Hyenas gonna hyen

A certain no one. A grumpy hyena. Personal reblog stash. Please follow otome blog, fic and art for otome blog or fanart for gacha games instead.

[the-marvellous-hyolf]

This is personal main blog only. Whatever fandom I followed you for, I'm not posting it on this blog. Please follow those instead:

@aromantic-misguide-to-romance for all otome/OM/handsome guys games shitpostery, screenshots or headcanons.

@creations-of-a-certain-no-one for art and fic for aforementioned games.

@no-one-in-teyvat for fanart for Genshin, HSR, Arknights or other gacha games.

Also @hyolfs-pic-reblog-stash is also mine. Feel free to follow if you like what I reblog there, but it's a purely reblog blog.

[manu-script]

A lot of people treat it like a joke or straight up get defensive about it but most world building flaws literally come from the author having a very US/Europe centric view of the world.

This isn't just "think about where the potatoes and coffee come from in your world". This is also about fantasy worlds set in Earth too. The way JK Rowling designed her world so that England has it's own school but has Latin America, Africa and Asia share one school each is heavily influenced by her english centric view of the world around her. Or how she never took two seconds to think about how magic works in different cultures, or how she never explains why the indigenous communities of America didn't fight back against colonizers using magic, or how she decided that european colonizers "civilized" African wizards by teaching them how to use wands. Her way of seeing the rest of the world and obvious rejection to educating herself about other countries influences her world building.

The same happens with Rick Riordan. His entire magical world (which primarily deals with the GREEK gods) revolves solely around the United States. And the reason he gives is literally just "the US is the most important country currently so that's where the gods went". Camp Half-blood is literally located in NEW YORK. Demi gods from other countries are never explored or even mentioned in anyway whatsoever. The wide spread usamerican belief that they are the most important country in the world heavily influences how Rick Riordan (and most usamerican writers) do world building.

[manu-script]

you all will do anything but educate yourselves about a country other than your own for once

[witchascending]

Saw a reel recently, a booktoker showing "look! So many scifis are empires! Everything goes back to the Roman Empire!"

(of course the examples were Western/American)

and while it is true, from Dune to Star Wars to Steven Universe

That's not because of the Roman Empire. That's because of the American one.

(British too, but for the modern ones we don't need to go that far)

[vintage-ukraine]

Morning. Moryntsi by Oleksiy Fishchenko, 1961

Contemplative Evening. Moryntsi by Oleksiy Fishchenko, 1961

[plushdablush]

Random thing for people to consider is that since Laika is the saint of one way trips should Felicette be known as the saint of safe landings since she did make it back to the ground safely

[somefishycat]

tu LANCES félicette ? tu lances son corps comme la fusée ? oh ! oh ! prison pour les scientifiques ! prison pour les scientifiques pendant Un Mille Ans !

[bug-yogurt]

You can understand the French perfectly fine with only context but the English translation I got still had me floored

[the-big-mood]

[viralfrog]

[dragongirlbunny]

[wizardarchetypes]

tbh it's already irritated me that it's become like a socially enforced 'rule' to not add commentary in a reblog and to keep it to the tags. like people will get mad at you for adding to their posts if your specific addition ends up getting more notes than the original but at the end of the day reblog commentary is part of the function of this website so it's like oh well yknow. but now it will actually be kinda rude and inconsiderate for a blog with more followers than OP to do something as completely innocuous as @'ing a friend in their reblog thus taking notes from OP.

so people are just gonna use an original core function of the site even less lmao. awesome work.

[princesscas]

@staff as a Tumblr user for the last 12+ years, the idea of reblogs turning to "Twitter/Bluesky-like" chains is repulsive beyond comprehension. Tumblr is a blogging website. What makes Tumblr unique is the reblog system, where users can reblog a post to their blog and others can do the same.

What's NOT unique is hiding reblogs behind separate "chains." That just makes navigating this site even worse. Not only that, but it kills engagement.

