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I always knew AfterEllen.com was cryptoTERF trash but looks like theyāre really showing where they stand now.
I donāt know how long this has been in the works but the last week of their Twitter profile is enough:
As well as supporting meghan murphy they are really pushing the idea of trans women as male predators. Miranda Yardley is an English trans woman who repeats TERF talking points for them and was very well received for opposing updating the Gender Recognition Act in the UK. The reference to Stonewall UK also suggests that the new staff are completely in bed with English TERFs, who have links to US Evangelical funding.
Stop supporting After Ellen, the name has essentially been bought out to promote a fascist agenda which wants to remove all trans people from existence and then work on doing the same to the rest of the LGBT community (whether individual contributors admit it or not).
Yeah afterellen was bought out and no longer is an independant website. No surprise theyāre terfs bc thats the kind of agenda straight men controlling lesbian websites love 2 push
Yah. Past AE peeps are NOT impressed with whatās happened, what with now being so openly transphobic, as well as literally erasing ALL work from authors who are trans-inclusive and all articles that spoke positively about trans people in any manner whatsoever.
Current AfterEllen staff is literally erasing the voices of all the women who came before them. And yet people still ask for proof of how TERFs hurt cis women. Well there you fucking go. A bunch of men and TERFs have decided that all of the cis women they disagree with donāt deserve to have a voice anymore than trans women do.
Thank you @ritualofthehabit and @hrefnatheravenqueen for elaborating!
Removing past articles is particularly cruel and damaging because as the writer in an above tweet pointed out, it can erase a huge body of their work. They might have their own digital or hard copies, but beyond being Orwellian it wipes out writing samples they can point to and can undermine their credentials when trying to cite their own work.
Thatās justā¦
why you should all consider getting chickens
a small backyard, a decent fence and the will to make a safe coop for your fluffy dames is all you need to make it happen
they will eat your vegetable scraps and gobble down pretty much any kind of food waste, turning discarded crusts and mushy fruit into big fat eggs full of protein!
and depending on which breed you buy, they will lay an egg almost every day. free, nutritious food every morning! what other pet will do that?
itās a misconception that eating eggs is inherently cruel, or that you need a rooster for your chickens to lay eggs! all the eggs you buy in supermarkets are unfertilised, which means there is no chance of that egg ever hatching. youāre not eating a potential life, your chickens will lay eggs regardless of whether thereās a rooster around
so only buy a rooster to go with your lovely ladies if you want baby chicks - otherwise, just get some girls and enjoy those omelettes!
the way cage egg farms are run is terrible, and you canāt always be sure that a free range farm is as idyllic as the picture you see on the carton. lots of sad chookies who canāt perch or scratch or eat grass and clean themselves. :(Ā
this way, you will always be certain that your girls are happy, healthy, doing what chicken are meant to do and eating what chickens should be eating, which means bigger and better eggs for you!
you can give eggs to your friends! give eggs to strangers! eggs for everyone!
tiny and furious lawnmowers. chickens LOVE grass, especially clover. if you have a small backyard, they will do all the work of keeping the grass trimmed.Ā
a caution, pls buy your chicken a friend - they will get lonely if you only buy one. my friend had two chickens and one died, leaving Gizmo all alone. she got depressed and stopped laying, so they put her in the rabbit hutch. now she has a best friend bunny called Jimmy and sheās very happy! she often sits on him and purrs.
chickens are good around most other pets - cats and chickens usually regard each other with mutual indifference and disdain, but they generally bond with dogs. however, if you know your pooch or kitty is particularly aggressive, make sure you check it wonāt be a problem!
scratch scratch scratch, scratch party!!
one time I was cleaning out the stables and my chicken came over, saw that I was using a big rake and went !!!! scratch time!!! and she started scratching furiously next to me like she was trying to help
theyāre very clean animals and will clean themselves every day with a dust bath and a thorough preening
when it starts raining it takes them a good 10 seconds to process whatās happening, then they RUN to shelter
gloriously stupid tiny velociraptor running
peck peck peck. is food? I check! peck. not food!
