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thedeadpoets-blog

— rainy days are perfect for coffee and writing

homoerotisch

Søren Kierkegaard, in a letter to his niece Henriette Lund, 1847

bump-inthe-night-deactivated202

If it makes any of you feel better, Donald Trump will have an uphill battle to change the constitution. He will need:

-2/3 of Senators (60)

-2/3 of the House of Representatives (290)

-3/4 of the states (38)

In 2026, 33 senate seats will be up for grabs, and we’ll be able to vote for people who are against Trump and his ideals.

Breathe and remain hopeful because it’s not over. We can still fight and make Trump’s last four years hell.

iamnmbr3

This is so important. Also pay attention to local elections. Now more than ever it's important to have staunch anti Trump democrats at every level of government - from school boards to senate seats. Apathy and not voting helped Trump win. Now is the time to wake up and get serious and hold on to the freedoms we have left. We have got to fight for every inch of territory. Do not give up. Do not give him any more power than he already has.

yeahiwasintheshit

konoko

cchickki

If you haven’t started already, start archiving/downloading everything. Save it to an external hard drive if you’re able. Collecting physical media is also a good idea, if you’re able.

Download your own/your favorite fanfics. Save as much as you can from online sources/digital libraries. Recipes, tutorials, history, LGBTQ media, etc. It has been claimed, though I can’t find the exact source if true, that some materials about the Revolutionary War were deleted from the Library of Congress.

It’s always better to be safe than sorry and save and preserve what you can. Remember that cloud storage also is not always reliable!

Library of Congress - millions of books, films and video, audio recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps, manuscripts.

Internet Archive - millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more. Has been taken offline multiple times because of cyber attacks last month, it has recently started archiving again.

Anna's Archive - 'largest truly open library in human history.’

Queer Liberation Library - queer literature and resources. Does require applying for a library membership to browse and borrow from their collection.

List of art resources - list of art resources complied on tumblr back in 2019. Not sure if all links are still operational now, but the few I clicked on seemed to work.

Alexis Amber - TikToker who is an archivist who's whole page is about archiving. She has a database extensively recording the events of Hurricane Katrina.

I'll be adding more to this list, if anyone else wants to add anything feel free!

papayajuan2019

cruelty is so easy. youre not special for choosing it

derelicthousefootage

chilewithcarnage

"The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain."

-Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

wizardnuke

"Evil is boring. Right? I kinda believe in the banality and mundaneness of evil. Evil is just selfish impulses, which at the end of the day are really easy to understand. It’s easy to understand why people do bad things. It’s like “yeah, ok, you’re selfish and scared and cruel, I get it”. Being good is complex and beautiful and hard." - Brennan Lee Mulligan

oldshrewsburyian

"How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints." --C.S. Lewis

requiem-on-water

Choo choo. by Michael Schauer

bhxdraa

lucy8675309

OK Tumblr Geriatric Ward, let’s talk about your posture-

there are things you should be doing now to prevent yourself from starting to look like 🥀

Why does it matter? Future you would like to avoid the pain, limited motion, and fall risk that goes along with worsening posture.

What’s the focus?

1. Keep the flexibility in your spine

2. Stretch the muscles in the front

3. Strengthen the muscle in the back

Here are some simple things you can do daily while sitting and when you get up to go into the bathroom or the kitchen

Keep the flexibility by doing these repeated movements: 10 repetitions several times a day

The goal is to give yourself a double or triple chin. Keep your nose pointing forward, don’t let it tip up or down

Thoracic extension- use a chair with a seat back that comes up to the level of your shoulder blades. Try to bend back over the top of the chair without arching away from the seat back and without extending your neck. If the pressure from the top of the chair is uncomfortable you can place a towel there

Stretch the muscles in the front by using a door frame. This one will feel good afterwards

If this isn’t enough of a stretch you can do one side at a time. If you have the right arm up step forward with the right foot and turn slightly to the left. Then do it on the other side.

