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awkwardexxodus

oh man the painting on this drawing is insa- fuck do you mean #minecraft build

awkwardexxodus

the specific build in question btw

parchmentengineer

I looked up some of the artist's other builds and they're all just absolutely incredible

#MINECRAFT

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ashlingmizuoka

“Do you ever wish you could be 16 again?”

↳ Buffy Summers

Buffy the Vampire Slayer | S1 EP03 : Witch

#the thing about btvs is that #nothing I've seen before or since #was as clear and beautiful a story to mirror my teenage girl suffering back at me TO ME.#just. the teenage girl is suffering and keeps going back for more because there's no other choice #meanwhile her mother tells her “look I just wish you didn't choose suffering all the time!”#even once she knows about the slaying. it's. uuuugh.#“daughter dearest why do you choose to suffer?”#“the universe made me to suffer mom. I didn't choose this.”#“but you're choosing not to walk away!”#“if I walked away from suffering the world would end.”

valtsv

taking off a mask to reveal what lies beneath as a romantic gesture is overdone, and besides i want to see the romantic or even platonic potential of protecting someone's identity beneath the mask, without any expectation of ever being allowed to see what's under it. picking it up and holding it gently to their face when it's knocked off and they're in danger of being exposed, without trying to catch a glimpse of what they "really" look like under there. throwing yourself in front of them to hide them from view while they put themselves back together without taking advantage or looking back to see what you're protecting. learning to read them by body language, tone of voice, and behaviour so well that you never need to see their face to feel like you know and understand them.

#this too is about autism

stuckinapril

I think part of getting better is complete ego death. Like you’re not above setting a timer for 5 minutes and focusing on a task. You’re not above doing a very simple 3 minute workout to start. You’re not above reading for 10 minutes a day when you first get out of your reading slump, even if you used to read for hours. You’re not above starting slow and then building up to where you want to be/where you once were. What you are above is total inertia. Doing something really is better than doing nothing. Radically accept where you are, radically accept your limits, and go from there. Don’t let your ego get in the way.

aaaaoouuuuuugghhhh

but there actually are some social cues that can be taught. like the obvious one is when someone says “how are you” they usually mean “friendly noise” and are not actually asking how you are, although some people ARE genuinely asking how you are and it’s usually up to the context of your relationship to determine the difference

also that apparently “when you get a chance” usually means “when you take a break from the thing you’re immediately doing” and not “on a list among various other things you are doing today or tomorrow”

and when someone says “i’ll let you get going” they mean “please leave”

aaaaoouuuuuugghhhh

oh and you have to learn to weaponize “thank you for your understanding”. which means “there is nothing you can do about this so accept it”

transcyberism

might I add "thanks for your patience" = "things are going as fast as they can reasonably go and if you keep asking when it's going to be done you will actively slow the process down through your constant pestering"

#I love thanking ppl for their patience or understanding in a professional context in lieu of apologising for delays or inconvenience #I hadn't considered it a power play as such #just that ppl tend to respond better to u when you apologise less

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wertfi-penguin

Maybe the most damming thing about Nolans odyssey is i haven’t seen a single gifset from it

geekyhistoriansunite

mortalityplays

another huge piece of advice: separate out 'tidying', 'cleaning' and 'organising' in your head. they're not the same thing and a lot of paralysis and overload comes from either misidentifying what your space needs, or trying to do all of them at once with conflicting goals.

TIDYING means clearing space, making your environment orderly and inviting. it usually entails removing clutter from surfaces, clearing the floor so you can move around easily, and creating psychological ease by putting everything visibly in its place. It's very visual, and can also involve things like straightening picture frames, squaring pillows, folding blankets on the couch, etc. It reduces chaos and noise and makes a space comfortable.

ORGANISING means sifting through belongings, ensuring that what doesn't need to be kept is thrown out and what does need to be kept is kept well. This often means categorising by room and function – teaspoons go in the teaspoon drawer, and the teaspoon drawer stays in the kitchen. It can also mean indexing things so you can find them easily (markers sorted by colour, paperwork divided into topical folders, books alphabetised) and preserving things (moving photos out of direct sunlight, keeping open flour in a sealed container, sleeving trading cards).

CLEANING means removing built up dirt, dust and grime, reducing the level of environmental contaminants and making your space sanitary. Bacteria are a fact of life, they love to hang out in dust and cling to pet hair and multiply on any given surface. Cleaning is how you keep that stuff in check, preventing it from building up to the point it affects your health. This means wiping frequently touched surfaces with disinfectant, sanitising utensils (doing the dishes), washing bedding and clothes (and yourself), and sweeping/vacuuming and taking out the trash to physically remove dirt from your home.

Tidying is not the same thing as organising – shove the mail, bills, dirty teaspoons and your gardening gloves in a drawer, and you've tidied the table. Sort the paperwork into piles by deadline, put the teaspoons in a cup, and roll the gloves together so they don't get separated, and the table is untidy but organised.

