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harper | 21 | she/it/ze/hir/he | if pompompurin was a hamster

[cattenburg]

HI. WHAT. HELLO.

WHAT. HELLO. HI.

[toyboxcore]

My Little Pony G2 coloring pages ! via coughingcolors

[theragamuffininitiative]

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Advocating for Android as a free, open platform for everyone to build apps on.

Among the many reasons I am clawing my life back from Google.

[syn4k]

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[lemonsweet]

Smiley face french fry from memory

[lemonsweet]

I don't know why you guys are so afraid it's just a memory

[creatingblackcharacters]

Funny enough, I've been dwelling on this for a bit now. I think, after two years of doing this, it's finally starting to click why things like cultural appropriation and stereotypes are... Difficult for y'all to grasp. Why me saying you have to understand WHY things are the way they are, in order to avoid them.

It's because y'all keep treating racism as individual acts and not a systemic form of oppression.

[creatingblackcharacters]

And it's not like I didn't say it before in my earlier lessons. But we need the reinforcement, and that's okay!

Antiracism is not a checklist!

Racism is not a checklist!

Stereotypes are not a checklist!

Appropriation (and avoiding it) is not a checklist!

You cannot "well if I don't do that, then I won't be racist!" Your way out of racism. Sorry. There is no easy way out of participating in racism. There just isn't! If you don't know WHY something is racist, you'll just end up doing something else that's a problem for the same reason, because you're treating it as an Individual Act and not understanding the systemic weight behind it.

"[description] is a stereotype" why? WHY is it a stereotype? WHY is it racist to unironically think and convey this sort of description about a person? "Black women being on welfare is a stereotype" damn so poor Black women should just starve rather than be a stereotype? Their existence is bad? They should never see themselves and their stories in anything ever?

NO. The stereotype isn't because there are Black women on welfare. The stereotype is from people already believing that Black women are lazy and incompetent and greedy, and using them on welfare as an example to reinforce that existing bias.

The racism is in the interpretation, in the treatment of this woman, not the woman herself! Are all Black women on welfare lazy, incompetent, and greedy? No? So then why would it be a stereotype to write about a Black woman on welfare, unless you were conveying that you, too, believe this message about Black women on welfare?

This is one of those things where you realize that white gaze I was talking about a couple weeks ago. Where we can watch endless movies about white men kicking in doors and shooting civilians, and somehow understand that that doesn't represent their entire demographic (despite there actually being some statistics towards it)... But a Black person on screen represents the entire community. 😐 WHY? That's the systemic part!!

[creatingblackcharacters]

I'm not yelling bc I'm mad, btw. I'm very passionate about this topic. Gotta say that before anons come on at noon.

[status-quo-hater]

Reminder that the only reason "hermaphrodite" is even used in biology is because some zoologists a couple hundred years ago were were too lazy to come up with a new term to talk about how snails reproduce, and instead opted to compare them to intersex people. (Which were, at the time, ONLY called hermaphrodites. The word intersex didn't exist yet.)

Hermaphrodite has referred to intersex people since before we knew what a gamete was.

It wouldn't fucking kill you to use cosexed/cosexual, dichogamous, monoecious, gonosimulite, or whatever else to talk about animal species that have dual reproductive function. You don't need to contribute to a slur for us staying normalized.

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[cocopudu]

YEAR OF THE HORSE FRIENDSHIP 🌼🪻🌸🌷🌾🌻🌺

[theunfairfolk]

my little cousin confidently declared that mother nature had a counterpart named daddy electric and i feel like this concept needs to be explored

[chassdraws]

Daddy Electric and Mother Nature sounds like a cute 70s act

[cyberglittter]

flanelle magazine by neriah mcbain

[goobersplat]

Animal vending machine stickers from 2003

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[cattenburg]

im so glad im not the only one getting bombarded by that one chat bot ad. not going to name it or tag this because i dont want them to take this post and use it in their ads like they have for other random people lololol

[cattenburg]

SUSELLE AND ABSTRAGEDY IN THE TOP 50 YAY

[dogpuppy]

[memesandmylife]

hey jsyk while hellofresh is dummy expensive and i wouldn’t reccomend it if you already know how to cook (if you’re a beginner like i was when i had it for 3 months, then it’s worth it), you should know that ALL OF THEIR RECIPES are free on their website and they all fuck hard

i will say that all the cooking instructions for veggies are pretty much the same (season with salt + pepper and roast on the top oven rack at 425F), but if it ain’t broke don’t fix it.

that being said, it also introduced me to methods i wasn’t at all expecting. i would have never thought to use cream cheese in my meat sauce, and now all my friends are constantly asking me to make my special rigatoni.

happy cheffin! :)

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I am a person who uses Hello Fresh for realsies because it is a bit cheaper than groceries here and definitely cheaper than takeout, but we also remake the recipes when we want a specific one and don't want to wait for it to come around in the rotation again, and therefore I know The Secret Translations of Proprietary Ingredients:

"Cream sauce base" = make a roux, add milk according to how much cream sauce base you're supposed to have (ex: 4 oz cream sauce base = 4 oz milk)

"1 packet stock concentrate" = either one tablespoon Better than Bullion or, if you want to be really accurate, Savory Choice Broth Concentrate packets are available on Amazon and allegedly that's what they use

"Italian Heat Spice"/"Blackening Spice"/"Fry Seasoning"/etc.: I promise you someone on Reddit has figured out what spices they use and in what proportions for each mix, if it's not just a straight up branded mix (like McCormick Grill Mates Brown Sugar Bourbon spice mix)

"Roasted Garlic Herb Butter" (and other compound butters, like truffle butter) = they're literally Epicurean branded butters, they do not hide this, you can buy them online

"Sweet Soy Glaze"/"Ponzu sauce"/"Hoisin sauce" = literally Kikkoman brand condiments: they don't hide that, either

"Sweet Thai chili sauce" = any sweet Thai chili sauce from the grocery store will do. We use Blue Dragon or Taste of Thai because that's what we can get in our grocery store.

[unpretty]

blue apron also has recipes on their website! i use it regularly to steal ideas when meal planning for the week.