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I was talking to my mom about John Green today and I mentioned that “he’s still on tumblr” and she asked why that would be weird and I said that no one is on tumblr these days, “except him and I guess me”
So
I don’t know what all of you guys are doing here, because clearly this website is occupied only by me and John Green
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even if trans women did have a notable advantage in sports i wouldnt give a fuuuuuuuuck. wahhhhh wahhh what if minorities start playing games too good! society could crumble! we just have no choice but to unperson them to avoid that from happening. absolute loser behavior.
if hollanov got outed in sochi would they get married in canada or the U.S? politically (also wait svetlana wouldnt be able to be there probably thats so sad :( )
I think it depends.
If the democrats successfully codify gay marriage into federal law which they still haven’t managed in the real world even though you should not be relying on goddamn Obergefell to protect gay marriage but whatever and name the bill after Shane/Ilya because their “love story” was a huge part of the political push to get the bill passed, then I think there’d be a lot of pressure to get married under the law that’s literally named for them. But if they don’t personally change the landscape of gay rights in America with the power of their situationship, then I think that they’d be a lot freer to get married wherever.
Like. It’s gonna be a political spectacle. If they get married in this universe then they have to invite the Obamas to their wedding. Like. You cannot jilt the former POTUS who endangered global diplomatic relations for your relationship. Obama is at that wedding. He gets to sit in the front row where the immediate family gets to sit. He can bring his dog if he wants. He can officiate if he wants.
But I also don’t like the idea of their wedding being a political spectacle even though it’s likely in this scenario. I put my characters through hell and put them in situations beyond their control and take away their autonomy but I always like to give it back to them at the end. Like. Practically speaking, they are never escaping the global political theatre. But that doesn’t mean they have to have their entire lives happen on stage.
I like the idea that they get married in a small, private ceremony before they have the “real” wedding. It doesn’t matter where they have it. There’s no official paperwork involved. They’re not married on paper after. But they walk down the aisle and say their vows and the promises they make matter more to them than any sheet of paper ever did. They invite 0 diplomats. The only people who are there to see them be married are the people who they actually want there.
In my mind, they’d be married in secret for a while before they had the “real” wedding. At least a year. I think they’d just want that time for just themselves before having to go through to the entire show of the formal wedding. It’d be something just for them.
I usually disable all the health stuff in the iPhone Health app but i opened it today check something completely unrelated when i decided to scroll down the "All Health Data" section and i've apparently fallen down a lot?? on one day in January 2015 in particular
There's 86,400 seconds in a day. A femtosecond is one quadrillionth of a second. there are 8.64e19 femtoseconds in a day. i would have to fall down at least 1e61 times per quadrillionth of a second to reach that number
apparently a fall creates 2-4kN of force so lets split the difference and say 3kN so thats 3e81 kN of cumulative force applied over a 24 hour period to roughly, i dunno a square meter or two. i have no idea how to quantify that but im pretty sure that's an erosive force that can move mountains
presuming im invincible, i dont think the elasticity of like, granite can even keep up with the frequency of the impact. interesting conundrum
i failed to consider the speed involved here in order to fall 1e81 times in a 24h period.
i'm 178cm tall, and in order to fall repeatedly, you have to get back up again (isnt there a song about this?) so one complete fall cycle is 356 cm, or 0.00356 km.
i traveled 0.00356km 1e81 times so thats 3.56e78 km/day, so 86400 seconds in a day thats 4.12037037037e73 km/sec.
i have absolutlely annihilated everything and broken the speed of light, which is a measly 299,792.458 km/sec. everything is gone. everything.
in elementary school i figured out how to customize the classroom desktop's autocorrect to make Word change whole sentences. this made it appear almost like the computer was responding to you. you could, for example, type in "where did i put my keys", hit enter, and watch it switch to "you put them under the couch". this was before chatbots, and we were all 9 so i considered it closer to a magic trick than a tech one.
i immediately scripted out a dialogue exchange between me and a girl who had died by the swings (classic). i invited another student over and told them i had found a ghost, then proceeded to type out the pre-scripted exchange. i was immediately pulled into the counselors office. the kicker was that none of the adults could figure out how i did it. i had to show them the menu and everything.
