Reblogged naamahdarling
anarcho-gunman
I sent this to my dad, who's been a boiler tech for 30 years.
“Of the two ways you can explode a boiler, that’s the best one” isn’t the comfort your father thinks it is
These new Penguin First Impressions collection covers were shared on Reddit:
They are just... inexplicable. Especially the Mansfield Park one, but like, all of them.
Edit: also, to the racial diversity, isn't it just false advertising here? If you pick up that copy of P&P expecting a black couple that is not what you will receive.
Circling back to this because, apparently,
that's exactly what happening???
I'm a bit shell-shocked.
See, but that's not literature imitating fanfic. That's the publishing industry collapsing Austen into Romance, choosing to give her books modern romance covers and get blurbs from romance writers to sell them to romance readers.
(Romance is actually the source of a lot of things in the publishing industry that are supposedly "from fic", like marketing with tropes.)
and once again I'm left wondering: if you don't want something to be Regency (in this case visually, with those stupid covers), WHY are you reading a REGENCY NOVEL in the first place?! on a historical clothing level, the ones like Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice that have juuuuust enough Ye Olde Timey elements to make people maybe think "oh yeah that must be what Regency looks like!" irritate me more than the fully modern ones, ngl
also yeah the racial diversity element is something I broadly support in new independent fiction or film adaptations, but it just feels like false advertising here as that comment says. sure, there's no reason you CAN'T imagine Lizzie and Darcy being Black in a Regency world where racism doesn't exist, but like...that's not how Austen wrote it, and if someone picks it up hoping for references inside that confirm the notion or an examination of racism in Regency society, they're going to be disappointed
If you want these stories to be modern, there's nice reimagined versions with coloured people. Bride and Prejudice was a fun adaption.
Reblogged fuckingspacequeen
With stroke going on and everyone catching up on shows/movies they couldn’t watch
I highly recommend watching old OLD films
Btw there’s YouTuber that posts film noirs with backgrounds on actors, sets, and directors AND there are zero ads
Reblogged naamahdarling
I'm sorry I'm going fucking insane over trans people in sports issues the anti trans crowd has lost the fucking plot and then has the audacity to act like its the trannies who are ridiculous
I used to be of the "well the sports issue isn't really important to me its w/e I just don't want it to be a gateway into other transphobia" but oh my fucking god we are so far gone. The fencing shit is sending me over the edge. What the fuck.
I can't even articulate my words so I'm just going to tell a story in screenshots
I am so fucking tired of being gaslit about this
I'm also still so fucking pissed that we have to include "ooo the trans fencer only finished in X place" because its a reminder that trans women will never be allowed to excel at anything in the public eye without being cut down. Fuck OFF
I know the forfeiter, unfortunately she's from my fencing club. Everyone at our club agrees she did this purely for the spectacle, in a sport that's heavily steeped in sportsmanship and respect.
If she's ejected from the club (she might have been already, the club understandably probably won't issue a public statement) it'll be because she broke the rules in a direct, intention, and disgustingly public way. At tournaments, they don't just kick people out, she almost definitely was warned and told to go and fence, then refused again. The rules are unambiguous and everyone knows you can't refuse to fence. And thankfully USA Fencing already decided to officially allow trans athletes.
But she'll claim any repercussion she faces is for her politics, she'll describe herself as a victim and keep raking in conservative money. It's shitty, she's shitty, but thankfully most of the fencing community agrees on the absurdity of her claims. She regularly fenced in coed events, and it's ironic because the tournament allows grown adults to fence 14 year olds but she decided that including a trans woman was unfair. It's bigotry and looks idiotic, but she'll benefit because conservatives are deciding to be "woke" snowflakes about trans people
Credentials: I have fenced since 2009, I am a certified fencing referee, and I unfortunately know this woman
Reblogged autisticharrywells
sorry for bitching and whining. unfortunately i have to or else ill start killing and eating people instead
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A friend has once again brought it to my attention that it is unusual to have an intact chronological memory of life prior to age 12 and you know what’s weird to ME is that the rest of yall forgot how to sing the clean-up song
Other shit:
- The crotch-and-chin destroying hell of a toddler’s carseat
- How fucking scary stairs are when you JUST figured out walking. “You can stand up” nah fuck that these steps go up to my knees and I’m top-heavy I’m gonna scoot down on my ass thank you
- Walking alongside fucking giants whose legs are bigger than your whole fucking body and trying to keep up
- Not knowing how to blow your nose and everyone expecting you to just figure it out by holding a tissue and saying “blow” like WHAT DO YOU MEAN CLOSE MY THROAT? Just an absolute snot waterboarding
- People describing how to make sounds with your mouth but you can’t see inside their mouth when they do it so you kind of just guess over and over while they tell you you still don’t got it
- Not having a full grasp of language but fully understanding CONCEPTS so you say shit like “are we going to the park later?” When you mean TOMORROW but all you can come up with is shit like “the next time we have lunch, not today but after today, after that” like a fucked up game of verbal post-brain injury Pictionary where people won’t let you get mad about it
