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I didn't have someone claiming that only royalty at Versailles were allowed any access to toilet facilities, and everyone else had to walk around with miniature chamber pots strapped to their butt under their dress (men were apparently outta luck!) on my "Versailles myth" bingo card, and yet here we are.
Anyone that knows Ben Franklin was at Versailles knows that man would have written home immediately wbout how the women at Versailles walk around with teeny-weeny chamber pots strapped to their bodies underneath their dresses.
Abigail Adams, too, for that matter. Just for different reasons...
#and of course since they heard this on a tourrrrr! it's true!! everyone anyone says on a tour is true. no one ever spreads misinformation.#I'm begging people please stop believing nonsense. especially stuff like this that's just... SO silly.#I know someone who was told by a tour guide at Versailles that Marie Antoinette said let them eat cake on a specific balcony on Oct 5 1789#just because someone says it doesn't make it true#this person also didn't understand that 'some unnamed lecturers on a tour' weren't primary sources about 18th century life so#maybe I shouldn't expect a lot
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From 'Dream of a woman' By Cacey Plett.
This sums up exactly how I feel about most transition timelines. As much as they reflect people's experiences, they are also a narrative. And the narratives that get shared the most tell a lot about what our values are. The timelines that get the most attention are the ones where people go from sad, loser, nothing boys into beautiful women.
But if you go to /r/transitiontimelines or a similar place, and sort by controversial or look at what has the least likes, its people who made timelines when they still don't 'pass' yet. Even if they're happy as can be, that's not what people are looking for.
I think it says a lot about what people expect from trans women, that they only want to see us be beautiful. In some cases, that they want to believe they can be beautiful. So there is no value in trans life if you're not beautiful.
#i dont know if this is exactly what the narrative was trying to convey here but it is something i felt while reading it#and i hope thats meaningful to others when shared#i know he's kind of a chucklefuck but i so think 'the queer art of failure' by J. Halberstam has a lot to say about the impetus to he happy#and its conditions#a lot of the time i feel like i have to perform positivity as a trans woman because its whats expected both from women#and from people lucky enough to transition#while at the same time social conditions are worsening and even personally#there arent solutions to much of my dysphoria#regardless of all that you're expected to just be happy even though the conditions for that don't exist#i think being honest about those things#that negativity#can bring its own happiness#and i think thats also valuable#i guess what im trying to say is that i think ugly trannies can be happy and should be valued#i think sad trannies are wonderful and ought to be cherished#and i think people shouldnt have to pretend to be happy in the same way a woman shouldn't have to pretend to be a man#maybe that doesnt make full sense and i need to think harder to communicate my feelings#but thats the vibe rn#anyways#i really like this book and yall should check it out#dream of a woman#cacey plett#trans women#transgender#trans#transmisogyny#transition timeline#i dont mean this post to denigrate timelines btw#just the way that we give certain ones attention and the teleology of transition that follows#books
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decided (was really bored) to rank all the ships i care about... and it is not what i thought it would be........
regulus x james
regulus x james x evan x barty
lily x dorcas
james x remus
lily x dorcas x pandora
regulus x james x lily
lily x dorcas x marlene
marlene x mary
regulus x james x lily x mary
sirius x remus
#rosekiller is there... maybe idk#they're kinda with wolfstar to me#like they're there... at the bottom#they might be 11#also lily showing up so much was very !#i did not expect it#like james showing up a lot yeah i could've guessed that#but lily was a fun surprise#also i like pandalily and lilylene too#but they don't make me as crazy as throwing dorcas with them too#and regulily could've been here i guess#but i'm very iffy with it sometimes i love it other times i miss james and want him back#and YEAH rosestarkillerchaser IS number 2 i won't hear anything about it#like these are all the ships I would write by themselves#like not just in the background they would be front and center#so maybe#wolfstar... shouldn't be on here#but it felt wrong not having them knowing i've written them in the past#so they're there
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hey so do you think wtv keiko had to deal with growing up with yusuke could be considered a type of parentification
