the kids are alright.
This is kinda perfect.
if anyone ever tries to tell u that racism/sexism/ableism/etc. are “natural” just show them this video
Those two that just could not come up with any differences! They were like “we both got glasses, both got these red sweaters, maybe we’re different heigh- nope we’re the same height… well shit we’re perfectly the same!”
Those kids were perfect
Can this get anymore adorable? Aaahhh
So I’ve heard that England are having consecutive days over 28 degrees, and that’s really hot for them. Here in Australia, the average is usually around 30 degrees. I don’t want to say that you guys are weak or anything, but I feel like you guys should step up your game a little. Then again, I wouldn’t be able to cope with your winters.
This is about the copyright reform by the EU and it will change a lot of things for websites like AO3, but also for Tumblr and basically every website with user-generated content. There are two articles that are critical - Article 11 would impose a “link tax” and it would make running a website more expensive. Article 13 would force websites to have mandatory content-filtering requirements on websites in order to search user-generated content for potential copyright infringements. It would lead to content being automatically remove. That might lead to - No more gifs from your favorite TV show, no more fanart, no memes, no more links to an newspaper interview etc.. Sites like YouTube, Tumblr, etc. would probably block out a lot of content just to avoid being sued by publishing companies and entertainment companies.
The law is still debated and therefore we need to act now. The next key vote will be happening in the European Parliament’s JURI committee on 20th/21st of June. So people need to tell their politicians why this law and especially these two article would be a disaster for the freedom of expression online.
What to do? Here are a number of e-petitions and standardized emails you can send to show that you disagree.
In English
Use your voice, use different ways to protest. If you don’t have much time use the standardized mails, but it is always more effective to write personal emails – so find your personal MEP from your home country here - http://www.europarl.europa.eu/committees/en/juri/members.html - google their contact details and write to them. Remind them that in 2019 you will be voting in the next European election.
Hier ein paar Protestoptionen auf Deutsch https://www.change.org/p/stoppen-sie-die-zensur-in-europa-axelvossmdep
Und ich hatte es in einem anderen Post schon mal, aber je mehr Protest desto besser - hier kann man die Abgeordneten kontaktieren - https://www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/eu/ausschuesse/ausschuss-fur-burgerliche-freiheiten-justiz-und-inneres. Am besten alle Wege nutzen. Und es ist immer besser einen personalisierten Text zu schreiben, aber jeder Protest ist besser als keiner. Und immer gerne darauf hinweisen, dass 2019 die nächsten Europwahlen sind.
You want further information? Here is the call for action of AO3 - https://archiveofourown.org/admin_posts/10637
Some infos in English (thanks @katsuefox) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44412025 https://edri.org/files/copyright/copyright_proposal_article13.pdf http://www.alphr.com/politics/1009470/article-13-EU-what-is-it-copyright https://news.sky.com/story/memes-will-be-banned-under-new-eu-copyright-law-warn-campaigners-11398577 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52016PC0593
Und hier Infos auf Deutsch: Nicht nur auf Deutsch, aber alles rund über die Copyright Reform und damit zusammenhängende Dinge - http://leistungsschutzrecht.info/news Weiter Infos: https://netzpolitik.org/2018/upload-filter-eine-gefahr-fuer-die-netzkultur/ https://netzpolitik.org/2018/copyright-update-1-debatte-um-upload-filter-im-eu-urheberrecht-spitzt-sich-zu/ https://netzpolitik.org/tag/eu-urheberrechtsreform/ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Copyright-Reform-EU-Staaten-einigen-sich-auf-Upload-Filter-und-Leistungsschutzrecht-4059219.html https://www.liberties.eu/de/news/offener-brief-streicht-artikel-dreizehn/13194
Please share even if you are not from Europe as some of your followers might be and this is really important as it could lead to serious consequences not only for AO3 but for many platforms that hosts fanart, fanfiction and many other things.
And for that reason I tagged a lot of people underneath as I don’t have so many followers but you have many followers and we together can reach a lot of people and as mentioned before – this is really important as it could change the way fandom can express itself online. (as well as many other negative effects for freedom of expression in general)
Just hoping that nothing like this happens in Australia.
I need to prove to someone that Jensen has loving and supporting fans who don’t only love him because he’s hot, please help spread the word! :D
all right. so. this is a Harry Potter AU, in rambly and abbreviated form.
