The pastoralist fantasy of “modern life is too stressful so I should move to a remote area and do hard labor” is so funny
I have a theory about that.
I think that what people want, when they talk about a pastoralist fantasy is actually an anti-capitalistic fantasy: i noticed, even from my experience, that most people don’t mind phisical labour if it gives them results: actual, tangible, results.
Once my boss asked me to copy every article from a website and paste them in the new one. It took me roughly four hours for three days to do and my soul was slowly leaving my body. It was easy work, i mean who wouldnt want to earn money to just click here and click there, rinse and repeat? But it was boring, ripetitive and basically useless.
But when I take some time and clean my house, i sweat, i am tired but… satisfied. I see in front of me the result of my hard labour and I am happy, or at least i don’t think i wasted my time.
So the fantasy of working hard but at least getting something out of it is appealing: why do people work in kitchens? Or bakeries and wake up at dawn to make bread? Or any hard job like that? I knew a guy that had the possibility of having every job he wanted, but he opened a bar and couldnt be happier.
This is my idea, i’m not a student in sociology or anything but I hope i made a point.
I have two degrees, and my previous job was the marketing department head for an international biotech company. I was well-paid, but dreaded work every morning. The endless cycle of low-grade manipulation and feeling like “making money for someone else to pocket, HELPING no one else” felt miserable.
I left and now work at a garden center. I haul around plants and educate people about them, so they can make informed choices. I help people, and seeing the plants grow under my care is wonderful. My soul is flourishing, my heart is at peace. My coworkers are all honest (as far as I can tell), and there’s no push for upselling or pushing people to buy stuff if it’s not very suited for their landscape.
Even if my wallet is a lot lighter these days, so too are my worries!
I worked IT in a city and fuck. People try to controll your every second. Faster! More efficient! You took a second too long to type that. You drove 56 kmh but could have gone 58 without getting caught. I messaged you a minute ago but you didn’t reply so I walked to your cubicle to ask you. Also let’s have an efficiency meeting. You are too slow. That’s your feedback. How long will that task take? Can we somehow shorten that?
And all for what? To manipulate the user to buy product. Not to improve the website mind you. Whenever I suggested: hey, our website is not useable for the visually impaired/people with motor problems. I got back an: we don’t care they’re too small of a market value
So can you really blame me for fantasizing about a life where I can just plant flowers and vegetables and walk everywhere without the need of manipulating people and mikromanage my every second
my current job is managing a plasma cutting machine, so i have to spend a lot of time dragging big chunks of iron on and off conveyor belts and i end up sore and filthy at the end of every shift, and usually a bit scratched up.
but it’s third shift and there’s no supervision whatsoever, so while the machine is running, i can type on my phone. i’ve written most of a novel so far with my thumbs, covered in grease and iron dust. and i also produced a lot of construction materials for bridges, dams, warehouses, and skyscrapers.
When people are removed from the tangible results of their labor, they become distressed and dissatisfied - and this is the result of capitalist profit-focused processes.
Why is “barely legal” pornography always about age? I think they should experiment with teetering on other types of illegality. For example, they could film just outside of a restricted military area.
Or water fountains, public washrooms, outdoors tables, etc, etc
Notice how removing seating doesnt actually prevent people from sitting it just makes them uncomfortable and makes public spaces more hostile it doesnt actually work at controlling their behavior not till a pig comes along anyways and they’ll harass a homeless person/teen whatever they’re sitting on.
