sam is no sham

samuel is a tiny rat boy who loves ancient history more about me here!

[makingnewblog]

yo btw: 

if i don't/forget to follow you back feel free to message me here, although i reserve the right to not follow you if i find your blog stressful

[makingnewblog]

ps: if someone who has a cute rat as their icon holding a teddy bear follows you it's me

[makingnewblog]

okay i'm gonna

make a new tumblr 

whether temporarily or not i'm not sure, we'll see

you'll know it's me when i follow you trust me

[eloquence-and-thievery]

Taken with Instagram

[eupheme-butterfly]

…Oh

H-hi

[realsocialskills]

Something about privilege

Some people have way more power over others than they should.

Having too much power over another person is always harmful to that person. Even if you’re good. Even if you’d never intentionally misuse it.

Sometimes this plays out between groups. For instance, if you’re white, you virtually always have a kind of power over people who aren’t that no one should ever have over another human being. That’s not always the most important power dynamic in a given interaction, because real situations are complicated and there are a lot of different privileges (as well as power dynamics that aren’t reducible to privilege). But it’s still always *there*. (Some other dynamics that are also always there: male/not male, cisgendered/trans*, disabled/not disabled, intellectually disabled/not, poor/not poor. These are examples. It is not an exhaustive list. There are many dynamics like this, and many of them have not yet been named.)

And the power dynamic is long-term, it’s been that way for generations. And there are deep-running wounds that are going to take many generations of concerted effort to heal. You can’t make that go away by your good intentions.

You can be good to others; you can and should learn how to treat people well. But you can’t, on your own, fully undo the power dynamic and the harm it does. And part of the way to be good to people involves understanding the position you’re in, and being aware of the power you have and the obligations being in that position creates.

If you ignore the power you have, or pretend you can make it go away by being a good person, you will harm people in ways you could otherwise avoid. (One instance of this is constantly talking about how you’re checking your privilege — it doesn’t actually work that way. That tends to turn into flaunting unjust power, even when it’s done with the best of intentions.)

If you want people to treat people right, you have to understand and be willing to face the consequences of the power you have.

[historicalheroines]

 I’ve created these flyers for a school activist project where I bring more attention to the women in history that have been forgotten or ignored. This blog will be an extension of those flyers where I post longer biographies of these women and other bad-ass women like them. Too often women’s achievements have been pushed aside, either by others in their lives, or else by the historians who choose to ignore them. This tumblr is dedicated to celebrating them and bringing their achievements to light!

[joancarolclayton]

As a trans woman, not many things give me a headache the way the entire concept of passing does. Passing is the idea that if a trans woman (or any person who is presenting as a woman) looks, dresses and acts a certain way, people won’t be able to tell they are anything other than a completely “normal” woman. If you look at online trans communities or forums, you’ll find tons of tips on how to pass better – everything from hair removal tips to workouts to how to walk and sit more femininely. All of this presupposes that there is only one right way to look like and be a woman. And it’s infuriating. On the one hand, whenever I go out in public or post pictures online, a part of me is deathly afraid that I’ll be insulted or worse. I desperately want to be accepted as the woman I am. On the other hand, I hate that in order to feel safe, I’m expected to fit into the very narrow box that is labeled “woman.” Tips on how to pass always seem to say that you should avoid building muscle mass and avoid wearing clothes and makeup that are too costumey, that you should try to hide your shoulders and soften your features. Trans women are often told that if we want to pass, we have to try our hardest to be petite, soft, have just the right amount of femininity, and not stand out too much. But what if I want to be a different kind of woman? What if I want to look like Grace Jones or Kate Moennig? What if I want to look like Beth Ditto or Dolly Parton? They’re all cis women; don’t they pass?

Meyllen Djneres (via muffinsandcouture)

The moral of “passing” discussions always seems to be:

If you get bashed it will be your fault.

(via charthebutcher)

Do you even know how badly I’ve been needing to hear exactly these words for the past few months now?

(via sixtyforty)

*slow clap——> standing ovation* yes! Yes yes!

(via boyqueen)

[recoveryisbeautiful]

[ard3nt]

this is how I learned to stop doing it, people should reblog this. 

[sheriffsbigby-blog]

this is actually important

[ripcatenderbat]

Hey look self harm advice that acknowledges that there’s more than two reasons that people do it

applauds

[gnattynat]

important stuff!

[thecunningfire-deactivated20180]

This is important stuff, please reblog this, it would mean a lot to me. 

[asoftertrek]

happy mother’s day.

[ducissatenebrarum]

This is lovely!

The moaning of miserable medieval monks who transcribed books.

Source

And I’m so glad this post is getting so much love

[1-800-mattress]

Tumblr Tips

last updated: 15 April 2012

Here are some useful extensions, scripts, and tutorials for Tumblr. Scripts require a simple, one click install for Google Chrome. Firefox users may need to download Greasemonkey first before installing scripts.

As far as I know, these scripts/extensions can work together. 

I’ll add more links as I think of them, and feel free to share your own tips or resources. 

