it’s crazy how many people who support capitalism are like “ugh I hate my life it’s just sleeping eating and working a shit job” like WOW take a wild guess where that comes from
Thank you so much, @wisperr, for this amazing portrait of my gal! I love it so much and I can’t get over how p e r f e c t l y you captured her mood and her aura.
The moral halo around “good skin” isn’t a coincidence. The behaviors associated with a clear, even-toned complexion require those who want it to reject hedonism in a way that is still deeply ingrained as virtuous in American culture; that the wealthy have mastered the look reinforces capitalistic notions of success and who achieves it (the ascetic, dedicated, and hardworking). The journalist Jaya Saxena found as much when she investigated the connections between skin and poverty earlier this year. “We assume those at the top are there because they’ve done something right. And if they have straight teeth, toned bodies, and smooth skin, that must be ‘right’ too,” she wrote. “It’s not that we think having bad skin is a moral failing. It’s that we think poverty is.”
i wanna see the symbiote with a host whos psychotic and has a movement disorder, like imagine the possibilities. they wouldnt believe anything changed!
symbiote: DARLENE! Darlene: symbiote: Hello, Darlene! Darlene: Ugh, fine. Hi new guy. Now shut the fuck up. symbiote: I’m not a hallucination, Darlene. Darlene: Literally all of you have said that. symbiote: Could a hallucination do this? [Darlene’s hand slaps her in the face] Darlene: Yes, unfortunately. symbiote: Cut yourself. I will heal you and prove I’m real. Darlene: HAH! Like I’ve never heard that one before! symbiote: FINE! I’ll do this the hard way. [symbiote produces a head on a tendril from Darlene’s chest] symbiote: We are one, now, Darlene. Darlene: Really? “Slime with teeth” was the best you could come up with?
Darlene then proceeds to make an appointment to increase her antipsychotic dosage, with the symbiote complaining the whole time.
The statement “no one who works 40 hours a week should starve” is the bare minimum of bullshit centrist ideology; the fact that it’s considered a relatively “out there” left-wing idea is absolutely wild. No one should starve, full stop. Especially with the material abundance we now sit upon. Full workers-control-production socialism now.
me, a 1967 housewife and homemaker, preparing a pork roast for my three children and unappreciative businessman husband while Star Trek s02e01 “Amok Time” plays on my brand-new state-of-the-art color TV in the background, minding my own business, happening to glance up during the fight scene:
My dad gave me a USB drive with hundreds of pictures he has taken since the 70′s. This picture of the Snuggle bear playing UNO is undoubtedly the best picture he has ever taken.
even if you can’t do anything else, reblogging helps me a lot!
im a homeless black trans person (i was cut off by my Christian family for being trans) and i’m disabled (OCD, autistic)
i’ve been wearing the same pair of pants for two weeks, my phone charger is broken, but i can’t even worry about that because i have $216 to my name right now, and i owe about $300 to my college for tuition fees
honestly, i have too much money stuff to worry about…but i’m going to just focus on school and clothes for now!
oxford was built and operational as a college before the rise of the mayans and cleopatra lived in a time nearer to pizza hut’s invention than to the pyramids being built
I need a noncomprehensive history book that covers Known World History in time periods, like “in this century, all this shit was happening concurrently” and not just all spread out so I have to piece it together like some unpaid uneducated scholar
Mongols were fighting Samurai in Japan and Knights in Europe at the same time.
Star Wars a New Hope came out the same year as the last execution in France by Guillotine.
Abraham Lincoln and Edgar Allen Poe were friends in their early 20′s.
When the Great Pyramids were being built there were areas that still had Woolly Mammoths roaming.
Harvard University didn’t teach calculus in its first few years after being established because calculus wasn’t invented yet.
Nintendo was founded two years after the Eiffel Tower was constructed
This is the book you want: The Timetables of History - going year by year (or in the earlier sections, at least century by century) and showing you what was going on in various parts of the world in several categories (e.g. Politics, Literature, Science, etc.) Super useful for visualizing what events were happening at the same time.
looking at Wikipedia’s pages for years, decades, or centuries can also be fun for this reason
