OP hand-drew hundreds of small cards (cr ε°ηε₯)

Discoholic πͺ©

PR's Tumblrdome
hello vonnie
$LAYYYTER
I'd rather be in outer space πΈ
2025 on Tumblr: Trends That Defined the Year

JVL
cherry valley forever
Stranger Things
Misplaced Lens Cap
Show & Tell
art blog(derogatory)
Three Goblin Art
d e v o n

ellievsbear
tumblr dot com
Peter Solarz
TVSTRANGERTHINGS
styofa doing anything
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

seen from United Kingdom

seen from United States

seen from Malaysia
seen from United Kingdom
seen from United States

seen from United Kingdom
seen from Gabon
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from United States
seen from Malaysia
seen from United States

seen from United States
@injigo0
OP hand-drew hundreds of small cards (cr ε°ηε₯)

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch β’ No registration required β’ HD streaming
My workplace recently had a thing about βdo you know how many days we lose to stress related sick days? Here are some ways to manage stressβ and itβs things like βkeep a gratitude journalβ
But I donβt know - when I started work, many decades ago, it was expected youβd start at 9, finish at 5. Youβd get your lunch break. You are expected to give about 70% of yourself the majority of your time. The last hour of each day and Friday afternoon were quiet times. There was time in the day to hang out with your coworkers for ten minutes talking about anything, not just work.
Now youβre expected to come in early and leave late and work through lunch. Give 100% all the time, more if you can push it. Donβt take leave. Work every second of every day as hard as you can push yourself. Do not waste time in the kitchen just chatting. Why arenβt you working harder?
And perhaps weβre burning out and take massive amounts of stress leave not because weβre not keeping a gratitude journal but because we are all being pushed to breaking point consistently, day after day, until we snap.
The older days werenβt perfect. But there was an understanding that work wasnβt life, and we could relax a little at work and still get paid enough to live. Now we are expected to give everything weβve got, then give more, and not get paid enough to do something as simple as get a coffee after work. Even our hobbies are supposed to be monetised.
I blame Reagan and Thatcher but also blame every business leader since then who thought that pattern of work was in any way sustainable.
I know i've said it before, but if you are concerned it could be real and not a scam, the best way to avoid getting scammed is to return contact separately.
Here's how that works:
say you get a text from your internet provider, let's say it's Comcast (whom i hate). So you have this text that says it's from Comcast about your bill with a contact number and a clickable link -- could be real, could be a scam.
Don't touch anything about this text. Open a web browser and look up the customer service number for Comcast. Or get the number from the bill they send you. However you do it, get the contact info for Comcast from a trusted source, like an official phone directory or the Comcast website itself.
Get in touch with them using that information.
So. Let's run the example both ways it could go.
If it IS a scam: you reach out to Comcast and tell them you were contacted about a problem with your bill, they look you up in their customer database, and they tell you there is no problem with your bill.
If it's NOT a scam, you do the same thing, they look you up, and they explain the problem. In this case, neither Comcast nor the employees involved give a single shit whether or not you clicked the link in the text vs. going through their official website.
This works the same for the your bank, the IRS, Amazon, political causes, charities, everything.
By handling any questionable incoming calls to action this way, you significantly protect yourself from scams and malware and shit
βThere are experimental studies showing that men's qualifications, talents, and achievements shine brighter and provide a better fit with the demands of a nonfeminine job - even when identical to those of a woman.
For example, in one recent study more than 100 university psychologists were asked to rate the CVs of Dr. Karen Miller or Dr. Brian Miller, fictitious applicants for an academic tenure-track job. The CVs were identical, apart from the name. Yet strangely, the male Dr. Miller was perceived (by both male and female reviewers) to have better research, teaching and service experience than the luckless female Dr. Miller. Overall, about three-quarters of the psychologists thought that Dr. Brian was hireable, while only just under half had the same confidence in Dr. Karen.
The same researchers also sent out applications for the position of tenured professor, again identical but for the male and female name at the top. This time, the application was so strong that most of the raters thought that tenure was deserved, regardless of sex. However, the endorsement of Karen's application was four times more likely to be accompanied by cautionary caveats scrawled in the margins of the questionnaire: such as, 'I would need to see evidence that she had gotten these grants and publications on her own' and We would have to see her job talk.ββ
- Cordelia Fine, Delusions of Gender

