The Open Veil

25 AFAB. American. Random stuff, fandoms, and stuff that I like. For the stuff I'm obsessed about, check out my other blogs. Fandoms: Superwholock, Cumberlady, Hiddlestoner, Bomer Babe, Polarbabe, Sink fandom

[eclect-dissect]

Marchesa

Resort 2019

[gnossienne]

The blood moon is framed by the statues of Hera and Apollo in Athens, 27 July 2018 (x)

[just-shower-thoughts]

Maybe Every Country Has Ninjas, But We Only Know About The Japanese Ones, Because They’re So Crap At It.

[mayothompson]

We’re all just ex-emo kids tryin to make it in this post-emo world

[attndotcom]

A brilliant explanation of consent for anyone who STILL doesn’t get it. 

[cosmicutie]

It makes me sick to my stomach that we have to explain this so thoroughly.

[sapphrikahhh]

Even sicker that you don’t have to use a grand amount for the metaphor, not $1000, not even $20. Men can understand the store of value of $5 more than they can understand the concept of women as humans.

[tundrakatiebean]

I think what’s saddest about the whole thing is that it always has to be a metaphor about an object for them to get it. Like the classic comparison to someone getting robbed because they were dressed rich so they were asking for it.

The only understand when women are compared to objects because that’s what they see is as.

[ham4harrypotter-blog]

Way too many parents need to learn the difference between “a child being disrespectful” and “a human person expressing an opinion that differs from theirs”

[jumpingjacktrash]

my mom had a nice technique for this. when i’d give her sass, she’d say, “i don’t speak rude, what’s that in polite-person-ese?”

basically, she’d encourage me to rephrase my opinion without the attitude. so “UGH, you NEVER let me do ANYTHING!” would (often after quite a bit of bitching and grumbling) turn into “it feels like every time i have a fun idea, you say no, and i just end up sitting around the house.”

and at that point we could troubleshoot like civilized people. she could explain that she didn’t want me to go to jimmy’s sleepover because jimmy’s dad creeps her out, and i could suggest maybe i could have andy over instead, and she could say sure, why not call peter and stacy and brianna and have your own party, i’ll pop some popcorn and rent a movie, and i could add what if we put up tents in the back yard and have a bonfire and roast marshmallows, and she could laugh and say don’t push it.

[hermioneindisguise]

I really like this technique because it addresses the OPs comment but recognizes that the two can coexist. The problem is often the child is expressing their opinion in a rude or disrespectful way. And as humans we automatically become adverse to opinions we feel are aggressive toward us.

[dynastylnoire]

I wrote a thing twice, but nah. How I thought about this before I was a parent and how I think about it now are completely different.

[crrocs]

imagine if all people you hate turned into angry lizards

[cheaphalloweencostume]

[just-shower-thoughts]

Billionaires must be really down in the dumps when they say they feel like a million bucks.

[tapireye-deactivated20220708]

can’t stop loving

medieval art

[dicksmasher]

who could forget such classics as

Fish with Human Feet, Disgruntled that Life on Land sucks Just as much as it did In Water

Nuns Enjoying Their Yearly Harvest

A moknkey doing That Thing whilst Hedgehog looks on

Forlorn Cat with Vulva plays Mandolin

Them

Queen Cheats on Husband with Weird Serpent Man

and my favorite

Derrick You Leave your Sister Alone she is Your Family Now

[lloerwyn-deactivated20201104]

It’s Just a Flesh Wound

Man Is Weirdly Unimpressed by Thirteen-Armed Woman

Dude, Put Some Fucking Hose On!!!

This Guy

[elodieunderglass]

@fozmeadows sent this to me with no explanation, with the ease born of long friendship

[thewitchdoctor]

[uranian97]

1) they expensive bruh 2) none of us kno the dif btwn a fucking diamond and some fancy ass glass ur capitalist rock hierarchy has no control over us

[a-chicago-sunflower]

3) mostly mined with slave labor

[everkings]

4) we get excited when our date buys us an appetizer, we don’t even comprehend people buying us rocks that would force us into debt for ten years

[wildhaunt]

5) They aren’t actually that rare and the price is artificially inflated. 

