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if you've been to any concerts in the past few decades, especially indoor venues, and haven't worn ear protection (and even if you have, not all ear protection is created equal), you probably have some hearing loss. it might not be enough that you notice it in your day-to-day life, but it's enough that putting subtitles on when watching a movie improves your experience
Why do people need subtitles to watch a show in English? I don't get it. What is wrong with the ears of young people?
#also prev:#“in English” says only the person who forgets that the majority of the world's population is not speaking english as their 1st language#and that's not even getting into noise pollution#and climate change affecting ecosystems and thereby affecting what we hear around us in nature#az talks#reblogs into oblivion
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I JUST REALIZED SOMETHING
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so we all know the trope in media where glasses make someone uglier, right? particularly women. glasses make women ugly. when woman take glasses off, she suddenly pretty. i mean, we know it's bullshit, but we also know it's a trope
and we know that white supremacy bases its beauty standards on a lot of things, including infantilizing women
and one of the things about that, with makeup in particular, is trying to make women's eyes look larger, because babies' eyes are large
WELL
depending on the strength of your prescription, glasses can make your eyes look smaller
IT'S INFANTILIZATION ALL THE WAY DOWN
obviously it's also about the perception of glasses being "nerdy" (which is a weird thing that we collectively assume about... a disability aid) but everyone talks about that and i've never seen anyone talking about the infantilization aspect
#caps lock#beauty standards#glasses#infantilization#infantilization of women#posts into oblivion#az talks
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if the council don’t fix the sinkhole near me i’ll spray paint a massive cock and balls over it
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the idea that restrooms, locker rooms, etc need to be single-sex spaces in order for women to be safe is patriarchy's way of signalling to men & boys that society doesn't expect them to behave themselves around women. it is directly antifeminist. it would be antifeminist even if trans people did not exist. a feminist society would demand that women should be safe in all spaces even when there are men there.
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Pets love to show up like Hello i am Mystery Wet :)
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i appreciate the attempts a lot of game devs are making with gender neutral character creation, and i appreciate that it's actually a very difficult task to implement that depending on the game's base code. but it's so funny to me when you hear an uproar because some game has "entirely removed the gender option from character creation!!!!!" so you go to check it out and its just like
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how come every time someone asks “which BG3 character would adjust best to our world” or “which BG3 character would be able to handle [food/cultural aspect from our world]?”
nobody EVER says Lae’zel? In canon that girl is like 22. Born in space. Grew up on a comet or whatever the hell by the Moon. Got kidnapped by her People’s ancient terror/worst enemy. Dropped off on a random planet in the immediate company of people who hate/distrust her simply at a glance and she is just rolling with it. She is just ALWAYS rolling with it.
She’s eating whatever the fuck Gale throws on the fire every night. No idea what a carrot was until yesterday. No complaints.
Everyone but Wyll & Karlach is like 40 years older than her minimum and so mean for no reason. She doesn’t care. She’s got a job to do.
Oh it turns out the God-Queen she’s dedicated her entire existence to is a farce? Needs to be destroyed? If you’ve been nice to her it takes 45 seconds to deconstruct her entire lifelong understanding of the meaning of everything she’s ever known. She’s on your side.
Every single thing you do in the game is alien to her. That woman has never been to a circus.
Yet she’s eating carrots and petting a dog and ready to kill her God.
And people think she couldn’t handle a Costco? PLEASE!!!!!
