they look like they run a ceramics studio like the navy

Just learned about Bull Press, a tabletop publisher that focuses on games that are prison compliant (no hardcover, no dice, no maps), and their catalogue seems sick as hell. Def gonna pick smth up when I get paid next. They do a lot of donation work with books for prisoners programs!

Aquarius Johfra Bosschart

i plan on becoming a child prodigy at 44

Warding off the oncoming depressive episode by reading about very old tortoises

Pleased to report that the 190 year old tortoise is a gay icon

Jonathan is the oldest known land animal btw. I need everyone to know that the oldest animal alive on land is a gay tortoise

A lot of the time when I reblog jewellery on here, it’s art nouveau jewellery, because I really like art nouveau. In general, and in jewellery in particular. And most of that is the aesthetic. I like the natural forms, I like the twisty curly bits, I like the use of materials, I like how a lot of art nouveau jewellery is using metals and stones and other materials to create a specific form, an insect or a plant or a goddess or even sometimes nature scenes. I like …

I feel like a lot of the time with jewellery, it feels like ‘I’m going to use this object to show off the size and value of my pretty rock’. And there’s nothing wrong with that. Some of those rocks are indeed gorgeous. But art nouveau feels more ‘I’m going to use these pretty rocks, and several other things, to create the impact of this object’? I just love the use of materials, glass and enamel and colour, as well as precious stones and metals, to create a form or a scene.

Like, you get a diamond ring, it’s a diamond ring. But you get something like a dragonfly brooch (Louis Acoc):

Or a lilypad hair comb (Rene Lalique):

Or a wisteria branch (Georges Fouquet):

And it’s a whole creation. A little wearable piece of art.

And I don’t want to sound too dismissive. I know the craftmanship and skill and artistry that goes into any kind of jewellery making. That diamond ring took skill I will never have. I just.

I like the emphasis on form more than material that you get with art nouveau. Like normally you hear ‘glass jewellery’, ‘enamel jewellery’, and it’s cheap, it’s frowned upon, but in art nouveau it’s what that glass or enamel was used to make that’s the important part:

(Rene Lalique)

(Eugene Feuillatre)

Anyway. In summary, I really, really, really like art nouveau jewellery?

If you ever, and I mean EVER think that you fucked something up royally, remember that the organizers of the 1904 Olympic marathon:

- Had zero stations for water on the 26 mile (42 km) course

- Accidentally gave North American competitor Tom Hicks a cocktail made of egg whites, brandy, and actual fucking rat poison

- Had a guy come into the race late wearing a beret and cutoff slacks, sneak into an apple orchard during the race because no food had been given to him for 40 hours, eat rotten apples, projectile vomit onto the track, fall asleep for hours, and finish in fourth place OVERALL because most of the other runners collapsed of exhaustion or injuries

- Conducted the race on a dusty road, which caused so much dust to be kicked into the air that an American runner somehow inhaled enough to tear his STOMACH LINING open

- Accidentally released feral dogs onto the track

- Fucked the other competitors up SO BADLY that Tom Hicks—the guy who ate RAT POISON and was HALLUCINATING the entire run—came in first place

today i ran barefoot down the middle of the highway into oncoming traffic to scoop this thing

to be loved is to be changed, etc

8 weeks old today btw

she grew up!

i will never allow you people to forget who was the president of the jury in cannes when emilia perez won all those awards her name is GRETA GERWIG

remember when i said barbie was indicative of Gerwig’s transphobic values and everybody told me i was crazy?

hey if you’re a federal worker you may want to use a vpn and check to see if the “american accountability foundation” (elon) doxxed you. suggesting a vpn bc there’s an IP logger on the domain.

info includes black and white photos of targets, social media posts, and political donation history among other things. do not access the site from company devices or during work hours.

according to this NBC news article, “offenses” include things as minor as having your pronouns in your bio.

