and got me.
Papa: (laughing hysterically) WELL DONT SNITCH!
Penny: I DIDNT DO NOTHING I KEPT MY DEALS! YOU JUS SAID SOMEONE HAD TO COME GET ME! PAPA COME GET ME!
(so we have to be insanely detailed in our deals because she did knock on her bed room door and yell PAPA! PAPA! PAPA! At 4:30 in the morning until my dad came and got her and you know what that's on us š¤£)
Yes she's still at it folks
Penny: can we watch a PokƩmon?
Me: I'll make a deal with you?
Penny: -sits down at the dining room table like she's on literal trial- Listening
Me: if you can do bath time and get around for bed with literally NO FUSSING you and I can watch ONE POKĆMON in mama and dadas bed before you go to bed! IF I HEAR ONE BIT OF FUSSING POKĆMON IS OFF THE TABLE!
Penny: -folding her hands ready to counter, speaking to me like I'm losing my faculties- uhm, no deal Mama, I want PokƩmon on the TV not on the table.
Me: -trying not to die- that's ...no I just mean the deal is if you fuss at all there will be NO POKĆMON TONIGHT
Penny: oh! Yes! This is deals!
April 20, Beijing, China, National Museum of China/äøå½å½å®¶åē©é¦ (Part 2 - Dehua white porcelain exhibition/å¾·åē½ē·å± continued):
This was actually the very first piece I encountered at the entrance to the exhibition, a gigantic basket of flowers (probably over 1 meter tall and over 1 meter wide?), the entire thing made of porcelain.
And to reiterate, every part of every piece is porcelain. Though I will say that despite the ultra-realistic shape of the flower petals and leaves, the only detail that hinted at these flowers being made out of porcelain was that the painted colors weren't as vibrant as real flowers. That's it. If you don't examine it up close you really can't tell that it's all porcelain.
This is a good place to roughly introduce the technical side of Dehua white porcelain. The color of Dehua white porcelain mainly comes from the clay it uses, which is a special kaolin clay (gaolingtu/é«å²å in Chinese) found in Dehua. The clay mineral used naturally contains sericite and quartz, both of which are silica minerals and may have contibuted to the almost translucent look of the finished pieces; it also contains comparatively high amounts of potassium oxides, while the amount of iron oxides present is low. Due to the intricate designs of the pieces, the firing success rate may be very low. All those pieces involving super thin parts representing fabric or paper or flower petals? They may bring the success rate down to about 5%. Which means many of these pieces may be the 15th-20th try that finally survived firing. For people who are more interested in the chemistry of Dehua white porcelain, this paper goes into depth about it. There's also a great book in Chinese that goes into depth all about Dehua porcelain. (link goes to the first chapter only)
Continuing on, this is one of many Guanyin/č§é³ (AvalokiteÅvara) statues at the exhibition, again with light clothing made out of porcelain:
More Guanyin statues in various classic depictions/forms, of which there are 33 total. This particular form is called Yulan Guanyin/é±¼ēÆ®č§é³ (é±¼ēÆ® means fish basket), and comes from a legend where Guanyin transformed into a beautiful female fish vendor in order to guide mortals.
I believe the text here reads ęē»č§é³ (Guanyin holding scripture)? The Guanyin here is holding a vase instead of a scroll though.
This is a classic depiction of Guanyin with a little bit of a modern-ish twist? Guanyin is often depicted with a vase of divine water, but here it forms a circle.
Despite some of the Guanyin statues having the amazing ceramic "clothing", this one remains my favorite, just because of the sense of space and serenity that this simple "frame" design creates:
And this very literal take on "thousand arm Guanyin" (åęč§é³). It's giving me that "biblically accurate angels" vibe:
Buddha floating atop.......idk what that is but the texture is amazing:
A fully painted statue of Guanyu/å ³ē¾½. The gradient and detailed patterns on his robes is amazing:
Two identical (I think?) statues of the daomadan/åé©¬ę¦ (female commander archetype) character Mu Guiying/ē©ę”č± as she would appear in Chinese traditional opera, one painted and one unpainted. The word å·¾åø¼č±é in the title means "hero in women's headscarf", which is a term used exclusively in reference to female heroes. There's also the phrase "å·¾åø¼äø让锻ē", which roughly means "those in women's headscarves aren't inferior to those with beards and thick brows"
Porcelain depiction of Dunhuang's famous feitian/é£å¤© figures, in the classic pose of playing pipa in reverse (called åå¼¹ēµē¶). The clothing on this figure is made of porcelain, but this time also painted:
A porcelain statue of a couple in traditional Lhoba/Luoba/ēå·“ clothing. The Lhoba/Luoba people are one of China's 55 å°ę°ę°ę who mainly live in the south-eastern region of Tibet Autonomous Region, and as of 2019, it is the å°ę°ę°ę with the smallest population
A porcelain statue of a woman in traditional Miao/č clothing. I love how the artist recreated the traditional Miao silver crown in porcelain.
