Fruit (derogatory)

she/they ~ bi ~ 18 ~ white

[daniel-oneiroi]

A rural Alaskan Native community has lost its’ only potable water source as of January in freezing weather. The laundromat was the ONE community location to get clean water. They rely on river water and donations right now.

There is an Amazon wishlist with cleaning products, formula, small electric-free washers for elderly + disabled people, washing buckets and water-carrying buckets, and hand tools to cut through the ice in the river to access water, amongst other things.

The Tuluksak Native Community is a Yup'ik Tribal Government in Tuluksak, Alaska. They have a 30%+ positive COVID rate. 

Please ignore the GoFundMe link right now. There is no way to access the funding as far as I know. Message CeeJay on Twitter ahead of time or direct funds to the Amazon Wish List, which can be sorted from lowest price to highest.

[bishipsual]

It sometimes feels like the a:tla fandom treats Indigenous people and culture like an extension of the avatar world rather than real people.

If you have the means please consider donating and helping this community. Many things on the list are under $10 US!

And please PLEASE reblog so that this post finds people who do have the means!

[guerrillatech]

[dynabi]

Three swastikas (not including an additional scratched area where they seem to have scratched out a mistake they made) were keyed into my car on Sunday during a grocery run. Insurance is not going to cover it because the damage is not “extensive enough”, but I still cannot afford the cost of repairs as two of them are down to the metal.

Please help me get this shit off my car. I can provide pictures if you need proof, I just don’t want that kind of imagery on my blog. I am a trans, mixed black non-practicing jewish person if that means anything to anybody.

https://www.paypal.me/victoryrr

[dynabi]

I changed my mind about sharing proof as I got a few people asking about it, so you can find it here. Tw for nazi imagery ect.

[dynabi]

Update: Found out that the issue is not that my insurance is refusing to pay for the damages, the issue is that my insurance simply doesn’t cover it. My mother has been lying to me about the policy on the car to get extra money out of me every month.

[dynabi]

Please keep reblogging. I think I might be able to buff out the two shallower scratches myself but the deeper ones I do not feel confident trying to fix and I was quoted $400. I’m about halfway there, so thank you to everyone that has gotten me this far.

5 / 19 / 21

[dykejet]

If Aang has million number of fans i am one of them . if Aang has ten fans i am one of them. if Aang have only one fan and that is me . if Aang has no fans, that means i am no more on the earth . if world against the Aang, i am against the world. i love #Aang till my last breath.. .. Die Hard fan of Aang . Hit Like If you Think Aang Best & Smart In the world

[hotvampireadjacent]

[piduai]

i condone and support every single vile deed my problematic faves have done. not only that i think they should have done bigger and worse atrocities than already committed. i think that would have been funny

[dl4draws]

the moon is ace y’all

[ask-the-fishdick-deactivated201]

REBLOG IF IT IS OKAY TO COME INTO YOUR INBOX AND SAY THE RANDOMEST SHIT I CAN THINK OF BECAUSE I REALLY WANT TO INTERACT WITH YOU.

[dl4draws]

brown eyes yue supremacy

[bishipsual]

I just searched ‘fat positivity’ on YouTube and every single video was ‘sjw cringe’ ‘fat positivity cringe’ ‘the body positivity movements gone too far’ and I feel like shiiiit, can people send in any fat (positivity) activism YouTube accounts please!!! I love a good video essay and I just want some about fatness!!!! If people don’t have any suggestions could you boost this so that others can see it!!!!

[pure]

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

[pyrrhiccomedy]

There is nothing wrong with everyone enjoying each other’s cultures so long as those cultures have been shared. 

Eating Chinese food, watching Bollywood movies, going to see Cambodian dancers, or learning to speak Korean so you can watch every K drama in existence is totally fine. The invitation to participate in those things came from within those cultures. The Mexican family that owns the place where I get fajitas wants me to eat fajitas. Their whole business model kind of depends on it, actually. 

