#disciplining bodies

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"DRESSED SAFELY THESE WAR WORKERS LOSE NOTHING IN APPEARANCE," Toronto Star. February 16, 1943. Page 3. ---- 20,000 WARPLANT VERONICAS MUST CHANGE THEIR HAIR-DO ---- Too Many Imitators of Star Are Tangling Tresses in Machinery --- SHE'LL HELP, TOO --- By FREDERICK C. OTΗΜΑΝ Hollywood, Feb. 16 - (BUP) - The federal government cracked down on Veronica Lake today as a men- ace to the war effort. It claimed too many lady airplane workers, imitating her peek-a-boo bob, had scalped themselves in the machinery.

Miss Lake said okay. She said she was tired of looking at the world through one eye, anyway. and that henceforth she'd wear her hair on the top of her head.

The war manpower commission took up the problem of half blind war workers with the war production board, which wrote Paramount Pictures, Inc., which notified Miss Lake, who said:

"Any woman who wears her hair over one eye is silly. I never have worn it that way, myself, except in pictures. It made a good trade mark on the screen, but it was hard. mighty hard, to see where I was going."

The situation concerning 20,000 Veronica Lakes trying to operate turret lathes in war plants all over the nation first reached the desk of Mary Brewster White of the war manpower commission (woman- power division).

Driven Near Mad To Monroe Greenthal of the war production board she sent an inter- office memo: "Subject, Veronica Lake's hair."

"The working gal's indifference to the dangers of long flowing hair- do's has driven personnel directors to the last stages of profanity." wrote Miss White. "Veronica Lake has had a tremendous influence because of her unfettered mane upon too large a percentage of ladies engaged in turning out the ammunition."

Miss White added that she was delighted to note that Miss Lake's hair had gone up in her last movie. and said she believed the war manpower commission and the war production board should do everything possible to keep Lake's topknot on top. As she put it:

"The effect upon war production could be nothing less than electrify- ing if all the women suddenly dis- covered that there was something rather 'old hat about long-haired disorder. It would be swell to learn that Veronica, like all the other girls, is working harder and wants her beauty strictly streamlined. She might say long hair and one eye are all right for the home, but that two eyes and short hair are necessary on the job. Thanks, thanks, and thanks."

Had Nothing to Do With It Greenthal mailed this letter to Hollywood, with a note of his own in which he said he thought Miss White had something, all right, and how's to persuade Miss Lake to say the peek-a-boo bob is a thing of the past? This, he said, would save many a feminine stamp-press operator from losing her locks in the gears.

When this communication from Washington reached the studio, the publicists leaped to life and last were seen leading Miss Lake to the machine shop, to photograph her with her tresses tangled in the camshafts.

She said she didn't quite understand all the fuss. She said she had nothing to do with her one-eye hair-dress, anyhow.

"What happened was I was making my first movie test as a drunk," she said. "That hank of hair came down in front of my eye - and the head men insisted I leave it that way. I've been worrying with it, and stumbling through life, ever since. This request from the government isn't only a pleasure; it's a relief."

Everything all right now, war manpower commission?

Image captions: Top: HERE IS HOW WAR WORKERS CAN DRESS SAFELY AND SMARTLY

Left: Most safely dressed war worker is the title given Kathe Vandenberg after a country-wide safety drive. Kathe, 22, is employed in a Los Angeles plant as a hydraulic fitting worker.

right: VERONICA LAKE will uncover her eye

[positivelypositivethoughts]

[atomic--nymph]

Ig: anabel.lucinda

[daddysroyalwhore]

“Holy Roller sits in the garden we fled

Blood into wine, take my body instead”

[animatormentata]

Momento autostima 👍🏻

[universalitgirlsblog2]

🎀🍥EXCUSE ME , I LOVE YOU🎀🍥

- Affirmations from Alanna Fox Guided mediation for Beauty , Confidence and body image.

You can speak these affirmations while doing skincare or looking at the mirror . It will help you alot ! TAKE A DEEP BREATH😮‍💨AND LET'S START☺️

🎀I am beautiful

🍥I am protected

🎀I feel beautiful

🍥It is safe for me to exude beauty and confidence wherever I go

🎀I am breathtakingly gorgeous and my soul shines bright

🍥My skin is clear , supple and glowing

🎀My complexion is flawless

🍥My eye brows are full and shaped perfectly for my shape.

🎀My eyes are bright, beautiful and full of love.

🍥My eyelashes are long and beautiful

🎀It is safe for me to have confidence.

🍥Every feature on my face is perfect exactly the way it is.

🎀My smile is captivating and contagious

🍥My lips are soft and full

🎀My teeth are straight and sparkling white.

🍥My hair is long , strong , thick and healthy.

🎀My hair is free from split ends and breakage.

🍥My hair cooperates with any style that I choose to wear.

🎀My body is flawless

🍥I have great posture and I love my figure

🎀My body is breathtakingly gorgeous

🍥I am at my ideal and healthy weight

🎀I now have the body I have always dreamed of

🍥My body is a precious gift and I treat it such.

🎀My body is healthy

🍥I feel so good in my body

🎀I really enjoy what I see when I look in the mirror.

🍥I am a woman who possess beauty , elegance and intelligence

🎀I am proud of myself

🍥I love to feed my body healthy and delicious foods every single day.

🎀I take pride in taking care of my hair , skin and nails .

