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Cowboys are witches and horses are their familiars
guns are their wands and they only know one spell (bullet)
Rootinâ, tootinâ, toil nâ shootinâ
Fire burn and cowboy bootinâ
Eye of newt and spicy beans,
Toe of frog and denim jeans,
Whiskey, grits, nâ demon spittle
tossed into my iron griddle
With the tanninâ of our hides,
Somethinâ wicked this way rides
This is better than the entire harry potter series
it seems so strange to me that the only people it is socially acceptable to live with (once you reach a certain stage in life) are sexual partners? like why canât i live with my best friend? why canât i raise a child with them? why do i need to have sex with someone in order to live with them? why do we put certain relationships on a pedestal? why donât we value non-sexual relationships enough? why do life partners always have to be sexual partners?
My grandmother and grandfather more or less adopted my grandmotherâs best friend back in the 50s. After my grandfather died (before I was born, back in 1968 or so) they continued to keep house together, platonic best friends, and they hung together until they died, a few months apart, in 2007.
Itâs quite recently, as far as I can tell, that living arrangements like that have stopped being regarded as normal.
Itâs absolutely a new thing to find this stuff weird, and it has a lot to do with media pretending that the nuclear family and marriage are the only reasons to live with other people.
Iâve lived in a 3 adult household my whole life. My parents and their best friend. This was never weird to me, even though everyone my age thought it was because the media never portrayed these kinds of housing arrangements. As far as i was concerned, I just had an extra non-blood parent.
According to my parents, it was very common in the 70âČs-80âČs to buy houses with your friends, because it was financially smart to do so (so long as you were certain they were close friends who wouldnât fall out with you and fuck everything up). Houses and house payments are much more manageable when you split the bills 3-4 ways instead of just two.
Millenials arenât the first to think itâs a great idea to just shack up with friends. Thatâs housemating without the hastle of living with strangers. Itâs still a good idea to shack up with people youâve known a long time so you know how youâll get on living together, but still. In the current economy, itâs pretty much now our only option for affording anything.
I think, and Iâm not researched on this, but I think conservatives probably tried to suppress images of non-nuclear families because they likely thought it would encourage ideas of polygamy, polyamory, open sexual relationships with or without marriage, as well as other relationship types they thought of as un-christian or unsavoury. I could be wrong, but that shit wouldnât surprise me.
(And i want to make a note that thereâs also a disturbing amount of asexual denial around that makes people go âif theyâre living together they HAVE to be banging because why wouldnât they?â and that shit both creeps me out and annoys me no end. People can be in relationships without sex. People can live together without sex. Sex is not the be-all and end-all and people being taught to think it is really need to stop).
Donât let the media fool you into believing you can only live with a sexual partner or blood family. Someone somewhere has an agenda for making these seem abnormal, when really itâs just practical.
A lot of people acted like it was super weird when two of my brothers decided to move states with me when I started my postdoc. I got really used to giving a little canned speech about it because it seemed to bewilder people so much. (Their leases happened to be up! We could share rent! They wanted to try somewhere new!)
The notable exception was my grandma, who was just like, âoh, yes, when we were young my sister and I decided to move cross-country together and it was lovely.â
More of this kind of thing for everyone, pls.
The implication that close sibling relationships must also be a warning sign for incest also peeves me off; what kind of society are we living in anyway
#my momâs a historian#does a lot of research#one of the main takeaways from the census data of literally every US census since the beginning#is that the nuclear family has never been the actual norm#nobody really ever lived like that#and a lot donât now#and itâs clearly artificial and not ideal for most people#every household in the census had at least a grandma#usually a cousin#some rando#someone living in the house who wasnât mom or dad or kid#always someone#usually several someones#some uncles etc.#unmarried aunties#that sort of person#but often unrelated friends#weâve never really lived alone#thatâs not how families work#thatâs not how humans work Â
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Having a multi-adult household unit also just makes a shit-ton of sense, tbh. Much easier to split not only the bills, but also the housework and child-rearing responsibilities. Communal living ftw.
