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I have never forgotten my third grade teacher (Ms. Stewart) who had a fit at me for ruining her seating chart. We were learning cursive and she made me feel so bad about myself for existing. She decided I absolutely had to be seated on the end of the row so that I wouldn't get in anybody's way while writing. I never hit anybody's elbow, I kept that shit tucked in, because the right handed people next to me always took up so much room (and this was a problem when we were printing, it didn't just suddenly start when we were learning cursive. I honestly do not understand this woman's logic). It was *my fault* for other student's having bad handwriting, she never considered that it might be difficult for me to write when the person next to me was using 3/4s of the space.

and my personal favorite:

i love getting validation as a lefty but also learning about new fun ways it continues to suck

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What’s a food from your culture that u HATE #hatersonly

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White leftists who say shit like "colonialism is a European invention" remember that China exists challenge lol. China was a colonial powerhouse back when Europe was illiterate and literally living in its own sewage. In your rush to acknowledge the horrors that were eg. the opium wars, some of y'all have circled all the way back around to completely denying the accomplishments - both positive and incredibly negative - of one of the most influential empires in the world, explicitly because you can't wrap your brain around that empire being non-white. Ask anyone living in any part of SEA if Chinese colonialism only began after European meddling in the region, and they'll laugh in your face. It's possibly the stupidest noble savage nonsense I've seen in any part of the discourse.

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my beautiful, stalwart wives (open marriage) Cotton Sateen and Cotton Voile

my girlfriend Silk Taffeta

my penpal who is slowly recovering from misdiagnosis of terminal illness and who I long to meet one day, Dhaka Muslin

my capricious occasional lover, treating me horribly but keeping me spending money on her all the same Silk Velvet

my hate-sex partners Silk Chiffon and Silk Habotai

the distant empress who sometimes allows me to kiss the hem of her robe and feel the joy of being in her presence Any Wool Lighter-Weight Than Coating

former enemy who I got to know better and now tentatively flirt with Rayon

Karens who yell at customer service staff Any Plastic Fabric

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I’ve watched this video so many times I swear I’ve memorized it.

“DON’T GET ME STARTED ON THE FUCKING NAVY-“

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you want to be romantically attracted to someone? the thing that killed romeo and juliet?

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speaking of history myths, "fireplace fenders were developed because women's skirts catching on fire was the third-leading cause of death for women and they were trying to prevent that" was a new one I heard at work today

not the Skirts Catching Fire thing; that statistic is batted around a lot. usually they say it was just the most common, so maybe whoever this person was trying to make it sound more believable

(protip: disease was the most common for centuries, followed by other notables like cancer, heart failure, childbirth, accidents, etc.)

but the fender aspect is new. fenders- a very low metal "bumper" of sorts around the fireplace area -just existed to keep logs or coals from rolling out onto flammable flooring/carpeting, the same as the stone floor section around the hearth. nothing about women's skirts involved

I swear people just want to believe that clothing-related deaths were insanely common for women because their outfits look so foreign to us nowadays that we need more fuel for our own "fire" of superiority

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Me: I don't really believe in gatekeeping a field where anyone can learn with enough work. The training we get in academia isn't impossible to self-teach.

Also me: The number of people calling themselves "historians" or pretending to educate about history on social media when they're just reading Wiki or telling you fun facts is way too high. The job title has meaning. You wouldn't call yourself a mathematician for knowing how to make your graphing calculator make graphs.

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The messy bedside one was a personal callout.

pinterest tag game

rules: go to pinterest, search "your name + core", post six pictures and tag six people <3

thank you @squintclover for the tag 💋 love how it turned out!

passing the tag to @blakbonnet @bizarrelittlemew @homicidal-lingonberry @huffle-ego @innocentzinnia @sburator 🫶

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honey is the only food product that never spoils. there are pots of honey that are over five thousand years old and still completely edible

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I don't know what those '90s sci Fi TV writers were putting in their shows but I wish they'd start doing it again

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The Bells of Saint Mark's, Venice by Edward John Poynter

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OK so I don't usually bring personal stuff to this blog but I am being hunted for sport by my book club for the way I read my books and I just want to check how badly I have misjudged what is "normal" in this situation lol

So far I have been called "unhinged", "profoundly disturbed" and a number of variations thereupon for my habit of just... closing the book. Which I guess isn't what everyone else is doing. Apparently.

Also please, if you have very strong feelings about this, yell to your heart's content - I can direct you to an entire book club of people who will yell right along with you 😅