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"Well dear, we just thought that since you've said how hard it is for you to get a date, and this nice young lady seemed interested..."

your parents just sold you as their firstborn to a fey. problem is you’re already an adult.

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That's a more complicated history than you'd expect🙃

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At some point in your life, you were taught that being slightly annoying is an unforgivable sin. Maybe it was by your parents or a teacher or a friend or a bully or an older sibling. But someone taught you that being slightly annoying is a crime punishable by death.

You must unlearn this.

You must accept that all people will be annoying at some point or another in their lives, maybe all of their lives, and that this is okay. It is okay for strangers on the bus, it is okay for children in the grocery store, it is okay for people on social media, and it is okay for you.

If you ever want to truly love your fellow humans, if you ever want to truly love yourself, you must have forgiveness for being annoying.

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Fandom: God there’s like NO content anymore. I wish we could get more art and fanfics :(((

Someone: Hey, I can’t draw anything digitally, because I can’t afford a tablet, but here’s a pen on paper drawing that I spent a lot of time and hard work on. Also, I took a shot at my first fanfic and I’d really like some feedback or at least some kudos if you enjoyed it :)

Fandom: Oh... yeah sorry no... not you. We actually meant writers that are already well known and popular to produce MORE content... I mean, if a popular blog shares your work then maybe. And we don’t really like pen to paper art. We just don’t think it’s professional or even looks good :/

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One of my cats thinks she's a doctor. A can opens? You open a food bottle? She doesn't get too interested. You open an orange prescription bottle? She will be very interested.

She will nuzzle your arm if it's got metal in it.

She also loves snuggles but only if you're petting her. She will get up and leave if you're not petting her. But when I had a bad headache she hopped up, realized I wasn't feeling well, and snuggled up to me.

I recently had surgery, and at the time I came home, I had both my cat and one of my grandma's cats staying with me.

- Within hours of surgery, I wake up from a nap to my cat gently sniffing at my incisions with great alarm.

- I was not allowed to shower the first day after surgery, and the cats, seeing that The Large Cat is not observing its cleaning ritual, decided I must be gravely disabled and compensated by licking all the exposed skin on my arms, face, and legs.

- I currently have to sleep with a pillow over my abdomen because my cat insists on climbing on top of me and covering my incisions with her body while I sleep (which is very sweet but not exactly comfortable without the pillow). She also lays across me facing my bedroom door, presumably on guard for attackers who may try to harm me while I'm sleeping and injured.

That's love. 🐈‍⬛🐈❤️

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Cis men also have this regularly happen so often that it's seen as a joke. Little boys can't have long hair for fear of being called a girl, are called wimps and "girls" if they express pain, or "a whiny little bitch". They're told they look like girls as an insult.

Anyone who says this stuff didn't exist before the 2010s is an idiot because this is one of the most basic negative things in US culture.

Caption: [A stitch with user @/sapphicyuji. The text on screen reads, " "you can't misgender cis people!", you have never had your gender questioned outside of your transness and it shows. sincerely, a trans poc".

I'm actually super glad we're having a conversation about this. The masculinization of black and brown women, because for years I felt like I endured this unique form of trauma until I realized other people went through the same thing too. And if there's one thing that I'd like to add to the conversation, there seems to be this misconception that this is something that starts at puberty. Like boys tell you you look like a man to hurt your feeling when that's so far from the case.

The first time I was purposefully misgendered was in kindergarten. I was constantly referred to by the masculine variant of my name, I was chased out of the women's restroom, and I had grown adults questioning what my biological sex was before I even knew what the difference was. And those behaviors persisted into adulthood because now if I present as anything less than 100% feminine, people will either compare me to men or animals.

And for myself and for many other brown and black women this is a life long act deliberately intended to humiliate, shame, and other us for the features we were naturally born with and I'm glad we're having a discussion on how harmful it actually is.]

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I can recite multiple scenes from memory.

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

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I cant believe this tweet is how I find out

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I am all of these depending on the day

Some of my fav Alastor faces 🦌 ♥️ I’ve drawn so many, it was hard to choose! He is surprisingly so expressive and so angry! 😂

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"Of course he would, he's a gentleman!" - a certain authority I know on comics

Selina Kyle would dump his ass in minutes..

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Oh my god that last one

Wasn't there also a thing with people not believing the platypus was real because it seemed ridiculous?

Also, there was this version of a rhino that Europe saw as fact for centuries, made by a guy who never actually saw a rhino.

