Why Would You Do That?!

guys you don't understand i love big buff horses so much

draft horses you are gods most perfectest creations

maedhros horse

oh yeah because i'm immoral too! sorry, forgot that part

Reblog if you too love villains because at your core you're immoral too

Hey when you guys say something is for the lovers and the dreamers can you include me in that too? The lovers the dreamers and me if it's not too much to ask

so many articles about Fast Fashion, not enough articles about what the hell is happening to the quality of clothes

Like okay. People own more pieces of clothing nowadays and they wear them a lesser number of times before throwing them out. BUT.

Why do we pretend like this is pure vanity or careless wastefulness, rather than forced by the qualities of the clothes themselves?

The other day, I was going through boxes of old clothes in the basement in search of fabric to practice sewing on. The difference in quality of the fabrics themselves is shocking! The worn-out old jeans from twenty years ago are MUCH thicker and tougher than anything more recent. My old baby clothes are made as sturdy as my work clothes from today.

In the past couple years, I have had entire seams rip out of clothes on the first wash. That's not normal!

Polyester blend shirts that feel cozy and soft when they are new, become scratchy and rough after 20 washes or so. I am trying to avoid polyester, but it gets harder and harder; the other day i couldn't find a single pack of crew socks that was 100% cotton. SOCKS!

Also, pilling is out of control. The newest pants I bought developed pills within a single day of walking around campus with a backpack.

These companies are trying to frog-boil us but touching clothes from twenty years ago, the useless crap of today would stick out like a sore thumb...

I used to caddy. I got around 35,000 steps (around 19 miles) on an average day of work. I bought 6 pairs of socks once a year, and they never formed holes in the bottom until I had already bought new socks. I still buy that brand of socks, but now I work a desk job. The socks I bought in February are already wearing thin.

I still have shirts I bought in middle school that I have worn fairly regularly that are hole-free, or only have holes where there is more wear (e.g. armpits). The wear on them matches pretty closely with the wear on shirts I got in the last couple years. One shirt I got new just a year or so ago is practically dissolving - big ass holes all over, including several in the middle of the chest.

These are not the only examples I have. I see no explanation for these facts other than a recent decrease in quality across the board. It's frankly ridiculous, and I want to do something about it, but I don't know what I can do. On an individual level, sure you can buy used, but even good quality clothing does eventually wear out, so not everyone can buy used. It seems like the only solution is producing good quality clothing, but how does an individual even work towards that?

I know there has to be real documentation of this buried somewhere in the abyssal detritus of the modern world....The companies made the choice at some point, to start using shorter staple length fibers, lesser quality fibers, less sturdy weaving, worse stitching...and the worse stitching is often pointed out by people who sew because it is visible, but i've never seen an analysis of it spanning the whole chain of clothing coming to be.

Personally, I've been experimenting with natural fibers that are alternatives to the usual ones. Dogbane (Apocyonum cannabinum) is the flax equivalent native to North America, and extremely promising, but it's far from the only one.

Samus Aran by kornart

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Do you ever wish you could un-share yourself with someone. Like “you don’t deserve to know me anymore, byeeee” and they instantly forget

strangely common misconception that words have basically the same meanings in every langauge and that translation is just a matter of identifying which exact word in the target language corresponds to the word in the original language

you cant even begin poems with "i will sodomise and facef uck you" anymore. because of woke .

Holy fuck

I vaguely recall discourse about the dictionary pulling it's punches when it came to writing the definition for whatever latin verb means 'face-fuck' because 'to be the recipient of oral sex' is clean and true but doesn't come close enough to describing what the word means.

Yeah, Catullus gets censored a lot! I suspect a bit of it is just that we often get this idea of poets and poetry as... Light and fluffy?

Probably just because of what gets taught in schools. You end up getting the impression that a poems are about one of

Which is a slightly reductive take on a whole fucking medium.

Anyway, Catullus was less the stereotypical "upper class guy with a lot of education who loves nature and being depressed" sort of poet and is more to the "battle rapper" end of poetry.

He's got multiple poems that are basically diss tracks. This is exactly why Poem 16 (this one) comes straight out the gate with "I AM GOING TO BUTTFUCK AND FACEFUCK YOU" (lowercase letters wouldn't be developed for a few hundred more years, by definition everything Catullus wrote was in ALL UPPERCASE): Catullus is directing this poem at Marcus Furius Bibaculus (Bibaculus to his friends), who had an affair with Juventius: a woman Catullus had a (possibly unrequited) love for. In fact, this sort of reputation is part of what Catullus is saying. He's like "oh, you think I'm some weak pansy faggot because I'm a poet? Let's see how you feel after I shove my huge* manly dick up all your holes, bitch."