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For the americans out there, 1kg is about 2lbs. Rewriting this bost gives:
"To answer a lot of people's question: this package is [4lbs] there's also, [10lbs] and [20lbs] ones (which used to be sold in most stores, but you can find them only in specialized ones nowadays). There are some tiny ones, like 1lb! Those are the ones you buy to carry when you travel."
Croatians apparently take a pound of toothpast with them when they travel.
my greatest accomplishment in life is that I inadvertently made my friend break up with her shitty boyfriend by throwing her a really fucking awesome birthday party
okay so I fucking love event planning and decorating and hosting and baking, aka all the elements of a banger birthday party. I am so freaking happy to throw people parties because it means I get to throw a party, then go to a party! yippee!
so my friend's birthday rolled around and I knew she wanted a party because I'd done them for her before, but I wanted to make it extra special because she was turning the big 25. so I did all the regular stuff I am So Excited About: had her roommates let me into her apartment while she was out, put up balloons and homemade garlands and streamers and table decor, made her favorite cake and snack plates and cocktails, ordered catering from a restaurant she loves, got a bunch of our friends to come over to surprise her, wrote her a disgustingly heartfelt card, etc. and then because it was the big quarter century, I was like I gotta do something extra.
now. I do not like clowns. my friend loves clowns. we've gone to the circus together and she's seen me literally close my eyes and hide when the clowns are out in the audience, meanwhile she's screaming and waving at them. so obviously I hired a clown for her birthday. (btw seeing him out of clown costume made me less freaked out because now I knew that the guy under there looks like someone's uncle.)
so she showed up after work totally expecting a party because I'm too paranoid to throw a real surprise party, and obviously loved it. and then I was like btw. there's a clown.
she lost her mind. she was sooo excited. she loved the party and she loved the clown. I was like haha yes I'm getting a good grade in birthday parties and didn't think much of it because frankly I do this a lot, and it's so much fun for me that I don't consider it work. like, I love doing all that for my friends. it's not any kind of sacrifice.
two days later, she texted me that she broke up with her boyfriend.
naturally I was like omg tell me everything I hated that guy let's get coffee. so we did and she told me that for her birthday, her boyfriend of nine months 1) forgot about it and didn't get her anything, 2) got mad at her for not texting him while she was at her party, 3) got mad at her for telling him about the party because it was "passive aggressive", and 4) called her immature and stupid for being excited about a clown at her birthday.
this was all very in character for him. but she'd just come from a lovely birthday party full of her friends who love her and want to put effort into making a nice day for her, where her friend who hates clowns hired a clown just to make her happy even though the party alone would've been plenty. and suddenly this wasn't a boyfriend being kinda forgetful and lazy, it was a glaring incongruity with everyone else in her life. so she finally dumped his ass. and I was soooo freaking happy. so clowns can be good.
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there are a NUMBER of folktale Woman-Creatures like selkies who exist to make the inherently coercive nature of heterosexual marriage explicit and to externalize male anxiety about how if your wife had actual autonomy she very well might disappear and you might never fucking hear from her again
which is a FASCINATING category of Woman-Creature imo
someone said it's also a cautionary tale about mistreating your wife and I think that's spot on especially for other related types of stories e.g. the crane wife. like I think these stories are very much Husband Anxiety Stories. the Woman-Creatures are black boxes whose interior experience it is impossible to know and who have strange and often seemingly arbitrary rules that you must follow or else they will disappear. idk. like. that's why I think that any empowering-to-women-ness qualities of these stories is incidental. I think they're externalized anxiety about coercive societal heterosexuality and the inability to truly Know one's wife in such circumstances.
you also see a variant of this formula a lot (generally at the more literary end of the fairy tale space) where it's not a creature you capture, but a magical lady who picks you for seemingly arbitrary reasons, bettering your fortune enormously with her magic and wealth and second-hand status.
