secret lalafell

not a bot, just an ffxiv addict

[crowscriven]

Cleaning out my purse, which means it's time for a game of "what the fuck have I been carrying around all this time" (a non-exhaustive list)

normal purse contents (wallet, keys, chapstick, massive wad of trash and receipts, etc)

first aid kit

large quantities of candied ginger

clothespin

fingerless gloves

emergency dice set

mysterious flash drive

carnival ticket (when did I even go to a carnival?)

small metal frog

mystery key (rusted)

tiny goat

eight spools of thread

fortune cookie fortune ("your goals will have you reach new heights")

cursed locket

measuring tape with built in flashlight and screwdriver

$5.13 in loose change

incredibly small snail shell

piece of purple broken glass

three hagstones

compass ring

four old train fare tokens

various acorns

forty-five cool rocks I found

So basically, it's still an utter mystery why my bag was getting so heavy. I suspect it was probably the incredibly small snail shell.

[crowscriven]

It's a very normal bag sized bag, I swear!

Weirdly enough, the purpose of this purse cleanout was to move stuff from my old bag (the strap was breaking for some mysterious reason that's probably completely unrelated to anything in this post) to a new bag that looks like it should be bigger, but actually holds less stuff. Had to remove some of these items, which is an absolute injustice.

(The rocks are staying, because what if I need a cool rock for something in an emergency? Also because they're getting a nice little polish from jostling around all the time in the inevitable beach sand that ends up in every bag I own.)

Tumblr users over here trying to foil my plans to disappear into the ocean with a bag full of shiny rocks to bribe the merfolk into letting me live with them.

Okay admittedly I have no solid proof that this particular locket is cursed. Honestly it's mostly just wishful thinking. But maybe someday...

I really wanted to get a picture of my other actual, really definitely cursed locket for this post, but I'm currently unable to find it.

Edited to add because Tumblr was really determined to post this before I was done:

The actual really definitely cursed locket is an antique French poison locket. It has a lovely little fly design and some suspicious powder residue inside. Due to the suspicious powders, it's sadly not a safely wearable piece of jewelry. The fact that it's no longer in the box I thought it was in is concerning on multiple levels (it's probably toxic, definitely expensive, and also a much-loved gift), but feels pretty on-brand for a cursed locket. Hopefully it'll come back to haunt me in the near future.

[tamber-tales]

you

[crowscriven]

Okay it took me forever to remember to actually take pictures, but!

Tiny Goat!

Hagstones, plus bonus purple glass and train fare tokens, just because I think they're neat.

And the shiny rocks! Lots of agates and various other rocks, mostly from the beach. All still stored in my purse, because I've learned nothing.

[tamber-tales]

Who wants to guess what happened to Crow's new bag today?

[crowscriven]

Listen. Listen. There could have been any number of reasons for the strap of my new bag to spontaneously snap in the middle of the grocery store. You don't need to call me out like this. It could have been completely unrelated to the rocks!

Also, the umbrella thing a few weeks ago proves nothing. The fact that there was an audible scattering of trinkets onto the sidewalk when I opened my umbrella (a small, purse-sized umbrella! a reasonable umbrella to carry around in one's bag!) does not in any way imply that there were too many trinkets in my bag. I have no idea how those coins, rocks, and random bits of broken jewelry got in there. It's an utter mystery.

In conclusion, I blame the fashion industry and their utter lack of understanding of the contents of the average person's purse. They need to understand that a bag that can't handle forty-seven cool rocks is simply not practical for everyday use.

[tamber-tales]

I think you might need to look for bags in new places. Like the army surplus store, or perhaps a geology field supply retailer.

[itisiives]

[pride-knightess]

@snozzberries96 @awkwardsocialfailure @ambientradiation

[im-kickn-it]

THAT-

that is coheed and cambria. That is the man who wrote the song.

[pride-knightess]

Its mr coheed and cambria

[lakeyyyyu]

Responding this screenshot, yknow, cause, yknow.

[capnsoapy]

do you think that a certain genre of queer person is so obsessively weird about pride flag discourse becuase their flags fill the gaping hole in their personality where a hogwarts house used to be

[the-drunk-game-master-deactivat]

I suppose? You can just replace that with what kind of bender tribe you'd be, or if you're a Jedi or a Sith.

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[grumpy-bat-central]

I'll do you one better, identify with your choice of lightsaber color and form you'd use~!

