In general, are you aware of where north is at most times?
Yes, I'm typically aware which direction north is
No, I'm not typically oriented on a compass
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showering is such an ordeal. i think it's all the sudden sensations. like you're suddenly wet, then you're suddenly very warm (if you take hot showers like me) then when you step out of the shower, you're suddenly cold. it's too much.
Anonymous asked:
So I sought out that artisanal pen stall mentioned a while back, bought a pen and I think it will be safer in your hands, considering it’s effects.
It’s a quill pen, lovely green feather, that when you write down enough details about an animal on a single piece of paper causes the paper to fold itself into a little animate origami animal, details do extend to things like stats in a tabletop RPG. On a related note if anyone knows how to defeat and/or tame an origami chimera I’d be very appreciative of you’d let me know I’d like my bathroom back before my housemates realise what’s happened.
elsewhereuniversity answered:
Right off the bat, it seems like the bathroom is one of the absolute worst places for paper creature to be. In the bottom five for sure. Worst comes to worst, you can probably just corner it in the shower stall and turn on the water. Or cats, or humane mousetraps - it’s folded from a single piece of paper, it’s barely the size of a rat.
But… have you considered making a second chimera before you pass the pen over, and maybe running a notebook through a shredder and filling a terrarium with the shreddings, and coaxing the pair of chimeras into the little paper desert where they can be dry and safe? It’s probably quite scared right now, and it’s certainly very small and alone.
One of the famous ghosts of Drury Lane theatre, known during his life as Lt. A. Kennedy of the Royal Navy. An interpretation of the Man in Grey inspired by @professorlehnsherr-almashy 's post about Archie Kennedy haunting Drury lane. Specifically, the admiralty box. Ouch
(me, my parents, my sister, and the baby are sitting at the kitchen table eating lunch)
baby, pointing at the light fixture over the table and signing "on": o.*
my sister: we actually can't turn that light on right now, because the lightbulb inside is burnt out! it needs a new one.
baby: ighbu.
sister: yes, lightbulb! granddaddy said after we eat he's going to climb up there on a ladder and change it, and then the light will come on!
baby: gadada! adda, uuu! ighbu o!
sister: exactly!
baby, signing "on" and pointing at the light and then my dad, with increasing urgency: GADADA ADDA UUUU. O.
my sister: we're going to finish eating first though, ok?
baby: nonono. O. gadada adda uuu.
[a split second goes by]
baby, pointing to himself: ba. adda uuu. ighbu.
me: you're going to climb the ladder and change the lightbulb yourself?
baby: dzyeah. *pointing to the buckle where he is buckled into the high chair* ububu.
me: unbuckle you? so you can change the lightbulb?
baby, highly businesslike: dzyeah.
*pronounced like "on" without the n
Hey I'm gonna start something that'll maybe go nowhere let's go
Can we get this poll to a million total responses for no other reason than Number Go Up?
hell yeah we can
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lol. lmao.
number go up
hee hee. hoo hoo.
oh oh big number? big number go higher?
*reblogsreblogsreblogsreblogsreb
pff. psh. pfaw.
level 10 fool
I hereby declare under penalty of owie that I will give OP $5
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The LGBTQ community has seen controversy regarding acceptance of different groups (bisexual and transgender individuals have sometimes been marginalized by the larger community), but the term LGBT has been a positive symbol of inclusion and reflects the embrace of different identities and that we’re stronger together and need each other. While there are differences, we all face many of the same challenges from broader society.
In the 1960′s, in wider society the meaning of the word gay transitioned from ‘happy’ or ‘carefree’ to predominantly mean ‘homosexual’ as they adopted the word as was used by homosexual men, except that society also used it as an umbrella term that meant anyone who wasn’t cisgender or heterosexual. The wider queer community embraced the word ‘gay’ as a mark of pride.
The modern fight for queer rights is considered to have begun with The Stonewall Riots in 1969 and was called the Gay Liberation Movement and the Gay Rights Movement.
The acronym GLB surfaced around this time to also include Lesbian and Bisexual people who felt “gay” wasn’t inclusive of their identities.
Early in the gay rights movement, gay men were largely the ones running the show and there was a focus on men’s issues. Lesbians were unhappy that gay men dominated the leadership and ignored their needs and the feminist fight. As a result, lesbians tended to focus their attention on the Women’s Rights Movement which was happening at the same time. This dominance by gay men was seen as yet one more example of patriarchy and sexism.
In the 1970′s, sexism and homophobia existed in more virulent forms and those biases against lesbians also made it hard for them to find their voices within women’s liberation movements. Betty Friedan, the founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), commented that lesbians were a “lavender menace” that threatened the political efficacy of the organization and of feminism and many women felt including lesbians was a detriment.
In the 80s and 90s, a huge portion of gay men were suffering from AIDS while the lesbian community was largely unaffected. Lesbians helped gay men with medical care and were a massive part of the activism surrounding the gay community and AIDS. This willingness to support gay men in their time of need sparked a closer, more supportive relationship between both groups, and the gay community became more receptive to feminist ideals and goals.
Approaching the 1990′s it was clear that GLB referred to sexual identity and wasn’t inclusive of gender identity and T should be added, especially since trans activist have long been at the forefront of the community’s fight for rights and acceptance, from Stonewall onward. Some argued that T should not be added, but many gay, lesbian and bisexual people pointed out that they also transgress established gender norms and therefore the GLB acronym should include gender identities and they pushed to include T in the acronym.
GLBT became LGBT as a way to honor the tremendous work the lesbian community did during the AIDS crisis.
Towards the end of the 1990s and into the 2000s, movements took place to add additional letters to the acronym to recognize Intersex, Asexual, Aromantic, Agender, and others. As the acronym grew to LGBTIQ, LGBTQIA, LGBTQIAA, many complained this was becoming unwieldy and started using a ‘+’ to show LGBT aren’t the only identities in the community and this became more common, whether as LGBT+ or LGBTQ+.
In the 2010′s, the process of reclaiming the word “queer” that began in the 1980′s was largely accomplished. In the 2020′s the LGBTQ+ acronym is used less often as Queer is becoming the more common term to represent the community.
