Your_Inquisitorialness

the parts of you

you learned to hide

because no one

Hells yeah two weeks in a row. I'm never #1 at anything, finally a hyperfixation has been good for something. /flex

I should put it on a t-shirt when I see them next month (which I am buzzing like a beehive about let me tell you)

In unrelated news I'm gonna start learning bass guitar yippee. Always wanted to but never did, well now I'm embarking on an early mid-life crisis seems like the perfect time.

I can’t believe it

All that obsessive research into medieval dental hygiene actually paid off

I was spending all this time thinking “Literally no one cares about Thedosian dental hygiene, Amy, why are you wasting your time on this” but HERE IT IS

So yeah, this isn’t actually true! While the toothbrush itself is a fairly modern invention, there’s a well recorded history of people in medieval Europe using a combination of various sweet-smelling mouth rinses and scrubbing their teeth clean with a cloth and a mild abrasive herb paste of some sort. Some common rinses included mint and wine or mint and vinegar, and pastes included things like marjoram and mint, rosemary and charcoal, and vinegar, pickling alum, white salt and honey.

Someone even tested a bunch of historical remedies out and found out that they were mostly pretty effective.

Gillian Flynn / Unknown / @ traumacure / Sylvia Plath / Joë Bousquet / David Foster Wallace / Lyric Hunter "A Garden" / Carmen Maria Machado / Frank O'Hara / Carmen Maria Machado