Reblog if its ok to message you during this holiday season incase Im feeling lonely or out of place during family events because no one should be alone on Christmas
God designed everything. Every star, every flower, every heart that beats. It’s all a testament to His great love and great power. If you truly believe that God is powerful, why fear learning about the wonder of His works? If it is discovered, if it can be known, He intends for it to be known. He reveals Himself in the wonderful glory of His world.
Are you afraid that somehow, somewhere, there is something in nature or medicine or psychology that will be God’s great undoing? That somewhere there is something to disprove Him?
Do you really serve such a small God?
this post is actually getting notes and i could not be prouder
A quick perusal of posts tagging the tumblr user in question shows that a lot of people think this is a joke and/or shitpost.
I am a biological anthropologist. I am a scientist who studies human bones and the ethics surrounding them. I am here to remind you that grave robbing, while in and of itself pretty abhorrent, has a particularly nasty history attached to it, especially in America. Early medical specimens were not curated with consent; they were often bought from China and India at best, or taken from graves of poor and/or minority communities. Shit, a couple dudes in Scotland straight up murdered people for medical specimens, not to mention the real-life serial killer/doctor from Devil in the White City. Universities are still finding remains of Holocaust victims among their collections. This is why we have laws like NAGPRA and the Human Tissue Act. Today, medical specimens are donated with consent. My university department and so many others operate thanks to these amazing gifts.
By extension, I don’t find non-scientists buying human bones any more ethical. They were once people. They don’t belong in your curio cabinet and are not yours to own. Want one because they look cool? I don’t blame you, because bones are pretty rad. But there’s an alternative. I’ll let one of my personal heroes, Dr. Kristina Killgrove, explain it to you.
Want one for religious practices? Definitely do not. Look, I don’t advertise this, but I used to be pagan. I get the appeal of human remains for spiritual practices; it’s not uncommon throughout the world. But you’ve got to understand how icky it is for white, New Age American pagans to use the bones of a complete stranger for religious purposes. What kind of energy do you think can possibly come from them?
If you find a bone just hanging out on the ground, call authorities and don’t touch it. Best case scenario, it’s an animal bone (which might also be illegal to take - check local laws). Worst case, it’s from a grave or a modern missing person, and now you’re complicit in a major crime, and their living, breathing family members will have a problem with you.
This neo-colonial attitude of entitlement to access to other humans, living or dead, is disgusting. Learn some empathy. I don’t care if you wouldn’t care if someone were to do that to your skeleton; everyone’s beliefs are different, and it’s the assumption that your beliefs matter more is what is so dangerous about this. You don’t speak for the dead, and they don’t belong to you.
did anyone ever actually read animorphs or did we all just glance at the covers and assume it needed no explanation on the way to the goosebumps section in our elementary school library
animorphs is a scifi series about the grey morality of war and child soldiers experiencing trauma, depression, PTSD, being frequently and brutally dismembered, disemboweled, literally tortured to the brink of death, forced to murder their own family members with their bare hands, and on page 22 of the very first book they watch the alien prince who gave them their ~wacky animal morphing powers~ scream while be eaten alive in vivid and gory detail
One dude permanently turned into a bird for a while, forgot how to make facial expressions when he was a human and ate roadkill. And that was one of the tamer things.
You know the starfish cover everyone likes to mock especially? The girl beat someone to death with her own severed arm in that one :)
What the fuck did I miss out on
Okay, but, real talk, Animorphs may have lost the cover art lottery, but that series went hard as fuck. Like. My mother was in her 30′s when I started reading them (I was like seven) and she started reading them because I was determined to buy ALL THE BOOKS and like she’s as into them as I ever was. If you missed out on them as a kid, I 100% endorse reading them as a grown ass adult.
i have no issue with atheism as a concept but if you mock people who rely on their god to help them get through hard times, you are trash and you are not nearly as intelligent as you think you are
Okay, yes, this, very much this.
You’re an atheist? All right, friend, live your life. I’m glad you know what you believe and/or don’t believe. Honestly I don’t care that much, but I’m happy that you’re happy.
You’re an atheist and you’re judging me for believing in a higher power? You’re trying to force me to stop believing in a higher power, or trying to intellectually hump me on the logic that you’re somehow ‘better’ because you’re oh-so-rational? NO. BAD HUMAN. NO BISCUIT. I have given you unconditional respect as a human being, including unquestioned affirmation of your right to believe or not believe the same thing that I do. I am within my rights, God-given or otherwise, to expect the same from you.
never let anybody tell you that spite isn’t a motivator. i’ve gotten out of writer’s block and finished drabbles and shortfics because of spite. i’ve done swaths of fanart for whole fandoms out of sheer seething over a notp. i’ve gotten up and done laundry and all the dishes in the house because i saw some nasty ship art and needed to step away from the computer. misdirected fictional butthurt is a fossil fuel my friend and some days you gotta leave a carbon footprint
i feel so bad knowing that atleast 1 of my followers is going to have a bad holiday experience this year. please please message me anytime of the day any time in the holidays if you need me or you want to talk about it.
