It goes on.

My name is Sav. I'm a preschool teacher studying for a degree in special education. Diagnosed with bipolar and PTSD. 19 years old, asexual panromantic, she/her pronouns

[savrecovers]

“‘I’m a mockingbird, okay?’ she screamed in frustration, throat raw, unshed tears burning unseeing eyes like forest fires, 'Everyone tries to protect me and keep me safe, but it’s not because they value me. It’s because they don’t want to face what may happen if they don’t hover over me and keep everything away!’ He simply looked at her, knowing he was guilty of the very thing that was hurting her, but he didn’t comment on it. Instead he said, 'Mockingbirds can fly away.’”

-Excerpt from a book I’ll never write

[dear-ao3]

hold on a fucking second. delaware is a state?? i thought it was a river? or is the river more important than the state? why don't i know this? (i should mention i don't like in america, i'm just confused)

there is delaware (state) and delaware (river) 

both are equally strange

the state is a tiny little cryptid thing

the rive is a monster that spans new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware. also washington crossed it once and that was like kinda a big deal i guess. like crossing the rubicon in rome.

the state tries to me more important with its “im the first state!!!” bs (seriously its even on the fucking license plates) but we all know. its the river.

[dear-ao3]

THATS TUPPERWARE

[sobutmermaids]

i thought delaware was a place in ohio? why are there so many things named delaware?

[dear-ao3]

delaware is too powerful

[uncertaininnit]

what the fuck

[dear-ao3]

[skaktusposts]

Wait what? I thought Delaware was a store with building supplies. Like paint, wood, nails and stuff?

[dear-ao3]

THATS HOME DEPOT ???

[skaktusposts]

I know home depot, but dude I don't know anything about America mad have never been there. Are you sure there is not a some sort of store called something close to Delaware!?!

[dear-ao3]

.....ace hardware....?

[uncertaininnit]

this post has only been around for a few hours but could very well be a world heritage post

[dear-ao3]

but at what cost

[publiusmaximum]

This post launched at 8am PST on 12 Feb 2021. The above conversation has happened in 3 hours.

[dear-ao3]

[uncertaininnit]

he WHAT? i thought he was from. w. wait. ???

[dear-ao3]

delaware stole the presidents shoelaces for clout and became too powerful

[likethehorrormovie]

From the UK- and what do you mean Delaware isn't a type of ceramic?

[dear-ao3]

it is now

[swifty-the-rake-deadblog]

@hellsite-hall-of-fame is it too early?

[kkshowtunes]

Isn’t delaware what they make computers on???

[dear-ao3]

software ??

[you-say-that-so-often]

I think they meant Dell Ware, a specific computer type. We had a Dell computer once.

I thought Delaware was that famous singer they spoofed in Zootopia.

[dear-ao3]

gazelle??

[king-finnigan]

oh i thought delaware was that one british singer lady, you know, the one from chasing pavements

[dear-ao3]

that's fucking adele

[metamelonisle]

isn’t delaware that place you go when you die

[shirtshawaiian]

youre thinking of superhell and all of you are going there

[totalrosalia]

how the fuck did any of you come to the conclusions you all made

[dear-ao3]

we live in america?

[vigilantsycamore]

I thought Delaware was that food delivery service that keeps interrupting youtube videos with their ads when I'm trying to have a good time

[abnormalmind777]

..... are you talking about Doordash???

[destiel-is-canon-what]

Isn't Delawere the name of that one girl in the song that goes "Hey there, Delawere"? She's from NYC or something.

[dear-ao3]

THATS HEY THERE DELILAH

[katherynefromphilly]

Pausing here to point out that op is “dear-AO3″ and now I’m wondering if Delaware fanfic would be categorized as RSF (real state fic) or AU (alternate unitedstates)

[dear-ao3]

stop i do not want to think about this 

[joyflameball]

Isn’t Delaware that SPN ship that exploded the internet

[dear-ao3]

[forensicrodentfool]

Everyone on this post:

[sith-shenanigans]

I love that the “no, that’s [x]” meme is making a comeback here and only here and nobody has any idea what’s going on

[jmercedesd]

Keep up the good work, we can make poor OP have a melt down yet. 