#god chapters where barely anything happens except a character's realization about things can be hard ...#im writing another keiko pov chapter and it's hard because well!!#keiko was never really a main focus in the series and as time goes on she gets even less of a focus so i have to fill in these spots#in her personality and views that aren't really explored. im taking a lot of liberties lets say#and idek if it's gonna read as in character cos of that#anyway im tryna say that like. pre series keiko was basically this presence in yusuke's life and he saw her as a pain but he cared#she was there to scold him and cajole him into going to his classes and she was his only friend#now we know atsuko was negligent and idk how involved the yukimuras were in his life but i feel like keiko#whether directly or indirectly was given this duty like you have to keep him outta trouble#you're smart you're mature he needs someone like you. this responsibility just kind of put on her before she can understand the weight of i#and she can't really comprehend that weight until it's abruptly taken from her. yusuke dies and there's no one to shepherd#i feel like keiko should get to be mad about this. this realization of the nature of their dynamic. keiko planning things around yusuke#who's never done that in his life. not because he's purposely being thoughtless but bc he was never the one to have to plan#to think about what their future looks like. he just kinda drifted along and keiko tried to do damage control. it wasn't fair#yusuke is keeping secrets from her she is scared of high school and that he'll die again without her knowing why and it's unfair#so she should get to be mad also because girls getting to be mad is one of my favorite things 👍🏼#the realization that yusuke won't be lost without her so she shouldn't hinge her life on the expectation that he will be#she worries about yusuke a lot i think. especially after he comes back from the dead. and i think kuwa's presence would help ease that#dread in her heart. it doesn't have to be just me. there's someone who can be there with him always and it doesn't have to be me#the guilty relief of not having to be the sacrifice. but kuwa doesn't mind so maybe it's okay this way#idk just rambles about my fic while i puzzle out how to word it#character analysis#yukimura keiko#yu yu hakusho
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i don't want to put my uninformed foot in my mouth or get involved with the Discourse but i've been seeing the two extremes of reactions to the korean low birth rates issue (on tumblr and twitter both) and i'm just kind of like. look. i feel like "low birth rates (in many countries but especially japan and korea as part of this conversation) are more broadly the result of capitalism/a culture of overwhelming overwork that makes social relationships and having families incredibly inaccessible to young people" and "low birth rates are very much a part of the current conversation about misogyny and social expectations for women in korea especially in the context of reproduction as 'unpaid labor' for women" are statements that can both be true
#laughs awkwardly#gender#especially considering the ways patriarchal expectations and capitalism very much intersect in terms of quality of life for women#ex. women being expected to have kids / raise kids / do all the housework and cooking in a relationship#while ALSO existing in a society where women (even married women) have to work demanding jobs to deal with the high cost of living#AND women are systemically discriminated against in terms of pay / job availability / work environment and harassment#all of these things add up. these conversations are not opposing points of view. you know?#and also like. not super comfortable with how TERFs are discussed in terms of non-white cultures#TERFism / radfems as a MOVEMENT (and a cult) is very much rooted in white supremacy / ideals of womanhood#again. multiple things can be true at the same time. yes i do see (from my perspective involved in taiwanese social media)#some east asian feminists engage in transphobia in ways that approach radfem rhetoric ('women are victims of men' 'men are predators'#type generalized sentiments which you can imagine gains a lot of traction among women traumatized by patriarchy)#but movement-wise i don't think it's fair (or just in good faith) to generalize radical feminists from non-white countries#to straight up TERFs. which again. rooted in white supremacy. keep feeling like i have to remind people it doesn't make sense#for asians to be white supremacists and that not all oppression on earth stems directly from white people. you weirdos#'what are you talking about' in east asia the type of feminist statements called 'radical' are stuff like.#women shouldn't have to wear make up every time they go outside. women shouldn't be expected to do all housework.#should men pay for women on dates. debates that i think in the states we kind of take for granted as stuff settled years ago#even if some feminists might be transphobic it's not necessarily Transphobia As Core Tenets Of The Movement. does anyone get the difference#basically what i'm saying is. wow these tags got long. maybe let's not apply uniform standards of 'correct language and values'#to non-white people and attack them when as all movements they are fluid and influenced by the people living in it#TERF-style transphobia is not the predestined course for them. maybe it's more productive to have open discussions about transphobia#to work towards inclusivity and solidarity in these movements than to prescribe White Internet Morality to them#and declare that they're evil when they are still very much having conversations that need to be had. thanks i think that's all#essentially. i find that 'how dare a non-american movement not have morally pristine vocabulary priorities and membership#as determined by white leftists' to be in itself kinda a racist attitude
