This is my main. My major sides:
- 💖 deancas - about destiel 🫂
- 💝 yourspecialeyes - destiel fanfic and fanart 📚
- 🧡 cakewith50oranges - our flag means death 🍊
See all my weird minor sides here.
Folks announcing they're leaving Tumblr because they're unhappy with the Twitter clone dashboard on desktop. (I don't blame you, it's broken af.) Meanwhile, the day this hellsite finally does close, staff are going to have to pry me out of the air vents like a rabid raccoon that's adapted to survive on drinking air conditioning coolant and whatever trash is left lying around in the breakroom.
#unionize #taxcorporations #taxtherich #raisethewage
Unions work! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿💫🤜🏻🤛🏻
"I can't believe my 50-year-old parent accidentally saw a weird meme on google image search" okay your 50-year-old parent used to get stoned in their dorm and watch ren & stimpy. your 50-year-old parent's first concert was the pogues and shane mcgowan threw up on their shoes in the alley after the show. your 50-year-old parent saw a double feature of porky's and the exorcist at a sleepover when they were nine. your 50-year-old parent was left alone for three hours every day after school and they found ALL the porn hidden in the house. one saturday in 1985 your 50-year-old parent drank water from the hose and then saw a dead body in the woods
Speaking as a 53-year-old parent, YES. Like, Dudes. Your 53-year-old read The Joy of Sex while babysitting at their parents' friends house when they were 9. Your 53-year-old parent has seen someone get the public spanking of their life at a Los Angeles fetish club. Your 53-year-old parent had a threesome in the back of a station wagon when they were 17. Every last one of your 53-year-old parent's high school boyfriends later came out as gay. Your 53-year-old parent endured the discourse of the AIDS crisis and the outrage over Robert Mapplethorpe receiving NEA funding because of that one photo of a man with a bullwhip in his ass. Your 53-year-old parent is a huge fan of The Teaches of Peaches. Your 53-year-old parent has written horny fanfiction about Cas and Dean, and yes: is well familiar with the Omegaverse. There is no need to protect us from weird memes, kids.
WE BEEN KNEW.
I feel like this needs to be a running thread.
This 50-year-old parent has seen things. Your 50-year-old parent scoured through all of mom's bodice ripper novels for the sex scenes at age 10, wondering why the author kept calling breasts globes, and then relentlessly tried to watch Skinemax through the wavy lines (Hello, Red Shoe Diaries?). Your 50-year-old parent snuck out of the house to go skinny dipping or get high or just to be a terrible nuisance to the neighborhood at large. Your 50-year-old parent got busted so many times trying to drink her parent's liquor that they put a padlock on the cabinet, after which said 50-year-old parent found the key, drank again and then promptly got busted again. Your 50-year-old parent had plenty of sex before marriage and in high school, and was on the pill. Your 50-year-old parent loved 2 Live Crew, Too Short, and NWA specifically because of the language. Your 50-year-old parent has written smutty smutty fanfic in several fandoms, and has a thing for guyliner (even in real life), dirty talk, and hair-pulling in the fic she read and/or writes.
We've seen things, so thank you for wanting to protect us I guess, but I think we've got this.
Love it when the killer’s face is finally revealed in the murder mystery show and my prosopagnosiac ass doesn’t know who the fuck it is lol
we need to bring back genderqueer and genderfuck, we need to pull the "wouldn't you like to know weather boy" labels off the shelves again
years ago my 4th grade Japanese students were drawing things they liked for an activity, and one kid drew a very small little head poking out from under a big square with arrows pointing toward the line between the head and the square. the Japanese teacher struggled to explain - it wasn’t sleeping, it wasn’t being comfortable, it was something more. when you’re tucked in, i realized, the feeling of being all snug in your blankets and with your pillows but not asleep yet. i tried to explain this but didn’t do a great job with the language barrier, so somehow what got written down on the student’s paper was “the feeling of tuck,” which is. a powerful echolalia.
anyway, that’s what im seeing in this image. the feeling of tuck.
me in my head at the supermarket: nobody is ever going to fucking love me. omg 25% off
needle/pin sharpener.
no really, squeeze it. Does it feel like it’s got sand in it? is’s sharpening sand. Stab the tip of your needle into it back and forth and it’ll help put a sharp edge back on a pin or needle that’s been blunted by use, or has a little bit of rust on it. It can’t fix anything worse then a little of either, and won’t work on something REALLY blunted, but its a lifesaver.
also it is a pepper
It's not a pepper and it's not for sharpening!!
It may seem like it should be a pepper, since that would go better with the flavour of a tomato (and the mass produced modern ones are admittedly more pepper shaped), but it is and has always been a strawberry. Here are some antique emery strawberries, which are much more strawberry shaped, and some of them have seeds.
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And it's for cleaning needles, not sharpening them. I can't imagine how jamming a blunt needle point around in a bunch of loose grit could possibly sharpen it in any significant way, and all the historical sources I've seen only talk about cleaning.
