The Fun of being an astronaut

18, Loves reading, reads to much, so am always tired (because of the reading) and mainly posts about fandoms, also am maths nerd, (her/she) (very bad at getting pronouns correct),

[fuckyeahcomicsbaby]

Different Stories Resonate with Different People

[lovingmyselfishard]

I will always reblog this.

[brightwanderer]

I once spent three hours scouring the internet to find this comic again, I will not let that be repeated.

[dduane]

Find your own resonance :)

[sandandglass]

[vetmedirl]

God bless nurses forever

[dynamite5ftjewishbitch]

[steelblaidd]

Sounds like a typical shift to me.

[silima]

this was funnier in my head 😭

[disc80s]

hot girl summer but only in air conditioned spaces

[comingoutofthecauldron]

stop telling your teenage daughters who say they don’t want kids that they’ll change their mind

[weirdqueeraltkid-deactivated202]

reblog the shit outta this

[morriganwarrior]

I haven’t been a teenager in over a decade. Mind has yet to change on the subject.

At 14, I told my guidance counselor that I didn’t want kids. He chuckled, patted me on the back, and informed me that when I got a little older, and I was with a guy, I would change my mind.

At 16, my grandmother nearly had a heart attack because of her three granddaughters, myself and the youngest agreed we didn’t want to uave babies. Ever.

At 17, my father asked about my life plan. I told him: graduate high school, get my college degree, do some traveling and writing, go for this particular job I wanted, retired around X age, take month-long vacations to places I wanted to spend time in, etc. He asked, “What about a husband? Children? Normal things a girl is supposed to think about?” My response- a husband if a man came along that could share an adventure with me, kids were a No Go. He assured me I would ‘grow up’ qnd change my mind.

At 19, I shocked my former babysitter who had known me since I was a toddler, when I confirmed the rumour she’d heard that I didn’t want kids. She patted my mom’s arm and reassured her in a sweet voice that, “Don’t worry, girls say a lot of silly things before they meet the right fella, and wise up. She’ll give you grand babies”

At 22, I was talking to a college professor who chuckled at my making a comment about how, “thank goodness I’m never going to have to worry about juggling child rearing eith marriage, work, and life”, then she realized I was serious. She asked if I was alright, thinking I could-not (not didn’t-want) kids. I told her the truth, could have but didn’t want to. She was aghast, then told me that I’d change my mind when my husband wanted some kids.

Well, I’m over 30, still have absolutely no desire to give birth, adopt, raise, or have much of anything to do with children. I don’t hate children, I don’t think people who have them are crazy (more power to you, to create and/or care for another person), and I don’t think it’s impossible to have a life AND have children. I recognized at an early age that I don’t have that biological imperative to procreate, I don’t have the patience to deal with children (something that has shown very little improvement as I’ve gotten older, in fact it might be getting worse), and I don’t feel my life is incomplete without creating another life- I am good with living my own and doing my best to enrich the lives of those I care about (I try my best to be a good friend, to be a good sister, good daughter, good pet-owner, and a good person in general).

So please, please stop telling girls (or really kids at all, but especially girls) that they will change their minds. Please don’t tell them that meeting ‘the right guy’ will make them suddenly feel broody, that their potential future husband’s desire to have children will make her reconsider and see things his way. For one, a couple should have had that conversation and decided if it was a deal breaker, LONG before they got hitched. For another, it’s her body that gets to grow and birth another human being- her husband’s desire to be a father doesn’t supercede her autonomy.

Please, let girls make their own choices? Girls are forced to mature too fast as it is and are bombarded from all sides with SHOULD (you SHOULD be a size 2, you SHOULD wear this dress, you SHOULD have a boyfriend to be a normal teen, you SHOULD always smile), they don’t need another judgement from someone who hasn’t walked a mile in their particular shoes. Respect teenage girls and their ability to look at the world, themselves, their situation, and their future, and make an important choice.

*gets off soap box, slides it back under the sofa, lets out a sigh*

Thanks for attending my TED talk. G'night.

[arcaneglitch]

[urlocalsupermarketofendocrinosis]

Yes!!!!! reblog this forever. As a AFAB nonbinary teen constantly being told I will want kids someday is making me lose my mind. I know I would never be able to get pregnant without dysphoria fucking killing me and I feel like I am going to disappoint so many people. Here is just a few more groups this harms

1. Trans girls. Constantly being told that having biological children is part of the identity of being a woman is horrible for girls that are biologically unable to have kids.

2. Ace teens. My ace friend is constantly being told by her parents how much they want grandkids, her s3x repulsed self feels guilty about it. GUILTY! It is unfair that being told you’ll someday meet the right person and want kids is making people feel guilt over uncontrollable factors in their lives

3. WLW teens. The idea of having your own biological baby being the end goal in relationships can hurt young adults in wlw relationships so badly.

