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My cousin Sioban has her own practice now and she’s like, a respectable upstanding citizen and not at all a ball of creative garbage juice like me
Boosting for black women and girls who need therapy
Oh my god! This is a godsend!
that link doesn’t work. try this one: https://www.therapyforblackgirls.com/
@amariemelody Reblog for your black woman followers? :3
I’ll be on this list soon!
This is so important!!
So over on Twitter, the white reaction to the recent lynchings and subsequent protests has moved from "I'm sorry" to "how can I help?"
This is because Black people got tired of white people filling their mentions with sorries and started saying a better response is to ask what you can do.
For the most part, it hasn't been super productive. If a Black person says get involved with activism, there's a wave of excited white people on social media imagining themselves as characters in Les Miserables, waving the metaphorical flag for justice but not really sacrificing anything.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about how Non-Black people can help in the last 48 hours, and it comes down to this:
Don't reserve your outrage over racism for the big stuff ONLY. Of course the lynchings of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd are worthy of outrage. Yes, you should be speaking up. We hope that your expressed pain over witnessing it is genuine.
We don't expect you to stay fighting, though. It's not because we hate white people, it's because that's what the track record shows. Yes, some white people are committed antiracists. This isn't about them.
When something monstrous like a lynching happens, it falls under the socially acceptable label of racism. For Black people, these events are traumatizing, but not because they are a surprise. Racism is not an event for us, it's an everyday facet of existence. It's the demonization of Black children by the good school/bad school dichotomy. It's the empathy gap, where white people are sympathized with more than Black people. It's your white boss asking when you're going to move out of your "bad" neighborhood. It's downplaying all of those things because it's uncomfortable to think of smaller things as real racism.
How can you help? Think about the ways you contribute to white supremacy. It's something I do as a Black person, especially as a biracial Black person. I've had antiblack/colorist thoughts, it's part and parcel of living in a white supremacist society. I don't believe any white person who says they haven't. My family has been the victim of a public antiblack hate crime, and I still have to be intentional about confronting antiblackness internally. That's how ingrained it is. Don't tell me that you're not racist as a white person when mixed and Black people have struggled with it themselves. Society tells us that Blackness is inferior over and over, every day. Don't tell me you don't struggle with it, because all that tells me is that you don't think about it unless something happens that is so heinous you can't look away.
Don't reserve your outrage for the big stuff ONLY. When you clock out after the newscycle moves on to something else, it signals to us that you only consider things like lynchings actual racism.
Antiracism is an everyday thing. Very often it means calling out things that don't kill people, but are harmful all the same. See, those "little" things make the big things possible. They're connected.
If every white person was conscious of everyday racism and worked to eradicate it even when racism isn't a trending topic, it would help. That would actually help. There's no magic bullet to absolve you.
This is a terrible thearer production, a great horror movie or a fantastic prank on theater critics.
100% of the reason I never use emojis is that a plaintext =P may be ambiguous, but every vendor has a very specific idea of what emotion it’s meant to convey, and no two of them seem to agree. Is =P mocking? Is =P conciliatory? Is =P horny? The emoji version is definitely going to convey exactly one of those, but which one depends entirely on which vendor’s platform is being used to view the message, leaving me in a position where my Apple Personality and my Samsung Personality are effectively two totally different people.
Some day I’m going to write a cyberpunk novel where the obligatory megacorp’s Big Evil Scheme involves selectively altering which version of any given emoji is displayed to a particular viewer on a message-by-message basis in order to subtly manipulate how people perceive each other and manufacture emotional strife they can exploit to sell people things.
(The megacorp eventually turns out to be engaged in a memetic proxy war with a rampant AI that’s exercising a sort of indirect mass mind control by performing targeted alterations to the autocomplete suggestions in people’s text messaging apps, counting on the fact that some people will accept the suggestion even if it’s not exactly what they meant because it’s easier than typing the whole thing out.)
do u guys remember those posts that would be like EVERY single mother fucker who reblogs this post will get an ask from me saying what animal their blog reminds me of. GO! and they’d get like 80,000 notes. do u guys think that those people r still answering those. like are they contractually bound by the tumblr engine to keep sending asks until they’ve actually sent one to every single person that reblogs. this is irl tumblr gothic
ok i’m doing my own
every single MOTHER FUCKER that reblogs this will get a custom swear word in their inbox. i WILL send every single one or else i shall take my own life with mine own enchanted blade. on my Honor.
i fukcing hate this show
This is the best scene in the entirety of IZ imo it’s literally perfect
according to the staff commentary for this episode, the script actually called for heavy traffic to be rushing past Dib and Zim in this scene, which is why they’re shouting at each other, and you can even still sort of hear the sound effects but then, for whatever reason, in the finished episode they just forgot the cars
@arr-jim-lad I’m CRYING is that actually a thing that happened, I can’t believe I’ve never heard this
YES
Haute Couture Fall Winter 2015-16 Atelier Versace
*stifles a sob* oh my god. This spoke to me in a way nothing else has.
@appears I fucking love your writing. ♥️
Utterly accurate.
OMG
i lost it at jondor
GACKASS
“Eye of Artemis”
Moss, antlers, and flowers🌿
Done by me
Can you tell me why Frodo is so important in lotr? Why can't someone else, anyone else, carry the ring to mordor?
but someone else could.
that’s the whole point of frodo—there is nothing special about him, he’s a hobbit, he’s short and likes stories, smokes pipeweed and makes mischief, he’s a young man like other young men, except for the singularly important fact that he is the one who volunteers. there is this terrible thing that must be done, the magnitude of which no one fully understands and can never understand before it is done, but frodo says me and frodo says I will.
