one whole life recorded in disappearing ink

It is dangerous to go alone! Take this. [Hug Offered]

Asking Americans specifically: reblog and put in the tags how do you make tea.

“packmate” is a very good word to describe how i feel about some people. like we’re more than friends in my eyes but it’s not romantic you’re just. my person and im #keeping you. because you’re in my pack. wags my tail

autumn is coming. for the love of god you must hold on

retracing ur steps to remember what u were about to say/do is so funny like yeah let me go stand next to the microwave for a second i think i dropped my thought over there. & then it works

I feel like we forget Rocky VOLUNTEERED for the suicide mission despite having a mate and a fullfiling life on Erid and because of that is even more of an Outlier of Eridians than Grace is of humans. We're judging Eridians based on their equivalent of Olesya "I want to do a lethal injection with a little bit of heroin" Ilyukhina.

We're not forgetting shit, he left Erid with more than enough fuel to return home. It's well established that the tragedy of his mission is that everyone else died because they didn't know about radiation in space, but they were always intended to go home at the end.

There are hardly any female werewolves because they break all the classic rules of femininity. They force you to confront female violence, strength, size, grotesqueness and uncontrollability. Historically female shapeshifters always shift into something dangerous (snake) or sleek (cat) or dainty (bird) but female werewolves ignore the masculine gaze completely. They're distorted beasts that have no ulterior motive except to destroy. Nothing about them is nurturing or modest. They're the opposite of what a woman "should be." Their omission from pop culture is not an accident.

Eowyn on marriage and adjusting to new culture:

There are so many Gondorian custom that gets Eowyn to go 😑

Since she got married, she’s been wearing more Gondorian style dresses. This part is actually fine. She loves how the colours bring out her eyes.

Sometimes, she has to spend time with Gondorian noble women and socialise with them. Extremely boring and she’d rather be in her garden. Stable, even. Their tea time seems to take at least half a day. She has better things to do but she can be patient.

But then she learns that unlike Rohirrim girls, Gondorian girls are never taught self-defence skills. Not even to properly hold a sword or dodge an attack safely. And they ride horses Like That??

She. Is. Furious.

Then one day, the whole city of Minas Tirith wakes up to the sight of Gondorian noble women practicing sword fighting in the field, led by the Princess of Ithilien herself.

Even King Elessar is watching out of his window and it’s the first time he laughs in weeks. Also, he’s glad that his past situationship with the lady didn’t go anywhere and this isn’t HIS problem.

Some Gondorian noble man to Faramir: You should have married a lady that is more suited to our ways!

Faramir: And live a dull life like all of you? LOL oh here comes my lady! Love, how was the practice?

Eowyn: The wife of the treasurer needs to work on her footwork but otherwise they are progressing very nicely

(Paging @lady-of-ithilien cuz I know she’ll be into this)

anti-fatness is not just body shaming.

anti-fatness is discrimination. anti-fatness is having next to no legal protections for being discriminated against. anti-fatness is being denied housing, jobs, receiving less pay and promotions (legally) because of your size. anti-fatness is being denied access to clothing, seating, transportation, and other human rights because infrastructure has been designed to exclude you. anti-fatness is less likelihood of receiving a fair trial. anti-fatness is dehumanization. anti-fatness is being denied necessary surgeries, but not surgery that amputates the digestive tract with the intent to starve and shrink you (it doesn’t work either). anti-fatness is mutilation. anti-fatness is being subject to torture devices that bolt your mouth shut. anti-fatness is being told by close friends, family, and professionals that you are better off living with an eating disorder or other life-threatening illness. anti-fatness sells you starvation as a guaranteed opt-out of oppression, but doesn’t tell you that bodies will always regain weight to survive. anti-fatness blames and punishes you for failing at an achievement that is quite literally impossible. anti-fatness is a $90 billion dollar industry. anti-fatness is being denied gender-affirming care. anti-fatness is being barred from in vitro fertilization and reproductive healthcare. anti-fatness is being barred from adopting children. anti-fatness is being removed from your loving parents because they couldn’t make you thin. anti-fatness is intentionally starving your own baby so they won’t get fat. anti-fatness is disproportionately high suicide rates. anti-fatness is being killed at the hands of medical neglect and mistreatment. anti-fatness is the world preferring a dead body over a fat one.