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is it just me or does the way people treat like "dopamine" and "serotonin" in modern pop psych context read exactly like balancing the humors
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the evolution of gideon describing harrow smiling in gideon the ninth: a comprehensive collection
Then Harrow cocked her head to the side like a quizzical bird and smiled a tiny, contemptuous smile. (Chapter 2)
The necromancer could not hide a triumphant smile. It stretched her mouth and made her split lips bleed. The sight was incomparably creepy. (Chapter 14)
Harrow’s lips curled. They showed her teeth, stained slightly pink with blood. She smiled again—slower than before, just as terrible, just as strange. (Chapter 14)
Harrowhark smiled. This smile was unusual too: it betokened conspiracy, which was normal, except that this one invited Gideon to be part of it. Her eyes glowed like coals with sheer collusion. Gideon didn’t know if she could handle all these new expressions on Harrow: she needed a lie down. (Chapter 16)
A small, astonished smile creased her mouth. The smile transformed her face into an affliction of beauty that Gideon had heretofore managed to ignore. (Chapter 32)
Gideon looked over her shoulder at her, and caught the Reverend Daughter’s smile. There was blood sweat coming out of her left ear, but her smile was long and sweet and beautiful. (Chapter 36)
The Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House smiled, tiny and triumphant. Then she keeled into Gideon’s arms. Gideon stumbled, sick with terror, kneeling them both down to the ground as Harrow lay like a broken rag doll. She forgot her sword, forgot everything as she cradled her used-up adept. She forgot the wrecked ligaments in her sword arm, her messed-up knee, the cups of blood she’d lost, everything but that tiny, smouldering, victorious smile. (Chapter 36)
i will be over in the corner crying and you all are welcome to join me
#the locked tomb#gideon the ninth#harrow the ninth#harrowhark nonagesimus#oh this *hurts*#reblogs into oblivion#queues into oblivion
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if I say "I have to Austin Powers my car out of a parking space," do you understand what i mean
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re: "stock up on your meds", paraphrased from @doomhamster because i wanted to reblog the version with torillin's addition:
a lot of meds cannot be stored above 25° Celsius without denaturing, resulting in ineffectiveness at best and toxicity at worst. ideally, find a place in your apartment/house that doesn't get above that temperature even on the hot days. alternatively, check with your pharmacist to see if your meds can be stored in the fridge. not all meds can be safely stored in the fridge, but some can, though not indefinitely. at the very least don't store your meds where they can be exposed to direct sunlight.
IMPORTANT REMINDER TO MY EUROPEAN FOLLOWERS AND OTHER TUMBLR DENIZENS FROM AN AMERICAN DESERT-DWELLER:
Climate change is a bitch and summer is coming. If you don’t already have an air conditioner and/or fans, NOW is the time to get them.
THINGS YOU SHOULD BE SHOPPING FOR NOW:
—clothes made of cotton or linen
—air conditioner
—fans
—frozen meals that can be cooked in the microwave
—potable bottled water; you want five days’ worth per person and pet in your household
—bottled fruit juices; it does not matter if these are sugar-added because you’ll want the electrolytes
—electrolyte drinks
—electrolyte pills (you can get these online, I get mine from Amazon)
—popsicle molds to use with fruit and juice
—ice cube trays
—nonperishable salty snacks like peanuts
—one charger brick per adult in case of rolling blackouts or power outages; charge these at the beginning of May, and drain them via use once a month if they’re not needed
YOUR TO-DO LIST:
—check your home’s HVAC system if you didn’t do it at the beginning of winter. Make sure all the filters are clean and replace them if needed
—check the seals on your sinks and bathtub in case you have to run water to handle shortages
—make and freeze meals you can cook in the microwave or simply defrost. Remember to select light summer fare, not hearty winter soups and gravies
—purchase and freeze lunch meats and cheeses you can defrost and use this summer for sandwiches when it’s hot
—assemble your check-in list: elderly, pregnant, disabled, and immunocompromised friends and relatives who may struggle to get things they need when the heat wave hits. Have this list posted and ready to go through daily once the heat gets high. DON’T JUST ASSUME YOU WILL REMEMBER. WRITE IT ALL DOWN.
—create a list of emergency contacts in case of fire, heat stroke, and other heat-related emergencies. This should include your local version of 911 (I think in most of Europe it’s 112, but don’t rely on me as an American, LOOK IT UP NOW before you need it), your doctor’s phone number, and two emergency contacts. Keep it in a place where it can be easily found if someone needs to make these calls on your behalf.
