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i'd truly be fucked in her situation because rumpelstiltskin is not a name that would come to mind for me
to be honest i forgot he did that
I don't want kids so I easily get out of it fr
help i forgot this was all over some baby too
i wont even lie i thought he was going to kill her
about to read rumpelstiltskin as an adult so i can get the facts
I have a lot of pet peeves but I think the biggest one is when people say things like “oh it’s such a small town, only 35,000 people” like bitch my town has 200 people, you need to pick a new adjective
According to Wikipedia, a small town is 1,000-20,000 people. So although you are correct in stating that 35,000 people is not a small town (it is a large town), you are incorrect in thinking that you live in a town. You live in a village. You are a villager.
I…… don’t know what to do with that information……a villager…
"a genus of new world pigs" sounds like something rage against the machine might call the american capitalist class. but in fact it refers to the humble javelina
I cannot stop laughing at the idea that socialism ignores humanity’s highest spiritual ideal: owning yachts.
i just feel strongly that work shouldnt be the Main Activity of five days out of the week
When I need to remind myself to put something on the grocery list and I don't have my phone on me, I use the Scrabble tile magnets on the fridge. But sometimes I don't have enough of the right letters and have to get creative.
The list is getting longer and we are running out of letters.
the removal of physical media is not the inevitable progression of improving tech, its like the removal of the 3.5mm jack: purely a result of profit physical games still account for about 1/5th of all sales of video games
but by only selling digital games sony can be the ultimate arbiter of their price. they can stop you lending games and force another sale instead. they can stop the sale of second hand games and keep prices artificially high. they can set any price they want and that will be your only option.
the "biblically accurate angel" trend is such a perfect encapsulation of a pet peeve i have which is everybody wants to criticize the bible but nobody wants to read the bible. like when people were drawing crazy amalgamations of eyes and wheels talking to mary and saying "be not afraid" and everybody was like omfggg OF COURSE she was scared. like no actually the angel looked like a guy can you read 3 lines of text... they were saying be not afraid because it's scary when a random man suddenly shows up in your house and starts talking to you
apologies to anyone who followed me for tma. cow studies :) ❤️
i'm in agony, SOMEbody please help me remember what the childhood book series was that centered around critters that looked like this:
IM IN HELL WHAT WAS IT
Little Critter?
THATS THE BITCH
alright smart-aleks, what about THIS one huh?? the dude had a really cool shading technique where he just swirled (colored pencil?) around??
Parts :)
YOU GUYS ARE TOO GOOD AT THIS WHAT THE HELL
ok my partner wanted in on this, I have no idea what this is
I GOT YOU
i'm never leaving this fucking site i stg i love you all.
OK
final one
for all the marbles,
this one doesn't have an illustration bc i think it was just a kids novel but i haven't been able to find ANYTHING about it on my occasional internet queries:
kids is staying with his (grandmother?) in the woods and she warns him not to look a fox in the eyes bc they're tricksy and will swap places with you. obviously that's the first thing the little boy does and gets body snatched by a fox who uhhhh proceeds to pig out with his new little boy human hands and the boy has to trick the fox into looking him in the eyes again to switch back...
thats all i got, it's an older book i wanna say from the 60's?? 70's?? kinda the same jist of "Little Rascal"
perhaps this?
A DECADE OF SEARCHING THANK YOU @dyketennant IM ORDERING THIS IMMEDIATELY
February 9, 2000 - The London Lesbian Avengers stopped the no. 15 bus in London's Piccadilly Circus, and painted it pink. This was done to demand the repeal of homophobic Section 28, and to protest the involvement of homophobic millionaire Brian Souter in a Scottish campaign against the repeal. Souter was also the owner of privatised bus company Stagecoach, operating route 15. Section 28 was finally repealed in England and Wales in 2003. [video]
I survived section 28. Finished secondary school at 16 in 2004. I don't think a lot of people realize just how broad the legislation went and just how harrowing it was for those of us under it.
I got outed at school by someone I thought was a friend, but was actually just mining the local freak for content. I thought we were besties, because autism is like that, so I told her that I thought I might be a lesbian. She told everyone. That was spring of 2001. The next few years were hell.
Section 28 was the justification for the teachers not helping or offering advice beyond 'well if you will make a spectacle of yourself'. It was the justification for not defending me when I was beaten. When I had bleached poured over me. When my hair was set on fire. When my books were all tipped out into the showers and soaked. When the girls formed a barricade and refused to let me into any of the bathrooms because I was a 'pervert' (sound familiar, anyone?). Throughout all of it, I got told there was nothing that could be done.
See, to defend me could be construed as 'putting homosexuality in a positive light'. If they said 'there's nothing wrong with her' a parent or another teacher could complain they were 'promoting homosexuality', and that teacher's job would be on the line. The guidance was deliberately worded so that often teachers didn't know what they could do and where the lines could be drawn, so they chose to do nothing to save their own skins. They'd all heard about what happened to teachers who stepped out of line.
Some of them helped where they felt they could. Putting me in silent detention for my own safety. Skipping their own lunch breaks to sit in an empty classroom with me. One slipped me a book of queer poetry from his own collection. A few months later the same one gave me a flyer for a Pride youth group, which provided some limited respite when I could get there. He could have lost his career, for giving me that book and that flyer. Thankfully my parents were too oblivious to notice.
The thing is, when it was repealed, there wasn't clear guidance immediately to replace it; what was okay to say, what wasn't, what would get someone in trouble, what was now safe. 'Promotion' of homosexuality was no longer illegal, but where did that boundary fall? The same teachers continued to help me. The same mob hounded me every second they got for my final year of mandatory education. Most of the same teachers that weren't helping before still weren't sure how they could help then.
The irony is that now, the teachers that helped me and the social workers who ran the Pride youth group would probably be labeled 'groomers', because it's happening again.
Before too much longer I'm worried we'll end up with another section 28. Another generation of young people desperate, frightened, unprotected by the adults around them and ultimately attempting suicide like I did. Some already are, and some are succeeding.
The school guidance for trans youth and children remind me very much of section 28 - Section 28 wasn't really about education, it was about stopping left wing local authorities who had begun to tentatively support queer people like we were human. Schools mostly took Section 28 to the extreme proactive degree without any court cases or case law or whatever - again this reminds me of trans people atm. The enthusiastic compliance. The wilful interpretation.
Section 28 was not even criminal. It was a law about policy. It didn't matter. They fucked us over anyway - all those individual people in their small acts of cowardice.
It was always no 'pretended family relationship' that got me the most. This poison that our most meaningful human connections were a scam, a fraud, an ideology.
A moral panic because you could get Jenny lives with Eric and Martin at Lambeth library
We can see this in how supportive parents can be investigated for turning their children trans like they have Munchausen's by proxy or belong to an abusive cult. How social transition is treated as 'pretend' and harmful to witness. How trans children are treated as non-children, but rather as vectors of contagion. Not helped or respected or listened to - only contained or hidden away.
I love Binface so much.
The cure for loneliness is other people. That’s it. That pain can only be overcome by allowing others into your life. It’s just unfortunate that they don’t always realize how much they can mean to you. But you can let them know.
