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“Be productive” “You can do great things” “Change the world” FUCK YOU BITCH I was put on this earth with a brain and I’ll be damned if I don’t use it to while away the hours conferrin with the flowers
Happy pride month you stupid faggots
i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.
in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. marsha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.
But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.
our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1986. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.
anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.
"i have to water the shitbird wait a minute"
"prosper stupid poultry"
i swear people freak out about the tamest shit ever
"they identify as animals" thats nice, sharon
"no but they actually think they are animals" theres a war going on, sharon
"like they wear masks and run around in all fours and even bark at people" sharon the war
Every once in a while I'll get engaged where a piece of media where one character has a highly specific and non-obvious speaking quirk, which I myself don't notice but another fan or friend far more unwell than me will catch onto and inform me of. And then it's like I'm part of the secret true universe and any fan content breaking the rule will, inadvertently and in ways I cannot fault them for, brand themselves an imposter.
Garnet StevenUniverse does not ask questions. Jax TheAmazingDigitalCircus does not curse. Probably 80% of the Homestuck fuckers have some flavor of this but I'm not unwell enough for that.
Sorry yeah adding mumblespash's dad as the third example. Get your fics right.
I’m so sorry I’ll never misrepresent mumblespash’s dad in my fanfics ever again
Every day I wish they would make a website that’s quora but usable
any mirror pics...
here's one ig? idk why you just wouldnt use google
Racism strikes again😒....
A older white woman that lives in the building called the cops on us saying that we were squatting in the apartment. They came and asked to see a lease I don't have one because we aren't staying in this apartment we are just placed here while our apartment gets renovated. I explained that to the cops and also showed them messages between me and the super and landlord and showed them the keys . But they said that's not proof we need to actually show the apartment number and my name signed smh. I called the super and the landlord office but no answer and now they told us that we have to leave til we have proof that we have permission to be here. I called my old neighbor in the Bronx and she said we could come spend the night at her house. We need a cab to get there .
$45 cab to the Bronx cause the cops told us to leave the apartment 😒
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It's 3am in the fucking morning this bitch must really hate black people. This cunt was sitting in her fucking house dead thinking about us . My kids were sleep and I was reading while my queue posted the stuff I saved earlier . Excited about my food coming in the morning. Thank God I was able to change the address to my old neighbors house . Cause I would've been sick if someone stole my food delivery smh.
We've been nothing but nice and quiet and I always smile and say hello to her and whoever else I run into when I'm coming in and out of the building And she always just gives me a fake half smile and says nothing back . Smh wow this heartless hoe really be wanting my kids out on the street at damn near 4am . This whole shit is bullshit it's wrong and evil.
We slept on the stoop last night 😞😕 the second time in less than 3 weeks we've had to be on the street. My food has been delivered but since I thought we would be in the Bronx I had it delivered there. I called my worker as well waiting for her to get back to me. So I still would like to go to the Bronx so we can eat since our food is there and then deal with this after at least putting something in our bellies
Please can someone plz help us get uptown. My kids are hungry and our whole grocery order is sitting up there in my old neighbors house plz . We're hungry as hell!!??! Please we have food we just need to get to the food
Thank you 🙏🏿 we are on the way to the Bronx now
what is this genre of photos called
Grasping
you can really tell by the look in his eye that Laserdisc is a calm and well-adjusted animal
Oh no. Oh, man, oh my god. Oh dear.
what did tumblr put into this layout to make it so enticing to click
???? im scared of em
tumblr lobes .... bug? fagmod..... scared of Buhe?
I’m gonna be honest the person in the notes is probably a programmer who forgot the outside exists for a second
Getting your piercings caught in each other is so humiliating… like aw are you stuck? Did the stupid little gay boy twist up his piercings? His little gay transgender pronoun dyed hair piercings? Are you gonna sit there and cry in your faggy little septum? Grow up
Spoke to a gen z person the other night and apparently the young folks don't know about the very legal sites from which you can access public domain media (including Dracula, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other Victorian gothic horror stories)?
Like this young person didn't even know about goddamn Gutenberg which is a SHAME. I linked to it and they went "aw yiss time to do a theft" and I was like "I mean yo ho ho and all that, sure, but. you know gutenberg is entirely legal, right?"
