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no analysis of sex is going to go anywhere liberatory or productive as long as it's chracterised by fundamentally asymmetrical assumptions: that sex is ethically unlike any other human activity, is uniquely a site of violence or exploitation, is uniquely meaningful or spiritually consequential; and even within this category, that 'kinky' acts are even more ethically loaded than their 'vanilla' counterparts, that they are uniquely violent or harmful, that they violate the special sanctity of 'normal' sex. all of these are predicated on a view that sexuality is simply different to (and more dangerous and ethically consequential than) other human relations and activities. why assume this? why treat sex as a special event with unique potential to harm; what does this cost our understanding of other relationships and sites of trauma, as well as of sexuality and sexual desire?
based on a little dog I met the other day.
Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.
From raindovemodel
This made me cry. I wish all situations could be handled as perfectly as this
I just want to point out the core of what the diffuser did in this conversation
They recognized that the mother was also expressing a vulnerable truth about herself - that she felt like a bad mother because her child was expressing gender feelings she wasn’t equipped to help with - and met her where she was, a concerned parent with limited information - to point her where she should be heading, research and resources.
Im going to make more of an effort to stop reflexively pushing people away when they express biases and make more of an effort to hear the underlying fears when i can
“it’s easier to love ourselves when we feel loved as ourselves”
damn that is so powerful though
“it’s easier to
love ourselves when we feel
loved as ourselves”
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
golden hour in nanas bathroom
Itchy snoot.
HE DIRT BROKEN :(
one of the beauties of vine was that six seconds was simply not enough time to even attempt to be informational. you could always be confident that even if a vine wasnt very funny, at least nobody was ever gonna try and "learn you a thing" about the most current political situation or fandom shit
She sensed that the Archbishop was not only a person of great power, but one that was very conscious of it. She reminded Byleth of the ocean...
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“Seteth, it is fine. I will talk to them now,” Rhea said, leaving the room to stand in front of the towering stained glass window of the Audience Chamber. Like that, against the strong, multicolored light, only her silhouette was visible. It made her look like an otherworldly creature.
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“I don’t understand why your safety would be at risk… Claude… Are you afraid of Rhea?”
“Yeah, I’m afraid of her,” he admitted, looking down, “So, please… read it first.”
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the other birthday girl is rhea! all quotes are from my fic, golden dawn, and show - somewhat - how byleth, edelgard and claude see rhea in that context. i love rhea and i loved painting her.
cool new language resource i just discovered: lingotrack! it functions somewhat like polylogger, allowing you to log your activity for languages, but, more than that, it has an explore section where you can find media that's in a particular language, such as books, tv shows, films, etc! one of the hardest things when you reach a more proficient level of a language is finding media in that language to engage with, so i think this is probably a good resource, or at least a place to get started. besides the explore function, there's also collections of media/resources, and a library function where you can add your own resources. it does require you to have a paid account to log study time for multiple languages (the free version allows you one primary language), but the other aspects seem to be available to free users in their entirety!
I can’t handle this 🥺
Great eared nightjar
this is a dragon
How is it possible for an animal to resemble a bird, a mammal, and a reptile simultaneously?
Those ARE great ears.
*Jiejie (姐姐): lit. older sister, used to address young women who are a bit older/similar age as yourself
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Unlearning How White People Ask Personal Questions
http://www.samefacts.com/2014/05/culture-and-civil-society/unlearning-how-white-people-ask-personal-questions/
Holy shit. I have ALWAYS thought the people around me were being unconscionably intrusive and power-playing in their starter conversations and they told me I was antisocial and oblivious to culture norms. Turns out, maybe I’m just from a different culture.
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by Keith Humphreys - May 5, 2014
When I met my fiance’s African-American stepfather, things did not start well. Stumbling for some way to start a conversation with a man whose life was unlike mine in almost every respect, I asked “So, what do you do for a living?”.
He looked down at his shoes and said quietly “Well, I’m unemployed”.
