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Something that I get chills about is the fact that the oldest story told made by the oldest civilization opens with "In those days, in those distant days, in those ancient nights."

This confirms that there is a civilization older than the Sumerians that we have yet to find

Some people get existential dread from this

Me? I think it's fucking awesome it shows just how much of this world we have yet to discover and that is just fascinating

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Resources for Mending Clothes

We toss out over 80 pounds of textiles each year. These textiles are often made of plastic materials (polyester, nylon), made in unethical conditions, dyed with harsh dyes that often get put into the rivers, etc. Even a single cotton shirt releases carbon emissions and uses tons of water. 

So the best thing to prevent the unsustainable growth of the fashion industry is to make sure that your clothing lasts as long as possible. To do so, mending clothing is a must. So here are some resources to help you learn how to do various things, such as sewing a button, to tailoring clothes, or even upcycling old clothing into new styles. 

* How to sew on three different types of button

* How to hand sew on a patch on a torn pair of jeans

* How to sew up a hole in an old shirt

* How to sew a simple T-shirt

* How to upcycle old clothing into new clothing

* More upcycle and sewing techniques

* How to repair a damaged sock

* How to do an invisible stitch

* 3 different stitches to work with for different results

* How to make a T-shirt smaller so it fits you better

* How to make repairs to your shoes

These are just a few of the things that you can do in order to make sure that your clothing lasts for a long time. Nobody wants to keep buying new clothing, as it is expensive and wasteful. 

So making alterations to your clothing, or fixing small holes hen you see them can be hugely beneficial to your wallet, to garment workers, and to the environment in the long term. 

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stopped reading fanfics when a character or the reader insert is trans, the trans guy is always whinny woman lite just there for an extra hole and is always some twink whose acting like a pick me then if theres a trans woman shes agressive and dominant and only there for "girl cock" just like trans man is only there for "man titts" and "boy cunt" intersex rep? nope just bigenital stuff getting tagged as intersex even tho its not. they usually also dont use bigenital but the tag intersex, the h slur or the f (slur? idk if its a slur or just a weird porn category that they also put trans women into)

and it dosent matter if the author is trans or not, the trans characters are only there for fetish. they always make the "bottom" trans, even if the fic isnt sexual, they take the "more submissive one" and make him trans, for trans women its the dominant one or the top, it pisses me off, we can do better than this. please, i know we can.

its crazy but it’s clearly fetishization- reducing transgender characters to a single character type or quality in terms of sexuality, no matter the character or fandom it’s all the same- but a lot of people see the word fetish and flip out and go “oh so you think trans men can’t be feminine? you think all trans women are gender conforming and weak? you think we’re just fetishizing people? IM ALLOWED TO HAVE MY SEXUALITY” which is just like. what’s that one comic where two people are criticizing the narrative or writers of something and the other character goes “WELL I LIKED IT!”. thats how it feels half the time. this leads me to my conclusion of “dean winchester would not fucking bottom,”

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“Lie close,” Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?”

A wolf goes for a walk in the woods and meets a dog for the first time

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binghe is northern demon clothing. in the middle of drawing this i realized that if you remove binghes classical xianxia aesthetic he just kinda stops looking like himself...........

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Bro, we are cooked. The knight that dogs the prince's shadow like a dark and silent wraith just knelt to press his forehead to the prince's hand. Yeah, now he's uttering a prayer whose recipient is ostensibly God but in reality is the deified version of the prince that exists only in his mind. Aaand the prince just caressed his cheek to preemptively grant him absolution. I gotta... I gotta get out of here.

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Knight who seeks to get injured in combat so she can be tenderly held by her Lady but she keeps absolutely killing it out there and she's too honorable to throw a fight

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chained up to the mountain, straight up "losing it" and by "it" , haha, well, let's justr say, my liver

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“What? Like, a disabled protagonist? How would that even work? How could someone with a disability be the hero in an action show?” local anime trash boy wonders while sitting next to his box sets of Full Metal Alchemist, showing no hint of irony or self awareness. 

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Not to get too philosophical, but I'm afraid Nietzsche cooked when he said: "If you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. Morals have aesthetic criteria." Because I'm pretty sure that if the archaic depictions of Medusa would me more mediatized and famous compared to the classical ones where she looks more human and beautiful then people won't get that appalled by the fact that Perseus killed her even though he had no other option. They need a cosmeticized and overdramatized version of her, because otherwise they won't have any empathy for her.

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drawing people i see in the city (56/?)

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The Ruins of Ancient Corinth, Greece

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🦅 🪶

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All the pins I made with bottle caps (in this post and that post) and haven't gifted to irl friends

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Happy Indigenous History Month + Pride Month ❤️

Without Reservations - Ricardo Caté // #StandingRockTwoSpirits // Historical Photo of Two-Spirit Natives // Griffin Germain // Diné Pride (Cayla Nimmo)

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A little late, but happy trans day of visibility! Have some queer critters.