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telling you we will not vote. i’m asking you to challenge the DNC’s political hegemony over its voter base.

I am doing my very best locally to build a community that fosters progressive change.

I am asking you to vote.

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I don't know how strictly accurate this is, but one of the things I find shocking about watching historical dramas is how many people there are around all the time---according to Madame de... (1953) a well-off French household in the Belle Epoque maintains a workforce of at least 3, and the glittering opera has staff just to open doors. According to Shogun (2024) you can expect a deep bench just to mind your household, and again, people who exist to open doors.

Could people....not open doors in the past? Were doors tricky, before the standardization of hinges? Because otherwise, the wealthy used to pay a whole bunch of people to do it for them in multiple contexts, and I find myself baffled.

#laundry without modern machines is an absurdly long process #especially if you don't have a clean open area to let it hang dry #which definitely wouldn't have existed inside of a city #let alone thinking about how expensive cloth was #so laundry wasn't something you could just leave to unskilled hands #cloth was expensive before industrialized looms #add in how much dirty everything was due to no enviromental protections #yeah having staff or paying someone else to do the laundry in bulk was just necessary

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i feel bad for bigender people, the commute between Jupiter and college has got to be rough

#not gonna lie i first read this as 'big' gender #and i feel very silly for this

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“not all men” you’re right. superman would never do this.

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I will be honest guys, the Red portrait of king Charles is gorgeous asdfghjkl

it's a bad portrait. Like. Objectively. It does the opposite of what's intended. It looks like the painter is insulting him. If it was in a contemporary gallery with no context you would see it immediately as the ambivalent criticism of Charles's reign, how he fades into the overwhelming red background as a tiny little figure, small and insignificant, insufficient for the clothes he's wearing. It reminds my of Goya's portraits, how they were so 'realistic' that they ended up making these great figures look pathetic to the viewer. So these are our rulers?

the sheer novelty. the surprise and shock, the kinda cunt it's serving for no reason. I. I love it. It's an incredible portrait by Jonathan Yeo. By the sheer fact that Charles, the man, is impossible to portray as greater than man because he's just such a nothingburger of a dude. So a portrait made to make him look huge and interesting made him be swallowed in red brushstrokes. The butterfly, that reminded me immediately of " we will all laugh at guilded butterflies", draws more attention than him. It looks like an omen. It looks like a warning in all this red. Something is not right here.

This is the best royal portrait ever 10/10

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I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say

#gladly

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"Based on data gleaned from the nearly 10 million military dependents it insures, the U.S. Department of Defense has repeatedly called the evidence supporting ABA “weak,” noting there is no research to determine whether the small number of participants who show improvement — 15% — do so because of treatment or simply because a child has matured. After a year of the therapy, the department reported to Congress in 2019, 76% of 16,000 participating autistic children saw no change, and 9% worsened."

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This may sound mean, but...

If you send me an ask containing links to Good Omens fan fiction you think I should read, I'll delete it. Do it again and I'll (regretfully) block you. This is a general blanket sort of thing -- I don't want to read it, legally I can't read it, no I won't make it into the next series, and, no matter how pure your motives, it's crossing a line.

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y'all ever reach the end of google

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listen to me, it is possible. you have the power in the csau epilogues

This is very valuable information. Thank you.

#i loved this AU and am eagarely awaiting more #homestuck #crow strider au #loved this one #gummygoo

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Let’s talk about opossum ears (kinda long)

The ears are probably the thing most frequently portrayed wrong about possums. There’s a few different ways they tend to be portrayed, and I’m going to go through all of them and give some reference to how their ears actually are. For now it'll be about Virginia opossums, but the information is broadly applicable to all possums as a whole

The most common way possums are portrayed is to give them mouse ears. Mouse ears have a darker color and fur on the outside of the ear, while the inside is pink and fleshy. Some examples of mouse eared possums in media are below. If you look at possum ears they don’t have this coloring

Mouse ears give a pretty good shape, but possums in the Didelphis genus (like the Virginia and common opossums) have the same color on both sides of their ears, and no fur on them. Their ears are fleshy and waxy textured. The white eared opossums in the genus have white ears instead of the black that the others have. Both types of ears have the same coloration on both sides. The pink/black splotches on the ears are discolorations, and they show up on both sides of the ear. These are often caused by temperature dependent things like frostbite, but can also occur from injury or just be natural for that possum. Joeys start out with all pink/white ears and then they fill out to be black (unless they’re white eared)

Australasian possums like the brushtail here do have more mouse/cat like ears with a furry outside and a pink fleshy interior. But opossums don’t

Another thing that’s often wrong about possum ears is the shape. This possum shown in Teachers Pet has cat like ears with the same furry exterior/pink interior issue

But possum ears have more of a curled flower petal or trumpet shape to them. If you look at Beaker here, the shape is more clear. The ears start like a thin tube coming out of the skull that expands outwards, then flares out to be flat at the ends. The base of the ear is small and the ear broadens out away from the skull. From the front their ears look very oval shaped and more flat, but from the side they’re very thin and just curve outward. The ears are shaped like the petals on this flower

Some other examples of possum ears from other angles. The exact shape really depends on the species. Virginia opossums have more oval shaped ears, but they can also be a bit pointy. The white eared possum species are usually pointy, but can be oval.

Another way possums ears get portrayed is just as the same color as their fur, but their ears don’t look like that. Their ears are fleshy and do not have the same colors as their fur, because their ears are hairless

Some good examples of Virginia opossum ears are Kylie from Fantastic Mr Fox and Ozzie from Over the Hedge. They both have good shapes and coloring while being stylized in their own. This possum in BoJack Horseman is also pretty good for a more simplistic version

What I mentioned applies mostly to the Didelphis genus opossums. Other possums will have different nuances in the shapes/coloring of the ears, but the same general principles apply. They’re all fleshy/waxy ears without hair on them. They have a small base and are shaped like flower petals.

Just look them up and use a reference for possum ears! They're not just rats or mice or cat ears.

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Now, I normally quite like porcelain dolls, but this is truly terrifying. Found at Oshawa Value Village

#i kinda love it

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Okay, you know what? After reading this post, I jokingly said we should all just make a pact to reblog it five times a day forever. So I'm gonna do this louder for the people in the back:

AO3 WAS CREATED BY FANS, FOR FANS

AO3 IS RUN BY FANS (VOLUNTEERS, NO LESS)

AO3 IS PART OF THE NON-PROFIT, ORGANIZATION FOR TRANSFORMATIVE WORKS

AO3 IS NOT OWNED BY ANY COMPANIES AND DOES NOT EARN REVENUE

AO3 OPERATES ON DONATIONS FROM FANS

again:

AO3 WAS CREATED BY FANS, FOR FANS

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(I bring a sort of “Everyone has inherent worth regardless of their productivity” Vibe to every conversation that ableists don’t really seem to like)