anna 📖

psych student | 18 | infj | ravenclaw

[gymncpdie]

My Brilliant Friend in various places.

[ashstfu]

[koredzas]

Unknown Artist - Saint George Slaying the Dragon. 1510

[love1etter]

[darkmacademia]

my pressed flower collection. some are from over 12 years ago!

[ashstfu]

i can’t believe people expect me to do anything in my life except reading books, listening to music and crying at every little inconvenience

[you-are-another-me]

[heateron]

bande à part (band of outsiders) (1964) dir. jean-luc godard

[rosenaufsuden-deactivated202003]

I’ve slipped into the skin of autumn, the cinnamon and pumpkin perfuming each step I take, while the ancient archives await.

ig: rosenaufsuden

[classic-literatures-btch]

Same, Mr Wilde... same

[radicalrin]

Its "listen to sex workers" until an ex sex worker speaks out against the abuse in the industry. Its "listen to trans people" until a detransitioner speaks out about the pressure they felt from the trans community. Its "listen to women" until we dare step out of line and have an opinion of our own that doesn't allow you to walk all over us.

[lonelywandereremanon-deactivate]

Have you considered that maybe some of these sex workers make lots of money and love their jobs? Have you considered that some John's care about their providers health and orgasm?

Anon, I am going to assume that you ask this with the completely innocent confusion about my position and education on the subject, and will answer you as such! Have I considered, anon? I did a presentation on the "benefits" of sex work in the 8th grade, trying to clear up any of the biases around it that I felt existed, at the time being a libfem. It was almost impossible to find any articles that mentioned the legitimate majority of sex workers in the reality of their experiences. Half the articles from the first scroll were inundated with interviews from women in foreign countries seeking to be let out at any cost. I can cite interviews and statistics from the actual majority of sex workers. But the point is is that these women have very little representation whatsoever, and this is very intentional on the part of their johns and the human trafficking industry as a whole.

Are you asking if I have considered the droves of comfortably middle-class women on twitter raised on years of media crammed into every imaginable online space glorifying sex work as attractive and empowering, and rape as an act which proves and makes womanhood? The way that they dominate the media online with constant reassurance of how nice and amazing it is with constant images aimed at young girls to just hit that 18 mark so they can make a living. Multiple accounts have been proven to be linked directly to onlyfans' period scheme of a marketing platform, paying people to laud its benefits(it should be noted that onlyfans pays shit for their workers, and relies on a system which forces poorer women to degrade themselves more and more if they want to get closer to the top).

The point of all this is anon, I don't care if a few people get their kicks out of selling their bodies, and if the people who own them and pay them to degrade themselves do it well. I care about the majority. I am not a sex worker, though I have worked diligently to read and research as much as I can from their stories and voices(which have been blocked out considerably by the mainstream media for not complying with sex work's glamorous image), but until every one of them is safe and cared for and away from a system which objectively breeds and abuses people so that strangers can get their rocks off, in countries where they don't have any chance at identity and security, I don't fucking care. It is a common thing for the majority of a low, exploited class in an oppressive society to try to find some way to glamorize and fetishize their constraints. That does not mean the rest should have to suffer and die.

[illalwaysbehere]

... It's well documented that men don't even care about the health and orgasms of their own wives and girlfriends, so why the fucking hell would they care about them for the random women they pay for sex?!

[the-2nd-wave-was-a-tsunami]

Speaking as an actual sex worker, improving the reputation of johns, the same men who pull out more money when we decline a sex act...they don't care when we're in pain, they don't care when we're uninterested, you think any care about our orgasm or health? They care about some of us not having diseases they can bring back to their wives. But they care about themselves. They aren't paying to make love. They're paying to make us do things their wives won't or because they're disgusting men who can't get laid any other way and they aren't grateful for sex workers they're angry and resentful. The high rated of rape and murder for prostitutes isn't because some of these men are secretly wonderful people. I get meals and gift cards from my clients, like battered wives get flowers and chocolates. They will sneak off a condom in the middle of sex and try to buy you off with an Amazon gift card. Don't use the term provider it makes it sound like we're offering a service when none of this would exist without demand and the demand wouldn't exist without gender inequality and male violence.

[mushroomsandfullmoons-deactivat]

finishing my civil law assignment surrounded by plants and sunlight 🕉

[mushroomsandfullmoons-deactivat]

rainy morning in may

[ashstfu]

*finishes reading a full book in 3 hours* who am i

[thebeautiesofthepast]

Mary Tudor, Queen of England

A portrait by Master John, 1544, Renaissance

Queen Mary I Tudor (18.02.1516-17.11.1558) was the daughter of King Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon. She was the only surviving child of Catherine of Aragon, which was a reason why Henry VIII divorced her mother and converted the country into Protestantism under the Church of England.

As a teenager, she often suffered from irregular periods and depression, due to the fact that she was almost a bastard, now that her mother was banished from court. She had a bad relationship with her father, because she refused to acknowledge the fact that Anne Boleyn was Queen and Elizabeth, her half-sister, was legitimate.

When she reached adulthood, she reconciled with her Father. No marriages were formed then. During the reign of her younger half-brother, King Edward VI, she lived away from court and often argued with him over faith.

Almost as soon as she ascended onto the throne, she married Prince Philip of Spain. She suffered from multiple false pregnancies and had, ultimately, no issue. She received the nickname 'Bloody Mary' from how harshly she treated/persecuted everyone that was not a Roman Catholic.

At 42, she thought that she was pregnant again, which was false. She dies, probably of ovarian cysts or uterine cancer.

[user87262893]

Poster from the 70s, still relevant today