SHE DID YOU GUYS!!!
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(April 12th 2024)
No medical confirmation or psychological evaluation necessary. The law will be active by the 1st of November this year.
First names can also be changed while changing gender. One all inclusive package with minimum effort.
Here's the AP article about it for anyone who wants it
[ID: The Destiel meme, edited to say, in the first panel, "I love you", and in the second, "Today Germany passed a law that allows everyone to change their gender by simply going to the registry and telling them to change it." End ID]
I need people outside of Germany to understand how huge this is!
This law came into effect yesterday! Huzzah! \o/
Good for German people and Germany! Finland did this same in February 2023 and also stopped the illegal forced sterilization for trans people (finally!). Let's hope for more countries to join!
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why haven’t I seen anyone posting about that giant fucking baby penguin in Melbourne that’s bigger than some of the adults already
his name is Pesto <3
this bastard weighs 46 lbs at 9 months old. he’s 22 lbs heavier than his PARENTS
OMG I SAW THIS LAD IN PERSON AND LOST EVERY OUNCE OF SHIT I’VE EVER POSSESSED
Look at him!
Also he was separated with one of his parents when I saw him but obviously wanted to Be Where The People Penguins Are so they’d set him up with a little rock stool so he could gaze upon his brethren:
Which enabled me to capture the single funniest video I’ve ever taken of anything in my life:
All hail Pesto! The king of chonk!
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adhd paralysis sucks bcuz im just sitting there and my brain is like
YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME YOU ARE WASTING TIME
no work done no rest gained. literally no point of this at all
just wanted to share these executive dysfunction comics i am so sorry to whoever drew them these have been saved on my phone for like 6 years
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Favorite Foods: Toph
This is the toughest food post I've done yet.
Before Toph began sneaking out of parents' home, I don't think she enjoyed eating very much. Meals in the Beifong household were a stuffy affair, dictated by innumerable rules of etiquette that Toph found tedious and exhausting. However, I do think she liked having teatime and snacks with her mom, who wasn't as insistent on policing her daughter's manners as Lao was. Other than that, I think most of Toph's positive food memories come from sampling street food in the area around the Earth Rumble arena. Each dish is linked to a recipe, by the way.
- Ròu jiā mó (肉夹馍), literally meaning "meat wedged between bread", is basically a Tang Dynasty hamburger. It's composed of chopped, seasoned meat sandwiched inside a stiff flatbread called bái jí mó (白吉馍). The servants in Toph's home would make these burgers for themselves from the leftover bread and cuts of meat that the Beifongs didn't eat. Being cheap and greasy commoner's food, Lao (Toph's father) didn't allow her to have it. Of course, it didn't stop her from having a servant sneak one to her. After joining up with the Gaang, she makes a habit of always buying one when she sees a stall selling them.
- Tang guozi (唐果子), are beautiful cakes meant to be served with tea. They're typically made of bean paste and shaped to resemble flowers and fruits. Poppy and Toph would make these cakes together as a bonding activity. Poppy would would dye the bean paste and then hand it off to Toph to mold into whatever she pleased... They weren't always cutest creations. Still, from sculpting to eating, the two were always able to enjoy every step of the process.
- Poached fruits and boiled nuts were another popular tea snack during the Tang Dynasty. Aside from bringing back warm tea-time memories, Toph also appreciates how simple they are to prepare. It's one of the few dishes Toph can make on her own. Her favorite combination is boiled chestnuts and pears poached with brown sugar.
- Gu louzi (古楼子) was a decadent meat pastry popular among the wealthy, particularly high-ranking military officials, during the Tang Dynasty. Gu louzi was made up of rich layers of lamb meat, cheese, and flatbread. The meat was typically served very rare, both for for its tenderness and to add moisture to the dry flatbread layers. Toph's father would often serve this dish when entertaining generals and other military elites. However, he refused to allow Toph to eat it, believing the heavy ingredients and under cooked meat would upset his "delicate" daughter's stomach. Naturally, Toph would immediately blow her Earth Rumble prize money on gu louzi every chance she got.
