Rainforest Dreamer

Ohhhhhj so the childhood self doesn't disappear forever they come back as a ghost when you are struggling to break into adulthood and sit with you during your lunch break so you're not alone. Alright

(this hits too good to be left in the tags hi)

The way the activity tab cuts the end off replies with ellipsis is the funniest thing in the world sometimes

I never got the whole craze around vampires, i acknowledged they were cool but i didn't get the hype.

Untill...

I recently started reading a copious amount of fiction and webcomics about vampires, only difference is now the romance is between 2 women and not a straight couple. Now i get it, now it clicks. The issue wasn't the vampires, it was the disconnect with a straight romance. You make it a lesbian couple and suddenly im like OH FUCK now i see why you're want to become immortal, now i get why the seduction of a vampire is hot.

Its like all the puzzle pieces fit together

You don't want a parrot- you want domestic pigeons. Quieter, friendlier, untraumatized by mere human existence, less likely to remove a finger, can find their own way home if they get out, thousands of years of domestication in your favor, did I mention quieter?

So you think Israel stopped at blowing up hospitals and refugee camps? Nah, they’re also blowing up schools. Schools.

Never stop talking about Palestine. They’re betting on people getting exhausted and desensitized to their atrocities.

Turkey has filed a case against Israel in the International Criminal Court.

For their ongoing genocide of the Palestinians.

"Today... we have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court in The Hague against the Hitler of the 21st century of Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, who must stand trial for the genocide he committed in the Gaza Strip and all crimes against humanity."

And it's not just Turkey.

Algeria has filed a case against Israel with the International Criminal Court.

With their president Abdelmadjid Tebboune saying "Where is humanity? And where is the global conscience that has become absent regarding the genocide being committed?”

Algeria's case is being backed by Colombia.

3 Palestinian organisations Al-Haq, al-Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights are filing their own case against Israel in the International Criminal Court.

Just to be clear, a "truce" or "pause in fighting" is not the same as a ceasefire. Ceasefire implies the total end of hostilities and peace negotations. This 'truce' means that Israel will continue the current war and genocide after the stipulated time, and they have said so themselves. This is not over.

cats dont even know how baby they are. they probably think theyre wise and dangerous and respectable but theyre actually little baby guys. we know this. its obvious to us that theyre small and baby. but they dont know

They De-Tumblrized Ms. Frizzle

@transfagsculine​

#how do yall whitewash a white woman 

why would you leave this in the tags lmao

Allow me to explain:

Everyone dropping this pic

And talking about how the new frizz her is her niece, allow me to do a direct side by side instead

These are STILL not the same woman. Where is the icon fashion, the earrings (the chameleon, which might be in the new show idk I haven't watched it), the prominent hooked nose, the broader shoulders, the volume to her hair, the LIFE IN HER EYES

This frizzle looks like she's been called into the school board for inappropriate behavior and dress one too many times and has been broken.

Also others have said it before me but I couldn't find it in the scroll backs but they whitewashed all the kids too. They same face syndromed everyone to either be easier to draw or be more ambiguous so as not to offend or both or something, and it just makes me sad

Fuck it I did the digging cause I'm still mad

And that’s not even to mention what they did to the bus itself.

The old bus had a personality and life and fun and now it’s just… a bus.

HOW DO Y’ALL WHITEWASH A BUS?!

It's gives "anti abortion Jehova's Witness cartoon" now

This, I find, is an excellent example of how “aesthetic cleanliness” usually just means making something less interesting. Taking the bus and Frizz’s dresses as a relatively unproblematic, but very stupid, example first. What the showrunners have done here is seen the visuals of the original show and tried to declutter them for the tastes of modern audiences. The issue is that the taste they’re catering to is that of parents because they are generally choosing what children watch, and those parents don’t like clutter, and they see all of those fun shapes and colors as visual noise. YouTuber Tantacrul has a great video on how this effects children in music education. In short it’s why no children’s music toys have the capabilities for experimentation that normal instruments do, parents can’t stand “inharmonious sounds”

The much bigger problem here comes when this design philosophy bleeds into the character designs. What they’ve tried to do is make the show easier to look at by smoothing everything out making it all look a little more “cohesive.” Problem is that when you homogenize everything you, well… homogenize everything. Skin tones are lightened, curls are straightened, Noses are smoothed, fat kids are made skinny, it all becomes less diverse and less interesting. It paints a picture of an executive who thinks that people of color and other marginalized people won’t sell, their version of the magic school bus will be much neater, much more fitting to show our kids.

TL;DR:

Problem a) they tried to declutter the visuals to cater to modern parents who like “clean aesthetics,” without considering what will be fun for kids to watch

Problem b) in doing so they whitewashed the character designs and send the deeply insidious message that certain people don’t fit the desired aesthetic and are thus, not fit to be represented in kids tv

Brutally I suspect it's also because the 'cleaner' visuals are less detailed and therefore take less time to animate and are therefore cheaper to produce

Why pay an already overworked animator for ten hours of actually good content when you can pay them for five hours of 'modernised' (read: shittier) content?