Anyway I'm gonna put this in a few Choice Tags (sorry dracula fans I DID mention it though so it's fair game) and then put some Cool Links in a reblog so this post will still show UP in said tags lmao.
Spreading the news to my followers - if you weren’t aware of this before, here’s the link to Project Gutenberg - https://www.gutenberg.org/
Project Gutenberg is a gigantic collection of books that are in the public domain. You can read the books through the site or you can download them in various formats so you can get the format you prefer for your eReader of choice.
It is free.
It is legal.
I was reviewing the list of the top 100 books downloaded yesterday and I saw a fair few that I had to read for college classes - so if you’re a college student and your professor assigns you to read Plato or any number of older works, check here before you buy a copy.
I reread the Anne series several years back - they were free through this. I need to reread Pride and Prejudice at least once a year, and my e-book version is from this. Someone recommended Jekyll and Hyde to me a few weeks back and I got a free copy from this. When I went to Haworth on my last holiday before the plague times, I brought books by the Bronte sisters with me to read or reread that I downloaded from here. It’s a great resource.
Yes yes yes! I was honestly so flabbergasted that this young person hadn't heard of the gutenberg project! It's been around for AGES, maybe longer than the kindle has? And it's such a huge project and wonderful resource! It used to be a household name (or maybe that's just my family, thanks to my dad being a cheapskate nerd [affectionate]). I was so glad to be able to share this resource and others with them though, and I wanted to make sure no one else was missing out!
If you look at the first reblog from me I also recommended a few other resources, most of which were from www.archive.org, home of the Wayback Machine! They run openlibrary.org, where you can check out ebooks of some public domain titles! They even have the Bone series by Jeff Smith!
And archive.org itself has all kinds of public domain media including music and movies! For Dracula fans, here's a radio show adaptation of the book, starring Orson Welles! And here's a 1920 movie adaptation of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde," starring John Barrymore, the grandfather of Drew Barrymore!
I'm so excited to see people falling in love with classic media through Dracula Daily! Let's keep that fire blazing!
Also, if you can't handle reading things, check out libirvox.org! it's a free audio book project taking public domain works and people doing free audiobooks! there's a lot of great stuff on there, but it takes things in the public domain and makes audio books out of them!
it's a super nice project, and you can find some really nice readers there!
Also don't think a book is old because it's in the public domain
lots of writers and publishers are prepared to waive future profits for entirely petty reasons
because of this the entire works of Philip K Dick [petty writer who found himself with lots of hangers on during his life] and HP Lovecraft [his publisher - who was his wife and hated him] became public domain on their death
Sherlock Holmes entered public domain this year, it's always worth checking because you can save a fortune
and the more popular the classic - the more likely someone has uploaded it
Also don’t think a
book is old because it’s in
the public domain
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
Want audiobooks instead?
LibriVox has free public domain audiobooks.
Public domain works in the US are:
Anything published (in the US) from 1927 or earlier (this number goes up every year for quite a while), and
Anything published between 1928 and 1963 that wasn't renewed, and
Anything published before 1989 without a proper copyright notice.
(Don't go looking for things in that third category unless you've studied a LOT about copyright law. Mostly that covers things like "weird little newsletters" and "self-published booklets" and sometimes fanzines. But most publications have a copyright notice in them.)
There's also some oddball exemptions here and there; copyright law is a tentacled mess. But those are the basic guidelines. (Except for audio. Audio has its own set of rules. It's weird.) (I mentioned tentacles, did I not? Double the amount of them you were thinking of.)
There are a lot of works from the 50s and early 60s that were not renewed, especially short stories published in magazines.
Project Gutenberg began in 1971; the first text was the US Declaration of Independence, shared through the university computer system. That was the start of "hey computers + public domain text = FREE BOOKS FOR EVERYONE."
