“The double agent for the patriarchy is basically just a woman who perhaps unknowingly is still putting the patriarchal narrative out into the world. Is still benefitting off, profiting off and selling a patriarchal narrative to other women. But it’s a wolf in sheep’s clothing. You know, just because you look like a woman, we trust you and we think you’re on our side, but you are selling us something that really doesn’t make us feel good. You’re selling us an ideal, a body shape, a problem with our wrinkles, a problem with ageing, a problem with gravity, a problem with any kind of body fat. You’re selling us self-consciousness. The same poison that made you clearly develop some sort of body dysmorphia or facial dysmorphia, you are now pouring back into the world. You’re like recycling hatred. I find that really dangerous and I think it’s unacceptable and I don’t care if you’re a woman. I think constructive criticism is needed for anyone to ever evolve. For our gender to evolve we need some sort of constructive criticism. As long as we do it in a somewhat careful way. (…) So many of the worst things in the world have happened motivated by greed. And I just don’t think that’s an acceptable excuse anymore. How much money do you need? Really how much money do you need? How much money do any of these huge influencers who are worth millions or billions sometimes… why are they still promoting appetite-suppressant lollipops to young girls? And it’s not a fight against obesity. They have young, already slim girls, in their adverts for Flat Tummy company, this company that are absolutely everywhere, and they’re even being advertised in some of the most mainstream magazines, women’s magazines, and they have a billboard in Times Square. The money is built on the blood and tears of young women who believe in them, who follow them, who look up to them like the big sister they never had. It’s so upsetting and it feels like such a betrayal against women.”
My hip new communications theory is actually that millennial/gen z/internet native humor is so weird and abstract because of the sheer amount of words we’re exposed to daily. we’ve heard a lot of words in a lot of different orders so if you wanna get a reaction out of us you usually gotta put words in an order we haven’t seen before
So like normally structured jokes aren’t as funny anymore but “lemon lime spine” is a one-hit K.O.
so as this post says, if you’r finding your blog is all jumbled, old posts popping up to the front, new posts not showing up at all, etc it is because of those posts being flagged and then unflagged. all you have to do is open them to edit and save them again and they’ll go back.
i just wanted to make this separate post to add that once you do that all your new posts will go back to being visible at the top of your blog as they should be i just did it and now everything’s fine on my blog.
Okay so you also have to go through and do this with every post that appeared between the one from ages ago flagging back up and when your new posts stopped showing up, because it turns out my new posts were being reblogged to my blog, just to page 5 for some reason while the 4 pages of posts between the one I reblogged a year ago randomly appearing on my dash and when my new posts stopped updating stayed stuck on pages 1-4 until I edited them and they went back to where they were supposed to be.
I think the reason I love DnD wizards, aside from enjoying the mechanics of playing them, is that, in RP terms, wizards can be people with no real talent or innate special ability beyond a sheer determination to learn magic the hard way.
Wizards are really the only class who prioritize the “Intelligence” score, which in DnD terms is more about acquired knowledge than any kind of inherent ability. They have no great athletic ability, like the martial classes. They’re unique among all DnD spellcasters – they aren’t grappling with and trying to control great power they’d have no matter what (like a sorcerer) or receiving power from a mighty force beyond themselves that demands responsibility and devotion (like a cleric or a warlock).
Wizards seek out power. Which, in DnD worlds, is actually kind of a nuts thing to do. So it’s always fun to figure our why your wizard character would even want to learn all these arcane secrets. Why they would work so, so hard at it, in spite of all the danger. Wizards can be characters with no “talent” or “special skill” beyond a work ethic and determination to try their hardest.
I just…love the RP possibilities that opens up. That’s why wizards are my favorite class. And also probably why I gravitate toward loving wizard characters in DnD shows and podcasts.
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