Important to note that ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (a direct quote from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.
Not trying to deflect from the blatant and virulent transmisogyny present here. Just giving a bit more info.
Erin Reed did a good breakdown of the ruling here:
Image description: a digitally drawn four-panel comic of Angus and Magnus from The Adventure Zone. Angus is a little human boy with dark brown skin and curly black hair, wearing a blue suit and cap, while Magnus is a human with tan skin and short brown hair, wearing armor and a bandanna.
Angus declares: “My name is Angus McDonald, but I am the world’s greatest detective!” A narration box next to Magnus reads: “I roll my eyes,” which Magnus does.
Angus pauses for a moment, looking indignant, before awkwardly replying: “Okay!” End description.
Like now that I am awake I need to reiterate how huge this is. It was presumed harvested to extinction by the Romans. It was a favorite flavoring and according to historians one of the best contraceptives ever known. True or not it would be fantastic to study that but it being extinct made that impossible.
This is such a huge deal! I hope they get it figured how to grow it.
if I were an npc in skyrim I would never leave my house because there are giant spiders out there. My one line of radiant dialogue would be “I don’t leave the house, there’s giant spiders out there.”
i have. a lot of big complicated thoughts about how people tend to treat depression as like. as if it’s nothing. like it’s the most basic easiest mental illness ever. why do we do this. depression kills people. constantly. people will throw around “depression and anxiety” and say they’re totally normalized nonstigmatized disorders and then you realize they only think mild versions of these disorders exist. i have a laundry list of mental disorders and the only one that’s ever actually put my life at risk was depression. if you throw around depression as if it’s the mildest least harmful mental illness ever have you considered shutting the fuck up.
There’s always judgement when depression takes a life because nobody wants to talk about suicide without judgement. Not really. We see obits and memorial pieces that say “Person died yesterday after a four-year battle with cancer,” but never “Person died yesterday after a fifty-seven-year battle with depression.” It’s usually an undisclosed cause that the family is aware of and friends/acquaintances only guess at (often correctly), but nobody talks about it. Or, if the person was famous, it’s made much of, with theories flying everywhere, sometimes for months or years, some right, some wrong (c.f. Heath Ledger, Robin Williams).
I wish those obits talked about how fucking hard it is to “fight” depression, how it is very much an ongoing, exhausting battle, how desperately tired and anguished a person must have been to concede the fight. And I think doing so would accomplish some of what OP is talking about by challenging the general assumption that only mild versions of depression exist and that taking long walks or practicing yoga or eating this or that food or whatever will snap someone out of it, as if depression is just sad daydreaming and people with depression could choose to switch to happy daydreaming instead.
I’ve lived with treatment-resistant clinical depression and anxiety disorder my entire life. When I was a teen in the 80s, “depression” was something people fell into and eventually emerged from, naturally, after trauma. It was so much less understood by the general public than it is now (which is saying something), and not considered a lifelong condition by anyone other than medical professionals who specialized in mental illnesses. It *certainly* wasn’t something that affected teenagers, regardless of how strong the evidence was, since every emotion a teenager had was put down to “moodiness” brought on by puberty (and, usually, put down to being female).
Medical treatment for depression before Prozac (which was only approved in the U.S. by the FDA in 1987 and went to market in 1988) was usually antipsychotics, and these were not prescribed to “regular” people. The kind of people who got medical treatment for the mental disorders we’re talking about today were only to be found in locked wards not that long ago. That doesn’t mean that there weren’t “regular” people who desperately needed help and medication–far from it–just that, despite how bad ignorance and misinformation about depression is today, it was so much worse just 40 years ago. It got better because of Prozac. Prozac was huge news, and so depression sort of became huge news too. But there’s so much more that should be common knowledge, and still so much stigmatization, and the only way I know of to make something common knowledge and reduce stigmatization is for people who have information to talk about it every chance they get.
I understand that mental illness is not the same as physical illness, and that there is a significant amount of nuance required to discuss suicide as a result of depression, especially because people are very reluctant to talk about suicide at all. (And there is the whole other problem battling the “talking about suicide will encourage people to commit suicide” barrier.) I know all about how the kind of help that exists for people at the far end of their depression is sometimes unattainable because of the depression, but talking about suicide as a result of disease, without judging the disease, could open so many doors for more help, more resources, more early warning signs being recognized and more understanding – discussion without judgement. Because when we recognize depression as a disease that is fatal to a certain percent of those who have it, we can then talk about solutions to reduce that percent.
