no language should be mocked other than french
Birds is “oiseaux” in French.
No letter is pronunced the way it should.
And there are seven of them.
ITS PRONOUNCED “WAZO” AND YES, I WILL DIE MAD ABOUT IT
oiseaux hits every vowel in the french alphabet and manages to only be pronounced with 2 goddamn syllables
got vowels coming out the oiseaux
This will never not be funny and I will never not reblog it.
mike oiseauxwski
so I work in education at a science museum
we recently had a snails class for 2-3 year olds
we had a staff meeting beforehand to go over the lesson plan for said class
my manager: maybe we can bring up the historical usage of snails to interest the adults... there was a snail that was used for blue dye in like, ancient Roman times I think?
me, about to pull out the most obscure piece of jewish historical knowledge that suddenly became relevant
YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND
SO the Murex Snail was used to make blue-purple dye as early as the Phoenicians and continued into the Greek and Roman empires. It was EXTREMELY costly and difficult to make, as in, one single pound of it would cost about $66,000 to purchase in today's American dollar.
Because of this, Tyrian Purple (as it became known) was associated only with those who had royal or otherwise high status.
NOW HERE COMES THE JEWISH PART
you may have seen this item of clothing in photos of some Jews today, this is called tzitzit. mostly worn by men in the Orthodox community under their shirts.
now, those tassels are no ORDINARY tassels. there are VERY SPECIFIC TASSELS. there are rules about the number of threads and the type of knots and where they should be placed and what type of material they should be and so on and so forth. here's an example of some tying methods:
HOWEVER
ORIGINALLY, some of these strings were BLUE. (I'll come back to this photo in a second.) we know this because it's been passed down through thousands of years of archaeological writings in addition to being in the torah, with the word being "תְּכֵלֶת", or "tekhelet." it's strongly implied to be an expensive and difficult dye to produce, with the wealthy and those of important status having more of it.
sound familiar??
but wait because we're jews and we can't avoid an argument there's this like WHOLE FUCKIN CONTROVERSY over what specific blue dye was used because we can't just use any old blue dye!! there are all these rules about how to make these strings! and after the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE the knowledge of the source of tekhelet was lost!
and the torah itself doesn't identify a source for the tekhelet! we only know the Ancient Hebrew name of the ocean creature it comes from, "hillazon."
so for most of the diaspora, the solution was to make tzitzit strings that were just plain white, rather than risk using the wrong dye. that's what we've been doing for centuries. like almost two thousand years.
FAST FORWARD TO 1913
Rabbi Yitzhak HaLevi Herzog (who also happened to become the first chief rabbi of ireland but anyway) made a big statement declaring that the Murex Snail was the most likely source of tekhelet, but he couldn't say 100% for sure because sometimes it produced purple dye, and tekhelet was supposed to be blue.
FAST FORWARD TO THE 1980s
a chemist in Israel discovers how to consistently make blue dye from the Murex Snail in a way that appears to match a lot of descriptions from Jewish writings. archaeologists in Syria discover textiles dating back as early as the 14th century BCE dyed with the Murex. and Rabbi Eliyahu Tavger in Israel successfully dyes tekhelet strings with the Murex for the first time in millenia.
FAST FORWARD TO NOW
in the past 40 years there's been a flurry of rabbinic arguments, dissents, agreements, organizations made, community standards created, all about the Murex. there are many Jews today who wear tekhelet! for the first time in holyshit THOUSANDS OF YEARS!!
and of course, once again, because we're jews, there are just as many who say that until we get 100% confirmation of what tekhelet really was, they will not wear it, just in case it's the wrong one! because if this ends up being incorrect that would be Very Bad!
it's all down to this lil guy.
...but I just told my boss it was the Murex Snail.
I will never forgive CinemaSins for how they contributed to the decline in media literacy in the last ten years and you can tell them I said that if you want. Not everything that is unexplained in media is plothole. Not every mistake is worthy of scorn and if a twist is visible prior to it hitting, that is not a bad thing. Your trivial nitpicking has set back the human ability to discuss media at least 30 years
Every time I am forced to read a question that is written in the exact cadence of the smug CinemaSins tone it makes me want to take up axe throwing
It should also be recognised that Lucille Ball helped advance the medium of television as a whole by, more or less, inventing the idea of reruns. This was, in large part, what drove the success of non-serialised shows such as Star Trek, but also paved the way for extremely popular television genres like the sitcom
To everyone losing their mind over this picture of the Dior artisans making Natalie Portman’s golden globes dress:
This is basically a visual representation of what couture means. Every one of those heavily detailed/embroidered/beaded couture gowns you see during haute couture fashion week is made this way. In order to be considered couture they have to be, but that’s a separate post.
I feel like the work is more visible here because of the effect of the pattern, but pretty much every couture gown is made with this absolutely insane level of work and detail
Also, Dior did tag the textile house they worked with: Chanakya International and Chanakya School of Craft. They’ve done the textile work for several Dior collections as well as Armani
For those (like me) who hadn't seen the aforementioned dress
Normally I don't make any posts like this, but I have an interest in cybersecurity and sadly I've seen people are being really ignorant about this recent DDoS attack against the site AO3 (Archive of Our Own), so I thought I'd remind people of a few things:
My advice to people who've noticed this attack is two-fold: calm down since this is part of a larger pattern that has literally resulted in basically no loss for the end-user of any of the sites, and... I don't really know a better way to put this, but don't believe everything you read. A religiously-motivated hate group wouldn't use terms like "LGBTQ+" and "smuts," and it's so blatantly obvious that the timing of every single one of these attacks is being used to smear Muslims and Sudanese people if you think about current events for like. One second. And if you look up Anonymous Sudan, you'll see their string of attacks and how all experts know that they have nothing to do with Sudan at all. Even AO3 itself told everybody that the group is lying about their motivations... though I think I'd go further than that personally because even their name itself is almost certainly a total sham.
