In 5th grade some boys hid my desk in the boys bathroom. I was confused when I got to school and it was missing, so I just sat on the floor and read my book until the teacher came in and made them put it back.

I realize now they were trying to trick me into go into the boys bathroom, but no one actually told me that’s where my desk was, and it didn’t occur to me to ask.

Looking back I realize they had to make the effort to get to school early to move it, and I feel a tiny bit of regret for not reacting more.

In 3rd grade Richard brought his new lacrosse set in for show in tell. the ball went missing during class time and at the end of the day we all had to check our bookbags to look for it. I only glanced in mine (I just wanted to go home), but that evening I found it at the bottom of my bag. I was so scared of being blamed, I threw it into the neighbor’s yard and never told anyone.

I found out 2 years later that my bully Luke put it there to frame me, and he was still extremely frustrated I hadn’t gotten caught.

I’m pretty sure Richard got a new ball.

I had a crush on a boy I met in Kindergarten and made NO attempts to hide it because the people on TV were always telling each other when they liked each other. Didn’t work as well as I’d hope (i.e. didn’t work AT ALL and no boy wanted to hang out with me ever after that), but that’s not the point.

Skip ahead to third grade. We had a new kid who was kind of a jerk. One day he asks me if I have a crush and I’m like, “Yeah, [Crush]. And?” Dude turns around and yells to my crush “Hey! She has a crush on you!”

My crush just kinda sighs and is like, “Yeah. I know. Everyone knows. Thanks.”

So this guy was hoping to embarrass me in front of everyone but it completely backfired because I lack the social filter necessary to feel ashamed of my base desires.

One time in like kindergerden some kid stole my shoe and instead if reacting I just went the whole day barefoot. No one questioned it. He got bored of no reaction and just dropped the shoe but by then I was too committed and continued to walk around barefoot.

Some of yall grew up with a low base stat of “fucks given”

damn right we did

you ever have to shake your leg because there’s a rock in it?

thats your bones

every day i learn some more

Rapunzel was Raised to Not Show Physical Affection

We’ve all seen that Gothel makes Rapunzel come to her for hugs, but today I realized it goes deeper than that. Gothel doesn’t want Rapunzel showing physical affection unless she has been given specific permission. Opening her arms is that unspoken permission.

For example, towards the beginning, when she’s reminding Gothel that it’s her birthday tomorrow, she grabs her arm in exuberance. Gothel is put out and then pries Rapunzel’s hands off her arm, all the while pretending she doesn’t remember (or care) that her birthday - something Rapunzel is extremely excited about - is fast approaching.

She also uses Rapunzel’s need for physical affection, deliberately taunting and “teaching” her with it by pretending to offer it, then taking it away immediately.

The first bazzilionty times I saw this movie, I always assumed Rapunzel was relieved to see Gothel towards the end of Mother Knows Best just because she was scared.

But now I realize it’s not only because she’s scared, but because Gothel is now giving Rapunzel permission to seek the creature comfort of physical contact that she so desperately needs after the gamut of fear she’s run.

Eugene, on the other hand, starts showing physical affection as soon as he starts feeling any affection for Rapunzel at all. He uses it as a comfort. Yet Rapunzel keeps her hands to herself.

It continues when he gives her the little flag, touching the small of her back in an affectionate way. But her hands (and attention) are full at this moment.

In fact, the first time she realizes she’s touching him, and he’s touching her, and there’s affection and enjoyment buzzing between them, she’s the first to pull away.

She’s alarmed at first, then apologetic and sheepish. Sorry I was touching you, Eugene. And he politely takes a step back, tuned in to her discomfort and giving her a little more space.

But that is why the moment on the boat is so important, and why Rapunzel has the reaction she does.