(when boromir is thinking of how he can use the ring to defend gondor, when aragorn is thinking of how it brought down proud isildur, when elrond is holding council and gandalf is thinking of how twisted he would become, if he ever dared—)
but then there’s frodo, who desires nothing except what he has already left behind him, and says, I will take the Ring.
it is an offer made out of absolute innocence, utter sincerity. It is made without knowing what it will make of him—and frodo loses everything to the ring, he loses peace and himself and the shire, he loses the ability to be in the world. It’s cruel, the ring is cruel, it searches out every weakness you have and feeds on it, drinks you dry and fills you with its poison instead, the ring is so cruel.
and frodo picks it up willingly. for no other reason except that it has to be done.
(the ring warps boromir into a hopeless grasping dead thing, the power of the palantir turns denethor into an old man, jealous and suspicious, it bends even saruman, once the proudest of the istari, into a mechanised warlord, sitting in his fortress and bent over his perverse creations—all the best of intentions, laid waste)
but there’s a reason gollum exists in the narrative, which is to show—well, to show what frodo might have been. because even as frodo grows mistrustful and wearied, as the burden of this ring grows heavier and heavier, he is never gollum. he is gentle to gollum. he is afraid—god frodo is so afraid for 2/3 of these books he is so tired and afraid, but he keeps moving, he walks though it would pull him into the ground, because he asked for this, he said he would.
someone else could have carried the ring to mordor, I suppose. the idea of a martyr is not dependent on the particular flesh and blood person dying for some greater purpose. but such a thing has to be chosen, lifted onto your shoulders for the right reason, the truest reasons, and followed into the dark, though it would see you burnt through and bled out.
I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way.
y'know say what you want about tumblr (and I have), but this is still probably the simplest and most powerful distillation of the heart of the Lord of the Rings I’ve ever read. I think back to it all the time
You never know if someone needs this. Reblog this, even if its not your ‘blog type’. Just do it.
Yes, please reblog
Do it. Now.
i sat here and thought about reblogging this or not but then i realized how many people feel suicidal, and i have too its not dan and phil but i could honestly care less, bc i rather have someone not die then make sure i strictly stay to my ‘blog type’
Blog type doesn’t matter. Caring for people does.
This isn’t my blog type but *deep inhale*
SAVING SUICIDAL LIVES IS BETTER THAN KEEPING IT TO MY BLOG THEME SO DEAR YA’LL WHO ARE SUICIDAL I’M HERE SIS/BRO/SIBLING!! STAY STRONG!!
this one time I ran a red light on mistake and I didn’t notice it was red until it was too late so I just ran the light screeching like an angry pterodactyl the entire time
a cop was at the intersection so he pulled me over and when he came up to my window he was wheezing cause he was laughing so hard and he said
“ok so i know you ran a red light and that’s really bad and you should never do it again but i’m not gonna give you a ticket cause that was the funniest thing i’ve ever seen and my partner can’t get out of the car cause he’s laughing so hard he’s about to pee himself”
i forgot that i’d had my window open when i ran the red light and the cop told me that all he heard from my car was this really high-pitched “screeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEAAAHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhh”
and that’s how i got out of getting a ticket for running a red light
So I found this caterpillar on my way to class
We’re bros
I named him chicken nugget
Aaaa he’s turning a duller color… I hope he’s alright
So apparently chicken nugget is a spicebush swallowtail and they turn yellow before they pupate. He was making little silk things everywhere Bruh this caterpie is going to evolve to metapod today my boy isn’t messing around
update hes entirely yellow now
i made him a tube room
hes crawlin all over the place checking it out
its happening
False alarm he moved a bit This guy
??? caterpie doesnt evolve into kakuna
whats he doing
its happening part 2 For Real This Time
chicken nugget using those advanced tactics balancing my man doesnt do anything halfway
i put on some tunez for him so he can get into the metamorphazone
sorry for keeping you all in suspense but chicken nugget is doing fine and he has a cool hat now
hes been chillin like this for a couple days
hes been in cocoon for 10 days now 🎉🐛🎉
let me know how he’s doing soon
HES BUSTIN OUT
im going to sleep, chicken nugget is snoozin and ill check up on him as soon as i wake up
hope he doesnt party too hard
🐛 💤 💤
hes gone goth hes in his emoteen stage
CHICKEN NUGGET IS A CHICKEN WING NOW BABY WE HAVE LIFTOFF!!!!!
hes’s in a bigger container than the one in the pic now but im gonna let my home boy find his way in the world after he gets used to his wings a little bit
this kid doesnt have a bad angle dang
there he goes he’s free and im so proud and a little sad
this was an incredible experience
(thats my family oohing and ahhing in the background)
I’ve seen yall reblog the unfinished ones SO MUCH that I’m getting pissed, anyway here’s the full chicken nugget saga.
Awesome! Hope you’re happy somewhere, Chicken Nugget!
I have missed this post so much! Let’s all celebrate Chicken Nugget!
do you guys realize that,,,, chicken nugget is one of those butterflies that is perfectly half female and half male?? nugget’s left wing is typical of a female spice bush swallowtail and the right wing is typical of a male
a gender role smashing icon
I wondered why the wings looked different
Incredible
intersex icon
He’s a bilateral gnandromorph!!
Firefighter demonstrates how to put out a kitchen fire
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