#and research

[notetaeker]

I will be honest I am pausing my studyblr posts to post for palestine. My brother has left this world recently (unrelated to the conflict) and when I try to distract myself from it I find myself in a world where almost everyone with any power is supporting the genocide of my fellow people.

#I understand people may have their thoughts on this #but even if you don’t agree with me #I still invite you to stay and think #and research #and question your sources #the victims are not organized #but you know what is organized? governments. you can only push propaganda if you have power and are organized #none of which the Palestinians have. #so please. please do some research and be firm in your stance whatever it is #don’t just take the stances of others to make yourself feel like a good person #when you don’t even know what it all entails #and just to clarify because we live in an era of nation states #I am not from palestine but they are my people I grew up with a community of palestinians #and as a muslim they are my brothers and sisters #tho if you do the research you’ll find that isra*l also targets palestinian christians #about half of Christian Palestinians were kicked out of Jerusalem by Isr*el

[jessieren]

A lovely soft-stache (copyright: @too-antigonish ) to brighten up your rainy Monday morning

#shaun evans #itv endeavour #endeavour morse #moustache mondays #morsetache mondays #the morsetache love is real #particularly when presented as a softstache #like this exhibit here #I have other exhibits to share too #I’m just ummm curating them #ahem #you know you need to keep quality standards high #and that takes a lot of work and preparation #and research #never forgetting the importance of science #he’s so pretty #hot damn evans

[omg-snakes]

Would You Like To Play A Game?

I have so many ding-dang clutches this year that I made a SNINGO (Snake Bingo) game that you can join if you wanna.

Click or copy/paste the link below to get your randomly-generated Sningo card and save it or take a screenshot. We're looking at the game potentially going into September and I think these will only be available for 30 days or so.

https://mfbc.us/m/gv2ac8t

If that's not working you can pester me through chat or private message and I'll send you one.

There's no prize for winning, beyond the satisfaction of being Snake Bingo Champion. If you're the first to send me a screengrab or photo of your winning card I'll... uhhh... I dunno, I guess I could grant a Trivial Boon. Let's say ties are also allowed, since this might generate a few duplicate cards.

I'll announce each clutch ID as they hatch with the tag: "sningo 2023"

For those joining, we already have YR23 and HC23 hatched. Get out your Mecca daubers and mark 'em off!

#A trivial boon is a small favor #I could answer a question or help you with a low-risk problem #I have approximate knowledge of many things #I'm good at science and math and computers #and research #I'm good at looking stuff up #That could also be a discount on a snake if you want #I could record a voicemail message like they do on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me #I could tell your crush that you like them for you #Or I could break up with someone for you so you don't have to ghost #The options are extremely limited! #sningo 2023 #sningo #snake bingo #snake adjacent #omg snakes

[saltysplayt00ns]

Just coming by to say I have not perished, But I will be at least posting a blog around today or early tomorrow. reasons?? my doc is clogged full of wall text and I need to cut'em down before we have ourselves a word-valanche.

Plus I need to get some of this out so I have room for more to come/ want to get through.

#dios mio #coming back #need a drink #and sweets #like seriously #a mounds of sweets #still love y'all #so much writing #and research #and drawing #and edits

[secret-keeper-speaks]

i'm back in school. george and harold seem mopey. they seem to notice me not being as obnoxious about back to school as i used to be. i hoped that wouldnt be obvious. i liked hanging out with my dad over the break. he recently taught me how to sew up broken fabric because he saw a gash on the side of my sweater from some villain fight. (at least i think it was) now he's back at work and i gotta go back to fighting for my life once every fucking week.

#sk logs #anyways point is #they're mopey and they've noticed me not being as chipper about it as normal #i think they're catching onto some things #like #new things that have only started occuring recently #such as this #at least i wont feel bad about doing nothing #because i wont be doing nothing #ill be doing homework #and research #as normal #i had a ton of guilt for not doing anything over the break and i dont know why #i'll just ignore it for now #its probably not a big deal anyways

[ilyuu]

alright so who’s the the most silliest of silly genshin men?

#the type of ones you question why you said yes to them in the first place /j #this is for concrete evidence #and research #— 🔏.

[so-long-soldier28]

bisexuality is having 39 men and 33 women on my celebrity crushes list, and autism is having a data sheet with all of their hometowns, ages, universities, and zodiacs

#i like to make lists #and research #bisexual #autism #does this make me weird? #celebrity crushes

[thefoldedbird]

Question!

Would obsidian make for good arrowheads?

I always hear about how sharp obsidian is but can't you sharpen anything so that it's just as bad? Like I get that broken glass shards are super shard, but you can make the dullest blade sharp so is there really a difference?

#bitches love rocks #god i keep having ore and mineral related questions #and research #it's ridiculous #world of warcraft is complicated #for reasons you wouldn't expect #obsidian #rock science ask #arrowheads #fanfiction research

[loremonster]

I feel overwhelmed by all the things I want to make

I still love them all

There's just so much of it

So much of me

Aaaaauuugh

#exhausted creator noises #the urge to write #and draw #and research #and socialize #all at the same time

[wuxiaphoenix]

Worldbuilding: Feeling the Chill

Well, I’ve read my way through the sample of Global Crisis, and the book just got here (found a used one!), so the next time I’m off work I’ll have nearly 900 pages on the 1600s to devour for worldbuilding purposes. Mwa-ha-hah....

Exhilarating, yet also horrifying. Every time you think you have a grasp on how bad the 17th century was? It gets worse.

First, it was the height of the Little Ice Age. Those three words ought to strike terror into anyone hearing them; except that most of us are too isolated from the realities of crop production to have a grasp on what happens if the growing season is even a week shorter than normal. Much less months shorter, or years in which there was a frost every month of the year. For example, there were areas in which over the span of 16 years there were 10 crop failures. In premodern societies you can’t usually store enough food to make it through two bad crop years, much less the mess of the 1600s. People starved. Everywhere.

