guess I have a carrrd now. it doesn’t say anything y’all don’t know already but since my pinned post disappeared suppose I ought to get around to it
anyway read my tags I talk a lot in em
ohhh my god last night you dreamt you went to manderley again? should we tell everybody? should we throw a party? should we invite mrs. danvers??
it’s always amazing to watch adults discover how much changes when they don’t treat their perspective as the default human experience.
example: it’s been well-documented for a long time that urban spaces are more dangerous for kids than they are for adults. but common wisdom has generally held that that’s just the way things are because kids are inherently vulnerable. and because policymakers keep operating under the assumption that there’s nothing that can be done about kids being less safe in cities because that’s just how kids are, the danger they face in public spaces like streets and parks has been used as an excuse for marginalizing and regulating them out of those spaces.
(by the same people who then complain about kids being inside playing video games, I’d imagine.)
thing is, there’s no real evidence to suggest that kids are inescapably less safe in urban spaces. the causality goes the other way: urban spaces are safer for adults because they are designed for adults, by adults, with an adult perspective and experience in mind.
the city of Oslo, Norway recently started a campaign to take a new perspective on urban planning. quite literally a new perspective: they started looking at the city from 95 centimeters off the ground - the height of the average three-year-old. one of the first things they found was that, from that height, there were a lot of hedges blocking the view of roads from sidewalks. in other words, adults could see traffic, but kids couldn’t.
pop quiz: what does not being able to see a car coming do to the safety of pedestrians? the city of Oslo was literally designed to make it more dangerous for kids to cross the street. and no one realized it until they took the laughably small but simultaneously really significant step of…lowering their eye level by a couple of feet.
so Oslo started trimming all its decorative roadside vegetation down. and what was the first result they saw? kids in Oslo are walking to school more, because it’s safer to do it now. and that, as it turns out, reduces traffic around schools, making it even safer to walk to school.
so yeah. this is the kind of important real-life impact all that silly social justice nonsense of recognizing adultism as a massive structural problem can have. stop ignoring 1/3 of the population when you’re deciding what the world should look like and the world gets better a little bit at a time.
in preparation for pride month 2023 people should know that miss major griffin-gracy, one of our surviving veterans of Stonewall, wrote a memoir that just came out. it’s called Miss Major Speaks, and if your library doesn’t have it/have it on order, you should buy it to support her retirement.
if you want to learn more about her, you should also watch the documentary about her life, MAJOR!, which is really wonderful.
““Mother,” I slowly repeated in Korean. “I am not a boy. I am a girl. I am transgender.” My face reddened, and tears blurred my vision. I braced myself for her rejection and the end to a relationship that had only begun. Silence again filled the room. I searched my mother’s eyes for any signs of shock, disgust or sadness. But a serene expression lined her face as she sat with ease on the couch. I started to worry that my words had been lost in translation. Then my mother began to speak. “Mommy knew,” she said calmly through my friend, who looked just as dumbfounded as I was by her response. “I was waiting for you to tell me.” “What? How?” “Birth dream,” my mother replied. In Korea some pregnant women still believe that dreams offer a hint about the gender of their unborn child. “I had dreams for each of your siblings, but I had no dream for you. Your gender was always a mystery to me.” I wanted to reply but didn’t know where to begin. My mother instead continued to speak for both of us. “Hyun-gi,” she said, stroking my head. “You are beautiful and precious. I thought I gave birth to a son, but it is OK. I have a daughter instead.””
I hate cops and the big bang theory but forgive me, I think Luca and Charlie have some interesting chemistry going on and I wouldn’t be against it being explored in a romantic sense, ya know?
#if they stayed friends I salute it! hope she kisses some girls too#but like. they kinda got a thing going on I hope he quits the fucking FBI (boo!!!!!) and figures something out with her#she looks and acts like she could break him like a twig. and I know girls like Charlie: it’s kinda part of the appeal#threesome between her cliff and luca? insane nightmare. probably would be hot as hell. these are just words but I get with their meaning#poker face#poker face peacock#charlie cale#luca poker face
if I ever wake up desperately wanting to be skinny I’m gonna need one of y’all to take me out back and put a cap in it
#I am not hating on people who are skinny. how could I blame you for the body you have#but seeing the obsession with skinny. the way fashion cannot learn to incorporate new body shapes#the way it’s all designed for skinny people. the way you have to ask ‘are they well dressed or just skinny’#I’m slim btw. I just have fat all over this slim frame - big tits and back fat because I have to be in proportion#but even that is too much for our skinny obsessed world#trying to find clothes that make you look So Fine when you aren’t skinny is hell#and I love bitches putting comfort over style or the gay ugly on purpose for personal happiness aesthetic#but it is NOT ME!!!!!#I wanna look good for fucks sake#but I’m not giving up this body!!! it is fucking sexy and fine af and I love it#and even when I don’t I wanna learn how to love her#some bitches hate on fine literature cause they stupid. I’m not a girl to be stupid. and this body is fine literature. read it and weep babe#I just. I won’t EVER be a skinny fetisher be one of those calorie counting I wish I was Kate Moss in the 90s girls#never ever ever#and if I do you gotta put me down like a bad dog#personal
Fuck zodiac signs, what piece you picking?
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the summer is like well what if it was unbearable outside and you can't wear any cool jackets. and everyone's going to tell you that this is the best time of the year. and you're the crazy one
going from the reddit star wars fandom to the tumblr star wars fandom is giving me insane whiplash. the upside is that people aren’t bitching about every single imperfect detail in the entire franchise, but the downside is that i’ve seen more fanart of obi wan and commander cody tenderly knowing each other than i have ever wanted to in my life in the last three hours and it has probably fundamentally altered the way i interact with the entire franchise
after the initial shock of being plunged into the icy cold lake of seeing my childhood action figures caressing each others sweaty chests in a gentle, hidden moment after a battle, i’ve been able to get my wits about me and realize that yeah, i’m kinda with it
Fuck zodiac signs, what piece you picking?
Fuck zodiac signs, what piece you picking?
honestly I don’t wanna get entrenched in second edition gay pirate show discourse but it is some kind of evil magic that white people got so angry over a fake white guy who didn’t really do much of anything that they somehow thought that gave them the pass to call poc and especially black people slurs and derogatory terms and be condescending to them on the internet
#I just see white bitches clown on and on and act like our saviours#ooooh thank you so much for saving me from the evil white guy by telling me I’m stupid and calling people names!!! my HERO!!!!!#and they’re just gonna pretend like that shit never happened lol#this was NEVER about helping poc to you. it was about your stupid high horse white ivory tower shit#about being right. I saw your ass. we ALL saw you. nasty and you’ll keep doing it#cause our worst enemies are often the bitches who never shut up about being our greatest allies. choke
my toxic trait is being fervently convinced that if i ever came across a dragon irl we would make eye contact and understand each other at a primal level of transcendental trust instead of charring me into a crispy onion
masc and femme becoming synonyms for "man" and "woman" is the worst thing to ever happen to gay ppl
I just saw someone say masc lesbians don't exist. are you fucking stupid