#People's Choice

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Armour-Dial Inc, 1968

[asofterutena]

(I hope it's not too late.)

the finale of revolutionary girl utena, someday together we'll shine, aired this date 26 years ago.

[letsgethaunted]

ATTN: Tumblr Haunties!

From the Patreon: HAUNTIES!! I just got an e-mail from the 2023 Podcast Awards informing us that THE FINAL ROUND OF VOTING IS NOW HAPPENING!!  You have until September 9th to vote for us on the final slate of nominated podcasts! Please check the e-mail address you used to vote for us originally with and see if you were selected as one of the 20,000 people allowed to vote in the final round. I got an e-mail (I'm attaching a screenshot here of what the e-mail looks like):

and it went to my spam folder at first so definitely check out your trash and junk mail folders if you don't see this e-mail in your inbox. If it's easier for you to search your inbox for a specific recipient, this is the address that sent me my confirmation e-mail: podcast@podcastconnect.com.

If you don't see an e-mail anywhere, please try to login anyway just to see if you can still vote for us! The website to vote is: https://www.podcastawards.com/app/login/ and we are officially finalists for awards in the following categories: People's Choice, Best Female Hosted, Comedy, Entertainment, Storyteller-Drama, and Society-Culture!! Once you cast your votes, don't forget to select "save" at the bottom of your screen. Once you do that, you should be able to see the votes you cast under the drop down menu that says "My Votes" (I'm including a screenshot of that here, too). THANK YOU!! I REALLY HOPE WE WIN SOMETHING THIS YEAR!!

Copy/Paste from the e-mail: During the nomination period for the People's Choice Podcast Awards, you opted in to vote for the final slate of nominees. You are among the selected 20,500+ listeners/podcasters to vote on the final slate of shows. You have until September 9th to vote on the final slate of nominated podcasts. You can check the final slate of nominees on the main page of the PodcastAwards.com website. We need every one of you to please vote. We hate adding substitute voters near the end of the voting window. When you're ready to vote, click the link on the home page, log in, and vote using the same email and password you used during the nomination round. Your vote will be saved after each session by selecting "save" at the bottom of the page. Thank you for being part of the 18th Annual Podcast Awards final voting. The awards committee thanks you for taking the time to participate. Click this link to record your votes.  Or visit the website.

[nethompson]

I had a few pieces exhibited in the SW Washington Fair this year. I went to see how they did on Friday night, and had gotten 1st place and People's choice for "Swallowed Whole." I went back on Sunday, to pick the paintings up, and I had received another People's choice for "Our Hide Away." My "Blueberries" did not place, but I am still proud of them for showing up. I also got cotton candy, which is the best part of all.

[singles-bar]

[spurgie-cousin]

This is such a good, succinct way of describing the illusion of choice many fundamentalist women and men have when it comes to life paths.

[inkskinned]

the tradwife movement is the same as it has always been - back in the kitchen, back to breeding - it just has better branding.

when i was younger, i hated pink. i was not like other girls. this is now something i'm embarrassed of - this was not me being a "girl's girl."

but it was expressing something many of us felt at the time: i literally wasn't what girlhood was supposed to be. this is a hard thing to explain, but you know when you're not performing girlhood correctly. it isn't as easy as "i liked x when girls liked y" - because there were other girls that liked x, too - but i never figured out exactly the correct way to like x, or to be interested in y.

now there is the divine feminine. this is the same rhetoric it has always been: women are biologically driven to like pink and ribbons and submitting to our husbands.

the problem is that the patriarchy found a better PR team. because yes, actually, i want every woman to have the choice to be a homemaker. i also want her taken seriously for her legitimate home-making labor. i want her to be recognized as also having a job, just unpaid. i want men to have this opportunity, too.

but it is no longer "i made this choice and I love it." instead it is a sixteen-paragraph rant about how selfish it is that my generation isn't having kids. instead it's long videos about how if you feed your children processed foods, you're going to kill them. instead it is "this is what womanhood is supposed to be. i feel bad for any other choices you're making."

