There are very few pictures of my childhood. Film was expensive and I was an ugly child. Instagram that lunch and your dog doing the thing. Go for it.
As a history buff, I approve of “selfie culture.” We are the most visually documented generation of all time. When a person takes a selfie, they’re telling the future a story about a moment in time. Their clothing, their makeup, their hairstyle, their accessories, their pose, their background environment… Even the weather on a particular day! Every bit of that information tells a rich tale about our world.
What I wouldn’t give to have an album of Anne Boleyn’s selfies, or even just candid shots of random courtiers. I would pore over every image, as scholars do with the few paintings we have, and make guesses about their world based on items in the background, little quirks of fashion, and the relationships of people in the image.
Every day, we modern folks create a treasure-trove of information for future scholars. We never know what tiny, inconsequential detail captured by a lens will unlock a secret for a researcher. When we record ourselves, we record our culture. We write letters to the future every day. Our humor, our taboos, our social movements, even our memes. (Don’t think for a moment there won’t be a scholar one day who writes a very ponderous tome on Tumblr memes.) Anyone who scoffs and thinks they can determine what scholars of the future will find important is deluding themselves.
I once saw a Victorian picture of a young woman. She was formally posed and unsmiling. But written on the back was a small verse. “Those in the future, look upon this, and know in this moment, I was happy.” That always haunted me. So, yes, I like looking upon your images today and knowing you’re happy in a particular moment. (After all, that’s what life is, a series of moments.) Capture them. Remember them. Smile when you look back on them. And know that someday, your message may touch someone you’ll never meet.
“Those in the future, look upon this, and know in this moment, I was happy.”
D.A.R.E. led me to believe that there would be drug dealers on every corner offering me free samples to get me hooked. They must have confused drug dealers with Costco on Sunday.
Me, on a date: “So, what are your thoughts on the dress?”
My date: “Actually, I came here to audition for the role of Pluto and I will be singin-”
Me, immediately shoving breadsticks into purse: “I’m sorry I have to go home immediately…”
My date: Okay… That sounds fake but okay.
Me, gorging breadsticks into my mouth as I head out of the door: “Ugh these breadsticks are a beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world, too pure…”
By Fallout Boy
Throw a list of the Zodiac signs as breadsticks in there and it will be 100% complete.
Me: This year I lost my best friend
Them: Quit telling people I’m- JOHN CENA
JUST DO IT
You’ve heard of breadsticks in purses now get ready for…
Veganism is cool but there’s a sense of ableism, classism, and racism that kinda comes off of some vegans and it’s gross.
One of you wanted me to elaborate on this and I’m gonna try and be quick and concise.
Some people physically cannot survive off of a plant-based diet. Congratulations if you are not one of them, but don’t go shouting at people. You are essentially guilt-tripping them into dropping nutrients/vitamins they need, that come from animal products.
Not everyone can afford the vegan lifestyle, let alone support a family on it. You would need the advice and close attention of health care professionals to raise a child on a vegan diet. Let’s also talk about the, underpaid, PoC who are farming your plant-based diet. Why do you advocate for animals and not bat an eye at injustices faced by people of colour?
Food and culture go hand in hand and a lot of you WHITE vegans think it’s so damn easy for people to leave meat. I’m lactose intolerant and I don’t eat red meat at all so it’s pretty difficult going to family parties and not being able to eat what is there. You can’t look at cultural dishes and say “why the fuck are you eating a dead animal” that’s very ethnocentric and bigoted of you. Let PoC eat their cultural dishes.
I respect your lifestyle, but don’t be so god damn condescending and forceful with your ‘movement’.
