I’m Sick Of These SJWs Telling Me Not To Buy Bottled Water

The leaves on the wall that are different shades of green and feel leathery and slick and almost oily are the leaves of an ivy, probably Hedera helix.

The expansive bush with arching branches and tight hemispherical clusters of white flowers trailing one by one along each branch is bridal-wreath spirea, Spiraea prunifolia. I love how its leaves resemble fern fronds, or little paws.

it is always an amazing feeling to be out in the world and to remember that you can touch, pick up, and inspect anything for any reason or no reason. almost everything in the world i just look at without touching. but i can touch almost anything

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Straightening the Queer: Gender and Sexuality in Truman Capote’s Novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Blake Edwards’ 1961 Film Adaptation

Straightening the Queer: Gender and Sexuality in Truman Capote’s Novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Blake Edwards’ 1961 Film Adaptation

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from Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (1958)

I don't consider "normal" a desirable or praiseworthy state, so the usage of the word to (ironically) describe unusual obsession tends to rub me the wrong way.

That said, I do think that the application of the term to a person's feelings about minorities is pointing at something real. Having strong and unusual emotions about people you interact with on the basis of their demographics is generally awkward, counterproductive, and destructive of empathy and solidarity, even if the emotions are positive.

Personally, I notice that when I have negative aliefs or inclinations related to a demographic group, they prevent me from perceiving that group as "normal" and "just people" -- I feel like I should "balance it out" with positive evaluations of the group, and end up thinking about whether I am being bigoted more than actually interacting with them as a person.

If you decide how to act towards someone based primarily on their demographics, that is the same mistake as bigots make, even if you treat members of othered minorities unusually well instead of unusually poorly. "Being normal about" a group can mean treating members of that group like normal people and interacting with them without having an unusually strong emotional reaction to their membership in a given demographic.

Hate how people talk about “being normal” about something. That only applies to like, being weirdly obsessed with something unusual. You can tell me to please be normal about riding a train, or watching an Anne Hathaway movie. Things that I KNOW I’m weird about.

If you’re using it to describe whether someone is a bigot or not, it’s completely incoherent. Bigotry is normal to bigots. When I hear someone say “I’m normal about X group” I don’t assume that means they share my beliefs. I assume that means they’re uncritical about their own.

Is there something I’m missing here??

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- fubiz

My copy agrees with blatherby's.

I.i.5 Que Monseigneur Bienvenu Faisait Durer Trop Longtemps Ses Soutanes

How Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassock Last So Long: Wilbour, FMA

Monseigneur's Cassocks Last Too Long: Wraxall

Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last Too Long: Hapgood

How Monseigneur Bienvenu Made his Cassock last Too Long: Walton, Rose

How Monseigneur Bienvenu Made his Cassocks Last So Long: Denny

Monseigneur Bienvenu Made His Cassocks Last For Too Long: Rose

a cellar spider! they like dusty corners and awkwardly hustle themselves away when you touch their webs. their cobwebs are unusually strong and can hold even large insects like stinkbugs and paper wasps! when something threatens them they whirl their long bodies around and it makes their web tremble. they don't like being outside or traveling long distances, so all the cellar spiders in a building are usually descendants of one founder.

the internet also says that they are good at eating other spiders (which is a shame because i also like the other spiders) and that they tolerate each other and visit each other's webs. i guess that makes sense if they're all related. i once saw a mother and her children all sharing the same web, spaced a few inches apart like Finnish people waiting for the bus

I don't know what's happening or if it's a coincidence or what but three times today the spiders in my home have gotten closer to my personal space than they normally do. I like spiders but I think it's best for all of us if we stay out of each other's way, and I thought we were on the same page about this. Hopefully they resume their established habits tomorrow and we can all forget about this little escapade.

do you see the people post, posting the color of the sky it is the shitpost of the people who are not afraid to die

I miss when I would get Tumblr asks that actually said things and weren't just digital panhandling scams.

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