4. Cis women and teens unable to have biological children. It can make them hate their bodies because they aren’t able to fufill the cultural goal that has hurt society for so long

And I’m not even done…………. The idea that you’ll want kids someday sucks

[bundibird]

When I was a kid, I wanted kids. Was really looking forward to being a mum. Wanted three, had picked out potential names, etc. Then I grew up and realised how expensive kids are and how much I would have to be making to be able to afford kids. I learned more and more about the state of the world and current consumption rates, and the threat of global warming and rising seas and etc, not to mention the effects of late stage capitalism, and I realised that any kids I have would inherit a world with worse problems than the one I live in, and I realised that I loved my hypothetical children far too much to subject them to that.

So I decided not to have kids.

It was an extremely difficult choice for me. I’ve always wanted, so badly, to have kids. Deciding not to for a range of compelling reasons was extremely hard for me. After I got over the grief of the decision, I realised I actually felt an enormous sense of relief. Relief that whatever is coming down the pipeline in terms of global warming effects, war, financial crisis, etc…. my children aren’t going to have to face it. I cried again – from relief, this time – when I realised that.

Now, I was in my late 20s when I decided this. Really, I’d known since early/mid 20s that I wouldn’t have kids, but I spent nearly a decade trying not to think about it because it upset me, so it was in my late 20s when I Officially Decided and started mentioning it when it came up in conversation.

Late 20s. And never once has anyone taken me at my word. Every single time its come up, people have told me “you’ll change your mind,” or “psh, of course you’ll have kids,” and “oh hon, just wait till the maternal instincts kick in” and “you should save your eggs now for when you change your mind later” or “oh youre FAR too young to know that you dont want kids,” as though some of the people I went to school with dont already have ten year old children of their own. Im 32 now, and I still get the same responses whenever the topic comes up.

And the thing is…. I already changed my mind. I wanted kids, and I’ve been clucky for as long as I can remember. Deciding not to have them made me cry. It was a decision I spent literally a decade thinking about, and I was nearly 30 before I started telling people. So, very much NOT a “young girl.”

And yet everyone from family members to colleagues who barely know me feel that they know more about my decision than I do. They “know” that I’ll change my mind, even though they dont know that I already have. They “know” that I’ll regret not having them, despite not knowing about the relief I feel at the thought that my kids aren’t gonna have to face the world ten, fifteen, twenty, thirty years from now. They “know” that I’ll get clucky “one day,” as though I havent been clucky since I was 14.

So, yeah. Sometimes young girls will grow up and change their minds about having kids. Sometimes they’ll start off wanting them, and then grow up and decide not to have them.

And people will still feel that they have the right to tell you that you’re just a little girl who doesn’t know anything about herself, and will change your mind once you’re older.

Those people are wrong.

[clone001]

My family has a family history of depression, as in every single relative in the bloodline that had the language to describe it as depression has had it, and yeah, we've had suicides. My spouse is in the exact same boat. We're not having kids, they don't deserve double depression, don't wanna know what that looks like. It's not only rude to think girls are so niave that they don't know what they want, but also you don't know what's in their genes.

[mswyrr]

https://twitter.com/delaneykingrox/status/1090402436995473408

[woman-respecter]

a great thing about people transitioning is it presents us with scenarios where we have the perfect control variable to undeniably reveal sexism in the workplace. I read about a trans man neuroscientist who was told he was “so much smarter than his sister” (his sister being his pre-transition self)

and damn i knew the gaming industry was notoriously sexist (even more sexist than other stem fields, and that’s saying a lot) but seeing it laid out so clearly like this is so demoralizing.

[hi-raethia]

just some avatar + reductress headlines

[americanairliines-deactivated20]

Old hag by *veprikov

Being a witch is not the highest paid job in the world.

[nonimaginaryfriend]

I JUST WANT HER TO GET HER PRETTY PURPLE HAT AND BE HAPPY

[themc4s]

I would kill for a companion piece to this, where she gets her hat..

[zeebardbaird]

Im sobbing.

[mommakankri]

no seriously why hasn’t any replied to this image with a picture of her in the pretty hat c’mon tumblr please

[plintoon-reblogs]

Well it’s not much, but here’s a comic: 

Enjoy!

[mommakankri]

DEAD

[oldfrax]

Reblog every one of these happy end comics I don’t even care

[aurumacadicus]

Still thinking of a TikTok I saw a year ago where a girl with a shellfish allergy got a crab tattooed on her thigh with one of the claws exactly where her Epi Pen should be stabbed into her so she’d be able to wheeze out “stab the crab” if someone else needed to use her pen on her. Absolutely obsessed. The epitome of work smarter not harder.

[scottstiles]

Scott & Stiles Teen Wolf ✧ 1.1 Wolf Moon June 5th 2011

[userloki]

everyone say thank you to female directors

[systlin]

Something I find incredibly cool is that they’ve found neandertal bone tools made from polished rib bones, and they couldn’t figure out what they were for for the life of them. 

Until, of course, they showed it to a traditional leatherworker and she took one look at it and said “Oh yeah sure that’s a leather burnisher, you use it to close the pores of leather and work oil into the hide to make it waterproof. Mine looks just the same.” 

“Wait you’re still using the exact same fucking thing 50,000 years later???”

