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i made a new side blog for all fandom stuff and re-named it @potterblog instead, so please follow me there instead! 🖤 (@ratdaisy is my main where i follow back from tho! but I'm slow at following back only because i usually have to unfollow one of the inactive old blogs i followed in order to follow new ones, since I'm at the 5000 limit! 🦋 I made new side blogs for a lot of stuff I used to reblog. Feel free to follow my side blogs instead, or to DM me anytime for the usernames! 💙

[potterblog]

I renamed my old blog to be for more general spammy reblogging, so I made a new side blog and renamed it to @potterblog instead so that it's more organized with tags lol. Follow me here if you can pls! ❤ i will still reblog hp stuff on my old blog too sometimes but different posts. Most of it will go here tho.

My old blog is @ratdaisy

[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!!

[growing-yet-into-magic]

Oh, and since I have your attention: z-library (books and textbooks) and sci-hub (gatekept scientific journal articles.) I just ripped a textbook for class off z-library and snatched a required reading from sci-hub. Life is good and education should be accessible at every stage and station of life.

[mckitterick]

information wants to be free

[mckitterick]

I still use DuckDuckGo - it's private, not creepy, has no ads I see in Firefox, and you can turn off all the unfortunate LLM / "AI" bullhookey

[thelatestkate]

[laika-the-bitch]

[twinflamedreams]

Essentially, exactly this.

Also because its not about profits, its about the fact they plan to use AI to police the population at mass.

Its so much worse than increasing prices.

[velvetyraincoat]

Honestly a great point. The surveillance potential of this technology is insane.

You can take a massive dataset of, say, someone's entire message history and semantically search it for basically anything using natural language rather than fixed keywords.

You can also use computer vision to understand and/or OCR images.

You can fully transcribe voice conversations in real time and record those as text too.

Once the bubble bursts, the technology to do all this stuff will still be here, but there will be an awful lot of superfluous AI compute hardware that no one knows what to do with...

It doesn't take a genius to see where this goes.

[rubyleaf]

Honestly? My main piece of advice for writing well-rounded characters is to make them a little bit lame. No real living person is 100% cool and suave 100% of the time. Everyone's a little awkward sometimes, or gets too excited about something goofy, or has a silly fear, or laughs about stupid things. Being a bit of a loser is an incurable part of the human condition. Utilize that in your writing.

[wholeheartedsuggestions]

you can start anytime.

you can brush your teeth in the middle of the day. you can wash the dishes at 2am. you can do things outside the normal times assigned by society.

[meanevilwitch-deactivated202601]

Something I wish people understood is that clothing should be expensive.

"No t-shirt should cost $65.99!!”

Wrong❌

The issue isn't that the t-shirt costs $65.99, the issue is that all that money is going into the pockets of a corporate executive instead of paying the laborers who made the shirt.

A lot of labor goes into making a t-shirt and no one at any level of the production process is fairly compensated. If everyone involved in clothing production was fairly compensated that wouldn't just be the end of low end fast fashion prices, but mid range fashion would need to raise their prices too.

Yes this means everyone would have smaller wardrobes and own less clothing. That isn't a bad thing unless you are an ego obsessed consumerist.

[my0clonic-jerk]

[urbanhermit]

[cuteness--overload]

[tylostoma]

underseen films directed by women

with letterboxd links (i'm bored). feel free to leave your own recs!

girls of the night (1961), kinuyo tanaka

so far from india (1983), mira nair

children of shatila (1998), mai masri

the company of strangers (1990), cynthia scott

the cherry tree with gray blossoms (1977), sumiko haneda

day night day night (2006), julia loktev

embracing (1992), naomi kawase

song of the exile (1990), ann hui

living together (1973), anna karina

sacrificed youth (1985), zhang nuanxin

just another girl on the i.r.t. (1992), leslie harris

shinjuku boys (1995), kim longinotto, jano williams

leila and the wolves (1984), heiny srour

fast color (2018), julia hart

flight of the swan (1992), ngozi onwurah

travolta and me (1993), patricia mazuy

u.s. go home (1994), claire denis

portrait of a young girl at the end of the 60s in brussels (1994), chantal akerman

