fishies all day bro

Wenn ihr oder andere männlich eingetragene Wesen zwischen 17,5 und 58 Jahren den Kriegsdienst an der Waffe verweigern wollt, und beim stellen des KDV Antrags bzw der Begründung Hilfe benötigt, könnt ihr euch bei mir und/oder einer DFG-VK Beratungsstelle beraten lassen. Mir werden fortan auch Fälle aus meiner Region übertragen werden, aber auch bei denen die mir direkt schreiben werde ich mit meiner Landesgeschäftsstelle Rücksprache halten um sicherzugehen dass ich euch so kompetent wie möglich beraten habe.

Die Chancen, dass ein Antrag aktuell durchgeht sind sehr hoch. Wer allerdings bis zum Ernstfall wartet, also bis es eine offizielle Wehrpflicht gibt bzw der Bundestag mit 2/3 Mehrheit einen Spannungs- oder Verteidigungsfall ausgerufen hat, riskiert, dass der eigene Antrag aufgeschoben wird und man vor seiner Bearbeitung schon eingezogen wurde. Darum würde ich es jedem männlich eingetragenen Menschen (mit deutscher Staatsbürgerschaft) raten, das ganze so früh wie möglich anzugehen. Auch wenn man eine Schwerbehinderung hat oder denkt, man sei aus anderen Gründen fein raus (z.B. psychische Erkrankungen, schwul, trans* oder Ü45 sein sind keine direkten Ausschlusskriterien, auch wenn manche immer noch davon ausgehen).

Verweigern, wenn der Fragebogen schon da ist:

Which is great experimental archaeology and all, but the latest thing I've rediscovered is that gambesons are actually, like.... necessary.... not because you need the padding (my chestplate does just fine with the foam glued inside it) but because you need arming points. My elbows have to be held up somehow, and every way I've found of attaching them to the shoulder results in reduced arm mobility. If they attach to my sleeve then nothing can go wrong

But I don't want to die of heatstroke. Which I will, if I add a gambeson into my current kit

As I touched on in my japanese goncharov post, it’s amazing how much novel research, entertainment, and art are locked behind a language barrier. Even though as english speakers, we are privileged to have many things translated into our language, it’s a simple fact that most things will not be translated into most languages.

I am a huge fan of ゆる言語学ラジオ, a japanese podcast about linguistics. The hosts recently released a book, 言語沼, which goes into detail about some of the subconscious rules native japanese speakers follow but aren’t consciously aware of (an english equivalent might be that adjective-ordering rule we follow e.g. big brown cow, not brown big cow). I’m finding it fascinating, and I wanted to discuss some of it here in english, because I think people learning japanese would find some of these things really useful. It’d be a shame if this knowledge stayed stuck behind the japanese language barrier when the people who would find it the most useful can’t speak japanese fluently enough to read it!

The book talks about how most Japanese people will think of 「あのー」 and 「えーっと」 as having the exact same meaning - they’re both “meaningless” filler words. Despite their belief that they’re the same, those same native speakers will subconsciously only use あのー in one particular type of situation and 「えーっと」 in another, and even feel confused or annoyed if they hear another speaker use one in the wrong context.

So what’s the actual difference? 「えーっと」 is used when the speaker is taking time to remember or solve something. For example, the following exchange is very natural:

Person A: 7 x 5は？ Person B: えーっと、35だ

This makes it a pretty versatile filler word! You can use it pretty much anywhere. Another example would be when you’re talking to yourself, trying to remember where you left your keys.

えーっと、鍵どこ置いたっけ？

On the other hand, あのー is much more specific. It can only be used when you’re taking time to figure out the best way to phrase something. For example, when you’re trying to get a stranger’s attention.

あのー、ちょっといいですか？

In contrast, if Person A was addressed with 「えーっと、ちょっといいですか？」by Person B, they’d feel it was rude because instead of considering how to say something, B is considering what to say, which gives the impression that they hadn’t even figured out what they needed to ask before addressing Person A.

This gives 「あのー」 a more ”polite” feeling than 「えーっと」, even though neither is actually more polite than the other. They’re just used in different circumstances.

Let’s quickly look at the example with the lost keys again. If you replace the filler word:

あのー、鍵どこ置いたっけ？

It is very unnatural. The authors of the book jokingly say that it sounds like you’re talking to a ghost, because 「あのー」 is only used when you’re figuring out how to phrase something, and you wouldn’t worry about that if you’re talking to yourself.

Also, did you know even japanese children properly use each filler word in the correct situation? Despite almost all japanese people (even as adults) being unaware of this rule, they’re subconsciously abiding by it even as children - just from listening to their parents follow the same rules!

