live shadowheart reaction
rate this subway hole
why does this station's subway entrance make me feel like I'm getting flushed down a toilet
Leg pov when you pull your trousers. I love this
listen im obsessed with this answer
in standard arabic, there are two singular you pronouns: feminine and masculine. in different arabic dialects, usually they are both used or the masculine form is used for everyone. except tunisian dialect!! the feminine you is used to address everyone. the looks of offense and surprise on other arab men's faces when addressed by "enti" are always so worth it xD
if you’re like. 14 and trans on tumblr rn and getting ur first anon hate from terfs. word of advice. stop responding to that shit. theyre only gonna send more, it’s only gonna make you spiral even if you put on a strong face. report + block messages as soon as they come in, don’t let them sit in your inbox it’s gonna make you feel like shit. turn off anon for a few days, block anyone suspicious in your notes liberally for a little while. repeat as needed. don’t give them the time of day. it sucks, but like. i dont know any trans person on the internet with any following who hasn’t gotten some disgusting messages. just. be safe yknow
so many young teens feel the need to have a snappy comeback, to explain you could never be cishet bc you’re actually t4t!! or whatever but like. just. don’t say any of that. they love that shit, they eat it up. do what u can to bore them into stopping. and sometimes they dont stop, and that sucks too but like. you do not want to get in public arguments with people who can hurt you more than you think they can, its not cowardly to delete discourse posts and shit if you feel like you can’t handle the notifications anymore. like just. you may not be able to completly prevent this stuff but take a few steps if you can, it will at least lower your chances
I used to answer nastygrams, and I can tell you the single most convincing reason I found to stop, and it's not for my feelings or because I can't handle it or whatever.
You know why terfs (and really anyone else) send people nastygrams? Because they don't have enough of a following to say that shit and spread it around by themselves, and they want your following instead. Tumblr is user driven, not algorithmic. The only way their nasty-ass bullshit gets spread is if YOU spread it.
Every time you answer an ask like that or reblog one of their posts... you are ceding your platform to them. You're handing over publicity. You're letting them use you to get at the people who follow you. You're letting them use you to try to hurt others. They're not necessarily even trying to hurt you specifically, they're just trying to be seen, and you publishing their ask means they get seen by all the people who follow you. The absolute best thing you can do is make sure that doesn't happen at all, regardless of what you might say in response.
The first time I ever saw it framed like that, I immediately stopped ever addressing any kind of nastygram. Because that, coupled with the mental image of some asshole wasting their time repeatedly checking my blog to see my response, only to find out that not only did I not answer them, I blocked them and I'm still having a great time, makes it a lot easier to brush aside the whole thing. It wastes less of my time on someone bad. It doesn't expose my followers to hurtful sentiments at all. Everyone gets on with their happy little lives except the horrible little gremlin that didn't get what they wanted out of me.
No one gets to use my platform to hurt others, and they don't get to keep access to me if they can't be nice.
*also as an aside- you can shut off reblogs on an individual post now. That's an option. If you want to make a post about something and some asshole starts discourse or whatever, you can shut off reblogs without deleting the post if you don't want to delete the original post.
hey i said this in a group chat earlier and honestly it fucks, so i’m gonna post it here too
Feel disgusted by something? Don’t immediately act on it. Deconstruct your disgust!
Be just a little curious about it. Why do you feel disgusted by something? What is it about the thing that disgusts you? Is it the whole that disgusts you, or just a part? Do you feel disgusted because you’re supposed to? Has someone told you to feel disgusted? Are you just disgusted because something looks unfamiliar to you? Do other people seem disgusted or are there people opposing your disgust (or do they, on the flipside, like it?). Is there a cultural context you might be missing? More importantly, could there be biases like racism, sexism, classism, homo- or trans-phobia at play? Is the object of your digust actually causing harm? Does someone benefit from your disgust politically?
Disgust is a powerful emotion, but one that deserves a lot of self-reflection. It’s easily weaponised and often deeply flawed.
