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One Nice Bug Per Day
Lint Roller? I Barely Know Her
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Three Goblin Art
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PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
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Stranger Things
trying on a metaphor
occasionally subtle
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i CANNOT express how much more lovable my friends are to me at their most annoying. i'd rather hear the same story 3 times than not at all. i'd rather read a 22 message text rant about something totally inconsequential than not hear from you all day. i'd rather you tag me in the stupidest post i've ever seen than not know that it made you think of a conversation we had a month ago. BE ANNOYING AT ME. I LOVE YOU
I saw the muppets Christmas Carol today, and I couldn't think of anything else other than that bloody joker when kermit was on screen. I wish to be free.
So I had a hysterectomy today (hooray!) and I brought along my stuffed orca, Shamu, as a comfort object. And everyone i interacted with during my pre-op was like "Oh! Who's this?" so I was telling them all about him, how he's been with me since I was 9 and gone on every single vacation and road trip, and they were telling me about their own stuffed buddies (one lady said she still has hers after 40 years!) and all of this while I was signing consent forms and providing a list of the things I'd brought with me, you know, small talk.
So then a nurse comes over and goes "Okay, I've got some stickers I'll put on your things so we know they're yours" and I'm like "OK cool" so she puts a sticker on my coat and stickers on my bags of clothes and then she turns to Shamu and I'm like "oh I guess he gets a sticker too"
But no. She pulls out a hospital bracelet that's an exact copy of mine and slaps it on his tail, like so:
And i was delighted by this, so I took a picture to send to my friends, who were equally delighted, and were cracking me up with their reactions (like so:)
Anyway, they take me back and put me under, and when I awake groggily a few hours later it takes me a minute to get my bearings, so I don't notice Shamu at first. But then I realize he's tucked up next to me in the gurney, so I grab him, and my hand touches gauze.
And I'm like "huh?" so I look at him and I realize
They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy
PHRASE ADDED!
"They gave my fucking orca a hysterectomy"
CHARACTER ADDED!
Shamu (No, Not That One) (Against Tumblr Guidelines For Some Reason?) (Got A Hysterectomy)
Sparring session
I've rarely seen a more validating sentence in my entire life.
reblog to disturb jk rowling
Team radical and ruddiger💛💛💛
engage with my transgender allegory boy
okay last one for now i swear. it just felt like it needed its own post
Im like Sanders Sides if my sides were Kermit the Frog, the Joker, a slew of Homestuck characters, and Jesus Christ from the Bible. Light Yagami from Death Note is also there but it's unclear if he's real or just in my head
can't stop thinking about how heterosexuality in frankenstein is continuously characterised as something both enforced externally and incestuous.
victor has been brought up and groomed to marry his cousin—who is essentially his sister—by his own parents, and throughout the novel never proclaims any actual romantic or sexual attraction to her, it's just accepted as a basic fact of his life that he will marry elizabeth; and since his fondness and admiration for her are unquestionable, why shouldn't he?
the creature doesn't seem to make any difference in its feelings towards men and women initially ("Felix seemed ravished with delight when he saw her [...] his eyes sparkled, as his cheek flushed with pleasure; and at that moment I thought him as beautiful as the stranger." ) but only learns from his observation of the family and the books that constitute his introduction to the world that it's a female companion he's supposed to desire, and blackmails victor into making him a sister-wife of his own.
that very project then becomes the pretext for victor to elude his own incestuous predestined marriage and flee into the homo-social union with his best friend henry clerval once again.
his eventual wedding to his sister/cousin is also invariably treated by his parents as a kind of ultimate solution to unhappiness, an unhappiness that is brought into victor's world by his queer desires (to bring forth life like a woman might, to bear a child without a wife) and the subsequent abjection of the consequences of the fulfillment of that desire in a world that cannot hold it, leading to the deep repression and self-loathing that manifests itself physically as the fever that almost consumes him—but does not, solely for the care of his beloved and devoted friend henry.
clerval and walton are also the only characters in the book victor doesn't feel indebted to in some way, and who don't treat his mental illness as some annoying hindrance to their own contentment (maybe a harsh criticism of victor's family, i do think it's obvious they care for him genuinely, but they also push him further into isolation by continuously pressuring him to finally 'be glad' again for their sakes), or make their own happiness dependent on his actions in some way (as the creature does, even if rightfully so).