Strengthen the muscles in the back by squeezing your shoulder blades together for a count of 10 and then repeating 10 times. You can do this several times a day Hint: Don’t lift your shoulder blades up

There are lots more exercises for strengthening your back muscles but this is a good starting point and easy to do. I like doing it while driving

Tips:

Do the best you can

If it hurts stop

Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises

brightlotusmoon

NOTE: I can do most of these with the cerebral palsy. In fact, a lot of these little exercises are automatically part of my physical therapy. My problem is I already have hyperlordosis, spine arthritis, and cervicogenic headache. These have helped me at least try to have a posture.

becausegoodheroesdeservekidneys

I CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH HOW GOOD THIS ADVICE IS

rosalarian

"Envision future you saying thank you each time you do one of the exercises" is probably THE BEST piece of advice for my brain.

coffeeacademia

professors really out here expecting intellectual answers from my rotting brain. like bro please know your target audience while framing the exam questions

marzipanandminutiae

“you don’t like the proliferation of terms like Unalive outside of TikTok because you realize that you’re aging out of youth culture and it makes you uncomfortable!”

no I don’t like it because there’s something INCREDIBLY dystopian about being forced to soften terms for basic parts of the human experience like death and sex (and even more so terms for oppressed minorities- call me a “le-dollar sign-bian” and I will bite you) purely because advertisers and corporations demand it

stripedroseandsketchpads

The idea that young people are getting used to not being able to speak in public about sex, queerness etc without talking around censors, and see this as normal and not a problem, scares me tbh.

crippledanarchy

The fact that people are so comfortable with being censored that they Voluntarily censor themselves on words and topics that aren’t even being limited is a terrifying sign

transcyberism

I hate to be like the “THIS IS JUST LIKE 1984” guy but. there was literally a thing in that book where you had to say “double plus ungood” instead of “bad” because you weren’t supposed to talk about bad things. if you told me ten years ago that “unalive” was a word that George Orwell had coined for Newspeak I would have believed you.

vaspider

Okay, but it’s not just like 1984. It is, in fact, the exact opposite.

If it were just like 1984, these terms would have been mandated from the top. They would exist to flatten conversation and make it impossible to talk about topics.

What we have with “unalive” is the refusal of Gen Z and Gen Alpha to bow to censorship or to accept that they simply can’t talk about something. TikTok’s platform rules say, “we’ll shut you down or shadowban you if you talk about death or sex,” and Gen Z and Gen Alpha say, “nah, fuck you, actually, if you put a wall in front of us, we’ll tunnel under it.”

“Unalive” is this generation’s “Friend of Dorothy,” and while I am frustrated by the policies which make it necessary, I am heartened and indeed thrilled that the response was not acquiescence but the spontaneous communal creation of terms which said, very clearly, “you can try to censor us, but we’ll just go around you.”

Good for them. Good for us.

vaspider

Language evolves and changes and grows. People use things sarcastically or to mark themselves as part of a group. I type out “folx” not because I don’t think “folks” is already gender-neutral but - in part - because it separates me from my homophobic father’s use of folks and immediately marks me out as a Publicly Homosexual and Transsexual Person.

Maybe it’s just because I’m getting old, and this is like the … tenth or eleventh iteration of “the children are ruining language!” that I’ve seen, minimum, but like, two things are true:

The English language is far sturdier than any of this pearl-clutching would have you believe and

You know what they mean, so this language they’re using? It’s successful. You may be annoyed by it, but it has communicated, which is all language needs to do.

Besides, “unalive” is like 200+ years old. TikTok kids just did a little convergent linguistic evolution.

Like, really. For one, it’s fine. For two, unalive is actually an old word. For three, it’s fucking fine, actually. For four, it’s a demonstration of linguistic hardiness. For five, this sounds to me like when my dad would respond, “HAY IS FOR HORSES AND I’M A PERSON, SAY HELLO,” 35 years ago, or castigate me over my “overuse” of “like” (you know, the way you just read past at the beginning of this paragraph and didn’t think anything of at all), or the way teachers would make me bend my sentences into unnatural-sounding messes so they didn’t end with a preposition. For six? It’s fucking fine.

Adults have always complained about kids destroying language, and kids have always changed language so they can communicate about the things that matter to them and so they can mark themselves as part of an in-group and different from their parents. You can complain about the train as it runs you over or you can get on it but the train is going with or without you. You can’t stop it, and honestly, nothing makes teenagers want to do shit more than when adults bitch about it, so, like, have at, I guess? Idk.