Nervous Rambleings

I am a writer I am a Unitarian Universalist I am a traveler I am a lover I am a giver I am a geek I am a nerd I am selfish I am injured I am human I am... me. Sometimes.

[the-real-ted-cruz]

*teen in a netflix original show voice* look, bro, your masculinity is being mad toxic right now

[derpiana]

[naniithran-blog]

And that’s when he decided to start making meth

[oikawas]

Get me the HELL OUT OF HERE!

DETECTIVE PIKACHU (2019) dir. Rob Letterman

[jehovahhthickness]

Shout out to everyone that’s actually really intelligent but have difficulty articulating what they know especially when they’re being questioned.

[dark-waves]

[thenamesjavii]

When you find out your mom is a furry

[raito-taco]

When you accidentally let your child know you’re a furry

[mysharona1987]

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

these damn kids and their *looks at hand* desire to save the earth

[indiedrone]

but mom how will other people know that you, a white Texan, are a Christian

[fullblownpanic-deactivated20141]

same

[paroxetini]

Jesus

[ahs-delrey]

I bet those two are couple now..

[fullblownpanic-deactivated20141]

I’m gay

[indiedrone]

me too

[kateordie]

This is such a great story

[indiedrone]

update from Houston pride 2019! we’re friends

[tittled]

[susa-maru]

[elodieunderglass]

oh NO

[justtrustmeokay-deactivated2021]

[80sanime]

[azulamakesmeblank]

I freaking love reminding myself how terrifyingly powerful Aang is in the must unreal most amazing most howthefuck and like I dunno CRAZY WAY

LIKE NAH HES TWELVE BUT FUCK YOU OZAI HES GOT REFLEXES LIKE A FUCKING GOD AND HES NOT EVEN IN THE AVATAR STATE LOOK AT THAT SPIRAL-WIND-ACTION YOU GUYS HE DIDNT WANNA BURN THE ALMOST-CAUSE-OF-THE-DESTRUCTION-OF-THE-WORLD CAUSE HES ONE PURE WINDY BOI I LOVE HIM

He isn’t. Even. Looking.

HOW THE-

…………………and DONT even get me STARTED on this THE FUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sparky sparky boom man ain’t got nothin on my KING

But most importantly

He had the power and strength to keep smiling, to keep having fun and to stay positive through it all

This boy deserves the world

[elektrisktmonster]

i forget words a lot but luckily people are used to it

[voca-lee]

finally a comic I can relate to

[weathernerdmando]

oh mood

[2aminhouston]

How do y'all not get tired of being mad all the time?

[slouchingtowardsbedlam-deactiva]

[fluffymcmuffins]

why limit yourself between choosing between a pretty feminine aesthetic or a dark one? if persephone can be the goddess of spring & queen of the underworld at the same time so can you

[salwarremade]

GREEN LIGHT

[ruinedchildhood]

[throwbackblr]

[systlin]

I honestly always find the term ‘spinster’ as referring to an elderly, never-married woman as funny because you know what?

Wool was a huge industry in Europe in the middle ages. It was hugely in demand, particularly broadcloth, and was a valuable trade good. A great deal of wool was owned by monasteries and landed gentry who owned the land. 

And, well, the only way to spin wool into yarn to make broadcloth was by hand. 

This was viewed as a feminine occupation, and below the dignity of the monks and male gentry that largely ran the trade. 

So what did they do?

They hired women to spin it. And, turns out, this was a stable job that paid very well. Well enough that it was one of the few viable economic options considered ‘respectable’ outside of marriage for a woman. A spinster could earn quite a tidy salary for her art, and maintain full control over her own money, no husband required. 

So, naturally, women who had little interest in marriage or men? Grabbed this opportunity with both hands and ran with it. Of course, most people didn’t get this, because All Women Want Is Husbands, Right?

So when people say ‘spinster’ as in ‘spinster aunt’, they are TRYING to conjure up an image of a little old lady who is lonely and bitter. 

But what I HEAR are the smiles and laughter of a million women as they earned their own money in their own homes and controlled their own fortunes and lived life on their own terms, and damn what society expected of them. 

[janglingargot]

Just wanted to add that the suffix -ster was originally specifically feminine, a means of denoting a lady known by her profession. Spinster = female spinner, baxter = female baker, webster = female weaver (webber), brewster = female brewer. If one of the ladies named Alys in your village was known for selling her excellent weaving, you might call her Alys Webster (to differentiate her from, say, Alys Littel who was rather short, and Alys Bywater who lived near the pond).

This fascinates me for many reasons, but especially in the case of modern families with last names like Baxter or Webster or Brewster. What formidable and well-known ancestresses managed to pass on those very gendered names to all their descendants, when last names were changing from personal “nicknames” into indicators of lineage among the middle and lower classes? There’s a forgotten story of a fascinating woman behind every one of those family lines.

[wasureneba]

Resource for the history of the -ster suffix here.