someone get me this mf shirt so i can be the dirty hippie i am

as white gays we gotta learn to shut the fuck up when gays of color are speaking

Shelter created hilarious profiles for their cats to help them find forever homes

Working in retail is wild, people just tell me things about their personal life and I just stand there. I don’t know how to respond to “my kid just died” or “I’m getting a divorce” like that’s sucks… $13.48 is your total.

Sexting? Nah. I’m into spexting. Spooky texting. Ever seen a ghost? Hmu.

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

this is a good post.

Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.

#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)

REBLOG IF YOU LOVE DOGS

9 million people fucking love dogs

Here we come 10.

BREAK THE POST

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I’ve finally found it again

the elusive 10 million note post

they say no two people reblog it with the same original text

Probably the most important post of 2013.

monumental

Naturally Erupted Elephant Rock in Heimaey in Iceland

I’ve often seen pictures of the elephant’s head, and have been amazed by it every time. But I’d never seen the picture from above, showing the whole body/tail and trunk. It’s incredible from this angle, and am convinced it is a real ancient mega elephant turned to stone by a dark or benevolent force long forgotten.

AKA this fucks me up

Help // The Front Bottoms

What’s your fantasy?

I wake up, my debt is all paid off, my bank account is full, my relationships with my family are healthy, and I’m able to travel anywhere in the world.

reblog for this ultimate fantasy life to come true

sleepovers when ur little: omg ms bukket is SUCH a mean teacher >:( she yelled at me

sleepovers now: i dont think im capable of love

It shouldn’t be called meet and greet it should be called pay and hey

I don’t remember if I’ve mentioned it here before but for the past week or so we’ve been looking after a lost (possibly abandoned?) bunny.

She is the sweetest most darling bunny I have ever met. We took her to the vet because she has an infection in her left eye and found out she’s about 4-5 years old and had a litter last summer/early fall.

We ALSO have a litter of 3 month old foster kittens and she LOVES them.

Most of them are just kind of neutral to her but one of them, nicknamed “Blue”, thinks she’s his mom

Sunshine

my problem is i always love people more than they love me