I'd Like A Woman In My Life Who Is Like That.

I'm honestly just fascinated with having an elf-like lifespan. But I think even a 100 year life extension would be good for the human race. I feel like people make so many rash decisions because 70-80 years is a short time.

It seems like people only become wise when they are 60+, by which time you have only 10-20 years left. Imagine if you were wise and still had most of your life ahead of you.

Thoughts on Life Extension

I think the human race needs an additional 100 years of (healthy) lifespan. I honestly think it'd solve some of our problems and probably make us chill out in general.

The pressure to have children by 20 to 30 in most places would no longer exist. That is something you don't have to worry about until you're 50 or 60, by the time you are more wise to the ways of the world and you can avoid being trapped in a terrible relationship for the sake of the children.

The young would be much more reluctant to take part in wars, as there is far more life ahead of them. Artists and writers would have more time to create closer to their true potential. There'd be less reason to have a midlife crisis and the mad drive to accumulate enough savings for retirement would not be as pressing.

The memory of historical failures would stay around for far longer. Those who lived through the horrors of industrialisation, slavery and totalitarian movements would not let the young make the same mistakes. People would be harder to fool. Imagine if a politician tried to slag off unions in front of voters who were child labourers in 1900. Politicians will take long-term threats more seriously, because there's a good chance they'll be seeing the consequences.

At the same time, accidental death would be more frightening. We'd probably be a more cautious species - the effects of this would flow into many areas. Technological progress would slow from a furious boil to a reasonable simmer as society would have more time to think about the New Things critically and test them with greater rigour. Think of how many lives have been lost over the decades because we were blazé about Asbestos.

At the same time, there might be greater hierachy related to age. The young might have less of a say in society, as they are encouraged to gain more knowledge and experience first. Those who are close to the end of their lifespan might be treated worse, because this is a more distant prospect to most people. Though it might not necessarily turn out that way; since people live longer they are more likely to become disabled by accidents, so society puts more resources toward ensuring the disabled and eldrely can live full lives.

I HAVE MICROSOFT POWERPOINT AND I'M NOT AFRAID TO USE IT

Until a year ago, spite was my strongest emotion, but I have managed to work on that.

Another one of these quizzes, which I shall answer, dear mutuals.

a sapphic ask game for ur sapphic ask game needs

are you beating the uhaul allegations? (be honest.) - n/a

do you identify as butch, femme, masc, and/or gnc? or none of the above? - I fit into the butch stereotypes (either in a suit or a little dishevelled) but it's nothing set in stone.

how did you realize you were sapphic? - since I started transitioning at 14.

who is/was your most intense sapphic crush? - All of them. It takes me 1.5-2 years to recover from a crush.

do you consider yourself a dyke? - absolutely

are you good at picking up on when people are flirting with you, or do you tend to be more oblivious? - I'm fairly good, though I'd say I have had more false alarms than missed signals.

have you ever crushed on a straight girl? - many times

what's your relationship status? are you happy about it? - single. yes. I don't want a relationship now.

do you have a "type"? if so, what is it? - The only thing they have in common is I like intelligent women. In terms of body type/superifical characteristics I have no preference whatsoever. I have found myself attracted to just about every body-type so far.

did you do anything gay as a kid that makes sense when you look back on your childhood? - Everything.

what are some good sapphic songs/music artists? - Huh. I genuinely don't know.

good sapphic books/poems/authors? - Marina Tsvetaeva and Katherine Mansfield. I read a series called the Sun and the Void which turned out to be very sapphic to my surprise.

good sapphic movies/shows? - Sadly, I haven't seen any.

list five things you look for in a partner, or five things you love about your current partner(s). -

are you the gay cousin? - My siblings are all gay/bi and I have at least one gay cousin. I am just a peach in the fruit bowl.

do you consider being sapphic a big part of your identity? - Yes, though it's more just what I am.

how many people have you dated? talk about them if you want! - zero

thoughts on e-dating or long distance? have you ever done it? how did it go? - no way. Not unless I have a buttload of money.

describe your fashion sense. do you "dress gayly"? - It's either generic shabby clothes or fancy suits from the charity store

do you consider yourself to be a good kisser? - I have no clue. But I practice a lot.

