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so I was trying to take a picture of a cardinal in flight andÂ
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âIn ghost, Thomas smiled at Edith, really smiled; she remembered the glow of flame in his eyes when they had danced the Chopin waltz; the radiance of the firelight on his face in their humble honeymoon sanctuary at the depot. Need had driven him into the darkness, but love had brought him into the light. It had redeemed him.â â Crimson Peak, book.
Looking back, my past it all seems stranger than a stranger.
it ok to not be ready
Please spread this shit like wildfire. People go on and sit through the whole experience and theyâre uncomfortable because they just want to please their partner and they donât tell them that they want to stop because they are not ready. Itâs okay not to be ready.Â
i thought somebody else might need to hear this, because i did.
This actually happened with me and my girlfriend when we were first dating.
Now weâre engaged! :D
Communication is important.
I agree!
really super fuckin important
Pls dont feel bad for needing to stop its 120% okay. Boundaries should be always respected
Always
fun trauma thing: simultaneously feeling too mature and immature compared to everyone else
âBisexuals arenât stigmatisedâ
With help from a bunch of lesbians from youtube:
âI think lesbians are smarter in a sense that we know what we want and we go for it, thatâs why weâre gayâ
âso if youâre at a party and you see the hottest girl there who turns out to be bisexual, whats your reaction?â âthatâs really unfortunateâ
âif she can make me laugh then I might be able to get past the fact that she had a dick in her mouth last weekâ
âif youâre with a lesbian then you know that theyâre going to be going for you, for a woman, but if youâre with a bisexualâŠâ
and a special mention for personal experience:
âIâll have to keep a meter away from you tonight, otherwise you might make out with me hahaâ
âI wanted to tell you that you looked good last night but someone told me not because you might make out with meâ
we constantly get told not to attend pride unless weâre in a same sex relationship, get degrading comments from both the gay community and straight people, are told we arenât âqueer enoughâ and that because we can pass as straight we donât deserve a place in LGBTQ+ spaces.
get fucked.
to add to this: if youâre a bisexual dude people are straight up not going to believe youâre not secretly gay/in the closet bisexual girls are fetishized and bisexual guys are considered liars
Okay non-European tumblr, Iâm gonna explain to you why âwhiteâ isnât as simple here as it is in the rest of the world
- Shades of white in Europe range from âfreshly fallen snowâ to âI am frequently mistaken as being from the Middle Eastâ
- White European is a thing. When you fill out a form, under ethnicity, there are several options for white; white British, white European, white other. Because people make that distinction
- There are Europeans who donât class their ethnicity as their skin colour, but as their nationality. I have family who donât think of themselves as white, they just think of themselves as Italian and donât really give much thought to their skin colour
- People here in Britain always question if darker skinned white Europeans are âactually whiteâ. I get it a lot myself. My response is always âwell Iâm not anything else, so obviously I must beâ
- Despite being white, a lot of Europeans from Italy, Greece, Spain etc, donât feel white in the traditional sense. Weâre not white like white British people. Weâre not white like white Americans. Weâre our own white. White British is one thing. White Italian is another thing. White Greek is another, etc
- Which is why we have this notion here in Europe of ânationality over raceâ. Being white isnât as important as where youâre from
- So this really only becomes an issue if youâre an immigrant
- So being white in Europe doesnât save you from racial discrimination, because sure, youâre technically white, but youâre not white white. Not the right white
- Here in England, Europeans with really blatantly foreign names, such as myself, find it more difficult to get job interviews, because they take one look at our name and donât bother reading the rest of the CV. A guy I know was actually told by his boss to reduce the pile of CVs he had by âchucking away any with a name you canât fucking pronounceâ
-Â And then even when you do get an interview, half the time you walk into the joint several shades darker than everyone else and feel like youâve walked into the âSwedish supermodelâ clubhouse and you just know youâre not getting hired
This is all basic stuff and itâs very much taken for granted here. Race and ethnicity are not as clear cut, so it can be very confusing for non-Europeans to wrap their heads around. Which is fine. But I implore you to stay in your lane, because when you say things like âno white person anywhere in the world ever knows what itâs like to face racial discriminationâ, itâs really fucking offensive to all of the European immigrants who are denied jobs, harassed by the police and beaten by racists, because foreign is foreign to these people, and they donât give a shit if youâre technically white. So when you mean white American, say white American.Â
This doesnât just apply to âdarker skinâ Europeans either (which Iâm sure some Americans would argue are POC for some reason or other). Try being slavic in Western Europe. Hell, try being Sinti or Roma in any part of Europe.
Especially in the UK you can be as white as you like but if you arenât from Britain (or in some cases just England) then you face discrimination. It really isnât that clear cut in Europe and it drives me mad when people say white people canât experience racism because thatâs such a US-centric idea.
