#And always has been

[sailor-arashi]

"Aura, the person standing before you is a mage who has lived for over a thousand years..."

[airagorncharda]

not to be too much of a rebel but I genuinely enjoy this website. If I didn't I would leave.

[hogwashandbalderdash]

don’t let all this harry and meghan bullshit distract you from the fact that the nhs is at its absolute breaking point, waiting lists are at an all time high, hundreds of lives are at risk for patients trying to access immediate healthcare and to top it all of we are in a cost of living crisis where parents are having to choose between feeding their kids or heating their homes. there’s people who used to get by fine who are now having to use food banks (including key workers like teacher and nurses) and all this doesn’t even scratch the surface of what we’re dealing with because our government has been dismantling every good service in this country for the past 12 years and it’s having a knock on effect on our wellbeing and communities. i am SICK of rich well connected entitled people in mansions whining about their lives while the rest of us suffer!! if it was any other time i wouldn’t mind but it is so tone deaf to do this right now. this country is breaking!!! i am not being dramatic this is serious and i am so mad!!!

[waugh-bao]

“My mother never expected to see me on stage: ‘He’s such a shy boy!’ She’s been disabused of that.”-Keith Richards, 2003

[nitebloom]

david crosby is cringe

[bustcr-moved]

I've officially moved Noir over to my multi: @cfgcdsandmcnsters

But I'm still logged in here on mobile at the moment because I'm lazy.

[blueskrugs]

the fact that I’ve made it through three and a half years of college without an 8 am but am forced to take one my final semester is cruel

[nb-marceline]

(full article here)

[tariah23]

Oh…. Well, it’s over for Crunchyroll I guess

[goldensunset]

advice i think we should tell children is that when adults say stuff like ‘now that i’m an adult i get really excited about stuff like coffee tables and bathrooms and rugs etc’ they don’t mean ‘and now i don’t care about blorbo and squimbus from my childhood tv shows anymore’ bc your average adult still loves all the same pop culture stuff they always did; they just have a greater appreciation for the mundane as well. growing up just means you can enjoy life twice as much now. you can get really excited about a new stuffed animal AND about a new kitchen sponge. peace and love

[agirlking]

Watching PLL Original Sin/Summer School after watching IwTV is... jarring.

[laughingcatwrites]

As a reminder that good exists out there, a coworker recently confessed to me that he found out his child is questioning their identity (kid's gender redacted for this post). The kid is keeping it from him, so he can't say anything to them or show that he knows, but he's doing his best to get mentally prepared and educated so that he'll be ready whenever his kid does feel comfortable enough come to him.

For context, this guy is a big, bulky middle aged dude who loves sports and typical outdoor "manly" activities. As his coworker and friend, I know he's a kind and sweet teddy bear of a person, but his kid probably views him as a stern, authoritarian figure, the way most teenagers view their parents. His family lives in a conservative area, so I'm sure between that, their dad's looks and interests, and the fact that their dad is a Figure of Authority, the kid is worried that they won't be accepted.

But you know what? When he found out about his kid, the first thing he did was reach out to his closest queer friend and ask for resources for parents of questioning children. His biggest fears are that his kid will be bullied or discriminated against and won't feel comfortable enough to be themself. His second action was to find himself a mentor in another parent who went the same situation (kid coming out in a conservative town). The other person is preparing him for some of the struggles his kid may face and the fights he may need to take on as a parent to make sure his kid is safe and treated well.

Something I want to emphasize for people focused on language as the primary method of allyship is that when we spoke, he used some outdated terms and thoughts about gender and sexuality. That does not make him bad. These were the terms and thinking used about questioning teenagers when he was growing up and he never needed to learn more current ones. But now that he does have that need, he's throwing himself in head first because that's his kid and he's darn well going to make sure that his kid feels welcomed and has a safe place to be themselves even if they never come out to him.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

the fact that shakespeare was a playwright is sometimes so funny to me. just the concept of the "greatest writer of the English language" being a random 450-year-old entertainer, a 16th cent pop cultural sensation (thanks in large part to puns & dirty jokes & verbiage & a long-running appeal to commoners). and his work was made to be watched not read, but in the classroom teachers just hand us his scripts and say "that's literature"

just...imagine it's 2450 A.D. and English Lit students are regularly going into 100k debt writing postdoc theses on The Simpsons screenplays. the original animation hasn't even been preserved, it's literally just scripts and the occasional SDH subtitles.txt. they've been republished more times than the Bible

[verflares]

NOW SPELL: ANGEL Z-E-L-D-A WRONG! TRY AGAIN.

also on inprnt :]

[irafook]

Baby sorcerers