In taking Rapunzel’s hand, out of the blue (as far as she can tell), it’s sending her a clear message that he feels the same about her that she does about him, and that physical affection is both alright and wanted. That he will seek out her attention in a way Gothel never has. And from this moment on, she touches him often, holding hands for the rest of the song, brushing his hair from his face as he lay dying, and never letting go of his head, even after he’d died in her arms. Not to mention kissing him when he lives again, holding hands on the balcony while they wait for her parents and end-of-movie smooching.

Bruh.

ouch my heart

Mother Gothel was such a great villain because she was so realistic

“i’m in kind of a weird mental place right now” i say, as if there are times when i am not in a weird mental place

Sorry, Mother!

(via striderepiphany)

this one is never not funny

So my dad got his hip replaced and had the doctor save it so he could turn it into a cane

you cannot possibly become more boss than turning your own bone into a cane

I’d say he’s pretty hip

$50,000 immediately dropped into my bank account wouldn't improve EVERYTHING but boy it sure would be a grand, sexy little start to a good, happy life path, don't you think

Reblog for unexpected $$$ dropping into your Bank account.

Hahaha 50k would improve EVERYTHING

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if you don’t currently have any weed, you’re so fucking brave, hang in there, i’ve been where you are and i promise it gets better, you’ll have weed again soon, i’m blessing you all with that energy

We see you 😏 (x)

>Good guy director gets fired after far-right pundit digs up past he repeatedly apologized for

>Tumblr thinks this is okay

New rule, starting now. Anyone making a snarky comment about this gets unfollowed because that’s gross

>28 year old my little pony fan thinks I value their opinion on someone getting fired for making rape jokes

hahahahaha here I was, legit hoping this discourse wouldn’t show up on my blog but, there it is. wow.

#1) The person who dragged up the pedophilia jokes about James Gunn is none other than far-right blogger Mike Cernowich. You know, the guy behind fucking #PIZZAGATE.

#2) James Gunn already apologized for previous behavior. Like, several years ago. In 2012. Before #MeToo. Before ANY of this. And his behavior since then proves a marked change.

#3) In fact, James Gunn’s behavior changed so radically that he became the target of Mike Cernovich. Because Gunn’s been pretty outspoken about our current president. Which didn’t sit well with President Pizzagate, not one bit.

#4) So Mike Cernovich finding and released all the old tweets during SDCC was NOT a coincidence. This was targeted to Disney, to see if Mike can wank himself over forcing the biggest major conglomerate to make a marketing decision in order to get ONE GUY rightfully furious about Trump out of the business.

#5) Look, I think James Gunn’s tweets are pretty damn horrible. But to put it on the same level as someone like Harvey Weinstein is disingenuous.

#6) We’re not winning any wars with the mentality of “problematic people are forever doomed for having once done problematic things, even if they’ve changed.” And like stated above, James Gunn is NOT another Weinstein. I’ve said homophobic things in the past, and I’m A LESBIAN for fuck’s sake!!

#7) Dave Bautista isn’t the only one who’s on James Gunn’s side in this. The entire GOTG cast is on his side.

#8) In the end this isn’t just about GOTG. This isn’t about Disney. This isn’t about James Gunn’s career (he’ll bounce back). This is about Right-winger trolls weaponizing accountability. And it’s fucking gross.

This isn’t about Disney. This isn’t about James Gunn’s career (he’ll bounce back). This is about Right-winger trolls weaponizing accountability. And it’s fucking gross.

Niall soundchecking “Finally Free” in Houston 07/18/18

An eighth grade student from Weaverville Elementary School got a detention slip for sharing his school prepared lunch Tuesday.

Kyle Bradford, 13, shared his chicken burrito with a friend who didn’t like the cheese sandwich he was given by the cafeteria.

Bradford didn’t see any problem with sharing his food.

“It seemed like he couldn’t get a normal lunch so I just wanted to give mine to him because I wasn’t really that hungry and it was just going to go in the garbage if I didn’t eat it,” said Bradford.

But the Trinity Alps Unified School District has regulations that prohibit students from sharing their meals.

