#And tbh I'm still mad about it!!!

[zo1nkss]

Also, since I'm on my soap box. The way you all frame it like he "ABANDONED HIS WIFE WITH TWO KIDS" - and his entire property sans a couple acres(boo hoo :(), an actual fuck-ton of money, and as is clearly demonstrated by the narrative - the freedom to actually live a life she enjoys.

Yeah that was so horrible of him to do 🙄

#like yeah he made a mistake #I've talked at length about how that was not the right choice #go ahead and act like I'm not fully aware of Stede's responsibility in this nonny #I'm just saying that Mary is not AS MUCH of a victim as you all make her out to be #and that they are #in fact #equal amounts of victim #in this situation #so maybe stop treating it like Stede is the bad guy and Mary is some poor abandoned housewife #her kids adore her #and she's served the best dick of her life every single night #she's fine #what was worse was actually him coming back and demanding she make room in her life for a man who chose not to be with her #if u wanna be mad at him for something #be mad at him for THAT #bc fuck dude that was a messed up stunt #like by far worse than running away to become a pirate #he came in and took over someone else's life #without any consideration #And tbh I'm still mad about it!!! #Mary deserved that freedom just as much as him

[can-of-slorgs]

Completed the Shenkuu Stamp collection some time ago, so it was only fair to draw my girl Mirsha

#neopets #neotag #neoart #vin doods #gnorbu #drawing this was actually really fun in a way that when i was looking for references i didn't know she was such a lesbian icon #not surprised but hey lets cheer for the lesbian alpaca! #I'm not as happy with the colors as I thought #I'm a bit rusty in just really warm colors without it looking burnt for some reason HJSD #but looking at pictures of AC teams have made me really fall into my old virtupets fix #i love everyone so much on that team and not really that many ppl play for it #i still remember winning a long long time ago and was completely blown away as it was basically just 5 ppl in a forum going mad #i just really love the designs of most of the players on all groups?? #i don't even like playing in the AC that much i just love the characters LMFAOO #i think i still remember I drew fanart of Sela and the gelert from the darigan team when i was like 8-9 and submitting in onto deviantart #and getting hate comments probably like 8 years later because i missed his wings or i made them too small or sth #that was hilarious thinking about it now but it did made me hate the darigan team for that year SDHFKSD #ok this is too long it always ends up wit me just rambling #I love my boy XL Striker 3.8 and Sela #ok nobodys reading uhhhh #send me an ask with the weirdest emoji out of context if you've read this far tbh nobody cares by this point HJSKSFD #idk if ill draw someone for the AC team everytime i complete a stamp collection but if i'm feeling like it maybe #or if they're requested tecnically #thats it bye

[captainjonnitkessler]

It is becoming increasingly clear to me that many people on this site get their opinions on the apparent scourge of edgy far-right atheists not from actually talking to any atheists, but from just assuming that any random edgelord they see online is an atheist and forming their opinions from there

#a couple of shitty youtubers does not a scourge make #i'm still so mad about that one cryptotheism post blaming atheists for jordan peterson the noted christofascist tbh #there's also a post from someone i otherwise respect referring to atheists who 'worship elon musk'. like . . . no? #literally who are you talking about. unless you just assume any 'techbro' on twitter is an atheist based on Vibes of course #and of course the other side of this coin is labeling anyone who openly talks about their atheism in any way as “evangelical” #atheism #skepticism umbrella

[laquilasse]

I cast the spell: ✨️HAVE A GOOD DAY!✨️

Within the next 7 days (the specific day is one of your own choosing) you WILL have a good day where something nice will happen and you WILL know you're amazing.

