Forced theminization

he/they | Nonbinary guy (whatevermoding) | Adult | formely grateful-worm

[sharknado-three]

List of obsolete occupations - Wikipedia

The Wikipedia "List of obsolete occupations" is a real gem.

[bedrock-to-buildheight]

The Monument to the laboratory mouse is a sculpture that commemorates the sacrifice of the mice in genetic research used to understand biological and physiological mechanisms for developing new drugs and curing of diseases.

[riotouseaterofflesh]

game that has nearly identical mechanics to a Diablo-esque dungeon romp with a central base and an ever expanding combat area you go into and kill all the inhabitants to loot them

except you're in a besieged city and, rather than being in charge of any of the big shit in maintaining defences etc., you've got the equally important job of doing small raids into the surrounding enemy camp for supplies

stuff this solves:

your players can now indulge in their fantasies of being the good guy without any of the usual worldbuilding implications of busting into a populated area and murderizing everybody inside

the evil monstrous dark lord or whatever is actually framed as a demonstrable threat (because the story starts with them literally attacking you instead of the other way around)

you're still a small party venturing out into unknown hostile territory and slowly mapping out whatever the Actually Threatening Evil Army has built there now

built-in plausible excuse for all sorts of high-tech loot, because the Actually Threatening Evil Army has taken stuff from their conquests all over the rest of the world up to this point so you could theoretically run into any sort of weapon

built-in plausible excuse for mob difficulty progression, because the frontline has lots of screening low-value cannon fodder and your allies in the city have probably helped clear out a lot before you even got there, while fresher better equipped units might still be on their way

[radicalgraff]

"Defund God"

Seen in Seattle

[superbnature]

Cedar Waxwings by jocelynefeizo1 http://ift.tt/1RM3Kk0

[manyblinkinglights]

#do cedar waxwings ever eat anything besides photogenic red berries#do cedar waxwings ever do anything besides eating photogenic red berries#is there any way this child can get its parent to stop feeding it photogenic red berries

[speciesofleastconcern]

watch how many berries I can cram into this other bird

[mockva]

This guy's illusions are great

[alexaloraetheris]

[byakuya-mioda]

I like to think this is the story of him breaking out of prison and then going on an extended spree of mischief

[pangur-and-grim]

I see your cat climbing a bookshelf and raise you a rabbit.

I miss having a rabbit so bad! one thing Chiefcake used to do that shocked visitors was jump up on tables and chairs

[haunthid]

art as a hobby is great because I can just draw whatever the hell I want Spinosaurus mirabilis

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[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[the-quasar-hero]

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

[the-quasar-hero]

This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.

[draizetrain]

i think when u clean your house it should stay clean forever. what do u mean i have to do it again

[i-suggest-transing-your-gender]

the this-is blogs abt transandrophobia dont have their askblogs open here rn so im here but this is transandrophobia right?

This is transandrophobia AND weird as hell

[cock-holliday]

Noooo youth lib account, don't imply that people being infantilized by their attackers are actually infantilizing themselves and so mocking them for it is okay, you are literally the youth lib account

Noooooooo youthlib account stop extrapolating positionality on a whole group from your interpersonal experience with shitty friends. Your asshole friendgroup being assholes does not make them your oppressor, and shitty people weaseling out of accountability for being shitty is STILL not the same as inherent oppressor status NOR proof that people removing the autonomy of trans men is the same as someone being a shithead.

I am aware that anecdotes are not proof of something being universal, but if that's what we've decided is the Truth, then lemme say how every single transmasc I know WAS a "girl sexually harassed by boys (her) age." "every black child" are there no Black transmascs???

Youth lib and the transmasc portion of trans liberation have so much personal overlap--as a youth yourself you MUST be exposed more than most to how this is true, do not let interpersonal beef create reactionary impressions of your fellow oppressed people.

[brainstatic]

Psst, hey, Marilyn Monroe’s image as a freewheeling sexpot was a carefully constructed lie. The real Marilyn Monroe was a roiling tragedy and her life was an indictment of our society as a whole. She was orphaned after her mother had a schizophrenic breakdown, bounced around between foster homes where she was sexually abused, and married a 21-year-old at 16 to get out of being sent to an orphanage. Hugh Hefner published nude photos of her without her consent that were taken when she was 23 and desperate. She suffered severe anxiety and depression, which she coped with by drinking and using barbiturates, and was already a full-blown addict when she became famous in the mid-50s. Her career was one of exploitation, condescension and alienation, and she killed herself at 36. That Hugh Hefner, a man who was at best an unpleasant footnote in her life, felt entitled to be buried next to her is one more humiliation in a pop cultural landscape we should all be ashamed of.

