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@undeniablytherealist
How many times have you moved in your entire life?
Once
Twice
Three times
Four times
Five times
Six times
Seven times
Eight times
More than eight times
I've never moved or my situation is complicated.
If you want to add context, reblog with where you've mostly lived and/or why you've had to move in the past.
Yall wanna hear a kinda funny, kinda sad story about my grandmother and hetero-normativity?
Ok, so... when my grandmother was in her 50s (I was an infant), she met a woman at the Unitarian Church. And, as can happen when you meet your soul mate, this event made it impossible for her to deny parts of herself that she had fiercely hidden her whole life.
All the drama- their affair being found out, the divorce with my grandfather, the court battle over who got the house, happened while I was a baby. Even in my earliest memories, it's just Mama Jo and Oma, and my grandfather lived elsewhere (first his own apartment, then a nursing home, then with us.)
But here's the thing- no one ever explained any of this to me. No one ever sat down and was like "hey, Rosie, so do you know what a lesbian is?" It was the 90s. It was Texas. I think my mom was still kinda processing all this, and just assumed that like... I was gonna figure it out. Don't mention it, let it just be normal. Like I think my mom thought that if she explained the situation, she would be making it weird? I dunno.
But like. In the 90s, in all the movies I had seen and books I had read, do you know how many same sex couples I had seen? Like. 0. Do you know how many "platonic best friend/roommates" I had seen? A lot. I had no context, is what I'm saying.
I literally thought this was a Golden Girls, roommates, besties situation until I was like...I dunno, 11? 12?
It was actually their parrot, an African Grey named Spike, imitating my grandmothers voice saying "Johanna, honey, it's getting late", that triggered the MIND BLOWN moment as I realized that *there's only one master bedroom and it only has 1 waterbed* when all the pieces finally clicked.
Anyway. I think it's a real important thing for kids to know queer people exist, for a lot of reasons, but also because kids can be clueless and it's embarrassing to have your grandmother be outted by a parrot because everyone just thought you'd figure it out on your own.
Anyway, here is my grandma and her wife, my Oma, after they moved to Albuquerque to be artsy gay cowboys and live their best life. They helped run a "Lesbian Dude Ranch" out there (basically just with funding and financial support. As Oma has explained "traditionally, most lesbians don't have a lot of money" so they wrote the checks and let the younger ladies actually run the ranch.)
This was done for a good friend of mine😘 Also, I have drawn an astonishing amount of zero Shadowhunters fanart, so there’s that LOL. 💚💙💜
Prints available here!
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wait im curious
do you wash your hair daily?
yes, twice actually (what the fuck)
yes.
yes, but only a rinse. i actually wash it every other day.
no, i only wash it every other day.
no, i wash it [insert timeframe here] / other
I don't have hair
this is excluding special circumstances (after going swimming, after doing a hairstyle with lots of product, before/after getting your hair done, etc)!
ok i absolutely need to know what accents u all have pls reblog and tell me or comment or whatever I must know
@ everyone with long hair, do you tie it up/secure it back when you sleep?
yes loosely
yes tightly
yes i have sleep curlers (or equivalent)
no i dont tie/secure it
my hair is too short
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Random poll, take 2
Participated in an archaeological dig
Shot a bow and arrow
Rode a horse
Cannot eat gluten/wheat
Published poet
Quit a job due to burnout
Had wisdom teeth removed
Used to have a LiveJournal
None of these
More than one (please reblog with tags)
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these are my 16 kids, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, pawn, rook, knight, bishop, queen, king, bishop, knight, and rook
ugh. just found out my neighbor named all her 16 kids after mine. ok now everyone line up
It is impossible to be anything but moved when looking at the tokens on display at the Foundling Museum in London.
The 400 tokens come from the Foundling Hospital, an eighteenth-century home for abandoned children that was established in 1739. Having been left at the Hospital between 1740 and 1760 by the mothers of the foundlngs, the tokens were meant to serve as a form of identification in case the situations of the mothers improved and they were able to come back and reclaim their children. There are many reasons mothers were forced to abandon their children – mostly poverty or illegitimacy – but the overwhelming thing that is conveyed through these tokens is the love these long dead women had for their children, and their genuine hopes they would one day be reunited.
