Witchin' and Bitchin'

Formerly Silverflame44 | She/Her | Leo | INTJ | True Neutral | Artist | Writer | Cosplayer | Check my links for more info

[ithelpstodream]

[horrorandhalloween]

[aftersextacos]

THIS IS HALLOWEEN! THIS IS HALLOWEEN!

[fivehead]

[osobigbear]

I carry this water bottle around on purpose because I know the kids will ask me why I have a pink one. This is how every convo has gone:

Kids: Mr.C Why do you have a pink water bottle?

Me: Because I like pink, why?

Kids: Pink is for girls

Me: Why?

Kids: ummmmmmm

Me: Do you know why it’s for girls?

Kids: No it just is

That’s when I go into a brief lesson about how pink is JUST a color (I am the art teacher so they think I am the authority on colors) for everyone.

As a teacher I am trying my hardest to re-educate these kids in the most non threatening way possible. It will take them a minute to understand that pink isn’t a “girl color”, but a color we can all love

[the-caitlyn-rain]

I love you for this

[themushr000m]

erasing gender essentialism is MEGA IMPORTANT!

[be-blackstar]

“I am the art teacher so they think I am the authority on colors”

[that-nonbinary-guy]

Hello yes the color authorities are here we would like you to please stop gendering colors

[best-of-turnblr]

that walk when you get called out of class to leave early

[lolawashere-deactivated20240904]

[winter-seance]

Jefferson + Facial Expressions Once Upon A Time

[tamamita]

I love how the monkey from Aladdin is just called “Dad” if you translate “Abu”

[pokemaster7]

are you telling me that he calls the monkey “daddy”

[tamamita]

By Allah, not on this post you don’t

[thelibrawrian-deactivated201912]

i was thinking about the weirdest phone calls i got when i still worked at the public library and i remembered this one phone call. it was probably less than 20 seconds long, but it still makes me laugh.

anyways, this woman called and without even saying hello after i said the usual “public library, how can i help you?” spiel, she said, “i have a very important question: when you shelve books, do you push them all to the front of the shelf or all the way back?”

it took me a second to process the question and then i answered that, at the library, we always shelve them so that they are even with the front edge so they’re easier to grab and see. she was obviously delighted by this answer and then, as if an afterthought, she asked, “okay, what about you? what do you do at home with your books?” i said i did the same thing. she hummed in obvious agreement and then just like that she said “thank you!” and hung up.

i never heard from her again. i hope she won whatever argument she was having.

[tehzii]

for about a year, i worked at a call center for sprint. i have a similar kind of story. a woman called, and said she had a question about the call history on her bill. “sure, let me just pull up your account-” and she cut me off going, “no, no, it’s not anything specific, it’s just. so, if you change the time on your phone, does that change the time on the bill?” “uh… no? the time on the phone doesn’t matter, the call history is recorded by the towers.” “ohhhh” she said in the saltiest voice i have ever heard “so even if you changed the timezone it wouldn’t change the time on the bill? to, say, the middle of the night?” i stg yall i looked into the camera like i was on the office. “um… no? it would still be the local time of the tower. is there anything else i can help you with?” to me, overly chipper: “nope! thank you! have a great day!” turning on someone as she hung up: “she says yoU’RE A LYING SACK OF-” i still mean-snicker every time i think about it.

[melwhere]

[tariqah]

Golf is the most unnecessary sport on earth. After communism wins, golf will be abolished

[maxknightley]

We still good for mini golf though?

[oncelerfucker69-deactivated2019]

[ethereumwinds]

fun fact about the next avengers film being filmed in edinburgh: they’ve blocked off certain areas which is disrupting one specific postal van’s delivery route which is in turn leading to an awkward stand-off at the police station because Marvel Studios might be a billion dollar company but this man really wants to do his job and apparently interfering with the course of the Royal Mail technically counts as treason so they’re at a stalemate

[angryjerkandstrawboy]

this is the best thing i’ve heard all day

[peachsap-deactivated20141130]

[waluigitheanti]

It’s been two fucking years (technically, I suppose, two days less than two years) since JJ Abrams said he based the First Order on Nazis can shipper stop saying they’re not fascists/Nazi parallels already.

A Jewish man wrote a story about fighting Nazis and you’re all just ‘hmm…nah I don’t think so.’

[thewinddrifter]

I don’t know how anyone could’ve watched this movie, see this 

And not instantly connect it to Nazism. The coding is there, obvious, plain as day, staring you in the face, in the movie itself, but you’re just ‘let’s fawn over these guys’.

