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reading a historical romance novel and reflecting on the way these stories often present woke nobility for the contemporary reader. a big thing is servants. you can’t not have servants in those times but many modern readers think “but I would never have servants. it would be so weird to have servants” and in order to make the protagonists of the story more relatable they are actually friends with the servants. but flip your perspective and think of it from the side of the servants. wouldn’t it be so awful if your boss was always trying to be friends with you. a really common thing you’ll see is the woke baronet having tea in the kitchen with the servants bc he’s not like other baronets. but what if your boss wanted to hang out and talk during your lunch break every day. not so charming when you think about it that way

one of my favorite parts of anna karenina addressed this. as i remember it, a landowner (levin?) basically had a midlife crisis and started working the fields. the farmhands were pretty confused and annoyed at this relatively weak, ineffective guy playacting as a farmhand. he was in the way, had no idea what he was doing, didn't understand their micro culture (esp. things like what they liked to talk about and what they found funny) and most of all, he was...THEIR BOSS.

Reading the whole Christian bible for the first time and what do you mean the first split between Jesus and the Pharisees is over netilat yadayim? “It is not what goes into a person's mouth that makes him ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes him unclean,” my brother in Hashem you still have to wash your hands before meals

every time someone refers to penelope's suitors as having been hanging around for 10-20 years i laugh. in the odyssey they are explicitly in their 4th year camped out at the palace, so they waited until odysseus had been well and truly MIA to come a-courtin'. they did not come the moment odysseus left for troy; for one thing they would not have been old enough. eurymachus says that odysseus used to bounce him on his knee. because he was a toddler

jellyfish have to be kept in a round tank because if they're in a tank with corners they'll get stuck in them. I think that's beautiful. god's stupidest little plastic bags (affectionate)

Also when being bred in captivity(this is done at my work and my job is to teach people about it) to get them to reproduce from the polyp stage of life, we have to intentionally cause them enough stress to reproduce but not enough to harm them. Lately we’ve done that by cleaning their habitat extra well, makes them think the word is ending

Mitch McConnell will die two weeks from today (8/31/23)

there is no need to charge or cast i just be Knowing

i kiss you on the mouth and end my turn

“I have to shave my legs because of sensory issues” but you can handle hair past your ears? Sensory-wise? The long strands down to your shoulders cause zero (0) sensory issues?

Like at least be honest and consistent, would ya? If you really can’t handle having unshaven legs because of the hair, how are you tolerating your eyebrows? Or your head hair?

If it’s dysphoria, say it’s dysphoria. If it’s shame, say it’s shame. If it’s for pantyhose, say it’s for pantyhose. If it’s for the alleged smooth-dolphin feeling, say that. Also dolphins have hair. But stop lying about sensory issues that just so happen to magically line up with conventional beauty standards for women

it's interesting to me how, in England, hunting is considered an aristocratic, gentlemanly sport, whereas in North America there is almost nothing hickier

fuck i can’t believe i wasted my entire life being moved by art and beauty and the indomitable human spirit ugh i should’ve been making money through internet scams

some people like to get mad at disability benefits because they think its unfair people who dont work get a payout from the government while they have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week. but if you tell them "yeah that sucks i think you should also get a universal allowance and not have to work 50 hours at the human suffering factory every week" thats apparently the wrong answer.