That’s how i felt! I do a lot of living history stuff, and because of that, I wanted to like these people. But instead of, “Oh, isn’t it so cool to see how people used to use these objects?? To see what really works and doesn’t? To see what actually might have worked better in the past and what worked worse?” They’re…

Shove some cloth in the bottom of ur needle case, keep thread in ur needle, stab needle into cloth at the bottom. Wrap thread around top of needle case a few times. I have an antler case, so the uneveness of the case helps. Idk if it would work with metal. But the caps for my needle cases were constantly popping off…

Hes criminally underrated

I always tell Victorian literature lovers to read the woman in white by Wilkie Collins. Especially when they tell me Dickins sexism was “a product of his times.” The entire plot of the women in white is intelligent women get into trouble bc the law doesnt view them as people and the men who are supposed to take care…

Because I do a lot of nerdy living history stuff, I wanted to like this article. But I found her insufferable. Ignoring the whole “she can only enjoy this bc shes white but is sooo clueless” angle, her views of the whole “lifestyle” are so messed up. Me and my friends like to do ancient crafts the way ancient people…

Me and my history buff friends once went around the room to see who would have made it to adulthood 100 years ago. Pretty much no one. Thanks modern medicine and germ theory!

This makes me furious. This book should be required reading nation wide because of its great discussion of ethics, social issues, and understandable science. But it should also be required for all science majors (i read it as a bio student in college) bc it humanizes the source of the cells we use so much. And it…

I think people undervalue the anger phase. After I experienced violence, I wasn’t angry. I felt bad for THEM. I thought something about me made it happen. It took a few years to be angry, and when I finally was, it was like my mind’s way of accepting that what they did was wrong, was never an okay thing to do, and…

Here’s the thing. Mistakes happen. People do stupid shit. A few years ago, I was invited to go sailing with a friend and her family’s friend. The last second, my friend bailed but the guy and his brother still invited me. Since my good friend oked them, I went.

It has a name: The giggle loop

Sharks get a bad rap, but most are very peaceful and fairly timid. A lot of them get very nervous around new things. Sand tigers are popular because they look scary, but they’re so peaceful. Tiger sharks get a bad rap too, but they will not approach groups of divers. Really the only shark thats known to be…

It’s likely real. They swim really slow and are fairly non aggressive. I’ve been on plenty of dives where I could have taken a photo like this (they’re my fav shark!). However, I’m not an asshole. It really stresses them out when divers get this close to them. They don’t like it. They only tend to bite when you grab…

My main issue is that mental illness doesn’t make you a bad person. He didn’t kill people because he thought it was “good” (Like the guy who killed people bc he thought it would prevent earthquakes, thereby saving people. Thats sad on all accounts). He killed people because in his delusion, he thought he could gain…

Wow. Just wow.

Sex determination is waaaayyyy more complext then that. If you have an XY chromosome but your SRY gene doesn’t turn on you’re sex will be female, but your brain chemistry might not be. Biologists have known for ages that sex is not a clear cut dicotomy. (Source: I have a degree in bio, you spend a lot of time on this…

They talked about it in the article, not in the show. I actually missed the shirt when I watched it. Her clothes are never discussed. And having watched the first ep, the writing is anything but lazy.

My mom watches them. She’s never been transphobic, but trans people have always been a strange “other”. After all the coverage on this news, she’s been filled with immense compassion for children who grow up wanting to be another gender, to the point she’s begun lecturing me about it. It also helps her specifically…

Im not a big YA fan, but when I was a freshman in HS Speak connected with me on a visceral level. I have reread it hundreds of times since (Im now a college graduate in the real world ugh). I’ve never found a book that reflected my emotional experiences so well.

But it’s important to note that you wouldn’t CHOOSE to take that risk. That’s different then being fired to “protect” you.

Right?? The only Lilith I ever met I called CPS on