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I will say right out that I consider "proship/antiship" discourse to be irresponsibly flattening to an extraordinarily nuanced topic. It is a childs idea of literary analysis, and you should hold yourself to a higher standard. Every last one of you is better than this tripe.
when doctors ask if i have any history of cancer in my family and i have to say that yes my grandmother had 2 types of gastrointestinal cancer and they're like oh wow okay so we'll keep an eye out for that but i'm like no it was probably just all the nuclear radiation and they're like ok hm ok what the fuck do you mean and it's very weird seeing the look on american doctors' faces when you have to explain to them that believe it or not atomic bombs were dropped on this earth 2 generations ago and it did have consequences
They will destroy nature and call it saving the planet.
Joshua Trees are a weird thing that stayed since the last Ice Age. They're on the decline anyways because no mega mammals eat their seeds and pop them out else where anymore. Hasen't been one around in over ten thousand years but still they persist. Sometimes they thrive in small areas and other times they die out.
Then California decides fuck the Joshua Trees and destroys four thousand of them.
Fuck California. Joshua Trees provide shelter to hundreds of different species.
Cunts.
People asking if there is anything that can be done, YES.
There is a group trying to get this halted but they need to be boosted!
the fact that so often ppl are told to read shakespeare rather than watch it is so weird. like yeah sure reading it can help u get the language and stuff. but it’s meant to be watched. imagine your favorite movie or tv show episode. and then imagine how much less fun and interesting it would be if u just read the script instead of watching it. Shakespeare meant for his works to be watched and performed not read. not saying u can’t get something out of reading them obviously. just saying the way it’s taught and presented to ppl is often fundamentally flawed.
By the way, Israel made sure that when it started its invasion of Rafah to have that initial area include the only hospital in Rafah.
Right now, there is literally only one single functioning healthcare provider in Rafah, the Kuwait Specialty Hospital, that is supposed to serve 1.4 million people and it's in fact a small healthcare centre.
Despicable beyond measure. You simply cannot pretend to not see through these genocidal tactics.
Don't forget to sleep on your neck at a weird angle tonight. I love you
Fuckin'....
what do I crochet now?
NEVERMIND I FOUND A SHARK
Shark progress. I need to buy eyes and black thread.
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this became funny after the ER visit where it became clear that while she had systematically removed 80-90 inch long metal bristles, she had consumed 0 of them and therefore is just irritating, not actually in danger
anyway this month's budget did Not include $500 emergency vet visits, if you have some spare I have a ko-fi
Ok wait let her speak
I love me some #b dylan hollis, but I've always been confused about slow ovens. My oven isn't dumb, it can follow directions!
Seriously, here is what a slow oven and similar mean.
You may also see the term 'slack oven,' which is usually only used with things like meringue. That's when you've heated up your oven to 425 or 450 or so - temperatures used for things like baking bread or meat - and after you take out the main thing and the heat is off, you put the meringue or macarons in the oven and leave them there as the oven cools down.
This is also a good way to, like, turn slices of apple into dried apples. You don't see this very often anymore, but these were things meant to use up the slowly decreasing heat of the oven, often overnight, after you'd baked bread or roasted meat. You don't use it for anything that you're going to want to watch precisely, but it does work out pretty well for macarons.
some monkie kid art dump for yall
ohh my god a teenager online posted something that reveals a less than perfectly developed understanding of the world around them? should we tell everyone? should we screenshot it and share it everywhere so we can pat ourselves on the back for being so much wiser than Kids These Days? should we invite a boomer comic artist
you will never convince me that a middle schooler with no rights who gets flustered talking about sex is the heart of the global rise in reactionary sentiment we're dealing with right now and not senator john segregation who drafts 300 anti trans laws a day and wants that middle schooler to die in childbirth
Q&A ON THIS POST
if i had meant "doxxing and murder" instead of "posting uninformed opinions" i would have typed those words instead. those are different words
if a child is in an environment where they are spouting actual hate speech they are not going to be convinced to grow and change by strangers insulting them online. they need to be met on their own level with compassion and an awareness of how sensitive their situation is
yes they can lol. do you think desantis is sweating over whether a demographic that can't vote or own property or leave the state if they don't like him approves before he signs anything into law
if this were even a little bit true they wouldn't be burning the planet we live on for oil profits
look in the notes of any post on here about a new school censorship bill and you'll see plenty of people crowing about how the puriteens have gotten what they deserve for not liking their ships
fuck off this post is for people who love abortion transition and divorce, none of which can be restricted without profoundly harming children
i’ll die on the hill that says “sapphic love isn’t inherently more wholesome and pure and saying it does will only hurt lesbian and bi women”
listen. if you go around talking about how much better and moral love between women is because male love is so sexual and bad, you’re not actually doing any good. i know too many lesbians who think they’re predatory just for being sexually attracted to women because #feminism. the idea that love between women is the non-evil sexuality you will only shame wlw for what you claim is evil male sexuality, whether it’s a sex drive or finding women hot or if it’s(god forbit) the masculinity, because these are all traits wlw will have. and you’re not helping.
also just btw- this is introductory TERF rhetoric. the idea that men are inherently evil and are always a threat to women simply by virtue of existence, and that women are inherently purer/safer/more wholesome simply by virtue of being women, is the 'radical feminism' part of the acronym. It's gender essentialism, where "goodness" is given to women, and "badness" to men.
