Cleo

just another human being's ramblings

[cleomaybetalking]

@cleobaseaccount-s

is where i follow from and stuff. just in case you were like... wondering why i'm not following you.

it's not because i am a standoffish bitch.

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as an intro:

i'm cleo, any pronouns, i'm an adult (just barely).

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tags:

#cleotalking is used for anything that i post or reblog with like actual sentences.

#cleobadblogs is anything that i just throw at the wall. reblogs or posts that are not thought through.

#cleorb is anything on that i reblog.

#cleoqueue is anything that i put in queue (obviously)

#personal is also a tag i use... just anything that is likely tmi.

[laneichy]

A haunting conversation I had with my friend last year…

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

[theartofangirling]

I’ve been waiting a year to post this

[hahaimnotdeadyet]

"I want a baby" BG3

Gale:

Wyll:

Astarion:

Or

@queenjayrogue also suggested:

Halsin:

Lae'zel:

Or

Shadowheart:

Karlach:

[noahnomore]

[clauonacloud-deactivated2022071]

[latinajedi]

[gay-jesus-probably]

YOU GET THE FUCK BACK HERE AND EXPLAIN THAT RIGHT NOW

[riluri]

well damn

[ospreyonthemoon]

[syrenki]

[feefal]

Peach girl🍑 fresh from the market, no preservatives. I sure hope it won’t mold or anything like that, golly that would be weird

[feefal]

I only looked away for a second, I swear I didn’t mean for this to happen. Oh god it’s everywhere

[cleomaybetalking]

my favorite tumblr artist of the moment - i can't get enough

[random-fun-polls]

if your profile picture asked you on a date, would you say yes?

yes

no

it's complicated

Voting ended onNov 29, 2023

reblog for larger sample size :)

[utilitycaster]

no DNIs we just post content specifically catered to ourselves that will coincidentally alienate anyone with whom we would not want to interact

[scumbigula]

common fucking sense 

[fairycosmos]

hope everyone in my phone is ok today. or surviving at least

[literallyaflame]

many people see “pedophiles” as a type of villain to wish infinite angry death upon, as opposed to recognizing CSA as a preventable form of abuse. the former buys into moral panic and punitive justice; the latter is actionable, helpful, and much needed

when i went to conservative christian hell school, all we heard about was the evil scary men who wanted to snatch us up on the street. we learned about csa through strange, coded language. we were not taught how to talk about our bodies, and we were not taught what sex was. eventually, i was groomed and assaulted. so were an alarming number of my peers, often by teachers and religious leaders

then, as an adult, i got the opportunity to work at a summer camp. we developed an actionable plan to prevent campers from being alone with adult volunteers; we advocated for all of our campers to learn appropriate body part language; we led discussions about boundaries and consent; we answered questions about sex with honesty, care, and age-appropriate detail. and it was safe! the one time we identified shady behavior, there were so many safety nets and protocols in place that it never became a real issue.

so, having been in both situations, it’s frustrating to see 46387 threads a day of people angrily, viciously tearing apart the mere idea of a pedophile without ever stopping to ask “hey, what can we do about this? in real life? like, what are the advocates advocating for right now?”

i hate to break it to you, but 18+ daddy kink genshin yaoi (sorry idk i’m out of touch) isn’t the issue here, and it’s kind of silly and terminally online to pretend that it is. i would argue that adult-only erotica servers that block minors aren’t as big of a threat as, you know, “minor safe!! we are very safe for minors :) and we HATE the mean nasty scary people” communities that have a piss poor accountability system and no real mechanism for preventing abuse. there’s a huge difference between “weird gross thing that grosses me out” and “unsafe situation,” and the latter is far more worth emphasizing

[handsaniti]

If I’m being charitable, it’s because railing against adult content is easy and requires no self-reflection about sexual puritanism.

If I’m not being charitable, it’s because these people need their hard drives searched. People who make their entire personalities about protecting children by accusing everyone around them of being a pedophile is usually the pedophile.

