sortahawkwardReblogged hazelrhoeasa-silly-poll-side-blog-yayFollowyour new name is the name your parents almost picked for you, how is it going?goodbadgreatawfuldifferent genderi don't know it/my parents didn't have that issueresults16,685 votes • Remaining time: 3 days 18 hoursI'm either Bartholomew or Mariette 💀#alas i do not have an almost name#cystic fibrosis screening meant they knew what i was when i was but a bean#my name was nailed down really early1472,9371,780

sortahawkwardReblogged pompadoriangrayapolladayFollowDo you know what day of the week you were born? yesno20,891 votes • Remaining time: 4 days 16 hours#wednesday522,7271,376

sortahawkwardRebloggeddarkspace7Follow[Nyanko-Sensei] Yarn Stitching on Plastic CanvasFinished Feb 28, 2026.#natsuyuu#cuute!!321

sortahawkwardReblogged dragonboyteethgaytanic-panicFollowit rly is insane bc you look at the crosstabs for any poll and its like Boomers: I'm old and conservative but that doesn't mean I'm down with all of thisMillennials and Zoomers: I'm young and liberal, I hate thisGen X: HELL YEAH BABYYYYYY LETS GOOOOOO I LOVE BLOWING UP RANDOM SHIT AND KILLING PEOPLE AND TAKING AWAY RIGHTS THIS IS SO COOL ITS JUST LIKE THE 90S AND THE APPRENTICE1442

sortahawkwardReblogged danceintheskiesorcboxerFollowi go to a gay bar and notice the furry convention's in town. i see a fine lookin bear remove his fursuit, revealing that underneath, he's also a fine lookin bear. I raise my eyebrows and say "woof" and all the cat furries immediately hiss and scatterorcboxer5556,67969,734

sortahawkwardReblogged ariastelifeafterpsychiatryFollowI am so very serious when I say that minors should have a legal and easily reinforceable right to say "I don't want to live with my parents (or other adult caretakers)/I don't want to be around that person/I don't want to go to that place" and actually get their wish accommodated. So much childhood trauma could be avoided or ended if children actually had the right to leave the situation or the person hurting them. 2013,57635,228

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sortahawkwardReblogged dragonboyteethkingdeath000Follownow, pecker means penis. and wood means boner. so of course you would make assumptions about the term woodpecker. but no. the birdsixthrockI LOVE hearing that other languages have so many beautifully unique ways to construct dick jokes 4821,12626,885

sortahawkwardReblogged sieglinde-freudfernscometFollow"theyll hate you for this" "but theyll be alive" is THE juiciest thing to mefernscometi will ensure you stay alive above all else. even if what i do to make it happen is horrendous. even if it violates all your wishes or moral principles. even if you can never look at me the same way again, even if you hate me for it. because at least if you hate me it means youre alive#circling the drain18,54132,476

sortahawkwardReblogged honey-wine-and-timecapsystFollowI love animation history and one of the things that always baffled me was how did animators draw the cars in 101 Dalmatians before the advent of computer graphics?GIF by madeleineenglandAny rigid solid object is extremely challenging for 2D artists to animate because if one stray line isn’t kept perfectly in check, the object will seem to wobble and shift unnaturally.Even as early as the mid 80’s Disney was using a technique where they would animate a 3D object and then apply a 2D filter to it. This practice could be applied to any solid object a character interacts with: from lanterns a character is holding, to a book (like in Atlantis), or in the most extreme cases Cybernetic parts (like in Treasure Planet).But 101 Dalmatians was made WAY before the advent of this technology. So how did they do the Cruella car chase sequence at the end of the film?The answer is so simple I don’t know why it didn’t occur to me sooner:They just BUILT the models and painted them white with black outlines 🤣 That was the trick. They’re not actually 2D animated, they’re stop motion. They were physical models painted white and filmed on a white background. The black outlines become the lineart lines and they just xeroxed the frame onto an animation cel and painted it like any other 2D animated frame.That’s how they did it! Isn’t that amazing? It’s such a simple low tech solution but it looks so cool in the final product.GIF by madeleineenglandtranshuman-priestess@transparent-plastic-robotgirl check it outquasi-normalcyAnother little detail I notice; it looks like they've marked the tires so the animators can keep their rotation constant from frame to frame.5321,77431,265

