Reductress: Deep Space Nine
the ds9 family using garak for crimes and assassinations
To explain my chicken obsession:
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Me: I’m enjoying drawing chickens for this commission.
Husband: ha ha Greek Myth Chickens!
Me: 🤔
I now present to you,
🏺Greek Myth Chickens 🐓
ILIAD EDITION
1) Egg-chilles and Patro-cluck (Achilles and Patroclus)
2) Mene-lay-us and Al-eggs-andros (Paris) (Menelaus and Alexandros [Paris])
3) Egg-amemnon (Agamemnon)
4) Aph-roost-ite and Helen of Spur-ta (Aphrodite and Helen of Sparta)
5) Nest-or (Nestor)
6) Androma-beak, Peck-tor, and Astyan-egg (Andromache, Hektor and Astyanax)
7) At-hen-a and Egg-dysseus (Athena and Odysseus)
8) Preen-am and Peck-uba (Priam and Hekuba [Hekabe])
9) Brood-seis (Briseis)
10) Diom-egg-es (Diomedes)
(See next post for last 3 - https://www.tumblr.com/greekmythcomix/722218945873051648/iliad-chickens-continued-11-lay-jax-tel-capon )
one of my favorite doctor who moments without context:
Every part of this joke is older than most of the people on this website.
Love bombing is not a euphemism for "too much affection too soon," or "high desire for contact."
"Love bombing" is a term originally used in the context of cults to describe a deliberate and coordinated recruitment method that involved feigning friendship and interest in a potential recruit, via flattery, flirtation, physical affection, and very directed positive attention to everything the recruit says in order to lure them into the cult.
Since cults and abusive relationships operate in similar ways and use similar tactics, love bombing in an interpersonal relationship looks like manufacturing closeness in order to trap someone into a relationship in which the abuser has all the control.
And I know these days there's a million bullshit junky articles out there that make you think this is a symptom of cluster b personality disorders, but there is no way for you to be love bombing somebody without realizing it.
If you are an affectionate person and the level of affection and attention you give makes someone uncomfortable, you are not "accidentally" abusing them.
If you are uncomfortable with the level of affection and attention someone is paying you, they are not de facto abusing you.
Love bombing is about using someone's desire for human connection to fast track them into a situation you control that they will feel disinclined to leave.
arizona is proposing a bill to require students to take part in the pledge of allegiance. huge day for precocious high schoolers familiar with west virginia state board of education v. barnette
if you were ever a little shit about being expected to say the pledge of allegiance in school you're going to heaven no matter what
so many social justicey arguments really do seem like they were invented in a lab to be a saw trap for people with obsessive compulsive tendencies
one of the examples i was thinking of is the idea you are Morally Obligated to tag any potential triggers, despite that being a category that theoretically includes literally everything. maybe the implication/way most people interpret it is "if you have a decent following, its best practice to tag common ones plus requests from followers" but i dont think it should be difficult to understand why trying to figure out which ones people will get mad at you about is a saw trap. esp on platforms more like twitter where providing content warnings in the first place is a logistical nightmare
Op's tags:
[Image Description: A tag reading: #pro-tip: if your only call to action is 'you should feel guilty about this' youre not fixing anything youre just creating saw traps / End ID]
People very rarely want to hear or even think about the people who were pushed aside or worse to make “history” happen.
that post reminds me: you know what i haven't seen in years? a spocked fiver
used to be (especially back working in retail in the middle of uni towns) i couldn't go a month without seeing one of these
now? nothing.
i miss them
the thing that i think MOST accurately resonates w/ jjba is when ur a little kid and ur on the elementary school playground and u larp with the other little children and someone is like “i shot you youre dead” and then ur like “but i was wearing a bullet proof vest!!!” and theyre like “well i shot u in the head with my special diamond bullets that also hit ur chest and u died” and ur like “but i was an alien the entire time and diamond bullets dont affect me” and so it goes until u get tired and go in for snack time
jojo heritage post
and then they proceeded to be the worst at their jobs for the next 20 years
No no, you don’t get it. Jesse and James are the absolute best there is at their jobs, but they have no idea what their jobs are.
They think that they’re thieves, agents of an elite criminal group led by Giovanni, stealing rare pokemon and advanced technology and such. And there might have been a time this actually was their jobs. In the first season or two, they frequently get angry phone calls about how they’ve fucked everything up, or get their expense account cut off because they have literally never turned a profit on their criminal enterprises and constantly procure and then lose/destroy expensive and elaborate devices.
But then the world came within a hair’s breadth of being destroyed, several times, and Jesse, James, and their weird cat rescued everybody. As terrible as they’ve always been at criminal endeavors of any kind, when the apocalypse approaches and they’re forced to step up, they’re really fucking good at saving the day.