- & 6. Youtiao (油条) and tanghulu (糖葫蘆). Youtiao are Chinese crullers and tanghulu are candied fruits served on sticks. Both these foods were commonly sold at the Earth Rumble arena and quickly became Toph's go-to snacks after a match. Since Toph's household primarily served Tang Dynasty cuisine, the Song Dynasty snacks of youtiao and tanghulu were quite new and exciting to young Toph.
Fun fact: If you want an idea of what Tang Dynasty food tasted like, I would recommend finding a Chinese restaurant that serves Xi'an cuisine. Xi'an was the capital of Tang Dynasty, where it was known as Chang'an.
Trying to explain what the fuck just happened in Lankan politics today.
The leftist party has won 159 seats out of 218 in the Parliamentary elections. The single biggest landslide win since we broke from the British and achieved universal franchise in 1948.
Any party achieving a super majority in the executive and legislative is, objectively speaking, bad. It disables checks and balances, which is a catastrophic thing for any democracy, and the only two other times it's happened for us has irrevocably eroded the fabric of civic rights and democratic freedom. Also, the reason the NPP won the North and East is that the colonized, genocided and subjugated people there have no faith in electoralism anymore. The way this government has engaged minority issues has been utterly abysmal and now they've been rewarded for it.
On the other hand:
The winners. Are all. Grassroots. Candidates.
We have voted out every single career criminal that's been barnacled into the Lankan political arena since before I've been alive. The fascist party has only three seats. The other fascists didn't win a single seat. The neoliberal legacy party won none. There are only forty people in Parliament that represent any sort of dynastic political legacy. After 76 solid years of nothing but political dynasties.
This is barely five years after the Rajapaksas swept in and absolutely glutted the Parliament with their family members and cronies end to end.
This is the illegitimate interim government we had for most of the last 18 months. We literally, physically, chased the Rajapaksas out of the country and this fucking demon set up a puppet government just so he could finally sit in that goddamn chair and be the despot he'd always dreamed of in exchange for letting them all come back. He's now gone. His entire circle is gone.
THEY ARE ALL FUCKING GONE.
In US terms, just imagine the entire GOP and the worst of the Dems destroyed and purged from Congress and Senate, the Green Party in control of all three branches of government, an unmarried abortion rights activist Vice President, and the Dems reduced to barely 20% of the House. Five years from now, when Trump's GOP has control of everything.
This is my anthropology professor. She joined politics from the small nascent leftist coalition to help keep the government accountable. She's now the Prime Minister and the most popular Parliamentary candidate in the nation's history.
On the other hand— the woman who helped make me a radical anarchist and literally helped write a book on political dissent and resistance...now is the state.
But there are so many women in Parliament! We had the lowest female representation in a South Asian Parliament and some of them were from the list of seats reserved for parties rather than elected ones. Most were either anti-feminist conservative embarrassments, widows and daughters of elite politicians and neoliberal shills. It's still only an increase of a few percentage points but now we have elected academics, feminist advocates, activists! THERE IS A REPRESENTATIVE FOR MALAIYAHA TAMILS IN THE CENTRAL PROVINCE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY AND IT'S A YOUNG WOMAN! This is the plantation community that still live in conditions closest to the slavery the British forced upon them two hundred years ago!
I'm like. Completely mindfucked. To be very very clear, these people are not Marxists or anything near; they're mild social democrats who would only be threatening to like, USAmerican liberals, who are now center-right. The actual chances for radical reform are still quite low, and the opportunity for further erosion is extremely high.
On the other hand:
What the fuck.
Sometimes living through historical events is really damn amazing.
I have evil furry convention plans.
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Happy first birthday Knife-Wielding Tentacle..👍
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dear god, it lives still
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Save the date folks, Knife-Wielding Tentacle’s second birthday is November 16th.
exigetspersonal
HAPPY SECOND BIRTHDAY, KNIFE-WIELDING TENTACLE!
