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@krissielee / krissielee.tumblr.com

Krissie, old enough, she/her. Obsessive about all the things: RWRB, Kingsman, musicals, movies, and all sorts of other things. Not a great writer, but I try. Aspiring cultural anthropologist. Digitabulist.
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dabwax

In the end, if children bother you for sensory reasons and that's why you don't want them to be in the same public spaces as you, there are disabled adults who can and would cause the same sensory issues for you. Adults who are loud, who vocally stim, who have poor boundaries, poor hygiene, who cry in public, etc etc etc. And they're already socially ostracized for all of this.

So actually yeah, it's the bare minimum you can do for the group with the least human rights on the planet to figure out how to accept children as part of your public community without hating them for it, even if you are child-free yourself.

Haha, no, shut up your crotch goblins or get off the plane.

I am child free. I do not have children. Grow the fuck up, get the fuck over yourself. The world is bigger than you. You are not the main character. I'd rather deal with a million kids than one grown asshole who acts like this on purpose.

Also, if you are so mad at the fact parents won't keep their kids calm, why the fuck is that anger at the kids and not the parents?

Children are *people*. If you don't like them, don't have them! But they aren't going to stop existing in public.

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I saw this question posed on tiktok, but I think Tumblr would really enjoy it too.

If a fae creature offered to give one million dollars for a bone chosen at random, how many bones would you allow them to take?

Light clarifications; The fae is not the one choosing the bones. The bone is taken at random. Each bone, no matter the size or importance, is worth a full million dollars. You must also declare the exact number first, you can't go bone-by-bone. You either say 2 or you say 10, you can't work your way up to a higher number. The bones are removed instantaneously, and the money is given immediately as well. You will not get in government trouble for acquiring the money.

Tell me in the tags/replies how many bones you'd let the fae take. And as always, reblog for bigger sample size.

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sluggnya

if you want to test your luck, this site lets you choose a random human bone :) https://randomlistgenerator.com/human-bones

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Anonymous asked:

bike... bell...? none of the bicycles i've ever owned have had a bell

Bicycles don't come with a bell, you purchase a bell and you put it on your bicycle. You ring your bell to alert pedestrians when you are coming up behind them or are about to pass alongside them, or to alert others you are approaching in low visibility conditions, such as in heavy fog.

In my opinion people shouldn't be allowed to ride a bicycle on streets or pedestrian walkways without knowing things like how to indicate their direction or without having it drilled into them the importance of stuff like having a bell or reflective devices on their bike.

I'm a disabled man with impaired hearing who frequently walks with a cane - if someone on a bike comes up behind me too closely without warning, even if they don't actually clip me, the sudden whoosh beside me is liable to send me off balance, and I've also seen cyclists straight up clip pedestrians by trying to cycle past them without warning them beforehand - walking along the canal in Galway, I once saw a cyclist clip an old lady with her shopping bags and send her and the bags spilling everywhere.

You should wear a helmet when you ride your bike, you should put reflective tabs and/or lights on your bike's handlebars and the back of its saddle and/or the back of your jacket or rucksack whilst riding, if not wearing high vis clothing, and you should put a bell on your bike.

Many cyclists become infuriated with the fact that motorists frequently disregard cyclists or outright try to do them harm, and that's a very shitty thing - it doesn't mean cyclists should adopt a similarly dismissive or uncaring attitude as to pedestrians.

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As a lesbian, it’s happened twice already that one “guy” stands out to me and I think “huh maybe they’re kinda cute and interesting, I wanna get to know them” and then I get to know them better and it’s a closeted trans girl who I somehow sniffed with my little nonbinary lesbian nose

IT JUST HAPPENED FOR A THIRD TIME!!!!

You guys will never believe what just happened to me

What does it mean if every “man” I’ve been attracted to was actually a trans woman? Idk what this says about my sexual orientation but it does mean I have astounding egg-dar

Gays being able to detect trans people of our preferred gender and being able to feel preemptive attraction to them is a phenomenon I was not aware extended to people beyond me

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exigencelost

The problem with having lesbian moms is you try to be super cool and cut all your hair off and buy a leather jacket and wear boots all the time and then you go to some event in your neighborhood and all these women three times your age start cooing “oh you look JUST like your mother when she was your age, my gosh what a blast from the past, oh I just love your hair”

And let me be very clear, okay: I’ve seen pictures of my mom when she was my age, and she looked cooler than I ever will. My mom had exactly my fashion sense except she was two point five degrees butcher and habitually took over government buildings. My other mom was about six degrees butcher than that, and SHE had a motorcycle. Both of them have been charged with felony arson. I’m the prep member of my family and there’s nothing I can do about it.

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redstitcher

Please tell me at some point in your life some dick was like “we’re calling your parents over your behavior” only to have a bigger, more badass version of you come strolling in

Look obviously that happened many many times, usually with misogynist or ableist teachers. But I have a BETTER story than that, which is that when I was in 3rd grade, I went to this tiny alternative hippy school—it was a regular public school, it was just small and staffed/run by hippie communists—and my 3rd grade teacher was a woman who had been in an organization with my mother, and they had done direct action together more than a few times. We’ll call her D. One day I was sitting in D’s class, eight years old and bored out of my mind, and I scratched my name into the back of my plastic chair with a rock. Was this reasonable behavior? No. Why did I do it? Only the gods can say. I don’t actually remember doing the scratching, I just remember looking at the rock in my hand and my name on the chair and going, “HUH. That’s not good.”  So obviously I got caught, bc I couldn’t reasonably convince anyone that I wasn’t the one who had done it, since it was MY NAME, and as punishment for this act of arbitrary vandalism I was sentenced to recess detention for two weeks. It was October so this included Halloween. Halloween, to be clear, is a high holy day in San Francisco, and I was devastated to miss the informal festivities that would be occurring at recess that day, and I wept and wailed about this at home for some time until my mother decided that this was disproportionate punishment and took it into her own hands to do something about it.   So my mom walks into D’s office on a day when my mother does not have to be at work at a scheduled time, but D has to get her students from the yard in about ten minutes, and my mom sits down and says to her old friend and comrade, “Miranda is really upset about having detention on Halloween.” And D explains to my mother why the detention was issued, what the circumstances were, and my mother nods, and listens, and doesn’t argue, and doesn’t show any sign of getting up from her chair. And just says again “She’s really upset about having detention on Halloween.”  And D looks at my mother, and she looks at the clock in her office, which is telling her that she has to be on the yard in 2 minutes now, and then looks at my mother again, who shows no sign of having anywhere to be, my mother with whom D has organized and successfully executed multiple sit-ins and takeovers of government & corporate offices, and D says, “Okay, she doesn’t have to have detention on Halloween.”

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local-weirdo

Tell your moms that we love them.

You can express your love by donating to their organization, Prison Radio, which works relentlessly on a shoestring budget to amplify the voices of incarcerated people in the United States!

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