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I am a 21+ demisexual female. I like space and maths and Harry Potter, not necessarily in that order all the time. I like to write and I'm hoping to try some new things here.

[queerpontmercy]

less “if you see a man and woman together at pride be nice! they could be bi/pan/trans/ace/aro” and more “stop gendering strangers to harass them anywhere, but especially at pride holy shit”

[queerpontmercy]

you know what? i want this to reach the people who do this– especially the ones claiming to support trans folk (usually in really hollow ways lol i’m not bitter). keep reblogging– i want this sentiment to be widespread and for people to stop gendering strangers! especially in explicitly LGBTQ+ spaces!

[toothmuncher3000]

viewing queer identities as “this is the label that makes me happy and feels most accurate now” rather than “this is who I am, was, and always will be” will definitely take the pressure off, friends. changing your mind is proof that you have one.

[im-gayer-in-french]

Friendly reminder that your understanding of yourself changes and it’s ok to change your labels to reflect that.

[peace-wisepenguin]

You are not the same person you were ten years ago, probably not even five years ago, and you will not be the same person you are now in ten years. It's okay to change, to grow, it's what we do as human beings, and your labels are included in that.

[mysharona1987]

[roachpatrol]

I WOULD PAY TEN TIMES AS MUCH FOR CHOCOLATE IF IT MEANT REDUCING THE AMOUNT OF SLAVES IN THE WORLD? HOW IS THIS ANY KIND OF PROBLEM. 

[kaijutegu]

good news, you can! the company’s called Tony’s Chocolonely and their entire purpose is to make slave-free chocolate and reform the chocolate industry.

https://tonyschocolonely.com/us/en

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony%27s_Chocolonely

Whole Foods carries it. If you don’t want to support an Amazon-owned company, World Market carries it. You can also buy it directly from the company. 

It’s the best chocolate I’ve ever had and it’s 100% slave free. Tony’s Chocolonely works really hard to push for transparency within the chocolate industry and actually has and is following an action plan to eliminate slavery within cocoa production. They’re good people who make good chocolate.

[rsbenedict-deactivated20181216]

A list of slavery-free chocolate companies:

Aldi

Aloha Feels Chocolate

Alma Chocolate

Alter Eco Chocolate

Amano Chocolate

Askinoise Chocolate

The Beach Chocolate Factory

Belicious

Black Mountain Chocolate

Cacaoteca

Caribeans Chocolate

Castronovo Chocolate

Charm School Chocolates

Chocolate Cartel

Chocolat Celeste

Chocolate Tree

Chocolate Troubadour

Choconat

Coco Chocolate

Compartes Chocolates

Dandelion Chocolate

Dark Forest Chocolate

Denman Island Chocolate

Divine Chocolate Co.

Eating Evolved

Eat Your Hat

El Ceibo

The Endangered Species

Equal Exchange

Fairafric

Forever Cocoa

Fresco Chocolate

Fruition Chocolate

Gayleen’s Decadence

GEPA Chocolate

Giddy Yo Yo

Grenada Chocolate Company

Grocer’s Daughter Chocolate

Guittard

Habitual Chocolate

Hagensborg Chocolates

Health by Chocolate

Hilo Shark Chocolate

HNINA Gourmet

Honest Artisan Chocolate

Hooray  Tuffles

Ithaca Fine Chocolates

L.A. Burdick Chocolates

La Iguana Chocolate

Lake Champlain Chocolates

La Siembra Cooperative

Lillie Belle Farms

Madecasse

Malagasy

Maverick Chocolate Company

Max Havelaar

Mayan Monkey

Mayordomo

Mia Chocolate

Montezuma’s Chocolates

Nayah Amazon Chocolates

Newman’s Own Organics

Purdy’s Chocolate

Omanahene Cocoa Bean Company

Ombar

OpuLux Fair Trade Chocolate

Original Hawaiian Chocolate

Parliament Chocolate

Montevérgine

Patric Chocolate

Plamil Organic Chocolate

Potomac Chocolate

Pure Lovin’ Chocolate

Rain Republic

Rapunzel Pure Organics

Ritual Chocolate

Samaritan Xocolata

Sappho Chocolates

Seed & Bean Chocolate

Shaman Chocolates

Sibú Chocolate

Solkiki Chocolate

Sweet Earth Chocolates

Sweet Impact Fudge

Sweet Riot

Sun Eaters Organics

Taza Chocolate

Terra Nostra Organic

Terroir Chocolate

TCHO

The Chocolate Wave

Theo Chocolate

The Original Chocolate Bar (Houston, TX)

