My Heart's A Wishing Well

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[nocontextgoodplace]

[icanthearyoudude]

to the people who are following me

thank you

im sorry

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Knives produced by Japanese blacksmith Akira Yamashita in the shapes of Sperm Whale, Minke Whale, Fin Whale, and Bryde Whale (from top to bottom)

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Hermann David Salomon Corrodi - A fisherman and mermaids in the blue grotto on Capri

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Scottish artist Elizabeth Blackadder, Irises, 2010

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Kamwei Fong

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Japanese Lanterns - Luther Emerson van Gorder 1895

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Tsushiya Koitsu

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Walter Henry Williams

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Leon Dabo, Canadian Night. 1913.

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Shibata Zeshin 柴田是真

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[kibumsfreakk]

Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK

[nyangibun]

This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[thenutofroyalty]

Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂

[beatrice-otter]

In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer.  In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job.  Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.

And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what!  People are living with their parents again.  But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.

[bogleech]

A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time. World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”

[heaven-nor-hell]

I love when these posts randomly become tiny history lessons, it soothes me

[halcyonforthepeople]

“I’m insane enough to think I’m gonna get out with my skin and start my life again.”

[vladtheunfollower]