the shame spiral is just prettier. it is large houses devoid of personality. it is the implication: if you don't have this, you aren't happy. the solid, everlasting assurance: women are actually supposed to be submitting. this is the default. this is the natural state of things. all other attempts inflict suffering.

but you can no longer say i'm not like other girls. you can no longer reject this image completely. you cannot find it revolting, even if you know that the underbelly is toxic and festering. sure, it is the same repackaged patriarchy. but the internet does not have shades of grey. you should support and reward other women! your disgust is actually internalized misogyny. not because you are seeing a vision of yourself the way they're trying to train you to be. not because you feel her ghost pass within an inch of your earlobe. not because your father will eventually ask you - why can't you be like her?

because they figured out how to make it beautiful: women will sell other women on this idea, and we will find the singular loophole in feminism. sure, she's shaming you in most of her videos. sure, she implies that a different life is obscene. but she just wants you to be happy! you'd be happier if you were listening!

and the whole time you're sitting there thinking: i'd actually just be happier if i had that kind of money.

[jakeperalta]

I'm curious. what job would you do if money was no object (you just automatically had an income you could live comfortably on)? including work like volunteering, studying etc. please share in the tags :)

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Neighbourhood Dispute

A mudskipper and a crab have a territorial dispute in Roebuck Bay, Australia. 

by Ofer Levy

Wildlife Photographer of the Year People’s Choice Award

[asofterutena]

(Metaphorically literal)

[original comic by @asoftersea]

[letsgethaunted]

VOTE FOR LGH IN THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE PODCAST AWARDS!!!

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HAUNTIES ASSEMBLE!!!!! Visit https://www.podcastawards.com/ to vote for us RIGHT NOW by following the instructions that took Aly like an hour to type out and organize for this graphic. You don’t want to let Aly down, do you? If you do, she’ll assign you several hours of data entry in Excel. But how will she find me, you may be asking yourself? You don’t want to know the answer to that. Let’s just say it involves Skinny Bob crashing his spaceship directly into your living room (no he won’t be fixing it, he has no earth dollars), and forcibly bringing you to the remains of Kutcharitaville where a haunted farmer will hold a pitchfork up to you - menacingly - while you are forced to live out the rest of your days typing key lime pie copy pasta in the darkness, only the glow of an old BBC Model B computer illuminating what used to be a tropical kitchen, your only pen pal a sus dude from Tudor England named Luke/Thomas who time travels you into his weird attic bedroom with no warning where he sleeps on hay. You don’t want that, right? THEN VOTE NOW!!! QUICKLY! Time is running out! I can already hear the clanking of the barbells Skinny Bob lifts with his neck growing nearer and nearer, he’ll be here any minute to smash your living room to smithereens! And then you’ll never get your security deposit back from your landlord…and that, dear Haunties, is the greatest horror of them all.

VOTING IS OPEN THROUGH JULY 31!!!!!

[fonulyn]

since I've seen it talked about in several places recently:

if you are going to do a whump- or kink- or ANY-tober or other similar challenges please please please don't post them as one fic with 31 chapters unless it actually is one coherent fic. if they're 31 completely separate fics or ficlets then please just make a collection for them or just post them as separate fics. it doesn't matter if they're only 100 words or if you think they're too small or insignificant to post alone, they're not.

and why this?

because if you post all 31 of them in one fic the tagging is absolutely useless. if I look for things to read on ao3 I'm gonna look at the tags, and if the tags include something that's a dealbreaker for me, i won't even click on the fic. I might not even SEE the fic because I've filtered out the nope-tag! so I'm gonna lose out on reading 30 perfectly nice fics because of one fic that my nope-tag applied to.

ao3 is about archiving. it's about clear tagging and being informative. there is nothing informative about it if the tags in the fic apply to random chapters while others have nothing to do with it. it makes so much more sense to have each work as an individual fic with its own individual tags and warnings, so readers can make informed choices.

of course, you do you. I can't police what other people decide to do. but personally, I find it incredibly frustrating to weed through 31 chapters to find the ones I actually want to read. so I don't. I automatically scroll past all works posted like that. and I know some others do, too.

there is absolutely no shame in posting short things on ao3. there is no minimum word count. no one is going to look at you funny if you post a small ficlet on its own, I promise. it's just going to make some readers very happy when they can actually find the things they want to read.

so, please. at least consider the upsides of posting each work as their own fic.

signed, one very frustrated fandom grandma.

