"With flowers at thy breast... Creatura del Cielo!"

gray and endless heaven // curse life with tears of pity Rider-sized.

[sadgrrly02]

pinned post I guess,

Hey. I'm sadgrrly... if you need a proper name you can just call me elesia or ciel, depending.

She/Her

I post a lot about tsukihime and rance. Be forewarned.

I've got an AO3 account where I post fanfic and original work (though it has been a little while since any writing had made its way there) at https://archiveofourown.org/users/sadgrrly

I've also got a dreamwidth which I use for... well, i'm not sure. I mostly just post thoughts over there, along with some vocaloid stuff. https://sadgrrly.dreamwidth.org

oh also bluesky I guess https://bsky.app/profile/sadgrrly.bsky.social

[cerastes]

I particularly love Saria because she’s the hypothetical Hip Square from the song.

Absolute failwoman supreme in a most scathing, tragic way. Strong, intelligent, successful in work matters. Her life is full of regrets and an unending trail of pitfalls. Her rock-solid work ethic creates misunderstandings often. She does not allow herself to trust. She has the smarts and the strength, all acquired by her own merit, to achieve anything she wants. She has achieved very little that matters to her. What she has achieved, she’s seen rot from the inside. She’s the most divorced woman in the world. She’s a good, loving person. Few know this. She has so much potential, even now. She keeps tripping on new stones with every step.

I want to see her succeed so much. I want to see her sink much lower. I want to see her rip herself out of the swamp and into the light.

[norondor]

[official-linguistics-post]

uh oh

"etymologynerd" is at it again and this time i do feel i have to say something. the disability advocates have it covered on addressing the impact, but there's also a serious problem with the linguistics.

in a video shared on may 16, adam aleksic begins by saying: "i think we have to accept the fact that the 'r-word' [retard/retarded] is permanently coming back and it's functionally changed meanings to no longer directly refer to disabled people."

this first sentence alone betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of language change in several points.

this word never went away. what we're seeing now is an attempt at re-normalization by people who sense that they will not be socially punished by openly using this term.

we actually don't have to "accept" its return to mainstream use. for decades, disability advocates have worked to inform the public of the harm caused by casual use of this term. the harm has not disappeared, and neither will this advocacy and its impacts.

now i'm just mad. how tf does it NOT refer to disabled people? the entire point of a pejorative term is that it negatively invokes comparison to a person, group, etc. the assertion that the r-word has changed meanings is categorically false. at most, its primary context has changed from clinical to casually pejorative, but the insult fundamentally rests upon the original reference.

he goes on to refer to the "euphemism treadmill," another concept he misrepresents by extending the metaphor to say that terms which have been sufficiently distanced from their original reference are no longer pejorative. to quote: "...once we sufficiently distance a word from its historical usage, it stops taking on the same offensive power and just becomes colloquial instead."

which... what? what the fuck is he talking about? the words he uses as examples – idiot, imbecile, and moron – are definitely still offensive, if perhaps less impactful. "just becomes colloquial instead" is a nonsense phrase. are offensive words not colloquial? the only english word that comes to mind as having changed so much in definition as to no longer be offensive is "nice," which has been shifting in meaning for more than 700 years and was never a weaponized clinical term.

he ends by saying, "it is undeniably true that the people who are afraid to say the r-word right now are going to get old and die out, while younger generations keep saying it with no knowledge of where it came from." again, fundamentally misunderstanding language change in society over time. it rests on the assumption that we're all going to start or re-start using this slur and never have a conversation about its harms, which just completely ignores both the abovementioned disability advocacy and the fact that people tell each other not to use offensive words. you think i'm just not gonna teach my kids that using slurs is bad??

the whole video is devoid of both empathy and an understanding of long-term semantic change.

tl;dr etymologynerd is wrong, we do NOT "have to accept that the 'r-word' is coming back," and we all need to read more crip linguistics.

