frenchfriedbi

Laura- she/her, 20, queer af, cat videos, social justice, and memes

[sesiondemadrugada]

Ekaterina Popova.

[jaubaius]

Vampire and werewolf dating

[runcibility]

OP I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU DIDN’T CREDIT THIS, BECAUSE THERE IS SO MUCH MORE!

This is an ongoing series by @sarahseeandersen called “Fangs” - it’s absolutely worth following and keeping up with!

https://tapas.io/episode/1559785

[cottoncandyinsides]

Sharing the credited version!

[inficetegodwottery]

[phuntasm]

[twenty-one-fnaf-phans]

[sindri42]

In

no

particular

order

[pisswallet]

really cool. so its a goth and a hippie

[fenris-calls]

Me and whatever goth gf I’m given

[mens-rights-activia]

I saw this post and idk it made me feel some type of way. I may get flack for this but idc I feel it must be said. Poaching is a lot more nuanced than “bad people kill animals.”

Poaching, especially in Africa, is a byproduct of colonization and poverty. Although poaching existed prior to European colonizers, it was not done at a scale and frequency that would threaten wildlife populations. Poaching exploded under colonial rule where things like ivory, pelts, hunting trophies, and in some cases, land were prized and sought after by European settlers. This led to an initially boom that devastated local animal populations and cause some tribes to become very reliant on poaching as a means of subsistence.

Additionally, due to poverty, people are still being driven to poach animals, even endangered animals because it’s a more profitable way to support oneself and community, and predatory animals can be poached because they threaten and devastate local livestock. Anti-poaching measures rarely take into account the human and economic drive behind poaching. You’re shooting and killing poachers but what about their families and communities that they support? Are those animals in a better place when there more people waiting to hunt them? Anti poaching measures don’t actually care about eliminating poaching, if they did they’d come from the angle of human and economic development and community improvement. Because let’s be real, if those people living in their poor, rural, undeveloped, undereducated*, regions with not many opportunities turn to poaching, it’s not from a moral standpoint, they’re chasing survival.

African governments be corrupt af, keeping all the money for themselves and leaving masses in poverty then erect some anti-poaching laws to please smug westerners as if they aren’t driving people into desperation. And then poaching rings take advantage of this desperation, much like a gang would, and supply them with guns and a promise of a better life. And bam, you have a poaching problem. So long as you have people in desperation, poaching will still be a problem.

Like many social issues; drugs, violence, crime; a closer look and you’ll find that poverty and lack of opportunity are at the bottom of it...

[awed-frog]

Heroes of our times: this woman who stopped shaving, plucking, moisturizing, fixing her hair and applying make-up because her douche boyfriend kept complaining she spent too much time in the bathroom and YOU WON’T BELIEVE WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.

[Spoiler: he learned women don’t actually ‘look like that’ and tried to force her to ‘take care of herself’ again, while she realized she was wasting so. much. time. and is now living her best hairy, unplucked, unmoisturized, unblow-dried and unlipsticked life. Truly a blessèd day.]

[desolate-avocado]

[atypicaltyper]

For once the you won’t believe what happened next line was actually correct. Kinda nice to see people willing to learn and grow.

[61below]

Reblog if your only reason to shave is to also feel like a dolphin

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

Meanwhile, in Spain:

Spring happens and it's not photoshopped!

Actually it's this: a carpet of poplar fluff burns to reveal the grass below at the Parque del Cidacos de Calahorra, Spain.

[neitherbluenorgreen]

According to geographyrealm.com:The seed fluff produced by poplars is also highly flammable. The combustible seeds can quickly catch fire and burn off, leaving underlying grass and other vegetation untouched.

[nickxactly]

Magical

[sua-sponte-deactivated20200331]

I’m watching that documentary “Before Stonewall” about gay history pre-1969, and uncovered something which I think is interesting.

The documentary includes a brief clip of a 1954 televised newscast about the rise of homosexuality. The host of the program interviewed psychologists, a police officer, and one “known homosexual”. The “known homosexual” is 22 years old. He identifies himself as Curtis White, which is a pseudonym; his name is actually Dale Olson.

