Windy Misgivings

Roxie. 26. she/her. gray asexual. black, filipina, ndn. social justice/disability blog of faerieofwinds. NSFW blogs do NOT interact

[queenofwinds]

This blog will become inactive on 2/8.

I had an issue with harassment on my main blog and so I won’t be checking this blog anymore. If you’d still like to follow me, shoot me a dm.

[the-movemnt-deactivated20170912]

Celebrate the facts. Happy Black History Month! 

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[ctm-san]

[ohmahgawddion]

One reason why I love anime. The emotion of the voice acting is too strong

[deadjosey-deactivated20200613]

[supahbeefcakes]

did

did this anime waifu just tear down the edgy pretentious pseudointellectual facades we construct for ourselves as an obfuscating substitute for actual worth of character and accuse us of being so wrapped up in our own insular self-validating atrophied emotional comfort zones that we can only relate to others through pop culture allusions and mental dominance contests instead of a genuine emotional connection between two human beings

what the hell man

[gemiblu-deactivated20221117]

at first i read the above explanation thinking it was just a bunch of long thrown in words meant to make something simple complicated….but that is the perfect explanation for what I just watched

[speedlionfc]

It’s been mentioned many times before, but the voice actress did this in a SINGLE take… makes it all the more impressive

[i-am-the-inksinger]

I reblogged this yesterday with no comment, but after watching the clip again… no. No, that response up there with all the big words?

That’s exactly what the character was telling her counterpart to knock off. Big words. Big words with the assumption that everybody listening or reading will understand or have the energy and means to research what they don’t. Big words that communicate a big ego and little consideration for others.

She’s telling him to come off his pedestal and talk to her as himself, with his own words - words she can understand, because no, she’s not a walking dictionary or thesaurus or history book or anything like that, and unlike him she also doesn’t pretend to be, even though she’s arguably just as “exposed” to all these things by way of his presence in her life as he is by way of his presence on the internet.

What is “obfuscating”? What is “insular”? What is “pseudointellectual”? Fine that you seem to know their definitions, but you aren’t addressing an audience that can or should be expected to know those things. For god’s sake, I do know those things and I still had to keep stopping to figure out what the hell was being said.

She doesn’t understand these things because he never tries to help her understand. She doesn’t understand why he thinks he’s educated and edgy just because he talks about blood and knows a little bit about this religion and that world issue. She very clearly wants to understand, but he’s so busy being clever that all she gets out of him is, “It’s really cool, but you wouldn’t understand it.”

So no, that… big jumble of words up there is not what’s going on. What’s going on is that an anime character just called the internet age on its bullshit.

And while she was at it, she threw some damn heavy shade at everybody who uses their entire stock of big words in casual settings without stopping to read the room and consider their audience.

[davidessman]

earlier this month it was 120 degrees in Australia , but yeah lets continue to mock those trying to save us in the 12 years we have left to slow climate change’s effects. 

What is the worst thing that could happen if we listen to scientists and change our ways, and then it turns out they were lying? 

Slowly dying in a mad max hell world to own the libs I guess. 

[blueelectricangels]

this is literally why scientists stopped calling it “global warming” and started calling it “climate change”

because these dense motherfuckers couldn’t get it through their heads that an increase in the average global temperature is, has, and will lead to an increase in extreme weather events including goddamn polar vortexes.

“Fner ner ner, look at all the snow outside, what of your global warming now?? CHECK AND MATE SCIENTISTS so much for your fancy degrees and decades of research” of fucking course you’re still gonna get a winter you goddamn dingdongs! The Earth still has a fucking axial tilt – there is always going to be a portion of the year that is colder because that’s when you’re further away from the sun! 

(unless you live between the tropic of cancer and the tropic of capricorn, in which case you’re at more or less the same distance from the sun all year, but presumably then you aren’t pointing to snowfall as proof positive that scientists are spearheading a conspiracy to…i don’t even fucking know. reduce emissions? meanspiritedly destroy the fossil fuel industry, which is gentle and blameless and certainly has never been linked to enormous environmental disasters or long-term health concerns or…?)

