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movementnudge

Movement nudge, for hands and wrists!

babyanimalgifs

Little fish eats his foods

(Source)

bunigojade

aflo

this is so sad he doesn’t even know there’s a double barreled shotgun pointed at him

identifying-fish-in-posts

Pacific spiny lumpsucker (Eumicrotremus orbis)

duke-of-fire

splickedylit

His Foods :) 👍

razielim

debates i didn't know existed + a very humorous distinction

hostiles = antagonists that Murderbot is worried about 😳

targets = antagonists that need to worry about Murderbot :)c

ouroborosorder

”there’s no glory in suffering” and “sometimes the effort is the point” are two ideas that co-exist but god damn if I can ever tell when’s the time for which

soulakuarian

theworsethingsgettheharderifight

fangirlsovertoomanythings

The way that most of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories’ most horrible villains are rich dudes that are abusive to women, in a time such as the 1880’s, compels me.

gardnerhill

There’s a whole subset of Sherlock Holmes stories that could be labeled Asshole Guys Try to Control Women’s Money.

three--rings

Yup, there’s a huge number of times where Sherlock Holmes is the ONLY person to take a young woman’s complaint or worry seriously and finds out someone is up to some serious evil. Holmes also shows a lot of compassion and empathy with the victims over and over again. (This is why I find “Secretly a woman” or “Trans” Holmes headcanons much more convincing than “sociopath” Holmes.)

waterhobbit

I am never going to shut up about how much I specifically love The Adventure of The Copper Beeches because it is literally Sherlock Holmes listening to a young lady he does not know except as a potential client, agreeing with her that a potential job she has interviewed for that she thinks is SUPER SKETCHY is, indeed, sketchy as fuck and when she says she’s probably gonna take the job anyways because the money is good and she needs it going “OKAY I GUESS but for the love of god please write to us so we know you’re okay we will literally drop everything and jump on a train if you want us to”.

The job turns out to indeed be sketchy as fuck, she writes to them, Holmes and Watson drop everything and jump on a train when she asks them to. I read this story for the first time when I was twelve and it made a HUGE impression.

three--rings

This is also the basis for a lot of speculation about Holmes’ family life. The idea that he has been a victim of abuse, or his mother was abused (or even murdered by his father.) There’s definitely SOMETHING that makes him very aware of how dangerous isolated families can be, and the dark things that can happen behind closed doors. Plus, of course, the motivation to devote himself to stopping crime. And yes, so much of it is of the personal type.

volkswagonblues

dude see this is one aspect of the original books i NEVER understand why modern remakes (cough cough) don’t go all in on. Like, in the 21th c we HAVE all the dumb forensic shit that made Victorian Holmes stand out, but we STILL DON’T HAVE uh….you know, compassion for women and minorities, or the willingness to believe them, adequate community support for domestic violence or hate crimes, etc. etc. which you’d think is exactly where a renegade consulting detective would come in handy. A good modern day Sherlock Holmes remake, instead of trying to convince us that Holmes is some super genius for being better than fingerprint analysis or whatever, could have him just be…a good person who helps out people the police can’t and won’t help. There you go. That’s how to write a relevant modern Holmes.

fahbee

One thing that annoys me is how much the BBC version of Sherlock (and the fandom around it) focus on police cases or cold cases. In the stories, Holmes’ bread and butter cases had fuck-all to do with the police and in a few stories, he actively works around/against them, or outright lies to them. Of the many, many things I wish that show had done differently, this is one is particularly obnoxious since it’s such a gimme.

tiger-in-the-flightdeck

There were very few actual murder cases in the Canon, and Holmes handled them either one of two ways:

Option one: The murder victim was innocent while the killer was an abusive bastard, see Speckled Band. Conclusion, arrest and have the killer charged (Or in the case of Speckled Band, indirectly murder him yourself then shrug and go home)

Option two: The victim was murdered to protect someone that the victim was abusing, or for vengeance, see Boscombe Valley, Devil’s Foot, Abbey Grange. Conclusion, Oops, I don’t know who the killer is, I am suddenly incompetent, oh look a pheasant.

faejilly

#my favorite murder in holmes canon#is when they straight up witness a lady murder her blackmailer#do nothing except destroy his other blackmail material#and then straight up lie to lestrade about it#sherlock holmes#more of this in modern adaptations pls (via @cactusspatz )

muffinworry

Let’s not forget the time Holmes helps a young woman who’s being catfished by her own stepfather to steal her inheritance, and when the villain sneers that the law can’t touch him, Holmes grabs a horsewhip out of sheerest chivalry.

smokingtigerhiddengun

So, the most canon-accurate iteration of Sherlock Holmes in the last few decades is actually Benoit Blanc….

