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It will never not baffle me how hard society tries to insist that fatness is an abnormality. The average western woman wears plus size clothing. One of the smallest garments on the scale is called a medium. Most people with anorexia are in the overweight bmi category, yet somehow that's known as "atypical anorexia". Fatness is often labeled the cause of a number of diseases, but there are literally no diseases exclusive to fat bodies. Looking at movies and television, you'd think the world was 98% thin people. It's not.

My point isn't that if it was pretty rare to be fat, fatphobia would be okay. Of course not.

My point is that we're surrounded by all these artificial indicators that fatness is unnatural and uncommon and it's just not true?? Humans are not always thin and we've never all been thin and we're not all meant to be thin. Fat humans are a normal type of human. Fatness is a feature, not a bug.

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it's kind of crazy how many physical books universities have. like i'm pretty sure a lot of them go just untouched for years at a time. but they're just waiting there for the right obscuritan to come along. like cinderella

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Edward George London

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dropping out to pursue a career in naptime

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spooky season do y'all want to see the best medieval bats ever 🦇

(British Library MS Harley 3244 f. 55v)

(Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 304 f. 47v)

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think that everyone has their own personal theme in life

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absolutely flabbergasting to see people who have so enthusiastically succumbed to despair. like okay denethor, but some of us are gonna actually face the armies of mordor in battle nonetheless.

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Today my PhD supervisor told me "Now, journal reviewers are getting meaner. Don't take it personally. It's because they're upset about being exploited for free labour but don't have the class consciousness to unite against the publishers."

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“I would still endeavour to keep my expectations low respecting the ultimate success of Jane Eyre;”

Charlotte Brontë, from a letter to W. S. Williams (October 28th, 1847)

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So crazy how you have the worst day of your life but then the next day the sun keeps shining and the air’s just a little cooler w the onset of fall and you realize that there’s nothing you can’t come back from because the only time it will ever be too late is when we’re dead and not ever before

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'Defend The Internet Archive' linocut print by Molly White. Bid on a print to support the Internet Archive's Open Library. [Image description] Black ink linocut print of a person in a dress reaching for a book on a large bookshelf. Above is “Free people read freely”; below is “Defend the Internet Archive”.

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I really hate to side with Gollum on this, but “what’s in my pocket” is not a riddle and should not have counted. 

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unfortunately i will be thinking about this moby dick cabinet for the foreseeable future

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i always forget how much of a hell getting up in the morning during the cold months is until im trying to get dressed taking frost damage like ough augh ugha oagh uagh