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Bonus points if you are cool and normal about it if I say no!!! 👍👍👍

People who ask for permission to hug before doing it are the coolest people around. A+ people 👍

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A character not hiding an injury, or even intentionally downplaying it, but just being so matter-of-fact and blasé about the wound or injury that their companions are still shocked when they realise the severity of it and dismayed to suddenly recalibrate exactly what the injured character considers to be a routine, unremarkable sort of injury.

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Also very niche but I learned this year the big NYC museums are choose your own fee (you can literally say I'd like to pay $0.01 for entry please) if you're a state resident!

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Seconded. The trans people are indeed frequenting and are employed at local small aquarium stores and boutique pet stores (I am one of them). Like half of all trans people I know are from my job in some capacity

i think trans people need more fun stereotypes. so many groups get at least one that is like, offensive but also kinda baffling, like "gays walk fast" or "germans are obsessed with efficiency." all we get are like "evil sex predator" shit

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I have a research background in weight stigma and I currently work in mental health, often with LGBTQ+ clients.

I've met nonbinary people who struggle with disordered eating because they only ever see androgyny depicted as featureless thinness.

I've met trans women who struggle with disordered eating because they've internalized the idea that girls are meant to be thin, dainty, and delicate.

I've men trans men who struggle with disordered eating, because they feel women are allowed to be soft/curvy but men need to be muscular or thin and flat.

So many trans people are convinced that weight loss is the key to appearing as their desired gender, even when they want radically different gender presentations.

The societal idealization of thinness and fatphobia falsely invades and derails people's idea of what their "ideal body" should look like.

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you really can reach a point with transgender enlightenment wherein you can attribute any bodily feature silhouette and detail to any gender regardless of typical cisgender aesthetic connotations. anything can be a man's body if the person in it is a man. anything can be a woman's body if the person in it is a woman. anything can be a genderless body if the person in it is genderless. and so on. the only thing that matters is the personhood within and whether you are willing to look and know and see it. open your eyes. keep trying until you no longer flinch or turn away in shame or anger or confusion.

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Jordi Amposta - Poetik Horns

Jordi is a liberty trainer working with Lusitano horses and this fantastic bull

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I think. Perhaps. Given what we saw in Rapport. It might be worth considering that ART continually oversteps in its relationship with Murderbot not because it's trying to be an asshole, but because it is not used to being treated as an actual authority figure. Like. ART has to carry around crew members it doesnt like. It has to play nice and dumb with corporates. Iris thinks of it as her younger sibling. I think there's a significant chance part of why ART is SO demanding and SO selfish when Murderbot first meets it is that's how it makes space for itself. It barges into conversations to remind people that it's there, hi, im in the room with you too. It takes things without asking because asking gets you told no. Its not going to play nice and pretend to be a normal bot pilot around its crew, it has to do that enough already. So its pushy, and it oversteps, because it's used to having to fight to be heard. ART isn't good at talking to bots, because its so used to having to jostle with humans for autonomy that it inadvertently steamrolls people who don't fight back.

It fucks up its first meeting with Murderbot because it isnt expecting Murderbot to perceive it as not only a threat but a superior. A lot of the conflict in their relationship, fact, comes from the fact that Murderbot doesn't see them as equals but ART does. And ART does hold a lot of power over Murderbot, but all the times it fucks up in their relationship aren't from trying to abuse that power but from being unaware (or willfully ignorant) of how that power imbalance affects it. I think ART knows it asks for too much, but it assumes that it needs to to end up with what it actually wants. Murderbot takes everything it says at face value, and ART is clearly getting better over the course of their relationship at not making demands just for the sake of asserting its agency. ART very clearly does not want Murderbot to meekly go along with everything it says. It's not acting the way it does because it expects compliance, but because it refuses to be compliant itself.

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i mean we could talk about hypersexualized lestat who needs to feel desired to feel loved always performing with his shirt off so he can pick up his fans’ lust directly from their minds but it’s never enough because that’s not what love is. but that would hurt lol why would we do that

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WE ALWAYS WIN

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FINALLY got around to dumping Spotify after their CEO continued to prove he's a fresh turd. (As if being a billionaire, not paying musicians, shoving AI garbage at us, and having an atrocious carbon footprint wasn't bad enough, he's now the chair of a AI-based weapons manufacturing company.)

