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[cerullos]

this article about some woman’s 21 y/o son coming home from school w/ a tattoo is THE funniest thing i have seen today

[cerullos]

I’M SHRIEKING

[regretityet]

You guys.

[gutmeats]

What the fuck

[mustlearntoadult]

SOMEONE LINK THE ARTICLE

[wepon]

a classic

[doctorangelpenguin]

As I was reading this I kept waiting for the tattoo to be revealed as like a nazi symbol or some racist shit like for the kkk of something but nope….. She was just THAT hurt by ink

[lilaccoloursplash]

You left out the BEST part “I stand, a lone tyrannosaurus, bellowing at a world I don’t understand.”

[leggywillow]

This is the most ungodly level of unwarranted dramatics that I have ever read, and NGL I cackle with glee every time I see this article roll around again.

dEsEcRaTiOnnnnnnnn

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

IT’S BACK

[sandersgrey]

Did… did she fucking quote Funeral Blues because of a tattoo

[bibliophilepixie]

What was the tattoo of tho? Does she ever say?

[insomniarama]

this ended me:

[yankeeblue]

My vibe.

[erikaweezy-deactivated20191023]

Bitch ass

[radi0-open-door]

[diversegaminglists]

If you want to support the Amazon worker strikers by not participating in prime next week, here’s a list of other companies/services to avoid using at the time which are also owned by Amazon.

Abebooks

Audible

blink for home

Book Depository

Box Office Mojo

Comixology

cloud endure

Goodreads

IMDB

shopbop

souq

Twitch

Whole Foods Market

woot

Zappos

[goawfma]

it was also supposed to be temporary 

[yeswevegotavideo]

IT WAS ALSO SUPPOSED TO BE TEMPORARY

[e-mailer]

It’s amazing how I can have a whole 6 days of feeling pretty and happy and comfortable in my body and then I accidentally eat too much of a trigger food one night and all the eating disorder thoughts come back in big shame spirals and my whole body is suddenly different

EDs are nO FUN and I’m trying to figure out the labyrinth of my brain when it comes to shame and acceptance and dysmorphia. I know logically my body is no different than it was three days ago, and yet I’m suddenly more aware of the pockets of fat and it just sucks thinking in this cycle. I’m trying to figure out how to self soothe this part of me..it feels like every time I’m “good” I feel like I’m fully healed and will never have to worry about eating disorders ever again. And sometimes that fantasy lasts a few weeks, even a month. But it comes back eventually and it sucks. How do you manage this shit? It sucks.

[e-mailer]

sometimes I think about this time my ex boyfriend and I had a fight because I found out he had a crush on one of my friends and he said he thought she might be attracted to him too and I said “she’s asexual!” And he said “yeah, but I think she might be attracted to ME” and if that isn’t the most privileged white sad boy shit I’ve ever heard

[theglowpt2-deactivated20200101]

for anyone in NYC (credit to @evandahm on twitter)

[image--descriptions]

[id: a flyer.  “We are blockading I.C.E.  

I.C.E. is an out-of-control paramilitary police force with an $8 million budget.

I.C.E. imprisons 30,000 people a day in over 200 internment camps around the country.

I.C.E. vans leave the processing center at 201 Varick Street and prowl the streets of New York City.  They grab people from their homes, churches, and jobs.  Starting now, we will halt the operation of I.C.E. at their Varick Street location.

Join us at 201 Varick Street, NYC.

Please share widely.

[email protected]

Twitter.com/NYCstopICE”

/end id]

[anarcho-queer]

Today is day 3 of #OccupyICENYC. Protesters have been gathering every day at 10 am. 

700 children are being detained in the state of New York, 200 of which are in NYC. 

The protests started in Portland on Sunday and activists are following suit across the United States:

Join or start an occupation at your nearest ICE office. 

