Henri Biva (French, 1848-1928) - A Woodland Lake

anyone who has never heard it before and goes on to read the name "Penelope" aloud and doesn't pronounce it "Penaloap" is definitely some kind of scary ass english wizard

@itskindofareallyniceday you misspelled "improve" there

this is not the most relevant of all the criticisms I have but it is the most amusing

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.

"[...] 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.

meanwhile it has taken me an entire YEAR to put together the bare minimum of even marginally useful thoughts about my actual phd topic, WHY

so I wrote two papers in like 1-2 weeks each about other stuff I was doing to procrastinate working on my doctorate and THEY HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED

idea: seasonal gender. masc in winter, femme in summer, enby in between.

You all, fools: *getting tattoos based on the ancient tattoos they find on bog mummies and the other ancient dead that for all you know will bind you to a forgotten god that now by all rights has a claim on your life for better or for worse*

Me, and intellectual: *doesnt fucking do that*

why doth the human body ooze when provoked