I had a teakettle like that one once. I wish I knew where I could get another.
I’m not very familiar with tea terminology. Is the thing you had once the thing on the left or the thing on the right? My mother owns something identical to the thing on the left, and I think she got it from Walmart. I could ask once she wakes up.
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#reply via reblog #can’t help you with the thing on the right
Luna Lovegood would be fascinated to learn that Crumplehorned Snorkack was a real person and a successful British actor to boot
# Do I need a ‘anything that makes Brin laugh this much deserves a reblog’ tag? # Probably not but I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve asked myself that (comparativelysuperlative)
So, what happens if you make me laugh by saying this?
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#reply via reblog #anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #I’m glad I instituted that policy #it helps make my blog the kind of place I want it to be #and it’s always good to have a URL handy where I know the contents are things that will cheer me up #(and similarly a URL I can give to people asking for links to cheer *them* up) #(I used to have trouble finding things for such requests) #(because my bookmarks didn’t distinguish things I liked because they were funny from things I liked for other reasons) #it’s good to see confirmation that other people like it too #(…I make my reasoning sound kind of sad when I put it like that) #(mostly I decided to do this because I wanted to share my laughter with my followers rather than just liking stuff)
so like I have no idea where I’m going with this but
people whose lived experience is close enough to harmful tropes that they feel uncomfortable talking about it
like “you’re not asexual you’re just repressed” well as it happened I was not asexual and I was repressed as hell (I was/am aromantic and had it super thoroughly drilled into me that sexual attraction without romantic attraction… wasn’t really attraction or something? idk every time I try to figure out my upbringing it gets weirder)
or like I have an oc who’s demi (or in one ‘verse he’s demi, AUs man) but he IDed as ace for like twenty years before the “I am now sexually attracted to my life partner” kicked in and so I feel reeeeeally awkward about writing that ‘verse because I have no idea how I’d keep it from being “you just haven’t met the right person yet” without, like, actively stopping the story to write a screed about it ;P
but like does anyone else have this problem? what (if anything) do you do about it? commiserate with me! ;S
Ah, that old double-bind. The one where, for instance, some people don’t have a right person to find, and also who cares if there is a right person they’re still ace for intents and purposes now, but you only have the chance to say one of those things and whichever wrong you correct you’re implicitly condoning the other. It is especially difficult when you personally do happen to fit the narrative.
I look kind of like I fit the first one, since I did formerly ID as repressed,
but I don’t think I actually do fit it. Nevertheless, when I encounter that one (which I almost never do directly; I hang out in pretty ace-friendly spaces) I always tackle the “so what if I am?” aspect over the “I’m not” aspect. I figure I’m more believable on that one, plus the “I’m not” aspect is generally tackled more often.
I do have a narrative that I both disagree with and fit, and that’s “rape
fetishism isn’t an inherent/valid* part of a fetishist’s sexuality;
they’re just into it because Society doesn’t give them any better options. If they were in a culture where consent was an established Thing, the fetish would fall away.”
This is bullshit on multiple levels. It also happened to me. I was rather annoyed when I realised, partly because do you know how hard it is to find consensual hypnosis porn (well, obviously it would have to be difficult or this wouldn’t have happened in the first place) and partly because I resented supporting the pro-narrative argument by existing.
I haven’t tried to respond to that narrative since it happened. Any one thing I say would be undermining the others, and–unlike the repression one–I have no clue where to place my focus.
*In a culture with heavy reliance on “born this way” messages, these two words are treated as interchangeable, which is a big chunk (but not the entirety) of the problem.
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#reply via reblog #asexuality #sexuality and lack thereof #commiseration #consensual porn is like the food of the fairy folk #once you’ve had a taste you can never go back #normal food can’t sustain you anymore; all you can think about when you eat it is how much better the other stuff tasted
tattoo artist who can encode magic into tattoos but doesn’t want people to know she can so she just puts low-level luck spells on her clients’ bodies without telling them
jeweller who makes body jewellery and pendants which have amulet properties and draw love and luck and happiness to their wearers without them realising it
piercing artist who keeps the remnants from her piercings and puts them all in little jars in the back of her shop to work sympathetic luck spells on all her clients
and then all three of them slowly realise what the others are doing and end up in a poly relationship living in a little shop in the shitty end of town, which gets curiously less shitty the longer they stay, and people think it’s just the development of the area but the three artists know
and they’re never rich and they’re never famous but they’re always happy because they have everything they need
they have the shop and they have their customers and they have each other
and when their customers are happy and content, they pack up and move on, all together now, to find another space with skin to be coloured and jewellery to be made and magic to be done.
this is beautiful
DETROIT – The three body modification artists were arrested today on charges of voluntary manslaughter after a past client suffered a fatal stroke, allegedly due to thaumo-alchemical interactions between her prescribed potions and a luck charm that had been placed on one of her tattoos without her knowledge.