that perceived debt is also always incestuous in nature. he owes his family cheerfulness as well as—when it comes down to it—sex with his sister, he owes his "son" (and external manifestation of his own repressed queerness) the fulfillment of his sexual desires (even though it's of course in actuality an antidote to his solitude first and foremost, the fact that he is supposed to make him a bride still carries the same sexual undertones). only in his male friendships that are very heavily queer-coded and free from both familial ties and heteronormativity is victor truly free to just...be.
homoerotic love is also at multiple points associated with a deep adoration of the natural world (walton about victor: "Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions, seems still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth. Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery, and be overwhelmed by disappointments; yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit, that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures." / victor about clerval: "Clerval! beloved friend! even now it delights me to record your words, and to dwell on the praise of which you are so eminently deserving. He was a being formed in the ‘very poetry of nature.’ His wild and enthusiastic imagination was chastened by the sensibility of his heart. His soul overflowed with ardent affections, and his friendship was of that devoted and wondrous nature that the worldly-minded teach us to look for only in the imagination. But even human sympathies were not sufficient to satisfy his eager mind. The scenery of external nature, which others regard only with admiration, he loved with ardour." ) and becomes therefore itself connotated as natural (as opposed to the heterosexual love that relies on artificial enforcement).
but by externalising and rejecting his own queerness in the form of creating and then immediately abandoning the creature, he tarnishes this refuge, turns it into something both incestuous and heterosexual once again (incestuous because he makes his desire into a son to cut it out of himself, heterosexual because his creation demands a wife of him). when he finally refuses the creature's request, it promises him: "I shall be with you on your wedding night." it really couldn't be made more obvious. "On that night he had determined to consummate his crimes."
victor is also again and again presumed by his family to be tormented because he "might love another", both his father and later elizabeth herself pose this question to him. and in a sense, they're right (if we read victor as being romantially interested in clerval)—but in another sense, more importantly, and through the same queer lense, they're wrong. because they're not asking about love, not really; they are asking about heterosexual love specifically, implicitly, and the cause of his misery is decidedly not that he is in love with a different woman; but something he can't even speak of, something he must keep from the ones closest to him at all costs, which distances him further and further from everyone he cares for.
only when she's dead does victor ever truly yearn for elizabeth, but in death she furthermore becomes almost merged with clerval, both of them unified into that amalgam of loss and grief for what has been taken from him. the fact that his father and his brother wiliam aren't part of this mourning ritual seems to only further validate clerval's position as having been just as much a romantic prospect as elizabeth, who has in her altered state of unavailability now also become a somewhat queered desire for victor.
in the final paragraph of the novel, in its last and only conversation with walton (which arguably serves as a confession), the creature admits to having been so overcome with remorse and pity after having taken clerval from victor that he felt ready to let go of his plans of further revenge—until it was revealed to him that victor was still going forth with his plans to marry elizabeth. this final submission to heterosexual bliss is what seals their fate, what the creature cannot let stand. and in the end, all that is left of victor frankenstein is what he could not let himself love.
Wait
Can
Can anyone pay for an ad on Tumblr?
Can you just...
Make a site
Pay tumblr
And design any ad you want?
Can I make an ad that's just my dogs????
sorry about my posts i get really depressed in spring and also summer and also winter and also autumn
I love a good Very Specific Resource. Here are the links to my posts about resources carefully crafted to share a specific bit of history (updated as needed)
Public Domain Image Archive - thousands of images from various repositories no longer under copyright
Medieval Murder Maps - interactive maps of murder and accidents in medieval London, York, and Oxford
Travel in Times - plan travel routes in England and Wales in various centuries
The Quilt Index - a digital repository of quilts, makers, and their stories
Louis Armstrong Archives - Some highlights from the archives and how to access the full collection from home!
RSN Stitch Bank - hundreds of sewing and embroidery stitches, their uses, their structure, how to make them, and history!
