Blog Of An Arch-fae

Hi, I’m Fae. I’m a Trans girl living in America.

[pebble-the-rock]

I think the reason why our generation feels so connected to project Hail Mary is because it’s about someone who doesn’t want to be sacrificed, but they have been, and all they want is to live.

That’s very much how I feel about the state of everything. Generations before mine made choices and I’m the sacrifice with the environment, the economy, and social movements.

When I was in high school my uncle told me it’s “up to your generation to solve these issues.” All I could think was ‘excuse me?? I’m not even old enough to vote? Why don’t you do something about it??’

You have money, you have voting power, you have time to be socially aware of these issues - why it is up to me, a high schooler, to solve.

Why do I have to be the consequence to your actions?

Project Hail Mary is a movie about hope. It’s a movie about how fucked someone is by another person’s choice and how even though it’s awful YOU have to do something about it. It’s about how you can’t just lay down and die.

It really resonates with me- with how fucked everything feels I want desperately to give up, but unfortunately I’m a good person and I will try to make things better.

I think the other message to take away from this movie is that change takes time. Since the Hail Mary was launched to the time the beetles returned is over a decade. Yes everything feels like it’s going to shit right now, but our actions will have an impact. Change takes time and the sooner we recognize the problems and start working on the solutions the sooner the problem will be resolved. And we are making changes! I really believe we are. We will create a world we want to live in again.

… anyway I’ll get off my soap box now.

[w0rmsmeatofme]

I want to see more polyamory pride this pride month i'm serious. Stop being weird about people with multiple partners polyamory is awesome and beautiful and queer

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i was talking about this on my server earlier but i really think "cozy" is one of the worst genre labels out there in the gaming space. like people dunk on the terms "metroidvania" and "first person shooter" a lot for being uncreative or limiting but at least those are like... falsifiable descriptors. you can look at a game and go "yeah this game's mechanics and core gameplay loop generally operate like metroid/castlevania" or "yeah this game primarily uses a first person camera paired with some sort of projectile weapon" so i don't think they're completely useless. but "cozy" is just nonsense. fully subjective. i see a lot of games popularly labeled as "cozy" that share almost zero mechanical features between them and don't even always match in tone or aesthetic. hearing a game described as "cozy" doesn't tell you anything about what to expect as a player beyond maybe giving you a sort of forewarning about the fanbase and their discomfort tolerance. "cozy" is not a quantifiable metric. like imagine if someone offered to buy you takeout and asked you what kind of food you'd like and you told them fully unironically, and with no further elaboration, "i want to get yummy food." that's what hearing "cozy games" sounds like to me

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i especially chafe at the way "cozy games" just seems like a "woke" way to say "girl games" and conflate certain game mechanics or aesthetics with a non-cis/het/male identity (to equally useless effect from a buyer's pov). gender stereotyping by any other name is still gender stereotyping. i'm not cis het or male, but i've spent decades enjoying pvp shooters and feel bored to tears by cutesy cottagecore farming sims. and i find those pvp shooters very "cozy" to play, too! @_@;

[superdaisypowerhour]

"monster hunter is a cozy game! its a game about cooking and dressing up and you have a cute little cat that you can also dress up. it also has a farm and a photo mode even!"

[teaboot]

I was making a doodle about an AroAce mood and fucked up the third panel but I think this might be better actually

[teaboot]

happy pride

[disfiguredgrace]

pro palestiniks are so fundamentally stupid they’d hear about kibbutzniks draining israel's malaria swamps and call it ecological imperialism

[shalom-adamah-lekhem]

