I'll be more dangerous, more beautiful than any other

[about] Onward, Little Hound; there is no stain on your good name, no slight on your courage. Go bravely against the army by yourself. They have no power over your life at this time.

[tainbocuailnge]

[wumbologyandecology]

Some of my favorite showcases of insects arranged by color from the Montreal Insectarium

[furufuruyo]

[takasakidr]

あげなおしました

派手じゃない花とか野草がよく似合うと思います。

[tainbocuailnge]

"true but i don't agree" is me about every complaint people have about is6 like raidian has way outsized impact on your runs and the voucher reserve system restricts your pathing bc you need to get recruitment nodes and the early floor maps are intense in a way that disincentivizes experimenting with openers and the large amount of hitcount mechanics restrict your operator picks further and the coins are finnicky and so on but i. am literally having so much fun in here

[tainbocuailnge]

this anthro aphrissa in the background of her e2 art... did her artist want to draw her furrier at first?

[monster2001]

True but I don’t agree

[gatheringbones]

[“The Roman Catholic Church’s definition of incest is one of the most intriguing features of medieval marriage. Neither the Old nor New Testament provided any basis for it. But in the mid-sixth century, church synods began to denounce as incestuous the Old Testament practice of marrying a brother’s widow. Also, during the sixth and seventh centuries bishops began condemning marriage to first and second cousins, stepmothers or stepdaughters, and the widows of uncles. In 721, Pope Gregory II even forbade marriage with the godmother of one’s child or with the mother of one’s godchild.

A few decades later marriage was forbidden up to the seventh degree of separation, or “as far as memory could go back.” This made it illegal to marry a descendant of one’s great-great-great-great-great-grandfather! By the end of the eighth century it was incestuous to marry in-laws, the kin of godparents or godchildren, or a relative of someone you had once had sexual intercourse with. It was also forbidden to marry a relative of someone you had previously promised but failed to marry. These prohibitions were so broad that almost any match could be ruled invalid. One historian notes that, at least in theory, the incest rules prohibited young village men from wedding “all the marriageable girls they could possibly know and a great many more besides.”

[…]

On the other hand, because the rules were so routinely ignored at the time of marriage, they could later be used to invalidate an existing marriage. A claim of incest provided an escape clause from the Church’s strictures against divorce. A married couple, or one of the pair, who desired a divorce might suddenly discover that the marriage had been incestuous all along. In the late eleventh century the Count of Anjou was able to repudiate five of his own marriages by dint of diligent genealogical research. In 1152 the divorce of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine was approved when the couple pointed out that they were related within four or five degrees. The excuse served, even though this had been common knowledge at the time of their wedding and Louis’s next wife, Constance of Castile, was even more closely related to him than Eleanor had been. As one historian notes, the church’s “abhorrence of incest provided a gap in the laws of monogamy through which a king . . . could drive a coach and horses.”

In 1215 the Fourth Lateran Council narrowed the definition of incest to four degrees of separation. The council’s stated aim was to enforce the modified ban more stringently. But popes continued to grant dispensations for political or financial gain. Under the papacy of Boniface IV (1389-1404), marital dispensations were openly available for sale, with a sliding fee scale based on the value of the concession being sought.”]

stephanie coontz, from marriage, a history: from obedience to intimacy, or how love conquered marriage, 2005

[tainbocuailnge]

I've been using this tool called tumblr-utils to back up my tumblr blogs. it creates a locally navigatable archive of a given tumblr url's posts, which is more convenient than the post soup you get from tumblr's native blog export feature.

what that means is that I have a folder on my computer with the name of my url with an index.html file in it, and when i click on that file to open it in a browser I get a simple page with a list of years and months. selecting a specific month will send me to a list of the posts i made or reblogged in that month, similar to tumblr's own archive page. the contents of the post including images are stored locally on your machine.