Second, there was a pretty much worldwide trend of rulers aiming for absolute monarchies, where they controlled everything their nations and citizens were allowed to do. Prior to that most countries had some kind of feedback from nobles, at the very least, that reined in would-be tyrants before they sheared the sheep all the way to the skin. There was some give in the system, so to speak. In the 1600s that give went away all over the place, right when the horrible climate conditions meant people had no margins to spare. To make matters even worse - being an absolute monarch means all the paperwork. And kings and emperors didn’t want to spend their days doing paperwork. So they handed it off to unofficial Favorites, for example Cardinal Richelieu, who promised to do the work and just bring the king the Important Stuff.

...If you’re thinking that said Favorites now have all the political power to crush their rivals, so they will, no matter how it wrecks the rest of the kingdom? Bingo! That’s exactly what happened.

Third.... one of the bits near the end of the sample that makes you want to go back in time and hit people with the cluebat is how inbred a lot - a lot - of monarchies were. Guy by the name of Philip the IV, ruling Spain? One of the Hapsburgs? Only had eight different great-grandparents.

And then proceeded to marry his niece.

What’s worse is... there were actually reasons for monarchs to do this. Many countries were kind of cobbled together from smaller kingdoms and territories, and had their own hereditary leaders. So if the guy who thought he was the King of X wanted to keep ruling without endless rebellions, he had to keep his nobles and himself marrying into all those breakaway states. Rinse, lather, repeat over generations, augh.

So. Bad climate. Crop failures. A sweeping trend of absolute monarchs across the world, who decided to crack down on everything from real robberies to whether women wore veils in church, setting off more revolts and wars. And the fact that it was expected that when a new monarch was enthroned he declared war on somebody, no matter what the cost. Inbreeding of nobles and monarchs, which we know from painful modern research leads to stupid, impulsive, downright crazy humans, and they were in charge. Aaaaand because of the slave trade with Africa and hunger/cold stress, there were new and more deadly strains of smallpox running around.

Historians estimate that when chroniclers of the time said “a third of the world died”, they weren’t kidding. Depending on where you were, a quarter to a third of the world population did!

Seriously, I’d run into some of this stuff in other books, but Geoffrey Parker pulls it all together and lays it out clearly. With visual aids, graphs of mortality and age at marriage, surviving children, etc. He estimated that in some areas as many as 25% of adult women never had the chance to marry and have children. And he covers China as much as Europe, with bits of the Americas as well. So it’s an awesome source for “if you want to build a world that looks like this timeframe.”

If I dump someone into even a fantasy version of that century, I need to do my research to give them a plausible chance of heading any of that off.

Yeah, this is going to be tricky.

...Plotbunnies. They want what they want. Good thing I already have a bunch of sources on premodern Japan to start from....

#creative writing #worldbuilding #and research #so much research #little ice age

[reality-detective]

1963 Refrigerator 🤔

#pay attention #educate yourselves #educate yourself #knowledge is power #reeducate yourself #reeducate yourselves #think about it #think for yourselves #think for yourself #do your homework #do some research #do your own research #ask yourself questions #question everything #american history #history lesson

[ibtisams]

It has been hard for me to talk about how what is going on with Israel and Palestine is affecting me personally, but I grew up in Gaza and most of my family still lives there. My father did not survive the bombings last week and I have not been able to contact my younger sister in days. I am try to being understanding that most people do not have personal connections to what is happening and therefore are justifying their silence, but is heartbreaking to see this misinformation being spread. What’s happening there is a genocide, not a war. It is not antisemitic to support Palestine, it’s not even antiemetic to criticise Israel. There is no grey area or neutrality regarding this, and it is so easy to find resources that will educate you on the subject. It is my people and my home being destroyed so I will never be silent about this, but I please urge everyone to get informed and start speaking up and finding ways they can help.

decolonizepalestine has tons of information on Palestine’s history/propaganda that has been spread throughout the years

UK citizens can email their MP asking for a ceasefire

US citizens can call/email their local government officials asking for a ceasefire

Jewish Voice for Peace also has many resources for ways for US citizens to get involved, including protests

Donate to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Donate to Medical Aid for Palestine

Donate to help get food and hygiene kits to Gaza

#I can’t say anything else but please do your research there is a genocide happening #🦢

[butchdykekondraki]

the most fucked up thing ever is being obsessed w ur own oc. why do i have to make content of them why cant they just magically appear on my screen for me to reblog 200 times. fucked up and also evil

#[ren] #ouuuuu theresa save me tessa save me weird girlblogger researcher save me

[penguicorns-are-cool]

DO NOT DO THIS!!!

If a website has a paywall, like New York Times, DO NOT use the ctrl+A shortcut then the ctrl+c shortcut as fast as you can because then you may accidentally copy the entire article before the paywall comes up. And definitely don't do ctrl+v into the next google doc or whatever you open because then you will accidentally paste the entire article into a google doc or something!!!! I repeat DO NOT do this because it is piracy which is absolutely totally wrong!!!

#dont do this #piracy #paywall #research #research tip #free #free writing #free article

[oocsydney]

hbomberguy highlighting all of the parts where james somerton plagiarized from other queer creators:

#hbomberguy #james somerton #literally the only parts james somerton wrote on his own were the misogynist ones #and it's disgusting to think that james was likely setting up for his script writer to take the fall for all of the plagiarism #UPDATE: apparently the script writer ALSO didn't do any research into what James wrote in his scripts. man. (source: Todd in the Shadows) #todd in the shadows

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived