Thoughts like forests

20s Figuring out a new life, confusion ensues

[loveridden1999]

"it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world."

[homeofhousechickens]

One of the things that irks my brain with social media is how people will just be loudly and proudly wrong or argumentative about the most inane stuff. The use of AI has only made this worse. 🫩

[homeofhousechickens]

Newest "woo" and antivax rhetoric is that Rabies doesnt exist

[homeofhousechickens]

Am I the only one who remembers a few years ago how a few groups of people were saying they wanted to infiltrate antivax groups to see if they could convince them rabies isnt real or do I just sound like a conspiracy theorist.

Rabies is real I have seen it multiple times. Anyone who says it isnt is just plain ignorant, stupid, or being a troll if not all three.

[craftingrovingrambler]

It's like watching my coworkers talk about not getting a tetanus shot

In a trade where we get regular scrapes from old, rusty nails and other disgusting stuff. There are scrapes all over my legs

[craftingrovingrambler]

Call the midwife should be a required watch for these people. The realities of poor neighbourhoods in the 50s and 60s will make you realise many a thing. And even though it is set in London, I doubt it was much different in most major European cities.

Back when vaccines where miracles.

Did medication fuck up a lot of things, and where there scary, awful scandals? Yes

But so many children didn't die because of the invention of vaccines

[homeofhousechickens]

One of the things that irks my brain with social media is how people will just be loudly and proudly wrong or argumentative about the most inane stuff. The use of AI has only made this worse. 🫩

[homeofhousechickens]

Newest "woo" and antivax rhetoric is that Rabies doesnt exist

[homeofhousechickens]

Am I the only one who remembers a few years ago how a few groups of people were saying they wanted to infiltrate antivax groups to see if they could convince them rabies isnt real or do I just sound like a conspiracy theorist.

Rabies is real I have seen it multiple times. Anyone who says it isnt is just plain ignorant, stupid, or being a troll if not all three.

[craftingrovingrambler]

It's like watching my coworkers talk about not getting a tetanus shot

In a trade where we get regular scrapes from old, rusty nails and other disgusting stuff. There are scrapes all over my legs

[torchickentacos]

one of the best pieces of advice I've ever heard (for myself, at least) is that if you're in a terrible mood and NOTHING is helping, then start doing the chores/responsibilities/job stuff/etc that you've been putting off. Will it put you in an even worse mood temporarily? Probably, but you're already pissed off, so you might as well double up on it at that point 😭 there's no loss. It's not like finally getting around to cleaning the house and scheduling appointments is going to ruin the good day that you aren't currently having to begin with 💀 And then, when the bad mood passes, you'll have gotten shit done and you'll feel a lot better later, even if in the moment you're having The Worst Time Ever about it.

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

Like a new friend!

[ellakas]

[ellakas]

[knight--error]

CANNOT take credit for these, my sister in law made them. Behold.

[magicratfingers]

i need this completed or ill die who is kitty?? WHO IS LYDIA

[fishing4stars]

@scyllas-revenge this has your name written all over it. twice.

[scyllas-revenge]

Ahh my two favorite things smushed together!!

[ellakas]

as op of this post this had me laughing truly out loud @scyllas-revenge

my bro in law: I hope they fold their gowns properly

[scyllas-revenge]

Hell yes I'm getting a good grade in reblogging

something that is normal to want and possible to achieve

[spacemomnephmoreau]

I gotta throw in a tag for @bethanydelleman because I hope you can hear this as clearly as I can!

[lytefoot]

@hillnerd

[elodieunderglass]

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a group on an adventure must be in want of a hobbit.

[rimonoroni2]

my general opinion on what people should be "allowed" to portray and what topics they should be "allowed" to explore in fiction is that you can make whatever art with whatever themes you want but i'm also allowed to think the way you handled it was tasteless and should've been done differently. my negative opinion on your handling of sensitive topics is the price of admission for publicly showcasing your work. this is not a pro-censorship stance because i am not The Government

[rimonoroni2]

this is getting really popular so i’d like to add the important caveat that your criticism of a work is no more unassailable than the work itself. just as one is entitled to be critical of something someone else is entitled to disagree with that criticism. i add this because some of you pretend to give a fuck about thoughtful analysis and then when someone points out flaws in your argument you declare that all criticisms are valid. this is untrue. the status of a hater is no more sacred than that of a liker. get off your high horse and engage in the thoughtful discussion you pretend to believe in or perish by my blade

[dionysiaproductions]

Your video of Moonpie reminded me of our conversation when you got her. I may have strongly encouraged you. And now, I finally got a little one myself. The only male of the litter, from a friend where he can stay until I move. I can't wait 🥹 he's the first animal I will get all by myself :)

YAY!!!! That's so wonderful. I'm really excited for you (and for your boy)! Having a creature of one's own is an absolutely magical thing.

(Re:Moonpye, I did appreciate the strong encouragement to get her. She's the first cat I've been the primary caregiver for and it was a bit of leap to adopt her--but a very good one.)

[craftingrovingrambler]

Yesss, me too!

Moonpye looks so content in every picture. So happy you get to experience her.

His name will probably be Björn. Buttt I can still be persuaded

[craftingrovingrambler]

Cat tax of he who shall henceforth be nameth Björn

[dionysiaproductions]

Your video of Moonpie reminded me of our conversation when you got her. I may have strongly encouraged you. And now, I finally got a little one myself. The only male of the litter, from a friend where he can stay until I move. I can't wait 🥹 he's the first animal I will get all by myself :)

YAY!!!! That's so wonderful. I'm really excited for you (and for your boy)! Having a creature of one's own is an absolutely magical thing.

