Bejeweled Skeleton

Reference blog, I reblog stuff I find interesting

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[maureenjohnsonbooks]

This graphic is fabulous. It represents a tiny crash course in rhetoric. Learn these things. Put them on your wall. Whisper them into the breeze. These are THINGS TO KNOW.

[breelandwalker]

Recipe Roundup in Review

Last year, I posted a two-month series of recipes suitable for the autumn season, which everyone seemed to enjoy very much. I’ve been too busy this year to make up a new queue, so I thought I’d compile a big long list of links for anyone who’s looking for recipe ideas this fall.

Appetizers, Sides, & Snacks

A Pair of Stuffing Recipes

Asparagus Salad

Baked Apples

Beets with Cloves and Cinnamon

Bree’s Cheddar-Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Bree’s Homemade Colcannon

Carrot Fritters

Cheese & Bacon Pinwheels

Cheese Toasties

Cranberry-Orange Sauce

Fish Cakes

Irish Stout Apple Fritters

Oatmeal & Potato Bread

Parsnip & Apples

Pumpkin Seeds

Sprouts au Gratin

Soups

Butternut Squash and Pear Pottage

Cheese Soup & Dumplings

Chestnut Soup

Garlic Soup

Gingered Pumpkin Soup with Molasses Cream

King’s Arms Tavern Cream of Peanut Soup

Mashed Potato Soup

Mushroom Soup

Entrees

Acorn Squash with Cinnamon and Honey

Bree’s Baked Ziti

Bree’s Crockpot/One-pot Chili

Bree’s Fried Chicken Parmesan

Bree’s Honey Baked Salmon

Bree’s Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole

Bree’s Roast Chicken with Apples and Potatoes

Bree’s Sesame Ginger Chicken

Bree’s Turkey Hash Casserole

Dill-Crusted Salmon

Irish Stew

Meat Patties in Crust

Michaelmas Goose with Sage & Onion Stuffing

Pan Haggerty

Pumpkin Plenty

Roast Pork Tenderloin with Orange & Onion Sauce

Rosemary-Orange Beef

Spiced Pot Roast

Stuffed Acorn Squash

Stuffed Braised Beef

Surry Sausage, Squash, & Apple Bake with Savory Streusel Topping

Welsh Potato Pie

Welsh Trout in Bacon

Baked Goods

Applesauce Buttermilk Biscuits

Barm Brack

Beer-Bacon-Onion Muffins

Caerphilly Scones

Christiana Campbell’s Tavern Sweet Potato Muffins

Drop Scones

Gingered Pumpkin Muffins

King’s Arms Tavern Apple Cheddar Muffins

Tea Table Goodies

Apple & Potato Cake

Apple Raisin Cider Teabread

Bree’s Cranberry Pumpkin Bread

Irish Apple Cake

Irish Apple Teabread

Irish Whiskey Cake

Isle of Wight Farmhouse Cake

Marmalade Loaf

Porter Cake

Seed Cake

Welsh Crumpets

Desserts

Bramble Dessert

Bree’s Easy-Peasy Molten Chocolate Cake

Bree’s Semi-Sweet Chocolate Pumpkin Bundt Cake with Chocolate Liquer Glaze

Beverages, Jams, and Sauces

Mulled Cider

Samhain Wine Cup

Wassail

Blackberry & Apple Jam

Bree’s Dad’s Sauce Recipes

Delectable Dressings

Irish Whiskey Marmalade

Sources

Celtic Folklore Cooking (Asala)

A Kitchen Witch’s Cookbook (Telesco)

A Witch’s Brew (Telesco)

Kitchen WItch’s Guide to Brews and Potions (Telesco)

The Kitchen Witch (Soraya)

Witch in the Kitchen (Johnson)

The Colonial Williamsburg Tavern Cookbook (Gonzalez)

Favorite Meals from Williamsburg (Turgeon)

Holiday Fare: Favorite Williamsburg Meals (Gonzalez)

The Very Best of Irish Traditional Cooking (Lennon and Campbell)

An Irish Country Cookbook (Taylor)

[butch-reidentified]

Hey gyns, I need that "transwomen offend at the same rates as cis men" study, realized that one isn't in my document of radblr links either. Anyone have it? 💗

[girlsmoonsandstars]

the Swedish study?