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch β’ No registration required β’ HD streaming
favorite thing about tumblr is having a fandom in law. no i haven't watched this show and i'm not planning to. but my moot is having fun!! look how much they love it!!! i'm supportive from the sidelines!
Not that anybody asked, but I think it's important to understand how shame and guilt actually work before you try to use it for good.
It's a necessary emotion. There are reasons we have it. It makes everything so. much. worse. when you use it wrong.
Shame and guilt are DE-motivators. They are meant to stop behavior, not promote it. You cannot, ever, in any meaningful way, guilt someone into doing good. You can only shame them into not doing bad.
Let's say you're a parent and your kid is having issues.
Swearing in class? Shame could work. You want them to stop it. Keep it in proportion*, and it might help. *(KEEP IT IN PROPORTION!!!)
Not doing their homework? NO! STOP! NO NOT DO THAT! EVER! EVER! EVER! You want them to start to do their homework. Shaming them will have to opposite effect! You have demotivated them! They will double down on NOT doing it. Not because they are being oppositional, but because that's what shame does!
You can't guilt people into building better habits, being more successful, or getting more involved. That requires encouragement. You need to motivate for that stuff!
If you want it in a simple phrase:
You can shame someone out of being a bad person, but you can't shame them into being a good person.
Fun fact, that was literally what inspired me to make this post!
Women in Shakespeare
Also like to point out that when her mother says βI was your mother much upon these years that you are now a maid,β (translation: I had you when I was your age) you have to remember her fatherβs words: βearth hath swallowed all my hopes but she,β (translation: all the other children died.)Β The whole plot point of Juliet being an only child is explained by her mother being a Margaret Beaufort type who had her first child too young and it damaged her past the point of being able to bear more children.
Margaret Beaufort died in 1509. She was a major player in the Wars of the Roses, the swirling on-again-off-again civil wars that consumed England from 1455-1487. Romeo and Juliet was written and first performed in the early 1590s. Your average English person of Shakespeareβs day would probably have had at least a vague understanding of who she was and what happened to her, because she was a key figure in recent history and was still getting passed around as a cautionary tale.
There are two great problems with what happened to Margaret (and that her parents are trying to do to Juliet). One is easy for modern people to spot (but was also a common response back in her own day). And thatβs the moral implications of what was done to her. She was too young to be married, and it was horrifying that she was forced into it so young. Every one of the adults around her either acted immorally or failed to protect her. They were wrong. This is what modern people see, and itβs important to remember that people back in her day mostly agreed with it. Youβre supposed to think itβs fucked up! When girls were married that young (and it didnβt happen often!) it was a formality 99% of the time. It was for dynastic or financial reasons (the girl has lots of money and/or land and/or a title that her husband wants), but the βcoupleβ donβt consummate their marriage for years. And itβs not just that they would have separate bedrooms. They might not even live in the same country until the girl was in her late teens and physically and mentally mature enough to bear and raise kids. Hell, a lot of times they didnβt even meet until the girl was older! They had this thing called βproxy marriageβ where you would have two separate ceremonies, in two separate places, with each party saying their vows separately, one in one city and the other in a different one. So, yeah, sure, the girl was technically married at 12, but she didnβt actually meet her βhusbandβ in person until she was 17 and they didnβt start sleeping together until she was 20. That was a thing they did.
The other problem, the one that modern people donβt notice, is dynastic. See, marriage wasnβt generally because you loved someone. It was because you had the resources to support a family, and you or your family wanted to pool those resources with someone. Itβs about βour family has these resources, and we want that to continue.β Itβs about continuity across generations. Itβs about making sure that your children and grandchildren have the best possible resources to survive and thrive, whether those resources are land or a trade or a title or money or whatever. In order for this to work, you have to have kids! The family and the familyβs resources depend on the married couple having children. If the couple doesnβt have children, the marriage is a failure. And that failure affects not only the couple, but both families. This is a really big problem. And you canβt have just one kid to pass on the family name, because half of all kids die in early childhood. If you want to be safe, you need several kids, to be sure at least one will survive to adulthood (when they can marry and pass on the family name and resources.