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Of course he’s a Scorpio
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
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knife-wielding tentacle is 5 years old today…………………
They grow up so fast. :’)
Six years!
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Every year I forget about Knife-Wielding Tentacle until this post comes around
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Just watched the banned Moon Girl episode.
>the episode addresses the topic of trans kids in sports >the entire episode is about how bigots will always move the goalpost, and playing by their rules is pointless >the solution is not to play their game and break the rules >it also states that trans people should never feel like a burden >the character Brooklyn is explicitly stated to be trans >there is also an explicitly nonbinary character >multiple mentions of pride and depictions of pride flags, trans flags and progress flags
I'm not at all surprised this didn't get past the censors but I'm so mad that it didn't, because this could've been something really special, and the fact it was canned after being fully finished is downright painful. This episode was wonderful and I'm grateful to all the people who worked on it, and angry that their hard work was wasted. Disney did not deserve you.
[ID: MST3K "Keep circulating the tapes"]
I always find it a shame that people assume Vampire: The Masquerade has to be a serious, gritty game and ignore the huge amounts of absolutely batshit stuff in that setting.
Al capone is a vampire, as was Rasputin. At one point in the middle ages there was a bloodline of secret vatican vampire necromancers working for the inquisition. There's a malkavian combo-discipline to turn into a scary clown. There are multiple versions of "the fleshcrafting discipline is actually a mind-controlling disease from space." Lasombra pirates in nuclear submarines. There is an evil ttrpg company that infects you with evil spirits if you play their games.
Not stupid enough for you? There is a Banu Haqim pro-wrestling tag-team duo called 2Hot Nation of Harlem Ghetto Posse Gangsta Experience.
Vampire is an extremely silly game at times.
Those two aren't even the only vampire wrestlers! There's a drew macintyre's next plotline a mad cannibal scotsman called Diamond Duncan Dunsirn, and an autarkis lucha libre nosferatu called El Diablo Verde, who is 'named after a red sports car, but he's colourblind'.
arguably the single most important event in the entire timeline is the Convention Of Thorns, a gathering of vampires during which one vampire got so incandescently furious at another that he publicly ripped his own dick off and threw it at the other guy's head.
This act of literal public dick-waving is basically why we have The Sabbat now, and why The Sabbat has the clans in it that it does.
This game is so fucking stupid.
I think a big part of the disconnect comes from the fact that Vampire: the Masquerade has this massive but largely unacknowledged set of influences from how vampires are depicted in late 1980s/early 1990s horror comics floating around in its creative DNA. It's understandable to be unaware of this because the game's text generally refuses to admit it, apart from the occasional nod to DC's Vertigo brand, but if you're familiar with the horror comics of that era it's super blatant.
Or, in other words, there's a big chunk of V:tM's self-promotion that wants you to believe it's based on this:
... while in practice there's a very large part of it – not all of it, certainly, but a substantial part – that's based on this:
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It's so funny to me how a half assed post of me in my underwear can get 1500 notes but a full assed post of me dressed tops out at about 500 🤣🤣🤣
I'd argue you're more than half assed in the underwear pics. That's a full ass right there. If anything the fully dressed ones have less ass in them, at least visibly
The effort that goes into my undies pics is limited 75% of the time. Granted you're probably my number one fan for clothed pics considering you literally demand links and buy every outfit I post 🤣🤣🤣
Excuse you I've bought exactly one outfit of yours for myself. I just happened to get it in several colors
Also this was literally just supposed to be a dumb joke about your ass cheeks why are you outing me like this 😭
Cause you're adorable and you always ask me where my clothes are from 🤭🤭🤭 pretty sure you stole my fit more than once too
Listen, don't tell anyone but half my wardrobe is just cute outfits I've stolen from other hot people I know. That includes multiple mutuals 🫣
God youre adorable *tells everyone*
When you visit I'm stealing your clothes then killing you for exposing me
*cumming on mommy dick for exposing me
Ftfy
Can and I did.
I'm being exposed and exploited. Like a Polaroid photo of a child actor.
