#sources included

[quicquam-dot-com]

Why do americans call it tuna fish?

SO I WENT DOWN A RABBIT HOLE (unsurprising if you know me) about why americans (and ONLY americans) call canned tuna "tuna fish". If you look at Wikipedia's page for tuna, it'll tell you that it's because the german for tuna sounds like tuna fish. That doesn't make sense, given people in wildly different regions (for example, Connecticut and Louisiana) were calling it tuna fish in the 70s, and why ONLY americans call it tuna fish. It had to be something other than that.

So began my search. In my research, I found that tuna only started being sold to americans in cans in 1908, further strengthening my thought that it couldn't just be because german. After about an hour of fruitless searching, I realized if it's only americans, it had to be something that wouldn't have escaped much past the bounds of america. Advertising in american magazines. I somehow managed to land on an etsy listing for an ad for White Star tuna FISH from the 1930s, and off I went.

The earliest written evidence I could find (not a professional researcher or historian at all) of the use of the phrase "tuna fish" was in a 1919 court case regarding labels between the Southern California Fish Co. and White Star Canning Co., which describes the White Star label as saying "tuna fish" on it. I then found other (White Star) ads (and a can label) from the 20s, 30s, and 50s (I can't find the one from the 50s but I swear I saw one), and then an ad for Bumblebee tuna from the 70s that says "tunafish" on it. So there we go. Advertising in american magazines. I don't know why White Star decided to include the fish, but it seems like they're the reason we do.

(It's a little hard to find much useful information on the White Star Canning Co, both because White Star is the name of the ship company that had the Titanic (so you gotta include the canning part and that might be limiting out some relevant stuff) and also because the White Star Canning Co was merged in 1922 with the company that became Chicken of the Sea)

Sources:

https://iiab.me/kiwix/wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2022-05/A/Albert_P._Halfhill

https://casetext.com/case/so-cal-f-co-v-white-star-c-co

https://www.palosverdespulse.com/blog/2021/6/25/it-tastes-like-chicken-how-local-canneries-marketed-fish-in-a-can-by-marifrances-trivelli-director-los-angeles-maritime-museum

https://www.etsy.com/listing/608947310/retro-printable-tuna-advertising-from-a

https://www.ebay.com/itm/186146432914

https://www.ebay.com/itm/143760191768

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Van_Camp

#tuna fish #research rabbit hole #sources included #history #linguistics

[endusviolence]

Rowling isn't denying holocaust. She just pointed out that burning of transgender health books is a lie as that form of cosmetic surgery didn't exist. But of course you knew that already, didn't you?

I was thinking I'd probably see one of you! You're wrong :) Let's review the history a bit, shall we?

In this case, what we're talking about is the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft, or in English, The Institute of Sexology. This Institute was founded and headed by a gay Jewish sexologist named Magnus Hirschfeld. It was founded in July of 1919 as the first sexology research clinic in the world, and was run as a private, non-profit clinic. Hirschfeld and the researchers who worked there would give out consultations, medical advice, and even treatments for free to their poorer clientele, as well as give thousands of lectures and build a unique library full of books on gender, sexuality, and eroticism. Of course, being a gay man, Hirschfeld focused a lot on the gay community and proving that homosexuality was natural and could not be "cured".

Hirschfeld was unique in his time because he believed that nobody's gender was either one or the other. Rather, he contended that everyone is a mixture of both male and female, with every individual having their own unique mix of traits.

This leads into the Institute's work with transgender patients. Hirschfeld was actually the one to coin the term "transsexual" in 1923, though this word didn't become popular phrasing until 30 years later when Harry Benjamin began expanding his research (I'll just be shortening it to trans for this brief overview.) For the Institute, their revolutionary work with gay men eventually began to attract other members of the LGBTA+, including of course trans people.

Contrary to what Anon says, sex reassignment surgery was first tested in 1912. It'd already being used on humans throughout Europe during the 1920's by the time a doctor at the Institute named Ludwig Levy-Lenz began performing it on patients in 1931. Hirschfeld was at first opposed, but he came around quickly because it lowered the rate of suicide among their trans patients. Not only was reassignment performed at the Institute, but both facial feminization and facial masculization surgery were also done.