marzipanandminutiae

I think it’s also important to note, and complicates our ideas about what the highly patriarchal/misogynistic society of 19th century England looked like, that these stories SOLD

they were POPULAR

the Victorians LIKED reading about women who won out over shitty men in their lives, even when that plotline reaffirmed a woman’s power and agency or put an active sexist in his place (ie Irene Adler besting Holmes)

which is fascinating in light of. you know. [gestures broadly at all of Victorian gender dynamics, laws, etc.]

sailor-hobbiton

So yes, Benoit Blanc is the best modern Sherlock.

magnhild

it's midnight on the 1st of june aest

dropoutvocalstims

posting this again cause now its actually true

creaturepeaches

i hate it when i can tell my perception of a character is diminishing in real time because of fandom wank. like nooooo i want to maintain an objective relationship with the text but everyone is so annoying about you nooooo

theblip-a

In the beginning, Adrian was drawn a foot taller than rocky. Then two, then four, then several meters taller. The last drawn Adrian was 10 meters. In four days, we could be seeing a giant Adrian every eight hours, until they are coming every four minutes. We should witness a 50 meter Adrian within seven days.

#tbf #the first adrian we saw was a whole ass planet #pmh

realian

"Anthy being fought over like a piece of meat was really fun and good until the show revealed how it was trying to talk about such abuse and CRITICIZE the systems that objectify and victimize women! that's just YIKES!"

realian

hello? can anyone hear me? it's so dark.

ruinedchildhood

atlinmerrick

I just laughed for one year watching this. The casual walk-off is just deadly.

bill-blake-fans-anonymous

I think strange horrible things should stop befalling my friends

catastrophespouse

I think strange wonderful things should start befalling my friends

prokopetz

The serious reason I have reservations about referring to someone doing art or writing in response to a shitpost as "fanfic" of that post is it feels like it's contributing to the erosion of the term "fanfic" to mean "any media that's in conversation with any other media", which is functionally meaningless because all media is in conversation with other media. At best it's a prompt fill.

The unserious reason is that if doing some writing in response to a Tumblr shitpost counts as as fanfic of that post, the list of people who've written fanfic based on my work includes Eliezer Yudkowski, and I'm not 100% sure how I feel about that.

sistersorrow

Accept that this your legacy

prokopetz

Honestly, as contemptible legacies of my online presence go, "had a prompt filled by the Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality guy" probably ranks somewhere below "coined the phrase 'humans are space orcs'" and "convinced people to start shipping Tony the Tiger with the Grinch".

kittenwriter

... wait, people ship Tony the Tiger with the Grinch?

You tell me.

#for real though:#the skin gap probably explains a lot of Thermostat Wars#women's clothing is often a LOT more revealing (and made of much flimsier material) than men's clothing

Huh, you know I never considered that but come to think of it, The Skin Gap could be a major contributing factor to these gendered "thermostat wars" you hear about.

Not only that, but I remember a few years ago everyone was talking about these studies coming out showing that the temperature of most office buildings is actually a more comfortable temperature for men, but slightly too cold for women. Again, can't help but wonder how much The Skin Gap contributes to this discrepancy. If you look at the difference between the average business casual outfit for men vs the average business casual outfit for women, it's not just that the skin gap is at play here and the woman's outfit is more likely to be showing skin, but also the woman's outfit is more likely to be made of thin and flimsy material.

sevensixone

Seriously!

Let's use some random Google image search finds to compare the amount of bare arms and legs, low/wide necklines, low-cut shoes, etc in this "business casual" wardrobe:

vs this one:

dailymanners

Yes, and it's not just that you can see the skin gap at work here (in all of the men's outfits the legs and chest are fully covered, and the same cannot be said of the women's outfits) but also even from a picture you can see how the material for the women's outfits looks so much thinner and flimsier than the material the men's clothing is made out of.

This isn't shaming or berating the women who wear these outfits by any means, this is directed at the clothing industry for marketing and pumping out clothing made of thin flimsy material that leaves large parts of the body uncovered for women, while marketing and pumping out clothing made of thick sturdy fabric that gives full coverage to men (as well as the social norms behind all of that enforcing all of this).

And also, it really can go both ways. I've worked with so many men over the years who do lament that they can't wear shorts to work, especially in an office setting, without either getting looks or straight up being told their outfit is unprofessional and they need to put pants on, and they'll come right out and say they're jealous of their female colleagues who can come to work in shorts, or skirts above the knee, and have that be accepted as a professional outfit suitable for the workplace.

sevensixone

If a woman wore a short sleeve skirt suit like this to work, most people wouldn't think much of it:

...but if a man wore something like this, people would think he had lost his mind!

dailymanners

#also may i recommend a YA novel called The Obnoxious Jerks#about a group of guys who protest their school dress code by wearing skirts because shorts are forbidden

I just might add that to my reading list, thank you.