Listen to the users of this website and DO NOT consider implementing this update @staff

[inthefallofasparrow]

When yet another stupid update gets rolled out

[tumblr]

Reblogs in a chain now get their own notes

The reblog chain is one of the things that makes Tumblr unlike anywhere else. All the notes on reblogs are attributed to the original post, no matter which branch people actually liked or reblogged. We want to keep encouraging conversations, and give contributors the recognition they deserve. 

Soon, you'll be able to like, reblog, or reply to any part of a reblog chain, and that note will go to that reblog's author. Each reblog will have its own counts, instead of one aggregated number from every version of the post. And yes, you’ll be able to like multiple posts in one chain.

If a reblog doesn't add anything, the love flows up to the last person in the chain who did. Your post doesn't lose notes just because people spread it quietly.

Past notes will stay on the original post — we're only changing what happens from here on out. Retroactively re-attributing all of them would be... a lot.

This is just the beginning. More changes are coming as we keep building this out – stay tuned!

[the-marvellous-hyolf]

So... Tumblr is trying to get us all to:

1) stop reblogging altogether because every reblog now hurts the author

2) deactivate reblogs in a roundabout way, huh.

Enshittification goes wild, I see.

[worldsendvalent1ne]

[allegedly-human]

Begging you to put the sound on

[hypokeimena]

remember when you could find websites that contained information

[artsekey]

Is the whole “performative male” thing just another way to make fun of guys doing non-masc shit??

[artsekey]

A lot of people are replying and saying yes, but I found this reply interesting!

"It's obviously making fun of men who pretend to have different political views and interest to get into women's pants. They don't actually like the things they own and do, hence the performativeness Why does everyone miss the point of this phenomenon and think men who fake their identity to sleep with someone are the victims here?"

I've been seeing young women approaching young men and saying "fake feminist" or "male performance" to guys who are just... (god forbid)... reading books on feminist theory. Or wearing scarves. And it embarrassed the guys!

Like, they're joking, right? But it got me curious about the whole thing and I really think it's just another generational re-skin of the "progressively acceptable" homophobia.

I get the qualifier is that these "performative males" are doing this to get a girlfriend, right? But when the qualifier is "man likes female singer, drinks a specific kind of coffee, and is reading a book written by a woman", your Venn diagram of 'potentially a performative male' and 'potentially a regular guy living a normal life without adhering to normal masc stereotypes' is a circle.

It's going to create an environment where men who actually are just Like That are going to feel shame in a world that already heavily criticizes being anything other than 'classically masculine'.

Again. I understand the whole 'problem' is that they're being inauthentic (i.e. lying about who they are as people). But the issue is the inauthenticity, not the 'look' or 'lifestyle' associated with this stereotype.

Maybe I'm just not online enough to understand lol

[great-and-small]

I am constantly thinking about this

[great-and-small]

This mild Wikipedia sentence is like the understatement of all time

Here are some crazy grasshopper mouse facts for those who are not familiar with the most badass mouse species on the planet

- They are primarily carnivorous, and their diet is made up of not only bugs but also snakes, lizards and other mice.

- They hunt like true predators, slowly stalking and creeping up on their prey before ambushing them. They will sometimes let out a screech as they attack.

- Like wolves, they howl to establish territory and have a specially developed throat to produce louder vocalizations. They will stand up on their hind legs and throw their head back to howl- a sound that can be heard from 100 meters away!

- Grasshopper mouse behavior is linked to lunar cycles and they are more active during a full moon.

- These mice have been hunting bark scorpions and evolving alongside them for so long that they’ve evolved a mutation where scorpion venom that is lethal to other animals is converted into a painkiller in the grasshopper mouse’s body.

[ampervadasz]

[wheeloffortune-design]

This is why aliens don’t want us in their Starfleet.

[carebewear]

Are you fucking kidding this is why aliens should be begging us to join their Starfleet. The precision?? The CONTROL?? The absolute mastery this driver has over their 20+ ton of steel is superhuman. This person could weave a mothership through an asteroid belt without making a single scratch on the hull. Foh “aliens don’t want us” aliens should be sucking our dicks.

