[gorgeststories]

I tagged all my original art #gorgeststories

Not my text posts tho, those are lost to the void

[plushieanimals]

✨sanrio✨Parakeet kigurumi munyugurumi ✨

[internet-sentences]

[micro-usb-deactivated20230625]

I know I’ve already reblogged this but I thought it was worth mentioning that medicine covering for racial violence is nothing new

[gunsandfireandshit]

Let’s not forget how black people who pursued civil rights were diagnosed as schizophrenic

https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-02544-000

[museiums]

artist: isabelle feliu

[gorgeststories]

I wrote/am writing this story about a fantasy world where tons of different animals, plants and other things evolved to be sapient and human-like, with arms and opposable thumbs and all that jazz. Not all of them have legs tho. Kind of like furry stuff but idk if it counts because some of the creatures are like anthro plants or reptiles or rocks. If you’re interested in over the top weird world building, please check out my story on wattpad

https://www.wattpad.com/story/333470843-alien-the-human?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_myworks&wp_uname=Gorgest_Stories&wp_originator=zaMTBtMX6sQpZLyS%2BNqATFNLNrm8W16jkQqtVRKUX2yL0BzDk4rqbH5GnfzxZNWe5RhnsC%2FeYP8CrS0nDDHrGWWD3yQSbvRhlWI2oKDjgtEXxtQpVHWKDsITvjAGJYYe

hopefully this link works

I’m open to any critique because I want this story to turn out as good as possible

[hanavbara]

girls night out pt 2. 💖💄🌙 #SailorMoon 

[gorgeststories]

Hey guys, i know i have like two mutuals and the rest are porn bots but could you please just take a quick read for this WIP i have going

https://www.wattpad.com/story/333470843?utm_source=android&utm_medium=link&utm_content=share_writing&wp_page=create&wp_uname=Gorgest_Stories&wp_originator=Vq4QQkuBia1rgZw42bboALe7vDeRbmd6yMOKiMrmXKPYGvJc6GL0dZZ5nwAy%2BY%2B3th1b6V0O0dAjknaduKuozNu%2FG%2FI5GJo%2BTG39OCzSXULXIdjclDTRD3rE3i%2FmUFri

Its on wattpad (cringe) but idk where else to post it

Thank you

[moringmark]

[runcibility]

I liked this post, scrolled for like another minute before I went “SHIT FUCK SHIT” and scrolled back to reblog it

[quadriviummuse]

I always reblog this one when I see it on my dash. When someone posts their own art, writing, or music here they are really hoping you will share it.

[sugarellys]

[bizarro-report-deactivated20171]

[catwithaknife]

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/kzqpd9/heres-an-insane-story-about-a-rogue-music-teacher-cutting-a-kids-hair

[snailbutch]

what the fuck

[guu]

i’m just gonna take this post for a moment so i can rant but like

i Hate how entitled adults can feel over a child’s hair!

it started when i was young myself, i wanted a mohawk, but my dad didn’t approve of that look on a “girl”, and insisted i’d regret such a bold cut. at 16 i was finally given full autonomy over my own head.

but then i have a son and everyone around us is trying to keep his hair short. when we finally moved out just me my partner and him, i told him he doesn’t need to get any haircuts he doesn’t want.

so he starts growing it out, it’s still short but coming on mid-length. his teacher makes a point to tell me it’s getting long as if i don’t have eyes. i hear her walking out with him one day talking to him about haircuts, as if to coax him into one. eventually i get child services called on me for ‘forcing a transgender lifestyle’ over what i can only assume is from a combination of me drawing cute ponies on his valentine box and letting him go to school in a ponytail.

he kept it short for awhile after but told me he wanted to grow it out again, so i let him of course. he comes home one day after getting a haircut at his grandpa’s and tells me he didn’t Want the haircut.

i ask why he got it then and learned he was bribed with a promise of a surprise IF he cut his hair.

tl;dr people need to back the hell up off of children and let them have owership of what’s on THEIR body! /rant

[e-v-roslyn]

Same thing about getting a child to curl or straighten their hair. Or do anything with it. Just let kids have control over their bodies.

