Not Sure I've Ever Had an Original Thought

[aetas-aurea]

So many women have internalized the idea that being difficult makes people think less of them, when in my experience the opposite is almost always true. Every single time I have spoken up, voiced what I actually need and refused to shrink the moment in order to be more comfortable for everyone else in the room, I have been approached afterward by people who wanted to know me better. There is no reward waiting for you on the other side of making yourself smaller. People do not love you more for taking up less space, they simply get used to you taking up less space and adjust their expectations accordingly. Every time I have been exactly as audacious as the moment required, it has opened doors rather than closed them and I have made real connections directly because of it rather than in spite of it.

[flyfeline]

"holy fucking shit holy fucking shit how did they get away with making the bluey dad so hot"

the bluey dad:

[thetreetopinn]

Excuse me... no... that doesn't capture it...

If you're going to argue against this example of husband and fatherhood perfection, then you'd best make sure you're making an argument from intellectual honesty... 'cause... just fuggin' look at that.

This dude absolutely fucks.

[capacity2]

This person being over 40yo has shaken me to my core

[creatingblackcharacters]

The way that 5000 Trump supporters and Klan members got drowned out during a really bad storm when they were gonna march in DC... and they had to seek shelter in the- wait for it-

The African American Smithsonian.

The writing hasn't been this good and pro-Black since Charlie got Kirked 🤣 But seriously, like... Imagine! Imagine marching in your hatred and fearmongering, having to seek shelter bc even nature rebuked your presence, AND you had to seek aid in a place where the people you hate... STILL gave you shelter. It couldn't be more obvious.

[creatingblackcharacters]

Shoving their faces into the Obvious like Kratos to get them to read it 😭😭

[hasdrubal-gisco]

Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Guess who's getting two pages of character references because I keep remembering more and more characters that influenced her? That's right, it's best girl Philia, the one, the only, who are those other characters I made up-

[jareckiworld]

David Kanietakeron Fadden — Onkwehonwe Gothic (acrylic on canvas, 2016)

[danceundersparklinglights]

i’m going to be really honest with you guys i think the tendency to read the absolute worst possible intentions into every action you don’t agree with is getting too automatic and it’s eating you from the inside out

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Fun fact about me (maybe it was obvious, idk) but I am a sucker for rainbows, iridescence, and glitter, actually. Idk a good Sparkle has never done wrong by me. Little metallic shimmer has always put a smile on my face.

[captain-price-returns]

Arrest everyone involved.

[captain-price-returns]

Money saved: maybe a couple million dollars.

People killed: around three quarters of a million.

[victusinveritas]

[anglaised]

like sza is literally 36 im so glad she is finding answers and getting support but it is crazy that it took til 36 for her and it happens to black people so so much so many people i grew up around in hindsight were neurodivergent but they never were able to be treated that way or just had it ignored its heartbreaking and its not shocking to me that so many neurodivergent black women relate to her and have been for so long like. i rlly hope this brings her some peace bc it brought me so much peace to be told and accept my autism like it felt like a boulder was being lifted off of me, i wasnt quirky or just being weird on purpose it was just a disability the whole time ugh

[creatingblackcharacters]

Defending a Black female character from a piece of media I may or may not even consume, no matter what she does, because I know of the racist, misogynistic double standard that her actions would be perceived differently to the audience if she were a white man. Name the character, go:

[spiderbitesandvampirevenom]

i rlly do dislike when people downplay the feral hog problem in the US bc they are genuinely a massive pest in a lot of the south since early colonizers literally set them free on purpose when they got here so they would have a familiar source of food and so they could continue the european aristocratic practice of boar-hunting 😭

like you understand that this is a LOT of fucking pigs right?

and its getting worse not better!

[patrochilles-or-bust]

My mom admitted that she and my dad miss me and my brother because we both moved out of the city. But it's like... That's what happens when you tell your kids they gotta get out at 18 🤣 me especially! Made it real clear my ass would have no place once I was "grown". Now we miss me. Yeah uh huh. The quences are consing, mother!

[patrochilles-or-bust]

Recently I found out she's throwing my grandma a birthday party on my birthday. Now I don't begrudge my grandma this, she deserves it and our birthdays are close! HOWEVER! Guess who she didn't tell directly about said party 😐 don't miss me THAT bad 😭

[patrochilles-or-bust]

I'm realizing a longstanding pattern in my life of people not really being considerate of me or my feelings and I cannot say I appreciate that 😭 I gotta start spoiling myself more often

[creatingblackcharacters]

I'm tired of seeing people share pictures of Lupita when she was playing Patsey and talking about her role in The Odyssey.

It's extremely telling that they choose to do this, that they take her (groundbreaking and heartbreaking) depiction of a real life victim of enslavement, physical and sexual abuse, and shove it up as "oh you're telling me THIS is a beautiful woman?"

Not any of her beautiful modelling photos, not any other role she's been in. But one where she's being whipped.

What they're telling us is "this is all you deserve to play. This is what you get to be seen as. You being a slave, you being abused, is what's "accurate" for a Black woman. You don't get to be seen as valuable. You don't get to be beautiful, and certainly not the most beautiful woman in the world, not in MY world."

As if we haven't been on this planet the whole time, in every sort of role there is. As if the only thing that has ever been relevant about us is our abuse, that that is the imagery that defines us. And these people will swear that "they're not racist, it's just-", and get mad when you look their racism right in the eyeballs.

I need these people to kick the sharpest of rocks. Actually, something more violent would suffice.

[darkspaceboytoy]

I just wish we’d had some way of knowing that the Nazi tattooed bigot who did mercenary work for Blackwater and was abusive to the women he had relationships with was a bad guy before he’d gotten this far. If only we’d had some sort of visual warning for who Graham Platner was. If only he might have had something on his body that could tell us he was no good, before we let him run this long. Hindsight’s 20 fucking 20 I guess though huh

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

i don’t think i’m exaggerating when i say that the average height for women in the US would increase by at least an inch if teen girls were allowed to eat as much as teen boys are

[riseofthecommonwoodpile]

and not to bring my own clocky bitch ass into this but if cis women weren’t so consistently starved their entire lives you’d see a lot more cis women with the kind of bodies that we currently associate closely with trans women. the amount that the standards of feminine presentation are culturally defined by malnutrition is crazy

[origamimissingno]

AFAB here (i prefer they/them now), poverty isn't even as much of a problem with this as some people may think, bc while I haven't checked the comments or reblogs yet im sure its likely at least one person is gonna pull the "well poor families need to give the boys more food so they can be stronger and help out"

Like, I'm still significantly smaller than my older brother height wise, but thats because our dads were the difference between a giant tree and a scrawny bush, but I have the body type expected of my brother and my brother had the body type expected of me, because he starved himself out of an expectation that it would somehow make him stronger if he was skinnier on top of the, rather meager, exercise he did. so then despite the Genetic chronic pain issues I have that he does not I am the one between the both of us able to haul shit around and was actively the only one in my welding and residential construction classes (Free at my highschool luckily) that didn't need two other people to help me haul one piece of lumber.

I am living proof that if you give girls the chance to eat without judgement they can thrive with that.

And Ironically? I think the reason I was able too is because I was not a White Girl growing up. I was a Native Girl, who got to grow up around Native Women who were all on the bigger side, but god damn could they get shit done without a Mans help. I was light skinned as a child, so I did hear some emotionally ugly people say I should be this skinny little twig that should act like I'd die if I touched sugar. But I saw how my mother and other women from my rez thrived by taking care of themselves properly instead of trying to follow white beauty standards or think that "Sickly Skinny = Loved"