Please for the love of all that is holy DO NOT USE THIS TO PERSONALIZE YOUR TUMBLR. It’s covered in adware and every single time I click onto someone’s tumblr who has it I have to run my spybot and then it catches a bunch of stuff and in one case one of these addresses downloaded an adware program onto my computer that prevented me from hitting back on my browser and had loud popup ads now and then and annoying blue hyperlinks everywhere. It took several hours of my time to remove the darn thing from my computer completely.
“But I can have a cool personalized name with .co .vu!” Yeah, you know why? Because most people don’t use it so names aren’t taken. Why?
Because it’s covered in adware and spyware.
If you respect your followers AT ALL do not use this. Please.
This is actually a really fascinating scam.
So, you know how how “co.[country abbreviation]” is commonly used to signify that a site is from some country? For example, “amazon.co.jp” is the Japanese version of Amazon dot com.
The people selling “co.vu” sites want you to think that that’s what’s going on–that you’re getting nice good web addresses from Vanuatu.
But what’s actually happening is that they publish your sites as a subdomain of a site called “co” that is in Vanuatu.
In other words:
In the url “http://amielleon.tumblr.com”, “amielleon” is the subdomain, “tumblr” is the actual site, and “com” tells me that it’s a commercial site and probably from America.
In the url “http://mytrashyotp.co.vu”, “mytrashyotp” is the subdomain, “co” is the actual site, and “vu” indicates it’s from Vanuatu. But they WANT you to think that “mytrashyotp” is the site, and “co.vu” indicates that it’s a commercial site from Vanuatu.
What are they getting out of this? The ability to throw shit on top of your blog (like adware) and also leech off your content for search engine rankings.
(Source: I based this post off of this blog post which is somewhat more technical in nature.)
Guys this is actually true ;;; it’s been happening to me quite a lot and I’ve had so many pop ups and ads everywhere. I get programs that I’ve never installed plus it can cause real harm to your PC. I seriously suggest to not use a co.vu domain for the sake of your mutuals & followers !!!
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It’s amazing how the SW Villain Discourse gleefully embraces the extent to which the Imperials are Space Nazis, and completely ignores the much greater extent to which they’re Space Americans.
Watch the Jedha market battle in Rogue One.
Space Iraq under American occupation.
Palpatine’s power grabs and his justifications behind them during the last days of the Republic were a pretty clear send up of the George W. Bush administration’s terrorism and national security policies.
Hitler subverted a brand new and very weak democracy of questionable legitimacy in the eyes of the German people, formed after the fall of an empire in a cataclysmic war, using his personal paramilitary as much as the ballot box to gain power, a situation that has more in common with the First Order than with Palpatine.
Palpatine subverted a venerable, complacent republic fractured by powerful moneyed interersts, by claiming to be protecting the freedom and security of the people, using the pretext of war to amass ever greater power, preparing carefully for the final overthrow of the regime that brought him to power.
In short, while the Empire uses the asthetics of the Nazis and also to a lesser extent the Soviet Union, those are all just trappings. The First Order are space Nazis, but the Empire are space Totalitarian Americans.
LOL more like Space Regular Americans, given that the Ewoks are the Viet Cong, Leia’s cinnamon buns were always based on that of a Sandinista revolutionary, and the only country to use a superweapon in the real world is the USA.
Yes, exactly. And Palpatine = Cheney!
The “Dread Gazebo” is one of those inside jokes that everybody in the D&D/RPG community is supposed to know, but that makes it really hard to actually learn. Everyone references it, but nobody actually tells the original story. I played D&D for years before I got up the nerve to ask why everyone made jokes about gazebos.
Just in case any of my followers my be in the boat. Here’s a link to the original story.
DO NOT ANGER THE GAZEBO
the Dread Gazebo story has reached mythic proportions
Never was their a story of more woe
Than of D&D
and the Dread Gazebo
Let sleeping gazebo’s lie
DO NOT AWAKEN THEM
After a year working in a women’s shelter I think my biggest issue with the anti-domestic violence movement as it stands is: All these models and programs are kind of built around the assumption that everyone involved knows how to have happy, healthy, respectful relationships, and resolve conflicts peacefully, and they just… choose not to, for some weird reason.