[butch-reidentified]

Yea that lol

[girlsmoonsandstars]

In this study, male-to-female individuals had a higher risk for criminal convictions compared to female controls but not compared to male controls. This suggests that the sex reassignment procedure neither increased nor decreased the risk for criminal offending in male-to-females.

it's online here

[butch-reidentified]

Much thanks!! 😊🙏

[mysharona1987]

[witwitch-deactivated20160508]

These statistics are literally fake and made up. Stop circulating them as if they’re real, you just make yourself look even more ignorant.

Did you know that white trans women as less likely to be murdered than white female women?

This is coming from an article written by a trans woman. White trans women constantly use the deaths of TWOC as props in their arguments against radical feminists, when these white trans women will never suffer the violence they’re using as a prop.

That is so fucking racist and disgusting and it should piss you right off. Just fucking stop using their murders as a prop in an argument as if it gives you the right to speak over others.

[actual-ex-radfem]

iirc there hasn’t been a year in the US where the total murders of transwomen was greater than 20 people. 

The best estimate of the number of transwomen in the usa is 700,000. If 1 in 12 of them were being murdered there would be greater than 50,000 killed each year. 

[cocksmasher69]

Who’s murdering trans women? Certainly not radfems. Maybe yall should look at your own kind–men–and stop trying to blame women for everything men do to each other.

[fedup-vagina-owner]

Black Trans “women” are murdered due to

1) Racism 2) Misplaced misogyny 3) Homophobia

All three of the above scenarios are not unique to trans women. Racist, homophobic, sexist men are to blame for the murders.

[officialweatherwax]

I swear I read somewhere that the rate of murder for black transwomen is the same as for black gay men, but I can’t find the damn source.

[catlogicdefiesall]

Black TIMs are murdered by their boyfriends, or by johns. It’s being in prostitution that’s the big risk factor, not being “trans”. And it’s all down to male violence. Who are these white TIMs being murdered? They’re more likely to be out assaulting, raping and killing women than being subjected to any violence themselves - and on the rare occasions they are, it’s still being done by other men.

The “trans community,” so parasitic it even feeds off its own most vulnerable members. What a surprise.

[tehbewilderness]

In the UK there are more transgender identified male murderers than there are transgender identified male victims.

[hidetothink]

Wait, could I get a receipt on that? That seems like something I’d need a citation on

[old-school-butch]

The number of victims last year was zero, so that’s easy. The number of murderers is at transcrimeuk.com. With such low numbers, maybe comparing a decade of stats is helpful.

Transgender individuals who were victims of homicide in the UK in the past decade (2008 – 2017)

Total = 7 (all biological males)

Homicides committed by transgender individuals in the UK in the past decade (2008 – 2017)

Total = 12 (all biological males)

http://transcrimeuk.com/2017/11/16/trans-homicides-in-the-uk-a-closer-look-at-the-numbers/

[happibeans]

Why do they need to inflate and literally lie about their own oppression? Why do they never take issues as serious as murder and prostitution as seriously as they claim?

Why do they not take themselves seriously and expect everyone else to fill in that role for them, on top of meeting the many demands of the trans agenda (including feeling guilty about their sexual attractions and broadening their boundaries, changing their language, censoring their experiences, etc)???

Violence is serious. When you make stats like that people will react strongly and feel terrible because of how serious violence is. They will be more willing to bend for you because violence is so serious. Much of the flippantly fabricated and inflated information and activism coming from TRAs reeks with ulterior motives that all boil down guilting their audiences into obedience, validating their superficial, highly gendered aesthetics and giving impunity to their every opinion like servants. None of that (validation and impunity from criticism—aka “transphobia), deals with not being murdered or spat upon as “freaks”, which are literally life and death, and genuine, serious dehumanization. It’s really telling how “violence” is so serious they would lie about it.

I guess that’s why everything is transphobic violence for them.

[terfette]

they make it sound like they’re all murdered as anti-trans hate crimes when if you actually read about the victims a lot of them are killed in robberies and other crimes that they’re at risk of just by virtue of existing in a society that have nothing to do w their transness

[jeannepompadour]

Decorated skeleton of St. St. Friedrich in Melk, Austria

[nowwesaidit]

Discussing whether or not sex workers “enjoy their job” is an enormous waste of time from a Marxist perspective (which so many of you claim to have).

