Lucy Dacus And Katie Gavin By Vivian Kim / Cindy Crawford And K.d. Lang By Herb Britts

Genuinely what did people who use chatGPT for everything do before it existed?

it really is crazy how quickly people were willing to just let chatgpt do everything for them. i have never even tried it. brother i don't even know if it's just a website you go to or what. i do not know where chatgpt actually lives, because i can decide my own grocery list.

Oh yes

Can you draw Will playing his mandola with a very annoyed Halt

Ask and you shall receive! ♪♪

I think it’s so so SO important to show love in ways other than buying loads of stuff, and that goes for both parties in all relationships.

The commodification of love through trends like elaborate Valentine’s Day proposals and boo baskets make cringe so hard thinking of the environmental impact. Obviously there are exceptions, but most I have seen are people are buying random themed junk that won’t get used year-round (does anyone really need a polyester pumpkin-print blanket?)

Social media tells us that showing we care has a dollar figure attached. For women in general, but also for femmes in a butchfemme dynamic, the prevailing narrative is that if our partners aren’t spending money on grand romantic gestures and buying us gifts all the time, they don’t truly love us. Really, this mentality only benefits corporations.

Gift giving can be a beautiful and heartfelt expression of love - when done with consideration. When you give a gift, make sure it is meaningful and the recipient can used for years to come. Choose mostly to express your love for your partner, your friends and family, and your wider community in ways that benefit you and the earth, rather than Jeff Bezos.

casual reminder that you can still spoil your femme without feeding into consumerism <3

write them notes n love letters, cook them their favorite meal, bake them a treat, steal them something from a shitty corporation, spoil them with words of affirmation and gratitude, bring back a pretty rock shell leaf etc. from an outdoor trip you had, proudly show off photos of yourself or photos you took, lend them your favorite book with a note abt why it's your favorite, put the towel in the dryer before they're out of the shower n wrap them in it, pick out outfits from their wardrobe you think they'd be cute in so they can show off for you, give them your undivided attention & ask encouraging questions, etc etc etc

The future sounds good but I’m reblogging for the $6,800

𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢 + 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔣𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔰 + 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔦𝔯

this is the physical embodiment of zero impulse control 

Magical stained glass

dead metaphors are really interesting honestly and specifically i’m interested in when they become malapropisms

like, the concept being, people are familiar with the phrase and what people use it to mean metaphorically, but it’s not common knowledge anymore what the metaphor was in literal reference to. people still say “toe the line” but don’t necessarily conjure up the image of people standing at the starting line of a race, forbidden from crossing over it. people still say “the cat is out of the bag” without necessarily knowing it’s a sailors’ expression referring to a whip being brought out for punishment. some metaphors are so dead we don’t even know where they come from; like, there are ideas about what “by hook or by crook” references, but no one is entirely sure. nobody knows what the whole nine yards are.

and then you throw in a malaprop or a mondegreen or two, where because people don’t know what the actual words of the expression refer to, they’re liable to replace them with similar sounding words (see “lack toast and tolerant”). so we can literally go from a phrase referencing a common, everyday part of life to a set of unfixed, contextless sounds with a completely different meaning. that’s fascinating. what an interesting piece of the way language and culture are living, changing, coevolving things.

maybe part of the reason we can’t figure out where some phrases come from is that over time the words themselves have changed! one of the theories about “the whole nine yards” is that it’s a variant of “the whole ball of wax,” which some people further theorize was originally “the whole bailiwick,” meaning just “the whole area”! the addition of “nine yards” might be related to “dressed to the nines,” which might reference the fucking Greek muses! language is so weird and cool! (and I only know any idioms in two languages!)

the point is. I just came across the words “nip it in the butt” in a piece of published, professional fiction, and now I can’t stop giggling.

Forest Scene (1870) by Thomas Moran