【ℕ𝕠𝕩𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 ℕ𝕪𝕩】

Considering deleting this app tbh, I don't think it's especially good for me

Ennyway yuh, deleting the app I think. Respect all you who may be reading this ofc, but this place has been insane lately. Not doing good things for me. Byea folks, stay safe

we have to build structures

@official-penis-posts

“Fat dick spirit” makes me think of those ghosts from Pac-Man

mom is really interested in genealogy/family history (she's been able to trace one of our ancestral lines back to the 1500s) so every so often i get to hear a fun story about how one of my ancestors murdered somebody

My moms maiden name isn't even the "real" name of the ancestor that originated it, the family line has that name because the guy killed somebody and had to run away and change his name

y'all ever think about the chain of tragedies that led to your existence

see it was fucked up to learn that walls in video games are just rectangles that push you back but what's crazy is that it works like that in real life too

“I hate school I’m sorry Malala”- Funny yet poignant. Acknowledges both the difficulty of the task and the fact that doing that task is a privilege. Gives credit to the people who fought for that privilege with a tongue in cheek acknowledgement of the irony of the initial statement

“I’m just a girl I should be home baking bread not doing calculus” - at best historically uninformed at worst leaps decades back in time. Refusal to acknowledge the charged history of education and slights the centuries of women’s labor it took to reach this point

People say that the rest of the internet is Tumblr on a time delay but my God sometimes it really does hit you.

when applied to drinks, "dry" means "without sugar". therefore it follows that sugary drinks can be called "wet". the meanings of the terms "hot" and "cold" when applied to drinks are obvious. thus the aspect of any drink can be determined.

for instance, green tea, freshly steeped and served without additives, is hot and dry, and therefore has an aspect of fire.

a mocha, on the other hand, while hot, is sweet, and therefore wet, and thus has an an aspect of air.

lemonade, which is wet and cold, has a water aspect.

finally, the drink which most epitomizes the earth aspect, being both cold and dry, is vodka

We have once again returned to the four humors

some of you need to get more normal about erotic horror, im not saying you have to like it, or have to consume it. but its such a potent form of horror. you all love Alien but dont want to talk about how its about penetration. its a great excercise in media literacy about things that might at first make you uncomfortable, which is the point.

horror reflects societal fears, and analysing it through media is a brilliant way to engage with how sexuality is controlled and censored and made frightening please think about this instead of slasher slop of the week, this is your homework.

im going to talk a lot about Alien here because it is a beloved piece of media that is accessible and well disected in terms of its themes. but think about how the xenomorph, a creature that is inherently phallic in its design is also feminised, it was created specifically to make men uncomfortable at the time of its release, im conflicted on whether or not i feel that this is pushing a transphobic subtext i would rather allow space for trans women to talk about this rather than myself.

but the concept of the sexually phallic and penetrative female form is presented to be both be alluring to the straight man, and make him fear forced penetration and birth, it is supposed to make someone who would not usually empathise with this type of horror relate to that fear

*meeeting a friend for coffee* friend: how's work been?

me: oh you know *mimes putting a gun in my mouth but i moan a little and start sucking the barrel and pushing it deeper

I'm not gonna lie the secret to success for a great many people is absolutely stimulant abuse

Wait hold on what was that

I remember in my medieval philosophy class my professor once mentioned that silent reading wasn’t always the norm and that rather people would read outlouad typically. One of the most well known examples of this is in Augustine’s Confessions where he remarks that he was astonished at how Ambrose of Milan would read books silently and without moving his lips or mouth at all. It wasn’t that people didnt have the ability to read silently like people would be aware if a situation called for them to read the contents quietly such as a politician or general recieving a letter with sensitive information. The point rather is that in those cases the person would intentionally will themselves to read quietly and if you were going to sit down and read a book or scroll the default was that you would read it out loud so someone that read silently as their norm would be seen as ‘odd’. And by ‘odd’ I dont mean that people thought they were a freak or stupid just that it was a strange quirk. 

As a matter of fact reading silently might’ve been seen as a sign that someone was an incredibly heavy reader such as with Ambrose. The reason being that one of the reasons vocalized reading was the norm had to do with how people wrote texts like it was pretty common for there to be irregularities with the script or especially that it was highly common for writings tonothavespacesinbetweenwordssoreadingoutloudfeltlikeamorenaturalasawaytomakeouttheindividualwords. An incredibly ‘veteran’ reader like Ambrose (Augustine also mentions Ambrose could read quickly) might develop mental shortcuts letting them more easily pick part the individual words that had been squished together and in doing so simply gradually drop the habit of reading out loud because it wasnt an aid to them any longer. In Latin Europe this changed when Irish monks in the late 7th century developed the practice of writing with more uniform letters as well as separating different words by leaving blank spaces between them. This slowly spread to the rest of Latin Europe (at least with the monastaries) until it finally became the norm in the 12th century, just in time for the explosive importation of scientific and philosophical literature from the Arabic world which was nice.

Anyway back to before that happened, something my professor said that was pretty interesting was that that if you stepped into a medieval library before this change ocurred is that youd be struct by how much talking was seeming to go on the monks read to themselves. That combined with the fact that the expensive nature of books often meant might could be attached to chains meant that a medieval library would be have a continuous din of murmuring and rattling metal which is interesting imagery for a library.

John Holbo wrote some stuff about this a while back that was pretty interesting

I knew this without the details. A cool thing to learn about Ambrose.

there was a person (presumably cis man) on my post about discharge bleaching fabrics who was like “I did not need to know that 🤢” you don’t want to know fun vagina facts? you don’t think acid pussy is super interesting? where is your curiosity and whimsy, bro? 😔

Ngl if I had a plasma pistol I'd be forgetting to charge it all the time and letting it overheat and shit. Yeah just leave it on the dashboard in a hot car on a 40° day fuck it. What could go wrong?