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Hi all! My good friend Tara / @iaiamothrafhtagn is looking at a very large vet bill for her beloved cat Miss Adventure and we're trying to pull together funding for it. If you have a few dollars to spare, her Paypal is @19012501 and her Venmo is @Tara-Hillegeist.
"In 1984, a few years before his death, James Baldwin explained to an interviewer from the Village Voice that queers could see the precarity of heterosexuality, even as straights kept it hidden from themselves. 'The so-called straight person is no safer than I am, really. The terrors that homosexuals go through in this society would not be so great if society itself did not go through so many terrors it doesn't want to admit.'
As Baldwin saw it, it is not simply that straight people are suffering and in denial about it, but that heterosexual misery expresses itself through the projection of terror onto the homosexual. One way to think about this is that homophobia is the outward expression of heterosexual misery; a kind of subconscious jealous rage against the gendered and sexual possibilities that lie beyond the violence and disappointments of straight culture."
-Jane Ward, The Tragedy of Heterosexuality
john carpenter’s the thing is a movie about how the hyperindividualism and lack of emotional intimacy between men (specifically men in the united states military) immediately crystallizes into distrust and alienation in crisis. how kurt russel with an absurd callsign name and the goofiest hugest cowboy hat imaginable is the Man, running the whole show and managing the crisis until he fails because when faced with having to truly understand and connect with his last remaining ally he can’t, because all he knows how to do is sit in the snow and die next to him. It is a movie about losing control over your own body in the most horrific way possible. It is a movie about cold war paranoia and fear of bloodborne pathogens. It is a movie about how dread is an incredible force and even so sometimes what you CAN see is worse than what you can imagine. It is a movie about how the scariest thing men can conceive of is something that looks exactly like a man and acts exactly like a man but yet on some fundamental level…isn’t. It is a movie, as one of my eleventh graders pointed out this week, about “playing among us in real life.” but most importantly, john carpenter’s the thing is a movie about a dogy who is my friend and wants to become me :)
I know you have all probably seen the esims for gaza posts circulating. Some of you have probably looked at them and thought maybe you should help out, but have weighed up the daunting process of signing up for something you're unfamiliar with vs. the gut-wrenching scale of the things people are going through on the ground right now, and you've put it off or questioned whether it will make enough of a difference vs. some other future kind of activism you could put that $6+ towards. I'm not calling you out or scolding you, it is natural to feel conflicted and ambivalent about the multiple calls for aid that you are seeing on social media.
but consider this: what would you do if you suddenly had to leave your home? how would you cope? how would you begin to plan where to go next, or figure out what to do to take care of yourself? most likely you would reach reflexively for your phone.
telecoms access is not a petty luxury in 2024. a loaded esim means the ability to call family members and find out where they are and whether they're safe, and whether they need anything you can provide for them. it means access to maps and regular updates on the situation unfolding around you. it means you can look up whether it's safe to drink rain water, or how to tie a type of knot you've never had to think about before, or how to treat an injury without medical supplies. it means the ability to tell people outside the situation what you are seeing, what you are feeling, what you are thinking. it is an absolutely crucial resource. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.
many many people have observed that internet access is changing the way the world understands genocide. internet access is life or death, and it is shaping modern history in front of you. and it starts at $6 for 7 days.
please, please visit gazaesims.com and spend 5 minutes and $6 to change the way this plays out for everyone.
The thing about Cottagecore is that is a fetishized aesthetic of country life, divorced from labor and idealized by a primarily urban audience with a backward looking ethos of tradition. They are not prepared for the stresses of a rural life: farming; harvesting; tapping pumpkins to ensure none of them have been replaced with flesh; losing out on income by having to use one of your pigs in a blood sacrifice to paint protective sigils over your doors and windows; checking cracks and chimneys for the flesh-vines of the Pumpkin Lord; having to decide, before the Growth is complete, whether that's really your tradwife or an amassment of vines, leaves, and blood in the shape of your tradwife; ignoring their desperate pleas that "I'm me! No! No!" as you burn them alive, realizing too late you picked wrong; and the exploitative corporate nature of commercial farming in 2024. All seen through a deeply colonial lens, of course
i think the fundamental problem i have with the way people talk about neurotypical people is that a lot of it seems to attempt to derive what neurotypical people are like based on what (the post author thinks) societal expectations for them are, which is like using gender roles to figure out what men/women are really like
Epic hasn’t prompted me to change my password in over six months (unlike our in-house PHI software which has its own problems (we got ransomwared) but at least makes you do a unique password every other month) and when the lab computer went down my solution was to use shared computers in an unlocked breakroom next to the public cafeteria. one time I walked in and someone had left a chart open to the patient’s MRI scans and just…walked away I guess? in another hospital the shared computer room was protected by a keypad but the code was visibly written *twice* on the whiteboard entirely visible through the door window
excellent news: that boring thing you rely on working reliably has an exciting new app. well. it's kind of an app. it's actually more of a website, it looks like a website, but you have to download it as an app. why does it have an app? well because it makes the receptionist's... oh, the receptionist seems to hate it. the receptionist doesn't understand the app either, and now it has broken, and now the two of you are navigating this situation without the app. don't worry, though. you will have another fucking app in a few months and it will be the same app with a new logo for some reason
i am 30 or 40 years old i should not have to worry about ‘finals week’
ohhhhhh i am probably going to fail this chemistry class
ohhhhhh i am probably going to fail this chemistry class
Sometimes when people on the Internet are like "ADULTS CAN NEVER INTERACT WITH MINORS IT'S CREEPY" I remember how, at 12, back in 1997, I was on the Witchvox forums with people ranging from me to people in at least their 50s, and no one there was ever a creep to me, no one ever made me feel uncomfortable or asked for my personal info, and when I finally broke down after a particularly brutal day of bullying at school and posted about it they were the first adults I'd ever met in my entire life who told me the bullies were the problem and it was okay to be angry about it.
Kids need to interact with adults who will listen to them.
quick what is everyone doing right now
seeing people my age spend significant amounts of time winding themselves up about bewildering fandom opinions is just like. man. you don’t even need to go outside or touch grass. maybe just take a break and read one (1) article about actual events happening in the real world before you decide that the hill you’re going to die on is ‘it’s homophobic to kill off a single pirate on the gay pirate show, the show populated entirely by a dozen gay pirates’
I think a very important thing for people who say they feel helpless right now to do is to take the time to do their research on Palestine and its history and how we even got to this point. I will always recommend reading decolonizepalestine.com it has so much information and debunks so many of the myths people believe surrounding Palestine and Israel. Being able to get informed and help spread Palestinian’s voices and history is an easy and free way to keep the conversation going and get people to take this genocide seriously.
Brad Dourif Behind the Scenes on The X-Files
Beyond The Sea (S1 EP13)
I think we are onto something
fucked up in the club (reading all the wikipedia articles for indigenous north and south american dog breeds)
dh2 girlies for brushtest <3
the only time it was actually funny and entertaining when a "ship" was "confirmed" by someone who worked on the show was when someone asked rene auberjonois at a panel what the nature of quark and odo's relationship was and he replied "sexual." without elaboration
wow season three of picard is even worse than i expected somehow
quick what is everyone doing right now
you’re never going to believe this but I listened to a *lot* of Scissor Sisters as a closeted teenager
kill them with kindness? wrong, eldritch blast
https://fb.watch/mjDHL25iin/?mibextid=Nif5oz