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This campaign defies censorship in social media to raise awareness for early detection of breast cancer
this is actually super fucking smartass of them
Reblogging as this is so important everyone! My mum had breast cancer and that shit is not nice so please check yourself ladies and gents! ššš
Always a reblog. š
I will forever reblog this when I see it because its so important
I get asked a lot for tips with coloring black people, so i put together a little tutorial! (and bumps my kofi if you found this helpful)
Taiko no triangleposting by airuei
my momās trans allyship is on another level
she once called my friendās deadname āthat stupid thing his mom calls himā
I was once talking to my 75 year old Chinese dad in passing about a trans friend of mine not getting along with her family and he asked why and I said err, because she's trans, dad.
He asked: "Oh, was she the only son or something before *waves hand*?" and I was like, warily, no she has two brothers. And he responded with a great deal of confusion: "Then what's their problem?!?!"
Later on: "Anyway, even if she WAS the only son, that's not her problem, that's THEIR problem. They should have had more sons if they were going to be bothered about it."
Knowing what I know about chinese culture thereās something so beautifully simple about his logic of āno son to carry on family name/look after them in old age/all the other stuff? Skill issue! Shouldāve had more sons! Shouldāve kept the family unit strong yourself! Blaming your daughter for your own failure of family planning is W E A K!ā and then he learns there are more sons and it completely breaks his train of logic because if yes to more sons then why issue?? You have two others and youāre mad you donāt have three?? Whack. Greedy.
I can already envision him as an ancient lord of a powerful house looking down his nose at the latest messenger bringing gossip from the house of his offspringās friend and going ānow they have a daughter to marry into another family for powerful alliances and two sons to take over her former duties and somehow theyāre still complaining about their good fortune? They shall not survive the winter.ā and then sipping his tea with all the grim satisfaction of someone about to watch an unnecessary soap opera of drama unfold from a safe distance or something
That's a funny image for sure, though I think if there's a typology of Chinese philosophical mentality, there would likely be a spectrum from "Confucian patriarchal lord" to "Buddhist monk / Taoist hermit" and my dad renounced at 18, was a monk for a time, before coming back to work for his family since they were poor š¤· it was what 3 years after we gained independence from the British so the economy was probs a mess.
When he found and married my mom, he was nearly 45 and they had so much trouble conceiving that he went to a Guanyin temple supposedly "magical" for praying for children. When I was born (not a son, also an only child until now), my mom said, "when you prayed at the temple did you ask for a son?" He said, "Aiya, everyone is asking for sons, so I said any gender is okay. If I asked for a son, maybe we wouldn't have gotten a child because Guanyin's son quota is already used up. Do you want that to happen?" My mom laughed for days about "son quota" and continues to tell people about it today, but her honest answer was: "Any child is okay."
Jokes on them. They didn't specify a gender, so Guanyin Ma gave them a non-binary child!
More seriously: my dad doesn't care about sons. When I told my parents that I wouldn't marry or have children, I thought he might be disappointed, but he wasn't. Then again, maybe I should have expected that, given he tried to become a monk at 18 š¤Ŗ I think he said the thing about sons to poke fun at people who care too much about sons because he frankly thinks it's all a bit ridiculous. In his eyes, a child is a child, so what's the point in caring about gender? If the child "changes" gender, does it make a difference?
When I first spoke to my mom about trans issues, still closeted at the time, she said, "I don't understand why they feel the way they do, but they aren't hurting anyone so don't bother them. They are normal people just minding their own business." I said, "I agree, but on the topic of not understanding: Mom, do you think that when we reincarnate, we are always born into a body of the same gender?" In Buddhist stories, there was a lifetime in which Guanyin was reincarnated as a cow or ox, and in repayment for my birth, my dad does not eat beef till this day. Gender or species isn't constant in the cycle of rebirth. My mom said, "No, you're right. Whatever thing that carries on has no gender. I was probably male, human or animal, in one of my past lives." And she has supported trans rights even more ever since.
