How did we end up here?💀

Call me Raven or Rave. 30 y/o. bi ace. white. she/they. from the southern part of the US. I've got an affinity for bones and dabble in magic. I'll probably waste both of our time with shitposts.

[funnytwittertweets]

[sosuperawesome]

Iren Horrors on Instagram / Society6

[chewedcorn]

My cartoon gets posted every year about this time. May as well post it myself.

[sigulary]

A break from swimming

[Image description: Illustration of a person and a mermaid kissing in a pool. The mermaid has dark skin, black to pink colored braids and a teal tail. The girl that kisses her has light skin, short wavy hair and wears a black bikini. The girl sits on the edge of the pool while the mermaid rest between her legs, hugging her waist. Next to them there is a water bottle, a towel and a ladder. End description]

[lilydvoratrelundar]

[writing-prompt-s]

You’re teleported to 44 BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You’re brought before Caesar and he believes you might be from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking “How Do I Die?”

[calamitouserebus]

“Surrounded by friends”

[gardenoffish]

Ceasers as he’s getting stabbed and remembers:

[pizzaback-deactivated20201011]

i Really wanna know what happened in this legal case

sonic legally forbidden from sobbing

[jakemorph]

for really great context that panel where Sonic’s crying uncontrollably is supposed to be because his two young kids have been completely erased from existence

[ravenmirror]

[only-tiktoks]

[dee-the-red-witch]

...I need this track. NEED.

[tundrakatiebean]

[ittybittytatertot]

Hello, pause for a sec.

Many places are removing masking requirements. And I’m here to ask, if you are young and able-bodied, please keep wearing a mask anyways. We’ve known for two years that masks protect others more than they protect yourself, and that masks work when most people are wearing them. If only at-risk individuals are masking, they’re more at risk.

Protect others. Help disabled people exist safely in public. Wear a mask.

[owlet]

the word “queer” being used by someone who uses that word to describe their own experience of love and their cherished community should not ever sound the same to you as it does coming out of the mouth of a homophobe. acting like these two types of people are the same is unbelievably cruel

[cleansingreflections-deactivate]

do you see this shit my liege

[5149eszter]

[weaver-z]

Fondly remembering the time that a cat owner casually entered their calico Maine Coon in a cat fancier's competition and the judges lost their minds because the cat was 1) male and 2) able to bear children

[weaver-z]

Anyway here's Dawntreader Texas Calboy as a silly lil kitten

[weaver-z]

Here's an excerpt from one of the articles about the drama his entry caused among the Cat Fanciers that I thought was very earnest and sweet <3

And also some of Calboy's children!

[gasterofficial]

@pangur-and-grim

[jaeger-bombastic-was-taken]

I see a lot of confusion in the notes so I'm going to help clear a few things up:

The calico coat coloration is linked to the X chromosome, and is a recessive trait; Hence why calico cats are nearly always female, as they have to receive two recessive X chromosomes for the calico coloration to appear.

Male calico cats are possible, but certainly rare. Typically it happens when the male cat has two recessive X chromosomes (thus having XXY, the killinefelter syndrome), or when the male cat is a chimera that absorbed its littermate in the womb. Our little guy here is a chimera.

Now here's the cinch: OP's wording of "able to bear children" threw a lot of people off track. It's not that the male cat could birth kittens himself, it's that the male calico cat can reproduce at all! Typically, due to the chromosomal abnormality, male calico cats are sterile. But this one is an outlier as he could sire kittens and has clearly produced healthy offspring, which is incredibly rare. That's why the cat competition people were losing it.

The stevensons' message of open-mindedness is a good one. There are so many ways to be, so many ways nature can compose an organism, so if a male cat has female-typical patterning, so what? Its very existence is only natural.

[tiktoks-for-dead-pope]

[amindamazed]

transcript of video by TikTok account thatannamarie from early December 2021

-begin transcript

Here's a word that every queer person should know: homonationalism is not the name of my new synth-pop album. It's a concept from sociology that acknowledges how queer people are used in conversations about global politics.

Homonationalism is when we use LGBT rights as a yardstick to judge how "moral" a society is. It's short for "homonormative nationalism"—say that five times fast—and it was first coined by Jasbir Puar to describe how the US presented itself as LGBT-friendly to contrast itself to "homophobic" Muslims during the War on Terror. It can also be applied to other contexts, like the way we talk about homophobic countries in Africa or the Caribbean while ignoring the role of European colonialism in those regions.

Put a finger down if you've ever heard something like:

You know being gay is a crime in Ghana, right?

Those Middle Eastern countries are so backwards. Do you know what they do to gay people over there?

Oh it's so weird. [Looks around as if hearing something from outside the room.] My neighbor's dog is going crazy...