So, as I explained in this post on the basics of how early trauma affects us, abuse and neglect during our formative years add extras into our experience of PTSD and one of those is physical illness. (a reminder that ‘formative’ is in terms of brain development; so up until the age of 25)
One of the big reasons for this is hypervigilance and the limbic system. How being constantly surrounded by an abusive environment makes you highly sensitive to sensory input (hypervigilance), and how this affects you physically.
Basically “why am I so fucking sick all the time and why doesn’t it seem to have a cause” or “what does it mean when they say that my PTSD is causing these physical symptoms”.
First you’ll have to bear with me while I explain some things about your brain and it’s parts, because otherwise this won’t make any sense.
Your amygdala is part of the limbic system that controls instinct and the panic response. It’s sometimes referred to as your “lizard brain”. And because you don’t really need to know how the whole thing is rigged, I’m going to keep calling it that. (Like you can look it up if you want, i’m not going to stop you). It’s the instinctive part and also where your core beleifs about the world are (called schemas; which is another topic).
This is the part of your brain that tries to keep you alive at any cost, where the ‘flight, fight, freeze or feign’ response lives.
Your amygdala develops very early, which is why babies can experience fear. But it develops before the conscious thinking part. Much like an actual lizard, your lizard brain doesn’t ‘think’ or reason, it just watches and notes what is dangerous, and what has worked to save you and stores that information. Because what your lizard brain’s main function is is to keep you alive in a crisis.
Don’t know what I’m talking about? This is the part of your brain that has already slammed on the brakes before you decide to when you’re cut off in traffic, or that gives you that feeling that ‘this is dangerous’ when you can’t really figure out why, but later find out that WOW you were so right. It is activated when it sees that you are in danger, and it is going to take too long for you to decide what your response will be.
Ok so now we know what it is, but how does this relate to PTSD or hypervigilance and how can this make me sick?
In an untraumatised brain, the limbic system (specifically the amigdala) will dump stress hormones into your brain and body when you are in extreme danger. One of these we already know is adrenaline, but the hormone that is most important here is a steroid called cortisol.
Cortisol basically cuts off all the regular limits your body sets so you don’t get injured, because when you’re in danger it doesn’t matter if you get injured so long as you survive. This means you can run faster and longer, you’re stronger, your senses are sharper, you’re hyperaware of your surroundings and you don’t feel pain.
This is how mothers can lift cars off their babies in a crisis. Or how come you don’t notice that you’ve broken your arm in a car accident until later.
Cortisol is great when your brain functions properly.
However; when you’ve been exposed to extreme and ongoing trauma, you become hypervigilant. You have to be constantly aware of every tiny change in facial expression, every sound, every change in tone or every slight movement. You are always prepared for danger and always trying to pre-guess what and when is going to happen. In an abusive environment, you have to do this to stay safe.
The thing is that when you’re constantly in this state of hypervigilance and hyperarousal (not sexual arousal but sensory; where you could hear a cricket fart next door), your limbic system is constantly wired up. And it’s constantly activating your FFFF (Fight, flight, freeze and feign) response, and constantly dumping your cortisol to keep you ready.
What ends up happening is that your limbic system eventually stops being able to turn OFF your cortisol tap. So instead of a dump, its a leak. Constantly dripping into your system as it’s created - even after you’ve escaped the abuse.
But cortisol is good isn’t it? It makes us stronger and faster and feel less pain?
Yes; but if it didn’t have a downside we wouldn’t only have it as an emergency plan.
Cortisol is a steroid and an immunosuppressant, in a dump it forces more blood sugar production and shuts down the digestive system. Long term it decreases cartilage and bone formation, affects glucose levels along with a whole swag of of other things.
People with this ‘cortisol leak’ can experience
Lupus
Fibromyalgia
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Osteoarthritis
decreased bone density leading to osteoporosis
gastrointestinal problems (nausea, vomiting, bowel problems, difficulty digesting food or absorbing nutrients leading to nutritional deficiencies, IBD, constipation, and diarrhea)
Severe allergic reactions and other autoimmune disorders
decreased immune response causing slower healing times and more infections
heart disease
memory issues; short term memory, and issues relating to the maintaining or accessing of memories
and on top of all that are 300% more likely to self harm.
It also has the fun circular effect of… making you hypervigilant.
*sigh*.
So, much in the same way that anxiety stops us from doing things which then gives us more anxiety which means we can’t do even MORE things, over and over, the limbic system makes us hypervigilant which breaks the limbic system which then makes us even more hypervigilant. And also sick.