[notkatniss]

he really shouldve immediately died for this 

[blu-iv]

All the ghost in the house when she said this

[desperatelyseekingsanity1-deact]

[soufre-de-paris]

Some fairy tales may be 6000 years old

Study traces history of some of our favorite folk stories

GUYS THIS IS AMAZING

SERIOUSLY

6000 YEARS

STORIES THAT ARE OLDER THAN CIVILIZATIONS

STORIES THAT WERE TOLD BY PEOPLE SPEAKING LANGUAGES WE NO LONGER KNOW

STORIES TOLD BY PEOPLE LOST TO THE VOID OF TIME

STORIES

[soufre-de-paris]

GUYS LOOK AT THIS

OH MY GOD YOU GUYS

GUYYYYYSSSS

[dwarven-beard-spores]

“Here’s how it worked: Fairy tales are transmitted through language, and the shoots and branches of the Indo-European language tree are well-defined, so the scientists could trace a tale’s history back up the tree—and thus back in time. If both Slavic languages and Celtic languages had a version of Jack and the Beanstalk (and the analysis revealed they might), for example, chances are the story can be traced back to the “last common ancestor.” That would be the Proto-Western-Indo-Europeans from whom both lineages split at least 6800 years ago. The approach mirrors how an evolutionary biologist might conclude that two species came from a common ancestor if their genes both contain the same mutation not found in other modern animals.” 

[gendernihilistanarchocommunist]

Here’s the link to all the types listed by category and number, if you wanna poke around. 

[petermorwood]

The Folklore Motif Index is an extraordinary piece of scholarship. I first saw it ~50 years ago as a multi-volume edition in the library at Big School, where it looked like this:

The ebook version @dduane acquired recently is far more convenient - and more easily searched, too.

It may seem at first glance like a Serious Scholarship relative of TVTropes or Diana Wynne Jones’s “Tough Guide to Fantasyland”, but it’s actually an enormous shopping list of story prompts; definitely something to dip into rather than binge on.

Be careful - when you start along one path, there are so many branches and crossings that you never know where you’ll end up. So pack sandwiches, and if a cat, dog or whatever takes a fancy to them, remember this…

[cosmicvngel]

[capstellium]

i hate twitter bc every time a new season of stranger things comes out everyone is on there like “winona ryder in the 90’s tho😍” like bitch.... winona ryder is hot now. im so tired of cowardice. accept milfs into your heart or perish

[the-honey-dukes-deac]

My hobbies include reading, writing, and doing neither of those things.

[ukulelekatie]

when you wanna talk about that thing you’re obsessed with but you already said a lot about it and don’t wanna be annoying 

[femcassidy]

i want you all to know that there is an artist (carmen papalia) who, after he started using a white cane, assembled a 12 foot long white cane and began using it in downtown vancouver. the length of the cane made it functionally useless as a device and the only purpose it served was making him an obstacle for sighted people. dare i say… 2019 goals

[femcassidy]

therapist to sighted patient: long cane isnt real and it cant hurt you

carmen papalia:

[id: a dimly lit photo of carmen papalia using his 12 foot “long cane” piece. he walks casually behind it. the cane takes up the majority of both the photograph and the sidewalk.]

[thevioletsunflower]

Okay I went to a conference where this guy was a keynote and he’s so fucking cool. He’s done a ton of art around disability rights. The twelve-foot cane is really cool, but here are some of my other favourites:

From the series on replacing his cane, this is one where he replaced his cane with a megaphone and would stand at intersections repeating “I can’t see” until somebody would stop and help him cross the street

Another cane replacement, this time replacing it with a high school marching band who would change the music depending on if there was something in the way or not.

A museum intervention where he got people at the MET to go through the museum with their eyes closed and experiencing touching things he’d gotten permission to touch (the floor in this image) and just exploring a visual art museum blind.

The Blind Field Shuffle, in which he has dozens of people form a conga line behind him with their eyes closed and leads them on a blind tour of the city - literally the blind leading the blind.

Wish I could find a better photo, but this is a museum gallery he curated where the works are almost at floor height, making them accessible to children, little people, and people in wheelchairs, but requiring abled people to bend down or sit on the floor in order to see them properly.

In short, this man is amazing and I love his work.

[captainlordauditor]

……okay, that last one is my absolute favorite

[lake-erie]

hawaiian shirt + dark bags under eyes is a good look… it says yeah i would really love to be carefree and relaxed right now but certain circumstances have made that impossible

[ugh-my-mind-snappedt]