Wednesday 17 April 2024
To anyone who believes fairy tale romances never happen in real life, may I remind you that JRR and Edith Tolkien met and experienced a forbidden love in their youth, and then were separated for five whole years because of his guardian’s rules that he could not date till he was 21, and she got engaged to someone else only because she assumed he’d forgotten her and lost hope that she could ever be with him, but then on his 21st birthday, he wrote her a letter saying he still loved her and wanted to marry her, she responded basically saying ‘if I’d known you hadn’t left me on the shelf, I would never have said yes to anyone else,’ then a week later she greeted him at the train station and then immediately dumped her fiancĂ©, and they got married and she converted to his religion and danced for him in a flowering field far away from the trenches into which he was drafted, which left such an impression that he crafted an entire story about the most beautiful maiden in the world who danced in the woods and made enormous sacrifices to be with the man she loved, and they had four kids and remained faithful to each other and blissfully grew old together and their gravestones are now marked with the names of that same fictional couple that he created, who broke every rule and overcame every possible obstacle to be together and get a happy ending, who only did all that because he based it all on their own real love story.
Slow living is a lifestyle emphasizing slower approaches to aspects of everyday life. ... People every day are constantly living at a fast pace which is making them feel like their lives are chaotic – but with slow living they end up taking a step back and start enjoying life being conscious of sensory profusion.what is the art of slow living? it's living your life with intention and mindfulness🌿
actually i love growing older and learning how i work as a person like realizing what kinds of fabrics feel best on my skin or what brand of yogurt i like best or how I want to be touched. watching myself change, enjoying brussel sprouts when I used to hate them as a child, understanding why I got angry in that one conversation 10 years ago… there are so many mysteries inside me that i have yet to unravel and there will always be more and sometimes i think maybe its all worth it
When I see housewives talking about what they do as a homemaker I see a lot of comments from women who work saying "I do all of that and go to work everyday, homemakers aren't special."....I don't know how to break this to you, but if you're the person in your house doing the majority of the cooking, cleaning, and general home management you're a homemaker. The requirement for being a housewife is staying home/being unemployed so you can take care of the house. The requirements for being a homemaker are doing the majority of the cooking for your household, doing the majority of the cleaning for your house, and doing the majority of the house management tasks like meal planning, grocery shopping, organization projects for the house, etc. Yes, housewives do all of those things, but you can have a job and do all of those things too. Being a homemaker is not exclusive to being a housewife.
I think housedresses are a thing we need to bring back in a major way. Flowy, loose dresses are so comfortable and great for house chores. I also am of the opinion that if you take time for yourself to look good, you are more productive, happier, and confident. You also don't even need to do much to look put together, just wear a dress and put your hair in a ponytail and you look great. Also, almost all of my housedresses from the 50s-70s contain pockets.
Thursday 11 April 2024
Kylie was used to being spanked by different people. She had been spanked growing up and now as a young woman knew she shouldn't be surprised to still end up over mom or dad's knees, and she'd been spanked by her grandparents and aunts and uncles and was currently spanked by her boyfriend. What she'd never expected was to be spanked by her boyfriend's mom while he just sat there approving as Kylie lay bare bottom across her lap and felt the stingy spanks on her little bare butt cheeks.
“The teapot is a satire on what was seen at the time as the ‘affectation’ of the Art for Art’s Sake movement; the self-styled ‘sensible’ and ‘manly’ world of the Victorian mainstream press saw Aesthetes as effete poseurs. Both the male and female depicted by the Royal Worcester teapot are dressed in stereotypical Aesthetic clothing, reflecting the popularity of what Gilbert and Sullivan satirised as the “greenery-yallery” colours (such as sage green and mustard yellow) that were so popular amongst Aesthetes, and the lily and sunflower so delicately modelled here were the two iconic floral symbols of the Aesthetic ‘craze’ of the late 1870s and early 1880s. However, the teapot does not only refer to the Aesthetic craze of the time. Underneath is an inscription which reads: “Fearful consequences through the laws of Natural Selection and Evolution of Living up to one’s Teapot”. This inscription was a satirical comment both on Oscar Wilde’s tongue-in-cheek quip about his blue and white china, and also on the hysterical fears circulating in the 1880s about the effects that effeminacy and the blurring of gender roles might have on the future British population.” - Dr. Sally-Anne Huxtable, Principal Curator, Modern and Contemporary Design, National Museum Scotland
In Edo-period Japan, a man could take a younger male lover. At a tea-house near the Kabuki theaters, the young female role specialists (onnagata) worked as prostitutes. Here, an attractive youth stimulates himself as he mounts his client. The narcissi on his robe are a symbol of male love. The 'Bean Man' comments, 'Good heavens, the method of having male sex involves some elaborate artwork.'
Portrait of Lady Georgiana Devonshire (1919). Georgina was just nineteen and fresh from her debutante ball when she met and fell in love with Alfred Devonshire in the year of this portrait. As a society favourite their marriage in 1920 caused a certain amount of gossip. But her free spirited nature saw no obstacle in her husband’s habitual cross-dressing. As she put it in a 1980 interview “we were so in love, and the side benefit was a jewelry box made for two”. Following her husbands death in 1921 Lady Devonshire devoted the rest of her life to ensuring transgender individuals had “equal rights and equal footing in our most equal of societies” in the name of her beloved ‘Alice’.
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