[captainroxythefoxy]

This happened to me when I was little too!! Growing up I had naturally tight Shirley Temple curls. The only problem was that you can’t get a hair brush through it if your life depended on it until it grew out over a few years.

but This One Lady from church decided that leaving my hair messy and curly was child abuse and threatened to call social services on my family every damn time she saw me until one day she was the designated kid watcher and ho boy my momma tells me i came out with tears in my eyes and greasy slicked down hair and that’s where she ends the story because i think my mother beat her ass but yeah.

Leave kids hair alone.

[disease-danger-darkness-silence]

I’m going to be honest, parents who are super-controlling of their children’s hair creep me the fuck out and I’m not entirely certain why except that I get a vague feeling they kind of relegate them to, “annoying talking doll” status.

[pretentioussongtitle]

I loved my daughter’s long blond hair. It was thick and wavy and beautiful but when she told me she wanted it cut short ‘like a boy’(she was four)  I took her to the salon and let her whack it off. 

The stylist was skeptical, ‘are you sure?” and the thing is, she said this to me, not my daughter. So I asked my girl ‘are you sure you want it cut short?’ She was. The hair went. The stylist acted nervous most of the way through like she was waiting for one of us to burst into tears, but it looked cute! And my daughter loved it! (And it’s been short ever since.)

[kintatsujo]

Autonomy over your hair is bodily autonomy and we as a culture need to start holding bodily autonomy as sacred

[mdzhb]

there is a reason that so many of us who’ve experienced trauma will reclaim control over our bodies and our selves by cutting and dying our hair. it’s part of us. it’s part of our expression. that’s vitally important to people, especially kids, who are still early in the process of learning how they fit into the world around them.

[theconcealedweapon]

For some reason, “stop enforcing your gender identity and sexual orientation on children” never applies to cis-het people who are the only ones actually enforcing it.

[naamahdarling]

About this:

Some reasons, not exhaustive:

Parents tightly controlling this shit is damaging and super often indicative of sexism or queerphobia they will begin imposing or are already imposing on the child.

Early form of indoctrination into boys vs. girls behavior; it begins super young when the child is very malleable. Sets the stage for strict gender roles.

A parent who does not respect their child’s autonomy over something as trivial as their hair is absolutely not going to defend their child from other assaults on their autonomy, unless those assaults are property crimes that challenge or might lead their child to challenge their ownership of the child’s body.

It’s disgusting.

It also goes for life partners. Controlling someone’s appearance either directly, or indirectly through repeated “hints” and shit-talking people who don’t meet their standards is at the very least toxic, and sometimes it is downright abusive. There’s a reason “woman cuts her hair in a way that she knows you don’t like” is seen as a “warning sign” that your wife might “leave you.” The hold is breaking. I did it, progressively, as things spiraled down. It wasn’t rebellion. It was reclamation. (Also me realizing that I really didn’t like having long hair. This is way better.

By the way, cutting someone’s hair without consent is assault, same as punching them, and in many places it is legally recognized as such. Get their asses.

[living400lbs]

“Autonomy over your hair is bodily autonomy and we as a culture need to start holding bodily autonomy as sacred”

[drst]

When I was very young, I had light brown curly hair. My mother had zero patience with it, always trying to yank a brush through it, which pulled and hurt, making me cry, which made her mad.

When I was 6, having just started kindergarten, she got fed up and took me to her hairdresser, who gave me the “bowl cut” which was very popular to do to kids in the 70s. I know it was after I started school because my first day picture I have the long hair but by the time school pictures were taken it’s gone (I also look homicidal in my picture which became a theme of my school pictures).

The day I went to school after the haircut this kid Jason came up to me and said “Who are you?” Not long after I was with my brother and this older man in a store called me “sonny.”

I’m in my 50s now and my hair is down to my waist. I may get it trimmed a bit soon, just to rake some weight off my head, but seeing my braid lying over my shoulder makes me happy every time.

This shit stays with you, is my point. If you’re a parent and feeling defensive about your own behavior about your kid’s hair and thinking it doesn’t matter, it’s just hair, you’re wrong.

