If These Walls Could Speak

[stubbornness-and-spite]

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[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

If you give this woman money, it will go to transphobic causes. If you give this woman a platform, she will use it to boost transphobic causes. This isn't a "well nobody's perfect" or "well x other creator also did something bad once" situation, this is an inordinate amount of influence for a creator to have, and supporting her by word or wallet actively hurts trans people.

[battlecrazed-axe-mage]

EXACTLY it's fucking disgusting

[aphroditestummyrolls]

Folks, friends, y’all…. esk*mo is a slur. I understand a lot of people don’t know that, I don’t want to be a dick about it, but I’ve been seeing it in fics. Wanna write “esk*mo kisses”? Just say “nuzzled noses” or something.

I’m not here to call anybody out, it’s been in multiple fics, I’m not vague posting. This is just a psa. 👍🏻

[aphroditestummyrolls]

If you could help me spread awareness about this by reblogging, I’d really appreciate it.

[roastedmoose]

I’ve had this post on insta saved for sometime ❤️

[urban-bike-cryptid-deactivated2]

[Text Description: “Hey! Reminder: Eskimo is a slur. It means ‘snow eaters’ in Cree and is a slur against Inuit . Also don’t use ‘Eskimo kisses’. It’s called Kunik. It is a greeting mostly used for family… Kunik was how I’d greet my mom and grandmother as a small child.” /TD]

[vickytokio]

Rebloging for the awareness and especially for the alternative words

[anarchopuppy]

And so people who are just learning this now know the proper usage: “Inuit” is plural. The singular is “Inuk”, as in “he is an Inuk”

[digg]

[tenaflyviper]

If you can’t find a place on your blog for Patrick Stewart in a bathtub dressed like a lobster, then your blog probably doesn’t deserve such majesty anyway.

[revdrfrog]

It has returned to my dash and I cannot fight the compulsion to reblog…

[dreaming-jaybird]

the patrick lobster appears only once in a thousand years, reblog for good luck

[imafederalagent---dumbass]

Theater Tickets for Sale

Hi! I was supposed to be going to New York in December, but I’m not going to be able to. I have tickets for Hadestown that I would like to sell.

Hadestown x2- Orchestra Center, Row D. 

While I’d love to get the full $770 that I paid, I am willing to accept less. DM me if interested. 

[imafederalagent---dumbass]

Just watched The Hating Game and the speed at which Josh goes from smoldering asshole to puppy dog upon realizing that Lucy likes him is astounding. This is such a good movie. Definitely one of the better book to movie adaptations.

[imafederalagent---dumbass]

Does anyone happen to have a video or mp3 of Jenn Colella’s last Me and the Sky? I have tons of stuff I can trade for it.

[prideknights]

[prideknights]

[prideknights]

https://transgenderlawcenter.org/donate

[that-bastard-with-all-the-bones]

‘and fight like hell for the living’ I’M CRYING THAT’S SO POWERFUL I’M ABSOLUTELY GOING TO FIGHT LIKE HELL THANK YOU PRIDE KNIGHTS

[yeahiwasintheshit]

[salixfragilis]

My therapist told me similar thing.... So true!

[odinsblog]

I will keep on saying this: If the mass deportations of Black and Brown people was considered racist under Trump, it doesn’t magically stop being racist just because a Democrat™ is doing it now. The silence from “allies” who were screaming bloody murder about immigration abuses under Trump is as deafening as it is hypocritical.

And I will keep saying this too: Abolish ICE. ICE is beyond “reforming.” And prosecute ICE and Border Patrol agents who commit human rights abuses.

[aurumacadicus]

Don’t….. fuckin power wash your roof. Don’t let anyone power wash your roof.

[randomingoftherandomness]

Friend, from the tone of your words, I feel like you’ve just learnt a hard lesson here…

[aurumacadicus]

Fortunately no, it was an easy lesson I learned when I was seven when my dad was power washing the driveway and I asked if he was going to power wash the roof next and he explained to me that it would damage the roof because it was meant to handle rain and snow, which is never going to be as hard as a power washer.