Painted porcelain bust of a woman wearing the Xunbu/č³å "flower crown", named a zanhuawei/ē°Ŗč±å“. The town of Xunbu in Fujian province is known for its tradition of zanhua/ē°Ŗč±, or wearing flowers in oneās hair.
Porcelain statue of a Buddhist monk wearing a zhiduo/ē“č£° (the robes on the inside) and a jiasha/č¢č£ (ą¤ą¤¾ą¤·ą¤¾ą¤Æ/kasaya; the garment on the outside that drapes over the left shoulder). From its looks, one can tell that zhiduo originated from hanfu, but with some minor changes (sidenote, this is not the same as the zhiduo of Ming-era hanfu). Jiasha evolved from the clothing of Indian Buddhist monks, but there appears to be a lot of influence from Central Asia and ancient Greece as well (link goes to pdf; this article is in Chinese).
Some modern-themed pieces. Look at those dresses omg
A porcelain statue of Hua Mulan/č±ęØå °, the character from traditional Chinese literature and opera that inspired the Disney character. I will say though this pose reminds me of someone else.......
I've had a couple of people ask for a digestible version of the whole "the real problem with Dungeons & Dragons is false advertising, not anything that's present in its text" thing I keep alluding to, so here's the bullet point version of that argument:
Dungeons & Dragons is owned by Hasbro. Yes, the same Hasbro that owns Monopoly and My Little Pony.
Hasbro wants D&D to be the only tabletop RPG that anyone plays.
In order to accomplish this, Hasbro needs D&D to be a universal entry-level game.
D&D is not a universal entry-level game.
All game rules are opinionated about how the game ought to be played, and as tabletop RPGs go, D&D's rules are more opinionated than most. This is not a flaw, but it's not what Hasbro needs.
D&D is also on the high end of complexity as far as tabletop RPGs go, and it's complex in a way that strongly rewards system mastery, so it's pretty far from "entry level".
Hasbro could produce a version of D&D that's at the very least less opinionated and more entry-level than it presently is, but they don't want to, because they've determined that certain rules features which run counter to both of those goals are critical to D&D's brand identity.
They also don't want to produce multiple versions of D&D tailored for different audiences, because they want every single D&D group to be a potential purchaser of every single D&D product; they'd be effectively competing with themselves for their own customer base if the published game was actually modular in any meaningful way.
So how does Hasbro square that circle?
Simple: they lie. They insist that D&D is in fact a universal entry-level game in spite of all evidence to the contrary, and back their advertising up with sponsored thinkpieces and podcasts and such to "prove" it.
Further, they've spent decades fostering a culture of play which conceals the gap between the game they're advertising and the game they're selling by ascribing any appearance that D&D isn't a universal entry-level game to the incompetence or malice of individual GMs.
The game the rules want to produce disagrees with the game the group wants to play? Nonsense ā even the rankest beginner should be able to produce any experience of play using any set of rules, and if your GM can't, they're a Bad GM.
The game is hard to learn? No, it isn't ā your GM is merely gatekeeping you. This wouldn't be a problem with a Good GM.
The upshot is that the published rules are more or less irrelevant with respect to achieving the desired experience of play, because they're operating within a culture of play which dumps 100% of the work of making that desired experience of play happen on the GM.
Indeed, much of what modern D&D presents as GMing best practices are really methods of working around the fact that the rules you're using disagree with you about what kind of game you're playing.
(It's not a coincidence that D&D's entrenched culture of play also insists that it's normal for GMs to be miserably overworked and treats GM burnout as a big funny joke, then turns around and loudly wonders why there's a constant GM shortage.)
The trick is, because you're still at least notionally using the rules of D&D, the fruits of all that GM labour are perceived as the product of "playing D&D", not of the GM's hard work.
