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Acquired Stardust
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āWe are who we know ourselves to be, and we are what we love.ā

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people are like you just need to apply to 10 jobs a day meanwhile each of the jobs want you to write them 1500 words of uniquely tailored sycophancy & then manually input your cv into their custom application form 3 different times
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as āproblematicā in class and our professor was like, āThatās cool, but āproblematicā doesnāt really mean anything. It means that the thing youāre describing has a problem, and in and of itself thatās not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else itās not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like youāre trying to say that this is bad, but you donāt want to say ābad.ā Is that right?ā
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the ābadā thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, āIām uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.ā
Once we stopped calling things āproblematicā and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, āthatās racistā or āthatās misogynisticā or āew capitalism grossā out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, āUhhh... Iām not sure whatās so bad?ā and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I canāt help but think of this professor being like, āGood starting point, now letās get specific.ā I think when we have to commit to saying āthatās ___ā it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever weāre claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes itās art, and it should be full of problems, because thatās what art is.
Does anyone have this picture
But itās a parody of Master and Commanderās opening title
I swear I have seen this before and I cannot for the life of me find it
This image?
YES
PNG'D! (i didn't know the font so this is taken directly from the image)
+ bonus italian navy vessel
hello fellow artists. google has fallen. pinterest/duckduckgo AI filters don't work. do not despair; here is a list i made of places to find reference images without having to sift through piles of worthless garbage. (for future editing convenience i am just linking my blog post on dreamwidth.)
⨠good places to find art reference that are not full of AI trashĀ š
THANK YOU SO MUCH! I have been despairing as it is so hard now to find references and photos of succulents and other things for my designs!! T_T

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"lupita nyong'o can't be helen of troy because helen was greek and there weren't black people in ancient greece"
DO YOU THINK THESE MOTHERFUCKERS DIDNT HAVE BOATS. THIS ENTIRE MOVIE IS ABOUT ONE OF THOSE MOTHERFUCKERS AND HIS BOAT
do you think these people can read
Best comment I just saw "Helen of Troy was perfectly cast, because all these men are fighting about her."
In the 1960ā²s Legally a woman couldnāt
Open a bank account or get a credit card without signed permission from her father or hr husband.
Serve on a jury - because it might inconvenience the family not to have the woman at home being her husbandās helpmate.
Obtain any form of birth control without her husbandās permission. You had to be married, and your hub and had to agree to postpone having children.
Get an Ivy League education. Ivy League schools were menās colleges ntil the 70ā²s and 80ā²s. When they opened their doors to women it was agree that women went there for their MRS. Degee.
Experience equality in the workplace: Kennedyās Commission on the Status of Women produced a report in 1963 that revealed, among other things, that women earned 59 cents for every dollar that men earned and were kept out of the more lucrative professional positions.
Keep her job if she was pregnant.Until the Pregnancy Discrimination Act in 1978, women were regularly fired from their workplace for being pregnant.
Refuse to have sex with her husband.The mid 70s saw most states recognize marital rape and in 1993 it became criminalized in all 50 states. Nevertheless, marital rape is still often treated differently to other forms of rape in some states even today.
Get a divorce with some degree of ease.Before the No Fault Divorce law in 1969, spouses had to show the faults of the other party, such as adultery, and could easily be overturned by recrimination.
Have a legal abortion in most states.The Roe v. Wade case in 1973 protected a womanās right to abortion until viability.
Take legal action against workplace sexual harassment. According to The Week, the first time a court recognized office sexual harassment as grounds for legal action was in 1977.
Play college sports Title IX of the Ā Education Amendments of protects people from discrimination Ā based on sex in education programs or activities that receive Federal financial Ā assistance It was nt until this statute that colleges had teams for womenās sports
Apply for menās Jobs Ā The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal. Ā This ruling is upheld in 1973 by the Supreme Court, opening the way for women to apply for higher-paying jobs hitherto open only to men.
This is why we needed feminism - this is why we know that feminism works
I just want to reiterate this stuff, because I legit get the feeling there are a lot of younger women for whom it hasnāt really sunk in what it is todayās GOP is actively trying to return to.
Did you go to a good college? Shame on you, you took a college placement that could have gone to a man who deserves and needs it to support or prepare for his wife & children. But if you really must attend college, well, some men like that, you can still get married if you focus on finding the right man.
Got a job? Why? A manĀ could be doing that job. You should be at home caring for a family. You shouldnāt be taking that job away from a man who needs it (see college, above). You definitely donāt have a career ā youāll be pregnant and raising children soon, so no need to worry about promoting you.
This shit was within living memory.Ā IāM A MILLENIAL and my mother was in the second class that allowed women at an Ivy League school. Men who are alive today either personally remember shit like this or have parents/family who have raised them into thinking this was the way America functioned back in the blissful Good Old Days. There are literally dudes in the GOP old enough to remember when it was like this and yearn for those days to return.