[lily-orchard]

It wasn’t even Abrams. The Galactic Empire and the Sith Empire the preceded it are also extremely unsubtle fascism.

In SWTOR, Dark Side Sith have this thing about blood purity going on.

This has been Star Wars’ thing since it’s inception.

[the-gina-linetti-project]

They talk about this in a documentary they made for The History Channel, it’s called “Star Wars: The legacy revealed”. 

That’s an extract of the Wikipedia page but the documentary itself is really detailed and interesting, and it explains not only the link to the Nazis but also other links with facism and dictators

“The Legacy Revealed shows many connections between the Nazis and the Empire. Examples shown are that Vader’s own troops, Stormtroopers, share the same name with Hitler’s. The black, white, and red used in many scenes with the Empire are the same colors of the swastika, and that Darth Vader’s helmet is similar to that of the German Army’s.” (wikipedia)

[thetyrannosaur]

When A New Hope came out, WWII was only 30 years ago. The comparison has always been plain as fucking day

[peniswakt-deactivated20210717]

like deadass the star wars villains have been nazis this whole time…how can that go over your head

[grizzlyadventures]

The foot soldiers are fucking called stormtroopers

[geekandmisandry]

From starwars.com :

From relative anonymity rose an unlikely chancellor who was granted emergency powers, disbanded a senate, and built a secret military unlike any other. He ended the republic in favor of his own new order: One where he had unlimited power. Sound familiar? That’s because this is not only the story of Star Wars, but also of the Second World War.

[fandomsandfeminism]

Humans are a communal species that have banded together and cared for their sick, disabled, and elderly since before we were ever modern man. Resources were shared even as skills specialized. 

Capitalism isn’t natural. A community should not have members dying of starvation or exposure while there is an abundance of resources. That isn’t how it works. That isn’t how it’s supposed to work.

[g-taire]

ok so my roommates are anthropology students and their favorite example for debunking the ‘survival of the fittest’ bs is shanidar 1. (x, x, x)

shanidar 1 is a neanderthal who, at a pretty young age, was hit in the head hard enough to blind him. this also led to that side of his brain shutting down and withering his right arm, and possibly crippling his entire right side. not only that but his skeleton also shows that at some point, he broke a bone in his foot and, in addition to the other factors, resulted in a noticeable limp. there are some sources which say he likely had degenerative diseases. (arthritis was really common in neanderthals) 

going off of widespread ideas of “”primitive”” (no longer the word used in anthropology/academia to describe early-modern humans) societies, shanidar probably died really young, deliberately abandoned or killed. i mean, he was severely crippled, blind, etc., he couldn’t contribute anything, he would have been a “”burden to society””, right? 

except he lived to be between 40 and 50 years old. (about ~80 in human years)

this means that his social group had to have taken care of him for a minimum of two or three decades without his ‘contributing’ anything significant to the group. this discovery (and Shanidar III’s) was huge because it basically proves that early humans had a concept of hospice. early modern humans cared for the sick and the elderly, greatly extending their lifespan, simply because they cared. 

tl;dr: the concept of someone needing to be ‘’useful’’ or ‘’’productive’’’ in society in order to be valued and cared for is a very modern concept and our quasi-predecessors would be ashamed 

[ekjohnston]

Also, Shanidar I was buried with flowers. They cared about him after he was dead, too.

[vintar]

i understand that ao3 staff have bigger problems on their hands like wrangling code and dealing with harassment campaigns and planning their next vacation but it is VITALLY IMPORTANT to my personal enjoyment that they add one feature and it is this: when looking up an australian character, there needs to be a ticky box to only filter for fics written by australians

[vintar]

junkrat is not a bogan, he’s a derro, also an ocker ratbag, acceptably a larrikin and/or dag, definitely scungy and a bit of a hoon but not a yobbo. i hope this clears things up, thank you for your time

[bunniope]

hey quick question what the FUCK does this say

[fozmeadows]

approximate translation:

junkrat is not a trashy working class guy, he’s a guy who looks homeless and possibly is, also a stereotypically Australian type of asshole, acceptably a prankster and/or well-meaning dork, definitely gross and a bit like the kind of guy who drives fast cars yelling for fun but not the kind of loud dumb delinquent who goes around picking fights and trashing things. 

[purified-zone]

you mean to fucking tell me that wasn’t just a bunch of made up junk to make fun of australian lexicon?

[nancyishappy]

[lornagonigall]

fuck his shit up Nancy you wild bitch