in almost every other children's book where the main heroine is swept away to a land of whimsy she's shown having a lovely time; braving dangers occasionally, trying to find her way home, sure, but ultimately delighting in the magic around her. meanwhile alice spends her entire time in wonderland like

look, here’s the thing: alice in wonderland’s enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense.

alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn’t ask for and doesn’t like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl’s temper is the end of the fucking world.

alice in wonderland isn’t a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that’s just what being ten years old is LIKE. that’s why kids love it so much. even if they can’t quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

The Navajo language was chosen to code U.S. military operations because it has no written form and is almost impossible for non-native speakers to learn. After the operation was declassified in 1968, the Japanese Chief of Intelligence admitted that though his army had been able to decipher many U.S. codes, they were never able to crack the Navajo code. Source Source 2

And the irony is that if the U.S. government had gotten their way, there would have been NO Navajo speakers at all by WWII. First Nations Children were forcibly taken to “Indian schools” for decades starting in the 1890s, where they were viciously punished for speaking a word of their own language. The fact that the language survived to become an asset to the country that tried to kill it doesn’t get mentioned often.

It’s very important that the above comment be reblogged along with the OP information.

wish list for people who don’t want anything

aka possessions which are just possessions, but which have noticeably improved my quality of life: for when people ask you “what do you want for your birthday/Christmas/graduation” and you instantly transform into St Francis and pledge fealty to Lady Poverty because your mind went blank

A few more things!

Good luggage. Whether it’s a suitcase or a duffel bag or even just packing cubes, it’s all helpful!

Good art. If it’s someone you trust, you can ask them to surprise you with a piece they like, otherwise you can have a few back up suggestions of ideas (I saw a framed piece of just the hands from Michaelangelo’s The Creation of Man and have not forgot about it since)

Good good pillows or fluffy blankets to go along with those nice new sheets from above

Office supplies. Pens, markers, sharpies. All the sharpies.

Coffee travel mugs (can one have too many?). If they say they still want more ideas, also ask for a bag of their favorite beans/tea

Look around your house, what do you have that is still from college? Ask for a better one of those.

And for the future planning, especially if you’re me and forget things: make a document of “things I’d like but don’t want to buy for myself frivolously” and then select items from that for a wishlist.

Tamsyn Muir really just sat down and wrote a book from the pov of the character least qualified to have any fucking clue about what’s going on and then proceeded to make sure each successive book was written from the perspective of an even less qualified bitch. Like we go from a jock filling in last minute at an international science competition, to a traumatized teenager with a DIY lobotomy trying to keep up with a bunch of 10,000 year old demigods, to a SIX MONTH OLD operating in a TERRORIST CELL. Pray for Alecto y’all, homegirl doesn’t stand a chance in hell of understanding the story she’s in.

Yeah quiet quitting is great and all but have you tried chaotic working?

Like. I remember back in my grocery store cashier days I did so much crazy shit.

When WIC (Women, infants, and children voucher program to help low income mothers/families with children) people were in my line I would pretty much know who they were. Before the cards they had to tell us upfront they were WIC and show us their vouchers for what they were allowed to get (it was awful some times. Like. 2 gallons of milk. $4 worth of vegetables etc etc). They’d always have items hanging back, waiting to see what the total was and if they would have to take it off the belt.

I began to place the fruits/vegetables a certain way on the register scale so that like 1/2lbs of grapes read as like .28lbs or something. Then act shocked when I said that they still had X amount of lbs left. They got all their fruit and vegetables.

I think it started to kinda? Catch on to the women? Because I would have the same moms in my line month after month. And even after they switched to the cards (they worked like food stamp cards?) I’d still do the same thing. They were able to get more produce for whatever shitty max amount Indiana gave them.

Anyways. Be chaotic. It’s more fun that way.

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I think it’d be good if people were more aware that another way true crime can be used for copaganda is that “empathy for victims” can absolutely be exploited to institute increasingly authoritarian police measures.

Like when your crime bill is named “[Murder Victim]’s Law” instead of “Removal of Restriction on Police’s Ability to Collect DNA Without A Warrant” or “Life Sentences For Drug Possession” suddenly any criticism is gonna come off as a posthumous attack on the murder victim and their “legacy” rather than the actual components of the law and how they will effect real people.

Interesting article explaining one way mega corporations price their competitors out of business

Some sketches I made a few weeks ago, ft. the one and (luckily) only Percival Sutcliffe, the nec-romantic patron of my D&D character.

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OH, WHO IS SHE? | HAITANI RAN

pairing: haitani ran x fem!reader

— featuring: haitani rindou, sanzu haruchiyo, kokonoi hajime, kakucho

summary: he wasn’t sure why he was so captivated by you, but he was intent on figuring it out—if only he knew where it would lead him, maybe he would’ve chosen differently.

warnings: virgin!ran, fem!reader, serial killer!reader, implied stalker!reader, sub!ran, dom!reader, dubcon, implied manipulation, dacryphilia, knife play, light humiliation and degradation, overstimulation, implied character death

notes: kinktober installment #1 + for @sennsational's lullaby of woe collab and @xiaosins's virgin killer collab

wordcount: 6.6k

the way sokka looks like his mom but tries so hard to be his dad and the way katara looks like her dad and tries so hard to be her mom is. ouch

it’s like. sokka says he doesn’t know what his mother looks like but throws himself in front of katara time and time again. he comes up with plans and tries to lead armies but inspires and loves and guides five kids without parents instead. he’s creative and funny and goofy and so so so full of love. and katara says that she’s been doing all the work around camp since mom died but all she wants is to learn how to fight. she’s angry at her dad for abandoning her but stands in front of a group of hopeless earthbenders and attempts to rally them with a speech. she tries and tries to be soft but ends up blowing up a factory to save the enemy. sokka wants to be his father but carries his mother’s heart. katara feels like she has to be her mother but has her father’s fight.

