I'm Nobody! Who are you?

longsightmyth:

longsightmyth:

longsightmyth:

longsightmyth:

If you want to read actual squad goals or whatever please I am begging you go read circle of magic

Sandry slapping the hand of one of the five most powerful people in the whole temple off the latch of the gate because he was pursuing her foster brother for stealing a miniature tree and informing said powerful person that she FORBID him to enter lives rent free in my mind

So does Tris mostly accidentally creating a water spout bc she tried to dump water on some dudes about to fight her friends who she didn’t even really consider her friends yet

Daja just going ‘okay, well, I have a staff and YOU tried to hurt one of my friends’ to a whole group of older kids?

Briar turning around for the same fight and going 'oh yeah gotta go back up my sist- I mean these people I totally don’t care about’?!

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These kids won’t let each other (or their foster parents) die

I mean literally WILL NOT ALLOW IT this is not like 'hah hah they will charge in and remove the situation’ I mean Sandry will simply tie you to your body and be like 'nope’

You think you can die on these kids’ watch if they decide they love you? You’d better be a continent away in a remote village with no contact with the outside world

And even then it’s questionable

happyheidi:

stop glamorizing being a go-getter and start glamorize a bed nook !

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tentacleteapot:

ebookporn:

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tearlessrain:

I really do think an important component of activism is to make sure your motivation is based on a desire to help/improve things for the people being harmed by a system, and not hatred for the ones doing the harm. both for mental health reasons, and because either way you’re training your neural pathways and it’s gonna turn out a lot better for literally everyone if the question on everyone’s mind after achieving a goal is “how/which people can we help next, what’s the next step for improving things” and not “who do we need to attack next.”

I’m not saying don’t be angry, there are a lot of good reasons to be angry right now and it makes for an excellent kick in the pants, just don’t define yourself by it or it’s gonna poison you and potentially do collateral damage.

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nothorses:

The rule of thumb is not “listen to marginalized people about everyone’s experiences”, it’s “listen to marginalized people about their own oppression”.

It’s not “listen to the most marginalized person in the room”, it’s “listen to the people who have actually had the experiences being discussed, instead of assuming what those experiences are like”.

It’s not “stop having an opinion, shut the fuck up, and absorb uncritically whatever a marginalized person has most recently told you”, it’s “everyone knows their own experiences best, just like you know your’s, and it’s important to listen to different perspectives in order to truly understand the problem”.

Marginalized people don’t know everything, and certainly aren’t a monolith. The whole point of that idea is just to get people to listen to each other. If all of us are doing that, and genuinely trying to understand others without making assumptions or abandoning critical thought entirely, we’ll get there in the end.

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madfishmonger:

politicalprof:

Well, you know, some bathroom graffiti offers insight.

Red marker handwriting on a bathroom wall. Text reads:

“Boss made a dollar
Granddad made a dime
But that was a poem
From a simpler time.

Boss made a thousand
Gave pa a cent
But that penny paid the mortgage
Or at least it paid the rent

Now Boss makes a million
And gives us jack
Smugly blames the workers
For the labor that he lacks.”

And the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls.

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what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

what-even-is-thiss:

Fairy: Hey I didn’t get your name.

Me: Yeah that was on purpose.

Fairy: Oh my god stealing people’s names has been categorized as a war crime for like a hundred years. Do I seem like the kind of fairy that would do war crimes?

Me: Well yes, but that’s just my impression of you personally. Not fairies in general.

Fairy: You’re smarter than I thought.

Me: So is the fairy monarch democratically elected?

Fairy: I think the one from a small corner of Alabama might be but for the most part, no. It’s still decided by a contest between the three oldest children.

Me: What kind of competition?

Fairy: Well it used to be to the death but that was too violent so these days each kingdom comes up with their own. In mine I think they play marbles but I’ve never seen one.

Me: Okay so why shouldn’t I say thank you or give gifts in return for favors?

Fairy: That’s mostly a regional thing but where I’m from it’s insulting to the wealth of the person giving you stuff. Like you really only thank people when what they did was like a huge burden so if you thank someone for giving you something that’s like calling them poor.

Me: Fairies have wealth inequality?

Fairy: I mean we technically still live under a feudal system if I’m being honest but with modern technology and ethics nobody notices.

Me: Do you have Internet down there?

Fairy: Only dial-up. That’s why I come to your house.

Fairy: So you’re telling me that human men don’t think that frog eyes are sexy?

Me: Well not most of them to my knowledge.

Fairy: So I bought these contacts for nothing.

Me: Hey man you don’t have to be a frog spirit to lure men into your clutches. Plenty of dudes are into cat eyes and ghoulish moaning.

Fairy: You really think so?

Me: I know so! Stop doubting yourself so much. You can definitely find some mortal men to lure into the timeless void for several centuries and adopt a demon cat with you.

Fairy: Thanks, man. That means a lot.

Fairy: So humans… don’t eat glass?

Me: No? It’ll cut up our insides and kill us.

Fairy: Ooohhhh. Oh no.

Me: What did you do now?

Fairy: More like… what I’ve done over the past three centuries since I moved out of my mom’s house.

Me: Did the coughing up of blood not cue you into anything?!?!!

Fairy: I thought that humans just spontaneously die sometimes!

Me: No we don’t! There’s physical reasons for these things!

Fairy: So… no more bringing nightshade and glass entrees to the potluck?

Me: No!

