#reblog with important correction to the article

[gentlebeardsbarngrill]

01/15/2024 Crew Recap

Hey all, today has been a very very very long day. I’m typing this with my eyeballs glazed over and half open. However, so much has happened in such a little amount of time I wanted share a few things before I pass out I know a lot of you are in different timezones, are busy with life, and taking a break, so maybe this will help with parsing through some of the crazy stuff the crew has been up to.

The petition hit 50K, and is at 52.5K at the moment

Fundraisers: I didn’t even realize there were two different fundraisers for Palestine/Gaza going on but we blew both out of the water. (Note: the second picture is from a November campaign but I think its just as important to highlight— ty for the correction anon!)

The Emmys hashtag turn out was great tonight. There was some pretty amazing and creative stuff going on across all the platforms. Some can be seen on IG, but if you wanna see the majority of it, check out twitter #SaveOFMD #75thEmmys

---We have new ways of protesting and advocating for our show, see here for the thread on tumblr (from twitter):---

And to support that @saltpepperbeard was kind enough to put together a wonderful guide on how to Call It Through as a Crew: Alleviating Some Phone Anxiety which as someone who is socially anxious and sometimes verbally vomits on people when on the phone, is AMAZING and thank you so much for doing that to help.

-- > There is also this new thread on some new places to call into. Don't quote me on that being an official thing we should do, I'm sure @renewasacrew and others will have more in the AM, I just wanted to share it so people could follow if they wanted to.

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New Articles!

Our Flag Means Death: Here’s why season three deserves to be aired

Petition to save BBC show with rare Rotten Tomatoes score gets 50,000 signatures

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There's so much more that's happened today-- but I can't write it all down because my brain is couscous.

<---So instead, I'm going to use this last part to gush over you all and your amazing contributions in all your unique ways. The community support the last few days has been SO INCREDIBLY UPLIFTING.-->

I saw (and experienced) people reblogging asks where random followers, anons, and mutuals just reached out and sent love because they could tell people were struggling.

I've seen comments all over the place on Tumblr, IG, Twitter, and Facebook where each and every person is encouraging each other to speak their mind, or complimenting their artwork, encouraging them if they were feeling uncomfortable with things outside their comfort zones, coming up with new and exciting ways to fight back, people reaching out to the cast/crew just to say hi and remind them we love them.

I've seen Self-Care checkpoints all over, reminding people to drink water, take a break, block your notifications for a while, not engaging in negative behavior.

I've seen people being so nice on instagram posts that the people who were being dicks about all our comments turned around and decided to watch OFMD!

I saw so many people doing new analysis of scenes and characters, and having really deep and friendly discussions that make everyone think in new ways.

I saw people digging through old tumblrs to bring life back to old posts and artwork.

I saw so much NEW artwork, new FICS! New GIFS! So much new art and love!

I could literally go on and on, but I've just...I had to dump this out of my brain otherwise I'd explode. I've just seen so much today that continues to make me so proud of our little safe space ship and so happy to be apart of this community.

You all continue to be the best of the best of humans, and I am so very grateful to get to witness and be apart of it. Rest up lovelies and have a good day / night, wherever you may be. May you dream of sexy middle-aged gay men kissing, or hugging, or whatever else you want them to be getting into.

#ofmd #our flag means death #stede bonnet #gentlebeard #edward teach #renew as a crew #rhys darby #blackbonnet #save our flag means death #save ofmd #ofmd s3 #renew our flag means death #renew ofmd #ofmd daily recap

[specialagentartemis]

We talk a lot about reading comprehension and misinformation on this website, but learning how to slow down, assess sources, and fact-check is a skill. A skill a lot of us have not been called on to demonstrate since high school, but a skill that's vitally important in the modern world.

I'm in graduate school for the social sciences (anthropology) - critically assessing sources is part of the skillset we are taught. I've had people ask on my post about historical misinformation, "How can I only reblog things that are true? How can I tell?" And it's a good and important question!

A couple core questions to ask, about history, science, or current events, are:

Who is saying this?

Where are you seeing this information? Is it a legal scholar, a historian with a PhD, a museum curator, an on-the-ground activist, a rando twitter poster, a Mormon conspiracy theorist? For scholarly questions, look for people with PhDs and published articles; for questions of current events, look for what people who are actually there are saying and showing.

Who agrees with them?

Can you find articles from other sources corroborating this, or is it just one guy who is saying this? Conversely, do you see anyone disagreeing and correcting this information? Who?

Does this person have an ideological bias that might cause them to discount conflicting information?

Everyone has biases, of course, but some are obvious. A lot of revisionist American history is put out by Mormon groups to try to prove the literal truth of the Book of Mormon; ditto for history that seeks to prove various things in the Bible. It may be easy for us to laugh at that, but a lot of tumblr revisionist history involves inventing gay historical figures out of flimsy sources because we want it to be true. Is there a reason that the person making this claim might want this to be true? This doesn't necessarily make it false, but it does mean you have to require more robust claims.

What sources do they cite?

Do they cite well-documented research or well-provenienced archaeology? Do they have photographs of what they're claiming happened? Or do their claims rely on nameless, dateless, "I can't show you my sources yet" or "I swear I heard about a guy..." Do they cite any sources or is it "just trust me bro"? Are those sources that they do cite reliable, or are they circular? Do the sources they cite actually say what this person is claiming they say? Are they cutting out half of a quote, or ignoring conflicting evidence presented in the same source?

Is this conspiracy theory thinking?

Is this making claims that an individual or a group is secretly hiding information from the general public? Is it blaming one individual or group for widespread societal problems? Is it claiming that the only reason this isn't common knowledge is because Somebody is suppressing it? Is it claiming that the solution to a complicated political problem is actually simple and everybody knows it but people just don't want to do it for nefarious reasons? That's conspiracy thinking, and it's almost never as clean or easy as the claimant wants you to believe.

Just because someone is saying something confidently doesn't necessarily make it true, but also, just because you don't like something doesn't necessarily make it false. Ask these questions when you see a claim that makes you feel angry - or makes you feel righteous. Look for journalists, scientists, historians, legal scholars, who present their credentials and their sources. Look for multiple independently verified news reports or scientific articles. Determining The One Truth about things is not always easy and sometimes not possible, but asking these questions helps you assess what you're reading critically and evaluate claims.

#history #science #misinformation #current events #saw a post about how people should stop criticizing lack of reading comprehension or falling for misinformation #and should present advice or help instead #which is fair. so here I am #falling for someone saying something wrong confidently is not a moral failing #but it is in all our best interests to try to cut through the bs

[bonefall]

Hearing Loss Research Dump

Heyo!! You probably reached through the footnote at the end of the Hearing Loss Guide for Warrior Cats! I often get asked questions like, "How do you make these guides?" and "Do you have sources?" So this time, I tried to keep a bit of a loose "journal."

Unfortunately it got disorganized after a few sessions (since this project ended up taking about 2 - 3 weeks to do) but, hey, hopefully it helps.

I have dumped all of my sources here and explained my thought process as I went along, so that you have a good foundation to go forth and do your own research.

I may update this post with more information and links, or remove sources if, for some reason, it is revealed that the source was harmful or not credible. SO, PLEASE feel free to recommend good educational organizations, documentaries, and blogs here on Tumblr willing to take questions.

This post is set to "no one can reblog" so that you're always seeing the most current version of this post. Just in case a source gets challenged, or one of the sensitivity readers wants their name removed, or I end up adding important corrections, etc.

This is Version 1.0, and it was updated on 1/2/2024.

The research "dump" post is messy, because it's a Bonus Thing that's supposed to go along with the very pretty and ~concise~ Herb Guide that I created.

Session 0

I had wanted to do this for a while, but this RIDICULOUS thing that was said to an Anon and then shared with me almost gave me an aneurysm. I asked if my followers wanted this boosted to the top of my priorities, they said yes, and here we are.

In the process I also looked for input, especially from deaf/HOH followers. I made a note to include tinnitus, unilateral (one ear) hearing loss, and I'm considering doing a second guide just for how to TREAT the ear infections I mentioned would lead to a lot of hearing loss in RiverClan.

An outline of the Herb Guide post was written just before I did any real research, so I had a general idea of the aspects of hearing loss I wanted to talk and learn about.

Sat down to start my research the next day.

SESSION 1: The Basics

My first step is always just a basic internet search, including a pit stop at Wikipedia to read the article, and then follow the sources or find a place that explains the concept more deeply.

