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For Every Day
The garden gnome had spent weeks carefully selecting autumn leaves. When the perfect ones had been chosen, he dried them and set about manipulating a knife as large as his own body in a sheltered spot near his mushroom home. After all, the greeting card he was making couldnât be small or flimsy, which meant it could never fit inside his own house.
Still, the gnome wondered if the card would really be large enough to express how much he loved his good friend the giant, even now that they werenât neighbours anymore, even when they no longer found ways to talk to each other every day. He wanted the magic contained in the card to aim high enough to reach a giantâs heart.
When the gnome finally finished his careful cut-out of a life-sized cat silhouette and had arranged its dried-leaf fur, he struggled for another three days to fit the card into an enormous envelope. Then, to his relief, the mailhuman was willing to pick it up, so the gnome wouldnât have to drag it all the way to the post office.
As soon as the giant opened the card, the leaf-fur cat jumped off the paper and butted its crisp head against his hands. When the giant opened the card again the next morning, the caleafco purring warmly in his lap, he found out that the text had changed; it would show him a different story on every day of the year. The message from the gnome, however, scribbled below in his tiny handwriting, always remained the same:
âRemember, dearest friend, that you are not alone.â
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[Image description: The photo centres a tall, rectangular greeting card made of cream-coloured paper, out of which the silhouette of a sitting cat has been cut to reveal a background of brown autumn leaves. The card is leaning against the white pot of a green houseplant, and there are more potted plants standing near it.]
More about the garden gnome and the giant: [part 1] [part 2]
#cat#cut-out card#catsilhouette#houseplants#greeting card#friendship#giant#garden gnome#photography#flash fiction#a story a day#paranatellonta milestone#pinterest-inspired card#cats#silhouettecards#autumnleavescard#365#for every day
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24 April 2023
got the tumbler from a conference commemorating 50 years of the UN Conference on the Human Environment from last year.
this year Eid is weird, to say the least. not that the previous years haven't been weird.
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love all the cute dungeon meshi pride art but chilchuck would not be caught dead wearing any sort of pride merch. you think that man is going to give out any personal information? for free?????
#he would not fucking wear that.#dungeon meshi#chilchuck tims#chilchuck dungeon meshi#i also don't think he'd use labels tbh. he's one of those dads who never talks abt themselves but then tells u the gayest story u've ever#heard unprovoked when he's talking about his adventuring days#but the art is cute!#delicious in dungeon
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well i mean, not wrong // credits: @screamingemonight on Instagram
#emo#pop punk#elder emo#emo phase#modern baseball#neck deep#movements#the front bottoms#the wonder years#pop punk memes#the story so far#knuckle puck#midwest emo#midwest emo memes#emo memes#turnover#youth fountain#sincere engineer#blink 182#green day#my chemical romance#twenty one pilots#fall out boy#panic at the disco#boston manor#joyce manor#tiny moving parts#citizen#counterparts#knocked loose
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not to sound like a boomer, but I need some people to learn how to write emails in a semi-professional (at the very least) format so you're not cold emailing a business/potential employer/any other stranger about formal matters in the exact same way you'd DM a close friend on instagram
the formality/language can loosen up in the email chain once you've established a rapport and you match the other person if they're being less formal, but please don't have the very first email you send a stranger be written in all lowercase ultra-casual sms slang with no greeting or signature and a billion emojis
#this sounds like a 'argh kids these days doing [insert exaggerated story they don't actually do in reality]' kind of thing#except that I've gotten soooo many emails like this#there's a reason that I don't have my DMs open on any socmed and it's bc they attract people getting way too casual/parasocial immediately#and forcing people to write out an email both filters out 90% of weird impulse messages and also throws them out of that casual headspace#except that I can actively tell when this fails and someone is treating emails as if they're the same thing as DMs
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I want ALL OF YOU to apologize to Minecraft Story Mode right now because these graphics from almost 10 YEARS ago?
Is about 100 times better than whatever the fuck this is
#sp00ksâ screaming#minecraft#minecraft movie#minecraft story mode#mcsm#Iâve been a mcsm defender since day one#you guys do not GET IT.
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Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?
I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?
In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut fĂŒr Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".
Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.
This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.
Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.
The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.
[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]
There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.
This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.
[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]
As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.
But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?
Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.