[ariaste]

Pro tip from a former Jared’s salesperson: You want a sparkly white rock that will look like a diamond to the untrained eye and will literally cost the price of a nice dinner for two? Created white sapphire. They’re lab grown and cost *pennies* to make, so you can get a 1 or 2 carat white sapphire for like… $30-80 probably. You can get one as huge as you like, perfectly clear, perfectly flawless. And no one will ever be able to tell the difference except a professional appraiser. Also, sapphires are the second-hardest gemstone (right after diamonds) so they are very durable! Very unlikely that they’ll chip or crack. Get that bitch set in sterling silver and you are GOOD TO GO. Whole thing should cost you less than $200 unless you get a fancy band with a lot of extra stones. Of course, created sapphires come in every color of the rainbow, so if you want something more exciting than plain white, you TOTALLY CAN. 

Created sapphires and silver: The poor Millennial’s engagement ring. 

[everythingcanadian-archive]

THANK YOU EX-JARED’S BASED GOD. 

[dxisybuchanan]

engagement rings: HACKED

[styna]

Get a ring from an antique store. They’re usually less than $100, you know they hold up over time, no one else will have one like it, and it comes with the bonus of being haunted by the spirit of some old woman named Edith probably.

[phruxx]

thanks edith

[foodffs]

Strawberry Shortcake Cheesecake Bars

Follow for recipes

Is this how you roll?

[lingrix]

“If a person can’t get out of bed, something is making them exhausted. If a student isn’t writing papers, there’s some aspect of the assignment that they can’t do without help. If an employee misses deadlines constantly, something is making organization and deadline-meeting difficult. Even if a person is actively choosing to self-sabotage, there’s a reason for it — some fear they’re working through, some need not being met, a lack of self-esteem being expressed. People do not choose to fail or disappoint. No one wants to feel incapable, apathetic, or ineffective. If you look at a person’s action (or inaction) and see only laziness, you are missing key details. There is always an explanation. There are always barriers. Just because you can’t see them, or don’t view them as legitimate, doesn’t mean they’re not there. Look harder. Maybe you weren’t always able to look at human behavior this way. That’s okay. Now you are. Give it a try.”

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— “Laziness Does Not Exist” by E Price on Medium

(And a footnote I didn’t see explicitly covered in the article: laziness still doesn’t exist when it is you yourself making no progress and not knowing why. You deserve that respect and consideration, too, even from yourself.)

[whoir-deactivated20150615]

tbh it wouldn’t be that hard at all to make a non-binary inclusive game, like instead of choosing male/female in the beginning they could just skip straight to customization, and it could be like a blank slate type thing, and you could add skin color and and hair and whatever else, and it’d have both masculine and feminine traits to add on, and then when you were done you could choose from a selection of pronouns maybe??? idk but the argument that non-binary inclusive is “too hard” is just kinda whiny tbh, game developers have done things a lot more difficult than that

[just-shower-thoughts]

Everyone is doing a really good job at not looking at the sun. It’s tempting, but keep up the good work.

[cheese24k]

Monkey teaches Human how to Crush Leaves

[yungdoctor-deactivated20191230]

this changed me

[pillmanize]

I made a difference in the world!

[pennie-dreadful]

REBLOG TO SAVE YOUR QUEER HEART FROM BREAKING

[omgkalyppso]

I’ve seen a bunch of people in the notes concerned (like I was) of comparisons of members of the lgbt to dogs: but upon visiting their website I was reassured that they monitor a variety of content, including (but not limited to):

[curface]

THIS IS A GOOD SITE

[jenniferrpovey]

Yeah, this site is literally so people can check for content they don’t want to see…or in some cases content that would make them physically or mentally ill. (I have strobe issues myself…)

It’s highly useful for a lot of people.

[gingersnapwolves]

I had no idea they warned for strobe effects, that’s awesome! They give me headaches and nausea.