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bugs r buddies

@bugs-are-buddies / bugs-are-buddies.tumblr.com

🦠 Lauren 🐞 she/they 🐝🪲 🪰 ask to tag! (spiders & centipedes are tagged) this my main blog. neurodivergent (adhd/asd), feminist, and otherwise weird. sideblog: lilbuggirlie

[image description: picture of an antique white dish towel with fringe.

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the real confederate flag: Dish towel used by R. Lee to surrender to Union forces, known as the final flag of the Confederacy

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Yknow what, I’m rebooping w comment even tho I JUST rebooped bc MEMERS AND ARTISTS THIS IS YOUR INVITATION TO CHANGE HISTORY it’s time to make this dish towel famous.

Can you imagine this image with “These Colors Don’t Run” underneath it? Art of huge pickup trucks driving along but flying the dish towel? Any famous artwork featuring the confederate battle flag redone to feature the dish towel?

Idk I’m no good at this I’m not a meme maker and I can’t draw for shit but what if this broke containment and “the dish towel of surrender” became forever associated with American white supremacists?

*closes eyes* Mmmmmmm 🥰

you mean like

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Me when I'm in a "give your child the worst name imaginable" competition and my competition is any millennial couple

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In related news I met a kid with older sisters named Kelly and Molly today (normal, fine names) and I'd like my lovely followers to take a guess as to what the youngest's name was

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Great guesses! Some were pretty close! Unfortunately,

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Okay. Round 2, submitted by my friend. A real baby born this year to actual millennial parents. She is a girl. Her name starts with L and is six letters long. Put guesses in the tags.

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Good ones, gang! However,

The beekeeper forgot to insert the frames in the hive in which the bees collect the honey. The hardworking insects then built their own architecture from the honeycomb so that the air can flow freely and maintain a stable temperature.

Creative gardening group post

When you ask someone "Are you mad at me? Do you secretly hate me?" and they say no, that's like praying at one of the shrines in Oblivion. Now you have the Blessing of They're Not Mad At Me for the next 24 hours.

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The real problem with the Manic Pixie Dream Girl getting tropified is that it's so strongly rooted in being a uncomfortable caricature of that one autistic girl you knew in high school that when people who actually are autistic write autobiography they get accused of Manic Pixie Dream Girling themselves.

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I don't think it's just a matter of people taking the term out of its original context, either. Sure, that's part of it, but the thing you've gotta recognise is that the media archetype that the term "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" was created to criticise has always been a caricature of neurodivergent women. The criticisms that coined the term never seemed to fully recognise that, and often conflated female characters being invented to facilitate a male character's emotional arc and female characters being depicted as neurodivergent like those were the same thing. That poison has been there right from day one – popular culture getting hold of the term just made it worse.