The fight between Glimmer and Angella is as funny as it is sad because they’re both just talking over each other so much
G: What tone? A: That attitude of your is never going to help you know G: Mom you always tell me what to do and it’s just. Not. FAIR! A: You do know that I’m Queen and that you can’t act that way- *sound of Glimmer slamming the door in her mother’s face*
Angella is trying but she has no freaking clue what to do with a teenager, let alone a teenager who is 110% down to Fight Everything
Glimmer-Glimmer your powers are teleportation and sparkles, these are not powers that traditionally lend themselves to punching things Glimmer!
This miscommunication between them is glorious. Angella clearly just wants Glimmer safe (bad as she is at expressing it), while Glimmer feels coddled and just wants to Fight All The Things
Can I watch a great film knowing the actresses in it were terrorized and mistreated the entire time? Can I watch a football game knowing that the players are getting brain injuries right before my eyes? Can I listen to my favorite albums anymore knowing that the singers were all beating their wives in between studio sessions? Can I eat at the new fancy taco place knowing when the building that used to be there got bulldozed eight families got kicked out of their homes so they could be replaced with condos and a chain restaurant? Can I wear the affordable clothes I bought downtown that were probably assembled in a sweatshop with child labor? Can I eat quinoa?
Can I eat this burger? Can I drink this bottled water? Can I buy a car and drive to work because I’m sick of taking an hour each way on the subway? Whose bones do I stand on? Whose bones am I standing on right now?
On one hand, it’s a privilege to be able to choose to acknowledge these horrors or not–we’re going to acknowledge that privilege. On the other hand, I once attended a lecture by the explorerer-conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s daughter and son and they had a lot of opinions about what we could do to help the environment and the ocean and I talked about how in my country, we have to drink bottled water, because it’s a desert and there’s only salt water all around, but we’re contributing to pollution and all of these things…
And she looked at me and told me not to fall into the trap of “activist guilt.” I couldn’t remember the exact words, but, it was the first time I’d heard the term and it took a weight off my shoulders.
We do what we can. It’s so much better than giving up entirely or not doing anything at all because we can’t do it perfectly. It doesn’t benefit anyone in the end if we just sit around feeling guilty about every little thing in life. I’d just joined tumblr back then (haha, so like, eight or nine years ago at this point?), I was being exposed to way more than I’d ever been before (I was previously just into feminism and animal rights/wildlife conservation/environmentalism since I was a kid), and it was weighing on me.
As long as humans are humans and living flawed lives, many consumed by greed, there will not be anything in this world untouched by evil.
I usually avoid stuff that says it was made in China or other cheap looking knockoffs, out of fear of them being made in sweatshops (now, I know even a lot of big brands use those…), it’s exhausting. Then, I read something about how people who actually lived and worked in those would still buy this cheap stuff and how this shocked the foreigner reporting on it, but they just looked confused like, it’s what they can afford and them avoiding consuming it isn’t going to change the whole system from the ground-up.
… it went on about how “money talks” and choosing where to put your money still feeds the whole capitalist system and is nearly a way of comforting yourself, but you not buying doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t. What needs to be tackled is at a much higher level than any of us can reach.
Of course, I’d still, given the choice, give my money to companies I agree with and I’ll boycott what I know to support awful stuff, but I also feel no superiority over this and know now it’s not as black and white or easy as I thought it was.
This is the same reason that moral purity “you can’t enjoy [x] because it’s Problematic ™” is such nonsense, because nothing is pure. There’s something bad about everything if you dig deep enough. As long as we lived in flawed human societies we’ve got to make the best of what they offer us. If you have the choice and means, please, do support those who do good, but also, don’t beat yourself up over not living up to an unattainable ideal.
No one can. You’ll just make yourself so miserable, you either burn up and stop fighting entirely or you’ll make yourself a non-productive, depressed heap just out of a bleeding heart left unchecked. You can’t make a change to this world if you refuse to engage in it.
“Big Pharma” okay are we talking about how privatization and monetization has deeply corrupted the field of medicine or are you talking about how you think chemicals in the water are making the frogs gay
“GMOs”? Are we talking seeds that grow sterile plants and patenting genetic modifications then destroying any competition no matter how small they are? Or are we talking life saving rice with vitamin a to make sure kids don’t go blind in regions not suited for other high vit a veg? … or are we talking about your chidoodle?
