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[raravt]

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HEWWO HI IT ME After having not used Tumblr since probably 2016 I am RETURNED! ☆ I am a hobbyist occasional VTuber who makes my own assets and model, have tons of other hobbies like writing and jogging, voice acting semi-professionally, and I started the @roland-crane-leafbook blog because I am obsessed with Ni no Kuni 2 and needed an excuse to channel my inner isekai'ed Chief Consul of Evermore #1 Dad.

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[paradoxspaceheater]

the thing about misogyny is that femininity is both devalued AND forced on women (and those misgendered as women). if you fail to meet the arbitrary standard of Womanly Charm you're ugly and unwanted and hate yourself and if you succeed you're shallow and brainless and weak. if you don't try to conform you're lazy and if you do you're vain. it is not possible to beat this system. feminism needs both "feminine doesn't mean weak or less-than" AND "women don't have to be feminine to have value", and if you are fighting for one of these the people fighting for the other are not your enemies, nor are they privileged over you.

this post is inclusive of trans people, including but not limited to trans women and transfeminine people. exclusionary sentiment is not welcome.

[paper-mario-wiki]

do not forget the patron saint of these weeks that we celebrate ourselves proudly and openly in the streets

her name was Marsha P Johnson, and we have her to thank for so much.

remember, the first Pride was a riot, and she was one of the brave souls who endured it to help carve the path which so many of us walk today. she helped found several activist groups regarding LGBT safety and wellbeing. and she was absolutely radiant, too.

thank you, Marsha. we remember you.

[ca-tsuka]

"Mfinda", an upcoming African-American-Japanese feature film produced by N LITE.

Directors: Gisaburo Sugii & Arthell Isom. Character designs: Patience B. Lekien & Shigeru Fujita. Image boards: Shinichiro Yamada. Animation production : N LITE, MOCCO, PONOC. Partners: Masao Maruyama (Studio M2), GKIDS.

[renthony]

I've been seeing a lot of posts lately that tell dropouts "you can always go back!"

And that's not bad! It's true for a lot of people! You CAN go back later! You can apply to university, you can get your GED, you can pursue whatever level of education you want. It's not bad to share that message. If you dropped out and want to go back eventually, there is zero timeline. You can go back at any age, with any life experience. You do not have to graduate by a specific age.

But as someone who dropped out of college over a decade ago, sometimes "you can always go back!" starts to feel a little like an empty platitude. Sometimes it starts to feel grating instead of hopeful. Even when it might technically be true, sometimes it still feels like a hollow sentiment.

I just want to say, to anyone else out there who feels that way, who dropped out and CAN'T go back, potentially EVER, whether it's due to poverty or disability or any other reason:

It's okay to drop out and never go back. It might feel shitty, and you may even feel grief over it. That's real, and painful, and allowed. But you are not lesser. Even if you never go back, you are not a failure or a loser. Academics do not define your worth. You are not stupid. And it is almost certain that the system actually failed YOU.

With love,

A fellow burnout

[animentality]

[bumblebeerror]

Credit card companies will TRY to saddle you with this kind of debt by the way - if ever a loved one dies and you are not co-signed on their credit card, do NOT agree to pay their debt unless you ask a lawyer first if you truly have to.

They will say “don’t you want them to go to the grave without debt”, they will try to guilt you, they will take advantage of your vulnerability.

Source: when my father died, he had some credit cards that my mom wasn’t on that she had no access to. The companies contacted her while she was sorting through the bills and getting a handle on how to run the house alone, badgering her with his credit card debt.

She wasn’t liable for any of it, but if she had ever agreed to pay before finding out that she didn’t need to, she would have been considered to have taken on his debt and would have HAD to pay it. It’s slimy, it’s predatory, and it’s entirely legal for them to do this.

Never accept the credit card company’s word about your obligation to pay anyone else’s debt, if you don’t have access to the card, ask a lawyer before agreeing to anything.

