bitch i just want a box of old love letters, that so much to ask???

‘how would other people describe you’ why would i know this

Tumblr is so funny because you can make a post like "hey do not mix bleach and vinegar in your cleaning, you'll make chlorine gas and you do not want to make chlorine gas. It is dangerous to mix these two specific chemicals together", and the comments are like

"Um vinegar isn't dangerous?? My mom cleans things with vinegar all the time and we have never had lung issues. White people are insane." (<- does not use bleach, missing the point)

"OH MY GOD BLEACH IS CHLORINE GAS? NOBODY EVER TOLD ME I'VE BEEN CLEANING WITH BLEACH MY WHOLE LIFE, I WILL DIE." (<- has literally never used vinegar in cleaning, and never mixed the two, missing the point)

"This is just stupid fearmongering, we use bleach and vinegar to wash the floors all the time, OP is lying." (<- does not actually know what "vinegar" is, and is confusing the word for something else)

"Yeah this is true enough but also keep in mind that this kind of household cleaning product chlorine gas is too weak and unreliable to use for domestic terrorism purposes." (<- raises concerns, but potentially has a point)

idk when we decided that explaining yourself shouldn't be part of an apology but like. if someone was a dick to me and apologizes but I still don't understand why they did it I'm not gonna feel any better

@lonelybitchversion

If that isn't the biggest fucking mood in the entire universe, idk what is.

Crazy how many people are forgetting the very well known fact that the majority of the victims on the Titanic were lower class folk. Like I feel like it’s pretty common knowledge that rich people and their shit took up most of the space on the life boats

there is no end to human hubris

so theres a lot of posts going round about the titanic wreck and the missing submarines; all of them that ive seen have made very good points about how shoddy the submersible seemed to be and how the company decided to wait eight hours before reporting it, and how this is a play stupid games, win stupid prizes for the ultra-wealthy who paid like 250grand a ticket for this thing.

but what i havent seen any posts about is how the titanic wreck is a gravesite and this tourism is disturbing the graves of over 1500 people.

sometimes its kinda hard to remember that those on the titanic were real people; it was over a century ago, the story has been romanticised in so many ways (like the movie), theres conspiracies theories galore that cloud everything with misinformation, but at the end of the day, those who died were real people.

do you want their names? heres a list of them; its a long read. and for fun, heres another site where you can see photos of the children and babies who died aboard.

their bodies are long gone and their lives long forgotten. all we have to remember them and honour them is the wreck itself. its all we have of them and it is their gravesite. its their tombstone.

caitlin doughty/ask a morticians video on the great lakes discusses the topic well, and why we should leave these shipwrecks alone because again, they are the gravesites of all the souls who died aboard those ships. we rarely have bodies to recover so we really are left just with the wreck.

and what really upsets me about titanic tourism is how the majority of those who died that night were not the ultra-wealthy rich folks you might picture when you think of ocean liners.

the majority of those who died that night were regular folk; not to be cliche, but they were just like us. titanics wreck is not only a gravesite for over 1500 people, its also a majority working class gravesite.

and look at us now. look at what were doing. the ultra-wealthy can pay the equivalent of peanuts to them to disturb a mass gravesite of the exact kind of people they exploit today to hold onto all their wealth. 

its easy to point and laugh at these dumb idiots in their playstation controller submarine, seemingly held together with super glue and duct tape, but its also important to remember that what they were doing was simply disturbing a gravesite for fun. though the company does research, these guys werent down there to conduct research, they were there so they could brag about it to their friends. its like “climbing mount everest” while your sherpa does all the work.

if you cant tell, i have a lot of feelings about this. shipwrecks and ocean liners are one of my special interests and im currently building a (beginner’s) model of the titanic, for fucks sake. but i would never go down to see that wreck because its a fucking gravesite and we should not be disturbing their final resting place.

So 4 bajillionaires paid a quarter of a million dollars each, to weld themselves into a makeshift submarine to go see the wreck of the titanic?

this thing is literally an unlicensed submarine, cobbled together out of parts, it uses drainage pipes as ballast

it has been lost at sea before for 5 hours, they shut the internet off to prevent the crew from tweeting about it.

it still does not have a beacon, and it is lost at sea AGAIN!!

this piece of shit is controlled by a fucking logitech controller and has about 96 hours of oxygen left,

that's 96 hours to find a small submersible vehicle somewhere in the north atlantic ocean,this bodes extremely well

2 of the people on board are evil billionaires who lobbied against more regulations because they are "stifling"

one of the other guys on board got in trouble for leaked emails saying he would never hire muslims

the fourth guy is actually a really cool titanic historian and people only have nice things to say about him :(

They should invent a job that i actually want to do

111 years later and the Titanic is still serving kill the idle rich realness. Queen.

Leslie Feinberg on trans exclusion in feminist spaces.

From TransSisters: The Journal of Transsexual Feminism, issue 7, volume 1. 1995.

it frustrates me when abusers are like “i’m not that person anymore” like ok?? i’m still traumatized

Landlords: "Am I supposed to just let people live in the house I own without paying rent?"

Decent People: "No, you doofus. You're supposed to not own the house in the first place. Houses are not meaningless collectables like coins, baseball cards, or action figures. You're not supposed to own as many as you can get your hands on. You're supposed to own one to live in."

"Credit to the original artist" is not credit to the original artist

"Payment to the cashier", I say, as I haul a TV out the door of the Walmart

get this: body neutrality isnt just for the "good" fat ppl who try to lose weight but can't and do everything in their power to be skinny but aren't able to. it's also for the lazy bitches who don't exercise and east fast food 4+x a week and the fat ppl who have no interest in being skinny. hope this helps!

If you’re still upset about some dispute the gods had in MYTHOLOGY a thousand+ years ago you need to seriously chill. I can be a Freyja devotee and work with Loki as well. Did he slut shame her in lokasenna? Yes. Was lokasenna written by a Christian HUMAN dude? YES. Remember that. If you take mythology literally without thinking about who wrote it and the context and religions and politics of the time then you’re being foolish. Sorry, but it’s true.

nobody talks about how ptsd feels like genuinely embarrassing and humiliating sometimes

like you’ve been through however much shit and then years later you’re crying in your kitchen cause you got triggered by something super mundane you see every day like.. dishes, and you can’t explain why because the connection to trauma is vague and weird and contextual and so you’re just like why is this who I am…

I once had a teacher say “If you tell someone else to stop talking, you’re talking also.” This happened in that time immediately after lunch when everyone is expected to be quiet, and everyone will be punished if a few people are talking.

In other words, they’ll punish you for what someone else does, but you’re not allowed to tell them to stop.

And the people who make these ridiculous rules are the authority figures that kids are supposed to respect. And they actually wonder why kids don’t respect them.

it’s ok to not feel ok

and it’s ok to feel better