Fun fact: you can tell what animals the English nobility of the 11-12th centuries liked to eat because they have different names depending on whether you're talking about the animal (Old English-derived words) or the meat (French-derived words).
For instance, when you're talking about cattle, the animal is a "cow" (OE "cü"), but the meat is "beef" (Old French "buef/boef").
Holy wow. O.o; https://www.furaffinity.net/view/11900470/
@Felthry Imagine: Dragons?
Declare: DRAGONS!
welp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfX0MutAkvY
(having a very strange nostalgia trip)
@cassolotl@cybre.space "emotional labor" is very gendered. female-type people are *expected* to be the comforters, the listeners, the emotional fixers, and it's supposed to be the high point of their relationship with a male-type person, that Special Sharing Moment when the male-person "unburdens" himself and the female-person soothes and strokes him. ugh ugh uugggghhhhh
cw abuse, assault, violence
@guerrillarain@witches.town yessssss. I was not spanked/smacked as a child and I grew up just fine, thanks. if I had been I probably would have PTSD now--I had a fucking UNDIAGNOSED SEVERE DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, hitting me would have made it SO MUCH WORSE.
people who hit their kids to make them "behave" are just being lazy bullies, IMO. >:|
@cassolotl@cybre.space I use a mainstream detergent, but it's concentrated so I only drizzle a tiny bit in, but my washing machine sometimes gets colonized by fungus or something and makes clothes come out smelling REALLY FUNKY. when that happens I do a second wash, in white distilled vinegar--about a cup's worth per load. it just destroys all other smells, and the clothes come out smelling like... nothing at all. no vinegar smell, just--nothing. it's AMAZING.
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pronouns: they/them
location: Seattle
phenotype: dracosaur
alignment: chaotic well-intentioned
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aka Sprackraptor, Rasha, elynne, Yahvahzensil, & etc.
40-something ace/aro
an identity under construction in a badly-fitting human suit.
~follows welcome; followbacks not guaranteed~