#they bridge the shore

[hyperlexichypatia]

I agree with the general statement, but strongly disagree with the specific example!

Mind melds are not necessarily sexual, but I have a whole headcanon that Spock married a whale.

Okay everyone, say it with me: mind melds are intimate, which does not inherently mean sexual.

This has been a PSA from the PASWW (people against sex with whales) Foundation

[odinsblog]

This is recent history. Ruby Bridges is 68yrs old and she is still alive.

Emily Conklin is thee definition of a racist Karen, and she is trying to whitewash the history white children learn by erasing a rated PG Disney movie that has already been shown for years in Pinellas County schools, usually as a part of Black History Month.

Two immediate thoughts that come to mind are:

“The people who threw rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school in 1960 now are upset their grandchildren might learn about them throwing rocks at Ruby Bridges for trying to go to school.”

and

“IF BLACK CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO EXPERIENCE RACISM, WHITE CHILDREN ARE OLD ENOUGH TO LEARN ABOUT IT”

Look, Ruby Bridges was six years old when racist white parents (men and women) threw rocks and hissy fits because she was trying to get an education. A full year younger than most of the white children who are now being “protected” from learning the truth about what their grandparents did.

I guess these delicate snowflakes are so triggered by the racism of their elders that they need to get the Republican governor to whitewash away the truth.

I’m almost 40yrs old and I used to wonder how it was that in college, white kids my age genuinely believed that Martin Luther King, Jr. died of old age. But somehow, every single Black person my age knew the truth. How does that happen?? This is how it happens. This is a prime example of precisely how that happened and still happens—because to “protect” them from the truth, white kids weren’t taught that he was assassinated. It’s literally no different than raising generations of white kids to believe that 2+2=5. There’s going to be serious problems when they hit the real world. But what can I say? Conservatives like ‘em dumb and ignorant.

Anyway, this is how you get generations of fully grown white adults who truly honestly believe foolishness like “racism is over,” or “Martin Luther King basically ended racism,” or, “we don’t need affirmative action because there is no more racism; if anything it’s white people who are more discriminated against now.” (The majority of white people polled said the same thing in the 1960s too, btw).

Keeping as many white people as possible ignorant of the truth does not happen by accident. It’s very intentional. And that’s not to say that ALL white people are ignorant of the truth. Some of them, like Emily Conklin, know the truth, but just do not care.

And make no mistake: The same white people who want to keep their white children “pure” and “innocent” have ZERO problems criminalizing and sending young Black children directly to jail for even the slightest misbehavior in a classroom.

Evil, racist cowards (redundant, I know).

[emaadsidiki]

Mighty Nile 🛳️🌆

[mim70]

Katun river, Altay, Siberia

[moonchu-art]

listening to the soft slushing of the shore sweeping against granules of sand and inhaling the lovingly familiar brisk scent that only autumn air carries.

happy november 🍂🐻

insta / shop / cara

[eljeebee]

summer! 🏝️☀️🌊

[rabbitcruiser]

Bridge Over the Water

What do you think about my pic?

[allanodyne]

And once they called this Eden

by AllanOdyne

[mothmiso]

Taipei (2) (3) by Jason

Via Flickr:

(1) Morning ride by the marsh. (2) Grand Hotel. (3) At the edge.     

[chikabika]

Water Slides! Spinning Cups! Rocket Towers! Roller Coasters! Ferris Wheels! Summer and Shore Leave means amusement park, and of course there'd be a whole planet dedicated to such amusements and delights space future. Where would all the teenagers in the galaxy get a summer job?

Can you spot all of the bridge crew?

@tigereyes45 has written a delightful fic inspired by my art for the @thylabang 2024!

(art style inspired by this great gandalf and snoopy piece https://twitter.com/eldhug/status/1784629988202873164?t=isc083EVQ9BpPBWgYsRiRQ&s=19)

In case the twitter link dies at some point, which it probably will, here is that art piece. By Frikk @eldhug

[bleedingcedar]

welcome to my digital diary🕊️

- my name is dihanna (pronounced just like diana), but of course you can call me what you’d like

- i’m a seventeen year old girl

- scorpio (although i don’t really care about horoscopes)

- i’m into all things antique from vintage barbie dolls and precious moments to military artifacts

- top artists: lana del rey, mazzy star, sade, elvis presley, and mojave 3

- top movies: the virgin suicides, i believe in unicorns, rocky, priscilla, the pianist, uptown girls, mother!, and plenty more

- my pinterest🧸: https://pin.it/51LOjXZ9Z

- looking to make new girlfriends💌 i’m accepting of all and am always down to talk

[egg-on-a-legg]

rotates him in the microwave like he deserves

rotates him

[emaadsidiki]

Giza City on River Nile

[mim70]

Katun river, Altay, Siberia

[fentonphoto]

Walking along the river at dawn in Kanazawa, Japan.

[daemondaes]

never an end—only a pause

      hi hello i'm sorry i haven't been around much. i kept trying to be around, but life got in the way. then i started coming back, but was discouraged because my dash has been deader than dead? it felt like coming back to an empty house...so i started slipping away again. then, when my creativity cravings were at their strongest (now), my health took another nosedive (and so i've had a headache for four days straight). i really, really wanted to do a series of individual posts with little doodles thanking some of the people i've made particularly strong connections with this year, but because i can hardly look at the screen, i'm doing a mass/gen post instead. so that's this.

      despite everything, i keep getting pulled to tumblr again and again and again. without you, that wouldn't be possible. without you, this blog wouldn't continue to exist. the stories on this blog are just as much yours as they are mine, because roleplay, by its very nature, is collaborative. someday, if i ever do manage to publish the individual (or collective!) stories of the characters on this blog in one way or another, they won't necessarily follow the same paths as their stories do on here. i have arcs and beats in mind, but on tumblr, they're more malleable. you have the power to change them for better and for worse. you might even make me reconsider what i thought was set in stone, or help me reach a new understanding of characters that i thought i knew as surely as i birthed them.

      roleplay can be such a special form of writing, wholly unlike any other kind of storytelling, and i could never for a moment forget all the bonds i've made with so many people here. i've met wonderful writers from all across the globe, and with the power of imagination alone, our lives have become indelibly linked through the worlds of our characters. that's such a magical, peculiar sort of intimacy that might seem mad to outsiders, and in many ways, they'd be right.

      roleplay, particularly on tumblr, is such a masochistic act of love, but i don't for a second regret the time i've spent here with you all, and i hope i can be here more consistently in the coming year. 2024 marks year 12 since i transitioned to writing on tumblr, and in the past months, i've managed to rediscover people who i met in the earliest days of my journey here. i hope you know how elated i am to see you still here, writing, even if we only peer at each other from across the room. i hope we can continue to write together, or at least near each other, for many more years to come. for those of you who i've yet to form much of a bond with, this is going to be our year! for those of you who i haven't yet met at all, this is me throwing a penny into the wishing well, asking the universe to bring us together.

      this blog was built by you. i was built by you. let's build the future together.