shingekinosocialskills:

aisnotforally:

aroavenger:

meaninglessladders:

aroavenger:

i’m crying oh gosh

TUMBLR PROF ANNOUNCEMENT: If you are trans or nonbinary and you are in the same situation as the student above, email your professors before class starts. I understand that it might be uncomfortable, but generally professors are absolutely happy to accommodate you. I know I always will be!

If your professor does not respond positively, contact the Dean or the campus LGBT+ resource center with a copy of the email and show them that you are concerned about gender discrimination in the classroom. 

Also this is a link to the template I used to write this email, and I’ve seen another similar template going around, and this was extremely helpful.

just a reminder that this is an option for you folks! i did it and all my teachers replied within a few hours saying that it was okay. you can do this! school does not have to be painful.

Reblogging because everyone should see this.  C:

codegoth:

kinda sick of that long-ass post discovering this so here’s a short version:

Any post you currently make via the mobile app will be completely uneditable on desktop for now.

This is no rushed job either, the editing API for these posts is also disabled – meaning XKit extensions will also fail to process them. Off the top of my head, this means Quick Tags and Tag Replacer can’t touch app-made posts.

Source: codegoth

The 14 Fake Olive Oil Companies Are Revealed Now – Avoid These Brands

bonehandledknife:

thebibliosphere:

white-throated-packrat:

talesofthestarshipregeneration:

earthshaker1217:

note-a-bear:

zamaron:

julianahuxtable:

sauvamente:

experienceme:

thewightknight:

This scam made the California University study 124 imported oils and found that over 70% of samples failed the tests.

These failed:

  • Mezzetta
  • Carapelli
  • Pompeian
  • Primadonna
  • Mazola
  • Sasso
  • Colavita
  • Star
  • Antica Badia
  • Whole Foods
  • Safeway
  • Felippo Berio
  • Coricelli
  • Bertolli

These brands passed:

  • Corto olive
  • Lucero
  • McEvoy Ranch Organic
  • Omaggio
  • California Olive Branch
  • Bariani Olive oil
  • Lucini
  • Ottavio
  • Olea Estates
  • Cobram Estate
  • Kirkland Organic

Also, test the olive oil yourself at
home. Put the bottle out when cold, or in the fridge for 30 min. if it
gets solid, it is pure and has monounsaturated fats.

The lies!!!!

*throws out all the bertolli*

IM SO PRESSED/SHOOK RN

this is a real scandal

Ain’t that a bitch

They selling fake olive oil.

they been selling fake olive oil from the time of the ancient Greeks and Romans

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/08/13/slippery-business   This is a cool article on how they do it now and what they tend to substitute it with.

In 1997 and 1998, olive oil was the
most adulterated agricultural product in the European Union, prompting
the E.U.’s anti-fraud office to establish an olive-oil task force.
(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the
risks,” one investigator told me.) The E.U. also began phasing out
subsidies for olive-oil producers and bottlers, in an effort to reduce
crime, and after a few years it disbanded the task force. Yet fraud
remains a major international problem: olive oil is far more valuable
than most other vegetable oils, but it is costly and time-consuming to
produce—and surprisingly easy to doctor. Adulteration is especially
common in Italy, the world’s leading importer, consumer, and exporter of
olive oil. (For the past ten years, Spain has produced more oil than
Italy, but much of it is shipped to Italy for packaging and is sold,
legally, as Italian oil.) “The vast majority of frauds uncovered in the
food-and-beverage sector involve this product,” Colonel Leopoldo Maria
De Filippi, the commander for the northern half of Italy of the N.A.S.
Carabinieri, an anti-adulteration group run under the auspices of the
Ministry of Health, told me.

