Tag: non spn

intotheruins:

rosemoonweaver:

I was at a swap meet today and there were so many bikers there. So many. There were all these tattooed guys in leather, walking around in nice jeans and I’m pretty sure it almost killed me. 

That sounds freaking awesome! (I mean, assuming they weren’t creepy guys, of course).

No creepy guys! They were all pretty nice. And it was absolutely awesome. 

lunch-official:

hommedog:

lunch-official:

nmqttps:

lunch-official:

i work as a barista & people tell me all the time that The Drinks Got Gender. Thats A Lady Coffee, people try to say

its fucking bean water

can’t believe i can’t just reply to this but: maybe they’re actually telling you that this coffee has an important status. Lady Coffee

oh shit i was in the presence of bean water royalty oh fuck i must have looked like such a rube. such a fool.

what the fuck does this post mean ive been trying to decipher its hieroglyphic encrypted message but i cant

“From a deconstructionist stand point, I have to disagree with a large portion of the customers that I, a humble barista tend to each day. The assertion that certain coffee drinks are more suitable for one gender or another is folly. For as we know: 1. gender is a social construct, & 2. coffee of any type is simply hot water strained through roasted beans, & has no greater affect on either culturally assigned sex.”

“What ho, kind friend! Is it not unfortunate that I cannot simply reply to this post, & most reblog it? What a farce, this blue website! Ah, but I digress: what if perhaps your customers were not asserting not the suitability of the drink for a given gender, but rather indicating some matter of status? Perhaps the coffee is possessing of a high rank in society. This is of course my purely grammatical viewpoint on the subject.”

“Oh, damnation! This does in fact seem much more likely than my own ludicrous assumptions, & I was no doubt in the presence of roasted bean royalty! Some emissary from foreign soil! Curses! What a country bumpkin I’ve made myself out to be!!”

rosemoonweaver:

@unforth-ninawaters
You know what, I think I might just do that. I’ve already made the whole thing needlessly complicated with how gene combinations work for alphas, betas, and omegas, I might as well make it easy on myself. Thanks!
I wish I liked hard science more. It just gets complicated and confusing for me really fast so I leave it to the people who know how to do it… unless it’s for complicating fictional worlds lol.

@unforth-ninawaters

Gender choice via hormone cockatils sounds a) awesome and b) like something from a cyberpunk au which I would love to read but not to write.

Also, I ever thought about it before but that does make sense when you put it like that. There is a lot of history in things like astronomy and evolutionary biology and vice versa. One of my favorite classes was on magic in the early modern period and a lot of what we discussed was astronomy, botony, and early medicine. Well, religion, too, but there was more science than I expected.

Also. Ugh. O Chem. Ewww.

A friendly reminder to my gentile friends re: Charlottesville

prismatic-bell:

There are a bunch of posts going around about donating to local Charlottesville charities in the face of the hate march, and I think this is a great idea.

Do you wanna know an even better idea?

Donate in multiples of $18.

Here, I’ll explain!

Hebrew is a numeric language. That is, all of its words have a numeric value. If you’ve ever seen the movie π, by Darren Aronofsky, there’s a great scene with a Chasidic Jew who explains a little about this and shares a word problem that hinges on it. So there are lots of puns and things that don’t translate, because, well, even if English had numeric values, we can’t guarantee they’d be the same, you know?

So, let’s take a second and talk about chai. Not the tea, the Hebrew word:
חי. Those of you who followed my conversion may know this is also (part of) my Hebrew name, in its feminine form:
חייה. It means “life.” Chai, you can imagine, is a great word! Lots of kids named Chaim (male) or Chaya (female). “L’chaim,” or “to life,” is the traditional Jewish toast. Our most important holiday, Yom Kippur, features a greeting that translates to “may you be inscribed in the Book of Life.” We talk a lot about chai.

And chai, as you may have guessed, has a numeric value of 18.

It’s a very common Jewish practice to give cash gifts in multiples of $18. For Chanukkah last year I donated $36 to my nieces’ Hebrew school, $18 for each of them, without even a moment’s thought to sync up “what I can afford” with “what’s appropriate and meaningful.” My temple does their donation forms in multiples of $18, with a couple of nominally-normal numbers like $50. It’s one of those cool little cultural things. And I promise you, if Charlottesville gets flooded with $18 donations, the white supremacists and Nazis setting up camp there will notice, and they will know what it means.

Fight the 1488 with the 18.

Fight hate with life.

(Non-Jews, feel free to reblog and share this to other platforms. In fact I genuinely and unironically hope you do, because I’d love to see this take off among gentile donators who want a great, nonviolent way to offer a one-two punch.)

antiblackness:

now is not the time to make pastel “punch nazis” edits and shirts and stickers. your performative allyship is unwanted and greatly unappreciated! now more than ever is the time for goyim to actually get active in their activism. you should be listening to Jewish people and boosting our voices. you should be calling out casual antisemitism and working on that which you harbor. it is not, it never was, and never will be the time to sit back and watch as antisemitism continues to rise. goyim can and should reblog.