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hi, I'm gradifizz

aka smrp. pronouns he/she (not they/them)

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what I reblog:

jokes and puns

fun facts, true and false (it's hard to tell them apart, but that's part of the fun.)

informational posts

other ppl's art

fandom stuff

short stories

... and whatever I find funny or interesting. I post every uh. whenever I remember to check Tumblr.

fandoms & stuff I like:

🐛 bugs! 🐌 and other animals 🐱

what my moots are rbing

learning languages

folklore and mythology

Broccoli Soup! webcomic (found here)

the show Bee and Puppycat (pilot & Season 1)

Studio Ghibli films

Pokémon

the way ice cream sandwich draws his dog

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also: i'm bad at timely responses. if you send me something, I'll probably see it. if I don't reply to it within a week, please message me again. (you don't need to send your ask again, though.) thank you 💕

#pinned #pinned post #pinned post tiiiimee!!!#og

i just learned abt kart kingdom refueled guess what i am going to be spending all day/night doing

kitschke

i kinda love this response. just try reading my comment in a nicer voice and you'll feel better

tippyturret

lettuce-tv

don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.

dogpuppy

newtype-lila

rb to tell prev they're being so brave right now and pat their head a little please

gojira007

voldemo

My friend really changed once she became a vegetarian

voldemo

its like ive never seen herbivore

ezekestiel

i sighed so loud my mom asked me if i was okay and she’s two rooms away

astrodidact

"Loving Day" celebrates the historic ruling in Loving v. Virginia, which declared unconstitutional a Virginia law prohibiting mixed-race ma

Coincidentally, today is Valentine's Day in Brazil. ❤️🇧🇷

article-reblogs

This was only 55 years ago. You can understand a lot of what’s wrong with the US if you realize that the average age of our elected senators is about 63. “Good old days” is a dogwhistle.

Our current Supreme Court might’ve ruled against the Lovings.

jellybeanium124

[Image ID: excerpts from the article linked above, reading:

“The couple is given a choice: flee or go to jail. After they were arrested, the Lovings were sentenced to a year in prison. Then, a judge offered them a choice: banishment from the state or prison. They chose to leave Virginia at the time, but after several years, the Lovings asked the American Civil Liberties Union to take their case.Bernard Cohen and Philip Hirschkop, two young ACLU lawyers at the time, did.”

and “On June 12, 1967, the U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled in the Lovings' favor. The unanimous decision upheld that distinctions drawn based on race were not constitutional. The court's decision made it clear that Virginia's anti-miscegenation law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment.” /end ID]

doberbutts

It was 55 years ago.

My father just had his 70th birthday.

When my parents first met it'd been less than a decade since the ruling was official.

They were convinced it'd be overturned and did not want their children to have to suffer for it, so they did not get married and searched desperately for each other in their own races. They could not find the love they had together in anyone else. They did eventually get married.

Too late for them to have the amount of children they'd desired. They had two, adopted a third, and that was that.

It was near enough to now that I, my sisters, and my parents were directly affected by it.

This isn't ancient history. It's just my parents' childhood.

inkcurlsandknives

As a mixed Asian person married to a mixed Black person rulings like this, along with violent backlashes against race mixing are barely recent history. Living in Texas we still run into people who actively harass us for being a mixed race couple in public (even though neither of us are white) The Loving Case and subsequent reactions to it by different states determined where my in-laws chose to settle in the US as a mixed couple. Several states kept anti-miscegenation laws on the books. and State judges in Alabama continued to enforce its anti-miscegenation statute until 1970, when the Nixon administration obtained a ruling from a U.S. District Court in United States v. Brittain.

The Watsonville riots of the 1930's where white mobs attached Filipino farmworkers for being seen in dancehalls with white women, are part of a very long history of whiteness violently asserting its need to "protect" the purity of it's women and future children. And these kinds of backlashes are not in the past, we've just moved to different battlegrounds, the same accusations, of defiling the purity of white womanhood and white childhood are now leveled at the dangerous "othering influences" through book bans and other right wing conservative censorship efforts.