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Heya! Hope you’re doing okay ❤️
well, i didn't cry today (and more importantly didn't cry at work in front of everybody) so I'm taking that as a sign that things are getting better...I hope 😅
#suuuuuuuuuuper awkward moment when i just started crying yesterday as one of my employees came up to me#(not one of the ones who went to HR)#and she was like 'uhm are you okay' and then i just told her to ask me what she needed to ask me lmao#god i'm just so embarassed that i cried so much this week#esp cause like. i hope it's not some sort of idk defense mechanism?#like did i just start busting out crying cause oh no my boss found out i'm not doing my job so i'm just gonna cry so she doesn't yell at me#or something like that and then keep crying to garner pity#cause that's certainly not my intention at all#i know i fucked up. badly. i'm not donig the job i SHOULD be doing#and was focusing on things i shouldn't focus on...especially like having my techs do their actual jobs#but that's my fault for not laying down the law#for not training them right in the first place for not giving them the proper expectations of what their job entails#but then they're crying that they're overwhelmed which hurts to hear when i see them disappearing just to come back with a cup of coffee#or talking to people across the building when there's no reason for them to be up there#or sitting on their phones while things pile up to be done#and then like my boss is now jumping in and is going to meet with them next week#and inserting herself and two of my other co-workers into the picture to help#which like yeah i need help. a lot of help. but they all have their own jobs#hell there's things my boss does really i should probably be doing#so knowing all of that and again just feeling like a failure at my job makes me feel even worse#like i'm not carrying my weight for the team--i've honestly never felt i have since i became supervisor#i don't think i'm meeting the expectations as a supervisor#as a tech? yeah i was a BEAST and maybe should have never applied for the supervisor job#and i even already told my boss long term career? def not in management for me lol and if i can get out of the supervisor job i will#but i would still want to stay with my boss and co-workers cause we're all trauam bondeded at this point from this workplace#but hey if the worst thing that comes out of this crisis is me getting fired for not doing my job maybe it'll be for the best#..........that's not making me feel any better though
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I'm having so much fun reading Blue Moon Rising by Simon R. Green (published in 1991), and it feels like it was written exactly for me and my taste <3 (but I'm only 130 pages in)
I actually read this book when I was a teenager, and it just stayed with me since then. I forgot everything about the story, but the feelings have remained and I'm glad that reading the book again isn't disappointing and I'm probably getting more out of it now than when I was around 15, since it's aimed at adults.
"Your taste hasn't change since you were a teenager?" lol
#i feel like i'm gonna do more rereads from my bookshelves#this year i might finally get to the reread of i claudius#maybe i might reread and finish taiko too#it should be easier now when the other versions of those characters aren't fresh in my mind#so i shouldn't compare or expect xyz#i want to read new books too but there are also a lot of books i want to revisit#leni reads books#leni's nonsense#also i'm not a fantasy reader. i don't know the tropes or clichés or whatever. i just want to be entertained#i'd like to read more fantasy - the kind where it's a whole new world - but i've never really had a good luck
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man I'm so sorry I just reblogged like 50% of your psots I just found your blog through your dingo Pikmin comic and forgot I wasn't on my dash 😭😭😭😭😭 I'm so embarrassed I feel like I just walked into your house uninvited while you were at work and made myself a BLT sandwich. sorry about the 60000000 notifications dude 😭😭😭
Pffsgsh dude it's completely fine! I'm glad you're liking what you see here ^^
I'd only be mad at you that you didn't make me a sandwich too! How dare!
And don't worry. Isn't like there's much to see in my notifs. It was nice to see some action and someone being very happy.
I was about to say make yourself at home here but you already did. So enjoy your stay!
#the dragon answers#you just shouldn't follow me if you're here solely for pikmin content#i may reblog others art but for now not drawing anything myself#what you could expect here is a totk depth redesign project and maybe monster hunter art#and a lot of me live blogging of me gaming#but yea. all is well! and enjoy your stay buddy ^^
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Welp I didn't draw anything in previous or this week. Sorry for that!
I've been busy with other stuff and soon I'll have my first exams, hopefully after it I'll start working on my ocs birthday project and maybe I'll draw some dazatsu stuff! I'm saying maybe because I'm not really in the mood doing dazatsu stuff only to keep you interested here. So yeah! That's it!
