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Pebbles ✷ 29 ✷ Aquarius [she/her]

[ms-demeanor]

How do you feel about driving?

I can drive, I am good at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am good at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I enjoy driving.

I can drive, I am bad at driving, I do not enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I think I would enjoy driving.

I haven't learned to drive, I do not think I would enjoy driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I enjoyed driving.

I can't drive anymore, I was good at it, I didn't enjoy it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I enjoyed it.

I can't drive anymore, I was bad at it, I didn't enjoy it.

Remaining time: 14 hours 40 minutes

[pangur-and-grim]

pressed against the heating vent with TWO big pillows

[beemovieerotica]

tumblr user 1: you guys should drink more plain water, it's good for you

tumblr user 2: actually you can drink whatever you want all the time

tumblr user 3: yee and water is icky :(

tumblr user 4: I literally can't drink plain water as I'll instantly start throwing up, some people's bodies simply can't process it, you can't make blanket statements about what's good or not good for someone else's digestive system

tumblr user 5: ooouugh.. tony the tiger hairy armpits 😩

[iridessence]

silver screen…

[grrlmusic]

Minami Gessel

[fleshisartificial]

hehe holding a stall for work today and a lady was like "do I know you, do you act or perform?" and I'm like no no you've probs just seen me around, to which she then studies my face for a moment longer and goes "..... I'd remember that hair............" then wonders off

[nunchler]

every time i see trad gender roles people being weird about fibercraft i wanna tell them

-medieval and early modern knitting guilds were full of men learning and perfecting fancy knitting techniques to impress rich clients

-in cold, wet climates like the scottish highlands knitting was done by the whole family, in fact it was the perfect activity to do while a man was out on a fishing boat or in the pasture with his sheep and cattle

-men who were away from women for a long time had to know how to knit and sew at least well enough to mend their own clothes. soldiers knitted. sailors knitted. cowboys and frontiersmen knitted. vikings probably knitted (actually they would have been doing a kind of proto knitting called nalbinding, but that's beside the point). all those guys the far right love to treat as ultra masculine heroes were sitting around their barracks and campfires at night darning their socks and knitting themselves little hats

[knottybliss]

Roman soldiers literally spun as they walked using kickspindles

[dangerphd]

every merchant marine I know can knit a rope hammock on broomsticks in a couple hours tops.

[yarnandink]

We have literal photo evidence of shepherd men knitting on stilt stools while watching their grazing flocks. Because knitting or spinning yarn was relatively easy and portable, kept them occupied enough to avoid boredom but also left them enough attention to make sure their flocks remained safe, and resulted in something they could sell to supplement their income from the fleeces, milk, cheeses and meat of their flock.

Once the knitting guilds dissolved as economic powers (partially due to the advent of semi-mechanised knitting machines, which outsourced knitting to "unskilled" croft and cottage-dwelling families rather than restricting the industry to select trained guildsmen), knitting throughout Europe was more likely to be an activity relegated to socio-economic classes than to gender roles, especially prior to the mid-19th century when it was slowly embraced as a leisure activity by wealthy women (in much the same way that embroidery had been embraced in earlier centuries).

And sure, there's an entire conversation to be had about how patriarchal structures have forced women to be more economically vulnerable than men throughout Western history, which therefore meant that once knitting was spread beyond the guilds' tight regulation, a lot of women began knitting because they were poor and it was a relatively portable form of work to earn an income.

Just as there's a conversation to be had about why various occupations and activities are devalued once enough women begin practising them - and especially once the activities are practised by "ladies of leisure", who were seen as being especially frivolous - and why we then collectively develop amnesia about the respect our society held for that occupation or activity just a few generations earlier (think also about teaching, nursing, secretarial and administrative occupations - all previously male-dominated careers that were paid well and seen as respectable, but have been steadily devalued as more women entered the field).

But if that conversation ignores the fact that men are punished and constrained by patriarchal and socio-economic demands, that men have just as much place in the history of fibrecrafts as women, but have been erased from that history by people whose ideology demands that they never have taken part in "feminine" duties... then that conversation will be disingenuous and only half of the true conversation.

[milksockets]

fetish images: marquis competition 1995 - marquis magazine

[twotheleft]

[digitalismmm]

Classical architecture

[yodaprod]

New baroque column

[iamoutofideas]

my little pony fans left in shambles after creator lauren faust reveals that the horses names are actually stinky pie, applejerk, and the other pointless cunts.

[fleshisartificial]

i'm about 2/3rd's through reading Jane Eyre and out of all the male romantic leads I've read in period books Mr Rochester is definitely my least favourite. I already know about his secret locked away, but even if I didn't he's just a fucking wanker

[bandtshirt]

enveloppe du désert (desert coil), backstage at oumou sy, dakar fashion week, 2000

africa is in style

[passumbapper]

did chikorita ever end up decreasing the increase or was that another of bidens failed promises

[galaxywarp]

that saultry little binch in STILL in the bottom lsft

[steampunkforever]

I would still use my turn signals in the Mad Max Wasteland. They'd call me "Signal" because I'd hit my blinker before ramming the enemy hot rods into the side of a desert ravine. I'd use my turn signal every time. They would respect me for this.

[kraken17]

"That is Signal, the Last Follower of the Old Law."

[henk-heijmans]

Isabella Rossellini (Italian/American, 1952), 1992 - by Helmut Newton (1920 – 2004), German/Australian

[thisblogisdead2017]

Dita Von Teese in Marquis’ Stiletto Sluts 1.