ANANDA SAMSARA

CONTROVERSIAL OPINION ABOUT BISEXUALITY

that purple in the middle is not the right saturation, it doesn't fit with the other two colors and it drives me crazy.

all right, I think I got this, I've got dual citizenship and I have another flag we can borrow from:

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This is true bi/ace solidarity.

holy shit

This is the only correct way

[Patchnotes]

Me: I wish goyim would make an effort to learn about Judaism and Jewish culture and history

Goyim: utterly butcher the terms “Zionism” “Ashkenazi” “Sephardi” “Mizrachi” “tikkun olam” “diaspora” “Holocaust”

Me: ok never mind, stop learning. No more effort. Don’t learn a new word ever again.

I don’t mean that the term “diaspora” only applies to Jews, it’s a term used by any group that fits the definition. However that word and the concept (like so many others) is misused when it comes to Jews the way it isn’t with other groups. There’s this fetishising of the concept of Jews happily living in the diaspora, while denying what our diaspora has actually been like.

Even more importantly, non-Jews portray us as a diasporic people without any acknowledgment of where we are in a diaspora FROM. They stereotype us as naturally diasporic - a contradiction in terms - like we spontaneously generated as a people “in the diaspora.” The trope of “Jewish wanderers,” “rootless cosmopolitan,” which btw was a Soviet antisemitic campaign. This way the non-Jewish world gets to deny us rights to both their country and ours, gets to label us as not full citizens of their countries while vilifying us for wanting to return to our own.

Also worth noting that "diaspora" originally referred *only* to the Jewish diaspora created after the fall of the Second Temple in and after 70 CE. It wasn't commonly used to refer to other ethic or national groups until the 1950s

Yes, this is very important. While the term diaspora has come to apply to any group of people exiled or displaced from their homeland, THE TERM DIASPORA WAS ORIGINALLY CREATED FOR JEWS.

thinking about creatures.

look at this thing

Creature ID: Banded linsang (Prionodon linsang)

Credit: Joel Sartore

Alternate creature view:

At the annual Houston RenFest we’d always get one or two furries that walk around and every time the general reaction from the medieval roleplayers is akin to  “BEASTS? BEASTS THAT WALK LIKE MAN? FOUL!” 

Last time I went a furry volunteered for an impromptu conversion/exorcism and a guy dressed as a monk gathered a bunch of people and using a Gatorade bottle performed an entire catholic christening while reading off the instructions on his Ipad. When the furry was fully “converted” he removed the head of his costume and everyone in the crowd pretended to freak out and say shit like “GlORY BE HE IS SAVED” “CHRIST HAS BROKEN HIS CURSE”

That’s the best crap i’ve heard in months

have I mentioned that i’m fucking in love with humankind

one time i had a dream that tiktok users deemed “kid” as a slur and that you HAD to refer to them as minors otherwise you would get harassed and threatened with doxxing. you couldn’t say “when i was a kid” anymore for example you HAD to say “when i was a minor” instead

You were like one site off.

some of my favourite sign fails <3

I know this isn't ninjago guys but I finished this 17 hour painting for my art class and I was proud of it so...enjoy.

I love Egypt fun fact about me. :)

A PAINTING????

obligatory

SCROLL BACK IT'S ART

People who sculpt in marble do fabrics and shit just to flex don’t they

Marble is a medium in which you can be horny on main and everyone’s like “wow that’s classy.”

I think having skills to construct flesh out of stone gives you as much right to be horny on main as any creator god.

Pygmalion would agree

Philosophers:

History:

what??

you people are NOT reblogging this

what is art about? blood. what is love about? blood. what is hate about? blood. what is sex about? blood. what is history about? blood. what am i about? blood. what is blood about? idk ask a biologist i guess

hi, biologist here! blood is about gay sex

hm. but what is gay sex about

Pro Wrestling. Which is also about blood

.....you know I would like to thank @voyoock for this reply because tbh I kind of wanted to break one of these open and taste it myself.

Just think, these stones contain the water from ancient seas from millenia ago, and a well educated scholar STILL couldn't resist their pull. Not one of us is immune to the siren call of ancient tide pods.

cracking open an old one with the boys

LOL

“How would someone be able to not read a fic-” that is actually very easy to do

Was fandom just better before AO3 because fics didn’t come with warnings and tags, so people had to actually be mature about interacting online? About what they interacted with?

It used to be ‘I read something i shouldn’t have’

Now its ‘you wrote something you shouldn’t have’

Side-swipe but bear with me–

Triggering.

