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hardlysad

some roses 🌹

konoko

dreamyfreakout

hot take: trans women can look however they want!

oberynmartell

everyone is complaining about how “tumblr is dying” but how the fuck is it supposed to survive if ya’ll dont reblog from content creators??? if all you do it like their work instead of reblogging it, instead of spreading it around. liking a post instead of reblogging just encourages content creators not to create anymore

thatpantasticwitch

Preach

iron-sunrise

LOUDER.

keplercryptids

i think what people who have grown up in a carceral system like the US fail to understand is that a ten-year prison sentence is a HARSH sentence. it’s a life destroying sentence. seriously, think about the past decade of your life. think about all the relationships you’ve forged, all the places you’ve lived, all the jobs you’ve had or degrees you’ve earned, all the births and weddings and funerals and growth. now imagine instead you spent that decade in a cage. replace all those experiences with the trauma of what people experience in prison.

ten years is time enough to miss your kid’s whole childhood, to whittle away at every relationship and connection you have outside prison. i think we’re so used to seeing 25-to-life sentences being handed down for even non violent crimes that we don’t really think of the actual sentencing process this way. anything less than a LIFE sentence means someone “got off too easily.” and i wonder what would change with our system if we changed how we viewed that.

veerletakino

Also you basically lose every connection you have and the stigma will *haunt* you the rest of your life. Like even McDonald’s asks about “criminal history”

queeranarchism

I don’t condone any prison sentence ever, but IF prison sentences somehow magically did work (they don’t), then the duration that someone would have to spend in prison to go “Ok, that sucked, better avoid ever going back there” (doesn’t work that way) and pick up their life again would be, like, weeks.

A prison sentence of 6 months? or even a year? That derails your life so so much. It means losing your home (who can pay months of rent for a place you don’t live in?), losing a job even if your employer actually wants to keep you, losing a big chunk of your social support system, starting any education you were in pretty much from scratch, and a gap in your resume that your next employer will definitely ask you about. Which basically means every bit of stability you had in life is gone and you have to rebuild it all from scratch, while on probation and with added stigma. A 6 month prison sentence already means “We’re taking EVERYTHING you have and forcing you to start over with the label CRIMINAL”. That’s pretty fucked up.