Because my project's about anthropomorphic cats, I always start with humans first, then swing over to a search on felines. I'm usually alternating between them because that is how my mind works, hearing something in one and then linking that to some sort of question about how that would look in cats.

From Wikipedia, the World Health Organization, and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, I learned that "Hearing Loss" is the blanket term for all lack of hearing, and "Deafness" is when it totally prevents you from understanding speech.

Like blindness, most deaf people can hear a little. Stressed that.

It's also here that I started with cat hearing. First I looked at Purina, but it wasn't a great find, besides a link to common signs of ear infections which I put in my back pocket lmao. I came across Dr. Pippa Elliot's article for Petful.com, and this one is MUCH more informative.

I started thinking critically about a lot of that info. Cats have a much higher range of hearing than humans, a feline society would actually catch hearing loss loooong before humans would catch it in a pet cat. Plus the whiskers. The article actually mentions that when you check a cat for hearing loss, you have to avoid blowing wind on the whiskers or even vibrating the ground.

Very sensitive animals, fascinating. Anyway, back on humans,

There's also FOUR TYPES of hearing loss. Conducive, Sensorineural, Mixed, and Auditory Neuropathy. I also went and found a good explanation from the CDC to double-check Wikipedia.

And it's a good thing I did! Wikipedia did not mention Type 4 at the time of my research, and the CDC's article is VERY straightforward and informative.

Types;

Conducive: Sound can't get through the canal. Usually a blockage.

Sensorineural: A problem with the hearing organs or the auditory nerve.

Mixed: Both of these at once

Auditory Neuropathy: The ear detects the sound, but doesn't send the signals to the brain properly.

From what I can tell from the National Institute for Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, Auditory Neuropathy is less well defined and can have overlap with Sensorineural. Sometimes it has to do with damage or malformation of the inner ear hairs, other times it's completely unknown and just assumed to be a brain issue.

So according to that definition, Auditory Processing Disorder is a type of auditory neuropathic hearing loss.

Then I started watching Christmas movies and forgot I was doing research oops. Time waits for no man, nor muppet. Very important that once a year you watch movies that make you cry and also Gonzo is there.

BUT. Throughout this project, I was constantly finding new sources on "the basics" that explained things in different ways. I didn't find all of these in that one session, but I will dump them in a straight list here.

Straight statistics of prevalence of hearing loss in the UK

Two types of inner ear infections (got cut from the guide because I was trying to stay focused on the disability itself, not causes and ear ailments)

Congenital deafness (Helpful, but again, was trying to keep the guide focused on general disability writing advice, not explain every single reason why a person could be deaf. That's for one's own research!)

Degrees of hearing loss (But notably I've also seen these thresholds shift around. This one says deafness starts at 95 DB, but I did also see 81 elsewhere.)

A guide on soundproofing which put the affects of noise on your ears into perspective (helpful with comparisons to degrees of hearing loss)

REALLY GOOD GUIDE ON HERTZ AND DECIBELS (And also comparisons of different decibel levels, in relation to the thresholds of hearing loss)

Tinnitus

SESSION 2: Comparing human and cat hearing

I felt like I had a good understanding of the basics here. The four types, some considerations for cat biology, some tidbits to mention like most people with hearing loss still being able to hear a little, etc.

NOW I'm going to finish reading any sources I opened up in side tabs, and learn about the side effects of hearing loss that I've seen so far. Tinnitus was requested specifically.

But, I felt pretty confident at this point, so I started actually working on the guide itself. It's good because that's when I start getting really specific questions like, "Just how sensitive IS a cat's hearing next to a humans?"

Found this article comparing human and feline hearing, and also went for a source on common causes of ear infections in cats, and compared them to common causes of ear infections in humans. Basically everything WE get, and more. I also remembered a vet that I worked with explaining that humans don't get ear mites because our ear canals are shorter, but honestly I don't really want to hunt down a source on that.

Bottom line is that it seems that cats get ear infections significantly easier than humans.

SESSION 3: Paying attention to deaf and HOH experiences

Started loading up some videos on Youtube, and follow along with presentations from deaf speakers, awareness charities, and so on.

ADHD protip: If you're like me and often feel the need to get up and walk around when you're trying to focus on something, playing flash games on Neopets or a similar petsite while keeping a video popped out is a great way to help with executive function impulse stuff. Firefox and the program Freetube both allow for you to pop open a small window that you can move around your screen.

I absolutely adored this video from Montfort University, which collected experiences from people who were actively losing their hearing. I'm feeling that a lot of folks are probably anticipating the Herb Guide with the expectation it'll talk about fully deaf warriors like Snowkit (And BB!Whitewing, who is deaf in Better Bones), but one of the most important things I'm learning is that partial and unilateral hearing loss is both common, and important to talk about.

That section on people forgoing hearing aids is so bitter. The way that they were reluctant to even "admit" they had a disability (feeling as if it "doesn't count"), felt like hearing aids were for "old people" so they resisted getting a device that would really help, and that one woman who finally realized what her own mother must have been going through when she was in her shoes...

Jeez, man. Ableism really hits us all, doesn't it? You'll reject the small bits of help that were SHAKEN out of the pockets of an uncaring world, just so you don't have to admit you might need it.

I am vaguely aware that there's buzz within the deaf community about hearing aids, with some deaf people actually having extremely negative feelings on them. I didn't manage to find those people though, besides what I remembered from Tumblr posts explaining that cochlear implants tend to destroy what little hearing remains. I also didn't know what sorts of hearing aids exist, just basics.

In any case, it's not what my guide's about. Clan cats wouldn't be able to make devices like that-- so to compensate, I tried to stress that forcing warriors to "assimilate" to able-bodied society is bad compared to "accommodating" them. But I did make a little aside note on the guide itself as a PSA.

ANYWAY I'm keeping that pinned in my mind as I go through this. A LOT of these speakers are talking about their implants and how much they changed their lives, so I'm taking things with a teeny grain of salt, knowing I'm probably not getting the entire hearing-impaired community's feelings on this.

Rachel Kolb's Tedx talk was DEEPLY insightful, she is an absolutely fantastic presenter and her statistics are gutwrenching. I'm also paying close attention to how she described her speech therapy classes, how tactile the lessons are, how she had to hold her hand to her teacher's throat and learned that the trick to an N and an M was to speak it through the nose...

The theme of this part of my research has really been "heartbreaking," honestly. Next I watched this one from a BBC interview, where the speaker talks about how much EFFORT they have to make to listen to others. The casual cruelty of hearing people just not caring enough to reach out and make sure she can follow along in the conversation.

I know it's maybe not the same thing, but I teared up a bit at some parts, because that's something I've also felt as someone who's ADHD/Autistic. How much it hurts when people won't even take the goddamn time to clue you in. Like you're not worth it

Even if it's just for a silly cat community, I really hope the weeks of effort and hours of reading I put into this guide and journal makes someone feel seen. You're worth the time. I promise I mean it

Anyway,

Like The Basics, I kept finding more things as I went through my research, outside of this session.

Struggles of deaf people in life and the workplace

Social struggles, particularly in the digital age

Cochlear implants: Pros and Cons (It was really not relevant to my project here, BUT, I figured it was important enough to even mention in an aside on the main guide.)

Really interesting passage from a married couple losing their hearing

"What is it like to be deaf?" Mentions the link to memory loss in people who are hard of hearing due to the brain "discarding" misheard sentences.

SESSION 4: Relevant questions.

This is the point I was asking more targeted questions, as I was actively writing the bulk of the guide, because in spite of everything this remains a cat project. If I was about to write something and then realized I didn't actually know like... WHAT causes it, HOW it happens, How COMMON a thing is, I would go and find out.

For example I knew that Snowkit had a higher chance of being born deaf, but didn't exactly know why, or how it happens, or how much higher of a chance that was. So, I looked up white cats with blue eyes, and looked up the percentages associated with deafness in them.

Apparently it's rapid degeneration, instead of the inner ear just not forming properly. I could go down that rabbit hole and learn more about why, but at this point, I'm far enough along that I need to start deciding when something isn't really helpful but just interesting. It's REALLY easy to get distracted at this point in making these guides.

That lead to to look at how people tend to handle their deaf cats and make their lives better, which also lead me to a good source on how to clean a cat's ears. That's another thing I had to halt at; because this guide is about DISABILITY, not about treating ear ailments.

When you're doing research this way, I find it helpful to "limit my scope." I've mentioned this technique/skill/advice in the past with some of my cultural expansions for the Clans too. You can see how maaaaassive the guide I wrote got even while staying on topic; it easily could have gotten bloated by even MORE tangential knowledge.