PTSD is, as you’ve probably already realised, pretty good at cycling into awfulness like that.
But this is why the effects of traumatic abuse when our brains are forming is so profound, and so hard to heal. We quite literally have been given a form of brain damage, and our brains no longer function physically in the way they are designed.
Next up; I’ll be talking about the psychological effects of this; Maladaptive Schemas. (Which means that the things you learn as ‘’life truths’’ in an abusive environment while you’re developing can end up being warped, and that affects our ability to process information; including therapeutic information.
Till then, stay safe and know you’re not alone in this shit. Hollow
i overheard these two guys in the hallway at my school and one of them was like “you always look hot dude… no homo tho” and then like 5 seconds later he yelled “sike!” and slapped the other dude’s ass
If you’re ever like “but what do fic writers even WANT.”
a book report
They want a book report.
They want you to get 9th grade English up in their shit.
Remember having to write ad nauseam about the symbolism of that stupid conch in Lord of the Flies? They want you to do that about Steve Roger’s shield and Emma Swan’s jacket.
WHoa seriously?? People WANT this? Holy crap, I always thought I’d be really rude to leave an overly long comment on something, or it’d just be super creepy for me to babble a load of emotional attatchment I had to their product, or all my wild fan theories which are probably wrong… I mean.. I know if I ever created something I’d wanna see comments like that, but I’m a weirdo and I haven’t even created anything anyway so what do I know? Umm.. yeah.. so… at my followers and friends and stuff: does anyone agree with this? Do I have permission to really ramble embarrassingly and honestly when I like your stuff, or would you prefer short and semi-rational comments?
I agree! I really like to read people toughts on my stuff, no matter the writing style.
I always LOVE knowing that readers understand why I chose certain ways of getting things across! I also love seeing which bits OTHER PEOPLE liked best! Since I’m the author, I’m biased. I either think my work is brilliant or I have crushing doubts.
So - whichever you want, or feel comfortable with!
YES
YES YES YES
We ABSOLUTELY want you to ramble at us! We put a lot of work into our writing and seeing someone love it enough to ramble about their reactions is EXACTLY what we want.
Babble at me! Babble away! Tell me all the things!
No, really. I truly believe one of the best compliments you can give a writer is letting them know their words made you feel things. So by all means, tell them! Long rambling comments are my FAVORITE.
I have gotten more awesome inspiration from someone else’s “harebrained babble” than anything I could have come up with on my own. How are we writers gonna write if no one wants to analyze???
Oh man, those long rambly reaction / analysis / speculation comments are the BESTEST
Aries: Captivation. Someone who not only captures but holds their flickering flames of interest, someone they can’t look away from if they tried, who melts their hearts with slow burning lava. Taurus: Fluidity. In the midst of their sturdy calm, someone who will surprise them and move them, who pushes them to their limits, who is exasperating and irresistible. Gemini: Adoration. Someone who loves the quickness of their minds, who thinks they are the world’s most beautiful puzzle, who touches them like they are a map they will never quite completely understand. Cancer: Security. In the depth and curves of Cancer’s love, they crave someone who is unwavering, who will forever hold their hand. Leo: Passion. Someone whose heart burns as brightly as theirs does, someone whose fierce spirit matches their own, whose kisses are intertwining flames. Virgo: Understanding. Someone who studies them carefully, who knows that they try their hardest, who loves their quirks and reads their bodies, who makes them feel like their every movement is a blessing. Libra: Determination. Fearful Libras with fleeting hearts crave someone who will go to the ends of the Earth for them, someone who proves with every smile that they hold unconditional love. Scorpio: Acceptance. Someone who knows their darkest shadows and brightest lights and loves it all, who never lets them forget that love. Sagittarius: Freedom. The spirit of Sagittarius is untamed, and never will be; they crave someone who will travel the world with them, who looks at them like they are the universe but will always set them free. Capricorn: Romance. The misunderstood, intricate heart of Capricorn craves boldness and sweetness, romance and adoration that overwhelms them, makes them feel like they have the world in their hands. Aquarius: Excitement. Someone who startles them, who takes their hand and leads them to new worlds, who makes them laugh harder than they ever have, whose mind is filled with things they never knew existed. Pisces: Fascination. Someone who delves into their worlds, who explores them and listens to their soft spoken stories at 3 AM, who theorizes and hypothesizes with them, who never tires of hearing them speak.
Last night at work a man told me that I look better when I take my glasses off and I immediately replied that he looks better when I take my glasses off too and he got really angry and I think it was one of the proudest moments of my life
Assorted ladies, enbys, socially conscious dudes, and general SJW spoilsports of the MCU fandom, allow me to give you a gift.
