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very funny to me when people act like animal farm and 1984 are revolutionary anti government texts that the Powers That Be dont want you to read when they have literally been a part of every standard middle/highschool english lit cirriculum in the usa and beyond for decades. precisely because theyre such convenient primers to propagandize that Commies = Bad. the government is quite literally making kids read them

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Public school system is really like “what if we let some of the dumbest, pettiest people have inordinate amounts of power and influence over children during the formative years of their lives?” And then everyone wonders why said system is dogshit.

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And then people get upset at you and accuse you of being Ontologically Evil

The way most autism literature describes "literal interpretation" is often not at all similar to how I experience it. Teenage me even thought I couldn't be autistic because I've always been able to learn metaphors easily.

In fact, I love wordplay of all kinds. Teenage me was fascinated to learn all the types of figurative language there are in poetry and literature.

But paperwork and questionnaires are hard, because there's so much they don't state clearly. Or they don't leave room for enough nuance.

"List all the jobs you've had, with start and end dates." What if I don't remember the exact day or month? Is the year enough?

"Have you been suffering from blurred vision?" Well, if I take off my glasses the whole world is blurred, but I'm fairly sure that's not what the intake form at the optometrist is asking.

Or the infamous (and infuriatingly stereotypical) "Would you rather go to a library or a party?" What sort of party? Where? Who's there? I work at a library. Am I currently at the library for work or pleasure? Does it have a good collection?

It's not common figures of speech that confound me. It's ambiguity, in situations that aren't supposed to be ambiguous.

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Back before my egg had hatched, I used to put no effort into my appearance- I always wore a t-shirt and a skort, and rarely showered or washed my hair or really did any hygiene things, and everyone complimented me on my outfit or appearance.

I didn’t do anything for my hair but got complimented on it for some reasons. Maybe large breasts give you a weird halo effect where even people who are not being creeps feel obligated to compliment you, I don’t know. I was never catcalled except for once and it was more a novel experience than anything else? I honestly feel better now that no one compliments me, because I know that they’re not making things up or anything?

I absolutely put more effort into my appearance now and get less compliments, though in my case, that’s a honestly positive experience

I feel like it’s still a data point, though. Any other trans people want to weigh in?

I just know that the dudes who make those "girls get 500 compliments a day vs. guy gets one compliment once and cherishes it for the rest of his life" memes put zero effort into their appearance. Like what exactly do you expect people to say? Wow nice plain ill-fitting hoodie, goes great with your basic-ass blue jeans and nondescript haircut. Got some real cool Grey Man vibes going on, you could seamlessly blend into any crowd ever without being seen at all.

Like nobody has any obligation to look any certain way, but you can't expect to be praised for doing something you're not even trying to do. I dress like I got tarred and feathered in a Tim Burton film costume department discard scrap pile, and someone saying they like my style is a biweekly occurrence.

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If you start talking to me out of nowhere without following you are more likely to get blocked, because that is scambot behavior

So I just saw a post by a random personal blog that said “don’t follow me if we never even had a conversation before” and?????? Not to be rude but literally what the fuck??????????

I’ve had people (non-pornbots) try to strike conversation out of nowhere in my DMs recently, and now I’m wondering if they were doing that because they wanted to follow me and thought they needed to interact first. I feel compelled to say, just in case, that it’s totally okay to follow this blog (or my side blog, for that matter) even if we’ve never talked before.

Also, I’m legit confused. Is this how follow culture works right now? It was worded like it’s common sense but is that really a thing?

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“kill them with kindness” Wrong. CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆

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The golden pheasant is a bird native to forests and mountainous areas of China, although feral populations have been established in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, and many other countries in Europe and South America. The male’s deep orange “cape” can be spread in display, appearing as an alternating black and orange fan that covers all of the face except its bright yellow eye with a pinpoint black pupil. The female is a more subdued brown, shown in the foreground of photo 6.

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cats being capable of understanding accidents and even giving you a little head bonk to let you know you're still cool makes it infinitely funnier that they don't understand when you're trying to help them

cats when you step on their tail: i'll admit that was rather ouchie, but given the lifetime of goodwill and trust between us, one must conclude this booboo is but a fluke.

cats when you try to get their claws unstuck from the couch covering: this nefarious bitch has never had a single honorable intention in their dishonest and shameful life, this must be one of their sinister plots or perhaps even an attempt on my life,

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tags from@biblicallyaccuratepugeons

