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[theconcealedweapon]

[daz4i]

my take for the day. being edgy (and i mean shadow the hedgehog, 2005 mcr, scene kid edgy. not 4chan edgy) is in fact very good and i’d say even important 

[daz4i]

genuine expression of your emotions, especially your negative ones, is incredibly important to keep your mental health in check. doing it through music (listening or creating), clothes, makeup, poetry, etc is a safe and healthy way to do it 

bottling up your emotions is never good. if listening to bring me the horizon helps you process your views on the world, do it. if smudging your eyeliner feels like you’re matching your inside to your outside, do it. if drawing bloody characters makes you feel better, do it. who cares if some boring loser thinks it’s cringe. do it for yourself 

[herssian]

"there is no way you're not using chatgpt for at least a few things here and there no matter your stance on it" what the FUCK are you talking about

[badndngirl]

just write a shitty poem, what do you have to lose

[badndngirl]

To everyone reblogging this and saying something like “my dignity,” may I submit this very good and accurate tweet

[macrolit]

“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”

— Anne Sexton, from “The Truth the Dead Know” (via existential-celestial)

[stoppunchingmyllamaog]

Sometimes I feel so angry at my life. I feel like I chose a life with my family, to be there for them when they needed me and sacrifice my career and ambitions to support them when they needed it and now that I am left the lesser because of those sacrifices, my family has thrown me away for no longer being convenient.

Meanwhile, I see so many people that I went to school with, published papers with go on with their lives and become something. I feel like a fool for trusting my family.

[catboybeebop]

[espopstar]

[yourlocalbreadenthusiast]

[maomilaa]

[stoppunchingmyllamaog]

being an avid thrifter who mostly wears secondhand kinda sucks when ur fat. but one thing I've noticed where I live is that even tho there are few cool vintage or quality items for fat folks on the rack, I am barely competing with all the skinny thrifters. we dont even cross paths for some reason.

[27-moons]

If you go to Hawaii I think you should be hunt down for sport

[theorangedead]

[woo-sustainability]

this is here bc i thought it was a shitpost before i realized tumblr was telling me “hey, you follow the sustainability tag, how’s this?”

[artistsanimals]

Title: Statuette (figure) - Lumpfish Artist: Erik Nielsen Date: ca. 1896-1897 Material: porcelain Source: Museum of Applied Arts, Budapest

[fireleafwa]

[ex0skeletal-undead]

Can’t believe you’d view that fish with your own eyes and then ask this

[stoppunchingmyllamaog]

It's fathers day again. And I am reminded of the way that patriarchy and Western culture has failed not just me but my fathers. I am reminded that the father, my paternal grandfather, that raised me is the man that ruined my biological father. And the man who raised my grandfather ruined him. I am reminded of the word makua in olelo hawaii and of makua kane, which didnt mean JUST the father who coupled with our mother but referred to all elder men in our community, men who were expected to "father" every child, love every child. Not because of some biological responsibility but a human one. A communal one.

I am reminded of the stories my father told about how he watched my grandfather kick my aunty with a steel-toed boot. How she bit down so hard to endure the pain that she cracked a molar. And I think about how that same man had only ever put hands on me in comfort and care, how he fed me cold peaches when I was sick, folded my clothes and placed them on my bed.

I think of how much my fathers have been hurt and harmed by a system that has condemned them, had beat then to pulp. I think of how these fathers then turned that violence against the people, in paticular the women they loved. A day for fathers.

[pussyronin-deactivated20260120]

if i were in charge of star wars i would end the last movie witth yoda reading the story out of a big book and he gives a little chuckle and says "happened, none of that did." and then he gets out of his truck and waddles into walmart

[stoppunchingmyllamaog]

Really think we should normalize balding again. Like we should stop pretending like balding is a fucking pox. Balding is natural.

[stoppunchingmyllamaog]

Protests are MEANT to he disruptive. Protests are the ALTERNATIVE to violent revolution. Yall get that right?

When you are inconvenienced by protestors who are fighting to end genocide, to oppose police violence, to advocate for clean water and air, these people are the ones who have fought for your life RIGHT NOW. And I find it so...backwards when people act like the people trying to make shit better through non-violent means are....villains???? And not the fucking people slowly leeching our rights and lives awa??? Wtf.

When a protest interrupts your day, instead of getting angry at the protestors, get angry at the powers that be that forced ordinary people like you and I to stop their entire lives to demonstrate and advocate in the streets (because spoiler alert, the traditional means of policy and politics are either too slow or inefficient, which again, not the fault of protestors but of people in power).

[prying-pandora666-deactivated20]

Reblog if you also think Toph shouldn’t have been a cop.

I want to see how “unpopular” this opinion really is outside cop-worshipping Reddit.

[sneezypeasy]

Toph is anti-authoritarian at her core. She enjoys breaking rules and fucking shit up.

If Toph were to do anything involved with catching criminals, it would still be something non-traditional... I could see her as a bounty hunter (like Jun), or maybe that whole "I'm a detective who only takes cases that interest me" Sherlock Holmes trope. But a cop? No - or at the very least, if we're gonna pull a 180 like that, I'd need to see how she changed so completely. That's an arc with a story behind it, and giving us the conclusion without the story is lame.