Imagine Steve Rogers. The son of a widowed Irish immigrant. Whose first true love was Our Lady Margaret Carter, Patron Saint of Ball-Busting Broads. Whose triad of right hand trusted compatriots includes Natasha friggin’ Romanov.
Steve Rogers, World War II vet. Who actually fought the actual Nazi army in actual Germany in actual WWII. Who saw first hand what they were doing to anyone who stood in their way.
Imagine, in the 21st century, what happens the first time Steve Rogers hears someone in an argument use the word ‘feminazi’.
Just… Just savor that.
I know I will.
Reblogging myself because I feel sad tonight and this made me smile. Someone needs to write this.
one thing I find hilarious is when Shakespeare quotes are used out of context
like, people are always saying “some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them” as if it’s all deep and meaningful when actually it comes from a prank letter in Twelfth Night
and “This above all: to thine own self be true” comes from Polonius in Hamlet wherein the joke is that he’s an old pompous dude giving a long and rambling speech full of contradictory pointless advice to his son
“Brevity is the soul of wit” is another joke, because again, it’s made by Polonius who will just not shut up
it’s “we are such stuff as dreams are made on” not “of “, as in, “such stuff as dreams are built on”
“wherefore art thou, Romeo” doesn’t mean “where are you, Romeo” it means “why the fuck are you called Romeo, shit, I wanted to bang you but I can’t because you’re a goddamn Montague”
all these lines have acquired a kind of dignity in text that they never had in performance or are constantly misinterpreted
It’s not necessarily bad but it is kind of funny, sometimes.
I see these VERY SERIOUS POSTS with the ‘greatness’ line and I’m just like…no. It’s a dick joke. Rule of thumb for William “This Seems Like A Good Moment For A Sex Joke” Shakespeare: if it has the word ‘thrust’ in it, it’s a sex joke.
Lily Evans who didn’t properly ask the Sorting Hat to put her in Slytherin, but when it told her Slytherin would be a risky place for someone like you, replied bravely defiantly that she wasn’t going to be intimidated by a piece of headwear, go ahead and put her in the damn house
The Sorting Hat calls out GRYFFINDOR! with the tear at its brim looking even more like a smirk than normal
Bullies Neville Longbottom during their first year
Hopes that any Muggle-Born, but especially Hermione, gets killed during their second year
Mocks Harry for being traumatized by his past during their third year
Is gleeful about a family (including children) being terrorized, a woman being sexually assaulted, and hoping Hermione gets the same during their fourth year
Joins Umbridge’s Inquisitorial Squad to help her find students to torture during their fifth year
Fans: why do people think he’s a bad guy just because he joined the Death Eaters?
Last time I got one of these I did 10 Interesting Facts About Tolkien. For this one, I thought it’d be fun to do random stories from the filming of the Peter Jackson LOTR movies. After watching all the DVD commentaries/documentaries a few more times than I care to admit, I’ve picked up a few fun stories. I linked as many youtube clips of the commentaries as I could find.
Alternative Title: 9 Times Someone Almost Died While Filming LOTR, and 1 Time Someone Was Smart Enough to Actually Prevent It
While shooting the battle at Helm’s Deep, Viggo Mortensen actually chipped a tooth. However, he refused to stop shooting and insisted that instead they simply glue the tooth back together until the scene was finished.
The location used to shoot the battle at the gates of Mordor during Return of the King was actually a land mine. Actors were warned to avoid digging into the ground or kicking anything to avoid hitting a bomb, and throughout the day they’d accidentally unearth rockets and landmines, which the army would then come and pick up.
In Two Towers, when Aragorn is floating down the river face-down, Viggo had to do the same thing (obviously.) However, he and the crew underestimated the strength of the current and eddies in the river, and combined with the heavy costume Viggo was wearing, he nearly drowned.
During Bilbo’s Birthday Party, when Merry and Pippin set off Gandalf’s giant firework, Peter Jackson didn’t warn Dominic Monaghan and Billy Boyd that the firework was actually going to explode. He told them only that it would spark and fizzle a bit. So when the firework did, in fact, explode, Billy’s shriek is quite genuine.
At the end of Fellowship, when Sam runs into the river after Frodo, Sean Astin accidentally stepped on a large shard of glass. His foot was bleeding pretty bad, so he had to be choppered to a hospital.
During the scene in Two Towers when Aragorn, Legolas and Gimli find the pile of orc carcases, and they believe that Merry and Pippin have been killed, Aragorn kicks one of the helmets down the hill. Peter Jackson wanted Viggo to aim the helmet as close to the camera as possible, and so Viggo did four takes with increasing accuracy. On the fifth take, the aim was great, and then Viggo let out this great scream and fell to his knees. Jackson was pretty impressed, and only found out later that, when kicking the helmet, Viggo had broken two of his toes. Despite that, it was the best take, and is actually the version that appears in the film.
