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my younger cousin’s favorite quote is “mamma mia that is a spicy meatball” and he says it all the time and earlier we went outside to play basketball and he tripped and fell over the uneven concrete and i was about to say are you ok when i heard “mamma mia that is a spicy sidewalk”

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me: is a needy piece of shit who needs constant reassurance and attention from friends

also me: is distant as hell, avoids all social interaction

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So apparently no one should ever buy sugarless Haribo gummy bears

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Fun fact: I once bought sugar free gummy bears.

This is exactly what happened

kyuubified

Petition for Youtubers to start doing the “Sugarless Gummy Bear Challenge”

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FINALLY I FIND THIS SO I CAN SHOW THE WORLD THIS HAS TO BE SEEN

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my cousins ate a bunch of these once and got sick as hell

my mom told me it’s because they ate too much candy

now i know it was a LIE

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I’ve read through this every time it’s crossed my dash and every single time I start crying from laughter

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sometimes I forget this exists and then I’m reminded

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there are ver very VERy few posts that actually make me sob and my ribs hurt from laughter. this has won an award for THE MOST AMAZING THING I WILL EVER NEED FOR CHEERING UP EVER.

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we probably lost a lot of medical knowledge during the witch hunts because of how many mid wives were persecuted, and how men took over the field of medicine. I bet a few hundred years ago a mid wife might actually have some kind of knowledge about conditions that affect women exclusively which we still haven’t bothered to research in our modern society.

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ok now I’m fucking mad

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how many got killed cuz of witch hunts seems like youd have to kill a lot

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“It is estimated that at least 1, 000 were executed in England, and the Scottish, Welsh, and Irish were even fiercer in their purges. It is hard to arrive at a figure for the whole of the Continent and the British Isles, but the most responsible estimate would seem to be 9 million. It may well, some authorities contend, have been more. Nine million seems almost moderate when one realizes that The Blessed Reichhelm of Schongan at the end of the 13th century computed the number of the Devil-driven to be 1,758,064,176. A conservative, Jean Weir, physician to the Duke of Cleves, estimated the number to be only 7,409,127. The ratio of women to men executed has been variously estimated at 20 to 1 and 100 to 1. Witchcraft was a woman’s crime.

Men were, not surprisingly, most often the bewitched. Subject to women’s evil designs, they were terrified victims. Those men who were convicted of witchcraft were often family of convicted women witches, or were in positions of civil power, or had political ambitions which conflicted with those of the Church, a monarch, or a local dignitary. Men were protected from becoming witches not only by virtue of superior intellect and faith, but because Jesus Christ, phallic divinity, died “to preserve the male sex from so great a crime: since He was willing to be born and to die for us, therefore He has granted to men this privilege. ” Christ died literally for men and left women to fend with the Devil themselves.” (pg 129-130) Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin

“The witches used drugs like belladonna and aconite, organic amphetamines, and hallucinogenics. They also pioneered the development of analgesics. They performed abortions, provided all medical help for births, were consulted in cases of impotence which they treated with herbs and hypnotism, and were the first practitioners of euthanasia. Since the Church enforced the curse of Eve by refusing to permit any alleviation of the pain of childbirth, it was left to the witches to lessen pain and mortality as best they could. It was especially as midwives that these learned women offended the Church, for, as Sprenger and Kramer wrote, “No one does more harm to the Catholic Faith than mid wives. ” The Catholic objection to abortion centered specifically on the biblical curse which made childbearing a painful punishment —it did not have to do with the “right to life” of the unborn fetus. It was also said that midwives were able to remove labor pains from the woman and transfer those pains to her husband—clearly in violation of divine injunction and intention both.” (pg 139-140) Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin

“The magic of the witches was an imposing catalogue of medical skills concerning reproductive and psychological processes, a sophisticated knowledge of telepathy, auto- and hetero-suggestion, hypnotism, and mood-controlling drugs. Women knew the medicinal nature of herbs and developed formulae for using them. The women who were faithful to the pagan cults developed the science of organic medicine, using vegetation, before there was any notion of the profession of medicine. Paracelsus, the most famous physician of the Middle Ages, claimed that everything he knew he had learned from “the good women.” (pg 140) Woman Hating, Andrea Dworkin

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Bolded sections are by me. Honestly I don’t think I need to explain much. We lost some of the most important women in the world, who were the pioneers of medicine for a “curse of eve”. Basically saying if you relieve another woman’s pain we’re going to call you a witch and kill you “in the name of god” because having a child is punishment upon women and relieving their pain is illegal because this book written by men told me so.

