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Dany  | 35  | Nonbinary genderfluid fox witch (they/them)  | Scottish  | Pansexual  | Scorpio  | Feminist  | Anti-Fascist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🇵🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 pfp by my wonderful boyfriend @fletchfeathers

[konoko]

[sicknastyjr]

Your 20s are not about getting your life together they're about learning to escape the self imposed torture labyrinth you've built inside your own head

[thewindowofthesummerhouse]

karina refrynn

[chaotic-neutral-knitter]

I think one of the kindest things you can do for people with various mental health struggles is just... let people back into your life after they've been absent for a while.

Making friends as an adult is so fucking hard already and isolating yourself from other people is a very common symptom of depression, anxiety, burnout, ocd, trauma, grief, etc. Which means that someone will do the hard work of recovery/healing and resurface back into a world where their previous friends have written them off because they stopped showing up.

So if you know someone where you're like "yeah we could have been better friends but they fell off the map a bit" and that person suddenly reaches out, or starts showing up to events even though you kind of forgot they were still in the group chat... well they may have been Going Through It and you don't actually have to punish them for their absence you can just be glad that they're back.

[quadriviummuse]

Needed to hear this today.

[taraljc]

as much as I cannot handle being perceived yes this tracks

[ohwhatagloomyshow]

do you remember why you followed prev

yes :)

no :)

Voting ended onJul 23

[rars]

well-written women who narratively suck are like crack cocaine to me. hello shitty little woman do you need some crumbs of love that you've clearly never been given? lol

[mousegirlheart]

Look, i know you said the problematic thing over a decade ago, have been squeaky clean ever since, aren't like that anymore and have grown as a person, but I'm only just finding about it now, so it's basically like it just happened so i gotta persecute you and harass you out of your community. You understand :)

[caspercryptid]

I feel like not enough people realize that people under enormous strain act really really fucking Weird

[laterkiss]

sorry i never replied or called back there's something very lonely inside me

[alaskanay]

American Kestrel | Raptors of North America

[danniiiyyyl]

@fletchfeathers

[dogpuppy]

[aflawedfashion]

Lucy Lawless

[frenchfrysplash]

Lucy FLAWLESS

[phoukanamedpookie]

Reblogging again with further thoughts because this GIFset is a beautiful illustration of how to do it right.

Lucy Lawless makes her stance very clear. There’s no need to dig for context clues to see that she’s committed to her LGBT fans. She nips the homophobes right in the bud by flat-out refusing to let them use her words to ridicule and alienate LGBT people.

This is an area where a lot of would-be celebrity allies fall short. They think that not using slurs or actively discriminating against LGBT people means that their words and actions can’t contribute to creating an environment that empowers and emboldens the homophobes within their fanbase.

Tepid statements like “love is love” or “no h8″ or “I support LGBT people” don’t do much to counteract notions about how gross, dangerous or ridiculous LGBT people are. There needs to be a clear, strong, consistent statement about one’s stance toward LGBT fans. Otherwise, it’s just giving homophobes more ammo.

[trupowieszcz-moved-deactivated2]

r/scrungycats is fucking amazing

[fruityfinch]

This one is my favourite. It’s subtle. It’s contemplative. This cat has so much to consider

[zzoupz]

I drew these emo cats

[danniiiyyyl]

@fletchfeathers

[that-faerie-in-the-corner]

I understand that trans men can hold misogynistic beliefs/uphold the patriarchy but quite frankly I don’t think shouting from the rooftops how much you hate trans men is the intersectional feminist praxis some people think it is. And acting as though trans men have ceased to be effected by misogyny because they are men is just kind of like, willfully ignorant to how our current society acts?

[bananonbinary]

tony's chocolonely mildly pisses me off every time i eat it. like yeah i get it ur doing a whole symbolism thing about unfairness and whatever, but its actually SO DIFFICULT to eat fucking. gerrymandered chocolate. your symbolism is ruining my chocolate experience.

who approved this.

[bananonbinary]

like. ur already more expensive. i understand this. i am willing to pay more money to have slave-free delicious chocolate. why must you punish me further by making it a goddamn puzzle to break a piece off.