According to PEN America’s Banned Book Index, 41% of banned books include LGBTQ+ themes. 40% feature characters of color and 21% address issues of race or racism.

Remember, if we don't keep standing up loudly for equality the biggots on the right will be louder and keep dragging us further backwards from every step towards equality we make.

That's why I write stories for mixed, brown, bi, folks to see ourselves and our loves reflected in.

Its important to record ourselves into literature, into history so that they can never fully erase us no matter how hard they try to stamp us out of existence.

annlarimer

I was in kindergarten when this happened. Star Trek was in its second season. Scooby Doo was just a few sketches in a notebook somewhere. My neighborhood was redlined. I wouldn't see a Black clerk in the mall for several years. This is the bullshit they want to go back to.

markovchaingang

RULES FOR DATING MY DAUGHTER:

my daughter cannot, through action or inaction, harm a human or allow a human to come to harm

a daughter at rest or in constant motion remains at rest or in constant motion unless acted upon by another force

daughters are never created or destroyed, only transformed

always treat every daughter as loaded, even if you know she isn't

you do not talk about my daughter

abalidoth

6. If x and y are my daughters, then there exists a set that has x and y as elements.

7. You can fold my daughter through any two points.

8. I have exactly one daughter parallel to a given line passing through a given point.

inthefallofasparrow

9. If my daughter is hung on the wall in the first act, then in the following one she must be fired. Otherwise don't put her there.

10. When two or more daughters are offered for a phenomenon, the simplest daughter is preferable.

11. Any sufficiently advanced daughter is indistinguishable from magic.

12. Without a clear indicator of intent, it is utterly impossible to parody my daughter without someone mistaking it for the genuine article.

13. My daughter is nine-tenths of the law.

risenshiney

Paint’n studies I did on my Wii U gamepad earlier in the year.

sony-official

on your what

jethroq

wettestwraith

prev dont leave this in the tags

silvergryphonart

Literally the definition of imperialism and classism. Doesn’t matter how many peasants you sacrifice as long as the most powerful piece is left standing

musicalhell

Proximity of bishops to the rulers promotes theocratic oppression

juh-was-deactivated19691231-dea

the horse is so fuckable

yolandart

dangerwizard

just me n the girls enjoying the nice weather

solar-queer-deactivated20180816

this is so fucking unsettling i love it

arcanetrivia

By Philip Jackson. I did not find all of them in his gallery, but 1. Moonstruck, 3. The Sentinels, 4. The Grandees, 7. His Eminence, 8. The Magistrate, 9. Saraband

firebatvillain

One fun thing about learning new languages is reconsidering the structure of words and language in your mother tongue. It seems with each new language I study, I get more little insights into English, either in how it's similar or how it's different.

For example, a couple years ago, while learning Spanish, I encountered the word for a store, "la tienda." I thought "huh, that's a lot like tener (tiene) - the word for store in Spanish literally corresponds to 'to have/keep'. How interesting!"

Then I stopped for a moment, and for the first time in my life, thought about seriously about the meaning of English word for the place where you buy things, "a store."

star3synth

hi tumblr staff very cool that you changed the like icon for pride month but can we stop banning trans people and Black people instead? thanks (*ಠ_ಠ)つ

#AND BLACK PEOPLE

2-point-5

i like being a lesbian and all, but holy shit, men are so cool. i hope all men reading this have a wonderful day.

basilpaste

i like being gay and all, but holy shit, women are so cool!!!! i hope all women reading this have a wonderful day as well!!!!!!!!!

2-point-5

[image description: the epic handshake meme. one arm is labelled gay people and the other is labelled lesbians. in the middle it says "fuck yeah bro". end id]

2-point-5

hey guys, quick reminder! this post is about uplifting other people!!! tags like 'ugh, but men are gross lol' or 'op has never met a man' are not welcome and will recieve an insta block! men are cool! women are cool! thank you for coming to my fucking ted talk! :-)