reblog and make a wish! this was removed from tumbrl due to “violating one or more of Tumblr’s Community Guidelines”, but since my wish came true the first time, I’m putting it back. :)

OH MY FUCKING GOD, IT’S BACK ON MY DASH.

THIS SHIT WORKS OKAY, I AM DEAD SERIOUS.

The last time I saw this on my dash, I didn’t think it would happen, so jokingly I wished I could go to a fun. concert.

AND GUESS WHAT, I WENT TO A FUCKING FUN. CONCERT.

THIS SHIT WORKS, TRY IT.

YOOOOOOO

I SAW THIS ON MY DASH THE OTHER DAY AND THOUGHT “ITS WORTH A TRY” SO I WISHED I COULD GET A 3DS

LITERALLY LIKE 4 DAYS LATER MY DAD SENT ME A PICTURE OF THE 3DS XL HE BOUGHT FOR ME WHILE I WAS AT SCHOOL

IM STILL FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS

holy fuck, I didn’t expect this to work, I was like psh, whatever it’s just a quick reblog, but I wished my Dad would actually respond back to me AND HE FUCKING DID A FEW DAYS LATER, I GOT A FUCKING TEXT FROM MY DAD TODAY WHO HASN’T SPOKEN OR RESPONDED TO ME IN MONTHS HOLY FUCK WHAT IS THIS MAGIC IT WORKS. 

I WANTED TO SEE MY BOYFRIEND AND I DIDN’T THINK I’D GET DAYS OFF BUT THIS WEEKEND I’M HEADING UP THERE??? THIS IS CRAZY SHIT 

SO LIKE I JOKINGLY WISHED FOR MY OWN LEN KAGAMINE AND THEN LIKE A WEEK LATER I GOT A LEN NENDOROID??? H ELP

WTF OKAY SO THIS SHOT ACTUALLY WORKS BECAUSE WHEN I WISHED, I HAD WISHED MY CRUSH WOULD LIKE ME BACK AND GUESS WHAT? I HAVE A BOYFRIEND NOW. WHAT THE HELLLLL?????

ok I’ve said this before but IM DOING IT AGAIN THE FIRST TIME I SAW THIS, MY WISH DID COME TRUE SO I REBLOGED AGAIN AND SAID IT IN THE TAGS BUT THEN I WISHED FOR SMTH ELSE AND IT LITERALLY LITERALLY HAPPENED LIKE A COUPLE DAYS LATER WHAT THE HELL SO NOW IM WRITING THIS HERE FOR YOU BC I DONT BELIEVE IN THIS CRAP BUT STILL IT’S AN AWFULLY BIG COINCIDENCE

THE BOY I FELL I LOVE WITH LEFT TO TRAVEL THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD AND HAS BEEN GONE NOW FOR 3 MONTHS. WE HAVENT SPOKEN SINCE BECAUSE I DIDNT WANT TO MAKE HIM FEEL TRAPPED TO ME AND NOT ENJOY HIS TIME SO I WAITED FOR HIM TO CONTACT ME FIRST. I SAW THIS ON A PARTICULARLY LOW DAY WHEN I WAS MISSING HIM SO MUCH I CRIED FROM THE PAIN, GUYS I REALLY LOVE HIM, SO I THOUGHT MEH WHAT THE FUCK, AND WISHED HE WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW HE WAS OKAY.

GUYS.

HE FUCKING CALLED ME 20 MINUTES LATER

20 FUCKNG. MINUTES. LATER.

GOOD THINGS DO HAPPEN. AND ITS IN THIS POST.

I wish for someone to leave something in my ask.

OKAY SO I ASKED FOR A HEDGEHOG AND NOW GUESS WHO HAS A PET HEDGEHOG

i really hope my wish comes true

my last two wishes came true, one more couldn’t hurt

SO I WISHED FOR AN IMAC THE LAST TIME I DID THIS AND A WEEK LATER MY MOM SURPRISED ME WITH AN IMAC. HONESTLY SHE DIDNT EVEN KNOW I WANTED ONE, I DIDNT TELL ANYONE, IT WAS AN EARLY XMAS PRESENT. Wow this works

This is AMAZING i wished that I would get into South Korea and I did !!!!!!!!

Plz

I wish to go somewhere new this summer and to go to a concert

I WISH I PASS ALL MY CLASSES

Bro I need the assistance 😭

I wish that I will survive the rest of this month unscathed from school. Fix friendships ❣️💞💓

apple bottom jeans — this is a reference to the apple that was eaten from the forbidden tree of Eden

boots with the fur — this references the way Adam and Eve had to clothe their nakedness once they had eaten from the Tree

the whole club was lookin’ at her — traditionally it is Eve’s fault for succumbing to the temptation, and most scholars blame her and future women for original sin

she hit the floor — this is a reference to the snake, who was cursed to crawl in the dust

next thing you know — the Lord immediately responded to kick them out of the Garden of Eden

shawty got low, low, low, low, low, low, low, low — this represents the way humanity fell from grace and gave in to temptation, and was repelled from the garden

well then, random tumblr user, you will be happy to know that he did, in fact, see it

tweet here

looks like october is…. octover

i’m queueing this for next year

Its nowvember

In the most genuine way possible, I think Eve should be considered a role model

She made an informed decision! She chose knowledge and freedom! Her eyes were opened and she knew good and bad, like God, for the first time in human history. Humans have consciences, internal morality, and rational thought because of her.