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[totally-lyrical]

ok but power rangers are dope as hell and also are FREE to watch on youtube so tag yrself im light blue

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[smolbluegoblin]

tumblr user capnsoapy

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my eternal punishment defined by any futile boulders for kings because I have a three-dimensional sense of eternal torment,

[dreaming-in-delusion]

okay so commercial properties for preteens are out, which south park character are you

[capnsoapy]

Personally I don't want to have my personality defined by any commercial property for preteens because I have a three-dimensional sense of self,

[siras13]

Quick, post which track in Starfleet youre in.

[elbiotipo]

More than "here in the Southern Hemisphere we have inverted seasons :)" thing, which is TECHNICALLY true, I would go a step further and encourage to think about that "much of the world does not exactly has a spring-summer-fall-winter season sequence as they show in cartoons"

[paperdragonsong]

I will scream about this to anyone who listens forever. AUSTRALIA DOES NOT HAVE "ENGLISH SEASONS BUT BACKWARDS" and the insistence that it does creates a massive layer of alienation from the natural world.

I never really realised how much difference it makes until I went to England and realised that here the change of seasons is an obvious, visible, physical change in the world. Like, everything REALLY IS orange and foggy in autumn! In spring there are flowers EVERYWHERE, so much more than any other season, and the trees really do have all blossom and no leaves. Even if it doesn't snow, in winter there's frost all the time and the trees are bare and the sky is visibly greyer all the time. You don't need to be told "this date is the first day of spring", you can SEE IT (although this is getting way messier and less precise due to climate change).

By contrast, most places in Australia the seasons we're taught feel like arbitrary categories - and is it any surprise considering they're colonial constructs? Orange-leaved autumn and blossom-covered spring is a cartoon stereotype with no relevance on a continent where ALL NATIVE TREES ARE EVERGREEN!! Snowy winters are a joke in the desert, and even sunny summers don't ring particularly true considering that much of the country is in the tropics, where summer means monsoons - not that I've ever seen the concept that WE HAVE A MONSOON SEASON taught at an Australian school.

Most Indigenous nations around Australia had six or more seasons, revolving around wet and dry times as much as hot and cold, and marked by the appearances of certain native animals and flowers. Schools need to start teaching the real seasons, and explaining that climate cycles are too complex to generalise globally, or else we will keep raising generations who view the natural world as hostile and unpredictable and climate predictions as generally irrelevent and frequently wrong - and I'm sure I don't need to spell out why that's a problem in the era of climate crisis.

[tiredtransgal]

i want to add that 40% of the world's population lives in the tropics, and the 4 season model just doesn't make much sense for a lot of places in there. usually it's just the wet season/monsoon season and the dry season. it's often hot year round.

the 4 season model as you and i know it is a european invention, though 4 season models aren't unique to europe! most notably china has the same type of season subdivision.

in general the way humans define seasons is largely subjective and varies across cultures. the one you were taught is not at all universal!

[siras13]

I live in a coastal region that basically has three seasons. Rainy, Warm, and Chilly. Frost and Fog happen year round (though less cause of climate change).

As a kid that lived somewhere that had Hot Season and Cold Season, I never really considered how rare the standard four seasons are. I should have. Its been evident in all but one place I've lived. Yet this hasnt occured to me.

Thank you kind Australian for blowing my mind

[dark-spirit-tamamoland]

they're still terming random transfems as i type this i see which does make quite a statement doing this today specifically

[puppetstuffing]

watched three girls who reblogged its new blog mutual aidpost (made literally 15 minutes ago) already disappear from its notifs. transfems are not included in their pride :/

[puppetedlove]

:)

[puppetvictim]

:)

[tamamowand]

QUITE the statement to be nuking transfems at the current accelerated pace right at the start of pride month like this, isn't it

[quinnception]

This post is no more than two days old as of June 3rd, 2026. All of these blogs were nuked in two days or less.

[siras13]

Trans Rights

[queer-as-city-folk]

Anti-city people are just plain fascinating to me

[hyperlexichypatia]

"Based in Christ" is funny, do you think Jesus was going to Ye Olde Costco?

[siras13]

Some people really want cars to be the ticket to society

[kellydeal]

There’s a new litter of coyote pups hanging out in the Graceland cemetery in Chicago. They are learning how to coyote.

