Beyond the mighty moons that wane

How to Train Your Dragon, Percy Jackson, Game of Thrones and books

[cadwallia]

My deepest apologies to her royal highness, but my friend showed me a photo of what their coworker's Persian looks like shaved into a lioncut and I immediately lost control of my hands.

[beardedmrbean]

how to commit to the bit properly

[faith-maccaullay]

The men are saying we will not live out the night. They say that it is hopeless. There is always hope.

[important-animal-images]

[jellogram]

On my first day in Germany I got to my hotel and I couldn't get the lights to turn on. And I was like "Eh, fuck it, I'll just take a shower in the dark." And then the shower wouldn't get hot. I waited and waited and it stayed ice cold.

So I go down to the front desk and I'm like "My lights won't turn on and my shower won't get hot" so they send this guy up with me. We get into the room and I flick the switch and nothing happens so I'm like "See?"

And he goes "You must put your card in the slot."

"I... what? I have to put my room card in the light switch?"

"Of course!"

Now I have been in many hotels in the US and never encountered this concept, but apparently it was something most of their guests already knew. So I'm looking like a fool at this point. I feel like an idiot. The dude is fully grinning at me. I put the card in the slot and voila, the light turns on.

Then he's like "Ok, let's see if the shower works. You know you must wait for the hot water?" and I just know he's thinking I'm an idiot who also can't use a shower. This stupid American can't wait for the hot water! She can't even use a light switch or a shower!

And I guess he was distracted by these thoughts of my stupidity, because this dude fully stepped into the shower. In his nice dress shirt and slacks. He just. Gets into the shower.

And turns it on.

Have you ever seen a playing field get leveled instantaneously

[houseofcucci]

Stop saying “there are plenty of fish in the sea”. I’ve got my eye on one specific, emotionally distant salmon with commitment issues

[beggars-opera]

I'm personally after the white whale that took my leg

[bookstofilms]

EMMA. dir. Autumn de Wilde | 2020

“Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing; but I have never been in love ; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall.” ― Jane Austen, Emma

[rowlfthedog]

In a nonexistent perfect world, there is an 80s version of The Muppets Wizard of Oz, where the gang finally meet the wizard. And instead of “pay no mind to the man behind the curtain”- Toto knocks over a table in front of A Wizard Of Oz Muppet Head who bellows PAY NO MIND TO THE MAN BENEATH THE CAMERA!!! And it’s revealed that the wizard was Jim the whole time. And he’s like “im so sorry but i’m just an entertainer you guys are gonna have to go kill the witch on your own. you should probably hurry because there’s only 30 minutes left in the runtime.” I just think that would be funny.

[black-salt-cage]

ଘ(੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭* ੈ♡‧₊˚

[deertush]

[lliveonthesunn]

i get why people don't believe in marriage as a social construct but legally it is the best and easiest way to say "this is who i trust to take care of me when i can't take care of myself" and i'm so glad gay people fought for that right bc when shit gets scary at least i know im in good hands

[animentality]

[bethanydelleman]

It's hard discussing women/wives in older literature because frequently someone will absolve a woman of all responsibility or say she had no power at all in the relationship because "she had no rights." And it's like, well yes, she had less rights than some women today, but that doesn't mean she doesn't have any responsibility or power ever. And you also need to look at the circumstances.

Mrs. Bennet in Pride & Prejudice for example, she is clearly not a beaten-down, controlled wife. Other than keeping her from spending them into debt, Mr. Bennet doesn't seem to restrain her in any way. She hosts parties frequently, gives quite a bit of money to her favourite child, serves fancy food; she clearly has a lot of freedom over the household budget. And yet, people will say that she couldn't have saved money. She clearly could have. Mr. Bennet wouldn't have stopped her and he wouldn't have squandered it himself. She's not some poor little oppressed housewife who lived in abject misery.

Catherine Earnshaw is described in Wuthering Heights as a thorn embraced by roses who bend themselves (her husband and his sister) to her will and comfort. Her husband is mostly a spineless coward. Yet, people argue to me that she had no power in this relationship because she was a woman. Yes she did! What book did you read? Edgar probably would have given in to her immediately if Nelly hadn't encouraged him otherwise.

