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hi! been a while! (two years!) i have a new blog if you’d like to check me out :) @gardensofeve this blog will be up for archival purposes mostly. it was nice logging back in and seeing people i remember taking so much with. hope you’re all good :)

pro-gay

Hm. I must say, I was very anti-sport before but after being on tumblr.com for a while I definitely identify with jocks. Unlike nerds, they’ve never made me read sherlock mpreg miscarriage on the Harry Potter train AU Masterposts. They only wanna kick their balls and take booty pics. I’m sorry i took u for granted, jocks

agreedt

The jocks were only trying to protect us all this time

pro-gay

They pushed nerds into lockers when no one else did

ghost-zip

id let her beat me up

danandphilnews

fuckyeahasexual

Sex ed teachers : One day ALL of you are going to have sexual thoughts and urges related to other people lol dont be shy it happens to ALL of us

Teens who grew up and realized that they were asexual all along :

arlo-blu

Neopronuns aren’t valid and damage the trans community. Discuss?

official-loka

How do you even get to this conclusion….neopronouns have been used for decades and yet we’re doing fine

transmedjarvis

Neopronouns haven’t been used for decades?? They’re all new and created on tumblr??

official-loka

Hfjdjdbdhsj maybe do some research before making stupid statements

Xe/xem/xyr has been used since the early 90s

In 1934-1961 Merriam-Webster’s included the singular gender neutral pronoun ‘thon’

In 1991, Kelly Ann Sippell provided an extensive list of gender-neutral third-person singular pronouns that had been proposed over the previous hundred and fifty years. This list included, but was not limited to, hes, hiser, hem, ons, e, heer, he’er, hesh, se, heesh, herim, co, tey, per, na, en, herm, em, hir, and shey.

“Within the 19th century, pronouns such as ip, co, xie, per, en, ne, thon, le, hiser, ey, ho po, heshe, ze, heesh, bun, bunself, ey, and xe, had been introduced for non-binary representation.”

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wolverineheight

Adding on to this, Spivak pronouns (e/em/eir, e/em/es or ey/em/eir) were first recorded used in 1890 in response to ‘thon’ as a neutral. [source] and if that isnt enough to get thru ur thick truscum skulls and you want more, the wikipedia page for spivak pronouns is well sourced and provides a lot of good information! [source]

nondysphoric--enby

Neopronouns have existed for over a hundred years and haven’t “harmed the community” in the slightest, you just want to convince yourselves that respectability politics will make you less oppressed even though history has shown that it only makes you and everyone around you even more miserable

sheepgirlwizard-deactivated2025

cis bootlickers are more harmful to the community than neo-pronouns ever even theoretically could be

ditto

we joke about tumblr’s pjge (post john green era) but it is legitimately wild that a) a social media site allowed others to edit your posts for five years, and b) that we all agreed to use the honor system about it until mr. green arrived

lahallucinations

A quick thing about dan and mental health, I’m seeing a lot of people reblog the answer from 2009 where dan said that phil saved him and while that’s a very sweet sentiment to read from young dan, I do want people to remember that dan did the work to save himself. He went to therapy, faced his trauma and took medication and while phil is a support that dan desperately needed, he wasn’t a saviour. So to anyone reading this who needs it, please don’t wait for another person to save you, because even if you find that person, your problems won’t magically go away, you will constantly be a work in progress (like dan still is!!!) and hopefully you find peace in that. Not to mention that expecting another person, even if they love you to “save you” puts them on a pedestal while adding unnecessary pressure on them to actually do that and also to never have problems of their own. I hope you all find people in your lives that like phil, support your recovery and happiness wholeheartedly.

etrogim-deactivated20200109

wait….are any americans aware that the cia overthrew the democratically-elected premier of iran in 1953 because he wouldn’t concede to western oil demands….and how that coup was the reason for the shah’s return to power, the iranian revolution, and the resulting fundamentalist dictatorship…..like, america literally dissolved iranian democracy and no one knows about it???

jheselbraum

No. No we don’t know about it.

Americans aren’t told this shit.