"Every sewer's work basket or work box should contain an emery bag, as shown in Fig. 2, through which to push a needle when it becomes rough, squeaks, or sticks in the material. An emery bag is usually shaped like a strawberry and consists of a rough denim bag filled with emery powder, which is a very hard material used for polishing metals. Such a bag may be purchased for 5 or 10 cents in any store that sells sewing materials. Needles often become rusted from the perspiration of the hands or from being left in damp places. The beginner may use a small emery bag to remove rust; or, a small piece of emery paper may be used instead."
"Use an emery whenever your needle does not slip through the cloth easily."
"An emery bag is inexpensive and is useful to keep needles polished and smooth. If the hands perspire and it is difficult to push the needle through the cloth, running the needle through the emery will relieve the condition."
"It was very hot to sit and sew. The needle would get sticky in spite of all the little emery strawberry could give it, and Beth's fingers had never felt so clumsy and uncomfortable."
"She polished her needles to nothing, pushing them in and out of the emery strawberry, but they always squeaked."
This patent from 1873 mentions an emery slab for sharpening pins, which is quite different from a cushion, and which sounds like it actually would work for sharpening.
"C is a slab of emery or other sharp and fine grit, for sharpening needles or pins"
Then later down the page it also says
"E is an emery cushion, secured in the body of the holder A, and is used for polishing needles and keeping them smooth."
So. Strawberry for cleaning. Not pepper for sharpening.
Gentle reminder - modern sewing tools are made from treated or plated metal, or stainless steel. In terms of human civilisation, this is a wild advance of technology. Needles are some of our oldest tools; rust was formerly ubiquitous, and attacked every form of everyday metal. A rusty needle tears fabric, or worse, stains it. The luxury and technology of rustproof needles and pins - forgotten in a few generations of human memory - and yet it is remembered in the strawberry. Memory is stored in the strawberry!
Bitches immediately forgetting about the writers strike once a toy promotion movie and some movie about shit the cia tried to cover up comes out
You do realize that no one has called for a boycott, right? Last I heard, they were continuing to encourage people to consume content to put pressure on studios...
It is incredibly important to show up for these films !! It shows the studios that union made films are profitable and that people will make films that ai never can. If we were to boycott Barbie or Oppenheimer, which SAG and WGA have not called for, it would give studios leverage to say that they shouldn’t treat their people fairly because the movies didn’t make enough money to begin with. Show em where it matters — the numbers!
Anne Carson (2009)
Arthur S. Way (1898)
George Theodoridis (2010)
Ian C. Johnston (2010)
E.P. Coleridge (1910)
Theodore Alois Buckley (1892)
John Peck, Frank Nisetich (1995)
R. Potter (1906)
M. L. West (1987)
William Arrowsmith (1958)
Philip Vellacott (1972)
Michael Wodhull (1782)
Kenneth McLeish (1997)
David Kovacs (2002)
Andrew Wilson (1993)
Euripides - Original (408 BCE)
Anonymous asked:
AITA for not giving money to a homeless man?
I (19m) was taking a stroll the other day in the city in my usual black trench coat and cool black hat. Out of the corner of my eye I saw this girl (YoungF) who I think might have been a waitress giving money to a homeless guy.
Obviously I had to step in because she clearly didn't know what she was doing. I gave her her ten dollars back and told her he probably had just sat around while she worked hard for it. For some reason she didn't accept this? I continued to explain about how I'm from NYC where it was quite common for homeless people to actually work for money by wiping windshields or at least doing a little dance or something. I actually have a pretty funny anecdote about that.
Anyway that's when it got really really, really weird. Out of nowhere this homeless guy stands up, looks at me and dances to what I think was a K-Pop song? I mean, the dance was executed flawlessly somehow. Then everyone around me just started cheering for him and throwing money at his feet - money they'd obviously worked hard for. I even saw a business lady give him a gold watch for some reason? I ran away at that point but apparently from what I've heard they just kept dancing into the night.
So basically, was I an asshole for encouraging them to spend their money properly? I mean, even if I did something wrong I thought that was an insane reaction to what I said.
i missed this when it happened but. oh my god.
[ID: a tweet by @/mapgar1986 saying,
Every time self taping comes up in SAG- AFTRA discussions I just remember that Lukas Gage clip where an unmuted director complained about having to look at "poor people in their tiny apartments"
/end ID]
[Video Description:
a recording of a self-taped zoom audition. Lukas Gage's screen is pinned, showing him in front of a small section of his apartment as he prepares to deliver his material.
Tristram Shapeero: [not pictured] "These poor people live in these tiny apartments, like, I'm looking at his- y'know, background and he's got his TV, and y'know-" Gage: [pained expression] "Oof, yeah, unmuted-" "I know it's a shitty apartment, that's why- give me this job so I can get a better one." "Alright. Ready?" Shapeero: "Oh my god I am so, so sorry, Lukas- [unintelligible] I'm so sorry." Gage: [overlapping, jokingly] "No, it's totally-" "Listen, I'm living in a 4x4 box, it's fine, just give me the job and we'll be fine." Shapeero: "No I'm- I'm mortified." [overlapping a burst of awkward laughter from another participant]
/ End Video Description]