and then, for reasons usually at least slightly less arbitrary, fucks off again.
the husbandly anxiety here is more about not having access to coercion as an option.
was just talking to Story about this and he told me about one folktale where a guy meets a beautiful woman at a lake and she brings a bountiful dowry of like one million fat cows and such and she is of course a fairy so she's like "my one requirement in our bargain is that if you strike me three times I will leave" and in many versions of the story the husband doesn't ""actually"" strike her -- each time it's something like, one 'strike' involves her forgetting her gloves inside and he walks out and taps her on the shoulder with her gloves, but she tells him that counts as striking her. this sort of thing. which is TRANSPARENTLY like "whoa wouldn't it be fucked up if your wife could enforce consequences for behavior she said was harmful, even if according to your cultural norms it was fine, and you didn't see it as a big deal?" like... lol. what if women could actually be the ones who decided whether or not any given action their husbands took against them was harmful? IMAGINE... PREDEY SCARY....
@creekfiend why would you totally brush over the fact that this is a lady of the lake story? "a guy meets a beautiful woman at a lake" no he didn't, he meets her in the lake. Specifically a lake called Llyn y Fan Fach in this folk tale's case. She's the same type of fairy*¹ that fished out Excalibur for King Arthur (but a different one obvs). That is to say that lake ladies are something of a trope in folk tales. People only tend to know about the excalibur one and I am here to say that there are so many of these soggy women. ANYWAY that isn't important to what I want to say, I just thought your phrasing was funny. What I am here to say though is that your anglo-centric attitudes are getting in the way of your perceptions of these folk tales!
I accidentally wrote a small essay, so I have hidden it below lmao. Genuinely surprised at how carried away I got here...
So I lied, one piece of that information WAS important, actually. The location: that being Llyn y Fan Fach. This specific lake is located in Wales. Something else which is important to know about this folk tale is the time; the first instance of the story being written down in English is 1861, however it had previously existed through the oral tradition before then. The tale even begins by stating that it takes place at the end of the twelfth century.
Coincidentally, the oldest written evidence for a Welsh 'lady of the lake' story is from the twelfth century as it so happens. Written in latin, though probably also sourced through prior oral tradition (which would have been in welsh), it is also set in the same geographic area and the lady also leaves her human husband after being struck, though she will only tolerate being struck once before she leaves.
Why is this important? Well, Wales was still independent from England during this time (but only just) and thusly had their own set of laws. Actually, they maintained having*² their own set of laws even under English rule, right up until Henry VIII put a stop to that. RIP Welsh law, me and my homies hate Henry VIII.
"Haha imagine if women could just leave, scary right?" They can. Under Welsh laws, either spouse is able to initiate a divorce and it must me mutually agreed upon in order to go through. There are even a few specific circumstances where you can ask for a divorce without having to finacially compensate the person you are divorcing - one of these is bad breath. "How can a woman divorce a husband if she is financially dependent on him?" 1. She isn't. 2. If she is broke and the man's breath stinks... oh baby, she is legally out of there!
"Omg, my actions have consequences, she left because I hit her!" Interesting, because welsh laws protected women against physical abuse. The folk tale is actually very specific in that they had to be three strikes "without cause." A man could hit his wife, but only for three things*³: 1. Giving something away which she was not entitled to. 2. Sleeping with another man. 3. Wishing a blemish on her husband's beard.*⁴ And if he hit her for adultery, then that counted as him getting even and he would not be allowed to ask for further compensation. If the wife was hit for any other reason, then she could claim compensation from him. A wife could also claim compensation from their husbands in the case of adultery, they could even divorce him if he did it three times.
"She took all the cattle with her when she left." Women had property rights in the case of divorce - she was entitled to a set amount of property upon their marriage,*⁵ equal to her social standing, and this increased as the marriage went on - if the marriage had lasted 7 years or more before the separation, then the couple's property was divided equally between the man and the woman (this is "moveable" property btw like furniture and livestock, women can't inherit land, that would be crazy*⁶). She gets half of their property if her husband dies as well, his children only inherit from the half that was his.
