I recently bought a ds9 comic series called fools gold and i thought some of you might enjoy this little garak/bashir exchange
hollymcloughlin-deactivated2018 asked: Wow, wow wow. Payday can't get here fast enough. OMG, your shop! *swoons*
Awwwwhahaaa, you are lovely~ Glad you found something you liked!
That free shipping link lasts until the 13th!
I have the book this references, it’s delightful~
Anonymous asked: So why don't feminists shave their armpits and stuff? It's not like MEN force you to do it, and like as a girl it's uncomfortable and holds more sweat and just ew. I don't know if you're braver or just lazier than the average girl
ulibeanz answered:
alright i don’t normally reply to these but im feelin chatty so here goes
first of all, underarm hair helps ventilate sweat, control odor, and does a great job of keepin moisture away from the skin!! its 10x more physically comfy for me believe it or not!!
now, let’s have a short history lesson here, and keep in mind that we’re talking about westernized white women because in many places and cultures this phenomenon simply does not apply
moving onward, ladies shaving their armpits didnt really catch on until around the 1920s and this was almost entirely sparked because marketing companies wanted to double the demographic they could sell razors to. to kickstart it, they released this scandalous picture in Harper’s Bazaar in 1915:
which first planted the seed. at the time, the photo was extremely risque as it was really the first time a womans bare underarm had been shown in American media that wasnt pornographic. the word “underarm” itself was shocking! in a very deliberate move, they’d paired a revolutionary photo with a trend they wished to sell. in 1922 sears released “female” razors and it eventually trickled down to the middle class and the lower class with time, as fashion trends often do. turns out, the war against armpit hair was one of the most successful business campaigns ever!!
wanting to follow in these footsteps, they worked on leg hair. women still didnt begin shaving their legs until around 1943. even those iconic flappers who wore short hemlines still sported fuzzy legs! Daisy Fay Buchanan was probably a furry gal herself.
a part of the hesitation for a woman to shave her legs was that she would appear more promiscuous because the legs are so indicative of the vulva. alas, after WWII, Betty Grable posed for this sexy image: 
and eventually the look went from celebrities to other patriotic girls and then to everyone else.
what do both have in common you ask??? they were both deliberately manufactured propaganda made by white men for the sole reason of making money by exploiting women.
im not telling you what you should or should not do with your body and all the hair that grows on it. its ok if shaving makes you feel more feminine or clean. all im saying is that it’s a good idea to analyze why youve been lead to believe a little fuzz is so “ew” to you, and really think about whether it should be. it hasn’t always been this way (in fact it only recently became so) and im here to say it doesnt have to be that way either. take this knowledge and run with it but its ultimately your choice.
as for me, no, i wouldnt say im braver or lazier than the average girl. i just reject the idea that a bullshit made up westernized whitie can make my decisions for me. and personally, i find my kitten armpits exceptionally cute.
ill leave you with this my friend: if girls weren’t meant to have body hair then why do girl’s bodies grow hair ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Off all the awesomely painstaking artwork we’ve shared over the years, these jars, created in the mid-later 19th century, probably required the most extraordinary amount of patience to create. Look closely, although the style may feel dated, these jars contain nothing but grains of colored sand, grains that were arranged to create amazingly precise and detailed designs, text and images.
They were created by Andrew Clemens (1857-1894), an Iowan artist who first began experimenting with sand art when he was 13 years old. He collected the colorful sands from the Pictured Rocks area.
“He fashioned special tools made from pieces of hickory and fish hooks that he used to arrange the sand in intricate designs. Clemens did not use glue in his artwork, relying on the pressure of the tightly packed surrounding grains to keep his artworks intact. Once an artwork was complete, Clemens would back the jar tightly and seal it.
Clemens had a remarkable ability to break down images and render it grain by grain with each piece of sand akin to a pixel of a digital image. He is thought to have produced hundreds of bottles during his lifetime but few survive today.”
Click here and here to view additional examples of Clemens’ extraordinary jars of sand art.
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hollymcloughlin-deactivated2018 asked: Hi! I posted in the Trek tags asking about cases since I have an iPhone 5s on the way. Your shop was recommended to me. Wow, you're talented! Do you have anything with Chakotay or Sisko or Worf?
Thank you! :)
I’ve never watched Voyager, so no Chakotay, but I’ve done two nice images of Sisko. I made each of them into phone cases if you (or anyone else!) are interested!
Visiting my shop through this link gives you free shipping (and five dollars off their new shirts, if you’re in the market for one of those as well)!
Stephen Fry poses on a grand staircase in a country mansion.
I need him in DW so badly.
did he steal 8’s jacket??
Looks like he stole one of Three’s jackets. And knowing the BBC, that could very well be an old Pertwee.
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LEMME TELL YOU BITCHES ABOUT MY GIRL CARMILLA
FOLKS FORGET ABOUT CARMILLA AND HER WONDERFUL LOVE STORY JUST BECAUSE SHE DOESN’T GET AS MUCH PUBLICITY AS OL’ DRAC BUT SHE’S AWESOME
SHE DOESN’T BURN IN SUNLIGHT BUT DOES WEAKEN CONSIDERABLY TO THE POINT OF FAINTING AND NEVER WAKES UP BEFORE NOON (MY SPIRIT MONSTER IS CARMILLA YO) AND WHEN SHE FEEDS FROM LAURA IT’S ALWAYS FROM HER LEFT BREAST. THAT’S STRAIGHT UP VICTORIAN EROTICA YO. SHE CAN TRANSFORM INTO A CAT AND INTO FOG, SIMILAR TO DRAC, AND HAS THIS LONG, BEAUTIFUL DARK HAIR.
YOU CAN READ THE WHOLE THING ONLINE IT’S OUT OF COPYRIGHT AND STUFF BUT HOLY SHIT A STORY ABOUT WOMEN IN THE 1800S THAT PASSES THE BECHDEL TEST WHAT????
GO. READ IT. IT’LL TAKE YOU BARELY AN HOUR AT MOST.
A future Mister Ghost’s Highly Enviable Monthly Parcel of Simple Yet Amazing Wonderments will be dedicated to Carmilla. Precise timing has not been established, but we can promise it will happen in the next 12 months.
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