The Institute employed some of these patients, gave them therapy to help with other issues, even gave some of the mentioned surgeries for free to this who could not afford it! They spoke out on their behalf to the public, even getting Berlin police to help them create "transvestite passes" to allow people to dress however they wanted without the threat of being arrested. They worked together to fight the law, including trying to strike down Paragraph 175, which made it illegal to be homosexual. The picture below is from their holiday party, Magnus Hirschfeld being the gentleman on the right with the fabulous mustache. Many of the other people in this photo are transgender.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of a group of people. Some are smiling at the camera, others have serious expressions. Either way, they all seem to be happy. On the right side, an older gentleman in glasses- Magnus Hirschfeld- is sitting. He has short hair and a bushy mustache. He is resting one hand on the shoulder of the person in front of him. His other hand is being held by a person to his left. Another person to his right is holding his shoulder.]

There was always push back against the Institute, especially from conservatives who saw all of this as a bad thing. But conservatism can't stop progress without destroying it. They weren't willing to go that far for a good while. It all ended in March of 1933, when a new Chancellor was elected. The Nazis did not like homosexuals for several reasons. Chief among them, we break the boundaries of "normal" society. Shortly after the election, on May 6th, the book burnings began. The Jewish, gay, and obviously liberal Magnus Hirschfeld and his library of boundary-breaking literature was one of the very first targets. Thankfully, Hirschfeld was spared by virtue of being in Paris at the time (he would die in 1935, before the Nazis were able to invade France). His library wasn't so lucky.

This famous picture of the book burnings was taken after the Institute of Sexology had been raided. That's their books. Literature on so much about sexuality, eroticism, and gender, yes including their new work on trans people. This is the trans community's Alexandria. We're incredibly lucky that enough of it survived for Harry Benjamin and everyone who came after him was able to build on the Institute's work.

[Image ID: A black and white photo of the May Nazi book burning of the Institute of Sexology's library. A soldier, back facing the camera, is throwing a stack of books into the fire. In the background of the right side, a crowd is watching.]

As the Holocaust went on, the homosexuals of Germany became a targeted group. This did include transgender people, no matter what you say. To deny this reality is Holocaust denial. JK Rowling and everyone else who tries to pretend like this isn't reality is participating in that evil. You're agreeing with the Nazis.

But of course, you knew that already, didn't you?

Edit: Added image IDs. I apologize to those using screen readers for forgetting them. Please reblog this version instead.

#transgender #trans history #transsexual #transphobia #Magnus Hirschfeld #holocaust #holocaust denial #book burning #j.k. rowling #jk rowling #just in case you missed what i mean by all this: go fuck yourself anon :) #trans people have always existed #and we will always exist #if you really wanna pick a fight with me over well-documented history then you better bring in some sources to back your shit #queer history #queer #lgbt+ #lgbta+ #lgbt #lgbt history #edit: i finally got around to those damn image IDs. i am so very sorry for totally forgetting that's my bimbo moment of the month #also real quick i thought about adding an image of the actual building but the only one i can find has a Nazi parade in front of it #it was taken the day of the book burning raid and honestly if i were to include it then i'd add it to the first few paragraphs #and i think the story's better told when you uphold the hope Magnus Hirschfeld and all the researchers he worked with had #also keeps being brought up: yes Hirschfeld was a eugenicist. it was a popular belief set that was only discredited after WW2 #Hirschfeld died in 1935. he literally didn't live long enough to see science turn against those beliefs and practices #considering how he changed his mind on transitions i like to think he would've changed his mind on eugenics too if he'd lived

[mag150cul-de-sac]

Fun fact! May is veterans appreciation month, dedicated to respecting our military

Unfun fact! Veterans are 50% more likely to become homeless than other Americans

Unfun fact! 4.9 million veterans, 27% of all veterans, have a service-related disability

Unfun fact! 7 out of 100 veterans have PTSD

Unfun fact! An average of 20 veterans commit suicide every day

Please feel free to correct any incorrect information here (with sources).

This post is not just meant to tell off all the people complaining about pride or black history month using veterans. This post is meant to be a push in the right direction for those people- if you’re going to use veterans as an excuse to badmouth marginalized groups, do something good for those people who you’re using as some kind of symbol for what’s gone wrong in America today.

I may not agree with what the military does, but it’s terrible how the people who get hurt for this country are forgotten once they’re not longer of use.

So, instead of complaining about pride month and saying that we don’t appreciate veterans, see what you can do to show your appreciation, and actually help someone.

https://www.greendoors.org/facts/veteran-homelessness.php#:~:text=What%20is%20the%20primary%20cause,in%20overcrowded%20or%20substandard%20housing.

