I love talking to kids about disability bc
1. they often just Get It, and
2. they have 0 concept of disability as a tragedy or something pitiable.
I've watched kids get into an argument with a teacher bc they thought wheelchairs were cool. I told a kid that I can't stand for too long sometimes and they replied, "That's okay, I can't do cartwheels sometimes, but I just do other stuff then. You can sit down with me if you want". Today a girl asked me what the headphones on a classmate's desk were for and I told her that headphones are important for some kids because noises bother them, and she said she wished she had headphones at home, because her baby brothers make a lot of noise and it makes it hard to think. The idea that different people could use tools at different times is intuitive and simple and when accessibility aids are explained neutrally, kids don't see them as bad or unfortunate, they're just things that are useful.
Even mental disability!! In Kindergarten the other day one of the kids asked me why his table partner got stickers when nobody else did. I started off by saying, "Well, when you do your work well, it feels good, right? That's your brain giving you a reward," and the kid just right away went, "Oh, and the stickers are like his reward?" YES! You are 5 and have a better grasp on ADHD than most adults! Kids blow me away every day.
🎶You deserve to get paid! Let them know that!🎵
You will not die at the hands of quicksand. Ask me how I know this
Please, how do you know this?
quicksand does not have any hands
Pisses me off how good Shakespeare actually is. Like yeah he's actually that good. People hype him up like he's the best English writer ever, and yeah he's actually an S+ tier writer.
Insane that he did all that while naming his characters shit like Count Evilcount and Peter Penissex.
it remains insane that he wrote a love sonnet hinges on the idea "you will live forever because this sonnet, specifically, will be remembered for all time" and that sonnet, specifically, became so famous that it serves as a synecdoche for the very concept of poetry. world historic called shot.
y’all expose yourselves and take this fanfic test i was just forced to by an irl so now i’m making you too
In my weak defense I’m in a lot of smaller or old fandoms and you take what you get. Also i don’t usually use the exclude option and i love when the crack is treated seriously.
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Cory Booker fasted and stood all day and all night and spoke till his voice nearly gave out for his constituents. And Republicans can't even show up to town halls. The contrast could not be starker. Let Senator Booker be an inspiration to us all. "The power of the people is greater than the people in power."
You can't get what you want without asking for it. Tell America you want to get the traitors and criminals in the "First Felon Twice Impeached Russia First Administration".
You want investigations. You want hearings. You want consequences. You want resignations.
You need to control committees to get investigations. American voters ensured that Democrats can’t control any committees
You need to control committees to hold hearings. American voters made sure that Democrats would be the minority in both houses of Congress and don’t control the committees they need to hold hearings.
Elections have consequences. By deciding that the Democrats had to be punished for Israel’s actions in Gaza, the consequences are that the Republicans can do anything they want, including ignoring how bad Trump’s people are at their jobs.
Just a little reminder for third-party voters and non-voters that you chose this. You decided you were fine with Trump controlling all three branches of the government. Don’t come crying for the mommy Democrats to save you now when you deliberately made sure they would have no power to stop Trump.
Some of you guys have never burned a CD and it shows
Some of you have never sat in front of the radio for hours with your finger poised over the record button on the tape deck waiting for specific songs to come on so you can make the jankiest mixed tape ever... and it shows.
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(Peter Wimsey voice) Let's get something out of the way. I know I look and sound like I personally know Bertie Wooster. I know that my entire mien is that of a devoted attendee of his gentleman's club. I know. Unfortunately I am the smartest person in a ten mile radius and there's been a murder.
Your April Fools' Day reminder that trickle-down economics was invented by conservatives in the 1980s to justify massive tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. It’s been nothing short of a disaster.
"Don't trickle down on my leg and tell me it's raining."