According to old finnish folklore, having a wild animal wander into your house is an omen of death. The bigger the animal, the more imminent the death. A small bird, like a sparrow or a finch, is a sign that someone who lives in the house will die within the year. If the animal that has somehow made its way inside the house is a small mammal like a hedgehog, or a larger bird like an owl or raven, would mean that death is coming to visit in the next few months.
Massive megafauna, like a fully-grown moose or a bear, is a sign that someone will probably die within the next 20 minutes.
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More Holmemes (featuring a special guest appearance from Watson’s Sketchbook by @contact-guy bc this page was just too perfect)
This is my new Insomnia Hobby and if you are an artist in the SH fandom and you’d like to volunteer your art for The Memes™️ pls let me know. I am open to any and all sacrifices for the cause.
i think in a world where the political right is aggressively trying to portray all trans women as pedophile invaders, making it your job as a trans person to hunt down trans women who you personally believe to be dangerous (based on, let’s be real, information gathered through stalking campaigns from people who have nothing but malicious intent) makes you also a fascist
you are not solving a societal problem, you are not attempting to help children by addressing systemic issues that harm them, you are a cop.
you are a tool if you spread callouts about trans people on the internet. i mean this very literally: you make yourself very very useful to people who want trans women to not have any space in society.
i’m glad this post is taking off i hope you fucking mean it this time <3 protect every trans woman you meet
I do want to note that the whole “women are allowed to dress masculine and wear trousers” thing needs to be viewed in its historical context:
People fought for generations to be allowed to dress that way. They fought hard to be allowed to wear pants. Blue jeans were a symbol of feminist revolution. Women were barred from workplaces and schools for wearing them.
This is not some a natural fact that women dressing masculine is less shocking and humiliating. That normalization was fought for and hard-won.
And yet so many people erase the struggles of those people who fought to make that happen and pretend that it’s just normal and natural that people don’t see women “dressed like men” as ridiculous.
The Marriage of Figaro has what’s called a “breeches role” which is a woman wearing men’s clothes playing am ale role. This was done partly due to the vocal range requirements, but in many cases it was done comedically. It was risque and sexualized or comic relief that a woman was dressed as a man.
Anti-suffragette posters mock women wearing pants - well they were bloomers and split skirts back then - and mocking more masculine cut styles of clothes. This was meant to portray this as ridiculous.
They mocked the “new woman” in Weimar Germany, lamenting that they were too masculine.
This is a political cartoon from the 1920s depicting a woman in masculine dress deciding which bathroom to use:
Sorry but you’re erasing these struggles and flattening history when you say this shit.
Women were killed and institutionalized in the struggle to make this happen. It really fucking bothers me the way it’s framed as “people just don’t find it as weird when women dress masculine.”
Yes they fucking did. Until women and transmasculine people fought for their right to wear what they want. It’s normalized because people struggled to normalize it.
And it’s not normal everywhere. There are many countries where it’s still illegal for women to wear pants. Afghanistan, for example.
Even in the US, it’s forbidden and considered ridiculous in groups like the FLDS, the Amish, and the Hutterites.
We are flattening and erasing the struggles of women when we say these things. I know we’re trying to build theory here but you can’t build solid theory on a foundation of lies.
“masculine women benefit from the patriarchy” ah yes I remember when I happened to be a neurodivergent tomboy teen girl I received many priviledges such as being bullied relentlessly by boys and girls alike. Surely the patriarchy loves me
Not only that, one of my friends is also a masculine woman and she surely didn’t had to beat the shit out of her classmates since she was also bullied because she “looked like a man”. The patriarchy must love her too. /s
In Vietnam, Xuân Diệu is considered a highly celebrated poet, whose innovative writing style and collective body of work left an indelible mark on the country’s literary landscape. In particular, Xuân Diệu’s influence in Vietnam reigns over the realm of romantic poetry, to the extent that he is still dubbed there “the King of Love Poetry”. Though he spent decades composing countless works about intimacy, passion and longing, Xuân Diệu kept much of his writing gender-neutral and lived a highly secretive personal life, concealing his sexuality and relationships with men for the entirety of his career.
I remember that everything gay was rebranded pedophilia, child abuse, and inherently sexual thus pornographic, thus unsafe for children and public spaces and thus pedophilic and abusive. Neat false circle. Yeah. Does ring a fucking bell, doesn’t it?
They literally had lesbians being a threat to straight women in the locker room, as a threat to the poor beset upon women trying to make their way women’s sports, which is already hard enough. These fucking ghouls have put so little effort into recycling their bigoted talking points.
