the blogger formerly known as asculan

ey/em

[semituring]

weren't you the achillean guy?

I'd be horribly offended that that's what you remembered me from, but on the other hand what was there that was worth remembering lol

[asculan]

Hello, Wayback Machine!

I still own this account, and it is indeed me asking you to exclude this URL. Thank you!

[semituring]

This really is me, and the URL is still mine. I really do want you to exclude it from your archive.

[odinsblog]

Trump is giving a pardon to a convicted war criminal. Another one of the “fine people” Trump and Republicans love so much, I guess. Trump and Republicans are racists and misogynists who get off on performative cruelty. Republicans are evil. And the people who keep voting them into office are evil too.

[pardonmystardust]

The United States Military is the World’s Largest Terrorist Organization.

[fromhamtothin]

Oh I guess I’m evil too! Thanks so much for broad and inappropriate judgment.

[tk-tako]

if u think the actions of the US military across the world are/were good and/or just, yup, u’re evil

[la-laborista-republiko]

[killin-the-machine]

The plot thickens

[curiooftheheart]

I already cut out plenty of relatives as is. If I learned I was related to Ben Shapiro I’d cut him off and try to cover up any relation too.

[brainstatic]

Just a heads up right now: on the day when Trump dies, I’m going to be extremely tasteless about it. It’s going to get ugly. You are going to see a side of me I am not proud of. I don’t want any call-outs in my inbox, I’m stating right now that lines will be crossed.

[xiaq]

The kind of student interaction I like to hear:

Two female students were talking in my office while having some pre-finals dog therapy

Student 1: I was paired with [male student] for the workshop. He’s such a good writer. Student 2: Wait, really? He seems like such a frat bro, though. Student 1: I know. But his writing is so beautiful. It’s like professional-grade. He knows how to use semicolons properly. Student 2: (softly but with feeling) oh…semicolons

[sensenoi]

There are only four Irish folk songs:

1. I had too much to drink and I regret nothing

2. I met a fair bonny lass and she was bonny and fair

3. We will fight the British for ever and ever and ever and ever and

4. I have left Ireland and I shall never be happy again

[unclefather]

If you eat a raw dead rat in 2019 you deserve the bubonic plague

[unclefather]

we’ve all thought about eating a pigeon but it doesn’t mean you just pick one off the street and bite into it

[iwilleatyourenglish]

this post is… not great.

the people who died were an ethnic Kazakh couple in a small Mongolian town. they didn’t eat a dead rat, they ate raw organs from a marmot they had hunted.

the plague is an endemic disease in Mongolia, spread largely through contact with marmots (largely as a result of their fleas). unfortunately, due to a lack of information, some people in Mongolia subscribe to the folk belief that eating raw marmot will lead to good health.

this couple contracted the disease–which is very treatable with antibiotics–but did not receive adequate care in time and, as a result, suffered horrifically before dying. they left behind four children, ranging in age from 14-years-old to 9 months. they did not deserve to die.

[deirdreskye]

if you want a laugh, check in on the shitlib side of tumblr every now and again to see what they’re mad about 

[divafit]

this is erasure of non grad students who like to make fun of pete buttchug for being an uncool gay smh

[ratliker1917]

pete buttigieg doesnt even have stated political positions but maybe im just too immersed in woke elitism to realize its bourgeois to ask politicians to be forthcoming with their opinions

[dorkbajirchronicles]

[unpretty]

Could Black English Mean a Prison Sentence?

Court stenographers often misunderstand Black English, and their mistakes could affect people’s lives at crucial junctures.

The Black English gap, as one might call it, matters: It can affect people’s lives at crucial junctures. In 2007, a Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals dissent claimed that when a black woman said, in terror, “He finna shoot me,” she may have been referring to something in the past, when in fact “finna” refers to the immediate future. “Why don’t you just give me a lawyer, dog?” Warren Demesme asked the police when accused of sexual assault in 2017. The statements one makes to law enforcement after requesting a lawyer are inadmissible—but Demesme’s rights were ignored because, it was argued, he’d requested a “lawyer dog,” not an actual attorney.

[strengthins0lidarity]

Hear me out.

Thinly veiled white supremacy.

[kaijutegu]

Thinly?

Veiled???

[moomincaps]

i’m screaming

[postmarxed-deactivated20190429]

IT’S ALMOST LIKE IT’S A BAD SHOW THAT THRIVES ON SHOCK VALUE WITH NO REDEEMING QUALITIES ONCE THE CHEAP GIMMICK OF GRATUITOUS FANTASY VIOLENCE IS REMOVED

[butchflirt]

“It’s the Chinese government’s fault this show is bad”

[prokopetz]

The reactions of certain segments of the fandom to the Homestuck epilogues are pretty wild coming at it from the perspective of someone who didn’t get around to finishing the comic until a couple of years after it ended and had relatively little contact with fan-created media in the intervening span, in that I… just kind of don’t see the rampant OOCness that a lot of folks are talking about.

A few small quibbles notwithstanding, from where I’m standing, the way everybody’s depicted in the epilogues looks pretty consistent with how they’re depicted in the comic proper. In fact, many of the specific examples folks are citing of “OOC” writing seem totally off the wall to me – like, they’re saying the character X is wrong because they lack traits Y and Z, but not only are traits Y and Z evidenced nowhere in the text of the comic, in a lot of cases you’d have to wilfully read against the text of the comic in order to arrive at them.

I’m sure there are plenty of legitimate criticisms to be had, so I’m not going to dismiss all of the reactions as folks being honked off that the epilogues have declined to validate three years of accumulated fanon, but I can’t help but suspect that at least a significant portion of the ruckus boils down to that.

[critter0139]

[pochowek]

I’ve seen people claim that the burning of the notre dame is a hit to French colonialism and white supremacist Christian culture and I’ve also seen someone claim that it symbolizes the fall of degenerate leftist neurope culture so as it turns out you can just use it to further whatever agenda you believe. who cares. it’s true cause you said so

[englishreformationsuggestions]

your english reformation name:

girl : ‘anne’ or ‘catherine’ + the last thing you bought with ‘shire’ at the end

boy : ‘henry’ or ‘thomas’ + the last thing you ate with ‘sbury’ at the end