becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys:

your-url-is-problematic:

angiethewitch:

Surprise discovery prompts call for castles to be returned to people of Wales

Campaigners claim income from the historic buildings is flowing out of Wales

North Wales Live

I am absolutely disgusted to learn that crown owns our castles and the profits are sent to Westminster. Wales is struggling, our economy is struggling, our people are struggling, our health services are struggling, and that money could go to the betterment of our lives - instead it goes to England.

despite the fact we maintain the castles and land, we don’t own them. they are in OUR country. ownership should belong to us, the people who built them. we maintain them. we work in them. theyre ours and we should be able to use the profits generated by them to help welsh people, not allow the money be funnelled into the monarchy.

the fact the crown owns so much of wales is such an outdated and medieval concept and has no place in modern society.

petition here:

Petition: Explore options for transferring ownership of historical assets from Crown Estate to Welsh Government

The castles at Caernarfon, Harlech and Denbigh as well as Tintern Abbey are owned by the Crown Estate. These building are iconic Welsh build

Petitions - Senedd

please sign. I am disgusted.

@becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys if you’d like to pass this on to Welsh-speaking tumblr?

Gladly

I suspect a few people might try to pick up the sentence “ownership should belong to us, the people who built them”, because Welsh castles were historically built by English to suppress the Welsh (hence we have so many of the big stony fuckers). However, OP is correct in the literal sense. A Norman lord did not build his own castle with his own two hands. Local labour forces did. So, let’s not clown about on the important post, please.

appendingfic:

sometiktoksarevalid:

i was waiting for someone to walk through the door in a fursuit

jackironsides:

thesaltofcarthage:

sometiktoksarevalid:

well shit I’m going to make this

(also, shoutout to the Auntie/Nonna method of measuring ingredients — "all the onions in your house, and maybe your neighbor’s house too")

I just looked it up bc I wasn’t sure if blessing seeds were nigella or black sesame, but they’re nigella (a.k.a. black cumin)

thememedaddy:

sabertoothwalrus:

xenobotanist:

sabertoothwalrus:

you ever see a famous 20-something woman and think that she’s very pretty but also you know in your heart she has the potential to age into the most etherial gilf known to lesbianism. but you also know that because of her social standing and the current cultural landscape she’s going to get loads of plastic surgery and botox and you will be robbed of ever getting to witness her maximum divine gilfyness potential. it’s just so sad. why must I be doomed to watch these women poorly taxidermy their youth

Um

How about we let women decide to do with their bodies whatever makes them happy rather than acting like their existence is to please us

This is still patriarchal autonomy-revoking nonsense wrapped up in the guise of “natural body positivity”

Reading Comprehension Quiz:

• Was this post about choice feminism?
• Was the original text being facetious and/or hyperbolic for comedic effect?
• Famous* women rarely exist in their “default state” (ex. No makeup, no dyed hair, no botox, no plastic surgery, no shaved hair). If someone wishes to see more famous women existing in their “default state”, is this “Autonomy-Revoking”? Support your claims using the text.
• Compare and contrast the reasons a famous woman may or may not feel compelled to use botox or receive plastic surgery.

*Famous (adjective) fa-mous: 1a. Widely known 1b. Honored for achievement — source. Merriam-Webster

kolejnylangblr:

systlin:

drek-odradek-deactivated2022031:

aenariasbookshelf:

astrodidact:

See that picture above? That’s a close up of my great grandmother’s immigration papers when she first came to the US back in the early 20th century. But my great grandma’s information isn’t the important part here. The important part is that line in the middle there about how they arrived in the country.

And how ‘stowaway’ is a legitimate, valid option to select.

So yeah. They absolutely just showed up, and that part of immigration history needs to be talked about a lot more.

REMINDER THAT TRAVEL VISAS AS WE KNOW THEM TODAY WERE INVENTED IN THE 1930S TO KEEP JEWISH REFUGEES OUT OF COUNTRIES THAT DID NOT WANT AN ‘INFLUX’ OF THEM, THEREBY FACILITATING THEIR GENOCIDE :)))))

read What is A Refugee for more history. Educate yourselves.

Yup. Mom’s side of the family came in this way. Just…wrote their names down and that was that. 

The link doesn’t work anymore, but for anyone curious: What is A Refugee is a book by William Maley, and you can find it on other sites (just don’t buy from Amazon, please) or ask in your library.

sabertoothwalrus:

sabertoothwalrus:

since the teens brought back scene fashion without bringing back skinny jeans they’ve reinvented L death note

I’m so glad he’s being properly appreciated

theshitpostcalligrapher:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

theshitpostcalligrapher:

Look, I have neither a booth or tickets to dashcon but a few of my friends are driving into town for it and I wanna hang out for a while with em

So if you see some fucker in a plague doctor mask loitering in the parking lot in the later afternoon

That may be me

eating a snack and then headed out, it’s gonna take me like an hour or so to get there but i will be soon loitering in the parking lot

hopefully the rain will hold up

im on the bus over, eta in 15. For those of y'all going “THERES AN DASHCON TWO??” yes, it’s a relatively smaller but ultimately far better organized event that @strange-aeons ’s team whipped up over the last year or two.

I didn’t end up purchasing a vendor booth this year but I am heading out to see some friends and maybe some mutuals in the parking lot, my friends are driving into Toronto specifically for dashcon so I thought I’d say hi

update: singing punk pony club on the dancefloor?? There’s a dance circl. I got a commemorative set of shoelaces

Also photographic proof I have friends

THOSE TWO FUCKERS WITH THE JOLLY RANCHERS GOT ENGAGED IN THE BALLPIT

1. They got Jolly ranchers from the organizers as an engagement gift
2. GUYS!! I GOT TO MEET @sabertoothwalrus in person!!!!

Dashcon two written in the sketchbook!!

#THESHITPOSTCALLIGRAPHER IS HERE?!?!

DAWG IM STILL ON THE DANXFLOOR WERE DOIKG BLACK PARADE

apeacebone:

sindri42:

thereadingaddic7:

madame-helen:

secundus-cinaedus:

cure of ra

Now its blessing of Ra

“Sunburn will give you skin cancer”

Ra, God of the Sun

Fungus has done so much for humanity. Penicillin. Radiation cleanup. Delicious mushrooms. Deadly mushrooms. Psychadelic mushrooms. And now my boy RA has chosen the humble mold spores as his vessel through which to cure cancer.

On one hand, it’s important to remember that a lot of things kill cancer in vitro that might not be ideal for use in human bodies.

On the other, this is basically the start of examining a whole new class of compounds created by fungi and that fucking rules.

Fun fact: Aspergillus mold is also the source of most commercially-produced citric acid!

dummy-dot-exe:

i can explain… by Khyle.@khyleri