You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

A concept can scare you, offend you, horrify you, disgust you … and not trigger you. A psychological trigger is stimuli that causes an overwhelming physical/emotional reaction (for me, it’s people screaming at their kids– instant panic attack). When it’s bad, it can kick off deep depressions, panic attacks, self-harm episodes.

As adults, it’s our responsibility to know where our triggers are, avoid them where possible, and know how to deal when they happen. Artists cannot account for every single possible trigger in every single person in the world … and they shouldn’t have to. Take responsibility for your own well-being, and accept that consumption of art is done at one’s own risk.

You keep using that

word. I do not think it means

what you think it means.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

Also not for nothing but… there’s a comment section that’s open in most AO3 fics. If you are truly concerned a fic may contain one of your specific squicks or triggers that you absolutely cannot read about, you can try asking before reading. If you ask “hey does this contain X?” and the author is still around, they’ll probably answer to the best of their ability. I know I would, and have done in the past. I’ll spoil anything someone wants, if they ask me. My fics don’t have a “does the dog die” page but I’m happy to answer if the metaphorical dog does or does not die if asked. Maybe some authors won’t respond, or won’t tell, but then just don’t read that fic (which you wouldn’t be doing anyway if you didn’t ask… right?).

Authors may not be able to account for every squick or trigger out there up front - and again, it’s not their responsibility to do that anyway when it comes to their leisure time activity - but fandom IS a community and I think most fanfic authors won’t have a problem helping another member of their fandom stay safe if directly and politely asked for help.

the comic (#1890)

why are there so many posts about asexuals being immune to sirens. people. sirens don’t lure you in with sex (necessarily). they sing about whatever it is that you want most. they could sing about mothman or cinnamon toast crunch and guess what then your asexual pirate is fucking dead

this is the only kind of ace discourse i ever want to see on my dash. the only kind. ever again. good job

Do you think the sirens would be grateful that they finally get some variety? 

“Oh my god we can finally just sing about pasta thank the fucking gods.” 

I’m not asexual but I’m fairly certain sirens would do a far better job luring me into the depths with a song about pasta rather than sex…

I mean. 

“WHAT THE FUCK STAY AWAY FROM THE ROCKS.”

“FUCKER THEY SAID THEY HAVE FETTUCCINE CARBONARA AND HOT GARLIC BREAD OVER THERE HANG ON BITCH.” 

This is true; Odysseus heard them promising him knowledge of the future.  So the next time you see artwork like this:

Remember those sultry naked chicks are saying “We’ll tell you the winning lotto numbers.”

Them: “We have unlimited wifi at incredible speeds~” Me: *diving headfirst into the water*

This post is a blessing

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Oh my god sirens were literally scam websites

Oh my god they were phishing

[ID/ Image 1: The painting the Sirens and Ulysses by William Etty. Three naked women/sirens are kneeling on rocks with human skeletons and dead bodies around them. In the sea is a wooden boat with circular shields along the side. On it several men are restraining Ulysses. Some of the other men are rowing, others are wrestling with the sails.

Image 2: The painting Ulysses and the Sirens by Herbert James Draper. Three mostly naked white women/sirens are climbing onto a wooden boat. The two out of the water have legs, the one still in the water has a fish tail. They are singing at a man who is tied to the mast. One man is restraining him. The other men are rowing. /End]

the fact that “the vibes here are rancid” is a power that the jedi actually have is insane to me

can you imagine being a normal dude and you’re getting help from this jedi, and this jedi dude’s like “head’s up, the next five minutes have the worst vibes imaginable” and you’re like “why?” and the jedi dude’s like “inscrutable cosmic power told me so, doesn’t get more specific than that”

like all these weird little men in weird little robes with glowy swords do is meditate because they have sorcerer-induced anxiety. yoda’s always fucking meditating on his little pillow because he has to figure out if he’s nauseous because the arcane will of all life itself is speaking through his midichlorians to warn him or if he just ate a bad burrito for lunch. the force is constantly dunking on these weird little men and telling them “something bad’s going to happen” and never explaining what’s going to happen. do you sense bad vibes because your washing machine is about to break and flood your apartment, or because the government you serve is about to turn into a dictatorship and mow your ass like grass? that’s for you to figure out

mace windu has Double Anxiety because every now and then he gets a pop-up that tells him when he is making a Significant Visual Novel Protag Choice

The Force: This Action Will Have Consequences!

Windu, downing three space ambien: great