[class-struggle-anarchism]

“Please don’t make me a joke… I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one… I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity..”

 - Marilyn Monroe, last taped interview, days before her death

She deserved better than this

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Can I just also say, in addition to all this, that I’m still pissed off about the fact that Joe DiMaggio swooped in and gave Marilyn a Christian funeral before her Rabbi could return from a trip overseas? ‘Cause that shit is fucked up.

So many men who claimed to be in love with her, and not one could fucking respect her wishes, even in death.

[emily84]

“I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t.””  — Marilyn Monroe

Also:

As one of the biggest Ella Fitzgerald fans, she literally helped desegregate her performances. Ella was not allowed to play at Mocambo because of her race.

Ella Fitzgerald: “I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt… she personally called the owner of the Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. She told him – and it was true, due to Marilyn’s superstar status – that the press would go wild. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman – a little ahead of her times. And she didn’t know it.” thisisnotmyfairytaleendingg (Source: dmvnessa)

ALSO:

In August 1956, Monroe began filming The Prince and the Showgirl, with Laurence Olivier staring and directing. The production was complicated by conflicts between him and Monroe. He angered her with the patronizing statement “All you have to do is be sexy” and his attempts to get her to replicate Vivien Leigh’s interpretation. She became pregnant and miscarried during the production, which heavily worsened her depression and increased her drug abuse.

A L S O , I will never forget watching a documentary about her once and, speaking about her marriage with Arthur Miller, the narrator said, verbatim: “America’s Brain had married America’s Body”. Like, literally, because he was a famous writer, he was entitled to personhood; she, being an actress, and a beautiful woman, was reduced to being “a body”. I have never been more enraged with her portrayal in the media. If you want to be dismissive of her,  literally come for you.

[amuseoffyre]

She was also chronically ill her whole life: she suffered from endometriosis with pain so debilitating that a clause was written into her contracts accounting for the days when she would not physically be able to work during her periods.

She was on courses of strong medication, had invasive surgery to try and limit the damage caused, and despite trying for a baby numerous times, suffered many miscarriages because of her condition. The miscarriages especially sent her into deep depression, since she desperately wanted to be a mother.

There is speculation that the condition may have been one of the triggers in her drug dependency as well, because when you have endo, you will take whatever you can to stop. it. hurting.

Marilyn Monroe was smart and strong as hell in a world that saw her as a sexy doll and nothing more.

[wiciclesatmidnight]

She deserves better

[blamebrampton]

Marilyn was a founding member of the Hollywood branch of the Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy and had lifelong left-wing political views with a particular emphasis on racial equality. She formed her own independent production company that survived for several years and earned a credit as an executive producer on several films. Additionally, she was not only concerned for workers rights, she acted for them, using her own fame to stop staff being unfairly sacked from several of her films. She was a loyal, kind woman and her early death remains a great tragedy. Worse still, as OP notes, is the co-opting of her image by exactly the sort of people she would have loathed in life.

[hthrrloooo]

Catastrophize Benedictine

[stickandthorn]

I’d die on the hill that “stranger danger” is a deeply unhelpful mentality to have. “Ooooh everyone is out to get me they’re all gonna perpetrate harm that’s actually more likely to come from someone I already know. I better never talk to anyone in my community who I don’t already know, just to be safe. I’m sure there are no other biases interwoven with this mentality” like oh my god human traffickers do not just randomly spawn in every parking lot. You don’t have to go solo hitchhiking across the country but you also don’t have to live in fear that every guy on the street is the knife man who’s gonna get you. Like have situational awareness, yeah. But most of the time the guy on the street is not knife man he’s actually just a guy on the street and he’s probably pretty chill, and you’re driving yourself crazy by living in a constant state of unnecessary fear.

[stickandthorn]

Like always safety comes first, especially if you’re in a marginalized group more likely to be targeted by random people around you. But that’s different from stranger danger. I might even say that stranger danger is something that contributes to marginalized groups getting targeted by random people. Which strangers do you find distrust worthy? Why? Does vague distrust justify harmful actions in the name of self defense? Stranger danger draws everyone away from more important issues of safety (underlying bigotries, systemic injustices, abuse in the home, etc) and towards an amorphous boogeyman that has no solution, because it’s not the real cause or culprit.

[velvetcloak]

dior | autumn winter 2026-2027

[willgrahamscock]

the most insufferable people will be like, this game is woke I'm not playing it because the protagonist is a woman that I can't jerk off to, her tits are normal sized and she has wrinkles i'd rather play as a big muscly man so I can jerk it to his big titties and thighs #nohomo