Have a nice day! :-)

needed this so bad today thank you....I'm on my last day of my contract and racing for my deadline and trying not to scream

#I don't have another contract lined up because of the dry spell in the industry but tbh i'm not too mad about it #1 because the writers strike needed to happen. power to the people #2 because holy fuck i need a break. holy fucking saurus as my good friend kenzan would say #sometimes I forget that I'm still a junior in the world of professional storyboarding #and i still have a ways to go before I figure out how to make a board that has 1400 panels and not want to kill myself #thank god for ei so I won't be totally out of income. yes it's only a fraction of my usual income but I at least can pay rent #and use savings to buy food #yes i need money but money doesn't do you much good if you die of a stress ulcer at 30 or kill yourself #anyways #anon #ask

[thedreadvampy]

btw about Neil Gaiman I periodically agree with the 'Neil Gaiman is annoying' stuff bc I feel like both he and Amanda Palmer seem like people who I would go insane stuck in a room with bc we have very different ideas about art and suchlike. and I also do think that the career trajectory he's on lately is cynically redoing his greatest hits and pretending that was the dream all along when it clearly was not. which is at best meh.

having said which

as far as I can tell by far the most common complaint about Neil Gaiman is "Snow, Glass, Apples is problematic/gross/it's got incest and rape and frames the child as the aggressor"

which strikes me as a weird complaint to pull out of a 40 year body of work tbh when that short story is pretty clearly coming from a place of 'how far can I push this'. like you don't have to like the story. I don't really like the story. but it is. a horror story.

like and this is the thing with particularly 90s alt horror right? a lot of the interest is in transgression and sitting in the worst possible perspective and seeing what happens if you pull those strings. like I really like Clive Barker for example but there's a good chunk of his short stories that I'm like I'm not picking up what you're putting down Clive this seems Kinda Off. but that willingness to write some trite or Bad Message horror fiction that doesn't land is imo a side effect of being willing to try writing uncomfortable and unpleasant fiction at all. which is what horror is for, among other things, it's for creating discomfort as a form of catharsis or engagement.

like I am not a huge fan of the type of sex-horror that pops up in a lot of Gaiman's work and other contemporary horror writers - to me I don't find it upsetting or horny it just ends up feeling kind of edgy and tryhard - but I'm also a bit like. it does seem like a lot of people's beef with Neil Gaiman is that In The 90s He Was A Horror Writer

and this approach to Problematic Horror in Snow, Glass, Apples I find kind of microcosmic of how The Discourse often approaches art in this kind of 1:1 way. if you write a story which seems to line up with rape apologia it can only be because you agree with it. if you write a story about transphobia you're a transphobe. if you write a story that makes me genuinely uncomfortable you're attacking me.

but artwork, especially art like horror that's not necessarily trying to provoke enjoyment as its main response, is necessarily hit and miss. and if what you're shooting for is discomfort then whether it works, falls flat or goes too far incredibly depends on your audience. and making good art - as in art that makes its audience think, art that opens the audience up to discomfort and catharsis and sticks with them and changes them - requires the space to experiment and tbh the space to fuck up. like they aren't all going to be winners and they certainly aren't all going to work for you as a singular audience.

personally I don't see the appeal of Snow, Glass, Apples, less cause it's nasty and more cause it's hack. ooh an edgy monstrous version of a fairy tale where there's lots of rape and cannibalism? you're soooo original Neil. but like. that's fine. I don't really vibe with like 70% of Neil Gaiman stuff I've read but I still like Neil Gaiman because the stuff that works for me really works for me.

idk I think there's a lot of folk on this website who shouldn't interact with horror cause they clearly aren't interested in being horrified. that's not everyone who dislikes Snow, Glass, Apples, but it's a real undercurrent to a lot of the criticism and tbh this kinda vibe is shit for art. making standout art What Is Good also requires being ready to make art which stands out for the wrong reasons. sometimes they'll be the same art to different people.

