#orientation video

[god-u]

#gen v #gen v spoilers #god u #godolkin university #rufus #jordan li #maverick #s1e1 #orientation video #caps #* #so unserious 😭

[ao3commentoftheday]

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unpublished site skin that is inspired by Simply Twilling

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#welcome wattpad #I'm gonna do some orientation posts and videos and stuff for folks coming over #figured I'd start with the basics #ao3 #how to ao3

[privateolives]

This is probably because I grew up watching 24/7 animal planet, but what finally made the allo/aplatonic thing click for me were the nature's of big cats.

Lions are powerful, regal creatures who are uniquely adapted to pack life. They need these connections to live a healthy life; A lonely lion is a miserable creature indeed.

Jaguars are solitary, beautiful creatures who live happily solitary. They prowl their lush world with self-sufficient majesty. A jaguar is not lonely without a pack. In fact, forcing jaguars to share space with others they do not enjoy is just as damaging as forcing a lion to live alone.

A lion may choose to head out on it's own for the most part, but in the end must return to the pack to thrive. A jaguar can choose to trust and enjoy the company of others, but they never feel the need to form a pack.

Is a jaguar selfish for this? A psychopath, a narcissist or any other such horrid assumptions? Is it a less moral creature than a lion, who seeks others like it to thrive?

Is a lion pathetic, or needy, or selfish for wanting community? For requiring contact with others like they require water? For their inherent need to string complicated webs of relationships that may seem silly or dramatic to others?

Of course not. These are ridiculous questions to even ask.

They are simply lions and jaguars.

In fact, is a jaguar that chooses to spend time with you not as magical as a lion's love? For a creature that needs no bond to thrive to still enjoy your presence enough to share it a time? Is a lion who can prowl the night alone not impressive in its strength and resilience? Is it not awe-inspiring in its ability to conquer a life it was never wired for and reign still?

Are they not both beautiful and awe-inspiring in their own ways, without being wrong?

Alloplatonics. Aplatonics. Are we not both special and beautiful in both our bonds and self-confident happiness equal, in each our ways? Is there not unique beauty in lifelong bonded packs and magical encounters that need no perpetuity to carry life forward?

Are we not but lions and jaguars? Neither wrong, neither selfish, but just different and beautiful creatures in each our ways?

That's how I've come to see it, anyway.

#lgbt #aspec #lgbtqa+ #asexual #aromantic #aroace #loveless #aplatonic #alloplatonic #animals #I woke up at like 3 in themmorning to write this so I apologise for weird wording #I'm not awake enough to go hunting for the videos but if you want to see more about the equal majesty and difference in cats bonding #I suggest looking up Kevin Richardson's work with lions and panthers #I love animals. I hope I didn’t come off as degrading to anyone by using them as comparison #I can assure you the association only carries the deepest respect from me. #anyway all the aro discourse floating about made me think of this issue again #and how explaining allo/a-platonic needs has been a difficult task in the past #you're all valid no matter your labels or shapes or spots or manes #remember that when an orientation you don't understand comes to the lgbtable your job isn't to test them #it's to make room

[imetacrab]

At the end of every Hercule Poirot story, he always calls an emergency meeting to find the imposter among us.

#hercule poirot #agatha christie #poirot #poirot series #agatha christie’s poirot #murder on the orient express #death on the nile #among us #amogus #sus #gaming memes #funny #shitposting #gaming #among us imposter #amongus #david suchet #video games #games #indie games

[aydaaaguefort]

This was so wild I had to clip it in it’s entirety

#dimension 20 #neverafter #brennan lee mulligan #zac oyama #lou wilson #I will be shocked if tumblr actually lets me post the whole video tbh #also #I was being love bombed by my cat while screen recording this #so if it ever accidentally changed orientations please lmk and I’ll rerecord #op #d20 clipped by me

[pinkfey]

wish karlach artists would stop drawing her with slim white woman features

#asian representation in video games that isn’t rooted in orientalism is so fucking rare and this is what artists do with it…. like…… #anyways.txt #bg3 posting

[daftpatience]

man rodeoh hasnt added my not so good review and now im starting to wonder if theres some suspicious reason they dont have any reviews under 4 stars

#its an underwear brand i tried out awhile ago #they felt really cheap and thin and unstretchy when they arrived and within a year completely fell apart at the seams #like i ripped the waistband right off from just putting them on. #the croctches wore right out to nothing and im not even active! i hardly do anything! #and like maybe a year is too much to ask for clothing nowadays but idk i feel like they should last longer than that #i cant afford to replace all my underwear every year #also for tboy oriented underwear i was sorely disappointed that they didnt have pad functionality #idk man #rodeoh #maybe they just arent made for big fat guys idk #the inseam was awkwardly proportioned so it crumpled a lot under my belly but wasnt long enough to go over it #i tried to record a video of how easy it was to pull em apart but it just made me look really strong and also like the start of an OF #i need some validation that im not the only one that experienced this iim dying squirtle

[audreydoeskaren]

Note about periodization

I am going to start describing time periods in Chinese history with European historical terms like medieval, Renaissance, early modern, Georgian and Victorian and so on, alongside the standard dynastic terms like Song, Ming and Qing I usually use. So like something about the Ming Dynasty I will tag Ming Dynasty and Renaissance. I already do it sometimes but not consistently. Here’s why.