In
Puglia, which produces about forty per cent of Italy’s olives, growers
have been in a near-constant state of crisis for more than a decade.
“Thousands of olive-oil producers are victims of this ‘drugged’ market,”
Antonio Barile, the president of the Puglia chapter of a major farmers’
union, told me, referring to illegal importations of seed oils and
cheap olive oil from outside the E.U., which undercut local farmers.
Instead of supporting small growers who make distinctive, premium oils,
the Italian government has consistently encouraged quan-tity over
quality, to the benefit of large companies that sell bulk oil. It has
not implemented a national plan for oil production, has employed a
byzantine system for distributing agricultural subsidies, and has often
failed to enforce Italian laws and E.U. regulations intended to prevent
fraud. The government has been so lax in pursuing some oil crimes that
it can seem complicit. In 2000, the European Court of Auditors reported
that Italy was responsible for eighty-seven per cent of misappropriated
E.U. subsidies to olive-oil bottlers in the preceding fifteen years, and
that the government had recovered only a fraction of the money.

I’ve been reading

Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil

by Tom Mueller, and wow, the things that get sold as ‘extra virgin’ olive oil are kind of scary, especially if you have any allergies. Or if you’re trying to use olive oil for health reasons – you’re likely paying a premium for something with none of the benefits you’re looking for.

Also, you could write at least 8 different genre novels about skullduggery in the olive oil trade, starting with a murder mystery and working your way out, because there’s just so much to unpack.

Well, that explains the rash of migraines/respiratory issues I had last month. I was cooking everything in whole foods oil and couldn’t figure it out.

If it was cut with canola oil then there’s my answer. Son of a bitch.

(“Profits were comparable to cocaine trafficking, with none of the risks,” one investigator told me.)

The 14 Fake Olive Oil Companies Are Revealed Now – Avoid These Brands

hishap:

hishap:

nientedal:

hishap:

So if a Fuckor is when someone makes an assumption about you that is 100% correct but you really hate that they were able to expose you so easily

What’s the opposite of that should be called?

I mean when someone make an assumption about you that’s so wrong you’re very confused as to how the fuck they ever could come to this conclusion  

how about “contrafuckor”

I’ll take it

New ask game : make assumptions about me and I’ll reply with either “Fuckor” or “Contrafuckor”

rapacityinblue:

tinydooms:

lumiereswig:

bubblyskootch:

bemusedlybespectacled:

fandomsandfeminism:

typette:

I remember posting somewhere once in a thread about why girls aren’t exploited in animation anymore where some guy said, “all the disney girls are drawn to be generally attractive, but I don’t think there are any eye-candy men… or are there? Are there any Disney men that lots of girls like?” and I mentioned Roger. Tons of girls replied agreeing with me and the original guy was like “wait, Roger? from 101 Dalmatians? What’s attractive about him, he’s tall and lanky and has a big nose, he isn’t muscley at all! Wouldn’t you all prefer Gaston or something? Or do you girls think his big nose is indicative of something else?” and I was like “no, you idiot, he’s a silly, goofy guy who likes animals and can play a bunch of instruments, that’s why he’s attractive. What’s the matter with you? Gaston, seriously?”

This is why we need more girls in animation. And more guys like Roger apparently. 

This is why I laugh my ass of whenever dudes talk about how men are “objectified” by the media too. Because 9 times out of 10, what men think is “women objectifying men” are characters like Gaston.

And Gaston is NOT a woman-driven fantasy. Gaston is a male wish fulfillment fantasy. Gaston is not what women want, he is what men want to be. He is hyper-masculinity to an extreme degree, dripping with sexism and testosterone. The fact that men think that Gaston is what women want says an awful lot about those men. 

While I don’t want to generalize, female fans tend to prefer a very different kind of male hero. We like the Rogers, the Milos, the Hercules. Genuinely kind, often awkward men who are sometimes vulnerable and respectful to women. 

Yes, this is a generalization. I own up to that. But I think it’s important to remember that there is often VERY big difference between what MEN want to be and what women WANT in our media. 

Reblogging this again because fucking this. And hell, even the muscley dudes (see: Khal Drogo, Hercules, Thor, Captain America) are loved, not because they are muscley, but because they are sweet and loving and adorable. We love Thor because his mispronounces “Hubble” as “Hooble,” not because of what he can do with a hammer.

Reblogging for the awesome comments.