Me: So why mushrooms as portals?

Fairies: Look man, even we don’t mess with mushrooms alright? Sometimes they open up a portal to the human world and it’s just best to not question it.

Me: So wait. You don’t make the fairy circles?

Fairy: No. Mushrooms decide.

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rain-sleet-snow:

enter-the-bogman:

Reading through the Tortall books in publication order is funny because you start with Alanna “the village healing woman taught me all she knew” going off to become a knight, and end with Numair “world’s most powerful mage” as young Arram Draper first learning magic at the Carthaki university. Because of the 40 intervening years and five(?) different series further developing the Tortall universe, the magic system is now SO much more complex. 
Arram is learning an elementally-based, heavily theory-dependent form of magic where conceptual power is applied to physical objects or energy constructs. His teachers make him develop skills in non-magical areas like juggling, jewelry making, and gardening so eventually they can safely guide him through complicated applications of magic. In comparison, Alanna complains that Duke Roger is spending too much time on theory in order to prevent her and her peers from learning “actual magic” and becoming his rivals. And then she throws purple light at things until they explode or she passes out!
We also learn from Arram’s misadventures that most of “magic” is creating methods of applying, storing, and accessing power so the user doesn’t drain their own life force and pass out or die. Alanna uses NONE of these techniques; instead, she pulls her magic directly out of her own life force, thinks about what she wants it to do, and hopes she reaches that goal before draining herself. She even (sometimes) factors in the impact of magically draining herself of energy while attempting tasks that require both magical and physical endurance (such as when deciding how much magic to spend warming herself when making her blizzard hike to claim the Dominion Jewel.)

For one thing, this makes Alanna insanely powerful. In In the Hand of The Goddess, she breaks open Roger’s magically locked door (presumably designed by Roger himself– an immensely strong and well-trained sorcerer) by shoving her own magic into it until it MELTS. This builds an Alanna who decided magical theory was useless at age 12 because she has an immense access to magical potential energy, and who never learns the basic life-preserving models of magic usage that are taught in intro-level classes. She doesn’t have an interest in learning more sophisticated forms of magic, except in healing, which she cared about enough to learn non-magically. So when she heals, she uses magic as a guide or a supplement, rather than depending on it and then draining herself. 
Since she isn’t attempting complex magic, most of the time the limitations of drawing directly from her own life force doesn’t impact her that much. The things she does magically all have much more efficient alternatives, but they require an understanding of magical theory and ability to store energy that Alanna never learned! If she wants to do larger spells, she just keeps feeding energy into it until it breaks or she does. 

The intervening series and Numair’s story makes Alanna’s simultaneously more and less believable. It now makes sense why everyone with even a slight understanding of Alanna’s type of Gift gets angry at times and tells her she’s using magic irresponsibly. (Before, we only understood Alanna’s side of the argument: “Well, I didn’t die and it worked, so calm down.” !!!) The fact that she never actually dies and only rarely is seriously harmed through her own magic use now requires some suspension of disbelief!

I firmly believe that the general state of organised magical education in Tortall was so poor in Alanna’s youth that the Carthaki University spent decades leading up to the events of Emperor Mage saying among themselves, “and then there’s Tortall, only the gods know what the fuck they’re doing up there!” Some years - like the year with the crazed duke getting resurrected - this was said more loudly than other years. The year they finally got their hands on enough raw data and publications to prove that yes, King Jonathan did have the actual facts Dominion Jewel in his treasury and used it to stop an earthquake raised the roof.

After Daine’s ill-fated visit they gathered in silence and drank. 

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sioltach:

there are so many hidden relationships between people.. ur grandpa killed mine in a war some 800 years ago but also we were neighbors in the 1700s who traded eggs and milk. wwhat does that make us 

in high school I found out a guy in my english class had an ancestor who was on the opposite side of the samurai rebellion in which my great great grandfather was meant to be executed (for losing) but he ran away and hid for the rest of his life and the guy was like “….damn. good for him. now we’re both here to write bad essays on pride and prejudice.”

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disappointedcrystalwolf-deactiv:

biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:

I’m looking back at random things I was taught as a kid by various adults and media and. did nobody bother to factcheck anything? was that just not an option or

Could you please name one?

swallowed chewing gum takes years to digest, blue veins are blue bc deoxygenated blood is blue, fossil fuels are made from dinosaurs, feeding bread to birds is fine, mice like cheese, carrots are good for your eyes, cleopatra was a sultry seductress, bulls can see the color red, corsets were uncomfortable and caused deformities, glass is a slow-moving liquid which is why old window panes are uneven at the bottom, tomato juice gets rid of skunk smells, young einstein failed math class, eating before swimming increases your risk of cramps and drowning, cracking your knuckles causes arthritis, iron maidens were used as torture devices, the earth’s core is molten rock, and basically anything at all whatsoever to do with the myth of thanksgiving

they said name ONE-

bats are blind, diamonds are made of coal, the dark side of the moon is dark, the sun is yellow, lightning doesn’t strike twice, columbus landed in the u.s., medieval europeans believed the world was flat, piranhas eat human flesh, goldfish have no long-term memory, porcupines can shoot their quills, people often swallow spiders in their sleep, wolves howl at the moon, humans only have 5 senses, sore muscles are caused by a buildup in lactic acid, and rust causes tetanus!

actually imma just leave this here

List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

the fact i was told like 99% of those-

Well, shit.

rongzhi:

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