Because they envision Palestinians as needing to fit the model of the Ecological Indigene™ whose close relationship with and stewardship of the land was in perfect harmony, and hence they envision the state of abject ecological degradation and collapse the land was in for centuries under imperial Greco-Roman and Islamic rule as a romanticized, natural state that had been carefully nurtured and undisturbed since time immemorial. When in fact the colony of Palestine was such a blight on the native ecosystems that dozens of keystone species went extinct, most of the land was unnaturally desertified and swampified, and during several historic periods experienced such long and intense famines and droughts that human population declined drastically because most of the country was uninhabitable. Invasive species like tzabar - originating in Mexico - were heavily adopted and spread by settler communities, many staple crops like our ancient grape cultivars and date palms were wiped out, and things like our terrace farms (madregot or ma‘alot) and other native landscaping practices that used to keep local ecosystems and water systems and soils were mostly destroyed. Almost all large carnivores like lions, bears, monitor lizards, and crocodiles were extirpated due to overhunting, habitat destruction, and extinction of a lot of their original prey species: oryxes, hartebeests, onagers, ostriches, etc. Ancient Israel was not filled with swamps and deserts. Romantic nationalists see images of "Palestine before Zionism" and interpret its decay and neglect as being the normative condition - or even a beautiful indigenous cultivation - when the truth is that before Zionism, the colony of Palestine's exploitation of, violence against, and apathy towards the land and its oldest inhabitants brought it to ruin.

[captain-acab]

When people say "Israel made the desert bloom" and western pro-pals were like "um why were they trying to make the middle east 'bloom'? to be more like europe? checkmate colonizers" it's EXACTLY THIS.

It's because the middle east is not supposed to be a desert wasteland, and it's (unsurprisingly) kinda racist that they think it is! Arab conquerors razed the Levant for centuries, then Ottomans abused and neglected it further after that. Yet antihistorical pro-pals will still claim that replanting Jerusalem pines in Jerusalem is proof of "colonialism." 🙄

[maimonideznuts]

I just saw a short where this comedian Red Richardson (don't know anything about his comedy or politics otherwise, I've never seen him before) touched on something I have said many times...

"in the age of no body shaming, there is still one thing you're allowed to body shame apparently, and that is men with small dicks. Greta Thunberg was arguing on Twitter with a guy called Andrew Tate, who is on house arrest in Romania, for sex trafficking. Do you know what she said? 'you have small dick energy'. She could have said 'Andrew, you're on house arrest, in Romania, for sex trafficking' but apparently on the list of crimes that rates below having a small dick."

Small dick jokes have always been body shaming, sexist and intersexist. They shouldn't be tolerated

[allthingslinguistic]

This young girl uses “los,” “las” and the gender-neutral “les” — watch her explain why. —from REMEZCLA on twitter.

[jumpingjacktrash]

to all the cowards who whine “how will i explain it to my kids??” i say: how about you shut up and let your kids explain it to you.

[angelbabyspice]

“Ma’am, you don’t have to be a lawyer to defend someone else” wow she snapped

[space-knight-dummy]

dammnn she really popped off with that last line though

[st3vi3charl3s]

IN THIS HOUSE WE STAN THIS KID

[kosmogrl]

firm believe that not everything happens for a reason, sometimes things are just cruel. and they shouldn’t have happened and it’s not supposed to be a lesson because we never deserved such thing.

[kosmogrl]

hm some people in my inbox got really mad at this specifically. nothing you can say will convince me that some of the pain and suffering we go through is our “fate” no, it isn’t

[shirecorn]

Everything does happen for a reason. It's just that sometimes that reason is shifting of tectonic plates, or neglected maintenence on a molasses holding tank, or a cell dividing wrong. The entire universe is made of reasons, from the collision of stars to the falling of leaves.

Out of the near-infinite reasons of the past, present, and future, how many of them could have been caused by your actions? Every choice you make is less than a molecule in an ocean of cause and effect.

Yes, there was a reason for the earthquake, flood, or cancer. But it's not your fault. A bullet falling from the sky does not seek out someone who deserves to die. A drunk driver doesn't veer off the road to hit a teenager who just had sex for the first time. Glaucoma doesn't descend on sinful eyes.

Pain and tragedy is not sent to punish or bring glory to a higher power. It simply happens because somewhere in a line of collapsing dominoes, physics and biology tipped one over. There is no moral path that makes you too good for this world, nor too evil. The world simply is.

People have reasons to hurt each other. A dog will bite that hand that feeds if it is also the hand that beats. But then that dog will bite an innocent stranger because biting is all it knows.

Everything happens for a reason. Anything can be traced backward in time to an origin, and more often than not that origin is random, innocuous, and completely amoral.

