only lame people hate on nature

[lakevida]

they restructured wikipedia and the way it works now is that everyone on earth has an article to tend to for the rest of their life like a beloved ornamental tree or perhaps a tamagotchi and if you're not responsible about it the page will shrivel up and die for real. this is what the donations went towards BTW

[theorangepdf]

for old times sake is actually such a heartbreaking and beautiful sentiment. let’s do it for the love that used to be here!! it is reason enough!!

[commelavague-deactivated2016022]

when did “lmao” become shorthand or w/e for “i’m fucking suffering”

[jethroq]

lamenting my anguish online

[stulting]

everytime i sit outside in the sun i become an ethereal goddess who shines as light radiates through me and the moment i step back in the shadow i am a rat

[melisscan]

[twocubes]

she knocked that smug look off my face but luckily i was wearing a second, smaller smug look underneath

[nardacci-does-art]

[delioncunt]

“idc about shipping im an adult” i love that and i hope youre having fun but im gonna go gorge myself on every silly little interaction these fake people have and live like a king 

[stulting]

my heart is green 💚

[freeshavacado]

[valtsv]

i love discord's commitment to being a Gaming Website For Gamers because it means i get hysterical notifications like this

[jextaime]

The fallen Angel Lucifer and the Moon on March 31 2020

[radcybergoth]

This is the only post I ever want to look at ever again

[mentally-homeless]

This person: *takes photo of moon surrounded by clouds* Ah yes, I know exactly which mid-19th century painting of a biblical winged nude beefcake this reminds me of

[ruffboi-mags]

listen, I know we are programmed to see patterns and faces in things, but that is EERILY similar, y’know?

[autiestella-archive]

there seem lot positive for ppl who struggle but manage school, but not much for ppl who fail, who drop out, or never able go in firstplace

so just wanting shoutout at fellow ppl who couldn’t manage, who never been able, & may never be able. we’re worth love, too, no matter what knowledge got in head - we’re more than just number.

[stulting]

i wish i could show you how absolutely breathtaking the sky looks tonight. my phone camera can't capture it well but the clouds are in small white clumps around the moon, illuminated and painting like. they slowly drift over the moon and come to life. on the lower right, there is one bright star. she disappears occasionally but soon the clouds will uncover her. the rest of the sky looks like patterns in sand. the clumps are slowly closing in and forming a large blanket of white. i have been looking up for so long. i wish someone else is seeing this too with the same amazement i feel.

[rupismellsalot-deactivated20140]

how is any of this considered blogging

[stulting]

i have a cold.

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

[firstgrave]

oh my god i was also in a mentor program for "troubled students" and only found out cause I was like yeah, its weird i dont know why this senior keeps pulling me out of class to hang out with me? and then one of my friends was like my sister is in that program, its for people who are suspected of having problems at home like .... okay!!!!

fkjdjsjs im glad im not the only one 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ like more than once he made a weird comment like “oh yknow a lot of the times it’s the best performing kid in class that has a lot going on at home” and I would be like??yeah i guess that makes sense..wtf does that have to do with me?

[firstgrave]

im sorry anon but im really just thinking about how absolutely hilarious it is that this happened to more than one person cuz like dksjsh we’re sitting here like “damn these motherfuckers LOVE hanging out with me” and meanwhile they’re sitting there trying to analyze everything we say for secret code dksjjsj it’s too much it rly is

[stulting]

you guys just going along with the new friend and tryna be cool, nervously tapping your foot while the senior overanalyzing and loosing their shit mentally MORSE CODE MORSE CODE THEY TELLING ME SOMETHING