Here are some of them. They break my heart.
"You have my Heart/ Tho wee must Part/ I.W./ Nat. [born] 6th Sept 1759."
The identity of I.W. is unknown.
A hazelnut. It is possible this was the only thing the mother could afford to leave with her baby, or that she intended it as some kind of protection for her child. In English folklore, hazelnuts are thought to shield against evil.
"Maria Augusta Handel. Born April 15th 1758."
This is one of the tokens we know a little bit about. When Maria arrived at the Hospital, she was renamed Ann Ketelby by the staff. She stayed at the Hospital until 1763 when John Covert, a friend of her parents, came and reclaimed her. Four months before Maria/Ann's birth, her father, John Harris, had been transported to Australia for stealing coal. This is possibly why Maria/Ann was left at the Hospital, as her mother might have been unable to financially support her in her father's absence.
An embroidered heart. Then, as now, the heart was a symbol for love. A piece of paper with the name "William" has been pinned to it. This was possibly the abandoned child's name.
This is a victory medal of Frederick of Prussia, dated 1757. It was left at the hospital in the same year by Jane Strudnall along with her daughter, Priscilla. On admission, Priscilla was renamed Elizabeth Glyn. This token has been successfully identified by researchers because in 1762, Jane wrote to the Hospital and asked for her daughter to be returned to her. Apparently, she had not seen Priscilla/Elizabeth's father Christopher for four years, but felt she was now in a better place and described the medal in intricate detail. Unfortunately, the staff had to inform Jane that her daughter had died shortly after admission to the Hospital.
Most of the tokens have become separated from the paperwork that would allow us to identify the mothers and children, but work is ongoing to connect the tokens to the children who are known to have lived at the Hospital.
All photos in this post were taken from the Foundling Museum's website, and more information about the tokens can be found here.
are you able to snap your fingers?
yes, i can do it normally (thumb and forefinger)
yes, but not normally (say which fingers you use in the tags)
no, i can't snap my fingers at all
a secret fourth option? (explain in the tags)
(i just want to know im not alone with my weird hands)
for those wondering, i can only do it with my thumb and pinky and i'm better at it with my right hand than i am with my left
“We made her dress out of silver lamé and iridescent rainbow paper, overlaid with lace and jewels on the bodice,” recalls Ellis Flyte. “We had costume breakdowns and a color chart on every character, and in this scene, her silver and mint color pallet set her apart from the others in the ballroom. Lovely young Jennifer suddenly was a beautiful princess. Her hair was dressed with jeweled glue particles. It all took a great deal of work, but she did look otherworldly!”
“Oh, that enormous hair!” Connelly gasps today. “Who can forget that?” The hairdressers opted not to give her an elegant updo; instead they wove delicate tendrils of silver through her dark hair, like enchanted spiderwebs. She looked older and more mature that a fourteen-year-old–yet younger and far more innocent that the other guests at the ball. “It was such a nice change from the blue jeans that I wore in almost every other scene,” she says. “It was really fun at the time. I’d never had an experience like that before, where I’d been dressed like that. It was kind of magical.”
- Labyrinth: The Ultimate Visual History (2016)
Television peaked when Five destroyed that donut shop full of people with Istanbul playing in the background
stardust (2007) really has everything. murder. mayhem. witches. gay pirates. unicorns. true love. claire danes. blond henry cavill before blond henry cavill was cool. subtle but wildly inappropriate jokes. a beheading. a lost princess. a running commentary of sarcastic ghosts. and more murder.
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I missed my chance last year. Not gonna let it happen again
Turns out, 2000 was 20 years ago. Which is odd, since 1980 was also.
The thing Gen-Z really needs to understand is that no one older than them is ever going to be able to estimate time correctly because the Millennium.
The Millennium will always be Not That Long Ago. Everything since the Millennium will always be, in some sense, ‘new’.
It just broke us, OK? It was too big and we’ll never quite be able to deal.
Was the real millennium bug inside us all along?
yep.
I think at least part of this is that pop culture has gotten such a longer shelf life over the past 20 years.
You can listen to a Top 40 station now and hear a song from 10 years ago easily, even songs from the 80s or 90s on special occasions (which might just be the Nineties at Noon or whatever every single day).