#transgender#trans history#transsexual#transphobia#Magnus Hirschfeld#holocaust#holocaust denial#book burning#j.k. rowling#jk rowling#just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :)#trans people have always existed#and we will always exist#if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit#queer history#queer#lgbt+#lgbta+#lgbt#lgbt history#edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month#also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it#it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs#and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had#also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2#Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices#considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived
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âIn the war film, a soldier can hold his buddyâas long as his buddy is dying on the battlefield. In the western, Butch Cassidy can wash the Sundance Kidâs naked fleshâas long as it is wounded. In the boxing film, a trainer can rub the well-developed torso and sinewy back of his protegeâas long as it is bruised. In the crime film, a mob lieutenant can embrace his boss like a loverâas long as he is riddled with bullets.Â
Violence makes the homo-eroticism of many âmaleâ genres invisible; it is a structural mechanism of plausible deniability.â
âTarantinoâs Incarnational Theology: Reservoir Dogs, Crucifixions, and Spectacular Violence. Kent L. Brintnall.
#Another day another quote that's been rattling around in my head for an age#Which again sums things up better than I ever could#And of course it's not just about the physical deterioration at the end of the story allowing for intimacy#The idea permeates the whole show#Tozer holding Heather as his exposed brain freezes on the deck#Crozier and Hickey reaching a state of psychological intimacy but only through the violence of the lash#You could argue a link between Hickey and Goodsir too through the intimacy and violence inflicted on Irving#Both his killing and his autopsy#The Terror#The Terror AMC#Meta
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So Venus is my favorite planet in the solar system - everything about it is just so weird.
It has this extraordinarily dense atmosphere that by all accounts shouldn't exist - Venus is close enough to the sun (and therefore hot enough) that the atmosphere should have literally evaporated away, just like Mercury's. We think Earth manages to keep its atmosphere by virtue of our magnetic field, but Venus doesn't even have that going for it. While Venus is probably volcanically active, it definitely doesn't have an internal magnetic dynamo, so whatever form of volcanism it has going on is very different from ours. And, it spins backwards! For some reason!!
But, for as many mysteries as Venus has, the United States really hasn't spent much time investigating it. The Soviet Union, on the other hand, sent no less than 16 probes to Venus between 1961 and 1984 as part of the Venera program - most of them looked like this!
The Soviet Union had a very different approach to space than the United States. NASA missions are typically extremely risk averse, and the spacecraft we launch are generally very expensive one-offs that have only one chance to succeed or fail.
It's lead to some really amazing science, but to put it into perspective, the Mars Opportunity rover only had to survive on Mars for 90 days for the mission to be declared a complete success. That thing lasted 15 years. I love the Opportunity rover as much as any self-respecting NASA engineer, but how much extra time and money did we spend that we didn't technically "need" to for it to last 60x longer than required?
Anyway, all to say, the Soviet Union took a more incremental approach, where failures were far less devastating. The Venera 9 through 14 probes were designed to land on the surface of Venus, and survive long enough to take a picture with two cameras - not an easy task, but a fairly straightforward goal compared to NASA standards. They hadâŠmixed results.
Venera 9 managed to take a picture with one camera, but the other one's lens cap didn't deploy.
Venera 10 also managed to take a picture with one camera, but again the other lens cap didn't deploy.
Venera 11 took no pictures - neither lens cap deployed this time.
Venera 12 also took no pictures - because again, neither lens cap deployed.
Lotta problems with lens caps.
For Venera 13 and 14, in addition to the cameras they sent a device to sample the Venusian "soil". Upon landing, the arm was supposed to swing down and analyze the surface it touched - it was a simple mechanism that couldn't be re-deployed or adjusted after the first go.
This time, both lens caps FINALLY ejected perfectly, and we were treated to these marvelous, eerie pictures of the Venus landscape:
However, when the Venera 14 soil sampler arm deployed, instead of sampling the Venus surface, it managed to swing down and land perfectly onâŠ.an ejected lens cap.
#space#space history#venus#NASA#Venera#spost#I will talk all day about venus#ask me about venus floating sky cities#unpopular opinion venus > mars#this is probably my favorite space history story#the surface of venus is made of lens caps#don't try to tell me the universe doesn't have a sense of humor#well#I guess its more that people have a sense of humor and we happen to live in the universe
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Radiorose đ»đ„
Based on a true story where I deadass just started digging through a new friendâs purse because Iâm a psycho who forgot how to have any goddamned manners đ
#it was an alastor ita bag and I was looking for more alastorâs#I couldnât believe my audacity#thankfully she was very gracious to me đ#I actually met her because I walked into traffic because I was distracted by her amazing nun alastor cosplay!#and then told her the story and she gave me fanart she made and we followed each other#and then met up the next day at the con! it was lovely#cons are fun#hazbin hotel#hazbin hotel fanart#my doods#alastor#Radiorose#rosie hazbin
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LINKTOBER DAY 8: GORON CITY
Not featured here: bludoâs off in akkala because he and bolson companyâs getting paid to work on architecture.
