#in /england/ now'

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

i think so much about yaz and 14 and right now im thinking about how yaz responded "now that youre here, yes" to the question of "are you okay?" almost as consistently as the doctor avoided answering the question and how it's like the loudest expression of both Im Not Doing Great and I Love You that yaz does at all and how 13, with all her echoey attempts at communication could not possibly have missed that and how, when they didnt say goodbye, she knew she was dying herself and she knew she got yaz home but that the rest was out of her hands and that all she could do was just have faith that yaz was stronger than her and would not follow the bad examples she set and would be brave enough to talk to someone instead of playing the hero and finding the first bomb to throw herself on top of so that being sent home would not become as catastrophic an experience for her as it tends to be for the doctor

[suntails]

growing up!

[deadmotelsusa]

The Cheese House was a small chain of shops that opened in New England in the 1960s. Only a handful of the original round structures still remain and only one (located in Wells, Maine) still looks like cheese.

[magpiedraws]

Jon he's really trying here cut him a break

(tumblr crunched the resolution of this comic a lot rip)

[marzipanandminutiae]

no but genuinely I lose a little more patience for people who won't wear wool, leather, silk, or fur every day that I live in a world where plastic is increasingly the only damn kind of clothing you can find (or the only kind of fabric for sewing, even)

obviously, animal cruelty is horrible. I believe that even industries that rely on the deaths of animals should make their lives as good and their ends as humane as possible. and many of these industries need tighter environmental regulations on their production practices- some of the chemicals involved are highly toxic and ill-controlled at times

but at some point, you have to wake up to the fact that the only alternative we've found to date is destroying our planet

it's all plastic. and plastic is horrible for the world- the environment, humans, and especially animals. how cruelty-free is it to cause mass habitat loss? or climate change that disrupts food sources for those animals on a vast scale? how is that better than the deaths of a relatively small proportion of animals comparatively?

(and don't even start with "but pineapple leather! but cactus leather!" when those are still basically plastic due to heavy plastics use in their production processes. there is currently no non-plastic alternative to most animal-based textile products)

I've always tried to keep in mind that we all have to decide where our line is, that we all consume and there's no way of living in this world that doesn't take something from it. that for me, plastic clothing is to be avoided as much as possible, and for others, animal clothing products are to be avoided as much as possible. that the choice is equally valid

but I'm having a hard time seeing it as valid anymore when it just feels like trying to push the unpleasant part away from yourself so you can pretend your choice has no negative impacts. you're not wearing animal skin (or wool that an animal didn't even die to produce), so surely your way of doing things is better! no animals were harmed in the making of your outfit!

except. they were.

they and all the rest of us.

[bekkicho]

I really missed drawing him

[megpricephotography]

Memories of a glorious sunset walk on the last day of November 2014, up on the hills with the collies. Barney, Lyra, Hovis & Chance the pup! 10 years ago now.

[yrsonpurpose]

#he's not

[dgnrtshunch]

Absolutely insane over this

[girderednerve]

this post is old but i saw it going around again & it's driving me nuts. this is an extremely bad historical summary? parts of it are outright wrong & the framing is nonsensical, multiple people have chimed in to add "more" information but no one seems to have taken issue with the content of the original post. anyway it's somewhat strange to say that the church 'began forbidding' christians from participating in moneylending (pawnshops are also moneylenders; banking didn't really exist in europe until the latter middle ages), because the text of the bible itself treats loans as a form of charity which should not bear interest between community members. there are a bunch of patristic commentaries to this effect, but there are also a bunch of rabbinic commentaries to this effect! because it was a moral rule for both groups of people, and indeed for muslims! however, to lend money at any sort of scale, you need to charge interest to cover for the risk that you won't be paid back, so there's friction between practical exigency & ethical doctrine. it turns out that there was a centuries-long moral crisis about the expansion of a market economy & the development of finance, which cannot be usefully boiled down to the idea that money was 'unclean' (extremely vague term; also, if the church simply thought that, why were there so many lavish churches & well-heeled priests?). it is broadly true that medieval european jews were excluded, often violently, from fully participating in christian society & that several engaged in moneylending, using the out-group loophole to lend at interest to gentiles. however, a bunch of christians just lent money anyway; actually, most moneylenders in medieval christendom were christians, and most jews did other work. the idea that jews were substantially engaged in early finance was first an antisemitic myth, propagated by christians who were trying to resolve the moral & practical conflict of moneylending by displacing it; then it was a philosemitic myth, recuperated by late nineteenth century scholars who saw in jewish moneylenders evidence of a unique jewish contribution to the development of europe. but it never reflected the daily lives of most medieval jews & we can do better than this, guys, come on

[cosmicnovaflare]

Cinder again!!!

[sketchytea]

fuck this post happy birthday rat man

redraw of an oldie again

[chamerionwrites]

The other thing that absolutely kills me is that. During Horrific Ticking Clock Black Sails Dinner Party The First, Flint has tried to be the pragmatic voice of reason; he’s told Thomas that as his friend he advises him to drop the pardon plan. In order to make Alfred Hamilton happy, literally all he would’ve had to do is express the reservations that he’s already expressed to Thomas in private! All through that dinner Alfred tries to get him to do just that, and all through that dinner Flint tries to talk diplomatically around it because he wants to be loyal to his friend and he’s upset about the way Thomas’ father is speaking to him. But what finally makes him snap - what pushes him into standing up and throwing pragmatism to the winds and ordering the man out of the house - is when Alfred starts in throwing deeply cruel and dismissive insults at Miranda.

And then during Horrific Ticking Clock Black Sails Dinner Party The Second, it’s Miranda’s idea for them to be there. It’s her plan. She’s deeply unhappy about it, because she’s already clocked (har) that Peter betrayed them. But she’s prepared to diplomatically go along - and even to lie to Flint about why she’s upset - because she’s been the pragmatist arguing that Thomas is dead and they’re still alive. Riiiiight up until Peter starts in with that cruel cockeyed plan that frankly seems far more designed to humiliate Flint (and quite possibly get him killed) than to actually accomplish anything they’ve discussed.

And then Miranda snaps, and stands up, and throws pragmatism to the winds to tell Peter Ashe exactly what she thinks of him.

[ego-meliorem-esse]

My late contribution to the beautiful bride and ugly groom trend

It pained me to make François the beautiful bride but by god and all his angels The Rat is just not it

[corpusmoth]

mr. melting pot

continued: i think that america’s appearance would shift depending on the influence of different nations, while i do not think these characters are particularly genetically related, i think their appearances would rub off on him

these are based off early american settlement/history

[character-of-all-time]

ROUND 1: DEMON CORE (science) VS THE QUEEN OF ENGLAND (down there)