a new leaf, or two

[loseyourseoul]

Me: *finishes show on netflix*

Me: *aggressively searches for fanfics*

Me: *doesnt sleep for three days*

Me: y e s.

[troubledminnesotan]

I rewatched my favorite season of the Great British Bake Off with my favorite baker

[cassandracalin]

[thestraggletag]

From 7 to 8 PM I move through my apartment loudly commenting on what I’m doing and where I’m going. The reason is that at 8 PM my cats eat so around an hour before that they begin to interpret every movement I make as me potentially going to fill their bowl. They KNOW that when I do this I say “Food!” loudly, so me moving and saying something else is interpreted as me NOT going to feed them.

I never realised this was weird until today. 

[leni-ba]

Not that weird at all. We can’t say ‘toma!’ (“take this!”) at home, because the cat interprets it as “take this food now!” We’ve actually had to stop saying it.

[thestraggletag]

Sometimes I have to yell out stuff like “I SAID WOOD, NOT FOOD!” because. It’s the one word they no, other than “Shame”, which they know it’s a word for when they’re doing stuff they shouldn’t.

[newleafies]

We’re just glad our cats haven’t learned to spell yet. Especially s-n-a-c-k or o-u-t.

[bibilyhills55]

“Miss Fisher is that rare fictional example of what life can be like for women who chose not to get married and/or have children — and how that alternative can be just as fulfilling.

This isn’t a story about a spinster finding love later in life and finally getting the traditional family she needs and deserves. This is a story about a sexually-liberated, vibrant, empathetic woman who has a wonderful family and community of her own making. 

Phryne is not someone to be pitied. She is one of the most alive characters on TV — a master detective who speaks multiple languages, knows martial arts, and can fly an airplane. Miss Fisher is competency porn at its most addictive, and its main character is a new, much-needed kind of archetype.”

— “Miss Fisher Is The Feminist Sherlock You Should Be Watching”

[yourkinkisnasty]

alcohol culture is so wild…people all over fb will be sharing a meme like “i can’t have just one glass of wine, it’s always 2 bottles and 3 people i can never look in the eye again” as if that’s normal? but if a meme like that was going around about cocaine or any other drug, everyone would be like “sounds like a drug problem bruh” 

alcoholism is SO normalized and it’s such a toxic environment honestly 

[audarcy]

This article is a fascinating and horrifying observation of alcohol culture in present-day America – especially in the context of women and the “wine mom” attitude seen on Facebook in particular. It’s one of the most eye-opening things I’ve ever read, tbh.

[thejgatsbykid]

the real victim in Pride and Prejudice is Georgiana Darcy, bc u know her brother spent at least two weeks lying around in his Regency Jammies eating Benjamin and Jerrold’s out of ye olde carton feeling sorry for himself bc his crush not only didn’t like him back but tore him to shreds in the process and Georgie had to deal with that and then said crush shows up at their HOUSE and she has to live w both of them probably stealing lovelorn yearning glances at each other the whole damn day while knowing if she even SUGGESTS to her brother that maybe perhaps his crush doesn’t hate his entire guts anymore he’ll just be all tragic about it bc “you don’t KNOW her Georgiana she dESPISES me and i DESERVE it”

[madlori]

benjamin and gerrold’s

[biophonies]

I had to immortalize the magical encounter I had yesterday

[gifsboom]

Baby armadillo.

[cosmictuesdays]

Humans will pet anything.

[toffeecape]

How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!

[badgengar]

“ How wonderful, then, to live on a planet full of creatures that like to be petted!”

It truly is.

[missymalice]

“young adult dystopian novels are so unrealistic lmao like they always have some random teenage girl rising up to inspire the world to make change.”

a hero emerges 

[inkgut-deactivated20180603]

And just like in the novels, grown men and women are going out of their way to destroy her. Support our hero.

[freifraufischer]

And it’s not even like it doesn’t happen regularly.  

Teenage girls are amazing.