Sound on!

[siras13]

Was thinking about AI in game development, and needed to put my thoughts into the wind. Because more than most tech spaces, gaming and artificial intelligence have a very long history together. Adaptive difficulty, AI opponents, procedural generation have long been part of the wider world of gaming.

There are certainly parts of gaming where advanced AI systems could be fascinating. A stealth game where the guards actively learn how you approach stealth and adapt on the fly to your gameplay. Fighting Game bots based on high level players. Management Sim style RPG where you have to train up heroes and hope they succeed.

However, these as I imagine it are things put in at as an end user experienced based on and around what the player is doing at any one time. Where it doesnt belong is in the story, in the voices, in the assets, in the coding.

There should be an agreement between the player and the game that the game is learning from you. (Except the hypothetical stealth game. We are going full Kojima and revealing at the end that nanites were controlling all the guards and youve been training them for the purpose of stopping the next person to come through and that it was all a plan by the AltMan to take over the world).

LLMs aren't able to truly write a new idea. They just repackage what has been done. GenAI can't create a new world, it will just recycle and old one. There needs to be intention and thought put into the process on all levels, or your letting your message and view get filtered out

[siras13]

Was thinking about AI in game development, and needed to put my thoughts into the wind. Because more than most tech spaces, gaming and artificial intelligence have a very long history together. Adaptive difficulty, AI opponents, procedural generation have long been part of the wider world of gaming.

There are certainly parts of gaming where advanced AI systems could be fascinating. A stealth game where the guards actively learn how you approach stealth and adapt on the fly to your gameplay. Fighting Game bots based on high level players. Management Sim style RPG where you have to train up heroes and hope they succeed.

However, these as I imagine it are things put in at as an end user experienced based on and around what the player is doing at any one time. Where it doesnt belong is in the story, in the voices, in the assets, in the coding.

There should be an agreement between the player and the game that the game is learning from you. (Except the hypothetical stealth game. We are going full Kojima and revealing at the end that nanites were controlling all the guards and youve been training them for the purpose of stopping the next person to come through and that it was all a plan by the AltMan to take over the world).

LLMs aren't able to truly write a new idea. They just repackage what has been done. GenAI can't create a new world, it will just recycle and old one. There needs to be intention and thought put into the process on all levels, or your letting your message and view get filtered out

[were--ralph]

what ever happened to Tomb Raider

[were--ralph]

i thought the reboot was good idk what happened after that though

[folly-of-alexandria]

Reboot finished its trilogy.

Company and IP was bought by Embracer Group.

Embracer Group spent a bunch of money it didn't have buying dev companies and IPs to pad its value chasing Saudi buyout.

Saudis decide not to go forward with deal; Embraer collapses and shutters most of the studios and IPs are scattered to the wind.

Tomb Raider gets picked up by (I think) Amazon Games.

Tomb Raider 1 remake announced last year, due out this year I believe. Also brand new Tomb Raider title due out 2027.

[were--ralph]

Thanks!

[siras13]

Tomb Raider 1 remake delayed to next year because GTA VI is the most anticipated 5/10 game to ever be released pushing every other game out of November

[prokopetz]

One the one hand, I basically agree with a lot of the negative reviews that the Kickstarter campaign for Mina the Hollower was not as forthcoming as it could have been about exactly what kind of game they were making, and the end product does feel like a bit of a bait and switch.

On the other hand, as much as I was expecting a retro Zelda-like, the concept of a full-featured soulslike that adheres to the graphical and technical limitations of the Game Boy Color is objectively hilarious, so even if I'm not particular into soulslikes as a genre I feel like I have to give them a pass, because what the fuck.

[aitchdeetee]

I'm a Souls enjoyer so I may be biased but the combination of Zelda and Soulslikes is a more natural combination to me than most people care to admit. I'm thinking of games like Tunic and Unsighted that also leverage this overlap to great effect. To say nothing of the obvious Castlevania (both Classic and Metroid-) influence either.

In addition Mina has made some subtle but key changes (I think altered based on feedback from the demo?) to make things more forgiving, like allowing you to bank your currency and altering the death mechanic. It's not actually a Soulslike corpse run, but more of a safety system. You don't lose resources on death and need to recover, instead you run out of "lives" and the game signals to you, 'ok so that death was free but the NEXT time you die you'll lose everything so maybe go spend your money.' And if people are reacting to the emphasis on actiony combat and difficulty, I don't think we should let Soulslikes claim dominion over that either!

