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¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Leftist politics, queer stuff, mental health, random shows, music, vocal nerdery, singing, Heilung, embroidery, Nightwish, cats. 34. Permatired. Back on Tumblr after being part of the 2018 exodus.

[ngatwa]

"What got me the most excited was right at the end [of WandaVision], when she finally faces off with Wanda. Does she want to destroy Wanda? Does she want to be best friends with Wanda? Does she want to braid Wanda’s hair? Does she want to kiss Wanda? Does she want to go on a rampage with Wanda? Yes to all, and that was fascinating to me." — Jac Schaeffer

[lena-luthor]

KATHRYN HAHN & AUBREY PLAZA in Marvel Studios' Assembled: The Making of Agatha All Along

[appropriatelystupid]

[appropriatelystupid]

It allowed me to have a lot of fun on The Road because there's so many scenes where they're fighting for their lives, and I'm in the background reading a magazine, or eating flowers, or whatever I do because I'm like, "I'm just gonna watch the show, baby. This is fun." - Aubrey Plaza on Rio joining the Coven on The Road

[appropriatelystupid]

didn't know what a meme was and yet she keeps making gif-able moments

[adaptiveorgan]

I'm a Twitter refugee, so I'm just gonna start throwing out some things that I think are pretty neat, and see if I can find some cool people on here. Took this vid a few months back, and I still can't get over how freaking amazing they were!

[finstermond]

[opheliamortesworld]

[hell0friend-dat-deactivated2022]

Heilung | Anoana | Gifs 600*251

[metalheadsagainstfascism]

You know what?

This is a great time to post this video.

Heilung is a Norse Folk Metal band (that I don't usually post about because they're white). They follow old Norse traditions to the t.

And they've been doing concerts at Native American Reservations.

And they did something really cool that I liked. (Original videos didn't allow me to save, so here's. A duet, but the link goes to the original).

This is a clip from their intro ceremony. You can see a Native American woman doing wafting sage (I think it's white sage? Correct me if I'm wrong. Indigenous creators say she's calling their Indigenous ancestors, and if I remember correctly, that's what white sage is for).

But what's cool about this is because Heilung is following old Norse traditions, they're contacting Old Norse ancestors in their performance.

So when they performed on indigenous land they had the people there call their ancestors to get in okay from them before Heilung called on their ancestors.

And that's badass.

That's the unity that we need in the world. That's the kind of thing I want to share on indigenous peoples' day. A group respecting the land that their on by having the people there call their ancestors and okay it before Heilung called on their own.

-fae

[xiadz]

Heilung - Anoana

[ihavegotnotimeforfeelingsorry]

Heilung | Anoana

[dyllpiccle]

Don’t let them bury me as someone I’m not.

[vanfryingpan]

If you are trans or nb, and you want to make sure your wishes are respected in death, I ask that you please watch this video. this might get buried in the notes, but i'll be glad if anyone sees this. You have rights. simple as that, and Caitlin Doughty made this video to share with you all of your rights and how to make sure that your wishes are respected.

[prismatic-bell]

I will always reblog Caitlin Doughty. Her channel was a huge part of me knowing how to handle my mom’s death process.

This woman will do right by you, trans folk. Take the advice given above.

[russiawave]

[dancinbutterfly]

*GASPS* Are you goddamn kidding me??? I fucking hate the lack of infrastructure in my country. God.

[lyricfrost13]

Dude if I could take a train 400 miles anywhere I would pay 14 dollars just for a seat, never mind all those amenities. Jeez.

Reasons I remind myself I don’t like my country number who knows what

[cappucino-commie]

While this is super cool in and of itself, I’d also like to remind people that modern high speed rail (most of which is in China these days) operates at around 200 miles/hour (China’s fastest train actually operates at 370+ mph but that’s an absolute state of the art maglev, the 200 mph number is average rail speed). If we actually invested in these train systems, you wouldn’t even need an overnight ticket to make a 400 mile trip. To put that in an American context, it would allow you to get from New York to Los Angeles (the famous Cannonball Run taken by car enthusiasts for decades) in about 15 hours, which is 10 hours better than the current Cannonball Run record. With that kind of speed, you could take an evening train halfway across the country (Boston to Chicago would be ~5 hours) for a weekend trip.

