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i hate when i send someone a meme in another language and they're like "uhm... translate? 😒" fucker i sent you a meme where 90% of the words have an english cognate and/or you don't need to know what they're saying to find it funny. can you at least TRY

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Podemos apreciar el ARTE? LA DEDICACIÓN? THE FUCKING SKILL OF MY BESTIE?

That scene from journey to the west: conquering demons (2013) that @chuliann told me to draw as Tangchung.

I had so much fun drawing wukong! While B�� sleeves are as stressful as always. But definitely, Chung Myung's expressions were by far the easiest part. Hehe

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Pienso sobre pensar hoy.

Pienso en el budín de pan que me trajo mí amiga: está dulce, tal vez demasiado dulce, esta vez tiene demasiada leche y poca consistencia pero está hecho con amor; aunque mí amiga siga sin entender muy bien cómo se hace un budín de pan. Pobre budín, no te censuro, noble budín de pan, aunque vayas a pasar como víctima de mí rotación mental.

Por supuesto que no le voy a decir esto a mí amiga.

Pero un poco pienso que algo así nos está pasando, en un sentido menos literal; a nivel generacional. Pensamos sin experiencia, sin instrucciones y nos desbalanceamos los sabores del intelecto. Pienso: quiero pensar con bagaje, improvisando recetas con el conocimiento subyacente de un balance que no veo que se incentive activamente.

He escuchado a buenos pensadores, pensadores inspirados, que me emocionan y fascinan. Pienso en mí generación, en nuestros incentivos, nuestra cultura inmediata e ignorante, olvidadiza, distraída, ansiosa y deprimida. Pienso en la desesperanza y en la apatía, en el individualismo exasperante, en la pr��dica del no-le-debo-nada-a-nadie. Pienso en la gracia de hablar sin saber y más o menos pegarle, como una eterna conversación de sobremesa un domingo en la casa de una tía vieja e indistinta de cualquier otra tía vieja que escucha la radio todo el día. Pienso que esta sobremesa se extiende, ineludible, a la televisión, la radio, las redes y casi todas las conversaciones. No pienso en los nichos, pienso en la conversación que nos supera a nosotros, snobs de manual, intelectualoides baratos y caros. Pienso en las discusiones que no estamos teniendo entre todos, no solo entre nuestro nosotros de nicho, entre todos-todos.

Pienso en todas las personas que no saben cocinar.

En realidad, pienso en Beatriz Sarlo que se murió hoy.

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tumblr discourse after 13 years on this fucking website

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Anyways conozcan a Horacio. Es un perrito que se apareció en la verdulería en donde trabajo hace como una semana en un estado moribundo y medio que lo adoptamos. El chabón tiene una comida re cara, le compran sobresitos de pollo y le cocinan aparte, lo bañaron ayer y ahora básicamente es como nuestro hijo. Una familia puede ser 3 pibas, un grupo de viejos en sus 50's, un jefe metalero medio explotador y su comfort dog.

Pd: los que lo bañaron le pusieron brillitos y ahora lo tratan de gay, they are being homophobic to the dog!!!!

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Aight, so a suspect has been caught. In the next couple of days we’re going to be bombarded with a cavalcade of information about Luigi Mangione. As we start this period I want everyone to remember:

The killer--whether he is Mangione or another man--is a living, breathing, human being. He has followed people you don’t like, held beliefs you disagree with, and possibly voting for politicians you think suck.

He still shot a man with the blood of millions on his hands. He still caused an outpouring of rage that caused BCBS to roll back its ghoulish anesthesia policy.

Carve that into your fucking minds. Mass media is about to do its damnedest to remind us to hate each other, not the top .001%. Do not let them do this. Y’all understand what I’m saying? Here, lemme spell it out more clearly:

DO NOT FUCKING PURITY TEST THIS GUY, ASSHOLES!!

And if you see people fixating on his purity over the message he sent, call them out on it.

We have lost again and again and again on healthcare because we keep letting the rich divide us. Remember: the people united will never be defeated.

Edit: A couple of people have asked me to not convict Mangione in my post, and they're right. Mangione has been arrested on gun charges, not for the murder, and regardless of the charge he obviously hasn't been convicted yet. It's too soon to lay Brian Thompson on his head. I've modified the post to reflect that.

That said, what I've said here applies to whoever the killer is. As the media circus plays out, a lot of talking heads will be pulling out all stops to remind us to hate each other, not the insurance CEOs. Do not fall for their tricks!

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I cannot get over the assassination happening while I was trying to get coverage for my testosterone. Imagine going into the pharmacy all excited to get your first ever testosterone prescription but find out it costs 800$ out of pocket for a three month supply and UHC won't cover it. So then you wait for your provider to get back to you about changing your prescription for an entire week and a half, and during that wait someone just. goes and fucking murders the CEO of your insurance company. Like they just kill him on the street. They had so much calculated hatred for this guy that they even engraved each bullet that hit him. Then, as if the heavens themselves opened up entirely to watch brian thompson descend into hell, your testosterone is ready two days later for pickup, and only costs 10 delicious dollars.