Do we discuss whether or not the steel workers enjoy their job? Do you discuss whether or not the the slaughterhouse workers enjoy their job? No! That’s never brought up whatsoever—for whatever reason, we immediately understand that a random laborer’s personal enjoyment on the clock is not relevant.

What is relevant is discussing how labor is built upon coercion. The ruling class has stolen the commons and thus forced us into repetitive work for money, which we all “need” to have in order to pay our taxes—and our taxes are used to fuel military excursions meant to steal even more resources to make the ruling class even more powerful.

In other words, all labor that is exchanged for money is coerced. This is very, very basic Marxism 101.

Sex work is thus, like all other work, coerced. And coerced sex is rape.

It is honestly a bit sickening to me how quickly y’all point to personal enjoyment. I’ve never seen that argument used elsewhere at all. I’ve never seen a self-described Leftist say “some cashiers enjoy being on their feet :)” or “some field workers enjoy being in the sun :)”

What an absolutely absurd thing to argue! And y’all who humor them by point out the health risks, the testimonies, etc.......just absolute ABSURDITY.

[quasi-normalcy]

I find it personally offensive how many bad writers can get published so easily.

[quasi-normalcy]

I used to find it reassuring, like, "Haha, wow, if THIS can get published..." but now I take it to mean "It doesn't matter if your book is good or not, all that matters is if you're in the right social circles (and you're not)"

[donesparce]

what do you MEAN pantone locked its colors behind a paywall in adobe what do you MEAN

[donesparce]

You’re Going To Have To Pay To Use Some Fancy Colors In Photoshop Now

Due to a change in how Adobe licenses Pantone colors, old PSD files could start being filled in black

incredible work, capitalism

[donesparce]

opening up a 20 year old adobe file just to find the entire thing is black can you imagine

[goldenthyme]

Here are ways around this

An artist offering a Solid Color guide as a pdf

A Google doc with pantone colors in HEX and RGB (twitter source)

[animesharks]

i think anyone who’s every used the internet has seen this picture at least once

[grantairefanclub-remade]

 #should have done the blonde anime girl in the red plaid

you mean

[necromantism]

yes that one exactly

[dumb-of-ass-pure-of-heart]

wake me up inside

[fifth-dimensional]

That first image is an edit of HUGZzz by Irene Strychalski. She’s improved tremendously in the past nine years, and you can see her current work on her tumblr, reniedraws! She has done backgrounds for Archer and Unsupervised, backgrounds and character designs for Chozen, and pencils and inks for issue #1 of Deadpool Family. She’s currently making a webcomic called Shaman Child. Here’s some of her current art:

[girl with scarf] [deadpool] [wedding commission] [hair and water]

As for the anime girl in the plaid skirt, I braved the hellscape that is early ‘00s anime websites, exploring endless gif-covered Gaia pages and vampire-filled roleplay forums, traveling across seas of unsourced DeviantArt edits and low-res hentai, to discover that she is an original character by Hiro Suzuhira. She has done work for Shuffle!, Ef: A Tale of Melodies, Akikan!, Phantom Breaker, and We Without Wings, among many others, and she is also a prolific freelance illustrator. Here are some examples of her art:

[chronicle cover] [misa] [soul eater] [higurashi] [phantom breaker] [leo]

[maniacalmagician]

tumblr VH1 presents “Where are they now? Early 2000′s internet artists”

[luntica]

Fuck yeah! Show those sources! Knowing after all this time of that stolen art being everywhere, seeing the artist named is really great!

[radfemarchive-deactivated202304]

If sex is a service rape is just unpaid labor.

If sex is a service it can be provided to family members, morally.

If sex is a service it can be a small child’s career aspiration, and it should be supported as such.

If sex is a service then pornographic content can also be displayed to children,as they should be given examples of their work possibilities.

If sex is a service, and sex work is an existent opportunity to you, you can’t complain about being unemployed.

If sex is a service csa is just some form of child labour.

If sex is a service it is bigoted and against the costumer rights to denny service on the basis of anything, including sex, regardless of the workers orientation they should provide service to the costumer.

Things get really creepy when you mix things with inherent different natures like sex and labour, I know.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

If sex work is work, then incest is no different than working in the yard or shed with mom and dad. It’s just practice for working in the real world.

