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Things that normal, moderately laced corset-wearing will probably not do to you:

- Make you faint

- Make you unable to breathe

- Make you unable to speak

- Make you unable to eat

- Cause serious mobility issues besides difficulty bending at the waist

Things it very well might do to you, but which are not effective as lazy shorthand for the oppression of women in the past and as such are less explored by the media:

- Slightly increase your probability of burping

- Cause Crossbody bags to pinch your cleavage, underneath your blouse or bodice, between the strap and the top edge of the corset

- Create serious frustration if your laces accidentally dangle in the toilet (this is not unique to modern people – flush toilets have existed among European royalty at least since the 18th century, and among the upper classes and/or in new-build urban construction since the middle of the 19th)

- Make riding in cars with modern bench seats supremely uncomfortable, because the seat slant backwards, your corset is trying to keep you upright, and the seatbelt is also pushing you back against the seat. May not apply to captain's chairs, which are mercifully adjustable as far as the angle of the back

- Change the order of operations as far as putting on shoes – see above re: difficulty bending at the waist

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somewhere out there right now is a kid with curly hair being raised by people who have wavy hair at best and those people are giving them 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner and telling them to dry brush it. and that kid is gonna spend all of middle school and high school hating their hair and moping over the flat iron. they're being told right now that if they don't dry-brush their curl pattern into oblivion every morning it means they're unkempt and gross even though they naturally have the kind of ringlets that a thousand bridezillas would commit horrible murders for every june. it's happening right now it's an absolute epidemic and a tragedy every time

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I talk about my cat son Ollie a lot. This is because he is my perfect little angel and also because as a person who has been clinically depressed for almost 20 years it is truly incredible to share space with a fuzzy lil guy who exists in a perpetual state of Young Child Who Just Woke Up On Christmas Morning

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Who invented autism?

The famous Italian inventor, Leoneuro di Vergent.

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if you an adult learn to take sex criticism. Y'all be 26 giving out wack head cause you refused to listen in ya freshmen year of college that you not suppose to bite it like that. You 28 still just sticking dry penis in a dry hole saying “oh..you tight” NOT AROUSED!!!

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when brennan said "we're doing steampunk" i was like "oh and siobhan's outfits are going to eat." didn't even need to see the next frame. but then i did and like

yeah. correct. can't wait to see what other runway quality looks she pulls this season

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I’m obsessively thinking about what if Peeta’s name had been drawn and Haymitch volunteered (assuming Haymitch’s name wasn’t on both the slips).

Haymitch on the chariot ride with his sweetheart again…

Haymitch making alliances during training…

Haymitch trying to protect Mags and Wiress…

Then Beetee and Haymitch finish what Haymitch started with Ampert. They finally break the machine.

Snow would have crashed the fuck out at the idea of District 12 rascal outsmarting him.

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A (unironically) wonderful conversation I had with my mum:

Mum: hey don't open the kitchen window any time soon, there's two spiders outside and one of them's an albino spider so there's no way you'd see it

Me: Are they daddy-long-legs?

Mum: ...well, they're outside

Me: oh, yeah they're probably some freaky garden spider or something

Mum: yeah and the white one is sitting next to the windowsill, the other's off to the side

I don't know, there's something delightful about family and friends taking the time to find me and warn me about little dangers I wouldn't be able to see. My best friend tells me about curbs a few feet in advance. My mum warns me if there's gum or a spilled drink on the sidewalk so my cane tip won't get sticky and gross. If it rains my mum helps me avoid accidentally stepping on the worms that climb onto the sidewalk. If there's a cobweb in the corner or on the ceiling she offers to clean it.

I've had strangers warn me about branches on the sidewalk after storms or move obstacles out of my path. One woman helped me plan a detour because the campus quad was blocked off.

There's also the cuter little moments, like someone telling me about the seasonal special when we walk into a restaurant or cafe, or describing a dog or cat on the street.

My best friend sometimes tries to describe memes to sighted people only for them to go 'why can't you just show me the meme???' and he's like, 'oh, I forget not everyone's blind'

Anyway, I love the people in my life, and I love humanity in general

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every tag for blind people is flooded with fanfiction or jokes or discussion from sighted people About blind characters and usually it’s offensive in some way. just think about that. think about a blind person going to the blind tag to engage with their community, and seeing 500 posts in a row about some blind character being interpreted poorly by sighted people and blindness being used as a joke, again and again and again, and very rarely coming across anything that’s actually about the blind community. it’s infuriating.

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bucky has a disability??

he doesn’t have an arm.

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Baa baa backstreets, have you any boys

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As a society we have benefited so much from successful public health measures that we now have the privilege of declaring that we must not need them anymore

Bitch before enriched flour, neural tube defects like spina bifida were far more common. Even now, spina bifida clinicians and researchers are begging to have salt and maize fortified to reach groups that don’t use as much flour. Before iodized salt, the United States had a fucking GOITER BELT. Eleven years after the introduction of fluoridated water, a city in Michigan found the rate of dental caries among school children dropped a staggering 60%— in an era where tooth decay regularly fucking killed people

I’m literally not even going to start on vaccines, which are among the most successful and robustly studied public health measures in world history

You might say “oh well today we all have access to vitamins and toothpastes and dentists so we don’t need those things in our food supplies” and boy do white people on social media loooove to fucking say that. But here’s the thing: no, people don’t all have easy access to those things. That’s privilege talking yet again

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I genuinely think if you want to have kids, you should have a list of at least a dozen people who you would trust at the drop of a hat to pick your kid up or take care of them in an emergency. Family, friends, neighbors - you need to start building your village so when you have a kid somebody can bring a meal, or help around the house postpartum, or take an older child on short notice in case of an emergency.

And be ready to be that person for others - even if you are child-free for life, look out for your pregnant, postpartum, adopting, and child-rearing community members and see if they need support.

And don't come on my post and say "don't have a kid unless you can care for them alone." It's just not true. A single person given full responsibility for the life of a child (especially an infant) can become a danger to themselves and their kids. They are the primary caregiver, not the only one. In many cultures (and among the wealthy in every culture) it is normal to hire people to assist with children, especially newborns, whose care equates to a full-time job.

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Finished a new piece. I think it speaks to my state of mind. Notice the fine details. :)

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the problem with buying food is after you eat it you have to go buy more food