ImperialEmpressOfDumplingopolis

I am the Empress of Dumplings. I am also a great and noble Dumpling Warrior. For centuries my people have fought for justice and freedom from the Potatoes. Join me in the fight against the malevolent and savage Potato People. My Special Interests include: Gotham (esp. Edward Nygma but I pretty much love all the characters, he's my favourite though!), Elfen Lied, 60s Riddler/Frank Gorshin, Audrey Hepburn, Mary Pickford, Oscar Wilde, Helen Keller and anything vintage related (e.g. clothes, bric-a-brac, old hollywood films etc). THE POTATOES SHALL ENSLAVE THE DUMPLINGS NO MORE! THE DUMPLINGS SHALL RISE AGAIN!

[my-darling-boy]

It shatters my heart that gay people centuries ago lived and died thinking the life they wanted was nothing but an impossible dream, and I’m perpetually heartbroken that very little record of them exists. And while I think about this A LOT, I never really knew how to express it until I stumbled upon that Sappho quote:

“Someone will remember us, I say, even in another time.”

[dragonladdie]

Hey remember when they found over 200 bodies of native children buried behind a residential school and the world cared for... what, a week?

They've counted about 6,000-7,000 now, for those of you who do still care

[dragonladdie]

It should NOT fall on Indigenous people's shoulders to keep this known still. We’ve been doing that for generations at this point and NO ONE wants to listen to us.

We’re tired, mourning and constantly reopening our trauma and pain to keep people caring about us. It’s terrible.

[foxgirltail]

I should start by noting that I am white, and not Canadian, and that if op wants me to remove this comment for any reason, please let me know.

This is a map of all the residential schools in Canada:

[link to the article it’s attached to, it’s interactable there, so you can get a better look around]

Each dot on this map represents a residential school. Blue dots mean the school is considered completely searched. Yellow dots mean they are either in the process of being searched or there are plans to be searched. Red dots indicate that no search has happened and that no search is currently planned

There were more than 130 residential schools in Canada. This map suggests that only six have been fully searched, and a little more than a dozen partially searched (I counted 15 yellow dots). That leaves at least 109 schools completely untouched.

Let that sink in; if 6,000-7,000 unmarked, indigenous children’s graves were found by searching less than a fifth of all the schools, how many are still undiscovered.

Wikipedia estimates that the body count could be over 50,000, and honestly, that could be a low estimate

[chillgamesh-the-swing]

Residential schools were also common in the US. Although the programs were generally called “Indian boarding schools,” they had the same violently abusive christian framework, many many children died or disappeared in them, and those who survived were left with generations of trauma.

There were at least 367 in 29 US states, and while they were operated with state and federal funds from the 1820s to the 1960s, the total number of children who were taken has never been fully accounted for. In 1925 over 80% of school-age Native children in the US were enrolled in a residential school, about 61 thousand (stats via National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition).

A few of them are starting to be searched for children’s graves as well. 182 were discovered on the former site of the Albuquerque Indian School.

[tepkunset]

Hey, I want to stress to everyone that even searching the schools will still not recover all the lost. That blue dot in Nova Scotia? That’s Shubenacadie Residential School. Shubie is next to a large river. I’ve heard folks say they disposed of the deceased by washing them down that river. I’m inclined to believe it.

How many schools did not bury their dead on site? How many  children will never be found? That is also important to remember.

[fake-gamer-boy]

The Captain seeing Kitty

The Woodworm Men 3:3

[imperialempressofdumplingopolis]

@ti-bae-rius​ His face in the last screenshot though I’m gonna cry!!! 🥺😭😭/pos

[croxovergoddess]

I made the majority of "draw the squad" memes that helped people all over the world and hardly anyone knows it was me

I'm three months behind in rent because my cat's hospital visits and surgery cost over $5k

I'm so tired of losing

[wattse]

for ghosts requests could i possibly ask for another lil Kitty? i adored the happy Kitty that I saw recently and she always needs more love (but don't they all?). absolutely LOVE your art, mate, it genuinely gives me life and I can't wait to see more!

Lil Kitty dance !!! + Pat

[ti-bae-rius]

@imperialempressofdumplingopolis

[imperialempressofdumplingopolis]

Aaaa this is so cuuute I love them sm 🥺😭😭💔💞💞

[funkygraveyards-deactivated2023]

“free Palestine” and “don’t use what’s happening to Palestinians as an excuse to spread anti-Semitism” can and should co-exist

[funkygraveyards-deactivated2023]

spreading hate to jewish people as a response to the actions of the israeli government isn’t woke, it just makes you anti-semitic. you can be critical of the israeli government and not be anti-semitic

[the-main-diloolie]

As a Palestinian, honestly, a ton of non-Palestinians join the movement as an excuse to be antisemitic and I DON'T WANT Y'ALL SPEAKING FOR ME.

