Sun-annihilated kissed
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One of my biggest literary pet peeves is when historical or history-inspired fiction pretends that "courting" is a synonym for "dating". Usually it's just a one-to-one word swap--in a modern context, these characters would be dating, but this is olden times, so they call it courting instead. Sometimes they'll pretend there's a shade of difference, and that courting is a more serious exploration of marriage or something. But I read a lot of fiction that was actually written during these historical eras, and the word "courting" is never used like that.
Two people do not decide that they are "courting". One person decides to "court" someone else. It's an action, not a stage in the relationship. A man decides to court a woman because he wants to encourage her to have romantic interest in him. He's trying to win her favor. It's not an exclusive relationship--a woman could be courted by multiple men at once. She'll spend time getting to know the guy who's interested in her, but they won't officially define their relationship as one where they only show romantic interest in each other. If they reach a point where they want it to be exclusive, that's when you propose.
There's no middle ground--either you're getting to know each other, or you're committed to marrying each other. This idea of a period where you kind of commit to each other until you decide you definitely want to get married is a modern one, and it occurs in eras where they use the word "dating" to describe it. The closest equivalent I can think of are times and places where they'd talk about a couple "stepping out together", but they're still not calling it "courting". Words have meaning, and the word "courting" has never meant that, so stop using it that way!
the other mild historical disjoint i run into is when people talk about dating in the fifties like it automatically meant exclusivity. the whole reason we have the expression "going steady" is because the default was to or "go around with" or "go out with" multiple people. not in the sense of being in a stable polyamorous vee, but in the sense that archie is actively "seeing" both betty and veronica during the entire time the two girls are competing for his attention and they're both seeing other guys to make him jealous, and nobody involved considers this "cheating."
bizarrely, America has in many ways gotten more conservative about dating since World War II.
I ran into a truly wild cultural misunderstanding with my father some years ago, when I had to explain to him what “hookup culture” actually was, and that the thing he assumed it was was actually what we call “cruising culture”. His response was “how is that different from dating?” and when I explained how it was different, he said, and please note that this a direct quote: “That’s ridiculous! You can’t expect a woman to stop fooling around with other guys for anything less than a marriage proposal. I mean, she’s not a prostitute, you can’t buy her.” Now obviously there’s like… a lot to unpack there, but I think it’s pretty darn illustrative of a substantive cultural shift around the assumption of monogamy!
Also, following this, I asked my mom what her thoughts were on the matter, and she said that while she “wouldn’t put it in those terms” she broadly agreed, and thought that anyone expecting any sort of exclusivity when a marriage proposal wasn’t at least on the very immanent horizon was “nuts, honestly.” I hesitantly asked if she was including relationships with premarital sexual activity in that, and her response was “Of course. I mean, gosh, you know your Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week before she finally settled down.”
And this was when I learned, to my shock, that the oft-repeated story of how “Aunt Terri used to have a guy for every day of the week” didn’t just mean “Aunt Terri had a full dance card” but rather meant that Aunt Terri had a period of her life where she literally dated exactly seven guys at once, all of whom she was sleeping with (or, my mom was quick to disclaim, “well, fooling around with, I don’t know how far she actually went with any of them, but they were definitely all fooling around behind closed doors”), on a literal weekly rotation. Like, they had a schedule. A schedule that all seven of the guys knew.
America has gotten a lot more conservative about dating, actually.
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I love how these are from an Unreality subreddit but to my eye they just read like regular Tumblr shitposts. Did we cross-pollinate or something
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A perfect duet.
You will never escape this video as long as I am alive.
Happy 10 years of never letting you escape this video!
I FOUND THE SONG!!
Only took me 10 years!
Musician: Martin Chiang
Instrument: Dulcian
Song: Giovanni Antonio Bertoli - Sonata Prima
Went to the grocery store with my kindergartener. We weighed some bananas: 2 pounds even. We weighed a watermelon: 4 pounds even. We weighed some mangos: a little over 1 pound. We weighed the watermelon AND the bananas: 6 pounds even.