Lots of people are learning this the hard way this year though. It’s a new scam. Someone knocks on your door and offers to wash your roof for two hundred bucks. “Damn, that’s a pretty good price,” you think, knowing that roofs require a huge chunk of change. The guy power washes the roof and leaves. It was a cash transaction, and he didn’t leave contact information, so when your roof starts leaking during the first rain, you have no one to contact to sue for damages and you’re stuck on the hook for replacing the roof yourself, which you either do yourself (cost of materials and many hours of your time) or you hire someone to do for you (which runs into the tens of thousands of dollars, an amount people normally can’t just drop).

Lots of new homeowners don’t know this stuff, and it would definitely behoove them to research it, but until they have the time to do that, I’m here to say: Don’t power wash your roof.

[programaticallydelicious]

Maybe he’s ordering a decaf because he has a heart condition, and you’re about to give him a heart attack and send him to the hospital.

Or maybe he’s just ordering a decaf.

Maybe she’s ordering sugar free because she’s diabetic, and you’re about to put her six feet under.

Or maybe she’s just ordering sugar free,

Maybe they’re ordering non-dairy because they’re intolerant, and you’re about to ruin their day. Maybe they’re allergic, and you’re about to sponsor an all black event in an open field.

Or maybe they’re just ordering non-dairy.

Maybe they ordered gluten free because they can’t process it, and you’re about to destroy their digestive tract.

Or maybe they’re just ordering gluten free.

Maybe they’re ordering this way just because they don’t want the food, for whatever reason.

But are you willing to bet their life on it?

[desolator-thedragon]

Also, please remember that some people with sensitivities may get sick hours to days later. Just because they don’t have an immediate reaction doesn’t mean they are “exaggerating” or “lying”.

Whether illness or personal preference— just make their dang food the way they ask!!!

[politicandhp]

Who is this post for? Are food/coffeeshop employees regularly sneaking sugar and caffinated coffee out to their customers? Os this a thing thats happening?

[fairytalepsuedonym-deactivated2]

A while back there was a post on an anaonymous cofessions about about a person who said whenever she sees a thin woman ordering a diet soda she just gives em a regular bc they dont “need to be dieting.”

[beaniebaneenie]

Every coffee shop I have EVER worked in had at least one barista who would regularly change orders without the customer’s knowledge or permission, for reasons like

she doesn’t need to be dieting

Ugh, non dairy milk is so hard to steam, and drinking soy is a fad anyway

Life is short, eat the damn cheese bitch, it won’t kill you

I’d have to go open another bag of the gluten-free, and I don’t wanna walk all the way to the back room to go get it

At least once, I caught it maybe 3 seconds from disaster- someone with a life-threatening dairy allergy had ordered a soy latte. She told me at the register that it was a deadly allergy. I even wrote on the cup “ALLERGY- NO DAIRY”.

I caught the barista in question rolling her eyes and saying under her breath, “skinny bitches and their fake allergies, trying to get shit for free” (this particular coffee shop had a policy where a dairy allergy meant you didn’t pay the extra fee for non-dairy milk).

I saw the barista rinsing the dairy pitcher, put 2+2 together, and yelled out to the customer to stop her. She hadn’t started drinking yet, but she did lick the drips on the lid- she still needed her Epi-Pen and to go to the hospital.

Suffice to say that barista was fired on the spot… but there are many more people like that. Far too many.

Make the food/drinks people order, the way they fucking order them.

Even if she had just been trying to save the 50 cents…. so what?

Don’t bet people’s lives on your decisions.

[nieladasdenani]

Ultimately, even if it’s not medical related, it’s not your goddamn problem if they want to be “fake”. Give people what they ask for. Wtf?

[natalieironside]

A lot of vets try to say we’re better than civilians but there was a time in my life when I had to ask a weird guy in a Smoky the Bear hat for permission to take a shit and I just went with it. We did that. I don’t think you get to come back from that.

