yes i know they sink already

WITCH. high priestess for ougi (founder of ougism). she/they. big on monogatari, utena, umineko, one piece. be wary of spoilers! 日本語下手 my beloved characters who you should love too: kirby, mob, kotomine kirei, tenjou utena, dirk strider, sengoku nadeko, monkey d. luffy, and of course oshino ougi (who i am the most right about). you should like all the things i like 推しは忍野扇で～す ✪ ω ✪ ao3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/maybeEchidna ougi sideblog: https://youretheonewhoblogs.tumblr.com/

[sinkableruby]

[sinkableruby]

this is a bad post im pinning it

[rubynyoro-n]

[strawberry-crocodile]

as you wander the backrooms alone, you notice something strange; some of the wall is scratched, about at wrist height. the scratch is long, running slowly across beige popcorn paneling like a snake, jumping at some points, going straight for others.

You follow it. it's the only thing out of place you've seen since you got here. In the back of your mind you wonder what it could be. Is it bait? Is this a trap? Is there some lurking thing waiting at the end? Wouldn't that be exciting. More likely, though, this is someone else's path. A trail of breadcrumbs in the woods.

It occurs to you you have no way to date this scratch. Is there entropy in this place? What force would erode these marks? Does something clean these walls, or are they so empty they simply don't need cleaning?

You look down at the carpet beneath the scratch. It might be disturbed, those might be footprints, places where someone else had been here. Someone else. Anything else. Maybe it's an illusion, though. The carpet is, of course, a carpet; it's wall to wall, each loop sticking out in its own way. The slight graying, the gentle mustyness of it... is that the remnants of some past use, or did it come into being old and dirty and worn?

You wonder if you're going fast enough. Is the person who made those marks always just a few turns ahead of you? What if they're just on the other side of this hallway? One part of you wants to yell, to scream and get their attention, but something catches you in the throat, shuts your lips. You don't want to break the silence. Maybe you fear something noticing you, but moreso you fear the sound of your voice being drowned out, muffled by endless yellowed carpet and dry paneling. You carry on.

They're probably dead, you think. Does anything rot in here? Are they a blackened, moldering spot on the floor? Or will you find a mummy, some dessicated corpse of a roman centurian or a caveman? Maybe you hope theyre dead. You don't know how long you've been here, of course, but it feels like its been days. Despite that, your hunger, your thirst, your need to sleep... all tickle at the back of your brain, but none are urgent. None threaten your life. None offer an end to your wandering. If they are dead you'll be grateful, because that means you'll die too.

You've been following the scratch for a while. It's faded now, the jumps getting wider and wider, each turn now taking a moment to find the next mark. Did they get weaker? Was this their life fading away, their strength going? Or did they get bored, simply lose hope? You'll ask them when you find them. You'll find out what happens soon. As soon as you get to the end of the scratch.

You do. You do reach the end. You've scoured this room now, peered into the hallways around it, never straying too far from where you last saw the scratch. The rest should be here. The scratch. You go back to where it was, where you knew it was last, but you can not find it. Maybe you lost it. Maybe you stepped into another room, an identical room, and forgot. Or maybe it wasn't there at all.

You are alone.

[strawberry-crocodile]

AND THEN A BIG TV STATIC MONSTER

GETS YOU

[vulturevanity]

I think we need to kill the sentiment that people lose their right to personhood once they do something bad enough

[vulturevanity]

I don't know who needs to hear this but you need to stop dehumanising people even if those people are "abusers" or "creeps" because you need to understand that you are not immune to doing something equally as bad

Abusers and creeps are not some species of especially heinous animal or alien or monster wearing the face of a human. They're people. And you NEED to drill it into your head that they are people because you NEED to remember that people are capable of doingn heinous shit. And you are a person. And your loved ones are people.