Itâs also super a capitalism thing.
With only two working-age people in the house, itâs very difficult to make ends meet without one of them (or increasingly, these days, both of them) working away the vast majority of their waking hours to earn enough money to support the household. The other person, if they arenât also working similar hours, is there to support that working person, full time, with unpaid labour.
The end result of this is that nobody has any time or energy to spend together properly, and they just end up tired and miserable and shackled to their work, throwing money at their problems because itâs all they can do. Itâs very easy to convince tired, miserable people to spend their money in the ways you want them to, and itâs also very easy to manipulate and oppress people who donât have the energy or the means to fight for their rights. Convince a whole nation that this is the way the world is supposed to work, and youâll be well away.
Death to the cancerous myth of the nuclear family.
and they were comrades
The next morning Diana Moseley arrived at our hotel suite. She was the costume designer for the Magic Tour and was delivering for the first time Freddieâs campest costume, a deep red cloak trimmed in fake ermine and a jewelled crown fit for royalty.
It was extraordinary to watch him as he threw the cloak over his white towelling robe, put on his crown and strutted around, the cloak fell as he moved. He loved it. And so did all the fans that night. As the crowds cheered, I thought: âThatâs my man!â
Jim Hutton | Mercury and Me
As someone who has been âthin-shamedâ I can say it does Not at all go hand in hand with fat shaming. People âthin-shamingâ me was mostly verbal harassment- youâre too skinny, you look like a boy, eat a fucking cheeseburger, whatâs wrong with you why donât you like food?
But guess what, I donât have a problem finding clothes that fit me. There arenât companies that refuse to make clothes for my size. There is no shortage of messages telling me that despite the harassment of some, I am still beautiful and ideal even if Iâm unhealthy. Despite being thin-shamed, I still PANICKED when I started a medicine that made me gain weight, and I had to really analyze that, because no matter what my culture will still say that âfat is unidealâ âfat is badâ and âhonestly its fine to starve yourself / but shameful and bad to overeat.â
So âthin-shamingâ is shitty because itâs shitty to be judged and have people make assumptions about you. But Fat-shaming is institutional, itâs not just individuals harassment and judgement, itâs potential jobs, itâs clothing companies, itâs media and advertisement, all telling you youâre bad as you are. Like what a way shittier thing.
This is the difference.
my last two brain cells
Lizzo by Pari Dukovic
i think about this a lot
The guy got his life and career destroyed by his divorce, cut him some slack.
he was also sexually assaulted by a man who could destroy his career
protect him
reblog if the man on the right is just as beautiful as the man on the left
people grow old? like, thatâs a thing that happens? leave my guy alone.
This man deserves everything let him he happy
Ok⊠This is what happened to Fraser
-His wife ditched him and asked for 900k a year,
-He was sexually assaulted which he said kicked him into a deep depression
-He stated that the stunts from the 3rd Mummy movie completely destroyed his body and he was in and out of the hospital for 7 years even having to get surgery to repair his vocal cords.
-He apparently blamed himself for all this which only worsened his depression.
This man has literally been through hell this past decade so please lets cut him some slack and wish him the best
All this but also that picture on the right is a really bad paparazzi photo compared with a professional quality movie promo still. No one looks good when some random person snaps you on the street, regardless of who you are.
Compare with this image from the GQ article last February:
Proper lighting, professional setting, good angles etc.
The dude is 49 and has had a rough couple of decades, but heâs still lovely to look at, and Iâll fight anyone who says otherwise.
Could we leave one of the very rarely found unproblematic white dudes alone?
His GQ piece is amazing and heartbreaking. Heâs such a beautiful person.