[its-kaufmover]

this trend but make it jaxs doomed polycule

[thabugoon]

Tha Cringey One

[dykewozniak]

i really need healthy, able-bodied people to understand that there are many illnesses that cannot be cured and which, in many cases, don't even have effective treatments

and that constantly putting the onus on the people who have to live with these illnesses to simply "get better" is an incredibly shitty thing to do

and that it's not "toxic" for chronically ill and disabled people to feel down, and occasionally talk about how down they feel, in a world which continually disregards their suffering and makes their lives much more difficult than they need to be, sometimes deliberately

and that telling these people that they continue to be ill only because they haven't tried a certain exercise, supplement, therapy or diet will only further damage their health by causing them stress

and that doctors are not only not infallible magic-workers, but are very often actively prejudiced against their patients; especially female patients and patients who belong to marginalised and minority groups

please just understand this and accept that the chronically-ill and disabled people you speak to know more about their health and their limitations and what works or doesn't work for them than you ever could

thank you

[letterful]

In Orwell’s essay “A Hanging,” the writer watches the condemned man, walking toward the gallows, swerve to avoid a puddle. For Orwell, this represents precisely what he calls the “mystery” of the life that is about to be taken: when there is no good reason for it, the condemned man is still thinking about keeping his shoes clean. It is an “irrelevant” act (and a marvelous bit of noticing on Orwell’s part). Now suppose this were not an essay but a piece of fiction. And indeed there has been a fair amount of speculation about the proportion of fact to fiction in such essays of Orwell’s. 

The avoidance of the puddle would be precisely the kind of superb detail that, say, Tolstoy might flourish; War and Peace has an execution scene very close in spirit to Orwell’s essay, and it may well be that Orwell basically cribbed the detail from Tolstoy. In War and Peace, Pierre witnesses a man being executed by the French, and notices that, just before death, the man adjusts the blindfold at the back of his head, because it is uncomfortably tight. The avoidance of the puddle, the fiddling with the blindfold—these are what might be called irrelevant or superfluous details. They are not explicable; in fiction, they exist to denote precisely the inexplicable. This is one of the “effects” of realism, of “realistic” style. 

But Orwell’s essay, assuming it records an actual occurrence, shows us that such fictional effects are not merely conventionally irrelevant, or formally arbitrary, but have something to tell us about the irrelevance of reality itself (…) There was no logical reason for the condemned man to avoid the puddle. It was pure remembered habit. Life, then, will always contain an inevitable surplus, a margin of the gratuitous, a realm in which there is always more than we need: more things, more impressions, more memories, more habits, more words, more happiness, more unhappiness. 

— JAMES WOOD, from How Fiction Works.

[letterful]

What exactly do these irrational standards mean? They mean the supremacy of the detail over the general, of the part that is more alive than the whole, of the little thing which a man observes and greets with a friendly nod of the spirit while the crowd around him is being driven by some common impulse to some common goal. I take my hat off to the hero who dashes into a burning house and saves his neighbor’s child; but I shake his hand if he has risked squandering a precious five seconds to find and save, together with the child, its favorite toy. I remember a cartoon depicting a chimney sweep falling from the roof of a tall building and noticing on the way that a sign-board had one word spelled wrong, and wondering in his headlong flight why nobody had thought of correcting it. In a sense, we all are crashing to our death from the top story of our birth to the flat stones of the churchyard and wondering with an immortal Alice in Wonderland at the patterns of the passing wall. This capacity to wonder at trifles — no matter the imminent peril — these asides of the spirit, these footnotes in the volume of life are the highest forms of consciousness, and it is in this childishly speculative state of mind, so different from commonsense and its logic, that we know the world to be good.

— VLADIMIR NABOKOV, from Lectures on Literature.

[thediscossessed]

Everyone say thank you black women

[noireservoir]

THANK YOU BLACK WOMEN

[creatingblackcharacters]

LOUDER!!