As a lifelong Zelda enjoyer, these games are the types of experiments that push Zeldalikes to evolve and I'm all for them. Even if I grumble about BotW/TotK's larger departures from Zelda tradition, even the main series has clearly moved on from being about low friction action and torch-lighting puzzles.

[prokopetz]

My biggest criticism thus far is that the Bloodborne-style combat-driven health recovery and punishing environmental damage mesh poorly with the GBC-Zelda-style platforming. Falling into pits and spikes takes a huge bite out of your health even in the late game, and by default there's no easy way to recover environmental damage during platforming sequences because you need to fight things to charge your vials, so the frequent die-and-retry platforming puzzles tend to involve a lot of lengthy runbacks. It effectively makes the "reduced spike damage" and "empty vials recover health" trinkets mandatory if you expect to see heavy platforming, and even fully upgraded that's a third of your trinket slots gone.

[siras13]

As someone who has played many a Soulslike, and even beaten some; i was unaware of this discourse. I despise advertising, so after backing i stopped paying attention to any and all trailers or production information.

Having played about three to four hours of Mina, and feeling just as lost as I did trying to play Link to the Past when I was younger...

Maybe i should actually approach this game like a Souls. I suck at 2D Zelda (i had to cheat to beat Minish Cap), and refraiming it as a Souls game might make it easier for me.

[prokopetz]

One the one hand, I basically agree with a lot of the negative reviews that the Kickstarter campaign for Mina the Hollower was not as forthcoming as it could have been about exactly what kind of game they were making, and the end product does feel like a bit of a bait and switch.

On the other hand, as much as I was expecting a retro Zelda-like, the concept of a full-featured soulslike that adheres to the graphical and technical limitations of the Game Boy Color is objectively hilarious, so even if I'm not particular into soulslikes as a genre I feel like I have to give them a pass, because what the fuck.

[aitchdeetee]

I'm a Souls enjoyer so I may be biased but the combination of Zelda and Soulslikes is a more natural combination to me than most people care to admit. I'm thinking of games like Tunic and Unsighted that also leverage this overlap to great effect. To say nothing of the obvious Castlevania (both Classic and Metroid-) influence either.

In addition Mina has made some subtle but key changes (I think altered based on feedback from the demo?) to make things more forgiving, like allowing you to bank your currency and altering the death mechanic. It's not actually a Soulslike corpse run, but more of a safety system. You don't lose resources on death and need to recover, instead you run out of "lives" and the game signals to you, 'ok so that death was free but the NEXT time you die you'll lose everything so maybe go spend your money.' And if people are reacting to the emphasis on actiony combat and difficulty, I don't think we should let Soulslikes claim dominion over that either!

As a lifelong Zelda enjoyer, these games are the types of experiments that push Zeldalikes to evolve and I'm all for them. Even if I grumble about BotW/TotK's larger departures from Zelda tradition, even the main series has clearly moved on from being about low friction action and torch-lighting puzzles.

[prokopetz]

My biggest criticism thus far is that the Bloodborne-style combat-driven health recovery and punishing environmental damage mesh poorly with the GBC-Zelda-style platforming. Falling into pits and spikes takes a huge bite out of your health even in the late game, and by default there's no easy way to recover environmental damage during platforming sequences because you need to fight things to charge your vials, so the frequent die-and-retry platforming puzzles tend to involve a lot of lengthy runbacks. It effectively makes the "reduced spike damage" and "empty vials recover health" trinkets mandatory if you expect to see heavy platforming, and even fully upgraded that's a third of your trinket slots gone.

[viralfrog]

[bespangeled]

In the 1960′s Legally a woman couldn’t

Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.

Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husband’s helpmate.

Obtain any form of birth control without her husband’s permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.

Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were men’s colleges ntil the 70′s and 80′s. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.

Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedy’s Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.

Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.

Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.

Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.

Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a woman’s right to abortion until viability.

Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.

Play college sports Title IX of the  Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination  based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial  assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for women’s sports

Apply for men’s Jobs   The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal.  This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.

This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works

[galacticdrift]

I just want to reiterate this stuff, because I legit get the feeling there are a lot of younger women for whom it hasn’t really sunk in what it is today’s GOP is actively trying to return to.