Something that absolutely destroys me about shadowpeach is just the fact that they weren't "good" to each other. They loved each other, sure, but sometimes love just isn't enough.
They are "right person wrong time." They helped each other unintentionally go into a self-destructive paths, and the worst part is that only Wukong managed to get out of it before it ruined him.
Its just so fucked up, imagine you love someone and they love you but they are undeniably going into a path with no return but they do change and they become better, but only after you're gone.
Yeah, I think shadowpeach is compelling and interesting for the layers of tragedy it has. I really do think they're the "right person, wrong time" type of dynamic. If they met each other later on, there wouldn't have been any major problems; just ones they could address as they come up.
But I think...it's a great showing of how people can change each other. A chance interaction can change a person for life. We, as people, are made up of those interactions, the pain, the hurt, the love, the joy we've been shown and what we've given to others.
Wukong and Macaque were doing what they felt was right. In the way they felt was right. And they didn't know how to address it or be better, because confronting the communication issues and lack of respect and value means admitting there's a problem, and neither of them wanted to do that.
I don't think Macaque wanted to, he just wanted to put up with it and stay on Wukong's good side. He disregarded his own hesitations and doubts and believed in this person wholeheartedly instead of making his own decisions and choosing to go against the grain. It's hard to say "no" to the Monkey King, admittedly, but Macaque, probably, felt as if he couldn't.
In s4, he subtly tried to remove himself from the uprising against Heaven, but Wukong dragged him back in on the premise that they're "bros" and it'll be a fun "whatever" kind of time and not a life or death situation. Macaque saw that truth; Wukong refused to.
And that's a lot of Wukong's whole story - thinking he's invincible, that he's above everyone, that he's the handsomest and strongest and best ever. he was entitled and didn't like being told no. Very haughty and spoiled. A brat. He had sense and was funny and showed kindness when he needed to, but he was selfish, also.
Against all that, Macaque's in an odd position. They're friends, but Macaque is quiet. He's subtle. A shadow. Introverted and observant, he probably never felt as if his voice mattered or would change anything. But getting the attention of the Monkey King is a high honor!
And Wukong just thought Macaque was cool, another strong guy with shadow magic that he could get into mischief with. Someone like him!!
It reminds me of a dynamic you see a lot in media. The adventurous main character paired with a more shy and scared secondary character. The main character drags them around unwillingly into situations, assuring the secondary character everything will be fine. And, eventually, it takes the secondary character standing up for themselves for a change to occur.
And that's what happened in that cave.
There is tragedy...in someone you love changing after you're no longer in their life. But...it's more important that they changed at all. A lot of people don't. It's difficult to change. And Wukong was traveling (and was trapped) in this journey with people, learning and humbling himself along the way, learning friendship and love. It took that specific environment and discipline to change him, because changing the Monkey King?? Is a huge task, something that Macaque by himself couldn't do.
And that's said around this fandom like it's a bad thing. I know Macaque would see it as one, because that's his character, but...I don't know. I don't see it as one. Maybe you're not what that person needs, not at that moment, not at that time. And that's..okay. I think that's something we gotta accept.
Because we can't fix everyone. We can't hold ourselves to that standard. Just as I said before, people are collections of their interactions with others, and maybe those other people...are what Wukong needed at that moment. Maybe Macaque wasn't at a point in his life, maturity wise or life experience wise, to direct Wukong on the path to change. Maybe that wasn't his burden to bear.
Sometimes it takes a specific person to say something. With how people weave in and out of each others lives, I think the takeaway should be more "I'm glad you changed. I'm proud of you. You did it!" Like, let's focus on the end result, because...if people change for the better, than they can help others change, and maybe Wukong is the right person at this right time to help Macaque change.
Reblog if you stand against order, civilization, and goodness itself
Queerphobes always make us sound so fucking cool.
Order, civilization, and goodness out there traumatising a lot of kids. If I need to be an evil chaotic anarchist to take the nightmares away, I fucking will.
Fuckin'....
what do I crochet now?
NEVERMIND I FOUND A SHARK