are you generally "out" to people? - Very out.

how do you feel about valentine's day? - I don't know her.

do you like being referred to with masculine adjectives, feminine adjectives, both, or neither? - she and her

thoughts on marriage? - I'd like to be someone's wife.

have you ever gone to a pride parade? - No, actually. I don't like large groups of people.

do you read yuri manga? - Sadly, no.

do you fit any sapphic stereotypes / other stereotypes related to your identity? - Runs a lesbian smut blog. Dresses masculinely. Thinks about gay sex a lot. lol

what's a canon sapphic ship you enjoy? - You caught me. I don't read enough gay books.

how about a non-canon sapphic ship? - Farcille

who's your favorite sapphic character? - Rory from fawnduu's comics. She's SOOO BEAUTIFULLL. My beautiful trans failgirl.

LEAST favorite sapphic character? - ???

tell a funny story about something really gay you've done. - Huh. I more just have a high ambient level of gayness, so I don’t have any funny stories related to being really gay.

do you get crushes/fall in love easily? - No, but when I fall, I fall hard.

who's a sapphic person you look up to? they can be someone in your life, a historical figure, a celebrity, etc! - Anne Lister, though I could find a better one if I went digging around in my books.

if you could tell your younger sapphic self anything, what would it be? - I'd go back to when I was 5 years old and tell me that I'm a girl. Like seriously, if I'd realised that earlier, it would've made things easier down the line. I'd also tell my teenaged self to stop reading the terf and conservative websites in the interest of fair-mindedness and that it is important to be rude sometimes in order to defend myself.

a sapphic ask game for ur sapphic ask game needs

are you beating the uhaul allegations? (be honest.)

do you identify as butch, femme, masc, and/or gnc? or none of the above?

how did you realize you were sapphic?

who is/was your most intense sapphic crush?

do you consider yourself a dyke?

are you good at picking up on when people are flirting with you, or do you tend to be more oblivious?

have you ever crushed on a straight girl?

what's your relationship status? are you happy about it?

do you have a "type"? if so, what is it?

did you do anything gay as a kid that makes sense when you look back on your childhood?

what are some good sapphic songs/music artists?

good sapphic books/poems/authors?

good sapphic movies/shows?

list five things you look for in a partner, or five things you love about your current partner(s).

are you the gay cousin?

do you consider being sapphic a big part of your identity?

how many people have you dated? talk about them if you want!

thoughts on e-dating or long distance? have you ever done it? how did it go?

describe your fashion sense. do you "dress gayly"?

do you consider yourself to be a good kisser?

are you generally "out" to people?

how do you feel about valentine's day?

do you like being referred to with masculine adjectives, feminine adjectives, both, or neither?

thoughts on marriage?

have you ever gone to a pride parade?

do you read yuri manga?

do you fit any sapphic stereotypes / other stereotypes related to your identity?

what's a canon sapphic ship you enjoy?

how about a non-canon sapphic ship?

who's your favorite sapphic character?

LEAST favorite sapphic character?

tell a funny story about something really gay you've done.

do you get crushes/fall in love easily?

who's a sapphic person you look up to? they can be someone in your life, a historical figure, a celebrity, etc!

if you could tell your younger sapphic self anything, what would it be?

Very cool.

Feminine language for God in Christian history: a brief timeline

People have been employing words and images for the Divine that move beyond the masculine from the very start. I thought I’d compile some examples chronologically. 

Links in any of the points lead fuller explanations or excerpts. Feel free to add on to this timeline!

First Century: 

Paul himself, right there in the canonical Bible, implies that God is pregnant with all that exists! And he’s not pulling that image out of nowhere, but from his own Jewish scriptures.

100s:

“In his ineffable essence he is father; in his compassion to us he became mother. The father by loving becomes feminine.” - St. Clement of Alexandria .

There’s a long complicated history around Sophia being identified sometimes as the Spirit and sometimes as Jesus in Christian history, about which @fierysword has many posts, but Theophilus of Antioch is one of the early figures to describe the Trinity as being God, the Word (logos), and Wisdom (sophia), so that the Holy Spirit is described in feminine language because sophia is feminine. Meanwhile, see here for information about Jesus being identified with Woman WIsdom.

