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[fighting-the-urge-at-home-depot]

Teachers can also be bullies and show toxic behaviors!!!

I posted this a long while ago when I was on Reddit and I was thinking that since we are all out of school and have time to reflect on the school year it would be a good time to bring this back.

I had a teacher in middle school whose main goal seemed to be tormenting me and I never did anything about it because a) I never knew it was so wrong because I didn’t think teachers could be wrong b) He only singled me out and was a highly praised teacher to everyone else so I thought I was crazy since no one else noticed c) I just didn’t know how because I was afraid to try. I don’t want any of you youngsters to go through this so here is my advice for getting out. I love y’all, stay safe<3

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Yo y’all, because I’m in college now, I thought I would tell y’all how to get out of a situation where you have a toxic teacher.

First, signs you’re being bullied by a teacher:

they belittle you in private

In some cases, they belittle you in front of the class

You feel anxious to go to class because you’re scared of what that teacher might say or do

You get criticized for the homework you turn in and humiliated for the ones you don’t (can be true of things like homework, tardiness, projects, etc...)

You learn the face they make when you have done something wrong or sometimes you didn’t do anything it’s just that That Face™️ means trouble and it can panic you just by seeing it

They make you feel like with out their help, you will be nothing, which is why they can keep taunting you

They start to make you feel as though you need their approval or else you’ll be bad or bad things will happen to you

Honestly contact me for more if you need it but if you relate to all of these then it’s pretty clear

Now how do you get out of this situation because it sucks and you don’t deserve to be treated like this:

Write down everything they have done to you and if you can add dates and witnesses (The trouble with witnesses is that when things are public, especially in middle and high school, kids don’t realize what the teacher is doing is wrong or how it affects you or if the criticism is based on a private conversation from before and they frankly just don’t get it so if you find someone who can then great but if you can’t... neither could I so you’re going to be okay)

Ask a trusted adult to go over the list with you and edit out statements that are subjective (You want to keep an objective list of events as to make facts very very clear. You can always say the subjective in person but chances are, if you are emotional in your list than that might be used against you, so it’s best to treated as a legal document)

Take that edited list to the main office and ask to speak to the principal

If you can’t speak to the principal then talk to a counselor

Read the list allowed and give them a COPY of it (A copy so that they can’t lose it, always keep the original draft of important documents)

From there follow the directions they give you

If this still doesn’t work and you are continuously harassed, bring an adult with you to talk it out with the principal (not the counselor in this case)

I hope this helps some of y’all I know I wish I had something like this to help me out when I had a teacher like this. Just remember, YOU DESERVE TO BE TREATED WITH RESPECT FROM ADULTS AND PEERS so stand up for yourselves guys:) Good luck<3<3<3

[pinkwhiteandblue]

GUYS I’M ON T NOW

[thathippiegamer-deactivated2023]

I CANT STRESS ENOUGH. PLANNED PARENTHOOD IS EXCEEDINGLY GOOD FOR TRANSITION!!!!!!!!!

You guys and gals and non-binary pals out there who need hormones MUST see them. No need to go in person, even if there’s no planned parenthood building in your shitty backwards town, you can have a telehealth appointment!

Also also! I use Humana Pharmacy for all my stuff, because I’m disabled and I qualified for the insurance, and the pills cost NOTHING!!!

I would’ve had to spend $80 for several months worth of pills, but NOPE!! I get my titty skittles for free!

:3 moral of the story, help DOES exist, and you CAN transition!

[fourtccn]

ALSO if the call seems too threatening they use a service that allows you to make an appointment any time just online!!

[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.

[madam-wakefield]

[newportmenthols-deactivated2024]

hellooo sorry to add to the donation posts but i do need help rn :3 i live off of disability checks and back pay and my back pay is running out bc of the amount of things i needed when i finally got it and bills have been suuuuuper high the last couple months , i sell content but that has been super slow lately and i hav paintings to sell but they’re states away at the moment 💗

if ya wanna help a disabled queer black trans person pay bills and get food before this storm (possibly) hits id really appreciate it !! also down to sell content just dm me and read my pinned post , im hoping i hav smth goin on within a month as my disability checks are less than my monthly bills :3 tysm !

ca: $communitysaint // venmo: @Carter-Raquel

[newportmenthols-deactivated2024]

hi so talking to friends it seems like bc of the storm having to evacuate might be a possibility , it’s advised that if u are going to evacuate to do it by tomorrow evening , so money will also go to me getting a pet friendly hotel room / contributing to gas n food 💗

[newportmenthols-deactivated2024]

yeah so im def going to try my best to get out in time (i don’t drive bc my epilepsy)

[newportmenthols-deactivated2024]

hi i hav made it to safety for the time being ! everything still stands tho , I’ll need $ for food while im here and gas on the way back whenever that is and also my rent and bills are due in a couple days 😵‍💫 , thank u to everyone who reblogs and/or donates !