Tobago Estate Chocolate

TONY’S CHOCOLONELY

Vivani Chocolate

Vosges

Wei of Chocolate

Xocolatl Chocolate

Zotter

[weeelllp]

Crazy how the main three chocolate companies in the US are all terrible

[scootsenshi]

Makes sense

[middleearthorcseeksspaceorc]

Sign me up for this.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

Chocolate companies that deserve support here <3

[void-kids-stuff-deactivated2021]

Reblogging cuz I love chocolate and hate slavery.

[invisiblefoxfire]

I get Seed and Bean chocolate, it’s a UK-based company. Good stuff, all compostable packaging, fair trade, slavery-free, and not even much more expensive than any other brand of good chocolate.

[camelotsheart]

I do believe in fate and destiny, but I also believe we are only fated to do the things that we’d choose anyway. And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.

- Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

[ughmerlin]

CAMELOVE 2021 day 7: free | merlin x arthur in rainbow colors (template insp.)

[recoverr-a-deactivated20210530]

sending so much love to everyone who feels like they’re never chosen as the best friend, as the partner, as the favorite. sending love to all of you who have been treated and felt like second best. sending love to all of you who have felt rejected and unwanted. to all of you who have had to try really hard to fit in because you felt like you never will. 

you are so loved. you will be seen and heard by the right people. you can trust that you are valuable and not defined by other people’s perceptions of you. if someone doesn’t see your worth, it doesn’t mean it isn’t there.

[colorisbyshe]

while i get and agree with the fact that gay people should probably play gay people and gay stories are best written by gay people, the fervor to prove that “straight people shouldn’t play gay characters!!” is what the interviewer used to forcibly out lee pace so like

idk maybe slow your roll and realize that like… actors can be closeted, content creators can be closeted, and tbh this “you can only write your own experiences, never write someone else’s” rhetoric is also a bigot’s fucking wet dream?? like the perfect excuse to never write diverse characters?? and to say that they have nothing in common with people who don’t look/love/exist the same way as them??

yeah, the author of simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda is a cis straight woman, which means love, simon (though directed by a married gay man with multiple gay characters played by gay/bi actors) is based on a novel written by a straight woman… but this straight woman literally ends her book acknowledging the LGBT teens who helped her write the book and make sure she was writing it appropriately.

this is the content we want

listen… EVERY SINGLE piece of media EVER involves some level of writing about experiences that are not your own, especially if it’s diverse. even bland stories just about white people involves an author writing about genders that are not their own. if you want a story with characters of color, white authors are going to have to write about those perspectives. if you want gay characters in every story, straight authors are gonna have to write about those perspectives. even LGBT narratives might involve gay authors writing about bi characters or cis authors writing about trans characters.

what we HOPE FOR when they do that is that they talk to people… actually belonging to those groups to learn what is and isn’t appropriate and true to life. which is what the author of simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda did.

it’s exactly what she did. she literally worked in a support group for LGBT and GNC kids, saw they did not have cute love stories written for them after they told her this, and then worked with them to give them the love story they craved.

this is a good thing. this is progress for lgbt people. this is the path we need to walk towards getting LGBT content created by LGBT authors.

when you attempt to take the ~moral ground on protesting this film, all you’re doing is telling people who fund these projects that gay products don’t sell. they don’t get the nuance of what you’re going for. and, chances are, you’re looking like a fucking hypocrite, because i can promise you most of the canon gay characters you stan profit a cishet somehow (if they’re even canon).

so, y’unno, as someone who has read simon vs the homo sapien’s agenda AND seen the fucking movie let me tell you!! it’s fine!! it’s diverse beyond having gay character, it’s written respectively, and it hit home on a lot of experiences i WISH i had as a gay teen. it’s corny, it’s silly, and it’s all i ever would have wanted at 13, 14, 15

if you don’t want to see it, just fucking say so! but don’t act like you’re doing it on moral grounds. you can just… not like a movie or not want to see it without it being some moral victory.

