Sasha

she/her • here for the art and poetry • i'm a loser, who sometimes has the audacity to call themselves an artist

[glorianas]

[lenfanttterrible]

[thatkindoffeminist]

[kiwinning]

[simonalkenmayer]

This.

[transstudent]

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

I don’t even have anything funny to say that is just really sweet 

[fullymechanized-consoomer]

[ariesfire0704]

There is a statue in Cork to commemorate the donation of the Choctaw people to the Irish people, It is called Kindred Spirits.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_Spirits_(sculpture)

[petermorwood]

There’s a saying, attributed to G.K. Chesterton: “The English never remember, and the Irish never forget.”

Names on this fundraiser list show the best side of that long memory.

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

i think it's fucked up that there are plants that decided they wanted to eat meat

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

a plant's job is literally to just exist but the venus flytrap chose violence

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

what if i gently laid an uncooked steak on the soil for it to absorb

[iridescentjaq]

my tree biology teacher fed her calcium-deficient tree a whole-ass bbq rib bone - she stuck it in the ground near the base of the tree (after eating the meat off of it), and when she came back to collect it to show the tree biology class it was GONE

the tree had grown a root up through the center of it & out through the sides

also there’s an old story about a man who was buried beneath a tree, and when they went to exhume the body it had been completely absorbed by the tree’s roots- you could see the shape of the body in the way the roots grew, splitting up for clearly defined arms and legs. trees will absolutely eat a steak if you bury it & they need the nutrients.

[johnnyjoestarrelatable]

that’s horrifying! thank you

[msaprildaniels]

This is how I want to be buried now.

[dovewithscales]

This is beautiful

[everythingfox]

Baby elephant thought man was drowning and rushed to save him

[wakandamama]

HE JUSTA BABY 🥺

[r-ootwork-deactivated20230729]

Beyond the systemic issues we face, I don't think we can truly progress as a people until we both respect and love everyone in our community, especially Black trans men and women. Our communities are very conservative and patriarchal, and that patriarchy and conservatism we have is a direct result of white supremacy, which is just an extension of capitalism. Black trans women in particular have done so much for both our community and the world at large, and how are they treated in return? We already know how they are treated and it's wrong.

I'm still learning, but from what I've gleaned so far, it's very clear that our ancestors had a very different relationship to gender/gender expression than what we have in the present moment. I think of the orisha known to take both male and female form and how that wasn't considered strange. I think of how before colonialism and slavery, that intimacy between men wasn't considered horrific. And this is just my personal opinion, but the homophobia and transphobia in our communities is a kind of self-hatred. I'm not saying that we're all gay/trans (though I'm very happily my bi self) but I do think that it's way more common than people would care to admit.

I just think this is important to address because I worry about us collectively perpetuating the same systems of harm while fighting for our liberation. Liberation is for all of us, not just those who have the power in our community.

[mysharona1987]

[scholarlyapproach]

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

Listen in the past the poor have had to improvise cheap food the rich never wanted as a means to survive. And over the many years of innovation made the food taste good until eventually the rich where like: “Oh hay you actually like that garbage? Why on earth would you like it?” Then they try it, love it, start buying it, and then drive the price up so much it becomes a luxury good.

They do this and its devastating, the food typically never becomes affordable again. It don’t matter how cheap the foo dis to produce, it doesn’t matter if there is almost no meat on the bone or its super difficult to eat and messy. Once the poor discover how to make some bit of cheap food taste good, the rich take it away via driving the price of it up.

THEY DID THIS TO RIBS.

Ribs were garage meat. Just look at them, there is hardly any meat on the bone, you have to eat them by hand usually, and they are messy. They where an undesirable cheap source of junk meat. But the poor being the poor made them taste good. (Because they don’t have much to choose from.) The rich discovered the meals the poor made with them and decided they liked ribs too. People discovered they could sell a few ribs to rich people and make way more money then selling lots of ribs to poor people and the price was driven up.

DON’T LET THIS HAPPEN TO CEREAL!!!

[askmace]

They did the same to brisket.  You used to be able to get brisket for less than a dollar a pound, which meant you could get a twenty pound brisket fairly cheaply.  And then you smoked it, sliced it, and had meat for weeks if not a full month.  And it was tasty.  I grew up eating brisket at least once a month because my family could afford it.

It was a cheap meat because no rich person looks at the dangly part of the neck of a cow and goes ‘ooh, that looks tasty!’.

But then Food Network started showcasing things like barbecued brisket.  Rich people started showing up at places that weren’t just Rib Crib to get their barbeque.  And the price of brisket went up.  A lot.

I regularly see it for over five dollars a pound in stores now.  And while yeah, that might not seem like a lot when you’re talking only a pound or two of meat, brisket is normally sold in ten to twenty pound sizes.  It’s become completely unaffordable to the people that made it delicious.

