ibidem

|| Seattle || 22 || INTP || I got soul but I'm not a soldier

[resoundingecho]

Whoa hey hi Tumblr is still going! I'll recreate this post every year or two I guess haha I miss Tumblr but I guess there isn't a place for it in my life these days. I think what I miss the most is a space where I get to be candid and actually too personal about myself and see others making it work through their struggles too. If I want to have a blog now it's gotta be a polished WordPress because I'm an adult or shit.

Boundaries are nice though, when they aren't separating us from one another. I just wanna seem humxn without my vulnerability being seen as weak?

[hchocolate]

[foil-flingza-roller-deactivated]

it’s britney,

[cookingwithkyle]

I laughed too hard at that

[cat-memes-only]

How do I grow a cat tree

[electricheart]

[rosa-calvaria]

❤️

[samcarpnter]

Maybe you’re finding your real power too.

[reginaking]

Nico Minoru // Runaways 2x13 “Split Up”

[wolfnanaki]

So one of my tweets kinda blew up. :v

[goawfma]

yooo pass this along

but remember that plan b is an emergency contraceptive so avoid it if you can!

[berniesrevolution]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Or “gay people have it way more easy these days”

[boywiththeblueheart]

I really fucking hate people sometimes bro. I watched the news coverage from this, people stood by and watched this happen. No one called the cops. People are disgusting.

[lord-kitschener]

I think people really underestimate how fucking evil a large chunk of American Christianity is, when they try to say to antichoicers “well if you’re against abortion, at least you should support things like WIC and SNAP, so that women facing an unplanned pregnancy can still feed their future kid”

I’ll be blunt, to American Christians like this, “but single mothers and their kids will starve!” is the entire fucking point. Being ostracized by your family and community and left for you and your bastard child to starve alone in abject misery and deprivation is what they believe the Godly punishment should be for being “unchaste,” and that things like food benefits and contraception are destroying moral society because they let women have unapproved sex without being as controlled by the fear of being cast out to starve with an unwanted kid (this also heavily ties into misogynist racism against woc, especially black women, who are accused of being “welfare queens,” draining good, properly chaste white Christians with kids born from their supposedly mindlessly lustful and irresponsible behavior, that can only be kept in check with threats of starvation or violence).

[lord-kitschener]

“Women (especially woc) cannot overcome their base urges and live virtuous lives without being heavily trained and coerced by threats of deprivation, isolation, and violence” is one of the most important unspoken ground rules of reactionary movements, both religious and secular

[mattandsaraproductions]

Evangelicals have no long-standing theological problem with abortion. My parents have been married for longer than evangelicals have been against abortion. Evangelicals in the 1970s didn’t care about abortion. Being against abortion was a Catholic thing. Evangelicals thought abortion is unfortunate, but not evil.

What changed?

Bob Jones v. US (1983).

Bob Jones University, an evangelical school, had a segregationist dating policy. It means what you think it does - they wouldn’t allow white students to date black students. They also wouldn’t admit black students who supported interracial marriage. This was in the mid-70s. Loving v Virginia was nearly a decade in the rearview mirror. The government threatened to revoke their tax-exempt status as a university unless this Jim Crow shit stopped. The school sued, and this eventually went to the Supreme Court. The Court, unsurprisingly, agreed with the government.

What was clear to evangelical leaders, then, in 1983, was that out-and-out racism was no longer going to be tolerated. What could they focus on that would have the same effect? What could rally the base without openly espousing racist views?

Reagan, with his “welfare queens” dog-whistle politicking gave them a like-minded politician glad of their support. And Surgeon General C. Everett Koop was only to happy to tell people what he thought of abortion.

So here we are, thirty-five years later, with every evangelical doing their damnedest to pretend that evangelicals have always been against abortion. They’ve lied themselves into believing it, and now they claim they’re against birth control too. That’s even more spurious - If they actually thought life begins at conception, then birth control would be a necessity, because fertilized eggs being rejected is the norm. Most of what they want to call human life never even gets implanted in the womb, or lasts very long if it does. And if they cared about life, welfare programs ought to be the most important, to ensure everyone has a good standard of living worthy of human beings.

But they don’t care about those things, so the only conclusion is that they are not pro-life. They just don’t want to see family planning and health care go to women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, etc.

It was never about being pro-life. 

(and incidentally - Bob Jones v US was an 8-1 decision. Who was the dissenting voice? None other than William Rehnquist. Who was elevated to Chief Justice by Reagan when Warren Burger retired a few years later. None of what has happened has happened by accident)

[the-transfeminine-mystique]

Randall Balmer has a really good article about that here.