This is how it feels reading some of the stuff on ao3
quarterly reminder that if i reblog something ai-generated it is 110% and always an accident and for the love of god please tell me so i can delete it from my blog
If you scroll pass this you donāt got ten dollars
Need my $10
Guys i literally just got tipped $10 at work
I aint risking it.
10 10 10
Always reblog money cat
Please š© Iām so broken
[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying
"fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug"]
I donāt know of the original poster might not be aware
but!
if youāve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public
it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)
ALSO :Ā
you donāt need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that youāve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.
Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_confidentiality_program
Address confidentiality program - Wikipedia
Reposting as Primaries and General Voting are coming up.
Where's the African mythology?
The Kickstarter is live now!
I know I have close to zero Tumblr fame, which I normally appreciate, but I would love it if this made it into the world and got fully backed. You can even pledge to get the digital content and send a real copy to a school in Africa or to a HBCU or community library of your choosing!
Misusing my blog again so more people can see this then
This is so wholesome
Update: he finally got the cat to the vet to see if she had a microchip
I was already on board with his sweet wholesome open-to-love-and-nurturing heart but I was fully unprepared for getting to that last tweet and seeing how off the hook HOT dude is
https://twitter.com/pariszarcilla?lang=enĀ heres his twitter is here there is also additonal cat photos of his children.Ā
CAT DAD IS BACK
aww, the kids grow up so fast. ;-;
HHHHHHHH I LOVE CAT DAD!
This is, by far, the single most adorable fucking thing I have ever seen.Ā
update:
I love that he kept ā¦. All of them.
Iāve reblogged the earlier part of this thread before, and the new stuff makes it even better.
This is the Tumblr equivalent of a warm hug on a cold day.
Youāre welcome.
I remember this thread, but I never saw the grown-up pics ā¤
@every-n-anything
All hail Catdad
I saw Catdad for the first time today, and my day instantly became exponentially better.
IāM CRYING!?
CATDAD HAS REVIVED MY WILL TO LIVE
I live for cat dad-
Cat dad has saved us all
CAT DAD!!
I had not seen the updates. I am so happy that the Cat Gods smiled upon this person and their new family :)
Heās got more recent pictures (and is also an INCREDIBLE artist), but this is the fam circa May 2020 :>
Itās been over a year? Where is cat dad? Where is he?
Fear not, CatDad is still happily with us:
Cat Dad 2022 pic.
Itās been far too long since I saw these guys. āHeartwarmingā doesnāt begin to touch it. :)
CAT HERITAGE POST
And as of two days ago (31st May 2025)
Pancake passed away some time ago, but is included here via the photo Cat Dad is holding.
Agender Angel - final version.
Flat colors, transparent background, linework under the cut.
[ Pride Angels ]
Thoughts on this redesign:
My first Agender design was missing a color so I don't really count it, but it did influence all subsequent designs to be two linked ophanim. The 2022 design had gray as the main color, my goal was to make the colors balanced by having gray throughout. But when I did a recolor I preferred how readable the design was with black and white ophanim instead.
So for this year's redesign, I wanted to use different colors for the ophanim. I also decided to declutter the design since I had gotten some critique that it was hard to figure out and was too busy.
I think the new design is simple but effective! The only thing I miss is the celestial theming with the stars.
If you're interested in either the new or old design, check out my Pride Angels page for more details on how to get them.
What's the best cat noise?
meowing! they do that just for humans, they are speaking to us!!
little squeaks & chirps!! what's more baby than that
purring! it communicates such love, trust, and comfort
the cute kitty activation noise when you pet a sleeping cat & they trill
Do you recognize this photo?
This is @abdalsalam2000's blog banner. Nader is a Palestinian teenager trying to raise money for his family of seven (parents, brothers, sister-in-law, niece, and nephew) to escape the genocide in Gaza.