And Giovanni is over here like… if the planet is destroyed, or time/space becomes unrecognizable, or civilization collapses, there’s no way for me to run a profitable criminal enterprise anymore. I need this planet, because it’s where I keep all my stuff. And I don’t pretend to understand the why of it, but these couple of bumbling nutcases that I should have fired years ago seem to be an important component of that? Somehow? So you gotta stop thinking about them in terms of acquisitions and start considering them… loss prevention. As in, even if you waste a million dollars a month on giant cat-faced robots and a vast array of fancy ball gowns and they never turn a profit, they are preventing all of your assets from going away at the same time because of something you can’t do anything about.
And that’s the great secret behind Team Rocket. These guys aren’t thieves, they’re professional superheroes (sponsored by organized crime). Of course, nobody ever bothered to tell them that.
“To protect the world from devastation…”
Plus, as is frequently pointed out: Jesse and James are good at every other job EXCEPT Team Rocket. They’re actually smart businesspeople and run successful food and merchandise stands and are great salespeople. Hell, even in Team Rocket situations where they’re not chasing after Pikachu they’ve done better. It’s just their Achilles Heel is one damn OP rodent.
Pikachu Proximity Intelligence Chart
pretty sure giovanni keeps them on so he can commit insurance fraud by giving them tech insured for way more than what was paid for it so when it inevitably gets destroyed he gets a nice check.
I’m accepting all of these responses actually
J&J (& Meowth) are field testers, catspaws and urban legend verifiers.
my 6yo piano student: did you KNOW that girls can marry girls and BOYS can marry boys? But they can’t do that romantic dance together when one has a rose in their mouth, because only boys can play the guitar :(
me: 👁️👄👁️well actually, girls can definitely play guitar??
6yo: WAIT REALLY?? :O
it was honestly so fucking adorable because she was SO excited to impart with me the news that gay marriage exists, but then instantly heartbroken that wlw couples were robbed of all romance as they couldn’t possibly do the flamenco together
I’m scared
ive said it before ill say it again: the solution to nazi punks is not to “gotcha” them about Well Actually Real Punks Believe. its to beat the shit out of them. sincerely, your favorite punk jew.
a singular scuit. just one.
an edible cracker with just one side. mathematically impossible and yet here I am monching on it.
‘scuit’ comes from the french word for ‘bake’, ‘cuire’ as bastardized by adoption by the brittish and a few hundred years ‘biscuit’ meant ‘twice-baked’, originally meaning items like hardtack which were double baked to dry them as a preservative measure long before things like sugar and butter were introduced. if you see a historical doccument use the word ‘biscuit’ do not be fooled to think ‘being a pirate mustve been pretty cool, they ate nothing but cookies’ - they were made of misery to last long enough to be used in museum displays or as paving stones
‘triscuit’ is toasted after the normal biscuit process, thrice baked thus the monoscuit is a cookie thats soft and chewy because it was only baked once, not twice
behold the monoscuit/scuit
Why is this called a biscuit:
when brittish colonists settled in the americas they no longer had to preserve biscuits for storage or sea voyages so instead baked them once and left them soft, often with buttermilk or whey to convert cheap staples/byproducts into filling items to bulk out the meal to make a small amount of greasy meat feed a whole family. considering hardtack biscuits were typically eaten by dipping them in grease or gravy untill they became soft enough to eat without breaking a tooth this was a pretty short leap of ‘just dont make them rock hard if im not baking for the army’ but didnt drop the name because its been used for centuries and people forgot its french for ‘twice baked’ back in the tudor era, biscuit was just a lump of cooked dough that wasnt leavened bread as far as they cared thus the buttermilk biscuit and the hardtack biscuit existed at the same time. ‘cookies’ then came to america via german and dutch immigrants as tiny cakes made with butter, sugar/molasses, and eggs before ‘tea biscuits’ as england knew them due to the new availability of cheap sugar- which is why ‘biscuit’ and ‘cookie’ are separate items in america but the same item in the UK the evolution of the biscuit has forks on its family tree
😳 I never knew I needed this information. But i NEEDED IT
😳 I never knew I
needed this information.
But i NEEDED IT
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I feel I should offer a couple notes:
- The French comes from Latin biscoctus, bis- “twice” + coctus “cooked”, which is why it’s got the weird ‘s’ in there. In Old French it was bescuit, and it actually shifted forms a couple times in English before landing more or less where it had come from.
- As a result of its Latin heritage, “biscuit” has relatives in other Romance languages, notably Italian biscotti and Spanish bizcocho.
One additional thing, that I actually found on here, although good luck finding the post again–the brand name Triscuit isn’t actually “one more than biscuit”, either in number of cookings or just as meaningless puffery. It’s from “electric biscuit”; they came out when electric anything was still new and high-tech, and were made in large, consistent batches in an electric oven.
And twitter thread (that I can’t read; not logged in):