And then one of the most infamous cases of falsehoods in archeology

Something I've observed as a historian is that folks seem to take certain things as fact without realizing people in the past were... people. There's a failure to recognize that they had their own political agendas, as well as their own biases, bigotry, stupidity... historiography is the study of how people used to write history. Many formal histories were written to please monarchs and other rulers, so they frequently leave things out!

You have everything from active hatred, to willful ignorance, to "held at gunpoint until forced to write", to even "I just made this up and didn't tell anyone".

by far the most interesting part of the latest You’re Wrong About on homosexuality in the animal kingdom is the account of how science missed it for so long. the guest, lulu miller (of radiolab fame) basically divides the reasons into three categories: ignorance, self-suppression, and what you might call “official” suppression.

essentially, since the days of thomas aquinas when it had been simply declared that homosexuality was inherently against nature, you had a lot of observers of the natural world, even once the enlightenment got underway, who simply didn’t know what they were looking at. many animal species are very sexually dimorphic and thus easy to sex; but many more are not, and if your background assumption (because the background assumption of society in general) is that homosexuality does not occur in nature, if you see two animals of unidentified sex mating, you will assume one is male and one is female. or you might simply assume what you are seeing is an aberration, with no real systemic significance, and not pointing to any kind of underlying phenomenon, and simply fail to note it down–or talk to any other naturalists about it.

and this blends into self-suppression, which includes all researchers who might have noticed homosexuality among animals in the wild, but didn’t write about it. this includes researchers who might not have thought it was significant, or who might have thought nobody was interested in it–miller offers the example of a guy who died relatively recently who spent his life studying mountain rams, who omitted mentioning from his quite detailed survey of their behavior that about one in twelve males mate exclusively with other males, because it seemed to him (at the time of writing) an aberrant and unpleasant fact about an otherwise majestic creature.

“official” suppression we might apply to any time a researcher noticed and wanted to write about the phenomenon, but who simply couldn’t get their data published, including researchers who might have pressed the scientific community at large to recognize this phenomenon, only to be greeted with hostility and suspicion–i.e., what kind of pervert is so obsessed with this topic?

and out of a combination of all these factors you get centuries of a bias being confirmed, because anybody who might care to ask, “well, homosexuality clearly occurs in humans, have we observed it in other animals?” would have been confronted with a vast lacuna in the scientific literature, not because it did not occur, but because multiple intersecting cultural biases prevented anybody from actually talking about it. and it makes it hard to have a conversation about natural phenomena from an empirical and rational perspective when a bias that irrational runs that deep! and i cannot help but wonder what other biases we have in our culture, that might be producing similarly irrational lacunae in our apprehension of the world.

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Jaller from Bionicle I suppose

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There's a story my mother told me that I can't remember exactly.

But basically the Legend is the snake was always upset that it couldn't get close to the humans, and it told a goddess. So the goddess pet the snake, and as my sibling and I said when we were little, "snake... snake... kitty!"

The snake turned into a cat, and was able to snuggle with the humans :)

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It's one reason I'm convinced musk actually doesn't run the company and there's some people in there who know how to manipulate him in just the right way to do the right thing.

Also might say something that the rocket industry has more safety standards than the automotive industry.

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Rich people tend to hate their children. People say that if you got rid of private schools they'd send their kids to homeschooling instead. Except this already happened in the 60s: a ton of private schools were made to get around desegregation laws. If they were concerned about the expense and not about just getting their children away from them they wouldn't have spent that much money trying to get rid of them.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segregation_academy

As a kid, when your parents are poor, you're poor. If they don't have money, that means none of you have money. But if someone's parents are rich, that doesn't necessarily mean the kid is. Sometimes rich peoples' kids aren't rich kids, they're just some rich freak's exotic pets that can talk but aren't allowed to.

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A woman went viral for being turned down for a next interview for a role, she asks the recruiter what she did wrong, the recruiter tells her they were “concerned about her lack of effort in her appearance.”

She explains she wore a freshly ironed blazer with a collared top. Her nails were painted a professional beige. She got a blowout for her hair, so a professional style. She had on subdued gold earrings.

The only thing she wasn’t wearing was makeup; she states she really doesn’t wear makeup, and only had chapstick on, as her skin is sensitive. Her lawyer mother has already explained she has no legal case against the company for any type of gender-based discrimination.

Just in case anyone wants to ask why feminists still refer to the “pink tax” or rail against more and more elaborate makeup trends being pushed on girls and women.

Women being punished socially for not wearing makeup is still a feminist issue.