—ask your doctor for an additional prescription for any medications you take, and fill it now. Extreme heat can cause disruptions in the supply chain. Make sure you cycle these meds; that’s to say, always use your oldest bottle first so you don’t end up with expired meds in an emergency.
—stock your first-aid kit. If you don’t have one, now is a good time to make one.
—if you own a car, get your yearly maintenance done now. You don’t want to be dealing with an inoperable vehicle if you need to evacuate.
Staying safe this summer starts now. Get your prep done.
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Any setting where the elves have weaker booze than the dwarves isn't committing to the bit
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Saw your post about people badgering the developer team (I agree with you btw), and was curious about this part:
"There is one exception to this - and that’s because those fans were asking to improve a choice that was borne from listening to fans with biased racist opinions in the first place."
I haven't been able to keep up with all changes made to the game, so was wondering what choice you are talking about?
At the very very last moment of EA, Wyll was rewritten to tie in more closely with Karlach and have a complete overhaul of his plot. They recast from the wider supporting cast as (speculatively) the original actor couldn’t commit to that level of re-records and mocap needed to meet the crunch.
There was tons of feedback about how boring Wyll was and how players just didn’t get on with him, and Larian in my opinion took that in good faith when it was embedded in plain old anti-Black racism. There were certainly things that needed fixing in Wyll’s story and actually I don’t dislike what we got, but just on a structural basis it doesn’t align with the content levels of the other origin characters. And, given that in my opinion Wyll is one of the origin characters most connected to the main plot, that isn’t right. Bringing him to the level of the other companions for content is fixing a problem that happened because of fan feedback in the first place in my opinion. It’s something that shouldn’t have even happened in the first place.
#baldur's gate 3#bg3#wyll ravengard#larian critical#fandom critical#tbh#since the changes were made based on feedback from the fans who were playing EA#racism in fandom#reblogs into oblivion#queues into oblivion
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This might make me unpopular but I feel like badgering the developer team for changes to their property is cringe as hell.
There is one exception to this - and that’s because those fans were asking to improve a choice that was borne from listening to fans with biased racist opinions in the first place.
But literally taking time to email a professional, who has to then take time to log and reply to that email as part of their job when they’re trying to do development and bug fixes, about wanting to add romantic content that is completely unnecessary and could just be created in fanspace, as a formal request? I hate it. No, it’s not the same as writing a fan letter about what you love or your ship and your engagement and that person reading it after the fact. You are asking them to actively change something to your tastes!
I do not think that’s a good thing!
#fandom critical#bg3#bg3 fandom#reblogs into oblivion#queues into oblivion#i agree conceptually#i have a nitpicky disagreement w the use of cringe#but that's not only about this post it's about internet in general
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Growth capitalism is a deranged fantasy for lunatics.
Year 1, your business makes a million dollars in profit. Great start!
Year 2, you make another million. Oh no! Your business is failing because you didn't make more than last year!
Okay, say year 2 you make $2 mil. Now you're profitable!
Then year 3 you make $3 mil. Oh no! Your business is failing! But wait, you made more money than last year right? Sure, but you didn't make ENOUGH more than last year so actually your business is actively tanking! Time to sell off shares and dismantle it for parts! You should have made $4 mil in profit to be profitable, you fool!
If you're not making more money every year by an ever-increasing exponent, the business is failing!
Absolute degenerate LUNACY
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Knight-Commander Meredith
A commission piece that took me almost 24 hrs to finish, but I REALLY enjoyed drawing it, even to the smallest scratches on the rusty armour.
Little pieces to emphasize the detail work I made.
#dragon age#dragon age 2#meredith stannard#knight commander meredith#fanart#reblogs into oblivion#queues into oblivion
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but what if we carried on and took care of each other and let each other feel soft and loved in each other's arms no matter how bad it gets huh what then
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