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[facelessoldgargoyle]

I’ve definitely complained about this before #1 youtube comment I see all the time that irritates the shit out of me is people going like “wow [leader] makes anyone that he dances with look good” like bitch if you’re at that level it is a 50/50 contribution from the leader and the follower. And honestly given that almost every all-star or champion follow is a woman? It’s giving misogyny. You think Keerigan or Thibault have the balance for pirouettes like that? Fuck off.

Let alone all the weird shit like “i bet every woman wants to dance with him” “he makes every woman feel cherished” ??? Can you people be normal about gender PLEASE

[tricky-pockets]

I absolutely think there's a popular idea that following is easier (which... wow. extremely untrue) and that that idea is largely because dancing follow has usually been done by women.

(I'm coming at this as a trans man who only dances follow. and I've danced with men and women as a woman, and I've danced with men and women as a man. and lemme tell everyone: people are fucking weird about gender.)

idk much about champion-level dancing. I only ever did it in a casual social way, where everyone is kinda at different skill levels. (1) either part can make their partner look good, but lead tends to always get credit. and (2) I have followed some hotshot leads who knew they were good but didn't bother to calibrate to me, and I looked like a clumsy idiot.

So if it looks good, lead gets credit, and if it falls apart, follow gets blame. And goddamn if that isn't a reflection and example of how misogyny works.

[tricky-pockets]

i'm nocturnal, so I apologize if this is all over the place.

but I think there's also an idea that whoever is dancing lead is In Charge. and it reminds me very much of the pervasive idea that topping means you're In Charge. as if following means you don't have any decisions to make. as if leading means you never have to adapt to what your partner is doing. as if there must be someone "in charge" in an art that is inherently collaborative, where how good it looks and feels is very much a product of how well you're both communicating.

good dancing chemistry doesn't guarantee you'll be good at fucking each other. but being a dickhead when you're dancing does pretty strongly predict that you'll also be a dickhead when you're fucking.

[human-pet-they]

Your therapist asks you "Who in this image do you see yourself as?" and then shows you a drawing of two shirtless skinny anime catboys with a thread of saliva going between their lips

[sour-charity]

It was actually just an ink blot but thank you, this gives me a lot to work with

[parkchanwoohoo]

[urgetocreate]

Allan O'Marra (Canadian b. 1947), The Bather (La Baigneuse), 2014,. Oil and Acrylic on canvas

[horsefriend]

[putnamspuppeteer]

For those who don't know: Ikumi Nakamura is the woman who was senior artist on Bayonetta, and designed the titular character along with Hideki Kamiya. Their greatest moment of bonding was over their insistence that Bayonetta keep her glasses on at all times. Nakamura cannot go to horny jail. She is the warden.

[brookietf]

[catgirlforeskin]

Happy pride month to her and her exclusively

[seraphiminn]

she made a comic about the experience on twitter

[catboybiologist]

happy pride

[ikindamaybewanthertositonmyface]

An Update from back in October I'm surprised wasn't added to this post. lol

[woolandflax]

Ha I wonder how many strokes the most complex Chinese character has like maybe eightee-

[woolandflax]

Has a Chinese son, names him bèng-dá, and he hates me

[woolandflax]

My beloved son 䨻龘 just trying to write his name in kindergarten

[inthefallofasparrow]

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[ilovecoelacanths]

went to a new optometrist today wearing my squid facts ‘save our freaks dont mine the deep’ shirt from @sarahmackattack that has a strawberry squid on it. and i wasn’t even thinking about it but the optometrist walked in and he was like ‘oh what does your shirt say’ so i showed him and he was like ‘oh that’s neat!’ and then i thought he might like to know about strawberry squid eyes since they have weird eyes and he is an optometrist and all. so i was like ‘yeah it’s actually a real kind of squid called a strawberry squid, their eyes are really cool because they have one big yellow-green one and one small blue one’ and he kind of gasped and went ‘oh my god that’s so interesting i wonder why they have that. do you know what their retina composition is like?’ and i watched as he minimized my chart on the computer and started looking up images of strawberry squid and then he googled ‘strawberry squid retina composition’ and he was like ‘sorry we’ll get to your eye exam in a moment i just really want to find out’ LMAO 10/10 optometrist experience will be returning

[bowenoke]

like 2 months ago i saw a single lobster in the grocery store tank that'd somehow lost a rubber band and every other lobster was huddled in the opposite corner of the tank in a big lobster pile (presumably because the freed lobster was an asshole about having a free claw) like. im done with crab in a bucket mentality. You're not even trying to pull everyone else down to get out and climb up yourself, you're just being a dick. Unshackled lobster in a tank mentality

[cyberxbattalion]

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[loki-zen]

idea i’m rotating in my head: instead of the classic ‘reverse-sexist warrior woman from matriarchal society’ bit, a character who totally isn’t a reverse-sexist, not at all, sis!

