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cleo

@i-am-chickadee

im here to scream

THE NANNY – s2e13: THE STRIKE (1994)

Congratulations to Fran Drescher, SAG-AFTRA Union President, for standing in solidarity with the WGA and for her incredible dedication to ensuring fair treatment and better working conditions for all. Never forget that Fran has always been pro-union!

Corset discourse really likes to talk in sensationalizing absolutes but historically speaking a corset is just a kind of garment. They could be uncomfortable and painful or they could be well fitted and supportive. They could be hyper-fashionable or they could be brutally practical. You could tightlace them or you could wear them with no reduction whatsoever. Most corsets were probably somewhere in the middle. Like bras. Or shoes. To say they were never perceived as restrictive or used as tools of enforcing dangerous/misogynistic beauty standards is like saying women's shoes never restrict freedom of movement. Patently untrue, but that doesn't mean those shoes have some deeper moral good or evil and it certainly doesn't mean we can use that fact to draw sweeping generalizations about the relationships of entire centuries of women to their own bodies. Corsets, like all clothing, exist in context.

Refuting the "corsets were evil torture devices and vain shallow women were forcing themselves to lace themselves down to x inches so they could attract a man" narrative was never about saying "corsets are a universal good, actually". It's about considering more fully the variety of ways clothing shaped and was shaped by its culture, and affording the women of the past the dignity of agency and interiority

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taylor swift: she was the piss on the carpet / I was the floor's poo / she would always be his number one / while I was the number two / little did we know / he would flush us both

white women who have lizzo blocked on twitter: I'm SOBBINHG. the METAPHORS. did she know she would define a generation with this? 😭😭😭

gayboys who own every switch pokemon game: agsshdjdkdakh no okay but why is this better than everything on the radio for the past ten years 😭 THIS ICONNNNN. EVERYBODY SHUT UP I'M IN MY FLUSHING ERA 📢📢

asian giant hornet in a japanese honeybee nest:

Not to be #cute on main but I simply will not rest until the Supreme Court as an institution is nothing but ash and soot underneath my feet 😊😊🥰🥰😍

Whoa guys check out this #cute pic I found online 🥰🥰🥰

Image description: A man holding a sign saying do what you will with this public information, (it lists the following names and addresses):

Brett Kavanaugh 3076 Underwood st, Chevy Chase, md 20815

John Roberts 6805 meadow Ln, Chevy Chase, md 20815

Samuel Alito 1120 Greenway Rd Alexandria, Va, 22043

Clarence Thomas 6665 Rutledge Dr, Fairfax Station,

Va 22039

Amy Coney Barrett 2035 Stephanie Marie Dr, Falls Church, Va 22043

Neil Gorsuch 11521 Dalyn Ter Potomac, MD, 20854

The image is posted with the caption whoa guys check out this #cute pic I found online followed by three smiling emojis covered in love hearts.

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The #original pic got removed but I say their right to #privacy is #forfeit 🥰🥰😍💖💖

ANTI-CAPITALIST AFFIRMATIONS

  • i am allowed to spend my time creating things, even if they are not beautiful.
  • there is no such thing as a "real job." all forms of work are real and valid.
  • there is nothing that i need to accomplish to be worthy. i am already worthy.
  • doing nothing is good for my soul.
  • i am not defined by what i produce.
  • my worth cannot be measured by my paycheck, my job title, or a list of professional or academic achievements.
  • i do not need to monetize my hobbies, it is enough to spend time doing something i love.
  • i will not let society decide what success looks like. i can define what successful life looks like for me.

but no yeah lets have the conversation:

"the CEO doesnt want to run that kind of website" Excuse, shouldnt have bought the 'go nuts show nuts whatever' website if thats the case. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to follow the TOS of the appstores we're hosted on" Excuse item one, no you dont, item two, you have since those days implimented infrastructure that would allow pornography and sex work on this platform Without violating TOS of any applicable app store. APPEAL DENIED

"we own the site we get to make the rules" Incorrect, this site has only ever made profit when the users willed it. we collectively own the site as a hive mind and no legal change in ownership will change that. APPEAL DENIED

"we have to keep this website safe for the children who use it" Argument based on fallacy banning pornography and sex workers does not prevent pornography and sex work from occuring on the site, it only forces aforementioned users to hide and avoid labling their content appropriately, which REDUCES the safety for children and sex workers alike instead of increasing it, this has been shown to the point that making this argument at all is tantamount to admiting fascist intent APPEAL DENIED

Reblog it. I want this to be on Tumblr radar by end of the week, i want my notes to be useless from the discourse, i want every single person on Tumblr to have seen this post at some point

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the intimacy of helping someone with their earrings/necklace.. be it putting it on or taking it off.. helping them fix something that got tangled or twisted.. whatever

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compassion and care can be found in many gestures if you look hard enough. there is warmth everywhere. godspeed