And if youâre from anywhere in South-East Europe then you should prepare for your country to be slandered in every UK paper. Seriously, you canât turn on the news, go on the internet, read a newspaper, without being told how Romanian, Ukrainian, Polish people are a drain on the UKâs resources and they should be banned from the country. And guess what?
(Thatâs Mila Kunis. She was born in the Ukraine.)
(Sebastian Stan. From Constanta, Romania.)
(Mia Wasikowska, from Poland)
(Nina Dobrev, who was born in Bulgaria.)
They are white! Just because they are white, it doesnât mean people from their countries cannot face horrible discrimination, and it doesnât mean that they canât be constantly told that they donât work as hard as people from Western Europe, and that they donât deserve basic human rights.
So just before you force your ignorance onto people who donât hold the same views as you due to where they live operating in a different way, just remember that not everybody lives in America.
Here it is guys, the post that finally puts what Iâve been trying to say for far too long into words!
âŠI didnât know Sebastian Stan was Romanian.
But as somebody who has lived in England and the US, I can vouch for all of this. The race issues in Europe and the race issues in the US are not the same.
For the last few years, there has been an awful backlash against immigrants from Poland, with some of the same language used that Americans use about âMexicansâ (By which, half the time, they mean anyone from south of the US/Mexico border).
Itâs worth understanding that
1. Racism and discrimination are everywhere.
2. They donât take the same form everywhere.
I have lived in England for over 10 years now, and can confirm all of the above. As soon as I open my mouth people can tell, of course, that I was not born and raised British.
I was yelled at in the street because a lady thought I was Polish. People have pushed their chairs into my parents and insulted them in a restaurant because they were recognised as Germans.
Being white is not that cut and dry over here.
And being âsociallyâ white as opposed to just pale skinned evolves over time. I mean, there have been times in America when Irish and Italian people have not been considered âwhiteâ.
READ THIS POST IF YOURE AMERICAN
Thank you. Some people need to realize that white people dp in fact experience racism. Often.Â
And America isnât the only fucking country in the world. If our shitty education system would stop teaching us that we are the leading nation in decision making and everyone looks to us for guidance, we wouldnât have these misunderstandings.
#2, Brute?
I made the ugliest noise.
These parents couldnât find a wheelchair for their paralyzed daughter â so they made one
The chair consists of a Bumbo chair (a common type of chair for infants), a cutting board, and wheels from a childrenâs bike. (See More)
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This is wonderful :D
go tiny one go :-)
They have a speedbump in their house for their baby. Thatâs just nuts
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⊠sounds like a toddler. They exist to propel themselves as quickly as possible into danger.
As a teacher of toddlers and friend of many people with toddlers, can confirm from a professional stance. Toddlers are masters of destruction and danger, irregardless of their physical capabilities.
Fear the toddler, whether they be using feets or a wheelchair. They all seek the same thing: chaos. And they will create chaos, oh yes, they will.
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are people that lazy to need this
While Iâm sure there are people too lazy to spin a fork, keep in mind people like this person who may be suffering from arthritis or a neurological disease or nerve damage or a thousand other conditions that might impair their ability to do things as simple as spin a fork to eat spaghetti.Â
These are used with people who canât grip well:Â
This is for Parkinsonsâs:Â
For people who canât even bend their joints:Â
Hereâs a product that guides your hand from your plate to your mouthÂ
This one holds a sandwichÂ
Like I get it. I used to see things like the fork and think âthatâs fuckinâ lazyâ or that product that holds a gallon and you just tip it and pour. But then I started working around the disabled and impaired and found out that these products arenât meant for lazy people, theyâre meant for people who need help.Â
So maybe next time you see something, instead of thinking âWow, are people that lazy?â just be grateful that youâre able to do the things you do every day and take for granted, like being able to feed yourself and wipe your own ass because you have enough coordination and bendy joints to do it.Â
This isnât specualtion either; the majority of products from commericals that we think are funny or silly are autally MEANT for hte disabled.But they are marketed towards the abled because the disabled arenât considered a viable enough demographic on their own. the Snuggie for example? Created for wheelchair users.
This is actually really nifty.
me: i dont like tea like 50 tea lovers: [appear from thin air] what the fuck did you just say? you dont like tea? did i hear that right? you fucking fool. you buffoon. it is IMPOSSIBLE to hate tea. i would know, ive converted 100 of my friends from anti tea to pro tea just by taking them to teavana. you just havent had the right tea yet. ill show you. ill fucking show you. once im done with you will have green tea flowing through your veins. i fuck teapots
my favorite out of context quotes from my archeology professor so far in no particular order
and floridians are just as human as you and me!