The policies set by the district say that students can have allergies that another student may not be aware of.

Tom Barnett, the Superintendent of the Trinity Alps Unified School District says that hygiene issues also come into play when banning students from sharing meals.

“We have a policy that prohibits students from exchanging meals. Of course if students are concerned about other students not having enough to eat we would definitely want to consider that, but because of safety and liability we cannot allow students to actually exchange meals,” said Barnett.

Bradford’s mother Sandy Bradford thinks that her son did the right thing by sharing his lunch. She also believes that it isn’t up to the school to discipline her son for good manners.

“By all means the school can teach them math and the arithmetic and physical education, but when it comes to morals and manners and compassion, I believe it needs to start at home with the parent,” Sandy said.

Bradford says that he would definitely share his lunch again if a friend wanted a portion of his meal.

http://www.krcrtv.com/news/local/student-put-in-detention-for-sharing-school-lunch/28115110

Kids can’t share now? Or trade lunches? What the actual fuck is happening?

I think this article is talking around what the actual issue is. The student who was “given a cheese sandwich” and “couldn’t get a normal lunch?” That’s how schools handle students whose families can’t pay their lunch bills. They’re required to give the kid something, so they get a slice of processed cheese between two pieces of white bread. Cheese sandwich. All those stories about the kids who went through the lines and then had their trays taken away and dumped in the trash in front of them because their account was $5 in the red when they got to the end of the line? Those kids were given cheese sandwiches. This isn’t about allergies. I guarantee you that kids at those tables are swapping food all the time. It’s part of the school cafeteria experience. If the second kid was allergic to the burrito, we’d be reading a different story. It’s because this kid undermined the system that is supposed to punish students for their parents’ “negligence” (poverty).

^ this

Taken from this article:

I’ve personally had the same type of situation happened to me before in which lunch has been thrown right in the trash in front of me when I didn’t have enough money for lunch, and was given an alternate meal of lesser quality. I hadn’t even realized how disgustingly perverse that was at the time because of how it was normalized. Shaming the poor, and even depriving children of food has become normalized. This is especially a problem in conservative states where funding for education is low and funding for things like football stadiums and other less important things is high. Public schools need to be providing students with free meals, which can’t be done without the proper funding as well as the proper allocation of funds on the part of schools and school districts. 

All that wasted food. This is cruel.

#america’s ideal of ‘you can’t have something you need that there’s plenty of unless you’ve ~earned it~’ is so twisted#i stg

Note, they make you pay at the end of getting your lunch specifically to produce the emotional trauma of having your food tossed in the garbage in front of you and the rest of the school.

Being an abused child scared to tell my parents anything meant being subjected to this often. Yeah, the school was entirely adding to that abuse by putting a child in the position of going hungry or confronting their abuser.

Why? “To discipline a kid for being poor” is the only idea that makes sense to me.

Throwing it in the garbage is the most fucked-up thing, because it makes it clear that this isn’t about retaining value.

The food in the garbage is just as lost as the food in the student. If this were about the food costing money they would arrange for the students to pay for the food first and receive it second. That way the cafeteria could avoid the loss of food they’re pretending to be so concerned about, and it could go to another student.

But destroying the student’s lunch in front of them tells them that the food isn’t important to them at all—there’s no attempt to preserve it to sell it to paying students; they’re perfectly happy to see it go and not be paid for it—so long as it doesn’t go to the student.

This deliberately sends the message that the garbage container is more valuable than the student in the eyes of the school. That if you cannot pay, you are so worthless that they would rather destroy resources than allow them to provide any benefit to you. And people who call themselves good, who say they are doing their job of protecting and guiding and teaching you, will throw food away right in front of you and tell you to your face that they “can’t” give it to you.

harry’s theatre show in chicago featured in the background of “how it ends” on Netflix (13:56)

tell me petty reasons you’ve unfollowed people for

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