LynAmastacia

[menlove-archive]

saw a tiktok that was making good points except it was like "if you're over 23 you shouldn't even know anyone under 20 unless they're family and it's weird if you do" and I just. have you guys ever had coworkers. students. family friends. clubs. is no one going back to school for their BA/MA/PhD. what kind of isolated world are you living in where as a 23+ year old you never interact w anyone under the age of 20. this idea that even Talking to anyone younger than you is somehow predatory is absolutely insane god I hate western individualism so bad. no your best friend ever probably shouldn't be a teenager when you're a grown ass adult but we do in fact need to be in community w people younger than us

[emptydragonseverywhere]

This destroys social movements and communities, btw. If younger people can't interact with/learn from elders in the movement/community, then knowledge doesn't get passed down and every generation has to start from scratch. It also leaves community members who need supports with less support options (young people without their own children are the most likely to have the time, energy, and ability to support those community members).

Strong communities, strong movements, require people of all ages and from different backgrounds. Separating The Youth from their elders is not good praxis.

[honeygordo]

it's also dangerous for young kids to not have trusted adults outside of their family. if the only adults you're allowed to interact with are the adults in your family you don't really have anyone to go to if the adults that you are allowed to interact with are, say, abusing you or otherwise are not safe people to go to about stuff

[thoughtportal]

[reblogthatartyoulike]

If you like this check out @wastelesscrafts

[wastelesscrafts]

This is a lovely example of how you can cover up a hole with embroidery!

One suggestion to make this mend last longer is to fix the hole first, for example by sewing on a small patch on the back or by darning it, and then adding the embroidery on top.

[fanfictionfiend]

Haven’t been here since tumblr decided to shit the bed.

Find me on pillowfort instead!

[dankmemeuniversity]

[rosebramblewolf]

humans: awwww the kitty loves the tree look the magic of xmas touches everyone

cat: im gonna eat it

[animethingsandstuff]

[nihil242]

Starlight Celebration 2018 | FINAL FANTASY XIV, The Lodestone

Event Schedule / From Sunday, December 16, 2018 at 12:00 a.m. to Monday, December 31, 2018 at 6:59 a.m. (PST)

[clovermemories]

These rewards are super cute!! The hat!

[lagu-z]

Just Solavellan in ugly Christmas coats

[artofmisi]

happy holidays and a happier new year, babs ♥

[onewordtest]

fandom is so weird you never know how old anyone is but you just kinda assume most of them are around your age until proven otherwise and then one day someone is talking about their 9 year old kid on your dash and another person is saying they just finished 10th grade. wild.  

[my-lover]

reblog and tag with your age, so your mutuals know

[waywardcatsblog]

Halp!

I might lose the place im renting (it might be sold) and i found a new place but i need to raise 1,400$ to move.

Can anyone help? Before tumblr shuts down..

btw im already working 2 jobs so anything will help! please

http://iraya.tumblr.com/post/170224440564

or give me a >>TIP/COFFEE HERE<<

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[niggazinmoscow]

Just remember, these are elected officials and our tax dollars are being used for this.

[commandtower-solring-go-deactiv]

This is what its like serving people. People want straight answers to questions they fundamentally don’t understand. They don’t even understand the language you use. There is a very definite answer to what ‘wifi’ is, but a lot of oldies have their own understanding which is seperate from fact, but they believe to be fact. So when you try to explain it to them it gets to a point where they not only don’t understand it, but they don’t want to understand it. 

These people here, its not that they don’t understand the tech at hand. Its that they simply don’t want to. And so they never will. 

[plant-flowers-not-trash]

I was watching the Overwatch life action fan film ( OVERWATCH - Lion’s Return) And they legit painted this actress brown… to play sombra… is it seriously that hard to find a brown person to play her??

and I double checked. Its her own cosplay, and she did paint her skin brown for it….. I mean they also didn’t bother getting an Asian actress for D.Va either, but at least they didn’t try to make a white girl look Asian… This is.. really not okay…….. STOP. PAINTING. YOUR SKIN. BROWN. FOR. COSPLAYS!!!!

[plant-flowers-not-trash]

Literally do not support these people. They’re blocking ANYONE who calls them out for their racist shit…

[plant-flowers-not-trash]

Update: the actress who played Sombra stated the makeup artist made her have brown face, and due to the actresses contract she couldn’t really say no. Which sucks.

