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hey so is it healthy to feel the need to undermine an announcement about being plural with a joke. or is it really healthy

#so anyways we're plural!#we've decided to be a bit more open about it for now just to see how it feels #maybe we'll do one of those system ask games at some point if people are curious #we're also gonna do the thing of having everyone be referred to by favourite colour #so I'm #((yellow))#and our tag for system talk will be #meditations on the selves #(disclaimer this is all subject to change etc etc)#(but for now this feels right!)

wolfertinger666

my main thing is that it's mega FUCKING frustrating when black people vent about our experiences with antiblackness in left leaning spaces only to get ignored because non black people genuinely think they're being a nuisance but yall only become annoying if you derail our points or speak over us.

and it's more frustrating when a white person basically repeats our points and have people feel more comfortable interacting with them because they are scared of the angry negro. black people only matter as a hypothetical and when it comes time to really listen to us we are talked over and ignored.

wolfertinger666

i genuinely try to stay compose and not tweak out over it but it's so discouraging that people only want to interact with us black people and our issues from a 10 ft pole while claiming to be our allies. it's performativity like that that gets us put in danger + drowns our voices out, it's why I keep asking y'all to boost black voices. not just mine, but the black people around you. especially your friends or family.

um-jammer-tranny

dump your partner who wants you to diet

mousidy

when people treat trans women's breasts as if they aren't real breasts and when they treat our vaginas as if they aren't real vaginas they are contributing to the idea that when we are raped it isn't really rape

mousidy

beardedmrbean

Next up someone is going to claim that the Narnia series isn't kids books.

Kids books is probably not the best way to word it, you can enjoy them at every age, including your childhood, as you get older you may find new truths in them, but they're still good for any age.

cookingwithroxy

I want you to understand this. I NEED you to understand this. My mother read me the hobbit as bedtime story, and I started pushing myself to read before pre-school so I could in fact read the hobbit for myself instead of having to wait for bedtime.

I didn't do so right away but jesus wept I PUSHED myself to learn to read SPECIFICALLY so I could read The Hobbit! It is, in fact, a children's story! And children only see page count as 'there is a lot of this fun story to read!'

ceruleanspies

What I would like to achieve, regardless of the particular story or poem, is the offering of respect: an offering of the view that I believe you can handle it, that there is a way and a means to creatively handle whatever may be the pain or the social predicament of your young life, and that I believe that you can and will discover or else invent that way, those means[...] [...]And I want to say to children, tell me what you think and what you see and what you dream so that I may hope to honor you.

And I want these things for children, because I want these things for myself, and for all of us, because unless we embody these attitudes and precepts as the governing rules of our love, and of our political commitment to survive, we will love in vain, and we will certainly not survive.

The Creative Spirit: Children's Literature, June Jordan (1977)

#this essay is only a couple of pages and incredibly moving #you can read it in Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines for free on archive.org #i first encountered the quote about honouring children in Solidarity with Children by Madeline Lane-McKinley #currently reading that and definitely enjoying it (even when it hurts)#on a similar note shout outs to the ongoing bit in Mac Barnett's book Make Believe: On Telling Stories to Children #where he always says “adult books* (or as we often call them; just ”books“)#why should a book being a children's book inherently make it less of a piece of art!#youth liberation #((white))

scorpionlafemme

#working on it!#...slowly #((purple))

occidentalist

I learned a very long time ago that I could post in English on the Anglo internet about my experience as a sexual minority in the #middleeastandnorthafrica region. I could vent about every slight or slur, every indiscretion, all the doors that might not have closed in my face had I not been who I am. But that all it would do is earn me a seat at a table half the world away, a seat that I would lose the second I said “but my people are still human. But we are Arab women before we are queer women. But we are muslim before we are trans women. But we are imperialised subjects of the periphery before we are bisexuals. But we are ‘combat-aged males’ before we are gay men and boys.” A seat that I could only keep if I show a willingness to betray my people. And I will not. I do not want it. The price is too steep and the value too low.

I have come to know now that this western voraciousness for our stories was never an impulse born out of empathy; it has always been little more than a gathering of intel, of reasons to hate us and to justify the destruction of our bodies and the pillaging of our lands and the looting of our resources. So I no longer see the utility in being one more primary source for the proverbial NYT opinion editorial manufacturing consent for the latest campaign of imperial slaughter in my backyard on account of our inherent backwardness.

demilypyro

i wish my health didnt suck

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sleepy-bebby

80s Aerobics video to the tune of Rob Zombie's Dragula.

🔊 < sound on >

miggylol

#fav #queue

ammnontet

i am really, really, really loving UnLoop, which is a puzzle game where you collaborate with yourself

ammnontet

everyone say green

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NOVA by Samuel R Delaney

radimus-co-uk

art by Yuri Shashiki

#art thou?#queue #gorgeous

negativeresponse

So I know that a lot of sources including google are claiming or are under the impression that Ringo Starr doesn't have the elf stones so I just wanted to clear things up reliably once and for all:

Yes, he did post about to gifting them to Barry Keoghan, the actor portraying him in the upcoming films, as a good luck charm for his role. However, the photo he posted was of him handing Keoghan a small leather sack, while elf stones famously erode all kinds of skin. Additionally, Ringo is on the record (I think? I swear I read this but I can't find the interview. Please reach out if you know what I'm talking about) that he keeps the stones away from cameras to prevent power-dampening effects.

It's likely that what he gave was a pouch of prop elf stones as a show of good faith, which could also be related to the old legend that a false elf stone will become real in a moment of need. Some people when presented with this evidence claim that while the photo was staged, the real stones were handed over in private, but this seems far fetched to me, especially since it's widely accepted that Ringo bound himself to the stones for nine and ninety years when he acquired them.

With all that said: Please stop spreading misinformation about the elf stones. If you don't have all the info, don't state your own assumptions as fact. And please do not listen to google's AI on important topics like these. All signs point to Ringo Starr currently being in possession of the elf stones.

negativeresponse

Please reblog to spread awareness.

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sheepgirlmaidtummy

hello again tumblr, second time ive had to do this, but i have to make an emergency move in about 2 weeks! the original plan was to move next year, but the apartment manager has been extremely negligent on our renewal and no longer have time. that and physical and mental health being the worst its ever been, the move is much sooner than wanted

2023 my parents kicked me out due to my transness, and you all helped me survive that back then! one more time please? (link to that post for proof)

help a black tgirl out?? you all have before.

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letterful

anti-parent

this book is out now!!! it's a short read, less than 200 pages, and it's SO good. i literally had to pause halfway through just to send the author a message about how much i liked it. definitely leans more utopian than scientific, but that makes sense given the format, and i think it has a lot of good things to say.

once you really start thinking about how restrictive the world is for children and how many bullshit justifications we retroactively come up for it all the time, you can't stop seeing it everywhere. this book makes a good case for including children in our political efforts not as rhetorical devices but as an actual class of oppressed people.