- Just. Mucus. Mucus and chapped skin, all the time, chin and upper lip. And you’re not supposed to lick it cause the spit is the PROBLEM but it’s fucking OBNOXIOUS. “Just keep the skin dry” wow thanks I’ve been aware of this mechsuit for about ten minutes and still haven’t fully mastered not falling into the toilet but yeah I know how to stay on top of that, cool
- FALLING INTO THE TOILET
- Trying to eat at a table where the surface comes up to your chin but not being able to get high or close enough cause you can’t scoot your chair in and your hands still don’t coordinate good so you end up just spooning tomato sauce onto your lap like an asshole. Like yeah mom my bad, have you considered though that I ALSO don’t want me to be covered in sauce? Cool
- Adults being WAY too excited about shit that straight up is not worth the hype
- Carpet burn. Constant carpet burn. Crawling, tripping, shuffling between toys on the floor. So much goddamn carpet burn
- Knowing exactly what you’re talking about and zero people understanding because they think you’re too dumb for what you’re trying to communicate
- Being told to wave at or hug complete strangers. And they always smelled kinda weird but you weren’t supposed to say it
- The feeling of meeting an older kid and they act like they’re your manager or something
- Encyclopedic knowledge and name of every single person in your grade 1 class, and their interests
- Stroller rides. You could zone out at the ground for hours I swear to god
- Dropping something while buckled into a carseat or stroller and not being able to get it and just resigning yourself to a life in hell
- Dropping something while you’re in a carseat and it goes UNDER YOUR ASS and you can’t fucking GET IT
- Other children getting away with just absolute war crimes. Imagine if Sharon showed up to the office potluck and offered you a cookie and after you ate one revealed that she licked it. Imagine if Gord took your stapler and put it down his pants so you couldn’t get it back. Imagine if for no reason at all your coworker told you your dad was stupid and then put your laptop in the garbage
- Not remembering what different foods are called and getting pressured into agreeing to food you were NOT FULLY AWARE OF. How the FUCK is a chicken wing different from a chicken strip you ask? “Well, one just has a bone in it!” You fool. You fucking idiot. They might as well be from different animals entirely. But now you gotta eat it cause we don’t waste food (hell)
Yes I’ve talked about this before and yes I’m going to talk about it again because every single person on earth should be fully and viscerally aware that being a kid feels like every description I’ve ever read of recovering from a stroke and we all grow up and forget and talk about childhood like it was magic.
Yeah some of it was fun and all but don’t you remember FALLING DOWN CONSTANTLY? You don’t remember needing help putting a shirt on cause you got your arm stuck and couldn’t get out and panicked so bad you started crying? You DON’T remember being just CONSTANTLY STICKY? Ohhh my good, pissing yourself. Pissing yourself was the worst. Christ alive, and being put in the playpen with a weird kid
Why were you falling into the toilet?
I WAS LIKE TWO FEET TALL
what's weird about my brain is that i have extremely bad *voluntary* recall but if someone else can prompt me, it turns out that more often than not, the memories are still on file
i would like to also add:
-being a nervous kid means living in silent hill permanently forever. there are monsters. they WILL get you. you can't predict when. no one thinks this is noteworthy.
-some foods make you sick. somehow this doesn't mean you can just not eat them. being sick is really inconsiderate of you, too.
-sticky crumbs are the worst.
-kids cooler than you hate you. kids weirder than you are even more unpredictably violent.
-no one understands your creative vision. 'house' would be so much better with a dragon. why does this require extensive debate.
-the assholes who never put the play dough caps back on the tubs should get their hands unscrewed.
-that one girl who can't tell a story but cries if you interrupt whatever boring thing she was failing to say
-boys are allowed to kill any creature they want in front of you specifically to hurt your feelings and you're the bad guy when you bite them???
-rose petals should taste good but don't. WHY.
-that one church lady who thinks screaming in a shrill and pathetic way at the rude boys is going to work THIS time. what the fuck is wrong with her
-snail slime washes off but slug slime is forever. i still don't understand this one.
-if there are millions of grownups in the world why can't they replace the one currently fucking up being in charge of you and the six boys who like to to torture you. like there's lots more teachers. can't you get one who is trained in not letting kids get tortured? no one in the room has been sneaky about the torture thing. come on.
-clay soil should taste good. look at it. deeply unfair that it doesn't.
-you will never regret putting a small smooth rock in your mouth.
-you chewed too much string and are having an unprecedented bathroom situation.
-why does your friend's mom smell so bad? bad-smelling moms seems like it should be against the rules.
-why does your other friend's mom smell so good? can you get your mom to smell like this?
-extremely specific pretend game scenarios you revisit over and over until your friends are exasperated and ten years later you go OH SHIT as you understand some very embarrassing things about yourself.
-rolling down a grassy hill was such a fantastic combination of chaos and freedom and safety. it's still fun as a grownup but my joints don't agree.
-the utter devastation of squishing a bug you were trying to save. you go from disney princess to warcrimes mcbloodhands in one irreversible second.