Very featured here: yunoboâs crippling anxieties only exacerbated by well meaning neighbors.
Definitely now my headcannon: bludo taught yunobo welding, and by the goddesses he's going to use that power for great evils (or goods)
This is an au of totk where time travel doesnât happen! If you want to see more hereâs my crimes:
And hereâs my patreon!
#critdraws#familiar familiar au#lonks diary#art#botw#zelda#link#breath of the wild au#tears of the kingdom au#tears of the kingdom#breath of the wild#death mountain#gorons#yunobo#goron#totk au#totk#botw au#totk link#totk zelda#botw link#botw zelda#zelink#legend of zelda#loz#tloz#the legend of zelda#you can't be mean to me im spinning this story from the seat of my pants#bludo's now in akkala#everytime somebody's mean to yunobo now zelda gets war flashbacks of her priestess days
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The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates shouldâve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.
#itâs just???#at the end of the day all these people want to do is draw and write their stories and share them with the world#why is death from stress the end game for so many of them#this should not be part of the package when finally deciding that this is what you want to do with your life#rambling#I still never got over miuraâs passing man#and Togashi is still here but heâs been suffering from the consequences of overwork#itâs just⊠all so bleak#fans just need to learn to be patient if these changes are ever made and to be respectful#your fav series is not gonna die just because you canât get it right now#Iâm glad that gege does this now like he takes a break every 2-3 chapters and thatâs good#this should be normalized
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People have the audacity to say they weren't fucking.
#ask Walburga she had to see them making out kissing sloppily all throughout the day and the night is another howling story#wolfstar#remus lupin x sirius black#remus lupin#sirius black#remus loves sirius#sirius loves remus#remus x sirius#marauder's era#dead gay wizards#atyd marauders#atyd wolfstar#remus headcanon#hp ootp#hp marauders#harry potter#fuck jkr#anti snape#anti jkr
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DP x DC prompt [4]
It is known in the Justice league that Phantomâs mentor in the Infinite Realms is a very powerful time deity.
What that means for them is that sometimes that mentor sends Phantom on time related missions.
More often than not these turn out to be simple fetch quests, but sometimes they can get a little more complicated.Â
And to mostly Batmanâs frustration, they donât really know thatâs the case until after the fact.
The other thing is that Phantom knows the Flashes quite well, and not always in a positive way. but thatâs not the point right now.
Right now the problem is that Phantom apparently said something Green Lantern was about to say before he said it. Their hearts drop as his moves look rather rehearsed, questions are answered before they get properly asked, he knows who comes into the room and when, and who is going to go where and overall he just looks⊠tired.
Itâs then that most of them have figured out they are about to start a day Phantom has been redoing far too many times.
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Danny also walked up to Superman and slapped his sandwich out of his hand and said âdonât eat thatâ and Superman is thinking, âwhat did that sandwich do to me?â but this was actually not time related. Danny just wanted to mess with the guy.
#dc x dp#dp x dc#dcxdp#dpxdc#danny phantom#danny fenton#justice league#story prompt#dp x dc crossover#dp x dc prompt#Danny is stuck in a Groundhog Day kinda situation#and he would like to be let out now please#this one is inspired by a prompt I saw somewhere else#but I can't remember
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When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".
It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.
It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".
Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.
When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.
It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.
That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.
That's how you process cattle.
It's fucking disgusting.
#I know this is old news but Jesus#Every day I hear more about school book bans and I feels less real#Restriction of information is restriction of freedom#People need stories#Even bad stories#Even tragic or problematic ones#We need to set purity culture on fire I'm not kidding#Abuse mention#Abuse tw
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tshirt that says NO LIVE ORGANISM CAN CONTINUE FOR LONG TO EXIST SANELY UNDER CONDITIONS OF ABSOLUTE REALITY
#i literally JUST finished hill house a few days ago and i already want to reread. Badly. it's sooo so so soo sooooooooo good <33333!!!!!#also completely enamored by shirley jackson's writing style i NEED to read everything she has written ever like right now..#opening lines of ALL TIME btw đâââ#r.txt#the haunting of hill house#ALSO i've seen commentary videos on the tv show they made of hill house but from what i remember of it it's SO different from the book???#i think they were all siblings in the show which is??????? like why would you change that part?? i love sibling relationships as much as the#next guy but i feel like the fact that none of them knew each other was such an essential part of the story like why would u change it....#also eleanor was like. an entirely different character who was also already dead in the show i believe??? and dr. montague doesn't exist??#hill house could've been really good as a show idk why they changed it up like that...like was the original story not interesting enough for#you or something?? WHO decided to make that change i just wanna talk đ€š
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