Otter's Rock

A queen at the long fall of her empire

really fond of the idea that the adjustments murderbot made to its appearance for this mission made it look more a member of mensah's family

ID below the cut (copied from alt)

As a white person raised in a white supremacist society, you’re gonna fuck up sometimes. That’s just a fact. But racialized people often aren’t able/comfortable speaking up when y’all do some shit because of the power imbalance/not feeling up to educating when you may be resistant/don’t think the “fight” will be Worth It.

Show initiative without making it A Struggle or playing the white guilt card. Show you actually care about them, their struggles, and the way you interact with them BEFORE they have to have a bigger Conversation with you, beyond when they need to yell about someone else being racist.

Even close friends or partners are not necessarily safe. I have had partners dismiss accusations of racism just off hand, I have had partners treat me like a repository for knowledge on Muslim cultural practices despite the fact that *my family has been Christian since Jesus,* hell I have had a partner say I was overplaying my pain at the genocide to get sympathy.

IF YOU ARE WHITE YOU HAVE TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP OR YOU ARE JUST PUTTING MORE LABOR AND DANGER ON YOUR RACIALIZED FRIENDS FOR YOUR FUCKING COMFORT

“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.

“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.

“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.

The second search result had included the slur "ob*se" in the title of the article.

There are seriously people who tell me fat people aren't oppressed. Meanwhile, trying to find information about how to keep a fat person from drying in a car crash is met with links to products that make dirty money off of how society views my body.

Pelvic bones are strong and sturdy, and you're going to be MUCH less likely to injure internal organs and such when you suddenly slam into a nylon belt"

Text and photos by @thejacespace

And I was like “I’m flattered you think so! No, he’s not intended to be autistic, but I’m glad you can see yourself in him.”

the issue I was running into with researching this a few weeks ago is that almost all of the scholarly writing on the content of people's forced-sex fantasies focuses solely on women's fantasies and starts with the research question of "why would women enjoy imagining such a horrible misogynistic thing?" despite surveys often showing that men have force-fantasies (where they are the one being forced) at very comparable rates to women. my hypothesis for a bit was "either men's fantasies are exactly the same as women's or they're completely different in [x] way," which was disproven interestingly when I did finally find something about men's force-fantasies: in content they are almost exactly the same as women's fantasies but the emotional motivations are often different in [y] way, which I hadn't expected. and [y] also super applies to my buddy ryland, perhaps even more than my original [x] hypothesis.

William Peter Blatty: OMG did you guys hear Poe: what? Blatty: the society of st. pius X has schismed from the mother church! Blatty: this could be the biggest interdoctrinal ecumenitestimal since the integral convergence of the helgrimite blasphemy at the diet of dendronal in 1536!! Poe: King: Lovecraft: Koontz: Barker:

Blatty: this is like when the blessed council of garbanza rectified the confluence of the discalced silurians in 1232! Poe: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker: Blatty: c'mon it's so obvious! Blatty: it's like a one to one correlation! Poe: King: Koontz: Lovecraft: Barker: Blatty: i don't know how you can't see the parallels

Blatty: this is just like during the Third Reconciliation of the Last of the Meketrex Supplicants, when many Shubs and Zulls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar that day, I can tell you! Blatty: don't act so confused Blatty: you all should have learned about that in CCD

Society of st pius x: anyway you're not even our real pope sospx: it's not like we even have to listen to you sospx: you're not the boss of us sospx: hey pope leo does this bug you sospx: we're not touching youuu ha ha

sospx: so anyway you're not the boss of us sospx: you can't tell us what to do sospx: i mean ha ha like what are you even going to do sospx: like excommunicate us or something ha ha Pope Leo: yeah, you're excommunicated sospx: [surprised pikachu face]

sospx: y sospx: you can't do that! sospx: the last pope would NEVER have done that!! Pope Leo: yeah i ain't da last pope Pope Leo: i'm from Chicago

Pope Leo: see these society of st pius x jabronis wanna play hardball? Pope Leo: i just ask myself, what would Gandalf do Pope Leo: would he just let the necromancer secretly regain his orc-hold strength at dol Guldur after the downfall of númenor? Pope Leo: and i thought Pope Leo: no he wouldn't! JRR Tolkien: finally! someone who understands my work!