[dear-ao3]

[callme-corpse-septiceye]

Isn't delaware that one brand of pizza that's like "it's not delivery, it's delaware."

[dear-ao3]

[paulblartinum]

isn't delaware the god of the sea

[dear-ao3]

[robbietherat]

Isn't Delaware the name of that guy who painted the Mona Lisa?

[dear-ao3]

[lordechostan]

delaware is that one evil cyborg guy that has a son named Luke and a red laser sword

[kiwikipedia]

Thats Darth Vader. Im pretty sure Delaware is that other red-laser sword guy. You know. The one that stabbed Qui-Gon.

[dear-ao3]

what have i created

[hellsite-hall-of-fame]

I usually only reblog older posts, but this definitely deserves to be in every tumblr hall of fame

[dear-ao3]

this post has only existed for 8 days. 

[gallusrostromegalus]

This is fantastic because it goes great with my theory that Delaware only exists for tax purposes. Like, all the states really only exists for Tax Purposes, but Delaware is particularly fake because back in 2012 I got lost in the Alleged Delaware Area looking trying to get to a family reunion, but every time I pulled over for directions, I would ask what the hell state I was in now, and I went through Mayland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey AND Virginia and I never fucking found Delaware but I did eventually find the Family Reunion and earned the repsepct of my then-prospective- Great-Grandmother-In-Law by saving her favorite grandchildren from a furious oceangoing horse so I’m convinced that not only is the state a purely legal construct, they didn’t even dedicate any landmass to it, or it’s a gov’t blackzone where the carnivorous horses live.

[worldheritagepostorganization]

World Heritage Post

[dear-ao3]

fun fact, i actually drove through delaware on this posts 6 month birthday. i hate it here.

[thedailypositivityblog]

Redditors crashed the website with donations over $25k and 0 wishes left. via /r/MadeMeSmile

Click here and follow to get more daily positivity on your dash!

[no-mere-mortals]

In response to this event, some redditors created r/charityraid, with the goal of concentrating the power of thousands of users into a single charity at a time to hopefully break a few more sites.

[cuntess-carmilla]

What has the body positive movement done for disabled people, honestly.

[cuntess-carmilla]

Call me bitter (because I am) but if you ask me, the answer is absolutely fucking nothing.

We’ve not even been half of an afterthought for most of the movement at least in its mainstream form, unless we can hide very well that we’re disabled. But those of us who can’t or choose not to? Ew, out of the Inclusive™ Fuckability & Beauty Pageant.

[cuntess-carmilla]

Even beyond not including us in fucking glam or swimwear photoshoots or whatever, the whole rhetoric born out of the mainstream body positivity movement has been so, so painfully able-bodied.

No matter how unintentional it most likely was, it did EVERYTHING in its power to center a form of body norm that inherently downright erases our bodies (how exactly can you be “positive” about bodies you refuse to acknowledge, may I ask?), and dressed it up in flower crowns and lingerie.

Stop acting like the (mainstream) body positive movement has done anything for disabled bodies when trying to defend it. Maybe it did something for other bodies that also escape the ideal of our current society despite being abled bodies, but we weren’t made a part of it at all.

If anything, all our criticisms of the body positive movement has made able-bodied people have kneejerk reactions calling us “negative” and other bullshit like that.

[mockingjaypin]

Also to add on to this a lot of the body positivity movement is negative to disabled people even when not 10000% about physical appearances!

All of the “your body is worthy because it provides xyz for you” Okay, but what about when it doesn’t? What about people who’s bodies are downright hostile to them? 

Rather than centering worth on what an abled body does for you we really should be recognizing that people are worthy of respect regardless of what their bodies look like or do. 

People aren’t worthy because they’re beautiful. People are worthy because of their humanity.