sortahawkwardReblogged septiktankarizona-green-tea-absolutistFollowMen will date a convicted embezzler and say "all women are gold diggers"arizona-green-tea-absolutistWomen will date a homeless musician and say "men don't wash their ass"cherryflavorscumpalaeontologists will date a fossil and say “i’d hazard a guess at late Cenozoic period”majestictortoisegeologists will date the zircon in a felsic gneiss complex by determining the ratio of uranium to lead in the crystalline structure and say "at 4.031 ±0.003 billion years these are definitely among the oldest rocks on earth but the uncertainty of the neodymium isotope fractionation age estimates of the gabbros in the nuvvuagittuq greenstone belt make it hard to say for sure if they are the oldest."mikkenekoweather historians will find a collection of all recorded temperatures to datechocolatepotFashion historians will date a dress in two seconds flat and then struggle for five minutes to explain exactly why their reasoning74,4426,498

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sortahawkwardReblogged hazelrhoeasderinthescarletpescatarianFollowastro-egg-celentI want a dachshund or other small dog because it seems like a good middle groundveshumeSorry for the unsolicited advice, but please do think it over. Dachshunds (and many other small breeds) actually require quite a lot of activity and exercise (mental and physical)*. If those needs aren't met, that can cause so many difficult behavioral problems. They're working dogs, after all: if they aren't given a job, they'll find one themselves (and it'll be likely something very annoying or unpleasant to you)*yes, it does depend on the individual dog, but the general tendency points to those breeds being high energyderinthescarletpescatarian#tons of small breeds were made specifically to hunt small fast animals so like. don't get a small dog thinking it'll be easier#dachshunds were bred to hunt badgers. do you want a dog with the need to hunt badgers or do you want a little dude to hang out with#if it's the latter just get a catseananmcguireAlso, a lot of people who do like cats want a Maine Coon because they've seen pictures of mine or others', and they're majestic! Huge!! Fluffy!!! Such a good kitty!!!!Maine Coons are dog-smart, and basically tiny thumbless toddlers who will never grow up. They have long memories, they hold grudges, and they want things the way they want them. What you want is probably not a Maine Coon. I love them, but jumping from "cat" to "Maine Coon" is like jumping from "dog" to "border collie". Don't do that unless you know what you're getting into.73226,99864,813

sortahawkwardReblogged dragonboyteethhomunculus-argumentFollowI had a dream which involved a zombie apocalypse where zombies didn't just attack whatever human was closest. They'd pick one specific person and never stop or change targets before they got that particular person, and only then chose another target at random. Nobody was really bothered by them since everyone knew that unless you are their specific target, it won't do anything to you. So that's how it was spreading in a society that otherwise seemed to be functioning just fine. Everyone else would be having just a regular tuesday while there's just one person running for their life trying to avoid that thing slowly chasing them. Then two people running from a zombie while everyone else is fine. Then three or four. Nobody stopped living their completely normal life unless and until it hit them to become a zombie's next target.dumbassthroughtimelines…it took me way too long to realize this was a metaphor homunculus-argumentNo I just woke up.hyperoperationfractallisationWell sorry but it's a metaphorhomunculus-argumentYou know things are bad when my dreams' habitual That's A Bit Too On The Nose Innit style of hamfisted symbolism turns from personal life to widespread political commentary.Also if someone makes a short film etc out of this, I agree on the title being "First they came for Steve".533,8668,898

sortahawkwardReblogged sieglinde-freudfronesisFollowI love tumblr bc it feels like im talking to a wall and sometimes the wall responds2111,28416,589

sortahawkwardReblogged swainathanthesituationFollowi’m so glad i’m alive in this era because we’re starting to actually linguistically study sperm whale language and may soon be able to translate itthesituationExclusive: Sperm whale speech has human-like 'vowels'The mammals' mysterious clicks contain a stunning level of complexity, a new study shows.Animalsi saw this headline and wanted to take my shirt off and dance on a table64,0476,968

