maryellencarter
the Overton Window has defenestrated itself
Genderfluid, they/them mostly. Queer on every conceivable axis. Beta reader, sometimes writer. All my babblings and stuff are fair game for remixing / story inspiration / whatever, just link or tag me. Icon by thisbluespirit.
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I got this ad on Tumblr and uhhhhh
That's a fucking seagull
I have to assume this is a mistake and they actually meant to use the dove of peace rather than the seabird of petty theft, but it's not an inapt symbol for the type of Christian-ish doctrine that represents God as a jumped-up Santa Claus
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The “generation gap” is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memories of the community, nor ask the all-important question, “Why?” This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to reinvent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.
Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference”, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007, 114-123), 117
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Almost ready for liftoff!
Just a reminder that signups for From a Legends Point of View open TOMORROW, April 28, 2024! Stay tuned to @from-a-legends-pov for instructions from your flight commanders. And be ready to boost the signal so we can get as many writers as possible to build an amazing collection of Star Wars Legends fics.
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can i just say that mirro shaz shrine is the absolute worst one in the entirety of botw if you're trying to save durability
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there are some internet friends where eventually you start calling them by their real name and then there’s times where its like nah son your name is crispy forever
#if their username doesn't have a handy nickname shorter than about three syllables they get realnamed#in casual conversation#otherwise it's pseuds forever
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Until pretty recently in US history, copyright had to be renewed every 28 years or it would lapse. There are books on Gutenberg from as recently as like 1957? It's always worth checking
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
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My toxic trait: I’m always prepared to never speak to a person again
#i'm not right up until i am#every so often someone fucks around a little too much and suddenly finds out#i don't consider it a toxic trait tho#i consider it a trait for cutting toxicity out of my life
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While talking with the Hobbits, Tom Bombadil puts on the One Ring. For a moment, all of the Nazgul burst into merry song. It is never discussed among them again.
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the world is a better place with trans women in it
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Haha get loved unconditionally idiot. Get absolutely fuckin cherished. Lol you're about to be hugged so hard. I appreciate you deeply as a person, what you gonna do about it? Nothing lmao
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REBLOG THIS TO GIVE THE PERSON YOU REBLOGGED THIS FROM A GOLD STAR BECAUSE THEY’VE BEEN STELLAR TODAY AND THEY DESERVE IT ⭐️
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I must not mock Gen Alpha. Mocking Gen Alpha is the mind killer. Mocking Gen Alpha is the little-death that brings total generational solidarity obliteration. I will engage with Gen Alpha lovingly. I will permit them to be cringe. And when they grow up I will turn my eye to their accomplishments. Where mocking has gone there will be nothing. Only generational solidarity remains
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#look man i didn't watch pokemon#my sisters were into digimon and inuyasha (idk if that's an anime she was into the manga)#lupin iii was the first anime i ever watched more than about five minutes of
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Suddenly struck with a need to explain to you how boat pronouns work (I work in the marine industry).
When you're talking about the design of the boat, you say "it".
When the boat is still being built, your say "it".
When the boat is nearing completion, you can say "it" or "she".
When the boat is floating in the water you probably say "she", unless there is still a lot of work to be done (e.g. no engine yet) then you say "it".
When the boat is officially launched and operating, you say "she". If you continue to say "it" at this point you are not incorrect but suspiciously untraditional. You are not playing the game.
If you are referring to a boat you don't really know anything about you may say "it" ("there's a big boat, it's coming this way"). But if you know its name, it's probably "she" ("there's the Waverley, she's on her way to Greenock").
If you are talking about boats in general, you say "it" ("when a boat is hit by a wave it heels over")
If you speak about a boat in complimentary terms, it's "she" ("she's a grand boat"). If you are being disparaging it may be it, but not necessarily ("it's as ugly as sin", "she's a grotty old tub").
If she has a boy's name, she's still she. "Boy James", "King Edward", "Sir David Attenborough"? The pronoun is she.
If it's a dumb barge (no engine), you say it. But if it's a rowing boat (no engine), you say she.
I hope this has cleared things up so that you may not be in danger of misgendering floating objects.
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God's strongest soldiers are retail workers that have to listen to that dog shit music all hours of the day
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