a different kind of imperfection

does anyone like remember that there were wildfires in Australia and Trump got impeached like back in January or?

Bonus:

So someone pointed out to me recently that in a few years, maybe a few decades, the history of the us during covid is probably going to get twisted. The fact that we all had to make and wear cloth masks is going to be hailed as a symbol of how we “"came together as a nation”“” or whatever the fuck propaganda spin they try to put on it.

So I just want to say, for the record, the time of the corona virus pandemic was not a time when america came together.

This was a time when people hoarded toilet paper and sanitizing supplies either for themselves or to sell at absurd prices to the desperate people who didn’t get to the store soon enough during the shortages

This was a time when scared parents were sending their kids to finish school in the spring in plastic trash bags because they couldn’t think of any other way to possibly keep their families safe

This was a time when grocery store and retail and service workers were forced to keep working whether they wanted to risk their health or not because they couldn’t make rent otherwise and the people with enough privilege to have remote jobs tried to repay them with applause instead of fair wages

This was a time when nurses had the hold the hands of multiple dying people every day as their families watched their loved ones die over a video call because the hospital couldn’t risk having visitors

This was a time when city governments had to handle so many eviction hearings that they rented out convention centers and called in the national guard instead of doing a rent freeze to stop predatory landlords

This was a time when racism and police brutality were so unbearably horrible that people protested in the streets for months even though there was a god damn pandemic that our federal government wasn’t doing shit to stop and the cops were so mad that they were being asked to stop beating up black people that they were beating up everyone

This was a time when schools being forced to reopen in the fall or lose their federal funding had to draft templates for letters if a teacher or a staff person or a fucking child died from exposure to corona at school

This was a time when the president of the United states demanded that the cdc stop releasing data about all the people who were dying because of the warnings he ignored for months were making him look bad

This was a time when some state governments didn’t mandate masks and forced businesses to reopen because they didn’t want to pay unemployment to people trying to stay safe at home anymore

This was a time when Jeff Bezos was on track to be a fucking trillionare because everyone was ordering things on amazon instead of going to the store and the people he worked to death to get it didn’t see a single cent of it

This was a time when instead of providing homeless people with housing, we painted boxes on the ground to show homeless people how far away the had to be on the street to maintain social distancing

We did not come together to make cloth masks. Cloth masks represent nothing less than the absolute and utter failure of a nation’s government to inform and protect its citizens

This was not a time when we came together. This was a time when we survived, and not all of us made it.

This was a time when people casually talked about how many human lives the economy was worth without considering the evil that had just come out of their mouths.

This was a time when thousands of us died for profit and the ego of a cheating narcissists con man who scammed his way into the white house

This was a time that we survived. Most of us tried to do the right thing, stay home, limit trips to the store and socializing, wear a mask. And still, so many of us were lost. Thousands every day.

But that wasn’t a good enough reason for some people, for those among us who were too selfish to recognize the responsibilities we have toward one another as human beings.

This was not a time that we came together

This was a time that we survived

Not all of us made it

And those of us who did survive will never forget the evil we saw daily in our politicians and those around us

a kid getting their period doesn’t mean they’re a woman, it means they’re like 13 & having a normal bodily function they need to know about & should be allowed to stay home from school bc cramps SUCK

Ok, I gotta take a moment to mention vaginal discharge. Literally Yesterday a friend and I were talking about how WE WERE NEVER TAUGHT ABOUT VAGINAL DISCHARGE which happens at an even earlier age, in my case I was like, 10, and both of us had MENTAL BREAKDOWNS over it because nobody prepared us for having this excessive, seemingly purposeless goo in our pants. We thought we were doing something wrong to cause this, or that something was wrong with our bodies. Both were very scary thoughts to have.

Discharge was also INCREDIBLY UNCOMFORTABLE, walking outside during colder months was horrid, it felt like you’d sat in a spilled drink. Wind chills would basically put your crotch in the freezer.

I had it for a year before my mom realized it was really discomforting me. I had asked for pantyliners and she thought I didn’t need them because for her, she didn’t have the same level of discharge that I did. She thought her experience was the standard for all vagina owners. Once I did get pantyliners, it was life changing. I could finally walk around without being extremely conscious of a sensation that previously felt like nails on a chalk board.

To this day I still feel like getting discharge was more traumatic then getting my period. Largely because I wasn’t prepared for it. Sex-Ed for children fucking matters.

ok, this is important.

Sex-Ed for children fucking matters.

and i’d like to point out, teaching kids about their bodies doesn’t even have to require talking about sex. you can teach young kids the stuff they need to know for personal hygiene without getting into intercourse. genitals exist 100% of the time, not just when we’re using them for sex. we spend our entire lives carrying around reproductive systems, whether we use them or not. they require constant maintenance; teach young people what they need to know to keep themselves safe & comfortable.

Dinotopia is a fictional utopia created by author and illustrator James Gurney. It is the setting for the book series with which it shares its name. Dinotopia is an isolated island inhabited by shipwrecked humans and sentient dinosaurus who have learned to coexist peacefully as a single symbiotic society. The first book has “appeared in 18 languages in more than 30 countries and sold two million copies.”Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time and Dinotopia: The World Beneath both won Hugo awards for best original artwork.

God these images still send this ENTIRE thrill through me. They just evoke that feeling of being a child with a book too large for you, staying for so long on a single picture that you feel like you could turn around in it.

Gurney consistently produces a world that feels completely reasonable and real. The color, the light, the relationships between fore- and background,

the fact that it seems like a real world, where people are engaging in perfectly reasonable cultural activities…

The natural gestures, implying the personalities and relationships of characters in a single image…

And it’s quite creative. I mean, look at this pair of bagel sellers. WHAT A GREAT WAY TO SELL BAGELS?

I feel like there is so much to learn from the way Gurney does his work - his blog is here http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com 

a lava lamp is one of the most things of all time

Gotta make room for new mistakes in 2021!

I agree that tumblr is objectively the best social media right now but we CANNOT let this go to our heads. If we act like this site is anything more than trash our hubris will lead to tragedy

yall want replies but we’ve had messenger pigeons since the 1800’s???

The last messenger pigeon died in 1914

i just saw a pigeon today?? put a letter on it

The wonderful mind of a child. #EthicalMemes

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Fun fact: Dolly Parton is not blonde. All her blonde dos are wigs. When she goes out with her husband, because he doesn’t want to be in the public eye, she has her real hair and wears more typical middle aged southern lady outfits and people just…. Don’t recognise her. She just Clark Kents her way into maintaining a private life.

my respect for this woman is without end.