rip all snails and slugs that live in your garden
they will also go after mice and spiders
chicken poop is great fertiliser! when you clean out their coop, spread the poo on your garden and watch your flowers and veggies grow!
kiddos LOVE chickens!!
seriously, looking after chickens is a great job for little kids - any little fella can fill up their water and give them some food, and collecting a warm, fresh egg every morning is so rewarding for them!!!Ā
hours of entertainment watching their antics
some (not all) like a cuddle! the ladies will let you know what their preference is. they may also gently peck and groom you because they love you.
you can give them fancy names like lottie, ethel and lady beatrice so it sounds like theyāre a supporting cast in a Jane Austen novel
in conclusion give a pretty chicken a happy home today
Also: you want a bird friend? well it is PSYCHOLOGICALLY HEALTHY for you and the chicken to be friends! After thousand and thousands of years of domestication, chickens are basically genetically programmed to be happy to live with humans.
Burger King will give you a whopper for one cent if you go within 600 feet of a McDonaldās and order one from their app
First of all, power move
Second, this means any poor person with a phone and the new Burger King app can literally get food for a penny just by going to McDonalds, which is probably a goddamn lifesaver if youāre regularly worried about where your next meal is coming from
This lasts until December 12, 2018
So, yeah. Save some cash and stay fed.
ive said it before and iāll say it again but nonbinary doesnt always mean agender or unaligned. it just means not completely a man or a woman. theres so many different nonbinary genders and reducing it to just meaning Totally Genderless And Unaligned is completely ignoring the intricacies of nonbinary identity. replacing a rigid gender binary with a rigid gender trinary helps no one.

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Pornhubās entire business model revolves around stealing content made by sex workers without their consent and profiting off it with no compensation to the workers who generate the content they steal. Sex workers are an incredibly vulnerable and stigmatised class of workers, mostly women, mostly younger, mostly not rich, with little recourse, socially or legally, against a massive corporation like Pornhub.
Pornhub relies on this, on how little you care about sex workers, to maintain a business based on stealing their livelihoods. Stop applauding a corporation that literally exists to steal from marginalised workers just because they have a competent PR department.
Particularly relevant right now with pornhub trying to step in and brand themselves as a new promised land.
They just want to monetize your content and youāll sharecrop at best.
To be fair that is literally the model of every free internet platform. Weāre always the product
Please donāt fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All thatās going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
Please donāt fucking log off tumblr on the 17th as a protest. All thatās going to do is give tumblr more reason to shut this place down because of revenue loss.
This is blatantly untrue
Companies do not experience one day of revenue loss and pull the plug, destroying years of work and firing dozens if not hundreds of employees.
Companies which experience loss in revenue and consumer interest make investments and changes in order to regain their users/customers. Thatās why organized protests and boycotts WORK. Tumblr will NOT go down after one bad day or week, but they might be willing to listen to its userbase if we put up an organized protest. (If you donāt believe me, think about how long sites like MySpace and Google+ hang around with fractions of their previous user base, often for years.)
Yahoo paid over one billion dollars for Tumblr, and the website will not go offline because of a one-day event, so in conclusion,
DO log off on December 17th to show Tumblr that you disapprove of its recent content ban and clumsy execution of censorship.
Please reblog this version of the post to stop the spread of misinformation.
So I made a tweet about how Maciej Ceglowski (aka Pinboard guy) should consult with fandom on how to build a new fandom platform inclusive of not just text, but images and multimedia.Ā
And then Maciej DMed me and said if fandom (I realize this does not include all parts of fandom) can get a consensus spec of what this platform should consist of, heāll see what we can do. I have split the document into requirements and nice to haves. I know Iām not going to get everything, but hopefully this is a good enough start to get the ball rolling.