[queen-of-the-merry-men]

Sometimes they’re not even teenagers

[missymalice]

I’ve been reposting this a lot to argue with conservatives who wanna mouth off, but here is a Genuinely Good Addition. 💖💖💖

[fallforwatsonmoved-blog]

[theshells]

I can’t stop laughing at Harry running the fuck away, the boy who lived ladies and gentlemen.

[lunapics]

….You realize, of course, that Hermione Granger lit a teacher on fire when she was eleven, and kept a person alive in a jar for a year when she was fourteen, and studies dark and forbidden magics for kicks, and is one of the brightest and strongest witches of her era. If she came at me, even wandless, I would aparate to Neptune to get away from her.

[lightspeedsound]

Hermione Granger also: 

punched Draco Malfoy in the nose for being an idiot 

purposefully performed a confundus charm on whatshsface WHILE HE WAS FLYING just so Ron would win (omfg that is so fucking dangerous) 

literally pulled a fucking Bourne Identity on her parents and managed to set them up in fucking Australia (jesus christ she literally made it so that she NEVER EXISTED wtf that’s so fucking 007)

Convinced the Ministry of Magic to give her an incredibly dangerous and volatile device that allowed her to ALTER TIMELINES COMPLETELY (just because she was so smart, literally, that is the reason, her “potential”) 

Has enough basic survival skills and badass magic to literally disappear to the middle of nowhere and flourish AND figure out Voldemort’s plot with Harry 

Hermione also figures out not only what Voldemort’s plan is, but generally how to beat it, WAY BEFORE VOLDEMORT EVER DOES. Why? because she is just that much smarter and better at magic than everybody else

in conclusion: Voldemort wishes he could be as awesome as Hermione, that’s why he wants to kill her so bad. 

[manybodies]

Can we rehave this series with hermione as the protagonist. 

[a-resilient-heart-deactivated20]

Can we rehave this series with hermione as the protagonist. 

[gidguard]

[agatha-eir]

Reblog all day err day

[valarhalla]

Fun fact: Tenochtitlan fell in 1521. From 1603 onwards, large numbers of honest-to-god fricking Japanese Samurai came to Mexico from Japan to work as guardsmen and mercenaries. 

Ergo, it would be 100% historically accurate to write a story starring a quartet consisting of the child or grandchild of Aztec Noblemen, an escaped African slave, a Spanish Jew fleeing the Inquisition (which was relaxed in Mexico in 1606, for a time) and a Katana-wielding Samurai in Colonial Mexico.

[valarhalla]

Also a whole bunch of Chinese Characters BECAUSE MEXICO CITY HAD A CHINATOWN WITHIN TEN YEARS OF THE FALL OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE.

[medievalpoc]

I love how much this shakes up people’s worldviews, and the way it makes you realize how unnaturally we isolate historical events (and peoples).

For people looking to dig into some research:

Charles Mann, 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created [Knopf, 2011], page 324:

The Chinese in Mexico, Robert Chao Romero

The Spanish Expulsion (1492); Judaism in Mexico

“Denunciation of Faith and Family: Crypto-Jews and the Inquisition in Seventeenth-Century Mexico”, Rafaela Acevedo-Field 

**ETA just to make it clear I hate the title of the first book up there ^^ and the overall tone of it-I’m using it to verify information that’s true but the interpretation leaves quite a bit to be desired

[newleafies]

[usbdongle-deactivated20200531]

millenial generation got a little too beaten down and miserable but im delighted to see that gen z seems to be frothing at the mouth and out for blood

[for-the-first-time-inforever]

new mood: millenials being tired af but still lifting up the gen z and wishing them the best. I believe in you guys. give ‘em hell, kiddos. 

[newleafies]

I am a millenial and I support this message.

[weavemama]

THIS IS HOW YOU START THE PROCESS OF CHANGE

[weavemama]

I also love how this bill doesn’t follow the ableist agenda that’s been going around lately that demonizes mentally ill people. The bill carefully specifies that the ban is for convicted domestic abusers. Good job Oregon.

[loveofromance]

[newleafies]

Masterful.

[shane-actually]