Earth's Terrible Daughter

Dainty Loki. Dainty dainty

Read this lovely fic where Loki has a horrible time ❤️

My favorite pic of them so far and this is my second favorite

(The best of this post and its reblogs, but with links that work)

Here is a website where you can scroll down to all the different levels of the ocean 

Here is a website where you can see the future of the universe

Here is a website where you can press a ‘make everything okay’ button, over and over, until things really are okay

Here is a website that you can read if you feel like a burden

Here is a website where you can look at strobe illusions (TW strobe/flashing)

Here is a website where you can cut stuff up (TW blood/sh)

Here and here are websites where you can play with sand

Here is a website where you can draw with macaroni and other fun foods

Here is a website where you can paint someone’s nails

Here is a website where you can grow a garden with emojis

Here is a website with hundreds of videos of people hugging you (rightfully dubbed ‘the nicest place on the internet’ because it really is, y’all, it made me cry)

Here is a website that will take you to other useless websites

Here is a website where you can make a tiny cat play bongo drums (and other instruments!)

Here is a website to help give you gentle reminders <3

Here is a website where you can grow a tiny farm

Here is a website where you can take a bunch of scientific personality tests

Here is a website of calm rain noise

Link to the gay porn library of Alexandria.

Our deck table had been showing its age already when the wind caught the umbrella and cracked it. I wanted to replace it with a mosaic table because I’d been enjoying that art form recently. But I couldn’t get one the size I wanted so I got creative.

I spent a few weeks looking for tile and figuring out a very loose design concept. I started by picking a limited set of tile shapes and a color palette.

Once the tiles arrived I had a piece of particle board cut to size for the base and I experimented with different motifs until I settled on a selection of floral shapes that gave me plenty of variety to fill space without locking me into one repeating pattern.

And then I was off! I basically doodled my way around the table, attaching tiles with Weld Bond (I went through 4 full bottles!) and rocking out to the K-Pop Demon Hunters soundtrack.

Once the florals were done it was time for the background…

Over 3,800 1cm glass tiles make up the not-design part of the design. It went pretty quickly though because I just had to fill the space, leaving room for grout.

Once I had the tile done, my husband assisted with disassembly and reassembly. We used the legs off the original table for this one (waste not).

One huge bucket of black grout later…

She is finished.

Simone de Beauvoir in The Second Sex (1949) argued that "one is not born, but rather becomes, a woman" (p. 330): 'a woman' is not simply produced by biology, but a process of imposing and internalising arbitrary sociocultural expectations of what women should be.

Judith Butler would expand on this in 1986, arguing that Beauvoir's framing allowed for an understanding of gender as not just a sociocultural construction but a process of self-construction (p. 36). They would expand on this in Gender Trouble (1990) to argue that gender is performative - it is constituted by performances of itself. It is not a real thing, but a fictional role we put on for society (p. 24-5).

Butler's 1986 article also questions the notion of a binary dyadic 'sex' - drawing on Monique Wittig, they note that the very act of assigning sex (and gender) at birth is not a neutral act: you could just as easily separate babies based on earlobe shape instead of presumed genitals. Coercively assigning sex at birth is thus also a social construct which expresses a specific political program (p. 47).

The radfem/TERF worldview, on the other hand, divides humanity into two subspecies: Predators ("males") who are biologically and socially predisposed (via the penis, testosterone, "male socialisation") towards acts of violence and rape and cruelty, and Prey ("females") who are real people who must live in a cage with the Predators. This provides an "explanation" for misogyny and unlimited moral license in "fighting back" - tempting if you're scared and reactive and revanchist.

Should drowning Loki in pink on his birthday become a tradition? 💗😖💗