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[nikoanesti]

Big fan of when old jrpgs would do this

[paradiseyuri]

Created by : ☆しなの☆ Respective credits to the creator ⓟⒶⓇⒶⒹⒾⓈⒺ♡ⓎⓊⓇⒾ

[pocket-deer-belly]

can not overstate that the reason hand-tailored items were so common 100 years ago is because every family had a dedicated home tailor called a "wife" who did 100% of the domestic labor do NOT romanticize a pre-readymade clothing life unless you're willing to go to bat for every individual having a secondary part time job as a tailor

[lizzylovestogetbetter]

Ok but village cobblers were a thing and there isn't a cobbler within 15 miles of me

[lighthouseweeper]

There’s a cobbler 15 minutes walk from me. He doesn’t make shoes from scratch, just repairs

[ariaste]

Village cobblers were a thing and so were village laundresses. Yes, there were women who did 100% of ALL domestic labor, EVERY task, but tbh that's... probably statistically a weird outlier of a situation and mostly found in extreme and fucked-up circumstances like "during the colonization of the American West". As soon as you have 2-5 families living within shouting distance of each other, humans tend to instinctively start arranging at least some division of labor.

It might look something like this: Goodwife A is great at getting stains out of clothes and enjoys laundry as a task, so everyone takes their laundry to her. Goodwife B pays her in milk and butter from their cow, and Goodwife C shows up to keep her company and take care of EVERYONE'S mending and darning, and Spinster D runs her father's bakery so she pays in bread and muffins, and Alewife E pays with the best beer in the county, and nobody's kitchen gardens are as productive as Granny F's and Widow G's so they've got veggies and herbs galore to exchange.

We DO criminally underestimate the value and prevalence of women's labor in history, but we also underestimate how much more fluidly communities functioned than they do now. Every woman absolutely did learn how to sew from the time she was a tiny child -- but once you're an adult and you've learned that you Hate sewing more than anything, maybe you make a friend who loves it (or at least who doesn't mind it). Then, as long as you buy your own cloth, she's happy to sew clothes for both your family and hers in exchange for you doing all the cooking, or watching the kids and teaching them to read and do basic sums, or churning the butter from the milk of both families' cows.

An awareness of historical women's labor is crucial -- but without an awareness of women's businesses, we can sometimes end up playing into the conservative propaganda that people don't need each other, that it's possible to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps, that women are incapable and unenterprising, and that therefore their place is In The Home, being worked to the bone doing every task (and if they don't do every task, then they're lazy and a failure of a wife).

Do not romanticize a pre-readymade clothing life unless you're prepared to come over and clean my house and do my dishes while I'm sewing your dress.

[ariaste]

Also i hate to do this but 100 years ago was 1926 and they absolutely did have readymade clothing by then.

From Wikipedia: "In the late 1860s, twenty-five percent of garments produced in the US were ready-made, but by 1890, the portion had risen to sixty percent. By 1951, ninety percent of garments sold in the United States were ready-made."

[the-grey-tribe]

There seems to be a confusion between off-the-rack, handmade, hand-sewn, hand-woven, homespun, and made-to-measure.

[rendakuenthusiast]

Better automation makes it so that buying new factory-made items is often cheaper than paying for the skilled human labor to repair existing ones. It is extremely easy to have machines make thousands of shoes these days; and this cuts down demand for cobblers.

[thatwelshartist]

I was looking up facts about Cormorants to find a title for this and found out about the liver bird a mythological creature from liverpool that is literally just a cormorant which I find kinda funny

anyway still think what to call this maybe UKAI

[vedurnan]

i was on the phone with my father earlier today talking about videogames (typical for conversation with my father), i was telling him about my lord of the rings online character who i imagine is a horse-thief from rohan and my father said “i imagine that is a very serious crime in rohan” with real concern in his voice

[rendakuenthusiast]

Yeah a society that valued horses that much would definitely hang people for horse-theft.

[argumate]

[uncomfortablecliche]

you have to actually draw this with your hands or you're going to AI slop hell

[argumate]

isn’t a hardworking artist supposed to get paid for this, it’s costing me time and effort 😮‍💨

[gothicprep]

why is your cat green?

She’s built different 😌

[gothicprep]

Look i tried to laugh it off, but I haven’t stopped thinking about this message because… my cat literally isn’t green

like where is the green

[gothicprep]

Oh Christ

[sapropel]

This is the color your cat is

[lazygravez]

colors i eyedropped directly from op's cat

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I drew a tree using only colours eyedropped from OP's cat.

[karakats]

every time i see this post all i see is some green alien kitty with antennae so i had to draw it

[bogleech]

I originally thought those were supposed to be mushrooms, implying that this cat is moldy

[tanuki-pyon]

Moldy forest cat

[gothicprep]

i'm happy y'all made fan art of my cat. i tried to show her and she just rubbed her face on my phone

[kob131]

Pet your cat OP, 50% shot it helps.

