How weather in Slovenia changed in one day.

I feel like a lot of people don’t quite get what a butler is. The role tends to get rounded off to ‘male servant’ pretty regularly in some media, whereas actually butlers are typically not just servants but chief servants. The butler was generally in charge of either all male servants or just all servants, period, in the household of an aristocrat or other very wealthy person. This meant that butlers have often been fairly powerful and influential people, and sometimes even had a manservant or two of their own.

(Also, fun fact: Mary Roberts Rinehart, the early 20th century mystery writer who is widely credited with popularizing the whole ‘the butler did it’ trope was nearly murdered by one of her own servants, a chef whom she had passed over for promotion to butler. He came at her with a pistol, but it jammed, allowing her chauffeur time to wrestle it away and restrain him.)

You didn’t answer the key question things brings up: did she popularize the trope before or after the would-be butler tried to kill her?

according to wikipedia, before

There’s something glorious about the fact that the author who popularised “the butler did it” had a servant who a) failed to become the butler and then b) failed to do it.

If he’d been butler material, he’d have finished the job.

I literally do not care what the Bible says about any political issue. I am not Christian. Christian scripture should have zero effect on my life or my personal freedoms. 

This actively happened in my lifetime, and I’m in my 30s. A lot of us experienced it in real time and no one stopped it. No one helped us.

When I was 16 we would hang out outside and inside the library. We ranged from a group of 20 to a group of 3-4 people on any given day, because us 16 year olds also hung out with whatever other kid was around the area. (Mostly younger siblings and then their friends.) We never did anything wrong, never mind illegal. We were never loud in the library and were always polite to the staff. We sometimes got a little loud outside on the street when there was some contest thing going on, but not very often. We mostly hung out and talked about stuff going on in our lives.

Then one day someone called the cops on us.

And the cops showed up all ready angry, then started yelling at us for doing nothing. They couldn’t even come up with a real reason to be there yelling at us, other than to demand to know if we were a ‘gang’. When one of my friends started crying, I turned to tell her that it would be ok. The cop grabbed me, screamed at me to not look away when he was talking to me, then demand I get in the cop car and go down to the station. It took almost an hour for my mother to find out where I was because I didn’t have a cellphone at the time and the cops had just fucking kidnapped me. For comforting a friend while they screamed at us. And you know what happened?

We never hung out like that again. None of us. We all got banned from the library for a year. Again, all of this for literally no reason. They told us we were ‘misbehaving’ for simply hanging around outside being kids. And then we had no where to go. Some of those kids were forced back into their abusive homes. I literally never saw half of them again. Ever. And I lived in that town for several years after that.

So, yeah. They just started kicking us out from the outside years ago and not a single adult or group of adults gave a shit.

In my area it started by harassing the ’weird kids’ first.

They didn’t want them around because of how they ‘looked like trouble’ and that they wanted to make it safe for the other kids.

Then when they were gone they moved on to the other kids and teens. Then the college kids.

Eventually they also left and yet there was surprise when stores weren’t making sales to the younger customers that they chased away.

This is why coffee shop au’s got so popular in fanfics, because for a while they were all some of us had.

My town had one coffee shop for the longest time because the original owner knew that kids needed us place to be so she let kids be kids. Her shop flourished. 

When she had to sell the new owner, first thing they did was chase away the kids. I happen to go back and apparently I passed is not a kid and the owner new owner literally told me that was what they had done. I never went back to that shop and it ended up closing not much later.

A different coffee shop opened up farther away, but I happen to go in there for research project for college and that owner really didn’t want kids or teens in her store. I looked at her and told her why are you chasing away potential customers? The look of shock on her face. Think the shop may have been around for another year or two but eventually went under and I don’t think I ever saw any teens around it. 

Kids and teens getting some cash and being dropped off someplace they could go shopping was the trade off for so long.

My family would stop shopping at any store that chased kids away. My friends and I still didn’t go to some stores even decades later.

“I don’t want that here” was just a way stores said “I don’t want your money” only they never figured it out.

i remember when they started kicking kids out of the local mall for “just hanging out”. i was in high school. it was the summer of 2000.

The Sun eclipsed by Earth, as it would appear on the Moon, illustrated by James Nasmyth, 1874.

Blue Eye Samurai (2023)

Yamagata, Japan // 癒しの自然風景 ♡

Reblog if you didn’t write My Immortal

We’re going to find the author by process of elimination.

This NPR interview with with Angela Saini about how race science never really left the global scientific consciousness is super interesting! I’m gonna read her book!

my girlfriend has been talking about this since ancestry kits became A Thing

boom gottem

who was going to tell me the queen died

tales from oblivion

moon snail 🌕