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ok tumblr is currently telling me my blog has no posts with the tags I use to track my posts, so I'm making a new one in the hope that the easy win will help the search function to believe that the power to search for my tags was inside it all along
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leaving a bad review of The Art of War on Amazon so my enemies don't buy it
woman yelling at cat meme but make it ancient greek red figure pottery
From ancient to abstract, this one sure got around.
Japanese one made no sense to me until I finally saw theΒ βsale sale/sasa leleβ version. γ»γΌγ«γγ»γΌγ«γ But then itβs a meme so it has to be misspelled?Β π€·ββοΈ
tHERE ARE MEMES IN THOSE HIEROGLYPHICS
Ohhhhhhhβ¦. Chinese and greek are my favourite, but there is more!
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some people are taking "doomed" to mean "dead". this is actually a misconception! you can be doomed even if you don't die! it's sometimes worse if you don't die!
I think mostly what young fandom types (and I guess younger people in general) who are very very invested in the idea that β20 is still basically a minorβ need to understand is that the feeling of βIβm just a child pretending to be an adult, and everyone else around me is a REAL adultβ is DEEPLY universal (and wonβt stop, ever, by the way, sorry!) and also is not, like, praxis.
Believe me, I get it, but the self-infantilization needs to stop, especially when youβre trying to engage in conversations about actual children and the harms they can face. Yes, it is scary to wake up and realize youβre 22 and you still feel like youβre 15, but it happens to all of us. Youβre an adult. You have to deal with it.
Like I'm nearing 40 and I don't feel significantly different as a person than I did at 20, other than being less depressed.
I know I'm different bc i respond in different ways to things now, but there's not a sense of "ah yes I am become adult" that's for fuckin sure. It's normal. It's okay. So stop infantilizing yourselves about it.
And stop infantilizing others about it, too. Yes, you're realizing at 25 that you still don't feel like an adult, but you cannot use that feeling to let yourself think of people who are younger than you as "even less of an adult than I am" when they are, in fact, adults. And you have to be very, very careful not to let that feeling convince you that it's okay for young adults to have fewer rights.
There's no age at which you magically stop being worried that you're not doing it right or well enough. Every single person alive is the oldest they've ever been and we are ALL winging it. Being scared of getting it wrong doesn't mean that you shouldn't be allowed to get it wrong.
It is universal, and it doesn't end.
I'm 44, I'm the adultier-adult most of my adult friends go to for help buying a house, doing home repairs, buying a car etc.
and I'm still pretty sure I'm 12. I'm just now 12 buying alcohol like whatever and with a mortgage. It's fine, I've fooled them all.
oh siddhartha gautama, called Buddha, we're really in it now
Truth Coming Out of Her Well to Shame Mankind
unmute for the unfathomable sounds of mankind being shamed
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i just feel like friendship is one of the most expansive and beautiful forms of love you can ever experience and i wish we gave it more credit
Say you break your ankle. You could know everything there is to know intellectually about the injury. Even with this vast knowledge, you will still experience physical pain.
Now take this logic and apply it to things like ADHD, autism, clinical depression, and other less visible/divergent disabilities. You cannot think your way out of feeling.
That is to say: you are not a bad, lazy, or selfish person for struggling, even if you know why you are struggling.
Genuinely, thank you so much for this.
Yes I know you mistrust the banks, milord, and I don't blame you, but their Vault Wizards are specially trained to prevent dragons from detecting large amounts of gold. I cannot emphasize enough that it's a full-time job employing multiple specialists, I'm not trying to be humble here but it's not something that just the court magician and I can set up a couple wards for on the weekends and call it good.
It's, it's just that dragons are the primordial embodiment of avarice wrought into fire and flesh. They are truly, supernaturally good at finding large amounts of valuables, that's why the big mines hire those Dragon Scouts to go sniff out their lairs and mark them on the maps as potential mining ventures. You know, in case someone slays the relevant dragon. Which doesn't happen often because, milord, they are simply not that easily slain.
No I know you've hired many knights, blooded warriors and true. Yes, I was there when you gave the ten most impressive ones their special sashes. Very grand, very high honors, of course. Ehm. It's just, none of them have ever actually faced a dragon. Yes no I know Sir Edbert says he did but Sir Edbert is rather notoriously prone to exaggerated and tragically unverifiable tales---
Well no milord of course I would not doubt the word of a sworn knight. Perhaps his sobriety, but not his word, as such.
The point is that the grand treasury, while surely grand and a very special notion, is just... it is mayhaps not the ideal way of handling the realm's finances? Perhaps a series of smaller vaults, capped well below the dangerous wealth threshold at which gold is known to whet the appetite of colossal winged harbingers of death, in different corners of the realms or...?
No, I, yes well I do realize that will impede anyone's interests in coming into the vault to hurl around the gold coins and go "whee, I'm so rich!" I am aware of its deficiencies as a plan in that regard. No, I see I've misjudged a few things.
Actually, thinking on it, milord, I truly believe what you need is a fresh set of skilled wizards on this job. The court magician and I, we cannot keep up with your visionary thinking. We're too old-fashioned. But the wizards revolutionizing the eldritch academies seem to be more on this sort of level. I hear they've made some truly remarkable choices in terms of outsourcing all of their spellwork to the Ever-Whispering Void, such that it takes mere minutes for them to set up an entire defensive array. That's just the sort of innovative thinking you require.
Though it will grieve the court magician and I to leave your service, perhaps this is a sign that retirement is overdue. So I'll just... be moving further away from the big pile of gold... in the opulent, dome-shaped building with the crystal skylight... best wishes.
You know when there's like, a straight show and everyone's like "it's full of queer subtext between the main straight dudes, and this character is obviously autistic and they really meant to say trans rights"? And then there's a queer show and all of a sudden it's "no but they weren't sensitive about this character's trauma and the queer sex scenes are too short and they're all problematic as fuck, i can't even watch"? And then our shit doesn't get renewed, and we hated on it the whole way for not embodying the perfection we'd never dream of demanding from the straight show?
Yeah, something like that
One of the best things about being a writer is thinking of something small you can add to your work thatβs just. Devastating. Like youβre sitting there going. Oh. That would be diabolical. People would get really riled up about that. Exquisite. Letβs do it.
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You can begin this process at any time, regardless of how old you have become.
Today's revelation: Lois McMaster Bujold was writing about birth control all along.
lolwut, Vorkosigan saga is a space opera
It's a space opera that's only about space travel technology in the same way Jane Austen's novels are about horses. It gets you places but what are people having plots over? Uterine replicators. Unethical cloning. Biotech-mediated slavery. Gender change technology in a society of agnatic primogeniture. Fear of mutations and mutants. Biology.
Well, biology with a practical framing of economics, because nothing drives a plot like biology+economics. But with the notable exception of the butterbugs of A Civil Campaign, it's all about the reproductive biology and what people do to people when reproductive technology is in play.
Still, what does this have to do with birth control?
Lois McMaster Bujold is a woman of the Boomer generation, the first generation of women to come of age with widely available access to reliable birth control. She saw firsthand what it did to social mores, family size, women's choices, men's reactions, and the associated politics.
The vast majority of LMB's reproductive technology themes and plots have a NowWorld analog, and we should all be paying attention.
(This is a literature PhD waiting to happen, if it hasn't already!)