#red said #not to Cancel Culture this but isabelle fall springs to mind in a lot of how folks talk about stuff like this #like she wrote a transgressive piece exploring her own negative feelings about transness and her anger around a transphobic trope #and she made something which i found really resonant and interesting #and she got torn apart for it because it Might From Some Angles Agree With Transphobia #and I'm not making a direct comparison. because i think attack helicopter is a really GOOD story and i think SGA is gratuitous and hack #but that's the thing right? transgression and discomfort and speaking about unpleasant things in an openended way are KEY #to making art that engages directly with your own pains and angers and discomforts #and that's hard to mediate tbh. but it's also very necessary. #i think as well thinking about Gaiman this is also a thought I've often had about Amanda Palmer #who over the years has written a lot of songs about things i find genuinely uncomfortable or offensive. #and i can engage with 'it's fucked up to tell your ex they transed their gender At You' or 'your partner's suicide is not about you' bc yeah #but #you can't celebrate someone for making confessional music then get mad because you don't like everything they confess #if you only take about your socially acceptable thoughts it's not really confessional is it? #if you only talk about discomforting things that people are comfortable hearing about its not really discomforting #and you can only really discern what's Good Transgressive and what's Damaging Transgressive through doing i think #so if you want challenging art you are going to have to get some art which challenges you and you go hmm no i still disagree #is what i think #so yeah you can hate the artwork but when an artist is specifically setting out to make challenging art it's weird to hate them #for making 50 pieces of art you like and 1 you hate

[atinyladybug-daydreams]

I can't believe I got into TMA because @eepy-turtl pipebombed me with fucking cunty bitch boy bastard twink ass motherfucker Elias Fucking Bouchard.

The fact that all it takes is one twink to get me into a piece of media is not something I am proud of and is being exploited repeatedly by my friends 😭😭😭

#alt rambles #i'M STILL THINKING ABOUT HIM #elias bouchard #tma #this isn't me being mad or anything/gen #im actually really happy with coming into tma because itried drawing and i straight up developed a whole ass new style (again) #im having so much fun tbh #thank you teeth and ciaran for like #fucking #offering me an scp tma au and then i got ambushed #im in the deep end now #i need to know more about elias

[willllllllllllllll]

i'm going to need 5 - 10 working days to process the doctor saying Issac Newton is hot

#doctor who spoilers #doctor who #spoilers #i love how obvious they're being about the doctors sexuality #well they always were #but still #i don't think the doctor has ever called anyone hot before #i'm in love w 14 #if these three eps r all we see of them ima be soo mad #also that thing they pulled at the end when the ship was blowing up was not cool #i genuinely thought she was done for #i should have known better tbh

[lumeha]

FE3H is a post-apocalypse story in which no one remembers the apocalypse because it was so long ago and because a goddess healed the earth :)

#i'm just being silly btw but it's funnyto think about it #barks.txt #fire emblem #the Agarthans destroyed the world from what we know which is why they were banned from the surface #.... nad Sothis healed the earth and went to take a really long nap #she deserved it tbh #but honestly i feel like it is both unfortunate in terms of implications #and a little funnu #how the agarthans are pissed at Sothis #who basically was just really mad because they REALLY fucked shit up and she wasnt cool with that #and they're STILL mad about it now

[summerslushies]

okay so what i have learned while playing this game is that techbros fill me with an incredibly violent blood lust apparently

#i see a merchant or a muskrat and i start angrily frothing at the mouth and reaching for the nearest thing to throw #yeah i'm still pissed about dylan taking me off enforcer duty bc he got mad that the rules applied to him too smh #i got back on the file im on and im seeing where it's going to go from here once im done poking around pages lmao #i have the urge to get vengeance sooo bad bhffnjgfnhg #im a little scared to see where it goes from here tbh #mocha.txt #hypnospace outlaw

[redhead-reporter]

weirdly specific rpc problems: when someone sends you really fucking cute ship inspo, but the couple in the gif set is one that you HATE from their source material

#LIKE YEAH THAT'S AN AMAZING KISS BESTIE #TBH I'M STILL REALLY MAD ABOUT *WHO* WAS KISSING BUT #YOU'RE RIGHT THIS IS VERY “THEM” CODED #º ✧ 。 i’m still out but i’ll grab some stuff at the store ooc shit

