Silver Warrior

26 | 18+ minors DNI I forget to tag things, please ask if you need ADHD, Poly, certified dumbass Welcome to chaos. This blog has always been incoherent and I'm not gonna change it now!

[targetedknowledge]

[nerdicornthetrekkie]

[gamechangershow]

Sorry but it's not complete without...

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

i really appreciate seeing all the posts on my dash recently to the effect of "shutting down conversations about race/gender/minorities in fandom spaces because 'fandom is meant to be fun' is just an excuse to not think critically about the bigoted behaviors you are exhibiting". i hope that this energy carries over into the gaming sphere next pleaaseee

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

pokemon is a series about building Your own team and going on Your own adventure with creatures that You collect and befriend, and is designed from the ground up to be personal and immersive. i have never been able to look like myself in a pokemon game. if i bought pokemon z a today and booted it up and tried to customize myself, i would not be able to look like myself. just fuck me i guess.

[the-valiant-valkyrie]

ok yay

[dogpuppy]

[nineteenyearoldmeblog]

im fucking crying

[dragongirlbunny]

the TSA's dick detector is the epitome of security theater. how many times have you ACTUALLY caught a woman trying to smuggle a small bomb in her panties

[dragongirlbunny]

i mean average sized bomb

[romanceyourdemons]

when the blackberry bushes have thorns to discourage mammals from monopolizing the consumption of their fruits and encourage birds to spread their seeds but they don’t know that the mammal in question is ME #notdiscouraged

[romanceyourdemons]

#ow

[romanceyourdemons]

#stuck

[torstherapy]

[vintagewildlife]

"I can't believe humans would hunt the thylacine to extinction, humans are fundamentally evil" Hey, did you know that extinction was long thought to be impossible, and within 50 years of humans realizing that extinction via overhunting was a possibility it practically stopped happening? Did you know that humans are so desperate to prevent more losses that they're funneling millions of collective hours and billions of euros into helping other species? Hours and euros that could be spent on humans, and species on whom humanity's own survival does not depend? Did you know that due to an accidental introduction of rats, the Lord Howe Island stick insect population was brought down to 24 individuals and now there are tens of thousands of them?

This bug. This bug that, to most humans, is utterly useless, relatively gross, and completely foreign. Humans saved it because humans do not want to cause another extinction ever again if they can avoid it.

[untimelytophat]

@crabussy

[crabussy]

as someone in the field of ecological conservation, I can promise without a shadow of a doubt that people DO care. SO MANY people care.

I have to race to sign up to volunteer trips because even with dozens of spots available, people rush to devote their unpaid free time to helping the environment. these trips often fill up within hours. people care.

you will see a lot of bad news because that is the kind of news that people pay the most attention to. I know this more than you'd think from my optimism- not only do I live somewhere facing some of the most extreme ecological issues on the planet, I also spend my time studying the Bad Stuff every single day.

to see all of this firsthand and stay hopeful is proof enough that there IS hope. I promise there is good news, brilliant news, all the time. it's just less visible. but it's no less important or impactful.

[potatocrisp]

Gettin the good ads again

[rexuality]

saw The Invite at the theater last night (loved it) and the moment they starting talking about orgasms and cum or whatever the row of young women in front of me immediately got super uncomfortable. lots of shuffling and loud whispering, nervous giggling. then one of them proceeded to get out her phone, get on instagram, and scroll through silent reaction videos of people who had seen the movie

one of my friends saw it earlier today and she told me that multiple elderly couples got up to leave as soon as group sex was mentioned. they couldn’t handle people talking about fuckin

so what I’m saying is please support this movie. the 4 leads are all exceptional. it’s hilarious and emotional and awkward and sexy. olivia wilde directed that shit immaculately. it’s conversation-centric and moves like a stage play. original score paired with 35mm film so it feels warm and nostalgic. 🙏

So much of what gets made now is watered down, cowardly, algorithm-inspired, vapid, digital, AI-written, cash grabs. I don’t want to watch netflix brain chow. this movie dares to bring up shit that makes people uncomfortable, that isn’t trying to appeal to a massive, inattentive audience. it’s personal and intimate and crafted with thoughtfulness and artistry. and I want more immediately 🤌

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

characters whose sexuality is "i'm under way too much stress to figure that shit out rn"

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

character whose gender is "im probably nonbinary but im on a quest so idrc about that rn"

[screampotato]

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

[glitched-out-mess]

[theramblingvoid]

Hit "view post" and lost it

[cosmonautroger]

Roy Lichtenstein, Pyramids, 1969

[cosmonautroger]

Roy Lichtenstein, Pyramids, 1969

[ljblueteak]

Letter in which Paul McCartney apologises about 'debt' after North Wales trip to be auctioned

A LETTER in which Paul McCartney settled a long-standing “debt” from before he achieved worldwide fame with The Beatles is to be auctioned.

From the article describing Paul and George’s trip:

[weloveshortvideos]

Guillotine vs a spray paint can.

[babyionian-deactivated20200611]

this caption is so deceptive, this video is so much more than that

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Gustave Caillebotte - The Floor Scrapers (1875-6)

Original on top, later version below

“Despite the effort Caillebotte put into the painting, it was rejected by France’s most prestigious art exhibition, The Salon, in 1875. The depiction of working-class people in their trade, not fully clothed, shocked the jurors and was deemed a ‘vulgar subject matter.’ 

The images of the floor scrapers came to be associated with Degas’s paintings of washerwomen, also presented at the same exhibition and similarly scorned as ‘vulgar’”.