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RWBY, Ascendance of a Bookworm, Pandora Hearts, Vanitas no Carte, D.Gray-man, FMA, Akatsuki no Yona, Carry On/Simon Snow, Riordanverse, and other random fandoms. Also @lunadreamsofstars with an Art blog @salty-luna-art. Enjoy.

 

vitariesocks:

probablyasocialecologist:

datasoong47:

In banning trans women from chess the insane anti-trans lobby has fully revealed their hand. They don't just believe that sex is a non-material immutable binary, they also think that women are intellectually inferior. Which is what we've been saying they believe from the start  — Katy Montgomerie 🦗 (@KatyMontgomerie) August 16, 2023ALT

Important to note that ALL trans people are targeted by this ruling. Trans men will be stripped of all chess titles won, which can only be returned to them by “changing the gender back to a woman” (a direct quote from the ICF’s ruling). ALL transgender chess players will be marked as trans in their files.

Not trying to deflect from the blatant and virulent transmisogyny present here. Just giving a bit more info.

Erin Reed did a good breakdown of the ruling here:

zekthesans:

spnjohnlocked:

hiddenlookingglass:

rhube:

Misery reprieve today brought to you by Chi Nguyen, her inseparable bowls, and the people on Twitter trying to help her separate them:

Twitter, I need your help. I stacked a ceramic bowl into another one while doing dishes and now they are stuck. How do you remove the smaller bowl without breaking both of them?  Why am I so invested? I’ve tried to fix this for 2 days, and I cannot give up now. pic.twitter.com/ONfuw7L9dH  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 6, 2022ALT
Things I've tried so far and no dice: -warm soapy water  -hot water on outer bowl, cold water + ice on inner bowl  -oil on edges -microwave -aggressive shaking -WD-40  Will try next: -hair dryer  -freezer then running hot water  Thank you for being as invested in this as I am.  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 6, 2022ALT
Update: Bowls are currently in the freezer and thanks to the replies, I will not be running hot water on them!  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 6, 2022ALT
Still no dice:  - Freezer, then cold water - Freezer, then rubber mallet  - Passive-aggressive comments to either/both bowls - Tap lightly onto the table  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 6, 2022ALT
Still very stuck: - Cards, toothpicks, and straws not getting through to break the seal - Water submergence   Up next: - Long game of gravity - Dishwasher  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 6, 2022ALT
Update: Still stuck - upside down, twisting inner bowl, tapping outer bowl - upside down, submerged under water, tapping outer bowl with mallet - hot out of the dishwasher - googled autoclave  Let us all rest tonight knowing these bowls will still be together tomorrow.  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 7, 2022ALT

Featuring an array of helpful suggestions, such as this, from Vladimir Pukin:

Your problem is that both bowls are ceramic.  1) Ceramic doesn’t flex.  2) The expansion coefficient of ceramics is so low that heat & cold have almost no affect.  Considering this I suggest following the advice of several others — invert the bowls onto a dry towel & wait.  — Vladimir Pukin (@4realVPutin) June 6, 2022ALT

The house spouse’s favourite, duct tape:

🤣what a thread...  *get some duct tape, no cheap stuff. Make 5 loops. Place them around the inner bowl finger width apart Place the outer bowl in a basin of water to prevent it fm dropping/ cracking Stick fingers to tape. Twist n turn while pulling up compressed air in between pic.twitter.com/imsZVMKmNj  — matt zarella (@MiasmicMatt) June 7, 2022ALT

And probably the most helpful:

Have you tried unplugging & restarting the bowls?  Smoking the bowls?  Try setting them in a lake: if one separates and rises to the top, it’s a witch. If one or both sink, it was innocent. If one or both come back to you, it was meant to be yours.  — Robert G. Callahan, II - you should follow me (@RCallahanWaco) June 7, 2022ALT

And did you know that if you just paste a Twitter link in, on mobile, Tumblr now just displays the friggin’ tweet? Awesome!

In the last 10 hours: - upside down, soap around the edges, overnight submergence - made self-deprecating joke about the sunk cost fallacy (not one chuckle) - thread, paper, knife around the edges  Still stuck.  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 7, 2022ALT
Update:  - electric toothbrush  - mini plunger (no go, circumference is bigger than smaller bowl) - compassionately, but firmly threw bowls onto pillow - no easy way to say this: smaller bowl has a chip now  Still stuck. pic.twitter.com/5diGPZvhTy  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 8, 2022ALT
OMG WE DID IT!  Last 20 hours: - upside down, on a towel, undisturbed - gave to toddler (clear mandate that bowls must stay together) - suction cup - small bowl asks to not give up on it now - banged on carpet  UNSTUCK!!!! pic.twitter.com/zllvidh07H  — Chi Nguyễn (@whatchidid) June 8, 2022ALT

You guys, it’s been solved!!! The bowl is unstuck!

When all else fails, send in the cavalry (the cavalry being toddlers)

judas-jpg:

fujiwaradivebar:

furrama:

fawkes-rinzler:

imlizy:

today im thinking about the huge buff bread guy from kikis delivery service. highly underrated guy

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Genuinely just a good man. Wife adopts teenage witch that needs a place to stay in the city? Sure. Even though you got a kid on the way? That’s fine. Cat too? Love cats. 

My favorite moment with him is when he goes to get some prepped baking sheets and he does this fancy twirl with them in front of Jiji. Like, there’s no other people in the room, he does this to impress a cat.

I don’t think he ever says more than a whole word the entire movie, and I still love him more than most Disney princes based on this one moment alone.

And the part where he wanted to surprise Kiki by making that beautiful elaborate sign OUT OF BREAD to advertise her business and he was all anxious for her to get home and see it

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But then when he sees her coming he gets all bashful and runs away 😭

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the most underrated thing about the ghibli movies is how deeply they are love stories to working people, to the small folk, to moments of love and kindness. its not just about magic, many movies are about magic and fairytales. Its not only about the people in the stories, but about stories in the people. And they are just loveable.

mikkeneko:

omegasmileyface:

attackradish:

coolguycy:

Girlboy with a he/him pin on one sleeve and a she/her pin on the other. Two people sitting on either side of her aggressively correcting each other on his pronouns

*her pronouns

*his pronouns

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