The only thing we’re taught about any Middle Eastern country in school is that 1) the region exists 2) it’s where The War is happening and 3) Muslim people live there. That’s it. Maybe if you’re lucky you’ll get into the Hammurabi Code and some early Babylonian stuff but American schools seem to think that if it happened outside Europe and before the colonial period, or makes America look bad and isn’t about A Very Watered Down Version of What Slavery Was, it’s not important.

Info on this is almost notoriously hard to find. It’s not in any texts on American and Russian involvement in the Middle East during the Cold War that I can find. You have to specifically look for a book about the Shah’s return to power, and even then you’d be hard pressed to find a book like that at your local bookstore. Once you get into some higher level college courses you might know about it, but the people who can afford those are more likely to already be indoctrinated into a certain Way of Thinking (read: they’re racist as shit) by the time they get there. And it’s almost like you have to know about it beforehand if you want to find information on it.

The only reason I knew about it is because there’s a thirty second summary of the event in Persepolis. Those thirty seconds flipped my entire worldview.

fempunkandkittens

“All the Shah’s Men” by Stephen Kinzer is a good, accessible text for people who want to know more about this.

rebelcaptain4life

!!!

systlin

I had to explain literally this to one of my co-workers, who is so fuckin racist against Middle Eastern people it’s insane.

She’s 60. She never heard of this.

As I was explaining this and how, during the Regan years, we funded Osama Bin Laden to fight against Russia, leading to the destruction of much of the infrastructure in the region, one of the plant workers came in to get his badge fixed.

He works in the quality control lab. He served 15 years active duty in the Army. Super smart guy, has a masters in chemistry and another masters in biology, raises saltwater fish in his spare time for sale, has the saltwater aquarium setup of the gods. Raises rare corals too, some of which he donates to be used in re-seeding reefs around the world, but that’s a side tangent.

And he listened for a minute, then nodded and said “Yeah. I was there during that. I helped train people to fight. They wanted us to help them build schools and hospitals, after, but we were only interested in them as cannon fodder. Left the whole area in ruins. I wasn’t surprised when they hated us for it later. Told people then it would happen. We let them know then that they were only valuable to America as expendable bodies. Why wouldn’t they resent us for that?”

And she just looked floored.

“So…” She started, after a few minutes. “What do you think of Trump?”

“I hate him. He’s a coward and he’s going to get good people killed.” He didn’t even blink. “

She looked back and forth between us for a second, and then asked how I knew all this.

“I research things.” I said. “Google is great.” He nodded enthusiastically.

And she just sat there for a second and then said, really quietly, “I didn’t know.”

She lived through it.

American schools don’t teach you any of this sort of thing.

runwithskizzers

dancinginthecenteroftheworld

Yep. I forget sometimes that people don’t know this because I’m lucky - I grew up with parents that consumed a lot of news (yet are still confused about how I wound up in journalism oops?) and talked about these things and encouraged me to read more. Even my uncle, who is a huge trump fan, knows about these things and acknowledges them. He worked on in military intel for years - I may not agree with his views on historical or current events but I appreciate that he doesn’t try to erase them

But if you aren’t born into this kind of family? You’ll have no idea.

kadzhi

..AND SHARPEDO FIN FLIPPERS FOR TORPEDO POWER

creaturey

“wow all these lesbians are so cute and nice and i can’t stop thinking about them! 🤔 …i guess i just think they’re neat!”

therealfelixrichter

yourbirdnose

Selfie with Nicolas Cage.

gowongeef

hey since louis tomlinson admitted that larries made him and harry’s friendship fall apart and dan howell said phannies digging into his relationship w phil made him experience ptsd symptoms and brought him to a terrible place, can u all stop w the shipping bullshit now

lavender-luke

psa: shipping real people is not only harmful to their mental state, but also harmful to their personal relationships, and writing sexually explicit fanfiction about people that exist in real life is creepy as well, and needs to stop. celebrities do not exist for your fetishization of them, and we need to start realizing that. you would not be comfortable if someone wrote a sexually explicit story about you, so why would a celebrity be comfortable with it? just because they’re famous does not mean you’re allowed to sexualize them and violate their privacy.