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loveridden1999

top 3 hobbies for young adults:

1. borrowing misery from future

2. carrying grief of the past

3. agonizing over the present

fidelcostco

can't believe the only options are 30 minutes early or 10 minutes late. if only there were some other way. but what can you do

kitschday

chestcavityyy

libraford

'Obscenity laws' are dumb to begin with because they define 'obscenity' as anything which indulges prurient interests.

Theres a dude that follows me on TikTok because he's turned on by large bellies.

I once got written up for dress code violations because the 'women's' sizes of the uniform were cut high and my tum would stick out and they refused to give me a men's shirt that would cover my belly for some reason. So they kept giving me larger and larger women's shirts that were too big for my shoulders but still cut short. So I kept getting lectured about dressing inappropriately when I visited schools in conservative areas as if I had any real control over the shape of my belly.

But because they were weird about gender nonconformity and they knew I was a lesbian, they wouldn't let me wear the shirt they had available that would have fixed the problem.

So what i have learned from these two things is that bellies are sexual and may appeal to prurient interests. And that prurient interests are legislated against.

So I may have to cover my belly when doing bellydance, which im used to- we're told to have one in our costume stash in case we're performing in a conservative area.

But am I gonna have to cover my feet? I cant wear shoes while doing the goblet dance because I need contact with the prop for safety reasons.

What about hand fetishes? Am I wearing gloves too?

I get consistently censored on social media because I have too many flesh-colored pixels. Is it only fat bodies that get regulated or are skinny bodies subject to the same obscenity laws?

The author of the drag ban says that its about banning pornographic materials. But im very aware of how subjective that is.

And these kinds of vague laws will most likely just halt arts altogether to avoid getting in trouble.

transandrogyny--turtlebug

Shouldn't large amounts of old and disabled people in a country be the sign of good? That means that your healthcare is at least good enough to keep disabled people alive and for a long time.

If all the people in a society are able bodied then you failed as a society because it means all your disabled people have died

muttsys-deactivated20260425

Ok*reduces you to a simmer* go rest for a while

queerautism

Fellow white people did you know there's this cool youtube hack where you go out of your way to watch videos made by Black people. And suddenly your video recommendations will have loads of cool new channels. And then you realise youtube was literally hiding videos made by Black people from you because they assumed you wouldn't be interested

thenebulousthey

Don't talk about it. Be about it.

my favorites:

Daniel JrStetch (fitness)

Frilancy Hoyle (fashion)

EarthtonesGirl (knitting)

Josh Johnson (comedy)

aroaceauri

BlackForager (...foraging)

teawitch

Reese Waters (US politics)

https://youtube.com/@reesewaters?si=OOV1cQllMSoYhKx_

TL Yarn Crafts (crochet)

I’m Toni – let’s learn how to crochet together! 🧶 Hey babes! I’m Toni, the designer and instructor behind TL Yarn Crafts, where every croch

Charm City Ewenicorns (knitting)

https://youtube.com/@charmcityewenicorns?si=GsG6iZIOnSsd2E6E

nimashkawizii

Sage the Bad Naturalist! (Link is to my fav recent YouTube short about BEES!)

headspace-hotel

BlackForager mentionnnnnnneeed

somecunttookmyurl

i can tell i’m sleep deprived bc i just made myself cry about tutankhamun and i have, like, negative interest in the kid

somecunttookmyurl

have now made the rest of the discord cry about this little boy who had multi-coloured ducks sewn onto a tunic that he loved so much he wore it to a Very Important Event because he was EIGHT and have you SEEN my DUCKS

somecunttookmyurl

sorry no i’m not done i’m gonna make you all cry some more i’m bringing you down with me

there was once a little boy.

he is born disabled. his body hurts, and he can’t walk properly the way the other children do. he doesn’t understand why. he’s a little boy. but he plays with wooden boats and pulls toys on a string.

somebody makes him a tunic. they sew ducks onto it in red and green and yellow and blue. the bright colours of a child.

the little boy is eight years old, and he’s going to be king now. there’s a big ceremony about it. he doesn’t really fully understand what’s going on, because he’s eight, but he wears the tunic with the brightly coloured ducks for the occasion because he loves it. look at his ducks! aren’t they great?

he is a child. the adults around him manipulate and coax him to gain more power for themselves. he still plays with toys.

as a teenager, not yet an adult, he fathers children. they do not survive. he’s not even old enough to have full agency in his job and is still being manipulated, but he had babies and they died.

he does not make it to his twenties. at eighteen or nineteen years old he dies, and is buried. his babies, so tiny, are buried with him.

and so is his tunic with the little ducks that he loved so much he kept it long after it no longer fit.

there was once a little boy.

somecunttookmyurl

yeah i think that like. especially with historical figures in your mind people who were kings and queens or important nobles were adults. even if you know how old they were it doesn’t really click. it doesn’t seem real

but then you get something like a little tunic with brightly coloured ducks on it and it hits you like a fucking truck that this really was a little kid and no matter how far removed you are a little kid is still a little kid. their brains didn’t develop any quicker back then. he was just as developed/mature mentally as any 8 year old now. he had cartoonish animals on his clothes and he played with toy boats and probably terrorised the local cat population.

tutankhamun was a child and he didn’t make it to adulthood because he was unfortunate enough to be a very important child

his dad died when he was 8. he saw his own babies die when he was still just a boy himself.

but he had brightly coloured little ducks on his favourite shirt, and he kept it.

somecunttookmyurl

and he did not just keep the duckie shirt either

tutankhamun had a little pair of sandals with ducks on them. he had earrings decorated with ducks. he kept those, and other items of childhood clothing. some toys. keepsakes. things he loved, and treasured. he kept them all in a little wooden chest. the chest… was carved with ducks.

and that little duck chest, filled with things he kept from his childhood, was buried with him. maybe he was keeping them for the little babies who did not make it. maybe they just reminded him of good days and fun times.

but he was a little boy who thought ducks were just the best

somecunttookmyurl

WITH PLEASURE

(greyscale makes it hard but the duck head is on the right above the toe strap. always takes me a while to find it too)

beggars-opera

libriamore

Ok but this is how to teach history. This is how you get people to pay attention, to care. Find something small and make it personal, then zoom out to the wider context. History is best taught as a story, with people who lived their lives in ways that came together to create something remarkable that we still talk about today, but who were still just human at the end of the day. They kissed, argued, cried, and dreamed just like we do. And sometimes they really liked ducks.