I’ve been doing this thing lately where if I see a post that is obviously going to have discourse in the notes, I go in and start blocking everyone who’s clearly arguing in bad faith. and you wanna know something interesting? I keep seeing less and less.
“well duh, Kat,” you say, “obviously if you’re blocking people you’re not going to see their responses.” yeah I know. but this is between different posts. like I blocked a bunch of sockpuppet troll accounts on one post, and then when I looked through the notes of another equally divisive post about the same subject, there were far fewer. there were also replies from people addressing bad faith replies, even though I couldn’t see said bad faith replies in the notes–which I’m assuming means I already had the posters blocked.
kinda makes me think that it’s just the same noisy shitheads yelling on every post, and if we all block them, they won’t have a voice anymore. so echo chamber be damned, I’m just gonna keep on blocking.
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okay but waking up in the middle of the night to soft rain and knowing you’ve still got hours to sleep, when you’re toasty warm and comfortable & sleep has made you forget all your worries and responsibilities and u go back to sleep feeling as content as ever
miguel-the-sexy-and-powerful-god:
every time I use “they” to refer to a single gender-unknown person on Tumblr, another piece of my grammar-filled heart shatters, and the pieces scatter at the bottom of hell
“They” has been a singular pronoun for hundreds of years, you melodramatic dipshit.
well… actually… no… they is plural. people use they when they should use he, she, or it.
dense motherfucker, the pronoun “they” is an english equivalent for the third person indefinite singular and has been for literally centuries. it remains morphologically and syntactically plural therefore you don’t need to shit your little pantaloons at compromising your surely rock solid grammar rules.
i guarantee every fuckin time you’ve ever had to refer to a person of an unknown gender you’ve used “they” subconsciously. (“The post clerk gave me a message for you.” “Oh, what did they say?”) but you only have a problem with it when people specify it as a pronoun for themselves because you’re a shitlord i fuckin guess.
grammarized straight into hell
i am so sick of being constantly outraged and afraid
it’s exhausting
i want it to stop
- Witchcraft isn’t a religion – you’re all making it into this weird culty thing and Tumblr has turned it into something stale and conformed
- Wiccan and witch are not synonymous – there are witches of all religions
- There’s not a right or wrong way to practice – do whatever feels right in every situation
- You don’t need to believe in any gods, worship anything at all, have crystals or buy things from Instagram witch shops (most of the time they’re just capitalists anyway)
- You don’t need to declare what specific type of witch you are – you can strive to be balanced
- You create your own rules no matter what – it’s a deeply personalized way of life or thought process to each culture and each person
- if someone tries to dictate how you do what you do, they’re gatekeeping pricks and should be throat slapped
- Be true to yourself – this is only about harnessing your own strength and emotions and figuring out what parts you play in the world, not about an aesthetic or a fashion or trying to be the best witchling for other people’s admiration
- Try to have fun and stop taking it so seriously, you uptight nerds
i refuse to die until things are better and that is a threat
please write more lgbt characters in books that aren’t specifically about sexuality (although we need more of those, too).
i just want to be able to pick up a book and see two girls falling in love while trying to battle a corrupt government, while trying to defeat this one evil dude, while time travelling. i don’t want ‘lgbt’ to be a genre of its own, you know? i want genre books with main characters who just happen to be lgbt. i want this so much.
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Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew
Some male friends of mine were once talking about how useful they’d be in an apocalypse, and I pointed out that as a weaver and sewer and maker of stuff, I’d be pretty damn useful and they tried to tell me they could just loot clothes from WalMart and they’d be fine. As if WalMart has endless supplies without weekly deliveries.
So just last night a friend of mine was talking about who he’d round up in the event of a zombie apocalypse and how I’m his go-to farmer on account of I know how to keep an entire homestead up and running and we’re talking about what kind of resources I’d need to keep a colony of about 50-ish people alive and i bring up what all goes into processing wool for clothing and such and he just kind of stops me like ‘wait, wait, we don’t need to do all of that because we can scavenge for clothes we don’t need to be able to make them’ and i’m just like, ‘dude, that works in the short-term maybe but if this community is going to be sustainable you’ve gotta have people whose job it is to make clothes and blankets and shit’
also cloth rots pretty quickly when left exposed to the elements and after the first few years or so anything we manage to scavenge isn’t going to be wearable anymore and anywho we’ve got to teach the kids everything or they’re not gonna know what to do some decades down the line when everything’s too rusted or rotted out to be of any practical use anymore, etc etc, and he’s reckoning that things like woodworking and smithing and ranching are more important than say, cleaning or cooking or dairying and meanwhile i’m just smh may all the gods have mercy on this poor fool
He also balked when i brought up how to run a laundry and what all was needed to make everyday shit like soap and toothpaste – like dude, you think this is going to be all about hunting and scavenging and being neato manly-man drifters like in the walking dead let me teach you a thing about keeping a village alive and healthy for more than a week man most of it is shit you keep thinking is non-essential on account of it being “women’s work” or “simple chores” that’re actually pretty labor-intensive and take time, training, knowledge, and practice to do successfully, let alone well, and are 100% absolutely necessary work in order for you to have any reasonably good quality of life after the world ends
I’m reminded of this post I read a while back about some guy who thought his underwear lasted years because his wife would periodically replace his boxers and socks with identical boxers and socks when they started to look old and he just … never noticed.
You’re going to need folks that know animal husbandry, and know it well. Your life wjll depend on it. Horses/oxen for dragging logs and rocks to begin making foundations and timber framing for homes and plowing fields. Sheep for wool(you’ll also need folks that know how and when to shear) spinners and folks that either know naalbinding, knitting, or are able to loom(and someone to make it)
Goats for meat, milk and possibly cheese production(and to help in soap making)
I love @alls-well-that-ends-weird ’s take on this because there’s SO MANY daily amenities that take ages to make in a homestead setting because you suddenly don’t have modern convenience.
Having a black Smith is well and good but if you’re missing a cooper, a cobbler, spinners, weavers(knitters, etc.) and a healthy library of learning material to keep knowledge alive and skills honed you’ll be up the creek.
It takes a village to raise a child. And it takes “women’s work” to keep a village running.
‘Survivalists’ aren’t gonna survive a month. Go be a tacti-cool murder hobo somewhere else
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