wool lovin' woman

21 | lesbian | uk | cats + tea + knitting

[sweetfoxglove]

I'm not back but i did just log on to my tablet which had this blog so on it, and jeez louise it is a throw back lmao

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

“Years ago a friend of mine had a dream about a strange invention; a staircase you could descend deep underground, in which you heard recordings of all the things anyone had ever said about you, both good and bad. The catch was, you had to pass through all the worst things people had said before you could get to the highest compliments at the very bottom. There is no way I would ever make it more than two and a half steps down such a staircase, but I understand its terrible logic: if we want the rewards of being loved we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known.”

— I Know What You Think of Me, Tim Kreider for the New York Times

[owlmylove]

after YEARS of seeing this quote online and finding it to be the most deeply and resoundingly profound writing i finally found the source article and absolutely nothing could prepare me for this opening paragraph

[screenshotsofdespair]

For a month, @staff has been telling me that this virtual colonoscopy screenshot is adult content that violates community guidelines. Is it, though?

@staff Please address. 

[screenshotsofdespair]

This issue has gone unheeded. The blog is considered to have “sensitive material.”

[screenshotsofdespair]

@support I am enraged.

[screenshotsofdespair]

Great news. Due to the intervention of @support, screenshots of virtual colonoscopies are now once again considered in line with community guidelines.

[anordinaryseal]

[stonecobra]

Can we talk 

About

How

Beautiful

Snails

Are?

Seriously

Just Look!!!

IT HAS A FLOWER

(Vyacheslav Mishchenko)

[stonecobra]

Every once in a while this post starts getting  a ton of notes again and it makes me really happy because the world needs more snail love.

[kawaiiraggie]

Sneautiful

[bloodsky]

Gender Troubles: The Butches (watch it for free until March 29th)

[sweetfoxglove]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Scripps visits Posner in the snow.

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I appreciate that lots of my followers now don't follow for writing but here is some anyway.

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

the queen could literally intervene and stop british children from being so malnourished that there has been a widespread return of rickets in the country but she won’t. kate and baldy could do something about this instead of going to various ex-colonies of britain and lecturing locals about the dangers of having too many children whilst they are expecting their third inbred freeloader but they won’t. megan markle and ginger are going on a £120,000 honeymoon. whilst children forced into poverty by the tories fill their pockets with food at school just to get through the weekend. the lifestyle and entitlement of the royal family remains absolutely and completely morally indefensible.

[sweetfoxglove]

So here’s the thing.

I love my degree. Everything about it has been great; I love my modules, I love living in beautiful Bath, I loved the chance to do a placement, I love learning. Everything is good. Apart from my dissertation. My dissertation makes me feel like quitting my degree, even though I have just three months to go and I’m done. 4 years of my life, gone. But I honestly do not think I can do it. I really think the dissertation is going to do me in.

The concept of it makes me hugely anxious. I can’t open any of the documents related to it because it gives me panicky palpitations and I struggle to breathe. I’ve got a method written but it needs serious editing, and that’s it. My supervisor wants a full draft - 6000-8000 words - by mid-March.

Does anybody, anywhere have advice on surviving an undergraduate dissertation?? I’m doing a BSc in Psychology at University of Bath, if that helps, but any advice from anywhere would help. I’m lowkey desperate.

[astraldemise]

i hope donkey kong becomes known as the ultimate trans ally for eternity now

[astraldemise]

donkey kong said trans rights !

[astraldemise]

[enchantment1385]

I’ve been waiting a whole damn year to post these…. :D

[ruinedchildhood]

[Retweet]

[c-bassmeow]

[tchaikovskaya]

what ageism is: elderly people living on social security alone not having enough to make ends meet, inaccessibility to public places for people with limited mobility, medical abuse in nursing homes, being assumed to be mentally incompetent, employment discrimination

what ageism is not: you getting mocked for being in your late 30s and getting into heated arguments on tumblr with high school kids about steven universe

[lesbian-thespians]

I feel like one strange advantage of being a lesbian/a woman who’s attracted to other women is that it puts my own body insecurities into perspective, because when I dislike something about my body I think “would I stop being attracted to a woman if she had stretch marks/acne/a little extra body fat etc.” and the answer is always no

[loveydoveyfemme-archive-deactiv]

a lot of the lesbians that i personally know, myself included, don’t like being called q*eer because it feels like it’s somehow leaving our sexualities up for debate. it feels like people are scared of the finality of “lesbian.” if i’m a lesbian, that means no men, whatsoever. i love women and women-aligned people. but if i’m q*eer, that can leave so much to your imagination. maybe i like men, maybe i don’t. maybe it’s just my gender up for discussion, maybe it’s just that i don’t fit the status quo. going out of your way to call all lesbians q*eer instead of lesbians means that you don’t respect our right to the only identity that has ever truly felt like it’s fit us. i don’t want to be called q*eer for several reasons, but i especially don’t want to be called it OVER lesbian.

[ew-wave]