Never Trust A Hug Its Just A Way To Hide Your Face

Usually found crying in the corner of a book shop, responds well when given tea or coffee. Prefers fictional characters to people.

[feministism]

[plannedparenthood]

We mourn. We remember.  We stand with the LGBTQ community against hate and violence.

[whocouldstayisleaving-deactivat]

all terfs have been cordially uninvited from any and all pride celebrations. you have all been gatekept. thank you & have a bad day

[firstrising-archive-blog]

i want to achieve “she’s adorable and i will protect her at all costs but also i am slightly frightened by her power”

[corrucyst]

someone: so what do you think is the solution to homelessness?

me, socialist:

[left-reminders]

Let homeless people occupy peopleless homes, build houses for use rather than exchange, 3D print comfortable houses in a day, convert corporate skyscrapers into housing and commercial malls into publicly-accessible community centers with living commons and entertainment

[seconddoubt]

When you say it to people and they break

“But the money? … we can’t just? But, Money? We can’t just… help… people? Can we? The Money. We can’t just help people? Like that? We can’t just? Money?”

[xanaphia]

To really break them, tell them it’s cheaper to give homeless people homes than it is to leave them on the street.

[lilyanthus]

The same people who balk at the idea of giving homeless people free housing and giving everyone healthcare are the same people who don’t bat an eye at spending trillions on the military and billions on a racist wall

[solarmorrigan]

So. 10th grade English class. We all come in one morning to find a balloon and a perfectly sharpened pencil on each of our desks. No instructions, no explanation, which is strange, because our teacher is meticulous about that sort of thing. A couple of people try to ask her and she says we’ll get to it. She takes role and then announces that she needs to go to the copy room and she’ll be back in a couple of minutes

Kinda unorthodox, but no one is complaining because this is advanced English and the teacher usually goes kinda hard. So, y’know. Brief respite. We all sit and chat; one of the boys teasingly steals a girl’s balloon, but gives it back to her easily enough; it’s quiet and kind of a nice break. Then the teacher comes back, stops in the doorway, and just stares at us

After a long moment, she says, confused, “You didn’t pop the balloons.”

To which one of the guys about two rows over exclaims, “We’re allowed to pop them?” and immediately turns around and stabs his friend’s balloon with the pencil

There is a vicious revenge balloon-stabbing, and a few more people pop seatmates’ balloons or their own, and the whole time the teacher is just shaking her head. “I can’t believe you didn’t pop your balloons.”

Apparently we were starting Lord of the Flies that day and she wanted to demonstrate the basic concept of kids turning on each other when there are no authority figures present and it was basically my favorite failed social experiment ever

[loveharuokumura]

Back in my 10th grade we did a similar things around Lord of the Flies, where we had a test scheduled for that day, and when we walked in, the teacher took role by looking through the window of the door and never entered the classroom. On the board were three tasks written and the teacher had brought in donuts. At first we all sat around and waited for the teacher to come in, but eventually we just started tackling the list of tasks. Task 1- the test. Everybody took it silently, no one cheated, everyone turned it in and we went on to Task Two: tidy up the room. So we did, we split into a couple groups and each one cleaned an area of the room. Task Three: Hand out the donuts. There were 12 donuts, and 30 of us. So we split the donuts into thirds, each took a third, and left the extras for the teacher. After this, the teacher came in absolutely FUMING. She was so upset we had followed all the rules and completed the tasks. Apparently she had been texting kids telling them to start some chaos but they all ignored it because they were too nice. She tried to dock our grades for not going absolutely wild because it meant her class didn’t get the point across

[hookedonafeeeling]

That’s because lord of the flies isn’t representative of humanity it’s representative of rich white male shitheads

[woodlandwell]

And it takes those shit heads a lot longer than one 50 minute class period to go wild.

[thatgirlonstage]

“Sans teacher supervision, a group of peers will immediately begin breaking down rules and norms regardless of previous behavior patterns” is a weirdly authoritarian take on Lord of the Flies and frankly any English teacher worth their salt ought to be embarrassed if that’s the analysis they took from it

[rednines]

If the purge was real we’d defend one another, burn the debt records and return the commons, not murder each other, nice try Hollywood, your Hobbesian propaganda doesn’t work on me

[ghost-at-the-feast]

U really think we’d defend one another?? Are u joking? People would fight for their lives. Steal & hide. They’d take advantage. Not to the extent of the movie, but have u ever seen a riot? God ur so dumb & I hate u for being so naive

[rednines]

Hey have you read a history or political theory or anthropology book that wasn’t written by the Cato institute?