“That’s funny” said the child “because 2+4=6 and two pounds and four pounds is six pounds. It’s like the same as math!”
“What happens if you add 6+1?”
“SEVEN”
“What if we put one pound of mangos on the scale?” <mangos added>
“IT’S THE SAME!!”
“OK, what’s 7-4?”
“Three?”
“What if we take the four pound watermelon off the scale?” <watermelon removed>
“Mama! Are you telling me math works In Real Life? Think of all the things you could measure!!”
The look of love
this is going to make me sound insane and nitpicky but do you ever feel like sometimes in fanart when people draw male characters they go out of their way to capture their unique facial features and then when they draw female characters they draw like a generic woman face and call it a day
please ignore how i started this post i’ve been vindicated by everyone in the notes and i now feel confident enough to say i am not insane and nitpicky and also we should attack people with hammers
we shant forget the ancient texts

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bulbasaur says you’re valid no matter who you are!! 🏳️🌈
I gasped so loudly
#happy international women's day
I dressed up yesterday like this
but I kept getting comments on how I looked exactly like Nicki Minaj in this picture all night
I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE HE-MAN!!
Everyone disregarded that and called me Nicki for the entire night.
I tried.
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i miss when subscriptions didnt really exist and you could just pay one time to buy an app or some software, and then just.. have it. without ads. without recurring costs. without more paywalls. it was just yours forever.
Part 2 of my Ghoap series is now out!
Check it out on A03!
Title: 21 Hours
Fandom: Call of Duty (Video Games)
Rating/Warnings: General Audiences/No warnings apply
Summary: Johnny goes into labor and after 21 long hours, their daughter is born. Simon is definitely terrified but Johnny pulls his head out of his ass and tells him he’ll never be like his father. Johnnys entire family is there, excited to meet the baby. Simon has something important to share with Price, if the bastard shows up.

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Eddie and Chrissy at a party and she’s trying to get him to actually be brave and talk to a guy. And he’s arguing that it’ll just be embarrassing but finally she says “alright. go hit on the hottest guy here get rejected and I’ll let this go forever.”
Meanwhile, Steve’s been trying to get the cute metalhead’s attention all night
There are gonna be people who won't like hearing this but if you want to live in a world where mixed marriages, families, and adoptions (particularly POC adopting outside their "race") aren't maligned and discriminated against, then you have got to get more chill about seeing someone partaking in something cultural that you don't think fits the "race" you perceive them as.
It's a vague memory now, it was a vague memory even at the time I made this post, but I think what sparked this was remembering stupid comments I saw about a Chinese-American cookbook that were complaining about it being written by a white woman and then I looked the white woman up and the briefest research showed she was adopted as a child into a Chinese-American family and just....
*pinches nose*
Fellas, is it cultural appropriation to inherit your family's culture but you don't pass the blood quantum test?
All of you are literally just racist. You've come full-circle. You're working under the belief that people are supposed to "keep to their own kind" and that means the socially invented concept of "race", and "race mixing" of any sort is unnatural.
Putting this in a separate reblog because it involves fictional media but it was still implying a messed up worldview....
This reminded me of a post I saw about someone theorizing what MCU Morgan Stark's middle name was because we just knew her middle initial was "H" and they considered that the namesake might be Yinsen Ho but they didn't want to believe that because it would be, quote, "cultural appropriation".
Cultural appropriation. To name your child after someone you personally knew and was very important to you.
Don't you know it's unnatural for someone of a different race to be important to you? The races are not supposed to mix!
It's literally just racism. Why do people think they're being anti-racist activists by being some of the highest level of racist?
Yeah this trend has been gaining strength for years of "the races shouldn't mix (but in a Marx honoring way)" and it's seriously fuckin concerning.
Cultural appropriation is stealing something from another culture that they're not happy to share and then passing it off as your own (and generally benefiting from it in a way that diverts those benefits away from the source culture).
Cultural appropriation is NOT enjoying things from other cultures that they're happy to share, it's NOT mutual cultural exchange between friends, and it's DEFINITELY NOT inheriting your own culture no matter what you look like you absolutely fuckwaffles