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[juicesocks]

[fleysh]

[bluesardine]

Some great additions from the comments.

[onceuponawhine]

Your maternal grandfather:

Fuck that dude

Meh (leaning negative)

Meh (leaning positive)

Love that dude

I don't know her

Another nuance

Remaining time: 15 hours 15 minutes

[catasters]

[boundwithpurple]

Could you elaborate on your post about incest as Uber Patriarchy? English is not my first language, I didn’t understand what you mean but I thought it was an interesting topic. Thank you!

it’s probably that i’m struggling to articulate exactly what i mean! there is a genre of post on here - about texts like lolita, revolutionary girl utena, etc. - where incest is figured as a metaphor for patriarchal oppression. a gesture is made to the fact that incestuous abuse is a product of patriarchal family structures and enabled by them, but its primary purpose seems to be as a literary function: to signal the furthest “extreme” of patriarchal violence. incest is UBER PATRIARCHY; it helps us understand patriarchy by exaggerating its ideology more starkly or reducing it to potent symbols. there’s a degree of truth in this line of analysis but i am often troubled by how incest is rendered almost entirely functional - a literary metaphor for other things - and the literature and fiction of incest valuable insofar as it is about those other things, above it being a representation of the thing itself (incest) as a real embodied experience people have, not a metaphor. i have somewhat conflicting wishes here: i wish there was more focus on it not as an extreme but as a connected experience of violence understandable on a continuum and a part of human experience (instead of as useful as an extreme edge case that reveals a whole), and i also wish there was more acknowledgement of the ways it is unique and not simply a metonymic stand-in for all patriarchal violence, that the experiences of incest victims are not reducible or poetic but visceral and specific.

[fluentisonus]

swineherd/butcher's wife

they may or may not be involved in the illegal venison market

[a-tehta]

Mousthelion!

He's here to brighten your day! Or maybe to slay you heroically.

[julijbee]

keep up !

shes working on inventing the suplex btw. celegorm isnt as safe as he thinks he is. who do you think is next up to be thrown?

[roseunspindle]

A world where you have a special animal soul companion, you get them at like...age five. Your parents take you for the ceremony. Since they are super magical they can change size so...larger sized animals can shrink so no one has to figure out how to like in an apartment with like...an elephant.

Find out your companion here *jazz hands*

Do you love them? Do you hate them?

How would your parents react to your new bestie?

[wheelie-sick]

for the lovely lovely deafies out there who want to get involved in direct action you absolutely 100% cannot ever bring a hearing aid or cochlear implant with bluetooth to any direct action. bluetooth devices all carry a unique signal that can be used to identify you if it's picked up at a direct action. go with a [more] hearing buddy and communicate in sign language. if you don't mutually know a sign language then come up with gestures. do not risk your freedom because you want to have your hearing aid/cochlear implant at the action. it's not worth it.

[wheelie-sick]

flock cameras are also now tracking bluetooth device signatures when you pass them. if you drive past a flock camera with your bluetooth-enabled hearing aid or cochlear implant, the flock camera knows you passed through

[thewolfwaitsbelow]

Wait I just realized this is gonna apply to all cgms and most if not all insulin pumps. They’re all Bluetooth devices, it’s essential to how they work

[ailithnight]

I did not think it possible, but I have just developed even more hatred, derision, and contempt for the perpetual surveillance state.

[nighttimepatrons]

ohohohboy this was a fun one,

this time a treat for the_glow_worm, I got to make Iskierka big a scary. As she truly is. I just wanted Iskierka descending from the dark and blasting someone with fire hotter and more horrible than the infernos of hell. Congratulations, everything between her and her target, and beyond, are now dead ash.

