eat the rich

gay and depressed

[alwaysbewoke]

[dreamyblackchild]

White folks ain’t going to reblog this. They want their version of MK Jr. that only said “I have a dream”. 

[shinra-makonoid]

Guilt tripping white people into reblogging stuff isn’t going to make you have more allies, just saying.

[dreamyblackchild]

It’s not about guilt tripping. 

It’s about white people, even well-intentioned white allies, being too comfortable in their privilege and not learn more about the complex beliefs of civil right leader MLK Jr other than his “I have a dream” speech. MLK Jr. talked extensively about American Imperialism, Capitalism, and White Fragility/Complicity throughout his career and activism, which most Liberal white allies won’t share because they’re too comfortable with the white lies they were taught in schools. 

[linguaphiliax]

Reblogged.

[ephemeralharmony]

totally agree, however that is still guilt tripping lol

[alwaysbewoke]

here’s the hilarious thing about calling this “guilt tripping.” the psychological definition of a “guilt trip” is an UNJUSTIFIED feeling of guilt induced in someone else. um, what about anything here said about white people that’s “unjustified” or baseless? we’ve got over 400yrs of evidence to back up our statements about white people. we even got studies, research and stats. none of which shows what @dreamyblackchild said to be false.

The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.

Whites See Racism as a Zero-Sum Game That They Are Now Losing

Martin Luther King and the ‘polite’ racism of white liberals

White Americans long for the 1950s, when they didn’t face so much “discrimination”

lmaoo white people love to act like we don’t have centuries of examples of who they are. always want to act brand new. like this suspicion and mistrust of your character isn’t earned every fucking day by your behavior, your treatment of black people, native people, brown people, by who you vote for, who you support with your money, who you tone police, your “jokes” and more. foh!  like there isn’t a trail of dead black, native and brown bodies in your wake. we watched y’all whitewash the fuck out of mlk’s legacy (AFTER KILLING HIM BTW) and then tried to use that whitewashed version to limit our fight for liberation and justice to just the acts your comfortable with and then have the fucking nerve to say that calling out your typical behavior to be “guilt tripping?” fuck you.

the one other thing i know about “guilt tripping” is that it only works on people with a fucking conscious. foh!

[alwaysbewoke]

no effort whatsoever. like mlk said…

[sweetcribs]

for all the constant mlk quoting about “content of our character” blah blah blah i hear from white people, how do they think this reflects on their character?

[archive95205-blog]

[shaniae]

Reblog in 10 seconds and $1700 will come your way

[trainhardrunfast]

I have nothing to lose and 1700$ to gain

[kaity--did]

Do you know how hard it is to live with a cat that has the intelligence level of literally like a 3 year old but the pure chaos of a high ranking demon?

He’s learned to open the lazy Susan and won’t stop clawing open the flour and rolling in it like a little chinchilla

[kaity--did]

Criminal charges

[kaity--did]

Hey hey hey HEY

He’s been CRAWLING INTO THE BOTTOM CABINETS to TEAR OPEN THE INSTANT POTATOES and EAT BAGS AND BAGS OF THEM I’m livid but also impressed.

[pigcatapult]

Do you have anything with that kind of texture that he can safely play with? This sounds like an understimulation issue.

[kaity--did]

He’s not playing with it

He’s eating it.

I can tell because the bags are nearly empty except for a few small clumps.

I knew he loves mashed potatoes. I just didn’t know the extent he’d go to to get them.

[kaity--did]

We had him tested and in the course of that vet visit he stole

6 tips

3 of the ear light cover things

Our other cats collar

the ear bud of the vets stethoscope 

several hearts

a plastic glove

the vet techs hair tie

Also yeah he’s fine he just likes to steal

[synebluetoo]

Not guilty by reason of deficiency of other people’s stuff

[kaity--did]

This is his ledge

His ledge is taller then my husband who is 6’2”

I am 5’5”

I have to get the step ladder out once a week and see what Orange Sherbert has taken to his ledge for safe keeping. It’s usually the remote.

[calmingthoughtsinyourhead]

I’m just going to leave this here…

[peachymachi]

[fartpenis]

[starlightomatic]

im on mobile, can someone make one that adds “jews”

Done

Cowards won’t reblog this version.

