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so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

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Please stop trigger tagging with #epilepsy tw/cw/warning/etc.

I need every single person to understand how horrible tumblr’s tagging system is

I go into the tag for epilepsy and its all flashing lights. We can’t use our own tag because people without epilepsy fill it up with improper warnings.

Use ‘flashing’ in place of ‘epilepsy’ in your tags. You aren’t warning people of epileptics, you’re warning us of flashing lights. Please please tag properly. Epileptics say this endlessly and constantly and it’s ignored. You are risking lives by doing this.

Here’s proof of what I mean:

THIS POST IS 100% OKAY TO REBLOG, I ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WITHOUT EPILEPSY TO ESPECIALLY DO SO!

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i think "it takes a village" shouldn't be just "to raise a child". we should understand it takes a village to do literally everything we do. all day every day. without our communities we would not have drinking water or electricity or clean streets or food or shelter or anything. we cannot do any thing alone. we just can't. and with that comes the fact that you are not alone. you already have a community, seek to be an active part of it, you will feel better. reach out and thank them, they're happy to have you too. i promise. it takes a village to live.

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oxidized copper is such a beautiful color palette. The rich reds with the cool teals. Such a vibrant combo. No one is doing it like her.

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on my way home last night I stopped to buy gas and realized that my fuel door was almost completely covered in ice and frozen shut so I did the logical thing and crouched down and lifted my shirt and pressed my naked belly against it until it melted

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Can I... talk about the theory that winners help craft the next game?

Because, and I really can not say this enough, it puts So Much into perspective.

Everything starts out Normal. Three lives, simple, cut and dry, there hasn't been a winner yet. No one to help craft the game. (And there's something to be said about how simple it really was. Not even a real expectation of the world becoming pvp or combative. No idea of the war to come)

Then Grian wins. The green killer, the man who vowed his first life to the one whose life he took. The next game the boogie man is born. A mechanic that allows and, in fact, demands, a green kill. People can trade lives back and forth, currency and debt wrapped up in one. (can we still be friends? Said the red partner. A life time later and reds are hostile, alone. Maybe it's an answer: No. Not anymore)

Scott wins this time. He refuses to play the game. He will not kill his team, he will love and he will do so fiercely and with all of himself. The next game people are attached through to their very souls. Every bit of damage to one soul is done to its twin. There is no boogeyman. (There is no way for a widow to be left without their love)

Pearl wins and she wins a blood bath. Spent the game draped in red, only wolves for company. Sitting in her tower, shivering in ice, maybe she wanted it to end. To see where it would. Limited life rewards you for killing, limited life has a clock tick tick ticking down, you always no how long you have. A curse yes, but a blessing too.

Now It's Martyn's turn.

And what a turn it is.

Keep your secrets, says the disloyal man, keep them well. Everything hurts, everything Matters, says the man fracturing with every loss. (What if we could love each other without hurting? Says The Hand, who never wanted to be coated in blood)

More importantly, Martyn has always seen the watchers below the surface. Now, they're right here in front of him. Something that could almost... be rebelled against, no? Something that someone else could finally point to and say: hey, hey isn't that familiar?

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I need to remind people of something very important, okay? I need you to listen to what I have to say and read it through even if your instinctual reaction is uncomfortable.

Minors are not these pure little things you think of them as. Teenagers are going to have sex whether or not you're okay with it. Kids are going to find a way to do the stupid thing. It doesn't matter how tight of a leash you keep on them. It's not inherently the fault of the people they hang out with either.

I need you to recognize these things and provide safe outlets and accomodations for the minors in your life. If you're a parent, the sex talk is CRUCIAL, especially for consent. From a young age you should be having age appropriate discussions about consent. For a toddler it can be as simple as telling them it's okay to not want a hug and then respecting that boundary. By the time they're old enough to know what sex is, they should be able to have that conversation with a peer and explain to that peer what consent means so that they can have a level discussion.

You also need to provide things like condoms in the case that they become sexually active. Hell, you can just keep a box under the bathroom sink and check it periodically to make sure they're not expired or gone. If the teen doesn't use it for themselves, they'll give it to a friend to keep them safe.

For the stupid stuff, it doesn't matter the age, they're going to do stupid things. The 3 year old will eat the dirt, the 8 year old will skip out on the helmet, the 13 year old is gonna play a game you don't approve of, the older teen is going to partake in activities you don't want them doing. You can provide them safe outlets to prevent the more dangerous things. If they feel safe at home they'll feel comfortable telling you about the kid who tried to get them to vape. If they have access to a physical outlet they be able to express their emotions in a healthy physical way. This can be as simple as you bringing them to the high school or college track on the weekends so they can run, giving them the privacy to put on a stupid video with stupid music they can dance it out to without judgement, or even just inviting them to go on a short walk with you while dinner is cooking. Good outlets can reduce reckless behavior significantly. This is especially good for the teens that just got the legal ability to drive.

Also, one thing I cannot stress enough is to not revoke their access to the safe accommodations and outlets. I don't give a freezedried fuck how in trouble they may be with you or with the school or even the law. If they are legally allowed to access the places they use as outlets they need to be able to go. You can just take away possibly the only coping mechanism that works for them.

Please just give minors a chance to exist without your judgement or preconceived notions of how they're meant to exist. Not everyone is the same. Not everyone is going to be this perfect little angel. You have to work with what you have and accept them for who they are and how they are.

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what’s the point of making an oc if they’re not gonna be a vessel that you put a piece of your soul into?

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imagine if the oceans were replaced by forests and if you went into the forest the trees would get taller the deeper you went and there’d be thousands of undiscovered species and you could effectively walk across the ocean but the deeper you went, the darker it would be and the animals would get progressively scarier and more dangerous and instead of whales there’d be giant deer and just wow

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starting to suspect that tech bros actually just don’t know what reading is

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i love pitting classically trained magic users against self-taught magic users in sci-fi/fantasy but it shouldn’t be snobbish disdain for them it should be terror

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The entire fucking album gives me goosebumps 😭✨

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since mrs, ms, and mr are all descended from the latin word magister, i propose the gender neutral version should be mg, short for "mage"

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i am in the house like carpet

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