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soberqueerinthewild

Shel Silverstein predicting ChatGPT in 1981

ace-sailor-uranus

tbh i think this poem is better served with the *whole* picture, don't you?

lynati

...Oh yeah.

higgsbison

happy glorious 25th of may

fandomsandfeminism

Look, here's the sad truth about trying to recommend different books to "replace" Harry Potter- You can't.

Don't get me wrong- everyone should read new books. There's so many incredible pieces of fiction in the world, and I'll recommend my favorites day and night.

But Percy Jackson and Discworld and Earthsea and Broken Earth and Singing Hills and Murderbot and Teixcalaan and Wayfarers simply will not make you feel the way Harry Potter made you feel when you were 13.

Because you aren't 13 any more.

You will not find the Fandom community that wraps around you and helps mold you into the person you will become like Harry Potter did when you were 13.

Because you aren't 13 any more, and you never will be again.

And it sucks that Harry Potter is irreparably tainted. It sucks that all the things Harry Potter meant to you has been taken from you, and you cannot get them back. It sucks. Be angry about it. Be sad. Be disappointed and betrayed.

And, honestly if you really go back to HP, you'll find it isn't actually all that good. Youll find that it carries a lot of assumed bias and mean spirited callousness and British classism. Plot holes and lazy status quo reinforcement and haphazard world building.

Not even Harry Potter NOW can be to you what Harry Potter was to you THEN.

And if you spend the rest of your life reading new books because you want to find the book that will be what Harry Potter was to you when you were 13, you will spend your life being disappointed.

So.

Read new books. Read new books to find new experiences, new thoughts, new feelings. You won't find a replacement. You won't find a book to be what Harry Potter used to be to you.

But you could find Discworld, and Murderbot, and Singing Hills, and Wayfarers , and Broken Earth, and Teixcalaan, and Earthsea *right now.*

And honestly, it's worth it.

shencomix

comradekatara

atla just so happened to write one of the most insane and complex brother sister relationships in all of television, and yet for some reason everyone focused on zuko and azula instead, even though they are basically just normal siblings, and as such not even that interesting ..

comradekatara

their dynamic is more fraught and tragic than you could ever comprehend……

this☝️ is just a typical sibling interaction

adrenaline-revolver

katara and sokka are what happens when you are your brother’s mother and your brother also tries to be your father. you love them, you hate them, you’re half of them, you can’t stand them, you look after them, they keep you safe.

azula and zuko are both just gifted kid burnouts with a dad that only loves the winner.

cryptotheism

whats your favourite scholarly insult

Big fan of "so and so claims X, but evidence says otherwise"

cryptotheism

BIG fan of "it is tempting to think-"

wallnoises

Whenever I tell other dolls I’ve been on HRT for almost a decade and that I also have never done injections they stare at me in disbelief

wallnoises

All this? Just pills and gumption, baby

korrasera

To add some sidebar info:

It's a common misconception that injection is the only effective option for estrogen based HRT.

This is incorrect.

There are several different options, like creams, patches, pills, and injection, all of which can provide enough estrogen for hormone replacement therapy.

I think the misconception comes from the fact that oral estrogen pills have relatively low bio-availability. Fortunately, that drawback can be eliminated by dissolving the pills under the tongue, which causes the estrogen to skip the digestive system and enter the blood stream directly.

spinningabout

Spinning right from the bunny. He was off course naturally shedding, and was perfectly content to let me take the fiber from him.

dragongoddessoffate

Can’t let that hide in the comments

reggiemess

Sometimes people think they're dealing with a Torment Nexus but what they actually have is a Jumanji. And sometimes people think something's a Jumanji but oops it's a Torment Nexus.

reggiemess

Now. Sometimes you have a third thing- you'll have yourself a Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory. And buddy, I can't help you there.

reggiemess

So a Torment Nexus is something that is either a metaphor for a larger societal problem (e.g. The Platform, The Long Walk) or a social issue/trend taken to an exaggerated extreme (e.g. The Purge), with a lot of shades of grey in between (e.g. Squid Game). If it isn't about a larger societal issue/trend/structure it isn't a Torment Nexus.

