sour grapes and mornings

nikki, 25. she/her/hers. find me screaming about hockey at letangandlefleury.tumblr.com and on ao3 writing, mostly about frat boys for some reason, at u/boardingschooled. 

[charlesoberonn]

I’m really into internet discourse but only pointless and stupid internet discourse like how many holes there are in a straw (it’s 2)

[charlesoberonn]

This is exactly what I’m talking about.

[evilscientist3]

I’m sorry but mathematically speaking this question has a single objectively correct answer, which is 1 hole. This can be very simply proven; a straw and a torus are homotopic, and a torus has one hole.

[thyrell]

i odnt think thats true one of my friends is a taurus and hes fine with gay people

[trekdaily]

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987 - 1994) 4.21 • “The Drumhead”

[blushingallthewayhome]

Question for all my followers. How many of y’all are still wearing masks everywhere? And are you doing this because you’re mandated to or out of an abundance of caution?

[queerasflux]

listen. listen. the pandemic is still fucking happening. “abundance of caution” my ass. people are fucking dying every fucking day, of course I’m wearing a goddamn mask. Of course I am. I don’t want me to die, I don’t want my loved ones to die, I don’t want my asshole neighbor to die even tho I hate him. I’m going to wear the fucking mask until the plague stops happening.

[eosofspades]

[watermlon-deactivated20211021]

finally

[watermlon-deactivated20211021]

i am so tired of ppl not watching the video and rbing with their ignorant opinions going on abt “dress for your body type” and shit like…. that’s not the point. the point is that almost everything deemed trendy and attractive is awarded these qualities BECAUSE they are worn by tall, skinny and usually white bodies.

if y’all had bothered to watch the video, you would’ve seen the comparison between gigi hadid wearing denim shorts and a regular ass shirt and a normal fat woman wearing the exact same fit, and how drastic the reception was for the latter. it’s the exact same outfit, nothing revolutionary or new, i can’t even call it fashion—denim shorts and a t-shirt. yet the fat woman was mocked relentlessly online and said she looked like a racist, while miss hadid was praised for being a trendsetter and a fashion icon.

and not for nothing but y’all have to shut the fuck up abt dressing for body types. it’s bullshit. women should be able to wear whatever the fuck we desire without needing others’ approval for whether or not our bodies are attractive enough for you to let us get out of the house or post pictures online. the most important thing is that YOU like what you’re wearing and YOU feel confident and comfortable in your outfits and your expression of yourself. wear a long skirt “even if” you’re short. wear 6 inch heels “even if” you’re 6 feet tall. wear crop tops and hot shorts and backless dresses “even if” you’re fat. cover up and take off whatever you want as long as you like what you’re wearing.

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

Sir Thomas Sharpe, a character study

Artwork by Koshta

[alanshemper]

“Simply decarbonizing the current economic system—hard as this might be—by transitioning to a nonfossil, renewable energy base does not challenge the fundamental logic or economic power relationships of this extractive global economy. It does not impact the growth imperative of the capitalist system nor stop Wall Street and the largest US corporations from extracting wealth from working people. It does not address income and wealth inequality. Decarbonizing this economic system extends its life.”

—Denise Fairchild and Al Weinrub, Energy Democracy: Advancing Equity in Clean Energy Solutions

[feuillesmortes]

bell hooks (1952 – 2021) ph. Monica Almeida

From childhood, I believed that I would teach and write. Writing would be the serious work, teaching would be the not-so-serious-I-need-to-make-a-living “job.” Writing, I believed then, was all about private longing and personal glory, but teaching was about service, giving back to one’s community. For black folks teaching—educating—was fundamentally political because it was rooted in antiracist struggle. Indeed, my all-black grade schools became the location where I experienced learning as revolution […] We learned early that our devotion to learning, to a life of the mind, was a counter-hegemonic act, a fundamental way to resist every strategy of white racist colonization. 

— bells hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

[australet789]

I personally have put JK Rowling's books behind me for the sake of someone I care about who is transgender. It hasn't been easy. But I'm doing it.

You know, i was 13. I didnt have any friends, girl friends specifically. I was the weird kid, the one with the highest notes, the one in the band. I was an outcast. Recess was me eating next to a trash can.

You know what happened when i was 13? Twilight happened

And i wasnt an outcast anymore

I finally had something to talk about with other girls. I realized that they talked about more stuff than just boys and they realized i was more than the smart kid. I realized how hating pop music was stupid, how mysoginist it was the whole conception of just like rock and metal because that was what the boys did. I embraced liking boy bands, liking pop, fangirling over an actor and getting involved into fandom stuff. I improved my english soley because i wanted to read a Twilight fanfic that was completed in english and not in spanish.

Twilight marked a before and after for me. It formed me, it helped.

You know what i did the moment i knew Smeyer was a racist piece of shit and how much her books ruined the life of the real Quileute tribe?

The books i got (as a gift btw) are there somewhere collecting dust. I didnt care when Smeyer released The Host. The fandom hates her and they did their best to make her forgettable.

Everyone makes fun of Twilight. Everyone have shared at least once a post about how bad the book is or have agreeded in real life with someone about it.

We dragged her name into the mud.

The fandom makes their own headcanons. We have tried and keep trying to rewrite the whole thing. We share post after post about how racist Smeyer is.

Nobody defends her.

It was that easy.

It is that easy.

You all can do the same with JK Rowling.

You can make her forgettable. You can stop defending her. You can stop watching the damned movies, you can stop buying the books. Block her twitter, dont give her a plattaform. Treat her the same way Smeyer was: by mocking her and making her a joke.

A whole generation of teenagers did it with Twilight.

What's stopping you all from doing the same?

