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embellishing my elegance and eloquence

@grrrbarrowman / grrrbarrowman.tumblr.com

32. Her/she Multi-fandom, currently mostly a shitpost consumer. Have been here since 2010. "You have enemies? Good. That means that you've stood up for something, sometime in your life." –Winston Churchill I write fanfic! Come read it here.

i hate you ai art i hate you "unalive" i hate you youtube premium i hate you twitter 8$ checkmark i hate you nfts i hate you therapy app advertisements i hate you non-chronological timelines i hate you instagram reels i hate you subtle tiktok filters that cant be turned off i hate you family bloggers i hate you ads on true crime episodes i hate you facebook i hate you vr glasses on chickens i hate you dystopian social media

sorry but like the way you people will scream and cry and throw up when people point out content creators are openly racists but when it becomes homophobia or transphobia you finally draw the line is so. good lord

everyone who’s liked and not rbed this post owes me millions tbh

Anonymous asked:

What does the arab in your carrd mean? Is it like afab and amab?

.. i’m palestinian

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same energy

there’s more

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SIGH

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here’s another one

IT GETS WORSE WITH EVERY ADDITION

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how does this get even worse

I think about once in a while…

We have another one…

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This is the internet now tho 😭💀

Omg so many additions since I last saw this post! 😂😂😂

It’s funny but incredibly telling how entitled/ignorant/insensitive some of these people are… idk if it’s an education gap or purposeful ignorance.

The really bewildering thing to me is that I remember when you needed to get up and pull a dictionary off the shelf, or visit a library to look up the facts you needed. Now people have all kinds of information literally at their fingertips and they can’t be bothered to use it.

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Oh dear gods, it’s gotten worse

When you know politics but no facts

don’t take people too seriously on the internet

This hits different when combined with that “Americans don’t learn other countries exist till they’re in 5th Grade” post from the other day.

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Demily recently got another one lads

Also, I love that, in the sign language one, it seems like the last image might’ve been a gif of “fuck you,” screenshot at the perfect time to let you know they were about to sign “fuck you”

As a romanian person I gotta add this one too

This is my favourite post on this website

I have literally had people tell me that I’m a gross appropriator for learning sign language while not deaf.

I sometimes cannot speak, but leaving that aside, what the FUCK lol

I still remember the guy who got mad at me because I spoke about the cultural role of the Norse gods in my life and my culture and insisted that I should be “proud of my Christian heritage instead” and quite simply would not believe me when I told him I was from Scandinavia because “that doesn’t exist anymore.”

someone please edit that map of europe with the spain void to also have a void for the whole of scandinavia

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Every now and then I just have to reblog this.

(while particularly loving: “Gender of the Day: Wales”)

Genuinely and unironically my philosophy abt music has expanded to “stop writing off music because it’s from a specific genre” and I think that could be applied to most mediums actually

Is country music really all bad or are you only catching snippets of christonationalist propaganda on the radio? Are horror movies always shallow torture porn or are you just thinking of trailers you saw for slasher movies? Are fantasy novels only for kids or was the last one you picked up Harry Potter? Is anime always fan service or are you just running into ecchi clips online over and over and over? Are you looking for good media or are you finding bad media and considering it representative?

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I think it’d be a good idea to let people from the Middle Ages use tumblr

anti vaxxers

look into my eyes and tell me a person from the Middle Ages who lost 3 kids by the time they are 25 and coughs up blood every now and then would be against a vial with a heaven-sent potion that can protect you from the demons that plague the Earth with just one small prick. look into my eyes and lie to me

Finally I can use this.

They would love vaccines.

OK i guess i will continue to macrodose birds

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The Merlin app has a sound identification feature, for those asking if there is a relatively easy way to identify birds by sound!

YO THANKS!!!! I REALLY APPRECIATE THIS.

I might show you my painted robin as a thank you?!

I drew and painted him from reference from a art book of art lessons and it was full of birds drawings :o

It was my first time using gouache, you might notice it!! I'm really proud of him. It was originally going to be part of a collage from a small creative collage workshop but I didn't have time AND didn't want to ruin him!!

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Thank you for showing me your art! I love how he's recognizable immediately as a robin but also stylized beautifully.

It's really cool that you're using new methods and materials. :D

Hello Mr Gaiman, I just read a reblog you put regarding sending fanfiction/ideas to the universe's authors (like sending you Good Omens fanfiction for example) and I have a question, it's probably a dumb question with an obvious answer but if I don't ask it won't go away.

So if you ever read the good omens fanfiction I'm writing you wouldn't be able to put whatever I put there but what if I explicitly stated (like in the summary) that it could be used? Would it still create legal problems? Like with payment and stuff?

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I'm not going to read your fan fiction so I will never know if you gave me permission.

And if you're wondering why I have a blanket rule not to, I'd point you to this article. On something that's happening right now.

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[id: a tweet by @TPAIN that reads: “I encourage everybody to at least (in private if need be) take a shot at doing something you actually think you’d like but your friend circle has deemed it “corny” or “lame”. Liberate yourself from the constant need of approval from everybody besides yourself and go have fun”. /end id]

u know, i think he means it

on the flip side of that Toxic Skincare Obsession post: I’m tired of seeing sun protection presented as another frivolous, unnecessary product of the patriarchy

“I’m going to sit in the sun with wine and enjoy it and fuck anti-aging products like SPF!” I mean yes normalize and celebrate people- especially women -not looking 22 forever but also

Skin Cancer Is Bad Maybe?

I’m not gonna spend hundreds of dollars on tiny bottles of ‘anti aging sunscreen’.

I will however, get some sunscreen from my local Walmart and apply it to my face everyday, and my body when I don’t have clothes to cover me.

Doesn’t need to be expensive, and a lot of ‘cheap’ sunscreen is still very effective against the sun.

ESPECIALLY FOR MY POC/DARK SKIN FOLLOWERS, WE ARE NOT IMMUNE!!! If you hate it leaving a cast, I recommend either spray on sunscreens or Black Girl Suncreen.

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Though people of color (POC) are less likely to become afflicted with skin cancer, they are much more likely to die from it due to delay in detection or presentation. Very often, skin cancer is diagnosed at a more advanced stage in POC, making treatment difficult. The purpose of this research was to improve awareness regarding skin cancers in people of color by providing recommendations to clinicians and the general public for early detection and photo protection preventive measures.

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The increased morbidity and mortality rate associated with skin cancer in POC is due to lack of awareness, diagnosis at a more advanced stage and socioeconomic barriers hindering access to care. Raising public health concerns for skin cancer prevention strategies for all people, regardless of ethnic background and socioeconomic status, is the key to timely diagnosis and treatment.

Please, wear sunscreen. :(

please also make sure, if you are planning to swim in or expose your skin to the ocean, to only wear reef safe sunscreen. many sunscreens contain chemicals like oxybenzone and octinoxate which are incredible toxic to marine life. check the active ingredients of any sunscreen you are planning to wear in water