vertexarray 20h ago • 100%
You need to try introducing them to theory in an innocuous and emotionally unchallenging way. Try playing Immortal Technique on your phone speaker
vertexarray 5d ago • 100%
What a loss.
vertexarray 2w ago • 100%
I check in with Maximilian Hess from the FPRI every now and then. I don't think he's right about most things but he's a true believer and very invested in what he believes.
vertexarray 2w ago • 100%
He's a great character designer and illustrator. I remember watching yoruichi get knocked out of a "hottest anime babe" bracket challenge in the quarterfinals and thinking what are they teaching these kids on tumblr huh
vertexarray 4w ago • 100%
It is a testament to the power of bell witch that I feel bad about pausing them
vertexarray 1mo ago • 100%
it's actually not possible for a man to look sexier than majima washed up on the beach, face down in the sand, while still wearing trousers and shoes
vertexarray 1mo ago • 100%
What's the figure peering over the shoulder of india and africa
vertexarray 1mo ago • 100%
Incredibly surreal to run into someone who knew of heaven will be mine but only through the halimede acct. Play the game!
vertexarray 1mo ago • 100%
Finally someone's talking sense
vertexarray 1mo ago • 100%
heaven is a trip!
vertexarray 1mo ago • 100%
Bro...
vertexarray 1mo ago • 100%
they don't have to say anything i'm getting on no matter what
vertexarray 2mo ago • 100%
Dickwaving diplomacy. Magical thinking
vertexarray 2mo ago • 100%
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Hello all, my good friend has been trying to get out of her disastrous living situation for several years now and the prospects are nonexistent. She's trans and without family in her life. In her words: >My roommate situation is bad. Desperately bad. My name has become a curse, one of them panics about literally the fact that I exist, and the other credibly talks about the options for physically disposing of me on a regular basis, out in the desert where half the strangers I meet bring up how 'the gays are our misfortune' unprompted. Doubt I can stick around here long, and I'm too crippled+isolated to handle being homeless again. I know what it takes having done it a few times in my teens and twenties, and I know that, due to recent injuries, I don't have it right now. No point in suffering through it to buy myself a couple weeks of precarious slow death, when there's nothing waiting on the other side, and this situation has a possibly literal deadline well before the end of the year. > >I can afford to rent a place, but I need a co-signer on the rental agreement, or somebody in the city (los angeles-ish) with a spare room. See; I have real money, but it isn't banked, and real money isn't real. Only hypothetical money is real. So I need a US resident with apparent income (before expenses?) over ~4.5k and social credit score over ~720 who can be a guarantor to convince a landlording company to let me pay their generous fee to not social murder me. Or someone with a room to rent near los angeles, but I have no idea how decompressing from this is gonna look and I'm terrified of fucking up a roommate situation before I have some time to ditch a few generally maladaptive coping mechanisms I've picked up here. > >if I get a kitchen, I'll be using it to feed people and organize at least a couple dozen hours a week; really all I want to do after dealing with this shit. I have some really cool ideas, but I can't really do any of them here. > >small warning: it varies from company to company, but the application process is crazy invasive, not every company is the same, but they seem to be getting worse. the worst I've found asked for access to bank accounts and a background check, but several months of statements submitted to the property landlord company's background check subcontractor seems to be the norm. I'd co-sign for her myself if I were a US resident, but I'm not. I don't think she'll survive this year without a new place to live. If you think you might be in a position to help, send me a dm.
vertexarray 2mo ago • 100%
One of the reasons Unjust Depths is good is because the author is capable of handling both a grotesque realism of violence and a libidinal fantasy of stylised violence.
vertexarray 2mo ago • 100%
I'm mostly just inferring from the article. From the fifth paragraph:
At least in Europe people started to get way more thingy about what the Church called the “sins of the tongue” in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
For the church to get thingy about sins of the tongue, the bible probably must be able to be interpreted in such a way as to prohibit them:
The north wind brings forth rain;
And a backbiting tongue, an angry countenance.
Proverbs 25:23
He who goes about as a gossip reveals secrets;
Therefore do not associate with a gossip
Proverbs 20:19
There's also room for such interpretations in the Qur'an:
O you who have believed, avoid much [negative] assumption. Indeed, some assumption is sin. And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is Accepting of repentance and Merciful.
Surah Hujurat Ayat 12
It reminds me of usury — the texts of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam can be read to prohibit it, but whether it's read that way and whether the prohibition is enforced is a matter for religious officials.
vertexarray 2mo ago • 100%
Judaism, in text, takes up a similar position where gossip, even true gossip, is prohibited unless someone's immediate life or livelihood are at stake.
As this article makes clear, Christianity already had the prohibition against sins of the tongue, it took the Fourth Lateran Council for the church to get serious about it. I'm curious about the comparative social/structural history of prohibitions on gossip compared between different religious communities, when and why they're emphasized, that sort of thing — was there a specific pattern of behaviour reported to Innocent III that led him to get serious about confession, was he specifically running down gossipmongers or was it just that the list of what should be confessed comported to what's in the text?
vertexarray 2mo ago • 100%
at that stage of having a cold where I feel like my body is about to tear itself apart like Kusanagi Motoko
vertexarray 2mo ago • 100%
(canadianly) FUCKIN RIGHT
Kaguya/Mokou my beloved
spinning this one again
Forgot to post this again this summer
White boy sings more Sapphically than any man before him, industry stunned, women swoon
folks, it slaps
Look At Me With Those Eyes — it's a 1-volume BL manga with more going on in it than an episode of SVU. Very funny, very charming
A gag doujin about Flandre transforming into a dog
Public domain baby. Fill in those gaps in your sfx library.
What if Fujiwara no Mokou went to Qud and met the meanest imaginable centuar lesbian chef? Folks, it's a Touhou/Caves of Qud crossover fic. It's about cooking, among other things. Mind the tags.
Make Godot maps in Trenchbroom or whatever else. There's a 3.x version available as well.