I’m just here to say I love the animation of Roger so fucking much.  look how fucking smooth and graceful and agile he is. 2d animation is amazing and i just want to hug it

All of this. 

Okay, listen, to return briefly to the idea of Gaston: Beauty and the Beast is actually the first animated Disney screen play written by a woman. Linda Woolverton, the screenwriter, got a lot of attention for creating a self-proclaimed feminist heroine in 1991, but she also had a *lot* to say about Gaston. She didn’t stumble into that villain by mistake. She crafted him based on her own experiences with men and even her ex-boyfriends, and said: “To Gaston, Belle wasn’t a person; she was a possession. And I think it’s great for little boys to see that Beauty doesn’t choose him. Not only can they look at Gaston as an example of how not to treat women, but they can hopefully be taught by the Beast, a macho guy who is comfortable with his feelings and gentleness. He could teach a lot of men, in fact, about sensitivity.“

Not only is Gaston not a woman’s fantasy, he’s literally a woman’s horror story.

I read a tweet on this subject today and remembered this post, but the tweet came to a different conclusion:

For those who don’t know, Nightcrawler (aka Kurt Wagner) is this perfect blue boy:

(I chose an Evolution gif because that’s what I’m most familiar with. I’ve only seen a significant amount of this one piece of X-Men media, because everything else ends up having too much Wolverine and not enough Nightcrawler.)

He’s fun, charming, goofy, and kind. He often acts confident, (”chicks dig the fuzzy dude!”) but (at least in this series) has deep insecurity about his…unusual appearance. He’s also very agile, and often strikes the kinds of extreme poses that Roger displays above. (He teleported onto a desk control panel in my chosen gif, not to mention literally crawling on the walls.) And sure, he’s trying to flirt with Kitty in this scene, but he doesn’t hold her eventual rejection against her in any way.

Source: nostalgiaunicorn

jumpingjacktrash:

elventiefling:

butyouarenotthesun:

elventiefling:

butyouarenotthesun:

elventiefling:

sometimes a descriptor is just that, guys: a descriptor

oh, goat?

PLEASE give me context for that

so, our party was traveling in a mountainous area and the DM mentioned there was a goat a little ways away, just a little scenery building. the party immediately spent the next (real-life) 20 minutes insight checking the goat, detecting magic on the goat, questioning the goat, ect. eventually the sorcerer ended up killing and eating the goat. DM was very exasperated.

oh my GOD

i have the solution for this, my darlings: describe everything.

players do this when you’re usually sparse on description; they’ll fixate on the things you do describe, because whether consciously or not, you’ve trained them to think that you only describe important things. if you say, “it’s a 20×20 room with pillars along the walls, and at the end there’s a throne with a red brocade cushion on it,” they will fixate on the cushion. because it’s the only movable object in the whole scene! it’s the only thing with a color or texture!

so instead, you say, “this is clearly where he held court before he became a lich. it’s a pillared arcade of honey-colored marble [a nature check will reveal it was imported from a thousand miles away, very ostentatious] with square pillars in the southern style. a dusty carpet runs the length of it; where your footsteps stir up the dust, you can see the carpet was purple once. between the pillars are carved wooden chairs, some of the gilding still intact, where courtiers and functionaries could’ve waited for an audience. at the far end, beneath the rags of a moth-eaten banner, is a throne of age-blackened wood. unlike the other chairs, it was never gilded, but its brocade cushions are still there and still red on the underside where the light hasn’t bleached them.”

now you not only have plenty of things for them to investigate, most of them more informative to their goal, you’ve immersed them in ATMOSPHERE, which is what turns a game from a mere exercise in dice-rolling to a cooperative storytelling experience. your lich king is now more than just a dungeon boss, he’s the sad but frightening remnant of a once-great civilization, clinging to the shadow of its dust-smothered glory.

that’s the kind of thing that raises your ‘adventure zone’ and ‘critical role’ type adventures above the bored number-crunching of freshman weekends. and also avoids the frustration of a zillion pointless digressions.

Source: elventiefling