A butterfly's wingbeat is a reason. There is no lesson to be learned, nor action to be taken. Tearing the wings off every one will not stop a hurricane. Terrible and beautiful things will continue to happen, as long as the world exists. The only thing we are destined to face is the indifference of the universe.

It's not fair in a way we understand, and there is no need to invent a comprehensible, controllable system. Everything happens for a reason, it's just not the reason you want it to be.

[insert-some-url]

Iranians wave the lion and sun flag in the stadium despite unjust fifa bans

FIFA buddy you really chose the wrong people to mess with lol

[wyf-of-bathe]

Yeah, I didn't see any on tv but apparently there are some in the stadium.

Pre-revolutionary flags spotted, anthem booed at Iran’s World Cup opener

Iran kicked off its World Cup against New Zealand on Monday night.

[insert-some-url]

Fifa being the pos it is directly ordered camera operators to dodge any lion and sun flags

[wyf-of-bathe]

[stele3]

They do this with Taiwanese flags, too.

[prismatic-bell]

I'm curious. What is their stance on Palestinian flags?

Because if they're banning them all they're shitty but at least consistent. But if one of them is allowed, and the others are banned, that is certainly a choice.

[insert-some-url]

The palestinian flag is allowed as far as I know. Some regime fans had them

Which further proves the shittiness of fifa

[prismatic-bell]

Of course it is.

Why am I not fucking surprised.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

[tieflingkisser]

[lesbianslimefriend]

here's where to find it on windows 10

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

Ugh, it was in mine. It's off now.

[the-tiny-dragons-tea-room]

IT GETS WORSE

I had to turn this off, but it's something that allows Windows and anyone using your device to generate text/images.

LOBOTOMIZE YOUR MACHINES

[marougus-the-dragon]

AI is a freacking plague, I share this for any windows user.

[soycrates]

Gentrification creates a stifling homogeneity in urban areas that makes it less suited for the everyday lives of the lower class and more suited towards the leisure and tourism of those with expendable income.

An old, decrepit laundromat gets replaced by an upscale bakery? And people are mad? It’s not that the poor hate organic vegan cupcakes, it’s that most of us don’t have a way to do laundry in our own home.

Run-down corner stores replaced by hand-made designer clothing boutiques? We don’t hate your eco-fabric shawl, but I can’t eat that for dinner after work like I could have a can of beans I grabbed from that corner store when I don’t have time to take the bus to the real grocery store after work.

What gentrification brings in and of itself is not typically bad, it’s that gentrification brings institutions of leisure and pleasure and makes it so that the poor have to go farther out of their way for basic necessities. It turns low-income living spaces into local tourist attractions. It can even create food deserts by putting restaurants, grocery stores, etc. in that the majority of the lower class cannot afford.

Imagine if someone totally renovated your house and turned it into a mini theme park - they took away your sleeping space, where you prepare food, where you clean yourself and get ready for your day, and replaced it with things that will please people who are visiting, who have their own homes they can go back to, who are here not for their entire life but just as a distraction from their otherwise mundane existence. It’s not that you hate theme parks, it’s not like you’ve never been to a theme park and vow to never visit one again. It’s just that you need to live! To survive! And the leisure of those who have more than you should not invalidate your existence.

[soycrates]

I am glad this has made the rounds. Some people feel a dense misunderstanding or misinterpretation concerning gentrification, and I think it helps to hear a description/explanation of what gentrification is from those who are both affected by it and educated by the culture from which it hails. I and many others enjoy some of the delights of gentrification while simultaneously having their livelihoods threatened by it. 

[celestial-raposa]

I don't think I ever posted this on Tumblr

Zine I made about some removed Minecraft features and stuff :^) U can get here

[sunnyonline]

great now I can tag you in stuff 👍 @sycamorality

actually wait these tags cloned themselves over and over again for some reason. what is it with you and the thing you seem to have with glitches? wtf?

[thydungeongal]

The really funny part about these interminable "why does the game's culture of play MATTER if everybody is HAVING FUN" arguments is that they always ultimately boil down to dismissing the fact that being treated as a human Xbox is miserable for the GM by framing the GM as a lone malcontent in an otherwise-harmonious group – yet if the GM in question actually followed the thread of that argument to its logical conclusion and removed themselves, in a culture of play that expects the GM to do all the work, there is no game.

