#the control group

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif in The Control Group (2014)

[zanmor]

We are well beyond canary in the coalmine warning levels with the way trans people and particularly trans women are treated on this site.

Maybe you've heard the metaphor of allowing wolves and sheep to share the same space, welcoming everyone. You end up with just wolves because allowing them in that space makes it unsafe for any sheep. Or the story about how a nazi goes into a dive bar and is refused service. The bartender then explains to someone else at the bar that if you serve them once they tell their friends and before you know it you're the nazi bar they all go to and normal customers don't feel safe.

Terfs and other bigots are seeing these targeted harassment campaigns succeed against trans women and rejoicing. They see Tumblr ban them and officially stand by those decisions as endorsement for their harassment. It's a sign to bigots across the internet that Tumblr is a good place for them.

And what's more is that a lot of us probably don't realize just how much trans women contribute to Tumblr. The women banned recently were sources of site-wide memes and posts I wasn't even aware originated from them.any years old memes and references can be traced back to trans women on this site.

How many of these folks have to be removed before this is no longer a site you want to be a part of it? Sure you cultivate your own experience, but you can't follow or interact with people who aren't here. And if I wanted to interact with the nazis and terfs I'd go to reddit.

I encourage everyone to reblog this. Trans women shouldn't have to be the only ones speaking out against the bigotry they're experiencing. They shouldn't be the only ones risking their blogs being nuked by staff. We have to stand with them.

[omg-erika]

Do Vaccinations Make Us Healthier?

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[edgybutnotveryedgy]

Im thinking about miraculous future stuff based on some lore and cultural inspirations (because i don't want to think about finals rn), and something that i don't think will happen, but would be interesting if it did happen is if Felix were to be snapped out of existence.

I think if this were to happen then it would probably just be temporary, but considering his arc and everything, there could be some interesting ideas in this. Like take his miraculous. It is the peacock miraculous, and it creates life. This in and of itself is heavily loaded when you look into potential irl cultural inspirations.

Warning i am not including any citation in this, but i will be making a series this summer exploring in depth the different cultural influences in miraculous and how they may or may not pertain to the story. I'll be more thorough there.

So first something i just found on a site is that supposedly in roman times peacocks were an important symbol representative of death, funerals, and resurrection in particular. Supposedly early christians decorated their tombs with a lot of peacock iconography because of this association.

I wouldn't be surprised if this association with peacocks and death/resurrection had some connection to the story of Hera and Argos, when Hera took the eyes of Argos and put them in the tails of peacocks feathers/she brought him back as a peacock. In some european cultures it seems there was an association between peacocks and bad luck and death (i need to look more into this) then of course there's the obvious association between price lucifer and peacocks that i feel like most people (in the west at least) are aware of.

So in India there is an association between a mythical bird called Garuda, who Vishnu would ride. Peacocks were made from the feathers of Garuda (i don't know, sounds kinda familiar to me). Peacocks by association with Garuda seem to be representative of time, and preserving and maintaining balance in the cosmos. Specifically due to how they eat poisonous snakes, which snakes are symbolic of cyclical time.

Next up in China, this is where things get really interesting. It is associated with a goddess named Guan Yin, and transmutes evil into beauty. Also a peacock is the manifestation of the Phoenix. So let's talk about phoenix's for a second. So a Phoenix represents things like virtue, duty, humanity, strength, good fortune, etc. Also phoenix's generally show up if an empire was good, or as a premonition of the rise of empires.

So i should clarify, this Phoenix (also known as a Fenghuang) isn't exactly the same as the western phoenix, which i was not aware of until now, but we're in too deep to go back baby lets gooooooooooo

So the western phoenix does go through a cycle of death and rebirth, but the Fenghuang is just immortal and doesn't die. So... Yea... I'm still gonna post this because its finals week and i have virtually no quality filter rn. I just might not tag it.

So i was gonna say that Felix would pull a Phoenix and just like will himself back to life or something, which could be interesting considering his whole arc of having no control of his life or whether or not he lives or dies, but i guess this is all being thrown out the window!

This is what i get for researching things. I am proven wrong in the middle of writing an epic post, and then I have to admit I'm wrong.

Oh well. I'll have more fun dissecting the lore later anyway.

[destielmemenews]

"Publishers accused the nonprofit of infringing copyrights in 127 books from authors like Malcolm Gladwell, C.S. Lewis, Toni Morrison, J.D. Salinger and Elie Wiesel, by making the books freely available through its Free Digital Library.

The archive, which hosts more than 3.2 million copies of copyrighted books on its website, contended that the library was transformative because it made lending more convenient and served the public interest by promoting "access to knowledge.""

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[somegrumpynerd]

Teaching Dream about the internet may have been a mistake

[mediumgayitalian]

i don’t think the big three kids are actually banned from teaming up during capture the flag. i think the stipulation is that they have to take the kids. so it’s like all the brightest and best fighters and most skilled members of camp, including those who have like. made even one plan in their lives, vs. ninety newly armed children who have been fed a breakfast of gushers in orange soda corralled by the most powerful and most impulsive demigods to ever live

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

*tries to organize my thoughts*

*remembers i'm not in school and therefore beholden to neither heaven nor hell nor any man's grading system*

*joyously shredding & tossing all my carefully arranged 3x5 mental notecards into the air like so much beige confetti. raising my arms in victory, cheering raucously until i accidentally inhale bits of homemade confetti*

(*coughing up itty bits of paper like a cat evicting a hairball with a firm understanding of tenants' rights*) wait wat happens next

[abby-howard]

You deadlift? What's your PB?

My current max is 250 pounds! Gotta catch up to Tony, he's at 300 now 😤

Also someone else asked about how deadlifting doesn't kill my back, and the answer is that weightlifting with proper form is good for back pain >:]

Strengthening your stabilizer muscles is so good for your bones and posture! It doesn't mean accidents don't happen, as we will all decay in time, but it definitely helps me draw all day and night without crumbling into dust 👌

[waywardworldhopper]

So it only took us about an hour and at least a dozen pulls, but through the sheer power of camaraderie, coordination, and pure sticktoitiveness (and no small amount of perverse stubbornness), 24 strangers managed to down The Minstrel's Ballad: Amon's Revenge!

[exdeputysonso]

Brad Dourif as Dr. Broward | The Control Group (2014)

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I'm sorry I let down my guard.

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[abirddogmoment]

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I don't think non-herding breeds should be allowed to take herding tests.

[pocket-watcher]

You might think I don’t know you, little watchling, but I do.

I see you. Lurking. Liking.

Itching for another post, another story.

You’re just so eager for me to reach into your head and pull out your fantasy.

You know, that one you’ve never spoken aloud?

Sometimes it’s one you didn’t even know you had.

And I just love exploring your brain, finding out what switches I need to flip to turn you into a stuttering, blushing mess.

You’re so cute when you’re like that, you know?

So go on. Relax. Keep liking and scrolling.

Waiting for my next post…

[buqbite]

Halo

[wormbussy]

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