Sorry, i know some fellas get all offended by that but I just use ‘sis’ in like. a gender-neutral way, you know, it’s how i was raised. But nah i’m a modern 24th century woman, I don’t buy any of that “if it don’t bleed it don’t lead” shit. I think boys - sorry, men - can be just as good at all that stuff as women.

*approaches a group of people, instinctively assumes a woman is in charge and is corrected.* “Ohhh, yeah, ok. Hey, good for you. Hashtag Yes He Can.”

[loki-zen]

so as an update, I now definitely will be playing the character this was an idea for, although i’m unsure how hard I’ll lean into this aspect (might be a find out in play sort of thing*).

She’s a postapocalyptic former raider boss, turned member of a PC faction after the rest of her gang was wiped out, which prompted her to team up with her former enemies, initially for the purpose of revenge. She will carry around a dog-eared sketch of a dead woman she will refer to tenderly as having been her favourite wife.

*it’s a brand new system and set of players to me, and some of the original thought behind this is that it feels like it ought to utterly disarm any not-fully-unlearned sexist attitudes the predominantly male players of a high combat LARP might be harbouring if I’m visibly making the effort to cheerlead them for being badass warriors, even though they’re boys! Sorry, men. 😉

[loki-zen]

more random notions about the culture she grew up in under the cut:

Men are assumed to be squeamish about blood in general and their blood in particular because Nature does not prepare them for the battlefield by causing them to bleed spontaneously.

(addenda to above: trans people totally exist and even have mutated future herbs or something they can use for HRT. Because of the importance of the above, trans women warriors practice monthly ritual bloodletting.)

Men can fight, but the traditional role of a male fighter is defensive. Men remain with the main camp, where they protect the tribe’s possessions, children, the elderly and infirm (including those who are birthing or breastfeeding), while women form the aggressive raiding bands of warriors.

They are considered naturally suited to these respective roles because women’s endurance and smaller size enables them to travel further on fewer rations, move stealthily, and fit into small spaces while spelunking post apocalyptic ruins. Men’s higher calorie requirements are considered to naturally suit them to staying at the home camp, which will be located closest to reliable food sources, and their upper body strength is considered to make them suited to carrying the camp if it has to move.

Warriors return home to give birth, but before long will typically hand over their children to the care of the men and the at-home women

as the above implies, not all women are warrior-raiders. Some women stay home out of inclination, but probably most at-home women are too old or disabled to fight. There is a role for premenopausal women which combines spiritual importance with acting as a wet-nurse and coordinating the male camp defenders. This role is most commonly/centrally filled by warriors who received a disabling injury.

Men are expected to cook, fetch the firewood, raise children too old to be breastfed, mend clothes and armour, and build and maintain the camp.

Men, and older women, are also the ones who study and figure out how to use items of ancient technology the raiders scavenge and steal.

Why don’t the older ex-warriors lead the camp defenders, you might ask? Well, in practice they certainly help, but their most central role is teaching. Warriors forced to quit for reasons other than age are usually physically incapable of demonstrating how an able-bodied person ought to move in combat. (eg: they have partial paralysis or are missing entire limbs)

[mare-di-nessuno]

Flowers courtesy of Vincent Van Gogh

Irises, 1889 (detail) - Basket of Pansies, 1887 (detail) - Wild Roses, 1890 (detail) - Almond Blossom, 1890 (detail) - Vase with Twelve Sunflowers, 1889 (detail) - Butterflies and Poppies, 1890 (detail).

[cyberxbattalion]

[visenyaism]

80s misogyny saved the Star Wars galaxy because Darth Vader wasted all his time and effort trying to convince his starry-eyed gayboy empath son to become an evil space fascist when if anyone had any point asked his daughter “hey do you ever just want to KILL these people” she would’ve been shooing lightning out of her hands to prove a point in like 10 minutes

[cyberxbattalion]

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[beadyeyes]

4yo: actually, my dad work for nike

Me: my dad works for dinosaur

4yo: (very skeptic but doesn't have the words to call me out) tell me what... is the... dinosaurs name😑

[omtai]

oh log we’re really in it now

[drafthearse]

Opalised dinosaur femur. Registration no. P 208014.