![[sticky entry]](//www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/entry/sticky_entry.png)
Sticky: Asks Entry
May. 3rd, 2020 12:39 pm![[sticky entry]](http://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/entry/sticky_entry.png){kind=small}
Sticky: intro & policies
Feb. 15th, 2021 07:09 pmThe short version:
-- Preferred name is Hush, but will answer to most variations of my username aside from Piper. My Esperantized name is Haŝpipro.
-- Any pronouns are fine, usually she/her or they/them.
-- Pisces+Sagg, INTP, 6w5, Burned Gryff Primary + Ravenclaw Secondary
-- Queer, mentally interesting, multishipper
Friending policy:
If you subscribe, I will likely subscribe back. I'm more picky about allowing access, because this is an old account, but don't take it personally; I rarely make access locked posts, so you're not missing anything. If you wanna say hi, feel free to do it on this post. You don't need to introduce yourself or be subscribed before you can comment, drive-bys are welcome, though I would certainly be happy to know how you got here.
Fannishness:
I most often write meta or commentary, but sometimes commit art or fic. Fandoms include (but are not limited to) Attack on Titan, My Hero Academia, Harry Potter (begrudgingly), Avatar: The Last Airbender and Legend of Korra, and Mob Psycho.
Transformative works policy:
A story belongs to everyone who reads it. Do what you want with it, just credit me and let me know what you're doing. Podfic, fanart, translations, headcanons and fic-of-a-fic are all chill.
Signal boost?:
Any post whose title starts with "Signal Boost" (or "Signala Akcelo" if Esperanto) is made through the ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ljwrites version of the Signal Boost bookmarklet, which links any webpage you're looking at as a Dreamwidth post, with special functionality for common sites like ao3, Etsy, Tumblr, and Dreamwidth itself. Think of it as the Dreamwidth version of a reblog or retweet. Pro-tip: try highlighting text, then pressing the bookmarklet!
( Read more... )
Regarding religious viewpoints on abortion
May. 4th, 2022 06:22 amI wrote this unfortunately long "summary" in a youtube comment, funnily enough. In light of current news, I think it's worth copying it here, so here it is in its entirety.
The religious viewpoints on abortion were touched on a bit [in the video I was commenting on], but deserve some more specific addressing. Many religious groups take an anti-abortion stance, but in almost every case, it is a primarily political stance, NOT theological, though most people in those groups don't realize it. Long summary and then sources/further reading:
( Read more... )
my brain, stomping it’s feet: i wanna use one inconsequential negative experience to spiral into an echo-chamber of self hatred!!!
me, stirring my tea with my little plastic knife: no, we don’t do that anymore
The fact that 2021 begun with a sea shanty renaissance and three months later ships are back on the 1700 trade routes is, actually, extremely funny.
“Speak not of what men deserve. For we each of us deserve everything, every luxury that was ever piled in the tombs of the dead kings, and we each of us deserve nothing, not a mouthful of bread in hunger. Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think.”
— Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed.
*cartoon german boy i brought clubbing comes up to me with his hair tousled and lipstick marks all over his face* ve ahre pohpping pussy like pjimples und pjopcorn! *gets pulled back into the crowd* mein leben!
my tree biology teacher fed her calcium-deficient tree a whole-ass bbq rib bone - she stuck it in the ground near the base of the tree (after eating the meat off of it), and when she came back to collect it to show the tree biology class it was GONE
the tree had grown a root up through the center of it & out through the sides
also there’s an old story about a man who was buried beneath a tree, and when they went to exhume the body it had been completely absorbed by the tree’s roots- you could see the shape of the body in the way the roots grew, splitting up for clearly defined arms and legs. trees will absolutely eat a steak if you bury it & they need the nutrients.
my pet peeve are fic summaries with something deep and obscure that not only tell me nothing about the story but dont MEAN anything theyre just words like
‘When lost eyes lock onto a summer’s shadow, will love make it in the end?? [content warnings]: anal fisting ‘
I think I just inhaled coffee through my nose.