🍥My nails and toes are always beautifully manicured.

🎀I always smell simply irrestible.

🍥My beauty is mesmerizing and unique .

🎀I carry myself with poise and elegance.

🍥I attract love and prosperity.

🎀I respect myself.

🍥My personal hygiene is a ritual that I love to perform everyday.

🎀I really enjoy getting up and getting dressed every day.

🍥I take pride in my appearance.

🎀I am so grateful for a closet full of luxurious fabrics that flatter my shape.

🍥I always look my best.

🎀I am so grateful for my admirable sense of style.

🍥My mind is clear of self doubt.

🎀I easily attract success by being my authentic self.

🍥I believe in myself and my abilities.

🎀I play an important positive role in the lives of so many.

🍥I deserve to enjoy every single moment of my amazing life.

🎀My confidence inspires others to embrace themselves.

🍥Lovely things are always coming into my life for my highest good.

🎀I am the main character of my life's story.

🍥It's my natural state to be wealthy , loving and genuine.

🎀🍥REPEAT🎀🍥 link of the guided meditation- Click me !

[enden-k]

his work motto prolly hhhhf (the "fuck amygdala, fuck azai" silently swings in his tone)

[toxintouch]

Headcanon that Ais never feels fully rested. He doesn't feel tired, but he doesn't feel right either. Not since joining the groupmind.

He sleeps, but his mind is never really at peace. When and if he manages to fall into a deep enough sleep, he's in a constant state of something akin to lucid dreaming.

He gets flashes of the other members of the group mind in place of any real rest. Their current actions; errant memories; whispers in long-dead languages he's leaned to understand.

[uncanny-tranny]

I'm still so amazed at how far medicine has come for trans people... being able to take hormones and get surgeries that are life-saving and life-affirming are genuinely such amazing feats and I wish more people understood that. Like, even if those aspects of transition do not appeal to every trans person, it is still so important to recognize just how important it is that trans people have options.

If love were a language, it would be science.

[saint-ambrosef]

saying "it is not necessary to have sweets every day" should not be seen as controversial, but i have had people go for my throat for that take. its literally unthinkable apparently not to have a sweet treat on the daily (or multiple times per day).

i'm not saying "sugar bad" or anything, it's good to enjoy a little dessert every now and then. but i think a lot of Americans are so used to having a diet high in sugary foods, and it's so normalized and what so many people grew up with, that me saying "your kids don't need to have dessert every day" is accused of toxic diet culture mindset and depriving children of joy.

and the thing is, our sweets are really sweet. you don't notice it when you grew up with it, it just seems normal. but if you travel elsewhere or go on a low-sugar diet, suddenly our ice cream and cookies and donuts seem un-appetizingly overly sweet.

anyways i'm not saying don't give your kids dessert, but i think a lot of Americans underestimate how addicted they are to sweets. if the mere suggestion to limit the intake to once or twice a week gives you a knee-jerk reaction of fear/horror/disgust, "i could never! i earned this!", there is a problem.

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"NOVEL STUNT IN CENTRAL Y.M.C.A." Toronto Star. December 9, 1913. Page 4. --- Central Y.M.C.A. physical training display Saturday night at the new gym. will be featured by a Highland Fling in costume by 30 men and boys. Some well-known business and professional men, including Geo. Kingstone, Dr. Fraleigh, A. E. Hurst, Judge Durand, and Dr. Wilmot will take part in the various displays and contests.

[ana-24s-stuff]

Daily remimder

Dont quit, because

the worst thing that you could do to yourself is not become the person that you could be.✨

[thebramblewood]

Apologies for ruining your weekend.

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It's not necessary, but if you want to learn more about the events Grace is describing (particularly the spellcaster who sacrificed herself), it originated in another story you can read here (chrono link for desktop only). I'm sure there are some inconsistencies because I had no idea I'd be doing more with it and my storytelling was more casual and gameplay-oriented then, but it might help fill in some gaps.

[rapid knocking at the door]

Caleb: …Morgyn? 

Grace: Caleb-

Caleb: Why are you in your nightgown? Are you crying?

Grace: Caleb, I-

Caleb: Where’s Morgyn? Council meetings never go this late.

Grace: [sniffling] Oh, Caleb… The Sages, they’re… they’re…

Caleb: What happened?

Grace: [strangely detached] I’d already gone home. Almost everyone had. There was an… attack. No one saw it coming. Dark magic… ancient spells… malicious… forbidden. How did he even find them?

Caleb: [impatiently] Grace, you’re not making any sense.

Grace: [distantly] The Realm is secured. Someone stopped him before he could tamper with the portals. A teacher, I think, from the children’s school. She sacrificed herself to drain his power.

Caleb: I don’t care about the goddamn Realm! What about Morgyn?

Grace: [sobbing] I’m sorry, Caleb. I’m so sorry. They were ambushed. They had no chance to defend themselves. Faba, Simeon, Morgyn… The entire Council is… dead. Oh my god. Caleb, are you okay?

Caleb: Stay back!

Grace: But-Caleb: I mean it! You’re not safe around me like this. Go home, Grace! Now.

[daddysroyalwhore]

“I push myself a little closer to the edge

So intoxicated with the end

Those who wish me dead, yeah

Made me who I am, yeah

Until you lose it all, you will never know

There's fear in letting go”

[unobtainablex]

Your crush has a crush on Me

~᥊ꪮ᥊ꪮ