[swinging-stars-from-satellites]

why does everything have to be a hecking issue with my sister

#she keeps getting on my case about the Theatre Boy thing which I would just like to hecking leave in the past #she keeps getting on my case bc I wear short shorts and spaghetti strap tank tops AROUND THE HOUSE AS LOUNGE CLOTHES #she's like DO YOU EVEN CARE ABOUT MODESTY and I'm like YOU WALK AROUND IN SHORTS AND A SPORTS BRA ALL THE TIME #(possibly bc I thought I could get away with wearing lounge clothes with a long shawl thing overtop the other day to worship practice #but I did in fact change my trousers after my mama pointed out that it wasn't super modest) #she keeps making comments about how I do inappropriate stuff on my phone bc I... watch one(1) sitcom????? #shows like that are IRREVERENT AS HECK like come on of course I'm not going to be totally open with my kid sister about them #I am an ADULT I can make my own choices about what content I will put up with in media #I can make my own choices about clothing if I think my mom's idea of ''anything more than an inch above the knee #is immodest'' is silly and restrictive for my body shape and comfort level personally #like... why does she have to act so high and mighty around me? she's in MIDDLE SCHOOL and I know I haven't always been the nicest to her #but I'm making the effort. I'm trying to get along with her and what I get is disdain on the daily in return :/ #our mom said it's probably bc she was hoping I wouldn't move back in so she'd have our room to herself and now she's mad #that I'm back bc she has to share a space again and like I KNOW middle school ages SUCK I've BEEN THERE #but still I just. want to get along. but she picks on me and then I get frustrated and then I snap at her and it just doesn't end well #it's a nasty cycle tbh. I'm praying about it. #Lu rambles #personal #delete later

[thesmokinpossum]

Why are HR people the most annoying fuckers on the face of the Earth?

#i have a job interview tomorrow and it's the third time this woman change the time for it #she didn't even mentionned it this time i just noticed that the schedule is different on teams #so i need to send her an email like girl WHEN are we actually doing that shit????? #also she made kind of a snide comment about my name when we were talking on the phone and i'm still mad about it tbh #like listen asshole just because your parents were boring as the entire fuck doesn't mean we all need to have boring ass name smh #i really want to work for this place tho so i'm trying to keep a positive attitude #but yeah let's abolish hr tbh lmao

[desperatepleasures]

"pple with ADHD have reported they felt weed improves their symptoms But Actually weed makes you LESS PRODUCTIVE!!" ok but have you considered that increased productivity is not always the end goal

#tbh I'm still mad about googling that yesterday and only finding Scared Straight vibes in the search results #like sometimes symptom management can be about other things than like. how much you can benefit capitalism #like yeah I'd be shit at my job if i showed up stoned #but sometimes a person does things that aren't labor

[rudjedet]

I'm on the tail end of physical therapy for a broken leg that required surgery. It made me wonder if there was anything interesting in Ancient Egyptian medicine that you'd read about treating broken bones.

Oh, certainly! Ancient Egyptian treatments for broken bones were very similar to our methods nowadays - that is, they splinted and immobilised fractures after reduction. The treatments for a broken jaw and a broken nose in the Edwin Smith Papyrus (the largest collection of surgical treatments among the medical papyri) are in fact the exact same a few millennia later. For a broken nose in particular, the physician put two rolls of linnen moistened with oil into the nasal passages to keep the shape of the nose intact after bandaging and during healing. Nowadays, we use vaseline gauze the same way.

There's an interesting case in the ESP where the practice of a closed reduction is actually described. This is case 35, a fracture of the clavicle:

You should prostrate him [on his back], [with] something folded which is in [between] his shoulder blades. You should spread out his two shoulders in order to stretch apart his two clavicles until that fracture falls into its place.