Btw keep in mind how this also more dramatically affects disabled people, not everyone can stand for hours at a time or feasibly sit on the floor
LGBT people, I need you to know that any “pedophile execution bill” passed in the US is meant to put you, personally, to death. When the right says “groomer,” they’re talking about you. When they say “predator,” they’re talking about you. When they say “pedophile,” they’re talking about you. Any actual child sex abusers who are convicted and executed would be, to them, a happy accident, a cherry on top of a law that’s meant to exterminate anyone who deviates from the cisgender, heterosexual norm.
this 100%. they have been calling us these things for decades and these specific types of laws and bills are not directed at actual child predators. i mean, we have one as president right now! trump was caught attending “parties” at epstein’s estate. there is legal proof that he has sexually abused children, and yet he’s president of the united states!
they don’t care about children being hurt. they care about trying to isolate and kill queer people. don’t fall for it.
had a fascinating english class that resulted in the notes header “the forcefeminization of victor frankenstein”
what the people want, the people get
you see
my professor’s take is that mary shelley is feminizing victor throughout the novel, as a way of flipping gender roles and putting a male character through female experiences.
evidence as explained:
victor is creating life. he is putting his health at risk (spends two years with little sleep or socialization) to bring life forth into this world
his illness after he is shocked by the creature coming to life is akin to both ‘hysteria’ and postpartum depression
he pretty much swoons, let’s be honest
henry clerval, a man who has been characterized as manly and heroic, has to chase after damsel-in-distress victor and care for him as he convalesces
afterward, he hides what he did and went through, for fear that others will label him crazy and emotional and not believe him. sound familiar?
Victor in general is more emotional than the other characters and is constantly tempering his reactions to not be seen as irrational
the book does not otherwise have central female characters
Also, Shelley’s mother died in childbirth. It’s interesting, then, that Shelley presents the creation of life as something horrific and damaging. She parallels Victor with her mother.
in conclusion, Frankenstein (1818) by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is one of the first examples of mpreg in English literature
There’s been a lot of controversy and speculation over the nature of the relationship between Jesus and Mary Magdalene but I think I’ve figured it out. I think she was his fag hag. I think they were getting bottomless mimosas and having hot gossip sessions without the other apostles and it made Paul really mad.
It’s so vital that you paypal every girl money to spend on cheeseburgers
i’m so glad girls are using the silly post i made while i was hungry for burgers for the most noble of purposes. asking for free burger. keep it up girlies i hope you get that cheeseburger and so much more
but I’m allergic to cheese ;-; why would you give me money for thinggs I can’t have?
when i was younger i used to believe that you could make anyone understand anything if you explained long enough and hard enough but then one time i said “who would have thunk it” to a classmate in college and she turned to me with such sincere disgust on her face and said “it’s who would have thought” and i took five seconds to contemplate how i could possibly convey to her why i said it that way and i came up empty and that was the first crack in the windshield
when i was younger i used to believe that you could make anyone understand anything if you explained long enough and hard enough but then one time i said “who would have thunk it” to a classmate in college and she turned to me with such sincere disgust on her face and said “it’s who would have thought” and i took five seconds to contemplate how i could possibly convey to her why i said it that way and i came up empty and that was the first crack in the windshield
help im trying to relax by looking at gardening posts on pinterest but half of the things they say are wrong
The concept of “bug hotels” “frog houses” “toad houses” are cute but the best habitat for small creatures isn’t PVC pipes or clay flowerpots or whatever, it’s literally just rotting logs, brush piles, rock piles, leaf litter, and lots of plants instead of flat, open mowed grass. You do not have to buy anything
The idea of moss lawns is great but in most places moss doesn’t naturally grow in homogeneous, lawn-like sheets. Different species of moss like different surfaces: some grow on rock or concrete, some on wood, some on soil, and it depends on the light levels and moisture levels and chemistry of the substrate which ones will live there. The soil ones are usually found on stream banks, steep slopes, and on humps in the ground created by the root ball of a large tree wrenching out of the ground when the tree falls (fun fact these humps are an important characteristic of old growth forest). Thick, lush colonies of moss can take YEARS to grow.
Also the trick of blending moss with buttermilk does not work- it’s a plant, it doesn’t like to be shredded up! In my experience moss is incredibly hard to transplant because the habitat preferences for each species are so specific.
That being said, reuse what you already have— if you have bricks, cinderblocks or broken ceramic items, you can definitely use them in your back yard habitat
Bird houses are worthwhile as they simulate things like cavities in trees that have rotted out internally, which might be hard to find in urbanized environments.
