Autism with legs!!! (they work badly)

(they/she/it) 23 // Gender: Pirate or Old God, whichever feels right for the day // warning: motherfucker I bite // ᛏᚺᛖ ᛒᛚᚨᚲ ᛈᛖᚨᚱᛚ // Sideblog: @thelibraryofsylphide // random post

[mapofyourstars]

Magneto was Right, X-Men: The Last Stand

[useless-catalanfacts]

Cervera (town in Ponent, Catalonia). Year 1936, beginning of the Spanish Civil War. Original and colorized version by Catalunya Color.

The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) started when the general and future dictator Francisco Franco led the army on a coup against the republic's government. Some areas of Spain quickly fell to the fascists' control, but in other areas (most strongly Catalonia, the Valencian Country, and Madrid) they were met with worker antifascist militias who held on for years.

This photo was taken at the beginning of the war. Back then, many workers in the rural areas of Catalonia refused to abandon their hometowns, and made barricades to wait for the fascist army's arrival, in order to defend their hometowns against the fascist coup. Here you can see two inhabitants of Cervera ready to shoot the fascists who dare to try take their town.

[mxjackparker]

Making motivational "it's never too late to transition" posts is really undercut if the age you're highlighting is still young. Claiming that your transition was late and it worked out great for you actually makes older people more afraid to transition if you're saying that shit in your 20s. How do you think a trans person in their 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s feels when you're 23 and calling yourself a late transitioner?

It's never too late until you're in a coffin. It is worth it for a single day of being yourself, even if you're 110.

[sappymix1]

Sappy do you remember what the bad take about Frankenstein and Mary Shelley was please spill

found the post. to be fair to them. not the most egregious thing said on this post, but they did endorse the rest of it so.

ignoring "horny frat boys" being an insane way to describe percy, byron, and polidori, not to mention poor fucking claire lmao. theres a pervasive issue of people really wanting mary shelley's life and career to be a story of a woman being greatly underestimated and silenced by her (male) peers but persevering nonetheless and this idea is generally pushed in popular culture and by some ill informed biographers to the point that it is just no longer reflective of her actual experiences. i think people forget a lot that mary shelley existed in radical circles that, while not devoid of misogyny, had moved past the idea that women shouldn't have opinions and be writing and have lives outside of their relationships with men and who certainly were not discouraging her from pursuing a career in writing. she was deeply admired for being the daughter of wollstonecraft and godwin and then as a writer in her own right, and i think its sad that this idea that she was discouraged from pursuing writing by the men in her life, especially by her husband, is so pervasive because one of the most interesting things about her social group to me is the creative relationships built among them. people joke a lot that percy shelley is just remembered as the wife of the author of frankenstien as a diss on him but everything he is on record saying about her work implies that he would be fucking honored. they had a deep creative partnership and mutual admiration for one another's work that was much stronger than even their romantic relationship and its deeply frustrating how that is often disregarded and put down because people are so fixated on this stereotype of how they think 19th century women should exist that they dont let themselves engage with what her life was actually like.

also i dont even fucking like polidori but why are we acting like he didn't as part of this competition LITERALLY invent the modern vampire. like hello.

[sappymix1]

this post has been popping up in my notes again and yet still nobody seems to have noticed that i accidentally referred to percy shelley as mary shelley’s wife

[antigoneprogone]

[gemsofgreece]

So, we start having the first Greek no-spoiler reviews about the Odyssey that I believe to be quite apt and trustworthy, perhaps more reliable than the lowkey paid reviews from Hollywood-affiliated media.

Actor and comedian Zissis Roumbos said that the movie is very good and entertaining especially in its technical aspects and has Nolan’s trademark professionalism. It is very cinematic. He says Nolan gives his own perspective / interpretation in the end of the story. He also says that it is a movie not made for the Greeks or the aficionados of the Greek classics. He describes the lack of Greek contribution or Greek element in the movie as “deafening”. He flat out says that this movie is not addressed at all to the nation that inspired it. Roumbos rates it as an 8/10, when addressed to generic audiences that are neither aware nor interested in the Greek classic or the Greek civilisation.

A movie critic that I think goes by the name John Duree in social media who had been reasonably optimistic and mildly supportive towards Nolan’s choices the previous time said that the movie is indeed of an epic scale and agrees that it has very impressive technical and visual elements. He says however that he was disappointed in several scenes of the movie, hinting that Nolan might have taken plenty liberties with the plot for the worse. He said that while it’s a technically very good and enjoyable movie with a lot of spectacle, it is by no means Nolan’s best movie.