I love it
To commemorate the violence against LGBTQ members, Pride Shield created a bulletproof rainbow flag. The thematic installation is made up 193 pride flags, one for every country in the world. When positioned together, they defy bullets, which aims to encourage the importance of togetherness. (Source)
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This. A thousand times this.
I literally started crying watching this
nobody ever talks about how saying non-binary genders don’t exist is racist as fuck
How?
many many many indigenous cultures have historically included more than two genders and to say that those genders do not exist is to say that those cultural traditions are invalid, and that only the imperialist gender binary is correct. which is racism.
Source?
Do you need any more or are you done being a dick
For those who don’t like Wikipedia
THISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHISTHIS
THE WESTERN IDEA OF TWO GENDERS IS EXACTLY THAT
WESTERN
THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF CULTURES ACROSS THE WORLD WHO SEE GENDER AS A SPECTRUM OR OTHER FORM OUTSIDE OF TWO GENDERS
Judaism has been recognizing six genders for thousands of years.
SIX.
JUDAISM.
Fuck off with this “binary gender is commanded by God” bullshit.
who was the fool who was tasked with naming the galaxy and the only adjective they could think of was ‘mmmmmmmmmmmmilky…’
scientist: (gazing up at space) scientist: ……….. it sure is a milky boy
NO
YOU DONT UNDERSTAND
ASTRONOMERS ARE THE SHITTIEST EVER AT NAMING THINGS I KID YOU NOT.
When it came time to name the two theoretical particle types that might be dark matter THEY INTENTIONALLY CHOSE THE NAMES SO THAT THE ACRONYMS WOULD SPELL “WIMPS” AND “MACHOS” I SHIT YOU NOT
THEY ARE FUCKING TERRIBLE AT NAMING ANYTHING
I just listened to a talk by Neil deGrasse Tyson himself LAST NIGHT and he went on about this more than once.
“I’m walking down the street and I’m like ‘ooh pretty rock…’ and some Geologist is like ‘actually, that’s anorthosite feldspar’ and I’m like ‘Nevermind, I don’t want it anymore.’ Any biologists in the audience? [some clapping] Yeah, you know what I’m talking about. The most important molecule in the human body, what did you name it? It has NINE SYLLABLES and it’s so long that even YOU GUYS abbreviate it as ‘DNA’!
But astrophysicists and astronomers? No, man, we call it like we see it. Star made of neutrons? NEUTRON STAR. Small white star? WHITE DWARF. You know that big red spot on Jupiter? Know what we called it? JUPITER’S RED SPOT.”
okay i’m glad you mentioned the biologist nonsense bc their naming methods are the bane of my existence
I see your astrophysicists-are-shit-at-names and raise you Marine-Biologists-Are-Fucking-Maniacs.
See this beautiful creature?
It’s a carnivorous deep-sea sponge that lives off of Easter Island and never sees the light of day, as it’s about 9000 feet down. Those delicate-looking orbs are covered in millions of tiny hooked spines, which latch onto anything unfortunate enough to bump into it, and hold it in place as it is digested alive by the sponge’s skin. Amazing, beautiful and profoundly creepy. They could have given it so many cool names. Could have drawn on mythology (I think Scylla would have been an appropriate reference), the region it was found in, the textured skin, PHAGOCYTOSIS, anything!
You wanna know what they called it?
Good job, marine biologists.
everyone else always seems to fucking get cool shit and i always get like “gel manipulation” and “using dust along w/ your fighting style”
Vampire immunity and pain embodiment.
Shapeshifting negation and dimensional dragon physiology. How cool is that?
Omnicompetence (being able to think your way through any situation) and technology ball throwing. Basically I’m a really smart Pokémon trainer
Are fedoras really that bad?
YES YES THEY ARE
ask-omnipony:
I don’t really believe this mumbo jumbo
I mean it’s a goddamn hat.
Right..?
The white rose, it symbolizes the unique beauty of all the women who wish not to be with a nice guy such as myse-
I wonder if this works with other kinds of hat…
Nothing ventured, nothing gained…
WHEEEN THE MOON HITS YOUR EYE LIKE A BIG PIZZA PIE THAT’S AMORREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Men of Tumblr are my favorite kind of people…
wait, does that mean?
oh boy…….
Luckily, this nonsense doesn’t work on girls.
Observe…
IT’S GOTTEN BETTER!