and the moral of the story is that there are no deadly snakes native to alaska
you might know this guy as one of the only archaeologists cool enough to be mentioned by indiana jones
itâs my dream to have my name said by harrison ford
iâm not going to apologize for having this class at 6am because you paid for it and itâs your fault.Â
we donât all dress like lara croft. i tried to get it to be a thing on a dig and my colleagues yelled at me.Â
they were pretty good archaeologists except they were too racist to realize anything they found.Â
i take back what i said about us not dressing like lara croft because lewis binford here is wearing nothing but short shorts and a cowboy hat. take notes for an academic halloween costume!
archaeologists can be good artists! not me, though. or anyone i know. but if you can draw just know you have options.
sometimes you find dead bodies when you dont really expect it and you just have to deal with it
archaeologists are the only people allowed to get exited when they find corpses.Â
once i ruined thanksgiving dinner when i told my family i had gotten my degree in archaeology and my uncle commented he liked dinosaurs too
the closest iâve ever been to a grizzly bear is when i left my glasses in my tent on a dig in alaska, Â saw a big rock in the distance, and almost screamed
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ah yes. archaeologists. or, as i love to call us, Â pottery analysts
i mean he was kind of a good guy for helping us beat britain but he owned slaves so that really cancelled it out.
archaeology is like cultural anthropology, except after you interview the person you turn around and shoot them in the head.
do not use trees! trees are bad! donât do it!
usually you find shards, but itâs super exciting when you find a really big shard
itâs basically like a waterpark, except youâre fully clothed and walking through a dark tunnel knee deep in muddy water. so, basically splish splash.
 i dont believe in curses but my colleagues and i like to encourage the idea of them so people stop touching our stuff
usually, you would find a knife in a kitchen. or underneath your pillow to really freak out your roommate who is a history nerd and has no idea why you would sleep with a knife under your pillow and heâll get really scared and freaked out and okay iâm getting off topic
no matter what the other scientists say, archaeology is a real science.
donât worry, i promise you, and whatever government agency thatâs spying on me right now, Â that iâm not a crazy communist trying to overthrow the government
by now youâve noticed the big âPOP QUIZâ written on the board. there isnât one, but i wanted to see the looks on your face when you saw it. but youâre all dead inside so itâs not really funny.
everything was fine except the citizens of pompeii just woke up dead the next day
the number one question you should ask when you read old archaeology papers is âhow the hell do you know?â
nothing pisses off old men more than young people asking âwhyâ and âprove itâ so do that as often as possible
this is incredible! all it takes is a computer the size of this room!
even more from the margins of my notebook!
when in doubt, itâs ritualistic
coprolites are the only shit archaeologists get excited over
i know the only reason youâre not laughing at my hilarious jokes is because itâs earlyÂ
they called it the garbage project. which is also what people call the projects i work on when we apply for funding.
what you have to realize is that people are fundamentally weird. they do weird stuff now and they have done it thousands of years ago.
things come and go but pottery is forever
i dont know if you all know this but moose are terrifying abominations.Â
and todayâs lesson is about the difference between dirt and soil!
please, please, please do not eat old butter you found buried in a bog.
normally i would say this blackboard is a feature because it isnât portable and canât be moved but this is a community college so who knows
one of my biggest fears is that this will get so many notes that someone in the class will see it and show it to the professor and heâll realize half the notes ive been taking in class are jotting down the weird shit he says
Which will just prove to him that youâre paying close attention and also that you think heâs hilarious, both gratifying factors for any professor. So really this is not a bad outcome.
caligula had anime eyes
wait romans painted their marble sculptures
it looks like a cheap theme park ride mascot
yep
hereâs a statue of Augustus
and hereâs a reproduction of the statue with the colors restoredÂ
i honestly think that what we consider the height of sculpture in all of Western civilization being essentially the leftover templates of gaudy pieces of theme park shit to be evidence of the potential merit of found art
âI tried coloring it and then I ruined itâ
And you know what the funniest part is? The paint didnât just wear off over time. A bunch of asshole British historians back in the Victorian era actually went around scrubbing the remaining paint off of Greek and Roman statues - often destroying the fine details of the carving in the process - because the bright colours didnât fit the dignified image they wished to present of the the cultures they claimed to be heirs to. This process also removed visible evidence of the fact that at least some of the statues thus stripped of paint had originally depicted non-white individuals.
Whenever you look at a Roman statue with a bare marble face, youâre looking at the face of imperialist historical revisionism.
(The missing noses on a lot of Egyptian statues are a similar deal. Itâs not that the ancient Egyptians made statues with strangely fragile noses. Many Victorian archaeologists had a habit of chipping the noses off of the statues they brought back, then claiming that theyâd found them that way - because with the noses intact, it was too obvious that the statues were meant to depict individuals of black African descent.)
Sorry, I keep reblogging this over and over, the last comment is unbelievable. Wow.
WUT
Knowledge bomb!
Many more fig leaves in strategic places appeared thanks to the Victorians too.
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