Cognizant of Many Things

Former teacher, entering the world of social work.  A lover of cats, memes, drag queens (hedonssippingseagrams on the side) , and social justice.

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couldn’t stop thinking about this post

[ramblingsarah]

gotta lie down every time I remember this recording and the post about it

[somebodycallixii]

Love as Acceptance

Caitlyn Siehl // Leonard Cohen, "Anthem" // Rumi, "Bitterweet" // trans. Anne Carson, "Euripides" // Sade Andria Zabala, "Coffee and Cigarettes" // tumblr acct @/gayassnatural // Anne Carson, "H of H Playbook" // William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 116" // Clementine von Radics, "Mouthful of Forevers" // Toni Morrison, "Jazz"

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2008 vs. 2022

[ham-napkin]

I just think it slaps

[theoldgaylion]

@nadjasnandor

[left-reminders]

[eeeeeeeeeeek1]

[schrodingers-slut]

[oikabooks]

“[Charlotte] finally had to break the news to Ellen of her intention to go to Brussels, news that she knew full well would distress her. […] Ellen tried to persuade Charlotte to stay. Charlotte admitted being tempted and wrote on 20 January 1842: ‘You tantalise me to death with talking of conversations by the fireside and between the blankets.“ Significantly, the words ‘and between the blankets’ were omitted from Mrs Gaskell’s biography, either through her own choice or at Ellen’s request. It is a puzzling omission, given that it is acknowledged that Charlotte and Ellen shared a bed at Haworth and that in doing this they were merely conforming to the social norm of the time. Perhaps it was simply too direct and concrete a detail of intimacy for Victorian public taste. It is conceivable, however, that it was omitted because, even as early as 1857, such a detail might suggest a physical sexual contact between the two women which would have been a perfectly natural but socially unacceptable expression of the passion unequivocally expressed in the letters. Discussion of Charlotte Bronte’s two years in Brussels invariably revolves around her relationship with Constantin Heger, the Belgian teacher who, with his wife, ran the boarding-school for young ladies where Charlotte and Emily went to study. Charlotte, it is claimed, fell in love with Heger and this is seen by numerous biographers and critics as the major experience of her life. What do Charlotte Bronte’s feelings for Constantin Heger really add up to? There exist four letters written by Charlotte over a period of two years. It is true that she addressed them to Heger only, rather than the Hegers as a couple. It is true that they contain remarks which denote affection. She wrote, for example: ‘I love French for your sake with all my heart and soul.’ On the other hand, they are almost nothing compared to the passionate affection of her letters over an incomparably longer time to Ellen. Often the phrasing is similar. In 1837, for example, she had written to Ellen regarding Ellen’s mother and sister, saying ‘I love them for your sake.’ She referred to Heger as an idol carved in rock. This is echoed in Chapter 24 of Jane Eyre as Jane fears that she ‘could not see God for His creature, of whom I have made an idol’. On 20 February 1837, Charlotte had expressed to Ellen her fear that they were 'in danger of loving each other too well - of losing sight of the Creator in the idolatry of the creature’. It hardly needs comment that the idea of the idolised loved one is generally regarded as significant when attached to Heger but not regarded when attached to Ellen.”

— Elaine Miller, The Relationship of Charlotte Brontë and Ellen Nussey, in Not A Passing Phase

[dream-by-day]

Let Charlotte Bronte be gay

[tariqah]

Interspecies lesbianism

[onedeadkitty]

It’s cute guys

[rosalui]

nothing but respect for MY lesbian big cat couple

[butchflirt]

Butch/Butch couple

[lumpatronics]

This is actually hella interesting, bc in simple terms, tigers are extroverts and lions are introverts. There’s more to it, but that’s the gist.

Whenever zoo’s tried to put lions and tigers in the same enclosures, the tiger would eventually try to groom the lioness and play constantly. The lioness would lose patience and snaps at them

So basically what I’m saying is that you have a regal and refined gf who stands at the edge of a balcony during parties, sipping champagne

Then you have the other girl who drank all of the little flutes on the servers platter, and is now drunkenly pointing at her gf and telling everyone that that’s her gf and doesn’t she look beautiful I love her so much

[hillnerd-art]

So I had to draw them in human form???