[closet-keys]

Tony's Chocolonely does not ensure a living wage for cocoa workers in West Africa (see 2020 report by Voice Network).

Food Empowerment Project maintains an updated list of chocolate brands they recommend based on the following standards:

transparency about the country of origin for cocoa

if sourced from Western Africa, the workers must own the companies/be in charge of the profits from their labor (this standard is because child labor and slavery have been widely documented for decades in this area)

if sourced from Brazil, the workers must own the company and/or be in charge of the profits from their labor, or the company must be going above and beyond to support the workers and their families (this standard is because "child labor and slavery only recently have been documented in cocoa in Brazil" and they are "giving Brazilian companies that are trying to address the issue by supporting the workers and their families the benefit of the doubt.")

this isn't perfect, obviously, but it is much more grounded in the rights of workers than the various certifications (e.g. Fair Trade, Rainforest Alliance, etc.) you'll see on product packaging

[aloofraven]

I think it should be noted that the Food Empowerment Project specifically only lists companies making "at least one vegan chocolate product" and that they only ask about the companies' vegan chocolates specifically. Their list is not an exhaustive resource for every type of chocolate.

[Source: "Understanding Our Chocolate List" from their website]

Before I found that link I was curious as to why I didn't see any Norwegian manufacturers on their list(which makes sense now, as their chocolates are almost exclusively milk chocolate) and looked up where our companies source their chocolate from and found Nidar gets theirs from the Rainforest Alliance and Freia from Cocoa Life, both of which have been under scrutiny for not preventing child labour and not paying farmers a living wage among other things. So it appears Norwegian chocolate is out of the ethical picture.

[roninnozlo]

I stated this in the comments of the post already, but it’d probably be better to add it as a reblog, so it’s more visible and doesn’t need to be restated by anyone else in the future.

So, Tony’s allied with Barry Callebut to get its cocoa. Barry Callebut is one of the biggest chocolate companies in the world, and it is unethical, obviously. This led to Tony’s revealing in February 2022 that 1701 child laborers were in their supply chain. Barry Callebut had over 21K at the time. Both of those numbers have risen, and Tony’s has outright admitted they don’t give a fuck about child labor laws when asked about it, content to let children to continue farming their cocoa instead of actually doing the activism they claim to do. (business-humanrights.org, feb 6 2022)

About a week ago, Tony’s joined Barry, Nestle and Ferrero in pushing against the reinstatement of important EUDR deforestation legislations. Under that regulation that they pushed against, they would’ve had to be more transparent about their supply chains for their more key ingredients - So Tony’s is lobbying against the exact thing they claim to stand for. (confectioneryproduction.com, mar 18, 2026)

Won’t restate @closet-keys’s addition, of course. That’d just be redundant and maybe annoying since, yknow, it’s already been said.

If you wanna find a better chocolate brand it’s really damn easy. There’s lists on slavefreechocolate.org of both the ethical and unethical companies. Both lists can be found here:

Below is a list of chocolate companies that only use ethically grown cocoa.  Find out how you can tell if the chocolate you are ea

And it doesn’t have the vegan product restriction the other list has, which solves @aloofraven’s issue.

[beguilingcorpse]

i am not defending her per se. HOWEVER. i think ianthe’s actions must be viewed through the lens that she has always had to carve out a space for herself in every social position and identity she’s ever held. because never once has she been anyone’s favorite or first choice. as one of two necromantic heirs of the third house, as one of two baby lyctors aboard the mithraeum, as one of two tower princes. she has always been the one looked over or less favored. and so OBVIOUSLY she would weaponize that trait of hers - seen notably when she uses her ability to escape notice to reverse-engineer the lyctoral process without anyone else figuring out what she was doing until it was too late - and OBVIOUSLY she views herself as the main character, as Above It All. her psychological background necessitates it. she’s never belonged in any room she’s ever stepped foot in and so she must be superior to everyone in those rooms. and she’s fascinated by - and made insecure by - the people for whom that justification seems to be disproven. coronabeth, harrowhark, kiriona. all more important and more favored than her. and wouldn’t that just piss you off. wouldn’t that just make you want to bond yourself to them forever. isn’t that too a form of love