The Awkward Carnivore

I'm TJ. Recent college grad. No idea what I'm doing with my life. Likes: bacon, pokemon, my amazing partner, boys, poetry, social justice. Dislikes: rude people, people calling me 'teddy.' They/them pronouns

[sixthrock]

Pokestops in big cities: famous monuments, important historical sites, popular tourist attractions, unique cultural icons, homes of famous people, etc

Pokestops in small towns:

[quillsolo]

[neonslowpoke]

this is the most accurate representation of the teams i’ve seen yet

[jununy]

i love this tweet

[g-ho-fosho]

@yearlynews

[paradoxicalpotat]

i really love Spark

inspired by this post: 

[alexunlawful-deactivated2024022]

Couldn’t get to sleep so I took a walk to the park at 3AM. All the Pokestops had lures and it was totally full of 20/30-somethings wandering around, pacing back and forth, adjusting their position, and talking about Pokemon.

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[dragondicks]

Greek myths are fucking great because their gods are so human. They argue, they fuck up at things, they make fun of each other, they piss each other off, it’s great, there’s so much human interaction and then Christianity comes in like that guy and is all like “oh my god is infallible and knows everything and immortal and everywhere at once and you can’t see it but its totally there and stronger than everything” shut the fuck up Christianity go take a writing class

[prismatic-bell]

did you just call the Christian god a Mary Sue

[pondwitch]

this is qwilfish, a generation 2 pokemon

im just posting this to say, i have never, in my entire life, seen anyone acknowledge its existence.

not only have i never seen fanart of qwilfish, ive absolutely never seen it mentioned in any kind of pokemon discussion, ever

[awkwardcarnivore]

capitalists: *believe in indefinite growth*

capitalists: *grossly misallocate scarce resources*

capitalists: *support wage theft*

capitalists: *constantly in crisis*

capitalists: ...

capitalists: communists don't understand economics.

[katiereallylovesthings]

[validopinions]

Alan Turing was convicted for indecency because he truthfully admitted to being in a relationship with his boyfriend. In The Imitation Game they purposefully changed this fact to him being caught with a male prostitute.

[suzeart]

I’d been kicking this idea around for a while and trying to think about how to articulate it. Pretty happy with how it eventually turned out! 

Sometimes I think about my reasons for getting tattoos (just for myself, not because they need justification). Adding onto this painting metaphore, I think getting ink is a way for me to put down portable roots. I move a lot and will be doing it again soon, and until I can actually settle down and paint some walls I’ll take visual control of something more accessible, namely myself.

[suzeart]

Morning reblog!

[idiod]

[pkae]

carrie fisher aged fine, u just hate women

[grawly]

remember the playstation vita

[awkwardcarnivore]

Not really.

[cracked]

Hey! Remember how I wrote about Ronald Reagan being the worst president ever last week and everyone unanimously agreed? That was dope. Anyway, one of the entries in that column discussed how Reagan’s gutting of labor unions destroyed the middle-class in this country. Well, if you’d like to see a real-life example of how powerless unions are today, then Detropia is the documentary for you.

As the name sort of implies, it’s about the fall of Detroit. At one point, it was the fastest growing city in the United States, once sporting a population of 1.7 million. That was way back in the years immediately following World War II, when manufacturing jobs were aplenty and even those folks at the lowest rungs of the corporate ladder still made decent money.

Over the years, though, most of those jobs were either rendered obsolete by advances in technology or just straight-up shipped to other countries where the populace was more comfortable working for significantly less money. Workers at plants that did remain were forced to accept similar compromises once unions lost their power in the ‘80s. When contracts were renegotiated, the choices were either accept lower pay and fewer benefits or risk having your plant closed altogether. That’s what you can see happen for real in Detropia. Employees at one of the few remaining unionized manufacturing plants in the city threaten to strike if their compensation situation doesn’t improve. The company responds by cutting pay instead. When the contract goes unsigned, the plant is closed. It’s a depressing snapshot of what has been happening to American workers for like three decades now.

5 Documentaries For An Infuriating Netflix And Chill Session

[owning-my-truth-deactivated2022]

[kierralondon-deactivated2019102]

what’s really fucked up because the attack was centered on lgbt+ people… and they’re asking for blood donations… and it’s illegal for lgbt+ people to donate blood… we can’t even help our own community

[kierralondon-deactivated2019102]

like imagine how that must feel to want to help your friends who were harmed and desperately need help but being legally barred from giving them the assistance they need. this level of irony is absolutely astounding

[jkkuyper-deactivated20240805]

If you are a man who had intercourse with an another man means you can’t donate blood. Not because you are gay but because the changes of HIV/AIDS are higher. Please educate yourself first.

[kierralondon-deactivated2019102]

no offense ugly but risk of any STI infection isn’t gender specific nor is it specific to any sexuality… which is why the idea of barring lgbtq+ people is so ridiculous because… it’s not like? straight people? aren’t at risk of contracting HIV as well? the rule exists based off of homophobic power structures that were put into place during the AIDS epidemic in the 80s.

and like… the high rates of STDs among lgbtq+ youth is in direct relation to the lack of education we receive in terms of sex ed for school. it’s utterly terrible for cishet people and undeniably nonexistent for anyone who identifies outside of that norm:

https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/lgbt/news/2013/06/21/67411/lgbt-inclusive-sex-education-means-healthier-youth-and-safer-schools/

http://www.impactprogram.org/research/projects/queer-sex-ed/#sthash.s885b5QL.dpbs

it has a direct correlation to mental health of lgbtq+ youth as well:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2680081/#!po=0.543478

http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/070714p8.shtml

and tbh, if you REALLY knew what you were talking about, you’d know transgender people are actually the highest at risk for HIV, which you can find on page 29 if you’re not bothered to read all of it:

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pdf/library/reports/cdc-hiv-funded-testing-us-puerto-rico-2014.pdf

so like. why don’t you fucking educate yourself before coming onto my post in a passive aggressive manner not knowing what you’re talking about

[weight-a-second]

concept: me, a housewife, putting two lean cuisines in the microwave. i drink an entire bottle of chardonnay during the four minutes the chicken fettuccine takes to heat up. my husband walks through the door just as i place the entrée on the table. he thanks me for slaving away all day over a hot stove. i have succeed in passing the lean cuisine off as my own creation. when he’s done, i tell him im in love with our maid, helen–who bears a striking resemblance to margot robbie–and that i will see him in court. im blind drunk and jump into a 1960s pink convertible that helen is driving. we laugh about the lean cuisines.

[animatedtext]

this is the best post on this fucking website