…
“Some potions and drugs are known to react with common charms, which is why it is absolutely essential that your doctor and pharmacist have a complete and accurate list of your active enchantments,” says pharmacist Patricia Patil. “Putting an enchantment of any kind, no matter how minor, on someone without their knowledge or permission is playing Russian Roulette with someone else’s life.”
…
The victim, Carmen Jackson, was 36 at the time of her death and is survived by a husband and 4 children.
“#death tw #yes this #I did not think this *exact* thing #but I did wonder why we were assumed to sympathise with people tricking others into taking spells”
Because consent isn’t part of our cultural narrative. Patriarchalism is – people assumed to be “wiser” doing what’s Best for other people without needing input from those stupid lower-class people who would reject the help out of fear and superstition and who never know what’s Actually Good for them.
Us, the lower classes and poors in this country, we know we’re shat on, but it’s still a long row to hoe challenging this internalized narrative, that if somebody who Knows Better than you (upperclass, educated, ~the Wise~) is doing what’s Good for you, they don’t need your consent or even to tell you what’s going on.
In skiffy, there’s a trope of the person who has to Decide The Fate Of Others angsting about it, feeling unworthy, actually addressing the fact that they’re making big honkin’ decisions about people’s lives without their consent… but the angst isn’t about whether the decisions should be made (and in skiffy there generally isn’t time or any achievable way to get everybody’s input), but over whether THE PERSON ANGSTING is “worthy”, is Wise enough, because they weren’t brought up to feel that deciding the fate of others is their job, they feel it’s the job of those higher up the totem pole who’ve done the deciding on the person’s own fate. If they had more time, the ability to consult, it’s not suggested that they should take the opinions of the people whose lives will be affected, but of their superiors who have more of a “right” to fuck with people’s situations.
It took me five minutes to figure out ‘Skiffy” was sci-fi, but other than that I love every bit about this commentary.
It’s true. The angsting is always that the decision is “above my pay grade” – i.e, something that should be decided by higher ups. Not angsting that this is something that should be decided by those it affects, or should not be decided at all.
Okay, so I mostly try to avoid commentary on that post (OH MY GOD STOP HAUNTING ME, POST), but this one I feel the need to talk about, because it was both really encouraging and really hard for me to read. Aaaand it got long, like everything I write, so it’s going under a cut i guess
Hi! I’m the person who wrote those tags justice-turtle is responding to. I noticed this in the recent notes while pressing the “like” button on our conversation about it.
I admit I flinched when I realised you’d seen us talking negatively about your post (conflict-avoidance ftw), but it went surprisingly well. I’m glad you agree with the main point, and I’m sorry you keep having to see people taking the OP the wrong way.
Have you considered a note-blocker extension? You sound like you could really use one. People will still be taking your post at face value, unfortunately, but at least you won’t have reminders of that constantly thrown in your face. I’ve never used one myself (never had a post go viral), so I can’t recommend any particular one from personal experience, but XKit has a NotificationBlock extension and I’m pretty sure there are independent note-blocker add-ons too. (They generally work on individual posts, so you’d still get notes from your other posts.)
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tattoo artist who can encode magic into tattoos but doesn’t want people to know she can so she just puts low-level luck spells on her clients’ bodies without telling them
jeweller who makes body jewellery and pendants which have amulet properties and draw love and luck and happiness to their wearers without them realising it
piercing artist who keeps the remnants from her piercings and puts them all in little jars in the back of her shop to work sympathetic luck spells on all her clients
and then all three of them slowly realise what the others are doing and end up in a poly relationship living in a little shop in the shitty end of town, which gets curiously less shitty the longer they stay, and people think it’s just the development of the area but the three artists know
and they’re never rich and they’re never famous but they’re always happy because they have everything they need
they have the shop and they have their customers and they have each other
and when their customers are happy and content, they pack up and move on, all together now, to find another space with skin to be coloured and jewellery to be made and magic to be done.
this is beautiful
DETROIT – The three body modification artists were arrested today on charges of voluntary manslaughter after a past client suffered a fatal stroke, allegedly due to thaumo-alchemical interactions between her prescribed potions and a luck charm that had been placed on one of her tattoos without her knowledge.