So I tracked down the newscast. According to what I can find, Dale Olson may have been the first gay man to appear openly on television and defend his sexual orientation. He explains that there’s nothing wrong with him mentally and he’s never been arrested. When asked whether he’d take a cure if it existed, he says no. When asked whether his family knows he’s gay, he says that they didn’t up until tonight, but he guesses they’re going to find out, and he’ll probably be fired from his job as well. So of course the host is like …why are you doing this interview then? and Dale Olson, cool as cucumber pie, says “I think that this way I can be a little useful to someone besides myself.”

1954. 22 years old. Balls of pure titanium.

Despite the pseudonym, Dale’s boss did indeed recognize him from the TV program, and he was promptly fired the next day. He wrote into ONE magazine six months later to reassure readers that he had gotten a new job at a higher salary.

Curious about what became of him, I looked into his life a little further. It turns out that he ultimately became a very successful publicity agent. He promoted the Rocky movies and Superman. Not only that, but get this: Dale represented Rock Hudson, and he was the person who convinced him to disclose that he had AIDS! He wrote the statement Rock read. And as we know, Rock Hudson’s disclosure had a very significant effect on the national conversation about AIDS in the U.S.

It appears that no one has made the connection between Dale Olson the publicity agent instrumental in the AIDS debate and Dale Olson the 22-year-old first openly gay man on TV. So I thought I’d make it. For Pride month, an unsung gay hero.

[argumate]

dude had guts, someone needs to update his Wikipedia page

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

[millennial-review-deactivated20]

Because I keep getting messages from people who didn’t google it.

[luvsic2k]

Engelberg, Switzerland

[boota]

[passumbapper]

[ford-ye-fiji]

[mothdogs]

[sarahseeandersen]

[intjint]

3 most certainly NOT yellow

[asktheicexithasnoleader]

Green but not yellow

[intjint]

wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong

[asktheicexithasnoleader]

What color is 3

[intjint]

Turqoise

[red-lantern-deactivated20201007]

so wrong, how dare you, prime numbers are red and you fucking know it 

[intjint]

????? Every number is an individual????????

[red-lantern-deactivated20201007]

primes are red evens are cool odds are warm 

[intjint]

YOOOOOOOOUU

are making shit

UUUUUUuuuuuuuPPPPP

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Me, reading this without grapheme-color synesthesia:

[gostarflyer]

[lena-luthor]

they really gave us a female lead in a star wars movie & made her kind and good and angry and powerful and complex & then spent the next 2 movies revolving almost her entire storyline around a white male war criminal who abused her, abused her friends, abused her family. all the while validating all the people who romanticized gaslighting and torture. for fan service lmao 

[pajamboree]

they also gave us a strong black male lead who was kind and rebelled against his entire way of life when he saw the atrocities he was expected to take part in. He risked his life to save others and was shown to love and care deeply for his friends and willing to sacrifice himself to save him. Then the next two movies infantilize him to be this weak self preserving side character with literally no agency beyond yelling other character’s names.

[celeritaschronicles]

They also gave us a Latino sci-fi hero who was an ace fighter pilot with a heart of gold and a wealth of courage who showed an incredible amount of support and kindness and trust towards a man who he had just met. Then the next two movies relegated him to being a chronic fuck-up and then ret-conned his ace pilot backstory in service of a racist drug dealer backstory to make him more like Han Solo

[bluehairedspidey]

wow i cant believe adhd doof is canon

adhdoof

[chaifootsteps]

#this is literally how I talk

[mitski-miyawakis]

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

It’s the “back on topic, baby” that killed me, that’s me.

[evelyn-celia]

Love isn’t patient and kind and humble. Love is messy. And horrible and selfish and bold. It’s not finding your perfect half. It’s the trying and reaching and failing. Love is being willing to ruin your good painting for the chance at a great one.

THE HALF OF IT (2020) dir. Alice Wu

[ampervadasz]

[prettypenko]

bro I don’t think that’s what your job is supposed to be about

[youcancallmeaddy]

[bjurnberg]

[pumpkinylink]

Do non-americans realize that the United States is literally just a bunch of countries in a trench coat that agreed to be semi-nice to each other in order to sneak into the Big Boy Club? Because let’s be honest that’s just what the USA is

[pumpkinylink]

The rest of the world: So… you’re a big country?

