Adventures of a 12-year -old Boy

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[the-infamous-mister-gates]

Serendipity saying it how it is

(Dogma, 1999)

[shehateme]

Always reblog Dogma.

[hecallsmebelovedx-deactivated20]

i hear her but alllll the women she mentioned only asked the man for something. the men are the ones that comply.

adam sinned and the world changed not when eve did.

delilah wasn’t responsible for samson losing his strength, him seeing his power coming from his hair and not God is what made him sin.

the women asked for the head but Herod was the one that cut it.

all women did was ask, these women showed the true character of the men around them.

[clamchowdurr-deactivated2022040]

Damn sis

[hecallsmebelovedx-deactivated20]

feel me.

[ladyjolder]

GRIS - reveal trailer

[bobacupcake]

Upcoming Indie Games: GRIS - December 13, 2018 - Nintendo Switch and PC

Developed by Barcelona-based Nomada Studio

Published by Devolver Digital

[sixpenceee]

Gorgeous skull creations by Heather Demarest.

[allofeos]

[teachagainstfascism]

let’s all take a minute to stop and think about how Hagrid gave Harry his homemade birthday cake, told him how much he looked like his parents, and fed him sausages before he even started to explain that he was a wizard

let’s stop to think about how his absolute first priority was to let harry know that he was loved and cared for

[zek-plus]

95 hours per week

[honeyimagined-deactivated202303]

A fucking queen

[misandry-mermaid]

These are the people that conservatives and classists say don’t deserve to earn more than a minimum hourly wage.

[fuckthisblogshit]

Jesus

[babylonsagent]

I see her every morning at Zarro’s bakery in Grand Central, she is the nicest lady ever.

[curiousdaisyyy-deactivated20151]

this deserves so much more notes

[imoldbutimstillintothat]

So she’s a boss at the bakery but she has to have three jobs anyway what the fuck

[disneyfeverdaily]

[young-replica]

[spartanlocke]

what monty python movie is this

[ontarom]

Does anybody remember this “go nuts, show nuts, whatever” gem? Oh how the mighty have fallen.

[mudaship39]

You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain 

[caffedinotte-deactivated2018020]

[bubble-lead]

This is the greatest video ever posted on the internet

[queensnarf]

Fun Fact: Kittens learn to hunt their prey using their mother’s tail. This is so cute cause this tail is a lot faster than a cat’s tail but the kitten is doing their best. ❤🐈

[christophoronomicon]

Cute :)

[public-trans-it-deactivated2024]

So what I’m hearing is that training with a dog is going to turn this cat into the APEX PREDATOR

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Becoming Anne Frank

Why did we turn an isolated teenage girl into the world’s most famous Holocaust victim?

[jewish-privilege]

People love dead Jews. Living Jews, not so much.

…Here’s how much people love dead Jews: Anne Frank’s diary, first published in Dutch in 1947 via her surviving father, Otto Frank, has been translated into 70 languages and has sold over 30 million copies worldwide, and the Anne Frank House now hosts well over a million visitors each year, with reserved tickets selling out months in advance. But when a young employee at the Anne Frank House in 2017 tried to wear his yarmulke to work, his employers told him to hide it under a baseball cap. The museum’s managing director told newspapers that a live Jew in a yarmulke might “interfere” with the museum’s “independent position.” The museum finally relented after deliberating for six months, which seems like a rather long time for the Anne Frank House to ponder whether it was a good idea to force a Jew into hiding.

…[The] runaway success of Anne Frank’s diary depended on playing down her Jewish identity: At least two direct references to Hanukkah were edited out of the diary when it was originally published. Concealment was central to the psychological legacy of Anne Frank’s parents and grandparents, German Jews for whom the price of admission to Western society was assimilation, hiding what made them different by accommodating and ingratiating themselves to the culture that had ultimately sought to destroy them. That price lies at the heart of Anne Frank’s endless appeal. After all, Anne Frank had to hide her identity so much that she was forced to spend two years in a closet rather than breathe in public. And that closet, hiding place for a dead Jewish girl, is what millions of visitors want to see.

…And here is the most devastating fact of Frank’s posthumous success, which leaves her real experience forever hidden: We know what she would have said, because other people have said it, and we don’t want to hear it.

The line most often quoted from Frank’s diary—“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart”—is often called “inspiring,” by which we mean that it flatters us. It makes us feel forgiven for those lapses of our civilization that allow for piles of murdered girls—and if those words came from a murdered girl, well, then, we must be absolved, because they must be true. That gift of grace and absolution from a murdered Jew (exactly the gift, it is worth noting, at the heart of Christianity) is what millions of people are so eager to find in Frank’s hiding place, in her writings, in her “legacy.” It is far more gratifying to believe that an innocent dead girl has offered us grace than to recognize the obvious: Frank wrote about people being “truly good at heart” three weeks before she met people who weren’t.

Here’s how much some people dislike living Jews: They murdered six million of them. Anne Frank’s writings do not describe this process. Readers know that the author was a victim of genocide, but that does not mean they are reading a work about genocide. If that were her subject, it is unlikely that those writings would have been universally embraced.