[slinkanorabundyblr]

You drew them in the corresponding ethnicities for their Geographic locations!!! Bless you, you have no idea how sick and tired I am of white human lion king characters.

[antique-scarecrow]

This post is deemed culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant as certified by the National Shitpost Registry.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

<3 FLAWLESS COUPLE <3

[insomniac-arrest]

movies about apocalypses: it’s every man for himself!! you can’t trust anyone, it’s a wasteland of solo travelers and sad families, we’re alone out here

humans irl: *pack bond with strangers*

*pack bond with large carnivores*

*pack bond with robots in space thousands of miles away*

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Apocalypse preppers who fantasise about all our artificial rules and governments falling away in times of chaos seem to forget that we invented those rules and governments. Over and over. When you put humans near each other, they group up and make a society; that’s why those  governments exist. Do they think we magically stop doing that in dangerous situations? Because… we don’t.

[digitaldiscipline]

hopepunk doesn’t have time for your racist doomsday hard-on, carl.

[lesbianshepard]

prehistoric burials make me really emotional because people go “it’s natural to only think of yourself to get ahead! people who don’t do anything shouldn’t be a part of society! back in caveman days they would have died!”

but there is archaeological proof that this is wrong. That even at our most “primitive” we cared about the well being of others.

like Shanindar 1. Shanindar 1 is a neanderthal from 35,000 to 45,000 years ago who was buried with many others in Shanindar Cave, Israel. At this point in time we had not yet developed settlements. Shanindar 1 was part of a nomadic hunter-gatherer group.

Shanindar 1 was severely disabled. From his skeleton we can gather the following 

At a young age he had suffered a blow to the face which left him blind in one eye

He had significant hearing loss from birth deformities. One ear canal was completely blocked, while the other was only mostly blocked. 

His right, and probably dominant, arm was withered, fractured, and the bottom half amputated.

He had a limp, possibly from a degenerative disease.

If you believe that it’s only natural to abandon the weak he should have been left to die instead of drain the group’s resources. Someone like that would have needed assistance for his entire life. He would have slowed the group down with his limp. His sensory impairments meant he would require help to spot and defend himself from predators. His arm meant he couldn’t hunt or build. 

He lived well into his 40s. For a neanderthal of that era he would be considered old. His group decided that they would help him survive not because he brought anything to the group, but because he was still a person who mattered to them. Even at the end of his life he wasn’t abandoned; he was buried with dozens of others.

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[iameverysparklywoman]

Her Body and Other Parties Is in Development As a Black Mirror-esque Series

Gina Welch of The Terror is attached to write.

OMG…

[dippersballoon]

I saw an opportunity and I took it

[offline-kinq]

This is what they mean when they say life flashes before your eyes as you die

[udon-tea]

For those wondering, the song is ”Mr. Blue Sky” by ELO.

Perhaps someone beat me to it, but here are ALL of the featured vines, in order of appearance:

I won’t hesitate bitch

Hi my name is Tre and I have a basketball game tomorrow

Whaddup, I’m Jared I’m 19 and I never fucking learned how 2 read

Kermit the Frog jumps off building

Fr e sh a voca do

back at it again at Krispy Kreme

There is only one thing worse than a rapist

Club Jam (yes a really good book)

At least the taco was free

I am the Sand Guardian, guardian of the sand

Grandma loves ping pong too much

If your name is Junior

Welcome to Target

I’m just cooking pizza

Cole Sprouse dress-up game

On all levels except physical, I am a Wolf

Kid hits ceiling of gym with rope (breaking free)

Kid smacked by fly swatter

Fuck it up Kenneth (my boy going to school)

Um I’m not finished (Tyler the Creator)

WE’RE BREAKING FREE

SAIL

I’m Squidward

So I’m sitting there, barbecue sauce on my tiddies

So no head? (breaking skateboard)

Actually, Megan (I can’t sit anywhere)

No off topic questions (Chris Christie)

What the fuck, Richard

Drop it like it’s hot (its just luke)

Bored as shiiiiii

Liberian accent (plasma globe)

New haircut (Parker Kit Hill)

Summertime sadness (chicken)

More like hurricane TORTILLA

I got an a-bor-tion

All Around the World (TheJasminator)

When there’s a cutie next to you at a red light

Snake licks lollipop

Accept yourself, love yourself

Be whatever you wanna be

Don’t touch Zac’s music (LENARR)

Whoever threw that paper, your mom’s a ho

Can I please get a waffle?

