Eparpillé sur la toile

when media reports on men "having sex with underage girls"

As soon as they panned to the fiber arts classes I sat straight up because that is the PERFECT mechanism for girls and women to pass coded messages in Gilead. No one is going to pay any attention to the Wives knitting or embroidering or making lace - it's basically the only "work" they are allowed to engage in. It's seen as frivolous and purely ornamental. Even in our world, men dismiss the value of fiber arts and belittle the women who engage in them. And yet throughout history fiber arts/textiles have been used to communicate coded information. In the 1800s, quilts were used to communicate coded information about how to navigate the Underground Railroad. In WWII, knitting was used to send coded messages concerning troop or railroad movements.

drunk tortured poets department (becka's version)

Just watched this episode today and man, it was solid.

Hey someone suggested I use ChatGPT to figure out adulting today, and as I was going through the mental list of places I'd rather look, I realized "beloved strangers on Tumblr dot net" was on that list.

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