[99percentprocrastination]

I want to add, in case anyone doesn’t know, that Becky Albertalli (author of Simon vs.) came out as bisexual a few months ago. She did it not because she felt ready and accepted by the community, but because she had been harassed about this very subject so many times. This is the danger of demanding that only openly queer people can write queer characters: it forces creators out of the closet before they’re ready, before they can even come to terms with their own identities.

Go read the article. It’s incredible and made me cry.

[acejupiter]

ace positivity time is it????

neurodivergent ace-specs are valid as FUCK

autistic aces? awesome!

aces with adhd? brilliant!

aces with dyslexia or dysgraphia? cool af!

aces with dyspraxia? excellent!

aces with ocd? great!

aces with epilepsy? terrific!

aces with tourette’s and other tic disorders? incredible!

aces with any other neurodivergency, multiple neurodivergencies, neurodivergencies and mental illness? ALL AMAZING!!

your ace-spec identity is valid if you have a neurodivergency! and your neurodivergency is valid if you’re also ace-spec! they don’t exclude each other and you deserve a place in ace/lgbtq spaces and also neurodivergent spaces!!!

- sincerely an ace w tics & suspected adhd!!

[weirdandwonderfulace]

guys we now have an international asexuality day!! this is amazing 🖤🤍💜

[a-lot-of-ace-archive]

!!!!!!!

[mydairpercabeth]

if i die and my significant other doesn’t create a new reality in which i lived and where we do domestic shit and raise kids and absorbs anyone who threatens our new life into the reality because a life without me is so empty and devastating that they cant handle it,,, i dont want them.

[once-and-future-gay]

gaius should have died at the end of s1

[toocool2btrue]

I agree like I appreciated that he was a father figure to Merlin and genuinely loved him but Gauis was quite a hypocrital character in a lot of other terms and there are so many instances where he held Merlin back from making the right choice. My personal most hated is the one where he didn’t let Merlin tell Arthur that Balinor was his father because of his own paranoia.

Like Arthur isn’t Uther, he out of all people would know how it would feel to reunite with a long lost parent and it would have given him an in deph realization how the purge affected even the people closest to him. Basically after that episode, i am afraid it all became a lost cause.

[fluffypotatey]

#[slams fists on the table] but that’s the fucking tragedy!!! for god’s sake y'all’ve GOT to stop equating sad/tragic plots with–#plain bad writing#merlin had a lot of good ideas that could have genuinely made things better if he just followed his own plans#telling arthur of his magic telling arthur about balinor telling morgana about his magic etc etc et. cetera.#but he didn’t believe in his own judgement which is NORMAL because he was TWENTY YEARS OLD with a power and destiny that he–#couldn’t possibly comprehend#so he leaned on people who were older and wiser but the problem therein is that these older wiser people have also been exposed to the–#paranoia and self preservation that it took to stay alive in the situation the were put in#gaius had reason to be paranoid. magic was a literal death sentence. he loved merlin. are y'all forgetting he was THERE during the purge?#he knew what an accusation on merlin meant. he knew EXACTLY what would happen to him - he’d seen it hundreds of times#so what if arthur wasn’t his father’s son? all he really knew from that was what merlin told him#and merlin was so head over heels that gaius had right to believe that merlin may have been exaggerating (even tho from OUR perspective–#we can see he was UNDERexaggerating arthur’s love for him)#all merlin had to do was ignore gaius and he could have avoided so many tragedies but how can we be sure that merlin wouldn’t make–#even worse mistakes without gaius to hold him back? to be the voice of reason?#there are more parallels between arthur and merlin than we talk about– especially with their self surety (or lack thereof)#arthur has all this power as a prince as a regent as a king and he doesn’t know how to wield it#merlin has all this power as a sorcerer as emrys as a GOD and he doesn’t know how to wield it#they needed trusted people to guide them - and unfortunately they both chose wrong#if they had better guidance or maybe (MAYBE) if they simply trusted themselves then it would’ve been better#but it wasn’t. and it ended in tragedy. the simple human failings that MAKE us human destroyed them#their overabundance of love and naivety and anxiety doomed them#and that’s not on gaius. gaius was traumatized and held on tight to merlin.#just like merlin’s love for arthur sent him careening into bad advice (there can be no place for magic in camelot)#gaius’ love for merlin did the same