They say Jesus died for our sins, but Eve died for our free will

A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome by Emma Southon

the other day i was watching a video about athenian democracy. it was really neat to learn about, going over how it changed from psudo-monarchy, to oligarchy, to a direct democracy where everyone had a say. you didn't need to be born to a certain family, you didn't need to own property, and you could even be an immigrant (a big deal for ancient times), and still vote. everybody had true equality in government.

except, no, you still had to be a man. and that's given lip service in the form of "well not everybody-- women and children couldn't vote," but then for the entire rest of the video it's shortened to everybody, everybody, everybody, the people the people the people, how fair and equal and modern and sweet.

women are not a footnote. we have always been half the population. so that society where every man could vote and run for election and make a change from the bottom up and none of the women could, was a useless society. what a pointless shameful ridiculous idea of democracy.

Nikita Gill, Great Goddesses 2

hate hate hate when I’m listening to some true crime story that takes place in or before the 20th century and the host calls prostitutes “sex workers.” Those women were not “sex workers,” there was nothing sexy or “liberating” about what they had to do to survive. Referring to them as sex workers kind of minimizes the awful situation they were in. So many of them either starved to death on the street or did prostitution to get by. They really didn’t have much of a choice. Don’t use modern liberal language to describe these poor women.

One of my teachers referred to the Pornai—state owned sex slaves for all citizen males to enjoy, and from where we get the term “pornography”=graphic depiction of vile whores—of ancient Athens as “engaging in sex work” and I was about an inch away from snapping.

I recently wrote a paper on why we need to stop using sex work terminology for ancient Greek prostitution (and for prostitution in general).

The women who were in the ancient Greek sex trade - whether pornai, hetairai, musician/dancing girls, etc - were in there out of necessity and compulsion. Most of them were slaves: war captives, orphans, baby girls exposed after birth and enslaved. Others were forced into it by their families, ie a prostituted woman has children and trains them (usually the daughters) to pick up the trade. (These situations are now sometimes called “family businesses” in scholarship.)

And those who weren’t enslaved or forced into it were usually impoverished widows or metic women who had little other choice if they wanted to survive.

And yet these clear instances of trafficking are referred to as “sexual labour” or “unfree sex work” in academia. Pimps are sanitized into “operators of a sex business” despite the ancient Greek term, pornoboskos, literally translating to “whore-herder” or “shepherd of pornai”. If you ever wanna rip out your eyes, read anything by Edward E. Cohen or Konstantinos Kapparis.

(Funnily enough, one of the words for punter was pornokopos, which means “whore-striker”. Now, striking/hitting was sometimes a euphemism for intercourse in ancient Greek but even then the association of sex with violence is rather interesting.)

Tldr; the ancient Greek sex trade was brutal. It was based on slave-labour and marginalization. Dont believe all the talk about hetairai being “empowered” and “having agency” because that’s straight up lies. They were not that different from pornai or flute-girls - in fact, there was very little distinction between them all.

“unfree sex-work?!!!” What kind of 1984 double-plus-ungood crack are these people smoking????!

me and the bad bitch i pulled by indulging in cannibalism and talking to corpses

TIL female gladiators or “gladiatrices” existed in ancient Rome, but were rare because it was considered unwomanly. One gladiatrix of note was a woman who fought wild boars with a spear while topless, and who would squat to urinate in front of a stunned crowd.

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butch

Her Favorite by Mikola Kornilovich Bodarevskij, 1905

hey girl, um, we were having a bacchanal and we kinda tore your boyfriend to shreds. yeah, ripped his head clean off. sorry about that :/

made another one

Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

Frodo: Sam hates Gollum, but that is what I shall become once I have lost myself to the ring… he’ll despise me… 

Sam if Frodo did turn into a Gollum: That’s a very nice fish you caught with your bare hands, Mr. Frodo, and its very smart of you to eat it raw, saves us the trouble of starting a fire. I knitted you a sweater in case you get cold running around in that loincloth of yours. Is the sun hurting your eyes? I’ll kill it if it’s bothering you. I’ll kill the sun

Henrietta Rae (British, 1859-1928)

Spring’s Awakening, 1913

John Douglas Miller after Frederic Leighton, Summer Slumber, 1898, etching.