Men like to believe theyd be great in apocalypse scenarios but they dont even know how to sew
Some male friends of mine were once talking about how useful they’d be in an apocalypse, and I pointed out that as a weaver and sewer and maker of stuff, I’d be pretty damn useful and they tried to tell me they could just loot clothes from WalMart and they’d be fine. As if WalMart has endless supplies without weekly deliveries.
So just last night a friend of mine was talking about who he’d round up in the event of a zombie apocalypse and how I’m his go-to farmer on account of I know how to keep an entire homestead up and running and we’re talking about what kind of resources I’d need to keep a colony of about 50-ish people alive and i bring up what all goes into processing wool for clothing and such and he just kind of stops me like ‘wait, wait, we don’t need to do all of that because we can scavenge for clothes we don’t need to be able to make them’ and i’m just like, ‘dude, that works in the short-term maybe but if this community is going to be sustainable you’ve gotta have people whose job it is to make clothes and blankets and shit’
also cloth rots pretty quickly when left exposed to the elements and after the first few years or so anything we manage to scavenge isn’t going to be wearable anymore and anywho we’ve got to teach the kids everything or they’re not gonna know what to do some decades down the line when everything’s too rusted or rotted out to be of any practical use anymore, etc etc, and he’s reckoning that things like woodworking and smithing and ranching are more important than say, cleaning or cooking or dairying and meanwhile i’m just smh may all the gods have mercy on this poor fool
He also balked when i brought up how to run a laundry and what all was needed to make everyday shit like soap and toothpaste – like dude, you think this is going to be all about hunting and scavenging and being neato manly-man drifters like in the walking dead let me teach you a thing about keeping a village alive and healthy for more than a week man most of it is shit you keep thinking is non-essential on account of it being “women’s work” or “simple chores” that’re actually pretty labor-intensive and take time, training, knowledge, and practice to do successfully, let alone well, and are 100% absolutely necessary work in order for you to have any reasonably good quality of life after the world ends
I’m reminded of this post I read a while back about some guy who thought his underwear lasted years because his wife would periodically replace his boxers and socks with identical boxers and socks when they started to look old and he just … never noticed.
You’re going to need folks that know animal husbandry, and know it well. Your life wjll depend on it. Horses/oxen for dragging logs and rocks to begin making foundations and timber framing for homes and plowing fields. Sheep for wool(you’ll also need folks that know how and when to shear) spinners and folks that either know naalbinding, knitting, or are able to loom(and someone to make it)
Goats for meat, milk and possibly cheese production(and to help in soap making)
I love @alls-well-that-ends-weird ’s take on this because there’s SO MANY daily amenities that take ages to make in a homestead setting because you suddenly don’t have modern convenience.
Having a black Smith is well and good but if you’re missing a cooper, a cobbler, spinners, weavers(knitters, etc.) and a healthy library of learning material to keep knowledge alive and skills honed you’ll be up the creek.
It takes a village to raise a child. And it takes “women’s work” to keep a village running.
‘Survivalists’ aren’t gonna survive a month. Go be a tacti-cool murder hobo somewhere else
i’m always so happy about seeing mlm feeling comfortable about publicly crushing on tom holland, bc he and the rest of the mcu spidey cast/crew have made sure they feel safe in the fanbase. like seeing tom at photo ops doing cute romantic poses with guys the same way he would with the girls, that’s so refreshing. seeing guys show up to the spidey set wearing “mentally dating tom holland” shirts and the cast takes pics of his shirt and give him thumbs up for it?? good ass shit there. it might not seem like a big deal to everyone, but it really is.
i’m getting some messages asking for “proof” of this so, here’s some con pics of tom with some male/masc fans doing romantic poses, and one of him holding up the trans pride flag:
here’s the male/masc fan wearing a “mentally dating tom holland shirt” happily posing for the cast/crew when they asked for pics of him in it, this is from remy hii’s instagram:
and here’s a question that jacob batalon and laura harrier got during the “homecoming” press tour, when doing an answertime on tumblr’s stardom blog:
and then when later asked about it in an interview jacob added this:
on top of that, “far from home” will have two trans male actors playing some of peter parker’s classmates. the mcu spider-man franchise is a safe space for lgbt+ fans.