[wildersage]

the impulse to hide what I'm doing at my computer still sits so deep even tho I'm literally never looking at anything objectionable , the door will open and I'll hurry to close the page like oh fuck no one can know I'm looking at the Wikipedia page for the Balkans

[wack-ashimself]

I have never been a fan of the word normal, but this is the most disgusting use of it.

[100493503004422]

do u guys understand how creepy the pledge of allegiance is though like every day when ur a kid everybody just chants how great america is every morning it’s creepy

[holmes-sweet-holmes-deactivated]

You do that every morning???

[jolivet-deactivated20190306]

EVERY MORNING.

[youblowuponesun]

wait

wait

is this a real thing i thought that was just in the simpsons

[jolivet-deactivated20190306]

no son

[you-are-talking-about-this-deac]

Wait, other countries don’t do this.

[sleepybiflinge]

*whispers* Not even Russia

[bemusedlybespectacled]

I remember when my dad had a conversation with me

because I asked him what the Austrian pledge of allegiance was (because he’s from Austria)

and he said “we don’t have a pledge of allegiance”

and I said “why not?”

“honey, think about what training your children to mindlessly pledge to a flag, without really knowing what they’re talking about, sounds like to Austrians”

“oh. hitler.”

“exactly”

[foxanddanapetrie]

RE FUCKING TWEET

[dailypattondoodles]

You don’t realize just how creepy it is until you are the only one not doing it

[tar-nuine]

“oh. hitler.”

[lady-byleth]

Pls check the irony of me, the German transfer student, not participating in the pledge of allegiance and then getting a swastika drawn into my history book as “punishment”

[thegiftedoneishere]

Please spread the word.

[popsunner]

Was just informed by my mom that I do in fact have ADHD and the reason I thought I didn’t was because ever since I was seven whenever I got super energetic my mom would have me go chop wood so now when I’m feeling The ADHD I go chop wood and I thought it was just some sort of routine I started when I was little and wanted to blow off steam

[popsunner]

I’d also like to point out that my sister has a really hard time staying present (I can’t remember the term because we’ve always called it Tethered at my house) and whenever she’s feeling Untethered my mom has her knead bread and make syrup because they’re repetitive and easy things to do that ground her

[popsunner]

Now that I’m thinking about it- my brother has days where he doesn’t talk and doesn’t eat unless he’s prompted, and on those days my mom sits him down in the fish pond in the backyard and plays Mozart and because he’s so used to that being his wake up he always comes back in after like an hour rambling about random things

[popsunner]

Oh yeah and when it rains my mom has a required hour where we all have to go outside and run around and whoever finds the most worms for the garden wins and then we go inside and my mom makes us tea and we watch Studio Ghibli movies

[popsunner]

Wait!!! When one of us has a bad day at school we make a fire in the backyard and roast homemade sausages and my mom tells us stories until we laugh and then she tucks is in bed like we’re five again and sings us songs

[popsunner]

Uh.... wait guys is my mom a witch raising a bunch of fae kids hold on-

[eldritch-eternity]

“I didn’t know I had adhd because my mom gave me such an effective coping mechanism” is such a high bar to clear and she soared over it like a space-plane.

[autism-fucking-rocks]

If you're ever asking an autistic person to do something, be sure to explain why you want them to do it.

When I was a kid, I always kept the windows open when it rained. I saw no reason to close them even though my mom kept asking me to. She never gave a reason, so I never listened. She'd say it let the rain in and I'd think "no shit" and continue to keep them open. Eventually, she explained that it could cause mold. That made sense to me, so I started closing the windows. Simple as that.

When we first got cats, they kept jumping onto the counters. Once again, I saw no issue with this. My mom kept chasing them down and I couldn't figure out why. She'd get annoyed whenever I let them stay up there. Once she told me that it was unsanitary, I thought that made sense so I stopped letting them stay on the counter.

To an outsider (and probably to my mom at the time) it may have seemed like I didn't understand the instructions or was being intentionally difficult. But I can't just follow an order without a reason. I must decide for myself if the order makes sense before I follow it, and I need the logic behind it to do that.

So if you're asking an autistic person to do something, explain why it needs to be done. It's very hard for a lot of us to override that part of our brains.

