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[cacavape]

i love high contrast photos of fruit floating threateningly in the night

[poolboydivision]

I don’t believe such a thing exists

[cacavape]

[poolboydivision]

I was mistaken

[firstrainofmay]

john cage’s 4’33” is fucking silence

someone put a copyright on the absence of sound

and then disabled the audio of a video

of the absence of sound

what a time to be alive

[jimtheviking]

#john cage would have been so happy #it’s so meta #he would have pissed his pants

[itrhymeswithalayne]

people have no idea what its like to be 14 and have everyone telling you that you’re faking and pretending to be ill for attention or to skip art class and the doctor’s telling you you’re ‘just being a teenager’ when you actually had a serious kidney disease

if someone hadn’t eventually listened to me i would have died

Please, please support self-diagnosed teenagers, don’t pretend they’re not really disabled, don’t belittle or mock them, don’t exclude them from disabled spaces and for the love of god don’t pretend you know more about them than they do

[token-white-friend]

i am disabled to this day because when i was a teenage girl, my doctors didn’t take me seriously. when i said i was in extreme pain, they said i just wasn’t trying hard enough at physical therapy to repair a broken ankle. turns out they’d fucked up the surgery to fix it, and their neglect of my months of complaints meant it was damaged beyond repair. i still have mobility issues 8 years later, will have pain and require surgeries throughout my life and will, always, be disabled. because of them. because of the silencing of girls’ voices, in all spheres. because doctors do not value the voices of teenaged girls.

[ofmovingparts]

When I was twelve, the knee specialist I had finally convinced my mom to take me to (after years of begging) told me that my knees hurt because of my hips widening.

“No,” I said. “You don’t understand. I can’t walk when it happens, it hurts so bad. It’s been since I was a little kid.”

“It might twinge a bit, sure,” he told me. “Go to physical therapy for a few weeks.” I burst into tears.

My mom then refused to take me to physical therapy, because it was a long drive and the doctor said it wasn’t serious, so why should she bother? That was the start of her not listening to any complaint about my joints I ever had.

As it turns out, my knees were dislocating every couple of days. She and my doctors ignored and taught me to ignore sprains, fractures, cartilage tears, and dislocations until I moved out and learned that it wasn’t normal. I missed out on years of my life because of my doctor not only discounting the experience of a young girl, but fully blaming my pain on the fact of my being a young girl.

Listen to children when they tell you something is wrong with their bodies.

[ryncoon]

I had stomach pains for years as a kid. Almost daily. I was blamed as a faker. 

I have Celiac.

[gluttonys-blog]

People know what the hell is going on with their own bodies. If they don’t think something is right fucking listen to them.

[sorayachemaly]

In their study, “The Girl Who Cried Pain: A Bias Against Women in the Treatment of Pain,” researchers Diane E. Hoffmann and Anita J. Tarzian documented the degree to which girl’s and women’s pain is routinely dismissed as the “not real,” “emotional,” response of “fragile” females. Not only are girls and women who experience pain less likely to be taken seriously when they describe it, but they are less likely to be treated by medical professionals.

[yepperoni]

there’s still a chance that the reckless silhouette guy from the wii game startup screen will be in the new smash bros   please do not give up hope 

[yepperoni]

[brassy-deactivated20160222]

even more unrealistic standards for women

[humansofnewyork]

"I got heartcrushed. She told me that she liked another boy while we were sitting in class, so I told the teacher that I needed to go to the bathroom, but I really just went and splashed water on my face."

[conqy]

[justsomeantifas]

People have a lot of nerve telling the PEACEFUL protesters that blood is on their hands for the murders of Officer Ramos and Liu. How dare you put the blame on them for simply demanding change in a racist and oppressive criminal justice system that actively works against them. All you’re doing is using these murders to silence the protesters and criminalize their motives. 

[etienneforte-deactivated2013101]

[thebooksmith-deactivated2018030]

[dateepsta]

thebooksmith:

“Race is there; it exists. You’re tired of hearing about it? Imagine how fucking exhausting it is living it.” -Jon Stewart

[squided]

WHEN WILL PEOPLE FUCKING REALIZE THAT

MEN

ALSO

ARE

GIVEN

UNREALISTIC

EXPECTATIONS

DO YOU HAVE ANY FUCKING IDEA

HOW IMPOSSIBLE IT IS

TO LOOK LIKE THIS???