But I do plan to make an ear treatment guide at some point, as well.

I then started trying to learn more about rodent squeaks. How high in hertz they are, when different animals make them, how loud in decibels, etc. I couldn't find very much, because sound/hearing in general is actually WILDLY understudied, especially in terms of non-human animals.

But I did find this article on mouse vocalizations, specifically, and this webpage on various animal hearing ranges.

(though the webpage begs ppl to be careful about making comparisons between the numbers on the page, because they come from different studies with different parameters. But like. somehow i think this is good enough for funny cat project)

Lastly on this topic, I tried to find a good source on whiskers and how well they can "replace" hearing, and ended up finding this EXCELLENT article on allllll sorts of hearing loss related things in cats. It's got it all. Whiskers, common causes, tests. It's great.

SESSION 5: Sensitivity readers

I'm trying to be extra careful with this guide, with the knowledge in mind that this one was highly requested and likely will get decent reach. So, I figured it was more important than usual to speak to disabled individuals who could advise me, to my face, instead of only relying on what I'd seen in my research and secondhand information.

(especially since my style in writing these guides tries to be "simple," trying to limit how much medical speak I use and explaining terms in-depth when I need to use them.)

I spoke to @sylsoddsandends, @s0ulfulsapph1cf, and one more. While talking to them, they brought up even more to me that I hadn't considered.

For example, I did not know that unilateral hearing loss (affects one ear more than the other) actually resulted in a loss of "distance perception," the same way that I don't have depth perception because I've got low vision in one eye. I grabbed a scientific paper to read about it and went forth.

I also got a ton of good feedback about how much I stressed that lipreading is difficult, added some advice on a unilateral HL cat would stand, brought in some notes about chronic pain, so on. I then went to preview it to a bunch of personal friends to give it a couple more once-overs for typos and flow and such.

The last thing I did was reach out to those sensitivity readers again, and ask their permission to link them here. I don't have permission from the last reader yet (which is on me, I should have asked sooner). So there will be an update here if/when they get back to me.

POSTMORTEM

Nothing here yet! I will make an attempt to collect any follow-up questions and such down here.

#bone babble #hearing loss

[an-imaginary-person6]

Hello friendos:

If you’re unaware, Missouri’s Attorney general is going to put a ban on trans medical care starting next Thursday on the basis that it’s experimental. Within the ban, it repeatedly references a debunked study and adds provisions that makes it nearly impossible to get any medical care. It is also ableist requiring a screening for autism as a way of banning autistic trans folks from getting their healthcare.

Also it’s not age dependent. It’s on adults as well as kids. So a small cat is out of the bag, they’re trying to kill us. Trans healthcare is life saving for so many, to attempt to ban it in one state is more institutionalised transphobia. With all the other anti-queer and anti-trans bills (correct me if I’m wrong, there’s been at least 300 within the year), this is just another one leading up to a genocide of my own people.

Here’s a few articles about this piece of shit thing:

For my folks living in Missouri here’s a video on resources and what to do:

For anyone else that finds this post please reblog it if the word hasn’t already been spread and add resources for aid. This is a small part of the internet but this is extremely important.

They can’t kill us in a way that matters, but let’s avoid death in the first place.

Queer rights are human rights. And all power to all the people.

(And as a given terfs do not fucking interact).

#queer #trans rights #transgender #trans rights are human rights #lgbtq+ #social justice #trans #Youtube

[cccat-in-a-meat-sack]

Masterlist of information and resources for dissociative disorders, including dissociative amnesia, depersonalization-derealization disorder, and dissociative identity disorder (+ subtypes)

**THESE RESOURCES AND INFORMATION ARE NOT TO BE USED TO SELF-DX YOURSELF. THESE ARE MEANT TO BE A STARTING POINT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DISORDERS. IF YOU FEEL LIKE YOU MIGHT HAVE ONE OF THE FOLLOWING, DO MORE RESEARCH ON YOUR OWN. AND IF YOU CAN, SEE AND TALK TO A PROFESSIONAL. FURTHERMORE, I CAN BE WRONG! THESE ARTICLES CAN BE WRONG! YOU CAN SEND US ARTICLES/PAPERS ON ANYTHING HERE TO CORRECT US, AS LONG AS IT IS NOT A CARRD OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES. THIS IS A STARTING POINT, A LAUNCHPAD IF YOU WILL, NOT THE FINISH LINE. **

I would also like to remind you that all systems are different. Systemhood is a spectrum, and you will see this in multiple articles on this masterlist.

Many of these articles come from did-research.org. If anyone has any other articles or papers for any of the following topics, please either dm me or send an ask. Do not reblog/comment with the article/paper.

**Some links may contain mentions of cult abuse and/or ritual abuse. This will be mostly in the polyfragmented area of this masterlist.

An overview of dissociative disorders

Resources for dissociative disorders

Expert questions and answers (the switching one in this is not very accurate, I touched on it more in the DID portion of this masterlist)

What causes dissociation (focuses more on DID but still important. please note that it's very long and wordy.)

6 DID myths (another long and wordy one. touches on the following: the belief that DID is a “fad”, the belief that DID is primarily diagnosed in North America by DID experts who overdiagnose the disorder, the belief that DID is rare, the belief that DID is an iatrogenic disorder rather than a trauma-based disorder, the belief that DID is the same entity as borderline personality disorder, and the belief that DID treatment is harmful to patients. Iatrogenic, in this instance, means "induced in a patient by the treatment or comments of a physician" according to the National Institutes of Health)

7 DID myths (easier to read, and covers different topics. Confirms there is not a limit to how many alters a system can have.)

Even more DID myths (NOTE. This article will say that different alters can have their own mental health issues. Please refer to "Can alters have different disorders than the body?" in the Dissociative Identity Disorder section of this post.)

You can find the start of the DSM-5 information on dissociative disorders here, page 336

A quick overview of Dissociative Disorders (this one has OSDD and subtypes)

DISSOCIATIVE AMNESIA:

What it is + cases/examples

More information, explanations of treatment, and other important Q&A's

Other information (basically a summary of the above two, but might be a little easier to read)

Amnesia in Dissociative Amnesia

More types of Amnesia in Dissociative Amnesia

DEPERSONALIZATION-DEREALIZATION DISORDER:

Causes, Symptoms, and more

Living with the disorder, treatment, diagnosis, and more (the overview/symptoms and causes isn't entirely accurate, but still provides a baseline)

A more compact version of the above two (but less in-depth)

An easier to read version of the above two (least in depth but covers the basics)

The most in depth (but also hardest to read and contains a lot of long words and sentences without a lot of breaks. tiny font too)

DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER:

Overview of DID

What causes DID? (scroll down to "Risk Factors")

What causes DID? (part 2)

The Theory of Structural Dissociation (the very long and complicated version)

The Theory of Structural Dissociation

Problems with the Theory of Structural Dissociation

What are alters?

Different types of alters (This one goes into detail not only about what alters are, but different types of them and how they help the body/mind. There is some misinformation sprinkled within, so don't take anything as a total fact until you do further research.)

Different types of alters (this one is easier to read and created by a system who is/was in therapy. I am uncertain if the system is diagnosed, but the basic alters and basic functions match up with many diagnosed DID systems.)

Notes on non-human alters (and why you can have entire systems of just non-human alters)

Fictives (this was literally the only article i could find. please send me more.)

A paper that talks about DID and fictives (this one was sent to me and I was unable to read it due to personal reasons)

Is there a limit to how many alters a system can have? (A woman who was diagnosed with DID was reported to have 2,500 alters)

Is there a limit to how many alters a system can have? (A center in Utah who specializes in DID confirms as many as 4,500 alters have been reported)

Is there a limit to how many alters a system can have? (Researchers are still unsure, but up to 4,500 have been reported. Scroll down to "multiple personalities")

Fragments (the most basic definition)

Fragments (scroll down to F)

Fragments

OSDD and UDD

An overview of the types of OSDD

OSDD Type 1 (You can find OSDD-1B and OSDD-1A in there)

OSDD Type 2 and OSDD Type 3 (there was barely any information on these two outside of wikipedia and other not-really-professional blogs that i had access to, but I tried my best)

OSDD Type 2 and OSDD Type 3

OSDD Type 2 and OSDD Type 3

OSDD Type 4 (this will take you to a page called "Trance Disorder". That is what it's called in the ICD-11) (Possession Trance Disorder is also similar, you can find that here)

P-DID/Partial DID

Splitting, is it always trauma based? (the short answer, no. Direct quote: Many individuals cannot split unless a split is strictly necessary for their protection, functioning, or ability to remain hidden as a system. That said, there are exceptions. Some individuals may become so used to using splitting as a coping mechanism that they may split easily in response to seemingly minor stressors. For example, if an individual finds going to the doctor triggering, an alter may split that exists only to attend medical appointments. In some cases, systems may be so destabilized that even trauma processing leads to the creation of new parts.)