If your yard is soggy, please consider constructing a water-retaining wetland garden. It’s as simple as digging a wide, shallow hole where the water likes to gather and stacking logs in and around the water.
At one side, you can spread pebbles, at another side, add some sand so butterflies can drink up minerals, and keep another side of it mud to attract helpful insects like dirt-dauber wasps. (They are chill and will not harm you.)
Rushes and cattails are super easy to dig up from ditches on the side of the road. But watch out! There are some species that can be SUPER invasive in some places.
And propagating a willow is the easiest thing in the world— snip off a twig and put it in some water and it will start growing roots.
Watch out, weeping willows aren’t the native willow in most places! But the wild native ones aren’t too hard to find. Here in North America, they’re scrungly things, often more shrubby than tree, and they don’t weep. It’s easiest to tell them in the spring, when the catkins (flowers) are out.
The willow is the second best kind of tree for caterpillars of butterflies and moths, next to oak. In North America if you grow a good willow thicket, you may be blessed with a red-winged blackbird nest.
The significance of the caterpillars is not only in the caterpillars themselves, but in the fact that lots of birds require caterpillars to feed baby birds.
If wet, grow willow, if dry, grow oak. And if you see a plant that is scrungly and unattractive, try to learn about it to see the virtues it may have, which likely are neglected in gardens due to outer appearances
Hey can you elaborate on the moss hump thing? because I found two and thought it might have been created that way.
Yes! That looks like exactly what this is! You can see the rotted remnants of the tree trunk.
When a mature tree falls and its root ball is ripped out of the ground, it creates a small hill and next to it a hole in the ground, this creates variations in shade, moisture, and soil that allows for the establishment of different plants. This raised up area will not gather leaf litter like the rest of the ground, so it is perfect for moss, and the decomposing roots make it very fertile. And the hole in the ground can fill with water and create a tiny pond.
This little microhabitat can only be created from the life and death of a tree, which takes decades, if not centuries.
Thinking about how the whole winnie the pooh china joke is based on straight up misinformation that just plain didnt happen (the idea that Winnie the pooh was banned in china because president Xi didnt like being compared to winnie the pooh), and regardless of it being started by chinese netizens, has now been co-opted by sinophobes as a way to signify that they dont want chinese people in their space and as a dog whistle for telling chinese people to fuck off.
Heu can you all reblog this
The implication that a game made in taiwan on a platform that the ccp has no control over gettong voluntary taken down by the devs os somehow the ccps fault.
Random fact: They did a study on courtship and mating behavior of American alligators at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in the early 1980’s. This study revealed that, among other things, the majority of alligator sex is gay
Male/male 1 is when the larger male gator topped, male/male 2 is when the smaller male topped
Random fact: They did a study on courtship and mating behavior of American alligators at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm in the early 1980’s. This study revealed that, among other things, the majority of alligator sex is gay
Male/male 1 is when the larger male gator topped, male/male 2 is when the smaller male topped
this is peak trans culture because this would have been easier with very nearly any other guitar design but she just haaad to use one shaped like the letter e. Not afraid of a challenge. Respect.
I would like to add that their name is E, literally just the letter E, like they’re in a spy movie. As if that wasn’t cool enough already she went and got a guitar shaped like her name. Fucking icon.
the fact that pro-monarchy arguments have degenerated, over the past few centuries, from “the king rules by divine right and is accountable to nobody but god”, to “uhm the royals generate a lot of income from tourism” will never stop being extremely funny to me
the monarchs… bad. but the castles? oh, the castles are positively lush with rats… 👅
the fact that pro-monarchy arguments have degenerated, over the past few centuries, from “the king rules by divine right and is accountable to nobody but god”, to “uhm the royals generate a lot of income from tourism” will never stop being extremely funny to me
the monarchs… bad. but the castles? oh, the castles are positively lush with rats… 👅
A drawing showing how Jim Henson Performed Kermit in The Muppet Movie’s swamp scene.