Whereas my lived experience was that healthy relationships, problem-solving, and conflict management are skills that a lot of people never learn during critical developmental periods in childhood, and if we want to solve the problem, we have to get involved in the intensive work to teaching them to adults.
And in my opinion, this view doesn’t let abusers off the hook. It’s the opposite.
We used to assume that abusers could behave decently if they wanted, but just chose not to, so if we yelled at them enough, or if they just wanted to hard enough, they would. (Or at least, that’s what abuser intervention looked like under the Duluth model)
Whereas… at the shelter, I more than once found myself saying, “I don’t think he’s actually capable of being the man you want him to be. And if he decided tomorrow that he was going to change, it would take years. You can’t make your decisions for your immediate future based on what might happen when your baby is in grade school. You have to go off what he’s like now.”
When someone tells me that the person hurting to doesn’t mean to hurt them, they just can’t help it, that… is even more of a reason for them to cut the connection, in my opinion. Because if they’re doing it involuntarily, they don’t know what it is or how to stop.
H3R3 B3 DR4GONS >:]
So one of the Gr8 Frivolous Mysteries of Homestuck, in my experience, has been “How are Dragons Connected to Mind?”, and I think I might have an answer. I’m actually kind of surprised I’ve never seen it suggested before as I’m hardly the first, or even the hundred and first, HS fan to read the DIscworld books.
Anyway, I just finished reading Guards! Guards!(I don’t have much to do out here so I brought a load of books, and I figured I’d get the Vimes stories out of the way), and here is what Terry Pratchett, through the dramatis personae of Tubal de Malachite, had to say about Dragons:
Yette draggons are notte liken unicornes, I willen. They dwelleth in some Realm defined bye thee Fancie of the Wille and, thus, it myte bee thate whomsoever calleth upon them, and giveth them theyre patheway upon thys worlde, calleth theyre Owne dragon of the Mind…
and then there’s a bit about how they may yet be a force for good, given a Summoner of decency, though given that Noble Dragons in that book are an allegory for tyrants and unbound passions, one can draw their own conclusions on the possibility of this.
Like Vimes does :] His response to reading this:
A realm of fancy, Vimes thought. That’s where they went, then. Into our imaginations. And when we call them back we shape them, like squeezing dough into pastry shapes. Only you don’t get gingerbread men, you get what you are. Your own darkness given shape…
And of course, in the book, they lie sleeping in a pocket of L-Space, Library-Space, the distorted and fantastical reality brought into being by the mere existence and agglomeration of Books; quite Literally, a Space of Imagination :] :]
So this isn’t Homestuck itself saying this, obviously, it’s Discworld. But, Homestuck’s a pretty referential work and Jack Noir and his band of miscreant civil servants(one fat, one small, one supernaturally competent) bear certain similarities to the original crew of the Night’s Watch as we meet them(and, being the Guardians of Derse, are themselves a sort of Night’s Watch, in a sense). But but, I don’t know if Hussie ever read the Discworld books and I’ve never seen any obvious evidence from his work that he did so I don’t think you can say, definitively, that he took this idea of Dragons and the Mind from Pratchett and ran with it as an incredibly subtle, plot-insignificant nod to a series of fantasy-satire-but-no-seriously-sincere-fantasy books.
But but but I do think that’s an interesting idea to run with, and one that might occur to anybody, naturally, thinking about Dragons. To make an exceedingly broad and over-confident claim,
Dragons are the Quintessential Unknown-Populating Monster of the “Western Canon” and have been for centuries. Whenever Europe’s looked at someplace it didn’t know and wracked its imagination to fill it with something, giant fire-breathing(or toxin-spewing, or petrifying, or death-gazing) serpents(or birds) have been near the top of the list. In a very real sense it can be said that the natural habitat of Dragons, is the Mind.
Well… the rains gotta stop somewhere
Oh my god, someone has footage of it! I remember one time my dad, lil brother, and I were leaving a Ryan’s. We were waiting for a chance to hop onto the road and in the distance we just saw everything turn grey. We saw it come closer and closer and come to find out it was rain!
