Rose

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[xbox-nun]

Bro your vibes are epic. Hold my hand

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Linus sunbathing 🔅

[cwote]

respect yourself enough to say, “i deserve better”.

[mimmolka]

i dont think i can finish all of them, but heres some outfit swaps!

EDIT: I added the rest of the cast! Thanks for the lovely tags!

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[milkandheavysugar]

Marsha P. Johnson within the crowd at a New York Gay Pride (1982)

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[rainnecassidy]

This is such a good article though

The argument Pinto makes is that the story and the doll normalize 24-hour surveillance in the mind of a child, which makes them susceptible to more passively accept police-state surveillance as adults.

“I don’t think the elf is a conspiracy and I realize we’re talking about a toy,” Pinto told The Post. “It sounds humorous, but we argue that if a kid is okay with this bureaucratic elf spying on them in their home, it normalizes the idea of surveillance and in the future restrictions on our privacy might be more easily accepted.”

It’s based in a theory that was developed by Jeremy Bentham and popularized by Michel Foucault in which students, prisoners, factory workers and others were thought to function better (for whatever value of better) in a system called a panopticon, in which an individual is potentially under surveillance 24-hours a day, but never actually KNOWS whether or not he or she is being surveilled. 

Pinto said she’s not the first person to be troubled by Elf on the Shelf’s surveilling. She’s said parents routinely contact her to say they changed the rules of the game after it made their families uneasy. And many kids, she said, often intuitively feel like spying and being a tattletale is wrong.

“A mom e-mailed me and told me that the first day they read the elf book and put the elf out, her daughter woke up crying because she was being watched by the elf,” Pinto recounted. “They changed the game so it wouldn’t scare the child.”

In addition to the problem of normalizing surveillance in the mind of a child, this also forces the child into a situation where they never feel like they are free to simply be themselves; they are forced to be “on their best behavior” at all times, unable to relax and make mistakes and do the job of growing up and being a child, because they never know if the elf is spying on them, ready and waiting to report back to Santa Claus that they’ve been bad.

Here is a link to the paper that the article is talking about

[mhalachai]

My co-worker got Elf on the Shelf for her four-year-old daughter last year, and was so freaked out by her daughter’s sudden and complete change in behaviour (uncharacteristically worried and anxious, while trying to be on her ‘best’ behaviour that she never kept up for family or at school) that she stuffed Elf in the garbage after a week, telling the daughter that the Elf had to go back to the North Pole to help Santa with Christmas. 

Also read the paper linked above, it’s a good one.

[drst]

I hate this entire concept so much.

[kelssiel]

the creators of this monstrosity are exactly what you would expect

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[krishnas-grateful-slave-deactiv]

if you’re at a low point in life right now, consider THIS:

new people are coming your way with love

a huge success may be waiting around the corner

the possibilities are endless

you can always change your habits

[highlandvalley]

なんか並んでくれた😍💕 https://twitter.com/kikechi776/status/1130288022795145222/photo/1

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Incredibly powerful

[sirduke]

This was the first Ace Attorney game with motion capture so obviously they had to do shit like this

[goatanarchy69-deactivated202012]

I spent 3 hours on this

[stycks-figure]

This put the biggest smile on my face. 

[fluffnfuzzxoxo]

Time well spent

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i love her

[twodotsknowwhy]

Remember, Debbie Reynolds was so much more than just Carrie’s mom. She was a beautiful, amazing, wickedly funny woman in her own right. She loved her daughter and she made her daughter who she was, but it is a disservice to her memory to shrink her down to just being Carrie’s mom.

[twodotsknowwhy]

Also, because it needs to be said, Debbie was a huge supporter of the mentally ill. She helped found The Thalians, a mental health charity in 1955 and served as chairwoman for the organization for fifty-six years. She was an amazing woman and will be missed.

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I’M SCREAMING

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