I kind of laughed likeĀ āHaha, what hubris, my tech friends say itāll take a couple million dollars to create a platform like this, one does not simply walk into Mordorā but then all my tech friends were like,Ā āUh, hon? Itās Maciej Ceglowski. He either HAS a couple million to spend, or can talk his friends into fronting the money.ā
So, uh⦠go make a wishlist!
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thereās a good lesson here notorious procrastinators should never volunteer to hand-draw 52 unique playing cardsĀ
also theyāre animated gifs right now because thatās how theyāre formatted on the photoshop files and Iām not in the mood to separate them yet.Ā
Hereās the matches I could find:
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I thought this was Deltarune fanart but Deltarune was fanart of this
Like the thing about Loki in Norse mythology is thereās like 8000 myths about Loki just being chaotically mischievous and the other gods are like lol oh that scamp, no matter how disastrous his schemes are, their reaction is still pretty much alwaysĀ āhaha oh thatās just Loki.ā
EXCEPT for basicallyā¦.one myth. Where Lokiās instrumental in the death of Baldur and the gods are all WHOA TOO FUCKING FAR DUDE and send him to Hel to be tormented for all eternity, leading to his ultimate escape/release in Ragnarok to end all things and lead the army of the damned and his monstrous children to pretty muchā¦eat all the gods, destroy Asgard, and burn the World Tree all to the ground so it can all start over.
Hereās the thing though. Norse mythology spanned centuries. The tales of Loki as the mischievous trickster god were told for centuries.
However, for most of that time, the myths were told as part of oral traditions passed down generation to generation, until they were finally compiled in manuscript form in the 13th century, roughly. This is when pretty much all the sagas, as Norse myth compilations were called, are considered to have been written down for the first time, and so they included thousands of stories that had been told over hundreds of years.
They were also regional, though there was a lot of overlap, given that the Vikings traveled widely and regularly across the various parts of Scandinavia. Still, different parts of Scandinavia had their own sagas. Norway had different sagas than Denmark who had different sagas than Iceland, etc. Even though all of them featured primarily the same figures, they each had their own unique stories featuring the gods. However, very rarely did they have radically different takes on those gods.
Now whatās significant about the fact that pretty much every saga we have, where these myths were all finally written down and preserved, is from the 13th centuryā¦.
Is that pretty much all of Scandinavia had converted to Christianity by the early 12th century, with active worship of the Norse gods being scattered and mostly underground from that point on.
Why is this significant?
Because it means every Norse myth we have a written recording of was not written by people who still actively worshiped those gods. Nor were they intended to be read as such at the time.Ā
They were written down by Christian scholars who wrote them AS stories. They were intended as collections of their regionsā cultural histories, but not by or for people who still actively believed in these stories or the figures they featured. They werenāt likeā¦.TRYING to be super accurate, is the thing. The scholars who wrote these sagas were writing down the stories that had been passed down for generations, but through the lens of people who saw them as stories their ancestors once believed, not ones that pertained to their own current worldview.
And they were writing these sagas for an audience of people who similarly believed as they believed.
Which means that inevitably, some things gotĀ āadjustedā to fit the current world view, the zeitgeist of the scholars writing down the stories and that of the people who would read or have the stories read to them from thereon. Because again, they werenāt aiming for being 100% faithful to the tales as theyād been told to them. They were just treating them as stories. And what do you do when the story youāre writing down has elements that donāt make that much sense to you because they were born of and aimed a worldview that doesnāt match yours?
Well, if youāre the Christian scholars writing the Norse sagas, youĀ ātweakā those elements until they make a story that fits your worldview.
So remember how I said the various sagas were regional and had a lot of overlap but some stories were distinct to some regions and didnāt show up elsewhere?
Yeah, Ragnarok is one of those.
Thousands of sagas encompassing centuries of Norse mythology and oral traditions were written down all over the various regions of Scandinavia in the 13th century.
Ragnarok only showed up in one.