A Jumanji can be dangerous and high-stakes (to the characters), but it doesn't need to have a metaphor or lesson, it can easily just be a "Would this be fucked up or what?" situation (e.g. a lotta Goosebumps stories). If there IS a lesson/metaphor, it will be on a smaller scale like psychological issues (e.g. Magnus Archives), family/relationship issues (e.g. Zathura), or about a specific topic (e.g. Magic School Bus). Large-scale social issues may be present (after all, Everything Is Political), but they take a definite backseat.

Now. A Willy Wonka's Chocolate Factory is a trap based around morality and vices. These can be cultural, religious, or bonkers bullshit like "children shouldn't chew gum." There is generally not discussion or criticism of this morality system. Regardless of the morality system used, if it's not a trap, it's not a Chocolate Factory.

pingintech

examples of a willy wonkas chocolate factory include:

saw

the cabin in the woods

labrynth (1986)

and

reallyreallyreallytrying

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

laerugo

#tapping the reblog button with utmost care because i’m handling a historical artifact (via @malarkiness)

mortimermcmirestinks

holy shit OP is not only still active but is still making absolutely banger posts in this exact style 11 years later

rue-nightly

A 2025 update

cognitivejustice

Download this easy DIY clothing repair guide (only 10 pages) from Uni of Kentucky

link to PDF

ramshacklefey

Excellent resource if you're new to sewing and want to start doing some clothing repair!

queenofzan

Professional seamstress here, who has taught intro to sewing many times, saying: this guide is excellent!

shroobles-deactivated20251116

strawhatsufi

"Racialised" is much better than PoC but I've been leaning a lot on the concept of racial markedness. Because that allows us to make statements like "the name Jamal is racially marked in USA". Rather than saying something like "Jamal is a PoC name", a nonsense statement, saying it's racially marked in USA allows us to contrast with societies like Albania or the Arab countries where the name Jamal is ordinary, thus unmarked.

strawhatsufi

It's a concept I've kind of imported from linguistic analysis; saying a speech pattern is more or less marked does not really allow us to avoid the subject of who's doing the marking. A statement like "womens' speech is more marked in Lakota" necessitates that we understand that it's the Lakota who are marking womens' speech. A foreigner can't tell the difference and probably doesn't understand why it would thus be weird to see a man using speech patterns associated with women, in the same way an Albanian wouldn't understand why USA people would think Jamal is a Black name.

strawhatsufi

You! You get it. In my view, if someone is saying "racialised" or "racially marked" without acknowledgement of context, they are doing it in a way that is gramatically incorrect.

innerchildabortionclinic

the internet policies "to protect kids" that involve collecting more data from users are being pushed by companies that profit from access to said data. people are talking about the puritan aspect or whatever but the reality is a restructuring of our society--massive increase in surveillance--to benefit specific tech companies, and more attention should be on that...politicians bankrolled by these companies just need some sort of moral outrage to sell this to the public successfully

innerchildabortionclinic

zennistrad

I have to disagree with this, on the basis that Elon Musk, by himself, has proven pretty well that ideological motivations can often be stronger than purely profit-driven ones. He'd probably make more money from Twitter if he didn't run it into the ground, but accruing capital is transparently not what he was after when buying it, he wanted to turn it into a propaganda platform.

And for many conservatives, it's the same way. They don't hate smut because banning it makes money, they hate it because they think it's damaging to society by "corrupting" children. Conservatives were making the exact same arguments for censorship well before the internet existed, and the core idea of "protecting children" as though they're damageable property predates capitalism by thousands of years.

I'm also pretty sure one of the major points of the 'base and superstructure' framework is that they both influence each other, so it's not supposed to be some kind of rigid economic determinism that this post implies.