@walkingfast

got back on tumblr and unforch i didn’t realize how sideblogs and main blogs worked… inactive here, moved to @walkingfast

[noc10-moved]

*parts a bead curtain as i enter the room, carrying a glass of lemonade* 

hey….

nothing you ever read, watch, or participate in will be ideologically pure and without its problems. your quest to consume the most unproblematic material will be, in the end, fruitless. your enjoyment of anything will be sapped away, leaving you a husk starved for media.

 it is okay to enjoy things that have problems to them, so long as you do it critically and with an open mind, and take care to consider others.

*leaves the way i came*

[eternityinalake]

12/23/16: T_T Tanger, you are missed

[gfhockey]

[mindblowingfactz]

In a private cemetery in small-town Arkansas, a woman single-handedly buried and gave funerals to more than 40 gay men during the height of the AIDS epidemic, when their families wouldn’t claim them. -Source

[wildwomanofthewoods-archive-blog]

One person who found the courage to push the wheel is Ruth Coker Burks. Now a grandmother living a quiet life in Rogers, in the mid-1980s Burks took it as a calling to care for people with AIDS at the dawn of the epidemic, when survival from diagnosis to death was sometimes measured in weeks. For about a decade, between 1984 and the mid-1990s and before better HIV drugs and more enlightened medical care for AIDS patients effectively rendered her obsolete, Burks cared for hundreds of dying people, many of them gay men who had been abandoned by their families. She had no medical training, but she took them to their appointments, picked up their medications, helped them fill out forms for assistance, and talked them through their despair. Sometimes she paid for their cremations. She buried over three dozen of them with her own two hands, after their families refused to claim their bodies. For many of those people, she is now the only person who knows the location of their graves.

How have I never heard of this?

[fieldbears]

People like her should be remembered. And even more importantly, we must remember that there was a time in our history when we needed someone like her.

[maudnewton]

“When Burks was a girl, she said, her mother got in a final, epic row with Burks’ uncle. To make sure he and his branch of the family tree would never lie in the same dirt as the rest of them, Burks said, her mother quietly bought every available grave space in the cemetery: 262 plots. They visited the cemetery most Sundays after church when she was young, Burks said, and her mother would often sarcastically remark on her holdings, looking out over the cemetery and telling her daughter: ‘Someday, all of this is going to be yours.’

‘I always wondered what I was going to do with a cemetery,’ she said. ‘Who knew there’d come a time when people didn’t want to bury their children?’" 

Wonderful woman. Wonderful story.

[shrineart]

This is an ally. This is a hell of an ally.

[tomorroejones-deactivated202209]

Epic Grudge-holding Mom has Epically Empathetic Daughter.

She did good work.

[xxamorxexmortexx]

Just to add to this, there is currently a GoFundMe page dedicated to raising money for a memorial to be placed in Files Cemetery dedicated to those whom she cared for, and those who lost their lives to the epidemic.

“Someday,” she said, “I’d love to get a monument that says: This is what happened. In 1984, it started. They just kept coming and coming. And they knew they would be remembered, loved and taken care of, and that someone would say a kind word over them when they died.“ 

–http://m.arktimes.com/arkansas/ruth-coker-burks-the-cemetery-angel/Content?oid=3602959

If anyone is interested in reading her story or donating towards the memorial, here is the link

https://www.gofundme.com/RuthCokerBurks

[jakobschychrun]

Boys rocking their Christmas suits!

[vaxxildan]

brYAN WHAT??

[lillikoifish]

Bootylicious. Bryan I am so proud of you.

[asmallmadhope]

know what’s wild? that the trope of like “my father always wanted a son so he treated me, his daughter, like a boy” is so popular and like lowkey loved, but if you ever saw a mother who talked about how much she wanted a daughter instead of a son, or if she treated her son like a girl, like??? people would think she’s awful and that poor boy??

damn wonder why that is 😒

[asmallmadhope]

i was high af when i wrote this but it’s still true

[kerryrenaissance]

The latter is literally the plot of some horror movies.

[minxyting]

Representation matters! 💕

[ehghtysevenarchive]

horny, doing his thang… naked, as per usual

[bellamyhalpert]

goodbye 2016 » new shows » Pitch

[snickfic]

Marc-Andre and Veronique Fleury and family.

[midnight-charm]

[fahdes]

“Courage is to never let your actions be influenced by your fears” - Arthur Koestler

[sarahseeandersen]

[cardamoms-deactivated20161127]

what if cheque please took place in oxford and bitty was from scotland and his twitter was all in that scottish… dialect w/ tweets like “magine callin yer maw right quick in tae mornin caus yer ovens gon tae shite..” and “me n ma mates cuttin about tae pettin zoo ma mate jack buried in wee chicks…. this lad..”

and the whole team would do that thing when british young men overreact to everything like [ransom voice] asked bitty to bake a pie for me and he did it!! the absolute madman!!!!!!

[averagefairy]

i hate when people ask me to “watch their stuff” like what if someone comes and actually tries to steal it. do i have to fight them. i’m not ready 

[moremaggiemayhem]

[redwhiteandblues]

11/21/16 - Congrats on the goals Jake Guentzel!