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"Will I be the one you choose?

Can you tell my heart is speaking, my eyes will give you clues.. "

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If you start seeing notifications from me, just know it started by looking for one particular post.

If you're wondering why I've just reblogged a bunch of stuff from @loekas and @deadcatwithaflamethrower ?

I binge stuff. And their stuff is interesting and neat.

And being on Tumblr kinda counts as socializing?

Also, I might be going through cabin fever, what with the lack of work hours because it's not golf season and I'm not social.

Anyways, that's my personal life thoughts for today.

Now to actually remember to pull my heavy blanket from the dryer and play Fallout 4. And try to avoid Deathclaws, and... Yeah.

#life rambles #relateable #or really funny

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Fantasy aesthetic

Forgotten places

#writing inspiration #or anything inspiration really

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You’ve been hit by 🔪

You’ve been struck by 🔪

A Roman Senator 🔪🔪🔪

#et tu Tumblr

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I shouldn't have laughed that hard. 😂

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These are gorgeous

Part II of Penumbra, a personal project

Painted in Photoshop ✨ Art prints will be here and here

You can see Part I of Penumbra here ⭐

#astronomy #art #stars #shiny af

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I'd read that.

what if vampires are like mosquitoes and only the ladies drink blood

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💀

“Sometimes it’s not the people who change, it’s the mask that falls off.”

— Haruki Murakami

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Preach!

“If you ask questions, you cannot avoid the answers.”

— Cameroonian Proverb

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😂 facts

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Spitting facts

#mood #star wars #my fandoms #fandoms #reblog #anikin skywalker

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@robinhood374 @the-mad-starker @what-is-your-plan-today @all1e23 @anotherwellkeptsecret @every author I've read and loved

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I got a tumblr, it really was quite great

I blog about a lot of things, but mostly what I ate.

I thought it was a sweet gig, it really was quite cushy.

Then they went and banned me, ‘cause all I ate was pussy.

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Never laughed so hard at that last picture!!

I've only seen part of this post in Pinterest. So glad to find it to reblog.

TIL that Billy Crystal’s character, Miracle Max, in the Princess Bride was so funny that it nearly stopped the production of the movie. One actor bruised a rib from clenching to try not to laugh.

via reddit.com

#the Princess Bride

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And THIS is why I want to move out of the cuntry.

The next time they tell you Americans are “happy” with their employer provided health insurance remember that that “happiness” is fueled by willful ignorance of what the alternatives are really like and fear of losing what little crappy health care they currently have.

#reblog #womens health and fitness #healthcare #usa healthcare #sucks

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Found this on Pinterest (go figure) and spent an hour looking for this post to reblog it.

How did people with a female body deal with menstruation in earlier centuries? what would someone from OaLC part3 say to the modern construct of period shaming as misogyny?

If you ever look up Medieval women and menstruating and find something that says, “women just bled into their clothes” rest assured, you have found something written by a man who had no fucking idea how periods worked.

The fact that people are still perpetuating that bad guess, including women writing on the subject who really should know better, is completely ridiculous.

Basically, you asked this question and I lost like two hours to research to find sources that weren’t horseshit.

But there is more! In no particular order: They say we don’t have any archeological evidence for what they used. (Yes we do.) We don’t have any written documents referencing it. (Yes we do.) Women wore red petticoats to bleed into them. (Those were to avoid showing stains, dumbass.) Women used wool to soak up blood. (OMFG STOP SAYING THAT, wool is itchy and it repels moisture!)

So. Much. Utter. Bullshit.

There is evidence for underwear-like garments made of sealskin with blood moss remnants. One is waterproof; the other is so super absorbent that it can be rinsed of blood, wrung out, and re-used. (We know this because while there isn’t much of anything written down regarding the use of blood moss for periods, scribes wax poetic about it in regards to battle wounds and surgeries.)An archaeologist discussing the sealskin find thought it was likely an incontinence garment considering the age of the skeleton it was found attached to, but if these garments existed, it really isn’t a stretch to postulate that variants were used for periods as well. The design would have been similar, too, but with cotton used in place of sealskin, and cotton “pockets” stuffed with blood moss to absorb the blood, be rinsed out, and used again.

A Greek historian wrote about a woman so enraged by a suitor who wouldn’t leave her be that she removed her blood-soaked cloth pad and flung it into his face. (omg time travel machine and a video camera needed for this moment.)

Pliny, of course, wrote that women were poison on their periods and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere when on their courses, but he was a raving mysoginist even by Roman standards. (Unfortunately, a lot of modern people would get on well with Pliny.)

Medieval churches preached that women were unclean/useless/suffering from Eve’s Sin, so of course they should be kept away from church and away from fields and livestock, lest their uncleanliness contaminate things. However, land owners with planted fields likely gave no fucks about the Church’s claims–they needed the help, male or female, bleeding or not. Women needed the money they could earn doing various tasks, bleeding or not.

(Fun maybe-fact! Medieval women who were in convents were considered holy in comparison to their not-convented brethren because they tended to no longer have periods, i.e. no longer suffering Eve’s Sin due to their piousness. A strict convent’s diet and almost no body fat will do that for ya. The moment these women left the convent and started eating normal foods, if they weren’t already menopausal–bam, periods again! Thus “proving” that they were now terrible sinners again. *sigh* This is despite the fact that medical practitioners of the time fucking well knew better. They would tell women who were struggling to have a regular menstrual cycle to each rich food and drink.)

“Returning tothe purely practical aspect of menstruation, women of all classes needed somemethod of absorbing blood flow. Well into the twentieth century, the age-old “rags”were used, torn and stuffed between the legs, although they were dependent uponthe use of some form of girdle of underwear to hold them in place. Trotula refers to wads of cotton being used to clean the female genitals, inside and out. Certains types of moss were also used to absord the blood flow from wounds and may well have also been used by women to staunch their flow as well as filling for washable cloth pads. Other recent suggestions have included cloth tampons, anointed with honey and oil, with a tie around the thigh. Thetraditional red coloured petticoats, worn next to the skin under many layers ofskirts may have owed their existence in part to a desire to minimise and absorbstains. Those engaged in manual work or physical activity must have had someway of ensuring their rags or pads remained in place. The discovery of a verymodern looking pair of pants in an Austrian castle in 2008 suggests that suchsupport was available, although the nature of medieval and Tudor undergarmentsstill leaves many questions unanswered.“

Sources that are (Mostly) not bullshit and at least consider how the Real World bloody works: http://onthetudortrail.com/Blog/2015/02/10/the-lady-in-red-medieval-menstruation/

https://rosaliegilbert.com/femininehygiene.html

http://authorherstorianparent.blogspot.com/2012/12/to-bring-on-flowers-medieval-women.html

https://www.femmeinternational.org/the-history-of-the-sanitary-pad/

Modern Period Commentary stumbled over in the process:

A Brief History of Your Period, and Why You Don’t Have to Have It

Around the World in 28 Periods

Some Cultures Treating Periods with Respect

Banished for Menstruating (focuses on India but the same sort of practice is also done in Nepal)

#periods #menstruation #history #stop telling us we bled into our clothes you glue huffing watermelons #period garments #AnonPhenomena #archaeology #womens health and fitness #women's education #educate yourself #get rekt Pliny

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I've only seen this story on Pinterest. It's so good to find the original and reblog it myself.

You drop a small piece of food on the floor, and decide to kick it under the oven/couch/whatever because you can’t be bothered to pick it up. As you’re walking away, you hear a very quiet “Thank you!” from under it.