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@danielhowell formless blobs represent!
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me: i wanna write
someone: then… write?
me:
me: i wanna draw
someone: then… draw?
me:
Me: How do you color?
Someone: just… color?
Me:
i feel u
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venusian–eye
technically we’re ALL, always LARPing, because the Self is only a construct,
I want a new character
Then make one.
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im-not-a-skelmersdale-monster
Absolute shenanigans
daco-broman
this is the best video on this whole website
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Hello everyone! I’ve seen a couple of posts about this before, but none recently, so just a reminder!
Please use “Latine” instead of “Latinx” or “Latin@” when refering to nonbinary Latines or groups of Latines. Here are a few reasons why!
- In general, we nonbinary Latines have been trying to find an alternative to the gendered -a/-o endings in many Spanish words for a long time. The -e ending is our solution that the nonbinary Latine community widely agrees on, and wants to gain traction.
- Using the @ symbol merely fuses the two binary gendered endings. It isn’t inclusive of nonbinary identities.
- While an X is not gendered, it also is not easy for Latines to pronounce. It is not a naturally occuring ending in our languages, and due to its placement there is no agreed upon way to pronounce it.
- Additionally, the @ symbol and X endings are hard if not impossible for screenreaders to recognize. We want to make sure to keep accessibility in mind!
- There are already many words in our languages that end in E. It is an ending that flows naturally and is easy for us to pronounce.
Thank you for reading! I would really appreciate any reblogs. Happy Pride!
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Fandom will bend over backwards to paint Chris Evans as a progressive hero when all he does is make fun of Trump on twitter.
Meanwhile, Don Cheadle has BEEN fighting white supremacists on twitter and shows up on SNL supporting trans kids AND throwing shade at Trump
erikkillmongerdontpullout
And people said his protect trans kids shirt was just a gimmick and that he doesn’t actually care not knowing he has a trans child who he supports unconditionally. Like the quickness of people to just refuse to acknowledge the work Black people do is just wild.
erikkillmongerdontpullout
People on the notes are like “umm what does Chris Evans have to do about this :/ they are both great” it’s not about dragging Chris down, it’s about highlighting a disparity in appreciation, attention, and respect. People are literally making up stories about his wokeness because he helped Regina out of her seat while Don was called a poser and a fake activist for wearing the “protect trans kids” shirt. The point is to highlight how racism and bias shape celebrity stan culture.
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gay people: wave and fly the rainbow flag during pride month
cishets: UMMMMMM wHeReS tHe StRaIgHt PrIdE fLaG???????????
me, a lesbian, here to bring you hets some good news: here’s your flag!
i forgot that heterosexuals have not one but TWO pride flags! here’s the second:
What you are doing here is exactly what you don’t want done to you: stereotyping people based on their sexual orientation. Way to be just like the people you hate. Congratulations, you too can be a bigot and an asshole.
someone’s not having a good kia summer sales event
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vampireapologist-archive-deacti
book: “she has naturally red hair”
screen adaptation:
vampireapologist
book: “she has naturally curly hair”
screen adaptation:
vampireapologist
book: “red hair, freckles”
screen adaptation:
korrawarriorprincess
Book: “she was black”
Movie adaptation:
Book: she was a lesbian
Screen adaptation:
chantosakura
Book: “…he asked calmly.”
Movie:
Book: “she was plain and not very attractive”
Film:
satanssyn-n-things
Book : She was …
Film:
masochist-incarnate
None of the images will load but I know exactly what they all look like
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Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes.
Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself.
The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.
— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (1982)
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what do other people have against subtitles? like bitch,.. my ears are Not Friends with my brain, let me have my captions
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We mourn. We remember. We stand with the LGBTQ community against hate and violence.
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tockthewatchdog-deactivated2020
Dude just stop climbing mount everest. just stop it. Wtf
Not sure if this is a shitpost but we really do need to stop climbing mount everest. It’s largely pointless and we’ve made a huge ecological impact of years from waste left behind from all exhibitions. Not to mention the economic impact on locals
people in the notes are trying to imply this is good, normal, natural, and not something to be discouraged, so uh… lets break this down
obvious warnings for discussions of death
- pollution
- there are mountains of literal shit on everest. i can only assume people forget that everest is freezing and so poop wont break down the same way as it will when youre camping (or that they dont want to carry bags of poo around). this contaminates glaciers which has began to cause damage to the water supplies of nearby local villages
- similarly there are mountains of rubbish. in 2015, it was reported that yearly clean up efforts had removed 15,000kg of rubbish and 800kg of human waste from everest.
