Stoker's Spooky Corner

Also additions from @peelerofpotatoes and @tvtimaeus that are good

I would still take estrogen on a desert island. If that doesn't describe you, then good for you!! But dismantling gender norms would still not alleviate bodily dysphoria for all.

I'm sorry but this is another "status quo take that acts like it's the underdog". I mean yeah I guess we can't be CERTAIN certain of this, because we don't have a society-free control group of humans. But I've personally spent a decent amount of time in isolated wilderness and I've still had bodily dysphoria then. I've still had bodily dysphoria after years of trying to deconstruct the concept of what bodies go with what people.

My weird anecdote here is that I was raised in a prudish environment and learned about normal genital anatomy kinda late (around like 8ish yo). I don't remember much that far back, but I have some memory of bottom dysphoria before I never knew that opposite sexed genitals existed. I knew something felt wrong about me having a penis before I knew what a vagina was, when I was a young kid.

Like yeah I guess you can't be 100% sure what a genderless society would do for bodily dysphoria. But as it stands it just reads as annoying and dismissive to claim this about anyone who does experience bodily dysphoria. And it's even more annoying to see this take pop up EVERY time someone mentions bodily dysphoria. It is genuinely kind of what I'm complaining about initially, or rather a prelude to the mentality I'm complaining about initially. This "controversial take" is the initial statement you have to accept before saying something like "we just need to deconstruct gender instead of letting people transition" when the reality of that statement is that the premise itself is flawed. And that flawed premise is what you're saying.

So I honestly could not disagree more.

Fucked it up a little bit, but its artfight get art attacked ♡ (thats totally how this works)

The blurb said the shot was taken in Granada, Spain, by Agneta Fondén.  No other info, so I have no idea how old, etc.  There's a game (from 1988) that uses a similar pattern on one of its pieces, but this could predate it by at least a thousand years  — or not.  But the pattern intrigued me, so I made a texture map and used Blender's geometry nodes (no generative AI) to set up a hexagon grid with random rotations for the tiles:

That's all done with a single design:

You'd think this would have a name, right?  (For its historical use as an architectural / decor tile — although I've found out more about its use in games, that's not what I'm looking for.)  Like the Penroses do (and no, it's not one of those).  But I've had no luck finding it, or any other info.  Any (human only, please) help?

BUT

I explained very clearly to the manager my issue with the meat section not having the price tags listed, and they claimed it was only going to be for the meat, since meat is by weight, and the price of each item is printed on the packs of each item.

Sure. That’s how they get their foot in the door. Fast forward not even two weeks, and here we are:

Bar codes. No prices, no item descriptions. No price stickers on the individual items. Heck, not even the name of the item that is SUPPOSED to be there.

No. The only way to see the price is to scan it on your phone app, which is also recording what you looked at recently, as a way of gauging what you might be looking for in the future.

So here’s what we’re gonna do gang:

Every time you go into a store that has implemented these price-less tags:

Take 1-3 items up to the cash register. Ask the cashier for the price, or hit the price check item on the self checkout, which will likely call over the attendant.

Express that you didn’t actually want it, you just couldn’t see on the shelf how much it was.

POLITELY, AND WITH A THANK YOU FOR THE PRICE CONFIRMATION, Give the items to the cashier or attendant to put back.

When they inevitably try to push the app, politely decline. If pressed for why not, say you don’t want to have to carry your phone in-hand the whole time you are shopping in order to see how much things cost. (Not having cell service or data to use the app is NOT a valid excuse, as stores already often have complimentary WiFi AND more stores will provide WiFi rather than give up on this push for surveillance pricing)

If it’s a shelf-stable item, the cashier will have to set it aside, taking up room in their limited operating space, and eventually pass it off to someone to put in a holding area to put back later. If it’s a fridge/freezer item, it might have to get tossed due to food product sale regulations.

In either case, you are making it a pain in the ass for them to have these digital bar codes. Tie up the checkouts. Give the employees more busywork that the company has to pay them to do. Hurt their bottom line having to toss the pint of ice cream you carried around in your cart for 20 minutes before giving it back to the cashier.

If anyone wants to help please please i need my car to live

By definition you can't accidentally queerbait. Queerbaiting is specifically using a same sex pair from the show to market the show to queer audiences with no intention of ever following through on a romantic relationship.

There is officially licensed Destiel merch signed off on by Kripke. Teen Wolf had a commercial with the actors for Derek and Stiles draped over each other talking about being "on a ship." Both shows actively used scenes between them as marketing while actively mocking fans for wanting them together. Sherlock has multiple characters refer to Johnlock as a couple, including characters we're supposed to believe are never wrong about human behavior and pushed those scenes in marketing. Then they acted insulted when fans saw them as a couple.

That's queerbaiting.

Done on accident it would just be queer subtext. Done because they had no other choice due to censorship is queer coding.

The specific meaning of the word is really starting to get lost and it's a pretty important one to keep accurate. It describes a very specific phenomenon that was done repeatedly and maliciously for decades and is meant to examine that specifically.