merrily we go to hell (1932), dorothy arzner

blood tea and red string (2006), christiane cegavske

the mourning forest (2007), naomi kawase

the scarlet flower (1978), irina povolotskaya

forever a woman/eternal breasts (1955), kinuyo tanaka

losing ground (1982), kathleen collins

the day i became a woman (2000), marziyeh meshkiny

be pretty and shut up! (1981), delphine seyrig

the other side of the underneath (1972), jane arden

the final exit of the disciples of ascensia (2019), jonni peppers

bärbel and charly (1994), ute aurand

clotheslines (1982), roberta cantow

tremble all you want (2017), akiko ohku

peppermint soda (1977), diane kurys

i was a teenage serial killer (1993), sarah jacobson

sink or swim (1990), su friedrich

the girls (1968), mai zetterling

twelve nights (2000), aubrey lam oi-wah

maria's days (1960), cecilia mangini

kamome diner (2006), naoko ogigami

the book of mary (1985), anne-marie miéville

once upon a time... (1990), galina barinova

girls' encounter (2017), yûka eda

the fourth dimension (2001), trịnh t. minh-hà

the lighthouse (2006), mariya saakyan

daughters of chaos (1980), marjorie keller

the amazonian angel (1992), maria klonaris, katerina thomadaki

bernice bobs her hair (1976), joan micklin silver

[chilewithcarnage]

added some more black woman directors

a thousand and one (2023), a.v. rockwell

down in the delta (1998), maya angelou

i am somebody (1970), madeline anderson

daughters of the dust (1991), julie dash

belle (2013), amma asante

sky captain (1985), neema barnette

just another girl on the i.r.t. (1992), leslie harris

mountains (2023), monica sorelle

novitiate (2017), margaret betts

ayiti mon amour (2016), guetty falin

eve's bayou (1997), kasi lemmons

saint omer (2022), alice diop

the watermelon woman (1996), cheryl dunye

13th (2016), ava duvernay

pariah (2006), dee rees

zola (2020), janicza bravo

the fits (2015), anna rose holmer

shakedown (2018), leilah weinraub

[bookofknives]

adding some of my favourites that i don’t hear mentioned often enough!!!

• book of knives, dir. kim derko

• double happiness, dir. mina shum

• true love, dir. nancy savoca

• wasaga, dir. judith doyle

• tahara, dir. olivia peace

• the basement girl, dir. midi onodera

[prodigalwitch]

i know I've been saying this for months, but soon it's gonna start clicking for you all that the end goal of cuts to American social safety nets (medicare, medicaid, SNAP, EBT, WIC, etc) is to force women into total economic reliance on men, especially poor women. Sure, the wealthy want poor men to be wage-slaves pretty badly, too, but the real goal is a total dismantling of women's liberation

[achillesinhighheels]

[bodacious-ass]

body neutrality will always be more important than body positivity. you don't need to expand your definition of beauty to include yourself. you have a nose for breathing, legs for walking, and eyes for seeing. you don't owe "beauty" to anyone. learn to be comfortable in your body without having to be seen as 'attractive". confidence does not mean attractiveness

[furiosa-femininst]

If and when that does happen I hope the female monster actually gets to look ugly and monstrous, don’t give us this shit

[theradicalbutch]

Can’t remember where I read it, but I saw a post that said something about how whenever there is a story about a man who turns into a monster it is understood that the monster isn’t his true form, and the story is usually about uncovering his “true self” from within, but whenever the story is about a woman who turns into a monster it is the opposite in that her monster form is seen as her “true form” that gets revealed for everyone to see (and judge). Basically when a man is a monster people will try and find the good in him, but when a woman is a monster people see it as her true self being revealed and she not given the grace or nuance of being anything more

[coochiequeens]

Merry Christmas too all the anti-prositition feminists out there!

Stolen from Ovarit.com

Don't worry if you're a libfem that's OK with women and girls being exploited. You can have Krampus.

[phantomrose96]

The alt-right's foothold into Gen-Z is frustrating and I can see from over here how they're doing it.

You've got a generation of young-adults who are learning to be adults for the first time and for so many of them it sucks. It sucks to be in your first shitty apartment where things break, and to have your first shitty car that needs maintenance, and to be working a low-paying service or retail job where you get berated all day and barely scrape by. And you go home and you have taxes to figure out and electric bills to figure out and a screen on your phone to rot into to destress.

And this is men and women, equally, in this spot. But the alt-right messaging gets to tailor their approach to gender.

And hey women, yes you working a shitty job for shitty pay, overwhelmed by financial responsibilities and car repairs, what if you actually didn't need to do ANY of that? You don't need to. And you don't need to feel guilty about it. (You're not quitting, you're not being lazy), you actually are just embracing the chance to be exactly who an ideal woman should be. You should actually be beautiful, and demure, and barefoot in a sunny kitchen, glowing, pregnant, hearing the joyful sounds of your children while you bake a roast for your wonderful husband (strong, protective, loves you, handles the finances, handles the jobs, handles all the things you hate). OUR ancestors (don't mind the dogwhistle) did this for GENERATIONS, and modern society has failed you instead!

