Main Account for CatTimesWithJellie! I write fanfiction and fanwank, mostly for The West Wing, but also Buffy and The Good Place and whatever else attracts my notice. Send me fanfic prompts for anything I've been reblogging lately. To find all my fanfiction, just search my "fanfiction" tag or check me out on AO3 where I am also Etraytin. To find my Quarantine Journal, search for the "quarantine" tag. And feel free to message me, I love to chat about shows or fanfic or headcanons or whatever.She/Her, 38, USA
I love the catchy music, but buying celery by the stick would just mean people buy the nice big outside pieces and all the middle bits get thrown away, not exactly ideal for preventing food waste. To really get the most bang for your food buck, start a stock bag in your freezer! Extra celery goes in, plus carrot peels and ends, plus any onion you chop and don’t use. Anytime you make a turkey or chicken or ham and have bones left over, get out that stock bag and those bones and make soup stock! Cheap, healthy and easy, and you’ll never waste another piece of celery.
[video by emersonbrophy. caption: no celery was wasted in the making of this video (very sick of ants on a log)]
Twitter: The Comic is a collection of comics based on the greatest tweets of our generation. The source material is used verbatim, typos and all. Despite the seemingly random nature of the tweets, the comic has reoccurring characters and story arcs that aren’t fully understood unless experienced through a single reading. With explicit permission from the writers of each comic, Twitter: The Comic could be a pretty rad book.
Only the long-time Captain America fans on AO3 can possibly understand how completely stoked I was tonight to talk with my 101-year -old client about bananas. I may just be history's greatest nerd.
(Incidentally, he was also pretty stoked that somebody finally confirmed his apparently long-held belief that bananas do not taste as good as they used to.)
One time I asked my mom (in her 70s) whether she, personally, knew any people in so-called "traditional marriages." I defined a "traditional marriage" as follows:
A man and a woman, married to each other
They are both each other's first and only spouse, neither has been married before
Neither of them has any children with any other partner
Any children they have were born after the couple was married.
After thinking about it, my mom was able to come up with a few examples of such couples.
But only a few.
And she had to think about it.
Yet we still live in a society where this type of family is considered "the norm" and the much more common types (blended families, single parents, divorced people) are considered "exceptions."
And this is not the only thing like this! There are many experiences/lifestyles/family types that are treated as The Default or The Norm that, in fact, may not apply to a majority at all!
Even in discussions like "We should remember that not everyone has [normative experience]," it's still framed as though the normative experience is, of course, still the statistical norm. It might not be at all! Or maybe it is the statistical norm worldwide, or nationwide, but not in your particular community, or your social circle.
Sometimes it's necessary to look at global or national statistics to correct your bias of extrapolating from your social circle.
Social bubbles are a real problem.
But. But. Other times. It's useful to just look at your social circle and ask yourself "Do these population-wide statistics really apply here? Should I be looking at them to determine what's 'normal' instead of just looking around me?"
So here are some things that are culturally assumed in the U.S. to be "the norm", that you might want to ask yourself: How many people do I know personally that this is actually true of? (Other countries have their own maybe-not-that-normal norms that I'm not as familiar with, but feel free to weigh in on).
How many people do you know personally who:
Have a "traditional marriage" as described above?
Have a work schedule of Monday through Friday, ending at 5:00 p.m.?
i.e. for whom Saturdays, Sundays, and evenings after 5:00 are "not at work" time?
Attended residential college from ages 18 to 22, and graduated with a bachelor's degree by age 23?
Had most or all of their college tuition and living expenses paid for by their parents?
Have, as an adult, the same surname as both of their parents, who were and still are, married to each other? Which was their father's surname which their mother took at marriage?
i.e. whose parents could accurately be referred to as "Mr. and Mrs. [that persons' same surname]"?
Don't take any regular daily medicine?
Depending on your social circle, you might know very few people in these categories! But you probably still hear people say unquestioned, taken-for-granted things like "We should have the meeting at 6:00, so people can come after work," or "Of course parents of college students should have a say, since they're paying for it."
In many demographics, these things aren't just "not always true"; they're hardly if ever true. I wrote here about the false assumption that college students are uniformly single, childless young adults. Are you scheduling your events on the assumption that evenings and weekends are free time? For that matter, how many child care providers serve families during the hours that most parents actually work? Are we ready to admit that these things aren't the norm yet?
this whole mutual thing is overhyped on this site. want to send me an ask off anon? do it. want to tag me in a post? do it. follower, mutual, or just random person who stumbled across my blog: I crave interaction and literally do not mind.
yesterday i learned that mannequins with nipples cost the same as mannequins without nipples. today i saw three cheese ravioli priced the same as four cheese ravioli. these are but some of the innate contradictions of capital.