Bae Blade

sewing is one of those skills everyone with the ability should know IMO. i’ve known too many people who just throw out perfectly servicable clothing and bedding because of tears or buttons that have fallen off and these can be fixed at home. sewing’s not hard either. 

sewing, like baking bread, is one of those basic skills that corporations have convinced people is just impossible or too expensive for the average person to do in order to manipulate people into buying things.

i’m not saying sewing is possible for everyone, but if you have motor skills fine enough to, say, replace lead in a mechanical pencil, you can learn to sew, and you can help people who can’t sew. here’s a good guide with gifs.

this is what we mean when we say civilization de-skills us to make us dependent

do u ever behave politely and respectfully towards retail workers just to flex on freaks who blame employees for every inconvenience

Every time. Former retail worker and manager and god damn people are awful to you for things that aren't your fault.

Okay but this is legit perfection.

Best casting I’ve ever seen.

@homestarrunner

Thank you

“that’s just the way the world works” it literally doesn’t have to be but okay

if anyone ever tells you “humans are just selfish / life is cruel / that’s just how the world is, get over it” be critical of them bc there’s a 75% chance they’re just using that as an excuse for their own shitty behavior so that they don’t have to put an effort into being better, kinder people

countries where prostitution is legal have higher rates of human trafficking. that’s like an actual fact. not an opinion or anything. so tbh it seems a bit ‘swerfy’ to completely ignore that

speaking, uh, as a formerly-trafficked sex worker, it’s extremely difficult to come forward as a trafficking victim in countries where sex work is criminalized; you just… get criminalized under those same anti-prostitution laws. of course reported trafficking would increase when the sole fact of coming forward as a sex worker at all no longer endangers you.

the most telling thing about the political climate this year is that usually my dash is filled with 4th of July posts by now but there’s been absolutely nothing… like nobody can even find the strength to post ironic eagle memes are you guys alright over there

no

I think it’s unfair to defend Scarlett Johansson is just “doing her job” when she takes roles not meant for her, she could very easily say no and make known why she did it, Ed Skrein stepped down from the movie Hellboy because the character he was supposed to play was asian, he received online outrage and later claimed he did not know his character was of asian heritage, he made his reasons known, said that by keeping the role the tendency to obscure minorities will continue and dropped the movie; after that, the studio could do nothing more but cast an asian actor to play an asian character. Actors can reject roles and do a lot, they only choose not to.

Wow.

This should be a national scandal.

the distinction between “crafts” and “fine art” is probably driven by misogyny and the devaluation of women’s labor

art forms that have traditionally been practiced by women like embroidery are devalued and called just “crafts” while art forms that women historically were mostly barred from (painting, sculpture) are “fine art”

Also racism; African and Indigenous art is considered crafts whereas only white forms are “art”

this was the subject of an entire term’s architectural project for our master’s degree program, we had long, involved class discussions about this, and you are absolutely, exceptionally correct.

So in English class we had to draw a scene from The Great Gatsby. After the drawings were done the teacher was showing them to the class, and one drawing was a pic of Gatsby reaching towards at the green light, but in the drawing Gatsby didn’t have hands. So my teacher starts saying something like how this picture has hidden meaning and portrays the helplessness Gatsby feels, and the kid next to me just casually says “I can’t draw hands.”

This is honestly how symbolism works in English

Your belly button is just your old mouth.

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I was having a good day.  We were all having a good day.

This is so clever!