[jungs-dirty-little-slut-deactiv]

Conservatives will be the fucking death of us

[humandisastersquad]

Also the reason for these extremely cold temperatures happening and doing so more often is directly a result of literal global warming. Due to rising temperatures (thanks to climate change caused by humans which is real and happening right now and fuck anyone who says otherwise), the Arctic sea ice has been melting more and more without replenishing itself during winter. To make matters worse, the more ice that melts, the more ocean is exposed, which absorbs (rather that reflecting like ice does) the sun’s energy, further heating up. 

This rise in polar temperatures is the reason the polar vortex is currently above the US and making Day After Tomorrow a reality

For those who don’t know, a polar vortex is an area of low pressure that likes to chill around the poles (both north and south but the north is more relevant here). These areas of cold, dense air are usually kept in check by jet streams: long, narrow, fast flowing air currents caused by two masses of air that are different in density/pressure/temperature etc. meeting. 

The polar jet streams in particular are caused by the meeting of cold, dense low pressure polar air and warm high pressure air from the tropics. It’s usually pretty strong, especially during winter, as the temperature gradient between the poles and the tropics is rather large. The bigger the difference, the stronger the wind, and the less likely that polar air escapes southwards.

However, due to the warming around the north pole thanks to the melting sea ice and warming oceans, this gradient is decreasing.

This results in a weaker polar jet stream, which allows the vortex to meander all over the place, such as down south into the US, bringing the cold dense air with it.

Please go forth and use this information to make sure the idiots using this cold snap as piss poor evidence that climate change isn’t real know that they’re wrong and they should feel bad. Also maybe tie them down and make them watch this video (which is where I got these gifs from) which is a good (but terrifying) explanation of how extreme weather events are becoming and will become more common as a result of anthropogenic climate change.

[parkguinevere]

Friendly reminder that while it can reach -50C overnight in Ontario right now, spring flowers are in bloom in British Colombia (very west Canada). Those flowers aren’t supposed to bloom until March.

[parkguinevere]

ALSO -50C ISNT NORMAL!!!!!

[breelandwalker]

“2319! WE’VE GOT A 2319!”

[april]

our brains are… the ultimate computer. 5 billion or so cores. but unfortunately most of them are permanently dedicated to subroutines like “thinking about slurp”

[desync]

underrated post

[turnipfritters]

i notice that tumblr dot com has their black history month banner up, and that’s nice, but i feel like any even more fun black history month activity would be deleting all the white supremacist blogs

[aww-so-pretty]

The most beautiful dog that you will see today

[revolutionarykoolaid]

[seriesofnonsequiturs]

Lin Manuel Miranda; Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson; Terry Crews; Fred Rogers

Taika Waititi: Powerfully creative, Knows himself, Good humored, Takes his work and his relationships with other people seriously, Intentional as a creator

John Mulaney: Publicly supportive of his wife and other women in his life, Crafts humor without taking cheap shots at people, Supportive friend, Willing to laugh at himself yet confident

Andy Samberg: Uses platform and humor to publicly call out toxic masculinity and white privilege, Self-aware, Willing to cede the floor to others, Good friend

Will Smith: Very intentional about what type of actions he takes as a husband and father (if you haven’t watched him on The Red Table, you should), Good humored and professional, Dedicated to his craft putting in the hours and energy, Generous with his emotions and vulnerability, Responsive to others emotions and vulnerability

I read somewhere that one aspect of Toxic Masculinity is believing that being part of a “We” will erase the “I”; that selfhood is threatened by relationships with other people. It reads then that Healthy Masculinity (indeed, healthy people in general) create a “We” that enhances the “I”; that we can become more powerfully ourselves through relationships with other people. 

All these men listed (and many more unlisted) live this type of energy, the one that builds connections without fear of losing the self - and in fact builds the self more with the building of connections. 

[theother-will-grayson]

This version of this post is important

[cornbreadoption]

[shoefaced-deactivated20210321]

Y'all THIS is the official citrus scale. Don’t be tagging adult content as oranges when you mean grapefruit. Do it right or don’t do it at all, my dudes.

[the-peoples-of-middle-earth]

[cash-bundren]

“You fool. No man can kill me.”

How many times am I allowed to reblog this before it gets weird?

