Reblogged non-un-topo
WARNING 18+
Reblogged blakbonnet
If you see someone with a really bad fandom take, I’m begging you to open your emails and write a strongly worded missive to your local government official about something bad happening in your community or country.
If you’re in Canada you could email a rep about concerns about Elon musk interfering in our next federal election.
If you’re in the US the list is endless.
If you’re in the UK you could email about trans health care.
If you’re in Australia, what about dental care in Medicare?
If you’re in Europe, look into some EU initiatives of particular concern. Perhaps something to do with nature and biodiversity? Idk
Just today I emailed my local mla about coal mining in the Rocky Mountains and tomorrow I’m going to pick something else and do it again
Don’t get me wrong I love a fandom wank as much as anyone but perhaps you can take an iota of the energy you’re spending on that and put it towards making sure your elected representatives hear from you on a regular basis
Honestly this seems like a legit mental health emotional de-escalation strategy. New grounding technique just dropped and it's going to revolutionize the world at the rate I see bad takes as a regular tag scroller
Reblogged iwilltrytobereasonable
Fellas, it IS gay to be straight XD
Every time I hear a showrunner say some shit about how the reason he doesn't want to write his male slashbait duo into a romantic relationship is because "their bond is so powerful and profound that it transcends sex or romance" I want to ask him, "Does your wife know your bond with her is too weak and shallow to transcend sex and romance? Or do you not fuck her either, because you love her too much?"
You cannot talk about homophobia without also talking about misogyny. It is baked in.
You know. Some people could really stand to get more comfortable with the idea of “you shouldn’t say that because it’s mean”. Especially with really common body shaming and straight up bullying lines.
“You shouldn’t make ugly bald jokes because what if a transman on T sees it!”
“You shouldn’t make virgin jokes because what if someone who’s asexual sees it!”
How about you just don’t make them because they’re mean. How about people can be balding or a virgin for a number of reasons and also don’t deserve to be routinely made fun of. How about saying that the reason you shouldn’t make x joke because it spares x specific identity’s feelings also let’s them know that you actually have no problem saying or thinking bald people are ugly or virgins are stupid or etc but you’re just not saying it in front of them. How about you understand this kind of body shaming and bullying especially in a very public setting online are always going to have way more unintended damage to people who did nothing wrong than damage to the person you’re upset with.
Sometimes the best reason to not make a bad joke like that is because it’s fucking mean.
Reblogged suicidallyreckless
A lot of people on this website make great points that could be phrased a lot less condescendingly
Reblogged keykid-from-arendelle
sometimes when I’m being especially self deprecating and convinced no one likes me I have to tell myself “you’re being goob. you are being goob right now”
Reblogged anglophile-rin
april fools day is actually the most sensible day of the year because it's the only day on which people will read something on the internet and stop for a second to consider whether or not it's actually true
Reblogged the-errant-bard
Y'all ever open a book on a new subject, read a little bit, and have to put it back so you can process the way in which your mind was just expanded?
The textile book: okay here is some of the ways that textiles are important to human life
me: Okay!
The textile book: Clothes separate the vulnerable human body from the conditions of the outside world, and in doing so absorb the sweat and debris of human existence, accumulating wear and tear according to the lives we live. In this way, various lifestyles and professions are represented by clothing, and the clothing of a loved one retains the imprint of their physical body and their life being lived, as though the clothes absorb part of the wearer's soul
Me: ...oh
The textile book: The process of weaving a garment and the process of a child being formed in its mother's womb are often referred to using the same language. Likewise, when a baby is born, a blanket or other textile material is the first material object it encounters and protects it. Textiles can create the idea of two things being inextricable, as with being "woven together," or can create the sense of separateness, as with a curtain or veil that separates two rooms or spaces, even separating the living from the dead, or separating two realities, such as a performance ending when the curtain falls
Me: ...oh God
The textile book: Odysseus's wife Penelope undid her weaving in secret every night to delay the advances of her suitors. In this way she was able to turn back the passage of time to allow her husband to come home. Likewise the Lakota tell a story of an old woman embroidering time by embroidering a robe with porcupine quills. If she finishes the embroidery, the world will come to an end, but her faithful dog pulls out the quills whenever her back is turned, turning back the clock and allowing existence to continue.
me: ...is...is...is that why we refer to the fabric of space and time?
