Aspiring House Mouse

Emmet. he/they. Twenty-something. This site raised me and it shows.

[emlemony]

"There is more in us than we know. If we could be made to see it; perhaps, for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.”

- Kurt Hahn, founder of Outward Bound

[homunculus-argument]

If you could take one historical person with you to visit some thing or place for a few hours, who would you take and where?

I'd take Beethoven to a rave. Not because I'd think he'd particularly enjoy the scene, but he would have loved experiencing an event where you're supposed to feel the music vibrating through the air and the floor.

[iamthepulta]

The joke answer is giving any Babylonian scribe Microsoft Excel. I desperately want to see them enjoy =sum().

The real answer is taking Ennigaldi-Nanna to see the Smithsonian Museums. She was the high priestess of Ur, daughter of Nabonidus, King of Babylon. He is considered one of the kings most interested in archaeological history and likely passed this off to his daughter, as she ran what is considered the first museum of chronologically organized and labeled artifacts from the last 1500 years of Babylonian history.

I think the scale of information we've gathered and are able to share would delight her, and she'd also be deeply relieved that we still look at the Babylonians and Assyrians today as great archaeological powers and some of the longest-lasting cultural influences of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. Especially since she lived to see the Fall of Babylon in 539 BC and would've seen the Achaemenid Empire overtake Mesopotamia- politically, if not culturally.

[homunculus-argument]

I love the idea that even if we account for there being a language barrier, she would probably be pretty quick to recognise what this is. There's labels she can't read written in letters she doesn't recognise, in languages she has never heard, but they're next to artefacts on display, so clearly this is a museum! And she would know why you wanted to show this to her. That you knew that she she would love to see it.

[sleepy-bebby]

[themoonandmyman]

to whom am I squeaking

[maidslime]

No more waiting, no more debating, go get your hrt. "I don't know if I'm really trans!" You are. Now go. "I'm scared!" We all were. Now go. "There's a long wait to be seen!" Go get your name on the list then. DIY if you need. "What if my friends don't accept me?" They weren't really your friends. Now go. "What if my spouse doesn't accept me?" Get a divorce. Now go. You do not need to continue to live in agony and depression to pretend to be someone else. Go get your hrt.

[maidslime]

The original incarnation of this post inspired SO MANY people to start hrt! I cannot help resolve every situation specifically, but most people can absolutely accomplish this step! If you want hrt GET IT

[velartis]

Franz Kafka, 1912

[shamebats]

"it's just stress" oh thank god, it's just the silent killer that slowly kills you, perfectly harmless, no need to worry

[imdrinkingmiso]

I am doing whatever the opposite of locked in is .

[taavicleric]

I am locked out. I am in the parking lot. The rain is coming.

[theconcealedweapon]

A teenager cannot get reconstructive surgery. But a parent can circumcise a baby.

A teenager cannot get body modifications. But a parent can pierce a baby's ears.

A teenager (or even a 20 year old) cannot buy cigarettes. But a parent can smoke in places where their toddler is forced to be.

What a teenager chooses is met with stricter scrutiny than what's forced on a very young child.

[ursiday]

Earth

[accessible-art]

[ID from Alt: an acrylic gouache painting of a curled up cat colored like the earth. End ID]

[endof-vanity]

[lilyblisslys]

the main trick to dancing at a goth club is:

1. Imagine you’re a powerful wizard

2. Imagine you’re channeling mana for one of your strongest spells

[yorgen-sh]

[soulmvtes]

a week of getting caught in downpours

[youngerfrankenstein]

To put it very bluntly.

You will always make a better impact helping people who need it than trying to hurt people you think deserve it.

[crumbofmoon]

i fuck with this heavily

[uberfluss]

first 5 faceless emojis are how your summers gonna go

[toothfairyinc]

never let the fact that you were born a girl stop you from being the gayest man alive