You phrased it so much better than I ever could!

[thebeautifulcomics]

Here (1989) by Richard mcguire (raw magazine)

[slyandthefamilybook]

>"if you don't kick Nazis out of your bar it's a Nazi bar!"

>look inside bar

>Jews asking politely to not get called Nazis

[slyandthefamilybook]

not even joking

[prof-grace-aspen]

“It’s like asking Germans how they feel about Nazis”

No, it’s like asking every Muslim post 9/11 what they think about Al Qaeda. It’s like being suspicious of any person who MIGHT look middle eastern.

Aka, fucking ridiculous and prejudiced.

If you can grasp why it’s offensive to interrogate random Muslims about 9/11, then you can get why it’s offensive to grill every Jew about Palestine.

[clueingforbeggs]

Also, who wants to take bets on whether Yumemiya here sees someone online say they're German and immediately goes to ask them if they're a Nazi?

Actually, hang on, 'If you let a Nazi into a bar, it becomes a Nazi bar, same deal with ethnic groups'? Does anyone else get a weird feeling about this guy's thoughts on segregation?

[penrosesun]

Yeah, that’s really the thing, isn’t it: the point of “if you let a Nazi into your bar, it becomes a Nazi bar” was never about how you should grill random German people about whether or not they’re Nazis before you let them enter your space – on the contrary, if your only focus was on German people, you’d miss a lot of neo-Nazis who are, not to put to fine a point on it, actually majority not ethnically German. The original story was about noticing that the patrons in question were displaying an explicitly Nazi symbol. It had nothing to do with who they were and everything to do with what they were openly supporting.

How the actual fuck did we get from “learn to recognize fascist dog whistles and have a zero tolerance policy about them” to “selectively interrogate members of minority groups you think are suspicious about whether they’re one of the good ones?”

Bruh let’s imagine for a moment that two people walk into your bar:

Person A is not German, but is wearing a literal iron cross. You ask him if the literal iron cross is a Nazi thing. He says that sure, that’s maybe the origin of the iron cross, but obviously he’s not a Nazi, and you need to stop jumping at shadows. The iron cross is really just a symbol of resistance against modernity, and embracing tradition. He wears it because he believes it’s important to preserve ethnic divisions and maintain cultural purity. He thinks stopping modern degeneracy is critically important – in the politics, and also in the arts. There are a lot of sick, evil people out there who are trying to destroy communities, but groups like his are trying to resist that. “We’re stronger together,” he says. “That’s why we need to protect our own.”

Person B is dressed completely normally but he speaks with a German accent. You ask him to clarify whether or not he’s a Nazi right this instant because “all Germans are Nazis until proven otherwise,” and he tells you “fuck off, you racist piece of shit.”

If you kick out Person B and let Person A stay, congratulations, you’re speed-running your way into having a Nazi bar.

[slyandthefamilybook]

"Jews think you can't criticize them"

"Vile stench"

"Victim complex"

"Global Jewry"

"Parasite"

"The extermination you deserve"

"The world is noticing"

"Clean Jewish people"

This person is a Nazi. If it wasn't clear before that the tactic of labeling Zionists as undeserving of life and then asserting that any Jew should be assumed to be a Zionist is bent towards Jewish extermination it should be now

[probuccalfat]

sherpas used to be treated like expedition partners that knew the land better than you because they were raised on it and now they’re treated like they are lowly disposable service workers setting up heated tents or spas for wealthy hikers who have no business on the mountain like they are collecting your nasty trash off one of the holiest and most sacred mountains in the world like do y’all understand that we see sagarmatha or mount everest as a living deity on earth while the rest of the world sees her as a conquest?

[probuccalfat]

locals of nepal hold the belief that your karma is the strongest as you reach the peak of sagarmatha and the mountain gives to you the spiritual energy you carry within yourself—benevolent or malevolent. you violate the spiritual sanctity of the mountain with your trash and your hubris. you disrupt the spirits that have long dwelled there. if you must summit sagarmatha, it isn’t and shouldn’t ever be from a place of bragging rights or bucket list goals but as a spiritual journey to connect with the spirit of nature at its most powerful.