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/vet.pdf

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/understand/common/common_veterans.asp#:~:text=PTSD%20is%20slightly%20more%20common,7%25)%20will%20have%20PTSD.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_military_veteran_suicide#:~:text=According%20to%20a%20report%20published,die%20from%20suicide%20per%20day.

#Tw suicide mention #suicide mention #Tw suicide #American politics #politics #leftist #leftism #veterans #may is veterans appreciation month #moth types #sources included #sources #cited

[tagerrkix]

Eden was their ✨disney princess era✨

#it's canon #source: it was revealed to me in a dream #aziraphale being good with reptiles was all part of the ineffable plan #crowley is having the time of his life here #my only regret is that I forgot to include a baby aardvark #but I put ducklings there instead #aardvarks will have to wait #btw the snake aziraphale is holding is my pet snake that died in 2020 #my poor precious baby she was such a sweetheart #she liked to knock the thermometer off the glass and hide it #I was supposed to draw like an ordinary garter snake there buuut #it's MY silly doodle and I get to do what the heck I want with it 👁️👁️ #lmao crowley's brain is really malfunctioning here #guys he's a demon the creature of darkness foul fiend devil serpent #guys he can't get up the lamb is sleeping #somebody save him #there are vicious animals #and she's exp- #*JUMPS OUT THE WINDOW AND FLIES AWAY* #hey where the fuck is the gecko going #aziraphale #good omens fanart #crowley #aziracrow #good omens #ineffable husbands

[agaritas]

correction: israel has killed 15 palestinians in rafah in the evening of february 11. they’ve killed many more in rafah since february started. the death toll is around 400, with 76 killed today, monday feb 12. the iof destroyed khan yunis, the place where gazan refugees from the north were fleeing, and now the iof is attacking and murdering civilians in the last southern city.

do not look away from what the israeli colonizers have done to khan yunis and what they will do to rafah as long as world leaders across the globe twiddle their thumb and america continues to sink billions into this genocide.

just two days ago, the iof snipers killed a doctor in the middle of a surgery in a khan yunis hospital. there is a horrifying video of an old man, shot and crawling into the reception of said hospital, and no one is able to drag him away from the windows where snipers keep shooting at them. this is what our tax money is funding. this is what our leaders are encouraging. the entire world should be dying of shame and disgust, most especially the west, giddily supporting and paying for the nth genocide of brown indigenous people, and the greedy, soulless monsters of the uae and saudi arabia.

#palestine #free palestine #all sourced from middle eastern news programs including al jazeera which can be accessed as articles online

[incorrect-hs-quotes]

if colors had grubblr

🫒 gr33nasthegrass Follow

:33 < hate when yellow gets all the credit fur being a purrimary color when its literally r G b

🍯 mellow-yellow Follow

uhh.. ii liiterally am a 2ub2tractiive priimary. liike yeah iit 2uck2 that you dont get the recogniitiion you de2erve but you dont have two put down other color2

🐙 majestic-magenta Follow

At least you're on t)(e color w)(eel 38(

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🦕 t34l-for-two Follow

1 H4T3 COLORS WHOS3 H3X COD3S ST4RT W1TH "F". 1TS L1T3R4LLY SUCH 4 R3D FL4G

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🔮 therealroyalpurple Follow

youre in her dms im a fundamental part a her personality. wwe are not the same

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🩸 rubyred Follow

if y0u cant be represented by a wavelength 0f light y0ure n0t a real c0l0r

🐙 majestic-magenta Follow

T)(is is litereely so toxic, wtf! Colors t)(at are perseaved only w)(en t)(e s)(ort and long cones are activated toget)(er are valid!

♠️ blackasmysoul Follow

TIRED OF PEOPLE TELLING ME I'M THE "ABSENCE OF COLOR" AND THEREFORE NOT A COLOR MYSELF. LIKE, YOU DON'T GET TO CHOOSE HOW I IDENTIFY.

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♠️ blackasmysoul Follow

WHY IS EVERYONE SAYING THAT ORANGE IS THE NEW ME. I LITERALLY HAVEN'T GONE ANYWHERE.

🔥 thecolornotthefruit Follow

sOUNDS LIKE, a SKILL ISSUE????

