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Hi Mr. Gaiman! I’ve been seeing a lot of questions on as to why Aziraphale chose to put up a bookshop instead of a library, and I’m here to ask you a sort of the same question if you don’t mind…
Has Aziraphale ever thought of instead of putting up a bookshop, why can’t he just put all of his book collections and get a house? He would have more privacy + he wont have to deal with humans trying to buy his books. I mean, my sister lives in a house and she has TONS of books!
Really fucked up actually that the “you are valid” culture which, usefulness and uh, validity thereof aside, was intended to provide some some perspective for people who may have been blamed for harmless things they could not control morphed into “if strangers on the internet do not constantly tell me I’m good and perfect they are the oppressor” and “even constructively and gently telling me that I hold some power and responsibility to seek a better situation is an unspeakably cruel act.”
Once, in an argument with my therapist about a decision I made to antagonize my mother, I snapped, “My feelings are valid,” and he shot back, “They’re valid because they’re real, but that doesn’t make them rational.”
It was a more nuanced and tailored conversation after that, but that particular quote struck me especially and made me realize how often I was conflating “valid” with “reasonable” or “justified.”
your feelings are valid == you are allowed to feel what you feel
your feelings are valid =/= whatever actions you take based purely on your emotions is reasonable and right
your feelings are valid. that doesn’t mean your understanding of a situation is correct; it doesn’t mean you haven’t misunderstood something; it doesn’t mean you have the right to hurt someone else because you feel hurt, or unhappy, or sad, or angry, even if they obviously ‘deserve’ it for how they made you feel
your feelings are valid; you are not wrong for feeling whatever way you feel. But just because you feel something doesn’t make it true
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Your feelings are valid, but that doesn’t make them accurate.
i find the way europeans call summer a “heatwave” very cute
yeah nah it’s not normal. we usually barely get two weeks over 20°c here in northern germany. now it’s been over 2 months where it hasn’t gone below 20°c even at night and we’ve been scratching at 30°c for 2 weeks. and it’s dry as fuck, it hasn’t rained in weeks. farmers are seeing the worst harvest in a century because of it, they’re expecting a loss of at least 50% compared to last year.
I find the way people are mocking Europeans for not being used to extreme heat (yes it is extreme for them considering their normal climate) and making light of actual deaths from heatstroke/exhaustion, pretty fucking disgusting actually, OP.
it’s not just a heatwave. In February, we had -20°C - five months later, same place, it’s close to 40°C. That’s 60°C difference - 140°Fahrenheit. That’s not cute.
just some selected effects of this europe’s heatwave:
denmark: more than 1,000 wildfires in july alone, which is a typical yearly total
france: white storks suffering from malnourishment, and, unable to fly, they get injured when falling from nests
germany: 10,000lbs of fish suffocated in hamburg because rivers are unable to release heat efficiently
greece: the attica wildfires were the deadliest in living memory, with 90+ confirmed to be dead
poland:outbreaks of toxic cyanobacteria, which only formed due to the warmer weather, forced beaches to close
portugal and spain: saw almost record-breaking temperatures of 46C+/115F+ which contributed to several deadly wildfires
sweden: the government issued 1.2 billion krona (approx. $191million) in aid for farmers, as the droughts made crops and livestock at serious risk
netherlands: asphalt roads melted all over the country, which caused long-term damage as car tyres peel it away from the road
united kingdom: manchester and several other areas burned for three weeks, with effects estimated to last for 15 years
our infrastructure isn’t designed for this. stop belittling countries you know nothing about
Europeans don’t call summer a “heatwave”. Summer is summer and is normal. We call a heatwave a fucking “heatwave”.
Also please consider most Europeans don’t have AC in their houses because it’s not normal for temperatures to go so high.
Hi Mr. Gaiman! I’ve been seeing a lot of questions on as to why Aziraphale chose to put up a bookshop instead of a library, and I’m here to ask you a sort of the same question if you don’t mind…
Has Aziraphale ever thought of instead of putting up a bookshop, why can’t he just put all of his book collections and get a house? He would have more privacy + he wont have to deal with humans trying to buy his books. I mean, my sister lives in a house and she has TONS of books!
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.”
If you didn’t know: Abagail Adams (John Adams’ wife) led a very successful effort to fund the American Revolution. How did she and her tiny army of women do it?
They made lace, and sold it to the aristocrats. Real lace (the stuff you see on old outfits in museums, not the machine-made stuff you might be familiar with from today) is stupidly difficult to make, takes a lot of time and skill, and, well:
If you watch this through, you’ll hear her say this is DOMESTIC lace. This is not fancy, this is for household objects. You can imagine what it would take to make some of the elaborate pieces you see on old aristocratic clothing, and see why it was so expensive and valuable. (Incidentally, if you’ve ever heard the music from the musical 1776, in the song where Abagail and John are trading letters and he’s like “ma’am we need saltpeter” and she’s like “dude we need pins,” THIS IS WHAT THEY NEEDED THE PINS FOR. That song was based on real letters between the two.)
And this is all those revolutionary Revolutionary women did, every free moment of every day. They pulled out their pins and their bobbins and they made lace until they couldn’t see straight, and they sold it to revolutionaries and royalists alike, anyone who would pay. Yard upon yard upon yard of lace to earn cash to translate into rations and bullets.
The war was won by a women’s craft. Not even a “vital” women’s craft like cooking or cleaning. It was won by making a luxury item whose entire purpose was to say “look how wealthy I am, I can afford all this lace.”
Lace was not the only source of income for the Revolution. But it was a major one, and it is extremely fair to say it turned the tide.
all i know is that minimum wage dick is insane. the best sex i've ever had was with guys who worked at like amazon warehouses and grocery store delis. there's a Rage there you don't get from trust fund dick
all i know is that minimum wage dick is insane. the best sex i've ever had was with guys who worked at like amazon warehouses and grocery store delis. there's a Rage there you don't get from trust fund dick
playing around w. microsoft office as a child was crazy. it felt transgressive. magical. a portal into the beautiful world of business. i imagined myself one day becoming proficient with every menu in excel and word and powerpoint, expertly choosing between them in a manner similar to a samurai deciding on whether to use the wakizashi or the katana. like stepping into the tabernacle without genuflecting. the sensual mystique of the coffee room. an entire imaginary world of grey-blue carpeted hallways and black plastic caster wheels on chairs. the bright ideas of the future, all springing to life as i am assisted by a paperclip shaped homunculus. slayer of demons of profit loss. the holy armor of the suit and tie. the will of god channeled through commerce. kneeling to the invisible hand, and transcribing its will into an infinite scroll of beautiful white pages.
The sense of utter shame I am swallowed by when I’m stuck in procrastination paralysis is so unfunny at this point. Literally makes me feel even worse and anxious about starting to do what I have to do or what I want to do. Feels like such juvenile functioning and I’m a woman and I feel like the basics should be eaaassierrrrrr atp
