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[abs-gabs]

SOMEONE FINALLY SAID IT

[deathtasteslikechicken]

So if a teenager is at school for roughly 8 hours, and they are doing homework for 6+ hours, and they need AT LEAST 9 HOURS OF SLEEP FOR THEIR DEVELOPING BRAINS, then they may have 0-1 hours for other activities like eating, bathing, exercise, socializing (which is actually incredibly important for emotional, mental, and physical health, as well as the development of skills vital to their future career and having healthy romantic relationships among other things), religious activities, hobbies, extra curriculars, medical care of any kind, chores (also a skill/habit development thing and required by many parents), relaxation, and family time?  Not to mention that your parents may or may not pressure you to get a job, or you might need to get one for economic reasons.

[elusivebovine]

I will never not reblog this

[lele-exe-has-stoppedworking]

"…but teenagers have no reason to be stressed."

[childishruins-deactivated201504]

[maatangi]

some girls are legitimately not nice u need to be careful dont let tumblr’s ‘all girls are beautiful and gifts to the world’ fool u because there are really horrible girls and women out there

[asweetrevenge]

[throwawaythisshitnow]

[revolutionizethesoul]

“I still have not been charged with a crime”

[goldduustwoman]

[heyfunniest]

Russell Brand telling Westboro Baptist what’s up.

[drowninginyoursmile]

I will reblog this until my fingers bleed.

[michael-antoni]

This is how many children that died in their Hunger Games, without even being mentioned throughout the three books. All these children were under 18. All these children had parents. All these parents’ hearts sank to their knees during their child’s reaping. All these parents saw their terrified child off at the train station. All these parents heard the sound that signified their child’s death. All these parents received their cold, dead child in a wooden box. All these parents’ lives ended there. All these parents could say or do nothing. All these parents were merely thanked that they gave up their child. Thanked.

[riihaana]

And the media focuses on the love triangle.

[backdoorteenmom]

All these children and all these parents aren’t real

[booksandwildthings]

Yeah, sure, I guess that’s true. None of these people were real.

But let’s focus on what this series, and this fact, say about our society.

In the series, the Capitol’s media focuses entirely on the ‘fun’ of the Games- the fashion, the plot twists, the favorites, the strategies, the romance. And the entire time, they completely overlook the fact that 1,678 children between the ages of 12 and 18 have died. Usually brutally murdered by other 12 to 18 year old children.

And how does our real-life media react to this story when news of a movie adaptation reaches them? They talk about the romance. This tragic story of a girl who must choose between her long-time best friend and her new love. Even if she chooses Peeta, they still must fight to the death. The star-crossed lovers of District 12. And many readers of the original novels saw the books through the same lens. You would tell them that you read/ were reading the books and their first reaction was, “Are you Team Gale or Team Peeta?”

Meanwhile, children are fighting to the death.

The fact that our media, and many every-day people reacted to the Hunger Games the same as the Capitol media scares me.

I don’t want this world to be anything like the Capitol. I don’t think any of us do.

And the fact that most of us (including myself) never really considered how many children had died in the games also scares me. But, hey, it didn’t happen now/ in the current story, so it doesn’t matter, right?

[ineffable-raccoon]

I’m not sure about that math though. I think it’s MORE.

Let’s talk about just the first 73 games, ok? Every year before Katniss and Peta. 

24 Tributes (1 girl + 1 boy x 12 districts)= 1 Victor + 23 Dead Every year

23 x 73 = 1,697

EXCEPT, the 50th games (The games Haymitch competed in) had DOUBLE the number of tributes. An extra 24 kids died that year.

1,703. 

Now, 22 kids died in Katniss and Peeta’s first game, because they both live.

1,725. 

In 74 years, the brutal, violent murders of 1,725 children aired on TV in Panem, and in both the Capitol, and on the red carpet in our world, the first question people want to ask it “Team Peeta?” Damn.

[morifartlock-deactivated2014070]

i’m not even in this fandom, but damn, that’s scary

[supermarketrat]

And here we have people who GET the hunger games.

[tsundeanre-archive]

#until this moment#i didn’t realize there were still people who haven’t figured out that our reactions to media are an important indicator of our values#it doesn’t matter that they aren’t real#our reaction on a story primarily about children killing each other#was to focus on the romance#it wasn’t a romance#it’s a story about a tyrannical governemt sentencing children to death as a means of intimidating the sectors into submission#and we reacted to the games exactly the same way the capitol did

[swordsoprano]

do not read your child’s journal. i don’t care what the circumstances are, do NOT read your child’s journal. it will only teach your child that they have no safe place to express themself.

[barbie-cock]

I’ll reblog this every day until I die

[mimi-and-the-next-20th-century]

NOR THEIR TUMBLR OR SOCIAL MEDIA YES IT’S PUBLIC, BUT IT’S THEIR SPACE.

[ikantenggelem-deactivated202005]

[lifes-a-ball-game]

YES.YES.YES. People need to realise this 

[lightningpierre]

This belongs more on Facebook than it does on tumblr.

[its-awesome-turtle-time]

i think you’re missing out on some of tumblr then… but it should be on facebook too, it should be on every social media site!

[sxeworldwide]

Stuff you need to hear

[iicarys]

No one tag this as Leelah. Tumblr is removing all traces of her and her voice, which means they’ll be looking for anything tagged with her name. Just reblog. No tagging - keep her voice and her message safe.

[throwawaythisshitnow]

[revolutionizethesoul]

“I still have not been charged with a crime”

[wehatefeminism]

Feminists say that if they walk around naked and get raped, it’s not their fault.  Let me ask you this, if you owned a bank and left the doors wide open with no security and you got robbed in the middle of the night, is it the robbers fault or yours?

[klutzykay-deactivated20181205]

Literally the robber’s fault??? They walked in and took something that wasn’t theirs??? They knew pretty well that they shouldn’t steal things??? What is your argument even trying to prove???

[kil9]

hey look a cool and helpful comic !! i dont mean to imply that having disorders is directly related to being kin but the stigma on the internet seems to be that we are all self diagnosing a ton of really heavy stuff (when really its all like neuro stuff that makes sense to know abt urlself) 

the only generalization i will accept abt kin is that we r all nice and cool B)

[throwawaythisshitnow]

[revolutionizethesoul]

“I still have not been charged with a crime”

[lora-mathis]

Kasey, San Diego, 2015 by Lora Mathis  kiss your friends’ faces more / destroy the belief that intimacy must be reserved for monogamous relationships / be more loving / embrace platonic intimacy / embrace vulnerability / use emotionality as a radical tactic against a society which teaches you that emotions are a sign of weakness / tell more people you care about them / hold their  hands / tell others you are proud of them / offer support readily / take care of the people around you 

[transboysunited]

Keep #calm and #carryon? I’d rather #raisehell and #changetheworld

[swordsoprano]

do not read your child’s journal. i don’t care what the circumstances are, do NOT read your child’s journal. it will only teach your child that they have no safe place to express themself.

[barbie-cock]

I’ll reblog this every day until I die

[mimi-and-the-next-20th-century]

NOR THEIR TUMBLR OR SOCIAL MEDIA YES IT’S PUBLIC, BUT IT’S THEIR SPACE.