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I think you can tell a lot about how rigorous and committed someone's belief in a human right is by how quickly they are able to name people who they think could or should have that right taken away.

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if my extended family says anything cringe to me over thanksgiving dinner then i'm going to explain neopronouns to my eight year old cousin

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fuck an "intended audience" how about we normalize engaging with new and unfamiliar art pieces on their own terms

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Indian Giver

You’re an Indian giver in the way you love: Everything you give, you take away.

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There are many primers on how to start with Ursula K. Le Guin, all of them perfectly fine, but I haven’t seen any that just go with “Start with what’s available and easily accessible”. 

“The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” is available online, and it’s only four typewritten pages. Confession: I hadn’t read this until today. You may think, as I did, because you know the story through osmosis (as probably many people who are familiar with sci-fi do) you don’t need to read it. You would be wrong.

This website has collated stories that are available online. They all appear to be from free sources like Baen, Lightspeed, and Clarkesworld.

On Le Guin’s personal website there is a great deal of stuff: poetry (original and in translation), book excerpts, interviews, and writing advice. 

She blogged pretty extensively for many years, and there’s some lovely stuff in there. Her penultimate entry was about her cat Pard and the Time Machine. (just Ctrl + F for “pard” on the archive index. Trust me.)

Don’t let me stop you from going to the library or your online bookstore of choice to get her books, of course, but there’s plenty of stuff available that you don’t have to go very far to access.

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people who don't wear glasses are so weird like you just wake up and your eyes are pussy fresh??

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cracking myself up thinking about the movement towards simplified forms in cave paintings

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obsessed with this. what is king benzo beating vander and silco at. why does vander have a skull 💀

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i realized during my s1 rewatch that they say that viktor's illness was caused by the pollution in zaun. and later when the rest of zaun's criminal overlords try to intimidate silco he uses his immunity to poison gas, build up over decades of living in polluted air, to establish dominance over them. there's a good chance that the reason why vi and jinx and the other younger zaunites don't have the same illness that viktor does is because of the ventilation system caitlyn's mother implemented. which would also line up timeline wise because there's roughly a 10 year age gap between viktor and vi. the continuity in this show is insane

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arcanowe portrety bo drugi sezon już jest super

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something about vi never wanting anyone in her life to change. something about jayce not caring at all how much viktor has changed so long as he's alive. something about the way vi associates radical change with death, perceiving jinx's continued existence as a kind of necromantic horror—the way jayce would shatter fundamental laws of nature without a second thought in order to give viktor the best chance at survival, in whatever form that may take. transformation as rebirth vs murder, hextech vs shimmer. nature has made us intolerant to change, but fortunately, we have the capacity to change our nature. and then jayce, realizing that he hasn't changed at all, not really—that he is a scientist at heart, and he shouldn't have tried to be anything else. and then vi, realizing she has become someone unrecognizable—never thought my sister would turn bluebelly. and for both of them, it's too little, too late.

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We gonna drown in blue🩵🩵

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Think I'll miss you forever🎵

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Mania

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Ekko my beloved….

so hows everyone feeling about arcane season 2 😭😭😭😭😭😭