The Woman Called Nova

‘I asked chat gpt-’ well I asked Una McCormack and she managed to make it about Garak but I didn’t really mind

Commit to the bit, I say.

Finally, my selfish wish that she responds to this post has been fulfilled. I can rest somewhat easy tonight

Beware, I may respond again…

when people who want to be vaguely progressive say 'nature' all secular style but it's painfully obvious they mean 'god' while thinking they don't mean god

"natural behaviour" "the natural body" "nature intended" "nature created" no da fuck it didn't

“Culture tends to argue that it forbids only that which is unnatural. But from a biological perspective, nothing is unnatural. Whatever is possible is by definition also natural. A truly unnatural behaviour, one that goes against the laws of nature, simply cannot exist, so it would need no prohibition.” - Yuval Noah Harari

Medusa was kinda problematic  :/

She objectified a lot of people 

Joy and whimsy not detected! This post is not joyful nor whimsical!

I've recently had white women in professional contexts tell me that they were quote "hurt" and "gutted" by what amounted to very minor professional faux pas on my part. I remember reading a white woman academic's essay on Jane Eyre that began with recounting her emotional upset upon having Jane Eyre "taken away from her" by postcolonial / anti-racist scholarship. white women's emotions do have currency in personal and professional spaces in selective contexts, i.e. when wielded against people of colour 🤷🏽‍♀️

somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

teamwork makes the dream work. and dreamwork. makes shrek

People on Twitter (and elsewhere) love to say "retard" and "low IQ" now and I'm not only talking about nazi accounts but just your average account. It came out of nowhere just this year too. Really annoying.

I've been telling people that IQ is perhaps the most normalized example of eugenics and the pseudoscience that is psychometrics

Anything that is based in IQ is bogus because IQ is simply fake data

reblog to send your mutuals a hug. maybe just the thought is enough to cheer them up 🥺

why don't you calm down and look up the little auk

The Doctor Who Role Playing Game by FASA gets Romana's heights wrong. Romana I is described as tall and II as average height, but Mary Tamm was apparently half an inch shorter than Lalla Ward. This sort of error in such a game is unacceptable and shows that Doctor Who has been doomed since 1985. Or something. I actually don't have anything to say about this minor error besides that it amused me.

fuuuck I could use a mysterious benefactor right now

Surprisingly, Fred The Eternal has figured out how to protect her antennae and I’m too blind to bother her beyond confusing her antennae’s for yummy shrimp :)

Don't eat your girlfriend! She's not shrimp!!!

In addition to a real life archaeologist, I can become a Tumblr archaeologist to if I keep stumbling into the ancient texts that tell us about forgotten civilisations, where I-pods roamed freely…