if this is an opinion a lot of people hold I must be regarded by society as some kind of feral animal. one thing about me is I will be going places with wet hair
Not only should teachers be paid more, they should have paid work hours dedicated to lesson planning and paperwork. Drops mic and walks away
They should also be allowed to fight at least one parent.
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robert pattinson, on his consistent lies // david lynch // will wood, on his fake daughter // kurt vonnegut // tumblr user intactics
being a star trek fan is so fun. you pick your special guy and you automatically get an evil, fucked up, sexy version of them from an alternate universe built in. for free. two for one!!!
in honor of drew struzan's passing, two of his Star Trek works (my favorites).
I love seeing this every year.
i’m not listing all my disorders in my bio or pinned posted, clearly you’ll see there’s something wrong with me
twitter stans when a musical artist doesn’t use their platform to single handedly negotiate a two state solution:
we talk a lot about rent free scenes from black sails but this one is definitely up there
[video description: woodes rogers has detained jack rackham, and the two of them are sitting in a carriage. as jack speaks, rogers looks up from his book and later puts it away.
Jack: My father was a tailor. In Leeds. As was his father. And his father’s father. Time was, if a man on the Avondale road asked where he might find the finest clothes in Northern England he was pointed towards the shop of a man named Rakham. Then, the men who sell wool decided they’d prefer not to compete with the men who imported fine cotton, and as the men who sell wool have the ears of the men who make laws… an embargo is enacted, to increase profits, and calico disappears. And my father’s business, that he inherited from his father, and his father’s father, begins to wither and die. And my father suffers the compound shame of financial failure seen through the eyes of his son. He descended into drink. I’d sit beside him, as a boy, at the Sunday service as he shouted at the pastor… at the altar, at anyone who’d listen really, of the injustice of it all. And I’d put his arm over my shoulder as the insults began. Help carry him out of the church, and God, the insults. At his funeral, our neighbours were kind enough to whisper rather than hurl them out loud. So, I set to work, determined to rebuild what had been taken away. I was thirteen years old, but I was determined. Until a man arrived at my door, claiming to hold debts belonging to my father. Debts accumulated as my father drank, debts he claimed that now belonged to me, debts I could not possibly hope to repay. Debts over which this man would have seen me imprisoned in a place where the debts only would have been discharged through hard labour, hard labour with no wages, working at, wait for it… The production of textiles. “You people. Incapable of accepting the world as it is,” says the man to whom the world handed everything. If no Anne, if no rescue, if this is defeat for me, then know this; you and I were neck and neck in this race, right to the end, but Jesus did I make up a lot of ground to catch you. /end video description]
companies make billions from you thinking you're ugly btw. only ugly thing is their bottom line. log out of tiktok right now.
learning to ask 'is this an ad' will save your life
"guys i just got this new" it’s an ad
"let me show you what i just bought from" it’s an ad
"how am i just now discovering" it’s an ad
I actually think Portland absolutely has the right idea with showing up to protest in ways that make violence against them look not only unjustified but absolutely ridiculous. Ah yes, the people line dancing in inflatable animal costumes. Terrifying. Clearly pepper spraying the dancing frog guy was totally justified.
I think we need Gothic Lolita protestors. People in Star Trek uniforms. Slap on a pair of short shorts and a Richard Simmons wig and lead some sweating to the oldies.
It may be intentional, it may just be people have always been people- or a combination of both- but tactical frivolity is a thing that has been around since BCE.
It is 100% protest, but it's also showing the ridiculousness of the situation, and the People in Charge usually would rather face a warlord unarmed than be made fun of. And it ruins the "violent, unstable" population myth in an undeniable way.
It's also saying "you may be trying to control us, and our lives have turned to shit because of the things you are doing, but you will never take away our hope and the simple joy of being alive. Even in our darkest hour, we can dance in silly costumes and find our people and become stronger because of it."
Tactical frivolity! Thank you for the term!
No shame in using the safeword (quitting a fic that doesnt do it)
I have a rant in me that applies both to birth control and to psych meds: these things can have side effects, ranging from very mild to very severe. These things also have serious benefits, which make it worthwhile to put up with some side effects. And if the side effects are too severe to put up with, ideally the healthcare system will help you try different options, and find one that agrees with you. In practice however, you may not have the time/money/energy to try different options, and you may have had bad experiences with healthcare professionals who told you to shut up and put up with the side effects, no matter how bad they are. We should demand better! We should demand access to a wider variety of options, and we should demand research into even more options: things have gotten a lot better in the past fifty decades because we have demanded better and then got it, and hopefully we will keep getting it.
And in this context, criticising birth control and psych meds is not only allowed, it's our duty.
But when someone criticises them in general terms, with broad claims that they are unnatural evil chemicals that alter you in vague indefinable ways, that they change your personality, that they unbalance your hormones and disconnect your for your divine spiritual whachamacallit, when someone plays up the incredibly rare risks and is silent on the commonly experienced benefits, when someone is just generally acting like these things are poison, you should start hearing the alarm bells: someone wants you barefoot pregnant in the kitchen and too depressed to leave.
Working at a library for five years and being an author for a year more is such a wild time, because I always try to predict what new content will get the most pushback and have a script or redirect ready, but it's NEVER the things I expect.
Like, we'll do a whole training to prep our Drag Storytime safely that'll go fine, and then we have to get security involved because our outside art display included photographs of beards.
I'll help make a whole setup for non-denominational December Holiday Decorations, only to have to veto the January setup because someone on staff thought HELPFUL TRENDY CRASH DIETS FOR POST-HOLIDAY WEIGHT LOSS was a fun non-denominational setup to put in the teen section.
I'll add autobiographies with the most vile, pedophillic, unsettling narratives imaginable to the archive and brace for complaints, then see patrons walk right past it to pick up a kid's book with a puppy on it and ask if it's supposed to be porn.
I guess my point is: if you're posting on Tumblr and trying to brace yourself or predict how to word your content in a way so that no one can possibly get mad at you or misinterpret the intentions... take it easy on yourself? People are weird. I cannot emphasize enough that, even in a professional environment with years of practice and training and archiving, it is impossible to gauge what will get what responses.
Be kind to yourself! Post what brings you joy!
Library Leif, out!
blocked someone for having "strong opinions" on how much they hate tofu . she isnt a joke to me thats my fucking wife youre talking about
just found out in medieval france, having a lion on your coat of arms was so prevalent that there was literally a colloquial proverb to clown on knights for being basic and not having a real coat of arms. the hate game was so strong back then. imagine medieval hate anons
“those without a coat of arms wear a lion” insane. if i was about to joust with some guy and he said that to me i would just quit. bro already won
Wow, I didn't know that!
That’s a heraldic insult. It’s devastating. You’re devastated right now.
