The Virgin Suicides Is Unrealistic Because Why Did None Of The Girls Cut Bangs In Isolation

“Instead of covering the naked, and feeding the hungry, you set out laws to punish them, my heart bleeds to think of the hard usage of my poor fellow creatures who have no abiding…if a poor creature steal a horse, ox, or sheep, he is either put to death or burned in the hand; but you never consider how many horses, oxen or sheep you steal from the Lord…O you great men of the earth, it is along of you that there is so many thieves, for you hold the creation in your hands, and by all means go about to defraud the poor.”

— Benjamin Nicholson, early Quaker

Naomi Shihab Nye

Source: Kin Chan Coedel

Happy first day of fall, y'all 🍂🐥🦊🐥🧡

happy Valentine’s Day! they are putting a heart lollipop into your paper bag. ✨

Something must be wrong with me, I haven't talked about the beadnet dress in forever.

It consists of seven thousand faience beads in blue green and blue to imitate turquoise and lapis lazuli. It is 4600 years old (the threading is modern, but the beads were found in their original pattern so this reconstruction is as accurate as it can be). It is one of the most gorgeous garments in existence and was owned by a woman who was a contemporary of king Khufu.

The dress was found in her tomb in Giza, known as Tomb G 7440 Z, and it's the earliest known garment of this type.

I don't remember if I ever posted about this before, I'm sure I mentioned it somewhere, at some point-- but on the note of Bonnie's H.O.R.S.E. being used to commit actual forgery when it makes shillings. Surely this isn't legal, because why would forgery be legal anywhere? And this is done so blatantly, so why hasn't Bonnie gotten into trouble about it?

I've always imagined that it's the mayor. He's benefitting from this somehow, maybe getting shillings out of it himself, or maybe it's simply been good for the local economy. He's the one pulling strings to keep Bonnie's work beyond the reach of the arm of the law, or has found a loophole somewhere that makes it technically not completely illegal. But I prefer the idea that the shillings are covered up as 'donations' from anonymous people to support the recycling process.

The fact that MC also gets shillings out of this - aside from being friends with Bonnie - is in part, likely a bribery to keep them quiet about it too.

This is why we can't spam the shillings out of the H.O.R.S.E. despite having a lot of recyclables on hand. We got our cut for the day, too much at once would look suspicious.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

from "11 POEMS—TITLES BY AZIZ SHIHAB—FROM HIS NOTEBOOKS" as featured in Naomi Shihab Nye's Transfer: Poems

Mordred Manor! (with close-ups under the cut)

edit: i just put up some new drawings on my ko-fi, so if you wanna print this out as a poster or something, you can find it there at full resolution in the 'Misc Art' folder! :) (personal use only!)