Polyfragmented DID: the very very basics

Polyfragmented DID: notes from a diagnosed polyfragmented DID system

Polyfragmented DID (you can find it on the side bar)

More notes on polyfragmented DID from a system, unable to tell if the system is diagnosed or in therapy

Comorbid disorders

Can alters have different disorders than the body? (I couldn't find a link, but short answer, yes and no. Neurodevelopmental disorders are things that are shared by all headmates, since it's all the same brain. So things like autism, ADHD, conduct disorders, those all are implemented into the brain and therefore all alters will have them. For stuff like eating disorders however, one alter may struggle with an eating disorder while others might not. Different alters can also present different symptoms/severity of a disorder.)

This is a post about a system(?) talking about fusion and their experiences

Integration and Fusion (or in simpler terms, integration is the act of breaking down amnesia barriers and building communication. Fusion is the act of fully integrating two parts into one.)

Dormancy (I could not find a good/reliable link, but it's basically when an alter "goes to sleep" for a period of time. This period of time can be long or short, and can happen for a multitude of reasons.)

Final Fusion and Functional Multiplicity

Time loss, Co Fronting, and Co Consciousness

Switching (covers passive influence too)

Passive Influence defined

Basics types of amnesia, not necessarily system related

More types of amnesia

The three most common types of amnesia from the system community, not necessarily scientific

-Emotional amnesia: where you don’t remember any emotions that you were feeling during the memory.

-Greyouts: when you remember what happened but have no memories of it, as if someone told you about the event and you might be able to recall certain details, but you weren’t there.

-Blackouts: when you don’t remember anything about what happened, and you often don’t remember that you missed something.

Innerworlds

Subsystems

Apparently Normal Parts and Emotional Parts

Primary Structural Dissociation

Secondary Structural Dissociation

Tertiary Structural Dissociation

You can find more resources here

A helpline that can help you understand and manage PTSD, dissociative disorders, and trauma can be found at [phone] according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Crisis Text Line is a Text and Online Chat service provides 24/7 free support to those struggling with various mental health issues, including DID. Online chat: crisistextline.org Text: 741741

NAMI offers a volunteer helpline staffed by knowledgeable professionals who can answer your questions and connect you with valuable resources within your area. Call: [phone] Text: Text "Helpline" to 62640

Basically every hotline you could need

Once again, these resources and information are not to be used to self-dx yourself. That means do not read this information and immediately say "oh yea i have this disorder". This is meant to be a starting point to learn more about dissociative disorders. If you feel like you might have any, do more research on your own. And, if you can, see and talk to a professional about it. These articles can be wrong. I can be wrong. We accept articles/papers/studies on anything here to correct us. Our only request is that it is not a carrd or something along those lines. This information is a starting point, and is not final.

Another good post about the basics of DID (not dissociative disorders in general, just DID and subtypes) can be found here

#traumagenic did #did alter #did system #actually did #traumagenic system #did osdd #endos dni #anti endo #tw cult #tw cult mention #tw abuse #tw abuse mention #dissociative identity disorder #polyfrag did #polyfrag system #polyfragmented #osdd did #osdd #osdd 1b #osdd 1a #osdd type 1 #osdd type 2 #osdd type 3 #osdd type 4 #actually dissociative #dissociative amnesia #derealization #depersonalization #depersonalization derealization disorder #dpdr

[liyawritesss]

ᖴᒪOᗯEᖇᔕ Iᑎ ᗷᒪOOᗰ - ᐯᗩᒪEᑎTIᑎEᔕ ᗪᖇᗩᗷᗷᒪEᔕ

Ｄａｙ ２７ － Ｍａｔｃｈｉｎｇ Ｏｕｔｆｉｔｓ

－ Leather & Studs - Hobie Brown - Spiderman: Across The Spiderverse

－ In which Hobie gifts you with your own leather vest similar to his as an apology for his reckless behavior.

－ Check out more prompts and other activities on the Flowers In Bloom Event Masterlist!

“Baaabbbeee~!”

“Yes, Hobart?”

“Awe, c’mon, why you gotta use my full name like that?”

You were currently in your bed, working on an important assignment for class when Hobie decided to drop by. He was expecting a bit of coldness, having not come to visit for quite some time, barely answering texts or calls. He had to admit that he deserved the use of his full name though; he’s made you worry when he had no reason to. A pout crosses his lips, knowing he was in the wrong. “I’ve got somethin’ for ya~!”

“Did you steal it?”

“Alright now, these jabs are startin’ to hurt me a lil, love.”

You haven’t made a move to shoo him away yet, so Hobie takes it as an opportunity to sink further into your room, rolling through the window as he usually did when he came during the night. He’s got a long black shoulder bag over his shoulders, no doubt holding whatever peace offering he was hoping would ease the tension between the two of you.

“It’s somethin’ you’ll like - somethin’ you’ve been asking for for a while now actually.”

This piques your interest as you begrudgingly look away from the work in front of you to see what Hobie was on about. He produces from his bad a seemingly plain black jacket, oversized and denim jean; it was indeed something you had been wanting for a long time. It was because you wanted to match with Hobie, to have an article of clothing in your closet that not only reminded you of him, but could be paired with his own stylized clothing whenever the two of you would go out.

“...a black jean jacket?” You deduce, raising an eyebrow.

He holds up his hand in a pausing motion, as if he were about to reveal something grand, as he turns the jacket around to the back to reveal a very similar design to the one on the back of his leather one. The swirls of reds and whites on the back with patches he’d picked out specifically for you.

“...a punk black jean jacket?” You deduce again, correcting yourself from the first time, a tiny smile tugging at the ends of your lips.

“Pretty cool, innit?” Hobie gauges. “Designed by me, of course!”

“It’s definitely cool,” you said as you stood from your bed, approaching Hobie to examine it closer. The taller takes the initiative and throws it over your shoulders, wanting to see how it looked draped over you, and just as he’d imagined - the visual was stunning.

“Y’know, people usually apologize by saying sorry, not by getting their partners’ handmade punk jackets.”

“I know, I know,” Hobie reasons, his hands coming up in defense, “it’s been rough out here the past few days. You know I don’t like gettin’ you involved in this stuff like that.”

He’s not wrong - it was a boundary established quite clearly when he disclosed his secret identity to you. Still, he admitted he needed to work on his communication skills. He can be a bit flakey.

“You’re forgiven,” you hum softly, before reaching up to press a kiss to his cheek, “partially. We need to work on your texting.”

“You’re the one that said I can’t text and swing!” Hobie points out promptly.

“So you don’t swing into a building, dummy,” you remind him, playfully punching him in the shoulder, “you get enough bruises just by being thrown into them.”

“I’m trying,” Hobie assures, pulling you in for a kiss on the forehead, “both on the texting and not gettin’ thrown into buildings.”

If you enjoyed, please leave a like, comment, and reblog for others to see! And don’t be shy to send in a request!

#flowersinbloom🏵 #black reader #black tumblr #nlack marvel #marvel #mcu #marvel x reader #marvel x black!reader #mcu x reader #marvels spiderman #spiderman marvel #spiderman x reader #spiderman x black!reader #spiderman across the spiderverse #spiderman atsv #hobie brown #hobie #hobie brown spider punk #spider punk x reader #spider punk #hobie brown x reader #hobie brown x black!reader

[when-did-this-become-difficult]

the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

the SSI Savings Penalty Elimination Act

IT WILL LET DISABLED PEOPLE SAVE MONEY WHILE KEEPING BENEFITS

From this May 5, 2022 Disability Scoop article:

Currently, individuals receiving SSI can have no more than $2,000 in assets. Married couples are limited to $3,000. Those figures have not changed since 1984.

The bill known as the Savings Penalty Elimination Act would increase those caps to $10,000 for individuals and $20,000 for married couples. Moreover, the legislation would tie the asset limits to inflation going forward to ensure they keep pace with economic reality.

it’s cosponsored by one Democrat and one Republican and I think it actually has a fighting chance of passing? PLEASE

And oh my god tying the limits to inflation so we don’t have to pass higher limits over and over again is so fucking good Im going to cry you love to see a good piece of legislation FUCKING FINALLY a good piece of legislation!!!!!!