During one of the scenes in Two Towers, Orlando Bloom and Gimli’s scale double Brett accidentally fell off their horse. Brett fell on top of Orlando, and Orlando cracked a rib. Luckily the injury wasn’t too serious, though the cast teased Orlando about all his complaining.
While filming the sequence in Two Towers of Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli chasing after the Uruk Hai (basically 10 minutes of all three of them running nonstop), Viggo had two broken toes, Orlando had a cracked rib, and Brett Beattie (Gimli’s scale double) had a dislocated knee, but they did the shots anyway. Such troopers.
While shooting the scene where the hobbits run down to the Buckleberry Ferry in Fellowship, Dominic Monaghan got a splinter in his foot. Yep, it really is that underwhelming. But they make it sound really funny.
During Two Towers, when Faramir has caught Frodo and Sam and Gollum, there’s a scene when Faramir uses his sword to lift the One Ring from under Frodo’s shirt. David Wenham, who plays Faramir, was worried that he might accidentally stab Elijah Wood, so he insisted that a trained swordsman come and do that scene. Thus making him probably the smartest guy on set.
“And finally, I must tell you that this year, the third-floor corridor on the right-hand side is out of bounds to everyone who does not wish to die a very painful death.“
Harry laughed, but he was one of the few who did.
Can you imagine how this would have looked to other students?
Dumbledore tells the students that visiting the third floor corridor will lead to a most painful death, and what does the famous and mysterious boy-who-lived do? He laughs.
it pisses me off when i get customers at my job who tell me “at least it’s FRIDAY” like..no?? it is at best my Wednesday like are you from a magical world where everybody gets a weekend? fuck you
I’m laughing bc in food and retail fridays are the beginning of the three hell days
Literally
My personal solution to this: when I’m talking to someone in retail or a waitress/waiter or something to that effect, I go with “So how far are you from your Friday?” And then they can either be like “Oh my God, DAYS,” or “Actually today’s my Friday, it’s awesome” and I don’t come off like an ass. Y’all work hard. I KNOW you work hard (yeeeeeah, I’m not exactly from a rich family myself, if you catch my drift). So damn straight I’m going to take the extra moment to acknowledge that you might be facing a hellish schedule.
Remember in 1993 when Jurassic Park was like…the end all, be all of special effects?
not gonna lie that still looks intimately real
I’m still somewhat convinced that someone sold their soul to create the special effects in Jurassic Park because that shit is over 20 years old and it still really, really holds up, better than the stuff in a lot of current movies, even.
Fucking witchcraft, man.
fucking look at this shit though
Literally see this post flying around with a few different responses added to the bottom each time so I’ll say it for this one myself:
THEY ACTUALLY BUILT A GIANT MASSIVELY DETAILED FUCKING ANIMATRONIC T-REX FOR ALL OF THIS THAT’S WHY THE EFFECTS ARE SO GOOD. CAUSE IT AIN’T CGI. AND IT AIN’T GUY IN A COSTUME. IT’S A BIG FUCKING ROBOT DINOSAUR. AND EVERY PART IS DESIGNED TO MOVE. IT COST LIKE HALF THE BUDGET OF THE FILM.
amazing
And they had the film it in small increments, especially in the outdoor scenes, because the rain fall kept soaking into the ‘skin’ of the rex and would slow down and mess up its movements. So they would stop filming and have a crew out there drying off this massive, fake dinosaur, and then they’d start filming again until it was too wet. Repeat until the end of the scene.
They used animatronics and detailed costumes for most if not all of the dinosaurs in the first movie.
The triceratops for instance, was also animatronic.
One of my favorite anecdotes I’ve read on tumblr is how the t-rex robot from Jurassic park would malfunction while it was drying out. How did it malfunction, you might wonder?
Motherfucker randomly started moving.
So apparently if you were on the jp set you would sometimes hear people screaming bloody murder even though they were all well aware that it was a giant animatronic puppet and wouldn’t actually, you know, eat them.