[ekjohnston]

My sister DID cry when she was six and got all her hair cut off, and the only thing that was different with me was that my mother could be all “well, your sister was upset, but it grew back” and then took me TO THE SAME HAIR DRESSER (seven years later) and I got all my hair cut off. When I was 12, my mother made me cut off all my hair before we went to Australia. I was misgendered for a whole year. She apologizes for this biannually. I am 38.

[ahraeyah]

On a black girl note, a lot of us get relaxers/perms/silk presses by age four because our hair is “hard to manage” which is really code for “I don’t want to take the time to learn how to take care of my child’s afro textured hair” at least that was the case for me. Fast forward 28 years, I’m still trying to love and unlearn everything about my hair so I don’t have to wear wigs like the rest of the women in my family 😬 (their mama’s didn’t take care of their hair either)

[lesbianirl]

the oldest profession was probably actually babysitting. like “i have to go do something, can you watch my baby for a while?” has to be one of the most ancient requests ever. animals do this. why wouldn’t people living in caves and inventing fire not also take advantage of someone else watching their baby while they go and kill an antelope or something for the tribe to eat

[ohifonlyx33]

I forgot people believe in evolution so my first answer was “duh, its animal husbandry and farming/gardening cause God told Adam to name the garden and made him caretaker of the garden. And then after the Fall he had to work hard to till and…. oh right people think we learned one thing at a time and somehow survived…”

[lesbianirl]

congrats for making the funniest comment on this post lmao

[were--ralph]

If you have body image issues I genuinely advise you to get a fursona it will help so much

[were--ralph]

I'm not shitposting or trolling or joking but genuinely having a sona modeled after me myself as I am has made me go from "I hate this body im ugly" to "im kinda hot now, I see it."

Like a lot of furries have started working out or gaining weight because they want to mirror their sona more, me included. It's not instant and not even noticeable when it happens bit gradually the more In tune with your sona you get the .ore you model yourself after them and the more you accept yourself.

[thatsoup]

[linssweater]

This thread omg

[thejeksburyguy]

Family doesn’t have to be blood related.

Sometimes family is a righteously angry little girl, her supportive brother, a random stranger with a thirst for chaos and justice, two foreign grandmas, and The Rest Of The Plane.

[featherfrond]

yasss this makes me happy like nothing else lol

[campyvillain]

friendly monthly reminder not to be negative in the comments/replies/tags/anything of bugkeeper’s posts of their animals. it’s totally fine making your own post saying you don’t like bugs, you don’t have to like them. but please for the love of god do not describe in detail how much you want to kill or hurt the animals people raise when they’re just trying to show off their pets, even if their pets are insects that are personally repelling to you or make you squeamish. raising these animals takes a lot of hard work and care and knowledge, and having these creatures demeaned to just nightmare monsters instead of living breathing things is just really disheartening. just don’t say anything and move on

[niuniente]

Traditional European Christmas time monsters, photographer across the Europe by Charles Fréger.

[praise-suns-and-chill]

At least one of them is a Pathologic Cosplay you can’t fool me

I am European I know we aren’t real

[skunkmallow]

people are cowards about fantasy settings and not including some things in em. I get the aversion to not wanting too modern of tech, however dwarves would invent and fucking love metal folding chairs

[huffy-the-bicycle-slayer]

They invented them as a weapon first then later discovered their use as a seating option

[elidyce]

Not that that isn’t funny, but consider this:

Everything built by every other species is always *too high*. So they had to invent a small, portable folding ladder in order to avoid the embarrassment of having to ask for help.

Which was metal, obviously, for strength and durability and making it useful as an impromptu clubbing weapon.

And then one dwarf looked at his ladder one day, and thought “y’know, if I put a seat on this, it could do *three* things,”

[caffeinewitchcraft]

Carrying around a folding chair would become a symbol of ambassador dwarves or adventurer dwarves. Some might even dispense of traditional weaponry since the folding chair is multi-use and doing so lightens packs

“My dad wanted me to bring an axe,” the young dwarf says. They rolls their eyes, adjusting the strap of their folding chair along their back. The sunlight gleams off its reinforced back. “Like, get with the times, you know?”

[freshofftheboatdaily]

[teadalek]

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