#I acknowledge that

[wittyno]

the problem is that that I would absolutely fuck Jackson Alberta, PhD.

[untitled-tmnt-blog]

5H

5.) The most recent character in your search history.

H.) With your finger / on your phone.

Saved this one for my lunch break today! The only time I really draw on my phone is when I leave drawings in those anon draw box things. I need to do that more.

(Doodle Ask Game)

[catgirlxox]

if you ever doubt me just know that my reach is at least 1M people

[languagendersex]

Whenever y'all start to wonder whether you're "making it up for attention" or the imposter syndrome decides to reveal its horrible head, I want you all to remember:

We are living in a traumatic society.

Women and girls (and so many more) are still harassed on the street, corrective rape is still a thing, people still beat their children, humiliate them on social media even. People are shooting up schools, churches, and hospitals for attention. Because they feel ignored. Isolated.

Despite being more "connected" than ever with the internet and social media, we are also more isolated than ever. We bear all the knowledge in the world all the time, the 24-hour news cycle, even personal reports, personal thoughts running through our feeds 24/7.

All of this knowledge can be isolating. We feel the pain of everyone around the world, constantly. We can't handle it alone.

It's a lot like solitary confinement - everyone knows how bad that can be for your mental health. Except, we go through it every day. Stare at our phones instead of each other. A prison of our own creation.

Tumblr is full of hatred, anger, pain. All of us yearning for a better world. Somewhere we can feel safe to express ourselves. Feel actual raw emotion instead of blue light on a screen.

We crave attention, physical touch, warmth. Even just being in the same room as another helps. We need to trust each other, understand each other.

And we can't do that from behind a screen.

[itspileofgoodthings]

My principal doesn’t believe that the point of an English class is to introduce the children to great literature and model loving it, analyzing it, and engaging it for them and with them. But I do.

[myfriendstoldmenotto]

Is it just me or does anyone else have the urge since ao3 went back up to find the most lgbt+ or/and most deprived fanfics in their fandoms just out of spite??

[ryderdire]

Adrian actually confronting his dad before the hawkmoth reveal was smth I didn’t know I needed

[kenapiece-main]

Can you believe I'm having to make this meme even after successfully finishing up taxes and applying to job

[spaciebabie]

im seeing a lot of "queer people dont kill yourselves" posts and yes, i agree but also poc folks dont kill yourselves. you're needed in this space just as much as the white folks are. we will get through this hand in hand together

[magkinetix]

Three extremely unintelligent individuals.

[gendernewtral]

california is the most populous us state our mannerisms break containment sometimes

pls vote and reblog this. I'm trying to prove to my Best Friend that I'm right.

P.S. If you answer sodapop, I instantly don't trust you.

[flonflonflon]

SO. I WATCHED YOUNG JUSTICE. Red Hooded Ninja I need you so bad...... did some more scribbling to cope o(-( Very upset that they did not further elaborate on him / Jason Todd before cancelling the show?? At least. that's what I read everywhere. I'm late to the party as always.. ,,,give me a Nightwing arc including Jason please please please I love his total of 3 minutes of screentime on there, I am so starved I still have hope

[dunmeshistash]

One of the things I really appreciate about Dungeon Meshi is how the text is so clearly full of love for animals. Like the true kind of love Laios feels for the monster where he wants to know everything about them, but most of all he respects them and loves them as animals.

One of the chapters I can't stop thinking about is the one about Anne the Kelpie. It's kind of impressive how well it illustrates the different kind of love people have for animals. And how someone that loves an animal isn't necessarily an animal lover. If that makes sense.

When Senshi calls out Anne what he says is "Don't worry Anne's Harmless" but she isn't, she's a wild animal.

Marcille immediately reacts positively about it thinking it's cute she accepts the treat Senshi has for her. And hers and Chilchuck's reaction to Senshi wanting to cross the river on her back is more surprise while Laios immediately realizes how bad of an idea it is.

But Laios is the animal monster lover so how come when he finally is faced with a "docile" monster he doesn't react positively like the others? Marcille even calls him a monster. That's because Laios loves monsters, and Senshi loves Anne.

I've seen this attitude around me several times, where people love a specific animal but what they love is their idea of that animal, they don't really know them because they don't love the animal part of them.

It becomes a "this one is special because I love them" that can quickly become an issue for the animal as much as it is for the person. It's something unfortunate I see time and time again irl.

Anne wasn't wicked, Anne wasn't mean, Anne didn't trick him. Anne was a wild animal and Senshi loved her as Anne but not as a kelpie.

She acted on instinct, maybe she did love Senshi in the way kelpies can love, but animals are still animals and must be respected and treated as such. Climbing on top of Anne's back was the equivalent of putting your arm inside a alligator's mouth, the mouth is gonna close because that's what they're designed to do.

The real life equivalent I see the most of "I love this animal but I don't love the animal part of them" is with dogs. If you insist on loving an animal without acknowledging they ARE an animal they might hurt you, you might hurt them, it will only end in grief.

The best way you can love an animal is by understanding they're an animal.

That is all to say I don't mean that the love Senshi felt for Anne wasn't real or that it's all his fault. He couldn't have known with the information he had and unfortunately it came down to the worst outcome.

I just love dungeon meshi dearly.

[brucie-baby]

the fact that alfred was the one to put up jason's memorial is so important to me

[adjit]

I think we need to get more comfortable with the idea that sometimes shitty, racist, homophobic, bigoted people are still incredibly talented.

I feel like every time I see a post addressing someone’s shitty behavior the post also takes the time to mention that they’re not even good at [x] anyway. And that’s just not always true? Equating being good at a skill as being morally good is just not necessary. Someone can be a fantastic writer, can have a beautiful singing voice, can create breathtaking artwork, and still be a horrible person.

I know part of this is probably just the instinct to dislike everything about a person when you dislike them, but I also think this mindset leads to people defending creatives way past where they should, because if bad people create bad art, then if this person creates art that I like and resonates with me, then they can’t be a bad person!

And you know. That’s just not true. Those two things are simply completely unconnected and I think it’d be healthier if we all started disconnecting them in our heads.

[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