[doodleoo]

what you learn from hobbies:

consistent practice opens up whole worlds of skill that you couldn't imagine

making mistakes in the process of learning is not only natural, it is also essential

activities that you enjoy can give you more energy back than you spent on them

wow everything is so expensive

[doodleoo]

my hands hurt

[pusheen]

[fagstaynight]

My new idea. It is called fake green baby and every mamas on the earth allowed to have one. Please dont steal

[tysiaczekpl-deactivated20241024]

[lomeny]

Should be getting pounded while they grip my chin and force eye contact 🥺

[eunoiaroue-deactivated20220517]

Maybe we could fuck during a thunderstorm and watch it together after🥺

[daddyslittleeekitten]

[rubyvroom]

Can I watch a great film knowing the actresses in it were terrorized and mistreated the entire time? Can I watch a football game knowing that the players are getting brain injuries right before my eyes? Can I listen to my favorite albums anymore knowing that the singers were all beating their wives in between studio sessions? Can I eat at the new fancy taco place knowing when the building that used to be there got bulldozed eight families got kicked out of their homes so they could be replaced with condos and a chain restaurant? Can I wear the affordable clothes I bought downtown that were probably assembled in a sweatshop with child labor? Can I eat quinoa? Can I eat this burger? Can I drink this bottled water? Can I buy a car and drive to work because I’m sick of taking an hour each way on the subway? Whose bones do I stand on? Whose bones am I standing on right now? 

[moniquill]

[dearydeerling-deactivated201904]

On one hand, it’s a privilege to be able to choose to acknowledge these horrors or not–we’re going to acknowledge that privilege. On the other hand, I once attended a lecture by the explorerer-conservationist Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s daughter and son and they had a lot of opinions about what we could do to help the environment and the ocean and I talked about how in my country, we have to drink bottled water, because it’s a desert and there’s only salt water all around, but we’re contributing to pollution and all of these things…

And she looked at me and told me not to fall into the trap of “activist guilt.” I couldn’t remember the exact words, but, it was the first time I’d heard the term and it took a weight off my shoulders.

We do what we can. It’s so much better than giving up entirely or not doing anything at all because we can’t do it perfectly. It doesn’t benefit anyone in the end if we just sit around feeling guilty about every little thing in life. I’d just joined tumblr back then (haha, so like, eight or nine years ago at this point?), I was being exposed to way more than I’d ever been before (I was previously just into feminism and animal rights/wildlife conservation/environmentalism since I was a kid), and it was weighing on me.

As long as humans are humans and living flawed lives, many consumed by greed, there will not be anything in this world untouched by evil.

I usually avoid stuff that says it was made in China or other cheap looking knockoffs, out of fear of them being made in sweatshops (now, I know even a lot of big brands use those…), it’s exhausting. Then, I read something about how people who actually lived and worked in those would still buy this cheap stuff and how this shocked the foreigner reporting on it, but they just looked confused like, it’s what they can afford and them avoiding consuming it isn’t going to change the whole system from the ground-up.

… it went on about how “money talks” and choosing where to put your money still feeds the whole capitalist system and is nearly a way of comforting yourself, but you not buying doesn’t mean everyone else isn’t. What needs to be tackled is at a much higher level than any of us can reach.

Of course, I’d still, given the choice, give my money to companies I agree with and I’ll boycott what I know to support awful stuff, but I also feel no superiority over this and know now it’s not as black and white or easy as I thought it was.

This is the same reason that moral purity “you can’t enjoy [x] because it’s Problematic ™” is such nonsense, because nothing is pure. There’s something bad about everything if you dig deep enough. As long as we lived in flawed human societies we’ve got to make the best of what they offer us. If you have the choice and means, please, do support those who do good, but also, don’t beat yourself up over not living up to an unattainable ideal.

No one can. You’ll just make yourself so miserable, you either burn up and stop fighting entirely or you’ll make yourself a non-productive, depressed heap just out of a bleeding heart left unchecked. You can’t make a change to this world if you refuse to engage in it.

Have a related article with self-care tips for activists.

[catvincent]

Purity is one of the worst, most harmful myths humans ever invented.

[vickytokio]

Rebloging for this amazing reply telling us how to actually handle this, because yeah, sometimes I’ll simply shut down trying to find something that doesn’t cause harm to anyone

[cicadianrhythm]

Forgive me, distant wars, for bringing flowers home.

[guerrillatech]

[weirdlylyricalnotes]

[ID: A tweet by @/JohannesTEvans, tweeted at 7:01 AM on 29 Aug 21. It reads:

person in charge: hey do this

child: why?

person in charge: ARE YOU QUESTIONING MY AUTHORITY

child, who was literally just asking the purpose of what they were about to do: well i fucking am now, jesus, what is your damage

/end ID]

[enbyleighlines]

I work with little kids and it is actually quite effective when you explain the why to them, even when you think the why is obvious

Telling a little kid something like “don’t stand on that bike” is generally ineffective, especially if they’re in one of those stages where they defy adults on purpose to establish a sense of independence

Following it up with, “the bike has wheels and may roll out from under you and cause you to fall and get hurt, and I don’t want you to get hurt” makes it far more convincing, especially if you give them another option, like “but if you want to stand on something, I can grab you a step stool”

Kids are little people, they don’t like being ordered around any more than adults

[bunny-cakes-deactivated20220303]

[vulpixiee]

Relationships should be 50/50, he lets me wear his hoodies, and I wear absolutely nothing underneath them

[wast30ftime]

^.^

[favslilslut]

when he's fucking you rough but kissing you gently

[satanandhislillith]

✨absolutely✨

[favslilslut]

being fucked in his hoodie and thigh high socks is top tier

[needyyfemme-deactivated20250127]

thinking about sitting on someone’s lap in a pretty lil skirt while making out and grinding on them. i wanna feel their hands roam around my body and grope me everywhere while i’m moving my hips against them, desperately whining and moaning into their mouth

[needyyfemme-deactivated20250127]

yes i like being treated like a sexual object but only with ppl who i consent with and have proven theyre worthy enough to treat me like that, not some random person who cant spell and being horny is their only personality trait