Thestarsarenotyetnamed - All These Constellations Are Alien

What do you think Tolkien's Dwarves' religion looks like?

like Terry Pratchett’s, but taken seriously.

I ramble a lot when trying to explain the eerie and striking energy I get from Hartnell/Troughton Who’s visuals and atmosphere, and what I’m trying to get at is, like… 

Hartnell’s Gallifrey would be Susan’s beautiful description in The Sensorites, and then just purely 1936′s Things to Come…

and 1946′s A Matter of Life and Death (kino)…

… a world of humming mists that had become little more than a museum to history, the Big Bang to Earth to the end, in which one of their number could grumpily sit on massive steps and continue researching his favorite period in un-rewritable, inarguable history… The French Revolution.  

(And then with just a dash, just a DASH, of Maurice Noble.)

And then meanwhile, Troughton’s Gallifrey would be the glimpses we see in The War Games but expanded to the scale of 1966′s The Time Tunnel, in stark black and white. 

fictional character discourse would be more fun if we all internalized the fact that characters are narrative tools, not people. once we have that basic fact down, we can start talking about what story the author is trying to tell using these characters, whether they’re successful, whether the story itself is successful and by what means we are measuring success—which are all really fun and interesting things to discuss! but we simply cannot get to that point unless we first accept that fictional characters simply do not have thoughts, feelings, opinions, or any agency on their own. a fictional character has more in common with the fictional chair theyre sitting on than with a real person

If you are a British/UK citizen, there is currently a petition running (with only 125 signatures) that ends in June 2025. The petition calls for the government to make it so that you do not need a diagnosis of gender dysphoria to change your gender.

If you are a British/UK citizen, and would like to sign:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/701159

If you're not a British/ UK citizen it'd be much appreciated if you could share this post !! :)

I just got a car and started driving again so I was thinking about some safety things for D/deaf/HoH drivers. One huge concern is the possibility of being pulled over and encountering the police.

I have a magnet similar to this on my car in case of that situation

I also keep a notepad and pen in my glove box with my insurance card and registration. I keep everything is in one place so I won’t have to reach around and look like i’m searching for “something”

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I also found this article with more information—

https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2016/deaf-driver-safety-police-kb.html

AARP

Deaf Driver Safety: How to Deal With the Police - Health

Drivers with hearing loss should be extra cautious when pulled over by the police, as a recent tragedy in North Carolina reminds us. We have

Too many deaf folks have been killed by police, already. Stay safe!

(Hearing people are encouraged to reblog)

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The funny thing about human beings is having such a clear, yet vague list of instructions of what you were meant to do. Okay, you are alive, and as a living thing you have the urge to perpetuate life. But there's no real pressure to have your own offspring, oh no. Some people have that urge, a pressing urge to personally breed that won't be satisfied any other way, but many can be happy without it.

Humans survive in colonies where each individual support each other, and if you're happy to just babysit your sister's kids every once in a while, you're fulfilling your duty to the clan and helping it survive, because human parents weren't meant to manage 100% alone. Whatever you can teach your niblings, you were meant to teach.

Look at your hands. Especially, look at your fingers. Every single one of them moves individually, to wherever you wish to place them. Nature does not put energy into things that aren't used or needed, you need to have ten digits to... Yes, what? A bear's paw is only one slab of meat and claws, designed to walk on and slap things to death. What do you have all these individual wigglers for?

You could hold a needle, and sew clothing. You could place them in different locations on a musical instrument. You can do that thing with your finger that makes the love of your life orgasm so hard they go blind for a few seconds. You could hold a brush and paint a picture of the land you call home, or write laws of a land that deserves to be called "home".

Your legs and feet, yes, they were made with only one task in mind. They were made for running. You were built to run. Many things in nature were built to run, really, but those things were made to run hard, and fast. You are not like them. You were built to run and never stop. Your run is slow, it is not agile, it is not even graceful, but it is unyielding. Nothing else on this planet is designed like that, and that is why your ancestors - and their loving aunts and uncles - survived through you, by being unstoppable.

If you look up any instruction manual online, on "how to survive an [animal] attack", it will tell you, do not run. You are not fast enough to escape them. You were not built to outrun things. You were built to chase things, and that is your key. Once you have chosen a target, death by you is inevitable.

Nature is no fairy godmother that hands out frivolous gifts. Nature is the hard-budget shift supervisor that gives you the exact tools - the only tools, but nothing but these tools - that you must use to survive. Your yearning for a community to provide for - a found family, if your biological one happened to be shit. Your hands, to make things with, and an abstract mind to create things to make. And an unstoppable determination to do things.

You were given nothing frivolous. Everything in your arsenal are tools that you not only can, but must use. Do your duty as a living thing.

King Arthur Baking

Tips for baking with arthritis and other hand-related chronic pain

With some changes to techniques, a careful selection of kitchen tools, and tips from fellow bakers, the joy of baking can live on.

I luckily haven't had to deal with much chronic pain or hand pain yet, especially with regards to baking (crochet is another story). That said, these look like some pretty solid tips! There's also some in the comments section.