Millennial Sisyphus keeps entering all the information from his resume into the web form, only for it to delete everything when he tries to move to the next page. He just goes back and types it all up again, over and over again, forever, and he never gets a job.
Millennial Tantalus has been promised that his unpaid internship will become a paid position as soon as the company has space for him. Every week he sees their new job posting. Every week he asks his boss if he can have a real job. The boss shrugs apologetically and says he’ll just have to make do with being paid in experience a little longer. He goes back and keeps working, over and over again, forever, and he never reaches the fruits of his labors.
Millennial Persephone can’t get a job without a degree, but because she had to take out loans to pay for college, she must spend 1/3 of her life working just to pay them off.
Millennial Cassandra’s title is Social Media Coordinator, she was hired to be the expert, but every time she tries to explain the problems in her company’s social media decisionmaking, the managers don’t listen…and end up hiring expensive PR flacks to repair the damage to their reputation when things blow up exactly as she predicted.
Millennial Medusa uses multiple shades of primer and opaque foundation to cover the scars snaking across her face, hiding the bruises, aligning the asymmetry in her broken nose and jaw. Red matte on the lips, green shimmer on the lids. Flawless liner on the first try. She’s had lots and lots of practice. She films her transformation in secret for all to see and learn, and again, men are turned to anonymous stone faces screaming in horror. “Liar!” “Witch!” “Take her swimming on the first date!” These words do not discourage her. These words are a challenge. GlamGorgonXx posts another video.
Millennial Prometheus uploads another PDF to his site. He’s lost track of the printing and edition of this textbook. He knows they just rearranged some of chapters then charge 150 dollars per copy, and the professor wrote the book himself. the ZIP fills uploads successfully, and he starts uploading the next one. He isn’t afraid of the potential lawsuit. knowledge shouldn’t held out of reach like this.
Millennial Circe screenshots all the lewd messages she gets from men on online dating sites and posts them on her very popular Instagram along with their pictures and usernames. When people accuse her of attempting to destroy their reputations, she insists she’s just revealing them for the pigs they truly are.
Milennial Pandora opens an email in her spam box. Oh, what’s this link? She clicks on it. Suddenly viruses and lags spread over her computer.
(I promise you the nested blockquotes are much less awful here than on Tumblr...)
Hot take: "Fanfic is bad actually" discourse is just repackaged "fast food vs slow food" discourse, with the same veiled sneering class politics and a side order of pulling up the ladder behind you.
Yeah, there's a lot to critique about fast food! But the people eating it are there because they just want food and your quality-gatekept establishment isn't making stuff that works for them.
If you want that to change, fix that establishment.
my new favorite depression song
Feb. 3rd, 2021 01:28 pmbut you'll be alright
you'll wake up on the other side
and the sun will rise
maybe you will be surprised
and you'll wake up
and you'll see the sky
cos the sun will rise
over the year
EMDR Neurobiology
Jan. 27th, 2021 09:55 pmAn interesting video briefly going over some of the neurobiological roots of EMDR, i.e. that one therapy where you move your eyes back and forth while talking about bad memories. I have a friend going through this therapy right now, so we've been curious about it, something that youtube's algorithm apparently caught onto. I didn't expect the connection to walking, but it makes sense given how much easier tough conversations go on walks than otherwise.
Anonymous asked:
I remember a place I've never been. I remember, and that is terrifying enough. Worse is that I know I won't find it again - or at least not any time soon.
Halfway places are a blessing and a curse, the misplaced and irrational nostalgia not the least of it.
As do I, anon. As do I.
HP Marya Morevna: Chatlog
Jan. 23rd, 2021 01:47 pmA while back, I was on a Harry Potter kick, and I retold the story of Marya Morevna/The Death of Koschei the Deathless in the Harry Potter universe to a good friend. It was great fun, and I'd love to adapt it into an actual Harry Potter fic sometime. So I figured, the best way to start is to clean up the chat logs and put them somewhere I'll remember them--and others can enjoy them!
So that's this post. There are some things here that I wasn't quite able to adapt into the HP world, so I'm open to suggestions about that. Hopefully y'all enjoy it as much as we did.
