#i'm not even a canadian

[inourselveswetrust]

I know my FBI agent is freaking out right now because I'm doing a lot of human decomposition research

Don't worry little friend, it's for chapter five purposes only 👀

[silentreigns]

I think it's very fucked up that RedBull instructed Checo to deliberately break the rules so he doesn't trigger a safety car that may impact the chances of Max winning. Like he's already getting made fun of and bullied constantly, and the team is not helping the situation at all. It's like RedBull is trying to make him look like a moron

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[astriiformes]

Current fear that has lodged deep into my soul: Everyone keeps reassuring me that it's not impossible to get accepted into PhD programs without first doing a Master's, and I want to trust them. But when I actually go and look at grad student profiles at the schools I'm applying to, they almost all have M.As or the equivalent. One of the professors I was interested in working with even outright told me that I should look into getting an M.A. first.

I cannot afford an M.A. -- I am the sole provider for both myself and my very disabled partner who cannot work. It's PhD or bust, and I'm very scared I'm wasting my time applying for these programs. And that I may be locked out of a career path I'd really love entirely because I don't have the money for it.

[bam-monsterhospital]

you know what i'd love to see in the "we want to update these base game zones"? it's never going to happen, but it's something that bugs the hell out of me in any and every game/show/visual medium:

temperature-appropriate clothing.

it'd be nice to see all the numerous warmer clothing/armour/motif models eso has in its game used for the npcs in places buried in snow. and yes of course, the oodles of lighter/cooler/less layered clothing models for almost everywhere else, but what's more important right now is THE SNOW. you know how you make a place look cold? bundle up the people who are inhabiting it!

the argonian guild-store merchant in windhelm should be in a blanket burrito stuffed with enchanted heatpacks. lady laurent should not be faffing around the coldest areas of wrothgar IN CANONICAL HOT ARID DESERT CLOTHING

she's wearing the medium armour version of the redguard motif. aka: CLOTHING MADE TO LIVE COMFORTABLY IN THE OTHER END OF THE TEMPERATURE SPECTRUM.

give npcs warm clothing in cold places. please.

[deanpinterester]

(bonus: tag where you're situated i wanna see if this is regional or something)

[canadachronicles]

Thank you for everything, Sincy!

[benevolenterrancy]

alright folks, I'll probably finish SVSSS v4 by this weekend (pray for me) and then I'll be done all of MXTX's books and I have no idea which series to try next... So!! I'm going to pose the question to people that might have more experience in the genre! These are ones I've either incidentally acquired or been recommended

[purecommemasolitude]

why couldn't darry curtis have been a hockey star or a soccer star. am i actually going to have to learn the rules to american football to write this fanfiction because it's looking like the answer is yes

[ino]

i find it interesting that americans expect canadians to know everything about america, especially like states/cities/landmarks/attractions/etc but can only name 1-3 provinces and make fun of names like "saskatchewan" and "winnipeg" not knowing that a great majority of place names in canada are taken from indigenous languages... eek

[just-wublrful]

not to be obnoxious on main but classic literature is not global literature. it's western literature at best

[silentreigns]

Should we start the email conspiracies back up? What do we have to do to get Lewis another podium?

[cozylittleartblog]

I want to buy a sticker from your shop, but shipping (to Canada) is down as $22 before tax. May I ask why it costs so much to ship a single sticker? Is it Etsy being weird, or does it really cost that much to send an envelope over the border?

I'm not trying to be snarky or passive aggressive or anything, I'm genuinely just kind of befuddled atm.

A fair question honestly! USPS sets the rates for international shipping, and shipping to canada really is about that expensive 😭 I considered sending stickers via envelopes, but 1. if I send them with a stamp (less than $2) they don't have tracking, and etsy Does Not Like That. I gotta send packages with shipping to qualify for star seller, plus it covers your ass in case USPS loses it. and 2. apparently it's illegal to send merchandise internationally in envelopes!! so sadly we're all stuck dealing with the super crazy international rates. I don't like it either because as someone who deals in trinkets, people generally do not want to pay $16 for a charm that costs $12, and they especially don't want to pay that for a sticker that costs $4... I would ABSOLUTELY have way more international sales if USPS wasn't fucking us with the prices but it's out of my control dssdjkfjksdf

I give this advice a lot, but if you don't want to pay international shipping (or just live in a country I don't ship to myself), you can borrow the address of a friend that lives in the states and they can forward it to you! I don't actually know if this is cheaper, but some people have said it is. it's def cheaper for stickers though if your friend uses a stamp!

TL;DR yeah etsy and USPS are Both Weird, sorry ; - ; i assure you i hate it even More than you do lmao

[specialshinytrinkets]

The weirdest gripe I have with Mr Small enjoyers part of the fanbase is as to why he was unanimously agreed to be Canadian

Like

Is it some sort of American thing I don't understand or?????????

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[newwavesylviaplath]

is it like a requirement to have three names if ur gonna 4ss4ssin4te someone?? lee harvey oswald, john wilkes booth, mark david chapman, and that new guy thomas whatever