@sterlingdylan​ you have perfectly put down why i have such a hate/love relationship with gaius 

[tyalangand]

Yes, this! Though I DON’T like Gaius. But I can not like Gaius and simultaneously understand the reasons for the way he acts. If there is one thing I do regret about BBCM, is that they didn’t explore Gaius’ trauma further (not a very family-friendly thing, that). Gaius reminds me of the generation of my grandparents, who went through WW2 and Stalinism in Poland. The trauma was never healed, and the paranoia never left.

Also, as to “I wish the writers did X” - see my rant: https://tyalangand.tumblr.com/post/642591705134170112/bbcm-writers-unpopular-opinion-tw-rant

[peace-wisepenguin]

@fluffypotatey oh yes, I couldn't have said this better myself!! And @tyalangand I agree, I've always had a problem with Gaius but I think the main problem is that this was meant as a kids/ family show and didn't delve into the deeper more emotional things that they really could have, and a lot of it gets seen as plot holes or bad writing. These were all such complex characters with such amazing backstories, even Percival had an amazing backstory. I think we were lucky to get the amount of complexity and character arcs we did get, and the parallels between real life society's throughout history is incredible. The actors, writers, directors, and producers did the best with what the BBC would let them do. It may be subtle sometimes, but other times it can be quite obvious.

[-ryan]

[reubydoomsday]

Nobody’s immune to breast cancer.

Best. Ever. Get that on your blogs. NOW.

[zenm0de-deactivated20180127]

putting this on my blog for reasons.

[mutantsandaliens-deactivated201]

Reblogging for similar reasons.

[moralstormtrooper-blog]

[This is fucking awesome.]

[bossuspain-deactivated20120124-]

OOC: Very good idea!!

[notdaredevil2-blog]

still my fav

[prismatic-bell]

OKAY LISTEN UP BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING SUPER IMPORTANT ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN AND MOST OF YOU PROBABLY DON’T KNOW

It’s the inclusion of Storm. (Storm? Pretty sure that’s Storm.) And in a way where, yes, representation saves lives.

See, here’s a weird medical fact: black women are more likely to get breast cancer and nobody knows why. It’s a medical mystery. Now, I want you to do a fun exercise: tell me the last time you saw a breast cancer awareness campaign that included black women. Go on, I’ll wait. Speaking as someone active with the cause whose aunt is even more active with the cause, here’s my answer: In eight years of working for awareness across four states, I have never seen a single black woman in any breast cancer campaign. Ever.

Black women are also more likely to die of breast cancer because they’re less likely to catch it early. That’s not genetics, that’s math. The sooner you begin treatment, the better your prognosis. Black women are less likely to know how to do self-exams and because of the socioeconomic divide, less likely to see an OB/GYN annually. And they’re ignored by awareness campaigns.

Tell your black friends. And spread this like wildfire. Because they are more at risk than you are.

[ultimatebottom69]

Reblogging this because yes.

[a-confusedmess]

Ahem....I have a theory.

These butterflies are called Morpho achilles patroclus.

Please tell me they look similar to the butterfly Merlin creates here.

[donttouchtheneednoggle]

@camelotsheart ​

[camelotsheart]

@a-confused-contradictory-mess I will now proceed to pass out as I imagine Merlin naming that subspecies after the love between two tragic greek figures who's story parallels that of him and Arthur.

[a-confusedmess]

(tags from @camelotsheart )

Ignore me as I pass out at the tragic beauty of this.

[tyalangand]

OMG

[micdotcom]

In May 1939, as the Nazis were tightening their chokehold on Europe, the United States government rejected the SS St. Louis, a German passenger vessel carrying 937 refugees who were trying to dock at the Port of Miami.

Almost all of those refugees were Jews fleeing violence in Germany and Eastern Europe, according to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The ship was eventually forced to return to Europe, where 254 of its passengers were killed.

