this quiz tells you what your homeric epithet would be and well, isn’t this the question that keeps us all up at night? feel free to reblog and put your epithet in the tags, mine is bright-eyed
if you really think it is advancing the cause of antiracism or trans advocacy or whatever by reblogging posts that are like GUESS THIS GUY SPILLED THE TEA or “you should really reblog this” or “nobody is holding people responsible for ____” and TV comedy people saying quirky things about bigots and on and on and on. like you recognize what sort of writing style i’m talking about right?
if you are considering reblogging one of these things like i implore you to ask yourself “what am i doing this for.” what purpose does it serve? if your answer is something like, “because I have to do everything I can and ~listen to minorities~ because i need to ~unlearn my problematic tendencies~ and those oppressors need to be given what for! [by reblogging a tumblr post that most of them in all likelihood will never see]” then i guarantee you probably do not need to reblog that post!
like think about it. here is the thing. you cannot ever neutrally “learn and listen to marginalized people”. like yes it is good to listen to people and let people speak about things oppressing them but ultimately no matter what position you take you are going to be favoring some position that some people in the group may disagree with! identity groups are not monoliths, but that is the kind of thinking that SJ shit traps people into
this kind of thinking in turn encourages people, both marginalized and “allies” alike (and really almost everyone falls into both categories depending on the situation) to amplify and rebroadcast pain and outrage, because that’s the most unambiguous way to demonstrate awareness of peoples’ suffering
but like. the flip side to this is that everyone is constantly being inundated with pain and outrage. the affected group has to deal with pain on their dashboard 24/7 and other people are bombarded with guilt trippy or less overt “LISTEN HERE. YOU MIGHT BE A BIGOT IF YOU THINK…” posts whose primary effect is not to inspire real action, solidarity or working toward a better future but rather mostly encourages people to self flagellate over perceived moral failing
isn’t that the guy with the long white hair from final fantasy
no your thinking of sephiroth,
a sephora is an angel belonging to the highest order of angels
No you’re thinking of a Seraph
A sephora is a second year college or high school student
No, you’re thinking of sophomore. A sephora is when you use your phone to take a picture of yourself.
no, you’re thinking of a selfie. a sephora is a calm breeze.
No, you’re thinking of a zephyr. A sephora is one of those Greek vases with the two handles and the pictures.
You’re thinking of an amphora. Sephora is the web browser you have to use on iOS devices.
You’re thinking of Safari. Sephora is an informal term for the seven-week period of counting the days between Pesach and Shavuot in the Jewish calendar.
You’re thinking of Sefiras. Sephora is a bright blue gemstone best known for combining with Ruby to create Garnet and lead the Crystal Gems, training Pokemon, and/or assisting Steel to fight against time’s intrusions into our realm.
No, you’re thinking of sapphire. Sephora is actually a part of a flower; it protects the flower in bud and supports the petals in bloom.
No, you’re thinking of sepal. Sephora is the wife of Moses, who lead the Israelites people out of Egypt.
No, you’re thinking of Tzipporah. Sephora was an ancient Greek poet who inspired a lot of lady-lovin’.
No, you’re thinking of Sappho.
Sephora is the youngest of the five Marx brothers.
No, you’re thinking of Zeppo.
Sephora is the Heimdall’s sister.
No no no guys, you’re thinking of Sif. Sephora is a venereal disease that turns your brain to swiss cheese, going so far as to destroy external features like the nose. Famous gangster Al Capone suffered from sephora.
No, you’re thinking of syphilis. Sephora is that radiant feeling you get when you have found perfect peace and happiness.
No, you’re thinking of euphoria. Sephora’s a fucking makeup store you dipshits.
