Author: Goldpanner

ciphercoyote:

kitswulf:

isaacmemes:

ghettoinuyasha:

fckin:

I’m thinking about her

forbidden fruit

Why do grown ass adults want to eat Tide pods so much?

Because a ton of the visual/olfactory/textural sensory information these pods give me the match nutritionally-dense fruit. It’s got the oleic gleam of something high-fat like an avocado, but bright carotenoid-rich coloration like a berry that wants to be eaten by red-seeing primates and birds. It tends to smell sweet and slightly floral, enhancing that effect. Similarly, when you hold it, it is quite dense (denser than water), but very soft and liquid, once again reaffirming that this “fruit” has either high sugar or high fat content and almost no cellulose to it.

As a result, within me is a less-clever monkey just screaming to eat this delicious fruit in my hand about to go into the laundry, and it does in fact take willpower to tell him he’s a stupid monkey and this is a bubble of foul-tasting poison. But every time I do laundry, this fucking limbic monstrosity rises again and assures me it’s basically like a cherry but Even Better. I have legitimately debated just biting down on one in the hopes of inducing a deterrent memory to forestall this urge in the future, but that’s what my goddamn mammal-brain wants me to fucking do and I refuse to let it win.

Human Brain: Don’t eat the posion pod its fucking posion
Monkey Brain: Eat the fruit pod its fruit
Lizard Brain: The Washing Machine Is Vibrating Give It The Sex
Fish Brain: Climb inside the washing machine it is safe.

gothhabiba:

imo–emotional labour is Real but we need to consider it as very closely married (ha) to domestic, reproductive, & sexual labour, and we need to consider all of these forces for how they work to economically disempower women, as well as for how they form the basis for capitalist exploitation of men in the workplace (it’s a lot easier to work long hours at a gruelling or mind-numbing job if you have a wife taking care of all of the cooking & cleaning and also soothing the psychic wounds inflicted by a day in the workplace–think Victorian “angel in the home” archetype), & how this has laid the groundwork for women’s labour in the workplace to be seen as merely supplementary to that of the men they are surely married to, & therefore worth less.

these critiques are all fundamentally & unavoidably anti-capitalist ones. it is an act of bad faith to take a critique such as the one inherent in the term “emotional labour” and subsume it back into capitalist thought by acting as if emotional work (including emotional work in relationships that are not exploitative, which it is a mistake to call “emotional labour”) is purely transactional, or even has a monetary value. one of capitalism’s major functions is to isolate us from each other & to limit our imaginations such that we see everything in terms of capital, even our emotions and relationships to each other, and some of what people mistakenly call “emotional labour” is clearly an example of that.

anarchyisfunandfree:

contemporary-petroleuse:

The idea that hive minds in sci-fi have queens or some other central apparatus like a mother ship makes no sense at all. That completely defeats the purpose of a hive mind, which is decentralization. 

It speaks to kind of society we live in where it’s generally assumed that unity is achieved through domination only. 

The way we talk about bees and ants suffers from this too. The queen in an ant colony or beehive plays an important role but doesn’t do Any actual leadership. All the coordination bees and ants do is completely decentralized. I’ve always thought it was funny how much people project our society onto nature.