Similarly, a tidy or organised space can still be filthy. Just because all the yellowed newspapers and trash bags are sorted by date in the basement, out of sight, doesn't mean they're clean. A chaotic, cluttered space can still be very sanitary if it's being kept clear of refuse, and wiped and dusted often.

Sometimes tidying makes your space less organised, and vice versa. Organising often shakes out a lot of dust and makes the space dirtier. The classic "it's even worse than when I started" feeling is often the result of going into a room with the intent of tidying, then actually starting the task of organising instead. It's a lot easier to tidy an organised space, and organising first is usually the right instinct, but the distinction isn't intuitive so the sudden cluttering effect can be really demoralising. Remember they're three different things with different goals. Sometimes they overlap, but sometimes they conflict. That doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.

e-the-village-cryptid

Also, if your organizing constantly makes things un-tidy when you're done, and your tidying makes things less organized, you need more bins or shelves.

theprofessional-amateur

I love a good Very Specific Resource. Here are the links to my posts about resources carefully crafted to share a specific bit of history (updated as needed)

How Fast Was the Mail - Interactive map that giving mail delivery info in the US 1882-1908, also general railroad network information

Streaming Music from Around the World - No algorithms, lots of options, amazing music nerds helping you discover more music.

Professor Shoelace - everything you ever needed to know about shoelaces

Commercial Pattern Archive - over 50,000 scanned sewing patterns dating back to the 1850s

Public Domain Image Archive - thousands of images from various repositories no longer under copyright

Medieval Murder Maps - interactive maps of murder and accidents in medieval London, York, and Oxford

Travel in Times - plan travel routes in England and Wales in various centuries

The Quilt Index - a digital repository of quilts, makers, and their stories

Louis Armstrong Archives - Some highlights from the archives and how to access the full collection from home!

RSN Stitch Bank - hundreds of sewing and embroidery stitches, their uses, their structure, how to make them, and history!

Archive of 80s mixtapes - a whole lot of tapes from the 80s and also tapes of background music from Kmart in the 80s and 90s

Feast Afrique - What started as an exploration and celebration of West African culinary heritage has since expanded to include history, language, culture, and customs of West Africa and the African diaspora.

Letterform Archive - Thousands of high quality images celebrating graphic design, calligraphy, and typography. The beauty of letters!

Historic Menu Collection - Over 17,000 historic menus, 1.3 million historic dishes transcribed. Historic popularity and price range, map it, and more.

Palestinian Embroidery - Digital archives dedicated to the preservation of Palestinian embroidery. Over 1,000+ free patterns

Black Craftseople Digital Archive - enhancing knowledge of Black crafts people (both free and enslaved) and the objects they produced.

Georgian Lady's Magazine Embroidery Patterns - Free embroidery patterns from 1770-1819

The Dutch Textile Trade Project - History and trade of textiles in the 17th and 18th centuries. Fabric types, images, data on trade.

Estonian Knitting - Bog knits! History! Techniques!

scaphandrah-deactivated20251120

Egon Schiele - Port of Trieste - 1907

this-is-trans-joy

I don’t know if this is an obvious take or a hot take, but I think people need to start re-framing feminism as the fight for body autonomy as opposed to whatever this second wave revival gender essentialist bullshit we have going on right now. Once you reframe it in this way, it’s easier to understand intersectionality and why cis women are not the only people who need feminism. The lack of body autonomy effects cis women, trans people, intersex people, disabled people, poc, homeless people, sex workers, etc. and your feminism needs to include and prioritise all of these groups of people (which will include men btw) because feminism is about autonomy, not about establishing a matriarchy. Body autonomy is the biggest threat to the patriarchy, both with reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and even the right to not be drafted into military services. Once body autonomy is established for everyone, the patriarchy no longer has a leg to stand on.

And body autonomy does include things that you don’t personally like either. I was prompted to write this post after a series of bad takes from progressives, but one of them was re-hashing the Sabrina Carpenter album cover drama with “I don’t think it’s conservative of me to think that the album cover is a bad look when we’ve seen images of women being abused in this way” because I do actually think you’ve failed to understand feminism by projecting your morals onto a woman who was consensually expressing her own autonomy just because she expressed it in a way that you didn’t like or that made you uncomfortable.

Body autonomy also means unhealthy choices. Body autonomy also means regret rates. Body autonomy also means freedom of sexuality. Body autonomy also means mutilation. If you believe body autonomy has limitations and exceptions, then your feminism is most likely surface level.

TERFs are some of the biggest opponents to body autonomy, and if you find yourself thinking “oh people can do whatever they want with their bodies as long as it doesn’t harm them or make others uncomfortable” then you are far more susceptible to TERF propaganda than you think.

this-is-trans-joy

ooooh the radfems are BIG mad about this one

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drops-of-universe

as a woman you're always too young or too old for things because the perfect age is when you're a man

marithlizard

The reality of how much damage AI mania is doing to our ability to run institutions effectively.