I NEVER KNEW THE RAPTORS WERE DUDES IN SUITS I KNEW THE REST BUT NOT THAT
^ I second that…..I knew about the T-rex and Tri…but Raptors! fuhhhhh!!! love that movie
Spielberg knows the language of cinema. Even if the Trex was functioning fully at all times we would have gotten it in doses because that’s the way to make something even more terrifying. Spielberg makes big budget action films but I challenge you to find another director who has been so consistent and meticulous over such a wide range of genres and budgets. PTA, deal Toro,and Tarantino are all of the same caliber as Spielberg but none of them have the range he does.
gotta agree. i really came around to spielberg, because initially i was pretty snobby and was like “buh he’s the mcdonald’s of film directors,” but after rewatching poltergeist, i realized that even if he was shaky on horror, he tapped a guy like tobe hooper (you know, the guy who did Texas Chainsaw) to bring the horror expertise, and he slapped his big, splashy stamp on it, and it works. beautifully.
it’s like stephen king – you don’t have that kind of career for four decades without knowing your shit.
remus would have been so good at finding loopholes for the marauders to slip through like i mean as a prefect he would have had to know all of them to an extent and i can just see sirius hopping onto his bed like “hey moony can we do this thing without technically breaking any rules” and remus would be like well no but you could do this and then guess who doesnt have detention despite the fact that all anyone at the slytherin table has had for dinner the past four days is haggis
Romeo Blue, America’s second Jaeger, was first launched on December 15, 2015, to combat a Kaiju named Hardship. Romeo Blue overpowered the Kaiju using a piece of a beltway bridge as a melee weapon, earning its first of many kills. Romeo Blue would later fail to locate the Kaiju Knifehead at the ten-mile mark in Anchorage, leading to Gipsy Danger’s deployment the night Yancy Beckett was killed in action. Romeo Blue eventually met its end in Seattle, when a Kaiju smashed its Conn-Pod, killing both pilots. The Jaeger was then sent to Oblivion Bay.
Romeo Blue, America’s second Jaeger, was first launched on December 15, 2015, to combat a Kaiju named Hardship. Romeo Blue overpowered the Kaiju using a piece of a beltway bridge as a melee weapon, earning its first of many kills. Romeo Blue would later fail to locate the Kaiju Knifehead at the ten-mile mark in Anchorage, leading to Gipsy Danger’s deployment the night Yancy Beckett was killed in action. Romeo Blue eventually met its end in Seattle, when a Kaiju smashed its Conn-Pod, killing both pilots. The Jaeger was then sent to Oblivion Bay.
Women cook for men for the same reason cats bring their owners dead animals. You think it’s because they love and respect you, but really they just think you’re too incompetent to feed yourself.
i really hope men who see this post don’t think its just a joke. every woman i have ever known to cook regularly for her male significant other has done it bc she literally does not think he is capable.
First and foremost, we’re in the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, not some oppressive 3rd world country. Women here have rights, we can say what we want, dress how we want, and do pretty much whatever we want (within the confines of the law).
Moving on, if you’re going to bitch about how we can’t go around topless, then I will have to agree with you there. Like if a guy can show his nips why can’t women? Well the reason is simple, Western culture sexualizes the breast. There are studies and extra bs that may get thrown onto this post but honestly, idgaf. The point of this post is this… BIG FUCKING DEAL. So what? You can’t go around with your tits out, boofuckinghoo. You don’t have to cover your body from head to toe so stfu and deal with it.
Not all women live in fear, I repeat, not all women live in fear! I am so tired of seeing these posts about how women live in fear and we travel in packs to the bathroom (coughyouknowwhoyouarecough) for safety and all this bs.
Stop. Just. Stop.
I walk the streets at night and am fine, I have never had an issue that I couldn’t handle. If I get a gut feeling that something might happen, NEWS FLASH my gut doesn’t give two shits about your gender; if I get a gut feeling about danger it means that there may be a person I need to be cautious of, male or female. Cause let’s be honest, women are bad people too and do horrible crimes just like men do.
So, could you so-called feminists please STFU about how women do this and women do that cause honestly you don’t speak for all of us. And I highly doubt you feel the same as you claim on the internet.
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The delegates were appalled by the lack of gender equality in America. They found the U.S. to be lagging far behind international human rights standards in a number of areas, including its 23 percent gender pay gap, maternity leave, affordable child care and the treatment of female migrants in detention centers.
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The women discovered during their visit that women in the United States have “missing rights” compared to the rest of the world. For instance, the U.S. is one of three countries in the world that does not guarantee women paid maternity leave, according to the U.N. International Labour Organization. The U.N. suggests that countries guarantee at least 14 weeks of paid parental leave. Some countries go further – Iceland requires five months paid leave for each parent, and an additional two months to be shared between them. “
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Another main area of concern for the delegation is violence against women – particularly gun violence. Women are 11 times more likely to be killed by a gun in the United States than in other high-income countries, and most of those murders are perpetrated by an intimate partner. While the Obama administration has talked a lot about combating violence against women, its efforts have been frustrated by Congress’ inability to pass new federal gun restrictions.
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The women’s other recommendations for the U.S. include passing campaign finance reform that would allow more women to be elected into office, because the networks that raise money for political candidates are mostly dominated by men. They also suggested raising the minimum wage, which disproportionately affects women, and passing a federal law to stop the slew of new abortion restrictions in the states that are shutting down women’s health clinics across the South. “
While the delegates were shocked by many things they saw in the U.S., perhaps the biggest surprise of their trip, they said, was learning that women in the country don’t seem to know what they’re missing.
