A note on pro/anti-shipping, curating your space, and harassment

Hi folks!

There’s been a lot of new people joining the fandom over the last couple of months, which is great. It might not be obvious to them, however, that there’s been a bit of Fandom Drama over the past year and a half, of the kind which can suddenly flare up again in ways that make no sense if you don’t know the history behind them.

I’m not going to get into the personal side of it here, but this is just a gentle reminder:

Arguments on the internet have a way of becoming disproportionately extreme and violent.

If you have strong feelings one way or the other about pro vs anti shipping, please make the effort to curate your own online space, for your own comfort and safety and that of others.

That means checking people’s blog headers / carrds / DNIs / abouts and minimising your interaction with them if appropriate. I also suggest putting something like ‘pro-shipper’ or ‘anti’ in your own blog header.

Whatever your feelings, remember too to be wary of ‘call-out posts’ couched in exaggerated emotive language. This is true even if they come from / have been reblogged by somebody you trust. Outrage is addictive, and very few people stop to fact-check a post that confirms their own biases.

Remember too that harassment, anon hate, and threats/‘kill yourself’ jokes are never okay.

My blog header links to my main, where I have a page explaining my stance on the matter. But in brief, here’s my position.

That said: This blog is meant to be a resource for all of the fandom, relatively impersonal. I don’t mind antis reblogging or using what I’ve collected here, but I will not directly respond or interact.

Reminder that @junkyard-gifs is me. As I say, I have no problem with that blog being used as a resource by people who dislike or disagree with me. That's what it's there for: to be a centre of information and conversation for anybody who’s interested.

But on my main, I do go to considerable effort to avoid interacting with people who aren't comfortable with the 'pro-ship' label, and I'd appreciate the same courtesy in return. I will do my best to make everybody comfortable, but I can't be the only one putting in that effort: you are ultimately responsible for your own boundaries online.

“Abolish Golf”

Sticker spotted in Chicago, Illinois.

A typical golf course uses 200 million gallons of water a year. There are over 16,300 golf courses in the United States.

That's nuts.

Ngl I hate golf and I'm all for this. They put a golf course in our public park at the expense of hundreds of centuries-old live oak trees. Half of the walk around the park you're just looking at an empty golf course. Like 2 people want to play golf. So annoying.

Golf was a game developed in Scotland, where it rains up to 250 days of the year, and where the courses use very hard-wearing grass. The sand in the bunkers is because it used to be played on the coast - these traditional courses are called "Links" courses. The top Links course in Scotland, Royal Dornoch, uses no mains water at all. They have their own rainwater collection system.

It wasn't originally intended to be played in the middle of a desert on lush green turf that takes thousands of gallons of water a day to maintain. Unless you can keep the course alive using only rainwater collection, it shouldn't exist.

@criminalizegolf

that's a nice compromise, only play golf where the location allows it.

otherwise kill it with fire

Last golf course I was in.

The sand footprints in the first photo are emus. I did see them at a distance but apparently only took video, not photos.

Some irrigation required, but definitely hardy grass species. And the roos keep the grass “mowed”.

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Change.org - Petition To Hire 1,000,000 People To Put Their Fingers In The Shoot Hole Of Peoples’ Guns So They Can’t Shoot Them

It’s still gonna shoot… And they’re gonna lose a finger

No. The finger blocks the bullet. We can do this

This is a gun we’re talking about. The projectile is fired using an explosion, not by compressed air of a toy gun or the elastic forces of a sling shot. People would be lucky if they only lost their finger.

The finger blocks it

The finger won’t block it - the shaft is only there for keeping the bullet straight, all the propulsion happens behind the bullet. The bullet would rip through the finger, not that many would actually fit without the victim being a child, and beyond.

The bullet would go forward a little and then hit the finger and stop it’s not that hard to understand

People are going to lose their hands. Go watch Mythbusters. They did an episode on this, the hand fucking exploded.

No, the bullet would start to go but stop at the finger. Thats basic physics. Also hands dont explode normally they did something wrong.

Why the dingleknockers would you even consider sticking your finger in the barrel of a loaded gun?? the amount of force propelling the bullet at that close of range would shatter the finger at the very least; this is a petition for 1,000,000 people to loose the use of their hands. If a bullet explodes the back of a persons skull when they shoot it in their mouth it sure as hell will explode a finger.

No the finger would stop it

I’m loving the idiocy of this post.

Ppl with brains: ummm finger go boom…

Others: no bullet stop. U no kno fisics >:V

no the finger would stop it

You guy who think the bullet would stop at the finger have never shot a gun and can volunteer to it their fingers in the barrel of my 9 mil and I’ll I’ll the trigger and see if it will stop the bullet. Dumdasses

the finger would stop it

date of origin: 28th of december, 2015.

These fuckwits are back again? How’s it going, Nine Finger Nasty? About to turn into an Eight Finger Egghead?

@meatswitch @raptorific this is a US based site. US Americans are known for two things- obsession with guns and incredible stupidity. Had this been anyone else, I’d say they’re trying to fuck with us. But with US Americans, about 70% of them are dead serious about mangling their hands trying to stop a bullet.

