Nobody’s going to stop you.

She/her, under 160 years, over 160 cm, live in UK. You don’t need to know more than that. Who are you, the feds?

[the-knifeketeer]

The inevitable “explaining who I am” post.

Age: you don't need to know

Gender: cis girl

Location: Northeast US

Education is liberation!

All scifi is welcome here except Firefly (WHICH IS NOT HARD SF AT ALL!).

DO NOT:

ASK ME FOR MONEY. I AM BROKE.

TRY TO CONVERT ME TO YOUR RELIGION. (THIS MEANS YOU, MORMONS, JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES, TRANSPHOBES, AND FIREFLY FANS)

WEAR CROCS. THOSE ARE JUST UGLY.

[captain-price-returns]

[quasi-normalcy]

I don't understand how this is even a defence in the age of drone warfare.

[graham-folger]

Or even like... Cannon warfare.

[quasi-normalcy]

Yeah, the Ottomans could have taken this in the fourteenth century.

[biglawbear]

One siege tower and that shits cooked

[regamad]

This shit is less defendable than a 12th century fortification

Oh, also, one fighter or strike plane here and it's over

[pissfaggit]

Oh my god ♥️♥️ happy 4th of july Farscape fandom i love you!! 🇺🇲🎆🎆🫡🫡💏🫡🫡♥️♥️♥️

[phoenixyfriend]

Why are so many weed smokers in denial about Actual Negative effects

It's like they heard "the damage of marijuana was vastly overstated by paranoid tee-totallers who hated any kind of fun" and decided that meant "it is completely harmless and nothing you hear about it doing damage is true"

"There was fear-mongering" does not mean "it's ALL fear-mongering"

I feel like a lot of weed smokers go into any and all conversations with a defensive attitude of "any criticism is going to be overblown and exaggerated" and so actual concerns of "a lot of people get migraines if they smell weed smoke" or "this can cause allergy/asthma attacks" are dismissed as fake.

But like. No. Maybe step back and recognize that you are selfishly hurting other people and that maybe they have reason to ask you to change out your delivery methods to something that doesn't result in secondhand inhalation.

[outraged-honk]

I legitimately need to smoke because of my gastrointestinal issues, I cannot eat gummies, I cannot drink it, I cant use creams,oils, or tinctures. THC is the best to help with my spinal injury and fibromyalgia.

At the same time, I also dont smoke around other people that dont smoke or vape. And since im disabled Im usually home, in my workshop.

Both sides can be seen as selfish. Why can you not walk away? Why doesnt the other person walk away from you?

Your health doesnt mean more to me than my pain that makes my legs not work.

People smoke cigarettes still, dont hear you complaining when they have worse toxins same with vapes.

Maybe the problem is you need to walk away or perhaps not be around people that smoke?

If it's in a place where you are allowed to smoke, they can smoke.

You can also do prevention measures to not be around those people.

Also what about the actual "fear mongering" please tell me all the effects for the user, Because I can sure tell you. Walk me through it. Please. An herb my ancestors used for pain.

Fuck the people that need it for medicinal purposes! Thats all I hear here.

[phoenixyfriend]

Wow! Bad faith take right here! Did you notice that, perhaps, my issue was with the people who are arguing to my face that they should have the right to smoke around me?

Did you perhaps consider that many smokers are not you, the person who does it in their house, and are instead the people who are smoking in enclosed places where it's illegal?

this post wasn't about you, but then you did make it about you, and called me names, so I am going to be a bit mean about it

Smoking the thing that famously causes uncontrollable vomiting seems like a bad match for gastrointestinal issues.

Why can you not walk away?

Well you see, they're sometimes doing it on the fucking train that I am trapped in with them.

Why doesn't the other person walk away from you?

There's a group of them standing outside the dispensary I have to walk past to get to my train.

Your health doesn't mean more to me than my pain that makes my legs not work.

Your actions are impacting the people around you, and you do not have the consent of random strangers in your space. Sure, you can legally smoke on that corner, but the child that has to stand next to you as you both wait to cross the street doesn't have the option of leaving. The person whose migraine flared up when your blunt did isn't going to stop having a migraine just by walking away; that pain is going to continue for hours, as yours gets treated. The neighbor with asthma or an allergy who has an attack because your smoke drifted through the vents into their apartment didn't consent to that happening. There are, in many cases, multiple people suffering because of the smoke. Your pain does not give you the right to cause pain in the people around you.

People smoke cigarettes still, don't hear you complaining when they have worse toxins same with vapes.

Because this post was about people claiming that secondhand weed isn't bad for you. I also hate when people smoke cigarettes, but those people aren't trying to convince me that I'm just a big baby who's being racist and ableist for not wanting to inhale their cancer chemicals.