[mightaswelljxmp]

hm ok so interestingly, bdubs’s courthouse is built on an odd number of blocks. note the roof of the facade coming to a point, but more importantly, the nine pillars….

you don’t use an odd number of pillars. like ever.

let me get this out of the way first: i get why you’d build with odd numbers in minecraft. i usually do it myself, to not run into problems like double doors or two-wide pointed roofs or frustrating spacing/symmetry between decorative elements. however. to not even out the design of something so unequivocally done in every other example of columns and pillars…. fascinating implications…

every other example guys. every other building with columns like this has an even number of them.

doing so sets the line of symmetry at an invisible point between two pillars, an even number on each side. but an odd total number of pillars makes the central pillar itself the line of symmetry. this does a couple things.

one, it upends the sense of community and equality. which i know sounds crazy, but really, a group of columns are all put there to hold up a structure. there’s no focus on one because they are all are working as supports.

symbolically, at least when first used in ancient greece, pillars represented people. and it makes sense for courthouses, especially, to want to show an even, fair, equal number of people on each side. no focus on any one, no inherent bias right off the bat just looking at it.

with an odd number of pillars, though, one will always be placed front and center.

and THEN. and then you walk in the courtroom itself (also odd-numbered blocks) and you are immediately opposite the judge, bdubs, located exactly centrally. and true, courtrooms are often set up like this anyway. but bdubs ups the ante and reaffirms that no, focus is on him by staging it all as a daytime court show, boom mic just over his head, cameras pointed in, spotlights on him.

literally by design, it was not built for justice. it’s built for show, for entertainment. and just look at the credits to know exactly what sort of message you’re supposed to be getting from this show.

the biblical story he used, with king solomon. it’s about king solomon. isn’t really about the trial itself, or the babies, or the women. it’s about showing (off) how wise and just he is. that’s the point. hm. interesting.

now, getting to the second point that etho also picked up on: it feels like a prison.

it’s not just the color palette. when your eyes naturally draw to the center point, you aren’t seeing an open space. instead of feeling like an arch or gateway or otherwise some kind of opening, the pillar there makes it feel closed off. the overall effect is that of prison bars. not pillars lining the entrance to a place of order or a temple. bars of a cage, a cell.

imagine the lincoln memorial were set up with 11 or 13 pillars. he’d look so much more trapped in there.

having a central pillar blocks the entrance. it’s not welcoming. you have to go around it; it’s immediately inconveniencing you. and when you go to leave, it’s there blocking you again.

this courthouse was not designed and built to be fair, nor accomodating, nor equitable, on any terms. even if unintentional, i wouldn’t call it so much coincidental as i would… subconscious.

after all, y’know. form follows function.

[miwtual]

btw if we're mutuals i automatically think ur cooler than me. doesnt matter if we have been mutuals for 2 minutes or 3 years, if we are following each other u are cooler than me by default <3

[adrift-in-thyme]

There’s something terribly poetic in the inevitability of events in EPIC. The choices Odysseus is given lead to no win situations. They aren’t really choices at all.

Kill a foe’s child or witness the death of your own. Sacrifice six men or sacrifice them all. Allow your crew to starve or watch as they slaughter sacred cattle.

Sacrifice your friends, your brothers, or give up your last chance at reaching home.

In the end, the result is always the same. He destroys himself

[0fps]

JIYAN ❖ THROUGH THE DARKEST OF NIGHTS

Jiyan, leader of the Midnight Rangers, acts with swift and resolute righteousness. He possesses the formidable ability to conjure a powerful Qingloong from the winds, making him invincible on the battlefield.