Did you go to a good college? Shame on you, you took a college placement that could have gone to a man who deserves and needs it to support or prepare for his wife & children. But if you really must attend college, well, some men like that, you can still get married if you focus on finding the right man.

Got a job? Why? A man could be doing that job. You should be at home caring for a family. You shouldn’t be taking that job away from a man who needs it (see college, above). You definitely don’t have a career – you’ll be pregnant and raising children soon, so no need to worry about promoting you.

This shit was within living memory.  I’M A MILLENIAL and my mother was in the second class that allowed women at an Ivy League school. Men who are alive today either personally remember shit like this or have parents/family who have raised them into thinking this was the way America functioned back in the blissful Good Old Days. There are literally dudes in the GOP old enough to remember when it was like this and yearn for those days to return.

When people talk about resisting conservativism and the GOP, we’re not just talking about whether the wage gap is a myth or not. We’re talking about whether women even have the fundamental right to exist as individuals, to run their own households and compete for jobs and be considered on an equal footing with men in any arena at all in the first place.

[gehayi]

I was a child in the 1960s, a teenager in the 1970s, a young adult in the 1980s. This is what it was like: When I was growing up, it was considered unfortunate if a girl was good at sports. Girls were not allowed in Little League. Girls’ teams didn’t exist in high school, except at all-girls’ high schools. Boys played sports, and girls were the cheerleaders. People used to ask me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone told me it was impossible–those just weren’t realistic goals for a girl–the latter, especially, because you couldn’t trust women to judge fairly and rationally, after all. In the 1960s and 1970s, all women were identified by their marital status, even in arrest reports and obituaries. In elementary school, my science teacher referred to Pierre Curie as DOCTOR Curie and Marie Curie as MRS. Curie…because, as he put it, “she was just his wife.” (Both had doctorates and both were Nobel prize winners, so you would think that both would be accorded respect.) Companies could and did require women to wear dresses and skirts. Failure to do could and did get women fired. And it was legal. It was also legal to fire women for getting married or getting pregnant. The rationale was that a woman who was married or who had a child had no business working; that was what her husband was for. Aetna Insurance, the biggest insurance company in America, fired women for all of the above. A man could rape his wife. Legally. I can remember being twelve years old and reading about legal experts actually debating whether or not a man could actually be said to coerce his wife into having sex. This was a serious debate in 1974. The debate about marital rape came up in my law school, too, in 1984. Could a woman be raped by her husband? The guys all said no–a woman got married, so she was consenting to sex at all times. So I turned it around. I asked them if, since a man had gotten married, that meant that his wife could shove a dildo or a stick or something up his ass any time she wanted to for HER sexual pleasure. (Hey, I thought it was reasonable. If one gender was legally entitled to force sex on the other, then obviously the reverse should also be true.) The male law students didn’t like the idea. Interestingly, they commented that being treated like that would make them feel like a woman. My reaction was, “Thank you for proving my point…” The concept of date rape, when first proposed, was considered laughable. If a woman went out on a date, the argument of legal experts ran, sexual consent was implied. Even more sickening was the fact that in some states–even in the early 1980s–a man could rape his daughter…and it was no worse than a misdemeanor. Women taking self-defense classes in the 1970s and 1980s were frequently described in books and on TV as “cute.” The implication was that it was absurd for a woman to attempt to defend herself, but wasn’t it just adorable for her to try? I was expressly forbidden to take computer classes in junior and senior years of high school–1978-79 and 1979-80–because, as the principal told me, “Only boys have to know that kind of thing. You girls are going to get married, and you won’t use it.” When I was in college–from 1980 to 1984–there were no womens’ studies. The idea hadn’t occurred in many places because the presumption was that there was nothing TO study. My history professor–a man who had a doctorate in history–informed me quite seriously that women had never produced a noted painter, sculptor, composer, architect or scientist because…wait for it…womens’ brains were too small. (He was very surprised when I came up with a list of fifty women gifted in the arts and science, most of whom he had never heard of before.) When Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate in 1984, the press hailed it as a disaster. What would happen, they asked fearfully, if Mondale died and Ferraro became president? What if an international crisis arose and she was menstruating? She could push the nuclear button in a fit of PMS! It would be the end of the WORLD!! …No, they WEREN’T kidding. On the surface, things are very different now than they were when I was a child, a teen and a young adult. But I’m afraid that people now do not realize what it was like then. I’ve read a lot of posts from young women who say that they are not feminists. If the only exposure to feminism they have is the work of extremists, I cannot blame them overmuch. I wish that I could tell them what feminism was like when it was new–when the dream of legal equality was just a dream, and hadn’t even begun to come true. When “woman’s work” was a sneer–and an overt putdown. When people tut-tutted over bright and athletic girls with the words, “Really, it’s a shame she’s not a boy.” That lack of feminism wasn’t all men opening doors and picking up checks. A lot of it was an attitude of patronizing contempt that hasn’t entirely died out, but which has become less publicly acceptable. I wish I could make them feel what it was like…when grown men were called “men” and grown women were “girls.”

