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[positivedoodles]

[sordidscene]

TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE

[jeannedarcprice]

To any of my mutuals who are ever in doubt 💕

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Humans are like "let me hold the thing. Let me pick it up. It's cute and I want to hold it, I want to wrap my weird elongated front feet around it, I want to encircle it with my freakishly long, oddly flexible front toes. I HAVE to hold things I HAVE to or I'll die."

[elisabethdeep-blog]

I know normal people can just pass their bill over and around an object and know most things worth knowing about it, but humans don't have electroreceptors At All. They only have mechanoreceptors. Which are most concentrated in the aforementioned 'hands'... and in their mouths.

They do also have eyes, and their vision is actually pretty acute. But their optic and mechanic sensory inputs aren't integrated together like electro-mechanic sense is. So they have these two fairly sophisticated sensory complexes that Barely talk to each other.

No wonder they try to bring the two inputs together in their environment then; picking things up and turning them around allows them to apply both their mechanical and optical senses to the object. They're just trying to make up for a deficiency of neural organisation.

And like. I mentioned the other concentration of mechanoreceptors is in their mouth... So just be glad they mostly grow out of constantly wrapping their viscera-looking tongue around everything.

[themockturtle-soundfrench]

So we agreed that Grace and Simon?

[tsunflowers]

reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

[cobra-bubbles]

my life with ADHD

[mardu-mama]

This is very true and a great post.

But low key makes me think about how people with adhd have been raised their whole lives to value a day based on what they accomplished vs what they experienced

[thatgirlwithadhd]

I think your point is excellent. But also consider:

That list might say things like “Paint a picture. Go birdwatching. Finish that great novel I started reading. Call my grandma. Learn to bake a cake. Visit my sister. Play piano.”

For me at least, the good/fun things are harder without meds too. I can have the best intentions, but following through is hard.

[adhd-informative]

This addition is so important.

[vinceaddams]

Yeah. I once made a post in which I complained about being frustrated at my brain, and one of the things I said was:

“I should not be struggling this much to do things that I want to do and have the time, space, energy, and skills to do. Actually, when I list it all out like that, I should not be struggling at all to do those kinds of tasks.”

And I STILL somehow got a rant about capitalism in the comments. And I do understand where it’s coming from, yes, but goddamn did I not make myself clear? Did I not say Things That I Want To Do???

[faemorrigan]

im realizing very fast that people do not in fact know that sometimes things in stories suck on purpose and it sucking is the point

[faemorrigan]

"this story is misogynistic!!"

>looks inside

>about the pressures of societal misogyny and how its bad

[lynati]

"this story promotes slavery!"

>looks inside

>the throughline depicts slavery as being an awful thing, and it ends with two separate (fantasy) kings making it illegal in both of their kingdoms

[tom90deg]

Huck Finn uses slurs. He also declares that if helping his friend Jim is an act that will damn his immortal soul, then so be it.

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[tsarina-anadyomene]

it really is quite bad for your military to have an image of itself as a warrior class. what you really want is for your soldiers to think of themselves as boring professionals who will fill out a report form if someone gets a little too warrior ethos out there

[gsot]

[drmajalis]

[totally-correct-star-wars]

Fox: Apparently, it was Rude™ of me to pitch in my two cents on a conversation I happened to overhear, despite agreeing with them. Fox: On an unrelated note, I am no longer allowed in the ceiling vents.

[blueberry-ry]

Jocasta Nu’s Padawan Braid

[hypotenussy]

i love it when people use the phrase 'biblically accurate' to describe things that most certainly were not in the bible. "biblically accurate hatsune miku" i don't know if that's true but i am enchanted by the beautiful world you have invented

[mortimermcmirestinks]

idk if anyone is curious about how this came to be, but basically, the actual historical order of events goes like this

the bible gets written

in the bible there are sometimes... uh, spirits(?) that deliver messages for God, and they're called angels

angels in the bible are generally one of two flavours: sometimes they come in Some Guy flavour, where they just look like some guy, and sometimes they come in Nightmare Cthulhu flavour, where they look like Nightmare Cthulhu

in the old times people mostly drew Some Guy flavour, because, like, idk, various cultural reasons I guess

some people realized hey, we're drawin a lot of pictures of angels meeting with guys, but they all just look like Some Guy. we need a way to indicate that these Some Guy guys are angels and these Some Guy guys are guys.

so they put symbolic stuff (halos, wings, white robes, Being A Girl) on the angel Some Guy ones

there is now a trend of depicting angels as having a bunch of symbolic Heaven Symbols attached to them, as mentioned, e.g., halo, wing, white robe, Be Girl

people interpreted the symbolic stuff literally and started to think that the main flavour of angel was Sparkly Bird flavour, where they look like hot ladies with white gowns and wings and halos (a flavour of angel which never actually appears in the bible)

