— Caroline Walker Bynum, ‘The Female Body and Religious Practice in the Late Middle Ages.’ (via bluebeardsbride)

I think it’s so funny how we have to speak to men like preschoolers when it comes to having empathy for women. like hey buddy… I know you think girls are icky :( but remember your mommy? your mommy is a girl! and then they’re like ohhhh… mommy IS a girl.. and I do like mommy… this is starting to come together

From Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s ‘The Cat with Julie Manet’, 1887

If you have an engineering degree and DON'T use it for this kind of thing why did you even BOTHER

framed embroidery, wool and silk thread on canvas, dated mid to late 1600s.

Getting really into lovecraft lately

Unknown Constellation - Artem Chebokha

raccoon stickers are here for patreon this month and they look SOOOO good I’m so excited about them - patreon is in my pinned post and you can get one of these guys if you join this month!!

callout post for "work"

"work" has done many terrible things such as

please spread this around we can't let "work" keep getting away with this

resting crows

I'm up to the "I dunno maybe children working 13 hour shifts is bad, guys" part of Capital and it feels important to inform people that haven't read it yet that capitalists in the 19th century were not by any means wringing their hands and twirling their mustaches about employing children to squeeze out profits, they were hiring "experts" to write newspaper articles for them, explaining how "well, the socialists have these big demands about an 8-hour work day, and taking Saturdays off, but it's actually just so complicated, it's too complicated for most people to understand, we just NEED to hire children for night shifts because the stamina of their strong, youthful bodies is the only way we can survive as a business! It's science, you see. Economics doesn't work like that, just ask our economics professors at Oxford. You CAN'T turn a profit only working people 8 hours! Trust the experts, they know. It's just so complicated..."

That exact infuriating cadence that you read in New York Times articles, in the Atlantic Monthly, in the WaPo and all the other bourgeois rags where "everything is so complicated, and it's actually a lot more complicated than you think.." that has been around since the beginning. It is nothing new. So the next time you see some op-ed from Matt Yglesias or any of those other guys huffing their own farts about how "complicated" everything is, and how "unrealistic" a 30-hour work week is, remember that Marx was dealing with that exact class of "intellectuals" "explaining" how working 13 hours at age 10 was "vital" to the "moral fibre" of those poor kids.

i'm at Club Fly rubbing my hands together to the beat

day 2 working in the scriptorium. everyone keeps asking me if they can fuck the manuscript. buddy, they wont even let me fuck it

Photographer: Give me demure, give me innocent

Me:

Photographer: Give me sexy

Me:

there's a lot to bitch about re: supernatural but at least it was made in 2005 starring teen soap actors on the cw with one million episodes per season. that's real television. if they made that shit now it would be like six episodes on apple tv and glen powell would be in it. so count your fucking blessings.