When people talk about resisting conservativism and the GOP, weāre not just talking about whether the wage gap is a myth or not.Ā Weāre talking about whether women even have the fundamental right to exist as individuals, to run their own households and compete for jobs and be considered on an equal footing with men in any arena at all in the first place.
I was a child in the 1960s, a teenager in the 1970s, a young adult in the 1980s. This is what it was like: When I was growing up, it was considered unfortunate if a girl was good at sports. Girls were not allowed in Little League. Girlsā teams didnāt exist in high school, except at all-girlsā high schools. Boys played sports, and girls were the cheerleaders. People used to ask me as a child what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said I wanted to be a brain surgeon or the first woman justice on the Supreme Court. Everyone told me it was impossibleāthose just werenāt realistic goals for a girlāthe latter, especially, because you couldnāt trust women to judge fairly and rationally, after all. In the 1960s and 1970s, all women were identified by their marital status, even in arrest reports and obituaries. In elementary school, my science teacher referred to Pierre Curie as DOCTOR Curie and Marie Curie as MRS. Curieā¦because, as he put it, āshe was just his wife.ā (Both had doctorates and both were Nobel prize winners, so you would think that both would be accorded respect.) Companies could and did require women to wear dresses and skirts. Failure to do could and did get women fired. And it was legal. It was also legal to fire women for getting married or getting pregnant. The rationale was that a woman who was married or who had a child had no business working; that was what her husband was for. Aetna Insurance, the biggest insurance company in America, fired women for all of the above. A man could rape his wife. Legally. I can remember being twelve years old and reading about legal experts actually debating whether or not a man could actually be said to coerce his wife into having sex. This was a serious debate in 1974. The debate about marital rape came up in my law school, too, in 1984. Could a woman be raped by her husband? The guys all said noāa woman got married, so she was consenting to sex at all times. So I turned it around. I asked them if, since a man had gotten married, that meant that his wife could shove a dildo or a stick or something up his ass any time she wanted to for HER sexual pleasure. (Hey, I thought it was reasonable. If one gender was legally entitled to force sex on the other, then obviously the reverse should also be true.) The male law students didnāt like the idea. Interestingly, they commented that being treated like that would make them feel like a woman. My reaction was, āThank you for proving my pointā¦ā The concept of date rape, when first proposed, was considered laughable. If a woman went out on a date, the argument of legal experts ran, sexual consent was implied. Even more sickening was the fact that in some statesāeven in the early 1980sāa man could rape his daughterā¦and it was no worse than a misdemeanor. Women taking self-defense classes in the 1970s and 1980s were frequently described in books and on TV as ācute.ā The implication was that it was absurd for a woman to attempt to defend herself, but wasnāt it just adorable for her to try? I was expressly forbidden to take computer classes in junior and senior years of high schoolā1978-79 and 1979-80ābecause, as the principal told me, āOnly boys have to know that kind of thing. You girls are going to get married, and you wonāt use it.ā When I was in collegeāfrom 1980 to 1984āthere were no womensā studies. The idea hadnāt occurred in many places because the presumption was that there was nothing TO study. My history professorāa man who had a doctorate in historyāinformed me quite seriously that women had never produced a noted painter, sculptor, composer, architect or scientist becauseā¦wait for itā¦womensā brains were too small. (He was very surprised when I came up with a list of fifty women gifted in the arts and science, most of whom he had never heard of before.) When Walter Mondale picked Geraldine Ferraro as a running mate in 1984, the press hailed it as a disaster. What would happen, they asked fearfully, if Mondale died and Ferraro became president? What if an international crisis arose and she was menstruating? She could push the nuclear button in a fit of PMS! It would be the end of the WORLD!! ā¦No, they WERENāT kidding. On the surface, things are very different now than they were when I was a child, a teen and a young adult. But Iām afraid that people now do not realize what it was like then. Iāve read a lot of posts from young women who say that they are not feminists. If the only exposure to feminism they have is the work of extremists, I cannot blame them overmuch. I wish that I could tell them what feminism was like when it was newāwhen the dream of legal equality was just a dream, and hadnāt even begun to come true. When āwomanās workā was a sneerāand an overt putdown. When people tut-tutted over bright and athletic girls with the words, āReally, itās a shame sheās not a boy.ā That lack of feminism wasnāt all men opening doors and picking up checks. A lot of it was an attitude of patronizing contempt that hasnāt entirely died out, but which has become less publicly acceptable. I wish I could make them feel what it was likeā¦when grown men were called āmenā and grown women were āgirls.ā
Know your history.
So this, too, is what they mean saying āmake America great againā and/or the good old days.
REBLOG FOREVER.
I am 70. I remember all those things. I was a student nurse from 64 to 67 and we were not permitted to āfinishā a bed bath on a male or insert a catheter in a male. Seeing male genitals might cause us āharmā or upset our delicate sensibilities. Imagine when we graduated and were āthrownā to the wolves. Imagine if you were a male patient who had to be the first to be āpracticedā on by a graduate nurse. (Ha!) At the school I attended no student nurse could be married. Only one school in my city (Atlanta) would even admit married women and Male Nurses werenāt even thought of. What man would want to be a nurse when he could be a Doctor. In all my training I only remember 3 or 4 Women who were Doctorās and a very few, (less than 5 or 6) female interns or residents (and this was a teaching hospital) and most of those were OB/Gyns and one was a pediatrician.
When I graduated and was going to get married I wanted to go on birth control pills. You needed to be on them for a least one cycle before they were effective. I wonāt go into what hoops I had to jump through to get a prescription from my Dr. (a man, natch) but when i went to the drug store to get the prescription filled I ended up having to get my future husband to āaccompanyā me so the pharmacistĀ āinterviewā him and see if it was okay with him for me to be on the pill.
Even when we went to get a marriage license I had to get my Fatherās signature and we had to go before a Judge because I was not yet 21 (I was 20 and 9 months).
I could go on and on, getting a credit card in MY name, etc., but I will tell you that WE MUST RESIST.
The number of people I know who romanticize gender inequality is frankly terrifying. A world never existed in which the lives of women were simplified by benevolent men who saw to her every want and need. That was not a thing. A world never existed in which women were all ladies, men were all gentlemen, & everything was some great big cishet fairytale. Feminists arenāt a bunch of upstarts who want to destroy a perfectly wholesome and non-harmful system. Justā¦look at history. Look at the posts above. We. Must. Resist..
About 8: The State of New York only added No-Fault Divorce as an option in 2010 (!!!)
I want to repeat here.Ā
This is what they mean, when they sayĀ āOld-fashioned valuesā
When conservatives start waxing lyrical about theĀ āgood old daysā, this is what they mean. They are fully aware how much things blew for women, and they would like to return to that.Ā
At first I re-blogged this with no commentary added because itās already so thorough and good.
But then I realized I actually do want to add something. This was written nine years ago. In the 9 years that have come to pass the white nationalist Christian fascism ultra right agenda of misogyny has had many victories.
In the United States just off the top of my head a very few examples: thereās no longer a legally protected right to abortion. Countless laws across our country police, how woman you must look or be to enter a public bathroom. We know with certainty the president and countless people around him are pedophiles and rapists. Womenās participation in the workforce has been rolled back to 1980s levels. The pressure to be thin is higher now than 10 years ago.
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An experiment in language change
Nifty little language game here.
I can read back to 1500 with basically no difficulty
at 1400 I have to read slowly and carefully, but I can understand all of it save a couple words
at 1300 I can still comprehend most of it if I read slowly, but a much larger percentage of the words are unfamiliar to me, even with context
1200 and earlier are almost totally unintelligible
I love when people ask "how did you learn this skill?" I just started, there's no secret. that's it. a vast majority of the time the only thing holding you back is your trepidation to start.
This is insane what is happening in Kansas.
They justātook away an entire populationās valid IDs. With a stroke of a pen. No grace period. No chance for anyone to get their IDs āfixedā in time, not that they should have had to in the first place. They even made it illegal for people to drive themselves to the DMV to get a new ID. Thatās insane yāall. That is dystopian level madness. It is petty and cruel and literally dehumanizing.
They have also invalidated their birth certificates, thus jeopardizing their ability to prove citizenship and vote. Itās voter suppression on top of everything else.
They wanted to make an entire population into criminals with a stroke of a pen and thatās what they did.
And the rest of the country just⦠hasnāt noticed. No one cares. Thereās no headlines. Nothing on the news. Because itās Kansas. Because itās trans people.
But if it can happen somewhere in this country, it can happen anywhere. And if it can happen to trans people, it can happen to you.
Sources
On this scale of Horatio Hornblower, how are we feeling today?
"capitalism breeds innovation" was only ever true in the mid-2000s when cell phones kept getting more and more fucked up
^ healthy and diverse breeding practices
^ wild inbreeding in pursuit of uniformity and an arbitrary ideal of breed "purity" resulting in gross health complications

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If I ever do write another Simon Snow book, I'm doing it for the 50 or so people on Tumblr who have been cracking me up and making me feel heard for the last ten years.
Like, other people can read it, sure. But they will be extraneous.
AUDIO POR DIOSSSSSS!!!!
Beyond perfect š¤£š
Dudeās got pipes
Damn he is BELTING it.
This is theĀ āboys will be boysā we wanted all along.
Also, get them a contract.Ā
I play this EVERY single time it crosses my dash. This is joy.