The most famous, granted, but still. Everything weāre told in Norse myths about the death of Baldur and Lokiās role in it, leading to his punishment and torment in Hel and his ultimate release and bringing forth the armies of Hel to slay the gods and end the world?
Comes from the Prose Edda and the later Poetic Edda, from Iceland.
Which had primarily converted to Christianity as far back as 1000.
Now, the Vikings? Were actually surprisingly not a big doom and gloom people. Pretty much every assumption of them as such comes from how synonymous we regard Ragnarok with their culture.
It is after all, the ultimate Judgment Day myth, isnāt it? Right up there with Christianityās Book of Revelations. An apocalyptic end of the world scenario, a war between heaven and hell, where everything is destroyed so that the world can basically start fresh with a clean slate. Nothing oldĀ ādeservesā to survive, pretty much the only way for a world free of sin and evil to arise is from the ashes of the old, after everything has been cleansed with fire.
Now contrast thisĀ āmythā with pretty much every other Norse myth thatās survived. Larger than life tales of grand adventures, noble quests, gods walking among mortals in disguise and heroes fighting giants and stealing from dragons.
Where the closest thing the Norse pantheon has to a devil figure is Loki, the god of mischiefā¦.not even evil, but MISCHIEF, because a far more accurate representation of the Vikingsā world view is that sometimes shit happens, because Loki the god of chaos likes to make a mess of things. And what do you do when that happens? If youāre the Vikings, you basically just shrug, goĀ āwell, thatās Lokiā for you, and drink some more mead.
Loki isnāt vilified in a single myth until Ragnarok, because the Vikings didnāt hate him. And they certainly didnāt fear him. They LAUGHED at him. In nine out of ten myths, Loki ends up the subject of ridicule himself, as he has the tables turned on him or outsmarts himself
Until Ragnarok.
Which, granted, could very well be another Norse myth that was passed down generation to generation in Iceland, land of frequent volcanic eruptions and likely inspiration for Musplheim, the land of the fire giants.
BUT. Which could equally likely, and far more plausibly given the overall context of Norse mythology, simply be a story the scholar who wrote the Prose Edda made up toĀ āfinish offā his saga of the world according to the Vikings, from beginning to end.
An ending his Christian audience of the times would understand and identify with a lot better than they would understand the concept of a devil-figure that existed to be LAUGHED at, to show how little the Vikings feared some mythical figure with the power to lie and deceive themā¦.the complete opposite of the way Christians feared Satan.
Basically putā¦.Ragnarok, for all that we think of it as the ultimate Norse mythā¦.DOES NOT MAKE SENSE in the context of almost EVERY single other Norse myth AND in the context of how Norse society viewed the world and their place in it, or their gods and their relationship with them.
Same with Lokiās depiction in Ragnarok.
What both Ragnarok and Lokiās role in Ragnarok DO make sense in the context of, however, is in a bastardization of Christianityās own doomsday tales of a Judgment Day, stylized to fit the trappings of Norse mythology and feature their gods instead of Christian figures.
With Loki recast in the role of the Devil, as he was the closest fit they could find to that.
And with Baldur, god of light (a Norse god who is at best a footnote in Norse myths other than Ragnarok, and certainly was never the major pantheon figure heās assumed to be), recast in the role of the Christ figure. Whose death starts the ball rolling for Judgment Day and who is destined to return for it, to triumph over Loki/Satan and preside over the new, purified world once itās reborn from the ashes of the old one.
Anyway, tl;dr, donāt believe the hype, Ragnarokās probably not even an actual Norse myth but the invention of Christian writers who were like lol this would make for a great Book of Revelations fanfic AU, and Loki was almost certainly never regarded by actual Vikings as some evil, malicious world-destroyer who would lead armies of the dead at Armageddon whoops I mean Ragnarok.
tl;dr of the tl;dr Lokiās not actually evil and more on how Christians bastardize things.
