squirtlecide squad

unified-multiversal-theory

I had to look this up but, this is numbers 18:21: I give to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as their inheritance in return for the work they do while serving at the tent of meeting.

The motherfucker was trying to negate his tithe and act like that somehow made him extra righteous

astrodidact

Three MEN: Elon Musk. Jeff Bezos. Bill Gates. That's it. That's the list.

[Image description: a tweet by Bes D. Socialist @besf0rt that says: "[Quote] 8 people own as much as the poorest half of the world's population [Unquote]

that was in 2016, pre-covid

it's just 3 people now - 3 fucking people". End id]

Full offense but what's up with the clarification that they're men? They could be queer or poc or women and that wouldn't change the fact that there's no right that anyone has that much concentrated wealth while there's any amount of poverty in the world

shinigami eyes says shes a transphobe so...

pamesjatterson

there are 4 ever given/suez canal fics and two of them are smut. this is the world we live in

honestly the fact the two of them arent smut is more surprising

dankmemeuniversity

lobisoma-deactivated20210910

cheeseanonioncrisps

I unironically love the character names in the Hunger Games series.

Haymitch, Peeta, Hazelle, Leevy, Maysilee, Finnick and Greasy Sae look bizarre when you first see them written down, but then if you think about how they look and/or sound it's pretty clear that they're meant to be modern names, only modern names that have changed spelling and pronounciation over time— as you would have expected them to have done so over how ever many hundreds of years it's been since our modern day.

(Remember, though The Hunger Games themselves have only been going on for 75 years, the universe they're in is canonically post-apocalyptic— the reason nobody ever mentions what's happening in the rest of the world is that everywhere except America was destroyed in a nuclear war. We're not given much of an indication how long it's been since then.)

Peeta is Peter, Haymitch is Hamish, and Hazelle is Hazel, Maysilee is Maisie— the changes in pronunciation are slight (Peeta and Peter are already virtually identical in my accent), and the spelling has changed to match.

Leevy is either a corruption of Lily, or more likely I suspect 'Livvy', a common nickname for Olivia; Finnick is probably from Finnegan (shorten in to 'Finneg' and then say it over and over very fast); Sae could be short for Sarah, or Sally or even Susan— it's not uncommon for nicknames to become real names in their own right (look at Harry or Molly as examples).

I also love the trend of having District 1 parents give their kids names relating to the luxury items their district produces— Glimmer, Marvel, Gloss, Cashmere, Velvereen (presumably a corruption of 'velveteen'), Facet— because those things are all a) objectively pretty/nice (like naming a kid 'Diamond' or 'Star' today) and presumably status symbols in their district.

Meanwhile District 3 does the same thing, but all the pronunciations are corrupted. You've got technical names to do with the manufacture of electronics— Wiress (wireless), Circ (circuit)— but you've also got what I'm pretty sure are meant to be corruptions of modern brand names— Beetee (BT), Teslee (Tesla).

To me this kind of suggests that District 3 is less conscious of this influence than District 1. Like, parents in 1 are more likely to deliberately think "I'll name my kid Glimmer, because things that glimmer are pretty" whereas 3 as a culture might have genuinely forgotten that those names used to mean something, in the same way that most of us don't think much about how the name 'Arthur' comes from the old word for 'Bear'.

And of course, then you've got the Capitol leaning hard into those ancient Roman vibes with names like Fulvia, Plutarch, Seneca, Tigris… but still using the European/American personal name+family name format, which the Romans didn't really do. Like it's very clear that this is a future society fetishising the classical era, rather than an actual resurgence of Roman culture.

It's just such a cool world-building detail. So many dystopian novels just go for modern names (and there's nothing wrong with that, especially if you're only looking a couple of hundred years into the future) but thinking about how names might have evolved over the centuries and the different naming traditions that might have developed in different areas really adds a whole new dimension to the culture of Panem.

what a wonderful day to remember and acknowledge that femicide is not a third world/latin american problem, we just happen to have active and effective enough feminist movements that we managed to both put a name to it and make it a prosecutable crime.

just because you don’t put a name to it or collect specific statistics doesn’t mean the problem isn’t there, in fact it only serves to obscure very serious issues no one wants to talk about except from the safe distance of “this only happens in third world countries”.

get engaged about femicide in your communities now.

lobisoma-deactivated20210910

i know i’ve been shoving this into y’all’s faces all day but i’d really appreciate some substantial engagement.

like i said, no one wants to talk about this. but we fucking have to. we’re being killed by those who think they have power over us, be they our intimate partners, our family members, authority figures, or some guy we barely know but who feels he’s entitled to us.

it’s very beautiful that you can reblog a few images of women’s day protests against femicide in latin america, but this is not only our fight. it is yours, at your own home, no matter how developed you think your country is.

fight for your sisters at home. don’t just applaud my sisters here in the third world while you do nothing because you don’t think your civilised country could ever reach such barbarity, when in fact it was the blueprint.

skarchomp

i bet those colors only shrimp can see suck major ass

bananahomo

jealousy isn’t the way bro

htcd

The shrimp aren’t gonna have sex with you.

bananahomo

you take that back right fucking now

scififantasystuff

Unfortunate news… scientists have discovered that shrimp do not see “extra colors”.