A Top 40 station in the 80s? Played the current fucking Top 40 and that was it. You were lucky if you heard a song that was one year old, definitely never ten. I was born in 1979 and heard almost no music from before I was born until high school or college. If you wanted to hear anything older than a year, you had to listen to a classic rock (late 60s to 70s) or oldies (50s to early 60s) station. There was nothing earlier than that on the radio.
A restaurant was playing What a Feeling, from 1983. 28 years before my son was born. That’s the equivalent of hearing a song from 1951 in the late 80s, which just did not happen. Even for an oldies station, it was hard to find anything that old.
VCRs were just getting big in the mid-80s, but there was a limited selection of videos you could buy (or even rent) for them. Most video rental stores didn’t bother to stock TV shows, it just wasn’t worth it. (Few shows were even released on VHS.)
So you could generally watch recent movies and “classics” but if you were looking for some random movie from the mid-70s - that’s only ten years previous - you were mostly out of luck. Imagine looking for a movie from 2006 right now, and you can find maybe the top-grossing ones and a few that won Oscars, but Night at the Museum? The Devil Wears Prada? You’re shit outta luck. That’s what it would have been like looking for movies from 1976 in 1989.
So for those of us who grew up in the 80s and early 90s, pop culture had a hard limit of about a decade, if that. By the late 90s, the internet was good enough that music was starting to stretch that, but you still couldn’t really get video through the internet and DVDs were still catching up in terms of what was available. You didn’t really get entire seasons of TV on DVD until the early 00s - the first season of The Simpsons, which aired in 1989, wasn’t released on DVD until 2001.
Anyhow, I think that’s why a lot of older millennials and Gen Xers are having trouble wrapping our heads around the idea that the year 2000 was almost 20 years ago. Because we grew up in a world where if you heard a song regularly, or watched a movie or a TV show that wasn’t late-night reruns, it had probably been released within the past 5 years, and almost definitely within the past 20. Our brains haven’t quite gotten used to hearing a new song followed by a 30-year-old song on the radio and not just being able to find any decade-old movie at will but seeing gifs of decade-old movies almost daily. Our brains think that means those things must still be new.
I have never heard anyone explain it so clearly before. And I LIVED it.
There was this song. In the 90s, when I lived with The Ex. It was mostly French, with a few key words in English. Banger of a song, bouncy thing–and it moved fast enough that I couldn’t remember a damn thing of the lyrics. I though it was counting numbers 1-2-3-4 as part of the chorus. Or reverse: 5-4-3-2-1 (I was wrong.)
Years later, long after The Ex was gone (deceased), I started looking for the songs he and I had listened to together.
I found “Teen Angst” by Cracker. I found “Take the Skinheads Bowling.” I found I went looking for “that racing song about cars” and found “Jesus Built My Hotrod” which was nice but not the one I remembered. (The one I remembered had spoken words at the beginning… something about speed… that’s all I could recall.)
I could not track down the French song. You’d think “French song released in the US” would be findable? No. Looked for numbers in French in the lyrics. Failed
Eventually… I heard a snippet of the song in a Pepsi commercial (still couldn’t catch the lyrics) but that was enough to Google for “French song Pepsi commercial” and come up with…
“Ça plane pour moi,” originally released in 1977 but covered in 1993 - that must be the version I’d heard. (I now like the original better.)
I had been looking for this song, on and off, for over 15 years.
The other song? The “racing something” song? “The Distance,” by Cake. It took me longer to track down that one, because I didn’t have the starting point of “French” to search with. I can’t remember how I eventually found it.
But yeah. For a very long time: If it wasn’t top of the charts, music or movies or TV, it was gone in 5 years, and totally forgotten in 10.
It is fucking surreal to browse Tumblr and here’s gifsets of a Netflix original released last month, followed by gifsets of The Avengers (2012), followed by gifsets of Road to El Dorado (2000). And then someone will mix it up with something from It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), but at least I know that one is “a classic” from “before my time” - not something I watched as an adult and so am still trying to figure out what counts as “current” vs “recent” vs “long time ago.”
2020’s “time is soup” lockdown effect didn’t have as much impact on Gen X'ers because we were already living with time as soup. We just had to extend it from our leisure life to our business life.