I used TuneMyMusic ($24 annual fee you can cancel immediately, effectively paying only once) to transfer almost every single song from our Spotify account to Tidal. Tidal already has much better sound quality and they pay their artists much better. It migrated over 99% of our music, too, so there wasn't a huge loss.

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No I agree completely. I have been a huge fan of the Inheritance cycle since I was like. 10. And I still to this day admire the world building and consistency of the writing and lore. I think it's miles better than most other fantasy I've read! But I have always felt the weak point of the world building is the rampant conservative Christian values these fantasy races and cultures have.

Like you can't tell me the elves are able to use magic to change their body into trees or wolves or beast men (blödgharm my beloved or however u spell it) and yet they're All heterosexual and CISGENDER?! Or at least if they aren't it's not once discussed. And for a series that spends so much time discussing the details of the cultures and traditions of each race it is a GLARING oversight.

Really the only time I felt it experimented with gender roles is having elves and dwarves have women in positions of power equal to men. Nasuada obviously as well but she is clearly challenging existing power structures with her rule. Paolini seems to think to empower women but only within a framework reminiscent of our own Americanized gender roles. Like I don't even think it occurs to him to question it and rebuild how those gender things would have actually evolved in his meticulously crafted societies. "Oh yeah elves are so in tune with nature and shit that some of them turn into trees and change their minds completely into a plant but like they still have two genders obviously because there's no other options." Come on man you spent pages upon pages describing the religious, cultural, and anatomical justifications for your Dwarves being able to grow callous brass knuckles (cool as fuck by the way) but you can't give me some pronouns?!

I think all of us knew Eragon and Arya was going to be a canon couple. Considering how the majority of the Fandom is, considering how Christopher chose to write Arya in specifically to be his wife*, this was almost all but certain.

But I still don't like it.

(Rant incoming)

I'm not even sure I would read it tbh. I mean, it depends, but im really in the fence. Especially now that he's asked on Twitter if we want a romantasy. It's really not something I would want, but it's hard to argue against the overwhelming majority.

From what I know about Christopher, which is not much because he's a fairly private person, but from what I see in his writing and some of his tweets he put out over the years (anyone remember his pro-natalist tweets?) He seems like a very traditional person, not to mention the characters he writes are the same.

This makes me anxious, to say the least. Even if I did ship them, a more conservative type of marriage does invited sexism sometimes, and I do not think Arya is the housewife type. I don't even see her having children! But they will, because they are the "ultimate testament to their love"

Especially since I don't ship it, I just feel a bit bad man. I know i need to deal with it, that Christopher is the one who decides. But I did just wanna throw my opinion in the ring once more

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An aspect of Rapport that I really enjoyed was how well it illustrated that Murderbot, unreliable narrator that it is, has an extremely high opinion of ART.

Because there's no point in Artificial Condition, or even later in Network Effect, where SecUnit ever assumes that ART simply can't do something, aside from parsing the full emotional/visceral context of media by itself. If there is a thing SecUnit can think of doing, naturally ART could do that too, probably better.

But we see that's not the case during the mission on the corporate station. We kind of knew this already from its difficulty keeping track of Tapan and the ComfortUnit on RaviHyral, but here we see that ART just isn't the hacker SecUnit is. It's extremely powerful, but only in areas that it already controls--i.e. itself and any system that SecUnit gives it access to. The team is surprised that it even got into the security system at all. That, by itself, is a huge leap forward for them. But it can't simply reroute the security drone somewhere else, or cut the team out of the security cameras the way SecUnit can, even after SecUnit showed it how to doctor surveillance footage. It can't hack the weapon scanners so they can smuggle more equipment in. ART has immense processing power, but it doesn't have the innate ability to convince resident systems that it's just a regular component and it's supposed to be there.

ART has limitations, and it is keenly aware of them, which I think is what prompts its sarcastic suggestion to the mission team they blow up the corporate station: It's sending its crew into an active war zone, and the only thing it can really do to help is talk them through it, and it's really feeling that powerlessness, even after all the new tricks it learned from its new BFF.

This mission would be trivially easy if SecUnit were here. Without it, they're in constant danger from everyone on the station.