[exlibrisfangirl]

[status-quo-hater]

I need perisex people to understand that the 'corrective' surgeries done on intersex children are nothing like bottom surgeries for trans people. Not just because of the lack of consent, but also because it is literally not the same surgery.

[status-quo-hater]

Bottom surgeries for trans people are done with the intent to maintain function and sensation in line with what the individual wants, they are functional just as much as they are cosmetic.

IGM on the other hand is purely cosmetic. It is done for the comfort of the parents due to the violent biases against intersex people sterily written into medical protocols. Visibly intersex genitalia is seen as already being faulty and disgusting; therefore anything done to change it would be an improvement, regardless of the side effects.

[status-quo-hater]

I need you to understand how they speak about what they do to us.

[status-quo-hater]

I'm 20 years old and I'm new to official queer activism. I'm young. I'm uneducated about the medical field, something which deeply fascinates me. I have a deep respect for doctors and what they do. But I know this is wrong. I know this is wrong. I know this is wrong. I wish the world would listen.

[felix-01000101]

"...leads to great distress in the family" Pause. Why do the family matter?

"It is not a medical problem" Pause. Then why is it an issue?

[status-quo-hater]

Because perisex people's feelings matter more than intersex people's rights to keep our organs inside our bodies and our flesh intact.

[status-quo-hater]

I can understand why, so I'd like to explain.

In cases of ambiguous genitalia, these surgeries are required to issue a legally recognized birth certificate. Everyone must be sorted into M or F.

The thought of just.. not assigning a sex to a child & thus violating the sex binary, is more horrific to perisex cis people than the thought of literally mutilating that child.

This is what the core of medical intersexism is. An unwillingness to question the social construct of binary sex categorization.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

It's also worth mentioning that there are a lot of cases of parents being straightup lied to, either told that the surgery is medically necessary or beneficial, or sometimes even lied to about what the surgery is via claims that their child has some unrelated health defect.

[ardentdelirium]

My intersex sibling was born in the 70s. The doctor told my parents they had to choose a sex and have the baby surgically altered before the family could leave the hospital.

[lightshiningforth]

Read a New York Times "Modern Love" column today from a woman who really struggled with the fact that she had gone six years without having sex. This one quote stood out to me, particularly:

"Celibacy was technically a choice, but it became a soul-numbing curse. I only talked about it with my sister and therapist. Once or twice a year, I would gather the courage to go on a date, then spend the encounter sweating from anxiety. I was convinced every man perceived me in my sexless self-image."

I have sympathy for this woman, don't get me wrong. Sex is clearly important to her, so, understandably, she desires it and feels its absence from her life.

But as someone who has never desired sex, the overall perspective and tone of the article felt so alien to me. "Soul-numbing curse"? "Sexless self-image"? What do you mean that not having sex is unraveling the very core of who you are?

[itsaceokay]

Honestly, it's stories like this that continue to reaffirm my asexuality every time I hear them. That moment I wondered if I was attracted to someone because I liked their hair? Obliterated. The nights I lay awake and wondered if my parents' divorce made me this way? Just a dream.

Because allosexuals are out there feeling cursed when they don't have sex. Cursed. Without sex, they are not themselves, they are plagued by the scourge that is celibacy.

And in that moment, I realise that I am, in fact, immune.

[aroaceenjolras]

Meanwhile, for a long time, I obsessively questioned my asexuality because I looked at the gnawing emptiness where sexuality would be on anyone else and thought I must just be really repressed.

And I was, but it wasn't sexual desire I was repressing, it was the desire to assign positive attributes to my experience of asexuality or insist that being asexual has ever led to me being a better person than I would otherwise be.

I was not plagued by the scourge that is celibacy. I was plagued by the scourge that is feeling like I was not allowed to love my asexuality, the celibacy that comes along with my experience of being ace, the possibilities for intimacy that it affords me, and the depths of purpose and love I am able to feel. We are taught as asexuals that we cannot love being asexual or see it as a source of positive experience. It can only ever be a lack. And I think that if asexuals are allowed to freely talk about the expansive potential of a nonsexual existence, allosexuals will, in turn, realize that their dry spells don't have to be all about lack either.