Unwritten

[pears-palette]

An important PSA to remember!

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[guerrillatech]

[sealinne]

same moment different angle

[bonnibeldam]

[whitmerule]

The bullet bandolier over the skirts is a look. 😌

[zwoelffarben]

these pictures of a platoon of og antifa drag queens manning a gun bigger than my car better not awaken anything in me.

[frutiguro]

[bloody-foundations-deactivated2]

imagine how much of a fucking horrible person you have to be that on the first day your elected into office the crisis calls of a Suicide Prevention Project Go Up 33%. The Trevor Project Received over 1,400 Call By Early Monday Afternoon. Most of those calls, if not all, are coming from children. Children scared of you and what you will do. Imagine how much power and how horrible you have to be to do that.

[miiilowo]

when the lyrics you've been mishearing are more clever than what's actually in the song

[uncahier]

It’s funny because it’s true

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[midnight-scrivener]

This post is so right, and also, as an addendum, besides the fact that digital literacy is a learned skill that (at least in the US) schools stopped funding because of the idea that "since kids have computers at home, they don't need to be taught how to use them," gen Z and Gen Alpha are growing up alongside technologies that developers are making increasingly opaque and hard to navigate, exactly because it serves companies better if people can't alter or curate their own experiences online.

So these poor kids are getting the double whammy of "haven't been taught how to use the technology" and "technology is getting worse and harder to use" at the same time. I've been in classrooms with highschool students who are by all accounts very bright! But they have no concept of online safety, checking sources, doing real research. A lot of kids Who Are Otherwise Good Students had to be walked through how to open any program besides a browser window. And this is just stuff I personally saw during my stint as a substitute instructor. It's really disheartening to see how badly they've been hung out to dry.

[godlessondheimite]

[fluffmugger]

#so did they miss the part where gatsby ends up floating dead in a pool and all the miserable deaths in wuthering heights#or did they miss that because there weren’t any chapters titled In Which The Sinners Are Punished For Their Errors#like. even if you require explicit moral instruction from literature it’s pretty hard to miss the comeuppance in those.

[pennie-dreadful]

“What I assume my teachers were trying to teach me”

[doctorbluesmanreturns]

Huck Finn is about a white Southern boy who was raised to believe that freeing slaves is a sin that would send you directly to hell who forges a familial bond with a runaway slave and chooses to free him and thereby in his mind lose his salvation because he refuses to believe that his best friend and surrogate father is less of a man just because he’s black. Yes it features what we now consider racial slurs but this is a book written only 20 years after people were literally fighting to be allowed to keep other human beings as property, we cannot expect people from the 1880s to exactly conform with the social mores of 2020, and more to the point if we ourselves had been raised during that time period there’s very little doubt that we would also hold most if not all of the prevalent views of the time because actual history isn’t like period novels written now where the heroes are perfect 21st century social justice crusaders and the villains are all as racist and sexist as humanly possible. Change happens slowly and ignoring the radical statement that we’re all human beings that Twain wrote at a time when segregation and racial tensions were still hugely prevalent just because he wrote using the language of his time period is short-sighted and foolhardy to the highest degree.

[mikkeneko]

I’m really kind of alarmed at the rise in the past few years of the “and we do condemn! wholeheartedly!” discourse around historical figures. it seems like people have somehow boomeranged between “morals were different in the past, therefore nobody in the past can ever be held accountable for ANY wrongs” to “morals are universal and timeless, and anything done wrong by today’s standards in the past is ABSOLUTELY unforgiveable” so completely, because social media 2.0 is profoundly allergic to nuance

please try this on for size:

there have always been, in past times as today, a range of people in every society, some of whom were even then fighting for a more just and compassionate accord with their fellow man and some of whom let their greeds and hatreds rule them to the worst allowable excesses. the goal of classics and history education is to teach you enough context to discern between the two, not only in the past but in the present

[three--rings]

My mind just boggles at the “There’s Racism In That Book” argument.  Yes, there is racism in that book, because that book is ABOUT RACISM.  The message is that it is BAD. 

My high school English teacher, who was a viciously brilliant woman, used to say that when people banned Huck Finn they said it was about the language, but it was really the message they were trying to ban, the subversive deconstruction of (religious) authority and white supremacy.

