the funniest dynamc between my boyfriend and i is the chef/baker divide runs so deep. experimentally my boyfriend is a genius with figuring out what flavor profiles will not just taste good together but also will be enjoyed by the specific audience he is cooking for. a recipe is not a guidebook so much as a suggestion and he will frankenstein ideas together to get exactly what he wants to happen. he also didnt know that sugar will not work properly if you dont mix it with the wet ingredients in banana bread and when i asked 'why didnt you do it in the order of the recipe' he said 'i didnt really think it mattered'. autistically i exploded his head in my mind

he's the worst man alive he's the love of my life he's covered in blood he's weird about god and he's a lot, he's not perfect, but most importantly he's bisexual

A bechdel-esque test where instead a piece of media passes if at least two men openly talk about their feelings without there being a woman to be the ‘mediator’ of the conversation.

Bonus points if they dont use single word answers like ‘fine’ or ‘bad’

A gold star to the piece of media if at least one of the men talks about a possible cause to their emotions. They dont even have to be correct, they just have to identify a cause.

Lets get some examples of this, I’ll go first:

Paranorman (2012), in which Norman and Neil talk about bullying and how it makes them feel. Neil even poses a cause and helps Norman feel less alone!

3/3 gold star

Midnight Mass (2021), specifically the scene in which Riley and his father go out on the fishing boat and Ed talks about his feelings about what has happened to and with Riley.

4/3 amazing scene. I know I said three categories but this scene gets even more points for including a male character identifying and correcting/apologising for his own misdeeds due to generational trauma.

Keep the list coming!

Personally i would like people to use my correct pronouns even if i do have visible facial hair

nurse feratu and dr. acula are ready to see you for your blood tests

lets give it up for pleasures of the flesh !!

The Phantom of the Opera Ugandan Premiere

The Phantom of the Opera will premiere in the capital city of Kampala, Uganda in May 2024 starring Peace Ayikoru and Joy Victoria Geria as Christine, as well as Mukiza and Gilbert Byamugisha as the Phantom.

I'm not seeing a ton of information like further casting, I believe this is associated with or using the performance spaces of Makerere University in Kampala. But the use of the full face mask logo makes me think this is actually the ALW/Hart/Stilgoe version

floor time save me. floor time. save me floor time

I think a lot of like discourse of what to focus on with this or that thing gets the end goal and things to ease newcomers into your ideas confused with each other.

Like yes perhaps the end goal is to get UBI going but if your Uncle Jerry is currently struggling with the concept of taxes maybe get him to understand the cost of road maintenance first before you start trying to get him onboard with free preschool.

Also just because someone is explaining the concept of taxes to Uncle Jerry doesn’t mean they don’t believe in free childcare.

so back when i was teaching, one of the things i learned to look for were the "mood makers", as i liked to call them, of the classes. there were always 2 or 3 per class, and it was easy to find them in the first few days. you got those kids on your side, and it was a ripple effect with the rest of the students - they would all follow. so winning those kids over was huge when it came to how the year would play out. and from time to time, whenever the class was sort of faltering - middle of winter, of a big project, burn-out high - i would lean back in on those mood makers again to turn things around.

one particular class, when we had a big multi-month group project happening, were just... really struggling with getting their shit together lol. they were supposed to be practicing their presentations (english speaking class) and they were doing pretty much anything but, and their presentations were supposed to start the next class day. they were also PANICKING as i started giving out some feedback - which was NOT GREAT - as they were running through the lines they were supposed to be remembering. after realizing all of them needed so much extra work, i decided we needed to have a turn-around, so i invited one of the mood makers up to the front. i held out a cup to him, with two papers inside.

"one of them," i said, "says tuesday, and if you draw that, presentations go as planned. but one of them says thursday, and if you choose that one, everyone gets extra time to practice."

everyone was like OH SHIT. OKAY. THIS IS IT. and this mood maker, he was a big personality (they usually are) so i knew he'd really ham this up, and he did. we made a huge deal, with drum-rolls and everything, of him picking one out of the cup. he opened it up the paper and announced THURSDAY to a round of huge cheers. he was the class hero. everyone had TONS of motivation to work super hard on this gifted extra day, and really put the time in. their presentations were great. morale SOARED.

the plot twist was that both papers said thursday, because they all needed the extra time. my forever teacher advice: find creative ways to make things happen so that you get the buy-in from the class.

God you people really are desperate to invasively speculate about people’s gender identities, aren’t you?

“Uwu egg jokes are fine because it’s not bad to be a trans woman and cis men have it so easy.”

No one was saying not to call random people eggs because it’s like, some horrifying nightmare to be transfeminine that we shouldn’t wish it on people, nor that it was somehow oppressing cis men.

(Notice how it’s always about people being secret or unrealized trans women, and very rarely are trans masc or non-binary identities even acknowledged in these conversations.)

We were saying, or at least I was saying, not to call random people eggs because:

Strangers’ gender identities are none of your business

If someone’s a GNC person, they don’t like, owe it to you to be trans or something

And if you’re right, it’s still potentially dangerous, humiliating and rude to out people without their permission, the more so if you’re outing them for an identity they don’t even know they have! Fuck! I should not have to explain this! This is basic fucking queer etiquette.

So knock it the hell off or at least understand why people are telling you not to do it. It’s the least you could do.

I think no one should be allowed to judge me for eating shredded mozzerella out of the bag at half 12 at night

Gotta get back to my roots and start posting crab memes again

@starcoffinxd @official-crab-posts @waste-mixture

Acanthoxyla prasina, Spiny stick insect. Te Wai Pounamu, photo credit me.

The entirety of the Acanthoxyla genus is made up of species that are female only and reproduce asexually through parthenogenesis. This means that every member of a species are essentially clones of each other!

This genus most likely came about through hybridisation of two different stick insect species which produced a few individuals that, while could not reproduce sexually, still had the ability to reproduce asexually, creating a genetic separation and entirely new genus!

There are a few different Māori words that refer to stick insects more broadly, such as rō or whē, which are also used for many species of preying mantis, as it was thought that these two types of bugs were related. It makes sense, as they are very similar in looks and body plan, and many stick insects and mantises also have similar habitat requirements to each other.

It makes me happy when they listen