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Name's Jay, pronouns he/him. You might also know me as Meridok or Ganymeme (on AO3). Personal + fannish blog. See my pinned post for details & tagging. White Canadian trying to be anti-racist & anti-fascist & stand in solidarity w Indigenous ppl, #LandBack, the personal is political. Sidebar image art by @annaleigh

[blanq]

tumblr glitched and now there’s just a guy in the void

[daughter-of-prospero]

Wile E. Coyote, two milliseconds before he lights a match only to reveal he's surrounded by flammable traps he himself has set and the whole website explodes

[straightotlc]

“men aren’t punished for being masculine” what about trans men “oh well i meant cis men” okay then say cis men instead of just man. cis men aren’t the only type of men that exist

[straightotlc]

overall i think it would be neat if trans men were considered in feminism while still acknowledging that trans men are men. the same amount of man as cis men, in fact. it feels like anyone trying to include trans men in feminism does so within the framework that trans men are Basically Honorary Women and that’s not fair to trans people of any gender.

trans men are victims of misogyny. not in a “everyone suffers under patriarchy” way or a “misdirected” way but full intended targets of the system. and also trans men are fully 100% men, and these don’t contradict at all. what’s not clicking

[drchucktingle]

WOW I AM INCREDIBLE. I AM MADE OF BLOOD AND ELECTRICITY AND I CHANGE THE WORLD ALL THE TIME. VERY COOL

[thepioden]

Chai tea bag + lil but of brown sugar + apple cider packet + 16 oz. mug of hot but not quite boiling water

it will not Fix You but like. maybe. maybe.

[thepioden]

tags by @eridan-ampora

[thepioden]

Update: this is the best post I've ever made because everyone is sharing their Warm Beverage recipes in the notes. Go check the notes for more Warm Beverages That Will Fix You.

[homosexualpigeon]

Star Trek is crazy you’ll look away for two seconds and then Kirk is suddenly shirtless in a harness and a shock collar

[a-driftamongopenstars]

poll for thee!

what kind of gamer are you?

chronic game replayer

on(c)e and done

cozy genre gamer

all achievements hunter

playing only one game at all times

casual gamer

other

Voting ended onMay 28

[redstonedust]

its probably a normal sign for the economy that all of my adulthood fantasies are like "imagine having your own kitchen living room and bathroom to decorate" "what if i could get on a train" "maybe one day i could purchase a sturdy pair of shoes" "i should save and invest in a single bicycle"

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[autisticbisexualsokka]

32,287 votes

[standwithdaanes]

"Evening Song" by Carrie Allen McCray

This is the final poem from McCray's work "Ota Benga Under My Mother's Roof." Ota Benga was a man from the Mbuti people of the Congo, pejoratively called "pygmies" due to their naturally shorter stature. He had a wife and child. When Ota was around 21, in 1904, he was taken through dubious means by a white American businessman looking for "pygmies" to exhibit at the World's Fair. Ota was later exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History and the Bronx Zoo, in the same cage as wild apes. in 1906, after protests by Black Americans demanding he be treated as a human being, he was eventually released into the custody of a Black family in Virginia - McCray's family. The Mbuti people are egalitarian and communal, and view the world as a series of wombs: the birth womb, the womb of the home, the womb of the community hearth, and the womb of the Forest, who is considered Father, Mother, Sibling, Lover, and God. Ota Benga became a close friend and mentor to McCray's older brothers, taking them into the forest, telling them stories, and sharing with them his culture. Tragically, lack of funds and colonial warring in Central Africa made it impossible for him to return home despite his strong desire to. He fell into a serious depression and, at age 31 in 1916, took his own life following a private ritual. McCray was able to use her and her family's memories of him to commemorate him in her poetry.

If I could have gone to your Forest, waited for the soft sound of wagtails, would I have found your spirit, embers of a once bright fire? Would I have witnessed that gathering of your ancestors welcoming you home? Would I have heard the trumpeting elephants, seen you dancing again with your moon? How beloved you were to those who knew you here. For my brothers, you bore the wisdom of our ancestors. We know the ocean’s eastward pull was much stronger than any bond to the west. You gave us more than we could ever give to you. Good night, beloved friend and teacher. Good night, kind leader of the hunt. Good night, gentle storyteller. Good night, Ota.

Photograph of Ota Benga at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904.

[shamebats]

[kurulover]

I hate that when you’re stressed enough your body just starts falling apart. I think it should realize you’re already stressed and don’t need that and start functioning better actually

[kurulover]

[loveridden1999]

[clickbeetle]

shoutout to whoever stole my amazon package containing nothing but a single pair of shoelaces.

[clickbeetle]

[bakwaaas]

Euripides (Tr. Anne Carson) / @wholeheartedsuggestions / Jenny Slate / Euripides again

[azatas]

my dad's wildlife photography would do numbers on here

[azatas]

ok permission granted everyone look at this fat sandpiper

[explorearound]

Black-Capped Chickadee

by Frank Cone

[brehaaorgana]

Greatest hits of FIFA cultural exchanges thus far:

Learning about flyovers and pyrotechnics at American games being a thing

Non-americans discovering the size of American football stadiums....for high schools in texas. Also the size of our stadiums in general.

Going to baseball games as a side treat! Lmao.

Non-americans losing their minds over "like, 100 petrol pumps," at buc-ees.

Related: Americans often forget how huge target and Walmart is.

People discovering American BBQ

Non-americans being obsessed with mid American restaurant chains like Golden Corral and Taco Bell

A lot of them really did feel god in this chile's apparently

The rightful obsession with waffle house

New understanding of American Big Drink With Ice supremacy as summer creeps in

Begrudging acceptance of mandatory water breaks during games

Americans realizing we have a Team USA and we are not, in fact, just "hosting our friends" from around the world — mostly because we won our first match and our team is decent??? Not amazing but not the worst.

Side rant: us women's football team is legendary good and we should care about that more like. Hello???

Admitting Americans are right about air conditioning

Related: the english team did warm ups in Florida RIP, and also the there's a video of the French team just being like fuck the heat, fuck the sun, this is so hot...

Americans who do not normally care about international football but fucking love a sport and cheering so we're just hyping whatever team is nearby, like we see a party and just show up and learn the chant. Like sorry many of us don't know shit about soccer but if we see a bunch of people in viking helmets or kilts or holding a bunch of flags and cheering we're game.

TAILGATING!!!!

I already said this but American yellow school bus is an international celebrity

The Scottish drank Boston dry of beer apparently, like they quadrupled what Boston normally sells for fourth of July weekend. SAM ADAMS HAD TO GET AN EMERGENCY BEER DELIVERY.

Also the English team fans got kicked out of The Londoner pub in Dallas after drinking 5,000 beers and going over max capacity lmao

Free refill drinks, tortilla chips & salsa.

So many non-americans are going to be here for the 4th of July for our 250th anniversary which is going to be great and hilarious

Non-americans discovering ranch as a beloved condiment

Non-americans understanding American obsession with hamburger now

Japan's homebase is in Texas and the cultural differences are frankly great and also the Japanese fans are SO NICE and helped clean up the stadium after a match???

All the short videos with the eagle screech (which I think is actually a hawk but whatever)

[official-dad-blog]

Like yeah America's government is literally the Legion of Doom, but we generally aren't that bad. I'm glad the world is seeing the little things that there are to love in America.