[natalieironside]

Of all the things in my life that make me go “Why did I do that?”, the most of all is letting a cadre of weird dads with 100 divorces between them who’d never had real jobs in their lives control my life and actions. I could’ve just not done that.

[wintercoffin]

sounds like a cult

[natalieironside]

yeah

[socialistscumbag]

Totally different message when you read vets as veterinarians.

[natalieironside]

Unlike the troops, veterinarians are in fact better than the rest of us

[screnwriter-old-deactivated2021]

Writing pirates: Pirates vs Privateers (part one)

Before we dive into the glamour and destruction of a pirate’s life, it’s important to establish and difference between the crews who operated the seven seas in the 1700s. 

PIRATES

A group of men who robbed and plundered the sea, but also committed felonies, robberies and murders in any haven, river or creek where the Lord High Admiral had jurisdiction. 

The Lord High of Admiral = The ceremonial head of the Royal Navy (also known as someone who appears to be in charge, but holds very little influence, like most monarchs today) 

Jurisdiction: The official power to make legal decisions and judgements

BUCCANEER

Pirates who preyed on Spanish ships and ports in the Caribbean Sea. To Spain, they were nothing more than ordinary pirates, but for their nations, they were much more than that. 

Spain strived to keep all their possessions from the rest of the world, and the rise of buccaneers came apparent when the English occupied Jamaica, which provided them with a base to attack Spanish settlements. 

CORSAIRS

Pirates (and privateers) who operated in North Africa. Their base primarily in the ports of Salé, Rabat, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli.

(also referred to as: barbary pirates, barbary corsairs or ottoman corsairs)

PRIVATEER

An armed vessel, consisting of a commander and his crew, who was licensed to attack, seize and loot ships of hostile nations. 

The license was issued in form of a document, which was called the Letter of Marque (and Reprisal, LOMAR for short). The letter was written in ponderous legal phrases, and decorated with an elaborate pen and ink flourishes. 

The Captain, or commander, of the ship, was expected to keep a journal, as well as hand over ships to the Admiralty court to be assessed and valued. A proportion of the ship’s value went to the sovereign, while the rest was divided between the owners of the ship, the captain, and his crew.

Admiralty court: jurisdiction over maritime law, including cases regarding shipping, ocean, and sea laws

Sovereign: king, queen, or other royal ruler of a country

An authorized privateer, and get this, was recognized by law, and could not be prosecuted for piracy, which in turn caused the system to be wide open for abuse, and most privateers were nothing more than licensed pirates.

Privateers, in simpler words, were basically pirates with papers. They were hired to carry out military activities, and in many ways, their actions mirrored a pirate’s, only difference being, they couldn’t be prosecuted for the crimes they committed. 

Also, fun fact! In the 1700s, also known as the golden era of piracy, 98% of the men operating as pirates in the Caribbean and western Atlantic, had formerly either been seamen in the merchant service, the Royal Navy, or even served as privateers. 

Not every man suffered the same fate, however. Captain Woodes Rogers, a former privateer, became the first Royal Governor over the Bahamas, and was tasked with the dangerous mission of establishing a well-organized government, that would force every last pirate in the Nassau to surrender. [x]

Today, both privateer and buccaneer are being used as a synonym for pirates, but it’s important to know that in the golden era, they were not the same. 

[writing-prompt-s]

Love this!

[imafederalagent---dumbass]

Honestly, I love Welcome to the Moulin Rouge. I do, but I wish they would have done either Backstage Romance or The Pitch. No matter what, sound, orchestrations, lighting, costumes, and set design would have been highlighted. Backstage would have done a really good job highlighting the choreography and hasn’t been seen before by people who haven’t seen the show and would have featured Robyn nicely, and The Pitch would have featured all the actors nominated except for Robyn (& Karen since she left).

[aarontveitdaily]

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