A common criticism levied against this practice is that periodization is geographically specific and that it’s wrong and eurocentric to refer to, say, late Ming China as Renaissance China. It is a valid criticism, but in my experience the result of not using European periodization is that people default to ‘ancient’ when describing any period in Chinese history before the 20th century, which does conjure up specific images of European antiquity that do not align temporally with the Chinese period in question. I have talked about my issue with ‘ancient China’ before but I want to elaborate. People already consciously or subconsciously consider European periodizations of history to be universal, because of the legacy of colonialism and how eurocentric modern human culture generally is. By not using European historical terms for non-European places, people will simply think those places exist outside of history altogether, or at least exist within an early, primitive stage of European history. It’s a recipe for the denial of coevalness. I think there is a certain dangerous naivete among scholars who believe that if they refrain from using European periodization for non-European places, people will switch to the periodization appropriate for those places in question and challenge eurocentric history writing; in practice I’ve never seen it happen. The general public is not literate enough about history to do these conversions in situ. I have accumulated a fairly large pool of examples just from the number of people spamming ‘ancient China’ in my askbox despite repeatedly specifying the time periods I’m interested in (not antiquity!). If I say ‘Ming China’ instead of ‘Renaissance China’ people will take it as something on the same temporal plane as classical Greece instead of Tudor England. How many people would be surprised if I say that Emperor Qianlong of the Qing was a contemporary of George Washington and Frederick the Great? I’ve seen people talk about him as if he was some tribal leader in the time of Tacitus. European periodization is something I want to embrace ‘under erasure’ so to say, using something strategically for certain advantages while acknowledging its problems. Now there is a history of how the idea of ‘ancient China’ became so entrenched in popular media and I think it goes a bit deeper than just Orientalism, but that’s topic for another post. Right now I’m only concerned with my decision to add European periodization terms.

In order to compensate for the use of eurocentric periodization, I have carried out some experiments in the reverse direction in my daily life, by using Chinese reign years to describe European history. The responses are entertaining. I live in a Georgian tenement in the UK but I like to confuse friends and family by calling it a ‘Jiaqing era flat’. A friend of mine (Chinese) lives in an 1880s flat and she burst out in laughter when I called it ‘Guangxu era’, claiming that it sounded like something from court. But why is it funny? The temporal description is correct, the 1880s were indeed in the Guangxu era. And ‘Guangxu’ shouldn’t invoke royal imagery anymore than ‘Victorian’ (though said friend does indulge in more Qing court dramas than is probably healthy). It is because Chinese (and I’m sure many other non-white peoples) have been trained to believe that our histories are particular and distant, confined to a geographical location, and that they somehow cannot be mapped onto European history, which unfolded parallel to the history of the rest of the world, until we had been colonized. We have been taught that European history is history, but our history is ethnography.

It should also be noted that periodization for European history is not something essentialist and intrinsic either, period terms are created by historians and arbitrarily imposed onto the past to begin with. I was reading a book about medievalism studies and it talked about how the entire concept of the Middle Ages was manufactured in the Renaissance to create a temporal other for Europeans at the time to project undesired traits onto, to distance themselves from a supposedly ‘dark’ past. People living in the European Middle Ages likely did not think of themselves as living in a ‘middle’ age between something and something, so there is absolutely no natural basis for calling the period roughly between the 6th and 16th centuries ‘medieval’. Despite questionable origins, periodization of European history has become more or less standard in history writing throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, whereas around the same time colonial anthropological narratives framed non-European and non-white societies, including China, as existing outside of history altogether. Periodization of European history was geographically specific partially because it was conceived with Europe in mind and Europe only, since any other place may as well be in some primordial time.

Perhaps in the future there will develop global periodizations that consider how interconnected human history is. There probably are already attempts but they’re just not prominent enough to reach me yet. Until that point, I feel absolutely no moral baggage in describing, say, the Song Dynasty as ‘medieval’ because people in 12th century Europe did not think of themselves as ‘medieval’ either. I am the historian, I do whatever I want, basically.

