he/himbo-read superpowereds by Drew Hayes im Vince

all around disaster. will mostly troll my fandom blogs and reblog flamin' content. https://archiveofourown.org/users/Past_SutureStein/pseuds/Past_SutureStein should be my AO3 link, maybe. again... disaster

[wildemoth]

Gender is a performance and it’s time to play the music it’s time to light the lights it’s time to meet the muppets on the muppets show tonight

[emeraldspiral]

[what-even-is-thiss]

One of the most common ways you preserve pork without refrigeration is keeping it in really salty water. This makes the pork borderline inedible because it’s so salty. What you don’t see in medieval fantasy is people soaking their meat in water for a bit before they cook it.

That’s also a reason to boil your meat though. Like yeah meat tastes better if you sear it first but sometimes you’ve gotta get that salt out.

[what-even-is-thiss]

You can also smoke your meats and make them into jerky basically. It’s not as juicy as pickling them though.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Also medieval peasants had more meat than you’d think because of these preservation methods. You can feed a pig scraps for the whole year and then butcher it at the start of winter and preserve the meat. Because of this they also often had access to lard.

Medieval peasants also didn’t eat chicken very often. That’s a source of eggs. If you’re lucky enough to own a cow it’s also unlikely you’d eat it unless it’s on its way out anyways. That’s a good source of milk. It’s more advantageous to keep a cow or chicken alive than to eat them.

These days chicken is usually the cheapest form of meat available. If someone is eating a chicken in a medieval setting though it’s either because they didn’t need that chicken anymore or because they’re rich enough to have chickens for eating.

[what-even-is-thiss]

If we’re talking mutton, European sheep are more often kept for wool or milk while middle eastern or African sheep are more often kept for eating. Europeans would of course eat sheep sometimes but it’s another one of those cases where it makes more sense to keep the animal alive rather than eating it.

Fat from a fat tailed sheep makes for good cooking fat if your setting is more middle eastern or North African inspired. European settings would prefer butter, lard, or olive oil depending on where exactly they are.

Goats weren’t super popular in Europe during medieval and ancient times. Very common in the Middle East and North Africa though both for milk and for meat.

[figtreeandvine]

A cow or ewe must have a calf or lamb every year to produce milk. Half of those offspring will be male, and thus will not produce milk. Ergo they were eaten, because you only need one bull or ram for a much larger number of breeding females.

The limiting factor for livestock keeping in the medieval period was winter fodder--there was enough summer grazing for the spring births in fallow fields that they fertilized with their manure , but not enough hay and grazing to get them through the winter. So the lambs--all the males and some of the females--would be butchered in the fall. A bull calf might be butchered as veal (or "baby beef", depending on timing) its first fall or might be over-wintered and butchered as beef the following fall. A few of the older ewes would be butchered as mutton, replaced with female lambs from the spring births. A female calf would be traded, sold, or kept as a replacement.

Similarly, half of the chicks born would be male, destined for spring/early summer butchering. (Or caponed, castrated, though that's much more difficult with a bird.) Chicken is a lean meat, though, and rather tough in a free-range bird, so it was usually stewed rather than roasted. Capon was a bit of a luxury food due to the difficulty of castrating them. Geese were much more popular due to the fattier meat.

Pork was plentiful due in part to the large size of a sow's litter. Over-winter one sow, and you get eight piglets or so, much more than a cow's single calf or a ewe's one to four lambs. Even if you didn't keep your own sow, buying piglets to raise and fatten was common. Most medieval pigs would forage rather than being fed scraps--hence the ubiquity of swineherd as a humble occupation.

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Costello: Who did this to me? Abbott: That's right. Costello: What's right? Abbott: Who trapped you in this realm. Costello: That's what I'm asking you! Abbott: That's what I'm telling you. Costello: What's the entity's name that took my body and banished my soul to this outer world? Abbott: That's also right. Costello: What's also right? Abbott: What is another of the names it bears. Costello: WHO bears multiple names?! Abbott: It certainly does.

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Costello: What was the name of the aspect which unpersoned me? Abbott: No. Why was the aspect which unpersoned you. Costello: That's beyond my knowledge! Abbott: None survive who have faced that aspect.

[dark-magician-girl-meets-world]

Costello: Let me see if I got this straight. Who walked the face of the Earth before life was dreamed by the mad gods. Abbott: Now that's the first thing you've said right! Costello: Who unseated the powerful but foolish Unnaturally. Abbott: Right! Costello: Unnaturally ate of the spirit of That's Beyond My Knowledge. Abbott: Now you've got it! Costello: I don't know what I'm talking about! That's Beyond My Knowledge took Wherefore who took Why who took Costello, who was once a human, into its teeming shadow. Abbott: That's it exactly! Costello: Well, I'm beyond caring! Abbott: Speak not that name; it may hear you.

[just-a-nowhere-giirl]

A series of greatest hits from possibly one of my favorite parody accounts on anything ever.

[genderkoolaid]

by @.open.future.learning on Instagram: "Sam does drag. He also has an intellectual disability. The second fact shouldn't change how you feel about the first, but too often, it does.

Support workers sometimes carry around silent judgements, shaped by our own beliefs, culture, or comfort zones, and bring them into the lives of the people we support. But support isn't about our comfort. It's about their freedom.

Sam has found community in and around Newcastle. At drag shows and competitions, he is not just included, he is celebrated. These nights out aren't just entertainment for Sam (stage name: Celine DoOne!); they are where she is safest, most accepted, most herself. The people there see Celine as a performer, a peer, and a friend. Not as a person with a disability, but simply as Celine.

Our job isn't to approve of someone's choices. It's to stand beside them as they make their own. If that includes drag, then we help with outfits, we show up to the show, and we cheer from the crowd.

Sam doesn't need judgment. He needs what every person needs: to be known, accepted, and free to live on his terms.

Ft: @.samd.model"

[littledeadling]

Comfort Objects:

A Horatio & Elethar backstory comic 💜🧸

[tj-crochets]

I discovered I can hang my chains of keychains from some of the little shelves in my room and that way they are decoration and out of the way! Keeps them from getting tangled too

[baygeethefirst]

[yetanotherdayofdrudgery]

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet." Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution. Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer. The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss. The wool is then: - Naturally flame-retardant - Naturally antibacterial - Moisture-wicking - Biodegradable - Renewable, annually - Carbon-storing while in use The replacement, in performance fabrics: - Polyester - Polyamide - Acrylic - Polypropylene - All petroleum-derived - All shedding microplastics on every wash - All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce - All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals. A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years. The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic. The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer. The polymer also has not been asked. Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made. Brian is selling it at a loss. The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical. Reject plastic. Wear wool. Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

Note: if you're allergic to wool, you might be allergic to the dyes and fine with undyed wool. Maybe not, but it's worth a try.

[scribefindegil]

I'm still thinking about the guy who saw me realize my wheelchair wouldn't fit in the elevator because he (also a wheelchair user) was already inside it and immediately quipped, "This elevator ain't accessible enough for the both of us."

[astriiformes]

Since tumblr is rightfully loving this one, I feel obligated to mention that I ran into the same guy again on the last day of the convention and told him Scribe was really entertained by this, and he said that the night before he'd also really gotten one of the hotel waitresses, who informed him he could take a seat wherever and he replied "Oh, no thanks, I brought my own"

[asteroidtroglodyte]

You can’t Abstain your way to a Better World.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

The Burger still gets made, even if you go Vegan. If you don’t buy it, it just winds up in the trash. If you want to do something meaningful about waste, you need legislation: It must become a crime to waste food in those ways.

If you care about Animal Cruelty in Factory Farms, you need to get legislation passed. It must become a crime to mistreat animals in those ways, and when malfeasances occurs, the onus of responsibility for those crimes must fall upon wealthy shoulders. That, also, requires legislation. It requires regulations, and regulators.

The largest source of Microplastics is wear and tear on automobile tires. It doesn’t matter what brand of shampoo you buy. It doesn’t matter which company you support with your dollar. The issue of Public Transit is too large-scale to be handled at anything less than the municipal level.

It’s not enough to just not participate in society

If you want the world to Change, you must leverage the mechanisms of political power.

You need Government.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

STOP PROPOSING INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS TO COLLECTIVE PROBLEMS

[what-even-is-thiss]

I like the idea in fantasy that humans are better at maintaining things long term because they set up societies or professions to do it whereas dwarves and elves and stuff are like “just get bob to do it he’s got a good few hundred years left” and then bob doesn’t teach anyone else how to do it

[what-even-is-thiss]

Elf: How have you kept this castle maintained for a thousand years if your lives are so short?

Human: We just train new people how to do it?

Elf: *gears visibly turning in their head*

Human: Are you alright?

Elf: I just realized that we didn’t have to let that whole city fall to ruin just because my grandfather died.

Human: What?

[what-even-is-thiss]

Human: Wait that’s why there’s ruins of elven cities even though you live for so long? You just keep not asking people how to do things? How do you learn anything?

Elf: There’s a lot of “you’ve got time to figure it out on your own” attitudes floating around in our society that I’m starting to question somewhat.

[unassimilatedsoul]

Elf: That sword, where did you get it?

Human: My cousin made it.

Elf: Impossible! Those metalworking techniques were lost a hundred years ago!

Human: What do you mean lost? My great-grandmother learned to make these swords from an elven smith, then taught it to her kids.

Elf: That's ridiculous. No elf would give such secrets to a human.

Human: They didn't. Meemaw delivered the metal to the forge, and no one kicked her out when she stayed and watched. She always said they barely acknowledged her even when doing business with her, like she wasn't worth noticing.

Elf: Come to think of it, my great-uncle always was rather single-minded when he started working.

Human: So he wasn't ignoring her, he just forgot she was there?

Elf: Oh, he was definitely ignoring her, too. He was super racist.

[nextlevelsmp3]

[exhaustedcatgirl]

Frankly, I think companies presenting basic health and consumer safety information as "boring," "uncool," and "not worth your care" should carry a hefty fine based on the revenue that company generates

[boobachu]

The lameo gay crap we're legally forced to tell you: You may die of diseentary

[foxes-in-love]

[ash-like-art]

More sketch shenanigans. I really don't have the patience for hatching lol

[espanolbot2]

...But his backstory was the plot of A Christmas Carol? And he was Scrooge before as well because THAT'S HIS NAME!?

[heydocverdant]

Ah, but that’s just the backstory that notorious communist Charles Dickens wanted us to know! This bold reimagining will feature a hot young Ebenezer “Eb” Scrooge (played by Johnny Depp, who is definitely not in his sixties), and focus on his origins as a feisty and witty capitalist wunderkind. Cheer on our brave underdog as he gets addicted to multiple hard substances, physically and emotionally abuses his fiancé Belle, and then permanently destroys her career and reputation by playing the victim in a public farce of a court trial! The brilliant minds at Paramount have done it again, folks: pure box office gold, spun out of only the finest of horseshits!

[espanolbot2]

#wait this is a movie that exists ??#I think I’m going to forget this after this post#the Squeakitties post left a bigger impact on me than this movie’s existence

Not only does it exist, but Depp was apparently wandering around SDCC in full character and make-up to promote it.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

It's rare that I'm moved to hysterical laughter these days it really is

But upon being blessed by seeing perhaps the stupidest fucking movie tagline in the entire history of the medium here with "Before he was Scrooge...he was EBENEEZER"

I have to admit

I full on cracked up. Like I was cackling like the fucking JOKER to the point that my girlfriend came in from the other room like "Babe, there's no way what you're looking at is THAT funny"

And then I showed her

And she fucking lost it as well

This is like a fucking College Humor sketch. This is like something SNL would make up

Also?

Not only does it exist, but Depp was apparently wandering around SDCC in full character and make-up to promote it.

Are we sure the dumb boozebag cunt wasn't just drunk off his fucking ass for the third or fourth time that morning?

[galaxycepheus]

If your system doesn't account for the fact that Parents Are Going To Be Abusive/Neglectful/Insufficient then it objectively sucks I'm sorry I don't make the rules

[galaxycepheus]

Monitored bank accounts for those under 18. Requiring parental consent for medical procedures. Parental controls on personal devices. "We won't teach this at school because parents are supposed to address it at home." Anything that puts all of the child's power onto the parents' hand, anything that assumes parents are going to inherently do enough of a good job no one else needs to interfer, every single one of these IS going to be used by controlling, neglectful or unprepared parents and already are, and if the system did not account for that very real, tangible, dangerous tendency, then it's not worth fucking anything. You shouldn't make things "for the youth"/with children in mind if you are going to overlook this painfully common aspect of their lives u_u