But in any other Sombra cosplay she uses her natural skin tone, and is trying to damage control as best as she can.

So this is 100% Think Big Studio’s fault and instead of apologizing they’re blocking people who speak up.

Can y’all please reblog this.

[aethernoise]

“The heart is the toughest part of the body. Tenderness is in the hands.”

Alyx and Aymeric by @shinjyu 💙💜

[theunitofcaring]

An important piece of how well-off you are, which measuring income isn’t really going to catch, is how much shock absorption your community has built in. 

Some people don’t have an in-person community, of course, and so the shock-absorption available to them is just whatever is in their own savings account and how much credit they have access to and maybe the knowledge that in the worst case they could move across the country and sleep on a friends’ couch for a few weeks but not longer because the friends’ landlord is strict about subtenants.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, upper-class communities have tons of shock absorption - if your home burns down, you probably have a friend who has a vacation home or an in-laws suite or a guest room where you can stay, if you lose your job it was the kind of job for which you get unemployment and you know someone who can get you an interview for another one, if you have a medical crisis you have lots of friends who can bring food and help out, and they all work jobs that let them take off on short notice in the middle of the day.

I’ve been helping a friend recover from surgery this week, and I’ve been thinking about this a ton. I could work from home for three days to be with her; her girlfriend had a spare bed where she could sleep for two because she was supposed to be near the surgery center and her house was an hour away; her girlfriend’s boyfriend could come over to help when girlfriend had to go to work; when her doctor’s appointment was changed to a time when I couldn’t drive her, another friend could take three hours off to do it. That’s a community with shock absorption.

It’s a class thing, but it’s not just a class thing. Doing this sort of thing is one of the things religions do. When I describe what I value about my community, my religious friends tend to go “oh, so, like what my church does”. A poor community where a dozen people from church will bring meals and support after surgery or after a loss or during cancer treatment has vastly more shock absorption than a same-income community where people have no way to coordinate that (and I think the decline of religion has been particularly costly in poor communities for exactly this reason).

And lots of money can’t fully substitute for a community, because lots of disasters (like medical emergencies) are of the kind that make it hard to advocate for yourself and independently arrange all the things you’re going to need.

I don’t know how you increase shock absorption. Lowering the cost of housing does part of it; a spare bedroom is a particularly critical kind of shock absorption that protects lots of people from homelessness. More leisure time increases shock absorption, and cutting the expected work week has been at least partially successful some places. My impression is that Social Security dramatically increased shock absorption, by giving elderly people (who often end up needing community support to remain independent or survive) more financial resources; it’s much easier for poor families to take someone in if they will get regular money towards housing and expenses. UBI would do it too, of course. 

[lovecrafts-iranon]

It’s not just personal savings accounts for people without in-person communities. If something terrible happened to me, my friends could send me money through PayPal or checks in the mail and vice versa.

[jumpingjacktrash]

when i was recovering from surgery, seebs was able to take a big chunk of time off to be with me, because their employer thought ‘spouse recovering from surgery’ was a good reason to take time off, and they’re on salary.

people who’ve only worked one or the other don’t seem to understand the vast difference between wage and salary.

i kept thinking back to all my hourly jobs where i would’ve gotten fired for taking the time off, but even if my kindly employer had held my job for me – nearly impossible in service jobs – i would’ve been making no money while i wasn’t working. and that can be a blow your finances never recover from.

[kickair8p]

So if you want a desperate exploitable workforce pool, it’s to your advantage to disrupt, overburden, or outright destroy all forms of social shock absorption.  This explains so much.

[bigmouthlass]

IMO, that’s the failure of our modern culture; building a Team You of people who can and will help when things go wrong is a skill set, one that more and more people simply never learn.

[weirdmageddon]

wheres the gif of link opening a treasure chest barefoot and he kicks like an idiot it and hurts himself its so goddam funny

[weirdmageddon]

it’s like what were you expecting lmao

[meefling]

Have u seen what happens when u crouch and open a chest from the side

[galactic-polywag]

No I have not what happens when u crouch and open a chest from the side

[weirdmageddon]

i tried it in my game and made it a gif for your convenience

[hilarioushumorfromouterspace]

[a-trans-comic-by-me]