bless my little cotton socks

I'm very lucky to have friends who love my characters and let me draw them together. so here is Genevya gossiping with @porcelain-dollbones 🫢🎀

a doodle of Genevya braiding @porcelain-dollbones's hair 🌷friends who let me draw them with my characters... muah muah

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deeply obsessed with this

these hoes dont want a solution. they just want someone. to. TALK. TO. which lead to the dehydration of the manatee itself.

Uh lol! And... teehee!

basically, it's fine to confuse and terrify a man. step on him, threaten him, pull his hair, that sort of thing. it's natural.

theyre still my favourites

otome manhwa is good actually. if a hot boy thought this about me i would simply explode.

my bravest knighttt... come hither ..... mmmwah !! ok you are dismissed

Making Knights and Maids fight for my affection is so funny. The Knights always lose because they are more principled, but they take pride in losing on their principles so the maids and I laugh at them behind their backs.

They go and cry about their honor in the church later, distraught that I should be so consumed by wickedness; the maids and I sit in the rafters and giggle to ourselves.

Joanna Newsom's iconic sophomore studio album 'Ys', released on November 14, 2006, turns 18 today!!!

Dmitry Kochanovich (Russian,b. 1972)

Iris

Oil on canvas

so a lot of ideological tradwives pursue the line of argument that feminism denigrates traditionally womens work (i.e. housekeeping, childrearing) by suggesting that feminists want to push all women to do "men's work" and dismiss the value of mothers and homemakers.

setting aside the obvious untruth of this- feminists have always been the strongest fighters for recognising the worth of womens work- its interesting when juxtaposed with the tradwife line that retiring from paid employment and settling into domestic life is relaxing, natural, and suitable for womens more delicate selves. they suggest that feminism pushes women to run themselves ragged rather than living a relaxed existence at home, cared for by their husbands.

but this itself is rooted in the devaluing of domestic labour, because it understands it as easy, simple, and fundamentally Not Real Work. its an important part of the tradwife project to glorify homemaking while also denying its difficulty, to promise women they will be valued in their domestic role while stripping away recognition of that value. its not an original observation that tradwife influencers often live in massive sparkling homes clearly cared for by domestic servants while they show off their hobbies, but its important to note this is not only a way to attract viewers to an idealised vision but also a systematic tactic to devalue the real worth of domestic labour

this idea seems to have vanished from public discourse, but in Women, Race & Class Angela Davis proposes that the majority of domestic work and housekeeping could become a public service. the idea seems difficult to imagine under our current economic and social arrangement but it helped me to fully conceptualise housekeeping as work that can be organised under a social division of labour. a society less dependent on unacknowledged and unsupported household labour would be a much freer one for women

this post is not about your hobbies or "retaking traditional jobs" its about the exploitation of womens uncompensated labour and the concept of socialising such labour. the traditions here are the thing i am opposing