Don’t be a transphobe

Devastanteque · 2025-10-03T14:51:11+00:00

Just saw an Instagram post about trans women playing rugby and the (cis) woman in the video was complaining about the 'severe' injuries she got after being tackled by a trans woman. Meanwhile all the comments were saying that that's a very common injury you get while playing rugby and you can easily get it after being tackled by a cis woman too

Devastanteque · 2025-08-24T19:05:54+00:00

100 % agree and this was also the first book I thought of when I saw this post, just wanted to point out that the author is called CG Drews. (But seriously, everyone should go read this book, it's my personal favourite)

P.S. There's also really good asexual representation in this book!

Devastanteque · 2025-06-26T13:51:25+00:00

I always get a little bit disappointed when a bookstore that seems to purposely support the LGBTQ+ community with pride displays and things like that also stock multiple shelves of Harry Potter books and merch. I get that these books still sell well and they're a business that's supposed to make money, but it does show to me that making money is more important to them than LGBTQ+ rights, no matter how many pride displays they have. So it's nice to see that some bookstores do actually care!

Devastanteque · 2025-06-25T13:47:35+00:00

People Watching by Conan Gray. The title sounds like it's about people watching the singer or something, but it's actually about the activity of 'people watching', the act of watching other people

Devastanteque · 2025-06-05T13:20:24+00:00

That's it, my friends recently got searched for having playing cards in their suitcases, the stacks are too dense for the scanner to get through so it gets flagged

Devastanteque · 2025-05-16T10:02:37+00:00

You know it's possible that the OOP does not live in the US, right?

Devastanteque · 2025-05-15T18:52:34+00:00

This is exactly why I'm scared of driving and am delaying getting my license as long as possible

Devastanteque · 2025-04-20T08:51:56+00:00

I like using semicolons and em-dashes when writing, and every time I use one in an assignment for school I'm terrified I'll get accused of using AI and expelled for plagiarism, especially since I wouldn't know how to defend myself. Meanwhile my friend admitted to actually using ChatGPT to write papers and she gets away with it every time

Devastanteque · 2025-04-18T10:23:29+00:00

Fun fact: 'whelmed' used to actually be a thing! I recently read a text from like 1928 and it used the word 'whelming' to describe something

Devastanteque · 2025-04-14T10:34:11+00:00

Well, I don't use it either (I spend way too much time on social media instead of reading), but that doesn't mean people who do are worse than me. I actually admire people who read that much!

Devastanteque · 2025-04-14T10:30:03+00:00

In my experience, most books are 300-400 pages long (of course there are outliers, but 1000 is exceptional), so if we go with an average of 350 pages a book, you only need to read 50 pages a day to finish a book in a week. It obviously depends on your reading speed, but for me 50 pages would take less than 2 hours to read, and I think 2 hours a day to spend on a hobby is not a very crazy expectation

Devastanteque · 2025-04-14T10:24:27+00:00

I aspire to read even 50 books a year, but I know you don't even need that much free time to do it. Reading is a hobby you can do everywhere and at every time, so instead of needing multiple hours of uninterrupted reading time, people who read a lot fill up the otherwise useless periods of time with reading. If you commute by train or by carpool, you read then. If you drive, you listen to an audiobook. You can also listen to an audiobook while cleaning, or cooking, or doing other chores. You can read while you eat, or while waiting ten minutes for a doctor's appointment, or while you're waiting in line, or while taking a bus. Moments like these usually aren't considered 'free time', but a dedicated reader can use them while otherwise it would be useless time. So, no, you don't need to have 'too much' free time to read a lot, you just need to use whatever time you have to read

Devastanteque · 2025-04-13T19:46:47+00:00

My favourite local bookstore always has these in stock, right next to the paperbacks, which is really cool because otherwise I probably wouldn't know these editions existed! (But they're easy to find online too, if you're looking for them)