#sovatext#maybe i shouldn't worry so much but i did promise i'll draw something in previous week and i didn't so#btw expect seeing my ocs here a lot#esp since they're related to bsd as my bsd fan-ocs fuck you
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this is kind of me still marveling at that i can make gifs that look like this now but also i am just. thinking thinking thinking about how Afraid of salazar henry is, is all. what a flinch. he didn't even see salazar kill anyone he just Knows that he did and the rest is the immense vibes of Bad coming off this thing that is entirely too far into his personal space at all times
#many things this movie does w/ salazar that i don't enjoy.#i DO think it's really interesting that there are exactly zero junctures at which henry isn't petrified of him#a lot of like modern (late 2010s-forward) blockbusters tend to have this aura of quippy one-liners right#which dmtnt absolutely falls prey to i'm not saying it doesn't#but one key difference (to me) is how many of those other movies will have their plucky action guys like#attempt banter or undercut the villain by just. being immune to their presence?#which works in some movies!/with some protags! absolutely some movies do perfectly well with heroes who just#spoil the Drama of it all you know? it's definitely a potentially functional trope#but it's became so common it was like. it's expected now almost? and so many action heroes just#do not give their villains due credit for being like. serial murderers or genocidal war criminals or figures of mass destruction you know?#like *we* know they're the main character and probably aren't going to die in the first (checks notes) fifteen minutes of the movie#but *they* shouldn't (always) be cognizant of their plot armor#so i just. really think its neat that at every turn any time salazar is on screen or someone mentions him henry goes a little pale and look#like he would rather be talking about something else#that's all#dreaming up things to say & never quite saying them ( my edit. )#oh maybe#blood tw#i'm sorry i forgot to tag first go
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I enjoyed Please Please Please and Espresso and have been listening to the new album this morning while I try and get stuff posted to AO3 and uh
There's one other song that's nice, otherwise it's your generally mid but perfectly fine pop album
Except for that fucking lyric in Slim Pickins. Girl, what the entire fuck was that vaguely homophobic bs abt exactly lmao
#tbh there's a lot of this that sounds like influence from a certain other blonde artist so I probably shouldn't be shocked by that#but i am a bit disappointed even tho I probably should have been expecting this lmao#this album also feels like a sign S.C. needs to do a lot of growing up re: relationships#maybe be single for a bit and learn how to live in your own skin bc my god does it make a difference#at least in my experience lol#really is a shame bc like. after taste and please please please the album up until slim pickins was genuinely like. okay this is mid but#good for a long summer drive as background noise/pleasant enough to the ear for writing background music too#but just that one line in slim has me reconsidering listening to anything of hers#other than taste; espresso; and please please please#genuinely sitting here typing tags bc I've got genius open in another tab and i'm putting off reading the lyrics to slim again like#nah she didn't really decide to evoke that old fucking bs in a pop song in 2024#but here we are lmaoooo
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Did people just completely missed the fact that this season is all about fathers???????
#look im in the buddie train and did want more eddie but from the donor thing to denny looking for his bio father#to the Buckley's to bobby and buck to Chim and his dad#this season is a lot about parental relationships#i get feeling like the promo build up too much around what it would mean for eddie but#like theres the rest of the season to see how Buck almost dying affects the whole team#and also the cast shouldn't be attacked because you build your expectations up too high#oliver delivered a great performance on an episode he said multiple times he was proud of#and he should#everyone was great in it#absolutely great in it#maybe think a bit before going around tearing it down for nothing#911#911 spoilers#i guess#i dont know
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he's going to be fighting a bunch of these things on his own, huh?
#wednesday spoilers#I don't think anyone really likes the im2-ish plot regarding h*ward but then duggan did warn us that he wanted to expand on whatever#happened in hickman's shield run so that's a thing that's happening now I guess.... I just hope he wraps it up quickly#emma was pretty annoying in this issue imo like idk if she's genuinely underestimating feilong or just not letting some things on due to#her being on the council etc. but it's probably going to backfire badly. I liked that tony & sunfire interacted though it's been a while I#think. I don't really know what to say about the h*ward stuff except that I liked that tony didn't become emotional or lose his head when#he was mentioned & he also didn't say anything nice about him so that's fine I guess...#I like that while he won pretty easily in the last issue the sentinel is clearly extremely powerful & tony was outgunned & retreated and I#like that there was no mention of his ego or whatever even though having to run would mess with anyone's ego a bit. I'm sure he would've#fought it anyway if it endangered anyone else but since it didn't he didn't fight a losing battle for whatever reason which shouldn't be#surprising but considering the quality of a lot of his previous runs it's nice#this issue wasn't as strong as the last one imo & I wish the stark employees resigned in protest the way they always did in the past#although it hasn't been his company for a while & usually when they resigned it was about tony and that one dude was clearly unhappy about#what was happening so maybe we'll see something in later issues? idk#I could've used a lot less h*ward but then I was expecting him to come up plus I'm glad it's happening now & not during cantwell's run#I'm pretty excited for the next issue since it's a flashback to the wca/silver centurion era... overall I think the characterisation is#still pretty good so I'll just hold on to that#iron man#marvel 616#tony stark