[davidkarpvevo]

[arachnofiend]

Fun facts: Tolkien constructed this scene because he came out of Macbeth thinking that Shakespeare had missed a golden opportunity with the ”Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth” prophecy

[majere636]

Being letdown by Macbeth is apparently a significant factor in Tolkien’s writing because the Ent/Huorn attack on Isengard was the result of his disappointment that the whole “til Birnam Wood come to Dunsinane” thing was just some dudes holding sticks and not actual ambulatory trees.

[xekstrin]

so he basically took his favorite shakespeare headcanons and put them into his AU fic

[poutineisdelicious]

This revelation just knocked me over.

[urulokid]

LET ME TELL YOU A THING ABOUT JOHN RONALD REUEL TOLKIEN. BACK THE FUCK UP SIT THE FUCK DOWN YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT ANYTHING YOU’RE FUCKING JON SNOW HERE. LET ME TELL U A THING

JONNY T WAS LITERALLY THE BIGGEST FANBOY TO EVER WALK THE EARTH. LITERALLY THIS FUCKIN NERD WENT INTO WORLD WAR ONE AND WROTE NORSEFIC EDDA FANFIC IN THE TRENCHES AND SENT IT TO ALL HIS FRIENDS WHO WERE PRESUMABLY LIKE “JOHN WHAT THE FUCK”

BUT IT DOESN’T END THERE

HIS WIFE? MADE HER AND HIMSELF INTO SELF-INSERT OCS IN SAID FIC. ALSO MADE HIMSELF A TOTAL TYR SELF INSERT CHARACTER. ALL VERY DRAMATIC. KEPT WRITING THIS FIC UNTIL IT WAS HUGE. AFTER HE DIED HIS SON PUBLISHED IT AND CALLED IT THE SILMARILLION. JRR YOU FUCKIN NERD

WAIT I’M NOT FUCKING DONE YET. TREEBEARD? BASED THE WAY HE TALKED OF HIS OLD FRIEND JACK WHO YOU ALL MIGHT KNOW AS CS LEWIS. THAT’S RIGHT. THAT NARNIA MOTHERFUCKER. WROTE HIM INTO LORD OF THE RINGS AKA THE SEQUEL TO THE SEQUEL OF HIS ORIGINAL FANFIC MASTERPIECE. CS LEWIS FUCKING HATED LORD OF THE RINGS. TOLKIEN FUCKING HATED NARNIA. BASICALLY THEY STARTED THE OXFORD PROFESSOR LIVEJOURNAL CLUB AND THEY FLAMED EACH OTHER’S SHIT RELENTLESSLY YET REMAINED BFFS

SHELOB? FUCKING TARANTULA BIT J-TIDDY ON THE FOOT WHEN HE WAS LIKE 3. WROTE IT INTO LORD OF THE RINGS.

HIS AUNT’S HOUSE? NAMED BAG END. YEAH YOU GUESSED IT WROTE IT INTO LORD OF THE RINGS

THIS FUCKING DORKUS SUPREME MADE UP HIS OWN LANGUAGE. WAIT NO IM WRONG. HE MADE UP LIKE 80 LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS AND ALPHABETS AND SHIT 

BEST PART OF ALL?? HIS OWN LAST NAME, TOLKIEN, WAS DERIVED FROM THE GERMAN “TOLKHUN” MEANING “FOOLHARDY”. DOES THAT RING A BELL TO ANYONE FAMILIAR TO LORD OF THE RINGS??? BECAUSE YOU SHOULD KNOW THAT PEREGRIN “PIPPIN” TOOK’S LIKE FUCKING CATCHPHRASE WAS “FOOL OF A TOOK”. TOLKIEN FIC’D HIS OWN FAMILIAL LINGUISTIC HISTORY INTO HIS WORK WHAT A DWEEB

IN 2008 HE RANKED 6TH ON A LIST OF THE TOP 50 BRITISH WRITERS SINCE 1945. HE WAS A PROFESSOR OF LANGUAGES AND OTHER IMPORTANT STUFFY SHIT AT OXFORD

AND JRR TOLKIEN WAS THE BIGGEST DWEEB EVER TO LIVE

THE END

[urulokid]

#somebody fuckin censored this post like a weirdo so i had to go back a bit to find an uncensored version????? #what a fuckin weirdo????????#worth it #lotr #jrrt