CORRECTION, quoted from @jabberwockypie:

(And I'm very sorry that I overstated the marriage benefits earlier, I misunderstood.)

Correction: It would NOT give disabled people marriage equality.

If you’re disabled, and your spouse is abled and working, then your spouse’s income still counts against your benefits, and can still make you lose your benefits.

This does NOT get rid of the Marriage Penalty. (Which means if you’re on SSI and your spouse is on SSI, you each only recieve 3/4 of the benefits a single disabled person on SSI would receive.)

The asset limit increase specifically applies to couples where both parties are disabled and on SSI.

That said, it’s still a really important step. Right now, the way things work, if you have more than $2000 at any time, you can lose your benefits.  But changing that is the ONLY thing this bill does. I’ve read it.

(Since current MAXIMUM a person can be paid on SSI per month is $841, it’s more like “You can save up to $1150″ - because you need to have “room” in your account for next month’s payment, so you never ever go over $2000 - even if most of that is immediately going back out the door for rent and bills.)

I just don’t want anyone reblogging this to think this will fix the marriage inequality thing, because IT DOESN’T.

Also an update as of 6/28/22: The bill is still in the Senate Finance Committee, but it now has many more cosponsors than before from both sides of the aisle. You can check up on it on the official Senate website here.

#dear god maybe Rob Portman has one (1) good vote left in him I didn’t think it was possible #may 2022 #the state of the union #BLEASE #Ohio #I'll be honest every time this comes up in my notifications I want to delete my tumblr permanently out of shame for having had partial #incorrect information in the first go round and rebloggin ghte correction didn't seem to get it out fast enough so here we go with a direct #edited in thingy.

[intersectionalpraxis]

Hi, I wanted to reach out because I think the work you’re doing is tremendously important and I thought you would want to know that you (obviously unintentionally) posted some misinformation in the form of that post about Canadian passport renewal excluding Palestine as a place of birth. The reality of the matter is still egregious, but the original tweet and linked TikTok were mistaken about the newness of this exclusion of Palestine; it has actually always been the case, rather than being a new policy (which is still awful). I included context and proof in my reblog of your original post; it’s several posts down on my blog now. I just think it’s super important that people have accurate information. You have more reach than I do, so it would mean a lot if you were willing to reblog this correction. Thanks so much in advance.

I appreciate the outreach. I updated the post with the more up to date information about passport renewal in my original post. I am not sure how it is misleading when I already updated. The only thing I can think of is you saw the post re-blogged without the context I additionally provided. I have noticed Tumblr doesn't make changes to the posts already re-blogged, which is unfortunate and the egregious thing here, to be honest.

This is original anon that alerted it to me, and I included it in the original. I acknowledged how the Canadian government's erasure is a form of cultural genocide like OP mentioned on Twitter/and the young person in the original Tiktok did (and this has been going on for over a decade and has specifics I referred to).

I also provided the articles highlighted in the wiki page. I also want to state that it is not something I knew ran deeper on a systemic level, and it was something I immediately took accountability for by providing those updates. I hope this offers more clarity. You can scroll to see that I did indeed add this in for context.

And this is what it has looked like for a few days:

I also unfortunately can not see your response super recent in my re-blogs, so if you added any more information outside of my updates that folks can look into, I can add it here and also to the original post. Thank you!

#feminist #social justice #free palestine #palestine #canada #canada politics #canadian #politics #canada government #canadian government #settler colonialism #settler violence

[sweaterkittensahoy]

I can't find the post where I said Mennonites were a cult like the Amish, but I remember someone replied with, "Hey, that's not correct" but with a bit more explanation.

Anyway, I can't find the original post to reblog and correct myself, so I just wanna say somewhere that I was wrong about Mennonites shunning and threatening shunning to anyone who is going to leave. It does happen, but it's not absolutely universal the way it is with the Amish, the Mormons, or with the Fundamentalist Christians.

When speaking of cults vs. religions, I think it's very important to double check these things because understanding if someone is going through a cult experience vs. a shitty church experience can be very, very different.

Like, the Catholic church on paper (and on twitter) is just a pile of shitbags. But there's also a lot of Catholics who loudly speak out about fucked up church doctrine and other fucked up church practices. That's not a cult. That's a bad church experience. You get me?

Looking at the wiki article, which is wonderfully detailed, I see the reason I thought all Mennonites practiced excommunication is because I grew up near Old Order Mennonites, who DO practice excommunication. But they are just one of many variations on the practices. Lots of schisms went down over time.

So, I was wrong. Old Order Mennonites? They use excommunication and shunning. Those are cult behaviors. But many Mennonites do NOT do that. It's an important distinction.

#mennonites #religion #cults #things i learned #to whoever replied to that post from months ago #sorry it took so long to read up #but thanks for letting me know i should

[lesbonym]

okay so I have a few questions if that’s okay? 😅

~ what’s the difference between masc and butch?

~ I met this girl on hinge last year and she made such a big deal over the fact that i basically knew nothing 🥹 she laughed at me at first and then she started explaining the “types” of lesbians?? I was so confused, she started by trying to explain what a U-haul lesbian was and got then never explained anything else??? would she have meant “types” as in like, femme, masc, butch, pillow princess etc terms like that?

~ also I’m really worried because most of the community goes on about how lesbian relationships go really fast… and I’m worried because I don’t know if anyone is gonna want me or want to deal with me, you know? Or be bothered with taking it slow because (Really exposing myself here,) but I’ve never been in a relationship. Never held hands, never kissed anyone, still a virgin. So most I know is from ppl around me, movies and fanfiction- PROBABLY NOT THE MOST RELIABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION?!

sorry if this is really long idk, I’m gonna be 19 in a month and I just feel that people are gonna treat me differently… but not in a good way if that makes sense?

🕷️

It's okay, baby. I'm glad you are asking. I might not give perfect answers to these so I would also check comments or reblogs for other answers! I'll also try to link some good articles I found and I recommend people tag some good blogs that fall under these categories. Questions are under the line cause this is a bit long lol

1. Okay, I'm definitely not butch but I hope I can answer some questions. Butch is an important part of lesbian culture that's often viewed as a masculine protector, it's an identity. "Masc," means masculine and can be more viewed as the aesthetic or how someone looks. There's another term called "Stud," which refers to masculine POC (Black, indigenous, Hispanic, etc.) lesbians, and white masculine lesbians can not identify with this identity. But not every POC masculine lesbian will identify with Stud. All of these identities are equally valid and wonderful alongside Femme.

It's always important to just ask what a lesbian identifies and what it might mean to them. (Again anyone can come and add more info to this or correct me on any info.)

Article written by Stud lesbian

Butch blogs I recommend that I follow: @butchxdaddy @daddyisatitlenotagender @wanderingbutch (I need more studs to follow, please recommend some)

2. That girl should not be laughing at you and I'm sorry she did that. "U-Haul" lesbian isn't even really a type of lesbian, it's a stereotype that lesbian tend to move in together quickly. People are all learning many things at different times and you making an effort to learn is what matters. And yes, there's many labels that lesbians can fall under, but don't have to. Types or labels could include butch, femme, stud, and masc, though I personally view pillow princess as more as a sexual term, but I might be wrong about that.

3. Sadly, there's a lot of hate towards lesbians even in the community (POC and masc lesbians especially). Many lesbians are viewed in the stereotype of always moving quickly, moving in and moving on. My own personal relationship is slow moving, a decision mutually agreed upon. I would definitely say that while fanfic and movies is an okay starting place, I learned much more by talking to other people on tumblr, finding posts and articles. You could probably try to find some good educational videos to learn more. That was a lot but I want to say that it's okay to ask questions and to never feel afraid to not know something if you just don't know. You should be allowed to take it slow and anyone that doesn't respect that is an ass. People that laugh at you (maliciously) or make you feel dumb are not good for you. While they aren't obligated to educate you, I think it's important to help baby gays <3

#🕷️ anon #emoji anons #emoji anon #lesbian #wlw #sapphic #nblw #butch #masc lesbian #butch lesbian #lesbian questions

[judaicsheyd]

About this Blog, its Author, and how to Navigate it.

Shalom, and welcome to my intro, which will be constantly updated. Check out my sideblog where I just repost pretty pictures. 𓂃⊹ ִֶָ  — I will shortly be adding my reading list here!