(Re:Moonpye, I did appreciate the strong encouragement to get her. She's the first cat I've been the primary caregiver for and it was a bit of leap to adopt her--but a very good one.)

[craftingrovingrambler]

Yesss, me too!

Moonpye looks so content in every picture. So happy you get to experience her.

His name will probably be Björn. Buttt I can still be persuaded

[laptitesacrament]

Last month knitting project : the pattern Lulu by Rebecca Colère in the Coast yarn by Baa Ram Ewe!

It’s too hot in Mtl to wear it but it’s ready for this autumn!

[lilcraftycrispy]

do people post their knitting on tumblr? i hope they do!!! anyways, here's the 2 full jumpers I've made this year obsessed with both of them can't wait til it gets colder again and I can rock them

patterns both off ravelry and both free which is insane I'll reblog with links if I remember to lolzer

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[mylordshesacactus]

"Delete all the nudes and sexts after a breakup or you're a piece of shit" has been the standard expectation since EIGHT. TEEN. EIGHTY. FIVE.

[mylordshesacactus]

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

Anyway I was wrong the publishing date is actually 1882 so like.

[mylordshesacactus]

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

So like @ the modern Republican party, are the "traditional family values" in the fucking room with us right now--

[bethanydelleman]

Okay that first quote is so very directed at Rosamund and Lydgate from Middlemarch it's insane

All of this is so interesting

[artsekey]

Reading a book about the psychology of friendship (that, oh by the way, taps the ace and trans communities in its discussion not as clinical categories but by including anecdotes from people in those communities!!) and somehow it encouraged me to quadruple down on saying:

We literally do not have enough friendships. Our culture's obsession with romance over friendship is shockingly new (1850's on) and it is having a serious impact on our health across the board, specifically men. This problem has become sharply exacerbated in the last 20 years.

We need more friendships. We need more friendship in media. "But what if they kissed?" What if they didn't, and the love that was there mattered anyway??? Take my hand. Imagine this with me. A relationship unbound by law or expectation. People who choose one another again and again. To stay in each other's lives when there are no societal tethers holding them together.

Go read Platonic by Marisa G. Franco (PhD).

[creekfiend]

many women are excited to get old and weird, but i have great news that it's fully possible to become weird now, before you get old. just imagine the heights of weirdness you will be able to reach in fifty years if you get started now. that's what I think

[anachrosims]

just in case anyone forgot how wildly colorful Georgian interiors could be, even among the working class to the wealthy:

[anachrosims]

and EVEN WHEN things were more muted/neutral, the neutrality was OFFSET by ACCENT COLORS and HIGH CONTRAST between the wood tones and everything ELSE

ALSO AMERICAN COLONIAL INTERIORS POPPED OFF, Y'ALL (IN TERMS OF COLOR/COZINESS)

PEOPLE USED WHITEWASH AND COLORFUL TRIM OR EVEN JUST COLORFUL FURNITURE IF THEY COULD AFFORD TO DO SO

AND DON'T GET ME STARTED ON FRENCH AND BRITISH AND AMERICAN WALLPAPERS

"ELIZABETH" YOU CRY, "WHY ARE YOU BEING SO EXTRA THIS MORNING?! IT'S MONDAY"

Because, my friend, my war on GREIGE will NEVER end.

Historic interiors were filled with LIFE and LIGHT and COLOR. ALWAYS HAVE BEEN.

Part of the reason we don't see a lot of textile art is because, frankly, textiles tend to degrade over time - especially ones that had utility! And yes, pigments and weaving and dying all boosted the expense of things, when we were finally reliably block-printing fabrics and broad reams of paper, it was no longer just the wealthy who could afford pretty patterns!

In the Americas, a far wider variety of pigments also became available because of the abundance of... well, a shitton of flora and minerals, some of which weren't as common in Europe.

WHY THE HIGHLIGHTER COLORS? you ask.

CANDLES.

Those colors reflect candlelight and natural sunlight REALLY WELL.

Humans LOVE bright colors, it's NOT just a thing for kids. We live in a brilliant, vibrant, multifaceted world. We ALWAYS have.

(STOP MAKING YOUR HISTORIC SIMS 4 BUILDS BE BLAND. STOP IT.)

[periodinteriors]

On the subject of Colonial America: don't forget, even if you couldn't afford wallpaper, wall stenciling might still be in reach!

(If ever you have the opportunity to visit the Stencil House at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont (pictured above at 3, 4, and 5), I highly recommend.)

And that's before you get into American painted murals:

Embrace the decorative arts, folks!

[havingapoemwithyou]

I THINK LOVE IS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS TO OTHER PEOPLE by Michael Gray Bulla

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

so what you're gonna do is you're gonna trim the top off a bulb of garlic, using the knife's edge to take off the tip of every individual clove, that's important. you're gonna place the garlic face-up in a square of tinfoil, drizzle with olive oil, wrap completely in foil, place in baking tray, repeat with a copious amount of garlic bulbs. you're gonna put that baking tray in an oven set to 375-400°F, for 30-50 minutes, until soft and browned. you're gonna toast some good bread, slather generously with butter and honey, maybe a tiny lil bit o' salt. and then. you're gonna SQUEEZE. OUT. THAT. ROASTED GARLIC. onto the butter honey toast. and you're gonna eat it. food stolen directly from the plate of the gods. that's what you're gonna do.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

the garlic. it beckons you

[thesweetestsupervillains]

It occurs to me that "1920s gangster doing a cooking show while holding you at gunpoint" is an untapped market.

We've had normal cooking shows. Now we need period piece cooking shows in character.