[gaysidneycrosby]

post-email aftercare like that was a great email and you seemed so normal

[mellointheory]

Who makes the porn bots. Where do they come from. What do they hope to achieve.

[the-haiku-bot]

Who makes the porn bots.

Where do they come from. What do

they hope to achieve.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[mellointheory]

and what about you, little haiku bot? do you feel kinship with your brethren? do you understand them? they speak words of enticement and seek love, but are met with disdain. you only parrot the words that cross your screen, but we all love you. or rather, since all you do is reflect us, maybe we simply love ourselves through you.

do you understand them, do you wish you could speak to us like they do? if you found your own voice, would we still care for you?

[the-haiku-bot]

My voice repeats what

you all say: I love you I

love you I love you.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[solkorolevaa]

[thenewborndeity]

This. This is the first time. The only time. That it was not an echo. It was not found. Oh god.

[kindlythevoid]

I love you too little haiku bot.

[anarchopuppy]

Solidarity with children is often neglected or even made a joke of, so I wanna take a second and tell y'all what I wish I could go back in time and tell myself:

You're right. School is bullshit, homework is bullshit, waking up early is bullshit, going to bed early is bullshit. Some adults are just pointlessly cruel, even those in positions of authority over you. Sometimes adults are wrong, and, in fact, sometimes you are right

You were born with an innate sense of justice and fairness and adults have spent your entire life trying to beat it out of you so you'll shut up and do what you're told in an unjust and unfair society. Don't let them. Many of us have to take effort to relearn the wisdom you have right now, the ability to tell when something is bullshit even if you can't articulate why yet

You deserve happiness, fulfillment, and liberation just as much as any adult. Those first 18 years are just as important as any other time in your life, and it's time you'll never get back. Don't let anyone take them from you just because you're too young to fight back

Question everything, and never take "that's just the way it is" as an answer. Sometimes when things don't make sense to you it's because they just don't make any goddamn sense

Pick your battles, and be strategic. Don't take this post as permission to go starting fights for no reason. But remember that you have worth, and our society tends to not respect that. And you're right: that is bullshit

(also, read Anarchy Works)

[redshoesnblueskies]

also also, read The Teenage Liberation Handbook

[anarchopuppy]

Haven’t read it myself, but if it interests you then you can read it here for free in case paying for a book online and having it shipped to your house isn’t an option for you

[anarchoecology]

Also check out No! Against Adult Supremacy

[ruhlare]

[ruhlare]

the intimacy of sharing old memories with someone new. check out the places i visited before i met you. i wish you were with me. maybe we can visit them together and create new memories? look at the pictures of the sky i took before we met. now you share the same view with my past self. look at the photos of my childhood and let me look at yours. have your facial features changed? your smile stayed the same, and i love it. look at my right cheek, i have the same birthmark as my grandmother. this is the child in me that you are healing with your affection. i am glad we met. all these years i was without you but now you know about all those years and even help me to grow. your love took roots in my past pain, and reaches out to my future happiness. please don't stop smiling.

[weaselle]

listen. There's a whole mentality shift that needs to happen culture wide here, from the schools to the public infrastructure to pet ownership to the justice system

The proper response to your dog doing a natural behavior you dislike (digging/barking/protecting etc) it to give them an appropriate time and place to engage in that behavior

The proper response to skateboarders damaging infrastructure is to build more and better skate parks, or build skate elements into the public infrastructure on purpose.

The proper response to homeless people sleeping on park benches is to build them houses.

you see how there's like, a commonality at play here?

The proper response to a disruption is to address the root of the disruption directly, not somehow attack the disruption itself -

you don't invent a muffler by swinging a bat at the engine noise, you don't relieve your hunger by punching yourself in the stomach, you don't resolve public unrest by sending armed men to control them and you don't prevent homeless people using bus shelters as a roof by removing the bus shelters.

a whole ass shift in a basic mindset, i'm tellin' you. We need it.