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Hi! I had given up my tags page for dead, since any links I tried at the time didn't work, but now I figured out it's just... because they had spaces in them. And while the old tags used - in spaces, now they need %20. Anyone know how to get into the page and edit it so I can fix them? EDIT: It's fixed, all is right with the world, time to ignore this website for a year again
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Hi
I logged into Tumblr today to search for an old Homestuck post for a friend, and I wanted to check in.
I don’t know how many (if any) of you still use this website, and I only have 3-4 people on my homepage that still post. I just want to say to all our 2014 selves- or any of you who need the reminder now- life gets better, stick with what you want to do, and continue to keep the excitement and weirdness you have about the things you like.
I graduated college in 2020, taught a year at a school of Jr/Sr High Choir and general music, and for the past year have been teaching a few private voice lessons online. I’ve broken my old workaholic habits (awesome) but now am balancing with still being productive without falling back into them.
Basically... life goes on, and I’m feeling a lot more relaxed about my timeline and just reaching things when I reach them, as well as caring less about what other people think. I’ve filled my closet with non-”teachery” clothes, cut my hair without feeling the need to donate it, and it’s constantly purple...ish now. I feel much more comfortable.
Just be the best you that you can <3
Forgotten By History
Female firefighters at Pearl Harbor (1941).
Donna Tobias - the first woman to graduate from the US Navy’s Deep Sea Diving School in 1975.
Brave women of the Red Cross hitting the beach at Normandy.
Dottie Kamenshek was called the best player in women’s baseball and was once recruited to play for a men’s professional team.
Kate Warne - Private Detective. Born in New York City, almost nothing is known of her prior to 1856 when, as a young widow, she answered an employment advertisement placed by Alan Pinkerton. She was one of four new agents the Pinkerton Detective Agency hired that year and proved to be a natural, taking to undercover work easily. She had taken part in embezzlement and railroad security cases when in 1861 the Pinkertons developed the first lead about an anti-Lincoln conspiracy.
Catherine Leroy, female photographer in Vietnam.
The three women pictured in this incredible photograph from 1885 – Anandibai Joshi of India, Keiko Okami of Japan, and Sabat Islambouli of Syria – each became the first licensed female doctors in their respective countries. The three were students at the Women’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; one of the only places in the world at the time where women could study medicine.
Female Samurai Warrior - Onno-Bugeisha - Female warrior belonging to the Japanese upper class. Many women engaged in battle, commonly alongside samurai men. They were members of the bushi (samurai) class in feudal Japan and were trained in the use of weapons to protect their household, family, and honour in times of war.
One of the most feared of all London street gangs from the late 1880’s was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They woulde later inspire Anthony burgess’ most notorious novel. Their main Rivals were the All-female “the Forty Elephants” gang.
Maureen Dunlop de Popp, Pioneering female pilot who flew Spitfires during Second World War. She joined the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) in 1942 and became one of a small group of female pilots who were trained to fly 38 types of aircraft.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston marathon. After realizing that a woman was running, race organizer Jock Semple went after Switzer shouting, “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.” However, Switzer’s boyfriend and other male runners provided a protective shield during the entire marathon. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines, and Kathrine later won the NYC marathon with a time of 3:07:29.
Women have always participated in fighting; whether that is in war or in breaking down barriers that have been set in front of us by society.
Take inspiration from our foremothers and continue breaking down barriers, wherever you are.
-FemaleWarrior, She/They
Artist Hank Schmidt travels to scenic locations only to paint the pattern on his own shirt.
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Study traces history of some of our favorite folk stories
GUYS THIS IS AMAZING
SERIOUSLY
6000 YEARS
STORIES THAT ARE OLDER THAN CIVILIZATIONS
STORIES THAT WERE TOLD BY PEOPLE SPEAKING LANGUAGES WE NO LONGER KNOW
STORIES TOLD BY PEOPLE LOST TO THE VOID OF TIME
STORIES
GUYS LOOK AT THIS
OH MY GOD YOU GUYS
GUYYYYYSSSS
“Here’s how it worked: Fairy tales are transmitted through language, and the shoots and branches of the Indo-European language tree are well-defined, so the scientists could trace a tale’s history back up the tree—and thus back in time. If both Slavic languages and Celtic languages had a version of Jack and the Beanstalk (and the analysis revealed they might), for example, chances are the story can be traced back to the “last common ancestor.” That would be the Proto-Western-Indo-Europeans from whom both lineages split at least 6800 years ago. The approach mirrors how an evolutionary biologist might conclude that two species came from a common ancestor if their genes both contain the same mutation not found in other modern animals.”
Tehrani’s work is absolute genius. If you like this, look up his other work. He’s been at this for a while.
A Tasting Menu of Female Representation:
The Bechdel:
two or more women talking to each other about something other than a man
The Mako Mori:
at least one female character with her own narrative arc that is not about supporting a man’s story
The Sexy Lamp:
a female character that cannot be removed from the plot and replaced with a sexy lamp without destroying the story.
Chef’s Specials:
The Anti-Freeze:
no woman assaulted, injured or killed to further the story of another character.
The “Strength is Relative”:
complex women defined by solid characterization rather than a handful of underdeveloped masculine-coded stereotypes.
Furiosa test.