WHO THE FUCK CENSORED MY GLORIOUS FUCKING RANT ON TOLKIEN

DO YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THERE’S A VERSION FLOATING AROUND WITHOUT ALL MY SWEARS

UNBELIEVABLE

THIS IS THE WORK OF MORGOTH I TELL YOU 

[sarriane]

hey guys i think we found colbert’s blog

[norvicensiandoran]

@morgoth-bauglir I’m dying. 😂🤣

[stutterhug]

You Break my Spell, I’ll Break Yours~

[sabertoothwalrus]

this kitten weighs over 5 pounds already and he’s only 14 weeks old. He’s half the size of an adult cat and he hasn’t even lost his baby teeth yet

[sabertoothwalrus]

He is now 16 weeks old and over 6 pounds. Kittens are supposed to be half their adult weight at 5-6 months, and he is barely 4 months old. What the fuck.

[sabertoothwalrus]

Now at 22 weeks, 5 months old, half his adult weight, this baby is 10 pounds,,,

[sabertoothwalrus]

30 WEEKS. 7 MONTHS.

14 POUNDS.

THAT IS TWICE THE AVERAGE WEIGHT OF A CAT HIS AGE. THE GIRLS IN HIS LITTER ARE ONLY LIKE 8 POUNDS WHY IS HE SO HUGE

[sabertoothwalrus]

Hello it is Time for Another Update!!!

It is June 18th, 2018. Half-n-Half is now 10 months old. Last I weighed him (like 2 weeks ago?) he was over 15 pounds, but he’s not gaining weight as rapidly anymore. Regardless, he’s still Big

[sabertoothwalrus]

GUESS WHO’S ONE AND A HALF AND WEIGHS 17 POUNDS

THIS FUCKIN MAGNIFICENT GUY!!!!!!!!

HALF-N-HALF!!!!!!!

[dashbork]

Forking Awesome!

[a-breath-of-paradise-deactivate]

So this year we have Danny Boyles movie coming out, about a Indian guy falling in love with a white girl.

Yesterday at Sundance Gurinda Chadha’s (bend it like Beckham) movie premiered about a Pakistani boy falling in love with a white girl.

Mindy Kaling and Aziz Ansari literally created shows and still only dated white people.

I have no problem with interracial relationships. I have a problem when that’s all we see. Do all these interracial relationships have to include someone white, always.

Also, why can’t I see 2 brown people fall in love on screen, is that so radical?

Where are all the brown women?

I think it’s wrong for brown people in positions of power who talk about diversity, yet do the opposite and play into the whitness of Hollywood

Our stories don’t need white people to have value.

[seashellronan]

can we just like romanticise being bare faced?? like really bare faced, not this “no makeup makeup look” shit like pls lets romanticise dark circles and acne and discolouration and redness and skin conditions and eyebags and oily skin and just regular old eyebrows and looking tired because I am tired stop treating these as things that take away from beauty and just celebrate them like jesus pls 

[formlessvoidbeast]

Ok, if we’re reembracing the citrus fruits categories in this age of the puritanical overlords of tunglr, and @ifridiot is writing a fic that’s a Buddha’s Hand bc tentacles, like… where does that leave the rest of the odd citrus? Where is yuzu on this scale? Pomelo? Bergamot? fuckin’, Finger Limes!?

Someone tell me what a kumquat is. I want to write one but, like… how?

[ifridiot]

THE SCALE IS THUS

Orange: They say I love you. Hug, maybe. A kiss might make people gasp.

Lime: It’s Implied Heavily That Sex Happens.

Finger Limes: It’s just above a fade-to-black; 3 paragraphs of a multichap fic detailing the sex

Lemon: You know Exactly what happened, and it was Sex.

Yuzu: Very Emotional Sex

Pomelo: The Sex Was Just Business (seduction for a spy job or prostitution with no hidden emotions;; it’s almost incidental)

Grapefruit: Kinky Sex Happened

Bergamont: Kinky Sex With Complicated Emotions

Buddha’s Hand: Now here you’ve got your hard kinks, your monster fucking, your tentacles, your xenophilia.

[greenekangaroo]

All ye young ones, gather around, and witness the rebirth of a GOD. 

For if you cannot tag anything as not safe for work, you can most certainly insinuate its citrusy deliciousness.