[cantanopeshitthatwastaken]

If sex work is work then it should be held to the same safety standards as other jobs, including treating any and bodily fluids as biohazards that should never touch the workers’ skin (rubber protective gloves, etc). There would be unions, benefits, healthcare, the things expected from other jobs. Legal action against pimps when they harass, assault, and threaten their “employees.” Strikes, protections, wages that increase rather than decrease over time (why would an 18 year old be more “valuable” than a 30 year old?).

[radfem-is-rad]

Are you starting to see it now. Sex work is ultimately the exploitation of women and will never be empowering

[eve-is-a-terf]

this posts helped to change my entire worldview. literally.

i think if more young women were exposed to these types of posts, being anti-prostitution would be a lot more normalized

[princessterf]

Forever thinking of that radfem that said something along the lines of; “if sex work is work, then what my dad did to me is the same as letting a child work in a family restaurant….”

[bundibird]

I think that Liz Truss is an idiot and also a terrible person, but I also think that she was deliberately elected by the Tories to take the fall (if she'd succeeded, then they get to look progressive for having a woman as a leader; and in the much more likely instance that she fails, given the ludicrously unpopular policies they were spruiking, well, theyve only sacrificed a woman, havent they, instead of sacrificing one of their own? One of their own being, of course, a white man.)

And clearly I'm not the only person who thinks this.

[lesbian-books]

Hello! 💕 Could you recommend any lesbian books that have no heterosexual content at all? I know this might be almost impossible I’m just so jaded and would love to be able to go into a book assured there won’t be any hetero sex.

I feel you, it’s very frustrating to read a book that’s marketed as a lesbian romance or praised as having “good sapphic representation” only to find out that one or both main characters has a boyfriend/husband or fucks a man. We really need more books that are actually about lesbians.

Here are some books in which the main characters don’t have hetero relationships or hetero sex:

The Abyss Surrounds Us duology by Emily Skrutskie Affinity by Sarah Waters Ammonite by Nicola Griffith Beyond the Screen Door by Julia Diana Robertson Bleeding Earth by Kaitlin Ward The City of Woven Streets by Emmi Itäranta Compass Rose by Anna Burke + Departure from the Script by Jae Fingersmith by Sarah Waters Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks + Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett + Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir + Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri + Just Physical by Jae Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo The Last to Let Go by Amber Smith A Line in the Dark by Malinda Lo Love by the Numbers by Karin Kallmaker The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling Monstress: Awakening by Marjorie Liu * + On a Sunbeam by Tillie Walden One Summer Night by Gerri Hill ** Requiem for Immortals by Lee Winter * Shaken to the Core by Jae The Stars Are Legion by Kameron Hurley * Teixcalaan duology by Arkady Martine Tell Me How You Really Feel by Aminah Mae Safi The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson ** + The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood The Warrior’s Path by Catherine M. Wilson + Wildthorn by Jane Eagland

* I enjoyed these books but they contain scenes of female characters engaging in violent, abusive behaviour that dampened the reading experience for me. They’re still good overall, I just think it’s fair to warn you in case that turns you off reading them.

** I disliked these books but they fit the criteria so...yeah, slim pickings. But taste is subjective so just because I don’t like them doesn’t mean you can’t.

+ First in a series

One additional note: Most authors don’t label their characters as lesbians so I can’t be sure that all the main characters in these books are lesbians. And since some of these books are in a series that I haven’t finished and/or that the author hasn’t yet completed (marked with +), I can’t be sure that future books in a particular series will not contain hetero content. So just be aware of that possibility!

I had actually been planning to make a list of book recs like this so I’m glad someone asked. I intend to update this list as regularly as I can. Let me know if you want any more information about any of the books already on the list.

[despazito]

The amount of people getting 0 upvotes for calling this shit ugly is kaczynski inducing

[despazito]

Guys the issue isn't (mainly) that these are all identical cookie cutter houses without a grass lawn, or what they're one step away from apartments (these are worse than apartments), or even that it's "high density" housing (it's not really, they're still single family homes).

the issue is this sort of development is a fucking zoning dystopia that manufactures human misery. I think north Americans who haven't been outside USA or Canada will often forget that the majority of the world and most of human history did not have towns carved up into "housing zone" and "everything else" zones.