[beanswithbones]

[decompose1]

you people neeeed to stop making someone bathing someone else into this inherently weird/gross/awkward/horny thing it is a completely neutral action. it is normal. every animal has to groom itself or be groomed. people need to be cleaned. it is completely normal and expected for a social species to clean/groom one another- whether through affection, necessity, or both. there is nothing weird about washing your loved ones. there is nothing weird about washing someone who can't, or is struggling to wash themself. it's so normal. it is SO normal and common and expected. most people will need help being cleaned at some point in their life, some people just need that help earlier than others. i promise you it's okay. & if you have a problem with idea that some day someone you love might need your help getting clean i really do not know what to tell you maybe just don't date anyone or have any close relationships idk

[conpreciv]

Serious question: Would you drop social media, smartphones, and all modern tech... to go back and live in the 1970s?

[ralfmaximus]

Fuck no.

The air was polluted so badly we had "smog days" during which it was unsafe to go outside. The sky was frequently yellow.

The water was so polluted you couldn't eat any fish you caught. Rivers routinely caught fire. Gasoline contained lead which got turned into exhaust fumes we all breathed.

No-fault divorce wasn't a thing yet, and many women were trapped in dangerous relationships. Marital rape was legal most places until the mid 1990s.

Being openly gay, bi, or transgender (or just looking non-heterosexual) was extremely dangerous. Most states had anti-sodomy laws on their books throughout the 1980s. Same sex marriage was not legal.

Corporal punishment (hitting your children) was widely accepted as normal and good. Public schools routinely beat children for minor rules violations.

Automobile safety sucked; no airbags, ABS braking, and crumple zones were a new concept. Seatbelts existed but people routinely "protested" by refusing to wear them. Even minor accidents resulted in death & dismemberment.

Long distance phone calls cost $3+ dollars per minute, and in many cases "long distance" was calling somebody in the next zip code. 911 service wouldn't be adopted nationwide for most of the decade. If you had an emergency, you needed to know the local numbers to call because simply dialing 0 meant having to trust a telephone operator (an AT&T employee) to know what they're doing. Also, they had no way to know your location. GPS would not exist until the 1980s.

There were three (3) television channels, with maybe two (2) more "local" channels, and you looked at them on tiny, fuzzy CRT screens. The largest made at the time were 25". All channels went off the air every night around 1am, and there was no easy way to avoid or skip commercials. VCRs started becoming available, but cost many thousands of dollars adjusted for inflation. There would not be video rental stores until the 1980s, so no easy way to rewatch shows or movies.

Air travel cost thousands of dollars adjusted for inflation, and planes were so routinely hijacked by terrorists it became a meme.

And so on.

The 1970s sucked. Don't fucking romanticize things that were actively terrible just because there are some pretty pictures of girls.

[taavicleric]

I did not live in the 70s. But the 80s were *pretty* bad. They were kinda like now, except nobody even had dial-up.

Everything was expensive, nobody had money, we were fighting a pointless war and there were a LOT more serial killers. And the 70s, at the time, were considered to've been WORSE.

[earhartsease]

we grew up in 60s and 70s england and no thank you, nope

[qusok]

Little bnuuy!

[1los]

Father

[hayooooouuubi]

love these to death

[thegloomywitch-deactivated20170]

Probably my most favorite post ever on tumblr.

[gothiccharmschool]

These illustrations always, ALWAYS make me smile.

[cosmikazie]

hey remember when people said we gotta keep talking about this and then two days passed and it just went quiet. anyways

[z1ish]

"Why do you talk so much about being intersex?"

Over 90% of parents of visibly intersex children opt for cosmetic surgery on their infants.

The ones that don't experience medical violence then, likely experience it as a teenager.

I didn't.

I am very rare in that I did not experience medical violence.

Why? Because I learned what intersexuality was as a young age, and I actively fought against what doctors wanted to do to me. All the way down to legal research on what medical care minors can be forced into. I remember walking into that doctor's appointment with the state law written down that proved that if I did not consent they could not do surgery.

That is why intersex activism is important. It saved me and it will save more.