why do people make shit arguments against queer representation by saying things like “the percentage of lgbt people in the population isn’t that high” well neither is the percentage of vampires but we see plenty of them in our media dont we
I think this is my new favorite thing ever.
do vampires ever die right after we find out they’re vampires
not often enough to be a trope
Category: Tumblr crossposts
Crossposts from tumblr (for posterity)
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Flower beds coming out of dormancy at my house
@shadesofmauve: I have so many irises. Let me know if you want any.
I won’t know if I have room for irises and other full-sun flowers ‘til I’m done with the front landscaping, I’m afraid.
You need any raspberries? ;)
I always need raspberries! :D
I’m trying to get some in pots at home and I need to fill in the raspberry area at work.
OH, that’s awesome! Mine are in a ‘temporary’ bed (they’ve been in a temporary bed for five years…) and of course they’re outgrowing it. I’ll pot some up – just have to figure out a time to meet! (I was gonna say the market next weekend, but then I remembered I’m signed up for an all-weekend Sean Nos festival/workshop out at Evergreen. Oops. Can I have two weekends, please?)
(Or, y’know, it’s beautiful this afternoon, if you could somehow wrangle time… *wants an excuse not to sit at computer doing freelanc stuff*)
The market is open Thurs, Fri, Sat, and Sunday. I’m Free Thursday and Friday if that works. I can drive to you or meet you at the market. I’m not sure what would be easier for you. You’re a lot closer to my mom’s house than I thought so it wouldn’t be much of a drive from there. I’m weeding her yard this week.
:D
I work M-R, but if you could come over here Friday morning that’d be perfect! Like, any time before 12:30 or so? (I have an appointment). Being a non-car-owning person is a bit difficult when one’s trying to transport plants…
You’re also welcome to any of my old mismatched tiles and tile bits, if you still have any potential projects for those.
Shoud you need car-ferrying duties doing at the moment I’m off a lot of days, so let me know*. Of course, I’m away this Friday… but other days. :)
* Bear in mind that the seats no longer really fold down in the Minor due to the addition of seat belts – and I think I got rid of my roof-rack when we moved over for space in container reasons.
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“Wavy Jake’s fat zebra had Mexican pig liquor.”
“Sex prof gives back no quiz with mild joy.”
“King Alexander was just partly overcome after quizzing Diogenes in his tub.”
Go home, myfonts.com sample sentences, UR DRUNK.
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Since people keep asking, no, he didn’t flush.
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“Busking makes me feel BAA-A-A-AD!”
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On being visibly trans
Today some random kid asked me if I was a boy. I politely but firmly told him I was a girl, but it was a reminder that I don’t seamlessly “pass.” That’s hard for me, because I want to be seen as a woman, full stop.
However, I can be simultaneously visibly trans AND attractive AND feminine. I could spend a bunch more money and expend boundless effort chasing that horizon goal of passing perfectly… but for what? To conform? I like me. I have awesome friends and partners. My family loves me. Lots of people find me attractive and interesting and kind–hearted.
It ain’t bad being me :)
Side point: I have a cisgendered women-friends who’ve been asked if they’re boys by children. Sometimes kids just be kids.
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“Busking makes me feel BAA-A-A-AD!”
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what the fuck ethan
I wish i had a context for this. But I really dont.
I was all ready to “um, actually” this, but, um, actually there’s about 3-4 grams of iron in a person, which x400 is 1.2-1.6kg, which is a smallish but not unreasonable sword. So. Math checks out.
How would you extract the iron, though? The more practical solution would be to kill a mere hundred men, then mix 1 part blood with 3 parts standard molten iron, imo. Cheaper and faster, while still retaining the edge that only evil magic can give you.
Or, you could just make the sword of iron, and then use the blood to temper the blade.
1.2 to 1.6 kilograms is a perfectly reasonable large sword. Your average longsword was 1.1–1.8 kg and I don’t even remember if that’s including the weight of the hilt, guard, and pommel or just the blade. Your more classic “knight sword” was a mere 1.1 kilograms on average; the blood of 400 men is more than enough.
This is using the comparatively crappy metallurgy of medieval Europe and their meh iron swords. Move east to, say, contemporary Iran and make a scimitar using high carbon steel (~2%) for a .75 kilogram blade and you only need the blood of about 225 men.
So putting my thoughts in on this… because how could I not.
So you’ve exsanguinated your 400 guys to get the iron for your sword. Cool. But now you have 400 bodies lying around.
Why not put those to good use and cremate them. Use the carbon from those 400 bodies (you won’t need all of them) and now you can make a nice mid-high carbon steel sword.
Now you have a sword forged with the blood of your enemies AND strengthened with their bones.
Tumblr is all about dismantling oppressive power structures with the help of a sword forged from the blood and bones of your defeated enemies
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Women’s soccer players make WAY more money for the US soccer federation but earn 44% less– and now they’re suing for equality
In simple terms: The men earned four times as much to lose a tournament as the women earned to win the whole thing. Read the US women’s statement after the jump. And that’s not all: women’s physical playing conditions are different in one important way from the men’s.
Gifs: Today.com
These women are risking everything, because you know the men who run the whole thing are going to do their best to blackball them from the sport.
It’s infuriating and fundamentally wrong that women do not earn the same as men, and it makes me want to set he world on fire when women who won their entire sport even in conditions (fake turf that was horrible) that were worse than the men, who lost the whole damn thing are paid less.