Popular:

Missing E - Probably the most popular Tumblr extension. Features: one click reblog/queue/drafts, automatically clears all tags when reblogging, adds tags to ask/reply, allows one click reply to comments, shuffle queue, adds timestamp to posts on your dashboard, replaces text (reblog, notes) with picture icons, and more. Downside: Tumblr apparently hates Missing E, and will try to scare you into disabling it.

Xkit - Similar to Missing E. Some additional features: Unfollower check, shorten long posts on dashboard, highlight key terms in posts, download mp3 from audio posts. 

Tumblr Savior - Blacklist tags that you do not want to see on your dashboard. Downside: Not everyone tags.

Some selections from a larger collection of scripts (please note that I don’t use all of these, so I don’t know which ones still work):

Tumblr Life - Quick links to sort your dashboard by content (photos, text, quotes, video, etc), adds keyboard shortcuts.

Tumblr Hate - Do you keep seeing the same post reblogged in your dashboard? This script lets you “hate” that post so you won’t see it again.

Tumblr Helper - Create post templates with common settings, add personal notes to users on your dashboard

Tumtaster - download mp3s from tumblr

Notification eraser - Maybe you have one post that keeps getting a ton of notes and you want the notifications to stop showing up in your dash.

Tumblr Stats - hover over an avatar to see a user’s stats

Block posts by source - self-explanatory

Don’t Ask - gets rid of ask posts on your dashboard

Make avatars bigger on your dashboard

Unfollower check

Edit tags from your dash

How to unfollow deactivated Tumblrs

Within Tumblr:

Tumblr Settings - Change URL, ask and submit options, enable replies, time zone settings. 

Tumblr Preferences - Dashboard preferences, email address and password reset. 

Tumblr bookmarklet

Tumblr Mega-Editor - mass edit your posts

Use old customize theme page

http://www.tumblr.com/show/photos (replace photos with other types of posts to filter your dash)

How to reblog by post type (reblog a post as text, link, etc)

Use “read more”

Tumblr Backup Application (for Mac)

View posts by date on a tumblr - http://username.tumblr.com/day/YEAR/MONTH/DAY [ie: 2011/12/31]

Tumblr Radar Archive 

Tumblr etiquette:

Tumblr etiquette faq

The difference between reblogging and reposting

How to tag properly

Your tumblr:

Best of your tumblr - find your most popular posts

Tumblr Stats - tells you about your tumblr

Tumblr Tags - view all your tags

Disqus - add comments section to your tumblr

Trntbl - listen to all the music/audio posts on a tumblr

Make a word cloud

Tumblr theme cutomization:

Make a blogroll

Theme recovery

Combine ask and submit box

How to add text to your ask page

More tumblr resources: tumblring.net - academyoftumblr - tutorialsandmore 

For visitors:

Statcounter

Google Analytics

Revolver Map

Users online / Visitor counter

Flag counter

Followers counter

Know Anon - if you are getting harassed by anons, you can use this to find out their identity

Tumblr Stalkr - see who doesn’t follow you, new followers, and unfollowers

For images:

Aspect ratio

Reverse image search

View all your tumblr images

Download your tumblr images

[onlinecounsellingcollege]

1. Go to bed early. Some days are just bad days – and there’s nothing you can do to change circumstances and turn the day around. Remind yourself that there are better days as well, and tomorrow is a new day and a chance to start again.

2. Do something you enjoy. You may not be able to control what happens to you, but you can takes steps to improve the way you feel. When you’re having a bad day you need to make that extra effort to treat yourself well, and try and bolster yourself up.

3. Make a list of things you need to do. Planning what you’ll do to try and make things a bit better can give you a strong sense of being in control again. It may not sound like fun, but it can change the way you feel - so you’re less at the mercy of events, or other people.

4. Talk to someone who cares about your feelings. It often makes a difference to unburden on a friend. At least you’ll feel supported, and less stressed and overwhelmed.

5. Distract yourself. Try doing something that will take your mind off things. Often doing something practical can bring a sense of calm.

6. Try extra hard to be nice to other people. It will help to take your mind off your problems, and yourself. Plus, we tend to get back what we give out to other people (such as kindness, understanding, concern and empathy).

[to-tokiya]

: How to Recover from a Bad Day

[keepingupwithcardassians]

[promptsandpointers]

As a writer, and especially as a reader, and gosh as a reviewer, more than anything, you need to be able to distinguish between technical shortcomings and your own preferences. You should be able to offer constructive critique even if you don’t enjoy the styling or genre of a work. 

[kasmir-the-soulless-ginger]

This

[cumaeansibyl]

“are you being the person Mr. Rogers knew you could be?” is probably the best motivational technique ever invented

[polyamorousmisanthrope]

I am totally stealing this.  I love it.  You’re not mean or nasty, but holy mackerel, do you make a point.

[lettersfromtitan]

My life has just been changed.

[hesslife]

Okay so today in Chemistry this kid Roman was walking across the room to get something and he tripped and this one girl immediately shouts “THE EMPIRE HAS FALLEN” and i cried

[gastrogirl]

strawberry chocolate chip cookies.