It calls into question a lot of the points in Network Effect and System Collapse where SecUnit blithely assumes that ART is just humoring it. Because it sees ART's abilities as greatly superior and not different. (And ART is a know-it-all and a sarcastic asshole with better processing hardware, but it's also a spaceship and not a security system specifically built to anticipate, identify, and resolve threats.)

(Which is also why ART is bad at de-escalating conflicts and leaps to threats when things go badly despite the fact that it is a huge softie who can't even cope with bad things happening to fictional people on television. It's a gunship. It doesn't have any tools for de-escalating things. It has concealed rail guns. That's what it's got. SecUnit may have energy weapons in its arms, but it was designed to keep damage minimal to humans and expensive company property.)

The disparity between the perspectives of Iris, who thinks of Peri as her precocious sibling, and Murderbot, who thinks of ART as an omniscient nigh-otherworldly being (but still an asshole), is really enlightening.

And now I want something from Seth or Martyn's point of view.

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today in pedantry born of extreme annoyance and doesn't-anybody-go-to-school-anymore grumpiness:

the term "sound barrier" has absolutely nothing to do with how loud something is.

a powerful singer does not break the sound barrier. a loud crowd does not break the sound barrier. if you hear an opera soprano belt out an aria and you say she broke the sound barrier you sound like a fucking idiot. that is not what it means.

"but it's just a joke why should i car--"

no. sit down. THAT IS NOT WHAT IT MEANS.

"sound barrier" refers to the increase in aerodynamic drag that occurs as a moving object approaches the speed of sound.

it's called a "barrier" because when the first aircraft starting reaching high enough speeds, they would shake so much pilots were afraid they would get torn apart. it was perceived as a real physical limit, but that perception was false. there is no actual barrier. there is only engineering; it was the drag on the aircraft making them feel like they were shaking apart. turns out if planes are built well enough and go fast enough, they can break the sound barrier just fine without falling apart. the first time this happened was in 1947, in a plane flown by US Air Force pilot Chuck Yaeger.

this means that "breaking the sound barrier" applies to things that are moving very fast, not to things that are very loud.

please read that sentence again to make sure it sinks in. fast, not loud. read it again because tiktok has been lying to you and you need to unlearn what you have learned.

(that also means it applies only where there is a speed of sound, which is not everywhere in the universe. but let's not complicate things by thinking about a pure vacuums or the extreme low density of space.)

the speed of sound varies depending on the density of what it's moving through, but at sea level on Earth it's about 770 miles per hour. once an object is going faster than the speed of sound, it is supersonic--and, again, that refers to speed, not volume. bullets break the sound barrier even if they are muffled at firing. a bullwhip can be snapped fast enough that the very end breaks the sound barrier, even if the noise they make is a sharp crack and not unusually loud.

but people standing still and shouting or singing do not, because nothing that is standing still can break the sound barrier. so unless unless you are sharing a cool vid of a soprano getting yeeted out of an operatic cannon at >770 mph, she has not broken the sound barrier. and if that is what you are sharing, she breaks the sound barrier whether or not she's singing her aria.

there can be a very loud noise associated with objects moving so fast they have broken the sound barrier. that noise is called a sonic boom, and it happens because the object is generating shock waves as it travels. it's not a single boom; it only sounds like that because when you hear it you are listening at a single point. it is in fact a continuous, traveling shock wave that happens as long as the object is moving faster than the speed of sound. it's just that you only hear it when the shock wave passes directly over you, so it sounds like a finite noise. it's also not necessarily a boom. it can be a crack or a snap or a clap or whatever. it's just called a sonic boom because the ones generated by supersonic aircraft are big fucking booms.

in conclusion please stop saying loud noises break the sound barrier.

🚫 wrong kind of hyperbole: "wow that man shouted loud enough to break the sound barrier!"

✔ right kind of hyperbole: "wow that man ran fast enough to break the sound barrier!"

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the only censorship we need is the block, mute and filter option because giving others the power to dictate what can and cannot exist in fandom will eventually lead to banning all nsfw works or even slightly but nuanced ‘problematic’ topics. ​I block and move on because I don’t want to see certain things but to erase them completely is a dangerous slope to having things you like be banned eventually.

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Many of you I fear