No destiny ordained.

I keep getting in trouble for referring to my spouse as 'my woman.' That's who she is to me--wanch ngatharam, and I'm pam nungantam, her man. Apparently that bit of paleo-misogyny loses something in translation for the metro middle-class people I'm attempting to mingle with lately, so I've had to alter my language and start saying 'my spouse.' The problem lies in the cultural baggage that comes with the possessive form in English grammar, and with the language of property law. In our Aboriginal communities, when people first meet you they will often ask, 'Who own you?' This doesn't signify a property relation--it is all about what groups, pairs and lands you belong to in your relationships, which are governed collectively. Belonging and ownership means something completely different from possession in our world. It means being in relation to family and community and place. Your belongings are not your property, but your connections. This worldview is not very compatible with the political economies, legal systems and marketplaces we must interact with to survive.

got absolutely jumpscared seeing this motherfucker show up out of the blue I had no idea that he was from Homestuck specifically I though he was from like. Life

god I really REALLY hope that the Midnight Crew thing is not a premonition of how complicated Time Travel Bullshit is going to get in this series. this is just an intermission. they’re not gonna REALLY make you follow all that, it’s gonna be fine

there is a multiple page extended reference to Barkley: Shut Up and Jam Gaiden in this comic, which fucks me up because I can’t believe that game predates this comic by two years, but also explains SO MUCH of the writing style. the sense of humor in both of these series is IDENTICAL

‼️ FORK SPOTTED IN KITCHEN ‼️

"The comic relief character was a cold-blooded villain all along" is a plot twist that is either brilliant or stupidest hackshit ever depending on how it's handled.

Fun Real Animal Behaviour to give to dragons: That thing with the birds of prey that hunt by snatching smaller animals from the air or off the ground while in flight, but who have no goddamn idea what to do with you when something is prey-sized, and you're both on the ground, and for some godfrosaken reason you're not scared or avoiding them. So they're just there visibly confused and uncomfortable and have no goddamn clue what the hell to do about this.

I've been fed, walked and watered and I've slept enough and been out of the internet and I'm doing crafts.

I walked right into this one like a blind horse into a revolving door.

this has come up a couple of times so let me be really really clear:

Wait wait wait.

I thought we made fun of people who said "not all men" in response to women discussing sexism because while they are correct that not all men [insert bad behavior here], saying so in certain conversations is just a defensive knee jerk reaction that distracts from the point.

This is why you sound like a clown if you call transmasculine people talking about their issues "TMRAs." If you hear men discussing the ways they are harmed by the existing system and the only thing you can think of is obnoxious MRAs, you're telling on yourself. You're broadcasting the fact that you haven't spent enough time engaging with broad feminist viewpoints to know that men's liberation ideas (NOT the same as MRA) are a part of feminism and have been for a long time.

The patriarchy is not a war of men against women where men are given all the advantages. That's not what feminism is up against.

These posts are glorious.

Myth: "I only wear vegan fabrics. Better for the animals, better for the planet." Let's check in on Doris's annual contribution. Once a year, in late spring, Doris is sheared. The procedure takes approximately three minutes. Doris does not enjoy it. Doris does not, by any visible measure, suffer from it. Doris is, immediately afterwards, a noticeably more comfortable animal in the British summer. The fleece weighs approximately 3 kilograms. It is sold to the British Wool Marketing Board for, depending on the year, between £0.40 and £2.50 per kilogram. The shearing costs more than the wool fetches. Brian is shearing Doris at a loss. The wool is then: - Naturally flame-retardant - Naturally antibacterial - Moisture-wicking - Biodegradable - Renewable, annually - Carbon-storing while in use The replacement, in performance fabrics: - Polyester - Polyamide - Acrylic - Polypropylene - All petroleum-derived - All shedding microplastics on every wash - All requiring fossil fuel inputs to produce - All non-biodegradable, with a typical landfill lifespan of 200-500 years A single wash of a polyester fleece can release up to 700,000 microplastic fibres into the water system. These fibres are now in: every tested water source on earth, every tested human placenta, every tested rainfall sample, the deep ocean, the Arctic ice, and the lungs of marine mammals. A single wash of a wool jumper releases: nothing. The wool, when eventually disposed of, returns to soil within a few years. The fabric being marketed as the "ethical" alternative to wool is plastic. The plastic is "ethical" because nobody has been asked to slaughter the polymer. The polymer also has not been asked. Doris, by being a sheep on a fell, is producing the most thoroughly sustainable performance fabric humans have ever made. Brian is selling it at a loss. The fashion industry, meanwhile, is selling petroleum at a profit and calling it ethical. Reject plastic. Wear wool. Doris is, this morning, growing next year's batch.

Right to Comfort specifically comes from Tema Okun's White Supremacy Culture framework! I feel like it's important to ground the phrase in the original context; that Right to Comfort is specifically about the way white supremacy culture treats accusations of racism as worse than racism itself, and polices the way it's discussed to death.