[politijohn]

[jumboflakybiscuits]

I took a college course on the history of cars in film, and the shit I learned about freeways blew my mind. They purposely got rid of a trolley system and replaced them with city busses that were bad ON PURPOSE. They wanted 2 cars at every home, so they really made a point to sabotage the public transportation system. Make it so people hated busses.

Freeways also destroyed homes, and caused a lot of pollution. I watched a video about how children were getting sick from the sudden pollution.

[antique-scarecrow]

This makes me especially furious when bus transport is such an incredible tool for public transport--when done right. unlike trolleys and trains, which require laying tracks (and sometimes massive tunneling projects), installing a bus system simply requires the individual vehicles and bus stops (signs and benches, in the most simple form). that makes it cost effective for small cities and towns that can't or won't invest in the overhead for larger projects. also bus routes can be easily adjusted--unlike, say, a trolley that goes down the same set of tracks every time. Buses have huge potential! Unfortunately, all these benefits also make them easier for politicians and lobbyists to quietly sabatoge.

Even so, in some places we do have good bus-based transportation systems--such as in university towns that have a vested interest in providing public transport to campuses that are already very tight on parking space. Some cities and towns also do a decent job with their bus systems--but that is highly dependant on local politics, and there is always a risk of wealthy interest groups getting involved and fucking with things. Ironically, some of the best proof we have that buses are a good mass transport option come from private bus systems set up by companies like Apple and Tesla which use buses to transport thousands of their own employees, who would otherwise be stuck in a broken system of enormous commute times--where everyone else is stuck.

Anyway. Everything the original post says is correct--public transport had been criminally sabatoged in the U.S. And it is costing people jobs, livelihoods, and access to basic necessities like hospitals and grocery stores. It's not glamorous, but it is an enormous quality-of-life and class issue, and I'm relieved to see more people talking about it.

Invest in public transport, in public housing, in libraries, in education. Invest in public services. These are the heart and soul of a functioning society, and they pay for themselves a thousand times over.

[sasssydaddy123]

lil nas x being so outrageously gay and so aggressively unapologetic is what ive been fucking waiting for.

ppl say "we get it ur gay stfu already" and he says ok imma make a whole music video with butt ass naked men

like, he will not stop in order to make the straights comfortable and im fucking living for it

[anonymouscomrade]

the CDC's like "how could covid cases be RISING?! all we did was tell the dumbest, most selfish population in the history of the world that they didn't need masks if they got vaccinated, entirely on the honor system"

[catchymemes]

[urbanfantasyinspiration]

My God they actually look like dogs now

[introvertbard]

Lord, the changes! DO PUGS NEXT!!!

[dusky-phantom]

ACTUALLY! A breeder in Germany started to breed healthier pugs called “retro mops” and currebtly ppl are trying to get AKC and UKC to recongnize them as the new standard.

heres the comparison:

[introvertbard]

Reblogging with updates! Healthy bulldogs AND healthy pugs! ❤️

[tree-of-blue-squirrel]

AND they also look double the adorable now

[blackseapearl-deactivated202209]

Puppers!!! @gearhead66 @b-j-d

[lisinfleur]

YESSS!!!!

[unholyverse]

[lycanthology]

did nonbinary musician gerard way utilize safe cisheteronormativity when singing about sucking dick for cocaine

[thefallenbibliophilequote]

Y'know what, fuck this bullshit. I need to know y'all are actually against it.

Reblog this if you will NOT use or support Post+.

I hope to make @staff see how that is total bullshit. Tumblr will die without writers/creators.

[bauliya]

just gonna leave this here

[princecharmingtobe]

I’ve said this before, possibly even on this post, but this also means throwing out that shitty attitude of “You can tell this was made by cishets for cishets” just because it doesn’t relate to your specific queer experience. I have seen works created by queer creators based on their own experiences get labeled “by cishets for cishets” because it didn’t reflect a particular experience/reflected a different experience from that of those criticizing it. There is no universal queer experience. Just because it’s not YOUR experience doesn’t mean it’s not queer.