A Poli For You

My wife and I have a little game we play called "Speaking From Ignorance."

To play Speaking From Ignorance, all you need is a phone with a voice recorder, and another person who knows considerably more or considerably less about a topic than you do. The topic can be anything: from "how to bake a quiche" to "what happens in the Peter Jackson Hobbit movies" to "who is Florence Pugh" to "how does the traveling salesman problem work." All that matters is that one of you has a firm grasp on the material, and one of you absolutely the fuck does not.

Then the person who knows about the topic turns on the recorder, and says to the person who knows barely anything: "Hey - tell me everything you think you know about [X]."

The speaker is then not allowed to ask any questions. Nor is the expert allowed to volunteer any information. The expert is allowed to pipe up with a faintly incredulous "Oh--really? Do you--do you think so?" from time to time, but for the most part, the expert's job is just to sit there and make encouraging sounds while the speaker digs their own grave.

This is never not funny.

The reason you record it is because, very often, the first thing the speaker wants to do after finishing the recording is find out how you actually make a quiche, or whatever. Then you both get to go back and listen to how wrong they were.

We have a small library now of Speaking From Ignorance recordings, and I'm going to be listening to them until I'm eighty.

I just learned about the movie KNIGHTRIDERS and I'm happy something like that exists.

KNIGHTRIDERS OMG.

Knightriders is the kind of movie that upon first look makes you think this is exactly the vision me and the other 9 year old neighborhood kids had for ourselves when we formed our gang of bicycle sorcerers.

And then you watch it and SURPRISE it’s Actually Good. Because it’s a George Romero movie about capitalism vs. art. And it’s the only movie I know of that manages to pull off Drama at the Ren Faire while making an amazing statement on artistic integrity, family, and friendship.

Also this:

Oooh, doggy!!! I'll bring games and snacks!!! Whooo likes candy??

@deadandgaysetanta @sherikookami @redkarmakai

WE’RE DOING ANOTHER MOOT SLEEPOVER TAG IS:

Moot sleepover <3

(the heart as well)

GRAB YOUR MUTUALS AND LETS GO!!

@discarded-like-your-roses @seagull9111

LETS GOOOOO !!!!

A phrase that’s always stuck with me was my friend Lia way back in middle school talking about sleeping too close to someone else. It was a big negative for her when she thought about cuddling, “You’re just breathing in their out air.”

I cannot explain why those words carved themselves deeply across my brain but they did.

When I’m too close to people and I can feel their breath I’ll deliberately breathe out while thinking, I don’t want your out air.

It is an act of love for me to be close enough to someone that I don’t mind breathing in their out air.

Every person I have told this phrase to has come back and informed me later that it lodged deeply into their psyche too. So here you go, Tumblr. Out air. You get to think about it now, too.

Alright, attempt #2:

We got a three-way tie last time, so I'm hoping this one is gonna gain a bit more traction! So, for the second time: who do you all want to see first?

@deadandgaysetanta @queen-of-hobgobblers @redkarmakai

An aroace pride flag?

PERRY THE AROACE PRIDE FLAG??

I seem to have underestimated how difficult it is to write a movie script. This will not be done by Wednesday

So, I officially reached 150 pages... I will post the first chapter, but should I post it completely as is, no beta read, no edits, or should i go in and refine it?

@deadandgaysetanta @queen-of-hobgobblers @redkarmakai @sherikookami

Prosthetics and limb differences emojis!

A person with a prosthetic leg that goes up to their hip and includes a strap around their other hip. The rest of the emojis involving prosthetic legs have the same pose, which is casual and involves a stance with one leg held out.

A person with a running blade and prosthetic leg that goes up to their hip, with a strap around their other hip.

A person with a prosthetic leg that goes over the knee.

A person with a running blade and prosthetic leg that goes over the knee.

A person with a prosthetic leg that goes up to the knee

A person with a running blade and prosthetic leg that goes up to the knee.

A person standing with one hand and on their hip, standing on one leg and holding the other leg out, which ends at the ankle. The next two have the same pose.

A person standing and holding one leg out which ends below the knee.

A person standing and holding one leg out which ends below the hip.

Ok, so I have feelings and I need to express.

Ok, so, Kitty Pryde, AKA Katherine Anne Pryde, started in the Claremont era of X-Men. When I first saw her, I was immediately obsessed. I've always liked the X-Men because of what they represent, but haven't gone too far in because X-Men is usually pretty dark and depressing. But I, a little ten year old Jewish girl, came across Kitty right when I was starting to get unsure of who I was. And then here was this hero, aroundy age, who acted like me, looked like me, and believed in the same God I did. When I read the holiday issue I was so excited because they had included Kitty in her traditions. They had a chanukiah (the holiday menorah) and they explained the traditions and it wasn't just a chanukiah thrown in the corner of a panel. I felt so seen. Then they started to go dark. I don't know when, because like I said, I am woefully confused with the current X-Men timelines, but they started to turn her into this assassin. They gave her tattoos(which, btw, the Torah has always been against tattoos and Kitty has mentioned before her distaste for them...) They have her killing, which is so far from the kitty I found, the kitty I idolized. She never killed, she was snarky and smart and strong and she was friends with killers and accepted them but SHE NEVER KILLED. Because she was 13! And she grew up around Logan and they got so close and it was always that she knew what he did, so she let him do the killing and she got the info. Just because you say she was upset about it doesn't erase both the actual act and the complete and utter character assassination. This, to me, is about the same as giving Batman(Bruce Wayne's Batman specifically) a gun. It's wrong. Also, they gave her a cool ass look, made me have hope she was gonna have a dope ass pirate look (which totally fits the Jewish theme, the amount of Jewish pirates is kind of astounding. If anyone wants a separate post on that let me know please:]) and then I read some panels and they gave her the sick coat... And a fucking unitard. A corset belt. With a unitard. She went from this:

To this:

It's like. Bruh. The hell is that?! Talk about a downgrade! Also, that quote, in the panel? I *know* that Logan would be so upset at this because of how the two of them interact. They either have a older-younger sibling relationship, or it's parentally mentor-mentee. Either way, Logan never wanted Kitty to kill, and it sickens me to see this. That's all, sorry for the rant