[feministism]

[beeperbopper]

It’s called “environmental amnesia” and it’s an actual issue environmentalists discuss how to combat. The climate crisis makes it more widespread but it’s been something that’s happening for generations. The story of The Lorax describes it beautifully. The idea that what you remember is what you consider normal, but if the changes happen slowly over generations, you don’t see how large they are because you don’t personally remember them being very different, even if you were told stories about it.

[toskarin]

shadow the hedgehog is cool. gunblades are cool. vampires are cool. scythes are cool. white hair is cool. we need to stop lying about what is not cool

[luminous-warrior]

[popsunner]

Was just informed by my mom that I do in fact have ADHD and the reason I thought I didn’t was because ever since I was seven whenever I got super energetic my mom would have me go chop wood so now when I’m feeling The ADHD I go chop wood and I thought it was just some sort of routine I started when I was little and wanted to blow off steam

[popsunner]

I’d also like to point out that my sister has a really hard time staying present (I can’t remember the term because we’ve always called it Tethered at my house) and whenever she’s feeling Untethered my mom has her knead bread and make syrup because they’re repetitive and easy things to do that ground her

[popsunner]

Now that I’m thinking about it- my brother has days where he doesn’t talk and doesn’t eat unless he’s prompted, and on those days my mom sits him down in the fish pond in the backyard and plays Mozart and because he’s so used to that being his wake up he always comes back in after like an hour rambling about random things

[popsunner]

Oh yeah and when it rains my mom has a required hour where we all have to go outside and run around and whoever finds the most worms for the garden wins and then we go inside and my mom makes us tea and we watch Studio Ghibli movies

[popsunner]

Wait!!! When one of us has a bad day at school we make a fire in the backyard and roast homemade sausages and my mom tells us stories until we laugh and then she tucks is in bed like we’re five again and sings us songs

[popsunner]

Uh.... wait guys is my mom a witch raising a bunch of fae kids hold on-

[saint-batrick]

your mom is very definitely a witch raising a bunch of fae kids, please tell her i love her in the abstract way one can love a complete stranger.

[prismatic-bell]

This also demonstrates very neatly how people in Ye Olde Past may have had mental disabilities, but not been shunned or shamed for them. The baker’s boy has ADHD? You mean that thing where a widow can pay him a few coins to go fill her wood rack for the winter? The blacksmith’s daughter struggles with dissociation? You mean that humming to herself while she takes in other people’s washing? Oh, a bit odd, no doubt, but she says the hot water feels helpful on her hands and she can get your clothes cleaner than anyone else, and you can pay her in milk if you like.

People would find a way to make do. We ALWAYS do. It’s just these days it’s harder, because now “a bit odd” is a criminal offense.

[deathtokillian]

Some of you use punk as an excuse to be a dick, and it shows

[lestatdefender]

[fagsex]

[queen-of-fallen-angels]

Remember:

[binding-with-briars]

I saw a guy with like a foot tall mohawk pull over to help someone with car troubles and literally thought “nothing is more punk than helping people” because of this post. Fuck yeah.

[carolxdanvers]

Punk is counterculture. When the culture is violent and uncaring, counterculture is kind.

[soft-trans-on-tumbles]

Punk is counterculture BECAUSE the culture is violent and uncaring

[thedramaandart]

Sometimes I think about those high res Jupiter pics and then think about Van Gogh and get emotional because it’s like this one, lonely man that didn’t experience an ounce of fame or recognition in his life time had the image of the universe in his head and he didn’t know it.

[thedramaandart]

Jupiter and Van Gogh’s Starry Night.

[therandomfandomme]

i encourage you to go to your favourite writer’s ao3 page and comment on an older fic, because i can assure you that it will make their day. It can mean so much to see your work doesn’t disappear into the void to be never seen again after a day of people interacting with it. Just, if you have the time, go comment on an older work

(pls reblog this to try and get as much writers a bit of appreciation)

[dykerory]

sorry but there's simply not a malewife on the level of joel hammond from santa clarita diet. his wife turned into an undead flesh eating monster and he was like sweetie of course i will find people for you to kill and eat. i love you so much. i'm going to go have a panic attack.

[dilfosaur]

i realized this was also lost in the fall of the CH website so

since it’s That Time of Year again, i’m just gonna bring back my Every Christmas TV Rom-Com comic

[prismatic-bell]

This is an infographic of Kellogg’s products to avoid during the pro-Union boycott.

I would DEEPLY appreciate if someone can ID this in a format useful to both screen readers and sighted users who need a list rather than an infographic (this is hard to do on mobile), and will reblog if someone can very kindly do so.

[arbolapis]

image ID: a screenshot from The Other 98% on facebook.com, time stamp December 14th, 2021, at 7:39am.

All-caps text at the top, added by the original poster, reads SUPPORT THE KELLOGG'S UNION!!! DON'T CROSS THE PICKET LINE!!!

Below is a red and white infographic. At the top it says. DON'T BUY THIS SHIT. A grid of logos and brand names follows. From top left, they are:

All-Bran

Applejacks

Austin

Bear Naked

Carr's

Cheez-it

Club

Corn Pops

Cracklin' Oat Bran

Crispix

Eggo

Froot Loops

Frosted Mini Wheat

Garden Burger

Honey Snacks

Incogmeato

Joyboi

Jumbo Snax

Kashi

Frosted Flakes

Corn Flakes

Frozen Breakfast

Raisin Bran

Krave

MorningStar Farms

Mueslix

NutriGrain

PopTarts

Pringles

Pure Organic

Rice Krispies

Smart Start

Smorz

Toasted

Town House

Zesta

Below the logos it says

DON'T CROSS THE PICKET LINE

idk go buy generic it's literally the same shit lol

The facebook like, comment, and share icons are visible at the bottom of the image. end ID.

[prismatic-bell]

Thank you friend!