#imaginary nonsense

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Abstract

If the climate crisis, undergirded as it is by oil dependency, can be called “cis” insofar as it is driven by cisheteronormativity, then it requires a response to oil that is broadly trans—transgender, transspecies, trans-corporeal, trans-material. Rural petro-masculine iconography elides and erases our oil dependencies by pretending to a total control over fossil fuels and thereby a control over cultural and material formations of stable, binaric gender and sex. To think outside these foreclosures of both nonbinaric genders and oil's animacy, this essay introduces readers to Truck Sluts, an Instagram account that puts rural trucking culture at the center of a three-fold t4t exchange: trans-for-trans, trans-for-trucks, and a more expansive trans-for-trans* that crosses materialities. The author argues that Truck Sluts explicitly models these kinds of exchange and that doing so unseats the cisheterosexism of the petro-masculine rural, which is necessarily environmentalist work.

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Of course he's a "he/they" from the Department of English, not the Department of Science.

I keep saying it but I'm not sure people truly understand the depravity and malfeasance at play here: this is a codified, sanctioned form of corruption and fraud. This is stealing money to "study" something that's imaginary while pumping effluent into our knowledge production stream.

Nothing about this is real. It's academic homeopathy. If he studied the effects of Noah's Flood on climate change, it would be more real.

[vladimpale]

john and arthur panicking in the dollmaker's workshop really gives you a preview of how they might react in a normal situation in the real world when they're not in complete control

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

yes i have personal & intimate reasons for my own (lack of) religious/supernatural beliefs, but it's not dishonest to admit: i am also an atheist bc at no point in my life have i, after completing a slightly unpleasant task, been witness to an angel/imp/sprite/devil/entity-of-any-kind manifesting in all their glory to offer me a pat on the head and a little plastic baggy of crackers (by way of encouragement/reward).

call me childish but in my heart of hearts i cannot truly participate in a belief system that tolerates such negligence

[danskjavlarna]

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My modest collection of vintage poets and poetry.

[bryony-rebb]

I just realized the true explanation for Trowa's buffed up EW physique:

It's an uninterrupted year of eating Catherine's soup!

Honestly, it's a good thing Heero didn't end up joining the circus because can you imagine the long term effect that soup would have on a boy who can already bend steel with his bare hands???

[neunian]

[thegreatyin]

i went digging for a bit and stumbled across the echoes for uncle archibald's legacy- it's an old (dated 2012) fallen london story that was only available to One Person as a reward for backing the original silver tree kickstarter, and it doesn't really have much beyond a few tidbits of seeing veils' perspective via red honey dreams. i think the most notable thing about it is that it was the original source for veils being the vake, way back before BaL was finished and that was all made very evident and very publicly accessible.

anyway. i say all of this because there is one (1) echo from this story that i'm mildly obsessed with:

divorce real.

[lisyonokk]

even though Ciel relies on Sebastian for almost everything, he is also terrified of losing control over their contract.

Despite the fact that he trusts Sebastian, it seems to him that if he lets go of the leash, something bad will happen.

but after all these years, with shaking fingers he can let go of it even if for a night. he can finally close his eyes, breathe out and let the leash fall.

[toxooz]

Wa- Wai a damm minute you said gracrux can pick pontrex up in the air, but last time I checked ain't he only 14 feet tall?(which is big as hell but like LOOK at pontrex.)

So either gracrux got that leg and body strength, or he's gotten bigger last time we talked about him LOL

o fuck i might need to set myself straight here lesse everything is bigger in the harpy world thats a fact and Valon is pretty damn big himself

so that would put him roughly around 13 feet so there aint no way in hell Gracrux is 14 feet currently. Lilac is even bigger than Valon and Gracrux being a type of dragon is significantly bigger plus his feathers probably make him look ALOT bigger and heftier than he actually is soooOOO

IT LOOKS LIKE A FAIR FIGHT AFTER ALL but he could still at least draaaaag Pontrex around by the head or tail

[brian-in-finance]

Caitriona and Sam skinny dipping. What must the PA think of that? 🤣

I don’t know. If the PA is 12 years old, like you are, they’re probably thinking of bits, boobs, and bottoms.

Image: Amazon

Remember… that’s the one place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! — Samwise Gamgee

[nando161mando]

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

My modest collection of vintage poets and poetry.

[misterradio]

kept my mouth shut bc we were watching it without subtitles so it was hard enough to understand but i had to keep myself from saying lines from rur out loud as we were watching i robot (2004)........ robot stories just have rossum residue all over them okay........

[owlf45]

(❁´◡`❁)

[ficandkaboodle]

The moment I learn to stop caging myself in by rules established in my autistic brain, it’s over for you bitches

[connormoving]

ive gotta stop starting so many posts with 'also' like they r not continuations of conversations or whathaveyou generally