- because of the high altitude, a bag of poo or rubbish becomes so heavy to carry that it would be deadly to do so.
- pollution thanks to littering is a growing problem and one that is hard to fix because of the above point – “Even picking up a candy wrapper high up on the mountain is a lot of effort, because it’s totally frozen and you have to dig around it,”
- tourist privilege
- to the average english speaker, “sherpa” has come to mean guide, despite the fact it is a name for an ethnic group.
- 300 people have died on everest and the last year without a death was 1977. 111 of those deaths are people from nepal.
- sad as it is to say, for tourism and money flow to keep coming in, it looks better for native guides to die than for the tourists to die. sherpas bend over backwards trying to help those they are assigned to
- sherpas are often treated incredibly poorly by those they are assigned to, despite breaking their back (and risking their lives) to try and help
- sherpas often have to support inexperienced tourists (who are on everest for some fuckin reason), making the already dangerous summit even more so. some of these tourists dont even know how to tie basic safety knots.
- many sherpa guides work in the industry not because they want to but because they can make 10x the average wage in nepal doing it.
- many of the deaths of tourists are down to doing extreme things for an ego boost, such as climbing without oxygen.
- the corpses
- should you die on everest you will likely remain there. “A dead body that normally weighs 80kg might weigh 150kg when frozen and dug out with the surrounding ice attached.” the risk to others isnt worth it, in most cases
- furthermore, if you cant be found or your family cant organise rescue quickly, rescue may become impossible due to you literally becoming stuck to the mountain.
- sherpas have reported how emotionally and mentally difficult finding these bodies is and plenty of them have died trying to bring people home
- the difficulty in retrieving corpses means that many are left, mummified and frozen, in public view. it is common to find bodies when climbing which has proven to be difficult for many climbers
- people who have climbed everest have gone out their way to say the media isnt being sensationalist about this, for once, and its as deadly and filled with corpses and rubbish as it is reported to be.
- death is incredibly normalised on the mountain. a british man, famously, huddled with a corpse in a cave bid to survive. 40 climbers passed him and very few attempted to help, despite him being alive. why? most assumed he was a corpse and so didnt check.
- this normalisation is why some corpses have gained names and become markers. green boots is the most famous, but the german woman and sleeping beauty are other examples. a stretch of the climb has been called “rainbow ridge” due to the bright colours of jackets belonging to corpses that poke through the snow.
- tourism
- more than 4,000 have climbed everest. while thats barely any compared to the overall global population, it definitely isnt the impressive, one of a kind feat it once was.
- most people actually die AFTER getting to the top, not on the way there.
- 2019 was the deadliest year on everest since 2006, excluding years where deaths were largely due to natural disasters.
- tour companies do not screen you for experience, anyone can sign up to go up mount everest. this means incredibly inexperienced climbers have become common, causing danger to themselves and others.
- nepal also has no rules for who can climb the mountain.
- until this year, the nepal government turned a blind eye to most of this. presumably, for them, the money income was worth it.
- in 2012 it was reported that overcrowding was becoming a major issue, causing many to die that year. congestion caused by inexperience was blamed. nothing was done. in 2019 we heard the same story.
- 2019s viral photo of the crowd climbing. people died waiting in this crowd. people stepped over the dying and dead to make it to the top. congestion caused by inexperience was blamed, once again.
- people fight to take selfies at the top
- theft has been reported by climbers on the mountain
- the demand has meant dodgy equipment has found its way onto expeditions. climbers reported oxygen tanks leaking and exploding.
- psychology
- people who have been rescued have been reported saying that they wished they had died; that the disfigurements to their body and the way such has changed their lives werent worth it
- people have had their families die struggle never getting a body back
- climbing over dead bodies, using them as markers, and even sharing a tent with one, has proven to be difficult for some who climb
- the family of the man thought to be green boots has discussed how horrid it is to them that their sons dead body is posted online.
- these thoughts were echoed by the family of the woman who came to be called the sleeping beauty.
you really think all that is natural and normal?
in what world is everest worth it
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mockwa
Some countries have trained builders in the informal sector in safe building techniques.
Took me a bit but I was able to find their youtube channel! ^^
They REALLY like making pools of one kind or another, it’s fun to see. Plus they have a few tree houses they’ve made and the like
oh my god
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Source: mockwa