His fingers danced across the keyboard with well practised ease

Old, depressed, autistic writer. My blog may contain nsfw items and I rarely tag anything so be warned!

[xaina-cosplays]

if someone says they dont want to be touched

dont touch them

dont fucking touch them

actually dont touch them

dont continue to fucking touch them after they make it clear they are uncomfortable

THIS ISNT FUCKING HARD DONT FUCKING TOUCH THEM

[gardenxkisses]

This includes your children

[seedysys]

[plain text. don’t continue to fucking touch them after they make it clear they are uncomfortable. /end pt]

[certifiedsexed]

Certified Sex Ed Post!

[hellish-undeath]

Certified disability post too! you don’t know what physical effect you’re causing someone if you’re touching them. you could apply pressure to their body in a bad space, could flare up their skin, nerves, or other chronic issue, or they could have just been out of surgery and you’re touching a newly healing area.

[twinky-loserboy]

also! some people have sensory issues!! That fits into disability technically but i wanted to be specific :3

[linktothefags]

For the love of God personal space is not that hard of a concept

[the-haiku-bot]

For the love of God

personal space is not that

hard of a concept

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[sleepbby]

PSA: no name is impossible to pronounce. no name is too hard to learn, no name is justifiably butchered. kids with 'different' names should be taught again and again that being called by their name is a right, not a privilege

[untilitdoes]

there are over 2000 unique phonemes (individual sounds) in the world’s languages, and each language has anywhere from around 20 to 60. you stop learning new phonemes it’s theorized at around age 12. this is where accents come from -- using your own language’s/region’s phonemes to speak

so no name is impossible to pronounce world-wide, but it is very easy to not have the linguistic archive necessary to pronounce a given name entirely correctly. it is a simple case of physically not knowing where to place your tongue, whether or not to vibrate your vocal chords, etc. the only one of the dictators of sound you could be shown is how to position your lips

that being said... obviously you should still try. saying a name as correctly as you physically can goes a long way for making someone feel respected and humanized, and dismissing a name entirely as too hard goes a long way to disrespect and dehumanize people. just also accept that someone’s accent interfering with their pronunciation isn’t a sign of lack of trying, but a sign of physical limits

[prismatic-bell]

This is very true. I met a baby at my old store whose name was Navajo. I did my best and actually got a bit frustrated because there was a syllable I could NOT get, and her dad was like “it’s very hard if you don’t actually speak Diné, but thank you. Most people won’t even try.”

Be the one who tries.

[datasoong47]

Yes, there’s a big difference between getting as close as you can with your native language’s phonology, and just not even trying

[linguisten]

"Be the one who tries."

[cellobuster]

Whoever invented "open in app" links that redirect you to the app store instead of actually opening the app even when you already have the app installed on your phone should be involuntarily turned into a beanbag chair

[traumasurvivors]

You don’t exist to fulfill your parent’s dreams or ambitions. You deserve to have your own dreams and ambitions.

[gumi-megpoidd]

they should invent a tummy that doesnt hurt

[gumi-megpoidd]

this will reach the tummy hurty squad on its own

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

pants are a different color than the vest - 0/10

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

I must clarify. it's not illegal for the vest to be another color but it IS illegal to combine navy with black like this while trying to match colors

[serial-unaliver-deactivated2024]

we should kill him?

[blastovkatamarinecromancy]

Kill that uncoordinated White boy?

YES!

No?

Voting ended onJul 30, 2024

[tilthat]

TIL there is no physical description of Jesus in the Bible.

via ift.tt

[volcel-official]

False

Luke 2:52

He’s larger than a baby

[amateuropinions]

By the description of him driving the moneylenders from the temple, we can also tell that he fit inside the temple, which gives us an upper bound as well as a lower bound on his size.

[veraxplus]

It’s been said that Jesus Christ was larger than a baby but smaller than a temple

[catchymemes]

[were--ralph]

you ever get tired of living but in a non-suicidal way

[were--ralph]

like everything is bad everywhere and no one has money and im tired of this cycle

[anderswasrightt]

i tried to explain how i was feeling like this to my drug counselor and she was like "yeah that still sounds kinda suicidal" and i could not figure out how to explain that i don't wanna die, i just like. am so so so tired of the way life is for me and all my friends and family. i'm tired of living like this but i'm gonna keep doing it bc i guess there's no other choice

[prof-grace-aspen]

I don't wanna die, I wanna go lay on a warm field under the sun and watch the clouds go by. How is this hard to understand?

