This is real easy when you’re allergic to mango

They don't make art like this anymore (possibly because various laws forbid it), which is a shame.

Are you looking for real soap to wash your body? Or shower gel/detergent? If you’re looking for real soap, see if you can find true Castile or Aleppo soap, which should be 100% olive oil or olive with bay laurel oil, respectively. Not Dr Bronners, that stuff is normal ass palm and coconut and whatever oil soap which for some reason is allowed to market as Castile.

The fact that we are maintaining proper cement laying technique while hiding a body is incredible. No notes, what a craftsman.

I always thought Ha Ha came from the shitty landowner laughing when a poacher or peasant or animal fell in their sneaky shitty ditch. But that might have been a joke in a PG Wodehouse novel that I took too much to heart.

To be fair, most decorating advice advocates all pieces of furniture should be anchored with a rug, if one is present. I honestly find the lone sea of area rug more disturbing than the chaos room. And chaos room bed would be easier to make.

been thinking a lot about how smallness and "make me feel small and take care of me" narratives in a romantic context are indicative of the ways in which fatness is excluded from being protected, cared for, and precious specifically in a romantic context. The ways we speak about being romantically cared for, especially as a lover girl, have always felt so coded to exclude me and bodies like mine. For me, being small would require me to shrink and I simply don't want to. In fact I would like to be treated as precious and worthy of protecting just as I am. I would like to continue to take up space and still have arms wrap around me. And this all just feeds into larger narratives of fat people being treated as unworthy, undesirable, disposable etc.

also afterwards everyone who was talking about their cool bunker fantasies were like "Damn, Devin's right, we should also be considering helping people around us." which is the only recorded instance of a retail shift making people better human beings.

That story is so lovely, but I take a perverse pleasure in responding “I’d want to die quickly in an apocalypse because once the pharmacies have been raided and my rheumatoid arthritis meds are gone, life really won’t be tenable for me.” when people start talking post apocalypse plans.

if I remember correctly, there is a mushroom that may be responsible for ALS clusters and another mushroom that can cause you to be depressed for up to 6 months. why do mycotoxins behave like magical curses?

The worst are the surprisingly common houses where the doorframes in the basements are exactly six feet high. I don't even properly bonk my head there – if I forget to duck, the top of my scalp just sort scrrraaapes the trim and it's actually the worst sensation in the world.

A lot of shitty contractors back before basement doors were subject to the same mandatory minimum dimensions as doors on main floors, and also Frank Lloyd Wright for some reason.

When viewing houses a few years ago, there were a couple that were built in the 70s that were high ceilings downstairs and then teeny upstairs, such that my 6 foot husband would have needed to bend for every doorway. I ASSUME it's because they wanted the "entertaining" part of the house to look fancy, and the "private" part was sacrificed to the cause- the overall height of the buildings needed to match the ones from the 50s nearby.

Smaller door means stronger wall, less ability for drafts to wend their way through your house when it comes to old houses. Pre drywall old. I lived in a farmhouse from 1832 (with an addition from the 1890s) for a while and I’ll never forget the guy who came to install internet. He was maybe 6’6”, and bonked his head coming through one particular original doorway. But he grinned every time and said “I love this house! I love old houses and this one is just so good! This door frame is beautiful.” And I was like “please I’m begging you come through an 1890s doorway I am worried about your health and well-being.”

I always save images like this, I have a whole portfolio of historical Black hairstyles at this point. One of the most useful image collections I have as a theater costume designer.

She is so adorable. Collecting research for an upcoming Masks of Nyarlathotep campaign. I rolled up a character with incredibly high app but small size. 1930 is late but the hair and even dress here are still very late 20s.