[ti-bae-rius]

The Israeli government does not represent worldwide Jews, or even the Israeli Jews. They represent a tiny number of Jewish people.

[cullenafeh-moved-deactivated202]

Pay Attention to Palestine

I really don’t mean to guilt trip anyone, but the word needs to be spread about Palestine and no major news outlets are covering it. Hundreds of Palestinians are being injured by the Israeli Occupation forces trying to defend their homes from settler violence and ethnic cleansing.

For the past month lynch mobs and anti-Palestinian pogroms have filled the streets of Jerusalem, this is an extension of over 70 years of ethnic cleansing, dispossession, occupation, settler colonialism, and murder that has effected Palestinians, and Israeli courts have ordered the eviction of 12 Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah and to hand over their land to Israeli settlers. If you are American, this is what your tax dollars are going to, the least you can do is spread the word and voice your support for us. 

If you are able to donate, here are some donation links for Palestinians in need: 

Boycott Divest and Sanction (BDS) 

Palestinian Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association 

Save the Children 

US Campaign for Palestinian Human Rights

Project Rozana USA 

Adalah Justice Project

Medical Aid for Palestine (UK)

Palestine Children’s Relief Fund

Palestinian Policy Network

Electronic Intifada 

Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)

International Medical Corps (GAZA) 

Human Concern International (Gaza) 

Playgrounds for Palestine

Watch to Donate: 

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[starnettle]

more tweets documenting resistance and outrage

Palestinian activists and news networks are being censored across social media right now for recording and live-tweeting what’s happening in Sheikh Jarrah. Read through the #SaveSheikhJarrah tag and posts, so no one can lie to you and tell you this didn’t happen.

[starnettle]

a few more:

[calder]

vegans make peace with honey

no shut up do it

[calder]

vegans will pretend not to hear when natives tell them their agave products are unsustainable because they have whimsical feelings about, and i cannot stress this enough, the freedom of hive insects

[blackwashedmax]

Honey is literally murder but go off

[kasaron]

Prove it.

[blackwashedmax]

They literally puke their guts up to make your honey

[kasaron]

I have not seen any evidence tonsugges they are harmed or die in the process of production. They do regurgitate the nectar as part of the process to concentrate it into honey (an interesting process) but they do not suffer any injury during this process. If they did, the cost to produce honey, which is done naturally as a measure to survive over winter and through times of lower availability, would outweigh the benefits. If you kill several bees to produce enough honey to make one more bee, It makes no sense. Any animal that did that would die, even with human intervention.

Do you have any sources which suggest otherwise? I’d be interested to hear of this (relatively publicly available) information was false or misunderstood.

[blackwashedmax]

Bee farmers use whats called a honey maker. It’s a crude devices. It similar to a meat grinder. They force the bees in and grind them up. What comes out is a paste. That paste is later filtered into what we know as honey

[hematite2]

This is the funniest thing I’ve ever read

[leonardo-nierman]

@zoologicallyobsessed please show us pics of your bee grinder

[gemstone-gynoid]

they might be falsely thinking about a honey extractor machine. but all these do is you place the beehive frames inside and a motor rotates it at a speed that removes the honey, which is then tapped through a tap at the bottom. 

[darkenedyeastextract]

…do they think they put bees in that and spin them around until they vomit…?

[demonius-darkblade]

bee carnival

[yeah-yeah-beebiss-1]

bad and naughty bees get put into the b e e c e n t r i f u g e to extract their honey

[bastlynn]

Vegans coming after beekeepers is one of my major teeth grinding annoyances. For many reasons, because there’s so many lies. And to go one step further because it’s such a waste. You see, the strongest vegan argument is that they don’t want to exploit animals or take from them without their consent.

… but… Bees consent. NO. I’M NOT KIDDING.

How? Bee hives aren’t kept on leashes. They’re outside, the bees can travel miles every day. They follow their queen. Who is also outside, not on a leash, and can travel miles every day. If she doesn’t like the hive for any reason - for example: it got too hot, too cold, too messy, too filled with sugary stuff and they need more space… then the queen leaves. And with her the hive.

The queen stays in the hive because the hive is the best place to live. Period. Done. End of. If the hive is staying with the beekeeper it’s because the keeper is doing their job correctly and keeping them happy because the bees can, and do, leave bad beekeepers.

Of all the animals we have domesticated as livestock, bees are the ones you can most easily argue are consenting participants in their keeping.