If it's in a place where you are allowed to smoke, they can smoke.

It's not allowed in the park, they do it anyway. It's not allowed on the platform, they do it anyway. It's not allowed in the train, they do it anyway. You see, they have decided that the Actual Negative effects are fake, like I said at the start of the post, and so it's actually fine to smoke in enclosed or public spaces regardless of how many people around them would like them to not do that.

You can also do prevention measures to not be around those people.

I cannot get off of the train while it is in motion.

Also what about the actual "fear mongering" please tell me all the effects for the user

Anything you inhale, other than pure air and certain medications, increases the risk of cancer. This goes for marijuana just as much as it goes for tobacco or wood smoke or what have you.

Cannabinoid Hyperemesis Syndrome - the thing I mentioned earlier. Two weeks of uncontrollable vomiting. My brother got this one.

Addiction - people can say it not addicting, but my brother went back to smoking two days after he finally stopped vomiting, even though the doctors told him to wait a month.

Cannabis can act as a catalyst to dormant psychiatric conditions like schizophrenia, even secondhand. I have a friend with a family history of it who is upset every time they encounter secondhand weed smoke, because it has a very real chance of making them develop a debilitating disorder they otherwise might not have developed.

Fuck the people that need it for medicinal purposes! Thats all I hear here.

Fuck the people trapped on the train with smokers! Fuck the kids who are half-baked as they stumble out of daddy's car because he couldn't wait until he dropped them off to light up! Fuck the neighbor crying from the migraine you gave them because apartments share ventilation!

Fuck everyone in the vicinity! So long as you personally get to light up!

This post was aimed at people who, rather than having consideration, try to convince me that I'm the problem, whiny, whatever.

Which, hey, you did just prove yourself to be by making it all about yourself instead of asking if, perhaps, I had a goddamn reason to be frustrated by people deciding it's actually fine to smoke inside THE GODDAMN TRAIN because "it's not actually bad for you."

[outraged-honk]

Call the cops if its not allowed then. Youre just whining. Legit, also your "anti-weed" tags make me feel you also have an issue wuth drugs, but not worse things, you are also fear mongering, because you're mad about things that are in your control

Also maybe add these details to your post next time.

Still grow up and solve your own issues, if its not allowed then get them in shit. Not hard, just need to be an adult. But I get it you want to just whine and complain. Im only the one of millions of people it helps, for more serious things than a migraine, hell it helps people with chronic migraines. We aren't even as CBD yet.

When you whine maybe don't allow for reblogs, add details, or better yet be an adult and solve the problem!

P.s i live in the middle of nowhere! Now whos assuming?

People maybe should have made sure with their landlord smoking is not allowed in the building, but thats an adult thought.

Oh by the way there is no definite proof yet of damage to a fetus (they need groups of women to study), it can cause addiction but its far less famaging than alcohol. "Weed" does not kill brain cells like alcohol does it thicken a sleeve on your neurons calls the mayelin sheath which makes it harder to communicate to each other but will thin back out once you stop your intake. Alcohol causes way more issues but its still widely accepted, it actually kills braincells, it causes things like alcohol poisoning, it can cauee seizures and depression, it has no positive effects on the human body, but enjoyment (getting drunk) alcohol poisoning which is a huge cause of death of young people. No one in history has died from marijuana. You know nothing, youre just a bigot, you dont care about smoke thats more toxic or potent you have no mentioned it. Cigarettes and vapes are worse for both the user and second hand than weed, weed has very little toxic chemicals compared to the thousands in Cigarettes and vapes.

[phoenixyfriend]

So there's this thing called police brutality that's really fucking common and the NYPD is pretty known for it--

[the-knifeketeer]

#idk man you just seen really selfish to me and so caught up in Wanting To Smoke that you don't want to hear legitimate grievances

[ljutefisk]

[the-knifeketeer]

screw your $1000 "portable" gaming brick

A proper handheld should (a) last for at least 6-8 hours on a single charge, (b) fit in a large pocket or smallish purse, (c) be weaker and cheaper than a console.

Making a handheld that lasts 2-3 hours max and can't really be held comfortably (even with my giant hands) defeats the point, even if it can run contemporary AAA games.

[the-knifeketeer]

Some beautiful words from wunderground.com

Anyway, I can't wait for fall.

[lizlemondyke]

as it gets warmer let's all remember the two most beautiful accessories a girl can have this summer are hairy legs and a bunch of bruises from bangin around

[the-knifeketeer]

One of the reasons why Angela Carter's "The Bloody Chamber" is still relevant today is that no booktok "feminist retelling" would dare to have the heroine's mother kill the big dark spooky older husband AND present it as an act of heroism rather than her being an overprotective psycho-bitch.

