loving this new tiktok trend of 14 year olds thinking 1998 was actually the 1800s
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Edward Carpenter (1844 – 1929). Early gay rights advocate who lived openly with his lover, George Merrill (1867–1928). They had a home in the English countryside, made socks and sandals fashionable, and were pretty much the originators of cottagecore.
George Merrill gave us the greatest and gayest work of art, the book Maurice by patting E.M Forster on the bum.
Additional things I have gleaned from his Wikipedia article:
- was the person to popularize the phrase/concept of "the Simple Life"
- had a kink for manual laborers and the working class, and when I say kink-- "the grimy and oil-besmeared figure of a stoker", "the thick-thighed hot coarse-fleshed young bricklayer with a strap around his waist", etc.
- Not only inspired Forster's Maurice, but also DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover
- The socks and sandals thing. Wtf. It is not adequately explained. Can we blame all bad "dad" fashion on one gay man who wanted Indian footwear but fuzzy feet?
- Did refer to himself as a Uranian, so yup, totally identified as the period-equivalent of Super Gay
- ...this isn't stated outright in the article but it does sound like he traveled all the way to New Jersey once to dick down Walt Whitman
I begin to ask: who *didn’t* travel all the way to new jersey once to dick down Walt Whitman
Did you know that leeches were once used to predict storms? Well, a tornado warning just dropped and my squad is climbing
My dad is a meteorologist and he has never once warned me about an incoming storm. My leeches, however......
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech
*urgently* Lads, the leechometre is at 12 bong, I repeat, 12 bong!
"tempest prognosticator" absolutely sounds like some kind of arcane device a wizard would have lying around in his workshop
It would also probably have leeches in it.
I would pay this man $15 to do all that stuff for me, I have such a hard time making appointments and doing paperwork and shit.
@stvksn on ig
i hope your god has asked you for mercy and i hope you've refused to forgive him
is so insanely powerful. that's gonna be seared in my brain for a long time. fuck.
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