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My Buddhist friend was stopped by a Christian fellowship and asked if she would consider following the word of Jesus Christ. She replied, “No, thanks, but maybe next time around.” I don’t think they got the joke but I nearly died laughing.

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Open Commissions

Heyyy, it's getting close to the holidays and I've got all of my Comms slots open if you want to get something commissioned, now's the time! If you're interested below is some of my art and here is my carrd

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I do want to note that the whole "women are allowed to dress masculine and wear trousers" thing needs to be viewed in its historical context:

People fought for generations to be allowed to dress that way. They fought hard to be allowed to wear pants. Blue jeans were a symbol of feminist revolution. Women were barred from workplaces and schools for wearing them.

This is not some a natural fact that women dressing masculine is less shocking and humiliating. That normalization was fought for and hard-won.

And yet so many people erase the struggles of those people who fought to make that happen and pretend that it's just normal and natural that people don't see women "dressed like men" as ridiculous.

The Marriage of Figaro has what's called a "breeches role" which is a woman wearing men's clothes playing am ale role. This was done partly due to the vocal range requirements, but in many cases it was done comedically. It was risque and sexualized or comic relief that a woman was dressed as a man.

Anti-suffragette posters mock women wearing pants - well they were bloomers and split skirts back then - and mocking more masculine cut styles of clothes. This was meant to portray this as ridiculous.

They mocked the "new woman" in Weimar Germany, lamenting that they were too masculine.

This is a political cartoon from the 1920s depicting a woman in masculine dress deciding which bathroom to use:

Sorry but you're erasing these struggles and flattening history when you say this shit.

Women were killed and institutionalized in the struggle to make this happen. It really fucking bothers me the way it's framed as "people just don't find it as weird when women dress masculine."

Yes they fucking did. Until women and transmasculine people fought for their right to wear what they want. It's normalized because people struggled to normalize it.

And it's not normal everywhere. There are many countries where it's still illegal for women to wear pants. Sudan, Saudi Arabia.

Even in the US, it's forbidden and considered ridiculous in groups like the FLDS, the Amish, and the Hutterites.

We are flattening and erasing the struggles of women when we say these things. I know we're trying to build theory here but you can't build solid theory on a foundation of lies.

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Billionaire down!!!! UnitedHealthcare is super predatory, they utilized AI that falsely denied 90% of doctor approved claims, they lobbied against the ACA, they fuck over people regularly, they're shady as fuck. "Police do not know why" oh yeah sure keep telling yourself that

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When I was in the hospital, they gave me a big bracelet that said ALLERGY, but like. I'm allergic to bees. Were they going to prescribe me bees in there.

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Also I've said this before but advertising is an industry that should be considered as pointless and harmful as fossil fuels.

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Okay, so:

Latin has this word, sic. Or, if we want to be more diacritically accurate, sīc. That shows that the i is long, so it’s pronounced like “seek” and not like “sick.”

You might recognize this word from Latin sayings like “sic semper tyrannis” or “sic transit gloria mundi.” You might recognize it as what you put in parentheses when you want to be pass-agg about someone’s mistakes when you’re quoting them: “Then he texted me, ‘I want to touch you’re (sic) butt.’”

It means, “thus,” which sounds pretty hoity-toity in this modren era, so maybe think of it as meaning “in this way,” or “just like that.” As in, “just like that, to all tyrants, forever,” an allegedly cool thing to say after shooting a President and leaping off a balcony and shattering your leg. “Everyone should do it this way.”

Anyway, Classical Latin somewhat lacked an affirmative particle, though you might see the word ita, a synonym of sic, used in that way. By Medieval Times, however, sic was holding down this role. Which is to say, it came to mean yes.

Ego: Num edisti totam pitam?

Tu, pudendus: Sic.

Me: Did you eat all the pizza?

You, shameful: That’s the way it is./Yes.

This was pretty well established by the time Latin evolved into its various bastard children, the Romance languages, and you can see this by the words for yes in these languages.

In Spanish, Italian, Asturian, Catalan, Corsican, Galician, Friulian, and others, you say si for yes. In Portugese, you say sim. In French, you say si to mean yes when you’re contradicting a negative assertion (”You don’t like donkey sausage like all of us, the inhabitants of France, eat all the time?” “Yes, I do!”). In Romanian, you say da, but that’s because they’re on some Slavic shit. P.S. there are possibly more Romance languages than you’re aware of.