sospx: no fair!! no fair!! sospx: we shouldn't have to listen to the pope to be catholic! sospx: that's not how it works! Pope Leo: eyyy who here's got da papal infallibility? sospx: [mumbles] Pope Leo: what's dat? speak up sospx: you Pope Leo: you're damn right it's me

Pope Leo: you're all schismed now Pope Leo: an if you wanna come back, you gotta write "i am very very sorry for rejecting Vatican II" a hundred million times Pope Leo: IN INK sospx: nooooo we can't not be mad about Vatican ii sospx: you don't understanddddd sospx: we really hate jewsss Pope Leo: ey then you can all get fucked Pope Leo: i'm da Chicago pope!

Pope Leo: that's right Pope Leo: i'm the Chicago pope Pope Leo: i don't care who's toes i step on Pope Leo: i'm gonna make a lotta enemies Pope Leo: like when theoden of rohan lead the rohirrim at the battle of the pelennor fields to save minas tiri Pope Leo: yeah it's just like dat

STEP 1: Take a screencap of the video, preferably while it's playing so that the PLAY button isn't blocking the image.

STEP 2: Reverse image search of choice. To my chagrin, I tend to end up resorting to Google's Search by image because Tineye keeps failing me and I haven't gotten around to doing a deep dive into currently available reverse image search services.

If you use the Firefox desktop web browser (untested: other desktop web browsers, Firefox mobile web browser) you can combine STEP 1 & STEP 2: Feel free to repost the video to Tumblr first, preferably as a draft or private post to prevent people from reblogging the uncredited vid, because this method doesn't work as well on Reddit videos.

Right-Click on the video. In the right-click menu, look for "Image Search Options" and hover over it to bring up a list of search options. I'll have to try out some of the other options later, but for this demonstration I used Google.

The search engine should open in another tab.

STEP 3: The Search. This part will be a mix of luck, tenaciousness, and deductive skills.

For Google, I recommend going to the "Exact matches" tab because it presents matches and their information in a much more condensed format than the other tabs. "Exact matches" is a misnomer, as is apparent in the screencap below. This search actually pulled up images from at least two separate videos by the same woman hanging from the same tree: one where she's wearing a slate grey pencil skirt and blazer (as in the video reposted by OP) and one where she's wearing a pale grey long-sleeved dress.

Ideally, a functional search engine would let you sort results by useful variables such as "date posted". Google is not such a search engine, and with its progressive enshittification you may or may not be able to bully Search by image into limiting results to certain date ranges. Luckily, these videos have been less flagrantly reposted than some, so I didn't have to scroll through too many.

When searching for a source, one of the primary things to pay attention to is date. Obviously, the original source has to be older than any of the reports. Unfortunately, not all the Google results have dates, so the earliest dated video isn't guaranteed to be the original.

In this case, the earliest result was of the grey dress video variant posted on Instagram on Jan 17, 2026. However, upon checking the link it became apparently that the Instagram account was not the originator of the video and their repost was unsourced.

If the date check fails you, keep an eye out for any undated results that clearly stand out from the rest. In this case, I picked up on the following:

Which has the following unique traits:

A new outfit! This is the only result that features the woman in a pale brown blazer and pencil skirt.

Dimensions. This result is 1080 x 1920, while the majority of results were smaller in size. Reposts are more likely to be downscaled from the original than upscaled, so if the initial date-check fails you, you're better off checking the largest undated results first.

Specific username (Liang Li (@liangli521)). A lot of the other results just have captions or titles in various languages. Depending on the website, these are usually either captioned reposts or random search terms that don't even link to the actual video. Results with specific usernames are rarer and thus worth checking out, though some of them may turn out to be reposters.

In this case, I hit the jackpot! There they all were: OP's video, the grey dress video, the brown blazer & skirt video, and many, many more!

Legitimately, Liang Li's whole thing seems to be going ham in skirts, dresses, and frequently heels. Possibly for advertising purposes? Very beautiful. Very powerful.

