the Eye of the Sea

Le Guin enjoyer, weird about plants and bugs [it/she] 24 call me Frankie

[semleys-necklace]

👀

[anik]

i love this guy

[feelboss]

same energy

[fembutchboygirl]

delightful news: it's the same guy

[fluffysheeple]

christian bad driver: my guardian angel watches over me, I don't need to look before I merge

atheist bad driver: I will rely on my own skill to see myself safely home after a mere 8 drinks

agnostic bad driver: no one knows where all these dents and scratches came from

[orca-iguana]

Sometimes I think about the time someone donated a Rick and Morty lingerie set, Rick and Morty shorts, Rick and Morty tank, Rick and Morty jacket, Rick and Morty socks, Rick and Morty briefs and bra, Rick and Morty bong, and a pickle Rick vibrator at the thrift store I work at. I wonder how she's doing. Better I hope.

[miraclemaya]

i think it's so funny wehave like letters and whatever from Tolkien talking about how he fucked up with the orcs. it's ao funny

[sackboy166]

[hateusandseeifwemind]

[orcbara]

i swear to god if people don't start understanding that responding to doylist critique of a piece of media with watsonian exonerations is not an actual rebuttal

[orcbara]

somebody saying "hey i don't like that the only gay man in this story is a weird pervert and it portrays gay sexual promiscuity as a moral failing and character flaw" cannot be rebuked by arguing about how the character's backstory or personality traits explain their behaviour. the choices made by a writer are all fundamentally mutable; somebody saying an author's choices should have been different is not going to be persuaded by an argument that takes those choices as immovable fact

[justanisabelakinnie]

[badassdemonsword]

[pagliacci2]

If the woman that JK rowling posted an upskirt photo of had been a cis woman snopes wouldn't have said this was "mixed" and you know it.

[vexatiousvic]

Not that it was necessary, but I looked up definitions, and yeah, obviously "taking a photo under someone's skirt" is literally it. Fuck Snopes so fucking hard. I need them to explain to me how it doesn't fit the definition to a fucking t:

And what the FUCK do they mean, "public setting"?? Yeah, upskirts are mistly taken in public fucking settings! That's not an eycuse, that's part of the fucking issue

[pagliacci2]

And truly what do they mean it was in public? Does that mean that the upskirt photos people take on subways dont count because other people are around? OF COURSE IT WAS IN PUBLIC THATS HOW THE PHOTO GOT TAKEN IF SHE HAD BEEN PHOTOGRAPHED AT HOME IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BREAKING AND ENTERING

[doe-eyed-disaster]

what do they mean "it wasn't taken surreptitiously"? there isn't any implication here except that because Freda Wallace was in public, she consented to any pictures that might be taken of her? this is just "look at the way she* was dressed". snopes is doing rape culture.

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

https://archive.is/Nv1K1

according to archives the first version of the snopes article listed it as "true," but it seems to have been changed. given rowling's widely known history of extreme and aggressive litigiousness i'd be willing to bet her legal team probably objected and snopes caved

[scienceyoucanlove-deactivated20]

As a 19-year-old sophomore at Stanford, Elizabeth Holmes decided to transform diagnostic medicine so she dropped out of college and used her tuition money to start her own company, Theranos. Ten years later, Holmes, pictured here holding a micro-vial, is on the cutting edge of medical technology — her new blood testing method allows hundreds of tests to be run using only a few drops of blood. And, Holmes’ methods are cheaper, faster, more accurate, and less invasive than conventional methods which often require a separate vial of blood for every test. As Holmes told Wired.com earlier this year, “I started this company because I wanted to spend my life changing our health care system. When someone you love gets really sick, most of the time when you find out, it’s too late to be able to do something about it. It’s heartbreaking… We wanted to make actionable health information accessible to people everywhere at the time it matters most. That means two things: being able to detect conditions in time to do something about them and providing access to information that can empower people to improve their lives.”

read more from A Mighty Girl

[thejunglenook]

Reasons you should adore Elizabeth Holmes:

She is featured as Forbes’ youngest self-made woman billionaire.

Her tests will revolutionize the public health world as we know it; Making diagnostic testing accessible and affordable for more people (and potentially saving Medicare and Medicaid ~$100 billion each over the next decade). (x)

She is a coauthor on 82 US and 189 foreign patent applications. (x)

Her fear of needles served as a motivator for launching Theranos. (x)

[wizardarchetypes]

it's so crazy too bc i'll be like "this phrase/practice is being touted as ancient knowledge with a secret unbroken lineage, but it was quite literally made up in the 20th century. like we can trace it back to its very inception in like 1961." and someone will be like "that can't be true because my grandmother taught it to me." and i'm like yes your grandmother was 20 in 1961.

[evilvillain123456789]

apparently my aggressive and poorly trained dog that is too large for me to physically control is now making fake as fuck stories for reddit gold

[humiliationvictim]

Can I still be a leftist if I’m a reactionary conservative

[o-fantasma]

from a strategic outlook the problem with polyamory is very like that of cooperatives or communes under capitalism; without a direct assault on the centres of power, you’re constantly at risk of being annihilated or absorbed by the very norms and systems you set out to escape. as such, it is imperative as a matter of pragmatic tactics, of ideological survival even, for you to sleep with other peoples’ girlfriends

[humiliationvictim]

[mollyjames]

[0v9]

thank you for your addition joe

[0v9]

[pumpkinspicebluntwrap]

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