“So many people really believe that U.S. women are way better off with respect to rights than any woman in the world,” Raday said. “They would say, ‘Prove it! What do you mean other people have paid maternity leave?’”
Okay but consider this- Elizabeth Swann. She’s a pirate nerd from the beginning. She’s fascinated. And by the time the Black Pearl blasts Port Royal she knows enough to defend herself- first with the iron, then with the Code. That nerd studied pirate law enough to quote it.
And not just pirates. Presumably she’s been on a ship once- when she comes over from England. But nope no piracy wasn’t enough for this kid no she did some intense studying of sailing too because why not. So when they’re being chased down who’s coming up with all these nautical maneuvers? Elizabeth fucking Swann, sea nerd extraordinaire.
Fast forward and she’s not just a nerd anymore. And she isn’t a pirate, either. She’s the Pirate King, doing battle with Davy Jones and the entire British navy, with every Pirate Lord and their crews behind her. No more improvised weapons, no more parlay- she commands every black heart that ever set sail. And then her bae becomes ferryman for every soul lost at sea.
So then what? Everyone just goes back to what they were doing? And Elizabeth just goes home to make a quiet life for herself as a single mum? From studious sea nerd to Pirate King and now suddenly she’s happier at home, waiting for Will?
Give me an epilogue where Elizabeth has her father’s estate and enough gold to keep her comfortable for a lifetime, but instead travels the world, her son at her side. Adventuring and exploring, in and out of the law. Tell me she calls up Calypso for tea from time to time and they talk about uncharted lands and the price of sugar. Tell me in some ports she’s recognized as the daughter of Governor Swann and wined and dined. Tell me in some ports she’s recognized as the Pirate King and gets barrels rum on the house.
Tell me even honest sailors whisper stories of the mysterious and elusive Pirate King, who rarely strikes at all but then vanishes for years at a time.
Tell me Elizabeth spends time aboard the Flying Dutchman, so she can be with her husband, and her son can be with his father and grandfather. Imagine young William learns to sail on his father’s journeys to and from the land of the dead. And when he finally captains his own ship, he’s learned to be both a respectable gentleman and a good pirate.
Imagine Elizabeth spending her life on the sea, sometimes with Will and sometimes not, with a wind from Calypso always in her sails, adventuring enough for lifetimes as a part-time well bred lady, part-time Pirate King.
yes this
Does the epilogue ever imply that this doesn’t happen, though…?
All we know is she’s on a cliff with a kid. They never say she goes home and becomes a housewife.
I love sincerely arguing over citation formats. On that note APA format is absolutely the best and easiest.
enjoy making a cover page for your fucking 2-page paper while i’m over here with the superior MLA format (Magnificent, Logical, Astonishing format) eating up multiple lines on the front page to bump up my page count. MLA is not only the most efficient, it is the most environmentally responsible option. the earth is dying and my grandchildren will know that it wasn’t my fault
Y'all can go eat a shoe.
Chicago is where it’s at.
Chicago ruined citations more than they ruined pizza
i’m sorry you can’t handle the depth of our pizza or the superior style of our footnotes. who needs a four line heading to bump up your page count when you can take up the entire page with a speculative footnote that boils down to i actually don’t really know what the answer is to this, somebody should work on that but i wrote this at three am so it ain’t gonna be me.
like your pizza, your APA is cheap, easy and slides by tests of academic rigor like the greasy cardboard crap that it is.
chicago pizza and style adapt to whatever your toppings and academic needs are, while after putting cheese and sausage, or sources with any depth from further back than the first three results on a google search, on your MLA and APA shit folds like burnt fucking wax paper.
chicago style. real research. real academia. REAL PIZZA.
I like how Bethesda manages to be more progressive than most of the games industry by doing as little work as possible.
Unnamed npcs like bandits are randomly assembled from the available body features, which inadvertently leads to more balanced gender and race representation, because every physical attribute has an equal chance to be chosen. In Skyrim, marriageable npcs are marriageable no matter what the player is, because having a single “marriageable” box to tick when coding npcs is easier than having to check for multiple variables like race and gender in the player.
No one in any bethesda game will treat you any differently or even speak differently other than “he” or “she”, and even then a lot of dialogue uses “they” or your characters titles rather than your pronouns to save dialogue lines.
It is literally less work to just represent everybody equally. The next time a game dev tries to say they don’t have the resources to include more diverse representation, you push that shit back at them because that shit is bullshit.