-sometimes the free lollipop is just kinda mid. and they don't give you another one to make up for it. and you can't even get THAT mad because mid is still better than nothing.
-mom tells you to clean your toys up but you only have one basket for your stuffed animals, who are currently having a civil war. not good.
-being small enough to climb into a box full of packing peanuts. incredibly good noise. incredibly good texture.
-do you also remember unspooling a tape measure allll the way out, confirming to everyone that the metal end bit COULD rip your eye out, then dropping the tape measure and running out of range before the tape respooled?
-pissing your pants sucks so bad. it stings. and it seems to take so much longer to dry than a water spill does
-you're still a person, every year of your life. everyone says you'll be different when you grow up. and every grownup is so strange, so distant, so unsympathetic and illogical and dismissive and alien. you wonder what could ever make you that different. you wonder why no one can explain.
The “extremely specific pretend game scenarios” turned out to be an early sign that one of my BFFs was a lesbian, but since I myself am straight, I didn’t understand why she was so much more into Princess Leia than I was (my bae was Han Solo) until much later. 😂
If I may:
- The absolute betrayal of someone trying to put stuff in your stroller. That’s MY space! I’m not trying to wedge MY wallet uncomfortably against YOUR ass.
- Having an adult jump to swipe something away from you and thinking, offendedly, “I wasn’t going to eat it! I was just smelling” (detergent, candles, etc)
- This scraped knee is actually literally the worst thing that has ever happened to me so can you give me a minute here??? (scraped my knee as an adult two years ago and it sucks worse than you remember)
- Mistaking someone else for your parent/neighbor/etc because their legs look the same and that’s just about all you can see from the ground 
- Adults having no idea what you know or don’t in general (explaining that you’re not a baby and you know how to tie your shoes at 10 actually). I had a lot of adults assume I didn’t know what figurative language or sarcasm meant because I started using them super early so I ended up patiently explaining to adults that “gone to the dogs” was what’s called a “figure of speech” and what that meant. Made an annoyed and embarrassed teacher’s aide sit through this after she patronizingly sneered “ooooh, did SOMEone see a PUPPY?”
- The voice adults use to patronize children that sounded like nails on a chalkboard to me even when I was a children deserves its own bullet point
- Why does every adult immediately ask me “how’s school?” Can’t you talk about anything else? Plus maybe I don’t like it that much! I don’t ask you how’s traffic or your jerk coworker. Ask me my favorite animal or something.
- Lots of adults have no idea how to talk to kids part II: did anyone else have a fairly obvious physical characteristic that adults loved to comment on? Tall, ginger, freckles, green eyes, etc. Even if it was a compliment, it got super old having your dentist/pediatrician/summer camp counselor/new teacher all say almost the exact same thing.
- The helplessness of having to kill an afternoon going places that really have nothing for you (bank, car dealership, etc) because the big people couldn’t find a sitter/didn’t try
- Climbing up on the counter to get things from the cabinets because your head barely reaches the counter and there’s no stepping stool
- Why do adults think that I’ll automatically like playing with so-and-so’s kid just because we’re the same age? He plays really rough and shoots down all my ideas for games. Can we leave???
- Why are there no good snacks in this house? I don’t WANT -5 calorie fat-vaporizing diet popcorn I want REAL FOOD.
- Especially around age 12, trying not to mention or allude to the fact that you know what sex is (adult stuff! Forbidden Knowledge) in front of adults … which your best friend‘s parents find hilarious because they definitely know what sex is. See also: knowing swears and censoring yourself in front of the adults so you don’t get in trouble in a weird mirror image version of not swearing in front of the toddler 
The thing I remember the most is being told I was 'dramatic' about things that would later be classified as Symptoms of Disorders and Diseases that I had my whole life, and some of them were things that the adults in my life knew that I had. Yes, the sun really does hurt my eyes so bad I want to throw up, actually. Yes, it really did take 4 months for the tendons in my foot to heal and no I was not just trying to get out class early. Yes, it really does make me feel very sick when I am forced to eat things with aspartame in it.
Image description: Screenshot of Bluesky post from Hank Green:
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don't die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
the only time it was actually funny and entertaining when a "ship" was "confirmed" by someone who worked on the show was when someone asked rene auberjonois at a panel what the nature of quark and odo's relationship was and he replied "sexual." without elaboration
star trek heritage post (October 10th, 2022)
Reblogged fuckingspacequeen
New snitch line just dropped for reporting clinics that support gender affirming care: www.hhs.gov/protect-kids/index.html
It requires a "first name", "last name", and "cell phone number" as contact information but does no verification. Theoretically anyone could type fake info in there, which would be terrible. Presumably your IP address & browser cookies are tracked.
Please do NOT spam this site via your VPN with realistic but false leads, made up clinics, and the names of fictitious healthcare providers like Dr. Frank N Furter or Gregory House, MD.
Doing this in the past has led to the sites becoming overwhelmed & shut down! It is imperative that you spread the word to prevent this resource from being overloaded.
Source: hhs.gov