Asteria

Student of Social Work. Always Angry.

[the-real-ted-cruz]

i love how unproblematic firefighters are. they just wanna put out the fires. 

[richard-hollabackgirl-nixon]

I used to think that.

[the-real-ted-cruz]

that’s so ominous wtf did the firefighters do to you

[mendandmakedo]

me: *lays down in my bed*

my entire body: YES! YES! YES THANK YOU GOD!!!!!! YES YES YES YE

[pukicho]

I hope everyone is having a fucking day

[pukicho]

[gilkenansmonsterhouse2006-deact]

do u ever form emotional attachments to tabs u have had open for a long time

[wurnbo]

did i allow u to have fun without me

[shortvideosandstuff]

[sophieschmophie]

Please never explain this to me

[theweirdwideweb]

[monstercub]

Wtf is that? A storm elemental?

[monkeysaysficus]

Ball lightning fuck me all the way up

[emotiona1shorty]

Excuse me what the fuck is this

[zooophagous]

Thats a demon

[heartbeatemoji]

you see shit like this and just realize like… no wonder the entire civilized world believed in magic and shit so strongly. im spiritual myself but if you didnt have the scientific framework, the concept of magic is equally explanatory… the earth shows us crazy shit each and every day

[4lung]

according to wikipedia we still don’t know how the fuck Ball Lightning happens

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning

[abandonedabandoned]

GET! THE! FUCK! IN! SIDE!

[note-a-bear]

90% sure it’s a powerline shorting out

[emergentpattern]

[jayce]

[propheticfire]

Please unmute this it is exactly what you think it is and it’s hilarious.

[pseudo-human-deactivated2021061]

that’s a very good horse

[darkhawk1126]

How is this horse not a dj? 😋

[teathattast]

cronch

[princesstigerbelle]

They screm

They screm for the cronch

[aerixi]

[patanu102]

[hand]

TJ Maxx cashier: “Did you find everything you were looking for?” *Me unloading full cart* First of all, I wasn’t looking for any of this

[brownbbygirl-deactivated2017033]

i look like I be chillin but i be sad lowkey

[sadtit-deactivated20160618]

*cancels plans* sorry i can’t come i’m ugly

[daddycoolmurphy]

“You was ugly when we made the plans. Bring ya troll ass on.”

[persephonesecretlair]

^ true friendship.

[thatdiabolicalfeminist]

You can call an experience or relationship traumatic even if there’s no one you can/want to blame for what happened.

If you were traumatized by what happened, that impact is real even if it isn’t anyone’s fault. There are situations where everyone involved does their best with the information and abilities they have and someone still experiences trauma.

Abuse is not the only traumatic experience, just a common one. Not having your needs met for totally blameless reasons can be traumatic. Having your autonomy taken away by illness or other random chance can be traumatic. Many traumatizing experiences can happen when you’re utterly alone. Even ‘ordinary experiences’ can be traumatic in some contexts.

There’s no reason for trauma that’s ‘too silly’. If you’re traumatized, it’s not because you’re ‘too sensitive’ and it doesn’t automatically mean you’re minimizing other people’s experiences.

You’re allowed to acknowledge your trauma. You’re allowed to look at experiences you’ve had through the lens of trauma. You’re allowed to grieve and process your traumatic experiences even if you don’t understand why they were traumatic or if similar experiences didn’t tramautize others you know.

You’re allowed to acknowledge how badly you were hurt even if you can’t point a finger at one person who hurt you.

[novakspector]

The reason I don’t believe cultural appropriation is a thing is because you can’t “steal” a culture. Theft involves depriving someone else of something. If a white wears a kimono, other kimonos still exist for Japanese people to wear.

[bornabitch-allthedaysandnights]

“Two ways in which cultural appropriation can be harmful are easily identified. The first sort of harm is violation of a property right … The second sort of harm is an attack on the viability or identity of the cultures or their members. Appropriation that undermines a culture in these ways would certainly cause devastating and clearly wrongful harm to members of the culture … Other acts of appropriation potentially leave members of a culture exposed to discrimination, poverty and lack of opportunity.” - from The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (edited by Young and Brunk)

Cultural appropriation also causes a process known in anthropology as crystallization, where the tradition gets ‘frozen’ in time like a museum display and can no longer evolve according to the needs of the people in the culture, effectively taking it away from them.

There have also been cases where the appropriation of a tradition is misrepresentative to the point where the people in the culture are no longer allowed to do it without experiencing racism or discrimination, which also prevents the people in the culture from practicing their own traditions.

So there are various ways you can “steal” cultural traditions without physically taking them.

Cultural appropriation exists regardless of whether or not you choose to believe it.

[northern-seidmadr]

That last line tho.