He is the son of a single mother who was an Irish immigrant, he's born and raised in New York City in the 1930s, he shared his childhood with Bucky Barnes, he was terribly ill for more than half his life, he hates bullies, he was willingly experimented on, and he has fought in one of the most violent conflicts of world's history. All this has created a paradox where he won't strike first if he can avoid it, because he greatly values the ideals of love and respect for others, but also, he charges these ideals in all the blows he delivers. He will make you swallow them together with your teeth.

Why not have him happy with Sharon?!?

It still writes him out (while leaving it open for him to have an advisor/support role and his awesome Commander Rogers outfit).

"Adapting to circumstances is its own skill. As General Patton once told me: to a good solider there is no such thing as 'unfamiliar territory'. You either plan where you're going or make the terrain your own the second your boots hit the ground.

Patton, of course, had the luxury of marching into the future one day at a time. But he wasn't wrong.

It's tempting to want to live in the past. It's familiar, it's comfortable.

But it's where fossils come from.

My job is to make tomorrow's world better, always has been.

Once, long ago, I asked Bucky what purpose Captain America served outside of combat. It was a foolish question.

There'll always be something to fight for.

And I'll always be a solider."

(Man Out Of Time by Mark Waid)

To me, this what Captain America IS. Going back, trying to recapture what was lost, is impossible. And it's pointless. What we need to do is live in the now, so we can make tomorrow better.

i am looking for anyone who has any or all of the 2015, 2016, 2017 calendars who can share the dates for those years with me

notes/rambles under the cut

i used to tell people i’m immunodeficient and they’d ask invasive questions about my diagnosis, whether my parents kept my childhood overly sterile, whether I was vaccinated as a child (with the implication that it would have been bad if I were).

Now that I say I have an immunodeficient family member at home, people smile knowingly and say, “oh, well you do what you have to do,” and “my mom went through chemo. I remember how hard it was to do all the precautions” and “that’s so kind of you.”

if i tell someone i mask because i’m disabled, i’m assumed to be the weak link in our society, a burden to my family.

ladies invented your favorite science fiction subgenres

Hey, y’all. I’m a queer disabled Jew living in a house with two other queer roommates, and we’re struggling to make ends meet. Especially now with the government shutdown blocking SNAP benefits.

I’m finally in a place where I can cover my own bills without assistance, and I’ve actually been paying a little bit ahead on rent to cover for my roommates, but they’ve both been late for the last couple months due to underemployment, and we just got a notice from the landlords that if we aren’t caught up by the beginning of December, our lease will end in late March.

Because of the way our lease works, this unfortunate will affect all of us if even one of us is late. My roomies say their hours have picked up enough now that they should be fine once we catch up, they just haven’t been getting paid enough to do more than tread water, so I’m really worried at this point. The deadline is the beginning of December.

My roommates are about $1500 behind, and need help ASAP, before December gets here. If you can donate, here are my links. literally anything helps:

@/karibud on venmo

And then, at some point, the people who left started coming back.

It was the children first. The March of Dimes and Saint Jude set up programs and my town would do spaghetti fundraisers and raffles and meal trains to support the family and send the child and one parent to a hospital in the city — and the children came home. Their hair grew back. They went back to school. We were all trained to think of them as the angelic lost and they were turning into asshole teens right in front of our eyes. What a miracle, what a gift, how lucky we are that the odds for several children are in our favor!

Adults started leaving for a specific program to treat their specific cancer at a specific hospital or a specific research group. They’d stay in that city for 6-12 months and then they’d come home. We fully expected that they were still dying — or they’d gotten one of the good cancers. What a gift this year is for them, we’d think. How lucky they are to be strong enough to ski and swim and run. And then they didn’t stop — two decades later they haven’t stopped. Not all of them, but most of them.

We bought those extra hours and months and years. We paid for time with our taxes. Scientists found ways for treatment to be less terrible, less poisonous, and a thousand times more effective.

And now, when a friend was diagnosed, the five year survival odds were 95%. My friend is alive, nearly five years later. Those kids who miraculously survived are alive. The adults who beat the odds are still alive. I grew up in a place small enough that you can see the losses. And now, the hospital in my tiny hometown can effectively treat many cancers. Most people don’t have to go away for treatment. They said we could never cure cancer, as it were, but we can cure a lot of cancers. We can diagnose a lot of cancers early enough to treat them with minor interventions. We can prevent a lot of cancers.

We could keep doing that. We could continue to fund research into other heartbreaks — into Long Covid and MCAS and psych meds with fewer side effects and dementia treatments. We could buy months and years, alleviate the suffering of our neighbors. That is what funding health research buys: time and ease.

I'd ask that people tag their warnings properly, but even then tagging is only a courtesy. yes, it's nice if a fic is properly tagged, most books in libraries or book stores aren't "tagged" with any warnings at all, but tagging is still only a courtesy, the one I appreciate but still just a courtesy, not a rule that must be followed.

I'd say, the most important factor when it comes to this is the good old "don't like don't read"