here at the end of all things

he/him/they/them *:･ﾟ✧*:･ﾟ✧ in my nostalgic era - 20s current interests: trc, castlevania, literature classics, the silt verses a bit of whimsy within the chaos of this world

[escuerzoresucitado]

[alagaisia]

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

[alagaisia]

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

[alagaisia]

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

[watermelon-converse]

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

[emi--rose]

Hell yeah moon holiday

[hello-delicious-tea]

Ooh coming up we should celebrate

[ariaste]

PITCH: We call it Moon Day, and then every 7 years when it falls on a Monday, that's an even BIGGER deal and we call that Moon Day Monday and go absolutely apeshit about it (the next Moon Day Monday is in 2026 so we have a couple trial runs first)

[sarostheghostcat]

MOON DAY MOON DAY MOON DAY

[wafflebloggies]

moon day is 20th July!!!

[silly-jellyghoty]

Scheduling this a day earlier to remind you all and myself about the Moon Day tomorow!

[sashaforthewin]

Happy moon day to all who celebrate

[kitsuneofthemist]

This is your reminder to prep for Moon Day on July 20th.

[cienie-isengardu]

Environmental Protection - Bats, Postage Stamps - Poland, 1997

[antiadvil]

it's wild that popular discourse around migraines is that there are too many people who claim to have migraines but "just have bad headaches". this is the exact opposite of my experience? i'm still trying to convince several of my friends that their "bad tension headaches" that are unilateral, throbbing, cause light sensitivity, nausea, etc, are migraines lmao. migraine is underdiagnosed and undertreated by every metric i can think of.

this narrative is not harmless! it prevents people from getting treatment that could really benefit them. so i would like it to die. thank you.

[shamebats]

As a guy who went to see a neurologist only to "rule out migraines" because I thought I had "tension headaches at worst and also it's not that bad really" only to realize by tracking my headache days that I have very bad chronic migraines just with no aura (most people with migraines don't have them), I co-sign this 100%.

Just starting abortive medications already improved my quality of life so much and now that my doctor started me on preventatives, I might actually be able to have more than a handful of headache-free days each month.

Migraine is frequently misdiagnosed as chronic sinusitis or tension headaches according to research. Mostly because people have a very rigid (inaccurate) idea of what it actually is.

But even if it's not migraine, you still deserve treatment for your headaches. Just because someone else has them worse than you doesn't mean you don't deserve relief.

What Type of Headache Do You Have? | American Migraine Foundation

Learning about the different types of migraine and headache disorders can help you better understand your symptoms and discuss them with you

[roach-works]

yeah i found out awhile back that the 'pressure headaches' that i get that 'aren't that bad' (but still leave me feeling sick and dysfunctional all day) were migraines. i now take a low dose of a preventative medication and the number of shitty rain days i have per month has dropped from like ten to two. it's great.

[captaindibbzy]

In my experience anyone who has chronic pain of any kind ALWAYS under diagnoses it in part cause people who DON'T have chronic pain always tell them how it's Not That Bad Just Get Over It and it takes a lot of fighting to get anyone (including doctors) to do anything about it. Fucked if I know why. Everyone seems to think we're making it up. I've never met anyone who is making it up.

[wizardnaturalist]

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

[lakewinnipeg]

[werewiire]

welcome back victorian era cross-writing!

[beggars-opera]

Every time I hear a reputable museum tell me that most colonial women died in fires it puts me one step closer to homicide

[beggars-opera]

To everyone saying they've never heard this before, it's so prevalent Colonial Williamsburg wrote a book about it

[beggars-opera]

HEY, WHO WANTS TO SEE SOME DEATH STATISTICS FOR THE YEAR 1783? BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE YOU CAN JUST LOOK THIS UP IN EASILY DIGESTIBLE REPORTS OR ANYTHING.

Town size: 7500

Deaths: 189

Childbirth deaths: 1

Burn deaths: 0

Tuberculosis deaths: 18

Measles and measles complications deaths: 32

VACCINATE YOUR DAMN CHILDREN.

[beggars-opera]

A more comprehensive list with some explanations can be found here for London in the year 1721. Notably there were many more deaths in childbirth, which was a significant killer that year.