[newportmenthols-deactivated2024]

hi pls keep reblogging

[spacezeros]

wanting and not wanting at the same time

a comic for asexual awareness week

[spacezeros]

bringing this back today for the start of pride month. still overwhelmed by how well this comic went down and with how many people relate. it’s easy to think aro-ace people are all totally accepting of their identities and really proud of who they are. i guess on websites like this you see a lot of people proudly putting their identity in their bio, a flag in their profile picture.

in fact i think a lot of aro-ace people really hate that part of themselves, hide it, and struggle for a long time to ‘accept’ who they are and feel any sense of ‘pride’. that’s the feeling i wanted to capture here. the disappointment, the loneliness, upon realising that you can’t feel what is such a wonderful thing. the embarrassment of not being ‘normal’, of being some random sexuality that nobody irl has heard of, and letting down those around you because you can’t be who they want you to be. how desperately you want to change, how desperately you want to feel. but you just can’t.

i know not all aro-ace people feel like this. i know lots of aro and/or ace people feel able to be in relationships, to feel closeness and have partners in other ways. but i think it’s important to be aware that some aro-ace people do feel like this.

the comments on this comic have mostly been great but a few have been very frustrating. a comment it got a lot was along the lines of ‘aw!! you don’t need to have sex to be in a relationship!’. you completely missed the point, hah. this is not a comic about sex. it’s about a lack of feeling, the lack of something beautiful other people seem to have. another comment that popped up a few times was ‘maybe she’s a lesbian’. well maybe lesbians and aro/ace girls have more in common than people think - maybe they both often struggle to accept that they feel no attraction to men, even though society has conditioned them to do so, sometimes spending years trying to force themselves to like men in that way, when they just can’t.

this comic is called ‘wanting and not wanting at the same time’ because she wants to love. but when it comes down to the reality, she can’t fulfil the requirements of that. she wants to love someone forever, to get married and have children and grow old with her soulmate, but she doesn’t want it with this person. or that person. or anyone she meets or will ever meet. a sort of catch 22, i guess.

hope that makes sense. thanks for listening, and have a lovely pride month ❤️

[404-potato]

“‘wanting and not wanting at the same time’ because she wants to love. but when it comes down to the reality, she can’t fulfil the requirements of that. she wants to love someone forever, to get married and have children and grow old with her soulmate, but she doesn’t want it with this person. or that person. or anyone she meets or will ever meet. a sort of catch 22“ ☝️that actually really helps

[bakaagou]

for me, I don’t feel the need for a romantic or sexual type of love. I’m happy, I’m fulfilled. but when everyone you meet has something you don’t and swear on their life you need it too, that any happiness you feel without it is either fake or short lived, you start to question yourself. and then when life gets hard, you look outwards for inspiration. you look outwards for something that will make you happy again and of course, the world screams at you the same thing it allways has: you need someone, you aren’t whole you are merely a half, a puzzle piece searching for someone to complete you. and again you question yourself, do I need this? has my happiness in the past really been fake? but when you search for someone, it feels wrong. it feels fake because it is. you’re chipping away at yourself to make room for someone else you never needed or wanted. and it hurts.

[redgoldsparks]

My latest comic for The Nib was written by my friend Mike Thompson- it’s his first published comics work! 

The Nib has been a steady source of income and a huge support to me and many other indie cartoonists for years. They publish amazing work, but will be cut loose by their financial backer in July. You can read the official post about it from editor Matt Bors here.  They are still running their kickstarter-funded print magazine, but have to put digital publishing on hiatus until they figure out their next steps. If you’ve been thinking about supporting their membership program, now would be a good time. They have levels from $2 to $40 per month. I really don’t want this to be my last Nib piece! 

instagram / patreon / portfolio / the nib / etsy

[ruffboi-mags]

you know what, THIS is how you address historical queer folks of all stripes in a respectful way. you refer to them the way they chose to be referred to, and you say “it’s impossible to know how they would’ve identified in today’s society, but they’re part of our history regardless”.