This, this right here is the perfect and most accurate character analysis of the Water tribe siblings I have EVER read. 10/10 say it louder. I want to explore this more tell me more write a fucking dissertation on it and I will read the ENTIRE thing! I’m going to pin this, I’m gonna tattoo this on my arm.

“sokka wants to be his father but carries his mother’s heart. katara feels like she has to be her mother but has her father’s fight.”

Well damn if that didn’t hit me right in the feelings.

on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport the first person on the moon went there by accident and promptly died. The next dozen or so people also went by accident, and also died. Number 14 figured out that people who go to the moon die and very cleverly brought a sword and six weeks of travel rations. This did not help.

No one on Planet Where Everyone Can Teleport ever figured out why people die in space because they don’t need airplanes and never found it particularly interesting to climb tall mountains. Astronomers use telescopes to take pictures of the ever-growing pile of corpses on the moon.

“why don’t they teleport back” because they’re not on the planet where everyone can teleport anymore. try to keep up dumbass

Breakbones and the Dragonrider

I don’t trust that the show runners of House of the Dragon are going to give us the Harwin x Rhaenyra storyline arc we deserve, so I’m taking matters into my own hands.

Breakbones and the Dragonrider Chapter 1/?

Rating: E for later chapters

secure software alternatives and piracy masterpost

general stuff

for search engines: don't use duckduckgo they host out of the US and they track you anyway despite claiming not to. go set up a searx instance instead, it's open source

the only OSes you should be running: Linux From Scratch, Slackware Linux, Alpine Linux, Gentoo Linux, NetBSD and the OS that you write yourself. and that's it!

desktop stuff

first thing's first if you're on a non-gecko based browser switch to firefox or a fork now. and also especially don't use brave due to crypto bullshittery and leaking DNS requests that are meant to be proxied through tor

tor is pretty tried and true but that makes it a target of sybil attacks and surveillance from organizations all across the 14 eyes so check out lokinet if you're going to outproxy

don't use third party VPNs no matter what even the ones that claim not to steal your data or keep logs ^_^ if you do choose to use a third party VPN you should use one from somebody that you know that hosts outside of the following countries: US, UK, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Norway, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Spain. otherwise buy a nice little VPS and set your own VPN up with wireguard (or the open source openvpn client if you can find it... i hate the openvpn website)

if you want to download videos from video sharing/streaming sites check out youtube-dl

as for video players try mpv it's a better ffmpeg frontend than VLC and you can get better quality and it's just as featureful and far more configurable

if you don't want to deal with the stupid private tracker cliques for getting music then use soulseek. someone will 99% of the time have what you want no matter how obscure you think it is

if you do torrent from anywhere, here are your options for clients, look into these and take your pick as you feel most comfortable: transmission, deluge, qbittorrent. here are not your options: μTorrent, "bittorrent". your ISP may become upset with you if you torrent dumb popular shit like marvel films or whatever but you can still download it completely fine, just don't seed, or use a VPN if you do seed. if you want to seed and you're on like, Xfinity or Spectrum in the US and you get a loveletter for it then i recommend you buy a VPS and set up a seedbox with btpd or rtorrent.

phone stuff

switch to an android phone and flash it with a custom ROM the day you get it, i use lineageos but i've heard good things about graphene for pixel phones. get degoogled immediately, lineageos is degoogled out of box. XDA will almost always have a thread on whatever circumstance you are in plus people will upload their own custom ROMs with modifications suited to different hardware and different needs

for youtube alternatives use newpipe because it's lightweight and lets you download videos in a variety of formats very easily (audio only and video as well), background play for free, history saved on device, supports soundcloud and bandcamp etc. etc. vanced is deprecated anyway LOL

awesome suite of FOSS tools this one guy makes that are all very very good and light

use f-droid you won't have the google play store anyway. and if you do need something from it just find the apk from apkpure or something!

i use firefox nightly on my phone.... open source and supports add-ons and whatnot!

feel free to ask about alternatives to anything else and ask any questions about the above, i don't bite. also, you are all encouraged to do your own research. please don't download and use anything you don't understand the implications of fully, not from me or from anyone else's masterpost on tumblr.

Someone remind me tomorrow to post about my half baked Pokemon region based off the DMV

Starters!

Gyms and towns!

Pokemon!

this is all amazing, and if you don’t mind I’d like to add:

I LOVE ALL THIS. I was thinking about dogwoods too, but I forgot to put it in the post. For maximum pun they need to be a dog. Re: the beekeepers, new trainer type? Or that area is just riddled with gardeners who have bee Pokemon.

….Nova would make a good region name, actually….

This graphic is fabulous. It represents a tiny crash course in rhetoric. Learn these things. Put them on your wall. Whisper them into the breeze. These are THINGS TO KNOW.

Yeesssssssssss.

Interesting

Bookmark this shit and the next time someone begins gobbling nonsense at you on a social network, instead of engaging, point them to this handy chart. Also useful: Thought Catalog’s “How To Have A Rational Conversation“ flowchart.

This.