But:

There was still influence in some areas by the conquered Gaulish tribes on the language of their conquerors. We don’t really have anything of Gaulish language left, but we can reverse engineer some things from their descendants. You see, the Celts that we think of now as the people of the British Isles were Gaulish, originally (in the sense that anyone’s originally from anywhere, I guess) from central and western Europe. So we can look at, for example, Old Irish, where they said tó to mean yes, or Welsh, where they say do to mean yes or indeed, and we can see that they derive from the Proto-Indo-European (the big mother language at whose teat very many languages both modern and ancient did suckle) word *tod, meaning “this” or “that.” (The asterisk indicates that this is a reconstructed word and we don’t know exactly what it would have been but we have a pretty damn good idea.)

So if you were fucking Ambiorix or whoever and Quintus Titurius Sabinus was like, “Yo, did you eat all the pizza?” you would do that Drake smile and point thing under your big beefy Gaulish mustache and say, “This.” Then you would have him surrounded and killed.

Apparently Latin(ish) speakers in the area thought this was a very dope way of expressing themselves. “Why should I say ‘in that way’ like those idiots in Italy and Spain when I could say ‘this’ like all these cool mustache boys in Gaul?” So they started copying the expression, but in their own language. (That’s called a calque, by the way. When you borrow an expression from another language but translate it into your own. If you care about that kind of shit.)

The Latin word for “this” is “hoc,” so a bunch of people started saying “hoc” to mean yes. In the southern parts of what was once Gaul, “hoc” makes the relatively minor adjustment to òc, while in the more northerly areas they think, “Hmm, just saying ‘this’ isn’t cool enough. What if we said ‘this that’ to mean ‘yes.’” (This is not exactly what happened but it is basically what happened, please just fucking roll with it, this shit is long enough already.)

So they combined hoc with ille, which means “that” (but also comes to just mean “he”: compare Spanish el, Italian il, French le, and so on) to make o-il, which becomes oïl. This difference between the north and south (i.e. saying oc or oil) comes to be so emblematic of the differences between the two languages/dialects that the languages from the north are called langues d’oil and the ones from the south are called langues d’oc. In fact, the latter language is now officially called “Occitan,” which is a made-up word (to a slightly greater degree than that to which all words are made-up words) that basically means “Oc-ish.” They speak Occitan in southern France and Catalonia and Monaco and some other places.

The oil languages include a pretty beefy number of languages and dialects with some pretty amazing names like Walloon, and also one with a much more basic name: French. Perhaps you’ve heard of it, n'est-ce pas?

Yeah, eventually Francophones drop the -l from oil and start saying it as oui. If you’ve ever wondered why French yes is different from other Romance yeses, well, now you know.

I guess what I’m getting at is that when you reblog a post you like and tag it with “this,” or affirm a thing a friend said by nodding and saying “Yeah, that”: you’re not new

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El problema es q hablan de la pobreza como si fuera un problema usa exclusive like "nono guys u don't get it bc what if someone can't buy fruit??" Y SI AMIGO LA GENTE ACÁ TAMBIÉN SE MUERE DE HAMBRE Y SE MUERE X LA POBREZA Y HAY FAMILIAS ENTERAS VIVIENDO EN LA CALLE. Y encima cualquier ayuda del gobierno se hace cuesta arriba si todos nuestros recursos se los estamos prácticamente regalando a eeuu para que SUS ciudadanos puedan tener SUS privilegios y ayudas del estado.

Q la gente sea pobre en eeuu no es un concepto nuevo para NADIEE el tema es q inconcientemente piensan q la gente eeuu merece ayuda antes q nadie y q si los sudakas si se mueren... Y bueno, ya fué (o no piensan piensan pero asumen que los recursos tienen q venir xq tienen q venir sin importar de donde y ya después cuando yo tenga mi culo cubierto veo si me quedan ganas de salvar algún tercermundista).

Onda dale dame UNA RAZÓN por la cuál es válido deteriorar cada vez mas la calidad de vida en el tercer mundo siempre y cuando los recursos sean para gringos pobres?? Why do they get to steal from us?? Solo 1 razón q no sea solo xq piensan q nuestras vidas valen menos. Xq si estás generando cada vez mas muertos y pobreza en el tercer mundo solo para q los gringos tengan su ayuda lamento informarles q no están "desmantelando el capitalismo", están moviendo toda la pobreza al tercer mundo, like they've always done. Economy equivalent de barrer y meter toda la basura abajo de la cama xq at least ahí no la veo. THERE ARE NO LESS PEOPLE DYING OF HUNGER IN THE WORLD, SOLO MENOS YANKIS Y MÁS SUDAKAS MURIENDO DE HAMBRE. Manga de petes.

Let's fix imperialismo pero solo después de que todos los gringos estén cómodos y sanitos a costas del resto del mundo 😚 oh so we not fixing imperialismo at all, gotcha.