European: Americans will be like I’m going to watch a whore movie and eat a hamburger slathered in lard
Americans: it’s true I do do this.
American: British people will be like alright I’m off to eat some wheezy bangers (beans and bread out of a can)
Brit: I’ve seen this reblogged by several people I normally trust so: How mocking British cuisine and dialect has a long classist history and how it became frighteningly normalized on an American (uniquely cruel, uniquely ignorant) internet: a thread. 1/?
“I do know of one preacher who…suggested that the Christian way was one among many ways to God (a wave and not the ocean), because afterward a man came up to her and said, ‘If God isn’t partial to Christianity, what am I doing here?’
…As natural as it may be to want to play on the winning team, the wish to secure divine favoritism strikes me as the worst possible reason to practice any religion. If the man who asked that question could not think of a dozen better reasons to be a Christian than that, then what, indeed, was he doing there?
An old story is told about Rabia of Basra, an eighth-century Sufi mystic who was seen running through the streets of her city one day carrying a torch in one hand and a bucket of water in the other. When someone asked her what she was doing, she said she wanted to burn down the rewards of paradise with the torch and put out the fires of hell with the water, because both blocked the way to God. ‘O, Allah,’ Rabia prayed, ‘if I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty.’
In Christian tradition this comes under the heading of unconditional love, though it is usually understood as the kind of love God exercises toward humans instead of the other way around. Now, thanks to a Muslim mystic from Iraq, I have a new way of understanding what it means to love God unconditionally. Whenever I am tempted to act from fear of divine punishment or hope of divine reward, Rabia leans over from her religion into mine and empties a bucket of water on my head.”
- Barbara Brown Taylor in Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Missouri, July 1, 1922
Dandelions are, botanically speaking, a fruit (specifically the cypselae, which are attached to the silky parachute). But the founding fathers don’t want you to know this. They have been anti-fruit from the beginning. Consider the uproar about tomatoes.
Dracula Daily sketch(es) for 30th June
In which Jonathan attempts his escape.
I went with two sketches today, because it's an important entry for poor Johnny, and I couldn't decide which moment to illustrate: his murder attempt (you almost did it, my lad) or his escape attempt. So have both!
For a sec I didn't realize this was Jonathan Harker and thought that someone was really mad about pride month ending
Caught on camera for the first time in history, this is the extremely-rare Chirodectes Maculatus—a species of spotted box jelly.
I know I've been over this but man HRT is good stuff. I wanna shake the hand of whoever invented it. It's a crime that I don't know who that is actually. They're more important than Einstein
id also been really curious about the history of hrt so i had some tabs open:
The first hrt treatments were mostly estrogen extracted during pregnancies to be used for menopause symptoms, but the first usage of those medicines for trans women is credited to the world's first Trans Clinic, opened in pre-WW2 Germany by Magnus Hirschfield, a gay jewish man.
Oh he looks delightful
Thank you grandpa
The comparasion to Einstein was actually made at the time too! He was commonly refered to as “the Einstein of sex”, to which he supposedly once replied that he would rather Einstein be called “the Hirschfeld of physics” lmao
Oh my god
Me visiting the god damn monkey attack beach: "There better not be any god damn monkey attacks here"
important to clarify that the video begins with the dad charging at one of the monkeys.
Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!
rehearsing
happy too tired July everyone
there is a demon in your house named CARBON MONOXIDE. he enchants your mind with confusion and your body with exhaustion. you need to call a powerful exorcist named HVAC TECHNICIAN
witnessing death note for the first time in the year 2022. what’d my bestie prosciutto salame do to deserve this
meeble
HOLY SHIT DUDE
Your oc is actually my cat who is ALSO NAMED MAPLE and is FREQUENTLY CALLED MEEBLE
She eats plastic and shits in the bathtub and squeaks at people that walk by the window, idk how much of that she has in common with your OC