If you see something from another culture you think you might want to participate in, but you don’t know if that would be disrespectful or appropriative, you can just…ask. Like. A Jewish friend explained what a mezuzah was to me, recently. (It’s the little scroll-thing near their front doors that they touch when they come into their house. It basically means “this is a Jewish household.”)

“Oh, cool,” I said. “Can I touch it? Or is it only for Jewish people?”

“You can touch it or you can not touch it,” she said. “I don’t care.”

“Cool, I’m gonna touch it, then.”

“Cool.”

It’s not hard.

You want to twerk, twerk. I’ve never heard a black person say they didn’t think anybody else should be allowed to twerk. Just that they want us to acknowledge that they invented that shit, not Miley fucking Cyrus.

[queeranarchism]

It really boils down to three simple things:

Consent. Is the culture open to sharing this thing? (& don’t cheat by finding one person who consents while most of the culture disagrees.)

Context. If a culture is open to sharing a thing but it is a thing of great religious significance, take the time to learn what is a respectful way to treat the thing. Probably don’t use it as random decoration or sexualize it unless that’s what it’s for. 

Credit. Give credit and if possible, buy from the original creators so the money goes where the credit should be.

[weirdo-with-a-nametag]

This is really useful to me personally because I’ve definitely caught myself losing sight of what cultural appropriation actually is, and why it matters, so thank you, and everybody else pay attention too

[timemachineyeah]

Ugh that post has gotten me thinking about fat acceptance in a way I haven’t in years. I’ve read more studies about weight and health than probably any other topic I’ve ever researched. And every time I see someone wail about health I am just like

Did you know that in post-mortem examinations there is zero correlation between weight and levels of arteriosclerosis and related diseases found?

Did you know that people with an overweight BMI have the longest life expectancy, that those with an “ideal” and an “obese” have about the same life expectancy, and that being “underweight” raises mortality rates more than being “morbidly obese”?

Did you know that losing weight and then gaining it back is worse for your heart than remaining at the weight you started consistently?

Did you know that 95% of people who lose weight do gain it back, and there has never been a single documented weight loss program that has been demonstrated to keep the weight off for five years or more in the majority or even a significant minority of people? Like, telling people to lose weight isn’t much use if we don’t know HOW to make that happen.

Like I have read The Obesity Myth by Paul Campos and Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata and Big Fat Lies by Glenn A Gaesser (Ph.D!) And Fat!So? and several other books that I don’t own and so don’t remember all of their names I spent like four years reading every single study coming out and looking at the methodology and noting which ones had huge holes or terrible methods and which didn’t (the holes were almost always in the pro-weight-loss studies) and like

Big Fat Lies has 27 pages of bibliography. 27 pages worth of scientific citation. The book content itself is only 197 pages. That’s a page of references for every 7 pages of book. Reading the book is just reference after reference and study after study. Most of these doctors (like Linda Bacon, author of Health at Every Size) started out the same way. They wanted to use the scientific method to find a real weight loss program or health solution that worked and could be proven to work, and so studied everything they could about weight and fitness only to find out that we didn’t need weight loss in the first place. That all the studies calling for it were lacking or nonexistent. That weight and underlying metabolic health have very little relation. That the history of our relationship with health and obesity has little basis in fact and a LOT of basis in capitalism, politics, and fashion. No, really, the association between weight and health was first proposed by insurance companies looking for ways to charge people more by claiming risk. They also charged tall and short people more. And people with different skin colors. When they got in trouble for charging people for things they had no control over and had no bearing on their health, they set out to prove that weight was controllable and that fat was unhealthy to make money. 

These are also a lot of the same people who went on to invent the President’s fitness program, so if you went to public school you probably already hate them. 

Anyway, if you want a place to start reading about the issue, this article is a pretty good launching pad. 

[heavyweightheart]

This casual rant is like a primer on weight science. Amazing. I second their book recommendations, and would add to the list Body Respect by Drs Bacon & Aphramor, Body of Truth by journalist Harriet Brown, and What’s Wrong with Fat? by UCLA professor of sociology Abigail Saguy.

