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The Atelier Couture

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Today I was trying to chat up this girl standing with her friend at a lesbian bar and said “oh are you two together?” meaning were you friends before being next to each other at this bar and one turns to the other and goes with all the venom of a black mamba snake “I don’t know Cara, are we?” and I was like you know what? not my table

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Child soldiers exist, war is not an adult topic.

Children die, death/murder is not an adult topic.

The Troubled Teen Industry exists, child trafficking is not an adult topic.

Children get raped, sexual assault is not an adult topic.

Children have alcoholic parents, addiction is not an adult topic.

Children get beat to the point of hospitalization at school, that level of violence is not an adult topic.

That when these things get into "kid friendly" media at all, they tend to be heavily censored is about protecting adult control over kids, not about protecting children.

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Mortal: *Insults Elrond*

Noldor: Truce?

Sindar: Well just this once...

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Do y’all think siblings in medieval times would look at the little beasts in illuminated manuscripts and point at each other like ‘ha! ‘Tis thou!’

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i don’t know how to explain to you people that no matter what a country’s government is like i do not and will not support the US indiscriminately bombing that country’s civilians and i don’t know why that’s a controversial take tbh

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Something must be wrong with me, I haven't talked about the beadnet dress in forever.

It consists of seven thousand faience beads in blue green and blue to imitate turquoise and lapis lazuli. It is 4600 years old (the threading is modern, but the beads were found in their original pattern so this reconstruction is as accurate as it can be). It is one of the most gorgeous garments in existence and was owned by a woman who was a contemporary of king Khufu.

The dress was found in her tomb in Giza, known as Tomb G 7440 Z, and it's the earliest known garment of this type.

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I went to this Northwest Passage museum once where they had the white explorers' journals on one side of the exhibit and the native people's accounts on the other side of the exhibit and the explorer journals were like "our canoe had almost sunk when we encountered some kindly Indians" and the native histories were like "we watched a bunch of strangers come down the river in the shittiest canoe you'd ever seen. Also, they had no rain gear"

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the entire budget of the US military should be reallocated to insect research

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why bother caring about the environment when 1. It’s so obviously a lost cause and 2. There’s definitely going to be a nuclear war?

And what are you doing about it Anon? Learn about ecological restoration or get out of my way.

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My favorite thing about fanfic Zuko is that he just does not have a reference point for sexism. Like:

Some person: isn’t that women’s work?

Zuko, thinking of Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee: women’s work? You mean homicide?

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Ernst Ferdinand Oehme (1797-1855): Dom im Winter.

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I know that some British people take umbrage at Americans calling the Great British Bake Off relaxing, but it's just because GBBO is such a different kind of stressful from American baking shows.

American baking shows will be called something like "Cupcake Knife Fight", there's horror movie lighting everywhere and dramatic stings every 5 seconds. All of the contestants are shit talking each other and fist fighting over the one single deep fryer provided by production. It will show the judges all whispering to each other at their super villain table overlooking the whole kitchen, and one will be like, "Oh my god. Everyone look at Brenda right now. She's straight tanking it." And it will cut to Brenda, who is running around covered in flour and crying and also bleeding for some reason. Then you get a clip from an interview with one of the contestants, and they're like, "I really need to win this. Without this award money, I'm gonna need to close my restaurant, sell my dad, and live out of my car. AGAIN." Then the giant digital doomsday clock overhead lets out a horrid klaxon, the judges tell half of them that their cupcakes taste disgusting, and one of them gets eliminated and sent to walk down the dramatically-lit shame hallway never to be seen again.

