things of import

I'm Kristin, 23. I like cheerleading and I'm also obsessed with weddings even though they are both at times terribly misogynistic institutions sry tho. This is the best tag on Tumblr

[setheverman]

don’t worry, you’re still in the “early life” part of your wikipedia page

[marxistbarbie-deactivated202109]

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

“average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[swirlandswing]

When you realize you have to get off Tumblr because you haven't watched Orphan Black yet and there are so many gif spoilers

[bananajeph-deactivated20180116]

*wakes up in a cold sweat* i love bert mccracken

[polis-and-recreation]

This scene will forever be the most important scene in any movie to me.  This is a little girl who has been told all her life by her parents that she is a mistake and that she is worthless.  This is a little girl whose family life is so horrible that books are her only escape.  This is a little girl whose parents constantly belittle her for reading, the only pleasure in life she has.  And in this scene, this little girl answers very shyly, because she has been conditioned to be embarrassed of her own existence.  At first, she answers slowly, and without making eye contact. And in this scene this little girl is beginning to realize that maybe she is special.  Maybe there are kind people in the world.  Maybe she is worth something.

[everythingsparklywhite]

BHLDN

[respectfulmemes]

[korolevx-deactivated20180128]

i’m of the opinion that “bad” music is really quite rare, there are just some bands and types of music that are made with different goals in mind and are meant for different people who aren’t me. For example, i may personallt dislike radiohead greatly, but I appreciate that it’s woken up a lot of people to how cool a lot of prog and avant-garde is.

that said, twenty one pilots is truly Bad. every single part of it, from the energy drink label philosophy to the hardcore pop punk sound beaten to death by everyone since 1998, is absolutely rotten to the core.

[korolevx-deactivated20180128]

like seriously, have y'all ever listened to them? there really is something evil about it. they’re not like, worshipping satan or anything, there’s just a deep layer of well-concealed dishonesty to the whole thing that’s framed as a motivational, inspirational message. they never make any real clear, distinct statements, you’re just supposed to read into it what you want and then bawl over it online saying THIS MUSIC SAVED ME

i know what a man sounds like when he pours his heart out into his music, and That Ain’t It

[there-is-still-some-liquor-left]

it took me a bit to figure out why tøp rubbed me the wrong way and this post finally opened up my third eye of why they suck so hard.

tøp feels like it was created to capitalize off of depressed teens. it’s the music industry taking advantage of the culture that 2000’s emo bands created and synthesizing the most insincere, weirdly emotionally intense “savior band” our generation will probably ever see. they’re just like “this band saved my life” culture on steroids.

[quoms]

coming from a person who’s from the same city as twenty one pilots and has been at least tangentially aware of them for longer than most people, you know what the scariest thing about them is? none of this is true

twenty one pilots aren’t some ‘music industry’ frankenstein’s monster, they’ve been at this for seven years now - they self-released their first two albums before getting a deal. i remember being kind of surprised (and pre-emptively exhausted by the hype, which has since exceeded even my worst nightmares) when fueled by ramen picked them up

so it’s almost actually frightening that they sound like something someone grew in a vat in a lab, because that’s all them. that’s two guys who truly believe they’re putting their hearts and souls into what they write and perform. like, you know the video for ‘stressed out’? i authentically believe that’s not a schtick. that’s them doing them

but like, i’m from columbus, by which i mean columbus columbus. they’re not. they’re from the ‘burbs (powell, i think?). they’re two nice, white guys from nice, white suburbia making music for nice, white people from nice, white suburbia. it’s soulless and emotionally vacant because their whole environment - the whole shit is soulless and emotionally vacant. it’s SAVED MY LIFE music for people whose most emotionally trying experience is of boredom

in that they’re a lot like another columbus-but-actually-the-suburbs band i hate, attack attack!. sonically they’re different but mentally, emotionally they come out of the exact same milieu and are exactly as lacking in everything that makes music idiosyncratic and good. and they appeal to the same demographic. i attribute it to the environment, not to some record-label conspiracy; the labels are just picking up on acts they know will sell to the children of the few people left in america who still have disposable income

[natgeofound]

Teenagers run and play on large white sand dunes in New Mexico, 1957. Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic

[wonderwall]

We finally figured out what makes Kristen Stewart smile: hot wings! The “Twilight” star posed for this amazing photo after dining at a Hooters restaurant in Texas recently. Get the details at Wonderwall.com.

[dietdiscourse-deactivated202211]

yeah, hot wings, sure

[gondwana]

wlw stands for Women Loving hot Wings

[1tenderbeing]

Me when I see hot wings

[danielkanhai]

i was just walking home from the subway in the rain and i saw a dog walking down the sidewalk alone wearing a sweater. now, i’ve seen dogs walking down sidewalks alone not wearing sweaters and i’ve seen dogs walking down sidewalks on leashes wearing sweaters and i gotta say, once you remove the human element from the equation, the dog looks like it dressed itself. like a decision was made by a dog. it just looks like a dog going somewhere in a world where dogs are highly intelligent and have appointments they need to get dressed up for. i couldn’t make eye contact with this dog, it was intimidating in its confidence. 

[beecups-deactivated20171013]

Why isn’t using sign language more common in society? like??? Not even just communicating within deaf communities but for everybody to use with anybody?

I feel like this should be standard learning material for those working in loud workplaces or with machinery, or maybe idk for talking underwater or when someone else can’t hear you at a concert. Or what about when somebody is having a panic attack and can’t talk, or just isn’t all that comfortable with voicing their feelings?

Why isn’t nonverbal communication more integrated into our society? Cause it should be.

[wingedcatgirl-archive]

#I mean the answer is ‘because Alexander Graham Bell’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell#Work_with_the_deaf

Several influential people of the time, including Bell, viewed deafness as something that should be eradicated, and also believed that with resources and effort they could teach the deaf to speak and avoid the use of sign language, thus enabling their integration within the wider society from which many were often being excluded.[64]

y i k e s

[goldenheartedrose]

I’m actually really glad someone read my quick tags on that post. Because lots of people don’t have a clue about this stuff.

[birdthany]

the stigmatization of sign is absolutely a huge issue for Deaf communities and it’s especially detrimental to d/Deaf children of hearing parents who grow up largely deprived of language because of Graham Bell’s oralist method which teaches, essentially, that deaf kids will never be Normal if you allow them to express themselves naturally. groups like AG Bell Association still believe and teach this today, and it prevents many people from being able to express themselves and communicate the way that is easy and natural for them. I know many Deaf people who were forced to take difficult lipreading classes as children instead of being able to learn a language that they could use without hassle, entirely because the world wants them to seem “normal.” Sign language being underutilized and pathologized goes far beyond just being inconvenient for when you’re underwater or whatever.

(If this seems like the exact same thing that Autism $peaks does to autistics, that’s because it is, by the way.)

[everythingsparklywhite]

Morilee

[kajacana]

Oh my God.

[istandonsnowpiles]

[stupidcommentdepository]

*attempts to log into bank account*

To continue answer security question: “Where and how will you die?”

types in “alone in a ditch wearing a clown costume”

*i view my account balance of $4.47*

[thebestoftumbling]