#I was watching an unrelated video about dnd worldbuilding #and out of nowhere someone in the comment section called 1300s chinese people 'ancient asians' #*facepalm* #so I was reminded of this again #rant #colonialism #orientalism #chinese history #historiography

[demoncia2]

I couldn't stop thinking about him being a dork I HAD to go through the shorts and find my favorite clips of his goofy ass

#i'm gonna go through the orientation videos to find more of him being silly it's important to me #villainous #villanos #black hat #he's silly!!! he is!!! you'll have to fight me to take that away!!! #*rips the door off my fridge*

[miyrumiyru]

A bit tattered and disheveled, But their pride never will wither!

Oriental magpie (Pica serica)

#my photography #photographers on tumblr #original photographers #lensblr #photography #nature photography #animal photography #bird photography #wildlife photography #macro photography #nature #naturecore #bird #birds #bird video #pride #nature video #oriental magpie #magpie #asian magpie #pica serica #noai #no ai #no to generative ai

[itiswritteninthestarsabove]

Okay but hear me out: An Undead Nightmare DLC in which you play as Dutch, set between the events of RDR and RDR2, having to fight off the deceased members of the gang.

His former family, the one he betrayed, pursues him relentlessly in revenge for dooming the gang. Is any of it real? Or the guilt and paranoia ate him away and he finally lost his mind? That's up to your interpretation.

#just imagine zombie Arthur haunting Dutch #that would be heartbreaking but also terrifying #I'd like it to be more horror than action-oriented but that's just me #go check soundslikepizza's 'Dutch Returns To Beaver Hollow' YT video for reference #Dutch van der Linde #RDR2 #RDR #Undead Nightmare

[genericaces]

hey i made a little edit about angel, spike and the fanged four, and the violent cycle of vampire siring. featuring homoerotic beatdowns and the search for original sin, if that's your thing

#anyone who makes video edits has my utmost respect bc despite what i tell employers i am not cut out for detail-oriented work #also ats resolution can eat my entire ass #angel #angel the series #ats #buffy the vampire slayer #btvs

[onenicebugperday]

@alhexy submitted: a tiny guy and some beetle guy

im pretty sure the hover fly / bee mimic is from the genus toxomerus and ive also seen a decent variety of bumblebees, im not sure of the species of the bee in the picture and was wondering if you thought it could be a Rusty Patch bumblebee? im not good with bumblebee ID (in Maine) (if you cant ID, dont worry)

i think this is a robberfly? and a really cool spider

a nice water strider :)

i believe the small blue/black/gray guys on the water surface are marine spring tails

Great bunch of pals! If they were found on the coast in Maine then the springtails could be marine springtails, but if they were on freshwater then they were likely just water springtails. The bumblebee looks like a tricolored bumblebee, Bombus ternarius. And yes the dude after that is a robber fly!

#animals #insects #bugs #spider #arachnids #submission #beetle #oriental beetle #video #bee #bumble bee #fly #hover fly #robberfly #wolf spider #water strider #springtail #congregation #long post

[ravenalla]

I still love Villainous but to be honest besides the designs I just don’t find a lot of the side characters introduced anywhere near as interesting as the main ones. Also interweaving the show’s plot with all the extra content (ex. Heed’s escape, P.E.A.C.E, the recent fictional news show) I feel like is gonna get pretty confusing if they keep adding more and more, the lore has kinda been overtaking the character focus in some ways. I’m super grateful they’re trying to keep us entertained during the wait for new content, but I also get why at least for the English speaking fandom a lot of people have moved on from it since the 2017-2019 era.

#villanos #villainous #villainous spoilers #idk I just feel like everything was a lot easier to digest when we had the shorts and orientation videos #also this is just my personal preference not a criticism but the straightforward focus on the main 4’s shenanigans in the manor was a #lot more enjoyable to me than the constant introduction of new characters and places they’re doing now #at the very least I hope we get some more development for Demencia like we did for Flug next season that’s still my girl ����

[shinewonder]

“my cute son! (❁´◡`❁)”

#i love that kaomoji... #rewatching the orientation videos #Villainous #villanos #vilanesco #dr flug #kenning flugslys #5.0.5. #doodles

[amphiptere]

I am very annoyed with everyone now reviving the “good omens (book/s1) was queerbaiting” debate. what part of “angels are generally sexless” and “crowley and aziraphale are canonically non-binary” and “‘I am THE southern pansy’” did y’all miss

#mine #good omens #good omens spoilers #fun fact: asexuals are queer too!!! #it's very ''the queer community is only about being in same-sex love lol what is the tqia+ part i don't know her'' #kissing someone of the same gender is an easy way to indicate queerness sure #but when your sexuality is not kissing people #or romantic orientation is not being attracted to anyone #or when your gender is transed #there's not as simple a way to show that #so yeah people will miss it #but it's all there #show and book #i think james somerton has a good video essay on this? #fingers crossed he'll do one for s2!