The states, standing on each other’s shoulders: Y- yes,,,

[pumpkinylink]

I love how everyone who’s reblogged this hasn’t added anything on or tagged anything on it. They’re all just like “Yeah. That’s it. That’s the entire United States summed up in one post-”

[words-writ-in-starlight]

#oh my god is THAT why you guys are so weird

Yeah 100%

[b1s3xualm00n]

Don’t let these tags die omfg

[shieldmaiden19]

10/10 can confirm

[aces-to-apples]

absolutely bonkers that my own tags have crossed my dash like this more than fifteen reblogs after i wrote them

[deerladydisdain]

I moved to another state. 30 minutes away. My family acts like I betrayed them and can’t understand my life choices. It’s completely different way of life, especially during covid. Completely different country.

[bluecrowne]

every single fucking time one of those articles of “things europeans find weird about america” complains that sales tax isn’t included

states set the sales tax!!! it’s literally different across state lines!!! american retailers can’t add it bc they’d have to account for 50 different prices!!!!!!!

[capriceandwhimsy]

It gets even more insane! California’s clean air standards for cars and other such things are so much higher than everyone else’s! So if a car manufacturer in Detroit wants to sell their damn cars in California, they need to build their cars to California clean air standards. But retooling an assembly line and car design to have some cars meet California clean air standards, while building others to other clean air standards is a lot of work, so car manufacturers all over the country have to build all their cars to California clean air standards.

Which is why California went into an uproar earlier this year when the Federal Government tried to argue that states can’t set their own environmental guidelines! “Fuck you!” says California, “we remember Los Angeles in the 80s, how bad the smog gets, go pollute your own damn air over in your own damn state where there isn’t a thermal inversion layer to trap all the smog down near ground level!”

“But you’re making it soooo haaaaaard to sell our cars everywhere else!” they whine.

“Fuck you!” California shouts. “And while we’re at it, we don’t give a shit what you say, Mister President, we’re gonna open our damn states when we’re good and ready, and our friends Nevada, Oregon, Colorado, and Washington State agree! Also, we’ve decided to legalize weed!”

“But the Federal Government says it’s illegal!” shouts the other states.

“Fuck you, we make the drug laws in our state, and we say toke up!”

“Now, hang on!” shouts the Federal government. “You can legalize weed in your state, but all banks are federal agencies, so if your weed dispensaries set up bank accounts, those accounts have money from illegal practices in it and are subject to seizure by the federal government!”

“FINE!” shouts California. “Hey, weed guys, you can keep selling weed, but you can only deal in cash!”

“How the fuck is that supposed to work!?”

“I DON’T FUCKING KNOW, TAKE IT UP WITH DC!”

“By the way, if you’re gay married elsewhere, we won’t recognize it,” mutters Texas.

“OH FUCK YOUUUUUUU!” 

And so it goes and so it goes…

[quousque]

“What’s sales tax?” says Montana. “What’s road maintainence?” “also what’s a speed limit?”

[magical-awesome-kid]

Seriously driving in Wisconsin is a PAIN because winter-summer cycle DESTROYS our roads but we use DUI and speeding ticket money to repair them. It’s never enough and roads take forever to fix so it’s always a disaster.

Meanwhile, in Illinois, our NEIGHBOR, they have tolls so their normal driving tickets are lower AND they have nicer roads!

Not just that, but Illinois has a HUGE sales tax while Wisconsin’s tax is a lot lower. Right now with COVID it’s like Georgia is Sweden just throwing open the gates and California is hesitant to crack a window and DC is just waving it’s hands in the air because it doesn’t know what to support but DEF doesn’t want to support the ‘wrong’ team because then they’ll end up crucified by the other.

It’s a madhouse that I unfortunately live in.

[shiisiln]

One of my favorite things about ur terrible katamari-ball of countries disguised as a single country is that every state has different traffic laws, but you can drive anywhere once you get a license in your state. So you can just like… drive out of state and get arrested for something you were never even taught was illegal. It’s magical.