Writin' but still kickin'

[capisback]

Hey y’all, just wanted to say that if there’s anything you want me to tag, please don’t hesitate to do so. I get not wanting to see certain things on your dash, some things can wear you down, so I’d rather add tags to certain types of posts than to have you feel bad over seeing them. Hit me up via this post, chat, or ask if you want!

[memewhore]

[theblackparadeisdead]

i assume you are kind of a loser

Well man this is tumblr

[everythingfox]

Cat proof

[bucephaly]

😭😭

[bucephaly]

There are only around 1,500 native Cherokee speakers left, and most of them are elders

Little Cherokee Seeds is a program where mothers and babies spend all day with first language Cherokee speakers, speaking nothing but Cherokee, so that the babies become a new generation of native speakers. They're also teaching traditional skills and mothering practices to the mothers to pass on.

This is so so important for the survival of the language. These babies are on track to being fluent first language speakers, and they will be able to keep the language going for another lifetime.

I recommend checking out the little cherokee seeds facebook page!!

[nymla]

Nålhus aka needle houses aka needle keepers made with wool fabric, protected by a ceramic case. Stamped patterns with inspiration from plants and nature in general and the geometrical lines somewhat inspired by runes.

🌿

One of these are still in the shop now at nymla.se

[heretherebebookdragons]

This is really pretty! 💜💜💜

And useful! I've made myself several from leg bones of deer and sheep.

People often don't realize that needles used to be really hard to make in the olden days. Imagine having a fragile little piece of bone and having to drill a hole to it! (This is why the oldest bone needles didn't have holes but a little cut on the side to hold the thread and that the 1st holed needles are considered a huge leap in early human technology.)

Needles were vital for survival because that's the thing you need to make and fix your garments! Fine needle work was literally a skill that kept you from dying of exposure to harsh weather, that kept your seams water proof* if done right. It's a precious item you wanted to protect from breaking or getting lost, and having a needle holder like this, which you could hang on your belt, is a genius way to keep your needles safe!

Ancient crafts textile Artisan nerding here, why yes I am. I just really love these and think they're super cool! 💜

*if you're curious and want to read more, I highly highly recommend Betty Kobayashi Issenman's book Sinews of Survival: the Living Legacy of Inuit Clothing.

[nymla]

Reblog becaaause that was a lovely text about needles 😍 So interesting!

[phantomrose96]

Anime is great. Anime will be like “this is my character of ambiguous western descent. Their name is the most incomprehensible combination of made up sounds. And if not that, it is a name that has not appeared on a single birth certificate since 1773.

Code Geass went and said “most of these character hail from Future Sort-of-Britain, including our main character, who will be named Lelouch just like every single British person isn’t.” Then they decided to distract you from this by naming his love interest Shirley, cornering the market of 80+ year old grandmothers clutching their 3 bowls of strawberry sucker candy in delight. Code Geass didn’t even call it a day here they had one more trick up their sleeve and it was to name the third character in the group Rivalz, a name and a character which appeal to exactly no one.

Tiger and Bunny said “What should our western young-20′s heartthrob successful pretty-boy deuteragonist be named? What screams ‘young’ and ‘trendy’ and ‘brilliant’ and ‘sexy’? Barnaby. Barnaby Brooks. This is our Sex Symbol Barnaby.” I bet a bunch of ghosts from the 17th century were stoked about that one. I bet Barnaby walks into gift shops asking if they have any of the travel keychains in his name and he gets laughed out of the store. I bet Barnaby’s parents didn’t die, they just faked their deaths to get away from him seeing as they hated him enough to name him Barnaby.

I haven’t followed Attack on Titan in 7 years but yall have a character named Pieck Finger. That’s it that’s my roast.

[phantomrose96]

I JUST REMEMBERED

BACCANO HAS A CHARACTER NAMED JACUZZI SPLOT

JACUZZI SPLOT

[phantomrose96]

There are 3 kinds of tags on this post

Code Geass fans saying “that’s fair”

HxH/Death Note/Fate/JoJo fans informing me of terrible horrible names that perfectly prove my point and also deal psychic damage with every new addition

Baccano fans who are absolutely ready to throw hands with me

[phantomrose96]

WH–

[chongoblog]

CHROLLOS ALT NAME IS THAT????