IT’S 100% FUCKING ILLOGICAL TO EXPECT MEN TO HAVE THIS RIPPED SIX-PACK ABS AND BE SKINNY AND HAVE PERFECT SKIN AND FACIAL COMPLEXION!  MEN ALSO EXPERIENCE BEING UNCOMFORTABLE WITH OUR BODIES ALL. THE. FUCKING. TIME.

[daydream-in-lilac-deactivated20]

I get the feeling someone replaced all the photos but it makes this post so much better.

[dragqueenpentheus]

HEY EVERYONE

I’ve made an explanation/apology post here i’d love for you to check out but if you aren’t feeling like reading a long winded explanation here’s what’s what:

this post is three years old

i was sixteen and a pretentious idiot who though she was pretty funny and clever

i didn’t fact check jack shit

im really sorry for calling every single american a ‘fuck hole’

now for the more in-depth stuff:

im aware of the timmies locations all over the USA by now. I think i can list every single one from memory at this point

i’m sorry for the harsh and inflammatory language I used that was super not cool of me to do no matter how creative i felt at the time

I’m altering the original post bc this is the posts fourth or fifth wind and by far the biggest yet and it seems like the post is mostly going from blog to blog and people aren’t checking my blog before sending me death threats lol

SO ON THE OFF CHANCE people check the original post first I’m throwing in another apology here

take this as far warning friends, posts on the internet last forever 

happy holidays!!

[dateepsta]

fucking canadian

[justsomeantifas]

I tried to start a White Student’s Club in my high school, but the principal wouldn’t let me.

- Freshman in a Social Thought intro class (via shitrichcollegekidssay)

[justsomeantifas]

Hi, normally I don't say anything about he stuff you posts cuz I agree with it, but you've got the whole Hobby Lobby thing wrong. They actually have contraception included in their health care coverage, 16 of them in fact, they just did not want to offer 4 that they believe cause abortions, including the morning after pill. Just wanted to give you a heads up about that

I haven’t got “the whole Hobby Lobby thing wrong” actually

Limiting access to contraceptive options increases the rate of abortions, regardless of the other options these companies offer. Especially because some of the options banned (IUDs, for example) is one of the most low maintenance and effective options.

And this decision sets a precedent, treating corporations as people, allowing them to police their employee’s healthcare decisions based on their religious beliefs. No doubt this same logic could be applied to remove contraceptive coverage altogether. What’s stopping this logic from being applied in a whole host of other situations? 

Edit: And on top of that, the way they decided which contraceptive methods “cause abortion” was hardly based in science at all. The morning after pill doesn’t work if the egg has already been fertilized, and the same is true for the hormonal IUD they oppose.

[liampayneisafuckboy]

barack no michelle is my friend we can’t

[nathanielstuart]

See, Rowling largely operates Harry’s generation in a clear system of parallels to the previous generation, Marauders and all. Harry is his father—Quidditch star, a little pig-headed sometimes, an excellent leader. Ron is Sirius Black—snarky and fun, loyal to a fault, mired in self-doubts. Hermione is Remus Lupin—book smart and meticulous, always level-headed, unfailingly perceptive. Ginny is Lily Evans—a firecracker, clever and kind, unwilling to take excuses. Draco Malfoy is Severus Snape—a natural foil to Harry, pretentious, possessed of the frailest ego and also deeper sense of right and wrong when it counts. And guess what? Neville Longbottom is Peter Pettigrew. … Neville is a perfect example of how one single ingredient in the recipe can either ruin your casserole (or stew, or treacle tart, whatever you like), or utterly perfect your whole dish. Neville is the tide-turner, the shiny hinge. And all because he happens to be in the same position as Wormtail… but makes all the hard choices that Pettigrew refused the first time around. Other characters are in similar positions, but none of them go so far as Neville. None of them prove that the shaping of destiny is all on the individual the way he does.

Emily Asher-Perren (via nathanielstuart)

[that-green-evening]

Sometimes in daily life I like to pretend I’m a time traveler from late medieval Europe and I’m just fucking amazed at my luxurious life

Let me tell you, 14th c me is REALLY impressed with modern me’s easy access to pepper and cinnamon