show me the way

to be

[lucytara]

u can tell who the ancients of tumblr are bc they’re the ones not posting anything abt where to find them if this site collapses…we know this site isnt going anywhere….the apocalypse couldnt stop this garbage…..it has the cybernetic code of a cockroach

[bluehairedspidey]

those of us who’ve been on tumblr 5+ years: 

[trylonandperisphere]

Wow. The patience, kindness and calm communication skills. Outstanding.

From raindovemodel

[loveislattes]

This made me cry. I wish all situations could be handled as perfectly as this

[fatsexybitch]

I just want to point out the core of what the diffuser did in this conversation

They recognized that the mother was also expressing a vulnerable truth about herself - that she felt like a bad mother because her child was expressing gender feelings she wasn’t equipped to help with - and met her where she was, a concerned parent with limited information - to point her where she should be heading, research and resources.

Im going to make more of an effort to stop reflexively pushing people away when they express biases and make more of an effort to hear the underlying fears when i can

[redseeker]

“it’s easier to love ourselves when we feel loved as ourselves”

damn that is so  powerful though

[tophsbeifong-archive]

I’m going to send a note to Katara and say it’s from Toph, who wants to apologize. Then everyone will be friends again.

[guts2002-deactivated20211208]

[kaelio]

Isn't good. This allows the state to take custody of parents of trans kids.

[kaelio]

[sjw-dipper]

finally

[cornistasiathecoblinking]

good things

[sosuperawesome]

Vitkaninn on Instagram

[joshpeck]

Ain't it scary being 24?

Like 25 is such a strong number on the horizon.

actually aging is a gift so jot that down

[muddyviolets]

I see it is time to bring back the wisdom toad

[ladyshinga]

[jackalopunny-deactivated2025100]

alright my friend and i were arguing about this so i’m gonna make a post about it

reblog and put in the tags what you call each of these

[afeelgoodblog]

Blessed_Cloud

[thebrokeboutique]

Heart Shaped Cup

[brandyllyn]

[grebcomics]

i'm baby

[golden-redhead]

There is this special kind of hopelesness that is so specific to being a person from Eastern Europe that I cannot put into words and that is never really talked about on Tumblr because Tumblr doesn’t really care about Eastern Europeans and puts us in the same category as “those other European colonizers” despite the fact that most of us were too busy being oppressed ourselves to even dream about possibly colonizing anyone, much less actually doing it when we barely had any contact with the rest of the world for decades, didn’t have access to foreign media and if anyone knew languages it was probably Russian.

There is this kind of deep generational trauma that never really stopped and has been going and going and seems to be culminating now. It’s the kind of thing you don’t even notice, you are so used to it, and then one day, out of nowhere, it hits you in the face.

I’m only now realizing how much last year’s mass protests that I joined affected me. It’s been almost a year. And it’s only now starting to sink in how fucking traumatic that was and even now my first instinct is to rationalize it and second guess myself because ‘it wasn’t that bad’ and ‘we’ve all been through this’ and ‘you avoided being tear gassed, so what? you’re fine, stop being a crybaby!’. And it’s a culmination of events that started long before I was born, a cycle of oppression most Eastern European countries are so used to. My parents at my age were doing exactly the same thing. Protesting. On the streets. Trying to survive. The reasons for protesting might change a little, but ultimately it’s always about the right to live and be free. To stand against corrupt politicians. To fight with harmful propaganda.

There is something deeply isolating and hopeless about being from Eastern Europe on the Internet that seems to be so hyperfocused on the US and about being surrounded by american politics whenever we open a browser when our world is literally falling apart, you know?

[desert-palm]

[plasticseaslug]

[ID: a tweet from @/posthuman. It reads, “Remember, if you buy an album from bandcamp, it’s around the financial equivalent to the artist of you streaming their music every day for 3 years.” /end ID.]

[cromerholt]

what the hells going on at my mcdonalds