Did you know that there is a Toaster Museum????

Present and Correct

Bloomsbury, UK

Architecture for London

*peering down at my own genetic sequence* uh-huh uh-huh bold choice bold fucking choices my friend

warhammer 40k loves to call itself a satire of fascism and then depicts a universe in which all of the great fascistic anxieties and beliefs of its imperium (the enemy is everywhere, it is both weak and strong, we are eternal, any violence we commit is justified, our leader is our genetic superior, degeneracy will lead to the collapse of our society) are all objectively true, completely blunting any satirical edge it could have, but giving it just enough plausible deniability that games workshop can market to anyone of any ideology

present & correct in london!

It's hilarious to me that someone actually asked/JRO actually confirmed via word of god that Tarn tortured Pharma while he was at Delphi bc like. Fucking yeah??? How else do you think Pharma went from "for most of his life, he was a good doctor" to stark raving mad? What else did people think Tarn, fanatical Decepticon who leads a group of professional murderers, would do to Pharma, Autobot stationed on DJD territory, to make him comply with the deal?

I get that sometimes people just want confirmation from the author for them to go "no yeah your theories are right" but on the other hand I don't understand asking for word of god confirmation on things that are obviously canon if you just think about it for a little bit

Saw a Take earlier today like "Ed stans have only 1 argument and it's accusing everyone who likes Izzy of being problematic" or something to that effect

and it made me think "Nah babe, you're not problematic. You're just wrong."

And then I thought. Huh. Why do I think that?

It's a perfectly respectable thing to read a text in a way it wasn't intended to be read. In fact, "reading against the grain", doing critical readings, shifting perspectives when engaging with a text - all of thee are important skills! You can, and should, do feminist, antiracist, postcolonial, queer, etc readings of texts that were never intended to be read that way. Hell, all fandom (often) is, is doing queer readings! Ask the text uncomfortable questions it doesn't want to answer!

However. It's pretty difficult to do a queer reading when the text already is a queer narrative. The questions you would ask the text if you did a queer reading, or a reading focused on gender roles, or similar things - those are questions the text is already actively exploring.

If you want to do a subversive reading of a text that is already quite subversive - what do you end up with?

"What's the story like from Izzy's perspective?" is a question ofmd deliberately doesn't focus too much on because Izzy's perspective is the default and ofmd wants to challenge that. There's a reason the angry white man is the antagonist in this show, and if you ask "Okay, but could he be right though?" you're missing the point.

Or rather, you're turning everything that's interesting about ofmd back around. You're asking "Okay, but why don't we focus on a white perspective that strictly adheres to oppressive power structures?" of a narrative who already asked itself this question and gave the answer "Because that's been done enough and there are other stories worth telling."

And I think people are aware of that, which is how we end up with completely bizarre takes like "Izzy has the only queer character arc". He hasn't, but he has the only arc that a queer reading can be done on - for everyone else it's text, plain and simple. Refusing to engage with that text in favour of centering Izzy is basically doing a heteronormative reading without being willing to admit it to yourself.

And no, interpreting Izzy as a queer man doesn't change that.

May your soul live, achieving millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness - inscription on the "wishing cup" lotus chalice, the first object encountered inside the antechamber of KV62

Last piece ❤️💙

There are still leftovers of the Calendar as well as some A5 prints with calendar pieces 💞

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(ASOS, Sansa II)

(ASOS, Jon XII)

now obviously the drakes being gone majority of the year when tim growing up is certainly suboptimal parenting and it was parenting that did emotionally neglect their son and it did affect him that they were gone so much and they made a lot of wrong decisions-

that being said--given that they did travel majority of the year for work i don't necessarily think that it was the wrong choice in their situation for them to choose to send tim to boarding school versus bring him with them.

like, the constant travel and time zone changes/sleep adjustments aren't super for adult health, let alone that of a developing child. jack and janet seemed to travel to a lot of places that might be a potential health risk for a child and diseases you don't want your child exposed to (malaria, tuberculosis, dengue fever, diarrheal-causing diseases that are much more dangerous for a child than for an adult, hemorrhagic fevers, the list goes on...). and what would they do for schooling? they'd have to home-school since they were never in one place long enough to be able to establish tim at an in-person school. idk it's possible to me that they had good intentions, thinking that at least in boarding school tim is 1) getting good schooling that they wouldn't be able to provide to him while traveling, 2) he stays in one place/one time-zone and his days are fairly scheduled and stable, and 3) he's safe from potential diseases that he wouldn't be exposed to at school.

the holdovers has everything you're looking for this christmas season it's got a new england winter, a snowglobe, a sad old boarding school teacher, a sad boarding school student, a found family, the inherent grief and isolation of the holiday season, a sense of profound loss and the joy that counters it so harshly it aches nearly as much, after affects of the vietnam war, ancient pornography...you'll never need a rankin bass special again

I love getting validated on small things that I didn't even consider like it's always a treat and this time it's Gender

The Fundie Baby Voice™️ has been popping up a lot in ex-christian spaces lately and I actually had one in middle school and part of high school! I learned when and where to use it and how to turn up my southern accent just enough. I can still do it but it sounds weird after 3 years on T. The main place I used it was at church cause it made me sound sweet and polite. I used it for old ladies when I worked at a grocery store too. My family didn't like it when we were just all together cause they said it sounded like baby talk, but loved it when I used it at church cause everyone would tell them how sweet and soft-spoken I was

My therapist said it actively made him feel uncomfortable when I used that voice. He couldn't quite put his finger on why it made him uncomfortable (other than him only knowing me on T) but he very much did not like it and he's so so right for that

we could be good for each other