To be clear: this post isn't targeted at anyone in particular. I've just seen a lot of people falling for this overall or not realizing this is part of a pattern, and I also wanted to remind everyone that this isn't anything to be concerned about. What is something to be concerned about is not doing research or thinking critically and then unwittingly spreading racist ideas.
This post blew up way beyond what I anticipated and it's to the point where I know I can't monitor the responses, so I think now is a good time to highlight important info from people in the Notes whose voices I want to uplift:
I know everybodys talking about the article but its this tweet itself that makes me lose my shit
tinder link in bio.
the replies:
*tapes scissors to my dick* why won’t anyone fuck me, edward scissordick?
I’m sobbing
I love going trough the notes every time bc there’s always someone in the notes insisting we’re all mean and that you can just wear thick dish gloves over your fake nails as if I wouldn’t assume you’re going to Patrick Bateman my ass if you walked into the bedroom with claws and yellow rubber gloves
Today's Adventure is that I, after an unintentional 13-hour power nap,
Update:
Ok, so:
... further details in a bit I think the Vikings are here.
~`* SOMEONE'S GETTING FIRED!!*`~
OK so.
I literally had my pussy sewn shut I deserve k cup tits as compensation
right forgot most of my followers wouldn’t know this so
TW for medical trauma and child abuse
when an intersex baby is born and they have what’s called “ambiguous genitalia” aka they have an intersex condition which causes them to develop a mix of traits from both male and female genitals, doctors will just pick which one it’s closest to and without consent from the parents and obviously without consent from this living human person that just got born, perform a permanently scarring cosmetic surgery to force the baby’s genitals to align with societies perspective of either male or female genitals. these surgeries cause lifetime medical issues and sexual dysfunction and are only performed because our medical understanding of intersex people was written by a bunch of bigoted genicidal monsters. And yes it’s genocide they are removing our ability to conceive children in almost all cases of these surgeries, on top of generally erasing us from public view by hiding our own existence from everyone Including us from birth. these surgeries aren’t well known about because parents literally aren’t told (my mom only managed to figure it out cuz she overheard the doctor talking to a nurse about it when she came down off her painkillers) and scientific literature on it is not only hard to read it sounds like fucking nazi shit so obviously most medical establishments don’t want it in public view. I had one of these surgeries performed on me, I literally don’t even know exactly what it was cuz it’s not on my medical records anymore but I have the scarring and still have uterine tissue so in compensation for our current human society systematically mutilating my body and genociding people like me I think I deserve some banger bazhoingas i think that’s fair
I hope you don’t mind me adding this @werewo1fbutch I wanted to offer resources in my original post but I’m still looking for my own so this is really appreciated
But Wait, There's More!
everything i'm about to say is secondhand experience from an intersex friend i have known for years, who i will not be identifying for safety reasons.
not only can they just completely remove it from your medical record, many hospitals are in practice of straight-up lying to the parents to excuse why they're taking the baby in for surgery. an extremely common excuse is saying the baby has a heart condition. if you or a loved one were taken into surgery for a heart condition at birth and the parents had no idea anything was wrong until said birth, i HIGHLY recommend inspecting your genitals for scarring and speaking with a gynecologist or urologist(depending on which you usually rely on) if something seems fishy.
they can also mark you as the wrong sex on your birth certificate because of this, which can barr you from treatment you are legally entitled to! worse than that, getting that corrected is extremely difficult. even if the doctor who edited your birth was LITERALLY THROWN OUT FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, the hospital - and state - will continue to refuse acknowledgement of the mistake and no correction will be made. this is a very notable issue in the UK, especially if you were wrongfully marked Male.
another thing people are often unaware of is the rampant issue of medical CSA that occurs if an intersex child is decided Female. There's a medical procedure called Dilation where a hole is carefully stretched wider over a period of time for various reasons; on its own, this is not a bad thing, and can be necessary for several reasons. however, many "female" intersex children are put through Vaginal Dillation at a disturbingly young age. the idea is that because their vaginas are shallow or more closed off, it's better to stretch them for a few years so that they'll be able to have sex properly when they get married. the thing is, there is no wrong time to start dilation. if you start at 18, there is no drawback; in many cases it would actually be safer, and it only takes between 1 to 3 years to reach a desirable state, depending on the person. and yet, this is often done to children FAR below the age of consent, explicitly with the future marriage reasoning in mind. this is sometimes started at infancy.
let's really think about that. a young girl who is too young to consent and may not get any say in the matter is taken to a doctor over and over again to have her vagina stretched out because it is expected that when she's older she'll marry a man and have sex with him.
there is no non-creepy way to put that. there is no way to explain this that is not BLATANTLY sexual assault on a fucking child. and the worst part is, this is not legally recognized as SA or abuse in the majority of juristictions.
and ALL of this should be given the extra consideration that a large chunk of intersex children begin to identify differently than they were assigned at birth, often BEFORE hitting puberty.
intersex people make up roughly 2% of the world population by modern count. that's twice as many intersex people in the world as there are redheads.
i know this is long, and i'm not going to guilt anyone into reblogging; you're not a bad person for keeping upsetting stuff off of your dash. but if you're able, i do gently request that you reblog this. it's important that more people know this is happening.
stay safe all, and i wish every intersex person loads of moneys and whatever body they wish for.
i have this disease called i will open your message and get distracted and forget to reply and then the notification will be gone so i will not have replied for ages and you will think i am ignoring you but. i am not. it’s incurable