However, while gender is not specified, the same year had:

Fever deaths: 3,331

Tuberculosis deaths: 3,188

Smallpox deaths: 2,375

Old age deaths: 2,309

Heart failure deaths: 903

Dysentery deaths: 697

Burned and scalded combined is a grand total of 9 people.

[agoodflyting]

I love and respect you for posting this, and I support everything you said.

But.

I am also so distracted by the person who died of a perforated anus.

[beggars-opera]

It's worse than that. Imperforate. Not perforated. At all.

[glubby]

“Am I the only one who—” yes. You’re all alone. And nobody shares your experiences or loves you. And you’re floating on a raft in a dark ocean and there’s sharks and squids trying to get you and lightning is crashing and the water is choppy and black

[thesweetiepienovels]

Actually, you are enough. Even if you don’t work. Or study. Or go out. Or have friends. Or have family. You’re enough because you exist and your existence is enough to be enough because you are not a product. You are not a sum of output. You are not a task to complete. But because you are something the universe wanted and put here even if you’ll never understand why. Somewhere in the cosmos your existence makes a difference, even if it’s not the way others existences do.

[doodleoo]

what you learn from hobbies:

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

wow everything is so expensive

[doodleoo]

my hands hurt

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

Some day I am going to properly articulate why period dramas have ruined people's ability to interact with historical portraits.

Short version: most historical figures look like pretty average people, because they are for the most part just some guy (gender neutral). They just don't stand up well to casting a whole show of people who are pretty by modern standards.

[kaiserin-erzsebet]

This is mostly in response to a rather persistent trend of "can you believe this person was considered handsome/beautiful at the time?"

When:

1. The person is not styled in a way that appeals to modern taste.

2. The style of portraiture diverges from photography, so it doesn't appeal to your sense of aesthetics.

3. You're comparing to an actor/actress who is very good looking by modern standards styled in a way that isn't really meant to challenge you.

4. They are average to good looking, but in a normal person way.

Our own media environment doesn't really leave much space for "good looking normal person" which is part of the issue.

[the-haiku-bot]

4. They are average

to good looking, but in a

normal person way.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[marzipanandminutiae]

I would also add

5. there were fewer accessible/safe/socially accepted ways to significantly alter aspects of one's appearance like facial features back then (illusory or permanent, ie contouring, plastic surgery, etc), so while beauty standards DID exist, people often had to adopt a more expansive idea of beauty if they wanted to like...have sexual or romantic relationships ever

can't kick and scream if someone isn't an Instragram model when cosmetic surgery is rudimentary at best and highly dangerous, and contour makeup is reserved for theatrical performances

(you see this a lot in 19th-century descriptions of beautiful women; many of them are kind of vague and focus more on Bright Eyes and Smooth Skin and Nice Hair than actually describing facial features in detail. they had beauty standards, as evidenced in paintings and sketches of idealized belles, but clearly not all of them were dealbreaker criteria)

[noelledeltarune]

i hope i am not just an online presence to you all but also someone who has a really bad headache

[razehider]

there was a point in time where i found tiny depressed looking weevils under just about every oak leaf i flipped, but this Coeliodes was probably my favorite. no longer in the classic scrunched up seed pose that i tended to find them in but also not really alarmed by my presence, just gazing at nothing in particular. contemplative, even

(May 22nd, 2025)

[leatherwingsinc-deactivated2015]

[caluummhood-deactivated20140506]

HOLY SHIT, IT WAS THE ORIGINAL ONE

MAKE A WISH

[heritageposts]

date of origin: 2013

[cherryhatter-deactivated2015072]

KICK THE CAN!

Let’s play the biggest game of kick the can on the internet.

To kick the can, reblog it. I wanna see how long this can go on for.

[visibun]

the oldest reblogs for this post that i can find are from january 2nd of 2013. this can has been getting kicked around tumblr for almost 13½ years now

[drtanner]

And yet somehow this is my first time kicking it!

[sinistra-orlok]

[snek1046]

It’s June

[bees-official]

[crippled-peeper]

I don’t want to survive off the generosity of strangers for the rest of my life I want a functioning social safety net for disabled people