The Ladi Doth Protest Too Much

*giant wind gust outside*

Me: “Don’t say it.”

My Brain:

I love how in disney cartoons when a prince is like "father I have met a mysterious forest woman and she is the love of my life and I cannot possibly marry who you wish me to" the king is always like "No!!!!! you can't fall in love with a forest woman!!!!!! you must marry a princess!!!!!" instead of what a king would have said in real life, which is "why are you telling me about the forest woman. this has no impact whatsoever on your marriage to the princess. we all have a forest woman. it's 1183 and we're barbarians"

I fully understand why "character A is astounded at the sight of character B's penis" is a specific kink that gets tagged for, but the fact that some platforms choose to tag this kink as "penis awe" is unintentionally very funny. Now I'm picturing penis experience kink tags for all those other allegedly transcendent emotions in the glossary of your Philosophy 101 textbook. Penis faith. Penis Weltschmerz. Penis apprehension of the absurd.

The existence of penis awe must therefore imply its antagonistic opposite, cock ennui.

#ennuiner #if you will (tags via @blujayonthewing)

okay so i'm rereading a bunch of the wizard of oz books, more or less because i stumbled on a collection that was very beautifully bound & i like to buy myself whatever i want all the time regardless of my financial health, and guys i think dorothy & ozma were gay for each other and also that maybe oz was like. a socialist utopia

Here’s to 2023, a year of as many little courageous kindnesses as possible. ♥️

To a year of kindness in 2024

Bringing this back for 2025

Lots of my favorite vines are old ones, so here are some that I didn’t want lost to the wind

Might make part 2 w/more modern vines(?)

Feels like home, y’know?

Vine has such a different energy than tiktok like this is definitely more chaotic.

You remind me of the blade.

What blade?

… the blade with the power?

What power?

The power of voodoo!

Who do?

You do!

Do what?

Remind me of the blade…

to all my period-having buds in the US, make sure you delete that shit

*for poll purposes I would consider a city/town/village/etc to be one 'place', so moving to another city or village counts as living elsewhere but moving to different building in the same city or village wouldn't. living unhoused would also count as one 'place' if you were still in the same city, even if you were moving around that city, couch-surfing, got displaced, etc

**living somewhere vs visiting is sometimes blurry but I'd still consider it 'living' there if you were there for a temporary job or school, or had or looked for a lease, or went there planning to stay indefinitely, etc. bald option for bald nuance

Jesus, I hadn’t even thought of this, but of course.

This is something that historians have been warning about for a couple of decades. How much of our history was not just on Twitter, but on MySpace, on blogs and web sites that came down after a few years, on e-mail, on texts. None of that leaves a record. Once the file is deleted, the server shut down and scrapped, the backup disks decay into being unreadable junk, that history is gone.

Does anyone remember when Obama and Clinton each held town hall campaign events on MySpace? Good luck finding anything about those now other than some news articles that say they happened. How many business zoom calls have formal meeting minutes taken? We are not saving histories. We aren’t even writing letters. I’m as guilty as anyone. My art is online and kept in the cloud. I make my Christmas Card every year, but I haven’t printed and mailed one in over a decade. It’s all sent electronically. Meaning that a generation from now no one will remember.

So the problem is bigger than Twitter. We are now a couple of decades into an age that will not leave any detailed historical record.

That is not good.

In pseudo and acadamic circles this has routinely been called the ‘digital dark age’, I even wrote on the subject a few years ago but can’t find that article right now. [There is even a Wikipedia article on the concept] (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_dark_age#:~:text=The%20digital%20dark%20age%20is,technologies%20evolve%20and%20data%20decay).

It’s thought this might just be a black spot of knowledge, there are organizations working to stop this — archival websites primarily, but these are not able to penetrate all these corporate gated gardens, where paywalls, sign up walls, and more block access to. There is an ongoing campaign by megacorps to shutdown as many archival sites as possible.

This coupled with the fallibility of hard drives, CDs (make sure to back them up! They only have a 20-30 year lifetime!), and more and there is a chance that even though there is more information than ever before, more primary and secondary sources than ever, we may become just a strange blank spot in societal and cultural history. Digital decay is a terrifying concept that we are already beginning to live through.

@xkcd-for-that

This is exactly what I’ve been saying. It’s a loss of history. And, given how important it has been for activists of all sorts, it will be a loss for the future as well.

Star Trek yet again being accurate about future history (Picard saying “little is known about this era (the early 21st century) because much of the digital records are gone.”)

A decade ago, I wrote my library school Master's thesis on the need to archive social media and coming up with feasible ways to do it. It's incredibly complicated because there's just so much and how do you find and keep the historically valuable records. For that matter, how do you decide what's historically valuable?! Unfortunately a lot people have just thrown up their hands in frustration and given up.

I need this.

Reblogged last year, hoping it comes this year

It’s okay, I wasn’t ready either. RIP me.

Look at these koi

My brain immediately turned them into Tui and La from Avatar

Turtle ducks!

The Bisexual flag is officially 25 years old today 🥳 💗💜💙 (December 5th, 2023)

happy birthday to this gorgeous flag!! remember that bisexuality has never excluded trans and nonbinary people and has never had any restrictions on preferences to genders :))