It’s thanksgiving season in the US which means that, like every year, there’s a flood of articles encouraging you to fight and/or break ties with your family over political discussions. Bearing that in mind, I’d like to remind you that trying to isolate you from your existing support networks is one of the primary warning signs of a cult.

If someone who DOES NOT KNOW YOU OR YOUR FAMILY is telling you DEFINITIVELY that you should reject loved ones wholesale because they have a certain political opinion or religious belief, run in the opposite direction. They do not care about you; they care about adding more voices to their side of a screaming match. Loneliness is a sickness so many Americans suffer from, and it’s terrible how these voices of anger and isolation try to blind people to the importance of hope, understanding, tolerance, forgiveness, and reconciliation.

Relationships are HARD. People aren’t perfect. Things don’t always go right. But relationships can heal, if we allow them the chance. Please don’t rip your hard relationships out by the roots. Disagreement does NOT equal hate. And even when the other person is hardened against you and you have to move on, it’s okay to leave the door open a crack. You never know when they may change and heal and come knocking.

I do sometimes wish being able to wear fashion that just completely covers me from head to toe was acceptable in the USA. I also wish that kind of fashion wasn't gendered.

Oh man now I want to do some world building with masculine fully-veiled fashion.... warriors on horseback, but also like, a cyberpunk aesthetic, a far-future aesthetic, too, oh man that'd be so fucking cool.

I wish I was a fashion designer now, I'd put it on the runway and make being completely veiled in public cool and fashionable for all genders.

Like, we all think the Mandalorian and knights are cool for never showing their faces. That, but with flowing cloth. Patterns! Embroidery! Metallic thread! For the cyberpunk aesthetic, neon glowing thread! I think that shit could be punk as fuck.

wow I want to somehow make this a reality.

When vampires are portrayed as mainly preying on women that's so unrealistic like I'm sorry but they're too careful especially around strange men. Dudes are much easier. You could literally lurk in a bush in the park at night and call out "whoa look at this fucked up looking squirrel" and have 3 grown men climb in immediately

Also almost every woman I know has low blood pressure and so many are anemic. Men make for much better prey because 1) easy to catch yes and 2) so much more blood

hey idk if y'all know this but dont put cigarettes out on dry skin without being okay with an actual fuck ton of damage. lemme explain:

i see too many people (mostly new doms with too much to prove) reduce cigarette play to ONLY fully extinguishing the cig on dry skin. i say dry as in "no one spit there first." this is a third degree burn. it will melt past ur actual skin tissue and reach fat and muscle. i once knew a girl who fully lost motion in three fingers because of having a cigarette put out on the back of her hand. Similarly i knew someone whose kink inflicted cig burn got seriously fucking infected, and because of how deep the burn goes - the infection almost got into his blood stream.

i seriously seriously suggest you start with talking about the implications of long lasting, serious tissue damage to your dom/sub before EVER doing this; and especially never out of no where with someone you have never got consent for this for. The tissue damage is lasting, and awful. its comparable to a deep gouge, or a serious chemical burn.

So. How do u practice cigarette play safely? well, to start, as you would with ANY fucking kink, talk it out. Make sure both sides of the act are fully aware and fully consentinf. Next; there are actually a lot of really fun and safe ways to use cigarette burns.

Firstly, if its about pain (and if you watch older european bdsm films u will already know this one) brushing the cherry (lit tip) of a cigarette across the skin in short, deliberate bursts. this induces both pain and shock, but leaves little to no lasting damage. be careful as to position the cig on its side, and glide across the skin. if the cherry snags the skin and it ashes, this can become unsexy fast. something about a loose hot coal is harder to control yourself under.

SECONDLY, remember how i specified dry? well, spit and piss freaks out there rejoice because simply pooling some liquid on a spot before putting out a cigarette will nulify a lot of the fire before it can reach the skin. this has the same dominating effect, and involves spitting on ur sub, which everyone loves. you can also pool spit into the end of your/their tongue and put it out there. This one rarely hurts if done right.

if you want a scar, then thats okay. just make sure you know the risks, and practice safe kink. wash the spot immediately afterwards. Make sure the doms hands have been recently sanitized/washed, and that its done in a somewhat clean enviroment. alleyways are fine if ur aftercare game is godly. bandage the wound up as soon as the act is over.

do not neglect this, especially as a dom. It is your fucking place to make sure you aren't doing legitimate, unwanted harm to your sub. failing to do that much, the bare minimum, is honestly fucking pathetic. dont be pathetic. take care of ur subs. take care of urself! nobody wants to find out that what they thought was a consensual kink act was actually awful for your partner.

love yall be safe!

everytime i see one of many videos of some poor fucker getting a cig put out on them at some crusty ass house party and the doms fingernails look like they havent been washed in three years, i die a lot inside.

“do we think maybe a vegetable would cause less despair” still living in my head rent free