RE: talking to conservative parents, I’ve found a good method to de-worming their brains is to not get riled up, just act a little bored and remind them “the news cycle only shows salacious stuff. They want you to be mad and scared because it makes you easier to control. Think about it for a second. Do you REALLY believe everything they have to say?” Or “you can’t believe everything you read or see on the internet. Remember, they earn money every time you click on their video.”

And especially when my dad starts getting huffy about Prices or Artists He Doesn’t Like, I tell him “that’s the beauty of capitalism. they have a product to sell and the freedom of expression if you don’t like it you don’t have to buy it.”

Might not work for everyone but dad’s KRYPTONITE especially is saying “but dad that’s capitalism! You LOVE capitalism!” And he either has to stop complaining or admit capitalism is bad and so far I haven’t lost

"you're not man enough, not feminine enough"

so gender is something we can fail?

that means gender is not genetic and absolute and unchangeable

but something we can build and perform, and fail at (the standards they set) but also redefine?

if i can fail at being a woman, does that mean i'm not a woman? so does that make me another gender?

i agonized for 15 minutes about the wording of my post and you manage to simplify it with a perfect mean girls reference

I didn’t realise this until adulthood but handmade birthday piñatas are the apex of parental devotion. I spent the week cooking for my ravenous teenage cousins and felt a bit crestfallen at times that I was spending so long making something that was going to disappear within minutes—but with piñatas it’s so much worse, they exist to be savagely maimed. Year after year my father asked his kids what shape they wanted this year’s piñatas to be and he spent weeks painstakingly making them in the basement after work, only to watch a bunch of oversugared bat-wielding kids gleefully destroy them in less than 10 minutes. 

I mentioned this to him and he said he remembered researching tarantula anatomy for the giant spider piñata I asked for when I was 4, trying to make the fangs the right shape and to cut the crepe paper into very thin ribbons so the thing would look appropriately fuzzy, and I was like “and I don’t even remember it because I was four!! spending so long building a beautiful object only so your kids will have fun destroying it, knowing they won’t even remember it, is such a selfless endeavour” and he said “my other motivation was that you said you wanted the spider to look real & scary so the kids at your birthday party would be terrified of it and you’d get to scoop up all the candy and I wanted to support your slyness & ambition”

literally hate how lgbtq ppl are constantly asking "am i valid?" "is this a valid way to be?" every 5 seconds. girl idk what to tell you but if you live your life seeking validation from others your self-image will always exist at their mercy. you gotta get some self-respect and stop begging others to validate you

the only acceptable reason

#I was gonna be like nooooo but then I was like yoooo

TITTY 2 BOMB

Bra size: C4

official boob post

predators get outed every other day in tickle kink and some of you still somehow think its ok to let minors interact with you if your content is "sfw enough" im seriously sick of it

i dont care how cute, how "fluffy", how "pure", how fully-clothed and nonsexual your kink is, i dont care if you call it a fixation or an interest instead of a kink or whatever, its still INTIMATE and that makes it inappropriate for an adult to talk to random kids about it. kissing can be nonsexual too, but you don't see half as many adults trying to argue they should be allowed to send "kiss posts" or roleplay kissing scenes with children. so what makes tickling so special and exempt that you think its ok as a fully grown adult to send "tickle teases" to kids?

you might not be a predator, but if you foster a community where kids think they can talk to you -an adult stranger- about intimate topics safely, then it's gonna open the door for other adults in your community to talk to those kids too. please for the love of god use your brain and find an age appropriate peer group instead.

Got those summertime, summertime tickles

I’m trying to prevent myself from getting too excited for fall so I wanted to do draw some summer tk scenarios with my ice cream bapies eeee

Someone trying to put sunscreen on another and failing miserably because they’re squirming so gosh darn much

Classic convincing someone to let the other(s) bury them in the sand and then is betrayed by the other(s) going after their footers

Someone taking a nap in the sun or tanning or whatever and then getting attacked

Chilling in a floatie tube and another person sneaking up and attacking their tummy or footers

THOSE EVIL POOL JET THINGIES-

Saw this meme the other day saying something like

"I wish I would purr like a cat when I'm happy cause then my friends would always know I'm glad to be around them without having to put effort into making *The Happy Face (TM)*"

(that's like ten times as long as the post was but eh you get the idea)

But now that I think about it that's a surefire way to get outed as a lee cause you KNOW I'd be fuckin RUMBLING when I get twords

Lees be like “that was so mean…do it again”

Dumb bitch tried to dip without paying for her haircut, so I took every penny out of her pits.

Dang, guess I gotta skimp on my bills more often

@dbeatcooper

hey mutuals

GAY DOG BEAM ATTACK

you promise?

Why is it only hijacking when the “far left” does it and not when a senator arbitrarily decides to withhold the then presidents actual literal constitutional duty to nominate a replacement for an unelected open seat.

@tjwock out here asking the necessary but entirely rhetorical questions!

Republicans are all giant freaking hypocrites.

It's not highjacking when THEY do it because they are (in their heads) the good guys, saving the money world so it's okay if they obstruct "the libs". God will protect them.

The tickle trope of person A doing a series of mildly annoying things to person B and at one point B decides its the last straw and wrecks the fuck out of A will always be peak fiction to me

LET ME ENJOY THINGS WITHOUT IT BEING CONSIDERED SEXUAL.

i repeat...

LET ME ENJOY THINGS WITHOUT IT BEING CONSIDERED SEXUAL.

F#CK Y E S

Bad ending