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professional hater doing it for the love of the job • the killer • worlds most confident losergirl • she/her • any d0no posts I rb go in my queue so that they don’t appear directly next to each other on peoples’ dashboards to avoid them competing with each other• icon by @noorywinters and header by @ssamyu • :3

[coureirsix]

mutuals if you love me please watch this. RE enjoyers remember when capcom licensed britney spears for vendetta???

[casscainmainly]

There are a few Duke reading lists on League of Comic Geeks already buttttt here's my personal take on it, focused on stories that I think advance Duke's character and narrative!!! So not completionist but aiming to be comprehensive + get more people to join Duke nation. Very indebted to @duketectivecomics' reading list as always :)))

Duke Thomas Reading List (Characterisation Focused!) by cassandracain12

This is my personal list of Duke reading recs, including all the stories I think meaningfully impact his character, story, or relationships!

[casscainmainly]

Duke insulting Jason Todd for no reason oh Duke nation we are so back

[dig-jules]

who’s got that one gif of Captain Kirk doing this I Need it

[fizzie]

This one?

[dig-jules]

ive been sitting and waiting for these gifs to align like the sailors once waited for the celestial bodies to reveal their path

[shitposting-hobbits-to-gallifrey]

Wait no longer, I have aligned them!

[fractangle]

Pride month vest project, a patch a day #29: Wheat But Not Bread, Fruit But Not Wine

[gelbgelbgelb]

As my friend Julian puts it, only half winkingly: "God blessed me by making me transsexual for the same reason God made wheat but not bread and fruit but not wine, so that humanity might share in the act of creation."

-- Daniel Mallory Ortberg

[technologistrevolution]

This has been driving me insane because this quote is so incredibly Jewish but every time I saw it was completely divorced from Judaism in the version applying it to 'transsexual'.

The original concept that humans complete the act of creation by making bread from wheat is from the Talmud! And the specific "wheat but not bread, grapes but not wine" phrasing is from Jewish theologian Abraham Heschel but it is missing "clay but not bricks".

And among trans Jews the sentiment was already popular before I ever started seeing this specific phrasing so I knew, knew, knew a Jew and likely a trans Jew was involved.

As it happens, Ortberg's friend Julian is Jewish and they have strongly negative feelings about the way the quote has been removed from the context of their life as someone trans and Jewish. They used to have a thread up on xwitter about it but have since made their account private and only have a very terse FAQ online from which you can glean the treatment they likely received when being more open about their Jewishness, relationship to transness, and the interaction of both.

[kosherdragon]

I've always thought there was something extremely Jewish about that quote! I had no idea that Julian is Jewish.

[kosherdragon]

I looked at Julian's twitter and there's a linked in bio thread about this quote. There are a few clarifying tweets there

1. Julian isn't Jewish.

2. The quote actually is influenced by Jewish theology, specifically Rabbi Akiva.

Anyway, I'm glad I saw their twitter and the thread about this famous quote. It's often misattributed, and it's clear that it annoys Julian when people post this quote starting with "As my friend Julian puts it..." and then cite Danny Lavery (usually with a surname he no longer uses) as the author, when the original quote is available as a tweet from 2018.

[cugzarui]

as a chemist i would like to say BWAHAHAHAHAHA

[alexseanchai]

image description at explainXKCD:

explain xkcd is a wiki dedicated to explaining the webcomic xkcd. Go figure.

[flareonfloof]

its a bit easier for astronomers

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

NO! Where’s the non-metals and metaloids?!

[flareonfloof]

are they hydrogen or helium

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

oxygen, carbon, sulfur, xenon, iodine, neon, etc etc.

[flareonfloof]

ooo okay i see the confusion. you're listing off a bunch of metals there

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

…. You’re breaking my chemistry nerd brain. Hhhuuuhhhh???

[flareonfloof]

im an astrophysicist

[nerdynonnativenarnian]

but but, science is science?!