The wives in Austen's novels who have very little power are Lady Bertram (Mansfield Park), who acts like a child, wants her husband to make decisions for her, and is coaxed like a child the only time they disagree; and probably Mrs. Tilney (Northanger Abbey), if we judge by how controlling General Tilney is of the household under Eleanor's tacit management. And yes, in the past a husband could totally run roughshod over his wife with very few consequences. He could limit her money, control her spending, and bully her out of her legally required pin money (allowance). But that doesn't mean every single one of them did! Most didn't. Colonel Brandon is disgusted by his brother's financial abuse of his wife in Sense & Sensibility. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë is describing a very financially abusive marriage, not a typical one. John Dashwood either defers to his wife or treats her as an equal. Lady Elliot in Persuasion kept her husband out of debt for years, meaning he listened to her about finances or she used soft power very capably. Like Mr. Bennet, lots of men were probably happy to have household management off their plate and a good dinner in front of them.

The amount of power a wife had on paper could vary massively in practice.

Addendum: this doesn't mean the system that granted husbands/men this much power was good or we should go back to it, because it sucked and could result in a ton of abuse and oppression and we are going back over my dead body.

[teaboot]

Wild that folks keep saying beekeepers abuse bees as if bees are not both venomous flying animals and fully unionized

[teaboot]

Hubris to think you COULD abuse bees

[teaboot]

I think that if you see a balrog in an unlocked kitty kennel then you can assume that it wants to be there

[vegance]

Actually, beekeepers take many precautions to keep their bees from leaving.

many clip the wings of the queen, destroy new queen cells, cull queens they don't like and use bee pheromones to prevent a hive from naturally swarming or absconding. They also try and prevent mating with the African honey bee, which makes them less docile among other things. During artificial insemination of queens, drones are crushed and „spare“ queens are killed.

and commercial beekeepers even cull their hives during winter, or when they are not producing well.

Coupled with the fact that there is evidence that insects do feel pain, this is not great.

(Not to mention that honeybees are an invasive species in most places, competing with native pollinators and spreading disease)

[tetrafelino]

It is so fucking bold of you to link the exact same paywalled book thirteen times in your reblog to throw people off the fact that you're using one source from 1859.

[champawattigress]

I don't think there's ever been a funnier vegan response in the history of this hell site. This is actual gold. If you cited an argument like this in a first year undergrad intro to bio module, then your lecturer would be legally entitled to fire you out of a cannon. I think I'm dying

[ndnbutch]

personally I am of the opinion that vegans who are like “the way our food system currently works under capitalism on a large scale is exceptionally cruel to all animals including humans and is not sustainable, so I’m doing what I can to make the most ethical choices available to me about what I eat and encourage others to do the same” are generally very reasonable people who I agree with in spades. but vegans who seem to think human beings are not themselves animals who are ultimately also part of the food chain but instead some kind of other paternalistic higher entity that can never engage in ethical and sustainable hunting practices (and especially the fringe I’ve seen who think other carnivorous animal predators are also evil and need to be eliminated) are people I regard as foolish at best if not actively anti-indigenous and racist

[animentality]

[thememedaddy]

[s-u-w-i]

random Jane and Lizzy Bennet, been listening to Pride & Prejudice again

inspired by these two scenes -

1. “I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!” cried Jane. “Oh, Lizzy, why am I thus singled from my family, and blessed above them all? If I could but see you as happy! If there were but such another man for you!”

“If you were to give me forty such men I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.”

2. “Now,” said she, “that this first meeting is over, I feel perfectly easy. I know my own strength, and I shall never be embarrassed again by his coming. I am glad he dines here on Tuesday. It will then be publicly seen, that on both sides we meet only as common and indifferent acquaintance.”

“Yes, very indifferent, indeed,” said Elizabeth, laughingly. “Oh, Jane! take care.”

“My dear Lizzy, you cannot think me so weak as to be in danger now.”

“I think you are in very great danger of making him as much in love with you as ever.”