And it’s worth noting that Bob Jones University defended their policy exclusively on religious freedom grounds, but Rehnquist’s dissent was based entirely on procedural grounds. Even the one justice who was “on their side” didn’t buy  their argument and had to justify it on other grounds. It’s been a long road from BJU v. US to the Hobby Lobby case.

[thetrekkiehasthephonebox]

I have a similar theory about why evangelicals fight so hard against believing climate change when supposedly humans are stewards of the earth. It’s all about evolution. Climate change is a proxy war. It’s all the same rhetoric about scientists being corrupt and only looking out for their own interests and trying to shove their research down other people’s throats.

For a group of people who supposedly believe that God charged them with taking care of the Earth, they really seem to have bought into the whole “I can do whatever I want to the planet because God put us in charge of it” mindset really hard. Of course, maybe this is just the 21st century version of manifest destiny.

[lord-kitschener]

I think another problem is that with a large chunk of US evangelicalism, the world ending is what they want. The apocalypse means that the chosen few get carried off to heaven as a reward for beating the shit out of their gay kid or whatever, while the rest of us who failed to give the true believers the obedience respect that they feel entitled to are left behind to die in slow agony before being cast into eternal hell. It’s really hard to get people to give a shit about the planet dying when they view literally would have the world end to own the libs

[tooblacktoomad]

It’s ABSOLUTELY what they want. During the Bush years, they were pretty up front about it, too. The entirety of the Evangelicals’ support of Israel is explicitly so that the Jewish People rebuild the Solomon’s Temple; which is a prerequisite for the events of Revelations to happen. The sooner it’s built, the sooner the Rapture can sweep them up into Heaven so they can laugh as all the “sinners” suffer the End Times. They don’t ACTUALLY care about Israelis or the long lasting sociopolitical factors of the area; they’re literally just pawns for the most death cult aspect of American Evangelical Christianity. It’s legitimately terrifying that people like this run large sections of a nation already capable of destroying all life on the planet.

[roachpatrol]

It’s a fatal but common liberal mistake to assume that evangelicals are motivated by (misguided) compassion. They’re not. They will watch you die and be pleased about it because youve gone to hell faster.

[explodinggirl]

I think some people will read this and think it’s really dramatic, but I was raised in a mega church in the Bible Belt. This all spot on.

[eyyyiwantdeath]

[fatpikachupics]

actually there is one more

[hellsite-yano]

This rhymes

[goweninsane]

Next time my teacher makes us read a poem this will be it

[npr]

Angela Lautner knew her thirst was unusual, even for someone directing airplanes, outside in the Memphis summer heat.

“We had coolers of Gatorade and water for people to always have access to,” Lautner remembers of her job as a ground services agent. “But the amount of thirst that I felt was just incredible.”

She had no appetite and she lost an unusual amount of weight. Then after a trip to the emergency room, Lautner, who was 22, was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. The diagnosis was life changing.

To start, it meant that for the rest of her life she would require insulin injections every day to keep her alive. Unlike Type 2 diabetes, which can sometimes be controlled by diet, people with Type 1 diabetes need daily insulin injections to regulate their blood sugar.

After 18 years living with diabetes, Lautner now says the hardest thing about the diagnosis is accessing insulin — the expensive drug she needs to keep her alive. She’s had to borrow money from her parents to pay for insurance; she’s spent hours on the phone with drug companies; she’s switched brands of insulin to save costs; and she even moved to a new state, Kentucky, with a more generous Medicaid plan.

Last year, Lautner noticed other people with Type 1 diabetes tweeting similar stories under the hashtag #Insulin4All. She read the stories of Shane Patrick Boyleand Alec Raeshawn Smith, two men who died because they could not afford their insulin. It was an epiphany.

Since then, Lautner has joined a group of consumer activists, people who need insulin to live and are angry about the sky-high prices. They are putting pressure on the three main companies that make insulin: Sanofi of France, Novo Nordisk of Denmark, and Eli Lilly and Co. in the U.S.

‘We’re Fighting For Our Lives’: Patients Protest Sky-High Insulin Prices

Image credits in captions

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[365daysofhorror]

[randomitemdrop]

Item: Shoes of Tentacular Clambering, with dextrous living tendrils that allow the wearer to walk as if wearing elegant heels on any terrain, plus a grappling-kick attack.

[hogwartsconsultingtimelady]

My Poor Unfortunate Soles

[overblush]

white women literally dont make sense

[lolokittten-deactivated20170404]

Okay usually I just brush these things off because it’s not worth my time. So please tell me the meaning behind this.

[overblush]

i mean for starters u jus said its not worth ur time but u tryna initiate a discussion so does that makes sense to u? bc to me it dont