[william-s-churros]

i think i saw a movie like this once

[maidslime]

Ok I needed to know the story and

Guy makes a really stupid decision and gets in a car accident -> no real damage from accident but insurance goes up -> starts beating himself up over his stupid decision -> gets depressed -> starts to realize he's single and had crash been worse he'd die alone -> realizes he's never had a relationship or even a crush and starts wondering what he'd want out of a relationship -> starts to realize he doesn't really like girls so he thinks he must be gay -> realizes he likes girls and boys about the same amount, so he must be bi -> later realizes that "same amount" is none at all -> he's ace

[sarriane]

[henk-heijmans]

Full moon ... and heavy - by Daniel Antoniol, Brazilian

[missinglinksblog]

The Full Moon in Capricorn 6-29-26

[nature-travel-photography]

A drone captures an elephant herd sleeping while migrating across China. - Author: kooneecheewah on Reddit

[frightfullytreeish]

universal family experience: the baby waking up early and causing a ruckus

Heavy rains slow the herd's extraordinary migration through China, as they seem to be heading home.

[brehaaorgana]

for the last time: if there's a sexy naked lady with long flowing hair and MAYBE a diaphanous sheet or flower crown; lots of swirlies and ribbon like curving LUSCIOUS shapes; very lush foliage (acanthus leaves, elegant flowers) and all kinds of fauna — both especially waterside (lily pads, lotuses, reeds, cranes, dragonflies); lots of green; everything is a lot of iron, stone, stained glass, mosaic, and carved wood; the windows or their frames are very Shaped; the lights are soft yellow; or it's a font with lots of line weight variation; feather tips are rounded; everything reminds you of france, vienna, or japan and something vaguely mediterranean; OR it's literally a Parisian metro station

— then it's art nouveau

and if the sexy lady has a bob cut or a hair cap and is wearing a column or flapper dress; there's a lot of geometry like rectangles, arches, rays, and diamonds; angels have super sharp wings and a lot of muscles; everything is steel, concrete, marble, gold, and red velvet seats; everything is VERY angular; and all the foliage is basically papyrus fronds; things feel vaguely Egyptian or Turkish or Mesopotamian; the fonts play with being very skinny or very thick and are sans serif with extra lines; or Gatsby would be found floating dead in that pool

— then it's art deco

[brehaaorgana]

And if looks kinda like art nouveau

— with lots of lush flora, tiny insects (like dragonflies) or graceful birds, stained glass, iron, warm golden lighting, lots of wood and wood carving (but now it's more wood paneling), a stylistic fondness for Japan, line weight variation in the font, and tile (but this time it's carved or sculpted on, not tiny mosaic)

but you're worried it's art deco

— because the forms (especially foliage) are very symmetrical and slightly more angular or blocky and graphic looking, things are more rectangular than circular or curvy in architecture, the patterns repeat more often, and more of the lamps are pyramids or rectangular, and there are nods to Egyptian or Ottoman style, and they used the color red (probably in an accent chair or carpet rug)

BUT there's no steel, concrete, gold plating or gilding, marble, big muscles, spiky or radiating diamond shapes, angular people, or flappers,

AND the vibes are jacobean, gothic, or spanish mission revival; they love some brick and stone; the wallpaper is an explosion of colorful pattern that could give you arsenic poisoning or help depict a descent into postpartum psychosis in a famous short story; but there are NO people to be seen, not even sexy ladies,

— then THAT is the arts & crafts movement.

[feas-silm-project]

In German there is this word ‘Gänsemarsch‘ wich means to walk behind one another and literally translates to ’goose march‘

And all I could think about were the High Kings of the Noldor

From left to right we have:

Finwë (Canada Goose)

Fëanor (Nënë Goose)

Maedhros (Red Breasted Goose)

Fingolfin (Brant Goose)

Fingon (Cape Barren Goose)

Turgon (Barnacle Goose)

Gil-Galad (Emperor Goose)

(Or should I say Goose Finwë, Fëahonk, Maedhonk, Fingoose, Fingoose II, Turgoose and Gil-Goose?)

No clue if this counts as they are geese.

It was a lot of fun tho