Chocolate.

My vaguely awesome cousin: iamnotdora.tumblr.com

[hi--ily]

i hate when someone tells me i shouldn’t be tired bc i slept enough like sweetie i could sleep for ten years and i’d still be tired

[corporation-cats]

[theadventuresofmichaelpawlak]

If you just had a clear box, you’d know that Schrodinger’s cat is alive and very confused.

[syzygy-girl-deactivated20250729]

[when-im-clownin]

A fresh batch of goblins

[rupindork-deactivated20130712]

Did Jordin Sparks ever figure out how to breathe with no air

[florals780]

when was the last time u heard anything about jordin sparks. i rest my case

[suspencerrrr]

it was ineffective 

[toastbutteregg]

[susanoomon]

me using my last two brain cells

[eclipsebykimlipmp3-deactivated2]

my mom: it’s really not good to eat past sunset me, whose circadian rhythms have aligned with a nearby raccoon’s: your rules don’t apply here

[realbobdylan]

[hivs]

cat: *meows in a distance*

my mom’s voice from the kitchen: you want a tomato, you fool? you won’t eat it

cat: *meows louder*

[twinkincel]

im a snail and god is salting me

[fh3207972]

i told my mom i needed new chapstick and she got me this

[pesmenos]

why is there such a stigma against wearing pads? like why is it that people who wear tampons are seen as ‘strong’ and ‘cool’? y’all know that someone people can’t wear them bc it hurts them or that they just don’t like them? stop making it seem like people who wear pads are childish and weak compared to those who wear tampons 

[postcardsfromtheoryland]

Ok kids buckle up because I know the answer to this question because I am a bitter, vindictive person.

So my first semester of PhD work in a musicology program involved this horrible class with a professor that wanted to suck the life out of all of his students by constantly belittling them. We had to write a short paper each week and present them conference-style and then he would tear us to shreds and do it all over again next week. The purpose of the class was supposedly to have us write papers about materials that hadn’t really been looked at by musicologists yet, and my class had music in advertisements. I was also the only woman in the class and the prof was lowkey sexist so I kept trying to do feminist topics without losing my entire will to live.

So we get to the end of the semester and I am just completely out of fucks, I have one paper left to write and I say fuck it, let’s write about pads and tampons, there must be something there, right? It turns out there IS something to be said there (and this gets back to OP’s question). Early pad and tampon commercials were very similar to each other; basically here’s a product to help you stay clean during your period. But around 1980, suddenly there’s public outcry and panic over tampons due to TSS (Toxic Shock Syndrome). At that point no one really understood how TSS worked but they knew it had to do with tampons. So women freaked out and started switching to pads instead. Now the worst offender, Rely, was taken off the market and other tampon commercials got slapped with little warning signs like “This product could cause TSS” so women bought even fewer tampons. This is when the advertising strategies for the two products changed.

Pad advertisements were now about “cleanliness” and “purity” - they knew you couldn’t get TSS from pads and they were going to emphasize that fact. You’ve got women in white dresses with long hair slowly walking through fields of flowers with pastoral-y flutes in the background. And to fight back, tampon companies take it the complete opposite direction - they ignore TSS entirely and start showing businesswomen running to catch the subway, sporty women riding bikes, basically any sort either high-powered position or active woman showed up in these commercials with contemporary pop-song type music over the top. The clear intention was “yeah we know that these could cause TSS but they’re much better for your mobility, both physically and career-wise.”

I got done giving this paper and I look up to see my four male classmates and one male professor in varying shades of pale-ness and they just all sort of looked at me for a couple minutes without knowing how to respond. It’s one of the proudest moments of my PhD career so far.

Anyway the two products have been advertised basically the same ways ever since then. Now pads are much more comfortable and discreet, and we understand how TSS works and how to avoid it, but the commercial strategies are cemented. If you want to be a strong, on-the-go woman of COURSE you’ll wear a tampon because you don’t want to be one of those sissy ladies in the pastoral field of flowers over in pad-land, do you?

[insomniac-arrest]

It was ‘Ms. Frizzle’ and not ‘Mrs. Frizzle’ because it was the 90s and the magic school bus lady couldn’t marry her gf yet

[80s-addict]

THIS EXPLAINS SO MUCH

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Okay but it is Mrs Frizzle now, now that marriage equality is a thing ye? <3

[esser-z]

Okay y'all here’s the thing. Ms Frizzle was voiced by Lily Tomlin, a lesbian. In the new show, she’s being voiced by Kate McKinnon, also a lesbian.

She’s absolutely gay.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ No heterosexual woman could be as powerful as Ms Frizzle

[raedmagdon]

The best part: Kate McKinnon didn’t replace Lily Tomlin as Ms. Frizzle. There are two Ms. Frizzles.

Lily Tomlin still voices the Original Friz, Valerie. Kate McKinnon voices her younger sister, Fiona Frizzle.

THEY ARE BOTH VOICED BY LESBIANS. Not just one, but two gay Ms. Frizzles! Adorable redheaded lesbian science teacher sisters!

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

:D

MAGICAL LESBIAN TEACHER SISTERS!

[koyaniyako]

[littletootsierollaliengirl]

These little fruits are holding him down

[timidbabie-deactivated20220516]

free him

[doctorwhorama]

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

I JUST LEARNED ABOUT DANISH NUMBERS ALL OTHER LANGUAGE CRIMES ARE FORGIVEN WE MUST UNITE TO DEFEAT THE TRUE EVIL

[imoldbutimstillintothat]

[septemberpoems]

WE’VE BEEN TRYING

sincerely, the swedes 

[annusunus-deactivated20240713]

please explain

[beeftea78-deactivated20200113]

The Swedes and the Danes are like the French and the English - been at war for hundreds of years, but are now enjoying a peace built on a solid foundation of mutual shade. After becoming acquainted with the Danish numerical system I find myself sympathising with the Swedes.

@imoldbutimstillintothat​ tells me “they call 90 “halvfems” aka half fives and by that they mean 4*20 + 0.5*20. And same goes for 70 which they call halvfjerds. (3*20+0.5*20)”

I’ve read that sentence 3 times and I still don’t understand it

[imoldbutimstillintothat]

Haha sorry. They, like the French count by scores (quatre-vingt being 80) I think. So halvfems (half fives) (aka 90) are four score plus one half score of the fifth one or so I have been told. But 100 is hundrede in Danish so they’re not even making consistently no sense.

[septemberpoems]

and this is all without getting into how utterly ridiculous their language is. this is just basic numbers.

[imoldbutimstillintothat]