love seeing revisionism in the wild “free the nipple never meant you can walk around topless every where that’s still sexual harassment it just meant for like breastfeeding and stuff”no it literally means you should be able to walk around topless anywhere because get this. breasts aren’t fucking sexual organs.
I remember when I was about 12, I watched a show on TLC that followed people as they got somewhat uncommon medical procedures.
There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.
And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.
But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.
"Free the Nipple" was calling out arbitrary bullshit like that, because someone just existing with their body parts should not be considered obscene, and the double standard that men can be topless but women can't is so blatantly ridiculous. All nipples are just nipples. If you get turned on or bothered by them, that's on you.
When your life is in the hands claws of a teenaged royal
So, I've been seeing a lot of fics and ideas where Danny owns John's soul. But they usually cut off after Danny lets John know, and just leaves him to deal with the fall out. Maybe even gives him a task or two, or returns his soul to him.
And don't get me wrong! I absolutely adore those. Even wrote something for the tag myself. But! I just had a thought™️ about that.
Because Danny Fenton is a little shit. We all know this, right? We can all agree that Danny is a petty and cheeky and sarcastic little shit who draws joy and his will to (half-)live from messing with people. Preferably those who have committed the grave sin of annoying him.
John Constantine, on the other hand? He's a sarcastic, petty, cynical asshole who knows exactly how talented and coveted he is. The man has many strengths - but making friends is certainly not one of them. At least not those that actually survive the friendship…
Now! Imagine this:
Danny, freshly crowned High King, came into the possession of the soul of one John Constantine. Perhaps it's because soul contract all belong to him on a technicality. Perhaps it is because someone had sold John's soul long before his birth to the title of the High King and now he has the strongest claim. Perhaps it's something mundane like Danny getting fed up with paperwork and deciding to solve the issue of the never ending complaints regarding this mage's soul by obtaining ownership of John's soul.
John, highly attuned to all things magic, knows there is a new High King. He felt the shift in the magic. There was a sort of backlash in the fragile bonds that tethered this side to the thereafter. So he knows the High King has changed. And he will be overjoyed to do all he can to stay as far away as possible from all of that. It's not his bloody business, and it certainly is not worth the risks to go satisfy his own nagging curiosity.
At least, that's the case until just a few days later when he feels a tight snap somewhere far inside the very depths of his being. And, oh, John knows exactly what this is, what this means.
But he is a master of the dark arts and denial both, so he pretends that he doesn't. He pretends that it was just his imagination. Which works out pretty splendidly for him - until the High King decides to mess with the puny little ant in his grasp.
Danny honestly just wants to mess with John after a particularly tedious council meeting. So he decides to scare the reason why that meeting dragged out like the gum Tucker had stuck to his foot last week: John Constantine, the Hellblazer, the laughing magician, the reason complaints keep piling at Danny's overly fancy desk.
With his new title, Danny also got a new appearance. And it just so happens that it's suited perfectly for scaring assholes. So he - tired of always being the one summoned - summons John into his throne room.
Faced with the pale face of the mage he heard was too cunning for anyone's good, Danny suddenly realises he has no idea how to act kingly at all. So Danny makes a persona up on the spot - and it's a persona fitting for a powerful and scary regent in the eyes of a fourteen-year-old. In other words: Edgy, dramatic, cocky, unbothered by anything he himself hasn't deemed worth his time.
Danny doesn't stop his plan, of course. He scares John, thoroughly. But he doesn't use the soul contract to give an order. Instead, he just implies that he will do that the very moment that John steps out of line.
Of course, Danny would never do such a thing. It seems unnecessary cruel, and he's not a great fan of mind control to begin with. It feels icky to even just consider doing something like that.
John doesn't know that, though. He desperately wants to find a way out. Anything. And once Danny notices that? He delights in making John do the most random of tasks, worded just vaguely enough so that he can keep his new persona going.
( Normally, this would be about where the fic ends. But what if we don't end it here? )
Danny starts making John do all sorts of meaningless tasks now. Buy him a burger, run an errand for him, do something completely pointless just because it's funny to think about how John wasted his time on that.