[kasadilla11]

If you live and vote in California, I hope by now you've heard that there is an election happening on September 14th. You may have even gotten your ballot in the mail already.

An election? In September? Yes. A stupid one.

You see, some Republicans got Big Mad at Governor Gavin Newsom when he made the decision to lockdown the state last year at the beginning of the pandemic. They decided to start a petition to remove (recall) him from office. California's state constitution allows voters to remove the governor via recall election if they get enough signatures.

How many signatures, you ask? 12% of the total votes cast in the previous election for the office of the person being recalled, or in this case, 1.5 million.

Yeah. That's all. Out of a state of nearly 40 million people. A state that is the 5th largest economy in the world.

Just 1.5 million people need to sign an official recall petition for a statewide vote to remove the governor from office.

(If you didn't know, a recall election is how California got Arnold Schwarzenegger for governor in 2003.)

If a simple majority (50% + 1 vote) of voters choose YES on their ballots, Gavin Newsom will be removed from office and whomever of the 46 candidates on the ballot gets more votes than anyone else (not even a majority vote, just more than the other candidates) will become California's new governor.

The current (as of today, August 20th) frontrunners are a very right-wing talk radio host named Larry Elder, and a real estate broker/YouTube personality named Kevin Paffrath. Neither have what you would call "political experience."

(Caitlin Jenner is also running. Just in case you were wondering.)

How do you get on a recall ballot in California? To replace the governor, the highest office in the state? Well, you need to complete the arduous task of forking over about $4000 and getting 7500 signatures of real Californians saying they back you as a candidate.

Yeah. That's all.

Oh, and just having this election is costing CA taxpayers over $250 million dollars.

So what's at stake if Newsom gets recalled?

Majority control of the US Senate.

You see, Senator Dianne Feinstein is 88 years old this year. She's been Senator since 1992. If she falls too ill to continue her duties, if she resigns, if she dies while in office, California does not hold a Senatorial election.

The governor appoints a replacement.

This is how we got our current junior Senator, Alex Padilla, after Kamala Harris was inaugurated as Vice President.

Let me say that again.

The governor appoints a replacement Senator if Dianne Feinstein cannot complete her term.

If enough people vote to recall Gavin Newsom, and a Republican, or Libertarian, or, let's be honest, any inexperienced wet sack that can be bought off by the highest bidder, takes his place, they will very possibly appoint a Republican Senator to replace Dianne Feinstein and put that fuckface Mitch McConnell back in control of the US Senate.

So please, please, if you're a Californian, make sure you're registered to vote, get your ballot, and vote NO on this stupid waste of money recall election.

The California Recall, Untangled

The 12 questions that help explain the historical, political and logistical forces behind the effort to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom of Californ

More info:

www.sfgate.com/gavin-newsom-recall/amp/Gavin-Newsom-recall-poll-support-Elder-Paffrath-16390077.php

Voter guide:

https://www.kqed.org/recall

[kasadilla11]

And more: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2021-08-18/vote-recall-election

"78 percent of registered Republicans said they were “very interested” in voting in the recall, while only 47 percent of registered Democrats said the same. And while Newsom could theoretically take comfort in that 57 percent approval rating in the CBS News poll, that figure won’t help him unless people vote who don’t seem particularly inclined to." https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/08/california-recall-election-newsom-ballot-mess.amp

[pitviperofdoom]

Californians PLEASE vote. I know it seems like a silly low-stakes power-grab, but if we don’t participate and vote No then it might actually work. Please let’s beat this down hard enough to make them look stupid.

[slfcare]

I made a uquiz! What are your best qualities? Because I refuse to accept your “I have none” reblogs on this post.

[pathologising]

I think another good thing I came to realize was that, in therapy, "acceptance" doesn't mean that something is okay or good. To accept a situation or emotion means to understand that any amount of wishing it didnt happen, pretending it isn't happening, or regressing into maladaptive coping mechanisms will not effectively deal with what's going on. To accept is to acknowledge, to understand what is happening or what you're feeling and cope appropriately and healthily without self-judgement.