It can also make a separate index file that organises posts by tag, which is great if you're a consistent tagger, but it will list every single tag you've ever used so it can take a while to find the tag you're looking for in the list if you're a habitual tag commentator. generating the tag archive also takes a while depending on how many posts have to be processed.

you can make it back up any blog as long as it's not set to private. I have backups of both my main and sideblogs and it keeps them in separate folders.

it's had some trouble going all the way back to the start of my main blog in 2012 just by sheer volume of posts, but by making it fetch posts from one month at a time I've been able to go back to 2015 (that's tens of thousands of posts), which was good enough for my purposes.

it might be a little scary to use if you've never touched the command line before, but there's both text and video instructions to set it up and using it is just a matter of typing the command and letting it do its thing in the background.

[unpretty]

not to be tmi but i was so relieved as a teen when i figured out that my masturbatory fantasies and my actual sex life had literally nothing to do with each other, nor did they need to

i was terrified i was going to end up getting hurt but it turns out when you’re having actual sex with an actual person the things that do it for you can be completely different

i have had plenty of great sex that i’m still not going to fantasize about because when it’s just me thinking about it and not an actual person doing it, it’s not hot anymore

there are plenty of things that in real life are actually just uncomfortable and not arousing at all and i will never do them, but even if i’ve tried it and decided it’s not for me it’s still gonna show up in fantasies because it’s still hot to think about

i mean it sounds stupid and obvious but i spent years either trying to stop myself from finding things hot (spoiler it don’t work), or else letting people convince me that fantasies were talking the talk and obligated me to try walking the walk

[unpretty]

i get why this is going around again with a lot of people agreeing that fantasy is not reality and you can fantasize about whatever you want regardless of what puritans say etc etc etc. but tbh that was not the thing that was a revelation to me when it happened. it was the ‘actual sex is different’ part. not as in ‘it’s okay to have fucked-up fantasies’ but more like

if, while watching porn or reading smut, someone’s gotta get slapped in the face at least once for you to finish. if you can only get off to weird airtight tentacle stuff. if no one’s crying you’re not going to get there. if there’s not a torture chamber in the thumbnail you’re not clicking. that literally means nothing in terms of what you want out of actual sex. i don’t mean morally or criminally or whatever. i just mean on a practical level, in terms of arousal and ability to orgasm.

that was the part that took figuring out. before i actually had experience, that was not intuitive to me at all. even now, if i tried to watch porn where a loving couple made out on the couch while nonviolently fingering each other i would dry up like the fucking sahara. i’m not going anywhere with that. that’s nothing. as a Youth this caused me a lot of concern. but it turns out that in real life, with another person there, that shit’s fun!! it’s great!!! trying to stop myself from finding things hot was never about puritanism, it was about the fear that it was going to be impossible for me to get off with a partner unless i made enough money for elaborate costumes, some kind of sex contraption, and an on-site medic.

watching someone else ride a rollercoaster does not actually tell you anything about what it feels like to ride a rollercoaster. watching sports and playing sports are two very different activities. that’s the thing that felt like it should have been obvious, but wasn’t.

[arturia-giallo]

rkgk 6.14 by Basilo [Twitter/X] ※Illustration shared with permission from the artist. If you like this artwork please support the artist by visiting the source.

[tvdaughter]

doesn’t one ever ponder the often inherently moe nature of an older man

[potettoe]

Rosmontis

[arknightsost]

Visit Original Link

[storiamanga]

Persephone (NPC) official design and art by @sumidolce

[estrogenesis-vaporeongelion]

top economists are saying today that so long as the coyote doesn't look down he will never fall

[tainbocuailnge]

with wang release coming soon let's all remember that he's explicitly kinda dogshit at weiqi and it took him literal centuries of constant practice to start winning casual games and the government kept him "sealed" all that time purely by beating him in weiqi because he agreed to stay in his room like a good boy for 60 years every time he lost and when after centuries upon centuries he finally won a game against the grand tutor and got to leave the house for a bit he caused The Jie Incident

(IW-ST-3)

he just throws around exploding pieces as an operator because he's Bad At It