Through the smoke

22, music, book and film lover. Auntie of Westies.

[mamoru]

you may not be able to control the plot of your life, or the characters in it, or even the genre, but you can control one thing: the soundtrack. grab some headphones and make it a banger.

[myresin]

Homeownership

“I gotta throw out so much stuff!”

followed by

“I gotta buy so much stuff!”

at the same time

[through-the-smoke]

me, an adult: i need an adult

[artsy-therapist]

Source: bykellymalka

[artsy-therapist]

Thoughtful Thursday

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Source: journey_to_wellness

[artbymoga-deactivated20200516]

Horror movie suggestions for next movie night?

[introvertunites]

Credit to: artbymoga

If you’re an introvert, follow @introvertunites​​​.

[mumisanerd]

And once again J and I have been spied upon.

[glorianas]

“In films, we are voyeurs, but in novels, we have the experience of being someone else: knowing another person’s soul from the inside. No other art form does that. And this is why sometimes, when we put down a book, we find ourselves slightly altered as human beings. Novels change us from within.”

— Donna Tartt, in this 2013 interview by Laurie Grassi for Chatelaine (via boykeats)

[thelasthippie]

[buddhaprayerbeads]

Find the best, easy-to-care-for house plants with the Top Ten House Plants Guide! This list shows how much water and sunlight each plant needs .

[fydogs]

[thefrogman]

[reddit]

[wnq-writers]

Tomorrow could be the ‘someday’ you’ve been waiting for.

fabuliz (via wnq-writers)

[wordsnquotes]

Ah, thoughts - they’re not so easy to control.

Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler (via wordsnquotes)

[jamieleecvrtis]

The Starks are always right, eventually.

[ladofthelakes-deactivated202308]

So my dad used to teach human evolution at the University of Minnesota, right? And his favorite thing was discussing Native American cultures and bashing misogyny. 

So he’d start off class by going “Raise your hand if you think you know why men hunted and women stayed back in the settlements” and most kids would raise their hands. He’d list off a few various reasons and kids would slowly start participating. Then he’d go “How many of you think it’s because men are stronger” and of course most of the males would raise their hands with a few girls. He’d then proceed to rip apart the patriarchal views they had all been taught. “No,” he’d say, “It’s because if five men went out and three or two came back no one would bat an eye. They’d grieve sure, but society would go on. Now if five women went out and three or two came back you know what would happen? Society would collapse.”

And it was true. For many Native American cultures the only reason women did what they did was because the men couldn’t do it. We are (usually) taught a twisted, self-aggrandizing form of history despite evidence suggesting the complete opposite of it. 

[muchymozzarella]

This was present in a lot of cultures in the past before white colonization (see: imperialism and genocide)

In Australia the Aborigines believed that women were more powerful than men and closer to gods because of their ability to give birth, and men would make themselves bleed just to be like women when they came of age

In the Philippines many people held practices which celebrated a woman’s first menstruation, encouraged free sexual exploration before marriage for young men and women, and believed women to be spiritual leaders, so that the only way a “man” could be one was to become a woman (transwomen were able and even encouraged to marry, and were identified as women within the community)

Also in the Philippines economic structures defined power, so a man who was poorer than his wife would take her name, and daughters would inherit and become heads of the family if they were the eldest

Westerners love to flout how great they are at women empowerment when it comes to other cultures that treat women badly, but actively try to hide the fact that there are thousands of other cultures who treated women better centuries ago than they do even today 

And that’s a fact. 

[ludaprilgate]