It's offering to break women out of all the parts of their real life that suck, and do it in a way that promises they're actually being better, being more admirable, more moral, more respectable, more correct, can feel good about, can feel proud about, as a Woman as Feminine as Mother as Goddess.

And the thing being promised does not need to actually reflect reality. It's a fantasy. It is not real. For every "beautiful demure barefoot" day, you'd be having another one covered in shit changing diapers of screaming infants with screaming children while your husband ignores you because it's Women's Work (take pride!) But that doesn't matter. It just needs to sound better than the reality they're living.

Then the men are targeted too. And it's the same in that it's getting to them by appealing to pride in their gender, but the messaging is different. It's "those finances are hard but ACTUALLY you're leveling up, you're grinding, you're finance maxing." It's hard but it's the kind of hard that is a challenge you can WIN at, boast about, post about, prove your manliness. Knowing cars, knowing home repairs, knowing taxes, that's your MAN pride, and you are so elite, you are so sigma, you are the envy of everyone, you are a masculine man. Women love you. Women will defer to you. Strong, respected, moral, loyal, unshakeable. Unlike those pansy men (mind the homophobic dogwhistling) who will whimper and cry like girls. You are better.

The shitty retail job is actually humble beginnings because you're minmaxing your way to financial success (bitcoin, crypto, investments). You can sleep with any woman you want as long as you're confident, and then you'll find one who understands how smart and confident and strong and protective you are and she will defer to you as her man. She will birth your children and teach them good morals and you will make it. Our ancestors lived this way for generations (dogwhistle) and modern society took it from you.

And with that messaging it makes it clear who the enemy in all this is - modern society that has convinced women to torture themselves with high education and terrible jobs, turned them Ugly with Ugly opinions and bad hair and nasty attitudes, yelping about "rights" and "equality" (pitting them against men! TAKING things from men!) All the while, society has been trying to emasculate men--replace them with women, make them soft and emotional, make them gay, make them WEAK. We've been made WEAK.

The naive women hearing this go "I'm not ugly! I don't hate men! I DO hate my job and my finances. I've been tricked. I'm actually rebelling by declaring my goal is to get a Perfect (White) (Christian) moral husband who will make all our decisions and protect me and our children." (And when she's financially trapped in an abusive marriage...? When she's suicidal with PPD but her husband won't touch that because it's Woman Hysteria...? And when her husband leaves her for someone who was as hot as she was 20 years ago and now she's figuring out finances, health care, taxes, bank accounts for the first time in her life...?)

And the men go "They've been TAKING things from us for too long! It's time to be men again! It's time to take pride! I am strong and confident. I am in charge! I never show weakness!" (And when he's got a gun to his head due to the depression he's never been allowed to talk about as Women Feelings...? And when he's financially ruined from a crypto scheme that stroked his ego and robbed him blind...? And when he's dead from alcohol poisoning and none of his adult children notice because no one's spoken to 'Dad' in 15 years...?)

And it's so hard to fight because you're arguing against a fantasy. How do you disprove their fantasy? It's so hard to explain to them, hey you're working a shitty job where you have no future because the rich bastards took it all from you. And now you're doing their work for them. You hate society because of what they've done to it and now you're doing their work. Now you're targeting groups who've never done anything to harm you and the guys responsible are laughing to the bank. How do you explain? How do you disprove fantasy?

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

My approach to disproving the fantasy is to recite the actual reality about the lives of my grandparents and great grandparents who lived in this supposed "fantasy." To talk about how one of my grandma's sisters had to point a gun at her husband and tell him she'd kill him dead if she ever saw him again, because he was abusing their children, and how they were technically still married when they both died.

How when my great-grandfather died, he left behind seven children and a wife who didn't even have an eighth grade education, and how his family starved. She was too frail to work the fields of their farm on her own, and she had no skills or knowledge to get another job. Her eighteen year old son, who was brilliant and was going to go to college on a scholarship to become an engineer, had to give up all of that to run the farm then join the military to try to keep his family alive.

I tell them about how my grandmother slapped me when I was a child and complained about having to go to school, because she knew that going to school for a girl was a privilege, and she saw what happened when women weren't educated. She made her daughter go to college. She made her promise to never, ever be dependent on a man, and she made me promise the same. She was a typical 1950s housewife. Suicidal, young, and cripplingly addicted to Valium just to get through the day.

It doesn't really work. But I tell these stories because this is the story of not my family, but most poor rural families from this so-called "Golden age," and I hope for the love of God that someone will listen.