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homunculus-argument

Imagine that one day as you're walking on a hot sunny path, your hat jumps off your head and lands into a muddy ditch. And you look at your muddy hat and ask it: "What did you do that for?"

"I don't want to be a burden anymore", your hat answers. "You are always carrying me around, and I can't carry you. That's not fair."

"I don't mind carrying you, little idiot", you tell your hat, "you hardly weight anything at all, and you shelter me from the sun."

"But that's different", your hat protests. "I don't mind the sun scorching on me. That happens anyway. It's literally no trouble for me to shade you too."

"Just the same it's no trouble for me to carry you. But now, because you wanted to stop inconveniencing and bothering me, I am now hatless and you are in the dirt."

jantesika

hello Aesop; how's the underworld been?

homunculus-argument

Every day I wake up and Hades kicks me in the nuts.

departmentq

#star trek ds9

hometoursandotherstuff

#birdposting

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deerwife

i need to put all three of these pictures in a single post. this is significant. this matters. this is why i exist

esculent-macabre-deactivated201

#bad day antidote

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

dump his ass. move to a walkable city. start hormones. get into fiber crafts. dye your hair weird. grow an herb garden. foster a distrustful cat. take a welding class. invite your friends over for tea and cake. get way too into obscure media. explore a new cuisine. lie to the police. protest in the streets. life has so many possibilities don't it?

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

make out with a frenemy. buy noise cancelling headphones. wear office inappropriate attire. quit a toxic workplace. improve your apartment. start a dog walking sidegig. get on first name basis with your local librarians. bully politicians at town hall meetings. get an unexpected piercing. cultivate farmer's market connections. trade recipes with a gossipy old neighbor. unionize your apartment complex. move to the countryside. let a friend take you larping. keep a sword on your mantleplace

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

get a tattoo on your 40th birthday. be tempted to buy a loom. do a charity drag show. sue your landlord. buy a really nice kitchen appliance. volunteer at an anarchist soup kitchen. rediscover a tv show you watched when you were 8. spam your state senators. shop at asian grocery stores. do cosplay. buy trans flags in bulk and mount them along the highway. go viral for unexpected reasons. move in with your best friend. make lemoncello with leftover lemon rinds. run for school board membership. explore pegging.

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

update: i'm delighted to report this post has been responsible for at least one person dumping his ass

biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist

update: three four people

#thank you for your service

enchantedbook

"Offering" by Ulla Thynell

thesustainedworldatransverse

Artist is on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/ullathynell

#art #illustration #fairy tale

cosmonautroger

Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999

thesustainedworldatransverse

@entities-of-posts it's her, it's Mama Web.

#TMA #The Magnus Archives

elodieunderglass

i don't WANT to drink water I WANT a bard to draft a eulogy for me to criticise!!!!!!!

elodieunderglass

I appreciate that people also liked this one

#today's mood #birdposting

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vonnebenan

As somebody whose name contains an Umlaut, it always makes me mad when Americans people who don’t use a German keyboard layout just leave out the dots. That is not my name. :(

correct: ä = ae ö = oe ü = ue (and ß = ss)

INCORRECT: ä = a ö = o ü = u

Leaving out the dots can actually change the meaning of words. Examples:

schwül: muggy, sticky schwul: gay [homosexual] ächten: to outlaw achten: to regard/respect sb./sth. schön: beautiful schon: already, yet

Respect the Umlaute :(

#language #German #umlaut #diacritics

penny-anna

like many people have said this better than me but no it IS odd that we've come to think of potatoes as so quintessentially european that their presence in historical fantasy where they're anachronistic doesn't jar. and yes people are trying to have the trappings of post-colonial europe without engaging w the icky colonialism part and yes people are neglecting to imagine what a european cuisine without potatoes would be like.

penny-anna

im fully in favour of 'let people have fun w their fantasy world' but is considering how the potatoes got there in the absence of colonialism not a fun exercise? maybe every year the dragon riders go on a great transatlantic potato pilgrimage

penny-anna

perhaps a good way to sum up the issue here is:

if you put potatoes in your medieval european style fantasy world people will by and large not find it jarring and accept it as a normal fantasy trope

if you put, say, black people in your medieval european style fantasy world a whole demographic of people will get very angry and accuse you of breaking their immersion

this is in spite of the fact that black people were a lot more common in medieval europe than potatoes.

xylophone888

an eternal classic

#discworld #ponder stibbons #mustrum ridcully #pride #gnu terry pratchett

kjscottwrites

Reject the idea that there is such a thing as high art and low art!!! Read smut! Write horror! Watch low budget shorts! Listen to a local garage band!!!

kjscottwrites

Read challenging classics! Write poetry!!! Watch foreign films!! Listen to experimental music!!!!!! Let a thousand blossoms bloom motherfucker!!!!!

badassdemonsword

birds-in-posts

Java sparrow (Padda oryzivora)

White morph

#birdposting

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newhologram

Tweet by unicornthorn "the idea that people are faking severe chronic illnesses en masse for attention is hilarious to me because anyone with severe chronic illnesses knows that you lose like 95-100% of your friends once you become too sick to fake being well 24/7

like yeah, people with ME and stuff totally get tons of attention, that's why everyone forgets we even exist because they never see us again when we disappear from public for the rest of our lives 🫠

fun fact: most of us fake being WELL when we want or need attention because no one gives a shit about you when you're sick

for those wondering, the trick to keeping 1-5% of your friends is to be friends with chronically ill people, they're generally the ones that stick around after you can't pretend anymore" What's wild is people in denial that this actually happens and we're just throwing a pity party. Friends and family quite LITERALLY abandon sick people ALL THE TIME bc it doesn't fit into their picture-perfect idea of how life is "supposed" to be.

cuntess-carmilla

#‘you’re just trying to get sympathy’ bro WHAT sympathy??#where???#if that was my goal then I probably would have given up after month 6#when I realized that the most I was gonna get#was people telling me that things can wait#‘until I get better’

^ For real

You can't even get employment when you're moderately chronically ill, let alone severely chronically ill, and you think we get any attention? Try socializing with no income and being dead to the system as well as having accessibility barriers all around even if you don't rely on things like mobility aids. Watch your social life evaporate in three seconds.

Even if we manage to physically drag ourselves out of bed and into social scenarios, able-bodied people find us silently repulsive and REALLY prefer to not have us around reminding them of the fragility of their own health with our mere presences. They find us very exasperating as well if we're experiencing brain fog (aka cognitive dysfunction from pain/fatigue/etc).

That's not even going into how even if none of the above applies to the like one or max two compassionate able-bodied people we're limited to know, they will still walk away from our lives sooner or later because they'll quickly realize that committing to us as either friends, lovers of close family will limit their own chances at socializing and experiencing life the way they want to.

If there's anyone out there faking a severe or even just moderate chronic illness, then they must have a very serious non-physical issue going on because there is NO benefit to gain from being in our positions. Closest to sincere compassion you'll ever get is the most revolting form of dehumanizing, aggressive pity you could imagine.

#chronic illness #disability