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I know "60s housewives who invented slash fanfiction" has taken on a life of its own as a phrase, but Kirk/Spock didn't really exist until the 70s and THOSE WOMEN HAD JOBS. They were teachers and librarians and bookkeepers and scientists and they damn well spent their own money going to conventions, printing zines, buying fanart and making fandom happen. Put some respect on their names.

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A rowing boat *does* have an engine, it's just that her engine is 8 giants who are studying land management at Cambridge university.

Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).

When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".

When the boat is still being built, your say "it".

When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".

When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".

When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.

If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").

If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")

If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").

If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.

If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.

I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.

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not to sound like a medieval peasant or a catholic but i resent anti-carb propaganda so much like bread will never be evil it is holy it is divine it is one of life’s most simple yet decadent pleasures. love is stored in the bread

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still thinking about this scene and these tags by @fuckyeahisawthat

#paul atreides #dunetwo #dune #im still absolutely breathtaken by the ending #this is what i think Frank would have written if he'd had another 50 years to think about it

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The fandom was responsible for this by the way. When Clyde showed up for the first time people started writing and drawing him in crochet shell cozies and then someone on the show saw that and they had shell cozies made for Clyde!

ELEMENTARY | 2.19 The Many Mouths of Aaron Colville

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really recommend getting a partner with a different religion than you and very little knowledge of your religion because the opportunities for explaining things to each other are just exquisite

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He's a wizard!

What is this sorcery

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Rebecca Ferguson as Jessica Atreides in DUNE: PART TWO (2024) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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REBECCA FERGUSON as LADY JESSICA

DUNE: PART ONE (2021) dir. Denis Villeneuve

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i genuinely hope that boop day inspires everyone to interact more with other tumblr users. because it’s clearly way more fun this way!! even once the boop button is gone, there’s still asks, tag and ask games, comments, dms, fuck it let’s bring back blog rates i don’t care. part of the reason that tumblr is dying is that its way less social than it used to be. let’s fix that!!

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I always do such a hard double take when Evangelicals start talking about the evils of Gog and Magog because I'm a big fan of British mythology and in the medieval "origin" myth Gog and Magog are benevolent magical giants who are the sons of the daughters of Brutus (yeah the guy who killed Caesar) and also they're somehow related to the city of Troy??? And if anything ever threatens London Gog and Magog are supposed to rise up to defend the City kinda like a much more geographically specific King Arthur myth (honestly parts of the King Arthur tale probably come from the Gog and Magog stories).

To this day there are statues of them in the financial district and at the Lord Mayor's Show in November wicker effigies of them lead the parade through the City pulled by young men in scarlet cloaks.

I do often wonder if Evangelicals would consider this a type of devil worship. The difference fascinates me.

Pointing out that the Rapture as a concept is a little less than two hundred years old - it's originally from the 1833 - that really buries the lede on how recent it is. Bc the modern evangelical take on the Rapture is from a book published in 1970. That predicted the Rapture would happen no later than 1988.

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“Paul has never killed a man.”

Dune dir. Denis Villeneuve

The mother and the son, watch each other kill.

#dune #dunetwo #pauljessica #paul atreides #jessica atreides #ugh they are just everything #he is half her soul #she is in every part of him #he inherits too! much! power! #because he is Jessica's!!! son!!!

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Thank you for understanding my vision. This is amazing.

Re:scansion - for some reason I can make Malevolent fit when I sing it, somehow i have been cramming an extra syllable into the original for years but then I'm a Soprano and we're always adding unnecessary syllables to things.

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my only complaint is that the paws appear when you boop someone and not when someone boops you. I want to be scrolling and minding my own business and suddenly get whapped by a cat paw

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PSA for UK Teachers

I went to an LGBTQ+ Educators conference a couple of weeks ago and they had a fantastic session on the draft 'guidance' the government published on trans pupils in December 2023 that needs to be common knowledge

The draft guidance, if/when it officially comes in (which it has not yet) will be non-statutory. This means that all schools are expected to follow it unless there is good reason not to.

This transphobic guidance would break the 2010 Equality Act, a fully ratified law. Keeping Children Safe in Education, the legal backbone safeguarding documentation, tells us that the wellbeing of the child comes first, not the 'rights' of the parent. Telling parents about a child's preferred name without their permission breaks GDPR law - as soon as a child can understand that their data is private, they are protected by this law (I have taught year 2 pupils this as part of their IT curriculum, so. Pretty much all age groups are covered by this.)

Not wanting to break fully ratified UK law is an excellent reason not to follow non-statutory guidance. This is what you tell any school personnel asking you to follow this new draft guidance. We have more legal obligation to support and protect our trans pupils than we have to follow this new transphobic bullshit.

There are so many incredible organisations and educators fighting this right now (https://tnb.org.uk/ have great resources if you want to read more) but making sure average classroom teachers can stand up and aren't cowed is the most valuable way to keep our kids alive

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