You know you've lost the plot when you're talking about homophobia among Muslims, when white American Christians are the ones who made gay marriage illegal, ignored the entire AIDS crisis, and to this day don't have any national policies regarding conversion therapy, a trans-panic defense, or the forcing of trans women into men's prisons and vice-versa.

Barbados just became free of British rule this week; we should not be shocked if they have some homophobic policies.

And while I obviously believe that a more moral society is one with robust protections for queer people, LGBT rights can't be used to judge other countries, to make us feel better about bombing them.

As an aside, I live in Connecticut, an American state where it gets dark at 4pm now, and where LGBT rights are actually pretty good. We were one of the first states to institute gay marriage, transgender health care is part of our state insurance, and we're just generally more legally protected here.

And yet while legal support is very robust in our state, there's very little cultural support. Homophobia and transphobia in day-to-day life is roughly as bad as any other part of the country, and we have no gay cultural infrastructure. Only enough gay bars to count on one hand, and no known queer meeting spaces otherwise. It's obviously not as bad as living in a place where being gay is a crime, but it's still pretty lonely out here.

So for a variety of reasons, I don't appreciate queer and trans people being used as a pawn to further Islamophobia, anti-African sentiment, and general xenophobia. Mainly because it's racist and ignorant; many of these countries have a long, rich history of queer and trans and nonbinary identities before white European colonizers showed up, but also because western "acceptance" of LGBTQ people is very conditional and very limited in terms of material and legal protection.

White supremacy wins when we pit queer people and people of color against each other. We need international solidarity and an acknowledgment of colonialism to achieve equality and equity.

-end transcript

[trueemotionsoflife]

[shake-down-the-stars]

😂❤️⭐️

[instructor144]

One of the most warmly human things I’ve ever seen was an old parchment from the Irish middle ages, the scribe’s cat had walked across the page and left inky pawprints on the page. 

[instructor144]

FOUND IT!!!

Oh, here’s another:

It would appear that Asian scribes were also plagued by feline predations:

[books]

Traces of cats of old…

[escondidolibrary]

they are helping…!

[petermorwood]

My very first summer job involved a time clock, so I understand exactly what’s going on here; pest control is stamping in (or maybe out).

[mountain-spirits-deactivated202]

This is one of the only cookbooks I own and regularly use in my kitchen, and I recommend it to everyone, NDNs & non-NDNs alike. It’s full of seasonal, sustainable, ethically foraged + hunted, hearty, healthful, and deeply delicious dishes. When I became pregnant with my son in 2017 I swore to myself that I would decolonize my diet, for his health and mine. It was very tough at first and felt lacking, like I was taking away foods but not gaining anything in return. Then I found this book, and it—along with guidance from elders within my tribe as well as the tribes within the state I now live—was my saving grace. I eat like my ancestors, and I have never felt more at peace with my body and food. So remember: don’t just decolonize; indigenize. Resist. Eat well. 🕊

[dailyflicks]

The Mummy Returns (2001)

[teashoesandhair]

I’m sorry but you all really thought you could leave these in the tags

[sudaca-swag]

you might not agree but part of activism is knowing to choose your battles, because what do i care if my eighty year old grandma doesn't know the exact correct terms to refer to lgbtq+ identities as long as she supports and respects everyone, what do i care about the old man in the almacén that isn't online so he doesn't know every aspect of feminism who told me happy women's day when he understands the issues women are put through and supports the fight, I'd rather be met with truly kind and concerned ppl who care and have been in this fight far more time than us than all these articulate young people who at the end of the day don't truly give a shit

[mckinlily]

One of my coworkers is in his fifties, has a reputation as the resident “grumpy old man,” and is definitely not always politically correct.

But one time at a work party he said something that I don’t even remember what it is, but it bugged him so much that THREE DAYS LATER (it was a long weekend) he pulled me aside to apologize. He said he was afraid he’d made me uncomfortable, and he felt really bad about it. He explicitly said he wanted to make sure I had a comfortable work environment. He assured me that if he ever said something that did make me uncomfortable, I could just tell him to knock it off and he’d stop. Or, he added, if that was scary, I could tell one of our coworkers and THEY could tell him to knock it off. He was terribly humble and earnest through the whole of it, and I was completely taken aback because, like I said, I couldn’t even remember what he’d done wrong. This coworker also, despite having at least twenty+ years of experience on me and being an expert in the field, has always taken the time to listen to my ideas and engage with me on solving technical issues like I also am an expert in the field. 

And I would MUCH rather work with him than any guy who knows all the right feminist lingo but doesn’t listen to a thing I say. The goal has ALWAYS been to treat everyone with kindness and respect, and once a person’s activism gets removed from that, they’re sidetracking progress. The right words aren’t nearly as important as the heart behind it.