#Commodes

[thekenobee]

THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE + Text Posts (Part 2)

[bms-medshop]

[frenchantiques]

Commodes & Chests of Drawers - A good quality and of elegant design and proportions, mid 20th century French commode in the Régence taste, attributed to Maison Jansen.

[artisiumstudios]

Honestly we need more aus where Stan becomes god, like idk he dies tragically (yk basic simple Stanley activities) and afterwards either because of his connection to the universe or because of some other supernatural circumstance he becomes godlike.

Best part? It’s not even in a cool way, like this man is the most chill “idgaf” god to have ever existed. He can literally raise the dead, change gravity to his liking, save countless lives and the only thing he does with his powers is getting into hotels to sleep and take long hot baths. Oh and maybe get food service and checking up I’m on his family but that’s about it.

(He does get revenge on Rico/other gangs who fucked him up, not by killing them but by basically giving them the worst luck ever leading ti them getting caught by the police.)

And yes he does help ford against bill or prevent ford from ever even contacting him.

[theenemiestoloversclub]

"[they] hate women for not being more sexually agreeable, as though sex is a commodity that should be redistributed to the needy, rather than a matter of personal desire."

-sophie gilbert, 'the world porn made', the atlantic, may 2025

[goodmiffy]

i literally despise men so fucking much

[screenshotsonpinterest]

It’s nothing it’s just Annabeth having to watch Jason fall in love with Piper, even as he’s gaining back his memories, knowing that her Percy is alone somewhere with no clue who she is and could very well be doing the same

[sweeneydino]

Learning the babies capabilities, 1...

Little Dai's a wish dragon, but being an inexperienced baby, he has not much control over it. So the wishes have rather... interesting outcomes.

Accidents are likely to happen because of this, and the only way to turn back is through the good old strawbears.

[elbiotipo]

I also believe that in a "tech level" approach, though of course I dislike that term, trying to get blood out of the stone of pseudo-medieval settings just constrains you. There are plenty of very, very well researched guides to medieval life and technology, mostly about Europe but you will find them about the Islamic world, Eastern Asia, and so on...

but the thing is, even with well researched settings, even with very welcome switches to other historical inspirations, it's just done and tired. We are talking about fantasy, a genre that can encompass the entirety of human imagination, and people always go back to the same time period of 476-1453 like stuck in a time loop, it's maddening.

There is a lot to talk about this but let's focus on tech for a little. Do you know how ingenious bronze age technology was? Did you read about pre-columbian cities and engineering? What about something beyond the Middle Ages, the inventions of the Renaissance or Early Modernity? I think there has been quite a lot on fantasy with industrial technology but it often feels (especially in things like popular RPGs) that it's a couple of steampunk things stacked upon a medieval-inspired world. How about a world that just skips the medieval aesthetics and goes to an industrial revolution?

And since this is fantasy, you can mix and match technology and inventions. What's more, you can explore art styles and philosophies, that's more complex to reflect but very well worth it. There is simply no need to return again and again to the tired aesthetics, true, but you can also learn how technology shaped history and do something more creative about it that researching just the same time period over and over and over.

I think we're just done with castles and plate armor.

[headlesssamurai]

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[consultingfujoshi]

absolutely certain that helly is in fact helena is in disguise by this point and it was not a difficult thing to work out frankly but what absolutely knocks me on my ass is the REASON she's down there. after 2x01 we all assumed she was trojan horseing herself to spy on the rest of MDR and dissuade them from causing any more trouble. makes perfect sense right the fate of this company is in her hands. but NO!!! helena with her incredibly privileged spoiled brat outlook on everything, who has been told she's part of the most important lineage that's gonna save the world her whole life, sees a version of herself she heretofore did not even see as HUMAN forging the kinds of connections she has never had once in her life, and you think she's just gonna keep sending her down there and letting her have that? when she, the heiress of lumon and great granddaughter of kier, doesn't? she wants to experience what it's like to have no one expect anything of you, where you can express yourself however you want and kiss people just because you feel like it!! she views her innie as so far beneath her and yet she's so desperate for a taste of what it's like to be her! so much she's willing to KILL HER!! she's down there because she's fucking jealous of her innie!!! girl oh my god!!!!

[valtsv]

"Can you guess what it stood for, Mum? [...] It stood for valuable."

[petrichara]

On commodity feminism:

“Since the late nineteenth century, word and image have increasingly propagated style. Images of desire are constantly in circulation; increasingly it has been the image as well as the artefact that the individual has purchased. Fashion is a magical system, and what we see as we leaf through glossy magazines is “the look”. Like advertising, women’s magazines have moved from the didactic to the hallucinatory. Originally their purpose was informational, but what we see today in both popular journalism and advertising is the mirage of a way of being, and what we engage in is no longer only the relatively simple process of direct imitation, but the less conscious one of identification.” -(Wilson, 1985, as cited in Breward, 1998).

“Femininity is recuperated by the capitalist form: the exchange between the commodity and 'woman' in the ad establishes her as a commodity too.” (Wilson, 1980).

“Feminist morality, including the tensions it contains, has been turned into yet another raw material in the never-ending drive to expand or renew the commodity-sign values of consumer goods. Feminism is reduced to the status of a mere signifier or signified, so that it may be re-encoded by an advertiser as a sequence of visual cliches and reified signifiers, i.e., it can be worn as a stylish sign. In this way, feminism has now been rehabilitated for the world of advertising - its primary meanings taken over by the system of fashion, and some of its most important alternative formulations translated back into the language of the Western male ethic of possessive individualism (see Macpherson, 1962).

Change, in these representations, has no referent in the time and space of history, but is simply a marker of novelty, or difference, represented in fetishised form by special commodities. Commodity feminism elides the social dimension which conditions the contradictions experienced in daily life.

Feminism becomes "depoliticized" as ads turn "feminist social goals to individual life-style" (Rapp, 1988, p. 32).' When framed by ideologies of possessive individualism and free choice, feminism in its 'new' commodity form forgets its origins in a critique of unequalsocial, economic and political relations.” (Goldman et al., 1991).

[xrd]

[coochiequeens]

Internatioal Surrogacy is human trafficking of babies and the women used to create them.

MANILA, Philippines — The Bureau of Immigration has intercepted a woman who was lured into becoming a surrogate mother.

Immigration officials intercepted the 34-year-old woman at the airport on January 15 as she attempted to board a Turkish Airlines flight to Cyprus. There she was allegedly scheduled to undergo an in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure.

Though she initially claimed to be traveling alone for leisure, immigration officers flagged her case after she inadvertently presented an IVF clinic invitation that contradicted her stated purpose of travel.

Further investigation revealed that the woman had agreed to serve as a surrogate mother for someone she met through a dating app, with promises of a P300,000 payment after giving birth.

In a statement, Immigration Commissioner Joel Viado warned that such schemes continue to proliferate, noting an increase in online advertisements for surrogacy and IVF-related services where victims are often pressured to comply with specific laboratory requirements.

"We warn females not to be tempted to agree to such schemes as this is a clear form of trafficking," Viado said.

The victim has been referred to the Inter-Agency Council Against Trafficking for assistance.