#like 2yrs of this shit

[highoncatfood]

its 4:30am i can postthem kissing also im like abt to pass outt

[meirimerens]

you know i must have been bone-tired when this part of the herb brides lore didn't come to my mind when i discussed how the Kin fundamentally differs from the cultures it is inspired by um There Is The Human Sacrifice part. like it's an important part of pathologic 2 that you are doing human, or anthropomorphic (if you want to see the Herb Brides as closer to spirits, which comes with its own set of problematics regarding how to approach their oppression) sacrifice. it's an important part of pathologic 2 that you kill a woman, as part of the journey and in direct resonance with you ritualistically killing cattle earlier, and she offers herself to you with cultural and religious significance.

human sacrifices have been done across the globe for millennia, but i cannot, for the life of me, find any source at all that mentions the Buryats (since that was the discussion point) partaking in human sacrifices by the turn of the 19th-early 20th century (or even anything past the 16th). every single source mentioning offerings and sacrifices i've read mentions animals, things such as milk and vodka, and often both at once. would love to read anything about these rituals if papers exist, but i'm personally drawing a blank.

the Kin has Obvious and very Visible influences but it also differs from specific (in this discussion's case, the Buryats) or wider (here, turkic/mongolic as a whole) cultures from the area by so many pieces, big and small, that i wouldn't have enough appendages on my whole body to count them all. and sister. i have plenty of appendages.

[waloeders]

gm my friend is donating her dunjelskog bear teddy to me bc she no longer wants him (wth 💔) but yayy new teddy!!!

[questionablespecies]

God, I feel like crying and nothing has happened...yet. The amount of stress that I'm carrying is the worst it's ever been in my entire life and I'm an orphan.

It's another semester down and yet, I'm not free. I have prelims to study for, which I don't even feel prepared for because we've spent 8 months not being prepped for the material, so everything being learned is essentially on the fly, but hey, at least it's multiple-choice! I fucking hate this school.

And then I have my dissertation proposal. Honestly, that is the one I'm the least concerned about. I'm really reaching levels of IDGAF anymore, pass fail whatever. Every time I talk about grad school, it's about how much I would love to quit - like the door is right there!

And it's not because it's hard, let's be real. The work is immensely easy - if anything, the same as undergrad. But the expectations are different and the school doesn't prepare you at ALL for those expectations. They just tell you hey things are happening that you gotta do, no we're not gonna tell you how to do it even though you've been in class for this long and should've had professors say something about it, that's funny, anywaaaaayyysssssss....

Like I can't even make up how disorganized this program is. They're not building us to be professionals; they're building us to be administration. I shouldn't have to constantly keep double checking admin about when this will be cleared on my grade when I've already sent xyz documentation months ago. They act like they just started yesterday, yet the tea is that all grad school is disorganized like this. When if you ask my old boomer aunt, she'll categorize it as "breeding out the weak."

It's ridiculous that the people who work here don't even know what's going on either, and you can feel the lack of support permeating the air. But they'll do events to act like they give a shit about us while essentially robbing us blind because idk where my tuition is going because it certainly isn't going into adequate professors or administration.

I pray to GOD that I better pass everything in one neat bow because I could soooooo easily see myself doing something else. So fucking easily. This isn't a dream job for me, this is something I like and one thing about ME is that I AM A QUITTER. I will leave due to a slight inconvenience, IRDGAF.

I don't have anyone to disappoint other than myself, and I know I'll get over it.

[dongiovannitriumphant]

honks my little clown shoes all the way back to the uk

[hannie-dul-set]

always shocked to see 16 year olds on here until i remember.....i also started writing here......when i was 16........

[myersesque]

hiiii so. i'm trying to get back into zelda. bc it means a lot to me, i just stopped being able to play the games as often as a kid so i fell out of it a bit yk? but i am in fact a link kinnie and i am in fact contemplating spending all my money on re-buying one of my favs from when i was little now that i have my own switch

[poksiistaki]

i know its a privilege to even have transition covered at all but dealing w my doctors office and the insurance ppl is driving me insane -_-

[besalisks]

Posting a screenshot cuz I don't wanna go on a rant in the tags lmao

But shit like this feels weird to me. That isn't how culture or heritage works necessarily. It isn't just 'you can do your traditional tattoos and speak your native language' [even though yes those are important], there are so many parts of cultural heritage that would be lost when people are taken from their homeworlds and raised in the temple, even if they were raised with other jedi of the same species. The jedi religion and the temple and courscant all are part of that specific culture, the republic culture, the Basic culture or whatever. Raising a kid as a jedi is definitely taking them from their culture and raising them in a different one, no matter how many tattoos you let them get. They'd still be separate from the community and traditions of their homeworld.

People in the comments are talking about how jedi are encouraged to stay in contact with their homeworld and engage in the culture and I think that's great, but what about cultures that specifically have a lot of importance in familial connections? No matter what, the jedi are breaking the bond between the younglings they take and their cultural heritage and community and replacing it with the jedi religion and the basic culture. And with how the jedi do things [no emotional attachments at all, don't act on emotion], it can be damaging! And especially when a certain culture / species isn't common in the Order, imagine how isolating that but feel. I think about wookiee jedi which are canonically rare, can't speak Basic, and not everyone can understand Shyriiwook. Iirc the wookiee jedi in the new republic series canonically dislikes social events at the temple because they make him feel isolated since a lot of people can't understand him. And wookiee culture prominently focuses around community and family!

Etc etc etc it's just so wild to me to see someone say 'see! They can have tattoos, they're definitely allowed to connect with their heritage' like congrats to the jedi order you did the absolute bare minimum, it's still fucked up

[godofsmallthings]

also i wonder how the person with the k*ylor daisy tattoo that i have on my pinterest is doing now

[darksouls2yuri]

ik id like to keep bartending in the future but definitely not at a place where the average patron is old enough to be my parent or grandparent. like worst thing ever is serving boomers and gen xrs michelob ultras and yeunglings all day i swear and getting into arguments abt why we don't serve corona and patron or why our beer is $4. like sorry but you've been paying for $4 beer for months how did you just now notice idiot

[29121996]

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[angeltism]

oh shit maybe I should actually talk about star a little instead of leaving his entire existence vague as hell to uu guys . maybe ? idk I don't owe anybun an explanation of who he is or anything but also . idk ?

[keepingthepeaceinouterspace]

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[galaxymagick]

ppl have a serious problem with you saying you don’t want to talk about your personal feelings if you feel mentally drained and not wanting to engage in small talk. but that’s getting at them. like leave me be, I’m not here to entertain you.

[purge-that-urge-rhackathon]

It took a hot minute for my brain to Pepe Silva things but doesn’t it feel like they’re trying to make tumblr like deviantART? Yeah they’re doing algorithm ala tiktok/Twitter shit but the very specific feel I’m getting is dA circa 2010 and I don’t like it

‘Here’s this here’s that here’s a feature no one asked for!’ If I wanted to be on deviantART then I’d be on deviantART. At least over there they listened to users and rolled unpopular shit back and you can get away with porn if you’re crafty, but I haven’t been over there in a hot minute so I couldn’t tell you what it’s like atm. But that’s exactly what it feels like they’re trying to do with tumblr. It’s “a small-town feel brought to you by corporate” or whatever and it feels so utterly disingenuous in just eagh lemme vom

I’m gonna have to go clog your blogs with more stuff from the archive cuz I don’t like this and it’s dredging up bad memories. About to be cock o clock here again LOLOL