…
“Some potions and drugs are known to react with common charms, which is why it is absolutely essential that your doctor and pharmacist have a complete and accurate list of your active enchantments,” says pharmacist Patricia Patil. “Putting an enchantment of any kind, no matter how minor, on someone without their knowledge or permission is playing Russian Roulette with someone else’s life.”
…
The victim, Carmen Jackson, was 36 at the time of her death and is survived by a husband and 4 children.
“#death tw #yes this #I did not think this *exact* thing #but I did wonder why we were assumed to sympathise with people tricking others into taking spells”
Because consent isn’t part of our cultural narrative. Patriarchalism is – people assumed to be “wiser” doing what’s Best for other people without needing input from those stupid lower-class people who would reject the help out of fear and superstition and who never know what’s Actually Good for them.
Us, the lower classes and poors in this country, we know we’re shat on, but it’s still a long row to hoe challenging this internalized narrative, that if somebody who Knows Better than you (upperclass, educated, ~the Wise~) is doing what’s Good for you, they don’t need your consent or even to tell you what’s going on.
In skiffy, there’s a trope of the person who has to Decide The Fate Of Others angsting about it, feeling unworthy, actually addressing the fact that they’re making big honkin’ decisions about people’s lives without their consent… but the angst isn’t about whether the decisions should be made (and in skiffy there generally isn’t time or any achievable way to get everybody’s input), but over whether THE PERSON ANGSTING is “worthy”, is Wise enough, because they weren’t brought up to feel that deciding the fate of others is their job, they feel it’s the job of those higher up the totem pole who’ve done the deciding on the person’s own fate. If they had more time, the ability to consult, it’s not suggested that they should take the opinions of the people whose lives will be affected, but of their superiors who have more of a “right” to fuck with people’s situations.
Perhaps so, although I distrust anything involving the word “internalised” for actually pretty much the same reason: it tends to carry a very similar note of “we know you better than you know yourself, if you disagree with us on what’s Actually Good for you it’s only because you lack insight* into your problems”. There’s no defence against a charge like that. (You’d think “I’m second-generation social justice; sure, I had some contact with other, patriarchal subcultures, but I’m not a proverbial fish and my native tongue does have a word for water (you should know, it’s the tongue you’re speaking now)” would have at least some effect, but nobody ever really seems to notice when I say that. Besides, we born-and-raised types are rare enough that everyone else routinely forgets we exist, and other people deserve not to have that pulled on them too.)
*Here used in the psych jargon sense of “awareness that something is wrong with your mind”.
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#reply via reblog #my issues with sj let me show you them #(the following category tag was added retroactively:) #our roads may be golden or broken or lost
- There are Some Things Money Can’t Buy. Especially If You Abolish All Private Property.
- From each according to their ability, to each according to his need. For everything else, there’s #Marxcard.
- I don’t always seize the means of production from the bourgeoisie, but when I do, I prefer the Marx MasterCard.
- A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of cash back and low, low interest rates. #marxcard
- The Marx Card – Because Credit is the Opiate of the Masses.
- The Karl Marx MasterCard – When You’re Short of Kapital
- Reach For it when you get in the red
Is this your original work? It is hilarious, and the sort of thing I would expect to see lots of notes on.
(The times when I actually think “needs more notes” are always for joke posts.)
No! The Karl Marx Mastercard is a real thing! The first article I read about it in mentioned that it needed a tagline. I come up with a few of the obvious ones on my own before looking, but they’re all on twitter several times over.
Wait, what? They actually made a credit card with Marx on it?
What’s the ratio between P(credit card with Marx) and P(My perceptions are false|I’m sick and have had some related cognitive difficulties already)?
Bookmark this thread and come back to it when you’re feeling better. If it’s still there, news links and all, you’ll know it wasn’t a fever dream.
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#reply via reblog
Hey all you lovely people who have periods, the world is starting to look a little bit brighter now that certain tampon/pad companies have started to allow people to receive small kits and samples of pads, maxi pads, liner, and tampons for free. And I mean 100% free and discreet. You just have to give them your address and name, and bam! You’ve got all the menstrual cycle products you could ever need for no cost. Links below!
The “Always” and “Poise” links are actually for their bladder
incontinence pads, just so you know. I don’t know of any reason why they
wouldn’t work for menstrual blood, but that’s not what they were designed for.