We thought that they did because they have 12 different molecules for photoreceptors, whereas humans have only 3. BIG difference, right??

Nope. Turns out that they simply do not have the mental wherewithal to blend, and so needed a separate receptor for each color. The human brain adds color emissions together to create a singular representative color, like reverse engineered printing. Shrimp can’t do that. They can’t take light emitting “green” and light emitting “red” and come back with “yellow”, like we do. They have to have a receptor for yellow, and are relatively horrible at distinguishing shades of colors.

So at the end of the day, not only do shrimp not have “extra colors”… they see less than we do. Shrimp can’t see the fake colors :(

Good.Those motherfuckers were getting too cocky

mamoru

stop using hospitals as horror settings

mamoru

fun alternative: cruise ships. cruise ships exploit workers and can pollute as much as a million cars on a daily basis while dumping endless shit into the ocean and endangering all passengers on board because the on board air quality rivals some of the most polluted cities in the world while being a breeding ground for disease. cruise ships deserve to have negativity associated with them

catparazzi

also all crimes commited aboard a cruise ship is under the juristiction of whichever country they’re registered to once they’re a certain distance away from land so you have the added bonus of the crimes being very unlikely to be properly investigated (due to usually being physically so very far from the actual police whose juristiction they’re under)

mamoru

terrifying!

xcekait

On top of THAT cruise ships tend to have their own morgue, as people tend to die on ships all the time. Good for those spooky scenes.

bananonbinary

plus u can just like…leave a hospital. good luck escaping a killer or a monster or a curse or w/e in the middle of the fucking ocean

There was a scooby doo movie on a cruise

I got this ad on my Instagram (this post is not sponsored) and... what is it?? Do you like, put your head through the hole and wear this like a poncho, or 🤨

jestersudz

It looks like a skirt? Maybe u put 1 leg through the hole?

Hmm, but how would that look???

I don't know which concept intrigues me more 🤔

posts-for-my-wife

turns out the real answers are even worse

it’s either “skies out, thighs out” or “leg cape”

This is the "short in the front, long in the back" skirt trend all over again, but worse

fucked up thneed

Someone followed me and when i checked all the ppl they followed, it was a bunch of celebrities blogs so uhhhhoney aren't you a bit lost in following me?

They unfollowed me

No offense but if I followed someone and they posted about how weird it was i’d probably unfollow too

magicalgirlmindcrank

Who's prince Philip and why do people want him to die

He's a British Royal and he's a British Royal

alltheroyalthings

He’s a British Royal and you guys are sick sad people.

magicalgirlmindcrank

priboltao

How can you... be a fan... of the royal family?

Like what did they DO that you’re a fan of? Like I really don’t get it.

It’s like being a fan of a Kardashian.

What did they do: being born rich.

I mean, no shame or anything, you can like whatever you like, it just doesn’t make sense to me.

And it doesn’t make sense to be mad at people for hating them when. you know. history.

It's not really comparable? I mean, the Kardashians are rich bc they're rich, and they sell a lifestyle and shit. The royal family is richbc they waged war and colonization literally in half the world, and the represent that status quo and the atrocities that they did. So no, actually full shame on like the royal family. They're awful

priboltao

oh, I know, I used kardashians cause there isn’t really something to compare. And I say I’m not shaming as, I don’t really know what goes in the head of someone who is into that shit, I just expect them to know we are going to point out their idols have blood on their hands.

Like at least the Kardashians have a tv show. I’ve seen a couple episodes, and like, as far as reality tv goes, it’s alright. Their lives are interesting, and when they aren’t, the writers make them interesting. what the fuck does the royal family have? every now and then one of them gets married? or caught visiting a child trafficking island? They’re boring, they’re evil, and they get paid a shit ton of taxpayer money to pretend to do a job that doesn’t really exist anymore.

did-you-know

Millennials are a well-behaved generation.

Studies show substance abuse disorders are 49% lower, delinquent behavior (like stealing and assault) is 34% lower, and teen pregnancy is 40% lower than in previous generations.

(Source, Source 2, Source 3)

gummybearattacktheworldofdespair

Lmao fuckin nerd ass mellinials

radioheadbf

Please dont forget addicts when youre advocating for people with highly stigmatized mental illnesses. Addiction is a disorder and it deserves just as much visibility, acceptance and support as any other stigmatized mental illness.

medievalkatya

Apartment hunting has shown me that so many kids my age and younger openly broadcast that they are running away from abusive homes and that they are LGBT. I sympathize completely, but you do not under any circumstances need to be on a roommate finder website telling strangers on the internet that you are part of a vulnerable minority with no one back home who cares what happens to you... just say you are moving out, end of. Once you get to trust someone you live with then you can share the backstory. Internet safety is something that still matters.

I fucking hate being amab because to make myself androgynous I basically just feminize myself So I’ll see some shoes and I’m like oh those are cute and I would look cute in them but then it’s like, those shoes would make me 6′4″

darkwarlock707

For those who thought that this was Nintendo baiting people into posting videos for them to take down, (as I initially did, admittedly), it’s actually people posting pictures of YouTube takedown notices. Nintendo didn’t bait anyone...They walked into a metaphorical garden rake.

Oh fuck guys we’re like halfway through Cheeto-finger’s presidency.