Birke

these guys were onto something i think

Wait no hold on

I collect weird Quaker names (it’s a long story). And while Preservèd Fish is probably the best, there are a lot of close contenders.

See, Quaker women sometimes used their maiden names for their sons’ first names. This led to a bunch of unusual first names, like Warner or Sharpless or Dillwyn. But the absolute winner of this category has to be Coffin Pitts, whose mother I imagine had to be a member of the well-known Coffin family.

But that’s not all!

Quakers (like some other Protestant groups) sometimes used virtues as first names for their children, often girls, which gives us the amazing names Freedom, Remembrance, & Restore Lippincott (brothers), Thankful Thayer, increase Woodward, Content Hussey, Experience Field, and Experience Burt Merrick, which I can’t help reading as a command.

Anyway, without further ado, here is a selection of my best Authentic 18th-to-19th-Century Quaker Names, all belonging to real people who actually lived

And the crown jewel, Leather Peacock

just a picture of Durin's Bane being a lil baby

tiktok is such an awful app, it's almost designed to feed you misinformation and expose you to insane discourse. unlike beloved tumblr, the app that feeds me misinformation and exposes me to insane discourse

No, no, no, you see on tiktok an algorithm feeds you misinformation. On Tumblr I feed myself misinformation from my charcuterie board of hand-selected unhinged mutuals.

None of that mass market junk. Only artisanal, small batch, sustainably cultivated, fair trade horseshit.

Klimt + The Addams Family

casting these before getting out of bed like buff spells before a raid boss

Miss Congeniality (2000) dir. Donald Petrie

we passed a sign in boring that said their sister city is dull, scotland

oh there's a third! bland, new south wales!

I'm sorry but I just have to appreciate the wordplay on that last sign. It's brilliant.

hey hey hey

Assigning you a song that makes white people go nuts (from experience)

I didn't even care about the result, the questions here are just delightful

Francesco Levy, The Constellations of Summer

no multi option, agonize and choose, no results option, pick one to find out or scroll onward

the number of y'all in the notes mentioning how good the choices are/how hard it is to choose got me preening like "i am going to get a good grade in neurodivergent/disabled, a thing that is both normal to want and possible to achieve 😌"

The fact that thinness came in vogue (as seen in popular culture, magazines, fashion models, etc.) in the 1920s when women got the right to vote is telling. We got real, tangible power and then were told to be thin to achieve beauty, and sickly thin too. The kind of thin with no muscles, no power. It is not surprising to me that our beauty standards keep women physically weaker, physically starving, and mentally exhausted. The beauty standard is nothing more than a tool to keep women weak, docile, poor, and too tired to act.

Yes !! This is discussed in the Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf and I highly recommend reading/listening to it. Such a powerful book and so interesting.

'Snake' wooden spoon carved in Sapele wood.

so I found out I had skull deformities in the funniest way possible

wish me luck everyone I go in for chad surgery tomorrow

Again, feel free to say where you are for any answer.