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@homestuckiscontagious

I’m a 19 year old fan girl

I don’t even think Christmas shouldn’t be all over the public space like it is. Clearly it does make a lot of people happy and I lowkey I actually kind of like it too! (Sort of. But I also don’t.) So, continue covering your town square or wherever with trees and lights, I’m not saying not to. What I *am* asking for is:

- Acknowledge that Christmas is not a universal holiday and that some people either feel negatively about it or just don’t celebrate it. Stop being offended by this.

- Stop forcing people to participate. Don’t make your Jewish employees wear Christmas outfits, don’t make schoolkids be part of Christmas plays, etc.

- Stop pushing back when Jews are honest with you about how they feel about it.

- Stop deflecting to talk about how Christmas traditions are actually pagan in origin. We know, and also it’s fully irrelevant to our issues with Christmas.

- Recognize things from other cultures. Or at very least don’t *prevent* members of other cultures from expressing them. If your employee wants to put up a menorah, let them. If your coworker wants to add a Chanukah decoration to your office don’t take it down when they’re not looking because it “messes up the Christmas spirit” or whatever.

- Recognize things from different cultures at other times of the year too. Let your Jewish students and employees take days off for the fall holidays. Maybe even consider merchandise or decorations for those holidays too!

- Stop with the double standards. You don’t get to say that a menorah is religious and a Christmas tree isn’t. Either both of them are or neither of them are. A menorah actually is a ritual object but a) plenty of secular Jews use them and b) I don’t think most Christians know that, they just think of Judaism (and therefore Jewish culture) as “a religion” and Christian culture as normal. When people claim to object to Chanukah (the holiday most widely — and often exclusively — celebrated by secular Jews) because it’s “religious,” they’re actually objecting because it’s non-normative.

- Listen when someone is telling you about their experiences with and thoughts about hegemonic culture. Don’t argue that actually it’s fine becaude Christmas is secular or pagan or whatever. Trust people about the experiences they’ve had and how things impact them.

(Yes, non-Jews can reblog this.)

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Tama is boss

THE TRAINS HAVE CARTOON TAMAS ON THEM

Sad update everyone, Tama recently passed away… An estimated 3,000 people, including railway officials, attended Tama the cat’s funeral on Sunday, days after she died of heart failure aged 16. [x]

For those who haven’t read articles about it, the local shrine elevated her to a god. She’s now the Eternal Stationmaster and patron god of the station.

Beautiful.

Now I’m crying thanks

and a new cat was hired right?

yep! her name is Nitama (essentially ”second tama” or “tama II”) and she served under Tama as an apprentice before being appointed her deputy

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she works very hard

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Everytime this crosses my dash, I reblog. It is the law.

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I’m crying at 11pm over train cats

Nitama, already now a mature cat (born 2010), has a protege named Yontama (fourth Tama, b. 2016).  There is no information available for either the physical befellment or tragic self-disgrace which has removed Santama from contention.

^Nitama majestic, and below with Yontama

Yontama.

a legacy

okay but actually what happened to santama (or sun-tama-tama, which is her name because it’s a pun on santama) was that she was basically sent to train for the position in okayama and they liked her so much they refused to send her back

“Sun-tama-tama” (a pun off of “Santama”, lit. “third Tama”) was a calico cat sent for training in Okayama. Sun-tama-tama was considered as a candidate for Tama’s successor, but the Okayama Public Relations representative who had been caring for Sun-tama-tama refused to give the cat up writing, “I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” [25]
As of September 2018, Sun-tama-tama is working as the stationmaster in Naka-ku, Okayama and appears occasionally on Tama’s Twitter account.

Every time I see this post there’s new info and it gets better

You are only allowed to scroll pass this after you pay tribute to the great Tama Station masters.

The shrine of Tama Daimyōjin (Great gracious deity Tama), next to the Kishi station where she worked.

Nitama presenting her yearly offerings to Tama Daimyōjin on the anniversary of Tama’s Death, June 23 (The offerings are presented by the company president, as Nitama is a cat and thus can’t hold the offerings herself) (Not pictured, but also present, Yontama)

you cannot pass without reblogging guys. i’m sorry, i don’t make the rules.

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“I will not let go of this child, she will stay in Okayama.” dbhglgjfijihjuijrjupjpetpwmakfoj5jt46pw3q

This is wonderful

Reminder that it really doesn’t matter what ways you’re marginalized, if you’re not black you’re just as capable of anti blackness as white cishet people. No amount of “but I’m gay!”, “but I’m trans!”, or “but I’m not white!” changes that.

And being neurodiverse/disabled isn’t an excuse for anti blackness either.

Don’t like this post if you’re not gonna also reblog it.

Boost my voice, don’t just like it for woke points.

I’d fucking love it if white people didn’t use this post to pat themselves on the back. I guarantee that no amount of “don’t people know this already?” or “isn’t this obvious?” will actually make you a good ally to black people.

