Fun fact I learned recently: Lake Superior is roughly the size of England.

Minnesota’s Giant Rainbow and Leather Pride Flags

June 28, 1998. Both flags measured approximately 50 feet wide and 75 feet long.

Friendly reminder that the leather flag predates almost every other flag. We owe this community to leather daddies and kinksters

In the era of corporate sanitization never forget it was leather daddies and S&M folks who protected some of the earliest pride parades.

me, sternly, to a blank google doc: i have written hundreds of thousands of words over the course of my life. you won’t defeat me.

the cursor, blinking: |

y'know how in some areas like south asia, the caribbean, and so on, feral dogs are a serious pest issue, and some people kill them, eat them, etc? and yknow how that fact absolutely horrifies people in countries like the US? i wonder how many of those dog defenders fucking hate pigeons.

also makes me think of the time someone bought a pig that was being sold as a pet, killed it, and ate it and i remember a bunch of redditors thinking that was the funniest shit, meanwhile i'm still hearing talk about how "chinese people eat dogs" like its fucking horrifying.

the dog is a sacred animal in USian Culture; it is considered a great taboo to kill one, let alone to eat it. many cities and towns in america section of portions of land, called "dog parks", for dogs to hunt, fight, and even play. despite this, the american often takes this sacred animal everywhere he goes; if one spends a few minutes in any city, he will see dogs of all shapes and colors walking on expensive, personalized leashes. some people will even bring their dogs into stores and restaurants, despite the hygeine issues these animals provide. so next time you see your local canine, remember that in the United States of America, he'd be treated like royalty!

the dog is so revered in usamerica that they named they staple food, their main source of nutrition, their most important nourishment after it, one might even perceive some sort of psychosexual veneration in this treatment, since this ubiquitous dish is prefaced by the word "hot", an epithet usamericans constantly use to refer to individuals they find sexually attractive

The Usonians have even named their mating rituals in honor of the dog, referring to intercourse without protection or lubrication as "rawdogging." The "raw" implies that the act of unprotected sex is like an uncooked canine. Furthermore, if a Usonian citizen is held in high regard, it is said that they "got that dog in them." The leading theory is that the dog is revered as a fertility deity of some kind. This theory is further supported by the term "get knotted," which

Consider, too, the American tradition of updog;

Not a usonian scholar, what's updog?

nothing much whats up with you

this is a niche one but instead of "they would not fuckin say that" it's "they would not fucking use American sign language".

ASL is not the only sign language. two british characters in your fanfiction would not be using ASL. England in fact has its own kind of sign language, BSL, that forms a sign family with many other sign languages around the world.

ASL isn't even the original member of its sign family, it comes from french sign language. do you know sign languages aren't related to spoken languages? that's an important one! it's not a direct 1:1 with people speaking English around the world. people in other countries don't learn ASL just in case they run into an usamerican or Canadian (who do often use it)

i know the entire world is the USA or whatever and sign languages do sometimes borrow from ASL for signs they don't have, but please be aware that there are other sign languages and families in the world that are not in fact ASL.

and on a mostly related note, a lot of media seems to only ever depict sign language in the context of mutism instead of the WAY WAY more common deafness. especially in fanworks where they don't want to have to deal with a character being more inconveniently disabled than just "can't talk", but it's still noticeable in normal media also.

going to a collection of signing characters and going "well you can't all be hearing but mute". like the ratio of deaf to mute characters would be so disproportionately innacurate it's almost insulting. past a certain point it feels like you just don't want to deal with deaf people.

I'm gonna link to the animations in case y'all either don't remember or have never heard of some of these.

A quick note: these were made in the 2000s. Comedy is subjective, there's some strong examples of dark and/or "lolz teh random" humor in these. Maybe some cultural blindness, too. That said, enjoy a time capsule of stuff made before/during the birth of Youtube, now hosted on Youtube.

Kenya

Salad Fingers, episode 2

End of Ze World

Schfifty Five

The Hamster Dance

Badgers

"Rejected" by Don Hertzfeldt

Charlie the Unicorn

The Llama Song

Peanut Butter Jelly Time

AM [I have no mouth and I must scream]

This linguistic problem is only going to continue getting worse unless we fuck it in the ass now.

On April 13, 1985, Danuta Danielsson - a Jewish-Polish woman whose mother was taken to a concentration camp in WWII - hit a local neonazi with her handbag in Växjö, Sweden.

Update: The neonazis were subsequently expelled from the city, and a statue was erected in her honor.

This week 34 years ago, Danuta Danielsson demonstrated how much respect fascists deserve.

Well played, Danuta Danielsson.

And good aim.

She hit them so hard they were banished from that land forever. Iconic

Happy 40th Annual Hit a Nazi with a Handbag Day

I know I’m really late to this fandom, but Mordin singing Gilbert and Sullivan in Mass Effect 2 is one of the best things in any video game ever.

I just finished Priority: Tuchanka so let me say that Mordin singing Gilbert and Sullivan in Mass Effect 3 is one of the worst things in any video game ever.

Mass Effect heritage post

I haven't purchased a HP item in close to a decade - I use the books I already had as doorstops or to prop a laptop up for meetings nowadays.

There is NO "death of the author" with JK Rowling - she controls and continues to profit from her IP, and uses that money to fund hate groups.

Here's your periodic reminder of why it's so important not to buy any Harry Potter merch or watch anything JKR profits from.

It isn't about cancelling problematic media, idgaf. We're capable of reading books we already own with a critical eye.

It's about not giving more power to someone who is using it to materially harm our community.

ITS APRIL 13 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS

FETCH ME NEIL

Any setting where the elves have weaker booze than the dwarves isn't committing to the bit

I mean, we're talking about people whose lifespan is Yes.

"Oh, the weak wine? That is for children. I am two thousand years old, and I daresay one sip from this highball would knock you on your ass for a week."

Look, there's this weird thing people do with high fantasy where they want elves to be immortal/extremely long-lived snooty aristocrats and also somehow incapacitated by imagining the taste of salt too hard. "Orcs and dwarves have the hardest booze" no they don't, they have work in the morning! In any of these settings, elves would pregame harder than hobbits party and everyone else has shit to do tomorrow.

The average high elf builds up the drug tolerance of a mid-70s Hollywood producer and then spends three centuries studying alchemy. While humans seek immortality, the Immortals seek the elusive "philosopher's cocaine."

Elf Fentanyl works exactly the way cops think human fentanyl does

petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)

AMENDED

[ENGSUB] A live action commercial was made for Gokushufudou: The Way of the House Husband to celebrate 1.2 million manga sales