He isn't just a toy to Danny, of course. He makes sure to check in with Clockwork whether it would negatively affect the mage's life in any way to do this task. He's still a protector, after all, and doesn't want to actually harm John. Just make his life a bit harder. Because he can, and who is he to pass up such a chance?
And then, at one point, John gets more comfortable being mouthy with Danny. Which Danny thinks is hilarious, actually, so he allows that to happen, too. But being mouthy comes with sharing other things about himself - so he lets some info slip about the current doomsday scenario the JL is working at. And Danny decides to help.
And John comes to the conclusion that actually this isn’t so bad. He gets to speak his mind, the tasks he gets assigned aren’t morally questionable – even if they’re questionable in any other sense of the word – and if he performs well enough the High King even dings to help him sometimes. Plus, nobody else can make good on their claims on him with the High King already owning him! So he isn’t even really trying to get out of this anymore.
Just them keeping that up right until John dies and Danny declares him free of all debts.
As you may already know... ornithological authorities (such as the AOS and ABA) in North America have decided, for a variety of reasons, to rename all of the birds that have been named after people.
Some examples: Lewis's Woodpecker, Smith's Longspur, MacGillivray's Warbler...
I thought it would be fun for us to come up with some ideas for new common names here on Tumblr.
Here are some criteria for re-naming that might appeal to ornithologists and birdwatchers:
Habitat and geographical range
Physical characteristics
Call/song characteristics
Behavior
PLEASE MAKE YOUR NAMING SUGGESTIONS IN THE COMMENTS, REBLOG, OR TAGS.
We'll take the best ideas, and put them in a poll by the end of the week! (I and an esteemed panel of ornithological tumblererrsssres will make the decisions).
WEEK 15 - Forster's Tern
Forster's Tern (Sterna forsteri), adult in breeding plumage, family Laridae, order Charadriiformes
Conservation Status: Least Concern
Breeds/nests in various spots along freshwater lakes in the northern U.S. and southern Canada, as well as areas of the Gulf Coast and NE Atlantic Coast, and small areas of the California coast.
Overwinters along the West and Pacific coasts of the US, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, as well as inland in Mexico, Central America, and the SE U.S.
Occurs as an occasional vagrant in far western Europe.
Mainly breeds in colonies on bare ground in and next to marshes near open water, both fresh and saltwater marshes.
Heavily associated with marshes and other estuaries.
Feeds mostly on fish, which it catches from diving on from up high, but also feeds on insects and other invertebrates. Their dive does not usually include the stopping hover of other plunge diving terns.
This Small-medium sized tern grows to 33–36 cm (13–14 in) long with a 78–80 cm (31–31 in) wingspan and a weight ranging from 130 to 190 g (4.6-6.7 oz).
Similar in appearance to the Common Tern (and Arctic Tern), the Forster's has slight coloration differences on the wings and tail, and has longer bill and legs than the other 2.
The Forster's is easier to tell apart from other terns in winter plumage, because of the distinctive black mask.
Both parents care for the chicks. Males sitting on the nest mostly in the day, and the mother mostly at night. Both feed chicks.
As with other tern species that nest in colonies, this species is known to angrily mob humans and other animals that enter their colonies, swooping, pecking, and defecating on intruders... (I know this from personal experience).
Adult Forster's Tern in non-breeding plumage at Bolsa Chica Conservancy in Huntington Beach, California, USA
I explained the concept of "blorbo from my shows" to my 71 year old immigrant grandfather because I referenced it in passing and I thought nothing of it, until today when he said "I think I'll watch peaky blinders tonight and see my blorbo from my shows" referring, of course, to Cillian Murphy playing Tommy Shelby
English isn't his first language so he's not super in touch with modern slang, so I've been accidentally teaching him to talk like a tumblr user. His favorite thing to say lately is "me when I'm a little hater" when he's like talking shit about the neighbor's son
I explained the “x before gta6” meme to my immigrant father and he, in turn, explained to me how back in his day in Romania, they had the same type of joke, except instead of it being gta6, it was about the imminent death of a singer named Gică Petrescu, who everyone was continuously shocked by because he refused to die. Every time a momentous event happened people would say, in essence: “This happened and Gică Petrescu hasn’t even died yet?!?”
