Chaos 'n' Things

"I've been officially labeled a disturber of the peace"

[introvertsnation]

[marinella-ela]

[todaysbird]

why did he have to be a raven…it could be tic tac crow…

[anxietyproblem]

[okayysophia]

always ready to be beating on someone vulnerable. I’ll never understand it...

[catchymemes]

[dicksmasher]

THE CAT LOOKS JUST LIKE HIM I’m dead

[weaver-z]

Me and the other ex-evangelicals watching this r/n

[backwardsorbust]

i knew this conceptually, but like you dont really KNOW that public school is designed to set you up to be a good worker bee until you're cracking out a report, after hours, at 7 pm on a monday night and it hits you; oh, i'm doing homework, this is why they made me do homework, and suddenly i'm feeling it in my chest. i cant believe i was raised by the state to be an automaton, and worse, i am one of the lucky robots who isn't doing manual labor.

[backwardsorbust]

ya know what fucking reblog this, we SHOULD be mad

[anxietyproblem]

[imanes]

forever removing “agree to disagree” from my vocabulary now i end all my arguments with “live with what makes you comfortable but know that ultimately you’re not telling yourself the truth” and that’s on me being sick and tired <3 we’re burning bridges today

[shatouto]

if you ever feel bad about your writing, especially structure-wise, remember: you’re still not the one who put “somehow, palpatine has returned” into a multimillion dollar franchise produced by one of the greediest and richest corporations on earth. you’ll always be better than that one.

[refinery29]

This is what a real, qualified OBGYN will tell you about what women feel when they get an abortion

Dr. Willie Parker, who is trained as a gynecologist and OBGYN, is a hero for the pro-choice movement because he’s honest about the undiscussed aspects of getting (or not getting) an abortion. Watch how he gives a consultation.

[afunnyfeminist]

That last statement about regret is so important, because so many people don’t understand what it is or what causes it. Anti-choicers exploit this by manipulating pregnant people and creating doubt, which only increases the likelihood of regret, no matter what decision the pregnant person makes. You know what is best for you, even if it takes some time to figure it out.

[profeminist]

[profeminist]

More posts on Dr. Willie Parker

[outforhealth]

Willie Parker is a HERO among common people! 

[eclecticmuses]

Dr. Parker is one of the few things I like about Alabama and we are so fortunate to have him here.

[loosinmynoodles]

Wow god looks just like how I imagined

[teenagecriminalmastermind]

willie parker is an icon and has sage, empathetic and apolitical advice about abortions and reproductive rights 

[cuntess-carmilla]

I see (and agree with) your “you’re one bad month away from becoming homeless (so start redirecting your loyalty from billionaires to the working class)” and I raise you a “you’re one accident, one insect sting, one sudden mysterious illness, one virus from becoming permanently disabled (so start redirecting your sympathy from the able-bodied class to the disabled)”.

[cuntess-carmilla]

It’s nearly impossible for a person to reach old age and not be at least mildly disabled. Start caring about disability rights NOW.

[nature-punks]

Instead of endless wastelands of mowed grass lawns, consider:

[sophist-sophia]

😍

[dvar-trek]

this only works in places with lots of rain, a temperate summer, and a nice cold winter. like England. or Michigan.

[star-anise]

True! Unless you can find an economical way to irrigate, more appropriate lawn alternatives in hotter, more arid places might lean more to prairie meadows using local grasses and wildflowers:

Or, they might mean doing classic landscaping, but with rocks and xeriscape plants:

Or having a cactus garden:

There are lots of exciting possibilities once you throw the classic turf lawn out the window!

[mioxenoblade]

absolutely love that as the American lgbt received more and more spotlight, bullying and bigoted transgressions have basically been sanitized as means to hide said bullying. you don’t typically get called “faggot,” “tranny,” “dyke, “queer,” online (I mean you do depending where you are on the net), you typically are met with the stand ins like transtrender, gender special, troon, TIM, and don’t even get me started on tucute as a term we’ll be here all day. and it’s all part of this weird thing where people sanitize their bigotries. “yeah, this hateful campaign where I’m targeting a trans person is ok because I have deemed them fake, I’ve deemed them a trender! I’m actually defending trans people by taking part in this harassment!” 

like, grow a spine and call me a faggot. stop hiding.

