#nonns

[dianaraven]

hey I would literally die for that pros and cons of historical graverobbing

ok so like, pros are obviously things like:

Helps further medical science in a time of scientific discovery which is being halted by overbearing religious institutions blah blah blah

sexy (in theory)

lead to many sexy vampire and gothic horror stories

"Alas poor Yorick, I knew him once."

do crime

etc

HOWEVER, what this always fails to take into account is:

dirty

disrespect for the dead via religious wants and needs (remember kids! consent is important if you want to study a cadaver for science!)

the fact that lots of the graves dug up were in potters' fields where the poor were usually buried because 1) this was easier to do (less guards) and 2) no one cared enough to actually check if the dead were still there (which they occasionally did in more expensive cemeteries as grave robbings got more common) and c) no coffins to break open

this lead, like many things :), to a rise in antisemetic blood libels! because, of course, who is taking the corpses of loved ones other than the evil jews who drink their blood etc etc etc

helped propagate the """""dark academia"""""" romanticism of the time of universities and dangerously powerful young white men thinking it was okay for them to ignore another society's values and desecrate their dead for shits and gigs (think: egyptomania in the Victorian age and mummy-tasting parties)

[jangmi-latte]

when i told twst to give me more FUCK I REALLY BEGGED SO HARD THEY'RE SMIRKING DOWN AT ME RIGHT NOW HUH I CAN'T I CAN'T NOT TWO IN A ROW I CAN'T TAKE THIS I CAN'T FIGHT BACK ANYMORE THEY'RE STEPPING ON ME THEY'RES PITTING ON ME THESUYR'ES TRUDIGNY TO DEVOIURDS ME WHOLES THGEY'ERS WINING RHYUER;E WINING I'AM SIGNING OFSF

[geopsych]

The little naturalized snowdrops along the stream in the woods are blooming now. They always bloom well after mine.

[dizzygrizzlies]

oh my god it is so incredibly awkward going to wildlife parks with others as a mostly nonhuman system.

one of us is a bat — and so this weekend she spent maybe twenty minutes in the smelly humid bat house that no one wanted to linger in for long just watching them scratch themselves and play and glide around.. while our family waited outside. our grandpa commented that i must’ve found my “spirit animal” and I had no explanation for him.

and then yesterday at the aquarium there were these mackerels that were lingering so ridiculously close to the glass.. one of us is a penguin and she could only think about how delicious they looked. cannot imagine it looks very normal for a person to be standing inches from the glass, having a stare down with a comparatively not very interesting fish.

today we’re off to a local sanctuary and the serval is going to feed a serval, the fennec is going to watch a fennec, and the raccoon is going to see a raccoon. i’m sure we’re all gonna be Incredibly Normal and Well-behaved and Not Suspicious At All

[lady-a-stuff]

Goblin mode is the word of the year I absolutely love learning language

[weirdlookindog]

Susan Hemingway and Ana Zanatti in Die Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne (1977)

AKA Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun

[random-brushstrokes]

Carl Nonn (German, 1876 - 1949) - Snow-covered gardens

[svtskneecaps]

you know what i'll say it MIKE AND ROIER ARE THE ONLY ONES I RESPECT these fuckers will rock up and say FUCK english all my homies HATE english they are the only ones i trust and respect these fuckers are like you will hear me speak my language and you will LEARN IT OR DIE and i respect the HELL OUT OF IT dude THANK YOU FOR BEING ENGLISH HATERS brothers THANK YOU FOR NOT SPEAKING ONLY ENGLISH WHEN AMONG ANYONE NOT OF YOUR LANGUAGE GROUP!!!!!!!!

[ohitsminuet]

PLS HELP ME WHAJT IS THIS TOMFUCKERY??????????? HELP ME PLS PLS PLSSS HELP TOIPAD EXPERT 😭

SPOILERS FOR INANIMATE INSANITY S2 AND MENTIONS OF ABUSE, INC*ST AND P*DOPHILIA BELOW.

Oh, boy, this'll be a long one.

Minuet isn't here to answer himself, but LMAOOOOO?????? Personally I wouldn't say anything Bug (@bugdatabase) hasn't said in this post.

https://www.tumblr.com/bugdatabase/740813373718118400/not-an-anon-calling-toipad-proship-as-an

But! If you want to go even further with the evidence: In this post, Justin himself says that “[He] always felt that PayJay (a ship with a character he voices) is a pretty cool ship).”