So. He understood the gta6 meme immediately because they apparently had the same thing in Romania when he was young, except way, way more morbid
via The Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas:
Material/technique: brail texture; six-color UV screen print
Dimensions (Height x Width): 512 x 815 mm / 20 3/16 x 32 1/16 in
Artist Alex Dodge made this print with a computer program that builds virtual spaces. The artist wanted to point out the contrast between the geometric human-made tiles and the wavy organic shapes made by the water. The geometric shapes (tiles) were formed by using angle measurements. The organic shapes (waves) were made by taking photographs of waves. Dodge used the computer program to blend the shapes together.
When you meet Edward Elric he gives off the impression that he's the short-tempered hot-headed "violence is the answer to all life's questions" kind of protagonist, and it's in fact incredible character craft that he's actually the character who ends the series with a negative-3 kill count.
God's worst soldier Edward Elric. Showed up as the youngest member of the Amestrian army, took millions of dollars from them, never followed a single order, helped dismantle their fascist regime, left with a lower kill count than he arrived with, then fucked off to go be a house-husband. Character of all time.
You know, when you said "negative-3 kill count," I, who haven't seen the anime, thought, "He resurrected 3 people?????" But I'm seeing here on the wiki that apparently resurrection in this anime is a terrible idea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/7asxci/oc_ygathok_the_ceaseless_hunger_final_boss_of_our/
This is the reveal of this ridiculousness during their game
Kids sitcom about a group of friends where all of them are a part of secret magical or superhero based underground society that don’t know about each other and they all think that the others are ignorant normies that they have to protect from their magical shenanigans.
The witch kid, the superhero sidekick, the cryptid hunter, and the half fairy kid are all unknowingly trying to hide the same talking cat from the principal of their school and the talking cat doesn’t tell any of them about each other because it’s currently getting many extra helpings of treats in exchange for its silence.
During the episode where they all find out about each other’s secret lives there’s obviously a slow look over to the cat who’s like “well you never asked. Anyways, completely unrelated but I’ve gotta go.”
As more seasons pass, it's eventually revealed the rich kid who bullies the main cast is secretly child of some dark lord all the societies fear and eventually the bully works with the main cast to defeat them in the series finale or movie
Really important. You cannot make one of the secret societies the "real" one that all other magic systems are derived from in some way.
The sci-fi explanations of super powers cannot fully explain the fairy magic, nor can the sci-fi superpowers tap into fairy magic energy cores. The witch's arcane knowledge cannot fully explain the existence of the cryptids. The fairy magic and the witch magic are fundamentally incompatible but both demonstrably effective.
After they all know each other, trying to decipher and/or argue about whose domain the monster of the week belongs to (and therefore whose foreknowledge about its strengths and weaknesses is most accurate) is a not irregular occurrence. Sometimes the monster is known in multiple domains and the conflicting information is somehow both correct. Sometimes the monster is definitively one aspect, and another appears to be, but there are errors or circumstances evidence. Sometimes the monster is a secret third thing that doesn't properly fit any of them.
When I say it’s very easy to see when something is published, here’s what I mean:
This is one of the front pages of my copy of Budge’s translation of the Book of the Dead! All books have these, mostly they’re in the first couple of pages or in this case after some pictures of Ani’s papyrus.
The first date we see is 1960. That’s for this revised version of the translation.
The second date is 1999, which is the publishing date for this specific edition of the book. If I’m reading the numbers right down at the bottom correctly, then this is the 20th edition of this text. This is the date and version I’d cite in an essay/paper because it’s the one I have.
Then we have the original publication date of 1895 down at the bottom. This tells us that despite my copy of the book being from 1999, the actual author wrote it back in 1895 and therefore I should be careful because this is a 131 year old translation. You don’t cite this unless in the context of your essay you want to say “hey so uhh this translation is old as balls and has issues”.
This has been a very basic summary of how to find a date in a book for a bibliography.