Conversely, “alternative medicines”? Are we talking the traditional practices of non-Western societies which have an ancient history of being the cultural tools that allowed communities to take care of the health of their members and are nowadays rigorously studied within these communities to adapt them to the needs of the contemporary life, and can offer important prompts to modern medicine? Or are we talking about a white woman who traveled to India twice, followed a five-hour seminar and knows everything about inner energies now
So, I decided to put together two speculative ceratopsian hypotheses that have been floating around the palaeontology side of the internet for a while. These two hypotheticals are aquatic ceratopsians and omnivorous ceratopsians.
There have been suggestions that the high, arched vertebral spines on the tail vertebrae of early ceratopsians could have formed something of a ‘paddle tail’, allowing the animal to propel itself through water. This is unlikely, as these early species also had plenty of anatomical features that would be much more useful on land, but it’s an interesting idea to contemplate. I almost doesn’t seems too far-fetched that a few of these early species may have taken to the water, at least from time to time.
The other theory that has sparked some heated discussions and artworks far better than anything I could hope to draw is the idea that the sharp beaks and cutting molars of ceratopsians may have allowed them to consume meat when the opportunity arose. Many otherwise-herbivorous animals today will occasionally eat small animals, or feed on a carcass that they stumble upon.
While most artwork of omnivory in ceratopsians depicts them scavenging, I thought it would be an interesting experiment to portray an early ceratopsian taking a more active method to get itself a meal. Combining occasional omnivory with a semi-aquatic lifestyle creates a picture of a herbivore which, in times of environmental stress, could have taken to the water and become an ambush predator. It’s a depiction that is rather bizarre when compared to the conventional depictions of ceratopsians as strict herbivores.
I should make a note here that this is a completely hypothetical situation. There is no evidence to suggest that ceratopsians employed this type of behaviour, in fact I doubt that it was the case. However, ceratopsians have a history spanning at least 80 million years, and I find it not too much of a stretch to think that at some point in all those 80 million years, some ceratopsians would have adapted to some strange and unusual methods of getting food, whether by hiding in a river or doing something completely different. Either way, it was a fun thought experiment, and I’m quite pleased with the idea.
Also I got to make a meme out of it, so there’s that.
The plan for the 17th, when the adult content ban comes in, is to protest.
To do that, we are making as much noise either side of the 17th as possible, and using the site as normal.
On the 17th, dead silence.
People are saying log off but what they really mean is don’t open the site or the app.
But, on the 17th make as much noise as possible on every other platform. Tweet about it and post on facebook and instagram and everywhere else.
What this does is causes a massive dip in ad revenue for one single day. That does not make staff think ‘oh everyone’s gone let’s shut down.’ What it actually makes them think is ‘oh shit people aren’t happy and if people don’t keep using our site we’re out of money and out of jobs.’
A boycott reminds a company that the users (consumers) have the power to make their site (business) worthless with one single coordinated decision.
If you want to join in, here’s what to do:
Do:
Close all open instances of the app and site on all your devices before the 17th
Make posts before and after the 17th on tumblr and other platforms, talking about why this ban is bad
Make posts on other sites during the 17th. Flood the official tumblr staff twitter and facebook with your anger and your opinion
Come back on the 18th and check in
Don’t:
Delete the app from your phone (this doesn’t affect their revenue and since it’s off the store at the moment it’ll be hard to get back)
Delete your account. I mean you can if you want to, but if you keep your account and don’t use it you’re saying to staff that there’s still time to save it. If you delete it’s hard work to come back.
Open the app or website (including specific blogs)
Make any posts (turn down/off your queue and make sure nothing is scheduled)
Go quiet elsewhere. Make it clear that this is just about tumblr, not a mass move away from all social media.
Remember: the execs don’t care about anything but money. Shutting down the site means there’s $0 further income from it. That’s their last possible course of action. If we make it clear we’re not happy, they’ll have to do something or we can do more and more until it becomes too expensive.
Protests take commitment. They’re a defiant action against a business that is doing something wrong. They will try to scare you into not participating, because they’re scared. We hold all the power here, sometimes the execs just need to be reminded of that.
For those who aren’t leaving on the 17th like I am.
It’s your basic story, old woman sees trans woman in the bathroom, old woman calls to complain to Mcallister’s Deli, company says be a man or bust. Needless to say I busted like fine china.
But that leaves me with one part time job unless I can find another employer in my area willing to work with my current schedule.
My parents currently take half of almost every check and after my basic needs I’m left with almost nothing, and this is a problem when I’m working two jobs (now one) trying to move and actually start living my life
Monsters and Stuff 