Count Regal Inkwell

Early aughts Fiat Punto.

Profit splits from the corp I work at dropped.

Basically an extra monthly wage that I don’t have to put into rent.

Oh, one more addendum to this, another myth related to Corsets:

“The silhouette of the 19th century was achieved by squishing a woman’s organs to the point of death”

This was rare. Ladies were instead padding everything else. You’ll look like you have an impossibly thin waist if you’ve basically strapped a pillow to your arse and another to your tits.

That we have gotten dumber.

Or smarter.

Or more moral.

Or less moral.

Anyone who says that is trying to sell you some ideology.

If you know your history, you know humanity has fundamentally always been humanity since we started writing shit down. Possibly earlier, but then we can’t be sure because no-writing-itis.

Some of the oldest texts we have are old men cranking about the kids these days.

There’s stories of people being awful and exploiting each other. There’s stories of people taking care of each other and of their surroundings during dark times. There’s stories of people being weird little guys. We have just sorta always been ourselves.

Started recording history? Like in ancient Greece, one of the gayest cultures in all of time? Like ancient Egypt with its myths about jizz in lettuce? Ancient china with its noted love of femboys and general belief that being gay was just “a thing young men do, that is fine for them to do so long as they do their social duty of marrying and having babies”?

Maybe prehistoric society was violently heteronormative and it’s true we can’t know… But saying “cultures were strictly heteronormative when we started recording history” is fucking hilarious. Heteronormativity is if anything a modern disease caught from abarhamic religion.

The Ankle thing was less about the ankles themselves and more about how a lady (and by ‘lady’ I mean specifically rich women, who did in fact wear skirts that touched the floor in a lot of time periods) lifting her skirt implied an invitation for further intimacy while not being indecent.

HUEHUEHUE please do NOT give stray cats and dogs handjobs.

But as the other poster said – It means “half joking”

The cats and dogs out in the street are free. You can just bring a friend home. /hj