Only blogging because this is my favorite tumblr post and i can never find it when I need to.
auditing is the best accounting class because auditing isn’t difficult so much as it is tedious and so like 80% of the semester is just, “you will not BELIEVE the shit these assholes tried to pull, check this shit out”
we once spent like two weeks just talking about Crazy Eddie and watching documentaries and YouTube videos about the dude (our prices are INSANE because we are COMMITTING HUGE AMOUNTS OF FRAUD) and apparently when it came to audits they actually took a very common approach for people who commit fraud:
Select an auditing firm that’s a sausagefest
Specifically one of the many auditing firms that sends their newbies out to do on-site audits (because as stated, it’s not necessarily difficult it’s just boring as shit) (auditing is charlie work lmao)
Hire a hot chick as secretary or w/e to help this young man find his way around the office and files
which is how they managed to commit extensive tax fraud for like sixteen years without it ever getting picked up by the auditors, because the auditors they’d send down to the office would be too distracted by titties
we were told of multiple known instances of companies that did this, including one that managed to hide their family business’ fraud for decades until they screwed over an in-law who snitched, and whenever it happened the accounting firm who’d been doing the auditing was fucking mortified because they absolutely should have caught this shit
and that is why we learned in auditing class that young straight men cannot be trusted to audit without supervision, because they are so easily distracted by titties that they will fuck up the most basic of tasks
I didn’t realize the “crazy so-and-so’s discount whatevers” trope was based on a real thing, holy shit
Scientists
conducted two meta-analyses examining previous research on the possible
links between loneliness and health. In the first meta-analysis, they
looked at 148 different studies and found that more social connection is
associated with a 50% reduction in the risk of early death.
The second
meta-analysis examined 70 studies and found that three factors — social
isolation, feelings of loneliness and living alone — were all associated
with higher risks for premature death. Read more (8/7/17)
honestly fuckin “lovecraft inspired” games are everywhere and in every genre except the one they really need to be in
farming sims
like nothing says lovecraft like being aware of cosmic terror in your town and being unable to do anything about it so you sort of just tend to your radishes and hope everything turns out okay but you pull up one of your radishes and there’s a human head at the base of the stalk and you drop it as soon as you make eye contact with it but once you go to pick it up again it’s a normal radish
“Cthulhu is not gonna stop me having a well kept lawn”
Reblogging for @flaminganakin‘s brilliant tags. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, Anakin’s fatal flaw wasn’t his anger or his pride or his love for Padme. It was his deference. Luke is a good man because he refuses to compromise his morality just because some one else told him his should. Anakin fails as a good man specifically because he repeatedly compromises on things he knows are wrong. He gives in to his mother and Qui-Gon’s urging to leave Tatooine. He gives in to Obi-Wan’s orders to forget his dreams and his mother. He gives in over and over and over during the Clone Wars until, by the time of RotS, he no longer even knows how to listen to his own moral compass. As Vader, he is exactly the man the Jedi told him to be: unquestioningly obedient to authority with no attachments except the Force.
Luke is the exact opposite. He rejects the teachers of his ‘wise masters’ and insists, outright and without shame, on doing things his way. And he succeeds where they failed. Not by being a good solider (good soldiers fallow orders), but by being a good man.
“Anakin’s fatal flaw wasn’t his anger or his pride or his love for Padme. It was his deference.”
Funny how it’s Luke’s attachment and love for his friends (and later his love for his father, though he was corrupted) that saved the day. And funny how it’s Anakin’s continual sacrifice of those attachments (his mother, his wife) that leads him to complete mental instability.
This is from Dead Poets Society: “Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.” The Jedi are so wrapped up in their notions of spiritual purity that they become completely dissociated from their own morality, and they see the Force as an end unto itself, rather than a force (hah) for good.
Example 1: slavery’s still a thing in the Republic? Even though it’s illegal? Should we do something about that? … Nah, better to not get involved. What the fuck?
The Jedi think they’ve figured out the meaning of life, but they’ve completely neglected the purpose. Spiritual excellence becomes divorced from moral excellence in a way that is completely arbitrary and therefore inherently unstable.
this is all to say, FUCK YOU YODA
i think we’re about to see this moral borne out with the third trilogy. rey is going to be like “hey teach, show me how to hit things. no, i’ll decide what to hit, thanks.” the jedi way is irrelevant; her own conscience will be her guide.
scrappy desert kid versus jedi philosophy, three ways.
just moving along like everyone else 