Sparkly Bird flavour becomes the dominant cultural depiction of angels for centuries

in the internet times, pop culture rediscovers the Nightmare Cthulhu flavour of angel, and because people on the internet love talking about how [x thing] is secretly Not So Innocent After All, people start referring to Nightmare Cthulhu flavoured angels as Biblically Accurate Angels, to differentiate them from Sparkly Bird flavoured angels, which are, inarguably, literally less biblically accurate than Nightmare Cthulhu flavoured ones

because people lost the context of points 3 through 8, and nobody remembers Some Guy flavoured angels (except for, for some reason, the people who made Supernatural, a show which, I am to understand, regularly features Some Guy flavoured angels), people kinda start to interpret "Biblically Accurate" to mean "looks like Nightmare Cthulhu"

now things that look like Nightmare Cthulhu, even things that have nothing to do with the bible, are called "biblically accurate"

thus: biblically accurate miku

[mylordshesacactus]

For all that the 1800s etiquette guides are--obviously--derangedly sexist from a modern perspective? They're also mindblowing in how casually they will assert things that MODERN DAY CONSERVATIVES would scream and cry and shit their pants about.

"People back then always married young it's natural!!!" Every single 1800s guide I've ever met casually mentions that, of course, you really shouldn't get married before you're at least 20, and waiting until 25 is usually better.

Or, like. Okay here's a long segment:

Just firmly going "it is crazy sexist to blame The Wife for overspending when thirty seconds of asking questions will immediately establish that her husband was outright lying to her about how much money they had. Talk to your wife like a normal person."

Or--okay, here. A section on being honest and not writing love letters in secret, because that's usually a good sign that there's something untoward going on....

....except that he then immediately acknowledges that sometimes, the reason you're hiding this from your parents is that your parents suck. That there are parents who frankly have not earned the right to approve or disapprove of your partner.

(I realize the phrasing there sounds a lot less strong than my summary, but--trust me on this. When you're familiar with the narrative voice of these kinds of books, this passage is downright radical. The mere acknowledgement that if you treat your kids badly, it's your own damn fault when they don't talk to you? I've genuinely never seen that before in this genre. Don't freak out over "properly trained", either. It's just a linguistic shift--at the time, "training" was used the way we would say "raising" a child today. )

[mylordshesacactus]

"Delete all the nudes and sexts after a breakup or you're a piece of shit" has been the standard expectation since EIGHT. TEEN. EIGHTY. FIVE.

[mylordshesacactus]

"Men and women being friends with each other is literally normal. Don't be a controlling freak."

Anyway I was wrong the publishing date is actually 1882 so like.

[mylordshesacactus]

"If you have to abuse a child to keep order in your classroom then you're a bad teacher."

So like @ the modern Republican party, are the "traditional family values" in the fucking room with us right now--

[blenderbender1811]

Just to circle back to the 'getting married young' bit.

A lot of them are thinking waaaay back in terms of straight up medieval times with that one.

Only that's wrong too.

The average age during first marriage for a woman in medieval England was 21. Nobles and royalty married young, in order to seal down alliances. Which is inapplicable for the modern time because we do not, in most places (and especially in the US), give hereditary monarchs and aristocracies full control of the government anymore.

Even if it weren't though - most of those marriages weren't consummated at the time of the wedding, but waited for several years after precisely because they were not stupid and knew it wasn't healthy to stop popping kids out immediately as soon as menarche hit. If you look, it's not uncommon even for those young royals and nobles to have their first baby in their 20s. And, well, medical science advances and recommendations changed, as listed above, but I'd like to be clear even a lot of those vaunted 'Princess X got married when she was 12!!!!" stories end with "Yeah, and she had her first baby when she was 23, what's your point?"

[repost-this-image]

Plus, back then menarche was around 16-18. In modern times, it’s generally younger than that.

[blenderbender1811]

The sources I saw said 14, which is still on the older end of average today. That also might have been looking at noble girls though, who probably would've started younger because they had more food.

Literally just start clicking through royal women sometime. Very good odds they'll be 18 or older when they have their first baby.

[mylordshesacactus]

I read etiquette and homemaking guides from the 1800s mostly because they're a FASCINATING insight into cultural norms that we often don't think about. I honestly really recommend people crack one of these open at least once--it goes way beyond, like, "what to wear to a ball!!!"

The best ones have advice on decor, how to select high-quality furniture, childrearing, fashion, etc--from a contemporary perspective, and the things the authors feel the need to clarify vs the wild shit that will just casually mention like it's something everyone knows and agrees on is REALLY revealing of the culture and how it's shifted.

And while a lot of the advice is WILDLY bigoted or just outright funny, you'd be surprised how much of it is...just genuinely timeless, and shockingly compassionate.

They ALSO, as a writer, have INVALUABLE resources--because, again, they're talking about things that are so MUNDANE that a lot of the time nobody really sat down to formally document what normal, everyday people thought or cared about--because that's boring! But a book written to provide advice and information to, say, a young woman who's never run her own home before? You can fully expect an entire chapter dedicated to The Types Of Oven, and which features are useful and worth spending money on, and which features are a huge hassle to clean and a waste of space, and what to spend that money on instead.

And like. As a writer who frequently works in the 1800s? Fuck inflation calculators, this is the kind of thing I need. This is absolutely priceless.

Now that being said.