Besides, we (Minuet and I) both find it ridiculous to tell someone who is, under the transmitter's point of view, “uninformed” (someone who, under the point of view of someone who thinks it's a proship, likely doesn't know) to “get their senses together”. That's just plain rude. Even if it was a proship, there is a clear lack of tact in this ask, and articulating it differently could have made a different, likely more positive impact. Going “hey, this ship is problematic jsyk” is less aggressive, and in the case that the person /is/ in fact uninformed, can be taken more lightly and solved more amicably.

(But of course, Tumblr is not always amicable, is it?)

In the second post attached, Justin also says that we as a community should value our own sense of interpretation as long as it doesn't go completely against the canon of the show. Which it doesn't, because Toilet and MePad literally make up in canon! And they are shown to be friends after T&B! Even after MYOB, you've got to accept that if they aren't in good terms, MePad did everything he could to convince MePhone to let Toilet stay. Toilet is very compassionate, and even if they’re stuck in a strange desencuentro, he would definitely know this.

Yes, MePad not helping him definitely would leave a mark in their relationship, but that doesn't make the ship abusive or toxic in any way. They were stuck in the middle of a chain of unhealed generational trauma, but none of them are abusive. It's all a petty one-sided conflict for MePhone4’s attention. Toilet doesn't know how to react to being thrown aside, so he develops a strange unrequited rivalry towards MePad. The thing is though! They make up! They communicate their feelings to one another!

Is Toilet hateable under popular perspective? Probably. He's clumsy, loud, not very bright and made for you to either hate him or laugh at him. But that doesn't mean that he isn't a character worth analyzing. He deserves love, which he never receives, even after 14 episodes of dealing with what he deals with. I know it's silly to sympathize with a fictional toilet, but he really does deserve more development and closure for his arc, and as Minuet has expressed in the past, MePad (character) has what it takes to break the cycle and provide him with the affection that he needs. (We're guiding ourselves based off our own analyses of II S2 and canon itself, btw. Not any theories.)

Conclusion: Leave ToiPad and its shippers alone. It is not a problematic ship. Neither of them are abusive, Justin is not uncomfortable with ships of the characters they voice, and it is most definitely Not inc*stuous and/or p*dophilic.

- Nonne (🔪)

[tuttocenere]

Found out today about La Nonne Sanglante, an opera that was put in this world specifically for me:

there is a ghost in it

the ghost gets married

also the ghost is a nice low voiced mezzo

absolute sicko plot all around

it's by gounod / in french

complete flop that spent 150 years forgotten

there's a recording with michael spyres

of, apparently, one of the three runs ever

Needless to say I immediately like it a lot, but after listening to most of it I think it's actually p good.

[dianaraven]

It's not a Chanukah question but I remember seeing a table of Jewish holidays and it had a column very specifically for trees and I was curious what the significance of trees is where that warranted it's own ""this is a tradition" column

Oh! Nothing :) its sorta just an internet jewish culture joke that jews like trees. It comes from the fact that a very popular holiday to celebrate is the new year for trees (tu bishvat) but in that chart they were also mentioning other holidays that also had connections to tree for funsies.

[ricecakerybakery]

attending your (favorite) daughter’s choir

[geopsych]

Grape hyacinths at the base of an old shagbark hickory.

[wintercorrybriea]

timberland x nonnative

[thebashfulbotanist]

Someday I hope to see this plant - our Wednesday's weed - in its native range in eastern Europe and north central Asia, because it's a shame something so pretty does so much damage! If you live in the American west you're probably familiar with this plant, Halogeton glomeratus, called saltlover. It can grow in disturbed areas where native plants struggle to take hold, and is perfectly happy growing in salty, briny, and alkaline locations. Once it's taken hold, it's really hard to fully remove, because it produces a lot of seeds and concentrates mineral salts in such a way that it makes its surroundings inhospitable to other plants. Worse, it's very toxic to livestock like sheep, and has killed entire herds in the past.

I found this plant at Dead Horse Point in Utah, USA. It's a little more plain when it's not flowering or going to seed, looking more like an amaranth/pigweed.

[weirdlookindog]

Susan Hemingway and Ana Zanatti in Die Liebesbriefe einer portugiesischen Nonne (1977)

AKA Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun