G… gender roles? [I open my hand, confused, and reveal a fistful of dnd dice] Which one do I…?
You get it
DO NOT RECREATE THIS PHOTO!!!! this dinner has been plated on a corelle dish from the 70s which contains upwards of 18,000 ppm of lead which is way above healthy levels. Eating skyrim is fine though you mfs eat credit cards anyways.
because of this post i'm finding out that corelle said ANY DISH MADE BEFORE 2005 should be DECORATIVE. This is the best infographic I could find that shows you some of the more popular patterns in case someone viewing this isn't familiar with the brand.
i swear to god i'm just going to get one of those lead testing kits i'm so tired of seeing a cute plate and then finding out it's got toxic levels of cadmium, lead, and is somehow also destructively radioactive.
Pretty sure I have eaten off Woodland Brown at one point in my life...When will superpowers begin?
dominawritesthings
“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”
“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”
“They’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”
[images: series of tweets from @realavocadofact. tweets read, “they’re not elite they’re rich”, “they’re not better they’re better supplied”, “they’re not smarter or faster they’re buying up others’ lifetimes to do their chores”, “there is nothing wrong with you; you’re doing your best in a game rigged against you, probably not enough people and fruit tell you that”]
I see this reaction a lot, and I gotta say, it always makes me a little sad. Whenever the conversation of exploitation of labor comes up, inevitably someone finds themselves struggling with the guilt of “It is so important to me not to contribute to exploitation but I cannot do this thing myself and need someone else to do it for me, so how do I even approach that?”
Exploitation isn’t in the hiring of a service worker. Exploitation is in the respect you show them for their ability to perform the service you need from them.
I have been on a cleaning service staff before, and also been someone who hired a cleaning service, and I can tell you for sure that a lot of cleaning crews (especially worker owned ones) absolutely LOVE their clients and are genuinely happy to be able to make their lives better. The clients they don’t like? Those are the ones who disrespect the workers.
When I was involved with a cleaning service, we had everything from little old ladies living alone to McMasions with five cars as clients, and I can assure you that whenever there was someone who clearly hired us because they were overwhelmed or unable to keep their space clean, those were the households where you put a little more elbow grease in and did a deep clean even when it wasn’t paid for, because you could see how much these people were trying and struggling, and they were always so kind and generous and often embarrassed when talking to you about the job.
I only hired a service a couple if times in my life, but whenever I did, I worked with the same people as often as I could, tipped as well as I could afford, and tried to be the kind of client I would want to have, and that’s how I often ended up with my baseboards cleaned too, or my fridge scrubbed and organized or a restorative clean done in a high use room even when that wasn’t what I had scheduled or paid for.
I’ve heard the same thing from all manner of service workers over the years. Many of us like our jobs! We enjoy the work. It’s the customers that can do a number on you.
I think a lot of people are afraid that by needing a service they are inherently exploiting or harming the people who perform that service, and they really aren’t. But it does benefit a capitalist system for us to all be burnt out and overwhelmed because we’re too afraid to hire the help we need. Be upfront and honest with service workers about what you need and why you need it, and treat them with dognity and kindness while they perform your service, and I promise you they will always be happy to answer your call.
HIRING A PROFESSIONAL TO CLEAN YOUR HOUSE ISN’T MORE EXPLOITATIVE THAN GOING TO A DENTIST OR ORDERING A PIZZA
We all fucking depend on each other, it’s about respect and treating one another as fellow humans instead of seeing them as below us
sending your friends terrible tumblr posts is a love language
The spirit of true friendship, right here.
So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom
It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education
602-771-3500 or empower @ azed .gov 🤡
and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up
make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll
So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn't be deterred by the prank calls because they would 'taper off eventually'. It'd be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇
Gosh guys, don't keep reblogging this so that it gets shared all over tumblr and possibly the entire internet. That would just be rude. I mean, you don't want to keep this going so long that it doesn't taper off and they waste so much time and resources they have to shut this down. That--oh man--that would just be soooooooooo tragic. Anyway--
Palle-Jooseppi, a male brown bear at Ranua Zoo in Finland, wakes up after winter hibernation. Although they are not full hibernators, and can be woken easily, brown bears do like to den in a protected spot, such as a cave, crevice, or hollow log, during the winter months. Picture: Kaisa Siren / Rex Features
Same, Palle, same.
I now have enough dopamine to last me a week.
We are going to bake a rainbow cake!
darkmagicpracticioner
Can you teach us how to bake one??
Of course! But keep in mind, this is only our second attempt!
For the cake we are going to bake, you will need the following:
Step 1) Put the sugar and butter into a bowl and mix together until smooth.
Step 2) Mix the eggs and the vanilla extract into the mixture until combined.
