#and detritus was just Like That

[marzipanandminutiae]

quotes by Victorians about the 1920s view of their generation's women

"We are frequently told that the Victorian woman...generally behaved like a pampered and neurotic infant. This is all moonshine. I do not think that I ever saw a woman faint before I came to London in 1869, and not often after then...they enjoyed a hearty laugh, and a good many of them a contest of wits with any man." -Nineteenth Century, a Monthly Review, 1927 (written by a man born in 1850)

"What queer ideas the girl of 1929 has about the Victorian period- they are not a bit true...Marriage was by no means the end and aim of our existence. Oxford and Cambridge claimed quite a few of us after school days were over. We had great ideas about 'life' and what it all might mean to us." -St. Petersburg Times, 1929 (written by a woman born in 1853)

"True, debutantes were chaperoned at balls. But that fact did not prevent them from dancing as frequently as they chose with their favorite partners. The idea that girls in the Victorian era spent their days sewing seams and practicing scales is another fallacy." -Gettysburg Times, July 1, 1927 (quote from the Dowager Lady Raglan, Ethel Jemima Somerset, who lived from 1857 to 1940)

[inkskinned]

i get lost a lot. i am good at many things, but none are related to direction. these days, sign posts on trails sometimes have QR codes on them. i think about that a lot. after us, will aliens find these little shapes and say - this was religious.

in 50 years, will QR codes be completely out-of-date, so young kids are used to seeing the shape but just assume it means something else; like how floppy discs mean save. looking up at us with their brows knit. what do you mean you had to scan it?

i think a lot about how if i had been born even 50 years ago, i'd be dead by now. there are a lot of reasons for that. i can read a map pretty well, but that sense-of-direction thing will really getcha. i usually wayfind by pulling up my phone's compass. there's something so odd about that - about using something like a smartphone to figure out my cardinal direction. to figure out which way is home.

for a long time, i didn't have a smart phone. whenever we went to places that required a QR code, i'd just have to shift uncomfortably, waiting for someone else's page to load. not to sound like an old grump but - these days it feels like half my world is behind scan this or register with your email to sign-in or sign up for our listing or click the link.

i think a lot about the digital detritus we leave behind. about how different the world looks, literally, than in the 90's. how much waste has become things like laptops, chargers, wires. i think about the drones over city; flying in the shape of an advertisement. i think about graves. my grandmother's had a trademark on it.

in the middle of the woods, someone had put up a jesus is risen laminated poster. it had an underwater turtle on it, which i thought was funny. i took a picture for my group chat. he rises from the deep i guess i send them. the signpost was unhelpful - inconclusive arrow, jesus turtle poster. no map. i pulled up my compass, which is to say i took out my phone.

i wonder how much is waste we're making and how much is just making our mark. at some point, all my writing - this post and all the others - will be left, floating around on the internet. it will all outlive everyone who created any of it. every fic and overly-personal recipe and idle drawing and abandoned webcomic and sanctimonious twitter post.

i hope they are all living in the same place. i hope they get along. i hope they never feel alone.

i hope somewhere out there on the internet, someone or something finds something i left and says - oh. so that's how i get home.

[shivunin]

Always sending people asks when they rb ask games has greatly enriched my life. Even if I don't understand the fandom/answer, it feels nice to let people know that someone cares enough to ask. I've made a lot of fandom friends that way and I just feel like it's really underrated.

[venacoeurva]

I love articles about vampire squids because they're like "THE SQUID FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL" and it's just

[camarilla-arts]

Root bound

Character belongs to @spaceydreem Happy birthday!

[m0thkiller]

poured bleach on one of my many many black tshirts. and i managed to resist the impulse to ditch it long enough to realize

i can just turn it into a crop top

[likesplatterpaint]

The Yam cannot stop being Handsome.

[autoboros]

(something about the immortality of vampires) Is Kim getting old at all, or is he forever young? And does he drink blood like ordinary vampires? Is he even a real vampire at all?

I need to study this man under a microscope like a neat bug.

Oohh I like this question... I hadn't thought about this

I think Kim wouldn't be immortal, but given how it seems that in Splatoon, lifespans can grow up to 100+ years (Cuttlefish, Octavio - unless theyre just special cases, idk)... and how vampire squids can have 2-5x the lifespan of octopus, Kim could potentially live for a damn long time. I doubt he'd want to, though. I think he would age, but the process would be way slower, visibly at least

As for the drinking blood part, if you were to ask him, he'd probably pass that off as a stereotype of vampire squids. But he also wouldn't be opposed to the idea. He's probably even done it before, since him and his partner are bitey - it would have been an accident though since he wouldn't want to make Acht bleed like that

He's probably closest you'd get to a real vampire in Splatoon, but he wouldn't be a traditional one

[cosmicrhetoric]

again i love when horrible events befall vetinari cause it's always funny but vimes really watches him get shot at his wedding and goes yooooo no way you can bleed? you know what at least things are looking up for ME 😁

[marzipanandminutiae]

The danger is over and everyone is safe, you're allowed to grieve the part of your life you lost. They're just "things" but they're things you had because you loved them, made with your own hands because you felt it was worth it to create and bring you joy in its existence. Every piece you lost is a part of a life you put together for yourself. It's a testament to your existence as the unique individual you are. You don't have to apologize for mourning them

Thank you.

I just. I can begin again, and I will. I'm even a relatively quick seamstress, when properly motivated. It feels like such a herculean task, though, especially for things that can't be gotten easily or cheaply again- colorful silks the discount fabric store no longer carries, my stash of antique and specialty reproduction trims, certain buttons or accessories...

I feel like I'm staring up a mountain I have to somehow climb all over again, after reaching a peak and then falling back to the bottom

[highwaydiamonds]

Not a resolution - just maybe a bit of hope and intention to start out the year

[remyfire]

Today I've unpacked two totes and two boxes please clap

[notquiteaghost]

we have two big plastic tubs in our front yard (yknow the round ones with the handles?) & they've been perpetually full of rainwater for months cuz. adhd house. but now it's getting warmer the local birds have taken an interest, and.

there's a bird bath in our garden that the little birds use, so the tubs are really just for the pigeons who live on the roof and the local crows. except. the pigeons bathe and drink the water! the crows keep washing their dead things in the water,

the water isn't that clean anyway but i just went out to the yard & scared off a crow and when i looked in the tub there was three (3) miscellaneous bits of carrion and all three were crawling with maggots. water in general contained many maggots. and, like. how do i explain to both the pigeons and the crows that we have two tubs so they can have one each but they cannot mix. are crows smart enough for pictographs.

[batemanofficial]

i may be in the throes of mental illness rn but at least im not working at the movie theatre for this new spiderman movie. small favors and whatnot

[sevenangrybees]

Urge to remake/reboot my art blog for the fourth time because of the dopamine boost of being noticed online vs never posting enough to make it feel worth the weird anxiety about what I should and shouldn't reblog to an art blog to keep it organized FIGHT

[savageboar]

i love reddit bc the aquarium communities are usually filled with knowledgeable and helpful people but someone posted asking what's going on with their tanks, and upon being told that having mulm, detritus worms, and springtails is perfectly healthy they keep saying NO IT'S NOT. IT'S NOT MULM. i love when people fight the answers they sought.