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feministism

anditslove

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen

ruinedchildhood

willow-s-linda

A girl with a gigantic tiger and a phone

lmaonade

i’ve been going thru my little brother’s halloween bag (as adults do) and there’s HARDLY any kitkats in this bitch. did they just stop giving out good candy? do people hate kids now? jesus christ

lmaonade

you are all saying “maybe he ate them” my brother does not like kitkats so. that’s not possible

thegoodvybe

“Just remember that sometimes, the way you think about a person isn’t the way they actually are.”

— John Green, Paper Towns

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dsu2014

imagine owning an independent bookstore with a cafe and bakery with a cat that sleeps on the windowsills and people like to pet her while they browse the shelves

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The Prisoner, Emily Brontë

[ID: the hidden ghost that has its home in me.]

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pumbaa from the lion king has flatulence issues that are beyond his control and is socially isolated and rejected for it. this rejection drives him into the arms of a (male) meerkat. in this post i will discuss the themes of the lion king that represent pumbaa’s inherent queerness and his disability, how it interacts with the savanna, and how him and timon both queer norms and subvert them by making their own rules in their relationship and living outside of a society that rejects them. i will also discuss how pumbaa’s ailment is weaponized later on in the movie, when he defeats the hyenas with an aspect of his identity that had been used against him.

avatrashh

Man I love this website

peachyindeed

I respect this man’s decision making skills.

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hydroponics is immoral. this shit is straight up evil

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growing plants without soil? that’s what the devil intended

biggyman

Hydroponics is like growing humans in their own blood. Everything deserves dirt and requires it

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Humans are already grown with hydroponics in a way, we sit in amniotic fluid until we’re ripe.

warframe

this feels like the sort of conversation you’d overhear while pumping gas at 3 am 1500 miles from home

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Anyone not married by age 25 gets a spouse assigned to them by the government. You are fine with that: most matches are a success and it’s less effort for you. But it’s your wedding day and you’ve just met your match. You cannot imagine how this was the person they chose for you…..!

triangleman

… you’re walking down the aisle. It’s dark outside the chapel and your phone is dead. As you approach the altar, you see him- Shia LaBeouf.

strikersindanger

WAIT! He isn’t wed, SHIA SURPRISE! There’s a ring in his hand and love in his eyes!

youandibreatheconstellations

#actual bachelor Shia LaBeouf

taliabobalia

when i was really little, my babysitter only spoke spanish with me so i became bilingual but i never knew when i was speaking spanish or english. one time i told my mom i wanted an avocado & she understood but then when i said the same thing to my babysitter later that day, she burst into tears with laughter because i was saying “quiero abogado” which means “i want a lawyer.”

imagine a two year old repeatedly saying “i want a lawyer!” as an adult laughs at her.

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findingfeather

Reminding me of also funny story: So my piano teacher of many years when I was a kid had a baby when I was in my teens. This little girl was super bright, and also bilingual in Mandarin and English from her first word.

I do not speak Mandarin. At all.

One day as I’m waiting for my mom to pick me up after the lesson, Baby Girl is playing in the kitchen and hears me sneeze! And she runs over and says, “You need [incomprehensible]?”

Now here’s the thing: I knew she was not speaking Mandarin. I don’t speak it, but my aunt and uncle both do, and a close family friend’s family growing up would code-switch quite comfortably around us. I was old enough and it was sufficiently different from English that because there was no formal teaching, I never derived anything from it? But I was very familiar with how it sounds to an uncomprehending ear.

What she said did not sound like Mandarin at all. It sounded like gibberish. Like English baby gibberish.

As I clearly didn’t understand, Baby Girl repeats, “You need [gibberish]!” and then, when I still don’t understand, she stamps her foot and makes Angry Noise at me, which attracts her mother’s attention.

Bewildered, I relate what’s going on. Her mother covers her face and says, “She wants to know if you want a kleenex.”

And then my piano teacher explained that Baby Girl had figured out that some people didn’t speak English and some people didn’t speak Mandarin and she needed to confine herself to one language around them.

But sometimes, as is very natural especially for quite young children, she’d run up against realizing she didn’t know the word for something - and sometimes she knew the word in one language, but not in the other!

And it seemed intuitive to her that the way to fix this was to say the word from the other language … with the right accent.

So what she’d been doing was taking the word for “tissue” or “kleenex” in Mandarin and saying it like an Anglophone would: no tone-change and different vowel shapes and all. And it made Baby Girl VERY FRUSTRATED when this did not solve the problem, and at that point she seemed to believe that the adults around her were being stupid on purpose.