This is the best picture I could find of how they customized the Studebaker so Fozzie could appear to drive the car. They crammed the real driver in the trunk. I think he was driving from a video monitor.
all goofing aside I genuinely don’t understand the urge to reimagine Taylor Allison Swift as a secretly queer icon when the pop music scene™ is like. literally overflowing with women who actually like women. Gaga and Kesha and Miley and Halsey are right there. Rina Sawayama and Hayley Kiyoko and Rebecca Black and Kehlani and Victoria Monét and Miya Folick if you’re willing to get slightly less top 100. Janelle and Demi for them nonbinary takes on liking girls. like what are we doing here. like I’m not even saying you can’t enjoy Taylor but why would you hang all your little gay hopes on her.
Isn’t Lady Gaga bisexual?
yes that is indeed why she’s on the list of famous women who like women
why have multiple people reblogged this with some horse-assed “um actually most of these people are bi or pan” did I fucking stutter I said they like girls. what is your point. I’m going to kill you.
POV: you make a good post and then encounter tumblr reading comprehension
btw to just clarify for anyone who sees this reblog of this post
op is basically saying something along the lines of “yea ik taylor swift is bi but like. why is she y'all’s only lgbtq+ pop icon when there are all these other lgbtq+ people in the pop scene???”
i might have worded this badly but hopefully i got the main point across
hi op here I certainly did not fucking say Taylor Swift is bi
Op is saying that liking Taylor for being QUEER or Lgbtqia+ is not a bad thing, but to also know she is not the only one.
He did not call anyone in the original post lesbian bi or pan.
op: carrots are not fruits. raspberries and apples and blueberries and pears and lingonberries are fruits. i’m not saying you can’t enjoy carrots but why would you hang all your fruitsalad hopes on it
idiot 1: aren’t raspberries berries?
op: yes that is indeed why it’s on the list of fruit
op: why have multiple people reblogged this with “umm actually most of these are berries”. did i fucking stutter i said they’re fruits. i’m going to kill you
idiot 2: btw just to clarify op is saying “yeah i know carrots are a fruit but there are other fruits too”
op: where in the sweet mary mother of cunt did i say that carrots were a fruit
idiot 3: op is saying that liking carrots for being fruits isn’t a bad thing, but to also know they are not the only fruit
op:
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just once I want to see a good post critiquing makeup culture that doesn’t turn out to be made by some janky radfem blog
oh hey!! I’m not a janky radfem I can do it myself!
makeup culture is wack and normalizes a ludicrously high bar as the bare minimum women can do. I saw a “lazy"makeup tutorial the other day that listed 22 separate goddamn products. you’re supposed to buy and know how to use 22 different things on your face just for the privilege of being considered lazy and that’s uuuuuuh what’s the word? bullshit.
Really, five products could work, even 3. Just frame the face, eyes, lips, and you’re done.
0 products also works great
because I’m gonna be real here, the idea that 22 products is a minimum sucks but it’s really upsetting that any amount of makeup is the bare minimum at all
I would really just suggest some powder foundation, concealer, mascara and lipgloss/lipstick, or tbh just mascara works too, but that’s up to you
I’m sorry if I didn’t express this clearly enough in the original post but I’m not really looking for more concise makeup regiments. my intention was to point out how it’s Bad that makeup is considered a bare minimum at all, regardless of individual feelings on the matter
no face should be “required” to have “a minimum” of makeup. makeup has no health benefits and does nothing but fill the pockets of companies that prey on women and our insecurities.
makeup should not be seen as hygiene because it isnt. get that shit out of your head.
this post: makeup culture is ridiculous and 22 products should not be considered a minimum requirement for someones face. no one should have to do that
the notes: so like……. what youre saying is……. we need to make the minimum about 5 or 6 instead… i gotcha
Really the only makeup you need is eyeliner but that’s just my personal opinion