( Read more... )
In this week's Torah portion, Va'era, God hears the cries of the Israelites and promises to free us from bondage. But when Moshe comes to the children of Israel to tell them that, Torah says:
וְלֹ֤א שָֽׁמְעוּ֙ אֶל־מֹשֶׁ֔ה מִקֹּ֣צֶר ר֔וּחַ וּמֵעֲבֹדָ֖ה קָשָֽׁה׃
They did not hear Moshe, because of kotzer ruach and hard servitude.
Rashi explains the phrase kotzer ruach by saying, "If one is in anguish his breath comes in short gasps and he cannot draw long breaths." For the Sforno, kotzer ruach means "it did not appear believable to their present state of mind, so that their heart could not assimilate such a promise."
(And I understand the argument that therapy simply exists to "make us good little workers in a capitalist society," but, you know sometimes it is good to talk to people about things and work through your own shit. And also I don't have a replacement for therapy soooo)
That's an argument that people make?
Dude.
That's the argument that I make at people when they're too depressed to value things like their own happiness and sense of self-worth. That's what I tell them when they tell me there's no point in getting treatment because they don't deserve to be happy, or because it will cost time and money and resources and they're not worth that, or--insert argument here. People go to therapy because it helps them be HAPPY. People go to therapy because it improves their relationships!
Which tankie made this argument, and how depressed were they at the time?
Feeds Galore!
Jan. 12th, 2021 05:02 pm( Read more... )
Do, ŝajnas ke tiu juvelo de la homa literaturo estas jam tre bone konata ĉie tra la mondo kaj ene de Esperantujo. Kial do, ĝi bezonas novan recenzon en ĉi tiu retejo?
Unue: Ĉar la libro estas tre taŭga por lernantoj. Ĝi ne estas tro longa, do oni povas legi kelkajn paĝojn ĉiutage. La ĉapitroj estas mallongegaj. Se oni preferas, eblas legi la tutan libron en unu aŭ du okazoj, kaj ne laciĝi pro troa legado. Kvankam la verko ne estas longa, ĝi enhavas plenan rakonton, kun komenco, disvolviĝo kaj fino.
Due: Ĉar la legado estas utila al ĉiaj legantoj. La pli spertaj ĝuos la ĉarman kaj preskaŭ poezian lingvaĵon; la malpli spertaj lernos multajn novajn vortojn kaj belajn esprimojn kaj vidos ekzemplojn de lerta uzo de la lingvo.
Trie: Ĉar la Esperanta eldono estas belege produktita, en tre altkvalita formo, kaj certe instigos al legado kaj eĉ relegado.
Ĉi tiu libro ankaŭ haveblas kiel e-libro, ligita ĉi tie.
personal note
Jan. 11th, 2021 01:53 amThis is especially noticeable in the M's, which are almost identical, trending towards straight diagonals on the left and sloping concave curves on the right. That's not to say that or handwriting doesn't have differences: mine is overall taller than hers in most cases, inclined to print over cursive.
But it's strange: I never modeled my writing on hers, yet our writing is more similar than any of my siblings' is to either of us. If we were to subscribe to the idea of handwriting corresponding to personality, well--I don't speak to my mother, which for one reason is because of our dissimilarity.
I don't know what to make of it.
THE BRAIN SCARS OH MY GOD THOSE BLOODY BRAIN SCARS -
If there is a plot point that caused me endless frustration it's this one.
Picture it: our main characters break into a super-secret government facility, in which are contained Things That Mankind Was Not Meant To Know and lots of probably unethical experiments that may or may not involve human experimentation… after all, every government has skeletons in their closets, they just gotta find a big enough closet to hide'em.
Our brave - and stupid - heroes get inside, but to everyone's horror and nobody's surprise, the bad guys were waiting for them!
Begin chase scene and fighting, drama happens, the party starts dwindling -
Then suddenly, GASP...
(What a horrendously long title! It wouldn't even let me post at first. Anyway you should go read the answer, it's great. This is me using the Signal Boost bookmarklet btw, a nice little tool.)