🚨It would be a shame if everyone reported this website to their Registrar, GoDaddy, for violating their Inappropriate Content Guidelines 🚨

Report form or you can email abuse@godaddy.com

(Form makes your name/info optional)

Domains to report: "americanaccountabilityfoundation(.)com" and "dhswatchlist(.)com" (take out parenthesis)

Form will ask for a specific url with violating content. Easiest one I've found is at the second domain, you can grab an example from there. ("https://www.dhswatchlist(.)com/targets/kursten-phelps" if you want to copy mine, but lets get some diversity)

Example script of what I said for the DHS one: "This website hosts photos, employment information, and financial transactions with specific dates and amounts of individuals who did not consent. This is a violation of your inappropriate content guideline."

GoDaddy's definition of inappropriate content (we are going for "personal information"):

Reblogging again! This version has all the info for reporting it and the link

Hey also let's maybe report it to the IRS. 501c3 organizations are not supposed to participate in politics in any capacity

I've seen a few people now complain about how the show doesn't outright say how vampirism affected Tera, and every time I've been flabbergasted because, to me, the fact that we don't get a clear answer makes it so much more interesting!

Tera obviously wasn't just turned into vampire grunt #4 by becoming a vampire, but she does have some darker impulses now - seen when she killed the drunkard to feed, when she encouraged Maria to tap into darker magics, when she smiled over the Abbott's corpse. But also the good in her hasn't been completely snuffed out: she still loves Maria, and - most importantly - that love isn't selfish! She was horrified by Maria's desire to be made into a vampire, too. She willingly left when she realized that her current, tumultuous state, was putting her daughter at risk.

How much vampirism changes a person can vary from story to story; it changes depending on what the narrative needs vampirism to be. And in Castlevania, we have seen that love is a redemptive force when it comes to vampires. Not just with Dracula, who allowed himself to die when he realized he was killing his son, but also with Striga and Morana, whose love for each other eclipsed Carmilla's ambitions, and led them to abandon her and live on their own, peacefully. We also see this with Olrox; Mizrak successfully appealed to him, and got him to forsake focusing on his own survival to come to the group's aid in the final battle against Erzsebet and Drolta.

Speaking of that final battle, and of Drolta in particular - this line, this line, and Drolta's entire backstory, to me, say the most about vampirism in Castlevania. Drolta, in life, was completely driven by devotion to Sekhmet. And what drove her after she became a vampire?

The same thing.

Vampirism does not erase a person's desires. Rather, as we see with Drolta, it twists them. It brings out the darkest impulses, it gives them a ruthless streak. Drolta became so single-minded in devotion to Sekhmet that she was willing to break the world for her. Tera becomes so intent on protecting Maria that she encourages her towards more powerful - but darker - magics.

And this is why I think people are missing what this season was saying about vampirism and how it changes people. They were looking exclusively at Tera for answers, when they needed to look at Drolta too.

I suspect how much a person changes upon coming a vampire is left vague in the show because it can depend so drastically on the person themselves. How they take to vampirism is going to depend on them: on their desires, on their impulses, and on the strength of their heart.

And that's why the show doesn't tell us outright how much of Tera is still in there. She says it herself: she needs to find it.

the tits speak for themselves

[ID: A couple of yellow tits, as in birds, are perched on a podium with microphones in front of them. /end ID]

I think if you struggle to understand why autistic or other neurodivergent people get extremely emotionally distressed when experiencing sensory overload (sometimes to the point of physical aggression out of panic), the bridge to cognitive empathy for this situation might come by imagining what you would do in a context of overstimulating sensory information from which you could not remove yourself.

for example, a common (among everyone, including allistic people) sensory experience known to cause sensory overwhelm is tickling. imagine being in school or work, trying to concentrate, while being tickled, and no matter what no one will stop tickling you even if you beg them to stop. how long could you endure being tickled, constantly, against your will before you do something that is not "silently doing work and ignoring it."

another example is very spicy food above your personal spice tolerance. or the sound of a loud, piercing fire alarm. how long can you concentrate on your work in these sensory environments? how long before your body would take over to try to escape the situation however possible?

the lovely woman who owned kabosu, the shiba known as doge, should get to take a point blank shot at elon musk with the doohickey that killed shinzo abe

Sergei Danchev (Russian b.1981), Winter Landscape, 2023, Pastel on paper