We know this because there is no shortage of texts from victims and survivors who chronicled the fact in vivid detail, and none of those documents has achieved anything like the fame of Frank’s diary. Those that have come close have only done so by observing the same rules of hiding, the ones that insist on polite victims who don’t insult their persecutors. The work that came closest to achieving Frank’s international fame might be Elie Wiesel’s Night, a memoir that could be thought of as a continuation of Frank’s experience, recounting the tortures of a 15-year-old imprisoned in Auschwitz. As the scholar Naomi Seidman has discussed, Wiesel first published his memoir in Yiddish, under the title And the World Kept Silent. The Yiddish book told the same story, but it exploded with rage against his family’s murderers and, as the title implies, the entire world whose indifference (or active hatred) made those murders possible. With the help of the French Catholic Nobel laureate François Mauriac, Wiesel later published a French version of the book under the title Night—a work that repositioned the young survivor’s rage into theological angst. After all, what reader would want to hear about how his society had failed, how he was guilty? Better to blame God. This approach did earn Wiesel a Nobel Peace Prize, as well as a spot in Oprah’s Book Club, the American epitome of grace…

[Read Dara Horn’s full piece at Smithsonian.]

[tinsnip]

Don’t assume malice. Assume ignorance. Life is easier, the world is kinder, and you can educate. Actual malice is pretty rare, I find. 

[froborr]

Always remember Hanlon’s Razor–”Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice as an explanation.”

That’s said, never forget Fred Clark’s Law, either: “Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.” There’s a certain point at which ignorance becomes malice–at which there is simply no way to become that ignorant except deliberately and maliciously.

[maegraeth]

i put vincent in a suit.  you’re welcome.      valentine’s old clothes by maegraeth.           support me on ko-fi! <3

[aibidil]

Why ‘female-presenting nipples’ matter

When I was 10, my mom made me wear a bra and it felt like a punishment for being different.

When I was 10, I took the bra off when changing for gymnastics and accidentally dropped it in the school hallway. A teacher picked it up and said, “Oh, this must belong to you” and handed it back to me in front of everyone. I quit gymnastics.

When I was 11, I thought maybe the boobs would be okay so long as they didn’t get any bigger than would fit in my hand, so I kept measuring it, but they did.

When I was 12, I started wearing two or three sports bras to smush them down, until one day a classmate said, “Are you wearing two bras?!” while laughing.

When I was 13, a boy told me he wanted to squeeze my boobs “until they popped.”

When I was 14, I got cast in a play as an older character and a classmate told me I got the role because I had boobs.

When I was 17, my mom told me to return a swimsuit because it would be too distracting for my boyfriend’s father.

When I was 21, I got properly fitted for a bra and everyone felt the need to tell me how much better my boobs looked.

When I was 26, I got pregnant and my immediate fear was that my boobs would get bigger.

When I was 28, I got shamed for trying to feed my screaming baby in public without a cover.

When I was 28, people asked me “why are you bothering to use a breastfeeding cover?”

When I was 30, people gave me weird looks that I wasn’t yelling at my kid for putting their hand on my boob.

When I was 31, I avoided going to the beach or pool because I didn’t want to have to deal with boobs in a swimsuit.

When I was 32, I got asked, again, “why don’t you get a breast reduction?”

When I was 33, I watched a 5yo girl get shamed for running around in sweltering heat without a shirt on and had to reprimand a bunch of tween boys who thought it was okay to shame her for doing something they do all the time.

When I was 34, my kid kept patting my breast and saying “Mommy’s squishy breast!!” They will never see me express any shame about tits, because I want them to have a different mindset than I had. Yes, boobs are nice! They’re squishy! They’re fun! That’s the end of that.

I’m 35 and no longer give a fuck. I don’t care anymore. As a teenager my tits were covered in stretch marks. They’ve been engorged with milk. My nipple changed shape with pregnancy. Give it another couple decades and my breasts will probably be all wrinkly. It’s sexual when I’m using it sexually. I don’t fucking care, and I won’t be ashamed anymore. 

Every time a policy or cultural hangup treats people with breasts differently, it fucks us over. 

Tumblr’s new policy makes an active choice to participate in this culture of shame. By classifying “female-presenting nipples” as explicit material, Tumblr has taken a stance that any chest or breast that differs from a male default is worthy of shame and unavoidably sexual. The idea that breasts are shameful and unavoidably sexual is exactly what fucked me up for so much of my life.

Stop shaming people for having bodies. 

[lettersbyelise]

I’ve been seething in rage thinking of this all day and @aibidil put into words what was reeling in my mind.

Our bodies are not porn.

[cylin-aka-ankamo]

Tumblr Purge - it’s about money

I’ve seen a couple of posts now advocating to not migrate from Tumblr to other services, but to stay and fight. And while I applaud that mindset to resist and I am all for contacting @staff and telling them (in a respectful manner) that you are unhappy, I don’t believe it will do anything.

