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22. they/them

[skull-heads]

Home.

[winterfellis]

[elyfonart]

feeding time

[anxietyproblem]

[redpandarascal]

presenting… my favorite Garfield strip of all time:

I think of this every time I am in a sunbeam and get sleepy.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[romanantic]

wear your favourite outfit with your tallest shoes. order that ridiculous drink and ask the server to add espresso. run that extra mile and see the river. make your favourite breakfast and add more flavour. clean your room with ghibli music in the background. do your homework with your feet on your desk. live life to its fullest extent, but don't push off your responsibilities. find your balance. dont settle for mediocre. take care.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[a-spoon-is-born]

one of the ways i know this culture has a massive issue with consent

is the sheer amount of people I’ve known that just lie & tell people they’re deathly allergic to foods they dislike

because otherwise people will hound them, mock them, coax them, harass them, try to force them to eat it, or even trick them into eating it, and they will never hear the end of it

your coworkers will bake it into a fucking pie, call it something else, and wait til your birthday, gather everyone and their first cousins to sit around in a circle waiting for you to put a forkful into your mouth and then point rhythmically at you in a chanting, glaring, sweating, unholy circle like SWISS CHARD SWISS CHARD YOU JUST ATE SWISS CHARD HA HA HA SWISS CHARD NOW YOU LIKE SWISS CHARD

Because forcing someone into a situation where they don’t feel safe declining putting something into their body they’d rather not be there is totes 100% wholesome American fun

And this is something so known that it’s infinitely easier to just lie and tell people that you’ll die if you eat that food…which actually doesn’t always stop it from happening

[aspiringwarriorlibrarian]

I literally told one of my coworkers that alcohol interfered with my meds and I wasn’t drinking because it might kill me. (It wasn’t true, but that kind of underscores the point here, because I didn’t feel safe refusing him). He still tried to pressure me into drinking, demanding that I just “try it once and see what happens”. This was only the beginning of the bullshit he pulled.

I work at a camp with a zipline, rock climbing, and other activities. We have to repeatedly get in between people who don’t want to do a challenge and their peers/bosses/parents pressuring them into it. Seeing my coworker, a four-foot-eleven woman, get in an angry drill sergeant’s face and tell him very politely that he’s not allowed to force his soldiers to go on the zip if they don’t want to gave me three extra vertebrae. Some people feel incredibly entitled to other’s choices, and when you remind them that they aren’t, they get aggressive. Most times passively. Some times not.

For some people, no doesn’t mean no. No means force. The fact that they can’t legally use it outright doesn’t tell them it’s wrong, just that they have to resort to trickery to get their way, because they know best. They choose professions like police officer, nurse, or parent to assert that control, that need for dominance over those they consider unworthy. And we let them, because we as a society believe that certain people should be controlled for their own good, and teach that from the cradle.

[garlic-slut]

Consent isn’t limited to sexual experiences. You’re not being a “baby” or “stubborn” for not engaging in experiences you don’t want to.

[magical-girl-coral]

Have you ever read a post about a cartoon where OP made it pretty clear they forgot it's they're talking about a fucking kid's show?

[whitepeopletwitter]

[best-of-memes]

[theklaud]

[lizzibennet]

did carrie underwood effectively utilize girl power when she dug her key into the side of her bf’s pretty little souped up four wheel drive, carved her name into its leather seats, took a louisville slugger to both headlights and slashed a hole in all four tires? discuss

[silenthill]

yes because this song was 90% of what convinced my mom to divorce my dad.

[channinglovesjoss]

[concentratedmess]

A whole damn mood

[leepacey]

Avatar/Legend of Korra: all types of bending

[eggytoast-deactivated20211219]

remember when katara wanted to blow up a factory for Environmental Justice and aang just tagged along because he thought it would be fun to be an ecoterrorist

[appavevo]