The textile book: The technological revolution of textile making is sadly underappreciated. The textile arts are possibly the most fundamental human technology, as once people created string and rope, they could create nets for catching fish and small animals, and bags and baskets for carrying food. In the earliest prehistoric times, the first string or cord perhaps came from sinew, found in the body of an animal. Because of this perhaps the body of a living being could be understood as made of a textile material. Indeed textiles have the function of preserving life, as with a surgeon stitching back together the human body or bandages being placed on a wound. Textile technologies are being used to create life-changing implants to restore function to injured parts of the body, as though a muscle or tendon can be woven and made in this way. Cloth can be used to create a parachute that will save a human's life as they plummet out of the sky. Ultimately, the textile technologies are used to enter new parts of the universe. [Photo of an astronaut and details explaining the astronaut's suit]
Me: STOP!! MY MIND IS NOT STRONG ENOUGH FOR THIS
The book is "Textiles: The Whole Story" by Beverly Gordon
:D this is it! The post that got me to borrow this book from my library! This book is constantly rewiring my brain and parts of it constantly slap me in the face when I am going thru daily life and notice textiles.
Like, fiberglass ANYTHING can be considered a textile! Paper? Textile! Chain link fence? Textile!
And more than ever now when I see something like fabric on a couch or mosquito netting I wonder just how much work it would have taken if it was non-factory made. How many people have still had their hands in making it now.
I never understood why so many cultures placed such importance on textile gifts as ritual, like many native americans gifting blankets. I get it now.
Tons of other stuff too and it's all the time!
And I'm only halfway through!
Anyways OP thank you for bringing this into my life it's literally reshaping the way I think in a way I'm constantly in awe of <3
(the book if anyone was curious)
Here! I found it in an online archive!
It functions as a digital library, so you have to sign in and wait your turn. I'm not sure why you have to do that with a digital book, but it's free so i don't care.
that link apparently doesn't make the viewing of the book possible for everyone (anymore? never worked for me.)
… sooo here's another option, from the author website:
here > http://www.beverlygordon.info/writings-books-essays-poems.html
Cool!!
Reblogged wishful-thinkment
The draw for me about Benoit meeting Phillip on a case is that they can both be out and proud gay men while still having that angsty ‘mustn’t let him know how I feel’ energy, not because either of them are worried about being outed, but because neither wants to make the other uncomfortable by being inappropriate in a professional setting.
Benoit doesn’t hide that he’s gay, but he can’t let Phillip know he’s crushing on him because he’s a client and that’s inappropriate!
Phillip doesn’t hide that he’s gay, but he can’t let Benoit know he’s crushing on him because he’s hired him, and he can’t hit on someone in his employ because that’s inappropriate!
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Hi! :DDDDD Do you have meta that addresses Scully's loss of agency over the years? I'd comb through your archive, but life, time, etc. etc.
And if you don't (or do), do you recall other meta pieces addressing this topic?
hi! I don't see Scully's story as a loss of agency, broadly. I think the show failed her character in the way her pregnancy is written in season 8 (making her “the object of some unending X-file,” which I don’t think is saved by lampshading it), and in the way she’s sidelined in season 9 (there’s not nearly enough attention to her interiority, before or after giving William away), and those are some of the last things we see from her in the original series, so maybe so! but I think The X-Files gave itself an escape hatch early on by putting Scully in her own ouroboros of giving and taking power, so that even when she’s choosing to follow Mulder, she’s choosing it. this is the life she wants. call it the writers having their cake and eating it too, but the combination of Gillian Anderson’s performance and Scully’s daddy issues makes it possible to see just about everything she does as an exercise of her agency. Mulder and Scully are written to be in such perfect balance that I don’t find any stereotypical definition of “agency” to be a very interesting lens on them as characters anyway, especially when the show gets its best material out of the times when they're almost powerless.
there's a reason all the best writing about Scully’s agency starts from “Never Again.” I like this post from @amazalina (“Scully introduces the beginning in The X-Files. She is the one that makes the beginning of the show itself, but she cannot take charge of the ending, because she looks to Mulder for that”) and this post (very specifically about “Never Again”) from @iconicscullyoutfits (“the point is failed liberation”)
Reblogged keykid-from-arendelle
'ao3 needs a like and dislike button'
what you need, my algorithm-rotten minded friend, is a grip
- we have a like button THAT'S WHAT THE KUDOS BUTTON IS it just serves as a message to the author, not the rest of the internet, and
- i have heard a lot of things about ao3 that make me wince and old man yell at clouds, but the idea of a dislike button makes me so viscerally angry i can barely make sentences. the archive is a place where we share. it is one of the LAST places on the internet where hate is...more than a button. like, i'm not saying ao3 is hate free, but it's RELATIVELY SAFE, and one of the last places where we can maintain fic communities. a dislike button is the antithesis of that, and if you think you need an easy way to tell a fanfic writer you hate their stuff, then you need to think long and hard about why you're reading fanfic in the first place.
Wait are people really saying that? I am genuinely confused, what possible reason would anybody have for wanting a dislike button? What problem would that be solving?