Loki: Last millennia we lost dear, perfect Baldr to my evil machinationsĀ
Baldr: Stop telling everyone Iām dead
Loki: Sometimes I can still hear his stupid, perfect voice
Workers, when have you said āfuck this, I quitā?
I used to work at McDonalds (I know). Opening usually involved me at the front counter with a headset on so I could do drive-through orders and handle making coffee / putting orders together / taking money at the front from the little old people that came in at the crack of dawn every morning. We would also have a manager who was there to be important and one person in the kitchen. Weāre a small rural town so usually this is fine but we were on kind of a major highway so sometimes it would get busy out of nowhere.
Depending on the manager the amount of help we had would vary wildly. One morning we got super busy and I started cracking under the pressure. Iām a fantastic multi-tasker but my drive-through line was backing up since I was trying to juggle them and all the walk-in folks from my front registers and when it gets packedā¦well, itās fun. I glance around trying to find my manager for help. I see him on one of our cameras ā heās outside smoking a cigarette around the side of the building. Mind you, this is like his third trip out to smoke this morning. Iām absolutely dying trying to get caught up. Customers are being passive aggressive saying they will come behind the counter and get their own coffee and stuff. I have people yelling at me in my headset from the drive through. I end up having to remove the headset just to try to get the frontline sorted. I start making progress with the front but I basically had to sacrifice the drive-through customers for two minutes.
Apparently the cars outside start yelling at my manager and interrupt his smoke break so he comes in, sees me with my headset off and goes berserk. Heās like āWHOS TAKING THE DRIVE-THRU ORDERS?ā Iām in the middle of trying to get a fresh pot of coffee going so I sort of auto-respond āNo one. Hang on.ā as I continue to dash around behind our counter to grab a fruit & yogurt parfait for an order. He basically gets in my way and starts giving me shit. Loudly, talking to me like Iām a dog. I point to the camera and yell, loudly enough to disrupt the entire inside of the restaurant. āIām these two registers, first window, second window, and Iām bagging. Iām like FOUR PEOPLE and youāre out behind the building not doing SHIT!ā
His eyes go wide. I can tell he knows Iām holding on by my last thread. Heās sighs. And heās like āYouāre in a ton of trouble but we can talk about this later.ā No. Fuck him. Iām done. Iām all riled up from random customers yelling at me. I toss him the headset. āYou want to give me shit for not being able to run like four stations with no support? Run five. Iāll watch.ā I remove my name badge.
He went to say something to me. I turn away, facing the one girl working in the kitchen who is watching this all play out. I remember telling her āIām so sorry.ā and then I dropped my name badge, toss my hat on the counter, grab a water cup, put on (and zip) my jacket so my uniform is covered up. I go to the drink fountain, fill my water cup, and then I go sit on the far side of the seating area and watch him go down in flames. He ends up ALSO taking off the headset and picking up the phone so he can spam call the whole workforce one by one trying to call for help. Itās like 5AM so no one is going to accept a call from their work number. About ten minutes into his struggle he ends up very loudly pleading with me to come back from behind the counter. I canāt even see him on the other side of the sea of people swarming the counter at this point.
I call back āI need a smoke first!ā and I go outside.
I donāt smoke. Iāve never smoked. I drive home.
He ended up losing his job.
Seeing a lot of art of Eddie petting the Venom blob to precious results.Ā Which I love. But you know what else I love?
Eddie, typing with one hand, other hand blindly petting Venom:
Venom, his entire head in a bowl of Coco Puffs: What the fuck is this
Eddie, taking his hand back: Shit, sorry, had a flashback to Anneās cat. Let me j
Venom, welding Eddieās hand to his head: Did I Tell You To Stop Motherfucker
*walks around my house looking for scissors while making a scissor motion with my fingers*

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fuck every democrat who says the issue of trans rights is a ādistraction.ā fuck every single liberal who say that the threat of stripping every trans person of legal recognition is a red herring or a losing issue and if we focus on it too long weāll throw the election. weāre talking about human rights, access to medical care, sex education, discrimination, citizenship, and a whole lot else, for millions of people.
trans people arenāt a ādistraction.ā weāre human beings. the fact that so many liberals turn their backs on trans people is fucking despicable.