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

[phantomrose96]

QUATTRO

W H A T

[diligentpsychopomp]

[sixpenceee]

This video has a deep meaning | source

[thickshady46060]

It’s got a point. Being a commercial truck driver, when we see guys riding like this we announce in the cab for other drivers to be aware of “grease stains” and the direction they’re traveling. And believe me, seeing the aftermath, that’s about all that’s left.

[jenjenthevirgo]

LORD HAVE MERCY

[sixpenceee]

Tank drives over a car at top speed | source

[aries1708]

I swear that is something I wil love to do at rush our

[mamaangiwine]

I don't think many people realize how much they've been turned into a bunch of casually cynical jerks.

Someone may come to their parents and say "I want to write a book" and their parents will say "it's really hard to get published".

Someone might confide in their sibling and say "I want to sell my art on "x" platform" and that sibling will say "do you know how many people you'd be competing with? Do you know how many shops are even on that platform?"

I know a kid who once told his best friend "I think I wanna start a dnd podcast" and the friend was like "do you know what the word "oversaturation" means?"

Personally, I don't know why any of that matters? And even if it did, perhaps your response should be "Do it! Do it and see where it goes!"

[dramatic-dolphin]

i think some of you guys are insane 👍 it's actually possible for a 16 year old to be online friends with someone in their 20s. source: teenagers are actually people who can talk to other people about shared interests.

[dramatic-dolphin]

21 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 that 18 year old is literally your college classmate. you are the same age. You Are The Same Age

[dramatic-dolphin]

like, the moral panic about age gaps in dating is one thing but this reddit thread was literally about Being Online Friends. you can be online friends with a teenager. they are actually people you can talk to. i promise.

it's very easy to not be a creepy adult when talking to a minor. step one: don't act creepy. that's it. that's all you need to do.

[seananmcguire]

When I was sixteen, I and my boyfriend (eighteen) and his little brother (fourteen) all belonged to the same gaming group, which had been started by his father's friend Steve. We played twice a week with a bunch of people twice and even three times our age, and we learned that adults weren't aliens, they were people with their own feelings and fears and they weren't always right about everything.

Those years at Steve's table were incredibly important to my development as a person. And we had something in common: the game.

[fallenstarworkshop]

Here's the truth: when you grow up, as you go through the various developmental stages, there are things which are vital to happen for proper psychological and cognitive development. For example, when you're very young it is absolutely vital that you are exposed to language. A lot of language. Of varying levels of complexity and formality. That's vital for the healthy development of the language centers of the brain and for early socializing. It must happen. If it does not, you see severe dysfunction as they get older.

This is basic psychological and cognitive development theory. It's taught in pretty basic level Psych courses. This is known science.

Socializing with adults, of various ages, both related to you and not related to you, in various social situations from social equals to authority figure, is one of those vital landmarks. And it comes up over and over and over during development. As a young child you must interact with adults, who care for you, so you can understand care and safety. And it gets more deep and more complicated as you develop.

Preteens and teens must interact with people older than them, significantly older, in various ways, up to and including casual friendly socializing as equals, or they will not develop properly. This is absolutely vital. Your ability to function in the real world socially depends on it.

We are fucking destroying our young people with this bullshit.

Source: Majored in Psychology with a focus on childhood development in university. This is what I went to school for.

[sea-salted-wolverine]

I'd like to point out that those stages of development and crucial periods of interaction don't stop at some magical arbitrary definition of adulthood. Young adults, middle aged adults and senor adults, need to have interaction with children and teens and people who are younger than they are or they lose their grip on reality and ability to communicate with people who don't share their privileges and abilities. Source: can you fucking hear yourself?

[moniquill]

The deliberate dismantling of intergenerational society by capitalism is one of the most damaging things to happen in the 20th century.

