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TIME MANAGEMENT STUFF / TERM 7 

I’ve got a lot of questions about this during my Art Center time, so I drew it ! This system came from when I had to manage my time during art high school (8am-5pm everyday) with 2 waitress jobs. Everybody has different working method, but I will be more than happy if anyone gets new idea from it ! 

Are you too completely broke after spending all your money on Urban Outfitters, your Spotify subscription, that new MacBook for the (overpriced) Studyblr Aesthetic ™? 

(Bonus: it’s making old white men really really mad.)

coming soon: a minimal 𝔯𝔢𝔭𝔲𝔱𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫 themed tumblr theme coded by yours truly

(preview is on my blog for now)

i’m going to keep this theme to myself for a while until i can clean up the css/scripts (i made a mess bc i’m self-taught lmao) but what i could use from you guys is for you to take a look at it and offer feedback! let me know if you see any kinks i need to sort out while looking around. also let me know if you’d be interested in using this (and an assortment of other taylor-related themes i’ve planned in my head) in the future so that i know if it’s worth it!

features and credits below

a piece printed in New Scientist weekly earlier this week (8th December 2018 No3207) I think may finally put the nail in the coffin of a few long-running talking points.

Some bees can have four parents

In bees, unfertilised eggs develop into males, or drones, who seek out queens to mate with. Fertilised eggs usually become female workers.

However, queens mate with at least 10 males to produce new colony members, and more than one sperm enters each egg. In a few rare instances, a bee can end up with some tissue derived from the fertilised egg, which is female, and some from extra sperm, which is male. The resulting animals are known as gynandromorphs, and have both male and female tissue throughout the body.

Sarah Aamidor and colleagues at the University of Sydney, Australia studied 11 gynandromorph honeybees from a single colony to learn more about how these individuals develop. Five had normal worker ovaries, and three had “queen-like” ovaries. One had normal male reproductive organs, and two had partial male organs.

Genetic tests revealed the unusual family history of 10 of these bees. Nine had two or three fathers and one mother. One had no mother and two fathers, resulting from the fusion of two sperm (Biology Letters, doi.org/cxjh).

to make a long story short:

instances of two organisms (in this situation: two trolls) having a biological child within the womb of a third organism (the queen bee, or a mother grub in this case) are not only entirely possible, but actually happen

Where do I begin?

- Criticized the Jews for defending themselves against the Holocaust because he insisted that they should have committed public mass suicide in order to “shame” the Germans instead of fighting back. His exact words were, “But the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher’s knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from the cliffs. As it is, they succumbed anyway in their millions.”

- Wrote an open letter to the British people in 1940 telling them to surrender to the Axis even if it mean accepting genocide.

- Was very anti-black. I hope you can stomach reading how he treated black people in South Africa. It’s fucking disgusting.

- Refused his wife life-saving medication (for religious reasons), but those religious reasons all of a sudden no longer applied to him when he was in a similar position.

- Refused to have sex with his wife for the last 38 years of their marriage. He felt that in order to test his commitment to celibacy, he would have beautiful young women (including his own great niece) lie next to him naked through the night. His wife, whom he described as looking like a “meek cow” was no longer desirable enough to be a solid test.

- Believed that Indian women who were raped lost their value as a human.

- During his time as a dissident in South Africa, he discovered that a young male was harassing two of his female followers. He responded by cutting the girls’ hair off to ensure the “sinner’s eye” was “sterilized.” He later boasted about the incident in his writings, pushing the message to all Indians that women should carry responsibility for sexual attacks upon them.

- Argued that fathers could be justified in killing daughters who had been sexually assaulted for the sake of family and community honor.

- Believed that menstruation was a manifestation of the distortion of a woman’s soul by her sexuality.

- Waged a war against contraceptives, labeling Indian women who used them as whores.

- Held the attitude that women were simply creatures that could bring either pride or shame to the men who own them.

Sources:

Websites:  Women Suffer From Gandhi’s Legacy,  People who most likely chose Gandhi as a historical figure to do a report on and immediately regretted it, On Mahatma Gandhi, his pathetic racism and advancement of segregation of black people by Sentletse Diakanyo, Not All Peaceful: 13 Racist Quotes Gandhi Said About Black People by Nick  Chiles

vriska was just a little girl. like i think a lot of people who vehemently hate vriska forget that 

a) she was living as an alien on alien planet that didn’t have the same social norms as earth, but even by alternia’s standards she had it rough despite being effectively (upper) middle class, 

b) her guardian, who was a parental stand in, was a giant spider that constantly psychically tortured her and probably tried to eat her on several occasions. like let’s just stop pretending that didn’t happen. 

c) there was a grown man who was omniscient manipulating her and her friends and sexually abusing her. let us not forget that!

d) all of this happened before she was thirteen. do you remember being thirteen? it was a dark and dramatic time, even if you weren’t going through shit. but the moment you add trauma and mental illness, it escalates exponentially. but vriska didn’t have a social worker to check on her, or kindly authority figures to make sure she was okay. she just had a chat client and pain and frustration, and had to pretend to be right all the time because otherwise, her flaws would destroy her (source: vriska vs (vriska), or Why We Hate Ourselves).