shuckle dance

Oh, and by the way, that Supreme Court ruling is where that Harry Potter money goes.

Context.

This isn't even a slight exaggeration. JKR has openly given at least £70,000 to For Women Scotland to campaign against trans rights and fund this exact supreme court ruling. x x

Her anti-trans Crisis Centre in Edinburgh has the director of For Women Scotland on the Board of Directors. x

We can presume she's given more (financial) support off the record or in other ways.

Rowling consistently makes passive income on all Harry Potter products. Multiple sources have cited that Rowling earns anywhere between $50 million to a $100 million each year from royalties. Forbes estimated she earned $95 million in 2017 alone. x x x

It is a well-known fact that she earns net profit percentages on all her IP. Every time you buy any HP merch, from anywhere, she gets a cut. Every time you watch one of her films, even streaming or just on the tv, she gets a cut. Every time you visit Universal Studios or Harry Potter World, she gets a cut.

And she uses that money to do this. To strip trans rights at every opportunity.

This is where that Harry Potter money goes.

anyone else have to like. gentle parent their moms about food. my mom is like “let’s be naughty and eat pizza” and i gently say “food is not inherently good or bad”

in honor of 4chan exploding, I want to remind you all that they used to do “raids” on Tumblr.

they tried to flood the popular tags with gore and porn. this was when Homestuck was at its peak, so they were a target too. (side note: tags barely functioned at all at this point so trying to make them useless was like throwing a molotov into an already burning building but try telling that to 4channers)

but the Homestuck fandom was ready and countered by flooding the tag with weirder, more explicit Homestuck porn and gore.

to the point that the trolls themselves got weirded out, fucked off, and never attempted a “raid” again.

everyone moved on but I stayed there because that is one of the funniest fucking things to happen on this website.

My first time doing clasped weft technique! It's slow but so so striking! It has unsquared my overshot but I'm treating that as a feature this time.

You throw the shuttle in from one side, loop it round your second yarn and throw it back through the same shed to pull the second yarn into the cloth....

.... And then you beat very very slowly and carefully while pulling on each yarn to get the colour change exactly where you want it, and then you carry on and admire/curse your result. It's an absolute bastard to unweave.

For these colours I am making a zigzag between them, but for my next pair of colours (blue and orange) I will do something else.

Curves are harddddddd

Mostly-computer-generated randomness (hence numbers blutacked to loom). I don't like this much but I'm glad to have tried it? People make some really stunning pieces with a random border like this, but it's not a good choice for this warp!

Next and last will be green+pink, still working out what shape to make with them.

Crenellations, as @hebrideansky requested! I had not anticipated that they would look so much like, uhhhh, fingers.

That's this towel done apart from a bit more white for the hem; the next time I see it will be in however many days or weeks I finish this warp and it comes off the loom. I'd like to think days, but I've been stuck in this warp since October, so we shall see.

!!!!!

I've been looking for a fun/quick little animation sideproject to flex my frame-by-frame muscles, so introducing Margie! A cat-goose dragon based on this little fella from this medieval manuscript

Some additional thoughts

Put baby in pelican mouth poster. For you

Obsessed with vampires but specifically when they're really pathetic

Obsessed with a vampire's existence being symbolic of the terror in a lack of control. Of having needs that scare you. Of a non-violent heart having to enact violence for the sake of survival. Of hiding yourself and longing for the honesty of companionship that you may never hope to get. Of fearing fearful eyes. Of more hunger than you know how to fill. The vampire wants to be taken care of, the vampire is scared, the vampire feels small, the vampire wants to rest. I!!!!!! Like that a lot :) I like pathetic vampires. And I like the catharsis of when someone does offer that vampire the space to be loved and trusted. Of someone offering their blood as a symbol of the vampire being taken care of. I love you, I'm not scared of you, I trust you, I'll feed you. You're safe here. And I know that I am too

Now don't look too deeply into what this says about me

At least 3 people have tagged this with Jonathan Sims so far, which is impressive considering he's not even a vampire. What's also impressive is that they're all right

What if we just decided that the Wednesday of Pesach was Frog Day

Because of the frog plague + It's Wednesday My Dudes memes

ETA: i wanna see a meme with a bunch of frogs rushing at Pharaoh shouting it's Wednesday

SAY NO MORE

😍Truly I am lucky this day 🌴🐸✨

Thank you so much! Aww 🌺🐱 and since someone asked yes gentiles can reblog

Okay but can someone make a version with One Giant Frog?

