Friday Ephemera (687)
Yes, but on the upside, it could’ve been vomit. || Careful now. || Nommy-nommy-nom. || On elephants. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || An archive of LEGO instruction booklets. (h/t, Things) || This guy here: “But I do love all people.” || Oh dear, how embarrassing. || Good to know, I guess. || He does this better than you do. || Best write it down because it will be on the test. || Bouncing booty. || Erotic scenes. || The thrill of Titter magazine, October 1945. (h/t, Elephants Gerald) || “Is it as common an experience to feel like you have water on your wings?” || His name is Catherine. || Kissy face. || It’s a head–scratcher, a mystery to us all. || Hazards of the highway. || The Mechanical Monsters, 1941. || Makeover. || PIN of note. || The progressive retail experience, parts 483, 484, and 485. || Somewhat related. || And finally, though not for the squeamish, and NSFW, the thrill of phalloplasty.
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Admittedly it can be a bit tricky; but Americans seem to think ‘laying’ on the ground applies as much to mammals as it does to birds and reptiles.
What does it say about your rugby club when the No 8 is a harder hitter than the flankers or fullback?
After decades of dismissing biology to see feminists rediscovering it is amusingly disconcerting.
Be patient: They’re mostly English majors, so they’re slow.
What an interesting idea, that fantasy or science fiction consumption is correlated to acceptance of trans philosophy and denial of reality.
Perhaps SFF books should have a warning label, like Tipper Gore pioneered back in the ’80s.
I think it’s more that the fantasy and science fiction fan world tends to have a lot of less well-adjusted people. (And as a consequence it developed a culture of radical tolerance of “different” personalities in which nothing was to be questioned or criticized. And this intensified over time in a positive feedback loop.)
There are lots of people who read fantasy and science fiction who have no connection to that fan world, and I strongly suspect that they are on average more well adjusted. The same might be said of the writers–aside from the personality quirks that all writers tend to have. I have certainly run into many writer comments about the problems of dealing with fans.
From the article:
He’d love to do some literal dragging. A thought: unintentional pun on “drag”?