Turn off the flash you fucking moron (Star Wars)

Ebony Jenkins (shut up!)

Kevin, watch the light dude

Horse meditation

A girl a dream & a clothing hanger

Is that a weed? (911 microwave)

Helium balloons (floating car)

Fireplace fairy

I’m your freestyle dance teacher

I can’t believe you’ve done this

Which way the Quiznos is

Impossible paper toss shot

Hemtube (dancing with cat)

I nurture my skin (Shaq)

Why are you running

Happy birthday?

Thicker than a bowl of oatmeal (courtroom)

Farkle falling

Fuck you (soda machine)

Squash banana (the branch I was holding broke)

Take On Me

And now my sock is wet (water gun)

All I ever wanted was some motherfuckin guala

When there’s too much drama at school

Two bros chillin in the Hot Tub

What’s your name? (ouija board)

Chillary Clinton (chillin in Cedar Rapids)

Guy drops slurpee (7-Eleven)

Girl scared of convertible car

Guy who is self-conscious about his lisp (Rice Krispies Treats)

Would you like the spider on your hand?

Shopping cart crash

We actually have the chip reader now

I’M A GIRAFFE

Dinner with Zayn Malik (Chihuahua eating spaghetti)

I HOPE IT’S HELPFUL TO SOMEONE! Peace ( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

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this gave me such a warm feeling i legit teared up no joke

[axmmatt]

BEAUTY

[redadhdventures]

Shout out to my Arabic teacher that looked at us yesterday mid-lesson and said, “I’m worried. You all look exhausted and depressed.”

Of we were all like, “Oh yeah we’re dead inside, you haven’t noticed?”

And he snapped shut the textbook, threw up his hands and said, “That’s not healthy! No more vocab! Time for dancing!”

And he taught us a dance from Iraq and we danced instead of doing vocab. We didn’t stop dancing until he saw all of us laughing and was satisfied that we were all feeling better. It was perhaps the coolest, most kind-hearted thing I’ve ever seen a college instructor do.

[jasper-rolls]

for the last three nights i have imagined someone saying “pizza man said fuck work” but like as a detective in a 50s noir

[jasper-rolls]

“And the pizza man? [long drag on cigar, small scoff, light smirk] Well…he said ‘fuck work’.”

[buzzfeed]

perfect

[popculturebrain]

yes

[yiffmaster]

this is about The Grinch

[chulshik]

I was out with a friend tonight doing one of my fave things. Reading the backs of romance novels aloud. Found this gem.

This is honestly the most wild sounding romance novel I have ever seen and thought it might brighten someone’s day.

[island-delver-go]

[creed-of-corruption]

OK FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON’T REALIZE, SANDRA HILL IS THE WOMAN WHO WROTE “ROUGH AMD READY” ANOTHER EROTIC VIKING NOVEL. SOME OF THE MORE MEMORABLE QUOTES BEING:

“As Hilda’s buttermilk bosoms squished up against his granite abs, Torolf almost had a dick aneurysm.”

“Torolf entered her like she was a lottery. His engorged pecker pushed inside her and she felt fulfilled with sexual fulfillment.”

“Her body was like a beautiful flower that was opening and somebody was pushing their dick inside it.”

YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I HAVE READ THIS TO AT COLLEGE. ONE GUY COMPLETELY LOST IT FOR LIKE 10 MINUTES AFTER HEARING THE PHRASE “DICK ANEURYSM.”

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[vulpyx]

@wylaan