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So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

First reverse image search from the donations page pic

The one that helped me most was This blog post, translated it says the artists name and the character name (Kano**, but it doesn't give me enough to go from)

The artist 斑马MU has a Pixiv account and posts on Bilibili, an app that mostly only has Chinese users. So I downloaded that and...

Of course the original image was taken down. No problem, what if I search in this new app for the character name?

Ah, discourse posts, of course. Some of which were made before the picture was removed. And so I give you

Oh, tasteful!! (And an adult, which I wasn't always certain about tbh). AND This is what the character usually looks like

A reminder that sell-buy dates or best-used-by dates are not the same as expiration dates.

The website puts a link to the USDA site which links to foodsafety dot gov who really wants you to use the app, but you can bypass it.

Also a link to the Canadian government's advisory on best-before dates.

By contrast, Fred accepts that Mary will not change her mind. I should like to think that even if he ended up becoming a clergyman against her wishes, he doesn’t hope to control her thoughts.

Is this read too facile?

I love this! I think the contrast between Dorothea and Rosamund especially is key to the novel.

Dorothea has a very traditional view of what a husband is meant to be to a wife, and she wants a man who is intelligent and will instruct her in how to think (it almost sounded like enrolling in university, not marriage), but she ends up figuring out that her husband isn't as intelligent as she imagined during courtship. This is a huge let down for her, because she wants to be a part of something significant, through her husband. Casaubon realizes this and yes, is badly hurt not only by Dorothea losing her admiration, but also because she is intelligent, it makes him have to confront the fact that he's been wasting his time, which he very much does not want to do. I mean this is also why he hates Will Ladislaw so much, because Will also knows this.

As for Lydgate, I don't know if he was exactly expecting Rosamund to feed his ego, but he definitely expected her to submit to his will and be a help-meet to him. He thinks his life will be easier with a wife, and it's very much not. The line that sums it up best for me is this one: "I have married care, not help." But it goes further than this, Rosamund won't even listen to him as a surgeon, much less a husband. He tells her not to go riding when pregnant, she goes twice behind his back, is thrown, and miscarries. Anyway, this is all to say that while Rosamund appears to be an ideal wife during courtship, she is far from that.

Both Lydgate and Dorothea, I think, held the same ideal of a relationship between a husband and wife, and both of them were severely disappointed by the outcome because they choose the wrong person. (I really, really love that Middlemarch is about people who make their own choices and their choices are so wrong. No one was forced!)

I do think Fred and Mary also embody this ideal, however Mary is far more clear-eyed about it. She tells Fred to make himself into someone she can respect, because she will not marry him otherwise. Mary is also more realistic in what earns her respect. She just wants Fred to do honest work, she doesn't need him to be some sort of paragon of intellect or the perfect husband (or wife in Lydgate's case). And I think that's why this relationship is the strongest. Mary knows who Fred is, she knows that she could respect him if he got his act together, but she's willing to overlook flaws. Dorothea and Lydgate perhaps had ideals that were impossible for humans to achieve.

A compilation of Wen Ning from various episodes*

↳ for anon, using the color palette CORPSE (x):

“You feel the bulge in his pants” - implies that you are feeling some guy’s penis, may be sexy depending on context

On the other hand, dropping out the conditional out of the question turns the tone into a passive-aggressive threat. If someone tells you "stop that" as an imperative, "lopeta", that's a command. Asking in conditional, could you stop that, "voisitko lopettaa" is a polite request. "Haluaisitko lopettaa", would you like to stop that, is so polite that depending on the tone it might be sarcastic politeness that indicates hostility.

But asking someone "do you want to stop that", "haluatko lopettaa tuon" is a matter of "do you want to stop doing that voluntarily, or do you want me to stop you." By physical force, if necessary.

Just wanted to bring to your attention that the term whump was actually coined by the Stargate fandom specifically to describe making this guy suffer. He is the original Mr. Whump (no that's not his actual name). That's how torturable this guy is.

Everyone say mean things about him.

Here is a non exhaustive list of what he goes through in canon btw:

His parents get crushed to death right in front of him when he is a kid

He is forced to relive the memory of his parents death countless times

He dies and gets resurrected

His wife gets possessed

He fails to save her and she dies in his arms

He dies and gets resurrected again

He gets infected by a virus that makes him act crazy and gets put in an insane asylum

He dies and gets resurrected again

His ex gets possessed

He is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation

He dies and ascends to a higher plane, then gets kicked out of the higher plane and his memory is wiped

He gets kidnapped by a princess

He gets kidnapped by a fish alien

He gets kidnapped and tortured by some terrorists

He gets kidnapped and tortured by another alien

He is driven to insanity by an alien device

He dies and gets resurrected again

Obvious disclaimer that you shouldn't have wild animals as pets.

But like, cheetahs are the only large cats that keepers will do free contact with. Hell, even most small cats don't get free contact. (Because small cats can be VICIOUS. They'll have a baby pallas cat wearing thicker gloves than when handling an owl. Because small cats can just be vicious.)

Like I think the only other cat at our zoo where I've seen free contact with was servals? Because I know they've used servals in shows to demonstrate their natural jumping ability. But I know servals can sometimes have a mean temper as well. Meanwhile they'll do the cheetah run and afterwards put the mic by the cheetahs and it's just like an engine with them purring. It's fascinating to watch when the message in every other large animal is "no free contact because it's dangerous even when they're born in captivity".

The answer is: the uterus isn't what causes your period, it is effected by your period. What causes your period and what causes trans women's periods is the same thing: the endocrine system.

HRT changes the sex of your endocrine system. Feminizing HRT makes it a female endocrine system, giving us a 28-day hormone cycle just like cis women. At the end of that cycle, the hypothalamus floods the body with prostaglandins. Those are what cause all but one of the period symptoms, because they make muscles inflame and contract. They are what make the uterus shed its lining, they are what cause intestinal cramps, they are what cause body aches, they are what cause headaches and migraines. The only period symptom not causes by the release of prostaglandins throughout the body is depression, and that is caused by your endocrine system simply not processing as much estrogen and from simply feeling like shit.

So, the only symptoms trans women don't get every 28 days is menstrual cramps, because yes we do not menstruate since we don't have uteruses. But migraines, depression, body aches, intestinal cramps, and the infamous "period shits" don't exactly add up to us having any better of a time. Except we have to pretend that we're fine and nothing is different because no one believes that we get periods, not even cis women.