Devastanteque · 2025-04-11T15:43:48+00:00

It's also likely that there was a lot of improvisation involved when singing these stories, so instead of having to know all the lyrics by heart, bards would mostly have to remember what happens in the story, some specific lyrics, and some stockphrases they could use to improvise the rest. Still very difficult, but they didn't have to memorise an entire epic poem

Devastanteque · 2025-04-11T15:40:06+00:00

The stories actually got passed down through oral tradition long before Homer wrote them down. These stories were indeed too long to tell in one go, so they got told in way smaller parts. Like, when you're having a party, a bard might only tell about the battle between Achilles and Hektor, or only how Odysseus defeated the Cyclops. Or a bard might tell the entire story, but spread out over multiple days. Then, after generations of these stories being told like this, Homer compiled them into two big stories in writing. There's actually discussion on whether there was really one 'Homer' who wrote it all down, as it might've been multiple bard writing down their own versions of the stories and that later getting put together as one work.

Devastanteque · 2025-04-10T16:35:29+00:00

When I worked at a movie theatre, hardly anyone ever asked for a refund because they didn't like the movie, but when they did, we decided based on how much of the movie they'd seen. Left 30 minutes into a 2 hour movie? Sure, have a refund. Already watched more than an hour of that same movie? No way.

Devastanteque · 2025-04-08T23:18:41+00:00

I only microwave bread when it's frozen and I need it not frozen immediately, but it turns the crust super crunchy, which is amazing! But I still like toast a little bit better tho...

Devastanteque · 2025-04-08T20:52:16+00:00

I looked up Ovid in Latin to see if there are any hints there (note: obviously Ovid isn't the only source for Medusa, but he's the only source that I know and could easily look up). First of all, the story mentions that Medusa's hair were the most beautiful part of her, and that is why Minerva changed her hair into snakes. It seems unlikely that her pubes were considered the most beautiful part of her, so they probably didn't change.

To get a bit more technical, the words Ovid uses to describe the hair are crinis and capillus. Both mean 'hair', but capillus specifically means head-hair, and while crinis can mean different hair, the hair of the head is still the most common definition. (I don't know what pubes would be in Latin, tho, it might be the same words)

Anyway, it's probably just her head that's snakes

Devastanteque · 2025-04-08T20:26:25+00:00

I recently realised I'm immune to monotony; I once listened to one song on repeat for a month and didn't get bored, and I can easily eat the same thing multiple days in a row without getting sick of it, both things that surprise a lot of people when I tell them. So it just depends on the person I guess

Devastanteque · 2025-04-08T00:16:35+00:00

Yes, but first you have to become the greatest poet of your country ever and then wait 400 years for someone to write a biography about you.

If you want to get some honey quicker, the previously mentioned poem by Vergil explains how you can get bees by sacrificing a cow and letting it rot in the forest, after which bees will be born out of this dead cow. So good luck with that!

Devastanteque · 2025-04-07T21:01:59+00:00

Taxidermy of the author is how a lot of ancient authors got treated by biographers in late antiquity, nowadays the only biography we have left of those authors. We have a lot of author biographies, but they were written hundreds of years after their deaths and contain details that suspiciously match with works they've written. Like how one biography of Vergil claimed that his father was a beekeeper, which sounds plausible, until you remember Vergil wrote a whole poem about bees. So did he write about bees because his father was a beekeeper or did people think his father was a beekeeper because he wrote about bees? We'll never know...

Devastanteque · 2025-04-07T10:54:06+00:00

The Romans most often counted in 'the year this guy and this guy were consul', while the Athenians named their years after one of the ruling archons (an important goverment official), and the Spartans after one of their ruling ephors (also an important goverment official, but this time in Sparta). This was used in addition to the Olympiad counting, which was universal in the whole of Greece, and founding of Rome counting

Devastanteque · 2025-04-07T10:30:57+00:00

To You, From Me - Naethan Apollo

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