As for the examples here, I could see something similar to the bottom outfit being an acceptable school uniform in some places, especially for primary school aged boys.

As for an adult man working in an office? At the very least he would almost definitely get some weird looks and/or snickering from his colleagues, but the chances that he'd get taken aside and told her needs to dress more seriously and professionally would actually be quite high.

This is despite the fact that the top outfit, when worn by a woman, would be perfectly acceptable in the same setting (despite actually having less coverage than the bottom outfit).

if you want more examples of the skin gap, I think this video also does a good job of demonstrating more examples of the skin gap.

dailymanners

#I didn't think that the skin day explains all the temperature gender discrepancies#but it sure does exacerbate the problem

Indeed, that's why I was saying "contributes to". As someone else pointed out in the comments, androgens do tend to make one run hot, so I would totally believe that men generally do have more of a tendency to run hot.

However, if androgens do tend to make one run hot, that means that the skin gap if anything should run the opposite way than it does in reality. If men tend to run hot, men should be the ones in shorts or skirts (including in formal/professional settings) to help the legs keep cool, wearing clothing out of thin gauzy material for more breathability, and wearing low cut tops to help the torso keep cool.

I think if we swapped the skin gap from what it actually is in reality it would probably make it a lot easier to find an office temperature that makes everyone happy.

oakleavesofsilver

It's also important to mention that, yes, women *could* dress warmer... but there's limits to that, too, in a professional setting. There's only so many layers you can add while still maintaining a professional look. Everyone always talks about how business casual (and other office dresscodes) "allows" women to wear lighter, thinner, more-skin-showing outfits, but it's also the opposite. If I wore the same outfit as some of the guys at my office, I'd be considered overdressed and dressing too seriously/severe.

Of course, I can just say "fuck that" and do it anyway, but women are judged (pretty harshly at times) for what they wear, so the pressure to wear the lighter, thinner, colder clothes definitely is there.

chokit-pyrus

It's also not so simple as 'woman COULD dress warmer/more modest' because those types of clothes are simply not being sold. I went shopping somewhat recently with my sister to find clothes for a job interview, and every store we went to only had button-ups that were also mesh. Short sleeves. Peekaboo necklines. Tank tops.

Warm, covered clothes straight up just aren't widely available.

dailymanners

#i gotta add this is something you really notice as a hijabi#or if for whatever reason you prefer modest wear#its noticeably harder just to find decent-looking/decently made long sleeves or long skirts ( or like. looser trousers )#and usually necessitates some level of layering ( e.g. turtlenecks or undershirts or jackets/jumpers - to cover arms)#and yeah like people have said the materials are usually not great for temperature regulation

It's interesting you mention that, because the woman who coined the term "the skin gap" is an Orthodox Jewish woman, and in her original blog post where she coined the term "the skin gap" she talks about how the women most heavily impacted by this are Muslim and Orthodox Jewish women.

As an Orthodox Jewish woman she realized how it was almost impossible to find clothes in mainstream retailers that fit the standard of modesty for Orthodox Jewish women. But looking across the isle at the men's clothes, it's hard not to notice the massive disparity in tightness / coverage.

everett-true-daily

#this is all true#but I should also mention that going on T made me SO fucking warm all the time#I used to hate the thinness of women’s clothes#now I envy it#these standards are fair to literally no one

"These standards are fair to literally no one" is the best and most succinct summary I've seen of this thread.

lovingmadjom

When I worked in corporate, the idea that men would want to wear shorts and short sleeves in the workplace during a record breaking heatwave was deemed unprofessional and deserving of mockery

I asked several people for any reason that is not just blatant sexism why women’s legs are deemed more acceptable in the workplace than mens, and nobody could give me an answer.

Some people simply had never even considered it and that blew my mind.

iwantmoreoctopusses

I got advised by my Dr that I should cover myself from the sun because of Lupus.

Seriously, looking for clothes that cover me that I also find stylish and comfortable will be an adjustment. Luckily the winter is starting, because I don't know what I will do in the spring/summer.

#the point from the hijabi woman reminds me #that I always keep a cardigan in the car for when I stop at my favorite grocery store #because it's middle eastern and many shoppers wear hijab or niqab #so I in my summer clothes am FREEZING #the whole thing is like the costco dairy section #so the skin gap thing makes sense

charlesoberonn

Bureaucracy is good and important, actually.

Except for the spelling of the word "bureaucracy"

wingkink

btw it's so fucking stupid you can be anxious physically in your body even after you've decided mentally you don't care. I'm supposed to be in charge here