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idk thinking about how sometimes you have to show up for people you aren't that close to, because sometimes you're just the person who's there. sometimes you invite a new friend to a party and end up having to sit with them through a panic attack. sometimes you run into an acquaintance on their worst day and they need to talk about what happened. sometimes someone is crying in a stairwell and you're the only one around to ask if they're okay. and none of this is "trauma dumping" or whatever the fuck it's just being there for people because you're the one in the room with them.

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Your first pride story was touching and all but you still married a man.

Yeah, bisexuals do that sometimes.

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it's super important to wynne that wynne is old. she is old and matronly and wizened and achy. at any moment ready for death. and it doesn't matter whether you are as young as alistair, or as old as loghain, or something imbetween like leliana, she will tut and chide and condescend like you are a child and she's the schoolmistress correcting your mistakes. and she is over and past the youthful dramatics of life - she has seen and experienced it all before and so nothing you do can surprise her and she won't do it again. and even if had to, she would weather it all with complete ease and unflappable calm, so there's no need to test her. in her most conservative robes with her hair tied up and a superior air about her, she is reputable and respected and you can not hurt her. she's untouchable and unfuckable and you will not hurt her. you can not touch her and you can not make her love you and you're never going to gift her anything she'd care about having ripped away from her - the way they ripped her son away from her - because she would never accept such a gift from you to start with, dear. she's too old to appreciate any of those things, so please don't try it. please don't hurt her.

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talking about Rosie The Riveter, fun fact: while the We Can Do It picture has become the most-well known depiction of her in modern times, it wasn’t really a famous image when it was made–in fact, it wasn’t even intended to be her

the most famous depiction of Rosie The Riveter during WWII was probably Norman Rockwell’s painting 

note what she’s resting her foot on

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The best bed

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I freehanded this stitchery in about 7 hours today for a pal:

It was, of course, inspired by this post:

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They are watching media!!!!

(This is my gift for the 2025 Murderbot New Year’s Gift Exchange!)

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for people who haven't been exposed to trader joes lentils for my wife guy, you're welcome

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Rebellious girls in the 1920s wanted to anger and shock their Victorian-era parents, so not only would they bare their knees with short dresses, but they would also paint pictures to make sure an onlooker didn’t miss their risque hem length. Rolled stockings became a fad with the shorter hemlines, and girls would go get roses, butterflies, ocean scenes, or their dogs’ faces painted on their knees to further push their boundaries. Much like with most makeup in women’s history, this wasn’t just an act of creativity, but an assertion of independence. After World War I, more women gained financial independence with work, broke away from chaperoned parlor dates, and became a part of the public by walking the city streets without a guardian. The new generation felt a need to express this clear break from the old era of Gibson Girls and Victorian women, and they did so with the help of paint and knee rouge. “Because of rolled stockings and short skirts they, like their fair owners, are emancipated,” The San Francisco Examinershared in 1925. The girls were no longer wearing the oppressive corsets of the previous generation, which is partly why rolled stockings became a fad — there was nowhere to clip their hosiery to.

Painted knees were also an experiment in owning sexuality. Rouged knees would seem flushed (hinting at sex,) and painted knees would bring attention to body parts that were stigmatized just a few short decades back. But these moments of self-rule were oftentimes punished, as students in Ohio Northern learned in 1925. Girls had been drawing roses on their knees, and the dean called an emergency meeting to get them to stop. “It was intimated that some of the professors had not been able to do their best work owing to the profusion of knees in certain classes, that it is difficult for a mere male instructor to think of the Einstein theory, for example, with a tastefully decorated knee — well, staring him in the face, as it were,” The San Francisco Examiner wrote. The fad eventually fell out of vogue, but it resurfaced again in the 1960s — during an era where skirts rose in hemline, women pushed for independence, and embraced their sexual freedom once more. Painted knees were the perfect compliment to mini-skirts and Bermuda shorts, and a student interviewed for The News in 1966 said that she painted her knees so often that she could “put it on faster than face makeup.” (source)

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Typical void creature 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

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honestly i think there are fictional depictions of good cops (or even just cops as interesting characters) that, despite being copaganda to some degree, i can cut people some slack for liking for myriad of other reasons, especially if i know they’re keeping ACAB in mind. i just think it’s particularly funny to get Zootopia people whipped up for some reason. born and bred hater. cradle to grave i will be hating. know this

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I'm begging you to turn the sound on

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Korn in the toys-r-us font and toys-r-us in the Korn font. And other such ideas from my beautiful mind.

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fuuuck um maybe

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having a normal one on twitter

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this changes everything oh my god