Also check out the part where men can’t be witches because jesus and his “phallic divinity” “preserve the male sex”.

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Ever heard of the Voynich manuscript? Big, huge, herbal / medical / astronomical lexicon from the 1400s, depicting lots of naked women clearly performing rituals that serve medical functions, lots of them pretty clearly related to childbirth.

You know, this book that is written in a language that nobody has been able to read for 600 years, but nobody, and I mean NO MAN has ever even thought about the simple reality of WOMEN having written it.

I found one blog post by a woman about how this text is very clearly written by women, and the knowledge within it has been completely annihilated or co-opted by men who now don’t even consider the possibility that a woman, or multiple women, could have written something like this.

Seriously, look it up. Naked women. Fat, short, in baths, all of it. And the entire academic world is absolutely convinced this must have been written by a man. In the wikipedia article, only male linguists and historians are mentioned, because only they matter. And every single one of their theories is laughingly phallocentric and simply wrong.

They go so far as say that aliens wrote it before they consider that women actually had herbal and medicinal knowledge and passed that knowledge on, in secret, written in languages only they knew, so that no priest or holy man or inquisitor could read it and kill them.

Open your eyes. This has been going on for hundreds of years. Women had to hide in the shadows, had to invent languages, just to avoid being killed by men for trying to help themselves and other women. This is reality.

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When doctors started handling more childbirths than midwives the death rate increased by about 60%. In America at least.

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10 RULES FOR ASPIRING WOMAN WRITERS

1. If someone in your life is not supportive of your writing or the time you invest in your writing, stop discussing your writing with them. Continually seeking encouragement from someone who refuses to give it is counterproductive. Pour your energy and emotion into your writing. They may come around on their own. If they don’t, that’s their problem.

2. Learn to be selfish with your time. Men do it all the time. Examine how much of your day is spent making life easier for other people or doing what they want you to do. Learn to view this time as your own and spend it as your own.

3. Never feel ashamed of your genre. Your genre does not define you and every genre has value. Whether you write romance, poetry, steampunk, fantasy, literary fiction, horror, or how-to books, your work matters.

4. If someone tells you that you can’t do something, stop talking to them.How on earth would anyone else know what you can or cannot do? Life is too short for that kind of negativity.

5. Never feel ashamed of time spent reading. Reading is imperative. Just because you enjoy it doesn’t make it an indulgence. It is part of the job.

6. Praise and criticism come in unexpected places, so throw your expectations of both in the trash. Friends and relatives you thought would be supportive may not turn out that way. On the other hand, a casual acquaintance might emerge as your biggest supporter. Don’t waste time trying to please certain people. Let them react how they will and thank those who do so positively.

7. Carve time when you can. Writers who write full-time did not start out that way. Whether it’s early in the morning, late at night, or scribbling in your car in between running errands, steal bits of time to write.

8. Do unto other writers as you would have them do unto you. Writers are your family, not your competition. If a writer in your genre experiences success, be happy for them and for yourself. Good books make readers search for more good books.

9. Never dwell on what you have not done. You can always start now. Look to the future. Time will march on whether you write or not. In one year you will be one year older. You can be one year older having written the draft of a book, or not. The choice is yours. Make the decision and be excited about it.

10. There are no rules. If you read advice on writing (here or elsewhere) that doesn’t work for you, ignore it. Find the system and the thinking that are conducive to your productivity. The rest of it doesn’t matter.

(I found this on http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ and I just thought I should share it with anyone currently struggling. And to those doing Nano, you can do it! Finish strong!)

-Kiki x

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concept: someone wanting me as much as i want them

me, driving down the road: I am so much happier now that I'm dead. Technically, missing. Soon to be presumed dead. Gone. And my lying, cheating, obvlivious--

my driving instructor: please stop doing that