So it seems the whole promotion line of “magnum opus” and “better than LOTR” will be falling apart. Based on these two reviews that I find quite level-headed, it seems we’re getting what I expected; a very cinematic movie with a lot of epic spectacle that will be enjoyed by those who want a fun blockbuster and know nothing or don’t truly care about the Odyssey, but those who are interested in the epic, in ancient cultures or wish for cultural accuracy and sensitivity will be more or less disappointed.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[hungwy]

letting family members sit in for dead senators is just monarchy logic im appalled that this has even happened before

[sugoiney-weaver]

Each state gets to decide how their state is represented in Congress

This has been a common method for a long time in some states

The idea is that a Senator's sibling/spouse/parent/child knows their intentions and policies better than a political rival or a random person would. It's a pretty good way to prevent political assassinations tbh

[prizedpesto]

An unelected individual getting grandfathered into a real political position due to their blood or legal relationship with a deceased elected official is not pretty good actually

[pudulogy]

así se siente hablar con ustedes

[witchsteria]

source

flanagan isn’t the first but the deep urge to softening margaret and vindicate her is both misogyny and abuse apologia; people can not only not fathom the abusive mother as real, pretending margaret is an extreme caricature and saying she had a point in beating her child, saying her period was a divine punishment and locking her in a closet for hours until she pissed herself. theres a benevolent misogyny is assuming women are naturally maternal, thats they are wired that way especially in relation to their girl children. margaret doesn’t want to ‘protect’ carrie, not genuinely, its control and she treats jesus as a weapon against carrie. the more we keep trying to pinpoint margaret’s religious mania to actual reason, the more we expose how little we care about abused children.

what causes carrie to snap is the idea of her having to go back to her mother, to have to stay in that house for another second but she still wants her mother to love her because that’s what children want, to be loved. that doesn’t mean margaret genuinely cared for her, she loved carrie as an object to abuse not as child to love. denying your child knowledge of their body is abuse, calling your child a whore is abuse, isolating them from people is abuse, self harming in front of your child to control her is abuse. margaret deliberately keep her daughter naive so she could only rely on her. king writes an abused child’s relationship with their abusive parent with such sympathy for the child, it’s weird seeing adaptations fall into ‘the abusive parent had a point.’

[comvi]

[tokyicons]

[writingdose]

this and also the only difference between fanfic writers and writers who sell their own original works as careers is that fanfics aren’t monetized. that’s all.

being a “professional” writer doesn’t mean your works are inherently better than fanfics. I’ve read so many fics that are more professionally written than some published books.

whether or not a piece of writing is monetized has nothing to do with its quality.

[duckbunny]

your twenties are not "late" to start hrt. that is a normal time to start hrt. your thirties are also a normal time to start hrt. your seventies are pretty late to start hrt, but not too late. like, statistically, that's at the end of the curve. but if you are not dead, it is not too late for hrt.

[formerlyluckymanticore]

pros of having a large vocabulary: many words i know

cons of having a large vocabulary: many words i only know the vibe for

[bebsi-cola]

abelds have this funky ability where they hear disabled people say they "can't" do something and instead of hearing "can't" as in, cannot, they hear "i can if i push myself and i just don't wanna". which is really interesting!

[bebsi-cola]

people in my notes mentioning that people don't respect the fact that they can't do certain things without heavy consequences and ableds want us to beat those consequences for their convenience. and that's true but i do mean that people who say that they can't do something need to be taken at face value that it's just not possible to do at all. i want people to respect the literal meaning of "i cant'" because it's often dangerous otherwise. like people will straight up put a disabled person into situations that are harmful or incredibly dangerous for them being they assume "can't" means "i can a little bit". and when that thing is "I can't eat [allergen]" or "i can't walk at all" and you get stuck with food contaminants or at the top of a half flight of stairs they assumed wouldn't be a problem then that can actively, seriously, literally be harmful and dangerous

[catasters]

[patrochilles-or-bust]

We've found them. The Sole Orange Wielder of the Brain Cell.

[earhartsease]

Brain Cells Georg

[amemait]

Yes. YES!

The Tiger is Out!