Trains are not just more convenient (no driving!), but technologically superior to cars.

[pantstomatch]

Take all my money

[thelittleblackfox]

... SHIT HE'S RIGHT

[anais-ninja-bitch]

FUCK HE IS RIGHT

[cipheramnesia]

In a very limited sense, this is The Fall.

[prismatic-bell]

It is the nature of humanity that every so often, someone accidentally reinvents The Neverending Story.

Please note: this is a feature, not a bug.

[baixueagain]

Sorry, I made the mistake of going through the notes on the JKR post and "[JKR] is a white cishet lady, why are people surprised that she's always sucked?" is a take that makes my ass itch. (In the interest of transparency, I am white, but I am neither cis nor het nor a lady.) Not only is this attitude a shortcut to people letting themselves off the hook for bad behavior as long as they don't fall into those categories, the minute we accept that certain demographics are predisposed to bigotry, we are LOST. Why bother with solidarity or activism or education if some people, by nature of their race, gender, sexual orientation, etc... just suck? I thought we all decided that "boys will be boys" was a shitty philosophy back in 2015, are we really going to woke-wash it for the new decade? JKR doesn't suck because she's a cishet white lady, she sucks because when faced misogynistic abuse, she decided to scapegoat trans women instead of seeking solidarity with them. Yes, her books contain issues with POC/LGBT representation and anti-Semitic tropes. But most of those could PLAUSIBLY be the result of ignorance. The fact that she ignored criticism of these elements or doubled down when confronted is what really seals the deal. Let's hold her accountable for her actions and her choices instead of throwing up our hands and saying "that's just what cishet white ladies are like".

Honestly you said it better than I could have, anon.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just ‘parent’

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

please note that while progenitor, guardian, spawnpoint etc are all respected titles, they are more the equivalent of mother/father than an affectionate nickname you would scream through the house multiple times a day. gimme something we can use people

[whyarehterecomendednamesstupid]

I just tried to combine the words and got “dom” and i cant-

[tinkering-goblin]

but wait, if we reverse ‘dom’ you get ‘mod’. I suggest we use ‘moderator’ as a gender neutral version of mom/dad

[madskittens-202-deactivated2026]

Admin and op would work makes them sound powerful and in charge of everything

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Admin (respectful) Op (derogatory)

[doggoneloser]

i was going to add something else to this but instead i got to thinking and i was like huh. what could you use.

in most languages the word for ‘mother’ usually starts with an M, because phonetically [m] is one of the easiest sounds for a newborn to make when they start babbling, and mothers tend to be the one most around the child. so in my mind that crosses M off the list, because it’s automatically associated with a feminine figure

similarly, ‘father’ tends to start with D, T, P, or B. (phonetically these sounds are very close together; [p, b] and [d, t] are all only different because of being voiced or unvoiced.) these are also phonetically easy letters and ones kids pick up on earlier.

now the hard sounds for kids are the following: [ɹ, d͡ʒ, tʃ, θ, ð] or in normal speak: the English R, the “j” or “dge” sound in “judge,” the “th” sound in “thigh” and the “th” sound in “the.” and we don’t want kids unable to say their parent’s name for years, so those are also off the list.

additionally, it’s easiest for young kids to just repeat the same sound twice rather than figuring out the tongue gymnastics of putting different sounds together, which is why kids will say Ma-Ma or Da-Da and not Ma-Mo or Da-Po. and we’ll want to stick with low back vowels like “ah” and avoid ones like the hard “i” or “ee.”

so what does that leave us? when we want a sound kids can learn easily and early but don’t want to just put a funky spin on “mama” or “dada”?

my suggestions: G, K, W, L. i personally lean towards W and L. they’re called liquids, since they’re the consonants that kind of aren’t consonants, and kids (and ESL learners) will tend to swap out the English R for a W or L until they can learn the R.

if i ever have a child, they’ll start calling me Wawa. then when they get older, they’ll call me Wala, or maybe even Wally.

and then, once they’re finally phonetically developed, they can call me by my true title as their nonbinary guardian for their 18+ years:

Waluigi.