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its funny that people perceive lesbians as aggressive because were like statistically proven to be the most loving and nurturing parents and people also make jokes about lesbians like… loving each other too much (uhaul, the lesbian urge to merge, etc) so like lesbians just make you uncomfortable i think

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brian eno on the windows 95 startup chime

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What’s the most simple thing you’ve ever had to explain to a fully competent adult?

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jake peralta: an actual cutie (◕‿◕✿)

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hey folks, I’m gonna introduce you to two very important fandom terms and they are watsonian and doylist 

they come (obviously) from the sherlock holmes fandom, and they are two different ways of explaining something in a story. say I’m a fan and I notice that, in the original books, watson’s war wound is sometimes in his leg and sometimes in his shoulder. the watsonian explanation is how watson (that is, a person within the story) might explain it; the doylist explanation is how sir arthur conan doyle (a person in real life) would have explained it. 

sherlock explains the migrating war wound by making the shoulder wound real and the limp psychosomatic. the guy ritchie films explain it by having the leg wound sustained in battle before the events of the film and the shoulder wound happen onscreen. the doylist explanation, of course, is that acd forgot where the wound was.

this is very important when we’re discussing stuff like headcanons and word-of-god. I see this when people offer watsonian explanations for something, and then a doylist will say something like “it’s just because the author wrote it that way,” and I see it when a person is criticizing bad writing/storytelling (for example, the fact that quiet in metal gear solid v is running around the whole game in a bikini and ripped tights) and someone comes back with “but there’s an in-story reason why that happens!” (that reason being she breathes through her skin).

there’s nothing wrong with either explanation, and really I think you need both to understand and analyze a text. a person coming up with a watsonian explanation has likely not forgotten that the author had real-life reasons for writing something that way, and a person with a doylist interpretation is likely not ignoring the in-universe justification for that thing. 

but it’s very difficult (and imo often useless, though there are exceptions) to try to argue one kind of explanation with the other kind. wetblanketing someone’s headcanon with “or it could just be bad writing” is obnoxious; dismissing someone’s criticism with “but have you considered this in-universe explanation” is ignoring the point of the criticism. understanding where someone is coming from is important when making an argument; acting like your argument is better because you’re being doylist when they’re being watsonian or vice versa is not.

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a part of getting older is going to hip restaurant openings, fully looking underneath the table, and going “it’s an ikea table with 2 by 4s nailed to it and resin poured over it. impressive.”

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I feel like people don’t tell high school kids this enough: community college is a great option!!!! If ur gpa is too low or u can’t afford to go to a 4-year college right after high school, you can still do 2 years at community college, work hard, and then transfer to a 4-year college and get your degree !!

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Young Avengers

A Netflix Original Series

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I have this really stupid and terrible Stolen Century headcanon that during one cycle Barry decides to grow a full beard and almost every other member of the IPRE fucking hates it. (It doesn’t look BAD, exactly, it’s just you get used to someone’s face looking a certain way once youve known them for almost a hundred years and its WEIRD)  

The crew begs him to shave it off for months. He refuses because Lup thinks it’s cute. 

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You know what doesn’t fuck around?

Australian children’s books on animals

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I understand not feeding cats a vegan diet but have wondered if a certain compromise would be acceptable? The compromise being feeding food made with biproducts, the logic being that then I'm at least just using the leftovers from animals other people are responsible for killing that would otherwise be wasted. I guess I'm curious if that is incorrect logic or if feeding such food would be bad?

Most commercial pet food is made with meat byproducts. Nobody is raising livestock for the cheap pet food industry, they raise it for human consumption and the unwanted bits end up in the pet food industry.

That might be animals that were killed for illness or injury reasons, chunks of meat with too much scar tissue, or unpopular cuts of meat (necks, cheeks, etc). Sometimes it includes offal, at least the cheaper bits but liver is usually listed separately.

This is perfectly fine to feed. We have a whole group of raw-feeders exclaiming the benefits of feeding organ meats to their carnivores. We also have a whole group of them decrying the evils of feeding meat byproducts, but that’s a whole other issue.

Nutrition-wise feeding these bits of the animal is going to be just as suitable for the carnivore as feeding the fancy cuts humans like. It’s just cheaper.

However you choose to justify it, you either feed your cat, an obligate carnivore, food with meat in it, or you keep a herbivorous species as a pet instead.

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*puts my hand on your discouraged shoulder* not only are you smart and capable, but your potential is immeasurable and you will go on to do great things in your life time

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I recently asked my students in an upper division Gender and Women’s Studies Feminist Engaged Research course—in which all students are Gender and Women’s Studies majors or minors—a question about that day’s reading we were discussing in class. A student responded with: “It’s all about intersectionality.” My initial question is not particularly relevant, as I have found that students will attempt to answer nearly any question by referencing (the need for and value of) “intersectionality.” I followed up to ask: “What is intersectionality?” My students looked at me blankly. All of my students had been exposed to what they would describe as “intersectionality.” Yet, not one had read the original theory of intersectionality. Not one could accurately describe the theory. Not one had a sense of the genealogy of the term. Not one could think of limits to intersectionality. Some thought that the term refers to moments in which activism and scholarship “intersect,” while others insisted that it refers to the moment when any two or more marginalized identities meet within one person’s life. Not one knew its roots in black feminist theory or critical race theory. I raise this point not because these moments gesture toward some type of feminist pedagogical failure—if only the students learned the material properly!—but because these moments point to the hegemony of discourses of “intersectionality” within Gender and Women’s Studies. In these moments, we can see that, as Ahmed (2012a) suggests, “intersectionality can be used as a method of deflection,” as a way of re-directing attention away from race and racism (195)—and, by extension, from whichever form of marginalization one is working to address—by bringing up other forms of social exclusion. The failure here lies with neither an individual instructor nor student but with a field that has produced so little critical reflection on the limits of “intersectionality” that it figures as that which is largely beyond contest.

Carly Thomsen, “Becoming Radically Undone: Discourses of Identity and Diversity in the Introductory Gender and Women’s Studies Classroom” (via feministfreedomquotes)

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it’s still so wild to me that john mulaney is only 35 years old because whenever he tells stories about his childhood i can’t help but picture him in like the 1960s playing baseball and going to the malt shop and saying things like “why i oughta”

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