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two pieces of kind of obscure baltoy merch i own. the mega bloks baltoy and the mighty beanz baltoy. i call them bloktoy and beantoy

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Here, a cheater course on caring for natural fibers!

1. Wool. Treat it like it has the delicate constitution of a Victorian lady and the conviction that baths are evil of a 17th century noble. (If I get in WATER my PORES will OPEN and I will CATCH ILL AND DIE.)

2. Cotton; easygoing. Will shrink a bit if washed and dried hot.

3. Silk; people think it’s like wool and has the constitution of a fashionably dying of consumption Victorian lady, but actually it’s quite tough. Can be washed in an ordinary washer, and either tumbled dry without heat or hung to dry.

4. Linen; it doesn’t give a shit. Beat the hell out of it. Historically was laundered by dousing it in lye and beating the shit out of it with wooden paddles, which only makes it look better. The masochist of the natural fiber world. Beat the fuck out of it linen doesn’t care. Considerably stronger than cotton. Linen sheet sets can last literal decades in more or less pristine shape because of that strength.The most likely natural fiber to own a ball gag.

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the difference between a hyperfixation and a regular ol' obsession is so obvious in feeling and it's so strange that there's a difference. like I can get into a piece of media and feel like the only thing I'm in the mood to do is engage with it and still have that understanding that it's not a hyperfixation and I'm just having normal fun because it doesn't feel like a hyperfixation. I'm engaging in such a neurotypical way and it feels obvious. when I have a hyperfixation it's like I have to make my entire personality and existence revolve around it for a MINIMUM of three years straight and everything I see instantly reminds me of it somehow and no matter how stressful my life gets I feel like I can get through it because I have a hyperfixation to keep me sane

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coruscant old town.......... deep in the ass crack of layers and layers of city floors so low it needs artificial light 24/7 and constant renovations not to crumble and its the lowest point of the planet a regular guy can safely travel and on zhelsdays they put on a holo projection of a sky to show younglings how the planet might have looked before it became one huge skyscraper ... coruscant old town

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Guy who learns kung fu, then realizes kung fu can be defeated by MMA so he learns that, then realizes MMA can be defeated by guns so he buys one, then realizes that guns can be defeated by law enforcement so he becomes a lawyer, then realizes that the law can be overthrown so he becomes a paramilitary general, then realizes that naked force can be enveloped by ideology so he becomes a religious leader, then realizes that ideology is primarily determined by the means of production so he becomes an inventor, then realizes that successful invention requires a finely honed mind so he becomes a psychologist, then realizes that the mind is just part of the body so he learns kung fu

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Katherine Philips was known as the “Matchless Orinda,” or sometimes, the “Welsh Sappho”. Born Katherine Fowler in London in 1632 to a wealthy family, she was an intelligent child - could read and write from a young age, learned the Bible and several languages, and was even sent to school.

One of Katherine’s closest friends at school was Mary Aubrey, who would become ‘Rosania’ in Katherine’s poetry - some of the earliest romantic friendship poetry known of in Britain. This was perhaps when Katherine began her ‘Society of Friendship.’

Katherine’s father died when she was 10 years old and when her mother remarried, they moved to Wales. Katherine herself got married at about 17 years of age, to a distant cousin James Philipps, who was certainly older, though there is debate around his age, which may have been mid-20s, or mid-50s. This was shortly afted Katherine penned the poem “A Marry’d State,” which was certainly critical of marriage.

She then moved to Cardigan Priory, which became central to her ‘Society of Friendship,’ where she, ‘Orinda,’ wrote poetry to other women, and was herself admired by women in poetry, as the ‘Matchless Orinda’. As Katherine lived between London and Wales, perhaps rural life in Wales more isolated and lonely, she expanded her Society of Friendship, taking on new members such as Anne Owen from Pembrokeshire, who was known in Katherine’s poetry as “Lucasia”.

Katherine’s relationship with Mary Aubrey ended bitterly when she didn’t invite Katherine to her wedding, perhaps because of Katherine’s intense poetry (it’s difficult to know what Mary’s reaction would have been as her responses don’t survive), Katherine wrote ‘On Rosania’s Apostacy, and Lucasia’s Friendship.’ This made clear her feelings for Lucasia, as did ‘To My Excellent Lucasia on our Friendship’ and ‘To my Lucasia, in Defence of Declared Friendship.’ This relationship ended when Anne Owen remarried in 1663. Before her death, Katherine also wrote poetry to ‘Berenice,’ whose identity is unknown.

Katherine’s sexuality and the nature of her poetry has been debated, but it is clear that Katherine shared romantic relationships with women, and had strong feelings for them, which survive in her poetry. She herself mentioned Sappho in her poems and was compared to Sappho after her death.

Katherine died of smallpox on the 22nd of June, 1664, only 32 years old, in Rosania’s arms in London. Katherine was survived by 1 daughter, who she’d named Katherine, and also had 1 son with James, Hector, who had not survived. Though her poetry was published posthumously, Katherine became obscured, but has been appreciated again since the 20th century, as one of the first British female poets to be celebrated in her own lifetime, as well as one of the first British poets to write romantic friendship poems.

Katherine Philips can certainly be appreciated as an acclaimed Anglo-Welsh poet who was highly influential in her writing of female same-sex love. Katherine’s poetry certainly mostly focussed on women and, as her Society of Friendship was influential to women in her lifetime, at least 2 of which she had passionate relationships with, Katherine continued to be an inspiration to other woman poets after her death.

Sources & Further Reading:

Katherine Philips Manuscript c. 1655 on People’s Collection Wales.

Katherine Philips, National Library of Wales.

Katherine Philips poems held by the British Library.

Some more biography on Poetry Foundation.

Norena Shopland, Forbidden Lives: LGBT Stories from Wales, 2017.

See more sources from Oxford DNB.

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Physical therapy is wild because they're always like "hey do this weird little movement" and you're like "hmm my brain doesn't seem to know how to activate that movement" and then they'll like trick your brain into doing it by making you do other movements first or making you resist against them moving you or some shit and your brain is like oooooh ✅ new movement unlocked. And then they tell you to do that movement 20 times a day and you do and it makes some part of your body you didn't even know was related hurt less. What the fuck.

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What happens to all the Disney kingdoms by the time of the modern day. Was the kingdom from Tangled absorbed into the Second French Empire, or did it stay an independent principality like Monaco and derive most of its economy from tourism and being a billionaire tax haven

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Let’s be real. His expense reports are widely known to be like this.

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It's incredible, really, how wanting to know what happened in the past can be an even stronger hook in a story than wanting to know what happens next. The urge to understand why things are the way they are, even knowing that it can't be changed, is so powerful

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as someone who's been a hozier fan since 2015 hozier's "don't propose during cherry wine" visuals are so fucking vindicating you don't even KNOW. like i've been fighting in the "don't romanticize cherry wine" trenches for YEARS and now i turn to see my fellow soldier is hozier himself

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very much a fan of this post so i felt compelled to make my own. print it out and give it to your coworkers or hang it in your cubicle and go "don't make me tap the sign"

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car is bad for MANY reasons but being a private place to belt along to music is not one if them

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NEVER GIVE UP