This is, again, a practice that has changed very little over time. Interestingly this case does also describe a splinting, but a splinting that seems incongruent with the actual type of fracture:

You should then make for him two splints of linen, and place them, one of them to the inside of his upper arm, and the other to the under site of his upper arm. You should bind it with imrw* and treat him afterwards with honey every day until he recovers.

That would have done very little to stabilise the clavicle. However, the next case, number 36, deals with a fracture of the humerus. This case first details a reduction, but that reduction is the exact same as the preceding one in case 35, just with the term for humerus substituted for the term for clavicle. A fractured humerus is normally set through the use of traction, and then splinted in the way described in case 35.

Nunn, among others including myself, is of the opinion that this is a scribal error where the splinting for case 36 was appended to case 35, and the reduction for case 36 was incorrectly copied from 35.

But overall, lots of evidence that nothing much changed about the setting and treatment of broken bones!

*We haven't been able to precisely determine the meaning of the ingredient imrw so far. As a term it's only found in the ESP and it is likely some type of mineral ingredient since it's written with the determinative for mineral substances. Nunn suggests it may be an equivalent of plaster of Paris used for splinting as we do nowadays, which would be supported with the phrase "you should bind it with imrw" in case 35. I don't agree with that, not only because "bind it with [x]" sees common use elsewhere for any number of poultices and bandaging in the medical papyri, but also because imrw is used in the treatment of other cases that don’t deal with fractures, such as case 15; a slashed cheek with damage to the zygomatic bone. The Grundriss der Medizin der Alten Ägypter simply lists it as "an unknown mineral substance". Brawanski wants to read it as an "astringent bandage" with the note that the determinative could be ambiguous, so he suggests a reading of a bandaging with metal shavings. Meltzer renders it as “alum(?)”, based on similarities to the Coptic term for alum. Personally, I think it's likeliest a mineral/metallic substance, one that possibly inhibits bacterial growth, akin to e.g. red ochre, and which was used in bandaging and poultices.

Good luck with the rest of the physical therapy and rehab! Surgery-requiring fractures are a nsw.t=f m pH.wy=s

#ancient egypt #egyptology #ancient egyptian medicine #fractures #that says ''pain in the ass'' btw #tbh the imrw thing is on my list to look into more #the same as sutures #the thing with sutures is we know they could perform them because we have evidence of mummies being stitched up #however because of the *nature* of mummies it's VERY hard to tell when someone's been stitched back together during life #and the wording in the medical papyri is not unambiguous #while we know they used suture *strips* because those are unequivocally described; the same isn't true for medical sutures #it's very *possible* but to my knowledge we've yet to find proof positive #anyway sorry you ask after broken bones and i go on a tangent about imrw because i'm still mad i didn't have space to #adequately treat the existence of imrw in my thesis

[ristorantebar]

hello hi i am currently like super insane about vento aureo. can't stop thinking about it for real

#ooc. #not just about mista but about all of buccellati's gang tbh. not that i'm roleplaying everyone else but still. oh my god. #oh my god. sits down .stares at the wall. jojo's adventuire....... the bizzarre.............. succumbs to the madness

[its-captain-sir]

Jumping back on the totk grind cause even though it makes me mad, I paid so much money for this game I'm Gonna 100% complete everything there is to do. thing is though it's been almost a year since I've played and I remember jackshit about wtf I was in the middle of doing

#like i have my little completionist list and i can see what's done on there but let's be real all that stuff is so vague #it's just a bunch of bullet points that say 'all [item] completed' hskfhakdjsk #did finally remember that i was saving the last couple light roots. probably gonna try to finish up side quests now #and take a bunch of pics for the compendium along the way cause I'm not spending all my money on those hakdhsldjsk #maybe I'll korok hunt as i fuck around and do that idk. I'm feeling less insane about it now and just wanna chill in game tbh #<- insane about trying to get everything done i mean. make no mistake this game still makes me mad #megan.txt