Bringing the Ruckus Since 1997

hi im Sal Gaby Ybag (fae/faer or she/her) Can’t believe I only got the “made 100 posts” badge AFTER like 8 years on this site

[salora-rainriver]

pinned post? I have an actual bio but its a bit old and i worry no ones seeing those anymore thanks to tumblr changes

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Name: Gaby, Salora, Sal. I like goofy nicknames

Gender n Pronouns: Butch (thats my gender), she/her or fae/faer

Age: 28 as of the last edit of this post.

Academic Qualifications: BA in anthropology. Teaching certification. Went to art school.

Diagnoses: hey kids don’t post ur full medical history online.

Interests: art, culture, history, religion, linguistics, science (mostly biology, geology, and meteorology), politics and social issues, videogames, tabletop games, worldbuilding, speculative biology, cute monsters, animals, dinosaurs, dragons, fighting people on the internet.

Okay what fandoms tho: you’ll have to figure that out for yourself (i cant be arsed to have a regularly updating list of fictional medias). Btw I’m a furry

WAIT UR A FURRY?: ya so my primary sona is a leopard gecko (black pearl morph). Secondary sona is an ottigator (otter/alligator). Pictures when I feel like it.

Nsfw Warning: i am a full grown queer woman on the internet. Expect occasional sex jokes or suggestive content. I won’t really be posting porn though.

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She is not.

This user has opinions, thoughts, likes, and dislikes. She believes in kindness, but understands that no one can please everyone, and that’s okay. If you ever find her behavior distasteful, you are never obligated to respond or keep her unblocked.

That being said, Free Palestine and fuck JKR.

[t4timekeeper]

yeah i just love it when a character is in an inescapable torment nexus for a huge portion of their life and it defines every aspect of their existence forever. also whats cptsd

[salora-rainriver]

Dramatic reenactment of a thing I did while in a grocery store in Tibet.

[salora-rainriver]

Still flabbergasted I managed to draw this with a mouse.

Anyways this is my cookie run oc. One of many. Name’s Appleseed Cookie. They/them pronouns (i think?), also they’re poisonous. Not just the apple seeds (cyanide), but also rattlesnake venom.

[salora-rainriver]

Cookie Run witch oc.

Yes, you read that right.

[salora-rainriver]

Met an animation student who was deeply inspired by my work, and wanted to take pictures for posterity and to study!

Unfortunately, I am both protective of my IP and completely disconnected from social media… but! I have a tumblr!

This is the tumblr.

But i haven’t posted my art on here in a while.

But I can fix that!

Time to spam my art.

This is for you, Sayan.

[salora-rainriver]

Was anyone going to tell me I don’t have an art tag?????

Edit: it seems to be #sal’s art, and i was gonna start adding my old art to that tag apparently but i forgot.

Also the only art on the tag are of these OCs I made in a character design class, my stardew valley player character, and my character from a dnd campaign.

[salora-rainriver]

Met an animation student who was deeply inspired by my work, and wanted to take pictures for posterity and to study!

Unfortunately, I am both protective of my IP and completely disconnected from social media… but! I have a tumblr!

This is the tumblr.

But i haven’t posted my art on here in a while.

But I can fix that!

Time to spam my art.

This is for you, Sayan.

[trashyeggroll]

tumblr is great and all but ya’ll are missing the woman in one of my cat fb groups that has birthed her own tier 1 meme

[demilypyro]

people comparing Young Ladies Don't Play Fighting Games and Rock is a Lady's Modesty and calling FG the ripoff is really funny cause FG's manga started in 2020 while Rock's started in 2022. FG was first, Rock just got an anime first. just choose your favorite commoner hobby for your bishoujo yuri rivalry it aint that serious

[demilypyro]

i've been reading both of these mangas since they started you're in my world now

[treefey]

"I want my media to be historically accurate"

Cool, so you want natural fiber costumes with no/nuanced corset slander, people wearing colors, historical hairstyles, people wearing hats or headcoverings and long sleeves outside during the day, no potatoes or pumpkins in pre-columbian Europe, actors with textured skin and wrinkles, minimal makeup, consulting HEMA groups and weapons scholars for all the weapons and fight scenes, a good soundtrack that includes traditional instruments?