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#menstruation #the more you know #my mother sent that Always link to her friends without realising what it was #and was rather embarrassed #I don’t want that to happen to anyone else #reblogged from a random person who didn’t have any guilt tripping in their reblog chain #this blog is a guilt-trip-free zone #no exceptions #(hat tip to justice-turtle) #(I love you and respect your stance on posts with guilt trips buried in their reblog chains)
*squee* My custom accent for Canyon is ordered and paid for! I DID PEOPLE INTERACTION THINGS. :D
I think my next “big” FR project is gonna be saving up all the treasure for my remaining expansions to Ancient Lair by Thundercrack. (The first-place dom discount isn’t huge, it’s only 5%, but that’s still gonna save me 143,750 treasure overall. ^_^ ‘Sides, I like the idea of celebrating Thundercrack by moving to the Tempest Spire.) Little under 2.75 million – I can farm that in a week or ten days if I push, I’m tired of pushing, so I’m gonna take it slow. Hardest part’ll be not spending it all on dragon hats. XD
God, I wish RL had something like that where you work hard and get a slow but steady guaranteed income. I would be so rich, y’all. ;S I got no problem with grinding, it’s the part where I can’t reliably grind enough RL money to feed myself the calories I expend while grinding that discourages me.
God, I wish RL had something like that where you work hard and get a slow but steady guaranteed income. I would be so rich, y’all. ;S I got no problem with grinding, it’s the part where I can’t reliably grind enough RL money to feed myself the calories I expend while grinding that discourages me.
Well, there’s Swagbucks. Nowhere near enough to live off of, and you have to take their “Special Offers” section with tons of salt (last I checked they don’t vet their third-party offer suppliers nearly well enough and pretty much all of the non-survey non-video ones look an awful lot like virusbait), but a reasonably diligent Canadian can get USD$25 a month in Paypal, which is $25 they wouldn’t have had otherwise. I hear it’s more if you’re American (they get earning options that other countries don’t), and much more if you either have more data in your Internet plan than you normally use or spend a lot of time in places with free Wi-Fi (so you can run their ad videos without spending more in overage fees than you get in payment). (My family routinely maxes out our Internet plan as it is, and I only spend maybe 10 – 30 minutes a week in public hotspots, so I’ve never been able to do those properly.)
(I used to be a reasonably diligent Canadian, but I haven’t really been on since November, after I paid for nearly half of this laptop ($130) using the Paypal balance I got from them. Maybe I should go back.)
(If you do give it a shot (and seriously, despite the Special Offers the rest of the place is really not very shady), let me know *before* you sign up and I’ll give you a referral link. It’s not under this name.)
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If you are a Tumblr transhumanist you should consider reading the Eclipse Phase PDFs (the horror themes are less pervasive than is implied).
If you are the sort of Tumblr leftist who hangs around with transhumanists, you should also consider doing that. They have multiple protagonist-y anarchist factions and other stuff that might be appealing. (I wouldn’t really know, all the politics stuff I have done has been through the [Redacted] Young Democrats (funded by [Redacted] Democratic Club) which are basically what you would expect from a group that does voter registration campaigns and owns a life-size cardboard cutout of Hillary Clinton, but the authors are clearly sympathetic to this stuff and it shows.)
[ulterior motive: I want to play Eclipse Phase, but I don’t want to be a GM, so I want to get someone else enthusiastic enough about this game to run it.]
Image description: Book cover with the title Eclipse Phase, crescent moon in between words. Subtitle: The Roleplaying Game of Transhumanist Conspiracy and Horror. Image is of a robot arm reaching out of a damaged space station to grab a rat-like humanoid in a space suit, but not as tacky as that description sounds.
Never played a tabletop RPG in my life, but Eclipse Phase has sounded interesting ever since I proofread a (sadly unfinished) story set in the Eclipse Phase universe, and I have heard that the game books are themselves an interesting read.
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#transhumanism #Eclipse Phase
Have your “merchant race” mark nouns for how much they would value that noun on the market.
“My best friend(not for sale)’s house(300,000 credits) has great views(50,000 credits) of the ocean (1,000,000 credits), but I don’t like their neighbors(20 credits).
I bet this is how Ferengi works.
BEST FRIEND (NOT FOR SALE) OMG
In Ferengi, (not for sale) is either wildly complimentary or unbelievably insulting.
Wouldn’t insulting be attaching a negative value, as in “I would pay someone to get rid of this for me”, like you could say about garbage or water from flooding or something? (Wikipedia says those things are called “bads”.)
…the ocean only costs three times as much as somebody’s house?
Whom do you buy the ocean from? O_O
^_^
Well, if there’s an ocean on the moon you own…
(For a moment I thought “wait, but there wouldn’t be any neighbours in that case”, but I suppose you could have neighbours through renting out bits of your moon to people.)
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#Star Trek #reply via reblog
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