The extinction of mixed use zoning has been devastating on communities. It leaves people in food deserts. it leaves people more sedentary and pedestrians more at risk because of car dependency. it leaves children alienated, depressed, and much more dependant on their parents for longer when they need a drive to go anywhere interesting. Not to mention a lack of any profit generation besides property taxes leads to suburbs consistently being subsidized by the inner cities because they are economic sandpits with 10x the asphalt, piping, and utilities needed because every home needs its own independent setup.

Having swaths of land designated for absolutely nothing but residential development is a waste at every level. Hell, even communist bloc housing was smart enough to keep a ground floor for business space, many have small groceries or stores to keep things walkable.

This setup is an extremely common sight in eastern Europe. They aren't American style non-perishable food desert corner stores either, they sell fresh meat and produce and many are open 24 hours. The nearest thing you can get around here to "European" style zoning (we had it too actually, we just bulldozed it all lol) is probably Montreal because Quebec prides itself on french identity and architecture/city planning is no exception.

I stg the north American white middle class is so agoraphobic they built themselves into misery pods, but hey at least there's no undesirables in the neighborhood bringing down property value so in the end it was all worth it. And yes a lot of it does all come back to racism. A combination of white flight from urban areas and the exclusion of black veterans from the G.I. bill lead to these homogenized ivory towers of nothingness.

[whimsigothwitch-deactivated2026]

Whimsical rings

[sexworkinfo]

The majority of sex workers enjoy their job - why should we find that surprising?

[hypnictwitch]

Prevalent discourse would have you believe that sex workers are problems to deal with, or victims to ‘save’. But that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, when you ask sex workers about their job satisfaction and working conditions – as a study led by Leeds University just has – the majority of them are happy. When asked to describe their work, respondents typically selected positive or neutral words. 91 per cent of sex workers described their work as ‘flexible’, 66 per cent described it as ‘fun’ and over half find their job ‘rewarding’.

Gee, I wonder. 

Whose arse did they pull these figures out of? Does that cost extra?

[themutantgene]

They surveyed 240 people…. highly educated and who had other jobs previously. 240 / 42,000,000 prostitutes worldwide (estimate). YOU CAN’T SAY MAJORITY WHEN YOU SURVEY 0.00057% OF PEOPLE IN A FIELD

[coeur-de-porcelaine]

Study of 100 prostituted women in Canada: 95% wish to quit prostitution, 52% are Aboriginal women, 86% are homeless, 72% have PTSD, 78% were raped and 92% were physically assaulted.  Study of 854 people in 9 countries : 89% want to quit prostitution, 68% have PTSD, 75% were homeless, 63% were raped and 71% were assaulted.  ‘’There is no evidence that the Nordic Model works!’’ You certainly won’t find it if your head is firmly implanted in the sex work lobby’s ass. Criminalizing the demand while decriminalizing the workers reduced trafficking, reduced nearly in half the amount of men who buy sex, Sweden’s prostituting population in only a tenth of Denmark’s despite having a bigger population, and seriously read this entire article because it debunks a lot of pro-sex industry myths. Norway adopted the Nordic Model as well , and Norway’s prostitution ban works.  :A New Approach to Eradicating Sex Trafficking by Reducing Male Demand through Educational Programs and Abolitionist Legislation

The legalization of prostitution and its impact on trafficking in women and children Native Women’s Association of Canada abolitionist position on prostitution Native victims of trafficking in the Minneapolis sex trade  SPACE: survivors of prostitution calling for the Nordic Model  EVE: formerly exploited voices now educating : survivors of prostitution naming it as violence against women and fighting for abolition 

[womensliberationgang]

In my country, Brazil:

– 90% of prostitutes want to have ‘another’ job

– there are 1.500.000 people in prostitution in Brazil and 78% are women.

– 15% of them are transexuals and only 7% are men

- 59% of them are the head of the family and need to support their children.

– 45,6% of them only got to middle school

– 24,3% didn’t finish high school

Prostituição: dados internacionais e situação do Brasil

Se é uma escolha, por que a pobreza é um fator tão comum?

Prostituição Infantil: uma violência contra a criança. Prostituição Infantil - Brasil Escola

Prostituição infantil – conheça os aspectos facilitadores desta condição.

[nevver]

Undo the Damage of Sitting

[artist-refs]

(Technically, this isn’t about saving your hands… but if you draw, you’re probably doing a lot of sitting, so…)

[death-420]