Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y
Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y
The science side of deconstructing the gender binary.
This is a really great article. Without using the words “social construction” it explains how everything we take for granted about “biological sex” and genetics is socially constructed, and thus subject to bias in assumptions, theory and results and is in dire need of re-evaluation.
More vampires who 300 years later can’t remember what was the truth and what was the lie they told to get out of trouble.
More vampires who are like, “I don’t know, man, I spent most of that decade in an opium den.”
More vampires who weren’t paying attention because they didn’t think it would be important.
More vampires who don’t know because there was lot of conflicting gossip and they don’t want to point any fingers.
More vampires who are just bad at dates. “Back in 1620, or was it 1645, wait, what year is it now?”
More vampires who were on a totally different continent when it happened, so get off their back and stop asking them questions already.
YES to all of this but also consider: vampires who only remember the most trivial stuff.
“Oh yeah, the only thing I remember about the American Revolution was this nice candlemaker I met sometime, and she was wearing this really cute red shawl…”
“Uhhh I don’t remember much about the fall of Rome but there was this one fucking cobblestone right outside the coliseum…”
Also consider: vampires who realize three or four hundred years after the fact that they knew someone famous.
Just sits up in bed one night screaming “THAT WAS GEORGE GODDAMN WASHINGTON”
I read ‘vampires who are bad at dates’ and immediately assumed that meant a vampire taking someone to a restaurant, fiddling nervously the whole while and making bad jokes, thinking ‘centuries of practice and I’m still no good at this’
we all have that movie we saw too young and probably scarred us for life.
RETURN TO OZ
The Secret of NIMH
The Shining. I was eight. Thanks, dad.
Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan. I was also eight. I had nightmares about those ear-worms for days. My mother has not forgiven the birthday-party-mom who took us to see it and it’s been thirty-five years. I’m over it (it’s one of my favorite movies now) but my mother…she will never be over it.
Yes! The ear-worms! I saw it at the drive-in with my family. It was the second feature and I don’t remember the first and I don’t think I was awake for the whole ST movie but I will never forget the ear-worms.
Also Poltergeist.
MOVIE? I didn’t need a movie; TV was enough. Land of the FREAKING Lost, anyone?
Oh my god, the ear-worms. Those things still skeeve me out.
Clan of the Cave Bear and the weird caveman rapes. Just…Mom!
Princess Mononoke.
Those demon worms that burrowed into people’s skin?
The way that Moro’s severed head crawled across the ground to bite off Lady Eboshi’s arm?
The way the Spirit of the Forest’s head gelatinized after being shot off?
This was not a children’s animated movie
The Wiz. Yeah it’s a musical. And yeah the evil queen, like puts the scarecrow in a steamer.
Also Return to Oz included electroshock and was a generally very fucked up movie
This place seems familiar
So basically, our party was travelling through planes because we like to have fun. Upon our most recent jump this exchange happened:
DM: As you arrive, you notice that clouds block out the sky and rainfall is descending upon you.
Me (OOC): Oh hey guys, we’re in England.
DM: Not quite, you see you’re on top of a grassy hillock and can see mountains in the difference.
Me (OOC): Oh hey guys, we’re in Scotland.
DM proceeds to death stare me for a minute while the party cracks up.
Pretentious Flamingos.
Flamingos are the cats of birds. Pass it on.
(Source: http://sevensneakyfoxes.tumblr.com/)
so there are lots of good pictures of baby peacocks practicing displaying
(i found most of these on google image search but thought they were important to show the world)
this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen.
I love it.
PRECIOUS