I dont like how you phrased that. Children are disgusting. Im exposing and exploiting you like the fuckable cut of meat trans adult you are
It was definitely a stretch for the joke. Just like you'll stretch me 😘
Or for you... 😉😉😉🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️ im a switch
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Do animals get Saints? Like a particularly successful termite mound or rabbit warren, would they eventually have a Saint of their own? Do the trees get Saints? The mountains?
I can't find it rn but I KNOW this has come up in the server at some point, beans. Either way I had a really long discussion about this with Lee a while back, who I would argue understands the way KC functions as well as I do, and we determined that since saints are produced by concentrated faith/will from living things trying to accomplish a specific goal that animal instinct should count for something. Their energies are much less potent and organized so it's rarer for anything to come of it, but insect colonies in particular WOULD actually produce their own saints pretty frequently, though they're probably just identical copies of themselves. Rabbit warrens are a good thought too; don't worry, I'm definitely doing something with Creature Saints at some point hehe.
Flora gets a little weirder, because even though we haven't exactly encountered Thinking Trees it's been established that living things (and sometimes nonliving things) very easily serve as conduits for thinking creatures' energy.* we also deal with weirder forms of life on the regular, so even though they might not mean much to humankinds it's very possible the trees are talking to each other, which could theoretically produce a saint type Thing. It might not register to us as a saint in the traditional sense, but nobody in-universe fully understands how this system works anyway so there aren't a lot of rules to follow to begin with, incomprehensible sprawl phenomena isn't anything new.
The reason Lee and I had this talk to begin with was that I do have something specific planned for fungi, which, unlike kc's plants or animals, are much less murky about what kind of life they're classified as.
*part of why commanders are Like This with other humankinds lmao
I like the idea of flora developing saints that are basically just weather. Like a big patch of yellow corydalis that conjures up a saint that looks like a big cloud. If you're not looking closely, the only uncanny thing about it is that it's somehow always perfectly positioned to block their sun.
that's SO cute what the fuck. y'all are always so much gentler than i am with sprawl concepts, it's such an aggressive dangerous world in canon then the fandom writes ghibli fic, i love
Saw the words flora saint and my mind immediately went to wildfires
two kinds of readers
I feel like pando is a plant saint. Like a whole forest made of one tree!
Yeah so, reincarnation is real, but when they started this whole operation they only made like a billion souls for all the living creatures on earth. yeah it's not a super big deal because souls are trans-temporal so they can just reincarnate backwards or forwards depending on what's needed but it does mean at any given moment in time there are 120 beetles, 98 dandelions, 43 tetra fish, 12 tree frogs, 6 spiders, 3 poison ivy plants, 2 mice, 2 house cats, an elephant shrew, a crayfish, a crow, a raccoon, a poodle, a turkey vulture, a goat, a donkeys, a binturong, 2 fig trees, a jackal, a dolphin, an alligator, a hyena, a bison, a giraffe, a turkey vulture and 8 humans who are all just overlapping incarnations of you. sorry.
They did make more souls after that first batch but Soul.2s work differently. Yeah, they decay and meld with earths ambient qi after death and then the energy reforms as new souls around moments of pure incandescent joy like unto cosmic dust shaped by the gravity of a star. That actually happens a lot more often than you’d think but it's a little inconsistent so they keep the S.1s around just to have that stable base; they limited it to a couple species so they could keep better track but there's some crossover, obviously. Some folks even end up with both, which is how you get stuff like sanhunqipo.
It is possible to escape samsara but only 38 souls have ever actually done it. Some of them multiple times- yeah they wipe themselves and start the whole process from zero. One guy is actually responsible for like, 60% of all enlightenment events, and every time ae goes back in ae swears ae's not going to ascend again but, like. Obviously ae’s gonna.
The rest of them just take shifts as bodhisattvas and spend the rest of their time working on Soul.5 for Earth-final_FINAL-fsrs_best.wlrd.
It's been months and this is still my favourite tag. What do you think here is, bud?