Karisnomad

This is home. Plant your roots. Grow deep. Tend your garden. Take the plot of earth that you call yours and nourish those that share it.

[s-leary]

“General.”

[ninemoons42]

HERE COME THE GENERALS

[shinraalpha]

RISE UP.

[dicaeopolis]

what your foreign language study says about you

[seafoam-fey]

spanish: you are trying to fulfill a requirement

french: you run a hipster blog and are far too defensive of the french language

latin: you value academia very highly but you value dick jokes more

ancient greek: like latin except you also hate yourself

old english: you care way too much about lord of the rings

old norse: you care way too much about vikings

russian: you are russian

italian: you are a naïve, romantic writer and you want to be a wine connoisseur (when you turn 21)

german: you are an intellectual overachiever who carries a heavy burden of existential angst

finnish: you just really like grammar for some reason

dutch: you have an oral presentation to give soon and are trying to lose your voice so you don’t have to present

[ampervadasz]

[characterlimit]

*schlorp* OHOHOHO *shklump* AHAHAHA

[luxgalador]

I cannot stop watching this

[karisnomad]

I thought that was a bowling-ball and I was yelling "NO NO NO noO NONONO!" at the screen

[tastefullyoffensive]

“Moooom! …can you get my toy for me?” (via qoolove520)

[kathereal]

The baby yell

[emotiona1shorty]

She’s such a patient mom

[thecreach]

That’s one of the most adorable things I’ve ever seen.

[2-fast-2-curious]

The Story of Romeo and Juliet Condensed Into a Single GIF

[weloveshortvideos]

[mercedesbenzodiazepine]

Oh my fucking GOD

[likeamillionsuns]

this is the best thing I have ever seen with my own two eyes.

[jumpingjacktrash]

oh my gosh he’s gently play-biting them like they’re his own babies

[cozymochi]

@since-the-900s

[thespectacularspider-girl]

This lion’s name is Bonedigger and he was born with a crippling bone disease, so the keepers introduced three dachshunds to give him companionship; Abby, Bullet and Milo.

They’re his pride now!

[valkyrie-wrath-deactivated20190]

This is the only fucking thing I care about, do you hear me.

[apoemaday]

If

by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream—and not make dreams your master; If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim, If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two impostors just the same: If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken, And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breathe a word about your loss: If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men count with you, but none too much: If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!

[profeminist]

“General periodic reminder: The term “toxic masculinity” does not mean “all men are toxic.” It refers to cultural norms that equate masculinity with control, aggression, and violence and that label emotion, compassion, and empathy “unmanly.“ 

Read the full thread here

More posts on toxic masculinity

[feministsagainstviolence]

Had to explain this to one of my good friends recently. “Toxic masculinity” doesn’t mean that everything considered masculine is toxic. It describes the way cultural ideas of masculinity have been corrupted by sexism to a point of toxicity.

[foxy-filly]

I’m sorry, we need to take a short break from horses to appreciate that my boyfriend’s cat has a treadmill, and she will only run on it if she has an audience.

[officialfist]

This is really important

[writing-prompt-s]

Your Tumblr username decides your profession. How is your first day at work?

[juliuscaesarofficial]

[whatsdifferentincanada]

[writer-and-thrasher]

I HAVE NEVER HIT THE REBLOG BUTTON SO FAST

[actjustly-deactivated20181001]

You took our peoples as slaves but aren’t taking refugees. 

[reverseracism]

[staganddragon-deactivated201804]

Soft things my dad has done

One time when he was 18, he was fishing and found a baby salamander someone had tried and failed to use as bait. It had a huge gash in its side and didn’t look like it would make it. He put it in the bucket he was going to put fish in and took it home, then performed “surgery” on the little guy to mend the gash. It couldn’t move, so my dad fed it and nursed it back to health until the gash was healed. Since he’d taken it in as a baby, it wasn’t equipped to stay alive in the wild, so he kept it in a giant aquarium next to his bed. It stayed alive until my sister was born six years later.

His dad took him deer hunting once when he was in middle school. They hunted all day and never saw a single deer. At the end of the day as the sun was setting, they found one, and my dad yelled at my grandpa not to shoot it because it didn’t deserve to die. He hasn’t been deer hunting since.

Two people I used to be best friends with don’t have stable parents. My dad takes them out for lunch and out fishing regularly, and even though I am not friends with either of them anymore, he still makes time for them as if they were his own kids.

Sometimes I catch him crying at videos of dogs on the internet.

One time he was crying and I asked him what was wrong and he gave me a hug and said there isn’t always a reason. I’ve held on to that.

He told me that if (if) he dies, he wants to die by being drowned in a horde of puppies because otherwise, what’s the point?

He makes sure to say “I love you” to my mom and me every day, because he once told me he never once heard it from his parents as a kid.

Saw my mom looking at a bird, so he found out what kind of bird it was and drew a picture of it for her.

Heard me crying after a hard day and brought me a box of milk duds, because even though I’m lactose intolerant, it was an occasion on which they were needed.

Shows me every day that men who feel allowed to be open, vulnerable, soft, and emotional are so much happier than men who are told to keep it all inside.

[ithelpstodream]

The official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama, by Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald. First presidential portraits painted by black artists.

[zandraart]

the dragon keeper

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Am I the only one who can’t really get with this whole “OMG North and South Korea marched in as one isn’t the unity beautiful!“ Thing? Like the announcers have been handling it with kid gloves and only brief mentions of “human rights violation concerns“ on the part of North Korea but let’s get serious for a minute. The leftists love to compare Trump to Hitler but a much more apt modern Hitler comparison is Kim Jong Un. The horror he has wrought upon his own people cannot be understated. Just a month or two ago we were looking at a story of a man desperately crossing the border into South Korea and getting shot several times in the process because to him the only options were to get the hell out of there or die trying. People are being forced into work camps, tortured, killed, experimented on, starved, beaten, separated from families, worked to death, and the list goes on. Un has likely had members of his own family and confidants killed. Even that sister of his standing in the viewing box is not safe from his wrath if he turns it against her.

It’s a little hard for me to smile and pretend that North Korea is just another delegation in this friendly competition between countries. I know that conflicts and disagreements are often set aside for the sake of the Olympics, but these massive and severe human rights violations are a little hard for me to stomach while pretending everything is all right and it’s totally wonderful that North and South Korea are playing nice for two weeks.

[friendly-neighborhood-patriarch]

Me too! Also this is facilitated by the backing of the 50k American soldiers and the US military aid that has basically allowed the south to develop in safety and let’s them play “unity and diplomat” with a seriously evil regime

[karisnomad]

It encourages me, because, despite the despot, there are families separated in the North and South that just want to see an end to the barrier between the countries. Are there atrocities going on in the North? Absolutely. Are there people there suffering. Yes. But we know what the alternatives to peace talks are. No one buys the North's, "All fine up here! Don't look behind the curtain!" No one with half a brain, anyways. Not all of the South wants reunification because of the massive economic burden it would put on them to bring the North into this century, but pauses to threats and conflict are celebrated because the option of reunification though nuclear warfare isn't a pretty alternative.

[knitmeapony]

This is the most wholesome thing I’ve ever freaking seen.

[Photo caption: a screencapture of a tweet from twitter user jynersos.  Text: why does this look like a picture that a school would put on its website to encourage parents to send their kids there.  Photo: Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, dressed as their Star Wars Characters on set, smile winningly at the camera.]

[onlyhughmannhere]

Funnily enough, John Boyega did actually model for some stock school photos. 

[lesbian-moon-gf]

im crying