Bonus videos:

Cool lights!

Obstacle courses and playgrounds with friend!

H-hot damn, ma'am...

Hello! I'm one of you. When I was younger, I would have so much trouble having friends. I'm still not very good at it, but I will tell you what has made it better.

1. I learned the local sign language alphabet. When people are talking, my head fills up with things I want to say. I used to either interrupt people, or I would be so focused on not interrupting and waiting for my turn that I wouldn't actually listen to them.

Now, I use the sign alphabet to remember what I want to say. So if I want to talk about dolphins, I hold the D shape. I leave the remembering to my hand. This lets me listen to what the other person is saying. You could use a notepad or a phone, as long as you do it quickly.

2. I learned how to engage the other person. This is so hard. I want to ramble on and on! But people generally don't like that. They want to talk with you, not be talked at.

I would make pauses in my speech, so they could talk. I would ask questions. I wasn't very good at asking questions at first. I would say, "isn't that cool?" That doesn't give someone much to respond to. So...

3. I learned to ask open ended questions, like "What do you think about this character's choice?"

4. I learned that I needed to find common interests. I'm lucky because I can talk about a wide variety of topics. If you can't, I suggest you find clubs or forums for your special interest. You could also try to find something related to it. For example, if you like Steven Universe, and the other person is interested in gem stones, you could ask them about the real life properties of diamonds versus pearls and things.

As much as I want to talk all day about the show I just watched, I need to find someone who wants to hear it. If I'm with someone who doesn't like that kind of thing, I need to talk about something we both like. If I just met them, I can ask what their hobbies or favorite shows are, or I can ask them if they like my favorite stuff.

GLADLY

The one I tagged is The Silt Verses, starring Sister Carpenter who is one of my favorite protagonists in anything EVER. The Silt Verses is fantasy-horror tragedy set in a world where gods are very present, very active, and very hungry. Human sacrifice is what powers this world and all of society is structured around this fact. In this world of gods and laws and sacrifices and late-stage capitalism, Carpenter is a worshipper of an illegal river god, who she has done so many terrible things in the name of, and who she is losing her faith in. Carpenter is a stubborn survivor, grouchy and standoffish and carrying the weight of so much doubt and pride and regret and she CANNOT catch a break—she’s not the whimpering type but everything else fits her to a T and I love her.

Another one that absolutely fits the bill is The Pasithea Powder, a sci-fi space opera about the aftermath of a devastating space war. Captain Sophie Green is now a war hero, and Dr. Jane Gonzalez is now a war criminal, and they used to be best friends, and they are… not anymore. The story starts with Sophie on a “friendship tour” after her planet lost the war and has to make nice (she is very bad at making nice) and Jane in prison (for the Unethical Science she was doing, the horror when it was revealed which led to her planet losing the war). They are also both wrecked and haunted by the death in the war of Sophie’s boyfriend and Jane’s best friend, who is haunting the narrative more than just about anyone ever. Jane and Sophie are both A MESS and unfortunately they are the only ones who seem to notice or care that Jane’s unethical science is still being used and there is another war brewing on the horizon. Politics, aliens, slowburn F/F with the most disaster bisexuals you have ever seen. REALLY good.

Talking about women who whimper and fuck up and go to prison and try so so so hard and are hurt and sad and angry and everything: NICA STAMATIS HOW COULD I FORGET MY GIRL NICA from Greater Boston. Greater Boston doesn’t really have a protagonist—it is joyously and deliberately a great big ensemble cast—but the Stamatis siblings Leon, Nica, and Dimitri are where it all started. It’s a magical realism/slipstream story, a mosaic of people interacting in this strange and alternate Boston, centering around the political campaign for the Red Line subway to secede and become its own underground train city. I love every character, even the awful ones, but if you want a woman who whimpers throughout the whole thing and is always on the brink of death (more metaphorical than literal, but still) and thinks she's a monster for the things she's done and saves so many people and hurts so many people and fucks up and tries again and has so so so many scars (again metaphorical, but oh boy her metaphorical scars) That’s Nica.