Okayā¦but this, right here? This is exactlyĀ what the Republican party wants. Young voters turning against the Democratic party and either not voting at all, or voting in favor of some third party candidate that has literally zero chance of pulling in enough votes to win. They want division among the ranks. They want to split our vote.Ā
In political terms, calling something aĀ ādistractionā means itās a distraction tactic,Ā not that the issue itself isnāt important. The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting theĀ āhot-headed liberalsā all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves. They deliberately drop issues that they know are hot-button topics because these are the topics that have the potential to be the most divisive.Ā
Theyāre awful but theyāre not dumb. TheyĀ knowĀ trans rights is an issue that could potentially split the democratic vote. Itās an issue thatās very heavily weighted toward the younger side of the party, which again, was a deliberateĀ move on their part. If they can convinced you that the ābig bad Democrats donāt care about you little trans and nonbinary kids so why bother,ā then theyāve effectively won the election in a walk because the democrats went in dividedāagain.
Look, the democratic party isnāt perfect. Not by a long shot. But itās literally the only party that has a snowballās chance in hell at overtaking the republican majority right now. If we as trans and nonbinary individuals ever want our identities respected and protected, itās the onlyĀ party thatās going to be able to get us there, because itās the party going in the direction we needĀ to go. If you want to vote in favor of our rights, then vote Democrat. No number of videos with pennies is going to change the fact that right now, in this political climate, third party candidates are not going to have enough power to effect the changes we want.Ā
Warning against something being a distraction doesnāt meanĀ ādonāt look at it or worry about it,ā it means,Ā āhey, I know this is majorly upsetting, and absolutely something needs to be done, but donāt let it divide us.ā Itās literally becauseĀ the issue is so important that democrats are warning against it as a distraction tacticāif we want to prevent that kind of change from happening under republican rule, we haveĀ to keep our heads and not let them keep us from voting as a unified party.Ā
Please donāt let the political rhetoric make you think that the democratic party isnāt going to be fighting for us and our rights. Thatās kind of exactly what the Republican party wants you to think. Itās a division tactic. Donāt fall for it.
The Republican party has a very longstanding history of dropping hints of major policy changes right before big elections in the hopes of getting the āhot-headed liberalsā all fired up about it so we start bickering among ourselves.
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS
Iāve been voting since 1998. This is what they do every single election.
Wait but what are the democrats doing about this again?
Well, they canāt do jack shit unless they get a majority in either the House or the Senate, preferably both.
But in case you forgot, Democrats made it legal for trans people to change their gender on their passports. Democrats lifted the ban on trans people in the military that had been in place since the 1960s. Democrats have nominated a trans woman for Governor of Vermont.
STOP WITH THE āBOTH PARTIES ARE THE SAMEā RHETORIC!
Are Democrats doing enough? Probably not. But theyāve done something and unlike Republicans arenāt trying to actively roll back the things they have done.
READ THIS WHOLE THREAD
If you subscribe to the āboth parties are the sameā rhetoric you have literally played right into their hands.
Republicans donāt want people to vote, they have admitted this in talks to their donors.
They will use any means to disenfranchise people and that includes trying to play towards young peopleās apathy.
Donāt be a rube and fall for their ploy.
Steampunk Echenique.
Dwarven technology has come a long way
@thebibliosphere tagging you because of the post you made about fantasy mobility aids
That is some Wild West bullshit, I love it, that is fantastic.
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see, this is why people who donāt want disability representation in fantasy make no sense, because why would you justā¦not have a steampunk crab chairā¦when you could totally have a steampunk crab chairā¦does not computeā¦
dwarves with chronic illness ftw???Ā
Omg this is so awesome! Does anyone know who made this?