(*cough* rape of persephone retellings *cough*)

[the-knifeketeer]

"Women are monsterfuckers, men won't look at anything weirder than a model with a rubber forehead" meme seems to be everywhere.

Why do I fall under the "men" category whenever there are weird "men do this, women do that" memes? And whenever shoes don't come in different widths? And why are double standards on looks and romance for the girlies now?

[dragongirlsweetie]

ok i am curious. how long is the longest song in your library (not counting tracks that are like several songs in one file like a full album mix or symphony recording or whatever) (also if it is longer than 20 minutes say the name in the tags i am curious)

how long

< 3:00

3:00–3:59

4:00–4:59

5:00–5:59

6:00–6:59

7:00–7:59

8:00–11:59

12:00–15:59

16:00–20:59

21:00–24:59

25:00–30:00

≥ 30:00

Voting ended onJun 1

[swords-and-grimoires]

Happy Black Fae Day!

I did this as part of a collaboration post with many other wonderful black creatives over on IG. My theme was Warrior Fairy.

Creative Direction and editing by me

Shot by @sachinteng 🥰

[springfieldstills]

[the-knifeketeer]

Must stop conflating "embezzled" and "bedazzled".

[leolaroot]

wow. do you know what? this shortform video based online community for discussion about erotic novels is actually lowkey inspiring me.. i cant stop imagining like what if there was a drink powder just for us.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[specialagentartemis]

can you give some examples of the cozy colonialism trope from your previous post? i just feel like i haven’t encountered it anywhere but wondering if im missing it!

Tagging @mytly4 who also asked about this:

The problem comes from the fact that a lot of traditional SFF tropes—the invading orc hordes, the uninhabited exoplanet to settle, the adventurous archaeologist, the ancient aliens, the Lost World, the scary untamed wilderness—are rooted in colonialist adventure stories and attitudes from the 1800s and 1900s, and if you don’t really know what you’re doing with them it’s way too easy to accidentally just replicate their underlying colonialist and orientalist basis. Stargate is a famous example of this, but it’s missing the other half of the equation here: the desire to write something cozy, queer, uplifting, nice, and hopepunk.

When these two things crash together it can create some deeply unintended implications.

The problem with indie work in this space is that it has a tendency to be pretty conflict-averse, and it accomplishes this by presenting a protagonist or protag group who are nice as their primary defining characteristic. They’re nice, they’re good, they have correct and progressive beliefs, and narratively everything they do is framed as nice, good, and correct.

I wanted to contextualize what I’m talking about before I name specific works, to make it clear why I see this as a recurring issue. Links below go to more in-depth discussion of each example.

The exoplanet colonization audio drama This Planet Needs a Name is probably the purest distillation of this (from the title itself you can guess which direction this goes in). The short story “Dracanmōt Council of Human Study Report, Compiled by Usander Greystart” published in the queer SFF anthology Common Bonds was clearly TRYING to have a theme of “colonialism is bad” but what was actually presented was a replication of a shocking number of racist tropes about Native Americans, applied to marauding orcs.

Tradpub isn’t immune either, though. Becky Chambers’s novella A Prayer for the Crown-Shy contains no depictions of colonialism directly but draws unthinkingly from some deeply colonialist attitudes about nature, humans, wilderness, and religion, thereby presenting some bizarre and occasionally disturbing scenes that are supposed to be moving and gentle and sweet. I haven’t personally read The House in the Cerulean Sea but I have heard the controversy about its origins; admitting that your cozy fantasy book where inhuman/monster children are taken away from their families and raised in a state-run foster home by a state agent who Understands them and Cares about them better than anyone else was inspired by the Canadian policy of taking Indigenous children away from their families to place them with white families who would raise them “better” sure is indicative of some underlying assumptions about how the world works.

My favorite example, though, is Season 1 of the audio drama Travelling Light, which had a theme of “artifact smuggling is a victimless crime and really it’s about the friends we made along the way.” The writing team brushed me off when I raised concerns about this, basically telling me “you are the only person who cares about this” (which was evidently true tbh) and then blocked me on tumblr, then apparently sat on this, considering it, writing a behind the scenes blog post explicitly using my term “cozy colonialism” without actually citing me because I was still blocked on Tumblr, then doing a complete 180 in season 2 where the main character learns that artifact smuggling is not a victimless crime actually. Also, I’m pretty sure they wrote me into the show as an antagonistic character who repeats all the points I made to the protagonist and the protagonist hates him for calling them out, but begrudgingly eventually agrees that he’s kind of right. SUCCESS. Also, the official tumblr unblocked me at about the same time, making me think that this is related.