On Friday, to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day, a pair of Jewish scholars — Russel Neiss and Charlie Schwartz — started tweeting the names of the people who were aboard the SS St. Louis, under the handle @Stl_Manifest. Read more

[celestialmayhem]

I actually went to  seminar of one of the passengers of the S.S, Louis who survived the holocaust a couple of months ago and something I learned from her was that the whole voyage of the S.S. Louie was a planned sabotage meant to act as Nazi propaganda and a fairly successful one. It’s an incredibly important story so I wish to share it with my followers, especially with everything happening nowadays. Basically as best as i can remember it the story of the S.S, Louie goes like this:

During 1939 as Nazi’s were rising in power and gaining control over Europe, Many German-Jewish families could see the warning signs and tried to find asylum outside of Europe for many the answer came in the form of the S,S, Louie a cruise ship taking refugees that was bound for Cuba. Most everyone who went on this journey had a legal Visa to enter Cuba, what they didn’t know however was that the Nazi regime had been placing their agents closer and closer to the head of the Cuban government. They knew this ship was coming and wanted to make an example of them. 

The nazi agents convinced the Cuban government to rescind the visas, so by the time they reached Cuba their Visas were no longer valid and the ship was not allowed to dock on the Cuban shore. The S.S. Louie remained docked for about ten days or so iirc before the captain realized there was no hope and Cuba was not going to take in the refugees as promised. Determined not to return to Germany with the refugees, The captain chose to sail to nearby Florida instead in order to seek asylum in America. However just like with Cuba The United states refused entry into the country, even after a Jewish Association in Paris offered to Pay the united states about $500 per person (again I might be off on the amount but regardless it was a lot of money at the time).

Meanwhile back in Germany, Nazi controlled Newspaper carefully documented the travels of the ship. The gist of most of the articles being: “Look, nobody wants these people, not the cubans not the states. We can’t even pay them to take them. We are doing the world a favor by getting rid of these people” The Captain as well as the people in Paris tried desperately to get the US to take the refugees but unfortunately the US firmly denied them access. Realizing they were running out of supplies the captain had no choice but to turn back to Europe. 

Still the Captain refused to return to Nazi occupied territory and instead sailed to England. Where they were able to convince Holland, Great Britain, Belgium and France to take their passangers. Unfortunately Holland and France would later be taken over by the Nazi’s and thus many of these Refugees were murdered. 

We as citizens can not allow this to happen again. Between, the Syrians, the lgbt russians and many many others we cannot allow more people to be turned away and sent back to their doom. It is the only way we can honor the memory of those passangers of the S.S. St. Louie.

[nonbinarychaoticstupid]

rb if your account is a safe space for polyamorous people

[la-linguistique-deactivated2015]

50 Advanced French Phrases

en outre - moreover

par ailleurs - besides

en accord avec - agreeing with

toutefois - however

cependant - however, yet, nevertheless

en revanche - on the other hand, in contrast

au contraire - on the contrary

contrairement à - contrary to

d'un autre côté - on the other side

tout d'abord - firstly

en guise d'introduction - by way of an introduction

en guise de conclusion - In conclusion

en bref - in brief

pour finir - finally

enfin - at last, finally

ainsi - thus

surtout - especially

notamment - notably

parmi - among

d'après - according to

selon - according to

jusqu'à un certain point - to a certain extent

toujours est-il que - nevertheless

d'une façon ou d'une autre - one way or another

pour la plupart - for the most part, mostly

par contraste - in contrast

paraît-il - so it seems

également - equally

de nos jours - today, nowadays

parfois, quelquefois - sometimes

autrefois - previously, formerly

à l'époque de - in the age of

étant donné que - given that

quand même - even so, nevertheless

sans aucun doute - no doubt

de plus en plus (+ adj) - more and more (+ adj)

de plus en plus de (+ noun) - more and more (+ noun)

certes - admittedly

quant à - as for

de la même manière - in the same way

bien loin de - far from

afin de + inf - in order to

désormais - from now on

un changement en mieux - a change for the better

dans ce but - for this purpose

à en juger par - to judge by

par bonheur - fortunately

ou bien - or else

pour ainsi dire - so to speak

au niveau de la planète - on a global level

[onceandfuturehimbo]

Imagine modern day old Merlin wearing bernie's mittens

I’M SCREAMING

[ice-mint]

[onceandfuturehimbo]

@isarthurpendragonbackyet this you? 👀