[drst]

Know your history.

[hedwig-dordt]

So this, too, is what they mean saying “make America great again” and/or the good old days.

[shatterpath]

REBLOG FOREVER.

[toooldforthissh--stuff]

I am 70. I remember all those things. I was a student nurse from 64 to 67 and we were not permitted to “finish” a bed bath on a male or insert a catheter in a male. Seeing male genitals might cause us “harm” or upset our delicate sensibilities. Imagine when we graduated and were “thrown” to the wolves. Imagine if you were a male patient who had to be the first to be “practiced” on by a graduate nurse. (Ha!) At the school I attended no student nurse could be married. Only one school in my city (Atlanta) would even admit married women and Male Nurses weren’t even thought of. What man would want to be a nurse when he could be a Doctor. In all my training I only remember 3 or 4 Women who were Doctor’s and a very few, (less than 5 or 6) female interns or residents (and this was a teaching hospital) and most of those were OB/Gyns and one was a pediatrician.

When I graduated and was going to get married I wanted to go on birth control pills. You needed to be on them for a least one cycle before they were effective. I won’t go into what hoops I had to jump through to get a prescription from my Dr. (a man, natch) but when i went to the drug store to get the prescription filled I ended up having to get my future husband to “accompany” me so the pharmacist “interview” him and see if it was okay with him for me to be on the pill.

Even when we went to get a marriage license I had to get my Father’s signature and we had to go before a Judge because I was not yet 21 (I was 20 and 9 months).

I could go on and on, getting a credit card in MY name, etc., but I will tell you that WE MUST RESIST.

[casper-the-friendly-being-blog]

The number of people I know who romanticize gender inequality is frankly terrifying. A world never existed in which the lives of women were simplified by benevolent men who saw to her every want and need. That was not a thing. A world never existed in which women were all ladies, men were all gentlemen, & everything was some great big cishet fairytale. Feminists aren’t a bunch of upstarts who want to destroy a perfectly wholesome and non-harmful system. Just…look at history. Look at the posts above. We. Must. Resist..

[rivergst-deactivated20191102]

About 8: The State of New York only added No-Fault Divorce as an option in 2010 (!!!)

[systlin]

I want to repeat here. 

This is what they mean, when they say “Old-fashioned values”

When conservatives start waxing lyrical about the ‘good old days’, this is what they mean. They are fully aware how much things blew for women, and they would like to return to that. 

[whatbigotspost]

At first I re-blogged this with no commentary added because it’s already so thorough and good.

But then I realized I actually do want to add something. This was written nine years ago. In the 9 years that have come to pass the white nationalist Christian fascism ultra right agenda of misogyny has had many victories.

In the United States just off the top of my head a very few examples: there’s no longer a legally protected right to abortion. Countless laws across our country police, how woman you must look or be to enter a public bathroom. We know with certainty the president and countless people around him are pedophiles and rapists. Women’s participation in the workforce has been rolled back to 1980s levels. The pressure to be thin is higher now than 10 years ago.

[siras13]

MTG Arena just announced that they are going to be able to have the digital editions of the Marvel set, and will backport the spiderman set into the game.

Which, cool. Unity between editions and whatever. I was significantly more hyped for Through the Omenpaths 2 than I was for Marvel, and Now want to play my Brawl Deck built around Withar, Cocoon Keeper. Yea, Mr. Negative is cool and all, but I like the in universe versions more.

And no, card styles arent the same.

[mockwa]

[laroonthedragonchu]

This post is getting marked NSFW and I think that’s a travesty.

[smaakburg]

You’re wrong, the lack of railings is the very definition of NSFW