at Least Ive Got My Positive Attitude

[un-monstre]

Hate it when TikTok farm cosplayers and cottagecore types say stuff like "I'm not going to use modern equipment because my grandmothers could make do without it." Ma'am, your great grandma had eleven children. She would have killed for a slow cooker and a stick blender.

[un-monstre]

I’ve noticed a sort of implicit belief that people used to do things the hard way in the past because they were tougher or something. In reality, labor-saving devices have historically been adopted by the populace as soon as they were economically feasible. No one stood in front of a smoky fire or a boiling pot of lye soap for hours because they were virtuous, they did it because it was the only way to survive.

[pepperteethcrypt]

I loved this era of Steven universe discourse

[lofiouppydog]

Reblogging again with tags a follower added because they are correct. No you are not insane for reading that deeply into the overall reaction to SU and im glad you said it.

This sort of problem runs deep and i see it fucking everywhere.

[salvadorbonaparte]

my mum has severe knee problems and needs a replacement. Today she was told she's too fat to be operated on and the knee specialist suggested she gets a gastric band - which also involves surgery. So my mum was like first of all you didn't read my file because it explains that I'm not fat because I eat too much second of all you said it's impossible for me to get surgery and then suggested I get a surgery about it? He then asked her her weight and height, didn't believe her answer, and made her prove it to him because she "looks fatter than that". So she was like so you also just entirely based this on looks instead of actual numbers?

[undead-moth]

My mom went through something similar. She needed a knee replacement and her doctor wouldn’t okay it until she lost weight, which was difficult given the whole knee problem preventing her from walking thing. He told her she was too dangerous to operate on and that there were just too many risks.

My mom tried to lose weight in vain for months before she finally gave into my begging her to get a second opinion. The first doctor she saw next scheduled her for surgery the same day she met him. When my mom asked about the risk of operating on her he told her that there was some minor risks for complication and that all she would need to do to alleviate the risk was spend an extra night in the hospital so that they could keep a look out for any complications.

There were zero. There were also zero complications when she had her other knee done, her hip replaced and her gallbladder removed.

Almost like the first doctor was entirely full of shit and just trying to coerce his patient to lose weight by scaring her for fucking nothing, even when she was living day to day in excruciating pain and desperately needed a surgery.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

[homunculus-argument]

If nothing else, at least you're not stuck at an airport, hauling around a pet carrier containing your bored and evil parrot, who has just figured out that the worst possible sound they could possibly be making right now is that of a crying baby.

[shrewhouse]

happy make a terrible comic day!!! i haven't stopped thinking about this post since i saw it. in 2018 a common merganser was spotted with 76 (SEVENTY SIX!!!) chicks!! that's SOOOO many baby. so much success.

[xenthosss]

Heres a picture btw

[clementine-kesh]

tumblr mutuals love getting into the most random esoteric media possible and talking about it in modern fandom parlance they’ll be like “omg guys i’m so obsessed with dagny her relationship with hildr is so doomed yuri ugh they would do numbers on here” then you look it up and they’re talking about an obscure scandinavian folktale that’s only available in the original old norwegian

[clementine-kesh]

tumblr mutuals will be casually watching shit the sleuths on r/lostmedia have been trying to track down for years

[queer-as-city-folk]

"He did it in broad daylight" as opposed to male daylight?

[queer-as-city-folk]

This feels like it's an unoriginal joke honestly

[advanced-passenger-train]

He did it in bloke daylight

[queer-as-city-folk]

That's the way I should have written this bad joke, thank you

[chucktaylorupset]

They won't even let you do things in broad daylight anymore. Because of bloke

[meladoodle]

I got another photo with Giancarlo Esposito and the conversation went like this

me: hey 10 years ago I got a photo of you pretending a banana was a gun, do you remember me?

Giancarlo: of course I remember you

me: shit you’re a good actor

[meladoodle]

i got this photo with gus from breaking bad and the conversation went like this

me: “hey can you pretend this banana I found outside is a gun?” him: “it is a gun” me: “shit you’re a good actor”

[sentientsky]

it's gonna be okay (/threat)

[iosonomer-blog]

😂

[brightlotusmoon]

I have never seen this before and I want a series of their shenanigans now.

[queer-as-city-folk]

Context

[queer-as-city-folk]

Fred From Scooby Doo as the patron saint of Draft Dodging

[tattoosingarishhues]

[escuerzoresucitado]

[cruzfucker]

[captainlights]

[through-a-historic-lens]

A father with his 4 daughters, 1904

[elucubrare]

Raymond Schuyler and Four of his Children, photographed by William Bullen (link is to an article with historical context, especially about the use of these family photographs as a counterweight to racist images of Black Americans and the Black family.)

[the child in the striped hat is most likely his son Stephen]

[seaglassandeelgrass]

"A native of Troy, New York, Raymond Schuyler migrated to Worcester in 1887 to work for the Worcester Wire Works and later worked for the Boston and Main Railroad. Active in All Saints Episcopal Church, the Masons, and Knights of Pythias, Schuyler was the oldest member of the Worcester Chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People when he died in 1956. Raymond and his wife, Rose Bates, had nine children, two of whom died as children. Given the uncertainty around the photograph’s date, the only child who can be confidently identified is Stephen, their oldest son." E.132.16.75

[Rediscovering an American Community of Color: The Photographs of William Bullard, 1897-1917]

[wolfythewitch]

Finally have all 4 life stages let's gooo