This post is immaculate
It can’t be true.
And it can’t possibly work on motorcycle helmets.
I must test it.
Nothing happening so far…
HOLY SHIT IT WORKS
What in the world?
Oh why not? This should be interesting.
Here we go!
Were all mad here in Underland!
What the hell! Never Again!
… Actually …
One more time.
Alright, I gotta try this!
Can’t be that bad!
….
…oh my god…
This is one of my favourite things to look at
holy shit this stuff is back
The Gravity Falls one though
i wonder if it works for flower crowns?
here goes nothin-
w HAT THE
DID I JUST-
WHAT THE FUCK
Okay Clearly something is up.
Hmm… I wonder
I’m sure nothing could possibly…
HOLY SHIT
IT GOT BETTER
I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING SO LONG FOR THIS POST OH MY GOD!!!
I wonder what happens when you wear 8 of these at once…
Never not reblog
IT’S ON MY DASH. ACTUALLY ON MY DASH.
[Image Description: Tag reading “I was supposed to be studying but instead I wrote porn pls don’t tell my mom”]
The AO3 Tag of the Day is: You will never bring your family honor
when I was 5 or 6 we had a father-daughter day at my school where you eat lunch together and play games and shit, but my dad didn’t wanna come so I went on my own. but my mum called my uncle real last minute and he immediately got off work and drove straight over to eat lunch w me so I wasn’t alone, and he even picked flowers from his garden to give to me and that’s when I realised that anyone can be a father but not everybody can be a dad
you can replenish your health by…: drinking water, breathing fresh air, eating a wild strawberry…
you can restore your mana by…: listening to folk music, breathing fresh air applies to this one as well… taking a walk…
I suddenly feel less pessimistic about these suggestions for improving mental health purely bc it’s worded like this
SO I JUST GOT A SHOT OF A RAINBOW AND LIGHTNING IN THE SAME PICTURE????!
thor supports gay rights pass it on
Do you wanna hear one of the funniest fucken stories?
Pls do tell
So in my town there is this emo satanist community and at some point a really influential emo dude called Raven lived here. Like every emo in Romania knew him because he was somehow the edgiest of them all. He was also a gigantic incel, but still tried to flirt with every goth girl on sight. At some point when he was in his last year of high school, before leaving for college, he tried to hit on an 11 yo girl(gross). It made her rlly uncomfortable. What Raven didn’t know was that this girl’s cousin was the strongest dude in town-2 meters tall, super bulky, literally looked like a mountain. So the girl told her buff cousin what Raven looked like, and one time, while Buff guy was at work, he spotted Raven. Now, funny enough, Buff Guy worked at a children’s playground, and he was dressed up as a clown that day. So he just walked up to Raven, patted him on the shoulder and asked: “Have you ever been beaten up by a clown?” and Raven said, “N-no”. To which Buff Guy replied :“It’s fine. Because you will be.”
there is no possible way to predict the many directions this post took
what does “men who adhere to strict gender binary” even mean tho
NO ONE adheres to the gender binary! NO ONE FITS THEIR GENDER ROLE PERFECTLY! THAT’S THE POINT! AARRRGGH!
NOOOOO OOOOONE…. ADHERES TO THE GENDER BINARY LIKE GASTON!
when I try to hear this in my head my mental voice is incapable of pronouncing it fast enough to fit the timing of the line “noooo oooone… adjksjfksfjslenry like Gaston!”
and when I try to fit it to one of the longer such lines, my mental voice becomes too confused about conflicting scansion to continue
no one’s droll like gaston no one’s swole like gaston no one fits his assigned gender role like gaston
I’m especially fond of the paaaatriaaarchy My what a guy that gastooon
Bless you for making it scan
NOW I CAN’T READ IT WITHOUT SINGING IN MY HEAD
No one’s droll like Gaston, No one’s swole like Gaston, No one fits his assigned gender role like Gaston! For there’s no one online half as phony, His tinder’s got dick pics to spare, You can ask any neckbeard or brony They’ll show you (no homo) whose trilby they’d wear! No one drawls like Gaston Or catcalls like Gaston, Or manspreads on the train in a sprawl like Gaston! I’m especially fond of the paaaatriaaarchy! My what a guy that Gastooon!
…I’m not sorry.