[vaspider]

I just want to spend a few days in the dim twilight between sleep and waking, but specifically the dim twilight of a Saturday morning in April.

[crazy-pages]

Burnout. The word is burnout, but not because of an unusual state of overwork or an overly demanding position, but because the bare minimum being demanded is beyond capacity.

[jackalgirl]

How is it that Tumblr consistently puts the posts that talk about what I am feeling at the top of my feed every. single. time?

[thesaltofcarthage]

oh, tumblr, we're really in it now

[cheshirelibrary]

[incognito-princess]

My friend teaches high school history and allowed his students to do their chapter summaries on their chosen biographies as originally created memes. He said that he had never had kids read so carefully to find the most obscure detail from chapters to make their memes. [pro-tip, for younger middle school/elementary school students, make a folder of popular meme templates, to avoid uncomfortable internet searches}

[your-eyes-can-be-so-cruell]

This reminds me of my class watching the 90s film and when it got to this scene some guy in my class shouted out ‘hoe don’t do it’ and then 5 seconds later -sigh- ‘he did it’.

[finrays]

Shakespeare would have loved this 😔

[peachpulpeuse]

#honestly i think having students submit one meme per scene/chapter of a reading would get them wayyy more engaged#bc you’re looking to find smth funny in the text#which means youre looking for surprise you’re looking for inconsistency youre looking for contrast#youre doing a critical reading! (via @asthedeathoflight)

[stillgotscars]

the first of many publications, i’m sure 🥺

[liberalsarecool]

Cristoforo Colombo was vile.

[knightsickness]

there’s absolutely something to be said about ‘booktok’ books being largely wattpad quality written erotica i’m certainly not reading them however having seen a guy on tiktok make a video like ‘all the women in your life are READING PORN’ about a book he picked up and read in his FEMALE FRIEND’S HOUSE in a tone of scandalised horror and disgust i actually don’t think men should be making those criticisms. he said he picked it up expecting a romance and was horrified it was GOONER SHIT he said specifically like ‘who are you getting your pussy wet FOR??’ in a tone of revulsion. idk man im not sure shes the weird one. i kind of wish you were dead

[darlingofdots]

"a lot of books that are successful on booktok are not very good" and "people can read what they want and we need to stop being so fucking weird about women enjoying erotica" are both correct statements

[dragonsrequiem]

"who are you getting your pussy wet FOR?!!" sounds like he's sulking cuz he knows it ain't for him.

Heaven forbid a woman enjoy sexuality without it benefitting the semi truck sized ego and unicycle dick he's been cursed with.

[anexperimentallife]

[my-midlife-crisis]

[posttexasstressdisorder]

I approve this message.

[victusinveritas]

Paintings of hammerhead sharks depicted in the "Oki National Products Illustration Notes". From Japan, Edo Period, 1735 CE

[bogleech]

What

Oh my god

[prokopetz]

If you're lamenting the fact that you used to be able to shoot through a 500-page novel in like a day when you were in middle school and now you can't, it's worth bearing in mind that a big part of that is because when you were in middle school, your reading comprehension sucked. Yes, mental health and the stresses of adult life can definitely be factors, but it's also the case that reading is typically more effortful as an adult because you've learned to Ponder The Implications. The material isn't just skimming over the surface of your brain anymore, and some of the spoons you used to spend on maximising your daily page count are now spent on actually thinking about what you're reading!

[prokopetz]

Reading as a kid: "I can tell that this is supposed to be an emotionally moving ending, but I genuinely cannot remember who two-thirds of these characters are."

Reading as an adult: *reads a paragraph* *pauses* *reads the same paragraph again* *flips back and re-reads the preceding page to make sure you didn't misunderstand something* *stares into space for ten minutes as the Implications sink in*

[fozmeadows]

added to this: most of us have a whole lot more going on in our lives as adults than we did as kids, in the sense of having a constant background awareness of Tasks That Need To Be Done, which impacts your ability to immerse yourself in a book. so whereas your middle school self could effortlessly devote their whole brain to reading, your adult brain is equivalent to an overtaxed CPU attempting to juggle thirty open tabs across two browsers, an excel spreadsheet, bloatware, security popups, the trial version of adobe, and a song that won't stop playing because itunes froze