Ar gefn eu ceffyl gwyn

25, queer, nb, it/its, they/them, tea, cake and daydreams 🌹🌷🌲

[questionableadvice]

Historical medical poster collection, c. 1946-1950. Cushing/Whitney Medical Library, Yale University.

[possumcollege]

[teabree-shark]

Made a thing for this

[charlesoberonn]

Necessary and sufficient

[charlesoberonn]

[charlesoberonn]

Adding a second lock was not necessary.

[charlesoberonn]

Understanding the difference between necessary and sufficient is necessary, but not sufficient to earn a math degree.

[dankxsinatra]

[b0ggyb1tch]

Just looking at this game I know it's Finnish

[blumineck]

I got to try some new archery, and I LOVE IT!

Huge thanks to Richard, Emily, Wojtek, and everyone else out here who let me learn with and from them, and were willing to put me on a horse with a bow. And massive thanks to Santos for letting me sit on his back and shoot arrows!

[blumineck]

I have done some weird trickshots, and some difficult trickshots, but that last one is the most of both I’ve ever put together!

[adultlikers]

[porksweats]

e me a mail

[fortooate]

make the attachment a pic of a snail

[jumpingjacktrash]

give me two gifs

of critters in clover

[nuclearcarrots]

then photoshop them on the CLIIIIIIIFFS OF DOVER

[laurasinele]

I still reference this post today. And yes, when I say I reference it I mean I sing it.

[xenopeach]

[local-gun-witch]

[cryptotheism]

What sets the mysteries apart from other elements of Greek religion is their focus on ceremony and personal transformation. The Greco-Roman world was full of public ceremonies in which government officials might sacrifice a bull and recite some prayers for a crowd, but these ceremonies often only marked an occasion. The beginning of a harvest, the return of an army, the swearing-in of a new government official, etc. The value of a mystery rite was personal and transformative. The ritual was built around how it changed the participants. They marked a change not in the seasons or politics, but within the self. There are also the more practical aspects of Greek mystery rites that should not simply be left implied. A weeklong holiday of feasting and carousing, culminating in taking drugs and performing in a secret play enacting one’s own death, sounds like a blast. It is no wonder they attracted peasants and emperors alike.

Mystery Rites, today on Patreon

[strawlessandbraless]

Great-Eared Nightjar aka the ‘baby Dragon’ bird Appreciation Post 🐉 🐥

📷 credit: Live Science

[vogelpsittacines]

Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

[syn4k]

"lock in" is probably one of the most important phrases to enter the public lexicon in the 2020s

[joyflameball]

[not-a-very-good-dungeon-master]

I still think a VtM city manager game would go hard

you play as a new Prince set in a city that has recently been purged by the Second Inquisition so you now need to build it back from the ground up.

Such activities include

Apointing a Sheriff

Electing Primogen

Dealing with Masquerade breeches

The odd Werewolf attack

all the while trying to keep a low profile or else the SI come back to burn the city to the ground.

Something akin to Frostpunk meets Crusader Kings with random events.

[the-quasar-hero]

Very generally speaking, when you see a black man in a piece of media, be it tv show, movie, video game, etc. there’s something you often see a lot of writers do. To go against the stereotype of black men (and black people in general) being dumb and lazy, you’ll see this black male character being smart and an achiever. 

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

And again I must say that Black people, not being a monolith, there are no hard fast rules to being Black. I’m more than sure there are Black people like what I’ve described above, I’m not saying it’s impossible; what I’m getting at is that the only Black Nerd we see. There are Black Nerds that play basketball, that bump Kendrick Lamar, and use AAVE since it’s an ever changing dialect. I’m just saying there’s no one way of being a nerd and no one way of being Black.

[the-quasar-hero]

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

[the-quasar-hero]

This ain’t about him, this is about Black/Asian solidarity. Focus.

[genderkoolaid]

"Misandrogyny is a system of mechanisms that—together with other systems of oppression—enforces the norms that constitute the patriarchal gender binary. According to those norms, everyone is either only a man or only a woman; GNC folk don’t exist. Misandrogyny enforces this nonexistence by (i) assigning GNC folk to a binary gender and punishing non-conformity to that gender, (ii) assimilating GNC folk and cultures into the binary gender system, and (iii) eliminating GNC folk and cultures. Although much has been written on gender policing, binary gender norms, transphobia, and other topics related to misandrogyny, we also need to appreciate that misandrogyny is a system of mechanisms that punishes those who violate binary gender norms. Future work should elaborate further on how misandrogyny intersects with other systems of oppression, including misogyny, transphobia, white supremacy, ableism, classism, and settler colonialism; and it should spell out how mechanisms of annihilation bring about social, legal, institutional, and epistemic nonexistence."

— The Logic of Misandrogyny by Jeff M. Engelhardt

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

Don't leave her hanging, it'll be fine

[tony-hawks-prole-skater-2]

[xxrie]

That’s why you should never accept the excuse “Well it was a different time.” They knew it was wrong. They always knew.