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Reblog from my whump blog!

Source: Uzlo (uzlolzu)

@utopium

having a non-binary relationship to gayness can be hard and confusing and complex sometimes, but is absolutely beautiful and wonderful. a hearty yeehaw for non-binary gays 💓💖💘💗💓💖💘💗💓💖🤠

Media double standard cements the system.

“ANGELIC” mass murderer

Wow only took me forever to post something gav900

am i petty? am i going to celebrate the disney/pixar 6-year streak finally ending? losing to a movie i haven’t even seen? and feeling vindication on the behalf of all the animation studios who were ignored and scorned in the past? oh absolutely

@ everyone in the notes are asking about “what happened”

this article haunts me every single awards season. this article. god. it just sums up how oscar voters are just clueless when it comes to animation:

a voter called princess kaguya and song of sea “two obscure freakin’ Chinese fuckin’ things that nobody ever freakin’ saw”. like, 1.) racist! 2.) those movies are japanese and irish, respectively, and 3.) you’re an official oscar voter and you’re complaining about the movies being OBSCURE? HUH? it’s absolutely baffling that this person can vote for the oscars! they’re so utterly disrespectful to movies!

2 of the voters in the article voted for the disney movie just because their kids liked it, so, that tells you what they think of animation pretty quick. this was the year that big hero 6 won over httyd2, kaguya, and song of the sea (the lego movie wasn’t even nominated).

it’s just an ongoing, tiring problem that just pervades the U.S. as a whole, unfortunately. disney/pixar makes great movies, but they’ve been winning for 6 years straight, and it’s absolutely connected to the fact that many of the voters don’t care about animation.

so spiderverse winning this year’s best animated feature is a great step forward in recognizing the value of animation! and i hope there’s more thought put into voting as the years go on; but, again, the lack of respect that animation has is a cultural issue.

cowboy advice

but most of all

i… made a cross stitch inspired by this post….

it was a christmas present for a friend. he loved it. thanks op

DO NOT SUPPORT SALVATION ARMY 

I can back this up. It isn’t only their shelters.

I have a family friend who worked at our local Salvation Army headquarters as a a secretary. This particular office took all the Christmas donations for children in need, put them in a warehouse, and on a designated day the staff and their friends picked through them all, taking whatever they wanted. She saw people hauling away bikes donated for specific families. Some local children had hundreds of dollars of gifts donated in their name, and on Christmas they received three cheap things, items likely not even from the person who sponsored them.

My friend quit, and I’ve not given them a dime of my money since then.

Do not give to the Salvation Army.

@amiib in case you needed more info on them and why not to donate!

hi im bitter about people not commenting on fics. im sad seeing all these authors get so discouraged because no one comments. it takes like 5 seconds! just do it!! dont know what to type? me neither! heres some handy pre-written comments for you! “I dont know what to comment! That was great! thank you for your hard work!” “That was lovely! I really enjoyed this chapter/fic.” “How dare you?” “AAAAAAAAAAAAA” “Extra kudos because one is not enough!” if you read a fic and dont know what to say, leave the tab open, come back later! see if theres a line you really liked! tell them if it reminded you of something dumb! tell them if your roommate saw you crying while reading it and now your roommate is reading it!!! SHARE WHATEVER. BE INCLUSIVE! everyone wants to hear SOMETHING. silence kills passion. show authors you care! show artists you care!!!! 

THIS!!

You guys may think is silly, but it truly makes me write more whenever i see you guys comment - like it gives me motivation to keep writing!!

Otherwise i feel like no one really liked what i wrote and it just sucks for me.

Trust me when i tell you that a comment means a lot to any artist, it really keeps us passionate.

Commenting does help alot. I’ve written many books on other writing platforms and I’ll have 100 reads and no comments.

COMMENT COMMENT COMMENT!!!!

I don’t care if me posting these things a million times is annoying, I’m a salty fanfic writer who craves validation.

consent through fear is not consent

let’s repeat that again:

consent through fear is not consent

And while we’re at it:

consent through guilt is not consent either

Asking until you get the desired response is not consent.

pressuring people does not mean they consent

Consent through confusion is not consent.

Anything but a freely given yes is not consent!

love is stored...in the rat!

love is stored in the rat!

in 2019 i really hope people struggling with internalized homophobia, transphobia, and biphobia can find peace with themselves and their identities, and we as a community can do better to help and support each other especially when it comes to this

THE ONLY WALL THAT DESERVES ATTENTION GOING INTO 2019

The demonstration was planned to create awareness of gender equality — and to protest a religious ban that prevented women of menstruating age from entering one of the country’s sacred Hindu temples even after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of their entry on Sept. 28 last year.

The proposal for the demonstration was announced by the government in early December, after the threat of violence from male devotees forced several women to abandon their attempt to enter the Sabarimala temple. The event was organized by the Left Democratic Front, a coalition of political parties in Kerala led by the chief minister of the state, Pinarayi Vijayan, but no state money was used. The demonstration was funded by several independent women’s organizations and by political parties in Kerala.

Volunteers from more than 176 social and political organizations joined forces with the Kerala government to make the event happen. It was discussed for weeks on news channels and on social media. Word spread in small towns and in rural areas through word of mouth. On New Year’s Day, the organizers arranged for private buses to transport women to points along the highway. Transportation appears to have been one of the main expenses.

Even as women of all ages lined up on one side of the highway, many of their menfolk — husbands, friends and relatives — lined up on the other side to show their support.

For Vigi Ninan, 46, a lawyer practicing in the family courts of Thiruvalla who was part of the protest, the huge turnout of men, women and children was an indication of how the country is gradually awakening to a woman’s right to be treated as an equal.

“After all, it is our constitutional right,” she says. “But it’s significant that many men supported the protest as well; we weren’t alone in this.” Her husband, a local administrative officer, attended.

– Millions Of Women In India Join Hands To Form A 385-Mile Wall Of Protest

article on the bbc radio news about the first protest (the two women) but not the subsequent one.  blimey.

Patton does the stretchy arm thing so he can hug all three of his boyfriends at the same time send tweet

Patton totally does. Especially when they’re scattered throughout a room and he want cuddles but can’t seem to catch them all at once.

He just reaches out, and keeps reaching until he’s got them all in his grasp and then he pulls them in close and he has the softest smile

patton, loves his BFs and wants to hug them but they’re all sitting on opposite ends of the room: *does the stretchy arm thing to hug them all*

thomas, walking in at the worst possible time: oh my goOODDDDDDD

Not to get controversial, but I don’t understand people who marry someone who has a different first language than them, and then make zero effort to learn that language. 

I think monolingual people underestimate how much your mother tongue shapes you and becomes a part of your identity. I’m not expecting someone to instantly become fluent in another language for me, that’s not realistic.  But if that is the person you have chosen to spend your life with, take a beginners course, learn some basics, make a little effort. If you can say “I love you” to them in the language that is most natural to them, it means more than you know, and shows that you care about that part of who they are.

Deceit’s name should start with a B so that his initials are B.S.

You have no idea how long I laughed at that

This joke is 100% worth the payoff