does this unit have a soul?

Alyssha! =D 29, INFJ, Nurse, squishy ball of overflowing anxiety, Trash Mom Aesthetic.

[xlexican]

Betty Fucking White

[odinsblog]

[afronerdism]

Saw a post that said “Not every person you dislike is a narcissist and not every unpleasant experience is trauma” and a lot of you needed to hear that.

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

Not all conflict is abuse.

[arisingonmorningsinnocent]

watching train to busan like…. su-an and seong-kyeong wouldn’t have made it if the train driver hadn’t kept the train moving forward on blind faith that he wasn’t the only survivor aboard! if sang-hwa, seok-woo, and yong-guk hadn’t fought past the zombies to rescue them when they were trapped! if the doors had been closed a second sooner! if so many characters, over and over, didn’t choose to risk themselves for someone else! and they would STILL have been shot at the end if su-an hadn’t started singing! or if the soldier hadn’t waited to fire even after being given an order! this movie grabs you by the shoulders and says: in horrible, apocalyptic times, you won’t need to reject your own humanity!! humanity is not irrational or stupid, it’s a source of strength!! you will survive by refusing to abandon your humanity and your emotions and your care for other people!

[guerrillatech]

[stevencharleston]

it’s time to look at some photos of pikas carrying plants and flowers in their mouths

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

@hiriaeth @antifaspiderman @kamalaskadoosh @princesspuddingface @prince-of-legba @soleil-moon-bye

[puffsaddy]

Are u single?

“single” is a word the government created to give Americans tax disadvantages. if you’re asking me if im lonely the answer is yes.

[borninthe80slovingtheladies]

Screaming

[irresponsible-black-unicorn-dea]

oh shiiiit it’s me

[bi-leigh-bi]

as white person in fandom who has mental illnesses there is very little that makes me as angry as white people in fandom using their mental illnesses to try to escape valid criticisms from fans of color. if your stupid ass said or did or posted something racist and you got called on it you don’t get to then start posting “oh my god all I did was post my opinion and I’m depressed and now my anxiety is acting up oh my god why are people being mean to me”. no one is being mean to you. they’re letting you know you’re fucking up. it sucks, it can be embarrassing, too bad. accept it, think about what you did, fix it, and move the fuck on. no one is asking you to carry the cross for the rest of your life. just fucking learn from it. don’t hide behind your illnesses. your mental illness is not the reason you’re posting ignorant shit. jfc.

[thenatsdorf]

Now it’s time to bite the other ankle! (via)

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

@hiriaeth @antifaspiderman @prince-of-legba @princesspuddingface @beserkerjewel @1eos

[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.

[memeuplift]

[memeuplift]

[dollywoodpretzel-archive]

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[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Toddler accidentally cursed himself into an identity crisis today.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

He’s been crossing stuff out with chalk. He asked me to write his name for him, crossed it out, and had a panicked meltdown because he thought it meant he didn’t exist any more.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Every hour or so he asks me “am I [his name?]” and wants reassuring hugs.

[headspace-hotel]

I’m enjoying the implication that he was perfectly delighted with arbitrarily erasing things from existence until it affected him personally

[catgirlcaliphate]

That’s just how toddlers are.

[idiotdotdotdot]

[princesspuddingface]

So this is thirty 😊💕

[princesspuddingface]

I wore makeup for the first time in a long time yesterday. So naturally I had to harass my cat and take a bunch of selfies.

[thenatsdorf]

Owl cat

[dirhwangdaseul-archived]

@hiriaeth @prince-of-legba @antifaspiderman @princesspuddingface