[nyxelestia]

I *can* see it, but coming from a specific angle. I can see her looking at rising crime in this new city and going "ffs I'll do it myself!" in creating a new - for this universe - mechanism for addressing it...and then that mechanism evolved into something well beyond what she intended with it after her. It happened before in-universe: Avatar Kyoshi founded the Dai Li to act as a check on monarchial despotism, but after her reign it devolved into an equally despotic concentration of power in the opposite direction. Given the rapid rate of development in Republic City, it doesn't surprise me that the incipient force she created to tackle the rising gang powers would devolve into the quotidian police force that was beyond what she intended for it. But while I can make the connection from 12yo Toph to police chief Toph, there is a LOT of story/change in there compared to many of the other characters.

[prying-pandora666-deactivated20]

Respectfully, I don’t agree.

There are many ways Toph could contribute to helping stop crime. None of them require her to betray everything she believes in and fears becoming, and for the narrative to gloss over it as if this isn’t the case.

It’s as bad as Zuko becoming a child abuser who burns Izumi and yet the narrative acts like this is normal.

[nyxelestia]

Here's the thing: my perspective is coming from the real world history of real world police forces - which are varied across regions even within the same country, let alone between countries. Even police forces between countries here and now, in the 21st century, are different from each other - let alone any police force now vs what it was like 50 years ago or 100 years ago (which is the irl analogue to the Korra timeline), nevermind 150 years ago (the irl analogue to when Toph would've formed a police form). "everything she believes in and fears becoming" The thing is, the character she demonstrates in the show is not in opposition to the logic used to start "my own gang to get rid of these other, worse gangs." There's a reason why I brought up the Dai Li: what Kyoshi created was not what that force turned into, and I can see the same thing happening to Toph and a direct action method of dealing with gangs. But if she was so anti-authoritarian that a police force is unimaginable, she would not have stood by the Gaang as they tried to tell the Earth King about a plan against the fire nation (figure of authority), she would not have supported Firelord Zuko (figure of authority), and she would not have been a friend of Aang's (figure of authority).

[prying-pandora666-deactivated20]

The character DOES oppose all of that! Wdym???

Toph doesn’t even like being lumped in with Aang and his group, a Gaang she is actively part of, when Aang gets too buddy buddy with authority. She outright tries to say she isn’t a part of that stuff and that’s all Aang’s thing. (Toph Beifong’s Metalbending Academy)

What part of that says “I’m fine fighting to enforce authority with my own gang”?

Toph also says she fears becoming like her parents and applying the same “pressure and pain” they applied to her to get her to conform, under threat of imprisonment, onto others. (The Promise)

Further, Toph refuses to follow orders or the rule of law to deal with an enemy, even when the one giving the orders are her own friends. Instead she goes off on her own and acts like a vigilante, potentially endangering the entire mission, and defying the agreed-upon plan for taking down the bad guy. (Imbalance)

Everything about Toph is antithetical to law enforcement. And no one would know that better than Aang, who would be the LAST person who would want Toph “enforcing” any rules.

[stoppunchingmyllamaog]

I could see Toph being a vigilante or even running an underground (ha!) spy network that sometimes worked with law enforcement but just as often worked with under the table operations. I feel like this could have led to interesting developments amongst the gaang that could lead to conflict and conversation as the rest of the team went more legitimate routes and Toph went her own way.

[prying-pandora666-deactivated20]

HEARD!

Vigilante Toph would’ve made WAY more sense.

[stoppunchingmyllamaog]

Toph would have made the ideal spy master just because her character design was created with subversion in mind. She can be small, unassuming up until she makes moves. I think Toph would also have the right personality to collect a group of loveable and morally gray rouges around her.

If this was centered around Republic City, it could also be a really cool parallel with Zuko. Zuko had tension with the Gaang when it came to Republic City. Zuko has skin in the game because those were Fire Nation citizens and Toph would have similar skin in the game because its traditonally Earth Kingdom land.

I think for Toph, I could see her just hanging about as the city gets created and living her life until she starts to see the corruption that a big city like that produces. Corruption from forming gangs as much as dirty cops. As the gaang continues to become leaders on the large scale, world leaders, committee members etc. Toph, having no patience for politics, would see things from the ground. And although her well-respected and powerful friends disagree with her ideologically, Toph knows that someone needs to look out for the little guy, someone needs to do the dirty work. Might as well be her. Dirty work is her specialty.

[pirateprincessjess]

When I was a kid my family pretended to get raptured so I would think I was left behind on earth while they all went to heaven.

I was like 8 years old and my sister and mom had gotten really into the Left Behind novels (bible fan fic about the rapture). In the books when the rapture happened the clothes that people were wearing when they got raptured were left behind in neatly folded piles.

One day when I was getting home from school my family decided that they would leave piles of neatly folded clothes around the house, and then hide in the basement.

The intended effect was that I would get home and see the clothes then, think that my family had been raptured and that I wasn’t good enough to get into heaven… or something?

The problem was that I had never read these books, and didn’t really think about the rapture very often. There was no reason that I would see some laundry on the floor and think “The rapture happened and I’ve been abandoned by God! I’ll never see my family again!! Oh nooo!!!!”

I just sat down and watched cartoons and eventually my family got bored and revealed that they were all hiding in the basement.

It’s a good thing I didn’t understand the joke, otherwise that shit would have been traumatic.

[pirateprincessjess]

My mother was upset that I shared this because it “might scare people away from becoming Christians”

Crazy how the actions of Christians might scare people away from Christianity

[stoppunchingmyllamaog]

Its like...if your actions weren't indicative of your Christian values then....why did you do that?????