[oraclesofnorway]

Your body is an incredibly bizarre machine.

“What you see is a myosin protein dragging an endorphin along a filament to the inner part of the brain’s parietal cortex which creates happiness. Happiness. You’re looking at happiness.”

[andrewbelami]

Look at her STRUT!!! She is dragging that endorphin for filth and using that filament as her runway, bitch.

[brutol]

im going to bed for a week

Straight boys be like

[squidfuckr]

“?????? you fuckign talk to me?????????????????? duh???”

[keeper0fthestars]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[bemusedlybespectacled]

This is actually, non-ironically, a great way of asking about benefits and company culture without asking about those things directly.

[ayeforscotland]

[rhodanthemum]

[heyyyybrother]

[sarazoe]

Treat yo’self.

[pettycentral]

[weavemama]

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

[nocontextgoodplace]

[the-poor-decision]

This is an underrated joke

[dynamax--grookey]

You say joke but

[iwishihadafather]

[derp-kitty]

this was all he needed

[ruinedchildhood]

[sespursongles-deactivated201906]

I periodically feel so fucking sad for women in history. I feel like birth control in countries where it is widely used has made women forget an aspect of male cruelty and sociopathy that is now less apparent (giving the illusion that men have improved when only women’s defences against men have)—the fact that for most of history men could live with a woman for decades and not care that they were slowly killing her with endless back-to-back pregnancies which not only resulted in early death more often than not, but also in a total smothering of the woman’s spirit and talents. I saw a quote by Anne Boyer the other day that called straight relationships for women “not only deadly, but deadening”—as I was reading Jill Lepore’s Book of Ages, a biography of Benjamin Franklin’s sister Jane, who was bright and loved reading and wrote some poetry, but had little time to make anything of her life in between her 12 pregnancies. Benjamin Franklin’s mother had 10 sons and 7 daughters. What could they possibly accomplish when their husbands kept impregnating them year after year after year throughout their entire adult life? 

Charlotte Brontë eschewed marriage longer than most (writing to Ellen Nussey that she wished they could just set up a little cottage and live together) but she finally married at 38, became pregnant, and died before her 39th birthday. If she had married younger would Jane Eyre exist? I was reading that biography of Charity & Sylvia last month and comparing their life together in their little cottage to the life of their married female relatives, which was honestly hell on earth. One of Charity’s sisters had 18 children. Charity’s mother had 10 living ones, and probably some additional stillbirths. She gave birth to her first child age 19, in 1758, then to a pair of twins in 1760, then another child in 1761, another in 1763, another in 1765, another in 1767, another in 1769, another in 1771, another in 1774, another in 1777. Charity was the last child and her mother had been sick with tuberculosis for months when she became pregnant with her, and she died soon after giving birth.

I wish people would call this murder—this woman was murdered by her husband, like countless other women who do not ‘count’ as victims of male violence because straight sex is natural, pregnancy is natural, childbirth is natural. But when after 20 years of nonstop pregnancies this woman had tuberculosis and suffered from severe respiratory distress, severe weight loss, fever and exhaustion, and her husband impregnated her again, her death was expected. He must have known; he just didn’t care. This woman’s sister—Charity’s aunt—remained a spinster and outlived all of her married sisters by several decades, living well into her eighties. (Ironically, male doctors in her century asserted that sex with men was necessary for women’s health. The biographer quoted from a popular home health guide which said that old maids incurred grievous physical harm from a lack of sex with men.) And this aunt had the time and liberty to develop her skill for embroidery to such an extent that two museums still preserve her embroidered bed drapes. She accomplished something, she nurtured her talent and self. Her name was also Charity, and I find it interesting that Charity’s mother named her last daughter, whose pregnancy & birth killed her, after her childless, unmarried sister.

When I see women reblog my post about Sophia Tolstoy’s misery with her 13 children, adding comments like “thank god marriage is no longer synonymous with this”, I wonder if they realise that men have not magically become any kinder or more concerned about their female partner’s health and fulfillment, it’s just that women now have access to better ways of protecting themselves from their male partner’s indifference to their health and fulfillment.

[muirin007]

“Victorians were stuffy prudes.”

[frenchfrysplash]

PEOPLE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PEOPLE

[petermorwood]

Reblogging again, and wishing there were similar records of other periods in history. (Check out sketches, not finished paintings, by famous artists like Da Vinci, Dürer etc. The possibility was there…)

[2ndtide]

From Bob’s Burgers - ‘Go back to sleep.’

[uze]

[heylookitsarevolution]

This is the money courage, reblog at your leisure for wealth, positivity and good fortune. Add any negativity to this post and a man will appear outside your home yelling “return the slab” over and over.

[kiwijadey-deactivated20190729]

since the 2010s are gonna be over in 5 months I think it’s only fair to say that one direction and their fandom have been the most iconic part of the 2010s you CAN NOT change my mind.

We leaked albums, hacked airport security, ended bands careers, started drama wars, tried to BUY THE BAND, broke world records and they’re still getting nominated for awards even after they’ve all gone solo.

y’all could never.

[tealesbian]

[prideprejudce]

[star-cities-finest-deactivated2]

[harvestspriteirl]

None of that is okay what the fuck

[iwannabeadored]

Didn’t one fan drive HOURS to get the official birth record of one of the members kids bc they had a conspiracy that it was a fake baby?

[trueconfessionsofacurvygirl]

Excuse me?

[5luv]

[dragonwithgoggles]

[tastefullyoffensive]

The goatpocalypse is upon us. (via KTVBJoe)

[morathor]

Updates have since come on this subject; we now know where the goats came from and I gotta tell you, it is better than you could possibly imagine.  See.

These goats got loose from a goat rental service.

You may be thinking, who rents a goat?  Who rents a hundred goats?  What are they for?

They’re for eating.

Specifically, they’re for eating unwanted, flammable vegetation that can contribute to the spread of wildfires.  Some people whose property tends to grow such vegetation, keep their own goats.  But for some people it works out better to just rent some goats.

So.

These are Professional Eating Goats.  They are trained to thoroughly and methodically scour an area of plantlife.  And they came to the suburbs.

And they did their jobs.

I’m so proud of them.