In essence, Hasbro's business model for Dungeons & Dragons is selling you your own GM's labour with a D&D sticker on it.
It's a very neat trick, if you can pull it off.
Now, at this point some readers may be asking: well, sure, but not all GMs are doormats. What about "killer" GMs who do gatekeep and railroad their players and otherwise act like complete tyrants? I hear horror stories about them all the time.
That's the second trick: these are not opposites. The GM as human Xbox and the GM as tyrant of the table both represent the GM doing all the actual work of making the game happen. The latter isn't the outcome that Hasbro wants, but it's a logical conclusion of the position the want the GM to be in.
This is the funniest thing Iāve seen in weeks. Literally, Iāve never been this funny in my entire goddamn life
a gem, this is a god damn gem
you owe me seven dollars now
Living Cartoons
IT IS FUNNY BECAUSE HE IS NOT A TOILET for best line of 2020
Lenticular clouds are something ELSE.
MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
they made mountains from videogame real
Old Man Mountain wearing his funny little hat!
Home to the Kind Witch of the East
This will never NOT be funny
Iām so glad this is on tumblr
My favourite thing about this is, he didnāt even have to call him āCaptainā he could have used the screen-name but he was SO MARRIED TO THE IMMERSION that he DID.
Passenger: CAPTAIIIIN!!!
Captain: y-yeah?
Passenger: LOOOOOOOK!
(FULL BLAST PIRATES OF THE CARRIBEAN MUSIC)
my fav.
Fun fact, the developers of this game loved this video so much that they made it an official advertisement of the game
"comparing apples and oranges" has always been funny to me as an expression because people's go to exampe of two things so radically different that they defy any useful comparison are apples. and oranges. like you would struggle to find a more comparable pair of objects than that. theyre literally sold right next to each other in most stores.
wikipedia has a whole ass section dedicated to international variants of the idiom so let me quickly run through them
see this is even worse than oranges. pears and apples are like the most comparable things ever. france takes another L
ok so this is what i mean. these are measures of temperature and texture and are in fact not very comparable. Š¼Š¾Š»Š¾Š“ŃŃ ŃŠµŠ±ŃŃŠ° ŠæŃŠ¾Š“Š¾Š»Š¶Š°ŠµŠ¼ Š² ŃŠ¾Š¼ Š¶Šµ Š“ŃŃ Šµ.
colombia wins most vivid image invoked hands down. would not want that to happen to me.
and i think we can all agree romania wins this hands down. everyone give a big round of applause to romania
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Hi, I was reading the Violet Core Backer Preview and was kind of curious about something that stood out to me. Throughout the text you talk about the importance of gender expression in play and in the setting of the game as written. These two paragraphs from the "Gender Expression and Sexuality in the Reach" section caught my attention:
In The Reach more than any other faction there can still be problems with generational gaps. Currently they are largely patriarchal and authority figures and the older generation may not necessarily fully understand or support of what they perceive as newer or uncommon gender expressions and may have more rigid expectations of the Pilots. These expressions are not seen as a problem as long as these individuals are not being 'disruptive'.
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The Cosmic Embrace is the most clearly diverse faction and have a higher number of non-binary people and trans men compared to the other factions. They have a culture that mixes an ethos of kindness with 'I have this brick I painted pride colours' rebellion.
When the text states that the Reach is "largely patriarchal" and allow "uncommon gender expressions" as long as they are not "disruptive" who is meant to be considered disruptive in this system? Why is the presence of trans men and nonbinary people specifically the marker of the the Embrace being the "most clearly diverse?"
I understand that the game is a work in progress, but what is the absence of trans women from this section, and the lack of mention of trans women or transfemininty anywhere in the 63 pages of text, meant to imply about the world of the Violet Core and the place of transfemininty in it? Is this intentional or oversight?
Thanks.
Heya, thanks for the questions!
Trans women are women and trans lesbians are lesbians. I guess the game doesn't state it super directly, which is kinda a surprise to myself, but the assumption of myself and the game is that over half the players and characters of the game are gunna be lesbian trans women. It's the first options listed on all the character sheets and the game talks about different transition options and their availability in that same section you described :3 I'll copy and paste it here for convenience: āWhen it comes to gender identity and expression it's not uncommon for children to not be assigned a gender at birth, allowing that individual to discover and express themselves in their own time. They/Them pronouns are very commonly used by the most recent couple of generations. On occasion there can be problems with medicine shortages including HRT treatments, especially within the HomeBound. However most trans folk living in the reach have access to life-saving genetherapy treatment, a one-off medical procedure that has permanent ongoing benefits and is generally regarded as much safer and more effective than older style HRT.