[doncdesole]

NAUGHTY BEES GET PUT IN THE BEECENTRIFUGE

IM CRYING OS HARD

[thasmandip]

The Morris vs. Pat Showdown

After Pat finds out his best friend, Morris, is sleeping with his ex-wife, Carol, he confronts him…

[patcaps]

sometimes we have to hold the people that remind us of ourselves

reblogs welcome but please don’t repost

[pipaipie]

31. If he didn't just leave

[theabyssmeowsback]

One thing I wish people knew about auditory processing disorder was that when I ask you to repeat something, I need to you repeat the whole thing.

If I hear “I ???? ????? my keys”

And ask “what?”

So many people just respond with “my KEYS!”

And I have to guess if they said “I need you to grab my keys” or “I already have my keys” or something else, or ask “what about them?” Which frequently annoys people and makes the conversation longer and more complicated than it needs to be.

PLEASE just repeat the whole sentence it saves everyone so much awkwardness and confusion

[adultingautistic]

What I do is I say the part I heard.

If I hear “I ???? ????? my keys.”, I don’t say “What?” I say, “I heard something about keys.”

And then the person naturally repeats the part NOT about the keys.  It really does work.

[ti-bae-rius]

I use the “what about keys?” technique, or just straight up “say all that again”

[risingpilots]

White allies do better....

Stop with the "oh well I'm white and i agree" or the "I'm white and I'm sorry for us" on posts about racism

Stop with the lengthy apologizes when you do something small like write the above on posts and someone calls you out on it

Stop asking me for my opinon on what this famous black person did

Stop asking me for my opinion on if a thing is racist or not

Stop asking me to explain basic racist shit to you

Stop telling black people about the time you called your racist uncle out on his racism or the protests you went to

Stop asking for my opinion on things you did that you're scared is racist/has racist undertones

Stop with the white guilt... It ain't helpin nobody

Stop asking one black person for their opinion on something about race... You gotta ask more black people if you want an accurate representation of something because not all of us are the same/think the same thing

Stop treating black people like we're "professors" on racism

Google is free. Can y'all please start treating black people like actual people and not someone to teach you about racism. It's exhausting

[risingpilots]

White people can and should reblog this

[chronicintrovert]

would you say georgia in loveless is aegosexual? i’m aego and i related a lot to her with the fandom things and how her fangirl nature affected her libido, so i was just wondering if that was a possibility bc that’d be really cool!

I think she definitely is, yes!!

[ti-bae-rius]

Wait...this is a thing? 🥺❤️

[imperialempressofdumplingopolis]

I’m aegosexual too! ;D It basically means you can feel sexual attraction, but the thought of actually doing anything sexual with someone yourself just feels... weird and icky. 😅 For aegosexuals, erotic fantasies almost always involve another person or character rather than the person themself. ^^

[almondkittie]

Y’all please help in anyway you can. This baby is only 11!

Here is their PayPal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme2/sistahgirlRsp

Send money using PayPal.me. Visit a PayPal.Me page link and type in the amount. Since it's PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don't have a PayPal

[growtiredofpublicvulnerability]

this post is from last year, as of now Ebony goes to a different school and their family still needs help paying for transportation since the district won't provide it.

[bunnykicksyou]

Here is the Gofundme

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-ebony-get-adaquate-education

Help Ebony cover school costs organized by Nicole Collins-Perry

On September 4th, my child, Ebony, was tripped by her bully. Tired, frustrated and … Nicole Collins-Perry needs your support for Help Ebony

[ti-bae-rius]

Reblogging because I’ll get money in a couple of days to donate

[jawnbaeyega]

So apparently there’s a Tumblr glitch that’s making folks unfollow mutuals. I haven’t deliberately unfollowed any mutuals and I don’t check my list of who I follow so please let me know if I’m not following you anymore!

[ti-bae-rius]

I’ve been getting this! I’ve also had the glitch where my tumblr randomly unfollows accounts I interact with a lot so 😭

[sandersstudies]

Husband just told me he’s going to sit in the car because he’s about to yell at someone on the phone and doesn’t want me to be upset by his yelling and I can’t decide if this is a little sad or kinda hilarious.

[sandersstudies]

Remember that post about how a lot of women are inherently terrified of men shouting, even when it’s not directed at them or with cruel intentions? Good men get that and will uhhhhh apparently sit in their car on a summer day because they just HAVE to roast someone but they also respect women’s feelings.

[sandersstudies]

“Pardon me, madam. This gentleman must be put to rights immediately. I will take him out of doors for a thorough admonition so as not to upset your delicate constitution.”