Anyway the whole reason I was supposed to be replying is to talk about how Latin is an amazing language to swear in. They've got some very fun words like irrumo, ittumare which means basically "to fuck someone's mouth", but in a single word. Face-fuck is really the best translation English has, and that's two words.

Plus Latin is an infected language! He didn't just say "face fuck", he said the first person singular future active indicative of "face fuck".

Irrumabo is a single word that packs all this info into its infected form. It's not just "what" (face fucking), it's who and when and how.

Who: me, singular. "We" are not going to face fuck you, I, personally, and going to face fuck you.

When: in the future. This is a thing that's going to happen. Latin has multiple moods for this, the indicative, imperative, and subjunctive.

He doesn't use the subjunctive, which'd mean "I hope I facefuck you: it'd be great if someday I get to face fuck you".

He doesn't use the imperative, which is for stating commands. He's not saying "get facefucked, idiot".

He uses the indicative. This is for stating facts. He's saying this as just a thing that will happen. As surely as the sun will rise tomorrow... I will facefuck you.

It's also active not passive, which means it's not "you will be facefucked by me". It's active, meaning it's "I am going to facefuck you".

The word is also derived from the word for teats? As in, it meant something like suckling?

Catullus is saying you're going to suck his cock like a baby feeding from their mother, and he's going to make you do this. This is just a thing that is going to happen.

And he says that all in ONE SINGLE WORD.

Latin is a lovely language for this sort of thing.

(there's also a lot of fascinating stuff about the second line of the poem: he calls Aurelius as pathicus, and Furius a cinaedus. These mean slightly different things! Translating them as "cocksucker" and "butt boy" is definitely one way to do it, but there's more to say about this, but this post is already way too long)

Anyway, while "first poet to ever get his bone on" is highly inaccurate (Sappho was centuries earlier! You think a woman who was so gay she gave us two of our words for WLW didn't BONE?), he definitely was one of the poets who most noticeably Absolutely Fucked and he made sure you knew it.

* he wouldn't have said "huge", this is a localization for our culture. The ancient romans thought big dicks were ugly, unrefined, and comical. (They borrowed this from the ancient greeks, incidentally)

I must know if the original Latin was also written in a dick shape

sadly not. Latin has a lot of fun tricks you can do with word order (because it's inflected, you can move words around for emphasis) and typography, but it wasn't penis-shaped originally.

that's a good way to localize it to english, though. Catullus 16 is 100% a poem about how Big* Catullus's dick is. * metaphorically, you understand. He's say he's got Big Dick Energy, not a literally big dick, because that wouldn't have worked for his culture.

That day, Aurelius was amazed to discover that when Catullus was saying "pedicabo ego vos et irrumabo", what he meant was, "I love you."

oh! I know what cinaedus means! That's from Greek too, Kinaidos! I would have translated that as 'faggot' or really the older term 'queen', or any of the words that are 'effette (derogatory)': pansy, fairy, pouf, etc. For this I'd probably pick 'faggot' though because it's got the same level of derogatory and aggressive sounds.

But yeah, kinaidos meant basically the receptive partner, which was the bad partner to be. the Greeks and Romans were very specific about 'it's not bad as long as you are doing the penetrating', though I think the Greeks had a specific thing about like... sucking cock was submissive? That might have just been one city state or something, I do not remember where I found that information.

Kinaidos (sorry I don't know how to plural it. Kinaides?) are described in at least one source as wearing white, thigh-high leather boots, though.

are you telling me that mr. sky walker's chanel boots have historical precedent

Two Young Women Kissing (1790s) by Louis-Léopold Boilly.

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People in my notes are saying to have sex with it & yknow yeah sure. Why not

In other news I'm officially retiring from joking about French people they have too much on their plate already what with the fascism

I think we might all have to collectively set nationalist joking on the high shelf til we figure out if anyone is making it through the whole worldwide fascism uptick tbh.

A close look inside the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-A from the end of Star Trek Beyond, from the Eaglemoss magazine. Zoom in to see rooms and corridors!