my fave greek history story to tell is that of agnodice. like she noticed that women were dying a lot during childbirth so she went to egypt to study medicine in alexandria and was really fucking good but b/c it was illegal for women to be doctors in athens she had to pretend to be a man. and then the other doctors noticed that she was 10x better than them and accused her of seducing and sleeping with the women patients. like they brought her to court for this. and she just looked at them and these charges and stripped in front of everyone like “yeah. im not fucking your wives” and then they got so mad that a woman was better at their jobs then them that they tried to execute her but all her patients came to court and were like “are you fucking serious? she is the reason you have living children and a wife.” so they were shamed into changing the law and that is how women were given the right to practice medicine in athens

do O'Brien and Sangster ever keep footage of these esp. the last one when their characters pretended to be mooks and then kissed each other with the helmets on

I feel like the two giggle about it in a chat on occasion

They ARE Newtmas

I sing the soprano parts of a choral arrangement like I'm fighting for my life tbh

missing the iconic duo of dylan obrien and thomas brodie-sangster a lot right now holy shit

no I'm still not over the fact that Ferb was zombified while in love with that nogitsune

“typically with a bean sprout physique and a theater kid's bravado” (Isaiah Colbert, Kotaku, 2022) is too humanoid of a description IMO, very David Tennant and Benedict Cumberbatch had those two done another project together after Good Omens

going by that opinion, I nominate Johann Kraus(s) from the Hellboy comics and of course where I found his gassy boomer ass: the movie The Golden Army

we haven't had a true tumblr sexyman in years. Sans was like the last one. I can still see his weird glowing goo ghost dick when I close my eyes. that kind of absolute derangement just doesn't happen anymore. some people just liking Astarion and Senshi a lot is not the same. a true tumblr sexyman makes this website absolutely unusable

gender is a performance and I fear I might be drowning out the rest of the ensemble

gender is a performance and I just fell off the fucking stage

having adhd and being a creator is like being on a timer. oh sorry you have this art idea? well you have approximately 12 hours to start it and 6 hours to finish the task or else you will lose interest and inevitably move on. oh you have an idea for a one-shot? well you’d better finish it in a day unless you want to banish it to your wips forever. ding dong bitch

Plenty of highly intelligent people end up getting sucked in to cults because they just wanted people to hang out with. There are antivaxxer nurses. Your ability to act on empirical reason breaks down fast if your social and emotional needs aren't being met.

well that's sobering

Please don't forget Armenians

Today is Armenian genocide remembrance day. On april 24, 1915 started mass deportations of hundreds of Armenian intelectuals and community leaders, who were (most of the time) eventually killed. Armenian women and children were systematically r//ed and forcibly converted into islam. There were more than 2 milion Armenians in ottoman empire prior to ww1, 1,5 milion of them were viciously killed. Three millennia of Armenian civilaziation in eastern Anatolis was fully destroyed. Turkey today refuses to acknowledge genocides of christian minorities in early 20th century.

Do you know that mass ethnic cleansing of Armenians in ottoman empire inspired Lemkin to coin the term 'genocide'?

Last year in september azerbaijan allied with turkey initiated a war against Armenia. More that 5000 Armenians were murdered, thousands of Armenia families had to live their ancestrial land to not get murdered. There are hundreds of vids on internet where armenian p.o.w.s are tortured. Recently azerbaijan opened a "museum" displayind dead or dying Armenians and kids were allowed to visit it.

Please educate yourself on Armenian genocide. You can also donate here to help Armenia. Thanks for reading!!

https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13565

Really wretched how "My house, my rules" is such a common phrase among parents.

They really do think that fulfilling the bare minimum of their legal responsibilities to avoid being arrested for neglect entitles them to completely control the people they made (who legally cannot escape them even if they want to) and threaten them with homelessness to coerce behavior.

See also:

"I brought you into this world and I can take you out."

"Spare the rod, spoil the child."

And more.

it is so incredibly sad to constantly see kids on instagram and tiktok who are younger than my brother have to literally beg for shelter, food, water, medicine, and their right to exist as human beings

i mean, this young girl is only ten years old, yet she is essentially responsible for convincing random people scrolling through instagram that her and her family’s life are worth fighting for

on top of that, their gofundme is not even 10% funded and time is running out, please if you can’t donate, just share

please don’t let this little girl die begging

no one:

my brain: so does that 13th century French bible artwork depicting someone getting born out of Jesus's side wound qualify as a Caesarean section? did the Romans commit infanticide on that cross too as apparently water broke and flowed from that wound? if Jesus was cryptically pregnant at the time, who was the other parent? did Judas know more than anyone else? or that one demon who infodumped geopolitics on him?

Gender Nonconforming Jesus: A look at art history. CW: religion, transphobia, artistic nudity, depictions of open wounds (Long post)

there are takes on the Eden Serpent saying that it had legs before God cut them off as a punishment before banishing the poor thing along with Adam and Eve

Smooth-headed Alligator Lizard (Gerrhonotus ophiurus), family Anguidae, Misantla, Veracruz. Mexico

Photograph by Bruno RF (@b.r.u.n.o.rf)

No media representation, of any group, will ever be perfect. No group is a monolith. No group has homogeneous experiences. There will always be someone in your demographic who disagrees with you about what "good representation" really is, there will always be someone who fits the stereotypical representation, there will always be growth and change in what is considered appropriate vs. offensive.

The quest for truly perfect representation is doomed to failure, and your energy is better put into uplifting the media you connect with and love, instead of trying to police the media you hate.