Life's Laughables
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watching a movie at home circa like, 2001 was like
- put your TV on channel 2 so the VCR will work
- open up the clamp shell case that held the VHS that has that satisfying crrlikkkkkk
- put in the movie
- gdi it has to be rewound
- press STOP and then rewind because its so much faster that way
- start the movie and it takes a few seconds for the movie to actually start cause you rewound to the VERY beginning
- FBI will get you if you illegally distribute or exhibit this movie
- and then. because you forgot that movies are always so much louder than TV
COMING SOON TO OWN ON VIDEO AND DVD
- QUICK LOWER THE VOLUME LOWER THE VOLUME LOWER THE VOLUME OH FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Okay crisis averted.
- although. these ads are kind of quiet. a little hard to hear…..
- better turn up the volume…
THX
Posts you can hear
Posts you can feel in your soul 😭😭
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I spent so much of my life romanticizing the Great and Powerful Enormity of the Sea, reading about the salt and the sweat of the sailors straining to haul the sails or anchor while dreading the monsters in the cold, icy deep fathoms below…and now you tell me that a fathom is only 6 feet deep -
Six feet is still more than enough for a grave.
Hi, that is the most metal addition you could have possibly made to this post
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People with low spoons, someone just recommended this cookbook to me, so I thought I’d pass it on.
I always look at cookbooks for people who have no energy/time to do elaborate meal preparations, and roll my eyes. Like, you want me to stay on my feet for long enough to prepare 15 different ingredients from scratch, and use 5 different pots and pans, when I have chronic fatigue and no dishwasher?
These people seem to get it, though. It’s very simple in places. It’s basically the cookbook for people who think, ‘I’m really bored of those same five low-spoons meals I eat, but I can’t think of anything else to cook that won’t exhaust me’. And it’s free!
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“We chose the term “asexual” to describe ourselves because both “celibate” and “anti-sexual” have connotations we wished to avoid: the first implies that one has sacrificed sexuality for some higher good, the second that sexuality is degrading or somehow inherently bad. “Asexual”, as we use it, does not mean “without sex” but “relating sexually to no one”. This does not, of course, exclude masturbation but implies that if one has sexual feelings they do not require another person for their expression. Asexuality is, simply, self-contained sexuality.”
— The Asexual Manifesto, Lisa Orlando and Barbara Getz, 1972
Note the date, people:
That’s 1972
29 years before AVEN was started online,
and 47 years before the present.
And that’s only the date that Manifesto was written, so asexuals as members of a community must have existed at least some time before that.
So, no: we are not just Tumblr trenders. Get out of here with that.
supporting my asexual friends and foes by rebbloging this
It’s 50 years this month since the first version of the Asexual Manifesto was written. Aces have been writing about our experiences under this name for at least half a century. We are not an internet fad.
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Did you know that leeches were once used to predict storms? Well, a tornado warning just dropped and my squad is climbing
My dad is a meteorologist and he has never once warned me about an incoming storm. My leeches, however……
*urgently* Lads, the leechometre is at 12 bong, I repeat, 12 bong!
“tempest prognosticator” absolutely sounds like some kind of arcane device a wizard would have lying around in his workshop
It would also probably have leeches in it.
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Or just go to browse and hang out! I promise it will be inspiring :)
It’s also a lot easier to do research in a library; sure, it’s one thing to have internet access, but it’s another to have wifi access to databases and books on the topic an approximate two minute walk away.
Plus, librarians are masters of sifting through information to find what you’re actually looking for.
That’s why it’s called a Master’s Degree in LIbrary Information Systems, and most fully-accredited librarians across the country are required to have one.
And even if they don’t? They’re experienced at picking through various resources to find what you actually want to know.
Also, Librarians can never be replaced by AI in our lifetime, because, well… *gestures at the shhtshow of AI systems’ increasingly wonky & wrongful responses to queries*
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[Video: a construction worker shoveling dirt as children on the other side of the fence yell “YAY!” every time dirt is moved.]
Often I am struck with the child like desire to just dig a hole. Kids love to dig holes.
Kids have a pure admiration for blue collar workers. Garbage truck drivers, construction workers, fire fighters, etc. They appreciate and respect these people more than grown ass adults do.
Cause kids see big trucks and machines and the awesome people that know how to use it. Their mentality is “Parents don’t let me play in dirt and this guys gets PAID to play in dirt”
And that’s a good thing. We need to hold on to that and foster it in kids. That all labor is valuable and that there is no shame in doing it.
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Hey, fellow fantasy nerds, I invite you to vibe along to this lesser known early 2000s fantasy banger
Don’t mind me, I’m just getting emotional about the way trans elder and renn faire musician Alexander James Adams conceptualizes his relationship to his pre-transition self, Heather Alexander:
“Heather was a changeling. In 2006 she was called back to faerieland and Alec, the child in whose place she had originally been left, was released after beating the faerie queen in a fiddling contest. Thus, Alec now carries on Heather’s musical legacy as her appointed heir.”
God…. good for him :’)
This tag is the highest honor I could ever receive.
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YEAH!!!!!
Okay, here I am with my promised addition:
Here’s a remake of the aforementioned fantasy banger, done post-transition with his band Tricky Pixie (SJ Tucker and Betsy Tinney)
And my favorite cut of the same…
Here they are doing the ballad of Tam Lin!
And the song version of Alec winning his legendary fiddle duel with the faerie queen — which has WON its first round in this marvelous “obscure song bracket” so please do come back to vote for it in round 2, as well as Winter’s Tooth, which has also won its first round!! (and my further recommendations and infodumps on these posts)
Also OP congrats on choosing perhaps my FAVORITE picture ever to illustrate this perfect post, but please also look at these
If you look up “trans joy” in the dictionary you get these pictures of Alexander James Adams
(yes, these are the same picture but look again – no they are not! HE HAS AT LEAST TWO DIFFERENT VESTS LIKE THIS, IS THIS NOT THE ICONIC BEHAVIOR OF ALL TIME )
@lavendroused Nah, it’s real sweet to have this post from 2021 suddenly explode to the point where it’s reaching the OG fans. So glad that y'all exist and are thriving and spend your energy loving and supporting this guy <3 Also I had no idea there was a post transition version of the Mushroom Song, so that’s a real treat!
I’m pretty sure Alec used to live in the area I did, because I feel like I heard him (pre-transition) at like EVERY vaguely renn/medieval event I went to (and there were a LOT)
The only thing I was sad about when I saw he had inherited Heather’s position is that I don’t think he can tell his “Heather on the phone” joke using the song “Heather on the Moors” anymore, and I literally laughed at that one every time.
(but the March of Cambreadth is my true banger favorite)
