so i bought star wars episode iv on youtube and i realized 45 minutes in that it’s the digitally edited version where han doesn’t shoot first, so i went to the receipt youtube e-mailed me and it said, “you may only request a refund if you have not yet begun watching your video” and i was like DAMMIT
but i went to youtube customer support chat anyway and said, “hello yes i’d like a refund on this movie” and the rep was like, “sorry it appears you’ve already watched 45 minutes of it” and i said, “yeah but i didn’t realize it was the edited version where greedo shoots first”
and literally three seconds later this lands in my inbox
i refuse to call me period anything other than moonsickness now
We are in fact werewolves
Fun fact: Native Americans used to call it “moontime”. (And I’ve been calling it that ever since I learned the phrase, because it sounds so much better.)
Tribes had ‘Moon Lodges’ and a woman would go into and stay in the lodge until her moon time has passed. During her time in the moon lodge, the elder women would teach her medicine, herbs, ceremonies, rites, prayers and on. Teachings were handed down to her.
The women, at this time, were expected to rest and not perform any chores and she was taken care of by the elder women of the tribe. No cooking, cleaning or lifting. This was a time for the woman to learn and nurture herself and to also embrace her womanhood.
A woman’s moon time was never looked down upon; there was no negativity put on it. The men respected and revered her. The men also cooked and took care of the children at this time, which was a wonderful time of bonding between a father and their children. It was a time of love and respect.
That fourteen year old emperor was Elagabalus. You should really say her name, because she was an important figure and fascinating, and historians are very eager to forget her. I say her because she was openly transgender. She searched the entire empire for a physician who could give her female genitalia, but as far as we know she couldn’t find one. She dressed only in women’s clothes and wore makeup and long hair. She referred to herself not as Emperor, but as Empress and as Queen. She was forced to marry several women for her office but all the marriages ended in divorce. She freed one of her slaves, a man named Hierocles, and married him. This made the Praetorian Guard so mad that they decapitated her (and her mother, who tried to save her).
By those standards, Elagabalus was the only female ruler of Rome.
And today she is still only known as “the boy who invented the whoopee cushion.”
This is all fascinating but I’m reblogging for that last comment.
Now I’m working on the assumption that I have to replace the woodstove- waiting on the inspection tomorrow to confirm that- and how the fuck do I even buy a woodstove how do I tell which one I need how do I tell if I can hook it up in this house how do I clean it do I need a warranty what is involved in installing them help me
You make a nice calming spreadsheet to track data in and you settle in to do some nice calming research.
No one knows all this stuff going in. The important thing is that you have the capacity to find out.
You can use the internet (start with “Types of woodstove”) or you can call vendors. LOTS of companies will give free quotes, and that often involves coming to the house to actually LOOK at it. Always get at least three quotes, and always tell the person in your house that you still have one more person to see. That’s your escape-route from any potential high-pressure sales tactics. “I’m just collecting information right now, I’ll get back to you.”
Warranties are always optional. I’m glad I have one on my washer and dryer, because I break things, but I might not get one on a wood stove. Think about the amount of moving parts.
…also look at reviews, and if you can find them forums. Some of the cheaper stoves (often apparently made in China) are cast with recycled iron which is fine when it’s been adequately done, but on cheaper stoves is (apparently) substandard and can crack*.
Reviews and forums also often give you an idea of whether the warranty is worth the paper (or electrons) it’s made of, and whether their service engineers are clueful.
If you can find actual people who’ve had them installed, and talk to them, that’s also a plus. Although companies will only ever direct you to people who were happy.
*I say this, but in the end we skipped fitting a stove in our house, so this is all from the pre-fitting-research.
Rape is the only crime on the books for which arguing that the temptation to commit it was too clear and obvious to resist is treated as a defence. For every other crime, we call that a confession.
I’ve gotten more angry asks about this post than I have actual reblogs.
The gay/trans panic defences work like this. Remember Gwen Araujo? Just by not disclosing her trans status she “provoked the violent response to what Thorman represented as a sexual violation ‘so deep it’s almost primal’.” The prosecution couldn’t get any first degree murder charges to stick.
One sentence. Her hard work was STOLEN and they gave her one friggin sentence in the acknowledgement section. Meanwhile they’re riding the cash cow to fame and glory, heralded as these biological geniuses.
It seems like textbooks have become more progressive in the past 5 years or so, but the biology textbook I was issued in high school (published in the early 2000s) dedicated a small, 2-3 sentence paragraph to Rosalind Franklin (which mostly focused on explaining what X-ray crystallography was, not focusing on her contribution or Watson and Crick’s theft of her experimental data), while Watson and Crick received an entire full page spread with their iconic photograph, posing next to a giant DNA model. The most recent version of that textbook now has an entire page dedicated to Rosalind and even includes a picture of her, though!
(Pierce, B. 2012. Genetics: A Conceptual Approach. 4th ed.)
Watson and Crick took credit for Franklin’s work and got away with it because she was a woman. She couldn’t even be awarded the Nobel prize because she died as a result of the radiation from the very X-ray diffraction techniques she used to discover the structure of DNA. Women were not taken seriously in science back then and even still today there is a huge deficit of females in STEM fields.
My genetics professor dedicated a whole lecture to Rosalind Franklin, what she did, how it contributed, how it was stolen, who else contributed to the theft, and why it all shouldn’t have happened. He was a difficult professor for many reasons, but I’ve respected him loads for this.
My microbio teacher nearly didn’t mention her, and when called on it (by me) agreed in passing that she was important and that her information was relevent. I’ve respected him much less ever since. Oddly, he mentioned Fanny Hesse and her idea to include agar in microbiology plates.
and here’s a reproduction of the statue with the colors restored
i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art
“I tried coloring it and then I ruined it”
And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didn’t just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues – often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process – because the bright colours didn’t fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.
Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, you’re looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.
(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. It’s not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that they’d found them that way – because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)
Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.
Yes, it is unbelievable. Literally. Because it’s not true.There will have been some British historians who cleaned paint off, in fact there are, but they learned it from the Italians, who had been do this for years already. Since the renaissance, in fact.
And the noses are a whole other matter, without even getting into the ancient Egypt race debate. Noses in particular are one of the most fragile parts of any statues, so they are the most likely to be damaged through normal wear and tear. You also don’t see many ancient statues with their penises, but for some reason you never see the photos of that damage in textbooks. Many others are also missing fingers, toes, ears, arms and accoutrements such as spears, tools, books and so on.
Some of these statues are thousands of years old (over 5,000 years, for some of the oldest Egyptian ones), and have been outside in the desert and harsh environmental conditions for most of that time, and exposed to the violence that goes with changing cultures and religions. Extremities weather off, and paint based on natural materials fade and flake away under the sun, wind and sand.
@thatlittleegyptologist how accurate is that last comment about Egyptians knocking the noses off statues?
They did indeed! Basically, the Ancient Egyptians believed that the Ka was contained within the statue and the Ba in the afterlife would fly back and forth receiving sustenance from offerings left at the Ka statue. If a part of the body was missing then the deceased suffered in the afterlife. The worst thing to do would be to remove the nose or head as that would effectively stop the Ba from breathing in the afterlife, and thus killing them again. That was the worst thing you could do to someone without desecrating their corpse. You would essentially rip their afterlife from them and cause them to no longer exist. The ultimate insult, hence why iconoclasm and damnatio memoriae were are so prevalent among those the Egyptians hated. They wished to erase them, in this life and the next.
Also, what survived on the statues are particles from the basecoats. The highlights and fine detail laid on over those would have left no trace at all once the paint-stripping had got that far.
