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I honestly always find the term ‘spinster’ as referring to an elderly, never-married woman as funny because you know what?

Wool was a huge industry in Europe in the middle ages. It was hugely in demand, particularly broadcloth, and was a valuable trade good. A great deal of wool was owned by monasteries and landed gentry who owned the land. 

And, well, the only way to spin wool into yarn to make broadcloth was by hand. 

This was viewed as a feminine occupation, and below the dignity of the monks and male gentry that largely ran the trade. 

So what did they do?

They hired women to spin it. And, turns out, this was a stable job that paid very well. Well enough that it was one of the few viable economic options considered ‘respectable’ outside of marriage for a woman. A spinster could earn quite a tidy salary for her art, and maintain full control over her own money, no husband required. 

So, naturally, women who had little interest in marriage or men? Grabbed this opportunity with both hands and ran with it. Of course, most people didn’t get this, because All Women Want Is Husbands, Right?

So when people say ‘spinster’ as in ‘spinster aunt’, they are TRYING to conjure up an image of a little old lady who is lonely and bitter. 

But what I HEAR are the smiles and laughter of a million women as they earned their own money in their own homes and controlled their own fortunes and lived life on their own terms, and damn what society expected of them. 

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Here’s to hoping that every single person with schizophrenia or a schizoaffective disorder or DID or NPD or any other ridiculously demonized mental illnesses has a wonderful day

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Frans Masereel: St. Sebastian

#relevant to my interests #the 'removed for tumblr guidelines' bit really does sell the concept #usurping normal posts for fanfiction reasons

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Out of curiosity and also guilt over my own coffee intake. I wanna ask:

Now I'm not talking about when you're studying and so you drink 3x the usual amount or something like that. This isn't me asking what your record is. I'm talking about the most basic, average day, how many coffees you drink?

#I drink 2-3 mugs per day #every day #tea after 6pm tho I don't want to disrupt my sleep #I make myself my own fukkin POT of coffee every day because I am an adult #and the taste is awesome

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In a new study published in Nature Chemistry, UNC-Chapel Hill researcher Ronit Freeman and her colleagues describe the steps they took to manipulate DNA and proteins—essential building blocks of life—to create cells that look and act like cells from the body. This accomplishment, a first in the field, has implications for efforts in regenerative medicine, drug delivery systems, and diagnostic tools. "With this discovery, we can think of engineering fabrics or tissues that can be sensitive to changes in their environment and behave in dynamic ways," says Freeman, whose lab is in the Applied Physical Sciences Department of the UNC College of Arts and Sciences.

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#mad science corps

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#mad science corps

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there are so many words to use in place of “penis” in regards to smut. there’s dick. or shaft. we got cock. member. organ. length. hell, even manhood! all are acceptable replacements.

but what do we have for the testicles? nuts? no thank you. ballsac or, lord forbid, just sac? i’d literally rather be tarred and feathered. using their government name and just calling them testicles? take me out back and gimme the ol’ yeller treatment.

how has the english language evolved so much yet we have no acceptable word for testicles in a sexy context? how can we claim we’ve advanced as a society when the best word for describing when two characters are fucking nasty and the noble and mighty testes are swaying about is balls?

BALLS

#you're not wrong #legit tho

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INFESTED SPACESHIP

by Nicola Liso

#relevant to my interests

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https://creanavt.tumblr.com/archive

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Chapter 9 of 10

Home stretch for the first Inquisition DLC fanfic. Finally going to finish one of them thank fuck.

I kind of knew Vengeance flying in the upper levels was going to be a chekhov's gun but I thought I'd avoided the follow-up scene. Instead I merely put it off until now. Varric fell into the sky and he is never living that down.

If you thought a possessed Inquisitor wasn't going to see and listen to and realize Valta is possessed by the Titan...

#fanfiction #whatever i'm going to end up naming my da world state #descent dlc #dragon age inquisition #inquisitor #cassandra pentaghast #anders dragon age #varric tethras #abominations #pride #vengeance

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ID: A green userbox. The image on the left is a picture of a possum with its mouth open. The text on the right reads "This user (all capitals) bites you bites you bites you." End ID

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origins is set in ferelden because if you tried to explain the mere concept of orlais to a freshly out of dust town brosca they'd let the darkspawn win

#you're not wrong

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This came to me in a dream

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STOP no more live-action remakes. We're going the other way now. Animated Casablanca. Animated The Godfather. Animated Oppenheimer. Animated Fight Club.

#relevant to my interests

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#thank fuck #look some INTERESTING design

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An amorphous black blob thingy that shape-shifts into any hazard related thing.

#mad science corps