#freedom for real

[teaboot]

When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for "having an attitude" and "acting out".

It wasn't as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.

It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on "learning bad habits from that shit you're reading".

Because I couldn't read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.

When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the "attitudes" I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I'd learned from what I'd read that my family wasn't normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.

It is insane to me that there are students right now who can't access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation's ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.

That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.

That's how you process cattle.

It's fucking disgusting.

[707shadia]

DAY 2 - Alternative Universe (The Road To El Dorado AU!!)

[asexual-shelly]

some art of a character i dont talk about that much haha. shes ok i guess idk i think other people like her a lot... sorry haha just kidding i actually really like her i was lying sorry im a bit of a liar haha no no non NON NO NOT INTO T🔥HE PIT NO🔥 IT BUR🔥🔥NNS🔥🔥AAA🔥🔥🔥🔥A🔥🔥🔥AAA🔥🔥A🔥🔥A🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[tortoisewithoutashell]

Via: eid_yara on Instagram

[rocketbirdie]

ahem. gay

[tsubomiiiii]

OK BUT WHAT IF….WHAT IFFFF…..

[circumpolarvampire]

"Land Back" was just a funny slogan for you all huh... Like it never actually meant anything to you right, threw it in with your daily land acknowledgments for the dead merciless indian sava- I mean native american Indians, right?

[junsiepie]

Clownzy tweets because I have MASSIVE brainrot

Clown is a pissy cat when his favourite person is taking to anyone else and you cannot convince me otherwise !!

[clfixationstation]

Eren didn't care about anything until he met Armin, whatever that means

[piebank]

cyber!noah reverse au insp by @cayenneexe 's fic x

[reality-detective]

Looking forward to the disclosure! 👇

It's going by the Book 🤔

[dykealloy]

the catholic rejection of it all

[the-barefoot-hatter]

if Ford thinks Icarus' problem was that he didn't flap hard enough... I wonder if Bill thinks about the Minotaur

[tortoisewithoutashell]

From eid_yara on Instagram

[itslilacokay]

ACTUAL CHODARK?!?! WHAT THE FUCK

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