First off, I'll start with a quick rundown of myself / this blog before getting into the heavier details:

— You can call me Carver or Neshama (נשמה), my pronouns are she/him. My gender / sexuality is just whatever (or queer), and I am an adult. — I practice egalitarian Conservadox Judaism. — I am Hungarian (however I live in the USA), and I am white. — I am autistic and have ADHD. — I am a double major and double minor undergrad student. — I do use the label of "Demonolator", but in truth I am just a Jew who works with shedim. I do not worship them, and solely worship HaShem. My counterpart sheyd is Livyatan.

This is not really a personal blog, it's more informational and educational. Its focus is Judaism, however I will mention other areas of my academic interest, mostly linguistics. I will also speak on pressing topics (BLM, indigenous rights, queer liberation, etc.) which are all important parts of my Judaism, especially the idea of Tikkun Olam. Here is a table of contents for what else can be found under the break:

i. Navigation (tags I use) ii. What is this Blog? — Blog Standards — Blog Guidelines iii. Upcoming Posts

border inspo & header art

Without further ado, onto navigation. Here's a list of tags which you can use to navigate my posts. Yes, I have a Lilith tag, and it's just "Lilith" in Hebrew.

— #yeshivawithcarver : All of my original educational Jewish stuff. — #demonologywithcarver : All of my original educational demon stuff. — #askcarver : Every ask I've responded to. — #references : Both my original content and reblogs that include good educational resources / information. — #carverop : All my original posts. Still working on tagging everything with this.

This blog will hold many of my already written, in-the-works, and future informational "articles". From entries on different demons to simple guides to understanding aspects of Jewish life, I am committed to spreading educational content that is anti-appropriative and based within scholarly understandings of religion.

In order to set the stage for what you can expect from my blog, here are some "rules":

— I am not required to answer any asks or DMs. I have a very busy life outside of the internet, and also often don't have the energy for social interaction. If I answer, it is because I have a personal interest in what you have said and the energy to follow through on that interest. — I have a no blocking policy, which means that I will not block most people who I disagree with, even vehemently, on some topics. These include being anti-Zionist (criticizing the Israeli government is completely fine and I do it as well), and other such people. Please do not interact with me. You can still consume all my educational content as the last thing I want is to limit anyone's ability to learn, just don't harass me. — My no blocking policy does NOT extend to Nazis, Kahanists, those who are anti-Palestine, Messianics/"Jews for Jesus", racists, LGBTQphobes, sexists, Islamophobes, etc. — Anyone can ask any question whatsoever. The only stupid questions are those that are left unasked and their answers assumed. This includes anyone who wishes to disagree with me on anything. — My DMs and asks are always open! I love to answer questions, and I promise I don't bite. — Feel free to correct me, ask for elaboration, or ask for sources whenever.

I base my understanding of religion within tradition and history, but I understand these things to be constantly evolving and adaptable. I am not a fan of new-age beliefs which appropriate Judaism, Hinduism, and countless other practices to no end. To make things simple, I will establish these beliefs:

— The Divine are not our friends. They are our mentors and guides which want nothing but the best for us. — Demons and angels/G-d do not hate each other. — G-d is not inherently evil, and neither are "Abrahamic" religions. — Interacting with the Kabbalah or Qlippot as a non-Jew is highly appropriative of Judaism. — Lilith is closed. — I do not believe that divine beings are romantically or sexually interested in humans at all. — I do not believe that humans can be reincarnated divine beings, the children of divine beings, etc.

As always, please feel free to request / recommend a topic for me to cover! If you have any interesting information that you think would be helpful for any topics I'm working on, send them my way as well (please).

Near-Complete — I AM: Understanding G-d's Many Names in Jewish Thought and Practice

Old, Need to Rewrite — 'Daemon' vs. 'Demon' — Emperor Leviathan, He Who Devours — Empress Unsere, Breath of Life — Lucifuge Rofocale, Master of Pacts — Princess Elelogap, Lady of the Tides

Drafting — Jewish Conceptions of Demons — G-d's Divine Council & the Polytheistic Roots of Judaism — A Short History of Lucifer & Satan — Demonolatry 101: An Expansive Introduction

Future Projects & Ideas — On Lilith, and the Silencing of her Narrative — Stars of David: Astrology in Jewish Tradition — Jewish Conceptions of Angels — Jewish Conceptions of Demons — The Demonic Divine Feminine — Why Being 'Anti-Solomonic' is just Antisemitic — Jewish Golems: We too can Partake in the Divine Act of Creation — Traditional Demonolatry 101 — G-d's Pronouns? — Asherah's Legacy: Reclaiming the Lost Goddess of Judaism — The Jewish Afterlife — The Eight Genders of Judaism — Messianic 'Judaism' is Antisemitic — The Torah in the Tarot — Jewish Folk Creatures 101 — An intro to Gematria — The Aleph-Bet in Divination — Behemoth & Ziz — King Bael — Metatron — King Paimon

Thank you for reading, ב״ה

#judaism #demonolatry #demonology #jewish #jumblr #demonolator #occult #left hand path #shedim #leviathan #carverop

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Notes de mise à jour

🌟 Nouveautés

Pour les utilisateurs de Tumblr via une appli Web autonome à partir de Chrome, l'icône de cette dernière se voit désormais ornée d'une pastille indiquant les billets non lus, tout comme c'était déjà le cas dans le titre de la page.

Des changements ont été apportés à la fonction "Désactiver les notifications" billet par billet dans l'application, qui évite à présent la création de nouvelles activités dans la section Trafic en complément de la mise en sourdine des notifications Push. Pour en savoir plus, consultez nos pages d'aide dédiées pour iOS et pour Android.

La fonctionnalité "Reblographie" a été améliorée sur le Web. Elle affiche davantage d'informations lorsque l'on clique sur l'un des nœuds du graphique, comme le nombre de niveaux de reblogs à partir du billet originel ou l'indication de l'auteur du reblog. Et d'autres améliorations arrivent ! Activez-la via les Labos Tumblr, et vous verrez ensuite apparaître une nouvelle icône parmi les onglets des notes d'un billet.

🛠️ Correctifs

Correction d'un problème qui a masqué les questions anonymes de la boîte de réception durant un court laps de temps. Aucune question de ce type n'a été perdue : elles étaient temporairement invisibles.

Correction d'une anomalie qui pouvait afficher les questions posées par des blogs suspendus/désactivés dans les boîtes de réception de certains utilisateurs.

Un important correctif concernant les raccourcis clavier a été déployé sur le Web. Ce dernier améliore la prise en charge des claviers non-QWERTY.

Correction d'un bug sur le Web qui pouvait enclencher de façon répétée une action lorsque la touche d'un raccourci clavier était maintenue enfoncée (par exemple, maintenir la touche R pour rebloguer). Dorénavant, même si la touche d'un raccourci clavier est maintenue enfoncée, son action ne sera réalisée qu'une seule fois, à moins qu'elle n'ait été relâchée et pressée à nouveau.

Correction sur le Web de l'espacement autour des labels "Donateur" dans les notes qui a été réduit afin de s'homogénéiser avec les autres labels similaires déjà présents dans cette section.

Correction d'un bug qui pouvait ne pas trier correctement les reblogs dans les notes d'un billet après modification du type de tri.

Correction d'un bug qui pouvait fausser l'éligibilité d'un billet à l'activation de Blaze par d'autres utilisateurs en fonction de l'éditeur de billets ayant été utilisé pour le créer.

Lorsque vous recevez en cadeau un article en provenance de TumblrMart, seule la notification du cadeau vous est à présent envoyée par e-mail alors qu'elle était auparavant accompagnée d'un e-mail de type Question.

Lors de l'extinction manuelle d'une campagne Blaze avant son terme, nous n'envoyons désormais plus d'e-mail "Campagne Blaze menée avec succès !".

Dans les pages de tag, de recherche et dans la section Explorer, le raccourci "File d'attente rapide" (maintenir "W") fonctionne maintenant correctement avec l'affichage en grille des billets.

Correction d'une anomalie dans le nouvel éditeur de billets sur le Web qui pouvait provoquer des soubresauts impromptus lors de l'ajout de tags via le menu pop-up de suggestions.

Dans le nouvel éditeur de billets sur le Web, copier/coller un élément HTML "blockquote" est à présent interprété comme un bloc Texte "En retrait".

Les résultats des recherches audio dans l'éditeur de billets sur le Web sont à présent plus pertinents.