I’ve had four years to think about it and now I think the finger would stop it

I just tested it with my buddy. It stops the bullet

….Mythbusters WELDED A METAL SPIKE into the barrel of a gun to obstruct it, something heaps stronger than a human finger (and sealed the barrel better with the filler metal used to fuse the metal spike into place and prevent the explosive gases from escaping) but even that didn’t stop the bullet from doing damage.

It’s because they didn’t use a finger like I did

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The fuck’s going on here? You’d rip your hand apart you fucks

no the finger would stop it

did you know that sharks are smooth

Corvid Christmas tree.

@taraljc

@gothiccharmschool

Oooooh, that's a good idea.

let it crow

Ever needed to hear about mad dad birds with enormous feet? Try THESE on for size:

What’s that you say? These are clearly the feet of a dinosaur, not a bird? WHY NOT BOTH?

This is Australia’s very own dinosaur, the second-largest bird in the world, the emu. Say hi!

They roam around Australia making ‘wonk-wonk’ noises under their breath and glaring at everything. And the dads take care of the babies! They sit on the eggs…

They look after the tiny stripey adorable things….

They look after the less tiny less adorable things…

And they even look after the great big menacing things that are almost as big as they are.

But here’s the catch. All emus look pretty much alike. Especially when you are a tiny stripey adorable thing. All you can see of your dad is is great big dinosaur feet (see picture #1). So there is one very unrealistic thing about all the adorable terrifying dinosaur family photos above:

I have never seen an emu family in the wild where all the babies are the same size.

Here is the reason!

Emu dad and his emu babies are roaming about wonking and glaring at everyone. Suddenly emu dad sees another emu dad! A threat!

Emu dads do some display threats with dancing and bouncing and fluffing and… look, it’s very serious business, okay?

If this does not work to see off one emu they might progress to actual fighting.

Oops, sorry, you wanted the dignified version. Here, have some ART:

MAGNIFICENT.

Either way, this encounter will end up with one or both adult emus zooming away as fast as he can run. This is very fast.

This is the other thing they do besides wonking and glaring, by the way. They run. Fear the running emu.

Anyway, this leaves all the tiny and medium-sized and semi-large stripey things milling around making confused tiny “cheep? wonk?” noises and basically just following whichever pair of large feet they can find.

HI DAD

And so mostly when you see a male emu with a gaggle of youngsters at heel, they are all different sizes. Who knows whose they are? Not him! But he’s going to look after them anyway.

Fear him.

Maybe I missed it in my research, but as far as I can tell, this is a bastardization of a true fact. Male emus are the ones who raise the chicks, and they may raise chicks that are not their own, but as far as I could find, they don’t raise other emus’ hatchlings.

The reason they may raise other males’ chicks is that emus have social partnerships, but they’re really open about it. Thus, a nest will be composed of half-siblings that one father takes care of. This article explains this better (and longer).

Normally, I would err on the side of caution, my research abilities not being perfect and all, but considering the severity number of unscientific assumptions made here (the bit about how “no emu family has a consistent size among chicks”, which is central to the story, is wrong on sooooo many levels, it’s actually impressive) and the fact that many animals tend to be very homicidal about the offspring of competitors, I’m confident that this post is mostly false

My source: many anecdotes from friends and open-range zoo keepers, things I have read somewhere but don’t remember where and, like I said in the post, the fact that , out of all the emu families I’ve seen in the wild, most have been very variable in size.

Hardly scientific, but not nothing.

This was originally a flippant post for a few friends. Then it blew up. So obviously I didn’t bother citing sources or anything, and it would be a bit belated to do that now .

But I think you’re right - I don’t remember anybody else, over the past however many years, questioning this representation. Mostly responses are about DID YOU KNOW, EMU WAR.

Honestly, by this stage, this post probably does have the reach to count as disinformation - or at least, a potentially misleading representation of reality. But the facts are consistent with my lived experience of emus, so far as it goes. Maybe there’s some local variation- if the emus where I live are more willing to adopt, that might explain why I couldn’t find any photos of mixed-sized families in my brief shitty google search for images.

(Also it’s worth noting that many birds are considerably more willing to adopt babies who exhibit the right behaviours than are mammals, whose recognition is more scent-based.)

Sure hope there’s no lemon-stealing whores about.

While talking with the Hobbits, Tom Bombadil puts on the One Ring. For a moment, all of the Nazgul burst into merry song. It is never discussed among them again.

I really couldn’t stop my self drawing this lol

Eldritch horrors getting an eldritch horror experience, for a second they experienced something incomprehensible.

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i cant believe americans on tv really say rock paper scissors like???? its paper scissors rock omg do u irl americans actually say rock paper scissors????

rb this with whether u say paper scissors rock or rock paper scissors

me normally: linguistic differences are so interesting and cool! I love hearing different dialectal variations.

me, reading “paper, scissors, rock” with my own two eyeballs: the lord is testing me

What are you talking about, it’s “scissors paper stone”.