[katisconfused]

This is roughly what happens with words related to disability. People for the most part don’t say “retarded” unless they are trying to be edgy, but you will hear “special” subbed into the same hateful phrases.

Too much of stuff about hateful speech focuses on the individual words. Slurs become slurs by being used hatefully the majority of the time. The act of reclaiming them is flipping then to mostly positive usesage. But people simply replace rhe “bad” words with new “good” words without putting in any more thought then that, so their views and treatment of the people they are talking about don’t change.

Regardless of the specific word being used it usually in all cases means roughly the same thing: freak, degenerate, OTHER of some kind. Something you want to distance yourself from association with. To position yourself superior to. And that tone is the real red flag that will persist regardless of language used.

[thelostcanyon]

Ocotillo (Fouquieria splendens) blooming on the Santa Rita Experimental Range, Pima County, Arizona.

[rabdoidal]

i just saw someone completely seriously, without a hint of irony, refer to it as “Q-slur Eye” and my intestines started melting like so many Salvador Dalí clocks

[elisamaza]

[themintycupcake]

I’ve seen “don’t call the show Qu**r Eye if you’re a cishet and can’t reclaim the q-slur” so nothing surprises me anymore.

[thesaviorofmisbehavior]

“Don’t normalize this word that people fought really hard to normalize! Let it keep its oppressive power because I don’t understand queer history”

God I literally fucking hate this rhetoric. It’s exclusionary, gatekeepy, TERFy, and supports a totally revisionist queer history that erases so many marginalized people, especially people who are marginalized on multiple axes.

[w04hxo]

“LET IT KEEP ITS OPPRESSIVE POWER BECAUSE I DON’T UNDERSTAND QUEER HISTORY”

Wow that really sums it up.

[aphony-cree]

I lived through the “take back the word queer” movement, so let me further sum it up

The entire point was to strip the word of the power to hurt us. We embraced it by refusing to be offended by it. We were saying “you can’t hurt us with that word, we now feel empowered when we hear it.” 

During this time I saw an interview with a gay man who’d been arrested while wearing a “We’re Here, We’re Queer, Get Used To It” t-shirt. He was put into a holding cell with other detainees who tried to verbally abuse him. They started out by calling him queer but after seeing his t-shirt, and him not reacting to that word, they started stumbling over their words trying to find a name to call him. They finally settled on repeatedly calling him a “sissy” which, by the late 90s, had become a very out-dated slur toward queer men and was a laughable effort by these hyper-masculine and sexist bullies

When they tried to call him a queer it had no power because embracing the word, no matter who said it, had taken away that power

tl;dr We took back the word Queer with the intent of it no longer having the power to hurt us, but people now calling it the Q-slur are giving power back to the people who hate us  

[w04hxo]

^^^^^^^^^^

[fmlcomic]

Someone who hasn’t heard we reclaimed it already: So you’re some kinda fucking queer?

Me, annoyed and asexual: Excuse you, I am a Nonfucking Queer.

[bourneblack-deactivated20240910]

No one’s saying this so I guess I’ve gotta: no more shirtless scenes for men if the actors gotta starve himself. Its just as bad as woman being forced to lose weight for a needless sex scene/photoshoot what have you. If it endangers the health of the individual it should not be encouraged.

[striving-artist]

If they can cg a whole-ass Carrie Fisher, they can cg some ab definition.

Fck steroids. Fck filming fasts. Fck dropping water weight to get the shot.

[halloweeneva]

Fuck steroids. Fuck filming fasts. Fuck dropping water weight to get the shot.

[rlainarin]

Nope. No cgi abs either. You will look at real healthy shirtless bodies of nourished, hydrated people, and you will like it.