200s/300s:

“Come, secret Mother; Come, You who (fem.) are manifest in your deeds; You who (fem.) give joy and rest to those who are united to You (fem.)” - The Acts of Thomas .

”She is the kind and heavenly mother…” - Symeon of Mesopotamia (speaking of the Holy Spirit) .

St. Barbara envisions both God and those who follow God as Saints as being beyond the human gender binary

300s-400s:

the earliest Syriac Christians frequently employed feminine language to all three members of the Trinity, including Mother language for God and sometimes using She pronouns for the Holy Spirit .

“He who has promised us heavenly food has nourished us on milk, having recourse to a mother’s tenderness. For just as a mother, suckling her infant, transfers from her flesh the very same food which otherwise would be unsuited to a babe…so our Lord, in order to convert His wisdom into milk for our benefit came to us clothed in flesh.” - St. Augustine of Hippo 

1000s-1100s:

“And you, Jesus, are you not also a mother? Are you not the mother who, like a hen, gathers her chickens under her wings? …. And you, my soul, dead in yourself, run under the wings of Jesus your mother and lament your griefs under feathers. Ask that your wounds may be healed and that, comforted, you may live again.” - St. Anselm of Canterbury  .

“In Hildegard’s day there were other traditionally feminine theological ideas: for instance, the Cistercians feminized the language for God by replacing ‘God’ with ‘God is love’, and, because love (caritas) was a feminine noun, God could be denoted as ‘she’.” - Andrea Janelle Dickens For more on Hildegard’s feminine conception of God as Caritas, see here. .

“Our good mother Charity loves us all and shows herself differently to each one of us, cherishing the weak, scolding the restive, exhorting the advanced. But when she scolds she is meek, when she consoles she is sincere…” - Burgundian Abbot Bernard of Clairvaux

1200s:

“What does God do all day long? God gives birth. From the beginning of eternity, God lies on a maternity bed giving birth to all.”  - Meister Eckhart, German theologian (c. 1260 – c. 1328) .

St. Francis of Assisi envisioned the Trinity as a group of three women (who give him a feminine title!): “Three poor women appeared by the road as Saint Francis was passing. They were so similar in stature, age, and face that you would think they were a three-part piece of matter, modeled by one form. As Saint Francis approached, they reverently bowed their heads, and hailed him with a new greeting, saying: ‘Welcome, Lady Poverty!’” .

Poet and mystic Hadewijch wrote in Middle Dutch about God as Minne, or Lady Love (and it gets pretty gay; see this excerpt) .

“Even if you gave me everything that you possess in Heaven and on earth, I would not consider myself satiated until I had you, because you are the life of my soul, I do not have a father and mother outside of you.” - Marguerite d'Oingt

1300s:

“As we know, our own mother bore us only into pain and dying. But our true mother Jesus, who is all love, bears us into joy and endless living.” - Julian of Norwich  .

In various places in medieval Europe starting around 1320, Jesus’s side wound was frequently depicted as a vulva. Scholars have suggested various reasons for this depiction, including: making Christ androgynous as androgyny was seen as more holy than belonging to an earthly (binary) gender; and helping women see themselves in their Lord (birthing girdles were even made bearing Christ’s wounds so that one could imagine their labor pains in parallel to Jesus’s pain on the cross) - See my #androgynous Christ tag for more info + scholarly sources

1400s-1500s

Madre Juana de la Cruz in Spain imagines the Trinity as working together to weave divinity and humanity into one being (Jesus), just as a seamstress sews a shirt. She also envisions God the Father as having a womb, and, speaking in the voice of Jesus, said: “And all those who seek in me a father, will find in me a father. And those who seek in me a mother, will find in me a mother. And those who seek in me a husband, will find in me a husband. And those who seek in me a bride, will find in me a bride. And those who seek in me a brother, or a friend, or a neighbor, or a companion, likewise will find in me everything they desire…” .

A convent in Belgium commissioned a painting of Jesus in which he has breasts  .