At the time I cringed inwardly and recognized that I had committed a terrible social gaffe which seemed to scream “Hey prospective in-law, since I am probably going to be a member of your family real soon, I thought I would let you know up front that I am a completely insensitive jackass”. But I felt even worse years later when I came to appreciate the racial dimension of how I had humiliated my stepfather-in-law to be.
For that painful but necessary bit of knowledge I owe a white friend who throughout her childhood attended Chicago schools in a majority Black district. She passed along a marvelous book that helped her make sense of her own inter-racial experiences. It was Kochman’s Black and White Styles in Conflict, and it had a lasting effect on me. One of the many things I learned from this anthropological treasure trove of a book is how race affects the personal questions we feel entitled to ask and the answers we receive in response.
My question to my stepfather was at the level of content a simple conversation starter (albeit a completely failed one). But at the level of process, it was an expression of power. Kochman’s book sensitized me to middle class whites’ tendency to ask personal questions without first considering whether they have a right to know the personal details of someone else’s life. When we ask someone what they do for a living for example, we are also asking for at least partial information on their income, their status in the class hierarchy and their perceived importance in the world. Unbidden, that question can be quite an invasion. The presumption that one is entitled to such information is rarely made explicit, but that doesn’t prevent it from forcing other people to make a painful choice: Disclose something they want to keep secret or flatly refuse to answer (which oddly enough usually makes them, rather than the questioner, look rude).
Kochman’s book taught me a new word, which describes an indirect conversational technique he studied in urban Black communities: “signifying”. He gives the example (as I recall it, 25 years on) of a marriage-minded black woman who is dating a man who pays for everything on their very nice dates. She wonders if he has a good job. But instead of grilling him with “So what do you do for a living?”, she signifies “Whatever oil well you own, I hope it keeps pumping!”.
Her signifying in this way is a sensitive, respectful method to raise the issue she wants to know about because unlike my entitled direct question it keeps the control under the person whose personal information is of interest. Her comment could be reasonably responded to by her date as a funny joke, a bit of flirtation, or a wish for good luck. But of course it also shows that if the man freely chooses to reveal something like “Things look good for me financially: I’m a certified public accountant at a big, stable firm”, he can do so and know she will be interested.
Since reading Kochman’s book, I have never again directly asked anyone what they do for a living. Instead my line is “So how do you spend your time?”. Some people (particularly middle class white people) choose to answer that question in the bog standard way by describing their job. But other people choose to tell me about the compelling novel they are reading, what they enjoy about being a parent, the medical treatment they are getting for their bad back, whatever. Any of those answers flow just as smoothly from the signification in a way they wouldn’t from a direct question about their vocation.
From the perspective of ameliorating all the racial pain in the world, this change in my behavior is a grain of sand in the Sahara. But I pass this experience along nonetheless, for two reasons. First, very generally, if any of us human beings can easily engage in small kindnesses, we should. Second, specific to race, if those of us who have more power can learn to refrain from using it to harm people in any way – major or minor — we should do that too.
This is really useful stuff – as someone who’s on disability and knows a ton of people in the same boat, “What do you do for a living?” can be such a loaded question. “How do you spend your time?” is a much more compassionate thing to ask, because you can just enthuse about what you’re writing or how great your cats are or whatever.
See this is the shit they should have been teaching me in therapist school.
The full Dragon series!! Each creature from a different biome… I had a lot of fun coming up with the different types of dragons and imagining what it would be like for these warriors to face each one. The fire dragon being particularly destructive. The night dragon near impossible to see coming in the dark. The ice dragons the size of mountains. The river dragon’s keen eyes. The sand dragon’s deadly poison. The mist dragons forcing the battle into the sky. The water dragon hiding in the deep. The garden dragon is chill though. Good lad.
Fire Dragon
Komodo
Mage / Staff
Night Dragon
Wolf
Samurai / Sword
Ice Dragon
Bearded
Viking / Axe
River Dragon
Crocodile
Thief / Dagger
Sand Dragon
Cobra
Archer / Bow
Mist Dragon
Eagle
Knight / Spear
Water Dragon
Eel
Sailor / Harpoon
Garden Dragon
Iguana
Healer / Potions
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I used to write degrading things in the French Google Translate voice and jerk off to it
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