[headspace-hotel]

the first time I reblogged this, like a few weeks ago, it had like 4,000 notes. why do people keep insisting tumblr is dead

[headspace-hotel]

i had a DREAM about the green cat last night. not sure what she was up to but. nice to meet her :)

[sumi-sprite]

GREEN CAT IS BACK ON MY DAAAAAASH

[druid-priest-nikephoros]

We Love Green Cat

[mchasmfiend]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame

[holespoles]

Jun Kumaori (Junkuma)

"chasing its tail too much"

「しっぽを追いかけすぎて」

[nicdevera]

it's a comedy bar, but something something, metaphor for Philippine government

[rendakuenthusiast]

ATEGAY BOOBAY

[argumate]

funny that the MAHA movement is antivax and has trad connections but is also gungho about grey market Chinese peptides, entirely vibes based medicine.

[rendakuenthusiast]

People who are gungho about grey market Chinese peptides probably do not overlap much with people who identify as members of the MAHA movement. They might cast votes for some of the same politicians in elections, but that's unsurprising in the context of the American two-party system.

[argumate]

RFK Jr. himself, the leader of the MAHA movement, is leading the peptide push.

[rendakuenthusiast]

Saying that RFK Jr. is "leading" the peptide push is giving him more credit than he deserves. But insofar as he's a high-ranking government official at the moment his interest in grey-market Chinese peptides might result in some good drug-regulation policy happening.

[argumate]

funny that the MAHA movement is antivax and has trad connections but is also gungho about grey market Chinese peptides, entirely vibes based medicine.

[rendakuenthusiast]

People who are gungho about grey market Chinese peptides probably do not overlap much with people who identify as members of the MAHA movement. They might cast votes for some of the same politicians in elections, but that's unsurprising in the context of the American two-party system.

[centrally-unplanned]

Well, certainly is a lot riding on Platner being a selfless, upstanding person and dropping out of the Maine senate race, because the US lacks political parties and can't actually force him out! And he could probably stay in and still have some chance at winning, because enough voters just truly do not care about any personal morality from their politicians (as evidenced by using your eyes and observing current reality). Which gives him a pretty decent incentive to stay in, right? If he drops out, his political career is forever cooked, and since he is a desultory failson he has nothing else going on. If he stays in and wins, he is one of the most powerful politicians in the country. Isn't that worth a ~20% gamble?

For him personally of course. For the country it is a disastrous gamble to take when the stakes couldn't be higher. What a great system!

(I'm not making a prediction, to be clear - I am hopeful he actually is going to do the right thing because moral failings are not a bundled good; and the parties are asymmetrical, Dems do not have the morality blank check Republicans do, so Platner's odds will go down in a real way that he will see. But this should not even be a debate.)

[rendakuenthusiast]

Not caring about personal morality from your politicians is how you get Lyndon B. Johnson and the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

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[rendakuenthusiast]

Psyop Anime is a fascinating cultural artifact of our times. The idea that a natural idiom for expressing edgy right-wing self-consciously pro-America content is AI-generated animation designed to appear as much as possible like your favorite subtitled anime with Japanese dialog, is pretty crazy when you think about it.

[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!

[lamignonette]

[thehmn]

Okay so summer is the time to tell ghost stories in Japan which is why so many summer episodes of anime have ghosts in them and even why My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away takes place during summer. And coincidentally it’s also the original spooky season in my own country, Denmark, where we have Sankt Hans in June which is said to be the best time of year to do magic and communicate with the dead.

We all know Halloween by now which takes place during autumn and is said to when the veil between life and death is the thinnest.

In Britain winter, especially Christmas time, is considered spooky and a time for ghost stories which is why British shows always have a spooky Christmas episode and why A Christmas Carol has ghosts in it.

What I’m getting at is, is spring considered a spooky time of year anywhere in the world? You must understand, I need every season to be their own flavor of spooky.

[ashkaztra]

Not necessarily ghost spooky, but in some of the Nordic countries (primarily Sweden and Finland, though somewhat also here in Norway), Easter is tied to witches. Traditionally, witches were said to have a big witchy celebration (with the devil because you know) on Maundy Thursday through to Easter Sunday.

Kids in Sweden and Finland dress up as witches on Easter and get candy, kinda like Halloween.

So spooky, but less dead.

[businesstiramisu]

yeah, after poking around this list and a few similar ones I think Easter-related folklore is your best bet. There used to be a slavic tradition Dziady (occurs twice a year in spring in fall), partly co-opted into the Russian Orthodox Church's Radonitsa (at the end of Easter season) -- both, i think, are about the dead but joyous rather than spooky.

(Actually, now that I think about it... the Empty Tomb, the walking dead man, the Harrowing of Hell -- I'm surprised I don't see more zombie jokes about Easter.)

OH WAIT Qingming is right around the spring equinox! Not generally spooky, I think, but all about honoring the dead. And, well, *failing* to do your duty to your ancestors can invite retribution.

[rendakuenthusiast]

And there's other examples of the genre. But precisely because the death and resurrection of Jesus as celebrated at Easter is the core of Christianity, making jokes about it is engaging in a less-than-maximally-respectful way with a major world religious tradition. So Easter zombie jokes get put into at least a slightly edgy category. Spring is also structurally kind of a hopeful time of the year - the days are getting longer, it's getting warmer, crops are growing, life is teeming - so it makes sense that springtime spooky festivals are going to have a tinge of brightness and optimism around them that, say, Halloween-like harvest festivals wouldn't.