[flareonfloof]

and different fields of science have different conventions and definitions for their unique contexts

[katzeregi]

[aubryjoi]

I love you Jimothy 🦝❤️

[theunfairfolk]

the spirit is unwilling and the flesh it feels not so good also

[anonyymoose]

went to the beach ten minutes after an actual thunderstorm and got so cold i started coming up with a “fish” cover of creep by Radiohead which I was singing out loud over and over again. imagine me waist deep in the waves no feeling in my legs getting over a cold voice singing “i wish i was urchin. you’re so fucking urchin”

[the-pen-pot]

AO3 SCAM

There's been a number of people reporting over on the AO3 subreddit that they're getting messages like this posted in the comments shortly after posting new fics.

The AO3 team are NEVER going to try and contact you about TOS violations via the comment section (or about anything else for that matter)

Don't click any links. Report the accounts involved (which might claim to be things like "LucySupport"), delete the message and move on.

✨Signal boost if you can!✨

[teaboot]

what annoys me about explaining evolution to people who don’t think it’s real is that everyone’s idea of how it works seems to be from this

Whereas the reality is far more like

[teaboot]

Was not expecting this many of you to resonate with Millennium Death Plinko

[sufficientlylargen]

One of these days the horse is gonna come out of pinko with opposable thumbs, and then we're all in trouble.

[killersandqueens]

Would being called big dog fix me? Who knows?

[boydykedevo]

Mixed reviews

[hobgoblinhero]

"What's up, big dog; I'm ratsmacker" is going to live rent free in my head for a little while

[hobgoblinhero]

Boys who up smacking they rat?

[cepheusgalaxy]

wanting to see more Black whumpees like me just absolutely getting it like really being shattered to the ground and kicked while they're down then crying their hollow eyes out for my sadistic pleasure vs not wanting to perpetuate the fetishizing glorification of violence towards Black bodies by colonialism&racism 😍

[cepheusgalaxy]

anyways it is very important to be aware of that kind of stuff bc we live in a racist society and its very easy to perpetuate systemic violence even in the little ways (im not perfect myself and like im somewhat more lighter-skinned than my peers even so i dont feel the hit of racism as roughly as some of them do) BUT for what its worth i think its a very worthwhile line to walk. whump is also about the validation of pain & exploring suffering while humanizing your unlucky main character and Black (+ other nonwhite) characters should get that too. make your nonwhite whumpees cry their eyeballs out and feel hollow in face of the world today #myagenda

[cepheusgalaxy]

they also deserve tragic backstories + sweet caretakers + the reclamation of bodily autonomy in recovery + identity issues + drowning in the puts of utter despair + generally have the world time of their lives while an audience sympathizes with them. it shouldnt be just the white boys who get it. hold my hand. let's put our Black characters through such hellish torment that they come out on the other side feeling a tangible gab between who they became vs who they used to be. together.

(still on the same vein, this post by @/creatingblackcharacters is a pretty nice resource to start out i think every now and then i reread it i think it has nice things to keep in mind)

Post by @creatingblackcharacters · 1 video

💬 17  🔁 815  ❤️ 1387 · “The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth” - Violence, Violent Imagery & Black Horror · TRIGGER WARNING: mentions of de

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

most disgusting part of Tumblr Culture is the kid who love to sag their pirt. not only to sag the jam lid, but to pirt it up. what a waste.

[zagreus]

what language is this

[alephnull47]

english

[alephnull47]

but in 3018

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

listen, the year 2018. you are living in the year 2018. and in centuries and centuries, who tid what to rilt or jilt around, so you better appreciate it for what you have. lot of people would stic or joiler to have what you did.

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

listen to me

[alephnull47]

dude what the fuck

[dwergas-deactivated20180817]

aaauuuuuuuu auu auu auuuuu…

[sr-roto]

[theehorsepusssy]

[blackfandom]

Racism in fandom spaces is actually insanely bad and if you ever try to downplay or avoid conversations about it because "fandom is supposed to be fun" then I'm not sorry to say this: You're adding on to the problem.

[blackfandom]

If POC speaking up about a fandom's racism issue offends you more than the racism itself, you need to think about that. You need to think about how POC fighting racism offends you more than the racism.

[baejax-the-great]

Somewhere out there on a planet very far away is a civilization that has included our sun in a beloved constellation of some animal we couldn't dream up if we tried