[dykerory]

the whole premise of the purge is inherently flawed. it assumes that crime happens because people just want to commit it, when actually most crime is a symptom of societal disenfranchisement. 

yeah, maybe some sociopathic white frat boys would go around terrorizing people because they know there won’t be any consequences, but really, how is that any different than normal?

[siberiancheesecake]

“HOW IS THAT ANY DIFFERENT FROM NORMAL”

[cakemakethme]

Terry Crews coming in with some wisdom

[aleshakills]

Tbh I’m really sick of cis women talking about creating all women spaces and saying “Oh yeah, and gay guys are invited obviously” before even considering or mentioning trans women.

[aleshakills]

You know what I changed my mind reblog this.

[sarahlinauthor]

I. Do. Not. Want. Gay. Men. In. My. All. Women. Spaces.

Women? Yes. Trans women? Yes. Gay women? Yes. Bisexual women? Yes. All women? YES.

Men? No.

Regardless if they’re gay men, this is not a space for them. I couldn’t give a flying fuck who they’re sexually attracted to. That hasn’t stopped cis gay men from shutting down conversations or taking them over, or from behaving inappropriately and unsafely towards women.

Women need safe spaces where we can be women and talk about what’s important for and to us. Women need all women spaces.

Trans women more than welcome.

[christinamirabilis]

YES If I see that post about some utopian women-only gym where gay men are also invited but lesbians and trans women aren’t even mentioned ONE MORE TIME, I’m going to fucking strangle someone

[girlfailureblog]

Just a little reminder that you can enjoy your hobbies regardless of your ‘talent’. You don’t have to be the best to do something you love!

[gahdamnpunk]

ALL 👏🏾 OF 👏🏾 THEM 👏🏾

[knitmeapony]

This post goes harder than any post has ever gone before.

[storiesofimagination]

FIGHT LIKE A GIRL

[catchymemes]

[missharleenfquinzel]

This whole NSFW situation is exactly like when America made alcohol illegal in the 1920s to combat rampant alcoholism and it 100% backfired and actually made people drink way MORE and actually made it more accessible. They realized what a mistake they had made and repealed that shit.

[missharleenfquinzel]

Which brings me to my business proposal:

Titty Speakeasies

Knock three times and give the password “I like your shoelaces”

[missharleenfquinzel]

HOEHIBITION 

[pervocracy]

are you ready for my favorite fact?

If you leave a hamster wheel out in the forest, wild mice will come and run on it.

that is my favorite fact

[blueelectricangels]

Bobcats and lynx will sit in cardboard boxes abandoned in the middle of the forest.

I asked the lynx researcher who told me this why, and he said “Cats, man” and shrugged.

[mynamebatman]

This is now an “if I fits, I sits” appreciation thread.

[frogginbloggin]

you guys sure like frogs, huh

[frognonbinary-deactivated202412]

its illegal not to, actually

[horseshoecrabluvrr]

JUST LOOK AT HIM

[frogginbloggin]

he’s so sweet………… sweet man………………..

[catchymemes]

[deergirlslut]

you ever think a post is going to be like, surprise! It was the plot of a movie the whole time! And then reality is just actually that wild. Wild.

[plannedparenthood]

This is how to respond when someone shares their experience of sexual assault:

[magpie-69]

So this! And the same goes for domestic abuse.

[che-gazzara]

Important addition, tho it’s often thought to be a separate issue-

Often domestic abuse can be sexual as well.

The trouble is- I found myself feeling like the more things that happened the more crazy and unbelievable my story became.

The more you trust someone and open up the more chapters will be added. And somewhere in the back of your mind will always be this little voice that will be like “now I’ve told them too much, they’ll think I’m exaggerating and they’ll never believe it.”

If someone trusts you enough to let you in- please support them, it takes a lot to peel that onion. And sometimes it has more layers than you may realize.

Bear with us

[magpie-69]

Re-blogging for the brilliant addition of @che-gazzara 👏👏👏