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[gingerswagfreckles]

hey the post you made abt the israeli/palestine conflict is so much more conplicated than tumblr "activists" are making it out to be is literally so correct and so fucking important to have been said thank you so much

@manicpoetic Thanks so much! I'm really glad I made it. While I was typing I was like what am I even writing this for no one is gonna read it especially the people who probably need to bc it's longer than 3 sentences....but it has gained more traction than I had expected which has been encouraging.

I really am not an expert but that's sort of the point, like... I have read the news every day for at least the past 6 years and have read almost every article several newspapers have published on this conflict in that time, and I am still not sure of all the details nor do I think my stupid takes would be very helpful to anyone. Yet I knooooow I am more informed than Steven Universe Blogger #77 who is suddenly very confidently advocating for terrorist organizations and comically oversimplified solutions?? Like man some people on this site really need to learn to get humbled. Not every issue can be simplified down to a 3 sentence text post and you in your college dorm are probably not coming up with solutions that haven't been considered by international organizations. Some stuff is simple, yeah, and sometimes it really is just that the powers that be won't adopt these solutions. But there are still a lot of aspects to most issues that aren't being discussed on social media, and a lot of the time people refuse to engage with the fact that The Powers That Be do exist whether we like them or not.

Willing the roadblocks to solutions away through text posts isn't going to happen, like, ever, and there are some issues that can't be solved through mass social media campaigns just to shift public opinion. The confidence with which people make really violent and reductive posts without doing the bare minimum of research on what they are talking about is really alarming, and the whole "I'm not reading all that 😂🤪" attitude about anything that challenges the 2 sentence quippy slogan they reblogged is doing serious damage.

Anyway, sorry to write a whole nother essay, but it is nice to hear some people are pushing back against this kind of simplified thinking. Not everything is a sports team type game and not everyone engaging with an issue beyond hashtags is trying to obscure The Truth. Like some people just really need to accept the fact that just because you refuse to educate yourself on a topic doesn't mean there is nothing to learn.

#gingerswagfreckles #i/p #i/p conflict #israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #like one example is that post going around being like. omggg the leaders of hamas r in qatarrrrr why doesnt israel just extradite themmm 🙄 #like. as if no one tried that? lol #this is not to say that anything that is happening rn in gaza is remotely justified bc it is not. the israeli gov is committing genocide #but when people act like they just thought of an obvious solution....without considering like hey u know...the government of qatar is also #a player with agency in this conflict #and they dont have the best relationship with israel rn.....perhaps there is a reason the leaders of hamas chose to live there?? #it just really shows that a lot of people are not thinking beyond their social media feed at all

[adarkrainbow]

Cinderella’s shoes: Glass or fur? The big French debate

You might have heard that “Cinderella’s shoes weren’t originally made of glass, but of fur, and the glass thing is just a misinterpretation/mistranslation”. You might also have never heard of it, then congrats you just did! 

As I said in a previous reblog, @gosagacious wrote an article already covering the “glass VS fur” debate that you can read here and that provides interesting informations and points of view. But I want to push further the exploration of the glass VS fur debate from a French point of view and perspective, because this debate all started in France and is ultimately a French question. 

To tell you how important this question is to the French: the French Wikipedia has an ENTIRE PAGE dedicated to the question, titled “Controversy over the composition of Cinderella’s slippers”. 

So what is this debate about? Well, Perrault wrote about Cinderella wearing “glass slippers”, in French “pantoufles de verre”. The question is to known whether the French “verre” was actually the other French word “vair”, pronounced the same way, that is the term designated the fur of the grey squirrel when used for things like clothing. 

# The debate begins, so to speak, in 1841, when the great French writer Honoré de Balzac writes in his novel “About Catherine of Medicis” how originally Perrault wrote “a fur slipper” (a “pantoufle de vair”), but due to the word “vair” falling out of use for “the last century”, the “current” editors (those of the early 19th century) copy versions of the story in which the shoe is made of “glass” (verre), not “fur” (vair). 

Or at least this is what people like to repeat and parrot around without having read the actual book. Because one key fact often forgotten: this book is a fiction novel, not a literary analysis. It is not Balzac himself who speaks there, but actually one of the characters of his fictional stories that present this theory as the “right” and “correct” explanation. Second point... the character in question who claims that is a fur-seller himself. A furrier. And before he explains his theory about the fur slippers, he gives a lengthy lesson about the origin and trade of furs in France. It is obvious that, as a result, his own point of view would be quite biased! In fact, it is fascinating to see that the literary debate proper never began during Balzac’s lifetime - and even more, beyond this simple mention, Balzac never defended or exposed this idea anywhere else, in his books or outside of it. 

# It could have stopped there, if it wasn’t for Emile Littré twenty years later. Littré is known for his “Littré”, one of the most famous French dictionaries. In 1861 he published his “Dictionary of the French Language” that would later become so used and popular it would just be called “Le Littré”, and in it, at the article of “vair”, he includes the words of Balzac’s furrier character as a citation to illustrate the word. Thus, while Littré doesn’t say anything about the topic, he helped popularized the idea of the “fur slipper” in France - especially since the citation was cut (so you didn’t know who said it) AND the author (Balzac) was not named, leaving to it the feeling it was more of a general quotation than a literary citation. Was it a subtle way to support the “vair” idea, or just a careless addition of a quotation whose effects Littré couldn’t predict? Mystery.

And thus, Balzac and Littré set out the ground from which the “fur theory” would start overflowing.

# Next step : 1885 and the famous writer Anatole France. In his “The book of my friend”, he invoked again the fur theory and one paragraph of the book became massively famous and was shared among people as another “proof” that Cinderella’s slippers were made of fur: a paragraph in which the “glass” (verre) of the slippers is questioned as being ridiculous and impossible, while the “fur” (vair) slippers are described as more practical and a much better choice to go to the ball. 

So, France was a defender of the fur theory? NOT AT ALL! This paragraph mocking the glass slippers and promoting the fur slippers was in truth a cut citation. Anatole France was against all those “rationalist” interpretations of Cinderella, and what people tend to cut from his text is the second paragraph following the one quoted above: a paragraph in which the fur theory is dismissed due to “common sense not being of any use” when reading fairytales. Anatole points out how the shoes are said to be “fairy shoes”, and that the fairy origins of the shoes explicitely spelled out in the story is the only argument worth of consideration as it obliterates all the doubts one can emit towards the “practicality” of the shoes. He similarly points out how a carriage can be created out of a pumpkin specifically due to how it is “fairy work”. In fact, he concludes by saying: if things were following common sense in fairytales, THAT would be baffling. 

# After Anatole France, the fake “vair supporter”, we got a “real” vair supporter with Pierre Larousse, the writer of the other big dictionary rival of the Littré, the Larousse. When Pierre published his “Great Universal Dictionary of the 19th century” between 1866 and 1876 (what would be known as the “Petit Larousse”, Small Larousse), he explicitely talked about the vair VS verre issue and claimed “vair” was the right explanation. He claimed that while Perrault like the “magical”, he wouldn’t have in his right mind given Cinderella glass shoes, while “vair” was very common in his day. Larousse theorized that a later editor, upon seeing “vair”, thought it was a typographic mistake and rewrote it to “verre” - and while Larousse also theorizes that maybe “vair” was willingly changed to “verre” for the sake of the “marvelous”, he rather pushes forward the theory of a “correction by ignorance”. He also invoked the fact that people forgot about “vair” due to the term being used for heraldry, and the heraldic language having slowly lost itself to the common culture (we’ll return to that).

# And the fight was on. You had those that defended the “verre/glass” explanation, others who used the “vair” one. Authors of the 19th century either wrote about “verre” or “vair”... And sometimes you have funny cases where an author will actually mock or play with the whole debate. At the very beginning of the 20th century (1909 to be exact), Emile Bergerat wrote a “Cinderella in an automobile” and in it reinvented the whole debate as being born from how the scientists and scholars of the court (in the story of Cinderella) were unable to explain how it was possible to create the glass shoes Cinderella wore, and so instead of confessing their lack of results simply decided to write about “vair” shoes, fur shoes, to cover up the mystery they couldn’t solve. 

# As a personal note, from having encountered this on my study time, another defender/spreader of the “vair” idea was André Breton, the leader of the surrealism movement in France. In his book “L’amour fou” (Crazy love) he wrote extensively about Cinderella’s shoe, describing a project he had of making a “cendrier Cendrillon” (Cinderella ash-tray) based on discovering a shoe-shaped spoon at a flea market - and in it he also talked about the “vair” topic, and pushed the idea that “vair”/”fur” was the original word used by Perrault. 

 Now, all of that being said, the answer is definitively: glass. Pantoufles de verre is the correct writing, they were always glass slippers in Perrault’s tale, and the fur slipper defenders are wrong. 

