fairytales and such

the tags on this post do not disappoint

stop romanticizing your self imposed suffering! leave it in the closest recycling bin!

environmental storytelling.

— David Cronenberg, Consumed

So Kiva and Nikolai coded.

I love ending e-mails with "thank you in advance". Like what are you going to now? Not do the thing I already thanked you for? Bring dishonor on yourself like that? No? I didn't think so. Check mate you have been played by the master of manipulation.

psst. hey

people who are legal adults who want their tubes tied or top surgery etc etc should be able to do so full stop.

"oh but what if they regret it for the rest of their lives"

okay. so what.

Adults make decisions about our lives, that's what being an adult is. We may decide to get a face tattoo, or quit a promising job, or join the army, or move to another country.

That's practically all we do as adults. We make decisions that effect the rest of our life, and then we live, or sometimes die, accordingly. Maybe i'll spend the rest of my life regretting telling my influential boss he doesn't know his ass from a hole in the ground, but, as an adult, that's the kind of life decision i am allowed to make for myself. And after all, it might be the best thing i ever did. It's my life, and i get to do all the fucking around and all the finding out i want to.

surgical transition, or sterilization, or whatever... is exactly the same. If you aren't going to let a legally adult person decide for themself about that stuff, then you can't let them get a tattoo or move to Florida either

The right to be wrong is one of the most fundamental rights there is. If people try to take away your liberty whenever they think you'll regret your decisions, your liberty doesn't mean much.

Artemis is happy for them, she just wishes Hyacinthus didn’t constantly enable Apollo’s flamboyant, dramatic tendencies, because he’s bad enough about that WITHOUT an adoring audience

Greek mythology "fans", stop making Ares a misogynist challenge

Ares, the God of the Amazons. A misogynist. Are they serious.

Crochet Bags // Vera Crochet on Etsy

Sandy Nour ‘Vagues Maitresses’ collection

After a long trip by plane, boat, and car, Kailo finally gets the hug he needed. 

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My Fate Brought Me To Iceland To Carry Out My Quest Of Vengeance.  But, My Fate Did Not Ready Me For Finding You.

THE NORTHMAN (2022) dir. Robert Eggers Alexander Skarsgård &  Anya Taylor-Joy

My Fate Brought Me To Iceland To Carry Out My Quest Of Vengeance.  But, My Fate Did Not Ready Me For Finding You.

THE NORTHMAN (2022) dir. Robert Eggers Alexander Skarsgård &  Anya Taylor-Joy

The Evermore Grimoire: Mermaids of the Seven Seas

original artwork by Vlad Stankovic

The Choctaw-Irish Brotherhood(via)

I love stuff like this. Didn’t a tribe in Africa send America some cows after 9/11? Like this is holy and the most valuable thing we have. We hear your suffering and want to do anything in our power to help

It was not a potato famine. The famine didn’t happen because of the potato yeald failing. Ireland was actually producing more than enough food. However it was almost all land owned by Brittish landowners, who took all of the food out of the country to sell in UK. Potato was what the Irish farmers ate, because it was cheep and could be produced in worst parts of the land, where more profitable food couldn’t be grown. When there were no longer potatos, the decision for the farmers was to either starve and sent the food as rent to the landlords or loose their homes and then starve.

The Brittish goverment was unwilling to do anything for two reasons. First was the laissez-faire capitalistic ideology, that put the rights of property owners to make profits above human lives. Rent freeze was unthinkable and they even were unwilling to do proper relief efforts as free food would lower the cost of food. The second reason was distain for the Irish, and the thought that they were “breeding too much” and the famine was a natural way to trim down the population, aka genocidal reasoning.

This is why it’s important to stress it was not a potato famine. The potato blinght was all over Europe but only in Ireland there was a famine. The reasons behind it had nothing to do with potatos and everything to do with the Brittish.

Apparently what made Choctaw want to offer relief to Irish was the news about the Doolough Tragedy. Hundreds of starving people were gathered for inspection to verify they were entitled to recieve relief. The officials would for *some reason* not do that and instead left to a hunting lodge 19 kilometers away to spend the night and said to the starvqing people they would have to walk there by morning to be inspected. The weather conditions were terrible and many of them died completely needlessly during the walk thoroung day and night.

This apparently reminded the Choctaw of their own very recent (and much more explicit and bigger scale) experiences of ethnic clensing, where they were forcibly relocated. It was basically a death march and thousands of Choctaw died from the terrible conditions also completely needlessly.

In 2015 a memorial named Kindred Spirits was installed in Southern Ireland to commemorate the Chactow donation.

Then in 2020:

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Barbie and the Nutcracker by Kalisami