[the-aro-ace-arrow-ace]

[seraphic-sapphic-safehaven]

[erinisdarling]

spreading till it reaches the right person ✌🏽😌

[twoofcups]

gordon ramsey: is the food good here?

underpaid server: 

[b0ggyb1tch]

[dadmech]

[twinky-dinky-doo]

[thegreenmeridian]

My favourite thing about that show is how he treats servers. It was also the source of some very intense fantasies when I was a barista of him busting into my cafe, calling my boss a fucking idiot, then taking me against the broken dishwasher.

[twoofcups]

[berniefucks]

[no-mere-mortals]

Did you know that when you post something on the internet it will never be truly deleted

[world-heritage-posts]

world heritage post

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[d34d404]

might need one too

[starvingszn]

Yeah I could use this

[hellenhighwater]

When I was a kid, my mom was a judge and my dad was starting his solo practice, and they both worked full time. There were four of us kids between the ages of one and seven (the Just Us League) and no decent daycares nearby, so they hired a nanny.  She had three almost-adult children, and on days when she couldn’t work, one of her kids would substitute. The oldest kid was named Bob, age 18, and he had just finished army basic training when this all went down. Bob did not have the good sense god gave a rock. 

I have an older brother, Jake, who was seven; then me, Hellen, age five, then Seth, age three, and my little sister Gin would have been one. It was late August, and we were at our nanny’s house, though she was gone for the day. Bob was in charge.

Bob should probably not have been in charge.

Bob tried keeping us entertained with board games and tag and movies. Gin took a nap. Eventually he decided to get creative, and sat us down in the living room with a game and vanished into the garage. There was a smashing sound. And then some saw noises. And then some hammering. And then we saw him going around the house to the back yard through the windows, though we were too short to see what he was doing. And finally, he yelled to us to come out into the driveway. 

Jake and Seth and I trooped out. Bob had both hands behind his back. He stepped up to Jake and revealed what he had in his right hand. 

It was a wooden sword. It was clearly made from what appeared to be parts of a chair’s legs, cut down and nailed together. He presented this, and announced, “You are Sir Jake, the strongest knight!” 

He stepped up to Seth and presented what was in his left hand. It was another wooden sword, smaller than the first, also crudely made out of chair legs. He announced, “You are Sir Seth, the bravest knight!”

At this point, I was practically vibrating in place, waiting eagerly for my sword so I could use it to whale on my brothers, as god intended me to do. I was therefore understandably disappointed to be presented with the business end of a garden hose and told, “You are Miss Hellen, the Water Fairy!”

“No,” I said. “I want a sword.”

Bob was confused. “But you get water magic! Magic’s great!”

“No.” I repeated, holding the hose. It had a spray nozzle set to jet. “I want a sword.”

“Magic’s great. Magic’s better than a sword.” Bob insisted. “You’ll see. Wait here a moment.”

And then Bob ran around the side of house and vanished. 

We stood in the driveway. Jake and Seth poked each other with their swords. I spritzed them idly with the hose, trying to decide which of them would be easier to steal a sword from. 

And then we heard a quiet wooshing noise, and smelled smoke. 

We turned. As we watched, a line of fire rushed around the corner of the house, consuming a path of gasoline poured into the dry August grass. 

We paused and considered this for a few moments. I raised the hose and sprayed a jet of water at the fire. It went out. We glanced at each other. Then we took off running, following the trail of fire, spraying as we went. 

The fire led in a path around the house to the back yard. As we turned the corner, we saw Bob, clad in a bathrobe and holding a curtain rod, standing in the center of a large ring of burning grass. He cackled manically. “I am the FIRE WIZARD! Your puny swords are useless! Nothing but water magic can defeat me!”

I promptly blasted him with the hose. He spluttered. The fire did not go out. 

I turned the hose on the fire itself, spraying a section close to us so that it would extinguish. As soon as there was enough room, Jake charged forward, brandishing his chair leg sword with a battle cry. Seth, always happy to be included, followed. They ran into the circle and began beating Bob around the kneecaps with their swords. I kept spraying. 

