You can call me Moose T. or Riley(but only if you’re my close friend). He/she/they(I’m genderfluid). My brain is all over the place right now. Sometimes the world doesn’t want to let you forgive yourself, but you need to learn to. It’s going to be okay. Thank you all for being here.
I am single.
Hey. This is serious.
Goodbye. I’m leaving this blog. My new blog is @moosetrackart2
I’m working on re-following my closest friends. This is for the better. I swear. I need to restart. This blog has changed so much, and I’ve created a sort of persona that I’m tired of upholding. I just want to be me again. Once again, new blog is @moosetrackart2 and I’ll see you on the next episode of iCarly
It’s that time again! Markiplier (me) is running another Charity Livestream for another great cause! We’re trying (going) to raise $50000 for the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance! Mental illness is too often looked down upon as far as medical treatment goes. Too much doubt and misunderstan…
Hey gang, the donation page is up! We’re back with GoFundMe which allows us to see the donations in real-time and allows the money to go directly to the charity which means I don’t have to handle anything! So please help spread the word about the Charity and the Livestream which starts at 10am PST (1pm EST).
It’s gonna be a lot of fun and will raise money for a great cause!
IT’S MY FAVORITE GARGOYLE BACK AGAIN FOR WINTERTIME.
I want to know the exact conversation that lead to the creation of this abomination
Ye olde German architect: “ok, it’s time to put in the rainspouts and last night I was out with the lads and Hans had too much and the point is I had the FUNNIEST idea…” *Holds up drawing*
Ye olde German Architect Supervisor: * snorts beer out of his nose.* “YES. BUILD IT IMMEDIATELY.”
the way I heard it was that, during the construction of the building, there was some disagreement about payment so the architect built this charming ass-spout as retribution for trying to pay him less than was originally agreed upon
i’ve been hesitant to make a post but it’s becoming harder for me not to ask for outside help!
currently my household doesn’t have enough money for buy food since all of it is going to rent and other bills, and there are only two people working (in a house of maybe 7-8 people.)
so if anyone who see’s this is willing to help, that’d be amazing! commissions are always open and if you’d like one then feel free to drop a message and we can sort out details there!
if you’d want to simply donate, i have a ko-fi here!
it’d mean a lot to me if anyone who cant give anything to spread this around!
It’s time to bring an end to the Rape Anthem Masquerading As Christmas Carol
Hi there! Former English nerd/teacher here. Also a big fan of jazz of the 30s and 40s.
So. Here’s the thing. Given a cursory glance and applying today’s worldview to the song, yes, you’re right, it absolutely *sounds* like a rape anthem.
BUT! Let’s look closer!
“Hey what’s in this drink” was a stock joke at the time, and the punchline was invariably that there’s actually pretty much nothing in the drink, not even a significant amount of alcohol.
See, this woman is staying late, unchaperoned, at a dude’s house. In the 1940’s, that’s the kind of thing Good Girls aren’t supposed to do — and she wants people to think she’s a good girl. The woman in the song says outright, multiple times, that what other people will think of her staying is what she’s really concerned about: “the neighbors might think,” “my maiden aunt’s mind is vicious,” “there’s bound to be talk tomorrow.” But she’s having a really good time, and she wants to stay, and so she is excusing her uncharacteristically bold behavior (either to the guy or to herself) by blaming it on the drink — unaware that the drink is actually really weak, maybe not even alcoholic at all. That’s the joke. That is the standard joke that’s going on when a woman in media from the early-to-mid 20th century says “hey, what’s in this drink?” It is not a joke about how she’s drunk and about to be raped. It’s a joke about how she’s perfectly sober and about to have awesome consensual sex and use the drink for plausible deniability because she’s living in a society where women aren’t supposed to have sexual agency.
Basically, the song only makes sense in the context of a society in which women are expected to reject men’s advances whether they actually want to or not, and therefore it’s normal and expected for a lady’s gentleman companion to pressure her despite her protests, because he knows she would have to say that whether or not she meant it, and if she really wants to stay she won’t be able to justify doing so unless he offers her an excuse other than “I’m staying because I want to.” (That’s the main theme of the man’s lines in the song, suggesting excuses she can use when people ask later why she spent the night at his house: it was so cold out, there were no cabs available, he simply insisted because he was concerned about my safety in such awful weather, it was perfectly innocent and definitely not about sex at all!) In this particular case, he’s pretty clearly right, because the woman has a voice, and she’s using it to give all the culturally-understood signals that she actually does want to stay but can’t say so. She states explicitly that she’s resisting because she’s supposed to, not because she wants to: “I ought to say no no no…” She states explicitly that she’s just putting up a token resistance so she’ll be able to claim later that she did what’s expected of a decent woman in this situation: “at least I’m gonna say that I tried.” And at the end of the song they’re singing together, in harmony, because they’re both on the same page and they have been all along.
So it’s not actually a song about rape - in fact it’s a song about a woman finding a way to exercise sexual agency in a patriarchal society designed to stop her from doing so. But it’s also, at the same time, one of the best illustrations of rape culture that pop culture has ever produced. It’s a song about a society where women aren’t allowed to say yes…which happens to mean it’s also a society where women don’t have a clear and unambiguous way to say no.
remember loves: context is everything. and personal opinion matters. If you still find this song to be a problem, that’s fine. But please don’t make it into something it’s not because it’s been stripped of cultural context.
This is actually really interesting. I’ve never known a lot of the background to this song.
THATS THE TOE NECKLACE PERSON AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH
this is genuinely so fucking disgusting and horrifying. let her rest in peace and stop being a racist piece of shit with a CHILD’S REMAINS
Chiming in as a professional osteologist: this is wildly unethical and unfortunately extremely common. Big shock, but most bone hoarders are entirely ignorant of history and/or racist shit heads who powertrip off the opportunity to own somebody else’s remains. Most are unspeakably boring people who feel the need to pretend to be a witch / cultist / scientist / curator so that someone will think they are edgy and cool, and either don’t know/ don’t care that many older medical specimens were obtained before consent and professional codes of ethics were a thing. Inevitably, academic institutions clean up the messes that these idiots leave behind, and this behavior isn’t victim free. There is a huge difference between donated medical specimens, and whatever the fuck this situation is. Nobody ever consented to be shown off like a trophy by some empty-headed scene kid whose grasp of human decency is even shittier than her dye job.
heres a master collection of the worst screencaps youve ever seen:
and of course, because everyone is a crackhead today i guess:
and of course, at PEAK headassery, we have this:
What the ffffuck
Hey guys not to dip in on the discourse here but selling human remains on etsy directly violates etsy’s policies and i’d definitely not snitch if a couple (a lot) of people reported this.
can my followers who have etsy report this please?
I’m fumming with anger about this. I seriously hope she gets kicked off esty and those remains are given to the right people who will do their best to respect the deceased. Not this fucking person, the idea she even wants to own not only a child’s skull, but grinds up other remains and wants to own fetus remains as well??
Report this. Also followers this is your not friendly reminder that this kinda shit isn’t okay and makes you a shitty person. ( @whichwitchami since you also have an Etsy)
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