I Have No Hot Water This Weekend But I Made A Cool Meme So Things Are, While Not Great, Going

"[...] Seven trees the human fells, ten times seven the storm throws, seven hundred the snow crushes and the avalanches smother, and seven thousand grow, become centennials, age and rot, and it was their only purpose that they lived and bloomed, scattered seeds and died."

Translation from: Waldrausch. Ludwig Ganghofer, 1908.

Some women are conditioned to be fragile and weak, and to believe that it's a sin to outperform a man. Her feminism would involve allowing women to be strong.

Some women are expected to be strong at times when they can't. Her feminism would involve reassuring her that it's okay to not be strong.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're too stupid to ever amount to anything. Their disability activism would involve reassuring them that they're capable.

Some neurodivergent people are raised to believe that they're smart and gifted, and are expected to live up to impossible standards. Their disability activism would involve allowing them to fail, make mistakes, be stupid, etc.

Some children are constantly reminded "you're the child, I'm the adult" in order to deny their autonomy. Their youth rights activism would involve treating them like an adult at times when they feel ready for it.

Some children are treated like adults in order to justify increased expectations or to downplay abuse against them. Their youth rights activism would involve allowing them to be a child.

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to oppression. Each individual person's experience is different. Whatever trauma is caused by their oppression, the activism should focus on undoing it.

HÉRODE. Je n'ai donné aucun ordre de le tuer.

SECOND SOLDAT. Il s'est tué lui-même, Seigneur.

HÉRODE. Pourquoi ? Je l'ai fait capitaine!

--Oscar Wilde (Salomé)

Tough grizzled guy at the biker bar: "How I got these scars? Heh... that's a long story, kid" (scene fades into a montage of mundane household accidents: touching a hot pan, running into a door, slipping in the shower, cutting a bagel wrong, etc.)

me communing with my friend, the snow

when you’re on your period you’re like am I just on my period or am I feeling all the loneliness and pain I’ve been feeling since i turned 12

Obsessed forever with the “Two Monks Invent...” series on The Toast by Daniel Mallory Ortberg. It’s one of my internet happy places and I hope it never goes away.

Two Medieval Monks Invent Art

Two Medieval Monks Invent Maps

Two Medieval Monks Invent Some More Art

Two Monks Invent The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Two Monks Illustrate The Old Testament

Two Monks Invent Biblical Art

Two Monks Invent Denominations

Two Monks Invent Dinner Parties

Two Monks Invent Bestiaries

Two Monks Invent Writing

Two Monks Invent Religious Iconography

Two Monks Discover How Tall Women and Horses Are

Two Monks Discuss Alexander the Great

Two Monks Learn How To Draw Hands

Two Monks Invent Renaissance Art

Two Monks Invent Byzantine Art

Two Monks Invent Horses and Armed Warfare

shoutout to al pacino in despair. gotta be one of my fave genders