But I Digress

Dolls, DVDs, delicious food, dirty jokes. And something in between.

[dopy]

[animus-inviolabilis]

[hesitation-wound]

[driflloon]

[lauramakabresku]

[prospects]

[vensuberg]

[officialrapunzelfitzherbert]

[knifefightscene]

[burningcomputerpersona]

FUCKING TEA

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Frankenstein got written because Mary Shelley was the only person in her peer group to finish Nanowrimo

[dumbthinmint]

Wasn’t her peer group full of horny frat boys who were constantly having parties and in her desperation to have one chill day with no one trying getting all handsy, she mentioned that there’s this writing thing and vaguely insinuated that they wouldn’t be able to do it and then all the boys were like “YES I CAN JUST WATCH” and at the end of it all Mary Shelley finally had time to write about this idea she had dreamed about without some dumb horny boy trying to tell her how women should be in his bed instead of writing?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

that is technically an accurate historical recap, yes

[not-as-bad-as-frankenstein]

Also, while stuck with all these intellectual dude bros who were constantly going on about how great they all were, she wrote a main character who thought he was the greatest and smartest but then refused to take responsibility for anything leading to the destruction of his entire life.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

ahhahahaahahaha

[booksqouted]

“Perhaps she was glass. But glass is only brittle until it breaks. Then it’s sharp.”

— V.E. Schwab, Vengeful

[stevenscrivello]

[jaded-gentleman]

[tastefullyoffensive]

(via teejus)

[ahvei]

in case y'all wanna follow these playlists

Heady bros

white dudes who look like they like rap

basic 20-30s

30+

quiet ppl

POC

fucking hipsters

WM early 20s

early 20s fem

there are many other gems on this dude’s account

[unrussledjimmys]

This is the guy

[cloudfreed]

lyft driver has WM 20s on until i try talking to him then he switches it to the gay bops playlist

[fluffysheeps]

If only they kept the shiny coloration from Dragonite’s pre evolutions 🐲✨

[fandomsandfeminism]

Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized. 

Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isn’t how it works. That isn’t how it’s supposed to work.

[g-taire]

ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking the ‘survival of the fittest’ bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)

shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals) 

going off of widespread ideas of “”primitive”” (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldn’t contribute anything, he would have been a “”burden to society””, right? 

except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)

this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without his ‘contributing’ anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar III’s) was huge because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared. 

tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be ‘’useful’’ or ‘’’productive’’’ in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamed 

[ekjohnston]

Also, Shanidar I was buried with flowers. They cared about him after he was dead, too.

[silverjirachi]

I needed this kind of positivity today

[whitmerule]

And of course he probably DID contribute. Just, not in the sense meant by people who use phrases like “burden to society”.

[wodneswynn-deactivated-deactiva]