Adding on that Project Gutenberg is not just Eng language texts either! I know specifically about the French texts because I did independent study French lit in high school and all my sources were Project Gutenberg acquired (Candide my beloathed) but there's many open source texts available in a number of languages.
browsing the top 100 books downloaded in the last 30 days can be really fun too, interesting to see how things change
https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/scores/top#books-last30
Oh man, yeah, young people definitely need to learn this. I read so many public domain things when I was fresh out of college and penniless but still needed entertainment. Just going straight to Wikisource works too:
And yes, Sherlock Holmes is in the public domain. But I got bored with Sherlock Holmes after a few months, and became much more pumped when I discovered his mirror opposite, Arsene Lupin. Because when you're not only young and penniless but living through the Great Recession, what you really want to read about isn't the world's greatest detective solving crimes. It's the world's greatest thief robbing fat cats blind while pantsing the police along the way.
And you can Ctrl-F find words in electronic texts.
This is so powerful that in the old times they made a whole-ass index of every word in the Bible, called a concordance. It is now possible for every electronic book
My father told me to always hide money in a bible because if the government comes and tries to repossess your shit you can always say “You can’t touch my bible, that’s part of my god given american right to religion!!”
Give me a fun little drink or give me death
I thought I had too many things in my queue to be posted that I think maybe I hit my post limit .. But smh we are unfortunately in a situation what the fuck else is new. . The people upstairs from me apparently started a fire in their apartment which caused smoke and water damage in mines . Everyone is now outside of the building while the firefighters do what they do but we can't go back into our apartment at the moment they kicked out our windows as well. We have been told that we have to wait for someone from the landlord office to direct up to temporary accommodations but that won't be until morning hopefully cause no one can give us a actual time. The whole building isnt effected just mines , theirs and the one on top of them. We need to get a room for the night . We were able to get my son's wheelchair out but my charger was left inside and they're saying I can't go back inside.
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It's pretty cold out here and we have no jacked or anything just our pj's . Please someone please help us get shelter for the night. And hopefully I can find a charger because I need to be contacted by the landlord office to let me know where we will be going until the apartment is repaired
The people next door that I know aren't here and I asked two people that I've at least said hi to if it was possible if we could sleep on their couch til morning but they said they have no room for us. So I just want me and kids out of the cold
Everything is left in my apartment so we don't even have shoes on we are in our slippers . I'm doing my best to try to keep my babies warm with my body heat but there's only 1 of me and 2 of them . Oh boy ...
I have now hit my post limit and my phone is on 18 percent
I know it's late at night And most people won't see this but we need help sooner than later . More less my kids . My son is shaking from the cold I'm trying my best to keep him warm my daughter is cold as well but she walking around in a circle and other random movements to bring up her body heat. My son doesn't have that option cause he's in a wheelchair.
Im on 17 percent now I don't want my phone to die cause me and mines will be assed out even more than we are now
Please anyone my son is still in the healing process from his coma he's immune system ain't as good good as it could be so I really don't want him To get sick . I'm tired of fucking hospitals
I'm at 16 percent now
Was just informed that landlord will contact people on Tuesday because it is a Holiday
We are still seeking help badly.
We are cold and tired please we need somewhere to rest and get warm and to find food and a charger
It's now 5am and we are still on the street mostly everyone has gone back inside now. We are just here
Now my kids are hungry and we can't go inside the house where the fucking food is to eat. This is turning into a nightmare we are literally sleeping on building steps right now cause we can't go inside our apartment
The firefighters won't let me go in the apartment because they said it isn't structurally sound at the moment because of the fire & water damage upstairs. They don't wanna risk the ceiling falling on me . I wanted to at least grab some food , jackets and my charger but no I was denied
The kids are awake now so I wanted to go to target to get us some fake crocs and some sweat clothes and sweaters or light jackets for them and also food for tonight . Target is the closest open place to go .