He's been active on tumblr for a long while now, and was one of the first to have their campaigns vetted: #4 on the gazavetters list! His goal is ā¬50,000 (equivalent to around $56,723 with current exchange rates) which would enable his family to travel to safety.
Nader has worked extremely hard to raise these funds--tirelessly initiating conversations with strangers on tumblr, building social relationships, and promoting his campaign. He's raised ā¬41,213 so far.
I can't imagine how hard it must be to have worked so hard, for so long, under such brutal conditions. To be so close to raising the total funds you need (82% of the way there!) but because you are just under ā¬9,000 short, your family is still trapped.
Please help him raise the remaining 18%. After all of this, let it not be in vain.
I am a young man who loves my studies very much and I dreaā¦ Nader Alanqar needs your support for Help Nader Al-Anqar and his family overc
this little freak keeps sneaking into my garden and rubbing himself all over my flowers??Hello?????
Real, male bees donāt go after flowers they stay home, that freak is a herself
googling ābee gendersā as I dictate this post
The more you google bee reproductive biology the more absurd it is that weāre applying the words male and female to them. Their actual genders are worker, drone and queen. The queen is capable of both asexual and sexual reproduction. Bees born of unfertilized eggs become drones that are capable of fertilizing eggs. Bees born of fertilized eggs become workers, but can also potentially become a queen depending on how they are fed during the larval stage.
Use whatever the fuck pronouns you want to describe bees because theyāre all equally incorrect projections of human worldview onto an insect species. Bees donāt experience mammalian sexual dimorphism in a biological sense nor do they experience human gender dimorphism in a sociopolitical sense.
diversity win, the freak sneaking into your garden and rubbing themselves all over your flowers does not fit into a human biological or sociopolitical framework of sex and gender!
my adhd ass when someone says something and expects me to be able to comprehend it the first time
ānot adhd but-ā
People who just go āugh nevermindā are the bane of my existence
People who just go
āugh nevermindā are the bane
of my existence
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
I think it always goes unsaid (thus forgotten) that in order to believe Stobotnik "matches" e/o's freak, as it were, Stone believes much of the same things Robotnik does. You need to understand people like Stone DO believe they're better than you. Worse than that; they're RIGHT.
They're BOTH psychopathic (they relish in the pain and suffering of others, especially those they deem subordinate or below them. Read: everyone.) but where Robotnik's psychopathy dips into narcissism, Stone's psychopathy dips into Machiavellianism. Kindness and empathy--at best, means nothing to him, and at worst, is deemed fucking stupid. He views others in a range of usefulness.
Stone is not a man without emotions, but they are separate, and they are considered bias in the long term achievement of goals. Sure he can ACT empathetic, that's easy. Being charming and acting sweet and kind it's easy. Crucially, to Stone, it is an important and useful manipulation tactic. Personally, I think the only person Stone has ever, and truly could love is Robotnik. On top of everything, Ivo GETS IT. Ivo is the only one Stone believes IS worthy of respect, who can put his money where his mouth is, every time, and does better than you can ever imagine. Ivo IS the pinnacle of success. And to not SEE this, in Stone's eyes, is fucking stupid. He genuinely, sincerely, from the bottom of his fucking heart and soul believes that being unable to SEE how powerful Ivo is STUPIDITY IN THE HIGHEST ORDER.
Emotions are an indulgence for Stone, and thats what his love for Ivo is. To choose and love Ivo--in Stone's eyes--is the one, selfish indulgence he ever lets himself have, regardless of any long term goals. You need to understand that Stone WANTS Ivo, and he fucking GETS what he wants, regardless of Ivo's opinion on the matter btw. This is pillar of Stone's character, to me. Which is why reading fics where Stone is kinder or more compassionate than this doesn't quite scratch the itch that I have about it
if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost
take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle
fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism
now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning
casting these before getting out of bed like buff spells before a raid boss