FROG SAMEACH 🐸

@shiraglassman

nothing funnier to me than when AI does math wrong. like I get why it happens, it's a language model that's treating the numbers you feed it as words rather than integers and then giving you an answer based on how those words typically appear in a block of text instead of actually performing a calculation. but the one thing computers are genuinely incredible at. you fucked up a perfectly good calculator is what you did, look at it it's got hallucinations

Let’s lay on mama

I know previously people took issue with me describing a lot of queernorm fiction as feeling assimilative and reimagining queerness as an aesthetic variety of straightness but man a lot of that stuff really does frame it as an inarguable positive that the characters are "no longer gay" that they live and behave as "normal people", and that "gender or sexuality is entirely incidental and not a plot point" in a way i find really alienating. You know, like, this is the common language when talking about it:

again i don't think it's wrong for people to read or write stuff like this, but I do find it a bit irking that it's often treated as the inherently more empathetic and desirable way to write queerness...

People wanna fantasize about the ideal future a lot of lgbt ppl want future generations of lgbt kids to grow in a society/world free from.discrimination and fear... "queernorm" books simply offer a glimpse to that fantasy bcuz lets be honest homophobia is never going away...

Or should all lgbt books have to include the same tedious type of sad lgbt story where everybody is gonna be mean to the casts bcuz they are gay?

well no. I'm saying that this kind of fiction, at it's most paltry, can be very uninterested in queerness thematically and seek to normalize it via making it a cultural non entity/as similar to straightness as possible, removing the language around it and not having it matter within the plot. Which again, I think is fine in a vacuum, but in practice it's pretty common to see people big this up as being inherently the more positive and desirable (often even more morally correct) way to write queer fiction

It's not that the "most straight" version is held as better, it's that the most culturally incorporated version is. Because being queer is held in our world as socially abnormal, and so any story about queerness is laced with that fundamental feeling of being other, and the good and bad that comes with that. And I, and many other queer storytellers, like the idea of a world where that doesn't need to matter - where a queer relationship can simply be a relationship, and a queer character can have being queer be a part of their bio rather than a defining trait. Queerness, for stories like these, isn't a theme, and shouldn't be - they're about other things. To write a story with queer themes is to acknowledge queerness as being a theme, and that requires it to be more than a fact of life. If that's the story you want to see, by all means, go for it. But I, personally, like the idea of a world where being queer can just be part of someone is without having to be a part of their character.

cool, but like, you understand why the "culturally incorporated version" in which queerness "isn't a theme and shouldn't be" and is something the characters can keep "in their bio" being considered - as you directly say - better, the preferable way to write, is exactly what I'm criticizing here right. Like I'm not saying that I don't grasp why someone might like it, I'm not critiquing the existence of it, I'm asking you to consider that people holding a strong bias towards this sort of "queerness doesn't matter at all and queer culture doesn't exist" stuff (something many people, again, can find really meager or alienating) as being higher quality than works which are directly about queerness is just flatly not a great way to think about queer fiction.

I like to think of the Corrie Commanders (and Hound) having a good time when they can. Featuring Fox, Thorn, Thire, Stone, Hound, Grizzer, and Rat the Tooka (click on the images for quality!)

Couldn’t decide which version of Fox I liked better, so I posted both

ID credit: CHIaqua on 小红书

(please like, reblog and give proper credit if you use any of my gifs!)

Leaf sheep sea slug 

Some ghosties for Wanderstop ;u;;

“O corpse of the Locked Tomb, Beloved dead, hear your handmaiden. I loved you with my whole rotten, contemptible heart―I loved you to the exclusion of aught else―let me live long enough to die at your feet."