Honestly I love ironically ugly clothes. Like. Hideous in a special way. If it’s not inherently hideous I’ll match it until it is.
Me, walking off a bus in a leather sports bra, body harness, mesh shirt, holographic skirt, over the knee striped socks, wedged high tops, and a cat purse: I am a beacon of sin and I Am Here!
You reblogged this and I’m sure you know I did that but I need you to know that I really did that.
im offended that yr trying to pass this off as ugly
There was a great deal of discussion about this, in academia and even in parts of the mainstream media immediately following 9/11. It was sort of a guilty secret kind of discussion because nobody wanted to appear unsympathetic to the victims of terrorism, but it was there. Then it got shut down by the whole Pearl Harbor cultivated patriotism effect that was getting everyone to accept the Iraq and Afghan wars (which are still going on), where you aren’t allowed to say anything negative about the United States or its past or how that past contributes to its current problems, and by the destruction of decent corporate journalism that occurred in 2002-2003.
It sounds dumb to say that people know these things but won’t talk about them, but the people with enough education and experience to know are part of professional frameworks, and those frameworks and career paths are heavily ideologically and financially gated, and so people with knowledge don’t speak up or talk about things like this because people who do that don’t stick around or advance. And the people who know but are outside of “respectable” career positions, civilian or government, aren’t relevant and nobody listens to them because there’s nothing to gain and everything to lose by doing so. That’s how it has worked in the United States since World War II. That’s why no one learns, and why government has turned into a patriotism purity feedback loop of destruction.
Update: The castle as of April 2015 is actually only around $1,300,000 USD now due to the currency exchange rates! 😀
this goes even further, some European countries will give you a castle for free if you submit a plan stating how you intend to restore or preserve it. Italy alone for example has somewhere between 100 and 300 castles they intend to give away to anyone with intent to be a caretaker, they literally cant keep track of how many discount castles are up for grabs
it doesn’t even have to be an ambitious plan, even if it says you just intend to keep it from becoming more shitty and will occasionally add a few bricks when you can afford it. given that most of them come with land you could convert the grounds to actually produce enough income to pay for the repairs- like setting up apple trees and brewing cider you sell with your castle name on the bottle, or raising some goats for cheese, a hobby farm could turn this into an actual income opportunity. hell, throwing parties at the castle could make it an income opportunity
they will literally –GIVE– you a castle to make sure someone is taking care of it rather then let them all sit empty
I’ve coined a new term for the gallows humor that my generation indulges in because we have an overheating planet, a dim political future, a crushing economy, and a real avocado toast problem:
jinlinli 