And it's you that I believe in

Nito ◇ it/he ◇ horrorenjoyer@bsky ◇ tumblr victim since 2012

[pjharvey]

[i-draws-dinosaurs]

fanart :)

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[1lluminae-files]

UNMUTE!!

[teaboot]

POV u are delicious

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

It’s incredibly sexist to claim Taylor swift’s dad bought her career

damn you're right. both of her parents worked together to buy her career and I am sorry for disrespecting Andrea Swift in this way

[kinuko]

[creekfiend]

I was in Mormon brain jail concurrently to when Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped and held, as it turned out, like 20 miles away from us. We would see billboards when we were driving past in our big white institution van, and we would see magazines in the checkout aisle, on the rare occasions we were allowed to enter shops accompanied, about Elizabeth Smart being held somewhere by some guy. This teenage girl who had been kidnapped and brainwashed and held basically in the next valley over. I don't remember how long she was with him, but this was when everyone was freshly looking for her and panicking about how she had been abducted and was being held against her will and brainwashed. Her picture was EVERYWHERE.

So. Imagine dozens of other teenage girls, being held against their will and brainwashed in Utah, seeing these billboards and going, "huh. I'm having a complicated emotional reaction to all of this. It's possible that I might unpack that in two to three decades."

Both of these situations arise from the same societal attitudes. This guy wanted a teenage girl to be trapped with him and unable to leave, regardless of her feelings on the matter, and for her to act a certain way and comply with his desires. He took her from her home and forced her to be somewhere she did not want to be and would not let her go, and he tried to turn her into a different thing. The difference in societal reactions to when one specific, unauthorized guy does this, compared to when someone's parents pay a fancy sounding institution to do it for them, tells you a lot about how we think about the autonomy of teenage girls.

In Utah, the reason these types of institutions are allowed is because their youth rights laws are abysmal even compared to the rest of the US. Children aren't people, they're the property of their parents. Elizabeth Smart's parents didn't want her to be kidnapped, so it was bad. Our parents did want us to be kidnapped, so it was fine.

Elizabeth Smart’s kidnapper’s crime was that he didn’t go through the established system for kidnapping and brainwashing teenage girls. This is not even a little bit hyperbolic.

[creekfiend]

Some ppl are confused about this, I recommend at the very least reading the Wikipedia article on the troubled teen industry. For more info, you can listen to Paris Hilton's podcast Trapped in Treatment or the Salt Lake Tribune's podcast Sent Away (or both). This is something you probably should know about if you have any interest in mental health treatment or youth rights in the USA. (Thanks Kuzu for the latter two recs!)

The types of institutions I'm referring to, which operate primarily in Utah, accept kids who have no criminal history or history of drug use, which is usually a requirement in other states, or that is my understanding of how it worked at the time I was imprisoned. And I am equally against them in both cases, to be clear. 👍

[lavendertattoo]

[ghadaanqar50]

I disappeared from Tumblr not because I stopped caring, not because Gaza became safe, and not because the war ended. I disappeared because life forced me to make decisions I never imagined I would have to make. I sold my phone so I could provide food and water for my family and the children, and then I bought a cheap phone with very limited capabilities. In Gaza, the phone I once used to connect with the world became less important than providing a meal for a hungry child.

I came back today to see that people are still talking about Gaza, but the suffering of the children has not stopped. Children don’t understand politics or negotiations, and they don’t know what plans and statements mean. They know hunger, fear, displacement, and cold. They know what it feels like to lose their homes, their safety, and people they love. For them, war is not just a headline on a screen it is a childhood being stolen from them day after day.

I came back to Tumblr because I could no longer stay silent. Maybe I returned with a simple phone, but I returned with a voice that wants to remind the world of one thing: Don’t forget the children of Gaza. If you cannot help them, share their stories, reblog their voices, and help their message reach others. Because a child who goes to sleep hungry tonight cannot wait for another headline, another plan, or another promise.

@rickybabyboy @komsomolka @prisonhannibal @soranatus @3000s @ot3 @90-ghost @plumpydoll @redbuddi @tpwrtrmnky @rslashrats @tamamita @ankle-beez @omegaversereloaded @postanagramgenerator @certifiedsexed @afro-elf @spacebeyonce @beserkerjewel @beetledrink @spaghettioverdose @grox @minmos @slimetony @juney-blues @hollowtones @aflo @skunkes @wolfertinger666 @smoqueen @wayneradiotv @sporesgalaxy @halflifegifs @rabdoidal @taffybuns @yekkes @isuggestlandback @ilynpilled @infectiouspiss @amygdalae @socialistexan @nonbinary-support @noxtheox @extremelycursedimages @shesnake @pitbolshevik @strangeauthor @isuggestforcefem @starlightshadowsworld @a-shade-of-blue

[piduai]

[ladiesnoob217]

[gae-bolg-alternative-dot-exe]

[helpeverythingiscats]

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

[dogpuppy]

that might be one of my friends, they’re pissed because i keep showing them the AI video of Paul McCartney in Chinese with the horses where he looks like bad yogurt and they know you made it

I didn’t make it…

Lennon_lad on ig made it!!!

I do enjoy how you said he looks like bad yogurt…

[dogpuppy]

Chinese paul mccartney has been chosen by the algorithm…

[rabbitkinglune777]

i love how American food for the most part is 1252232 billion dollars and doesn't taste like real food.

[rabbitkinglune777]

this is what it's like eating food here

[herpsandbirds]

Black Bittern (Botaurus flavicollis), family Ardeidae, order Pelicaniformes, India

All bitterns were recently folded into the genus Botaurus, removing many species from the now defunct genus Ixobrychus.

photograph by Saswat Mishra

[patronsaintofweepingmothers]

"twinkie" (2008), djonesgirlz

[kuyafag]

transandrophobia is when we are more female than trans women but also if a trans woman points out we are men thats misandry (which exists) and also misogyny isnt as serious as transandrophobia but also we experience both and trans women can be misogynistic towards men who are women and we should let men be masculine and feminine but only if they have a vagina and (starts throwing up blood