Why am I here

A Mess ™

[turing-tested]

[candyredterezii]

[feazelbal]

[kelgrid]

I’m at my dog sitting job in a pretty old countryside farm and the lady who does the cleaning up here told me this morning that there are old tunnels (now closed up) running from the house to the church (1km) and I did not want to know that

[kelgrid]

Imagine what could come from there? Ghouls, ghosts, vampires?

[kelgrid]

[antisisyphus]

2 any bisexuals that need to hear this tonight; you are stupid, you are slutty, you are sexy, you are valid

[madisonsaferillustration]

I will also be inspired by the love between Frog and Toad. 

[sandandglass]

[bigtrashfire]

[math-memes]

[saintemiliosandoz]

THE WHAT

[johnturturro]

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

The thing I love about Arthurian mythology is that it's basically entirely made up of fanfiction, and nobody seems to grasp exactly what that means.

Look, as far as we know, the first King Arthur accounts were at least slightly meant to be historical. So either there was a guy named Arthur at around that time, who may or may not have been anything like the Arthur of legend, or some monk couldn't remember who really fought in that battle and just went "well, Arthur's a nice name. And, let's see, he killed... 900 men."

And then people started writing RPF about this guy, and Geoffrey of Monmouth's version got so popular that people started writing fanfic of that specifically, and then some of that got so popular (particularly with new OCs like Lancelot and Galahad) that they started writing fanfiction of that, and it all just spiralled from there.

And the thing nobody seems to get is that this means that there is no canon.

Like, technically you can't claim that any piece of writing about Camelot is more valid than any other, because there's no single, accepted, 'true author' and there's no original text (at least not one that contains everything everyone would like it to) and the entire thing is just a fucking mess of people enjoying themselves and writing about these characters because they like them and they can.

So like, Gawain and the Green Knight is canon, but so is BBC's Merlin. And the Vulgate cycle. And Disney's Sword in the Stone. There is genuinely no reason to claim that any one of these is less 'canon' than the others, because there is only fanon here.

Seriously, you could go away right now and write a fic in which Lancelot fucks a dragon, and if enough people like it then it will just become canon. It will just be an established fact of Arthurian mythology that Lancelot fucked a dragon (à la Donkey from Shrek) at some point.

And I really don't know why we don't take more advantage of this.

[tamamonomaes]

Oh boys you know what this means

[delphinidin4]

[mysharona1987]

[graypyre]

I just sent this to my husband and his response was “you can’t put a price on that” uh, yeah you can, they just did. 🙄

[lemonsharks]

The ’70s Feminist Manifesto That’s Still a Must-Read Today

Judy Brady Syfers wrote ‘I Want a Wife’ in 1971. It holds up.

[elljayvee]

My mother used to mutter “I want a WIFE” angrily from time to time.

Later, after my parents split up and my mom’s bff’s spouse died, mom’s bff moved in. Mom would come home from work and the house would be clean! Dinner would be ready! Laundry done! Homework checked!

She called me up, delighted, a few weeks into it. “I was right! I DID want a wife!”

[deputychairman]

i remember the blissful 14 months when me and my friend shared a nanny, and coming back into the living room to find she had spontaneously tidied up the extreme chaos. That must be what it’s like, being a man, that you can just walk away from some mess to get ready for work, and when you come back somebody else has dealt with it without any physical or mental effort from you. 

[cumaeansibyl]

I think about this essay all the time

[swedepea]

Seriously though, what do women gain from being with men?

[hakonohanayome]

[dunmertitty]

gay people heading to brunch

[mx-selfdestruct]

same picture

[venusoon]

Same pic

[silverjirachi]

[valtsv]

snufkin from moomins is literally the best character in anything ever. he’s gay. he’s trans. he’s an anarchist. literally everything he says is iconic as well as being good life advice. he wears a hat almost as tall as he is. he smokes weed. he tazes cops. and he looks like this

[frogandtoadpdf]

despicable me ruined the word minion whenever i become a supervillain im just going to have to call them my homies or whatever

[lucifer-just-needs-a-hug]

Try being in a group of ten or more Jewish adults 😔

[frogandtoadpdf]

hang on i need to ask some of my jewish friends smth

[frogandtoadpdf]

yeah this is funny

[thestalkerbunny]

Times are troubling and hard right now-but never forget, your Beet loving Grandmother loves you very very much and wants you to be safe.

And for you to eat your vegetables.

[straightboyfriend]

[nathsketch]

All done, even though I could keep working on these guys basically forever!

Good thing there’s a whole lot of characters for me to draw until my 111th birthday ;)

Happy Wednesday & take care everyone!

[education]

(Source)

”When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not go over your vineyard a second time or pick up the grapes that have fallen. Leave them for the poor and the alien. I am the LORD your God….”

— Leviticus 19:9-10

[swtdgirl]

I know farmers that do this, I used to live in an area where fruit trees grew, on the road we lived, the trees on the edge by the road were always left for the neighbors and travelers to pick, and when my mom taught me how to make jam, we went to buy peaches from the neighbors stand, when he found out why, he refused to sell, but invited us to pick the freshly fallen fruit from his orchard, to take as much as we wanted by the bucket load so it was not wasted and make a mess he had to clean up, as he couldn’t sell the ground fallen fruit for health inspector reasons. We made loads and shared it with our neighbors.

[softpeachydarling]

Without capitalism, humans are naturally inclined to share with and care for others. There’s more than enough to go around as long as people aren’t greedy.