Maki's Experiment

This is better than any ATLA live action remake we could ever hope for

and the winner of superwholock is officially??? no one. we all lost. congrats team

I've seen this clip many times, but never really appreciated the power of "what was her problem?" Just casually assuming that lesbians come in a wide variety of shapes and being inclusive. As a transbian who is probably still closer to Homer shaped than to my ideal, that's huge!

every time someone refers to penelope's suitors as having been hanging around for 10-20 years i laugh. in the odyssey they are explicitly in their 4th year camped out at the palace, so they waited until odysseus had been well and truly MIA to come a-courtin'. they did not come the moment odysseus left for troy; for one thing they would not have been old enough. eurymachus says that odysseus used to bounce him on his knee. because he was a toddler

well, that isn’t complete either. governments as entities do not really care about right or wrong; they are completely self-interested when it comes to especially global politics. whether something can be seen as “the right thing to do” is just a bonus. They need to be forced into doing the right thing by the people in global situations literally every time if it isn’t of political or economic interest to them. the cold war wasn’t really about economic systems (the ussr had to participate in global capitalism anyways), or what was right, it was about power. the USSR opposed the US because it wanted to have more control over the world, and the US opposed the USSR because it wanted more control over the world. And the US has done pretty much just as many evil things, the biggest difference is just that daily life might’ve been less oppressive if you lived in a good place, in a body that wasn’t maligned, in the US. That doesn’t mean the USSR was a good place, or that they were universally correct, either. Both were and are power-hungry empires

well, that isn’t complete either. governments as entities do not really care about right or wrong; they are completely self-interested when it comes to especially global politics. whether something can be seen as “the right thing to do” is just a bonus. They need to be forced into doing the right thing by the people in global situations literally every time if it isn’t of political or economic interest to them. the cold war wasn’t really about economic systems (the ussr had to participate in global capitalism anyways), or what was right, it was about power. the USSR opposed the US because it wanted to have more control over the world, and the US opposed the USSR because it wanted more control over the world. And the US has done pretty much just as many evil things, the biggest difference is just that daily life might’ve been less oppressive if you lived in a good place, in a body that wasn’t maligned, in the US. That doesn’t mean the USSR was a good place, or that they were universally correct, either. Both were and are power-hungry empires

the natural lifespan of a fandom is unlimited. when well tended a fandom can be functionally immortal. and yet everywhere you look you see newly bred fandoms withering and dying when they’re barely a year old. barely even six months old. fans are looking at their six month old fandoms and saying i think it’s on its last legs, should i euthanise it? when with the proper care that fandom could outlive them for decades. it’s sad. sad state of affairs we’re in.

Let’s fucking go

Creo que el hecho de que haya gente que no encuentre mutuals que hablen su idioma es una profecía autocumplida ("no hay gente que hable mi idioma acá" → entonces posteo solo en inglés → nunca encuentro gente que hable mi idioma → confirmo la idea inicial). He visto gente postear en francés, italiano, ruso, finés, húngaro (por poner ejemplos) sin buscar activamente posts en esos idiomas. Puede que haya muchos yanquis en Tumblr pero eso no significa que no se puedan crear comunidades en otros idiomas.

I don't know which of you needs to hear this but "narc" is not short for "narcissist" when someone calls you a "narc" for snitching they are calling you a "narcotics officer"

technically narc isnt even short for narcotics officer its just cant for Cop, I believe Roma in origin

I read years ago in a book that it was derived from nakk, Romani for nose, as in someone who always has their nose in other people's business

ITS DERIVED FROM "NARCO" AS IN "NARCOTICS" WHAT FUCKING BOOK

Etymology is always doing some shit like this

Convergent evolution.

Linguistic crab

Two entire linguistic traditions have merged to remind you not to be a fuckin narc

#my family does this thing#when we've majorly unfucked a room or done chore that we were putting off#or whatever. Any sort of household Improvement.#'Come brag on me.'#I means come look I cleaned/rearranged/did dishes/put away the laundry#and the scripted response is 'oh nice it looks SO much better in here now'#like my mom did this when we were kids.#'girls comr brag on the garage I finally organized it so I can get my car in there'#and we go and 'ooh' and 'aah' and tell her how nice it looked and how she did a good job#and we could have her 'come brag on' us for like doing the dishes or cleaning our rooms#I do it to my wife now too#it's a dialogue that means#'I did a chore and it feels like an Accomplishment even if it objectively wasn't a big thing. Please acknowledge this.'#and#'Wow you sure did do a thing. It has improved our material circumstance even if only in a small way. Thank you for doing it.'#like yeah scrubbing the pans is my Job and it's a Little Task but sometimes it feels like a Big Task#and it's nice to have an Accepted Script where I can just demand 'I have functioned as an independent adult praise me with great praise' - by @thepioden