My current favorite 'etiquette guide' in the world is actually like....70% purely practical advice, written by a gentleman the groupchat has affectionately dubbed History's Most Autistic Man In The World, and thank god they didn't have Aderall back then

Because the AuDHD is strong in this one and as a result, in addition to the deeply practical and useful everyday reference points, we also have:

[mylordshesacactus]

[mylordshesacactus]

[merfolkplantgay]

There is a great book which is sadly unavailable in English called The Glory of the Duchy of Carniola by Janez Vajkard Valvasor, and this guy travelled around Slovene lands in the late 1600s and just wrote down how people lived and what they did, and again has that thing of noting down things that most writers of the time would not!

It's so great! It offers an insight into a largely rural to small-town population, in modern-day Austria, Italy, Hungary, Croatia (and of course Slovenia). He'll be like "in this village, they're known for their basket weaving techniques", and then talk about the process, from gathering wicker, processing it, to making the baskets. He talks about who traditionally does which part etc. It's so detailed and wild.

The only problem is the part that talks about religion, where he specifically says he will NOT be commenting on or describing any non-Christian activities or rituals, which he says he did encounter. RIP to what was most likely the last chance of some authentic, non-revivalist descriptions of Slavic pagan practices in this region.

[vulcartist]

I translated the Ea-Nasir complaint into vulcan and engraved it in on a cooper plate

[tournevis-real]

The tumblrest sentence I have ever seen

[alien-slushie]

Batman, over coms: Alright, let's bring it in for the night.

Nightwings: Hold on, there's a civilian running around. Early twenties, black hair, super pale and kind of sickly lookin. He looks panicked, like hes looking for something or someone, I'm going to check in, in case its a child.

Nightwing: Excuse me sir, are you alright?

Danny, pressing a hand to his chest in pain: So-Someone broke into my-my appartment when I was at work and-and they left the door open, and now I can't find Mittens!

Red Robin, over comms: Seriously? All this drama over a cat?

Red Hood, over comms: Who actually names their cat "Mittens"?

Oracle, over comms: You two are so stupid.

Robin, over comms: I agree, shut up. This is serious, that poor animal could be injured.

Nightwing, helps Danny sit on a nearby bench: Hey its alright man. I'll have the others keep an eye out for her okay? What does your kitten look like.

Danny, releived: Mittens isn't a kitten, shes a puppy, really tiny girl. She's a Bully Kutta, and she's mostly white but has black unclipped ears and some black splotches- here I have a-a picture. *pulls out his phone with shakey hands and shows Nightwing a picture of Danny and Mittens in their new appartment, Mittens goes up past his hips*

Nightwing, stunned into silence: . . .

Red Robin, over comms: That is "tiny" to him?!

Robin, over comms: Stunning.

Oracle: Found him. Daniel Fenton moved to Gotham with his Service Dog in Training, Mittens, two months ago. He works at Gotham's Space Museum, and writes Parnormal Fiction stories on the side, and he apprentantly visits Middle schools to do presentations. Mittens is 15months old and is set to graduate very soon. She has high praise from all her trainers, but it seems Danny's employers at the Museum are pushing against him bringing her to work once she graduates, Danny seems to be fighting with them about it a lot. Jerks.

Batman, over comms: What does he need her for?

Oracle, over comms: Heart problems, and mobility issues caused by an accident when he was a teenager, as well as Anxiety, and PTSD. A lot of his file is sealed because he was a minor when it happened, I can snoop more?

Batman, over comms: No, that amount is fine.

Nightwing: Well, the others know, and will keep an eye out for her. You're still shaking pretty bad, how about I see you home.

Danny: I appreciate it. I'm sorry for keeping you back, being a hero is- seems like an exhausting job.

Nightwing, joking: You speak from experience?

Danny, eyes distant: No, I was never a hero.

Robin, over comms: Mittens spotted near the Museum!

Nightwing: Hey, Robin said he spotted Mittens near the Museum.

Danny: She went looking for me, of course she did. If she won't go to Robin by name, have him call her "Vöttr", I'm the only one that ever calls her that, so it will catch her attention.

Nightwing, nodding: Robin call her Votter.

Red Robin, over comms: Old Norse?

Nightwing, eyebrow raised: Old Norse?

Danny, shrugging: Its a hobby.

Robin, over comms and sounding very excited: Target secure. . . . May I pet her?

Nightwing, snorts: Robin wants to know if he can pet her.

Danny, amused: As much as they want, as long as I get her back.

Robin, over comms: Understood, we will reconvene at Fenton's appartment.

Nightwing: Hah that kid. He said he'll meet us at your place if thats okay.

Danny: Sounds good, I'm just happy that I didn't loose her.

Blackbat, over comms: Sad, remorse, upset.

Red Robin, over comms: He does seem interesting.

Batman, over comms: Hmm.

Red Hood, over comms: I still can't get over the fact that he named that monster dog "Mittens".

[chopsuzi]

Don't just leave this in the tags!

[galactic-dragoness]

[loszeged]

[neko-mancy]

[bugmoment]

[an-eldritch-nightmare-deactivat]

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[evilminji]

That is the most beautiful outfit I've seen in a while? She's so graceful and princess-y looking? I hope she had a great time on her trip ngl