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#lowkey wanna delete those discussion posts because it feels like im presenting but no one's in the room#or if they are they're staring at me#the silence is incredibly awkward and i just wanna leave because it's so mortifying#hate that i dropped some bombshells in the story and there was like... very little reaction#or reactions during the whole update#so its like well shit what am i doing wrong#it doesn't make sense because the polls i made concerning the story got more of a response -- 16 people!!#maybe ppl like pushing button#i would just like some feedback or something; is that too much to ask for#yes i KNOW i shouldn't expect etc etc etc but come on#i dont think anyone's in the history of ever has come to my inbox about something story related or eagerly awaiting#anon is *extremely* on#or offering some perspective/picking up the proverbial bread crumbs/guessing on a future thing#i care a lot obviously#obviously everything's for me but on the other hand yknow *vague gesture*#it just feels like im just forcing it with all of the tzrs and everything and im *sure* it's annoying to someone#so idk man#it sucks that i wanna talk about shit but it feels like 'well anyway'#and maybe i am just too harsh on myself and maybe a little impatient and my expectations are too high for myself#i am having a bad brain time and i wish i can dunk this bitch into some water and scrub it#dw i'll be fine but it's just something that i noticed#vent post
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going to bed. yes the show is bad but personally i feel like taking the time to complain about it being bad just for the sake of Having Good Taste and not being Like Other Girls is a bit sad lmao. enjoy the bad show! or don't enjoy it! personally i think the bad parts are ironically good and the good parts have a legitimate quality and after all i'm here for the silly little fight scenes and the vibes. at any rate kanej nation we ride tomorrow when i get back from therapy
#no one cares eli#it's silly that i say this because i love being a hater on main but there's this wave of people just stating the show is bad which like. ok#????? then don't watch it????? idk it feels so strange to me to complain about this more than anything.#it's just a netflix teen show dkfjdjdkd i get wanting to be a hater but there's some sense of self superiority to a lot of these posts#idk maybe i'm projecting. perhaps people shouldn't expect shitty teen shows to be good & deep & complex#to be honest who watches netflix expecting legitimately good ya content these days am i right#anyways goodnight fellow bad shows enjoyers
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Also idk if I can elaborate on this in beautiful enough detail, but I think that the Autobots going through unreasonable amounts of effort to save other people even at great personal cost to themselves is literally something good about them, and if you try to criticize that as a way the Autobots are “bad” then I really don’t get you.
#squiggposting#how do i say this without overstepping on experiences i don't have#in the real world when people do things like emergency services or whatever... the foundation of that type of work#is to do something objectively dangerous and risky to yourself on just the bare chance of saving others#there are a lot of safety regulations-- everything from just day to day use of equipment#to entire protocols that emergency services and other people use#whose entire purpose is 'we need to go above and beyond'#'so that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt we have done everything we can do to protect others'#and like that's the principle that the autobots embody. and it's not just a story thing#that's something that happens in real life too. in real life we valorize people who didn't have to do everything they could to save other pe#people but did it anyways. you know???#like the point isn't to say 'if you don't kill yourself to save others then you're a bad person'#the point is to say that we valorize people who DO go above and beyond because they embody the greatest standards of care and selfishness#so like for example yeah the autobots often protect organic species at great tactical loss and personal danger to themselves#but it's because the principle of equality and protection guides them such that they believe this is a noble pursuit#because it is. it is noble to do what's difficult and inconvenient to save other people without expecting recognition#and also in a way it's just the morally and philosophically correct thing to do? like if your choice could possibly do harm to someone#the moral response is to go 'maybe i shouldn't do that because i don't want to hurt people for my own ends'#not for you to go 'well i might NOT hurt them by accident there's only a chance of it so i'll just keep doing my thing'#people who disregard others because 'it's probably not going to hurt them' or 'it's not my problem if they get hurt'#are not people that we would generally call admirable or morally correct#and i think the existence of so many safety and ethical standards IRL proves this#because people/society as a whole know that we have a duty to be SURE that we don't hurt others even by accident#and we have a duty to check whether people might get hurt by accident even if we're 100% sure that no one will get hurt.#it's like fucking checking your windows before you reverse your car. yes you already looked once so there's probably no one behind your car#but it's the responsible and moral thing for you to keep checking your mirrors for the 1% chance that there IS someone#sorry for ranting
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