Meanwhile GBBO is in a lovely, brightly colored tent, there are delightful and friendly hosts/jesters there to keep everyone entertained, and all of the B Roll is of like... a bumblebee going into a flower, or a lamb running in a field. And yes, there will be moments where someone will mess up their timing or something, and they'll be looking at their bake through the oven door like, "oh gosh I don't think this will rise in time!" Then they stand up to find Paul Hollywood directly behind them ominously. His creepy whitewalker eyes will glow white, and he'll say something like "the 12th of June. 2035. Drowning." And his eyes will go back to normal and he'll walk away. Then the baker gives a playful grimace to the camera and says "that didnt sound great, did it?". Cut to a sweet looking older woman sipping tea on a stool and she says "oo I do hope that Prue enjoys the taste of my sugary, sticky baps!". Then, at the end, someone gets a gold star for doing good, and the loser of the episode gets in the middle of a giant group hug. You see all of them at the end of the series at a giant carnival with their families and the post credits informs you that all of the contestants have become a Partridge Family-style traveling band and stayed friends forever.

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For fucks sake. Everytime i go onto tiktok (which tbh isn't often but still) i see women shaming sydney sweeny and sabrina carpenter. And as someone living in a developing country where honour killings still regularly happen and i haven't ever gone more than a week without being slutshamed despite all my skin being covered in baggy traditional clothes, this shit absolutely REAKS of slutshaming.

Like genuinely if you think sydney sweeny selling her bathwater is setting feminism back decades (as if one woman can do that ALL on her own) than what the fuck do you think of actual sex workers? Do you think they're also helping women's oppression by catering to men? Do you genuinely believe sex workers are setting feminism back? Because that sounds like the terf and radfem rhetoric i've heard about how every single woman sex worker EVER is actually being raped because every single one isn't actually consenting because they're all too opressed to be capable of consent and for some reason that logic of not being able to consent due to oppression doesn't apply to women who have sex with men but aren't sex workers because that'd mean alot of the people hating sex workers for helping the patriarchy would also have to hate themselves for helping the patriarchy.

And about sabrina carpenter. Kinks exist outside of ao3. Straight white women can be kinky. She's not setting feminism back for engaging in kink consensually. People are saying word for word that her sexualising herself knowing men will get off on it is shameful. That's literally the logic sexist women where i live use to make girls cover up every inch because a man's going to get off on it and if you let him it's shameful. Literally textbook slutshaming. If you think she's degrading herself by doing something sexual and see that as a valid reason to dislike and shame her then I'd like to see you explain how you're any different from my mother who thinks me not covering my hair is me degrading myself by doing something sexual.

And before you say that the difference is my hair isn't sexual, what's sexual is subjective. I don't have a foot kink and don't think of them as sexual body parts but there's plenty of people who do and therefore think of feet as sexual. You can't say you're better than the other slut shamers because you're only shaming the actually slutty women. That's the same logic oppressed bigots use to oppress others. That's the same logic poc people use to excuse their oppression of queer people. Oh it's bad when white people shame me for being uncivilised and subhuman but it's okay when i shame queer people for being uncivilised and subhuman. It's the logic that it's okay to be an oppressor so long as the oppressed is bad enough to "deserve it". What you're saying when you say your slutshaming is okay and my mother's isn't is that it's okay to slut shame someone so long as they're slutty enough to "deserve it".

At the end of the day the only difference between you thinking sabrina carpenter and sydney sweeny should be cancelled and shamed and people I've met who think women shouldn't wear jeans and/or shirts in public because it makes them westernized whores is that you people have different boundaries for what a non degrading amount of sexuality is.

At the end of the day you BOTH think there's a certain amount of sexual a woman can be that shows she has no self respect and that once she reaches that amount you don't need to respect her either because she doesn't respect herself. And after that the only other difference is how much you can disrespect her, for some people it's shit talking on social media and for others it's taking her right to live. And people don't get to the idea of her not deserving to live without shaming her socially first.

Point is, any amount of slut shaming is too much fucking slut shaming. And all slut shaming comes from the same sexist ideas.

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Meeting genuine adults that think legal = good, illegal = bad is so bizarre, like bro not even the law itself agrees that that is a good ethical framework