#ss'd tags are mostly correct but -ass very much is a suffix; etymologically speaking#''lookin ass'' is a similar usage of the word ''ass'' but it's different enough that it doesn't alter that for words like dumbass#bc in that case ''ass'' refers to the person directly; while in cases where it's a suffix it turns the word into an adjective#or; in cases wherein the root word was already an adjective; it adds meaning to it that wasn't there before#it's one thing to simply be dumb or bad; but it's another entirely to be dumbass or badass#in this sense; describing ''-ass'' as a suffix is correct and accurate#because it's a syllable that can be added to a word to give it new meaning#in addition; the only difference between a part of a compound word and a pre/suffix is the flexibility of use#in english; a vast majority of our pre/suffixes are from latin or greek; but that doesn't mean that they're not words by themselves#pre. pro. phone. phobe. etc#they all have meanings that stand on their own; they also happen to be descriptive#just like this aave usage of ass

Just realised that "-ass", when used as a suffix, has the same meaning as "-esque". Gonna start using them interchangeably. Kafka-ass dystopia

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This story went and said the woman is 5'1" (155cm) and then referenced her "long legs" in the next sentence. How you gonna have long legs if you're only 5'1"? Is she just legs and a head?

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bibble

boy who's never seen a large body of water before + insane force abilities = a very tired obi-wan

(donation doodles! // tip jar)

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Mostly disappointed that someone else mentioned stereotype- also was unaware that 51/4 floppy disks exist, and I don’t think I like them.

Sometimes the save icon is a cloud icon now

TiL (click to go to the thread, which probably has more interesting tidbits I missed).

Bonus:

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ive been thinking about this tweet for the past 2 days like literally nonstop

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I remember believing for a long time that Tokyo Ghoul started as a visual novel, which I was entirely willing to believe because it really does have the vibe of one of those series where they do an all-routes adaptation around the skeleton of one route

except it wasn't a visual novel at first, so I thought I must have gotten my wires crossed over it being a light novel series first. except it wasn't a light novel series first. it was a manga first. I was just carrying around extremely incorrect information and I have no idea how I got that idea in my head

story goes nowhere. no moral to this

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Would you be comfortable with someone who got bullied and attacked by black people who said they would get ptsd from black people going near them though? I mean wouldn’t that justify hateful feminism anyways, since a lot of terfs say abuse from men (or even trans women) is their motive?

This isn’t inherently bad or anything, I’m not attacking you being technically being a misogynist in that case. But the fact that the rationalist community is a place where a male can comfortably say he’s afraid of women without being attacked is why people are saying it’s like the gender reversed version of the radfem community.

Personally I don’t think this is bad, because I don’t even hate radfems, I don’t think there’s any solution and I’d rather have 2 safe spaces for the sexes than not, but it seems like most antifeminist rationalists aren’t on the same page as me about this (in fact many come across like they’d fly off the handle at me just for saying this). But of course I do have a problem with all the misogyny in the community (and of course same goes for radfems and their insanity). I’m just curious what your thoughts are.

This ask (and honestly mainly the accusation of being antifeminist, in a neutral tone) inspired a lot of retrospection in me.

I had started to answer this, and decided that it needed a good response explaining all of that, mostly the changes that I choose to attribute to this armor piercing question, and spent my tumblr hiatus trying to get into the right time and situation, but it seems to have been deleted?

I honestly viewed (and still view) those fears as a moral failing on my own part, not to be aired unless there's a specific (and bad) point others are making that I feel the need to counter (generally that idea being "women are safe")

(Things are under the thing because I think that it might trigger others in some way that I can't identify or guess at?)

Having only ever been myself, I have no idea what problems I went through were based on my sex vs my disabilities, but it generally appeared that "other" girls did not have these problems, and that the problems I did have might have had something to do with the system I was in being made for my peers (primarily male) whom I viewed as lesser. This is neither here nor there, going into the nothingness, possibly along with the fact that that only sexual harassment (assault? I hesitate to call it as such; surely it'd be if done to, like, a normal person, but it was nowhere near as bad as things that were totally legal and not at all sexual in nature that I was regularly subjected to, but I suppose the logic there is faulty? An underclassman groping me one time was something I could run away from, and society would unanimously (or so, until more recent develops, I thought would) while the other things were more frequent, inescapable, and it would be considered child abuse if my parents were to remove me from that situation. Apparently my parents were fighting a secret legal battle which they never told me about on the subject) was some guy grabbing my boob once, which is the only measure there?

I promised myself that I would post this now, and so I will, even if it doesn't make any sense. The prior paragraph made me emotional, and incoherent, but I will reiterate that while the boob thing was stressful in the moment it was quinary at most to my trauma.

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A Molly for pride month!

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also many statements about “girls are the best” and “girls should always support girls” and “men can’t understand” end up used by female abusers to groom and/or control dfab youth

Personally speaking the only bad thing feminism has ever done to me is make me see a bunch of discourse about feminism on the internet