The only things that will make you a good ally to us is listening to us, boosting our voices, defending us when we need it, calling out your fellow whites when they display overt and/or covert racist behavior, and checking yourself consistently.

jeff goldblum

you’re bizarre, sometimes eccentric but also overall well respected. people value your opinion even though sometimes you have no idea what’s going on. you seem like you know everything, and even if you don’t, everyone will act like you do cause it just seems right. you’re past the point of caring about what other people think of you, and that is your most respected quality

robert pattison

like robert, you have a strange aura––very odd and if you weren’t weirdly respected by everyone around you, it would be off-putting. you’re not afraid to tell people your honest opinion, but sometimes you just might not feel like it and you’ll say whatever comes to mind, even if it’s the weirdest thing in the world. you have so much fun confusing people, it could be considered one of your hobbies. at the end of the day, you really just don’t give a fuck. and everyone respects that. also you always look like you’re going through something, but that’s okay.

jared leto

your energy is almost otherworldy and kind of upsetting. you seem like you know all the answers, and if you do, you won't say until someone asks. you do just fine on your own and it's very easy for you to slip away unnoticed, but once you reappear, it's hard to miss you. you seem like the type to have a cult and be super nonchalant about it. bottom line is, you're shady as fuck and lowkey scary

Hi i just need to vent here.

Yesterday mom mom caused me to have a panic attack

(I panic very easy when people are in my room and are touching my things as I don't get a lot of privacy from my mom. I also panic when people yell and make loud noises. When I panic I often have a harder time controlling my anger)

Yesterday at 8:00pm i laid down and went to bed because i was having trouble sleeping the night before (because insomnia). At 9:00 my com comes into my room without knocking and wakes me up by yelling at me that i needed to to clean my almost clean room. I tell her i’ll do it tomorrow and try to lay back down. she starts yelling that i said that yesterday and didn’t do anything (i cleaned almost my entire room earlier that day) and starts walking around my room and picking up things and moving them and when i tell her to stop touching my things she gets mad at me and yells that if i’m not cleaning my room she will. So i tell her to get out of my room and she won’t so i yell for her to stop touching my things and leave my room to go to the kitchen to get some water because she is stressing me out i o back to my room thinking she would be gone as i told her to go. She didn’t leave she was still in my room and this gets me even more stressed out as she is not listening. she knows i get panicked easily and should notice the signs of a panic attack i once again tell her to get out and stop touching my stuff, saying that i will clean it.she doesn't listen so i leave my room again after yelling at her to leave my room. on my walk to the bathroom tears started falling and when i reach the bathroom i almost fall trying to sit down on the floor.After i’m able to calm myself down from my panic attack i wash my face in the sink and walk back into my room hoping my room is empty it’s not but right when i sit down in my room my little brother wakes up so she is forced to leave so she can put him back to sleep. She takes my phone and computer and forces me to go right to sleep (it is very difficult to sleep right after a panic attack for me) and i ended up crying myself to sleep. 

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thank u barbie for showing bi/lesbian solidarity

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thank u barbie for paving the way to bi/lesbian/trans solidarity

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Don’t forget bi and pan rights !

this reply is so funny to me. sorry straights™, barbie is part of the GCU (gay cinematic universe) now

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reblog if you support the gay cinematic universe

I’ve seen a lot of posts on my dash tonight about users who are threatening suicide, with other Tumblr members posting in effort to try to get ahold of them. I think you all should see this:

IF THERE IS EVER A TUMBLR USER WHO HAS POSTED A GOOD-BYE MESSAGE, SUICIDE NOTE, VIDEO, OR ANYTHING OF THE SORT, PLEASE FOLLOW THIS POST.

1. Scroll to the top of your dashboard.

2. See the circular question mark icon at the top? It’s the third one over from your home symbol. Click on that, and a screen similar to the one in the picture will come up.

3. Where you can type in questions, the box with the magnifying glass at the top, type in the word “suicide.”

4. Click on the first link that shows up. It should say, “Pass the URL of the blog on to us.”

5. Type in the user’s URL and tell Tumblr admin that the user is contemplating suicide and has posted a message indicating that they are going through with it or will be attempting. Hit send! Tumblr administration will perform a number of actions to contact the user and take the necessary steps to prevent the suicide.

TUMBLR: THIS COULD SAVE A USER’S LIFE. PLEASE DO NOT IGNORE SUICIDE THREATS.

Reblog this to keep other users aware. Suicide isn’t a joke, and neither is someone’s life. If you didn’t know this, someone else may not, either. Pass it on.

why on earth doesn’t this have more notes

I actually had to do this once. She lived.

if you scroll past this on your dash you are absolutely heartless.

Reblog this!! This can save somebody’s life!

reblog.

help.

do not scroll down.

I SWEAR TO GOD IF ANYONE SCROLLS PAST THIS WITHOUT REBLOGGING I WILL LITTERALLY FIND THEM AND GIVE THEM A LECTURE

may I just update this?

see the little thing that says help?

Don’t ever scroll past this post. FUCKING NEVER SCROLL PAST!!!

Save a life

Don’t scroll by this! Reblog!!! Save a life!

Reblog please!

You should know how to do this, just in case. 

-FemaleWarrior

What about mobile?

@trans-luana-nebula on mobile you go to your blog page click on the settings wheel click general settings scroll down and you will see the help button that's where you do it

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So yesterday my dad told me that the people online didn't care if I interacted with their posts, didn't care about me or whatever, and told me to talk to "real people" and said that people online weren't "real people."

And honestly what the heck.

I know that I'm a real person, even online. I know I care when people interact with my posts. Why would anybody else be any different?

I've seen people being so appreciative of their followers, of the people who interact with their posts, and just a lot of general "real people" behavior.

So... reblog if you're a real person and care if people interact with your posts and appreciate your followers, I guess.