By emotionally classifying people who have done heinous things as subhuman filth incapable of thinking and feeling and acting just like you and me, and by using that emotional dehumanization as a reason to deny those people any compassion or support on a systemic level, you risk becoming blind to abuse/violence perpetrated by someone close to you or even yourself. Because if "abusers don't deserve rights", then you won't ever want to admit or accept that you or a loved one is perpetrating abuse, and that makes stopping the abuse or preventing further abuse much harder. This is how you end up excuaing abusive behaviour on the grounds that, since you don't see someone as a disgusting subhuman pile of garbage therefore they can't possibly be An Abuser, Trademark

[vulturevanity]

And here'a the even harder pill to swallow: since the world isn't split into "abusers" and "good people", in the same way you or someone you love can inflict abuse/violence on others, the people who HAVE inflicted abuse/violence on others can, in fact, change and become better people

There is no bottomless chasm of moral uncleanliness that someone can run off and fall into and get stuck in forever. People can do better. Yes, even those people. You HAVE to accept this. Otherwise not only is there no motivation for anyone to try and do better (which is when people become stuck in a cycle of violence and abuse they don't want to escape), but your idea of a perfect justice system doesn't look any different from Literal Christian Hell. And I HOPE you understand that Literal Christian Hell is, to put it very lightly, not a good justice system.

[trickedsparrow]

Unchecked and fear-driven dehumanization is the brick foundation for fascism.

[captain-price-returns]

[girlfleeshouse]

The first mistake the girl made was to comply — but could you, reader, have played otherwise, with the cards thus dealt?

[nikonikonek000]

[key-pair]

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

[key-pair]

a rough timeline of events (from memory, there may be inaccuracies, feel free to correct me if I'm wrong)

Cambridge professor of sociology Jason Arday is accused of plagiarism by another academic

the accuser is a "race realist" who believes that in a true meritocracy all university professors would be white. this is somehow not acknowledged much during the entire ordeal

this leads to several days of media coverage demanding an investigation, or that Arday is expelled from his post immediately

somehow this accusation that has no effect on the lives of 99.99% of the population becomes FRONT PAGE NEWS in all the newspapers for multiple days, above anything else happening in the UK or the world at large

following intense media scrutiny, Arday resigns his post as a Cambridge professor

today, august 14th, days after resigning, Arday is found dead at his home in Battersea

the British tabloid press remains, and will always be, fucking evil

[weirdlandtv]

Droodles by Roger Price (from his 1953 book). Droodles (a blend of “doodle”, “drawing”, “riddle”) are simple drawings with a witty, often absurd, caption. The first one, as some of you may know, was used by Frank Zappa for his 1982 album, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch. (Zappa, a fan of Price's work, lived just a few miles from the artist and personally sought permission to use the image.)

These come from the 1972 edition of the book.

[ammnontet]

something's coming

[curlytsunamiart]

a confrontation between miquella and messmer in the shadow keep throne room

[lettuce-tv]

don't go into the humanities because they're unprofitable and don't go into stem cuz its getting torn apart right now and don't go into buisness because it's competetive and speculative and don't go into education because it pays like shit. Just lay on thr ground. Just lay on the ground.

[fluorescentbrains]

this lab safety training module is sending me

[fluorescentbrains]

I feel like whoever wrote these questions was speaking from experience

[parkchanwoohoo]

[contemptible-scoundrel]

SOLARPUNK WHO REALLY LIKES YOGURT: I think we as a community need to have a serious discussion about the erasure of chobanis foundational contributions to solarpunk theory

MILLENIAL BURGER CHAIN RUN BY ANTS: [high-pitched stomp clap hey music] here at bürgR, we do things a liiiiittle differently. it all started with one crazy idea: what if there was a burger with truffle fries... that was REALLY small

INSECURE MERCENARY: no no it's okay when I kill people it's not like I enjoy it I'm not some sicko who likes hurting people I'm just doing it for money

GUY WHO IS PRETENDING AN AMULET IS CURSED SO HE CAN KEEP IT FOR HIMSELF: ahhhh no man I'm feeling really sinister right now, like if you took this from me I might go crazy, I think I might be coveting this a little too much, it might be cursed, you probably don't want this, you shouldn't take my precious- I mean whaaaat what was that lol I didn't mean to call it "my precious" lmao the curse must be affecting me

SEALED DEITY EMINEM: I'm beginning to feel like a trapped god trapped god

GUY WHO THINKS EVERYTHING IS A NICKNAME: have you all listened to the new playboi cartholomew album yet

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

When you’re transfem and you upset someone who’s tme

[yandere-angela]

[holdtohealyourpartner-moved]

tumblr name a woman challenge (impossible)

[monstrousgourmandizingcats]

#why is the last one talking like women aren’t real and ‘woman’ a euphemism for ‘gay man’

(from @murderballadeer)

[getrealprim]

If you make a post about evil women, they’ll name a man. If you make a post about evil men, they’ll name women. If you make a post appreciating a specific evil woman, they’ll call you evil

[getrealprim]

LMAO YOURE JOKING