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In Irish we don’t say “Hello” we say “Dia duit” which literally translates to “God he with you” and I think that’s a terrifing reminder of the stranglehold the Catholic Church has our education and healthcare systems under.

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Qongqothwane (The Marriage Song) - Miriam Makeba

Language: Xhosa

Igqira lendlela nguqo ngqothwane The road’s witchdoctor is the knocking beetle

Igqirha lendlela kuthwa nguqo ngqothwane The witchdoctor of the road is said to be the knocking beetle

Seleqabele gqi thapha nguqo ngqothwane He has passed by up the steep hill, the knocking beetle

Selequbule gqi thapha nguqo ngqothwane He did pass by up the steep hill, the knocking beetle

(Translation credit: https://www.google.ca/amp/s/penguinpoweredpiano.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/song-translation-qongqothwane-marriage-song-by-miriam-makeba-xhosa/amp/)

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(goes up to gay couple) so.. whos the liberal and whos the socialist

tumblr is either way too overenthusiastic about shit i don’t care about or needlessly hellbent on boycotting shit i don’t care about there are no inbetweens

the funny thing is this post wasn’t really about anything specific but anyone can apply it to literally any fandom drama going on right now 24/7 because there’s always SOMETHING

the spanking debate isn’t all that complicated. you’re either ok with hitting small kids who are completely defenseless and literally at your mercy, or you’re not. supporting the first option makes you a bad and dangerous person, and unfit to be a parent, and im sorry to say but there’s no way around this, no excuses or loopholes. it is what it is

I’ve told this story before and my clam chowder is getting cold but fuck it.

A couple years ago while I was working for a care center during my ece training - we had a big thing about spankings. We went around and asked children who were spanked how they felt about it and what it told them or how it made them feel.

Then when the parents were over, we anonymously read everything that was said by the children on how they view spankings and unanimously it was found that the children never saw it as a growing experience.

It was “painful” “really scary” “I thought mommy hated me now” and we often found it never actually TAUGHT the kids what they did wrong. in fact it seemed to teach them that at any moment your mommy or daddy would just haul up and smack you until you cried and said it was for your own good.

Needless to say I’m pretty sure we changed a lot of parents opinions on spanking and SHOCK OF SHOCKS actually TALKING to their children worked far better disiplinary

I even included my own story, pretending I was telling an outside story “well, I happened to know one person who’s mother only stopped spanking them cause they got tall and big real fast so they could fight back. so there’s a lot of intimidation and fear to your children.” and just - I’ll never forget the dawning look of realization on their faces

The most common argument I hear is, “Look, my parents spanked me and I turned out fine.” Stolen from elsewhere on the internet but now my defult response:  “No you didn’t–you think it is okay to hit little kids.”

you can tell a lot about someone based on their phone background. it shows what’s most important to them

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me and lana dey rey: *riding across the country in a volkswagen van, trying to get back to connecticut because lana’s coke dealer lives there*

me: hey lana there’s some roadkill by the side of the road let’s see what it is

lana, already used to my scavenging habits: *sighs* ok, beth. *lights a blunt*

me, going closer to the roadkill: wait holy shit….. this is lorde (ella maria lani yellich-o’connor)…. lorde are you okay?????

lorde (ella maria lani yellich-o’connor): yea i was just method acting for my new album, what are you doing out here

me: i’m with lana we’re getting drugs

lorde: ok it would really help if you just carried me around like roadkill for my album lana wouldn’t even notice really

me, weirded out but will do anything for lorde because i feel like she is my friend: um ok *carries lorde (ella maria lani yellich-o’connor) back to the van* hey lana……. just have this roadkill here im going to put it in the back

lana: *nostrils flare* is that…… ella maria lani yellich-o’connor i smell…

me: *laughs nervously* oh hohoh of course not miss grant you must surely be mistakening the smell of ella maria lani yellich-o’connor for this large non-decomposable bird i picked up

lana: …. that would be a good lyric…. thank you for providing me with inspiration. i agree with you, spiritually. *hands me the blunt*

lorde, arising through the back: im so glad we’re all blood sisters

me and lana: *harmonizing in our exasperated moans*

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Ocean Vuong, excerpt of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous  (via lesgardenias)

tom hiddleston seems like he was murdered with arsenic in like 1798 and lived as a ghost in a peat bog for awhile before just like arriving on set to film thor. i dont mean this positively or negatively its just how i feel 

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