do you ever want to be a “forest mermaid” who lives in the river by waterfalls and clear waters and sleeps in the caves of springs
Good lower halves for this:
I see you. And I raise you: river otter selkie
"i'm literally tweaking" "are you restarted" "you sound acoustic right now" "this has crackhead energy" "my ex is such a narcissist" "i'm going nonverbal for an hour" "intrusive thoughts won"
Medieval authors were so fucking funny. In "The Faerie Queene" this guy comes up to the main hero and is like "Don't go over to that cave, there's a guy inside that makes people kill themselves." And the hero is like "Bet." and goes into the cave. Then the old man (literally called Despair) is like "If you die, you can't commit sin." and can you guess what happened.
They also fucking LOVED King Arthur. Like 9/10 in any book published back then, there would be a King Arthur cameo. The original blorbo. He would just show up mid-story and be like "I'm on an adventure! But I guess I can lend my aid to you first since I'm so noble and awesome." And people would just eat that shit up.
It's beautiful that humanity never changes
Also I made a mistake. The Faerie Queene was not in the middle ages, but the start of the renaissance ages. A good example of middle age literature is The Canterbury Tales (Which is hilarious for its own reason). The author, Chaucer, had a fucking dream I'll tell you that. In the story, I think it was like 29 or 30 pilgrims had to each tell two short stories on the way there, and two on the way back. The host would then decide who the winner was. There would have been something like 120 short stories in the series which is just fucking wild. However, for whatever reason, he stopped at about 24 short stories. The story had many characters that were meant to represent several different views of political aspects going on at the time. I could imagine the story being pretty controversial for its time. It's like if there was a story about a trans person, a racist politician, a radfem, an employee from planned parenthood, an old Republican, a gay priest, a billionaire, a homeless person, and so on were all in a group together telling short stories about their views on life. Just people from very different backgrounds with conflicting views.
"The poem explores the ugly truth of life in all aspects of society. It is a satire on Social Status, Corruption in the Church, Friendship, and Companionship for all the classes of medieval society except the highest aristocracy and the lowest order of life." X
I wonder why
sam reich is like the joker for internet micro celebrities (complementary)
you just hate the cis because of the things that they did
I hate the cis because it is led by the treacherous count dooku
whenever i'm trying to talk myself out of buying something i don't need i always hear my old russian professor's voice echoing in my head: "WHAT??? WILL YOU DIE THE RICHEST MAN IN THE GRAVEYARD?" and then i make an unwise financial decision
Moomin | Tanoshii Mūmin Ikka (1990 - 1991) dir. Hiroshi Saitō and Masayuki Kojima
laga dyga is an evil hag and she is going to Get you
It took me way too long to figure out what it's trying to say. I was just willing to accept "laga dyga" at face value.
Can't read my, can't read my pofa kerce
i don't think chess sets be like
I'm so sorry but
yeah
Chess piece designers: I don’t remember what a human looks like but I can carve the fuck out of a horse
I can no longer unsee the bishops as having a mouth, and a need to scream.
Why bother arguing in support of trans people if you’re not trans?
very simple concept called believing in human rights
Thank you Neil Gaiman!!!
so much of taking care of yourself as an adult is just learning to eat at home and going on walks
"you pay more for boujee products because they are made with love and care by small workshops uwu"
steal everything that isn't nailed down come back later with a crowbar
FUN FACT
Many designer brand names make their big designer labels and their affordable lines BOTH in fast fashion sweatshops with similar quality of labor, pay, and other detrimental factors. One of the major differences, of course?
The price they charge you, the consumer, for the finished product.
Paying more for a name brand doesn't free you from fast fashion, because fast fashion is not a consumer issue. It is an industry level failure.
The other thing so-called ‘prestige brands’ will do is bring in workers from countries where labor is cheap (like China) to places like France and Italy, pay them garbage wages, treat them like shit, and slap a ‘made in Italy’ label on the product to sell it for thousands.
Article on the topic from 2018. Similar to the exploitation of U.S. immigrant ag workers, basically.
It's like how "Made in U.S." can mean made with prison slave labor. Or how a chocolate company can advertise their chocolate as sustainably sourced, except this is a self-determined label and may or may not exclude the use of child slave labor. Or how you can boycott a company but still end up giving them money because it turns out they also own dozens of other brands.
These problems really need a government regulation solution, not a consumer solution.