It was just a wall of rain – the end of the rain, really. I’ve never seen it again, but it’s so cool to see footage of the edge of rain!
I saw this while I was in Jamaica I was so confused
I wanna witness this one day
i was at the beach during a mild hurricane and the rain kept coming in waves over the ocean, so there’d be a dry break and you could watch the next sheet of rain come towards you
anyway this came up before but for those just tuning in i for one am still not over how lattimore translated οὐλομένη as “sluttish” when it refers to clytemnestra.
it means “accursed” or “destructive” and it’s the same word that famously describes the wrath of achilles in the second line of the iliad
but no, he didn’t think “oh cool, the ghost of agamemnon in the odyssey describes his murder at clytemnestra’s hands as if she were as destructive as achilles’ wrath! let’s make that clear to the reader by using the same word!”– on the contrary, he apparently thought “the murderer is a woman, so there’s only one option here, she’s a slut.”
shame him.
The last time I saw this on my dash it was someone having fun with Achilles’ ‘sluttish wrath’, which I enjoyed, as I have occasionally regretted some of Lattimore’s word choices myself. But this is unfair. Whatever was going through Lattimore’s head when he chose the word ‘sluttish’ here, I’m fairly confident it wasn’t ‘oh, she’s a bad woman, she must be a slut’.
Homer uses οὐλόμενος fourteen times, four in the Iliad and ten in the Odyssey. It describes Achilles’ wrath (I.2), Athene (V.876), Agamemnon (XIV.84), Ate (XIX.92), Clytaemestra (iv.92, xi.410, xxiv.97), Circe’s pig drug (x.394), the armour of Achilles (xi.555), hunger (xv.344, xvii.287, xvii.474), Antinous (xvii.484), and Penelope’s impending marriage to one of the suitors (xviii.273). It’s from the verb ὄλλυμαι ‘die, perish’, which was used in Greek as an insult: ὄλοιο ‘may you die’ is probably the single closest Greek equivalent to our ‘fuck you’, as a catch-all thing to say when you’re angry at someone. So
οὐλόμενος basically means ‘something swearable-at’, ‘something it’s worth saying ὄλοιο to’. This is why it’s often rendered as ‘accursed’ in polite English; I’d argue that a solid rule-of-thumb equivalent is actually ‘fucking’, used as an adjective.
οὐλόμενος in Homer is always spat. When it’s used of Achilles’ wrath, it’s not a term of respect or awe: mighty Achilles’ all-powerful rage! It’s Achilles’ fucking temper, that great disastrous liability that caused thousands of unnecessary deaths. Ares refers to Athene as οὐλομένη just after she gets Diomedes to stab him in Iliad V: that’s not ‘powerful Athene who has conquered me’, it’s ‘fucking Athene!!’. Odysseus is so furious with Agamemnon in XIV that he calls him οὐλόμενος to his face, which is politely turned into ‘accursed fellow!’ but should of course be ‘you fucking idiot!’.
When Agamemnon and Menelaus refer to Clytaemestra as οὐλομένη, they are absolutely not calling her powerful, destructive, ‘strong’. They’re swearing. So why ‘sluttish’, rather than some more gender-neutral term?
Well, Lattimore was clearly alive to the possibility, because when Menelaus calls her οὐλομένη in IV, it’s translated as ‘cursed’. Only Agamemnon calls her ‘sluttish’, and that’s in the Underworld when he’s comparing his homecoming (murdered by his deceitful wife) with the much better homecoming that awaits Odysseus (welcomed by his brave and faithful wife). Lattimore made the calculation, I think, that Agamemnon – a nasty piece of work throughout the Iliad, and arguably that poem’s most genuinely misogynistic character in a not-terribly-inspiring line-up – is exactly the kind of man who would bitterly characterise his wife as a slut for sleeping with somebody else. It’s an unpleasant thing to say, from an unpleasant person. When the much nicer Menelaus talks about the woman who murdered his brother, of course he calls her cursed, because what would you call someone who murdered your brother? ‘Sluttish’ is Lattimore very carefully bringing out the misogyny and pettiness so fundamental to Agamemnon’s character, making sure that even in the Underworld we can’t forget what a dick he is – and perhaps even implying that he’s more upset Clytaemestra cheated on him than that she stabbed him to death. In a more modern translation, ‘that bitch Clytaemestra’ would have a similar effect. It reminds us why Agamemnon had it coming.