Eventually, Bob the Fire Wizard was brought down and all the fire was extinguished. Seth and Jake continued to work on bruising Bob’s shins, and I quickly discarded the hose to lend my fists and extremely pointy elbows to the cause. Bob lay in the smoldering grass, probably regretting using such sturdy chair legs. 

Once we’d all tired ourselves out and lay panting in a heap, Bob decided it was time for the moral of the story. “You see, a sword is nothing compared to the power of a little girl with **magic**.” 

We thought about this for a few moments. Bob nodded wisely. Jake and Seth nodded back. 

“I still want a sword.” I said. 

[hellenhighwater]

there’s a lot of people in the tags and replies expressing several concerns, which I will address:

“Where was Gin?” She was sleeping in a crib on the sunporch. We did this a lot–played outside while she napped–because we could hear her if she woke up and started crying, but were less likely to wake her up. She slept through the whole thing and was totally fine.

“You can’t put out a gasoline fire with water.” At the time, my little kid brain assumed that any flammable liquid was gas, but in retrospect it could have been almost anything. It very well may have been something other than gasoline. All I know is I could extinguish it with a garden hose.

“What did your parents say?” A lot of swear words at a very high volume.

“Did you get a sword?” Yes. Lots.  Here are a couple of them, and also my pet ringneck dove, Arson. You can see how this all may have had some lasting effect on me.

[messruksi]

Is that a real bird?? :0

[hellenhighwater]

Yes, she’s real. This is Arson, her mate, Larceny, and their idiot children, Forgery and Fraud.

Arson lives her life constantly wishing she had opposable thumbs so she could light fires.

[charleewritesabook]

What a ride

[draskireis]

The absolute mania of naming your pets after felonies.

[hellenhighwater]

thrilled to report that that was also me

[cuuno-moved]

im literally in love wtf

[what-even-is-thiss]

The English: This is our legendary King Arthur. His bravest knight is named Gawain who cut off a green giants head

The French: That’s cool, but what if his coolest knight was FRENCH and practiced INFIDELITY with the QUEEN

The English: That’s not…

The French: His name is Lancelot.

The English: Okay actually that name frickin rules. Proceed.

[what-even-is-thiss]

The English: Uh France what are you doing to our oc?

The French: Making the downfall of his kingdom come at the hands of Lancelot.

The English: The… French one?

The French: Yeah.

The English: Aight then.

[what-even-is-thiss]

Historians: Hey! Are you two making things up again?

The French and English: *quickly throw their Lancelot/Guinevere fanfics into a bush* No! Real historical figures! What are you talking about???

The idea of King Arthur being the equivalent to our modern day shows/anime is both a little insulting but also hilarious.

[what-even-is-thiss]

It is though. It’s the medieval equivalent of the MCU or Naruto.

[cannibalcaprine-deactivated2024]

The stories of the Knight of the Round Table or Charlemagne’s Paladins were 100% just the medieval Justice League or Avengers.

[donateliamitsuki]

I was today’s years old when I learned Lancelot and King Arthur ain’t real????

[what-even-is-thiss]

lol no Arthur might have existed but if he did he was a native Briton warlord fighting the Anglo-Saxons that got so mythologized that within everything written about him whatever was originally true in the oral legends about him was lost and overly mythologized by the time a version of his story was first written down in the 500s. The time Arthur supposedly existed was probably around the 200s to 400s because some of his legends involve him or members of his court fighting the remains of the western Roman empire. Lancelot is just an invention by a French poet lol. Chretien de Troyes specifically. Also he was supposedly a lost French nobleman raised by a fairy that lives in a lake so yeah if you dig into the original written legends for more than like ten lines using modern logic you can figure out that they’re not based on real people. Most people don’t read the original source material though so I don’t blame you for not knowing. I think the original poems and compilations are fascinating but I also have a special interest in old literature and studied it in college and know that most people like to read stuff written after 1890 when literature actually Became Good.

[jenniferrpovey]

Arthuriana has always been reenvisioned. It’s all fanfic. Write your own!

[aqueerkettleofish]

The most historically accurate version of the Arthurian Legends was done by Monty Python. Not a punchline.