“Ghostbusters” blows all of these tests completely out of the water.
And generates at least one that I think ought to be added:
The Pizza Night Test
Women are shown eating non-salad food and no comment is made about anyone getting fat or breaking their diet.
I love everyone in this bar.
Hey
If your anxiety, depression, or executive dysfunction is making you scroll endlessly on your phone or laptop
Stop
It’s okay, I’m not mad. It happens to everybody sometimes. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? But it’s time to get up now.
Don’t worry! You don’t have to do that
One Thing,
just get yourself a glass of water for now, or brush your teeth, or pet a cat.
After you’ve done that, maybe you could make yourself a nice cocoa, or open a window. If you’re feeling really crazy you might finish a homework problem, or respond to an e-mail, or wash a dish.
But no matter what, if you get up then you’re moving forward, and I’m
super proud of you!
I know you’re having a difficult time, but I’m really glad you’ve made it this far, and I love you!
Have a nice day my friend, I’ll see you soon, but right now it’s time for you to get up.
@ literally everyone who reblogged this post and said “this helped me,” I’m so so glad and so proud of you, my friend. Stay strong.
@ everyone who reblogged and said “this doesn’t help me, but maybe it will help someone else,” that’s so kind of you to be thinking of others, and it’s okay that not every method works for everyone. Stay kind.
what if we cant get up?
Maybe a physical or mental issue is keeping you down, in which case I would never ask you to overexert yourself! Maybe just turn off your device and breathe for a few minutes (meditate or pray if that is something you do). Text, message, or call a friend. If somebody else lives with you, perhaps have a conversation with them as well. Look out a window and see if there are any nice birds out today.
Those are still real steps! Even if you just pause to breathe or tell a friend hello, that’s still great! It’s better than isolation or monotony. I’m proud of you just for that. :)
One of the things that surprised me when I first read the New Testament seriously was that it talked so much about a Dark Power in the universe—a mighty evil spirit who was held to be the Power behind death and disease, and sin. The difference is that Christianity thinks this Dark Power was created by God, and was good when he was created, and went wrong. Christianity agrees with Dualism that this universe is at war. But it does not think this is a war between independent powers. It thinks it is a civil war, a rebellion, and that we are living in a part of the universe occupied by the rebel. Enemy-occupied territory—that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say, landed in disguise, and is calling us all to take part in a great campaign of sabotage. When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from our friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery. I know someone will ask me, ‘Do you really mean, at this time of day, to reintroduce our old friend the devil—hoofs and horns and all?’ Well, what the time of day has to do with it I do not know. And I am not particular about the hoofs and horns. But in other respects my answer is ‘Yes, I do.’ I do not claim to know anything about his personal appearance. If anybody really wants to know him better I would say to that person, ‘Don’t worry. If you really want to, you will. Whether you’ll like it when you do is another question.
Mere Christianity
The dudes from mythbusters are the ultimate unstoppable force vs immovable object,, every time they interact its just
immovable object is an amazing description for a person who once said “I don’t think our death ray is working. I’m standing right in it, and I’m not dead yet.”
women talk about how if they aren’t considered attractive, their entire value as a person is taken away, and white men are like oh we experience this too because hot girls with huge tits won’t date me but they don’t fucking realize we aren’t just talking about our dating lives we are talking about our entire value as a person being taken away, not just people not wanting to date us.
also a lot of white cis men are considered unattractive for their misogyny, bad hygiene, lack of hobbies, complete lack of charisma, lack of any suaveness, and lack of any fashion sense and not like, their brow shape or their jaw or their hips or the size of their chest or their height or how hairy they are or their shoulder width, or the size of their nose, like most of the things that make them unattractive are things that are mostly in their control and not things they are inherently born with
i just found out merriam webster has a time traveler feature that tells you some of the words that were “born” the same year as you. it’s pretty neat yall should do this
info graphic project for my graphic design class :)
Time for my random visit to this website
My following ranges from last active 4 years ago to 8 minutes ago.
I must say, I’m glad so many of you are still here. It feels nice to see you.
You know, I am often referred to as the “unproblematic cishet guy” or other variations of “good version of a typically evil demographic” by people in my social circles.
On one hand, I am quite flattered that my goodwill is recognizable enough by people to make them look past their preconceptions of people that fit my profile and believe that I am a good person.
On the other hand, it honestly kind of hurts sometimes. I don’t like people saying that I’m the “only good one.” For one thing, there are other cishet white males that I know who are genuinely good people, and also, I don’t like the implication that “had I not gotten to know you before passing judgement on you based on your demographic, I would have deemed you fit to kill when the revolution comes.” It’s like you think of me as the “good demon.” You think I’m good, but you still think of me as a demon.
I dunno, I guess I just don’t like feeling like people think my default setting is evil.
The bees and wasps now recognise me as the person who gives them water. Which sounds cool but it means everytime I go outside they harass me until I fill up the waterer. On the bright side, I no longer have to fear wasps as they just buzz around me non-threateningly now.
You are their water deity now
“THE WATER BRINGER HAS ARRIVED”
“ALL HAIL!
ALL HAIL!”
Not enough people know that social bees and wasps can learn to recognize you as a non-threat or a friend pretty easily.
Photos That look Like Renaissance Paintings
