ardatli:

one-and-five-nines:

Yo I feel like the idea that the only historical women who counted are the ones who defied society and took on the traditionally male roles is… not actually that feminist. It IS important that women throughout history were warriors and strategists and politicians and businesswomen, but so many of us were “lowly” weavers and bakers and wives and mothers and I feel like dismissing THOSE roles dismisses so many of our mothers and grandmothers and great-grandmothers and the shit they did to support our civilization with so little thanks or recognition.

YES. This is such an important point. Those ‘girly’ girls doing their embroidery and quilting bees and grass braiding were vital parts of every domestic economy that has ever existed.

This is precisely what chaps my hide so badly about the misuse of the quote “Well-behaved women seldom make history,” because this is precisely what the author was actually trying to say.

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich is a domestic historian who developed new methodologies to study well-behaved women because they were

1) so vital, and

2) their lives were rarely recorded in the usual old sources.

“Hoping for an eternal crown, they never asked to be remembered on earth. And they haven’t been. Well-behaved women seldom make history; against Antinomians and witches, these pious matrons have had little chance at all. Most historians, considering the domestic by definition irrelevant, have simply assumed the pervasiveness of similar attitudes in the seventeenth century.”

Original article: “Vertuous Women Found: New England Ministerial
Literature, 1668-1735” (pdf download from Harvard)

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ghibli-collector:

Hayao Miyazaki’s hand drawn Studio Ghibli 2023 New Year illustration

girl-effigy:

do you think it feels good for wolves to go awoo i think it feels good

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demiiwhiffin:

2022 summary

eileenleahy:

when youre tired on public transit and start thinking “let me rest my eyes a bit” thats the devil talking

wuntrum:

grateful that my life experience has lead to me having an interesting character and grounded worldview…but GOD i wish i was a trustfund nepotism baby soooo bad

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joeyridersvoid:

Phyllis Shafer’s landscapes make me fucking insane

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mattsmithisweirdlyhot:

Rhaenyra spotting the white stag and sparing its life; Viserys killing a false stag to fulfill the expectations of his lords.

Rhaenyra stabbing the boar to death with the ferocity of a dragon ; Viserys struggling to kill a stag with the support of an entire posse.

Rhaenyra proving herself a Queen worthy of the Seven Kingdoms and being utterly ignored ; Viserys being lauded and praised despite being an utter embarrassment.

I have so many FEELINGS.

incorrectjujutsukaisen:

That’s is that’s the dynamic

enbytonis:

i need people to understand that “save the bees” means saving the native pollinators that are actually in danger right now.

domestic honey bees are doing just fine, and in fact are out-competing native pollinators because they have human intervention giving them the leg up. meanwhile local pollinators are disappearing and with them a lot of the plants they co-evolved with will likely disappear too, along with every species that relies on those plants including us.

save your local wild bees, do that by planting native flowers, cutting out pesticides, and letting the dandelion/clover and other “weeds” grow. honey bees don’t need your help.

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