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🦕 t34l-for-two Follow

STOP S4Y1NG M3 4ND BLU3 LOOK 4L1K3!!! W3 4R3 L1T3R4LLY D1FF3R3NT COLORS

🧿 therealroyal8lue Follow

Yeah!!!!!!!! I'm so much hotter than that.

🦕 t34l-for-two Follow

FUCK YOU

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#source: @nerdicorntheshipper #I HAAAAAD to figure this one out i had to #i couldnt include the post that clear made :( none of the. none of the trolls have clear blood #'but dave. karkat doesnt have black blood' its the hemoanonymity hes being mysterious #homestuck #incorrect homestuck quotes #incorrect quotes #mod dave #nepeta leijon #sollux captor #feferi peixes #terezi pyrope #eridan ampora #aradia megido #karkat vantas #tavros nitram #vriska serket

[limbus-limousine]

Honestly I really really like Sinclair and Ryoshu's relationship (platonic) like A LOT but it always seems like nbdy gives them any attention!!

Lately I've been thinking about it because, well. You have the seemingly most innocent (key word seemingly) sinner be the only one who understands Shu's freaky acronyms and I think thats really cool. Why? Because they are both artists. In their source books they both paint and the do it FREAKY style. Ryoshu just using homemade gore as art reference for her hell screen. Being so dedicated to that art that even after loosing everything she had to finish it before dying, because of all the blood and pain that went into it. Emil painting so absently that he needs to hang the canvas over his bed, look at it every morning and every night just to realize that he painted Demian but also himself and a man and a woman and god and a star.and whatever.

Do you understand.do you get my vision. Delulu artist relationship...

#project moon #limbus company #rambling #mostly referencing the source books no relevant game spoilers #i care them #i really really hope they include the painting thing for sinclair somehow #ryoshu #emil sinclair

[canisalbus]

Hi!! I don't know if anyone has drawn this before (sorry if they have!! I couldn't find any evidence of it) but I have recently been plagued with the question of "what if Machete and Vasco were in Bluey?"

Well. Now we know.

To my knowledge, the only Bluey dogs who wear clothes are the ones in uniforms. TECHNICALLY Machete's outfit could count, but I left it out because it's not typical of a main character. He must be naked 😔

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#oh GEEZ they're so cute uaugh #no you're the first to make this crossover! #once someone told me that my dogs and Bluey could exist in the same universe #and even though I'm getting my Bluey lore from second hand sources I think that might be correct and feasible #so you know #take that and eat it with your breakfast #it's great how it's almost justified to let Machete keep his outfit but in the end he must be naked 😔 #while everyone is on board with Vasco wearing only a smile #like yeah that tracks he doesn't seem to mind #I like how you managed to translate Vasco's gradients to a form that works with the art style #including the lighter chest/abdomen #also maybe this is an odd thing to say but I suddenly realized how monochrome they are #like their designs have very little contrast and are essentially just different hues of a same color #weird moment to notice that #thank you! this was so sweet #they're adorable #gift art #stafell #own characters #Machete #Vasco #I had sort of a rough day so this cheered me up a lot #cw needles #I had to go get blood tests done and this specific lab person had been really heavyhanded with me before so I asked her to be gentle #and she jabbed the needle into a nerve and I full on screamed in pain and sweated and shook and passed out for a couple of seconds #worst medical experience this far I never knew routine stuff like that could potentially hurt so immensely #I've never been scared of needles before and that has been sort of a point of pride for me #like at least I can do this one unpleasant thing effortlessly #but now I'm just terrified of that happening again #been feeling really weird/exhausted/nauseous all day and the arm still feels weak and tingly so I'm going to bed early tonight

[leafsfromthevine]

sokka and zuko laying on top of each other i mean what omg who said that

#the fact that aang falls on katara and sokka falls on zuko idk #poor toph crushed by them #i loveeee pretending the source material has zukka crumbs its my favorite hobby #like look ‼️ they're touching in this scene ‼️‼️‼️ #i hope you all know my clips/ss from the source material are not like LOOK AT HOW REAL THEY ARE BELIEVE IT!!!! #its like uhhhh this is hilarious because nothing in this says zukka but i am. projecting #also art references LMAOOOO #zukka #zukka gif #i keep switching up my tags i need to not #also the first gif is just cute for the normal ppl out there i wanted to include #atla

[weirdmageddon]

#toh spoilers #toh #the owl house #stolen from twitter bc the screenshot couldnt get all the text #but i’ll include the link the source

[marleneoftheopera]

First photo of Chumisa is up outside the theatre!