Not that most of us can DO anything about it, but at least this is validation that we're not crazy and the world really is running full tilt over a cliff. It's really refreshing to have someone describe this in plain language, with specifics. Someone on the ground, not an outside commenter: This was a terrible mistake. It backfired in the most predictable way imaginable – every lukewarm client that saw the chatbot in action, even with us telling them that it was not going to accomplish what they wanted, wanted to buy it immediately. Every other consideration, including millions of dollars that we could plausibly help them achieve by non-AI means, was swept aside. It was like a dark and terrible force seized control of their limbs, plunged their hands into their own chests, and presented their still-beating credit cards to us in grim supplication. We were so mortified by the inexplicable shift in energy that we (wisely) declined to take the money and ended the sales process, and soon thereafter removed Cortex from our list of demonstrations.

lindseymcdonaldseyelashes

Leverage 5x9- "The Rundown Job"

#top 10 sexiest scenes ever put on television #and it's just this scene 10 times

gojinka

This post is so funny like comment subscribe if you picture your favs bloodied and coughing on the floor and flinching

#lol #lmao even

brawlingdiscontent

WTF went wrong with The Vampire Lestat: anti-Black racism edition

So many people have been writing excellent posts about the issues with The Vampire Lestat, in particular regarding the show's anti-Black racism. I've been gathering some of these for my own reference and thought I would share. This list is by no means exhaustive. I tried not to have too much overlap on points among the posts, and have loosely organized them. Please add your own/others that you love! (As a reblog or comment)

The context/going into TVL

v4mpgrrl on anti-Black fandom meets the de-racialization of popular discussion around the show

lilacs-in-the-wind on the show’s choice to deliberately explore race and thereafter its attempts to ignore/avoid it

kriame on the show's changing racial dynamics across seasons (with particular attention to Armand)

coldeveryseason on white liberal insecurity and fandom response to critiques of TVL

General patterns/TVL choices

subcrypha (pre-finale but prophetic) on the white gaze and the taste for Black suffering

coldeveryseason on the decision to remove book Magnus/Marius/Gabrielle’s white supremacy from the narrative:

tv-kiki on the specific brutalization of Black characters in IWTV/TVL

certifiedlurker on the S3 meta-trial and humiliation of Louis and Lestat's white goodness

crithir on problematic selective depiction of Armand’s violence

yaoiblackmold on TVL removing all blame from Lestat

Analyses of specific moments

crazykuroneko on inappropriate/reductive comparisons between Lestat and Claudia's assaults (3.3)

jeunesseoubliee on why the ‘slave’ language is so harmful vs. its use in s1 (3.6)

infinitelyweary on the seance scene, Louis’ grief, and issues with what Claudia does/doesn't mention (3.6)

claudialdpdl on the offensiveness of Claudia's words to Louis in the seance scene (3.6)

loyalhorror on the mistreatment of Claudia and sloppy writing (3.6)

certifiedlurker and crithir on why ‘it happened in the books’ isn’t a valid defense of Claudia’s seance speech (3.6)

tomato-frog43 on disproportionate violence against Black folks (3.7)

Things the creators have said

usaginoir on the 3.7 TVL After Dark finale (with specific quotes from Hannah in particular)

murfpersonalblog on victim blaming Louis

Don't forget to like and/or reblog if you find a post useful! (Editing to clarify I mean the posts I'm linking to, not this post)

#I was excited to watch s3 but #........ you know maybe not

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shesnake

“Speaking of being on the nose... I saw the film at Havelock City in “IMAX with laser”, which, while excellent—I am not much of a films guy and I am happy to be impressed— is not the IMAX 70mm that it was famously shot in and demands to be seen in. There are no IMAX 70mm theatres in Sri Lanka, obviously, since there are none in the entire third world and not that many in the first, either. Much like the Bronze Age culture whose collapse and consequent technological loss is depicted so on-the-nosily in The Odyssey, IMAX 70mm projectors are a lost technology belonging to a dead civilization. No new 70mm projectors have been built in my lifetime; the ancient aliens who built this technology are long gone, leaving us to marvel at how one cannot even slip a bare bodkin between the pixels. This seems fitting for a fantastic spectacle that isn’t fantastical at all.”

— Review of The Odyssey (2026) by Vajra Chandrasekera

lostxanadu

the thing about being bullied for being weird as a kid is that even if you've always embraced being weird your brain is still always looking for the line where it's too much. you can be as proudly and intentionally weird as you want and you can love being weird but your mind is still convinced there's a point where you get too weird and people start treating you like a weird looking bug again. also it feels like you reach that point 500 times a day even if everyone you've spoken to today found you pleasant and likable and even if you're completely alone in your house with nobody looking at you at all.

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