Don’t scroll past this. Kylie Armstrong was diagnosed with breast cancer and these small dimples were the only signs. She posted the image on Facebook so everyone knows that “that breast cancer is not always a detectable lump.” Here’s how Kylie is doing today.
mermaids with starfish covering their boobs is a great concept until you like.. remember what starfish are i mean ma’am theres an animal on your titties
You can’t say that !
Okay but what is starfishes are baby marmaids and they’re placed there as a way of transportation, with mouth constantly connected to the nips for breast feeding?
Venom (2018) tried to portray Venom as a kind of dark character who says scary stuff but I’ve read comics so I know Venom is actually just a super enthusiastic and emotional boyfriend so nice try there Sony
He’s so enthusiastic? He’s so excited to be where they first met and is scared that Eddie isn’t happy too
And he gets confused a lot cos he doesn’t understand why he and Eddie don’t always agree on stuff and he thinks it makes him bad
But when he does good stuff he gets super excited cos he loves being a hero and it’s just v adorable
Tony and Rhodey have never dated because Rhodey is already too overinvested in this mess of a man, he’s not adding romance to it, BUT they have exchanged many a casual hand job in the back of Tony’s private jet, and once Tony starts dating Pepper seriously, Rhodey sort of also comes and hangs out because Pepper’s a stabilizing influence on him and Tony’s actually getting more responsible and less self-destructive (with horrible relapses now and then) and Rhodey has always liked Pepper, especially since the time Tony was missing and Pepper and Rhodey kinda had a thing, but it wasn’t dating or romance or anything, it was just two people comforting each other, but anyway Rhodey maybe missed having sex with Tony and maybe he missed having sex with Pepper too, and Tony and Pepper have both just recently learned that they’ve both independently slept with Rhodey, and suddenly Rhodey’s getting invited to a lot of candlelit dinners, and it’s probably paranoid to think that he’s getting seduced by a married couple….that’s probably……probably not what is happening, he thinks as Tony holds Pepper’s hand with one hand and puts the other on Rhodey’s knee and looks Rhodey in the eye and says, “Sugar pie honey bunch, no pressure but get your dick out.”
“He means he loves you,” Pepper says.
“I mean both things,” Tony says.
“You get your dick out,” Rhodey responds for lack of better response. Challenging Tony Stark is usually a good way to stall for a few minutes. Bad way to live your life, but a good stall.
“I mean, I will,” Tony replies. “You know I will.”
“He will,” Pepper agrees. “That’s one of the first things people learn about him.”
“Then do it,” Rhodey says.
“Fine,” Tony says. “Fine. You know I was going to be romantic about this.”
“You told me to get my dick out first.”
“Yeah,” Tony agrees as he undoes his belt. “But I lit candles beforehand.” He looks at Pepper. “Anything you want to add?”
“I’m not translating your feelings for you, Tony, you can tell your best friend how much you value him yourself.”
“I meant about your feelings, Potts, unless you’re just here as third party sex feelings broker.”
“Oh.” Pepper looks a little embarrassed by this, as opposed to embarrassed by her husband whose pants are now all the way off. She looks at Rhodey. “I value you too.”
“Thank you, Pepper,” Rhodey says. “This is not how I pictured this evening going.”
“Failure of imagination, honey bear,” Tony says, and Rhodey can’t argue with that, and a minute later it doesn’t even occur to him to want to.
Steve Rogers, 95 percent of the way to the correct answer and working his way through the remaining 5 percent: I love Sam, but I love Bucky. I love Bucky, but I love Sam. I…………………….love Sam and I love Bucky? I love Bucky and I love Sam? Bucky loves Sam and Sam loves Bucky? I love Bucky loves Sam loves me loves Sam loves Bucky loves me–
Tony Stark, smugly ensconced in the loving stable throuple he’s been dreaming about for a decade or two, tokyo drifting into Steve’s safehouse on skateboard made of nanobots: we’re still fighting fyi but I’ve literally never been qualified to give dating advice before and I’m very excited to pop that last remaining cherry. First off, do you have candles
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