Not only that but only utter garbage people body shame.
liam neeson really just admitted that once upon a time he was going to kill a random black person bc his friend was assaulted by a black person iâm at a loss for words this is like mark wahlberg levels of racist
WHO SAYS THIS OUT LOUD???? IS HE A SOCIOPATH??? âIâll tell you a storyââWHAT????
This is just how white men are like this doesnât shock me at allâŠâŠ..
The article from the screenshot is here, but in the full interview, the journalist wrote about how the whole thing was apparently shocking & unsettling to hear for both her and the other actor there for the MOVIE PRESS TOUR interview⊠because Neeson shared all that shit LITERALLY unprompted in an unrelated conversation.
She also contacted a sexual assault support group AND a psychiatrist afterwards because she was like, âUh, asking for a friend, but is this violence & racism shit⊠normal, orâŠ?â
And then basically had to drown a couple of paragraphs in disclaimers because these specialistsâ professional opinions were that he was racist already & was using culturally normalized violence to make himself and his ego feel better in a way that had nothing to do with the victimâs welfare at all (obviously).
Meanwhile, Neeson was also someone who said the #MeToo movement was becoming a âwitch hunt,â so, you know. Confirms a little more we already knew about his priorities. đ
Happy Black History Month 2019.
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Call to action!
Please call! This is dated Feb 1, 2019, and Brooklyn Federal Jail (MDC Brooklyn) needs to know we wonât tolerate them freezing people, jfc. Do other things if youâre in the area.
When I called the mailboxes were full. Keep flooding the lines. As of Feb 3, noon, there are still direct supporters posting that there still is not heat.
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I love my captain!!!! (A pretty long read but itâs worth it I promise)
Oh sidâŠ.
I LOVE THAT THEY KEEP PICKING UP MORE OMG
Man, The Spiderverse movie looks rough as hell.
can you imagine being at this con dressed as spiderman and this caravan passes by and youâre like ââŠI gotta goâ and leave your friends in the dust
the year is 1888
me, the first palaeontologist to dig up a triceratops skull, whispering softly: what the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuckkkk
fun fact: modern paleontologists and archaeologists have pointed to some greek vase art of mythological monsters as being evidence that the greeks dug up dinosaur skulls and were like âwhat the fuck, what the fuck, what the fuckkkkâÂ
and then they did the Greek Thing and painted naked men fighting the monsterÂ
or, well, a deeply flawed representation of what they imagined the fossil had looked like while alive, an early form of paleoart.Â
but sometimes they also just. drew the skull and slapped a black blob monster onto it? anyway i love the greeks.
NICE
bringing this one back
When I went to see Tangled with my family, I was terrified of having to talk about the movie afterwards because I related so much to Rapunzel, and I was sure my mom would hate the movie because it was so obvious that she was exactly like mother gothel. So when mom asked me afterwards if I liked it I gave a tepid non-answer. But then my mom started talking about how she loved the movie! And it slowly dawned on me that she also saw mother gothel as evil and abusive, but somehow didnât make the connection that she and her were the same. My mom even made a comment to the effect of how, like rapunzelâs real mom, her love for me would always triumph or whatever. And she didnât get it!
She didnât see the similarities of how she locked me away in the house, or how she kept me under the tightest supervision under the guise of keeping me safe. I spent the entire mother knows best song stealing glances at her next to me in the theater just waiting for her to drag us out of the movie because she couldnât stand to have her âloveâ portrayed as evil. And she didnât see how the fact that she created her identity completely around being a mother and nothing else was like mother gothelâs dependency on rapunzelâs magic hair.
It was only after seeing her positive reaction to the movie, that I really understood the meaning of the phrase âeveryone is the hero of their own storyâ. No one actually thinks theyâre the villain, even if confronted with a painfully obvious rendering of their own actions done by someone they agree is rightly portrayed as evil.
âeveryone is the hero of their own storyâ. No one actually thinks theyâre the villain, even if confronted with a painfully obvious rendering of their own actions done by someone they agree is rightly portrayed as evil.
Yâall I actually melted
This is so sweet