[lyricwritesprose]

Huckleberry Finn can actually be seen as a powerful case study in trying to do social justice when you have absolutely no tools for it, right down to vocabulary.  And in that respect, it’s a heroic tale, because Huck—with absolutely no good examples besides Jim, who he has been taught to see as subhuman, with no guidance, with everyone telling him that doing the right thing will literally damn him, with a vocabulary that’s full of hate speech—he turns around and says, “I’m not going to do it.  I’m not going to participate in this system.  If that means I go to Hell, so be it.  Going to Hell now.”

(I used to read a blogger who insisted that “All right, I’ll go to Hell,” from Huckleberry Finn is the most pure and perfect prayer in the canon of American literature.  Meaning, as I understand it, that the decision to do the right thing in the face of eternal damnation is the most holy decision one can make, and if God Himself is not proud of the poor mixed-up kid, then God Himself is not worth much more than a “Get thee behind me,” and the rest of us should be lining up to go to Hell too.  Worth noting that this person identified as an evangelical Christian, not because he was in line with what current American evangelicals believe, but because “they can change their name, I’m not changing mine.”  Interesting guy.  Sorry for the long parenthetical.)

Anyway, the point of Huck Finn, as far as I can tell, is that you can still choose to do good in utter darkness, with no guidance and no help and none of the right words.

And when you put it like that, it’s no wonder that a lot of people on Tumblr—people who prioritize words over every other form of social justice—find it threatening and hard to comprehend.

[omenapologist-moved]

This is why it’s important to learn how to analyze media, a skill we are apparently losing.

While Huck Finn, for example, absolutely and obviously carries a moral message, not all stories do, because not every story is supposed to teach you something, nor will every story hold your hand and gently walk you to an easy conclusion.

[athenadark]

Huck Finn did a lot to help people understand what racism was - at the same time as overblown trash like Uncle Tom’s Cabin which propagated a very racist view of black people, how they were kind and good and wholesome but subhuman [and uncle tom’s cabin was given around in the yankee army, soldiers read from it at campfires] Huck Finn took a racist character and showed him he was wrong, that he could learn and be better and do better, and that book was on the heels of a best seller [Tom Sawyer] that even people who considered themselves beyond racism [white northerners] who didn’t see black people as people and challenged it through the eyes of a child and said - he can do better, can you

that book was read by people who had no idea what they were getting into, and it’s a series of morality plays that Joe and Huck travel through and learn by, the guy who wrote a rather silly kid’s book slapped them in the face with their own prejudice and used a “kid’s” book to do it

Say what you like about Mark Twain but if you dismiss Huck Finn because it’s about race you’re missing the point, and you’re losing out, because it’s not an easy read but it’s definitely a book you’re glad that you’ve read

to quote Mark Twain - classics are books no one wants to read but everyone wants to have read

[neohesperidin-deactivated201703]

She wears short skirts I wear t-shirts and we’re both getting sent home from school because its distracting to boys apparently

[sushinfood]

okay this one made me laugh

[nope-deactivated20120721]

[eymo]

cosmo sex tip: when he pulls out his penis begin singing “put that thing back where it came from or so help me”

[vapunzel]

matching icons for u and ur friends

[daintyharru]

[entirelyessential-blog]

[blackamazon]

”there there angry face” ”no. I am angry and your fluffy yellow sunshine will not calm my WRATH”

[theapplepielifestyle]

#kirk and bones

[wildandwild]

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[officialbluebeetle-deactivated2]

ok but what if like. werewolves transform under the full moon but theres just this one and by day hes a big tough guy and then when he transforms hes a tiny dog. just fucking. just fucking turns into the tiniest, fluffiest dog

imagine that howling at the moon

[officialbluebeetle-deactivated2]

imagine

[verceri-deactivated20141109]

Truly a ferocious predator.

[alafrenais]

i’m sorry i’m not sorry

[pavhate-deactivated20170118]

WHAT BREED OF DOG IS THAT I WANT ONE

[then-it-fell-apart]

i hope one day you are at peace with yourself. i hope you can take a shower without crying and you can close your eyes without thinking about your funeral. i hope one day you start singing in the shower again and are happy for no reason. i hope you get better, because you really deserve to.