You know what happens when a girl has her first pregnancy too young? She is very likely to either die in childbirth, or have complications that destroy her future fertility. Just like Margaret Beaufort. Just like Julietβs mother. In other words, the marriage is a failure, not just for her, but also for her family, and her husband (who canβt divorce her, itβs not allowed except in extremely rare circumstances), and her husbandβs family. So even the people who didnβt have a moral problem with adult men having sex with pubescent girls had a practical problem with girls married too young because you are very likely to destroy the entire purpose of the marriage by doing it. As Shakespeare reminds us in the play through Julietβs mother having been married too young and only having one child.
Shakespeare is telling us βyeah, this is fucked up. but even if youβre the kind of awful person who doesnβt think girls marrying too young is morally wrong, itβs also a problem for practical and dynastic reasons, donβt forget that by doing this wrong thing you are very likely to destroy what you most want out of it.β
Interesting
It bears repeating:
donβt forget that by doing this wrong thing you are very likely to destroy what you most want out of it.β
yes, excellent discussion!
another thing i noticed, the year my local community shakespeare theater did r&j, and i made the costumes so i got to watch the show every night: part of why capulet is telling paris, take your time, get to know each other, no rush, is that he still has his nephew tybalt as his heir. as long as tybalt is in the picture, there is no pressure on juliet to go further with paris, than get acquainted. once tybalt is killed, then suddenly capulet needs an heir, he needs a husband for juliet, now, this week. (the role of capulet is best given to the actor in the company that can do over the top apoplexy, you need to believe his urgency comes at least in part by how clearly he could drop dead any moment from giving himself a stroke)
i feel like this play is often taught in middle schools as if it was somehow relevant to, or about, teen hormone storms. really it's got more to do with the social structures around family and inheritance. leaving that context out makes it confusing, why is capulet suddenly flipping from nice dad to evil dad?
art history matters.
I've been thinking about this play a lot lately. I really wanna highlight that Lord Capulet asks Paris to wait and get to know her, and to woo her, while Tybalt lives. While Tybalt is alive, Juliet has something of a reprieve, and her wellbeing as his only child matters more to Capulet. But once Tybalt has died, the gloves come off. Lord Capulet was worried about his daughter's wellbeing when he felt he had the space to care, but as soon as his dynasty is at stake, as soon as this becomes larger than Juliet's happiness, his consideration for her health and mental wellbeing get thrown away. Which also is due in part to the fact that Capulet's family is implicated in a brawl that has left several dead after the Prince's family EXPLICITLY told the Capulets and Montagues to stop fighting or face dire consequences, AND Capulet is trying to align himself with the Prince's family by marrying Juliet off to County Paris, a relative of the Prince. So to Lord Capulet, it is now less important that Juliet is happy, and more important than he reminds the Prince of his loyalty via this marriage and aligns his family with the Prince's before it's too late. And he believes this must be done, at any cost...until Juliet kills herself. And that's when he realises the devastating cost of treating his family as chess pieces. He realises his wrongdoing far too late.
Seriously Romeo and Juliet is HEAVY on the dynastic politics, and I think you can't fully understand the play without understanding how that all works, especially because the impact of dynastic marriages on women and girls is like. THE POINT of the play
Iβm not Christian, I donβt go to church anymore, and my pastor died, but when he was alive Iβd sometimes go to his sermons and I remember one time he said βit feels good to hate, but we know that it isnβt allowed, so when weβre told that weβre allowed to hate someone we get so excited that we forget weβre supposed to loveβ, and if my humble atheist ass might borrow some church talk Iβd like to perhaps submit that
Anyhow sometimes on the day to day I feel disgust or revulsion and I have to ask myself βis this a danger to anyone at all or am I just looking for something Iβm allowed to hateβ and a solid 98/100 times itβs the latter so once again thank you pastor D

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch β’ No registration required β’ HD streaming
weβve been drinking a lot of tea lately.
update:
What do you call a crate of ducks?
A box of quackers
What a fowl joke
You're teleported to 44BCE Rome in your everyday street clothes. You're brought before Caesar and he believes you're from the future, hoping to bring him fortune. One day he questions you, asking "How do I die?"
GO FERB GO!!!πͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺπͺ
You are Julius Caesar, and you are in a council meeting. Suddenly, Brutus stands up, then the rest of the council members. Then a hundred other time travelers draw their daggers.

Anya is live and ready to show you everything. Watch her strip, dance, and perform exclusive shows just for you. Interact in real-time and make your fantasies come true.
Free to watch β’ No registration required β’ HD streaming
My ides tiramisu, if you even care
Oh, my word we care.
I am deeply uncomfortable with this man's corner
The Spiral
Home decor hacks for if you hate yourself and want to die