Meg at the Most

A little bit of sweetness

[aly-semi-archived-deactivated20]

It is truly a wild and tragic thing that to this day some people do not realize that the evolution of music formally concluded in 2016 with the release of Carly Rae’s Emotion: Side B. Sometimes I am struck by the fact that there are still poor souls who do not realize that the 6th track of the album titled Cry is in fact the resolution of the dialectic and the final synthesis of musical development. Imagine the deep pain of futilely struggling to produce better music not realizing that music is over. It brings me to tears.

[ziggityzags]

“Finally, in a low whisper, he said, ‘I think I might be a terrible person.’ For a split second I believed him - I thought he was about to confess a crime, maybe a murder. Then I realized that we all think we might be terrible people. But we only reveal this before asking someone to love us. It is a kind of undressing.”

— Miranda July, The First Bad Man (via wordsnquotes)

[spi-ltmilk]

https://instagram.com/p/BhKAGqUBgkt/

[fem2110winter2018-blog]

AbstractSince 2010, the large telecommunications company, Bell Canada, has invited Canadians to “break the stigma” around mental illness through a campaign called #BellLetsTalk. The campaign claims to donate millions to mental health initiatives, aiming to also “start a conversation” about mental health online. In large part, the Bell Let’s Talk campaign depends on the position of the millennial as a social media user with a real stake in conversations revolving around mental health. I highlight how the term “mental health” is often correlated to normative affect and behaviour, pointing to the importance of an intersectional understanding of mental health. Colonialism is also at play here, as the Bell campaign donates to Indigenous communities, but fails to address how psychiatric intervention is often a colonial process in itself. Through a feminist and critical disability studies lens, I critique Bell for its seemingly apolitical ad campaign, arguing that it bolsters normative narratives around psychological distress and its place in neoliberal corporations and colonial Canada.

I’m shamelessly self-promoting this article that I wrote. It’s my very first scholarly journal article and it’s open access! Feel free to read it and use it for all of your scholarly papers! -Meg

[deathbywordplay]

A great day to read this article rather than "talking".

[humoristics]

Trends that made a comeback

[ingridverse]

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see

I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right?

But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize,  snarkily say, “So, you’ve decided to join us”?

Or when someone does something they’ve had trouble doing, say, “Why can’t you do that all the time?” (Happened to me, too often.)

Or any sentence containing the word “finally”. 

If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don’t complain about how it’s not enough. Don’t bring up previous stuff. Encourage it.

Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

[beetlegarden]

we are not born to die!! what are you talking about!! do you think a book begins just to finish? do you think a song opens with a beautiful chord just for it to end? you don’t read the book to finish it, you read the book to eat up the excitement and the emotions it evokes!! to learn and to digest and to fall in love and be heartbroken!! you listen to the song to dance and dance and sing your throat raw!!! to cry and smile and swell with the harmonies!! yes, we are born with the inevitable fate of death, we are mortal after all, but that is merely the finale of the play!! the final act, the closing of the curtains - we are not born to take a bow and exit stage left!! we are born to love and be joyous and yell and move and learn and cry and feelfeelfeel!!!  we are not born to die, silly, we’re born to live!!!

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2018 mood

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acsnow:

this was my zine from the library show at MCAD that just ended so thats cool i guess

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By Vanessa Stockard

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Light

[gathat]

5 years.

[celebsofcolor]

Willow Smith for GirlGaze

[whybray]

[sunfortune]

she got 4 hands

[kermitlesbian]

lesbians are JUST that powerful!

[blackfairypresident]

its easy to see posts about the abuse that goes on in the porn industry and immediately be against porn as a whole. i mean if you see something bad, you want it to stop right? im not gonna lie i was against porn too!! the thing is.. porn abolitionists & and SWERFS (sex worker exclusionary feminists) generally dont listen to sex workers. they dont try to help sex workers be safe while doing what they do. they just push for further criminalization of sex work and want porn to cease to exist theres tons of sex workers who cannot hold “normal” jobs. and by abolishing porn and criminalizing sex work, you are putting sex workers out of work and are endangering them listen to actual sex workers talk about “the porn industry” and sex work as a whole not civilians who have never entered sex work yet think they know it better than actual sex workers you need to protect & support sex workers and trust that they know whats best for themselves

[swagintherain]

[lissanaria-deactivated20220607]

PETA being shredded renews my life.

[gothicprep]

i wonder if my pets have like a proper language and when i try to speak back to them im just speaking jargon

like for example my cat always speaks to me when I come home and i meow back to her and she’ll meow again & even though i don’t think twice about it to her it’s probably a situation where it’s like

her, meowing: “im glad you’re home”

me, meowing back: “tax benefits”

her, meowing: “why do u always do this”

[commanderflowers]

me

[theplushfrog]

cats actually have a human-specific language. cats don’t often meow at each other and seem to use subvocal communications that humans can’t hear to chat cat-to-cat. however, cats seem to use what humans would call “shout-until-you’re-understood” to speak to humans. so basically, it’s more like:

“I’M GLAD YOU’RE HOME!”

“tax benefits”

“NO, I’M GLAD YOU ARE HOME”

“waffle iron”

“IT’S OKAY. I LOVE YOU TOO, MY DUMB HUMAN”

[defilerwyrm]

The domestic house cat’s wild ancestors have a much harsher voice, too. The going theory is that early cats mimicked human infants which tripped humans’ nurturing instincts, and then selective breeding did the rest.

We make a big deal over how dogs have developed the ability to understand human expressions and tones (and let’s be fair, that is in fact awesome), but cats are possibly the only species that has changed their vocal language to try to communicate with us.

[imayjustbejamesmoriarty]

what I love about this post (apart from cats because cats are ADORABLE) is the assumption that cats have words for tax benefits.