Like if we take the same woman and put her in, I don't know, the late 1800s in the west she probably has no choice but to get married and have as many kids as her husband wants. So probably several. Let's say 10 kids, and she probably starts having them in her early 20s on average. and probably 3-4 of them die in infancy. And this is normal for all the other people she knows too.

an imaginary yet so real being: another fun thing that you can do is borrow intergalactic erotic board games from the 1960s and even if your library doesn’t have it the librarian will be HAPPY to get it for you, believe me!! this is a little life hack a lot of people don’t know about!!!!! TALK TO THE LIBRARIAN and they WILL get you the intergalactic erotic board game from the 1960s! and that’s NOT a thing piracy can do for you (heh!).

“I was always bothered when people say, ‘I cry to your music, it sounds like a diary, it sounds so personal,’” Mitski says. “Yes, it is personal. But that’s so gendered. There’s no feeling of, ‘Oh, maybe she’s a songwriter and she wrote this as a piece of art.’”