Goncharov was special because not only did we establish canon, we created a whole fanon gay interpretation and proceded to ignore the (not even real) original in favour of it. And thats what tumblr is all about.
the beauty of it is that we *could* have made it gay in the original, being queerbaited was a choice because people of this hellsite are so used to it by this point.
Make sure you’ve got shelf-stable food and water for everyone in the house, including pets. The rule of thumb is a gallon per person per day. Freeze water bottles if you want cold water.
Make sure you have enough meds!
Make sure you have batteries, candles, flashlights, and a manual can opener.
Make sure your electronics, including backup batteries, are charged. Unplug things you don’t want fried in case of a power surge.
Don’t tape your windows, it doesn’t help and you’ll just be stuck scrubbing goo off of them later.
Put a mug of frozen water in it in your freezer with a quarter on top of it. If your freezer defrosts, the ice will melt and the quarter will sink and tell you you need to throw things out.
Get everything that’s not nailed to a foundation out of your yard. That dead branch hanging on by a thread? Time to get it down (it was probably time to do that three days ago, but now’s better than never).
Park away from powerlines and trees if you can. Rain makes the ground soft and then trees fall over.
Have an evacuation plan to a shelter. Evacuate if they’re telling you to.
If you start to flood, don’t go in your attic. You’ll get trapped if the water rises too high and you can’t hack through your roof. This happened to a lot of people in Texas and Louisiana. Get ON the roof.
Be safe, be well <3
What the fuck?
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Ngl, “tropical storm in death valley” was not on my 2023 bingo card.
Drainage on our roads is shitty in SoCal, don’t attempt to drive through water deep enough to touch your bumpers and don’t attempt to walk across moving water, water only as deep as your ankles can knock you down and sweep you away.
Predicted wind speeds are similar to strong Santa Anas, so lock things down like you would for that, though keep in mind that yeah the combination of heavy rain and wind leads to more felled trees than just wind.
Take photos of the inside of your home now; flood insurance fucking sucks here and if you’re in a possible flood zone you want as much documentation of your home and belongings as possible in case you need to make a claim.
Freezing water bottles also means you’ve got a lot of ice in your freezer if power goes out, and safe potable water once it thaws, so freeze bottles of water to have something to keep your fridge and freezer cool and store more water regardless of if you want cold water.
sometimes i think about how sokka literally invented submarines and how aang is literally the avatar but when the both of them put their braincells together, they come up with ideas like writing a letter to katara from toph
As a 37 year old who’s been running a sole proprietorship for the last 10+ years, I just want everyone who is planning to run a fandom project that involves accepting money for printing & shipping costs to know that you’re actually running a small business and you need to plan for taxes. It doesn’t matter if you don’t make any profit: that is business income and the IRS will see it as such if you get audited.
If you only take enough money in to cover the cost of printing & shipping then you can write that off as a business expense and probably not pay taxes on it, But in order for that to fly you actually have to do business accounting, especially if you’re doing it at scale. Like, you can probably skate by without reporting a $500 project; I absolutely would not fucking risk it with a $5000 project.
Back when I was producing shows there were years when I was where I made $20k in ticket sales only to turn around and immediately pay $18k to my performers. I only made $2k for myself, but I had to report the entire $20k, because it was ALL INCOME. (I only paid taxes on the $2000, because that’s how writing off expenses works!)
Yeah this is boring grownup shit and I’m getting my boring grownup fingers all over your fun fandom, but boring grownups doing boring grownup things are the reason fandom spaces exist at all (paying for servers is deeply boring), and I’m way more fun than an audit
Only 13 percent of video games are readily playable and accessible. No other form of media is as endangered as video games. There is no legal path to preserve or archive video games. You can go to libraries and archives for books years out of print. You can rent a movie or download a pdf. There is no legal equivalent for video games. Games companies do not double as archival organisations and they never will. They have never been about preserving. They are about selling. Which is not inherently evil compared to anyone else but they along with the law are directly preventing archivers and preservationists from doing their job and allowing this entire medium to be experienced in the future.
Think of some of the most influential video games of all time. How many of them can you play right now. Without piracy. How many of these could your not very technology literate friend play. How do you think this is affecting not only the wider industry now but also people in the future. And for completely arbitrary meaningless reasons.
We have to keep reblogging this so future historians will read it and puzzle endlessly over its meaning
The heavy implication that historical ‘abstract’ poetry that people have been analysing for ages without being able to conclude the meaning could have just been shitpost level in-jokes between poets is sending me.
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