Transitional Genetherapy is the most widely used method of what you could call 'stage 1' medical transition. There are also advanced methods of full medical transition available especially in The Reach and Cosmic Embrace factions. Additionally a ReBuilt individual has the option to customize her body in a way that suits her gender identity with a wide variety of ways and styles.ā Having said that, it would be pretty easy for me to make that a touch clearer in the book if that didn't come through implicitly.
The three factions in Violet Core are messy. None of them are exactly 'in the right' and they all have different problems, with some being more obvious than others.
The Reach is clearly the faction with the most obvious problems.
Unless they adapt, they usually default to serve the antagonistic role of 'the System' or 'Status Quo' in a given game. They have a very rigid way of doing things, with a horrible familiar mix of hierarchy and bureaucracy. They like their boxes to be ticked nice and clean and aren't a fan of making new boxes on their reports. A trans girl who has transitioned within the Reach will probably have the sort of awful 'jumping through endless hoops' experience that a lot of girls do now, and a non-binary Pilot with pronouns other than 'they/them' are likely going to have a trickier time getting by than other Pilots might. As a player, Pilots of the Reach often rebel against them, steal their stuff and jet off with a big middle finger. I've seen it happen a bunch of times and it's always been cathartic.
Cosmic Embrace on the other hand is much more supportive and easily takes in all kinds. They are much more free spirited in general. Their imperfection comes from a combination of lack of resources and being cult-like in their devotion to the Deva (their appointed authority figure) and their mission. They are like the punk-squat of the setting that has a core that could turn benevolent or rotten just as easily depending on what stresses are put upon them in a given game.
In contrast, the Homebound are more militant and direct but are often short sighted. While the younger generations of Homebound are more intersectional, I tend to play their older authority figures as inclusive but in the way an aunt might say something like 'I don't care if you are a boy or a girl or purple, I love you all the same' ...which, I mean they are trying but they don't really get it. Think of them as a little bit like late second-wave feminism or the Riot Grrrl movement, they attempted to make a cool space for women, but it's flawed and needs to adapt and change.
Each of the factions are designed to give different types of hurdles for players to struggle against and overcome.
The group chat officially deemed me an āeccentricā just because Iām doing an Argonian ichthyologist play-through of Skyrim rn where my character is writing a thesis on Cyrodilic Spadetails and I shared the characterās hypothetical research folder that I created to help with my immersion in the role.
Like sorry I take the RP in RPG seriously but how else would I get into the headspace of a character who is only slaying dragons to sell their bones and fund research that will hopefully be published in the Tamriel Journal of Limnetic Science??
To fully understand the Bashir/Garak thing in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, you need to understand that Garak first appears in the second episode of the series, very obviously trying to arrange a hookup with Bashir ā like, it's just barely subtext ā and then the network was like "what the fuck" and ordered to showrunners to knock it off with the gay shit, and as a result, Garak promptly disappears from the show for twenty episodes, next appearing in the fifth episode of season two. Can you imagine what that did to folks who were watching in real time?
For the unacquainted, this is literally Garak's first on-screen appearance:
It's about two minutes long, but watch until the end. Trust me.
I want you to imagine being a viewer who's into gay Star Trek fanfic, having this be your cold intro to these two characters' dynamic, then getting zero interactions between them for the next eight months.
I feel deeply silly saying this - I don't know how it's taken me so many literal years to notice, but there's not one but two vases of Sweet Flag on the table. Sweet Flag, or Calamus, is a very old, lesser-known symbol among gay men, adopted from its heavy use in Walt Whitman's poetry. And somehow, despite watching this scene ??? times, it took me this watch to finally register the pink triangles and lavender buttons all over the wall behind Garak.
As annoying as it is that the network yelled at the showrunners for this, it cracks me the fuck up that even the set designers were winking exaggeratedly at the audience like "Psst! Gay gay gay gay gayyyy~"
hey gamers Iāve started watching star trek does anyone else see the romantic tension between captain kirk and mr. spock
watching the realization publicly dawn in real time in the comments is fucking amazing
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I love how this functions as peer review. Modern researchers have still been able to replace past results. These bitches gay.
