amazingly Grace

it is insane that no one cares about history. like the common language of reality. no one cares about that. and I know historical fact is contested blah blah blah I’m not making a claim about how to read history or what to count as history I mean as a baseline people are disinterested in history as like a foundation of their own knowledge. the beliefs in their head are not tethered by history. and this is not a problem for them. and I know this because citing history does not persuade people, it’s not a site of revelation. and you’re called insane for bringing it up

her armpits would NOT be clean shaven

every period drama heroine from before 1914 earliest, and more realistically like the mid-late 1920s. possibly later

neither of them have removed any hair from their bodies ever and they both pulled Olde Timey Villain Tom Hiddleston(TM)

die mad about it

Denim Jacket

c.1850

United States

Museum at FIT (Object number: P87.43.3)

the medical side of it is still wild to me

like. in NO other circumstances would modern doctors accept anecdotal 150-year-old "evidence" from people who conducted no studies meeting modern scientific standards, usually without any modern imaging tools (there is one x-ray of a woman wearing a corset from the early 20th century, but it's lacking any information about the degree of reduction from her natural waist, whether she's wearing the corset the way she usually does, her other medical history, any context on whether this is a typical use-case for this garment, or even her name), and often with visuals that are as unscientific as can be.

some of these old articles have a sketch of a nude Greek statue next to a 19th-century fashion plate image. and that's a serious point in their arguments. you'd be laughed out of most medical institutions today if you tried to use that as grounds for a theory

especially when it runs counter to things we HAVE observed more recently- namely, that wearing back supports habitually doesn't cause muscle atrophy and that the only CT scan performed on a corset-wearer to date showed no seriously harmful effects to her body

like, I get it. most doctors will never meet someone who wears a corset EVER, let alone someone habitually using it as a support garment a la the 19th century. and nobody is putting young teen girls into even lightly-boned corsets the way they did back then, so the overall effects are difficult to study as they would have been for Victorians who started that young. we will probably never fully understand the exact physical effects of Victorian-era corseting, because even modern corset-wearers don't do it precisely the same way

but these doctors should be embarrassed at what they're willing to accept as fact in this case, when it goes against all modern scientific practice re: testing a hypothesis. you don't implicitly trust 1880s research on anything else- why is it suddenly ironclad fact where corsets are concerned?

The irony of doing deforestation in a land that already has nearly no forests, only to place some giant bird-killing things there in the name of “green energy.” Don’t let me even get started about how much harmful manufacturing processes need to take place to make wind turbines.

>the trees that were cut down were a commercial crop that would have been cut down regardless

>this was over a 20 year period that they planted 272 million more trees

>That 14 million is less than 1% of the total woodland area in scotland

People wanna hate renewable energy so fucking bad.

there are no hard rules for human interaction but honestly i think everyone online would benefit hugely from operating under the assumption that, unless you have been given a specific reason to think otherwise in discrete instances, internet strangers do not want to be approached with:

if it is your first time speaking with someone i can not highly enough recommend that these do not be your opening topics

something that has happened enough that it’s officially a Pattern of internet behavior: i will make a tweet that’s like, a jokey headcanon about a piece of media, and then someone i’ve never spoken to before in my life will come into the replies to try and offer a directly contradictory and actively depressing take. and either within their initial reply, or once i’ve expressed polite disagreement, they’ll make sure i know that the reason they have this headcanon is because they’re projecting their own trauma or self worth issues onto a fictional character.

and the thing that really gets me about this is that i am like 90% sure these people don’t have any ill intentions or even think they’re particularly overstepping. but i just can not fathom what the intended response to these things. i have NO idea what sort of reaction they’re looking for. it’s such a weird and uncomfortable spot to be put in. it’s a great way to get instantly put on my mental list of people to never engage with in the future

We’ve all heard the “I like pancakes” / “Oh, so you hate waffles?” example of a social media exchange, but we don’t talk enough about how “I like pancakes” / “I can’t eat pancakes anymore since my brother choked to death on one before my eyes” is not a great approach either.

im aware this is an insane thing to say but i fucking. love characters that are just cockroaches. and i dont mean like. gross i mean they just do not fucking die. they can survive anything. they will outlive EVERYONE because they just will not die no matter what be it because they have a reason or because they literally cannot stop surviving the odds i love it i love it

having viral posts is all fun and games until you have clowns in your mentions being like "well, op, i bet you also didn't know THIS" [haughtily explains something i absolutely would and do know] like add whatever to my posts that you think is informative just don't direct it at ME! i know! i just didn't include it in the post i made in 20 seconds because i didn't think 30,000 of you would see it!

i love these tags. WHAT was your viral post i need to know so badly.

some of our collective suffering

hi everyone. the batter will thicken as the flour hydrates. so start it a tiny bit runny and let it sit ten minutes to idk half an hour and it will be perfect. hydrated flour from rested batter also yields a significantly more tender pancake. peace and love

Ginger-juice milk curd 姜汁撞奶 or Ginger Milk Pudding，a popular popular desserts in Cantonese cuisine

For those who give a shit about it, this is a staged photo, the woman on the left is a drag queen doing a bit. Here's a few more photos of her taking in the beautiful sights and sounds of the parade:

(by Mervyn L. Fitzhenry)

i used to have a running gag on twitter where i would tweet "i'm going to draw a horse" and then proceeded to draw a horse. here is a compilation

context for boghorse:

i would never lie to you

Beware the Beast

In time travel movies, when the time traveler asks 'What year is this?!?' they're always treated like they're being weird for asking.

When in reality, if you go 'What year is this?!?' people will just say '2024. Crazy huh.' and you go 'Wtf where has my youth gone.'

And if you ask 'And what month??' people won't judge you, they'll just go like 'SEPTEMBER!!! Can you believe it?!?!' and you go 'WHAT?!? Last time I checked we were in May?!?'

That is a great point. Especially if you time travel to a period of Big Historical Events, when everybody's looking a little wild about the eyes.

"Hey, what month is it?"

"January already, can you believe it? I swear I was just at Pompeii, but no one's going there again."

In the same vein:

Stumbling into a diner and asking "What town is this" isn't weird, the workers will think you're on a road trip

If you ask them "Where's the nearest Nano Deck?" they'll assume it's a shop they've never heard of and say "Sorry, I don't know where any of those are"

Going into a store and telling a cashier "I need pods for my comm device" will just get you a "Never heard of those, maybe try Radio Shack?"

I think the problem is that people who create sci-fi movies have never had to work customer service jobs

Why do you hide the truth in the tags

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