Archive of 80s mixtapes - a whole lot of tapes from the 80s and also tapes of background music from Kmart in the 80s and 90s
Feast Afrique - What started as an exploration and celebration of West African culinary heritage has since expanded to include history, language, culture, and customs of West Africa and the African diaspora.
Letterform Archive - Thousands of high quality images celebrating graphic design, calligraphy, and typography. The beauty of letters!
Historic Menu Collection - Over 17,000 historic menus, 1.3 million historic dishes transcribed. Historic popularity and price range, map it, and more.
Palestinian Embroidery - Digital archives dedicated to the preservation of Palestinian embroidery. Over 1,000+ free patterns
Black Craftseople Digital Archive - enhancing knowledge of Black crafts people (both free and enslaved) and the objects they produced.
Georgian Lady's Magazine Embroidery Patterns - Free embroidery patterns from 1770-1819
The Dutch Textile Trade Project - History and trade of textiles in the 17th and 18th centuries. Fabric types, images, data on trade.
Estonian Knitting - Bog knits! History! Techniques!
DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY
I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.
I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.
My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.
Do not give to the Salvation Army.
Do Not. Give. To. Salvation. Army
My turn.
I’m a wildfire and disaster logistics specialist.
I deal with a lot of agencies who provide disaster relief.
I used to say the Salvation Army’s disaster services were the one (literally the ONE) good thing they did.
They would come in, set up a canteen trailer, make and pass out hot coffee and donated food in a disaster, usually being one of the first agencies to get there and the last to leave.
Then I found out.
Every time they did this, regardless of if they were actually invited or deployed by the agency in charge (usually FEMA, sometimes others) they would SELF-DEPLOY. Meanjng they would just show up. Ok. That’s not TOO bad, sometimes agencies have to take initiative and get there before the red tape is sorted out. BUT. They, after they left at the end of the incident, they would send FEMA or the host agency a BILL. They used one or two paid employees (usually the driver of the truck and a supervisor); and many VOLUNTEERS, but they would bill for EVERYONE’s Labor at standard federal rates. They would bill for the food they distributed even though it was all donated by another agency or private parties. They would bill for the coffee they made and the supplies. Except they would use electricity from the shelter location, water from donations or from the shelter, and in many cases, they would get the coffee and industrial filters DONATED, but bill for them at retail prices.
Don’t FUCKING give to the Salvation Army.
The Salvation Army is also ass to the workers. A good number of people join it, naively thinking that it’s doing good, and end up leaving cynical and beaten down. The management is hostile, if not outright abusive, and demand some ridiculous hours of it lower to mid-level staff. Don’t support these people.
Unsettling update
Find better local charities and shelters and give to them instead!
Also just for even more horrific context on the original twitter thread?
Salvation Army reached out to Milknmuffins and asked what shelter she’s at with the promise to address the abuse in it. She…ended up saying where she was. She was thrown out onto the street. It’s also all on Twitter.
They invited her to a personal talk so she could explain the situation in person.
And then they threatened her with a screenshot of a rape-threat made supposedly by her:
And then threw her out into the street while claiming she broke house rules that
So yeah, the Salvation Army is a bunch of entitled assholes that will treat the most vulnerable like shit if they dare try to do anything that makes them look bad
The “Fuck Salvation Army” posts are making the rounds again, so conisder this your reminder: Do. Not. Give. These. Assholes. A. Single. Fucking. Penny.
Do not support them in any way, shape, or form.
‘Tis the season to say FUCK the Salvation Army.
If you see the timestamp and think ‘maybe the Salvos got better in the last 8 years’ no. No they didn’t. Actually they got worse. DON’T GIVE TO THE SALVOS. THEYPISS ALL THEIR MONEY UP THE WALL ON THE CORPORATE END AND DO LITTLE TO NOTHING TO HELP WHO THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO HELP.
RIP 2012
Okay guys, 2013 is going to fucking rule. I have a really good feeling about this one. I believe in astrology and tarot and all that stuff. I had my aura read once and it told me that I was going to have a rocky romance. Well, I actually had three, but that was pretty weird that the lady told me that. Anywho, let’s get this year started right! Put on MGMT and dance with me! Wherever you are!
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