Oh, you mean you want 100% white people. Even in crowd scenes in port cities. There's a different word for that.

[adz]

i laid my head in her lap and she started rubbing and scratching it in gentle rhythmic circles and within minutes i was on the verge of falling asleep. i groggily looked up and said “this feels so nice, i almost fell asleep” and she looked down and said “i did a bunch of research into scalp stimulation and found the most comforting speeds, forces, and patterns, and then i practiced on different girls until i had dialed in an effective technique”

[adz]

t4t because you just dont get this sort of autistically optimized treatment from cis girls

[mlarayoukai-archive]

cat

[ingridskogstad]

Finished YCH for Ynval!

I kinda expected it to be a canine or a feline, like a lynx or a tiger, but I got a DINOSAUR to draw and it's so cool! I love how it turned out and the character's colors remind me of watermelons ^^

[eddieintheocean]

Introductions to academic papers will be like "everyone knows that the sea is cold (citation), as well as salty (5 different citations). Things live in there (citation) and the environment is important to that (2 citations)"

[disorganisedautodidact]

these tags gave me thesis writing flashbacks

[saltedweather]

the thing about writing history. Is that you get used to this. And sometimes, some of us get too comfortable and so we're writing shit like

"Murder is bad. In the time period discussed, people sometimes committed murders (2 citations). And most people agreed that murder was bad, but it was widely known that murders still happened."

And your advisor goes, "Did most people agree, though? Was it widely known?"

And you go (sigh.). Okay. And do twelve hours of going back through your readings. And rewrite.

"Murder is bad (4 citations). In this time, people sometimes committed murders (6 citations). People did not all agree that it was bad (2 citations). There was disagreement about exactly how bad (3 citations)."

And you look at your draft. And you go. But. But we all — I mean, the archival sources from the time are in fact QUITE CLEAR about how widely known it was! Like–! I've read hundreds of letters and a third of them mention murder! I've talked to so many historians of this time and place and we ALL talk about the murder thing!

And you look at the twelve goddamned hours of searching you did. And you write several increadingly desperate emails to colleagues. And after another few days, you come to the agonizing realization that, in fact, there are no citations of published work establishing that people knew murders occurred despite them being bad and against the law. And then you spend another week looking up those archival sources. And you rewrite again.

"Murder is bad (6 citations). In this time, people sometimes committed murders (6 citations). People did not all agree that it was bad (2 citations). There was disagreement about exactly how bad (3 citations). While no conclusive study has been done, from communications in this time, we can say that at least a significant number of people knew that murders still occurred (18 citations)."

[bucketofdeltav]

I currently have exactly this problem.

"Everyone knows that [reaction A] works like this and [reaction B] works like that". Very common way to start a paper or thesis in this field. Everybody knows this, we can carry on with the more interesting stuff about [reaction C].

Huh. These 73 citations all cite each other in a ouroboros and the only original source in the lot is a popular science book which is indeed worth citing, but it's a memoir, which I have read repeatedly, and the author of the memoir just threw this out there as another example of "things everyone just knew in those days".

...I am now doing a PhD on "Hang on just one second, we have no concrete evidence for how [reaction A] or [reaction B] work and even whether they're different at all."

[daburdboi]

I love seeing my sources cite each other so much. It really makes me feel more like a researcher and like part of a community when I'm reading a paper and I see this person read that too, and also found it worth citing and sharing. This is the stuff that makes me love teaching people about MLA and APA.