sortahawkwardReblogged dragonboyteethmariacallousFollowMake childbirth great again: China’s demographic crater forces U-turn from limits to pleas — but nobody’s listeningIn December, Chinese authorities announced a 13% tax on contraceptives, including condoms. At the same time, Beijing promised to exempt peopThe InsiderIn December, Chinese authorities announced a 13% tax on contraceptives, including condoms. At the same time, Beijing promised to exempt people from taxes on childcare services — nurseries, kindergartens, and other services meant to make raising a child easier. For decades, China punished its citizens for having “extra” children, pushing the country into a “low fertility trap.” One continuity remains, however: neither during the period of the “one child policy” nor during the current push to boost fertility has Beijing listened to women. In response to state pressure, Chinese women have become more radicalized — and they increasingly prefer not to have children at all.sprinkledsaltMore from the article:In its attempts to stimulate population growth, the government completely ignores women’s perspectives, which only worsens the situation. In the article “China’s Low Fertility Rate from the Perspective of Gender and Development” (2021), researchers Ji Yuxiang and Zheng Zhou note that domestic labor still falls almost entirely on women, even as they are expected to build careers. Motherhood results in slower career advancement for women, a 30–40% drop in income, and additional burdens at home. These losses cannot be offset by a 10,000-yuan payment. In October 2020, Chinese social media began circulating a translation of the article “We Are Not Flowers, We Are a Fire”, which sets out the principles of the South Korean radical feminist movement known as “6B4T.” This ideology calls for rejecting heterosexual relationships, marriage, childbearing, emotional labor for men, and adherence to beauty standards. The name is a direct reference to the Confucian code of gender relations “Three Obediences and Four Virtues,” which places women in a subordinate position, requiring them to obey their father before marriage, their husband during marriage, their son in widowhood, and to preserve “moral purity,” modesty, and domestic skills.The radical approach of 6B4T contrasts with the ideas of earlier women’s-rights movements in China, note researchers Shu Li and Yijia Gu of the University of Melbourne. For women aged 18–30, refusing marriage and choosing voluntary childlessness have become a way to avoid economic and psychological pressure. Young women mock official slogans and government incentive programs on social media: on Douyin (China’s TikTok) and Weibo, hashtags such as “don’t marry and don’t give birth to live in peace” (不婚不育保平安), “better to invest in yourself than in a child” (生孩子不如养自己) and “being childfree is fine” (丁克也很好) are popular. Against such sentiments, the introduction of a 13 percent tax on contraceptives looks more like an act of desperation than an effective measure.It's just incredible how this keeps happening in all different parts of the world. Governments genuinely can't believe that women are deciding that no, they don't want to do the vast majority of labor in a family and have their careers get derailed by becoming mothers, and flimsy compensation from the government won't change their minds. I've written before that people refuse to consider that even with all help and opportunities available to them, some women will still never want children, but as others have said repeatedly, if people really want modern women to have more children? Then they'd attack the patriarchal system that leaves women earning less money on average than men when they have children, and that tells men it's fine for them to treat their wives like domestic servants and never clean a fucking dishAnd then the article ends with this added misogyny:Birth restrictions helped entrench this practice: if a family was allowed only one child, that child had to be a boy. As a result, the number of sex-selective abortions using ultrasound diagnostics increased. In the 1990s–2000s, some provinces saw the ratio of newborn boys to girls reach 120 to 100 (the biological norm is about 105 to 100). According to estimates by demographers, by the 2020s China had more than 30 million “surplus” men. Entire “bachelor villages” emerged, where residents over 30 had never married. The gender imbalance has increased risks for women across the region. Human Rights Watch reports that each year thousands of women and girls are taken from Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam to China, where they are sold as “brides” and kept in domestic servitude. In Cambodia, according to the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, criminal networks have formed that abduct women for the Chinese “market.” Recruiters promise jobs or “marriage to a well-off man,” but in reality the women become victims of traffickers. Cases of “brides” being resold from one family to another are widespread. Overall, according to the 2023 Global Slavery Index, about 5.8 million people are living in modern slavery in China. A generation raised amid intense economic competition, expensive housing, and the one-child norm increasingly sees motherhood as a form of bondage and rejects it. The state, however, continues by inertia to rely on the same tools it used forty years ago, viewing women’s bodies merely as a means of reproducing the population. But it is no longer possible to return women to the model of “laborers by day, mothers of the nation by night.” Efforts to increase pressure only fuel resistance, as in the case of 6B4T. And the more radically the authorities try to control fertility, the more painful the side effects become.157227