“St. Louis, Mo., Dec 14.– Ruling that male attire was not unbecoming to Mrs. Mary Bertha Schmidt, alias ‘Mister Schmidt,’ judge Hogan, in police court here, refused to fine the young woman who for two years posed as a man and who ‘married’ her cousin, Anna Assade, last October.
‘I think you look very nice,’ said the court. Mrs. Schmidt was clad in her neatly pressed trousers and pinchback coat. She explained she had adopted the garments because she could earn $80 a month as a man and $6 a week as a woman.
‘If a woman can earn $4 a day by reason of wearing trousers, I say wear ‘em,’ said the court, and ‘Mister Schmidt’ walked out of court with a smile on ‘his’ face.”
my favorite side effect warning is for antidepressants
pros: you won’t want to kill yourself
cons: you might want to kill yourself
Back when I was in a psychiatric hospital, and was offered antidepressants, my mother had declined them due to that apparent side effect. So the staff actually explained about this effect antidepressants have, that give reason to that warning. When first taking antidepressants they raise up your energy first. So that you have the energy to do the tasks you might have avoided doing due to your depression. Because of this those who were already suicidal, now have the energy to go do so. Which is the ones this warning is given for. It’s not that a side effect of antidepressants magically makes you want to kill yourself, it’s the energy it gives those who were already struggling with suicidal issues, to actually attempt the act.
Very informative…
Wow. I’m so glad you explained that. Now I understand
My high school choir/psych teacher actually told is about this. She also said if you have a suicidal friend who starts seeming like they might be getting better because they have more energy, that’s the time to be cautious because that’s when they may still be suicidal but they’ll actually have the energy to go through with it
THIS. a thousand times THIS. I had it explained to me in my AP psychology class in high school. super fucking important.
College psych classes say the same thing. Suicidal people are at the most risk as they begin to come out of their depression because of rises in energy/motivation. And if they have bipolar depression and get mixed state episodes (not terribly common, but it’s getting both depressed and manic at the same time,) that’s also a really risky time, for similar reasons.
In ancient Rome, pants were considered effeminate. Only dirty barbarians wore pants. A good Roman male was expected to keep a breeze on his privates at all times. Also, women couldn’t wear togas. If you saw a woman wearing a toga, it meant she was a prostitute.
History side of tumblr: verify please?
*Bursts through the door*
You rang?
I should probably clarify I mean trousers, not underpants, for all you folks of the British persuasion out there. Romans didn’t have undies as we do, but they did have loincloths. Generally they just let it all hang out, though. Wearing leg wraps or thick loincloths was a sign of old age or weakness. Think of high school boys today who wear shorts in winter to prove their toughness; it was the same for Romans.
Trousers were despised in ancient Rome because they were worn by barbarian Germanic tribespeople. In iconography that depicts Germans, they are shown with wild hair, long beards and pants to distinguish them from the good, civilised, neatly-shaven toga-wearing Romans.
Just look at those filthy barbarians. In trousers! So unlike us masculine Roman men.
#judgingyou
Wearing pants in Rome was a big no-no. A good Roman citizen simply wouldn’t wear pants, and they were banned from the Senate, Forum and Circus, so any Gallo-Germanic representative from the provinces had to change into Roman dress before he would be admitted.
Slaves and non-citizens still wore them, but freeborn Romans attached enormous prejudice to trousers. Inevitably, however, they became popular among lower classes until, in the lead up to the sack of Rome by the Goths, strong anti-Germanic sentiment against barbarian invaders led to Emperor Honorius banning pants in Rome. That’s right, trousers were banned. (Codex Theodosianus 14.10.2-3, tr. C. Pharr, “The Theodosian Code,” p. 415)
This site here should give you a quick run down on the basics of Roman dress. Togas were for men, and women wore long flowy dresses called stola that covered everything down to their feet. There’s a hilarious poem by Ovid where he talks about getting off on seeing a girl’s ankles; that’s how modestly they dressed (Amores, Book 3, Elegy II). The stola also came with a headscarf attached. Women were expected to cover their hair when they went out, which means dress standards for women were not unlike the dress codes of some Muslim countries today. Wearing the stola with the headscarf up says “back off boys. I’m a respectable Roman lady. Go find someone else to annoy.”
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Prostitutes, of course, need to send out the opposite message, and the simplest way to do that was by cross-dressing. If a Roman man walked down the street and saw a group of girls wearing men’s clothing and scandalously showing off their legs, he’d know instantly they were lupae, she-wolves; what we might call ‘ladies of the night’. In law, prostitutes actually came to be denied the privilege of the stola so that at all times they would be marked as meretrices. Prostitutes were also known to cut their hair short and dye them fantastic colours to further advertise their availability. This site should give you further information; it’s got some great quotes from source texts too.
Just look at those filthy barbarians. In trousers! So unlike us masculine Roman men.
#judgingyou
can’t touch dis