They are supposed to place us in a new apartment tomorrow til they are repairing our apartment. I asked if we could get some things out of it and the super said he doesn't know so I rather be safe than sorry and to be honest we walking around in these damn slippers feet hurt bad and wanna shower . Ohh yeah toiletries cause we need deodorant and toothpaste and stuff to clean ourselves
$140
They close at 10pm
We have an hour and half and we stink honestly from sweating and what not . Especially my son because of him peeing in his pull ups. I need to get him a pair of underwear. I don't want him to get a diaper rash or infection
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So my landlord contacted me. And apparently the ceiling ended up collapsing so it's gonna take some time before we can go back to our apartment. We are going to an apartment in Manhattan cause that's the only 2 bedroom he has available right now. And we can't go back into the apartment until it's renovated. So we only have the fake Crocks , pjs the ones we had on , slippers , 3 sweatpants, 2 sweatshirts , 3 pairs of underwear, 2 sweaters , and 4 pairs of socks each. Since I don't know when we will be able to go back home I just wanted to possibly get a bit more clothing for us. Like actual footwear I thought we would be able to go back into the apartment sooner than later and I also thought we would be moved into a apartment in the building or in the area so I figured we could wear those for a couple days but it seems like it will more than a couple days so I think it's best I get us some cheap sneakers at least. In case it rains or something u can't wear those fake Crocks everywhere ya know. And get me a shirt or two cause I just have my pj top I had work today but I explained what happened and sent her the email my landlord sent me to confirm what I'm saying . I will be going in tomorrow afternoon though after I take my son to physical therapy. And also some detergent and stuff to walk our clothes since we have very few articles of clothing I'll have to wash them every couple days so we can have clean clothes . It's weird literally having the bare minimums when our clothes are sitting under a ceiling 🥹
$150 for clothes, detergent, a king size blow up bed & food
$60/$150
Also need a cab to get to the apartment in Manhattan cause of my son in the wheelchair. I was told that we would get help with transportation but they changed their minds now smh
$60/$195
So the landlord just called me and told me that the super will have the keys for me til 5pm today that's what time he gets off. So I hopefully we get the cab fare so we can go there . I brought the kids some cloth items cause they told me at first that they would cover transport and we have to leave this room by 3pm I don't have anything to pay for another night. So im kinda in a lil weird situation now cause I took the landlords word when he said he will cover transport I was just waiting for the kids to get up. So yeah we need to be outta here by 3pm if anyone can help by then
If we gotta sleep on the floor I guess so be it it sucks but at least we got each other . The kids could use their sweaters as pillows to make it not that uncomfortable. I wanted to get the king size for mattress so we could all sleep on it but in case I can't. I'll take a ful size one and I'll sleep on the floor so the kids can have something to lay on. but I at least wanna have somewhere to sleep ya know.
We have to leave the room in an hour so we really need help getting the new place so we aren't just standing in the street if anyone can .
We also have to get to the apartment by 5pm so that we can get the key to get in. I don't want us sleeping on the street tonight please
$60/$195
I just have 10 bucks left the kids are hungry so I'll feed them and I'll just wait to eat. At least they have some clean underwear and tee shirts .
We have to leave in 12 minutes 😕
They just called to say check out is in 10 minutes 😞
I really don't want my son to have to sleep in a wheelchair tonight . That's gonna cause problems for his legs .
So we are making our way out of the room now I pray that we won't be homeless tonight. I trusted the landlords word and now I may have caused my kids to not have a place to sleep tonight 😔
So we are sitting in a park by the hotel now. Got them some pizza and some sodas . I don't know how I'm gonna feed them later but I'm trying to keep the faith
$60/$195
We have an hour and a half to get to the new apartment or we will be homeless tonight 😕😔. I'm praying so fucking hard right now. I can't look then in the face and tell them that we won't have anywhere to sleep night or anywhere to use the bathroom. I don't want the kids to sleep in the street tonight I beg anyone someone please help us . This is the lowest I've felt with them I really let them down this time 😔
$60/$195
The super leaves at 5pm after that we can't get in so it's extremely important that we get there before 5 it's 3:33 now
Please it's gonna take us about 45 minutes to get to the new place. Please I'm begging man I don't want my family to be on the street tonight 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 . It's 3:43 now
I'm genuinely worried that we won't have anywhere to sleep for real. Like I dead told the kids that we came to the park to enjoy the day not cause we have nowhere to go. It's just trauma after trauma for them and situations like this just pile on. This shit legit hurts my heart . I'm a horrible parent they deserve way better than me . I can't even get us home . I hate myslef
I think the universe just hates me . I've never fought anyone , I try to be the best person I can be and in sensitive as fuck and yet bad things follow me like a shadow. They shouldn't have to pay for my shortcomings. They deserve a safe place to sleep . I wish I knew someone close I could take them to and I'll sleep in the street. But it's just us we have no one else . I miss my mom so much she would've knew what to do . I feel like a lost kid. I just wanna protect them....