Do you ever wonder what happened to the weird girl from your middle school?

thanks guys

Check out this cat

Imagine how tiny the meows would be if he didn't put his whole body into it. Microscopic meows.

Queer music is impossible to define because we are not a monolith and we all have our own tastes and styles but it sure is not harry styles and taylor swift

whatever our souls are made of, you and me are going to end up stuck in the same ice hole

a lesbian can call themself a boy or even a man or a boyfriend without actually being a man. That's just how funky our genders are. Cope

ANYWAYS happy international lesbian day to genderweird lesbians i love you so much mwah

I was overstimulated and now I’m evil

of course you have four paws and pronouns

Imagine being buried alive and then seeing this little guy with a backpack suddenly arrive

It gets better. The little backpack has a two-way radio.

So you’re trapped under rubble, and then a rat shows up. Flicks a switch on its little tumtum. And starts talking to you.

Article here | Organization here

#I love the hashtag women in STEM bc at first I thought they meant the rat 🙈 (via @sprotteswelt)

until you said that it never occurred to me that the woman in STEM was the scientist and not the rat. i was just like “hell yeah, this rat is a powerful woman pioneering lifesaving technologies as a rescue ranger”

why are we sleeping on this

PSA! If you blacklist common terf tags, the filter will catch their feminist posts that break containment and seem innocuous/good to the normal feminist. This is because the tumblr filter scans the OP tags as well as the reblog tags! Easy fix to make sure you’re not reblogging dogwhistles 🥰 keep your feminist posting terf-free, everyone!

(Feel free to shoot me an ask and I’ll share what i blacklist that seems to work!)

Tags I've blacklisted over the years:

Dogwhistles:

I think this is important for y'all.

y'all should also be looking for actual ideology. knowing dogwhistles is great, but that knowledge becomes outdated over time as language shifts and they come up with new ways to stay under the radar.

I attempted a more comprehensive write-up here, and I really encourage folks to learn more from other sources as well if they can!

but also, you should watch for:

There's much, much more, but this is what I see slip through most often.

You'll also see this stuff from people who are repeating it unwittingly; if you're not sure after a decent effort looking for confirmation, you can always try to ask folks to elaborate on what they mean or believe. Or just ask them about trans people directly. 🤷‍♂️

I love how it is all polite history and then that post script

Literally exactly what I was fucking talking about. Black people always been there. You’re just falling for the whitewashed history you’ve been spoonfed your whole lives. You only get 100% pure monocultures with closed borders and rigid genocide if you have access to trade with the outside world… and sometimes even if you don’t, because people move and travel and conquer and flee war.

ALSO:

“The methods of peaceful protests are not capable of being effective, because in reality most people pay little attention to things that are not abrasive.” — Assata Shakur

Tell me I didn't just see a Taylor Swift fan call her "underground" 💀 bitches wouldn't know underground if they fell down a mile-long hole into a dark narrow cave system where they will surely remain until they starve or die of exposure

😭 😭 😭

the reason none of us can ever leave tumblr is because we've already evolved to having this be our only suitable habitat. we're the devils hole pupfish of people.

Michael + paper clips

dr. crusher off the shits

today I recited Shakespeare to a small army of eight-year-olds

So last week an email got sent round my college asking if anyone wanted to read some poetry to primary school kids and I was the only one who responded and I asked if I could do some Shakespeare, since I have quite a lot of experience with it, and the teacher said that would be fine.

So I was discussing with friends what I should do and they said ‘er yeah, don’t do Shakespeare.’ And I was like ‘what why’ and they went ’well, maybe if they’re over 10 but otherwise you’ll just get blank looks’ and I went ‘well I don’t want to insult their intelligence’ and then another friend was like ‘hey you should do that kid’s song ‘When I Was One’, they’ll like that!!’ (it’s a really babyish song for toddlers with silly actions) and I thought about it and was ‘like nah actually, I’ll do the ‘Once more unto the breach’ speech’

So I learned that over the week, and I was walking up to the school, and the whole way I was thinking ‘Oh god this was a terrible idea they’re going to hate it, they’re going to look at me blankly like those kids in The Polar Express, my friends were right it’s going to be a disaster’, and I was there early, so I sat in the classroom for the first half an hour, got given a cupcake by some kids from a different class, said hello to some of the kids in my class, they got a look at me.

At half 2 the teacher mentioned I would be reading some poetry, and I asked if we could go outside, which she was more than happy to allow, and the kids were all so confused (‘where are we going? Isn’t it only poetry?’) and we got onto the field, the teacher got them all to stand an arm’s length apart from each other, so I could walk around them, and I did a brief overview of where the scene came in the play, how the king is on the battlefield, talking to his soldiers (“Could all you be the soldiers?” “Yes!!”) and they’re attacking the French, who are all in a castle (forgot it’s really a castle town), and they’re attacking them through a gap in the wall, the breach. Me and the teacher emphasised that if there was anything they didn’t understand, that was completely fine and they could ask me at the end. I asked the kids to watch for when I held my fist in the air, which is when they had to cheer loudly, we had a practise at that, and then I did the speech.

Everything I had been scared about evaporated. All the kids were totally engaged, they were all watching me, they all listened right the way through, I saw lots of excited faces, and they all cheered really well at the end.

Afterwards, there was a lot of chatter, several of them asked me questions (”how do you remember all those words?”, “what did you mean when you talked about nostrils?”), one boy asked me to do it again, they were all really lovely and had genuinely enjoyed it. It was so much fun, and they especially loved it when I told them how my big college friends had told me not to do Shakespeare because they wouldn’t like it. Those kids 100% proved them wrong