[mikkeneko]

man I remember that time I reblogged an anti-fatphobia post and lost a follower and  reader who took the time to come into my DMs and rant about how betrayed he felt that I, who he had trusted and respected, would dare to signal boost content that made people feel like it was okay to be fat. how dare I

anyway the weightloss industry is a scam

[lesbiansandgayssupporttheminers]

The weightless industry is a scam and eating disorders kill more people than any other mental illness in the UK.

[actualnymph]

“I’m bisexual which means that I like all genders and yes that includes men unfortunately 😐😔” well guess what. I’m bisexual and I love men. I love them so much and I’m at all not ashamed or embarrassed about it. How about that.

[off-the-key-of-reason]

[spookytransgirl]

TL;DR: Struggling with little to no money for important stuff like medications, food, and health stuff.

So things haven’t been the best lately. My roommates car has had multiple troubles where we had to sink the money we were saving for appointments and upgrades for our projects into fixing so the car can actually take us places. We have been working on some projects and hitting some walls and limitations with what I have since my PC is 4 years old and not a great processor inside of it (like an i3 or something). I need help affording things like medications, food, and going to the doctors for my Chronic Pain. If you can help in any way, whether it is reblogging or donating, every little bit counts and is appreciated. 

Paypal: [email protected]

[watchmakermori]

I know everyone's making jokes about it but also as a british citizen it is just so Fucking weird to see how the country stops when a royal dies. this man was almost a hundred years old. the news story begins and ends at 'very elderly man dies after being ill for a long time'. and yet it's EVERYWHERE. as if it was remotely unexpected. as if it actually affects the people in this country. every kind of broadcasting stops in its tracks and talks about this and only this, on and on, tributes, memorials, the same things again and again. when all that's happened is an old man has died. and people consider it disrespectful if you're not interested in it - disrespectful, to not grieve for a complete stranger! to treat his death with the exact level of engagement you would any other person you didn't know!

it just kind of feels like a wake-up moment to how fucking backwards this country is. you realise that every single media outlet has been feeding you the idea that these people are more important and monumental than anyone else. you realise they've been pushing that on you for your whole life. in the year of 2021 we are still their subjects and we are still expected to care about the royals as though they have a single fucking thing to do with us

[lgbtpolitics]

Jeremy Corbyn is the ex leader of the Labour Party, in case you thought he tweeted something rude about Prince Philip, he didn't. This was the tweet in question:

Its simply not about Prince Philip. And it was posted after the news had broken, and that is the reason for said backlash. It has been reported in multiple national news papers that Jeremy Corbyn tweeted about something else after the Prince was already dead.

We have now entered into our 8 day mourning period, and the government will soon offer guidance as to how public bodies should proceed. Yes you heard that correctly we all need governmental guidance for dealing with the death of a 99 year old most have never met. The standard rules involve local governments ceasing operation during this time.

It is absolutely everywhere, every single radio station, news report, newspaper, magazine, television show HAS to be talking about it 24/7 right now. Went to watch BBC iplayer last night and every recommendation is about Prince Philip.

I feel like a broken record but I really cannot stress this enough, he was 99. You don't even need to have any negative sentiments towards the royals to realise this is not actually a particularly dramatic or tragic occasion. And yet it brings the whole country to a ridiculous standstill.

[seahoney-deactivated20210605]

that photo but make it mailee

[bymoonandfire-deactivated202104]

[ID: A digital painting of Mai and Ty Lee from ATLA. Mai is laying on her back, wearing a purple sweetheart neckline dress, and a thin black choker. Her hair is loose and fans out. Her hands rest on her stomach. Ty Lee sits on top of her, legs bent on either side of Mai, as she does Mai’s eye makeup. Their faces are very close together. Ty Lee wears a pink spaghetti strap dress, her hair also loose, and her nails are painted a light purple. In one hand Ty Lee holds an eyeshadow palette. Ty Lee is concentrated on doing Mai’s makeup, while Mai is concentrated on Ty Lee’s face. End ID]