“Well, yeah. We’ve tried other things. Metal scratches up and damages the hide. Wood splinters and wears out. Bone lasts forever and gives the best polish. There are new, cheaper plastic ones, but they crack and break after a couple years. A bone polisher is nearly indestructible, and only gets better with age. The more you use a bone polisher the better it works.”

It’s just. 

50,000 years. 50,000. And over that huge arc of time, we’ve been quietly using the exact same thing, unchanged, because we simply haven’t found anything better to do the job. 

[saxifraga-x-urbium]

i also like that this is a “ask craftspeople” thing, it reminds me of when art historians were all “the fuck” about someone’s ear “deformity” in a portrait and couldn’t work out what the symbolism was until someone who’d also worked as a piercer was like “uhm, he’s fucked up a piercing there”. interdisciplinary shit also needs to include non-academic approaches because crafts & trades people know shit ok

[assasue]

One of my professors often tells us about a time he, as and Egyptian Archaeologist, came down upon a ring of bricks one brick high. In the middle of a house. He and his fellow researchers could not fpr the life of them figure out what tf it could possibly have been for. Until he decided to as a laborer, who doesnt even speak English, what it was. The guy gestures for my prof to follow him, and shows him the same ring of bricks in a nearby modern house. Said ring is filled with baby chicks, while momma hen is out in the yard having a snack. The chicks can’t get over the single brick, but mom can step right over. Over 2000 years and their still corraling chicks with brick circles. If it aint broke, dont fix it and always ask the locals.

[anx1ous-op0ssum]

I read something a while back about how pre-columbian Americans had obsidian blades they stored in the rafters of their houses. The archaeologists who discovered them came to the conclusion that the primitive civilizations believed keeping them closer to the sun would keep the blades sharper.

Then a mother looked at their findings and said “yeah, they stored their knives in the rafters to keep them out of reach of the children.”

[whatevercomestomymind]

Omg the ancient child proofing add on tho lol

[pbrim]

I remember years ago on a forum (email list, that’s how old) a woman talking about going to a museum, and seeing among the women’s household objects a number of fired clay items referred to as “prayer objects”.  (Apparently this sort of labeling is not uncommon when you have something that every house has and appears to be important, but no-one knows what it is.)  She found a docent and said, “Excuse me, but I think those are drop spindles.”  “Why would you think that, ma’am?”  “Because they look just like the ones my husband makes for me.  See?”  They got all excited, took tons of pictures and video of her spinning with her spindle.  When she was back in the area a few years later, they were still on display, but labeled as drop spindles.

[catchester]

So ancient Roman statues have some really weird hairstyles. Archaeologists just couldn’t figure them out. They didn’t have hairspray or modern hair bands, or elastic at all, but some of these things defied gravity better than Marge Simpson’s beehive.

Eventually they decided, wigs. Must be wigs. Or maybe hats. Definitely not real hair.

A hairdresser comes a long, looks at a few and is like, “Yeah, they’re sewn.”

“Don’t be silly!” the archaeologists cry. “How foolish, sewn hair indeed! LOL!”

So she went away and recreated them on real people using a needle and thread and the mystery of Roman hairstyles was solved.

She now works as a hair archaeologist and I believe she has a YouTube channel now where she recreates forgotten hairstyles, using only what they had available at the time.

[thebootydiaries]

me watching the olympics: where’s mario and sonic

[wonder-cripple-deactivated20250]

Stop trying to make disabled people feel bad for being loud and assertive about their needs.

We do not owe you simpering kindness or meek pleading in exchange for access, and you have no right to deny us just because you think we’re “rude”.

[pendejx-deactivated20200323]

A white person learning another language in the United States is a person looking to build a résumé.

A person of color learning English in the United States is a person looking to be treated like a human being.

It is not the same thing.

[pendejx-deactivated20200323]

Keep reblogging this white people are getting mad because they don’t know the difference between learning a language because it’s fun or to put it on applications and learning a language so you won’t get treated like garbage by everyone

[utopians]

"sex scenes have no narrative purpose" is such a funny take on so many levels. people will really believe that the whole human experience is valuable to portray artistically except sex, which of course has never held emotional weight or significance for anybody

[utopians]

"what's the purpose of sex scenes in media??" well you see sometimes people have sex. sometimes it can be important even

[bakaagou]

bro people aren't mad because sex scenes hold no plot significance, they're mad because sex scenes are EVERYWHERE and it's only further feeding into aphobia with the idea that "everyone has sex and if you don't that's weird" while also having ZERO understanding for sex repulsed people or people with trauma. we need to get rid of the idea that without sex you aren't fully "human" or "mature/adult" because that's messed up.

can I please just once in my life be able to watch a movie that isn't targeted for kids without having to get through a sex scene?? please??

same thing goes for romance!! can I please watch a movie that's clearly supposed to be about adventure/action without two characters randomly kissing?? that would be great.

[clone001]

There are so many interesting stories to tell where sex and/or romanance aren’t an important part of the narative. Can we please get better at telling them? 

[namtan]

[clone001]

the last gif just being: OOooH I fucked up didn't I