[definite-human]

@prokopetz on this issue:

[cloverandcrossbones]

Also there’s strong evidence that Arthur was originally Welsh. Arthurian legends are like a multi-country collab project over the course of centuries

[malkaleh]

@beyondthisdarkhouse

[elidyce]

This is why my short story featuring Arthur (Artur) featured Steel As A Relatively Recent invention, a Pict wise woman, and also travelling into a liminal space full of monsters to receive Supernatural Strength And Speed and learn Important Lessons because that is at least as plausible as the rest of this other crap.

[thewritehag]

There’s a newish book called By Force Alone by Lavie Tidhar that is a retelling of Arthurian legend, but with correct historical context, such as Arthur being a warlord rather than the king of the Britons. I haven’t read it yet; it’s on my tbr shelf. It sounds really interesting, though.

[karadin]

One of the Arthurian legends was about a female knight named Bradamante and she saved her Muslim lover who was being held captive. (just handwave the ending where he converted, but hey, their descendants were the percursers of the Hapsburg monarchy

[imalreadydashingthroughtheno]

[missjukebox8bit]

Most corporate social media accounts use memes to try and appear hip with the kids so they’ll buy their product but the Sparknotes twitter account is clearly just run by a literature geek who was told they could make memes about old books and is having the time of their life doing just that

[hetalia-nordic-trash]

Some Anko Family Headcannons

- Sometimes Den brings Norge a cup of coffee while he's reading and just sits next to him to enjoy his company

- Denmark will occasionally watch educational youtube videos incase he has to help Ice with homework

- Ice left a single "best Dad" mug on the table once but instead of fighting Den and Norge just take turns using it

- Norge will still bring Ice a glass of warm milk and tell him to go to bed when he's playing video games at 3 am

- Denmark and Norge keep art that Ice made of the three of them as a kid

[tchaikovsgay]

lol I’m probably about to be burnt at the stake in a facebook group for my ever unpopular opinion that bi women calling their attraction to women gay isn’t a big deal

[tchaikovsgay]

“bi women using the word gay casually perpetuates straight people thinking lesbians will sleep with men” straight men literally are going to keep thinking this and it has nothing to do with bi women. bi women didn’t invent homophobia and if they stopped ever using the word gay collectively it wouldn’t magically make straight men respect lesbian sexuality

[tchaikovsgay]

like imagine unironically saying bi women are responsible for lesbophobia and thinking it’s a woqué take

[tchaikovsgay]

next time a man says something about trying to sleep with a lesbian, don’t sit there and think “wow, if bi women wouldn’t call themselves gay this wouldn’t happen!” just fucking deck the man. gut him like a fish

[thenonbreeder34]

[babygiinge]

I do not think you know what that word means, friend. I am a feminist because I stand up for women. Not chickens.

[pseudomalachite-deactivated2018]

You stand up for human women, I’ll keep standing for all women

[trans-girl-nausicaa]

ok uh… how is a chicken a woman?

[matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll]

[basement-relatable-deactivated2]

“oh ur a singer? sing us something!”

[incrediblyconfused]

“Oh ur an artist? Draw us something!”

[lavenderhoneytea]

"Oh ur a musician? Play us something!"

[rojo-todd]

[singular] y’all

[plural] all y’all

[mixedapocalyptic]

3. [alternate plural] all'a y'all

[simplessence]

4. [possessive pronoun] y’all’s 5. [future tense] y’all’ll

[futuremoji]

Your fifth most recent emoji is what your soulmate thinks about you

[captainhoyw]

[cyborgsmanifesto]

the sex ed guide your parents didn't give you

how to put a condom on

where to get free birth control

the hymen debunked 

cleaning your vibrators 

how to avoid pressures

signs you may be pregnant

safe guide to anal sex

all about dental dams

disabled sexual resources

what is hiv?

feminist porn

female ejaculation

fisting 101

communication during sex

setting sexual boundaries

bdsm vs abuse

lube during sex

the clitoris

sex education games

understanding gender

what to do if your nudes were leaked

intersex

sexual consent

all about masturbation

tips for your first time

[femme-en-feu]

reblogging because sex ed is usually shit but it’s really really important

[her-majesty-kiara-deactivated20]

I don’t consider this nsfw because this is actually important and people need to get educated.

[pitrsattabhaadmeinjaa]

Because I’m pretty sure our desi parents won’t teach this