#some research

[whyeverr]

Cherry has kindly agreed to help, despite the cruelly early start time—though unfortunately, “cook together with” has proven to be janky even at the best of times, so it’s mostly just a lot of backseat driving. Given the amount of recipe and ingredient improvisation required, this may not be a bad thing...

“Hang on, you’re boiling them? Aren’t you supposed to steam tamales?”

“Look, I’ve had to make a lot of modifications... They’re more like, I don’t know, tamal-ish.”

So I went down the custom food rabbit hole... I started off by looking for mooncakes (and found them!) and then started looking for any other culturally-specific dishes I could incorporate into this save. 

And, wouldn’t you know it, I was also able to find tamales—which seemed perfect because Christmas would fall sometime during this week (no one knows exactly what day it is these days), and it’s Tyler’s rotation and of course he would want to make tamales for everyone!

But then... I don’t know if I just wasn’t looking closely at the scale of things in the preview image, or if I am just blindly ignorant to how custom food usually looks. But oh. my god. The tamales.

They’re... huge. And are both served and individually plated on very fancy decorative dishes.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re lovely, they just... don’t quite fit in the setting of a community of survivors scraping by in the post-apocalypse...? Food is still looking a bit rustic here, either homegrown or carefully extracted from a dusty package found on a well-picked-over shelf.

So... Enter the hallaca: a tamal-adjacent Venezuelan dish miraculously already in the game. They’re also traditionally served at Christmas, but instead of corn husks, they’re wrapped in plantain leaves (which, hey! we actually already grow). There are some notable (and quite tasty-sounding!) differences in what’s included in the filling—but for our purposes, regardless of what they’re wrapped in or what should traditionally be included, the filling is mushrooms and vegetables. 

To finish this D+ report with some fun facts, both dishes (and the many, many other varieties available throughout Central and South America, the Carribbean, the Philippines, and Guam) all originate from the same indigenous Mesoamerican cultures (which totally makes sense but didn’t necessarily occur to me), dating back to as early as 8000 to 5000 BCE. Aaaaand apparently tamales are believed to predate ceramic technology and therefore the tortilla, which is pretty fucking wild to consider.

[madbuns]

I would put into a pentagram

any part of Tobirama's body (your choice)

any part of Madara's body (again your choice)

a bit of blood

some entrails

and a bad pun (affectionate)

I am summoned immediately in 0.5 seconds

[reality-detective]

1963 Refrigerator 🤔

[spirit-meets-the-b0ne]

For what it’s worth I think Algerian women should be allowed to do quite literally whatever they want on French soil considering the atrocities generations of Algerian women faced during the revolution, like Imane Khelif should be getting free swings at every member of state while she’s in Paris! Hope this helps!

[endusviolence]

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 für 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.

[junotter]

just some designs mainly created because I wanted to draw hakama and then it spiral out from there

bald zuko under the cute

[notbrucewayne48]

"aphobia doesn't exist"

bitch literally not that long ago an aroace youtuber animator was insulted by almost half of its community for being it

[savagegood]

ice hockey nicknames be like:

also, assigned babygirl/angel/wifey by wikipedia:

update: new sidney crosby nicknames dropped over the weekend

[straightlightyagami]

tag where you're from if you want

[inthemiddleofmybackswing]

GUYS my girlfriend MADE this for me for christmas!! with her own two hands!! she even wired the chevrons to light up and i’m so impressed and happy and just wanted to share it with the world

[sexhaver]

a good experience more people on this website should have is confidently bringing up some leftist talking point you picked up from tumblr around family members, only for them to ask extremely basic and predictable followup questions/rebuttals that you have no response to because you just internalized the three-paragraph post with 3k notes. this only needs to happen a few times for the lesson to stick and the sooner the better

[aitadjcrazytimes]

[reality-detective]

Old Lighters 🤔

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I hope you take this as the compliment it is intended to be, but you strike the same chord of irreverence-as-love, jokes-to-showcase-sencerity that I get from Chuck Tingle, and I adore both of you.

You have bestowed the greatest honour upon me.

[apricatt-art]

princess tutu posting <3