say your prayers

grey it/its | 25 | USA tired | ill | queer

[the-memedaddy]

Meirl

[normal-horoscopes]

IN THIS ESSAY I WILL DIE AND BE REBORN A THOUSAND TIMES

[gogomrbrown]

I learned in a Latin Studies class (with a chill white dude professor) that when the Europeans first saw Aztec cities they were stunned by the grid. The Aztecs had city planning and that there was no rational lay out to European cities at the time. No organization.

[punkrockradio]

When the Spanish first arrived in Tenochtitlan (now downtown mexico city) they thought they were dreaming. They had arrived from incredibly unsanitary medieval Europe to a city five times the size of that century’s london with a working sewage system, artificial “floating gardens” (chinampas), a grid system, and aqueducts providing fresh water. Which wasn’t even for drinking! Water from the aqueducts was used for washing and bathing- they preferred using nearby mountain springs for drinking. Hygiene was a huge part if their culture, most people bathed twice a day while the king bathed at least four times a day. Located on an island in the middle of a lake, they used advanced causeways to allow access to the mainland that could be cut off to let canoes through or to defend the city. The Spanish saw their buildings and towers and thought they were rising out of the water. The city was one of the most advanced societies at the time.

Anyone who thinks that Native Americans were the savages instead of the filthy, disease ridden colonizers who appeared on their land is a damn fool.

[robotsandfrippary]

They’ve also recently discovered a lost Native American city in Kansas called Etzanoa It rivals the size of Cahokia, which was very large as well.

[fullmetalquest-deactivated20211]

Makes me happy to see people learn about the culture of my country :D

[fieldbears]

Also, please remember that the idea of a nomadic or semi-nomadic culture being “less intelligent”, “less civilized” (and please unpack that word) was invented by people who wanted to make a graph where they were on the top.

Societies that functioned without 1) staying exclusively in one location or 2) having to make complicated, difficult-to-construct tools to go about their daily lives… were not somehow less valid than others.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

This is why I fucking hate it when Europeans make jokes about how they have “more history” than the Americas. “This church is older than your country hahaha.” Actually, it’s older than the country you put there, massacring millions in the process, but go off, I guess. 

[gynandromorph]

there’s a decent amt of neurologists who’ve called the sleep schedules we’re obligated to be on despite flagrant conflict with our natural circadian rhythms “borderline torture” and the work hours we’re expected to put in despite the fact that the average person can only maintain maximal efficiency and focus for 3 hours at a time “nearly inhumane” and i think about that a lot

[springfieldusa]

[justinpie]

holy shit marge

[virgofrombeyond-blog]

FUCK HER UP MARGE!

[pon-raul]

zoomers idolizing the 2000s like we did the 90s is just absolutely sending me

[call-me-remi]

[moonenjoyer]

you cant wear a wittle face mask to stop yourself from killing other people bc you have hot breath?

cyclops xman literally wears glasses 24/7 to contain his literal laser beans in his eyes from hurting anyone even tho hes in constant excruciating pain or whatever idk if that true. and hes just some twink. grow up.

[biomic]

[apocketuniverse]

me on monday: its going to be different this week!!! i wont get discouraged by small issues and i’ll stay on top of my work!!

me by 4 PM that afternoon:

[weltenwellen]

Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

[death-by-lulz]

becoming older than 10 years old was the biggest mistake of my life

[balaclava-trismegistus]

I actually love how fucking brainless extreme punk fans can be

[ferallindsay]

can’t believe napalm death became sjws 😭

[babybelieverkid]

[perchu-deactivated20180224]

[c0rpseductor]

dreamed that kindergarten nap was called sleep class and everybody went to sleep including the teacher. if you were awake it would get a little bit foggy outside and grey and cloudy, and these guys would start approaching the classroom from behind the tree line (forgive my shitty phone drawing)

and they were at least a story tall, some of them were taller, you could see their legs over the trees. they would approach very slowly. this one (the one i drew) had a name for some reason, his name is kick.

before i was totally awake my brain conjured a meme of a bunch of these guys approaching from the treeline and a child watching from the window with the caption “when you the only one awake in sleep class 😂😳😏”

[dizzydevious]

[bestiasilvanus]

[c0rpseductor]

ok this is TERRIFYINGLY close to what i saw in my head while i was sleeping thank you.

[dogmotifs]

smth smth vampire and werewolf narratives are two sides of the same coin of the horrors of the gay experience smth smth its abt the shame of who you are and the grief that comes with desire 

[dogmotifs]

vampire media is abt isolation and alienation and the journey of finding community (see: interview with a vampire, lost boys, etc.) and werewolf media is abt the terror of realizing you are the monster and you won’t get to live the life you wanted to (see: ginger snaps, american werewolf in london, the it novel), they are stories abt acceptance 

[matobawataru]

anyone else get that “i never expected you to say swear words, you’re so innocent” shit from random people you’ve talked to maybe twice

[matobawataru]

me: so yeah, i’m fuckin–

them: WHOA you know *gets weirdly quiet* the f-word???? you’re so sweet and cute though

me:

[godisahuman]

Every once in a while I think “why do I have all these mental disorders, surely my childhood wasn’t that bad” and then I have an interaction with my mother and I understand.

[scyler-moved]

when your friends are big shot lawyers