#gorgeous!!!! #i need all the photos pls #including one from point of no return #person who sent it didn’t want me to credit them hence the lack of source lol #chumisa dornford may #phantom of the opera #the phantom of the opera #poto london

[felassan]

r/dragonage (Reddit) post titled "Jeff Grubb: Dragon Age: Dreadwolf scheduled to release in late 2024." Post text: "Dreadwolf to be shown this summer and planned release later this year, Bioware is internally confident on the release date. Anything could change of course." Source: [link] Clip: [link] "Credit to: u/IcePopsicleDragon for posting this in r/GamingLeaksAndRumours."

[source]

In episode 339 of Game Mess Decides, Jeff Grubb had the following to say on Dragon Age: Dreadwolf's possible/rumored release window [transcript]:

Question from chat: “Hi Jeff and Mike, when will Dragon Age 4 be shown and released?” Jeff: “Yeah, I mean, I expect it will probably pop up this summer. I don’t know when it’ll be shown is the real answer, that’s the, let’s get that out, I don’t know when it will be shown. I assume it will be shown sometime this summer. Could happen at any time though. It will be released this year [2024], last I heard. That is, and they’re pretty confident about that, doesn’t mean it’s a guarantee, could slip, but right now, internally, they expect to release it later this year, which is why I took it in Fantasy Critic”.

[source (timestamp 35 mins 20 secs), clipped version]

(there were no more mentions of Dragon Age or BioWare during the episode)

#dragon age: dreadwolf #dragon age 4 #the dread wolf rises #da4 #dragon age #bioware #video games #i'm out travelling atm sry so i cant make a proper neat post or make a transcript rn but the source of this is reportedly jeff grubb via #r/dragonage the DA subreddit. So please go there to check it out directly and follow the link to the vid etc. #late 2024 is what we've speculated for a while now as a release window #i'm guessing november? #as thats 10 yrs aniversary of DAI and 15 years aniversary of DAO. would be the perfect time #aaaa #i'm so excited #elmofire.gif #quick n dirty post on the fly pls forgive me hhh 🙏 #long post #longpost #update: post edited to tidy it up and include a transcript of the relevant segment #given that DA:D is officially stated by BW to be having its full reveal in summer 2024 #that would place (if this is reliable reporting) 'later this year' as being in the second half of 2024 as it would have to be after summer #so like fall? holiday time?

[repmet]

@rwrbmovie & @rwrbsource’s rwrbweek: Day 4 | Little Detail

#red white and royal blue #henry fox mountchristen windsor #henry hanover stuart fox #princess beatrice #alex claremont diaz #nicholas galitzine #taylor zakhar perez #ellie bamber #rwrbedit #rwrb movie #rwrb source #idk why this prompt like #immediately made me think of these moments #but uhhh #the deliberateness of including alex specifically saying he wouldn't tell anyone but henry these things #and henry saying he loved how no one gawked at him in the v&a #then the emails leaking and those specific pictures leaking #i guess the detail here is pain #rwrbweek

[broodygaming]

My friend got me the Exquisite Exandria cookbook and I got it in the mail yesterday and found this REDACTED RECIPE 😂😂

#that is so funny haha the whole thing is rly cute #some good recipes too #critical role #stands outs include #Bad Aim Chicken #Pocket Bacon #caduceus’s Ethically Sourced Mushroom Toasts #The Meat Man Hoagie #I just listed some of the goofy ones but there’s some rly cool recipes in here #i made the Estheross ginger cookies last year and they were a huge hit #excited to try this stuff

[theydjarin]

Ah yes. The good old days when shipping wars hadn’t been invented yet. Before the existence of antis when we all lived in harmony -

No, no. Tumblr and twitter had *created* puritan culture. I mean before then.

No no no before then. Before social media poisoned everything-

Before then….?

Before….

Well surely shipping wars didn’t exist before the internet-

#I tried to include sources but tumblr mobile straight up wouldn’t let me add hyperlinks sorry #might go back and add them later but most came from fanlore.org but they didn’t have much in terms of pre 90s so #the last ones come from fandom.org I’m so sorry

[cursedbekoi]

Framed some incredible art I got from @quezify

#art #weird angle on account of all the sources for glare in my house #my hobbies include buying mats for my art prints and then very carefully cutting them (incorrectly) #I didn’t actually get these from inprint because I’m an inprint hater; these were digital purchases :)