GIANT’S TOE

Sandra / twenties / she/her

[beatchya]

The Shining, 1980.

[ryebreadgf]

[buckskinboots]

Whale bones in Gufuskálar

[pmamtraveller]

2500 years old statue of Aphrodite

[aesfocus]

[yurisskates]

I don't wanna get yelled at for going overboard. So if you start bawling and apologizing, I won't kill you.

[1o9]

[transhuman-priestess]

the way teenagers are treated these days is wild. when i was a teenager we were all watching porn, jerking off, and going to horror movies with 3000 gallons of blood. Nowadays they make kids get a permission slip to watch anything darker than Barney the Dinosaur. Insane.

[transhuman-priestess]

Every year we infantilize teenagers more and more and act surprised when they grow up to be terrified, angry, emotionally stunted adults.

[genderkoolaid]

& then for some reason people fixate more on "ugh these teenagers just want to be treated like babies!!! teenagers are to blame for the rise in puritanism!!!!!" than how this is a very obvious example of ageism and the increased control over a socially vulnerable and exploited group

[absolxguardian]

I think a commonly overlooked part of this coddling is that it teaches kids and teenagers to be afraid of things they don't need to be afraid of, which is exactly how they end up as "puriteens". I remember as a child being terrified to change the channel on the tv because I had ended up with the impression that seeing even seconds of an R rated movie or tv show would give me nightmares. And then as a tween every time I saw swearing I felt sick to my stomach because I had been taught such a thing is bad and harmful. I think I would have suffered less if I hadn't been raised with everyone around me acting like mature media was so bad. By the time I was a teenager I had figured out this was bunk, but understandably a lot of people don't. By making this whole system worse and stronger you have teens who have been told that seeing explicit or dark media Will Harm Them, and so they act in ways that would be appropriate if it really was the info-hazard it's implied to be.

[headspace-hotel]

^^ never heard anybody specifically talk about this but yeah. parents acting like sexual or any "dark" content in a story or show was going to put bad things in my head that were going to be there permanently just gave me a deeply distressing sort of contamination anxiety

[expressions-of-nature]

Dolgiye Mountains, Russia by Arseny Kashkarov

[mrsterlingeverything]

28 is the oldest you can get in your 20s. 29 is crazy young like leave them alone weirdo. 30 is old 31 is super young

[dogpuppy]

[hotvampireadjacent]

This would be a place of worship if I bought it

[whoknowswherethetimegoes]

Janis Joplin at Chelsea Hotel, 1969.

[thecrochetedcocoon]

flower shafer beetle doily is out!!! <3

[enki2]

[vintagewildlife]

Quetzal By: Unknown photographer From: The Grolier Illustrated Encyclopedia of Animals 1994

[whimsy-flags]

Pride Crows for @velvetfur! Enjoy~

[lavendercowboyart]

trans rights (and wrongs) seagull illustrations— inspired by @citizen.reid’s video (on TikTok and insta) of a seagull with a trans flag!!

I may add this to my shop if there’s enough interest! :)