(ok here goes. its funny i promise)
At the time this story took place, I was like 6 years old. Growing up, I was a very mature child because I was never around other kids my age. My mom used to work a lot, so that left me with my dad but my dad was high off his ass (weed smoker) all the time, so he’d be passed out. My siblings were all in their late teens and with friends, so when I got home it was just me by myself. Everyday
And I had no other way to entertain myself than by watching TV. I watched everything, but my favorite was the after dark shows that came on HBO and stuff. The down side of watching those things was that I learned about things that was way ahead of my time with no adult supervision.
Well, one day when I came home from school I was watching TV (dad was alseep again and I was alone) and I saw one of those little flity phone companies. They were like sex operators or whatever, but at that time, my naive ass just thought that it was to find best friends. Like penpals and stuff, so one day I got the house phone and dialed the number.
The first thing that popped up was this super seductive voice but my dumb ass just assumed the person was sick (lmfao) and it said “For a man, press one. For a woman, press two.”
So I was thinking “Boys are gross, I need a best friend that’s a girl.” So I pressed two.
It rang a couple times until this lady answered the phone and I remember her saying “Hey, my name is Cynthia. What’s your name?”
So I was like ‘shit I gotta come up with something cool to tell my bestie’ “What’s up, Cynthia.”
And immediately, she got super quiet before she asked me “Um…whom am I speaking to?”
“The name is Delilah, but all my friends call me D.” (I remember I was coloring in my Lisa Frank diary when I said it too omg)
And Cynthia got quiet again before speaking. “Uh, how old are you?”
“I’m six and a half.” *scribbles in diary harder* “What about you?”
So she got super quiet again and was like “Uh…sweetie, where is your mother?”
“My mom’s at her job. Something my dad can’t seem to get.” *takes a sip from juicebox*
And I could hear her let out a stiffled laugh from the other line before clearing her throat. “Well, where is your father?”
“My dad smoked too much weed again and he passed out. Again.”
This time, she let out a louder laugh and I was like ‘heck yeah I made a friend. Check mate.’
So Cynthia askes me another question. “You’re not old enough to be on here, honey. I think you should hang up.”
So I got really pressed and kinda got sassy with her and busted out a line I had seen used in the movie Clueless. “Listen Cynthia, I’m a young, independent woman that don’t need no man. I need a friend, okay? It said you’d be nice to me on the TV.”
At this point I could hear her laughing really loud and before I could finish, she stopped me. “C-Can you hold on one second, honey? I’ll be right back. Stay right where you are.”
I was like “Okay.” And in the mean time, I made me a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and got some juice to get comfy while I waited. She finally came back like five minutes later and asked me if I was still there. I told her I was and this time, I could hear my voice echo a bit, meaning I was on speaker obivously.
“How old are you again?” She asked.
“I’m six and a half, don’t forget it, girlfriend!” *sassily snaps my fingers and takes a sip from juice*
This time, i could hear people laughing and saying ‘oh my god’ and shit like that in the background, so I asked her who it was. She told me they were her buddies and I remember saying something like “It’s always good to have ya homeis with you, right?’ and everyone laughed again.
Then they started asking me all kinds of shit too.
“Where do you live?”
“In a house, duh.”
“What school do you go to?”
“Why? So you can kidnap me? No thanks, girl.”
“How did you even get this number?”
“The TV, duh.”
Now after a while the group of people buzzed off and it was just me and Cynthia on the phone. We had a cool conversation about Lisa Frank books and I learned that she lived in Seattle with her boyfriend and that she had a little girl a couple years older than me.
At one point, I told her about the boys in my school that were bullying me and that I didn’t think I was very pretty. And you know what? She gave me some advice that I never forgot, even til this very day I still remembered it. She told me,
“Sometimes people will be mean to you for no reason and they won’t like you, but all that matters is if you like you. If you like yourself, that’s all that matters.”
Now at one point, nine o’clock rolled around and it was my bedtime, so I sadly told Cynthia “Okay, bestie. Its my bed time. I don’t wanna miss out on my beauty sleep.” and after exchanging goodbyes, we hung up.
So yeah, that’s my experience with the chatlines. Sometimes I think about Cynthia and wonder what happened to her in life. Is she still with her boyfriend? How is her daughter? I’ll never know.
I never told anyone this until now because its too good not to share lmfao. Adult supervision is important!
This is amazing and I’m so glad you shared it. I hope Cynthia is living her best life.
I stan one (1) Cynthia
This
Is incredible