[thatlittleegyptologist]

Going back to the history for a second: my external examiner for my PhD was determined, for some ungodly reason, for me to prove that the Ancient Egyptians had the concepts of shame, politeness, and “saving face” after embarrassment. But she didn’t want secondary sources, she wanted primary ones.

So I sat there thinking ‘you want me to prove that the Ancient Egyptians knew what shame was, that very human emotion, using their own words in a culture for which we have very few examples of personal/private correspondence or notations that don’t suffer from strict formalities that are present in 98% of non literary texts? Okay then’ and went through hundreds of fragments over weeks to find this:

P.Bologna 1094 3, 5-10

sS m-H n pA xpS n pr-aA a.w.s. Dd n sS pA-wHm r-nty in.tw n=k sS pn n Dd Hna Dd r-nty m ir s iwty HAty=f iw bn n=f sbAy(t) ir sDr.tw iw.tw Hr mtr=k wrS.tw iw.tw Hr sbA=k iw bw sDm=k mtr nb iw i-ir=k pAy=k sxr pA kry Hr sDm mdt in.tw=f Hr kS tw.tw Hr irt sbAyt n mAi tw.tw Hr q-H ssmt Hrw-r=k bw rx.tw qi=k m-Xnw tA-tmm ix rx=k sw

Mahu, Scribe of the Armoury of Pharaoh l.p.h. speaks to the Scribe Pewehem. This letter is brought to you to the following effect: Do not be a senseless man who has no education. One spends the whole night teaching you and passes the whole day instructing you, without your listening to any teaching, but you act after your own fashion. The ape understands words, and it is brought to you from Kush. Lions are trained and Horses tamed: but as for you, one does not discern the like of you within all mankind. Take note of this.

(Caminos, 1954: 13, cf [Redacted], 2016: 59)

I think I sufficiently provided an example of someone (Scribe Mahu) enacting shame and impoliteness onto his student (Scribe Pewehem). 'Prove these humans had the concept of shame' was a wild task that required a wild citation.

Caminos, R., 1954. Late Egyptian Miscellanies. London: OUP. Redacted, C., 2016. My Doctoral Thesis That I Won't Post Publicly But You Can Ask For It. Unpublished.

[inbabylontheywept]

People are so much more sad, and desparate, and lonely than you think. I have had three incidents in the last four months were a technician I was working with was being either dangerously unfocused (we work with high voltage), or just flat out angry with their coworkers, and every time when I just pulled them aside to say hey, this isn't you, you're nice, and you're competent, so something must be up - what can I do to help - they have responded by bursting into tears. One guy was struggling to get his wife moved into a care home, one guy just got served divorce papers, and the other hadn't slept a wink the night before because his daughter had the pukes.

I haven't spent my whole life responding to people being rude, or stupid, or dangerous with knee jerk compassion. It's a new habit. The first time I did that as the lead for my lab, it was because the guy genuinely was so good natured that I knew something had to be off. But the other two times were just me going, alright, lets see if it always goes this well, and so far, it has. I'm almost 30, and I just figured out that the #1 reason people are shitty are because they are going through shit.

I don't think you have, like, a moral obligation to respond to people being jerks with knee jerk compassion. But it has made my life so much easier the last four months that I would recommend trying. For your own sake. Please.

(I'll step off my soapbox now. Enjoy your Sunday.)

[mumblesplash]

no but the “”ai”” boom is crazy bc they made the entire internet so shitty that the only reason to use it is because it’s where all the people are and now they’re getting rid of the people. like i’m straight up logging off and going to the library there’s nothing on here anymore

[mumblesplash]

‘here’s how to tell if an image is ai’ ‘signs the person you’re talking to is a bot’ ‘how to tell if a song is ai generated’ ah but consider this: i am shutting my laptop and walking outside

[natalieironside]

Would you rather turn into one giant wolf or several regular-sized wolves? Discuss.

[kinsey3furry300]

Is the total mass of wolf the same?

[natalieironside]

Yeah the total mass of wolf is conserved