It hasn’t in the past.

And this is why:

Tumblr is about creating revenue. Those ads and stuff? It creates revenue. Companies pay to have Tumblr show them to you. So the more users there are on a platform, the more companies are interested to pay Tumblr for the ‘privilege’ of showing their ads to you. Tumblr users are literally revenue creating golden geese. And this is the only thing we are to them. This is why Tumblr is free (it is not in fact: you don’t pay money, but you pay by consuming ads whether you want to or not)

This Purge is not about making Tumblr a ‘safer, friendlier place’. It is not about stopping child pornography or nudity or sex or any of that. It is not about an ethical or moral obligation (as evidenced by Tumblr not caring one bit about fascist propaganda, etc.).

It is about being taken off Apple app store

Being taken off that means loss in revenue, because the Tumblr app reaches less people’s devices -> less people interact with it -> less chances to show ads -> less companies interested in paying Tumblr to show you ads -> less money for Tumblr. It is about money, not some moral or ethical obligation (but those reasons sell better in PR)

This Purge is Tumblr’s idea to get back into that sweet app store as quickly as possible to recover revenue

The reason Tumblr never really handled the porn bot issue? It was not profitable

The reason Tumblr didn’t (and still doesn’t) care about fascist ideas percolating freely here? It is not profitable. (after all, they didn’t get taken off the app store for allowing those ideas…)

The reason Tumblr doesn’t care about harassment cases? It is not profitable

The reason they act now (with this knee-jerk reaction) is because it is actually hurting them in their bottom line.

I get you like Tumblr, heck, I like(d) Tumblr! But I am happy to not update and do much here anymore (basically let my blog slowly die (or even remove it, I’m not sure yet), go some place else that maybe even has an ounce of ethics left (or more than an ounce), give my money to them (in form of actual cash, or the time I spend looking at ads to keep them in business) rather than support a system that really does not care at all about anything but the revenue.

I know you’re scared of loosing your content, people you have connected with, the network you have created (and also the connections you have made that actually pay you money). However, this is something you can have some place else. Yes, it will take time and effort (and I am aware that it hurts people financially right now), but it is not like you, or fandom, or your safe space will drop off the face of the earth.

I say, fine, if my content (and therefore the driving force for people to connect with me -  and be shown the ads displayed by Tumblr) is not wanted here, I go some place else.

And hurt their bottom line. That is the only thing Tumblr cares about. It is the only thing that will  interest them.

Maybe they will even create a better site in a few year’s time to gain those golden geese back. Doubt it though.

If they do, I consider coming back.

If not, fuck you. I take my business elsewhere, cause loss of revenue is the only language they understand.

[silvysartfulness]

This exactly. This is why I don’t reblog those “I’ll go down with this ship” or “tumblr won’t disappear dec 17th, I’m staying” posts.

Because staying means remaining loyal to the corporation screwing us over.

It means choosing to remain their product.

Staying = keep generating their income, even as they dismantle all the things that did (all fuckups aside) make this place good and worthwhile. They’re counting on us to be complacent.

And I’m not ok with that. They’re hurting so many with this, most of them marginalized people, indie creators, those who have nowhere else to go - and I can’t stand by and pretend that doesn’t matter.

If things go ahead as they’ve said, I will likely consider migrating for real. It will suck to lose all the friends I’ve made here, but hopefully we can stay in touch elsewhere.

[arkadykoshka]

From someone who’s survived MySpace, livejournal, deviantart, and fanfiction.nets’ content purges and bad policy updates, here’s some advice on how to get through tumblr’s recent bullshit:

- don’t knee jerk delete. I know it’s tempting to peace out immediately but hang on and do the other steps first. Out right ghosting and erasing everything is how fandoms die.

- archive everything on your blog you want to keep

- tell your followers how they can archive and keep your work too. A lot of fic and art were only saved from ff.net and lj because other people saved it first. If you’re cool with other people saving your work for them to personally keep, let them know this. You can absolutely discourage reposting but I really do highly recommend you allow people to personally save fic and art they like and are worried will disappear forever. Digital Dark Ages are a real thing.

- tell people where you’re jumping ship to. Give links. Keep that info up, even if you’ve left the site.

- go through who you follow and find out where else you can follow them. Save their work if they’ll allow it. It’s tedious as hell but if you want to keep up with people on here clicking on their page to check in is the best way to do it.

- support places like ao3. This is exactly why ao3 asks for donations a few times a year. They are a 100% anti-purging, judgement free, ad free non profit run by an elected board and protected by lawyers. Places like ao3 literally save fandom so please continue to support them and other similar archives. This is exactly why ao3 is so important.

[suzirya]

For example, here’s a post that explains and links for how to back up your blog

Also, go read the source policies and official Tumblr statements in addition to user analyses and reactions. It’s important to keep abreast of developments over time; staying informed is your power in this situation. Memes and reaction posts are funny and are a useful way to vent / provide commentary, but some of them create an inaccurate picture of what’s happening and should not be taken as evidence on their own of what developments have happened.