Humans evolved with alloparenting. You are supposed to have meaningful relationships (friendship, mentorship, tutelage) with extraparental adults and older kids.

[mothnoodle]

Also just to talk on the very simple level the original thing is operating on- Teenagers being friends with adults protects them from grooming. Why? Because then they know what a normal adult acts like. PLUS having an adult that ISNT an authority figure they could go to for help if needed? glorious. a lot of teens are in a stage of development where they're realizing that authority is dangerous. and it is! but it also makes them wary of asking for help from authority, even if it wouldnt be a problem, because they are learning. This is in ADDITION to everything else mentioned in this post.

[dabwax-deactivated20250410]

I'm in college at 32 and three of my classmates are 16. 16 year olds don't just exist in a world outside of adults, and if I were to treat these peers of mine as anything but peers in an age-appropriate manner, they wouldn't be getting the full richness of their class experience. They are treated like the rest of us.

And I've been making friends with one who told me she's bi, used to dress more queer but was bullied so badly in middle school that she started dressing more normie and started taking college courses to get away from that group of students. And as a queer kid who was bullied so badly I dropped out, I would have loved to know queer adults who are visibly queer, who are engaged in a queer relationship, who can be some sort of support in a time where life is confusing, and who didn't treat me like a stupid kid who needs to obey all adults without nuance OR try to initiate a sexual relationship with me.

My first group of friends when I dropped out of high school were mostly 50-60 year old queer people. They helped me escape my abusive parents for good, helped me see and hear perspectives that were the opposite of the southern Baptist rot I was brought up with, and gave me older queer perspectives that were so valuable to this day. Intergenerational friendships are so essential for everyone, but especially marginalized groups who need to see people like them get older. This entire post is so adjacent to my posts about children's rights, they're just people who are younger and less figured out who need social bonds of every sort. You, as an adult, can choose to be a good person that makes social bonds with every age.

[muchymozzarella]

Please remember that NOT having more experienced, often older friends can make you MORE susceptible to being taken advantage of by predators. Not less.

Also you all need to LEARN HOW TO BE NORMAL AROUND PEOPLE AND NOT ASSUME THE WORST OF STRANGERS. There's a vast difference between having basic Internet safety and thinking every person 5 years older than you is looking to groom you.

[babyanimalgifs]

"Dude she said SIT"

(Source)

[jealizmuch]

MY OTP!! (guy x eldritch horror who stole his eyes)

[official-linguistics-post]

yet another one forgets that linguists don't really know what a "word" is

i really don't think it's common knowledge that "word" isn't a technical linguistic term.

[eshesmites]

I’m (a linguist) inclined to say that a word is a unit of meaning made up of phonemes, but that’s not a sufficient definition because I can put phonemes together into something that isn’t a word and also there are units of meaning that are single phonemes and definitely not words (like affixes)

So maybe a word is a unit of meaning that denotes a specific thing or idea but love and Santa Claus disprove that

Or maybe a word is just an arbitrarily assigned label for something between a phoneme and a sentence

It’s all very wibbly and ironically undefinable and it amazes me to this day that not only are we able to communicate with each other despite not knowing what a word is, but I’ve also written hundreds of pages of academic theory and discussion using words to talk about words and we still don’t know what they actually are

[official-linguistics-post]

this is the beautiful paradox of our field. someone asks us "what's language?" and we say, "what are you, a cop?"

[demilypyro]

Being evil sound awesome and cool and interesting until you realize it makes people not like you

This is true of many things. Like tattoos. and being transgender. you cannot let that stop you

[demilypyro]

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

do you support the war in vietnam?

ma’am this is a John Lennon/Paul McCartney erotica blog

[sjdsjkdlskdas-deactivated202012]

and SCENE! that was my impersonation of what i think tumblr would be like in the late 1960’s. just to clarify this is a joke. this isn’t real. there is no beatles erotica here. it’s a bit. it’s a joke

[lastvalyrian]

this post is a failure because I was completely willing to accept both John/Paul fanblog and people demanding political positions on the Vietnam War in 2020 without question

[catchymemes]