reblogging this again because so many people still do not realize that fat liberation is deeply political. fat liberation is not body positivity. it is not about loving yourself or being non-judgemental. it is about THIS. 👆

I went to a library book sale this weekend and I found a very old book called “Electronic Life: How to Think About Computers,” which was published in I think 1975? I’ve been reading it kind of like how I would read a historical document, and it’s lowkey fascinating

There’s a whole paragraph that’s like “okay, find the keyboard. Don’t panic if it has more keys than a typewriter, that’s normal. Really, it’s fine. The extra keys don’t make things harder. It’s FINE”

Thought this section was particularly interesting:

Can the computer create something? At first glance it seems obvious that it can. Animated computer graphics, with their fluid transitions and whiplash perspectives, look strikingly new. And if one watches the machine doing animation work, there seem to be lengthy periods when the computer is acting “on its own.”

But if one observes these processes in more detail, it becomes clear that creation is not occurring within the machine. First of all, computer graphics are not unique. Computers have yet to generate anything that cannot be done by hand—and usually already has been done. Second, the apparent ability of the computer to “act on its own” is the outcome of thousands of hours of patient human effort to refine its instructions. The computer can manipulate a shape for us if we have already informed it what a shape is, what the rules for shape manipulation are, what this specific shape is, and so forth.

You can start an automobile engine and it will run by itself, too, but that doesn’t mean it’s being creative. It’s just running.

Somebody in 1975 had a better understanding of why artificial intelligence is not in any way “intelligence” than the majority of today’s intellectual minds.

I do think the ability to emoji-react is a net win for human communication. not only does it give you an outlet for 'I see and acknowledge this but don't have a verbal response' but it also adds a pleasing alethiometer element to things

my coworker announces that he's off to the dentist. someone reacts with a tooth emoji. is this a statement of dentist solidarity? a wish for my coworker to return with more (or fewer?) teeth than he set out with? simple word association? who can say

Friend of mine calls it active listening. Ah yes we are speaking of tooths. I understand and respond. Here it a tooth image. I have heard you.

i cannot take any of your views on sexism, patriarchy and gender seriously if you genuinely believe that women and men have different brains please stop putting this bullshit on my dash and stop believing in misogynistic pseudo science thank u

the amount of posts ive seen recently on my dash that uncritically parrot the myth that "trans womens brains are closer to cis women than cis men" as if that is in any way a progressive take is egregious. the idea that womens brains are different to begin with is scientifically unsound and rooted in misogyny, specifically the idea that women think differently and are less capable of logic and rationale while being more emotional. and you absolute idiots are taking this completely uncritically and going "yeah this is true women actually are more stupid. trans women included <3" just stop posting

tumblr users will just admit that they believe women are biologically and intellectually inferior and then think its progressive because they believe it applies to trans women also

as a trans man it drives me absolutely bonkers because i have personally lived through the proof that anything a man can do a woman can also do including being a man. women aren't less capable than men at literally anything. what do you mean trans women are fundamentally akin to cis women in being inferior? cis women are fundamentally akin to trans men who can do anything that cis men can do. these categories are made up, we made them up, they're stupid. hello.

please remember that I am a Canadian illustrator and it is fucking bizarre to come to me with medical questions

Why would you limit yourself to drawing Canadians?

everyone else unfollow me I want to be alone with arsnof

Boyband whose lore is that they're sealed in a clock tower and their music videos are the only way they can reach outside world

flaccid penis... it's chic, it's hip, it's the next big thing

it's the next thing

just showed the gate agent the Wikipedia article for Mussels instead of my boarding pass. don't text

after a couple hours chopping dried sea urchins into tiny pieces with a razor blade you start referring to the razor blade as yourself in your thoughts. a little while afterwards you'll inevitably think something along the lines of "i'm getting a bit dull, i'm going to have to throw myself out & get myself a new self" at which point your internal monologue has pretty much returned to baseline

This happens with mobility aids too. I bump into shit with my forearm crutches and say "ow" before I realize those are not, in fact, More Legs. Then when I get up and try to walk without them for a second there's a moment of feeling like a dog walking upright

If you find this interesting, look into extended mind/body theory :)

I think there’s a teaboot(?) post about this with a huge security cam system

Yeah I get twitchy when I don't have my eyes