[Here you see Pride Knight Roderick cracking an egg]
god-is-an-alpaca
A one-handed egg crack and baking while wearing helmets…absolute legends
After seeing Wizard Howl cracking eggs with one hand in Howl’s Moving Castle, I just had to practice it!
Step 3) Mix the flour into the mixture until combined. Then separate the mixture equally into six different bowls. After this, put food colouring into it. You don’t need too much of it! (We used about half a teaspoon of each colour) Then stir the colours into the mixture.
Step 4) Grease up some sandwich tins (we used 20cm/8 inch ones) and put one of the coloured mixtures into it. We used two sandwich tins at a time because we could only fit two tins onto a single tray in the oven. You don’t want to put the tins onto different trays because they will cook at different speeds. Then put the tins with the mixture into the middle of the oven at 160°C or 320°F for 15 minutes, swapping each colour out until you have them all done.
Step 5) Once they come out of the oven, you’ll have cakes that look like the photo below! Don’t be worried if your cake looks a bit discoloured, it’s normal as the cake baked while touching the metal tin. We used a bowl as a template to cut around the cake to make it a bit smaller and to show off the vibrant colour!
Step 6) Now lets make the icing! Mix 350g (1.5 cups) of butter, 700g (5.5 cups) of icing sugar, and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract together with an electric whisk until nice and smooth. Be careful, icing sugar can be messy!
Step 7) After the cakes have cooled off, place the first cake layer down (purple) and cover the top with icing. Next place the blue cake layer on top and again cover the top with icing. Repeat this step for all the colours, next placing green, yellow, orange, and then red. Finish this step by covering the whole cake with icing.
Pride Knight Gareth is putting on the icing now. Look at how focused he is!
We are almost done! Stay tuned for the big reveal!
ihavetoomanyshipsandfandomsfuck
Im so excited, ive never been this invested in a cake before
We did it!! Who wants a slice?
This is how i know we’re not in hell because these people exist
idontknowgerman
I love you guys but the cake….it looks a bit messy 🙈
You are right, but all that matters in the end is what is inside
How did a slice of cake become so inspirational, how do you guys manage to make everything so wholesome and affirming?
Posts that Tumblr will blaze:
• Blatant NSFW that breaks community guidelines
• Christian proselytizing
• Vent posts
Posts that Tumblr won't blaze:
• Spoilers for a shitty game that lines a transphobe's pockets
🔥All Organic Blaze It Is Then🔥
does anyone have that picture of that fucked up looking white kitten that looks like this
Her name is Nimbus and she grew up to look like this
the “humans are inherently selfish” fanclub can genuinely and in all honesty go to hell. i once came back from a school yard where the kids had heaped piles of leaves and cut wildflowers on a narrow strip of grass bc a bee had died. i actually want to cry.
when i was a child, my parents told me our houseplant would die of lack of sunlight. i was so young i don’t even remember this, but apparently, my response to this was starting to carry the plant around like an emotional support stuffed animal. whenever my family went outside i would hold the pot on my head to make it reach the sun better. i wasn’t in school yet, didn’t have any exposure to the lessons on caring they give in elementary, i don’t remember my thought process - but i can guess. kids integrally care about things, even tiny bugs and inanimate plants. humans care.
don’t let them beat it out of you
mother-entropy
as someone in my 40s, may i also add: if they beat it out of you? put in the work to relearn it until it’s a part of you again. a part you’re proud enough of that if someone tells you it’s dumb and you should stop, you can laugh and say “oh, no. no, i don’t believe i will.” and then keep on keepin’ on.
compassion can often be a skill that needs to be relearned. so relearn it and revel in it.
Also in my forties and motherfucking THIS THIS THIS
When I was a toddler, I cried so much. A bird accidentally flying into a window. A Garfield cartoon that was sad. The thought of the grandfather I hardly remembered. The way a song or piece of music was sorrowful or sad.
I was told to stop crying "for no reason." That I was "too sensitive." "there's no need to be sad/to cry/why are you crying?" And then, as I grew, it became "I will give you something to cry about," and told me my tears were "alligator tears" (Fake/For sympathy.)
Neither of my parents were great—and the point is they made me hide emotionally for so many years. I became ashamed to cry.
I am 44 now, soon to be 45, and I cry during sad movies or shows. I cry for the things and people we lose. I cry for the injustice and inhumanity, and I cry to mourn or weep filled with joy--but 4 decades into my life, I still feel a burning shame sometimes when I cry. My partner and friends are here to tell me there's no shame in it; I remind myself every time that my compassion is essential. It is part of me and welcomed.
Don't let the world kill your compassion. I beg.
“Trial of Hearts” Get enough hearts or else you won’t be able to survive Ganondorf’s hotness, which is also a good reminder to stay hydrated ;3
Tiny Hair tutorial
Borrowing @picchar‘s Rythlen for this cuz she has AMAZING hair. Directions below the cut.