Sushi used to be really cheap, too, until it became ‘trendy’.  Guess why you’re now paying twelve dollars for your order of California rolls?  Because rich people discovered something that poor people had been eating for ages.

Noticed the prices of fajita meat, chicken thighs, or ham hocks has gone up recently?  You guessed it.  Rich people are taking our food and now we’re scrambling to afford the things that we grew up eating.

[auroraluciferi]

Lobster is a perfect example of this phenomenon.  For hundreds of years, lobster was regarded as a sort of insect larvae from the depth of the sea. It had zero appeal as a “luxury food” until people living in NY and Boston developed a taste for it. Before the 19th century, it was considered a “poverty food” or used as fertilizer and bait - some household servants specified in employment agreements that they would not eat lobster more than twice a week. It was also commonly served at prisons, which tells you something about prison food.

Only by cleverly marketing lobster as an indulgence for the privileged made it cost so much. It became a vehicle for enormous profit spawning a multi-billion dollar global industry in the process. This mythical affection for lobster flesh - not its practical value in terms of taste, nutrition, or any other reasonable consideration - drives its value.

[blackwitchmagicwoman-deactivate]

LMAO. Wait.

[thegrimmlovely]

Anyone else’s eye twitchin?

[strongorcbutch-deactivated20220]

Food gentrification is a long standing practice and it’s some of the most evil shit I can think of. It’s why I refuse for example as someone living in the US to buy things with Quinoa in them. It is specifically pricing an indigenous population out of their prime staple food. It’s a horrific invasion of one of the final requirements of staying alive.

[shitonthesewallsray]

[notourz]

[marauders4evr]

I keep seeing posts that are like:

Person #1: *Meme about breaking news* Person #2: I can’t keep learning the news like this. Person #3: If you’re going to a circus, expect to see clowns.

But the thing is, sure, everyone on tumblr expects to see clowns.

What we don’t expect is for the clowns to do this:

And this has been the exact energy of this website for months.

[mysharona1987]

Hilarious book dedications. 

[ellabass]

[genderfluid-and-confuzled]

People would have died

[relatable-books]

[thesweetscentofbooks]

I’m wheezing

[decodering]

Redditors design worst volume sliders possible

Some of these are genius! ( see reddit / via )

[decodering]

Well, this post went a bit nuts.

[xxxtictacion]

That last one honestly belongs in hell

[official-lucifers-child]

ALL OF THESE HAVE ME WHEEZING AND CACKLING SO MUCH

[ha-nice-joke]

All found in the comments but not found in master post, you’re welcome :).

[c0m13-sl4y3r]

PLEASE I LOVE THESE

[ibrayeet]

Today in History: December 14. The Bush shoeing incident

[xhba]

Happy bush shoeing anniversary :-) ❤️🎉

[drop-of-infinity]

Tag via @princesshamlet

#I LIKE YOUR SHOELACES THANKS I THREW THEM AT THE PRESIDENT

[ripe]

lorettabritishcattery on ig

[marinebiologyshitposts]

hm.. today i want to adventure the ocean!!!

here we are in the epipelagic zone!!! nice and warm and blue!!! but let’s go deeper!!!

[marinebiologyshitposts]

woah… the mesopelagic zone looks cool… but let’s go even deeper. we can do it

[marinebiologyshitposts]

we have arrived at the bathypelagic zone… it doesn’t get deeper… or does it

[marinebiologyshitposts]

we have made it to the abyssopelagic zone!!!

hm. it’s really dark. let’s light this place up! just gimme a minute…

Hey, you. You’re finally awake. Walked right into that imperial ambush, same as us, and that thief over there.

[catchymemes]

[pizzamenu-deactivated20181209]

Must be an important raccoon.

[blackphoenixincorporated]

Crime boss and their bodyguards

[bowieboosh]

Please

Please turn your sound on

[badsciencejokes]

Alex — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/3eJM3Sh

[user87262893]

It is a dangerous and ill informed idea to conceptualize the men who are incels/red pills/alt right/rape threat senders/online-vile-woman-haters as neckbeard losers who live in their parents basement who's only interaction with women is their waifu body pillow.

This may be true for some of them.

But the rest are our peers. They're teachers, and hiring staff, and HR, and managers. They are healthcare workers, and therapists, and handymen, and bartenders. They're policeman, and politicians, and judges, and policy makers.

Their lives are not without direct impact on our own. They exist among us, and their decisions inform our opportunities, environment, and quality of life.

These men are not outliers, and they deserve our full criticism and concern.

[feralseraph]

“Refusal to give the tool of literacy is refusal to give access to the world. If she can make her own fire, read a book herself, write a letter or a record of her thoughts or an essay or a story, it will be harder to get her to tolerate the unwanted fuck, to bear the unwanted children, to see him as life and life through him. She might get ideas. But even worse, she might know the value of the ideas she gets. She must not know that ideas have value, only that being fucked and reproducing are her value.”

— From Right-Wing Women By Andrea Dworkin (via fem-reading)