[depsidase]

[sadgrrly02]

see the issue is now that i'm playing arknights i've lost my main argument against my friend getting me into gakuen idolmaster (at the time was 'i don't play gachas anymore')

[sadgrrly02]

i'm sorry this sticker is making me lose it

[retiredmahoushoujo]

Visit Original Link

Lappland Italian dub lines

[captain-price-returns]

A real page on the White House website

[thatwizarddyke]

evergreen tweet

[sadgrrly02]

Saw someone at the gym doing the pjack challenge

[sadgrrly02]

anyway before you ask why i'm suddenly posting about ufo conspiracies, I have a project i've been meaning to do for a while.

[sadgrrly02]

😬

[artifacts-and-arthropods]

Frother Moths: when these moths feel threatened, they secrete a frothy yellow substance that is noxious and distasteful to predators

Above: Amerila astreus with two large globs of defensive froth

Moths of the genus Amerila are often described as frother moths, because they're able to secrete a frothy, foul-tasting substance that helps to deter predators. The fluid is produced by the prothoracic glands, which are located near the base of each wing (just behind the moth's head) and a distinctive "sizzling" or "hissing" sound is emitted as the frothy substance bubbles out.

Above: Amerila astreus

As this article explains:

If molested, resting adults produce quantities of a frothy, orange fluid from their prothoracic glands, accompanied by a sizzling sound. The froth not only has an aversive odor to humans but also contains PAs (pyrrolizidine alkaloids) which are taste-repelling.

Above: a frother moth producing its defensive secretion

The adult moths of this genus are pharmacophagous, which means that they acquire the chemicals that are used to create their defensive froth by ingesting plants that contain toxic or noxious compounds; those chemicals are then sequestered within the moth's own body, where they are repurposed and transformed into a frothy secretion.

Above: genus Amerila

Frother moths also use aposematic markings to signal their toxicity and/or unpalatability. Their legs, thorax, and abdomen are all decorated with reddish-pink markings, and they have large black spots that stand out against their mostly-white bodies.

Above: Amerila crokeri and Amerila rubripes

The genus Amerila contains dozens of species, and they are all known to have this defense mechanism. They are widely distributed throughout many different parts of the world; depending on the species, they may be found in the Himalayas, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Australia, or Africa.

Above: Amerila crokeri

Several other moths from the subfamily Arctiinae can produce a similar defensive secretion when threatened, but the color, consistency, and composition of the substance differs greatly from one species to the next.

Sources & More Info:

iNaturalist: Genus Amerila

Metamorphosis Australia: Australian Arctiid Moths

Australian Lepidoptera: Amerila crokeri

Metamorphosis Australia: Weird and Wonderful Moths

Entomo Brasilis: Defensive Froth in Arctiidae Species in the Rio Grande do Sul State, Brazil (PDF)

Moths of Australia: Adult Adaptations for Survival

Neotropical Entomology: A Fieldwork-Oriented Review and Guide to PA-Pharmacophagy

[cryptotheism]

Gnosticism: The story of the cosmos is a grand prison escape story with all humanity as the protagonists. Sophia is helping us from the outside.

Hermeticism: God loves us and get this; there are four elements.

[cryptotheism]

Hermetic literature lacks the literary punch of gnostic mythology. I think the most interesting claim it makes is a throwaway reframing of genesis 1:22 from Poimandres. "Man will recognize that he is immortal and know the cause of death is Eros." Implying that humanity is the only class of being capable of erotic love because we are mortal.

[toskarin]

just heard about doctor who. I don't know what to say. every interaction I had with him, he was a veritable ray of sunshine. I still remember sitting by the lake, tracing reeds across the water's surface and promising that those beautiful days of summer would last forever

[toskarin]

just heard about doctor who. I don't know what to say. every interaction I had with him, he was a veritable ray of sunshine. I still remember sitting by the lake, tracing reeds across the water's surface and promising that those beautiful days of summer would last forever

[toskarin]

just heard about doctor who. I don't know what to say. every interaction I had with him, he was a veritable ray of sunshine. I still remember sitting by the lake, tracing reeds across the water's surface and promising that those beautiful days of summer would last forever

[toskarin]

stumbled into a "tactical" subreddit while I was looking for reviews on a normal coat and was forced to grapple with the fact they talk about it EXACTLY like a lolita fashion community

[aconite-and-purpleviolets]

The Lolita community does not fuck around

[toskarin]

truly, it is lolita fashion for divorced men