[mybodyprogress2021]

Idk who needs to hear this but your tummy isn’t ruining your outfits, you look hot

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

When we were children, my sister had private music lessons at her violin teacher’s house. I only visited there once, but I still remember that afternoon. The teacher had an artificial pond in her yard, a large beautiful thing with lily pads and plant life. And in the pond, there were goldfish. I had never seen such enormous goldfish. 

I spent several minutes just staring at them (and trying to convince them to bite my fingers.) When my sister’s violin lesson ended, her teacher came out to the yard and explained that these goldfish were the same small creatures that were often unfortunately sold in plastic bags at state fairs. They were only about two inches long apiece, when she bought them and put them in the new, empty pond. In essence, they were like every goldfish I had seen before, but they had been given a much larger, much richer environment in which to flourish. As a result, they had grown into some of the most remarkable, vibrant creatures my twelve-year-old self had ever met with. All because of a pond. 

Funny what lessons children remember. My sister doesn’t play the violin anymore, but that was the first time I caught a glimpse of the overwhelming extent to which it matters, the way the world treats us.

[barin-mclegg]

I think this might be the best post of yours I’ve ever read

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

wat about the 1 directly above it???

[twisted-monarch]

This is so beautiful and uplifting that I’m going to abstain of looking for the other post in order to keep this wholesome feeling.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

IT’S NOT OPTIONAL YOU FUCK

[boopusdeloopus]

WHOLESOME ONLY

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

NO WHOLESOME ONLY CURSED

[honeyedheartss]

gaud, I feel like you would also be appreciative of these:

these are normal, average, pet store goldfish released into the wild and they become MASSIVE motherfuckers

very cursed and fits ur blog but also it’s super harmful to the environment bc they destroy the normal food chain and also reproduce pretty quickly and since they are just fancy carp, they revert back to brown in a few generations

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

what the FRESHWATER FUCK

[popepauljohn]

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[mxnrique]

[bff0f7]

so can we start hunting down white liberals now or what

[adamtheredbeard]

The full picture is even more heart breaking after you open the uncropped version. Just a heads-up, it's rough

“The Roman Catholic Parish in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan was just grafitted.”

[afronerdism]

Nah let’s post it. Let’s feel it. Don’t look away.

[doobiebenson]

[butch-bakugo]

I notice alot of my followers on here skipping these posts just to mess with my lgbt ones, suspiciously the white popular ones.

Heres a not so friendly reminder, as an lgbt metis person, i dont give a single fuck what your blog is themed or if this is too painful for you to look at. Reblog this post. Reblog this post with the sources of the 751 children who were found.

Your compliance and silence as well as the compliance and silence of your ancestors is what allowed these schools to open and kill first nations children. The children of MY people.

Dont follow me if you cant reblog this post or the one with sources to your political blog or your most popular blog. Add trigger warnings if you must but if your political blog is only focused on the harms you personally face like being lgbt then you need to see some bigger pictures and stop being afraid of angering your racist mutural or actually saying some shit about racism. If you can reblog some antifa graphics or add blm to your bio to be a surface level ally, you can reblog some sources on the genocide first nations people faced and still face today.

They were CHILDREN.

They were murdered in cold blood.

[churchoftheconfusedchicken]

I’d like to add this photo I took last night in Victoria of the statue of Captain Cook. Though I myself am not indigenous, I 100% agree that these murderers, kidnappers and rapists shouldn’t have huge statues and plaques that decorate them and say how “great” they were.

Here’s another photo of the legislative assembly from yesterday. Later on there were more items, candles and signs at the memorial, as well as a big poster with 1505 painted on it but I didn’t get a picture

People need to see this. Not just quickly glance at the photos and keep on scrolling. They need to see this.

Reblog this or just stop following me

[beetle-stans]

Read and REBLOG. Or don't. None of us who do reblog will even have to wonder why you didn't.

[theprideful-deactivated20251201]

Hex Codes for LGBTQ+ Flags

for all my artists, content creators, and anyone else out there who use specific color palettes for references/designs, here are the hex codes for each of the lgbtq flags for your queer creative purposes. i hope you find these useful. enjoy!

[wilwheaton]

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[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

Be kind, darlings be kind.