shut up all the evils of the world

bloomedwings:

Ugh, was having a great time mocking my recently imprisoned rival when I noticed the camera positioning makes it so that I appear behind the bars, thus framing me as trapped in a metaphorical prison of the narrative, now my whole day is ruined. Fuck.

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thecollectibles:

Food Art by Alai Ganuza

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cleolinda:

Re: writers’ and actors’ strikes

I’ll say it here rather than burying it in various tags again:

Always remember that the people hoarding the money can make the strike stop at any time.

And they, the studios and streaming services, want you to forget that their profit hoarding is the problem. They’re the reason this is happening, not the writers and actors.

You can’t see that movie you wanted because a studio is clutching a fistful of nickels. They can afford to pay writers and actors–large collectives of not-famous workers–something even a little bit closer to fairly. But they are determined not to, with the cruelest resolve. An unnamed executive said, and I quote exactly this time, “The endgame is to allow things to drag on until [writers’] union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses.”

Get mad that you won’t get your movies and shows.

Get mad at the right people.

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tagged as:  #current events

gundamnet:

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— if it’s fate, it’s a horrible one. cruel.

KIDOU SENSHI GUNDAM III: MEGURIAI SORA-HEN (1982)
created by tomino yoshiyuki

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tagged as:  #lalah animorphing into glowing soup  #gundam  #(character voice) please let me in the gundam i am normal and can be trusted with operating the giant war machine: the franchise  #long post

thecollectibles:

Environment sketches: Blue by Olga Romanova

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queereldritchgalaxyprincess:

ritavonbees:

embracing the patterned ambiguity of gender and sex as more or less social constructs can grant you so much more precision in thinking about so many concepts in science.

like, if there was a study (and I’m just making this up as an example) showing women suffer from mosquito bites more than men do

you could do the ~“Gender Critical”~ thing and go “see!? mosquitoes get it!!”

OR

you could go “that’s interesting” and start asking more questions, like:

  • is this data self-reported? controlled?
  • were they studying the women or the mosquitoes?
  • did the study use methods that would let you tell the difference between “being bitten more often” and “noticing bites more often”?
  • did the study include any trans people and were their results any different? if yes were they on HRT or not?
  • how similar were the men and women in aspects other than gender? do we know their social class, jobs, diets, blood types?

because in fact the study i made up just then could lead to a huge variety of conclusions. from my description above you can’t tell the difference between studies that show:

  • mosquitoes are attracted to people with higher estrogen levels
  • mosquitoes are opportunistic and women spend more time near mosquito habitats for sociocultural reasons
  • every gender gets bitten about the same amount but men are socialised to pay less attention to physical discomfort so more of them don’t notice minor bites compared to women (and by more we mean like 60-40, this is a bell curve thing)
  • we accidentally got heaps of women in the study that have the mosquito’s favourite blood type and not so for the men, oops
  • mosquitoes are attracted to people with more x and y in their diets, which is currently mostly women for, again, largely sociocultural reasons

etc etc etc

you’re just not going to understand actual Gender Science, and therefore reality, if you can’t put “hmm, but what do they mean by woman this time” in your mental toolkit in a relatively neutral way.

Honestly this is a great way of presenting the kind of scientific literacy that is needed in an era of clickbait headlines and sound bites and facts that turn into memes; so much science “news” as reported by mass media distills nuanced studies into easily quotable and shocking one-liners that generally ignore the context behind the statistic.

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thecollectibles:

House designs by Chahat Bavanya

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xirishima:

have you ever loved a character so much you were like ?????? ? ? ??!??!?!! ! ! !?? ??? how did this happen??? ?? ? ?!???! !!?!??!?!?

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tagged as:  #text  #fandom looked like fandom

captain-price-unofficially:

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greelin:

greelin:

in my documence. straight up “writing it”. and by “it”, haha, let’s justr say. Words certainly

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hey.

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tagged as:  #text  #writing is hard