Saw this regarding pewdiepie being dropped by disney due to his anti-Semitic jokes recently. And couldn’t have said it better.
This is how disaffected men become radicalised on the internet. This is how 4chan and its ilk became “those places”: because the ‘joking’ became prejudiced circlejerking and that’s how you got hardcore white supremacist websites seeking to recruit from them.
I saw a screenshot of P*wdiepie following an altright blogger on twitter so I’d say this is a likely path for him at this point
ok i am impressed by all of this except starring out the dude’s name. the fuck is the point of that. reblogs don’t show up on search, so it can’t be for that. are you trying to get around someone’s blacklist? or are you just weirdly superstitious about the names of unpleasant people? why do so many people on tumblr do this? it’s bizarre and upsetting.
The other thing about the word “queer” is that almost everyone I’ve seen opposed to it have been cis, binary gays and lesbians. Not wanting it applied to yourself is fine, but I think people underestimate the appeal of vague, inclusive terminology when they already have language to easily and non-invasively describe themselves.
Saying “I’m gay/lesbian/bi” is pretty simple. Just about everyone knows what you mean, and you quickly establish yourself as a member of a community. Saying “I’m a trans nonbinary bi woman who’s celibate due to dysphoria and possibly on the ace spectrum”… not so much. You’re lucky to find anyone who understands even half of that, and explaining it requires revealing a ton of personal information. The appeal of “queer” is being able to identify yourself without profiling yourself. It’s welcoming and functional terminology to those who do not have the luxury of simplified language and occupy complicated identities. *That’s* why people use it – there are currently not alternatives to express the same sentiment.
It’s not people “oppressing themselves” or naively and irresponsibly using a word with loaded history. It’s easy to dismiss it as bad or unnecessary if you already have the luxury of language to comfortably describe yourself.
There’s another dimension that always, always gets overlooked in contemporary discussions about the word “queer:” class. The last paragraph here reminds me of a old quote: “rich lesbians are ‘sapphic,’ poor lesbians are ‘dykes’.”
The reclaiming of the slur “queer” was an intensely political process, and people who came up during the 90s, or who came up mostly around people who did so, were divided on class and political lines on questions of assimilation into straight capitalist society.
Bourgeois gays and lesbians already had “the luxury of language” to describe themselves – normalized through struggle, thanks to groups like the Gay Liberation Front.
Everyone else, from poor gays and lesbians to bi and trans people and so on, had no such language. These people were the ones for whom social/economic assimilation was not an option.
The only language left, the only word which united this particular underclass, was “queer.” “Queer” came to mean an opposition to assimilation – to straight culture, capitalism, patriarchy, and to upper class gays and lesbians who wanted to throw the rest of us under the bus for a seat at that table – and a solidarity among those marginalized for their sexuality/gender id/presentation.
(Groups which reclaimed “queer,” like Queer Patrol (armed against homophobic violence), (Queers) Bash Back! (action and theory against fascism, homophobia, and transphobia), and Queerbomb (in response to corporate/state co-optation of mainstream Gay Pride), were “ultraleft,” working-class, anti-capitalist, and functioned around solidarity and direct action.)
The contemporary discourse around “queer” as a reclaimed-or-not slur both ignores and reproduces this history. The most marginalized among us, as OP notes, need this language. The ones who have problems with it are, generally, among those who have language – or “community,” or social/economic/political support – of their own.
@vaspider if you hadn’t seen this yet I thought you’d want to
Thank you. It’s very good.
Virtue requires a delicate balance.
Balance, and rejection of the extremes of vice. Ironically, in that sense, virtue is its own extreme.
just moving along like everyone else 