I feel that I should add as well, on the topic of marriage, that it was not considered to be a sacred act by Welsh law, rather it was just an agreement between two people (and their families). One of the consequences of this definition is that there basically aren't any bastard children. Children born inside or outside of a couple's marriage are treated equally by the law. In fact, children by another woman are also considered equal inheritors, as long as the father acknowledges the fact that those are his children.
Another law which is unrelated to the folk tale but which I think is neat is that the woman's account would take precedence in the case of a rape accusation.
So yeah, back on track! Your earliest examples with selkies and things still stand, because those stories are happening elswhere in different contexts. Scottish and Irish medieval laws and customs? I don't know them unfortunately. Maybe they can add even more fun context. But the welsh lake ladies? Incidental female empowerment? No, they have that power. And they won't care about the divorce, they have some 50 fat cows to their name, marrying again is not going to be a problem for them. These externalised male anxieties are very real and could happen to you 🫵
*¹ I won't lie to you guys, idk what terms get used for all these fairy tale/folk story creatures/figures.
*² Only difference is that they were now being decided by the King's eldest son and the Marcher Lords as a type of practice kingdom before he inherited the crown of England.
*³ Omg, almost as if... he would need a "cause" for doing it!!!
*⁴ I have no idea what exatly that last one means. Is she just not allowed to be mean about his beard? Maybe it's a euphemism? I could not tell you.
** lmao, in this economy!?!?
*⁵ Thus she is not financially dependent on her husband.
*⁶ That's a joke, women owning land is normal to want and possible to achieve.** They just couldn't back then.
🌟 if you want to read more on this topic and do some fact checking (I encourage it because I have a tendency toward hyperbole), then the laws are refered to as 'the Laws of Hywel Dda.' (Hywel being the first king who decided to codify them - he did not neccessarily make them up and they were also edited/added to by subsequent kings). They are super neat and way better than the yucky Norman (English) laws of the time (haha wdym I'm biased?)
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And then you're like "fuck it, I'll make my own" and once you've done that you toss it into the goodwill bin to be someone else's prada or container of human teeth
today my wisdom is: the ecological crisis of our planet is not a thing that will Suddenly destroy us sometime in the next century—it has taken decades of continuous work for our biosphere to be preserved thus far, and it will take decades more of continuous work to continue preserving it.
The apocalypse is not a single event hovering in the future bearing down on us while we sit helplessly. We are at least 150 years into an ongoing "apocalypse."
Things will continue to steadily get worse without steady action, but "augh! it's already too late to stop climate change and mass extinctions!" is specifically the worst response
what I mean is, there is a persistent fallacy that the present situation of a thing is always worse than the past, even if there have been fluctuations in badness.
This is not true. There is a great wealth of specific cases where ecosystems/species/a specific anthropogenic impact on the environment is CURRENTLY, RIGHT NOW, better than it has been at any point in the past 100 years
I've been researching the history of conservation in the USA...and I think current doomers would benefit from knowing just how bad things got throughout the 20th century.
The eastern USA's natural environments were fucking razed. We went scorched earth on everything.
In the 1930's, DEER and WILD TURKEYS were almost eliminated from my state. Deer. Wild turkeys. Common animals that you can see all the time.
I've seen animals close to my home that a person in the 1970's would not have been able to see. I saw river otters and a bald eagle a couple months ago! Farmer family friend remembers when a bald eagle sighting here made the news. There is a thriving population of elk (16,000 animals) in the Appalachian Mountains, for the first time since before 1850!
We actively tried to exterminate so many species. Bison. Wolves. Mountain lions. The US GOVERNMENT PAID PEOPLE TO KILL CARNIVORES. They're still here. They're reclaiming their old territories. All is not lost
There was a time most American cities almost never saw a blue sky. Brown and yellow smog was the norm and rivers were garbage sludge that are now teeming with fish. People don't know that government environmental regulation actually did succeed, that the EPA really worked as intended. Now it gets eroded because people think it isn't making a big difference, and they think that because they haven't seen what it's still holding back.
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