Mind you, it is always interesting to see the argument of both sides. And what were the arguments of the “fur” partisans? “Verre” and “vair” sounds identical. It is more logical and rational to have slippers made of fur instead of made of glass. Glass shoes would be very hard to wear. “Vair” was a material for rich people, especially used for luxury clothing since the 14th century. But overall the main argument is: “in the name of reason”, “let’s be reasonable”, “let’s be logic”...

And with the same logic answer those that defend the “glass slippers” (and who are right). The idea of a “later correction by editors” seems absurd due to Perrault having published his tales when he was alive, so he knew he wrote “verre”. Some might invoke the fact that “verre” could be another spelling of “vair” in medieval texts, or that Perrault made a mistake himself writing “verre” erronously but... we are not in the Middle-Ages anymore, we are in the Renaissance, and Perrault isn’t just a renowned writer he is also a member of L’Académie Française (The French Academy, aka the institution whose ENTIRE JOB AND PURPOSE is to fix grammar and ortographs and who say what is part of the French language and what is not). That Perrault would have written “verre” over all his story when he wanted to write “vair” is an entirely ridiculous argument, when we know how careful he was when writing his tales (and when we have several earlier drafts of the stories). 

But even beyond that other arguments can be pushed forward, such as how “vair” was a word mostly known in heraldry at the time of Perrault and not truly used anymore by Perrault’s time ; how there is no record or testimony of shoes of any kind being made of “vair” fur in real life (as the vair was kept for more visibly parts of the costume, and smaller due to being quite costly) ; and finally, one can invoke the symbolism of the slippers being made of glass. Glass was by Perrault’s time a rare and costly material put at the same level as crystal ; it was renowned for being thin, elegant, light and fragile. As a result, to wear such shoes, a person must be just as grateful and as elegant as the material - if the glass slippers only fit Cinderella, it is because she is the only one worthy of such an exquisite material. PLUS there’s also the fact that the glass industry was one of the rare industries where aristocrats and noblemen were allowed to work without being dishonored. And of course, from the same “practical” thought: if the shoe is made of glass, it makes much more sense that it would fit only a specific girl whose feet is the exact shape of the glass encasing ; instead of a “fur” shoe that could be worn by a lot more people. 

Ultimate sign of the “verre” truth winning: a century after the Petit Larousse’s original publication, the quotation about “vair” being the right term was changed. Now you can read in it: “It has been theorized that the shoes of Cinderella were made of fur, vair, instead of verre as Perrault wrote it: but in a fairy tale, such a research of reason seems useless”. 

#cinderella #cendrillon #glass vs fur #charles perrault #perrault fairytales #french fairytales #glass slippers

[chocolatepot]

Hope you don't mind my taking this to a new post, @kansou, but I wanted to write a lot and knew it would be a pain in the butt to post in replies!

So my tag was: #fuck GRRM's commitment to 'realism' without knowing anything about medieval social history

GRRM knows about events in medieval political history, basically - obviously he knows the story of the Wars of the Roses and the Anarchy, he knows who the major players were in both of them and what motivated them, since he replicates these things in his books. This is what the popular idea of history is (knowing the correct sequence of events and individuals), so it's fair to say he's got a good grasp on the history from one angle.

However, since about the 1960s, the field of history has been more and more focused on issues relating to social trends and groups, and looking at the past through different lenses (like gender relations, power dynamics, class, ethnicity, etc.). Academic books are less likely to be focused on the causes of the Wars of the Roses, for instance, and more likely to be about how a given place was the nexus of multiple trade routes and cultures, how being a priest affected perceptions of a man's masculinity, or the line between superstition and religion. There's also a tendency to look at more sources - in the past, it was common to just look at proscriptive legal/ecclesiastical sources that might give a misleading impression of everyone conforming to a strict standard (e.g. the idea that women were completely subordinate to men because of coverture, or the whole liege-vassals thing), but if you look at the records of actual court cases, or noblewomen's correspondence, you see how much these could flex in reality.

So like, GRRM portrays Cersei as frustrated because she learns at an early age that she has no agency because she's female and that her only value is her ability to bear children, and the only way she's able to get anything done in the books is by influencing men with sex or using underhanded magical means because she's barred from traditional routes of power. But ... modern scholarship on noblewomen and queens shows that while their childbearing was important, they actually had pretty big roles to play in diplomacy and internal and external politics, while the things Cersei does were the sort of nasty stereotypes that existed about women in the period seeking illegitimate power. There's a whole book on the topic of what GRRM/GOT does right and (mostly) wrong in this area, Queenship and the Women of Westeros: Female Agency and Advice in Game of Thrones and A Song of Ice and Fire, and I really recommend it.

I also reblogged a post earlier about the same thing more generally. The two historians, Eleanor Janega and Sara McDougall, are pretty awesome and have some great publications themselves. One very valuable point in that article is that the lives of women in labor were not typically considered less important than their potential sons - c-sections weren't generally done on live women, as happens in House of the Dragon.

Queenship and the Women of Westeros has a great quote that really sums up the problem:

As Shiloh Carroll argues, building on the work of Helen Young, “readers are caught in a ‘feedback loop’ in which Martin’s work helps to create a neomedieval idea of the Middle Ages, which then becomes their idea of what the Middle Ages ‘really’ looked like, which is then used to defend Martin’s work as ‘realistic’ because it matches their idea of the real Middle Ages.”

There are also some quotes over here on @itmeansapricot about the same problems in The White Queen. Some other books I'd recommend:

Premodern Rulers and Postmodern Viewers: Gender, Sex, and Power in Popular Culture

Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England

Colonization, Piracy, and Trade in Early Modern Europe: The Roles of Powerful Women and Queens

Blood Royal: Dynastic Politics in Medieval Europe

Immigrant England, 1300-1550

Peasant and Community in Medieval England, 1200-1500

Fama: the Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe

#history #got #hotd

[tonkysexist]

Hi! I dont suppose you know of any masterposts or even like, slide/presentation things idk, with sited sources and references about everything JKR has done, specially for the funding and prompting anti-trans legislature and other shit like that beyond "just stating her opinion"? (like that somehow doesn't excuse someone using their platform to actively advocate for antitrans shit and more???), bonus points if it points out/includes all the shitty racist and antisemtic themes in the HP works. im trying to make a point and thought surly someone has one around.

I don't know of any off the top of my head, but I linked a few articles in my earlier reblogs of my Hogwarts Legacy post, and I'd be happy to relink those (and others) here!

She is behind a "women-only" ("women" being the cisgender only variety in this context) rape crisis center in Edinburgh (article here), despite Rape Crisis Scotland's emphasis on the importance of gender-inclusive care. In fact, Edinburgh's Rape Crisis Center is facing many issues with anti-trans threats (transphobia tw for that article, and well, most of this post probably).

She also actively campaigned against a Scottish gender recognition bill to her Twitter platform of over 14 million.

JKR has also donated one million to fund a campaign against Scottish independence. My knowledge of this issue is pretty surface level, so if anyone would like to elaborate on that in the reblogs/replies, I would appreciate it!

As for the antisemitism. There's a lot there.

Forbes did a pretty concise write-up on the antisemitism in the original series. I actually agree that JKR probably didn't do that completely deliberately, but considering how much she looooooves to talk on Twitter, she has never actually confronted these issues directly. The Jewish issue remains unaddressed with her (except for her claiming there is a Jewish wizard in Hogwarts “Anthony Goldstein” which doesn't really help her case here). Which leads us to Hogwarts Legacy, post controversy and post refusal to comment.

The game's premise relies on the (previously established as a Jewish caricature) goblin race kidnapping a child to use in an ancient dark ritual to take over the wizarding world. This plays into the blood libel trope and the "Jews are going to take over the world" (aka "New World Order") conspiracy. JKR and the creators of HL have no right to plead ignorance anymore. They have been corrected by many figures, both big and small.

This isn't even touching on the "Elves like being slaves because it's the natural order of things" or the trans character in Hogwarts Legacy who is called "Sirona Ryan" (apparently the devs went to the JKR school of totally not intentional naming).

It all adds up, and any way you want to look at it, buying Hogwarts Legacy or giving it clout by posting about it positively (yes-- those of you who flex pirating it I'm talking to you) is funding this continued shit from JKR and the HP franchise.

#this is long but i do still invite anyone who has more to say to say it here #anti JKR #not marvel #hogwarts legacy #antisemitism and media #tw antisemitism mention #tw transphobia