bella ciao

Do you ever think about how, before the discovery of how to cultivate pearls, natural pearls were all there were and were vanishingly rare, with white, round pearls a tiny fraction of that extremely rare commodity, and so when someone in a Renaissance portrait appears draped in ropes and ropes of white pearls, it represents a truly eyewatering level of wealth that this person could afford such lavish adornments, and that this goes mostly over the head of a modern viewer of the painting, who is so accustomed to plastic pearls and abundant cultured pearls that the pearls in the painting seem only mildly extravagant

The whole "Key to Heaven" concept that Satrapi talked about in her memoir is probably the most disgusting piece of propaganda that was co-opted West, because I know a bunch of Iranian Shi'as, some of whom are veterans of the Iraqi-Iran war, and none of them have ever heard of it.

I once saw someone try to suggest a male counterpart to misogyny should be called "androgyny"

gotta love the assumption that one-party rule is not at all the problem in terms of creating inequality

yeah because one-party democracies (there are competitive elections at the local level in Cuba, if you don't know about this you shouldn't speak) don't have a higher gini index than multi-party democracies on average so there's no reason to think that's a factor.

interview with the masquerade

vampire: the vampire

whatever man *walks outside of your render distance*

I ❤️gossip I ❤️eavesdropping I ❤️asking nosy questions I❤️ looking for and acquiring information. On account of my curious and inquisitive nature #mynature

got a crick in my neck and a frog in my throat and a chip on my shoulder and a stick up my ass and now you're gonna stand there puttin words in my mouth? haven't I been through enough?

Born without the gene that makes you want to listen to other people’s DnD campaigns

WAIT HOLD ON I cannot fucking believe when I was like four years old my parents were cajoling me to walk with the family and trying to get me to keep up even though I kept insisting that I was "tired" until they took me to a doctor and found out my LUNGS DIDN'T WORK. how insane that we live in a world where reasonably loving parents think their FOUR YEAR OLD is trying to be LAZY. like they were mortified to be clear. adults are just so trained to ignore children's complaints as untrustworthy, kids just need discipline, they can't possibly speak for themselves. what the fuuuuck.

YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE BTW you should always be trying to take children seriously, especially very little ones but definitely all of them. the most disempowered class basically legally defined as property and most people are like "yeah that's good actually I hate when they Loiter lol they're stupid and loud and i actually think children should stop existing. restrict their personhood more actually"

The entire POINT of this post was that average, mundane, well-meaning parents and guardians do this constantly. while the horror stories in the notes are terrible and definitely at times just straight up abuse, this is about challenging YOUR OWN BIASES. you may not mean to dismiss children! for all their flaws, my parents loved me and weren't trying to hurt me. it was an accident enabled by societal expectations to not listen to vulnerable people like children. villains generally aren't hiding in the shadows to laugh at children with broken ankles. if you think you or people like you can't enact this dismissal of children because you aren't a villain hiding behind a bush, then you missed the whole point.

if cis people are so great then why don’t they have a siberian orchestra