A Door on Other Time

Title is from Tolkien's "On Fairy Stories". Handle means "storyteller" in Nahuatl. This'll mostly be about pop culture, linguistics, philosophy, history, and other things that interest me, but also about writing.

[tlaquetzqui]

[souf-v-staff-rematch]

They really are doing the 1984 "it has always been this way" thing all the time every single day and I'm calling these retards out whenever I see it.

[ironlily-art]

Wrapping a single long, rectangular piece of fabric around the body was exactly how many ancient culture made their fashion.

[tlaquetzqui]

Men too. The toga (and its cousins throughout Europe and the Indo-Iranian world, like the various plaids of the British Isles) and the thing best known to us as a sarong, called šndwt in ancient Egyptian (šento in Coptic), are also rectangles.

There’s actually reason to think Egyptians also called the women’s garment by the same name, since Greek kalasiris is of unclear Egyptian etymology and the only similar Coptic word, Kalašire, is a male given name meaning “giant” or “strongman”. Also all the other words for garments like that, that I find in the Coptic dictionary, are of Greek origin. Whereas šento also translates biblical references to robes and cloaks.

[miizunos-blog-blog-deactivated2]

how did i miss this

(ed are you stealing your dad’s clothes)

[tlaquetzqui]

…Does he know enough textile alchemy to drop them down about six sizes?

[forthoutoffive]

Not sure why this 4 year old untagged post showed itself to me, but in case case you’re still curious, in chapter 85 Edward is shown to be capable of making one of his red coats from just a bolt of red cloth.

Normally I would say my lack of knowledge about textiles means I wouldn’t assume that being able to make clothes from a bolt of fabric means you have the ability to modify them… but in FMA alchemy lets you break stuff down on the molecular level and reform it, so while he’d need to separate the excess material, he probably could resize Hohenheim’s clothes to fit him.

[tlaquetzqui]

I figured, I was just making a short joke about Ed.

[mommyhorror]

I love the TRA argument “terfs don’t think trans people are real/exist” ok … uno reverse card YOU don’t think WOMEN are real. You don’t believe women, as a category, can or should exist. And you fight women who care about other women.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Some genders are more equal than others.

[generallemarc]

Honestly wondering if this is fake just based on how it's set up. 5k and 10k are the shortest, and thus most popular by far, lengths for organized distance running. Next distance up is usually the half-marathon, more than double the length of a 10k, and that's where you lose most of the hobbyists. Not only are separate races for men and women just pointless extra work for the organizers, but any organizer would be doing both distances for both genders because these are where you get the lion's share of your participants. Serious athletes, hobbyists, hell there's plenty of people who just walk the whole way, some even with their dogs or baby strollers, and more than you'd expect will do that for the 10k, not just the 5k. An event set up like this would be screwing itself over in multiple ways for no reason, with the only outcomes being needless confusion, extra work, and a scenario that makes feminists look bad. So I'm pressing x on this unless there's hard evidence beyond this one image.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

Asked chatgpt to check up on it:

Following up the links, I saw the university posting about it after the event:

Zooming in on the pictures you can see the same poster art in the background:

[Source]

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

The entire left-wing of politics is insane today. There's no point trying to make sense of any of their words or actions, because there is none to be found there anymore.

[tlaquetzqui]

“Today” I think the last progressives who weren’t basically this insane and hypocritical were…yeah nope never mind. I was gonna say the Hussites but then I remembered they were basically fighting for the “freedom” to impose Utraquism on all Western Christians.

[feminismisstillahatemovement]

[tlaquetzqui]

Also Nazis raped less and could reliably produce agricultural surpluses.

[anthraxofeffervescence]

The core conceit of Lord of the Rings is pretty funny. You are a twenty three year old in a suburb of Maine. The little bracelet in your grandpa’s attic has an inscription on it that is the password to the world’s entire nuclear arsenal. It is up to you to walk to the only hydraulic press in the world, located in Arizona, before the FBI finds the bracelet, kills you, and enslaves the suburb of Maine you currently live in

[anthraxofeffervescence]

Also the 90-year old hobo that your grandpa beat in a rap battle for possession of the bracelet while hiding from the Romanian secret police really loved the bracelet because it was coated in small amounts of LSD and tried to hunt and kill your grandpa to get it back. He was then apprehended by the FBI and instantly gave them your grandpa’s address. Seal Team Six is about to break down your door and shoot you, says your local congressman who can also do cool magic tricks

[bloodyraven1001]

There's a guy in NY who MIGHT be capable of destroying the codes but won't coz he simply wants to spend time with his wife. So it's up to your grandpa's old friend in rural Ohio to get you the friends capable of finishing the task.

[ariaste]

And we must not, at any point, remember the existence of aircraft and ask aloud why we can't just fly to Arizona

[horizon-penblade]

We can't use aircraft because the fbi has access to all the flight data how many times do we need to go over this

[tlaquetzqui]

The aircraft in question are nuclear powered. You take them to Arizona, then the feds will attack you with their own nuclear-powered aircraft. This is equivalent to dirty bombing the entire Four Corners.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[beardedmrbean]

If that's what it take s to stop the mass human sacrifice that's been going on so be it.

[tlaquetzqui]

Not what happened in fact. Read Bernal Diaz. (“Oh he’s not a reliable source” maybe not but he is a source, as opposed to this entirely made-up bullshit.)

[rainydayluminary]

Someone said kyoru was enemies to lovers. My brain just short circuited lmao

[tlaquetzqui]

Kyo’s just tsundere.

[rebathetoeless]

Hhhate it when people on my side of an argument are making bad points. You’re literally right why are you being stupid about it

[sp1c3-r4ck-synd1c4t3]

Horny people legally cannot consent. Horniness is a clouded state like inebriation. If you are partway through sex and you realize you might've become horny, it is illegal to continue. If you have ever made someone horny, you are a bad person.

[little-wolf-white-peacock]

average anti post

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Apparently, cows casually chew on pythons in the Australian outback. Makes one question how the Australian food chain works.

[aardvarkingmad]

Cow: "Call an ambulance. But not for me!"

[tlaquetzqui]

You have to keep ducklings and chicks away from cattle, they eat them.

[yourtoradorasextendedwarranty]

Every day conservatives from the 90's get proven correct. Sad really. Society gave an inch. These absolute pedophile lunatics took 100 miles.

[tlaquetzqui]

Advocates of “Greek love”, the people who would found NAMBLA, were completely mainstream till 1978. Its founding wasn’t them coming into the movement, it was them finally being kicked out.

Advocating the abolition of the age of consent was totally commonplace in progressive circles from the postwar period till the mid-1970s.

[wherelibertydwells]

[siryouarebeingmocked]

There's a very good reason they usually sneak "developed" in there.

[tlaquetzqui]

Ah yes, the Russian Federation, where industrialization is unknown and subsistence agriculture is the primary employment.