hubris hedonism heresy

No shirt, no bra, completely bare torso, just like cis men are allowed to

It's about desexualizing breasts and "female presenting nipples" and not being criminalized for our bodies if we want to go topless because it's a million damn degrees out. This was a popular growing movement that was still widely known a decade ago!

but then you twist both halves and unscrew it to find a flat-head screwdriver in the middle.

BUT, if you twist the very end and unscrew that

you find a phillips screwdriver.

BUT DON’T THINK THAT’S ALL THERE IS! THERE’S MORE!! unscrew the very end again to find a smaller flat-head screwdriver!

BUT THAT’S STILL NOT THE END!!

unscrew the end of this screwdriver to find a final, teeny tiny, flat-head screwdriver

look at how cute it is!

House of leaves

Piranesi

"If it makes you feel better (about turning 20)"

"I'm waaay hotter, more confident, physically stronger and confident now at age 33 than I was at 25 or 20 or 16."

"Don't let the Advertisers get in your head"

"We didn't used to say that people were 'over the hill' until their 60s"

"You're NOT 'past your prime', you're just getting STARTED"

"the reason all the Narratives are about 16-24 year olds is because that's about as old as you can get make an 'Everyman' protagonist. People get... specific, as they age. You can't tell a story that resonates with all 40-year-olds the way you can with 16-year-olds because the older you get the more 'specifically you' your lived experience gets"

"20 is the end of the PROLOGUE"

"NOW the real plot begins"

sometimes you don't find your soulmate until your 50s, because overcoming childhood issues takes a while and making good relationship choices comes from experience

and sometimes you only begin a new career of (say) starting an educational nonprofit and devoting serious time into doing the freelance writer thing until your 50s, because the first part requires a lot of years' experience to succeed on your own, and creativity only gets better with practice

the 30s are when we begin to establish ourselves and find out what we really want to do when we grow up; the 40s are when we develop our talents and skills and understanding of ourselves and the world; and the 50s are when we can stop doing jobs we hate, break patterns of bad relationships, and finally begin doing the things we've dreamed of - lots of folks only get married to the right person in our 50s and begin considering starting a family then, when we can afford to raise a child!

Tina Turner's solo career didn't begin until her mid-40s, and she didn't find her soulmate until her 70s

Samuel L Jackson only had bit parts before landing an award-winning role in his 40s

Alan Rickman only landed his first movie role at 46

Laura Ingalls Wilder didn't begin writing (famous for her Little House on the Prarie series) until she was 65 

Grandma Moses always dreamed of a career as a painter, but the demands of being a farm laborer and mother meant she didn’t have the chance to pursue her dream until she was 78

...and there's tons more examples of people only finding success later in life

unless you're privileged with wealth from an early age and can afford to do your art and pursue your passions without having to earn a living, very few living under capitalism can launch the life they want until after a couple decades of earning a good living - and for most these days, that doesn't start until your 30s

(PS: people are only "over the hill" after they've stopped increasing their skills and knowledge and working toward becoming better people, and for lots of folks I know that never ends - no one would call Grandma Moses "over the hill" in her 80s)