…is this supposed to apply to finding wet moldy produce in the back of the fridge, because I don’t see how, and if it isn’t supposed to apply to that, how are users supposed to tell when to use it?
Mould is an excellent place to go to talk about the application of interrogated disgust. There are a lot of cases were foods are intentionally laced with mould for the flavour it produces. We control rot and mould in a lot of ways in food - kimchi, stilton, sour cream, they’re all produced by allowing things to rot in specific ways. And some ways are more blatently obvious than others! You can look at stilton and see the green penicillin moulds used to create it, whilst you might look at bread and go ‘this isn’t going off’ - but yeasts are creating alcohol and CO2 inside the bread, which is a sort of spoilage.
In relation to food in the back of the fridge, absolutely throw it out. You’re not harming anyone by not wanting to eat food you know is past its best. But there are cultures who ferment foods in ways we might immediately balk at because your brain connects the mould in your fridge and the sensible ‘probably not good to eat’ warning with something harmless, and that’s the danger of disgust.
You might genuinely find them disgusting. Icelanders can do what they want, nothing about kæstur hákarl (fermented greenland shark)* appeals to me and I think I’m fine in saying I’m disgusted by it. All theirs.
But, you can see how this could be weaponised, yeah? There are plenty of cultures and peoples where ‘they’re disgusting, vermin-like’ were used as legitimate reasons to oppress and destroy. In that case, their food - harmless and controlled as the spoilage might be - might be used as evidence to prove their point UNLESS you interrogate your initial gut reaction to their fermented foods.
Back to our questions - Does the person telling you about the fermented foods have an agenda? Yes, they do, bigotry. Is your unfamiliarity playing in? Yeah, you’ve never actually tasted the food, you don’t know what it’s like. Is there cultural context you’re missing? Might be! Again, in the case of kæstur hákarl, Iceland is a hard place to grow food and you make edible what you can. Has someone told you to feel disgusted? Yes! Do other people disagree with the speaker? Yes - the culture that created the food think it’s swell!
In this case, you might want to hold back on acting on your disgust. There’s enough rhetorical evidence here to suggest it might be displaced.
(* I’m using kæstur hákarl as an example because the sort of strongly fermented fish products scandinavians make are a good example of food you might not want to eat that doesn’t have any other strongly anti-Scandinavian things attatched to it. I can discuss a theoretical here in a way that means I don’t have to walk into someone’s pre-existing biases. White Scandinavians don’t have to worry about it, no-one is actually using kæstur hákarl to oppress Icelanders.)
I had things like kink culture, purity culture ect. in my mind when I wrote the original post, and you might be able to see now how weaponised disgust is used against fandom and kinksters. A gut-level disgust is what drives a lot of homophobia and transphobia too, when you scratch down deep enough.
I hope that gives you some more context on why I wrote what I did and how you might apply it to the real world!
It’s a good example of how easy it is to assume “deconstruct” or “interrogate” means “throw out” or “disregard” or even “treat in the opposite way you would otherwise.
…It’s something that I think is both interpreted and intended - a lot of the time, someone will say “you should question X”, but really they mean “You should decisively be against X.” Honestly, it’s kind of rare for someone to say Question and really mean it, like what OP is doing. Refreshing!
grfygrf asked:
Help! My wife was reading the latest chapter of Dog of War to me in bed while I'm sick and she turned from the passage where Princess has her head on the teddy bear to see me holding a stuffed giraffe and now she's making fun of me
magicalgirlmindcrank answered:
Sorry, there’s nothing that can help you now
THDI IS FUCKING KILLING MEEEE
This little guy is experiencing Thoughts and Emotions
He just thought about how him walking into land will change all of history
Killing and hatred and violence
DESTRUCTION AND DEATH
Seasons do not change on their own. They do so because this dog dismantles them piece by piece.
Anonymous asked:
Opinion on orcs?
baradragon answered:
indifference but everyone seems to draw them with fat uncut hogs so i have to thank them for their service
not for this one no