God cares for us with an everlasting maternal heart and feeling.” - Martin Luther, who also pictured scripture as God’s womb.

1800s:

1800s: “My Father, my Mother, it is in You that I sleep, it is in You that I breathe. Awaken!” - Saint Mariam Baouardy (1846 – 1878)

I recommend Lynn Japinga’s article “Language about God” for information on how and why to expand what gendered language one uses for the Divine. I share excerpts from the article in this post, as well as a link to the full thing.

I love my fellow gay nerds. They have technical knowledge on subjects I cannot fathom.

Goddamn it.

tumblr keeps flagging down my accounts because of a little butch strap 🤣😭 follow me on here pls and also lmk if you want any strap content 🤷🏼‍♀️

yeah. this is my main. i have alts if i need to scratch an itch.

really funny to me seeing ppl talk about “horny on main” and whatever bc i have no alts and no sideblogs. my main is the hornyblog. posting sfw on main is the weirder thing for me to do lmao

Yeah, I love going places with my flash suit and pants which cost me a grand total of twenty five dollars. I quite often get compliments. I once walked into a gallery and someone asked if I owned the place. How easily people are fooled.

OP: when your fashion doesn't match your life (cr 千千Sherry)

tell about the history of oil?

Alright, so most of what I know about crude oil is from The History of Standard Oil, 1904, which was written by this very cool woman Ida Tarbell, who grew up in the oil fields in the late 1850s to 60s where her father worked and she saw numerous accidents and awful things there.

So, Oil was once very easy to find, it would often be floating ontop of ponds. For a long time it was turned into medicine by cranks and considered a nuisance byproduct in the salt industry. The first real use for oil was when people figured out it was good substitute for whale blubber in lamps, as that was incredibly smelly.

The first oil drillers were individual small businessmen in places like Ohio who shipped it to the cities by horse and cart and boat, though this was not to be for long. Railways were built and the first oil pipes were made in 1865.

John Rockefeller was the man who monopolised the Oil supply under the banner of Standard Oil, and he got into the business in 1860. His modus operandi is exactly like Jeff Bezos: he defeated his competitors by buying the entire supply chain, which meant he owned the refineries, the railroads, the towns the oil workers lived in and every business operated there.

Ida Tarbell managed to prove beyond any doubt that he'd secured control of the railroads like the Southern Railroad company via kickbacks and corruption, and her reporting was essential to railroad regulations passed in 1906 and court cases that entirely broke up the Standard Oil company in 1911.

To me, the fact that the public read a 400-page book, which led the USA's own courts to break the oil monopoly within only a few years is amazing. Nowadays, even worse things like the Panama Papers are exposed, yet the government does very little.

BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil are the awful offspring of this breakup. Unfortunately, even in its weak form, it seems the oil industry has had the last laugh (so far).

I have about a 90-year gap in my knowledge from there, but I do know some interesting facts

The first offshore oil rig, Neft Daşları, was made in 1949 in the USSR, where it was used to extract oil in the Caspian Sea.

Oil companies have known about climate change for decades, and their scientists made, highly accurate predictions about global warming in the 70's, which Oil companies covered up and lied about. This is a verified Conspiracy Fact™ ✅

Vice-President Dick Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton before he worked for Bush. Halliburton was given many lucrative contracts during the Iraq War, including supplying military bases.

Rex Tillerson was Secretary of State in the 1st Trump administration, he was an Exxon executive.

Peak Oil: oil supply will eventually peak, and production will slowly go down. This is true, but it is discredited in the public imagination because some environmentalists made doomsday predictions about it in the 90's. People also seem to think 'Peak Oil' means 'no oil'.

While oil production is still expanding, the discovery of oil reserves hit a peak in the 60's. Oil being extracted now is much lower quality and more expensive to get.

In a dark twist of irony, climate change has made new supplies of oil in Alaska and the Arctic accessible, which may prolong the life of the oil industry for decades to come.

Since around 2010, the Lakota and other indigenous peoples have led the resistance to the huge Keystone XL oil pipeline, due to the huge environmental cost building it would entail and the inevitability of leaks.