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art, when i have the motivation funny, cute, or personally interesting reblogs sometimes i say stuff about me: student artist (eh) classical violinist nonbinary and a gremlin to boot

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[oatmealaddiction]

So I've seen the post going around that's kind of like "kids should be able to read whatever they want and not have their choices censored by adults" and I largely agree with one caveat which is that children need to be able to opt in. I remember being 12 and sneaking some dirty books, and being interested and excited to read a book with something more sexy in it, and no one died, and everything was fine, and I was not forever scarred. However I do remember being shown a a horror film at seven by a babysitter and not being able to sleep for three weeks, and if I'd known how scary the movie was I wouldn't have wanted to watch it.

Kids can usually know what they can handle. Kids cover their eyes at scary points in films, kids read past stuff they aren't ready for. But it is good to be clear like "Oh that book might have some scary parts you might not like, are you sure you want to get that one?" Or "Oh this book has some grown up things in them that you might have a hard time understanding, I want to check that your okay with that." Like give kids the warnings and options and they will probably make a safe and informed decision. It doesn't have to be either or.

[helloiamacashier]

I also think kids should be allowed to be wrong about what they can handle without getting in trouble for it. They should be able to go to the adults in their life and ask for help processing what they saw or read without fear of judgement or punishment.

[liveandletrain]

And kids (and anyone) should be allowed to change their minds at any point.

[whimsygremlinarts]

If a group of crows is called a murder can a group of loud straight white men with baseball caps be called a rape

[decompose1]

i dislike the weird jump to blame suicide victims for their suicides and call them selfish. suicide is very frequently in some way a social murder. i think instead of blaming someone who was in such a dark place that they saw no other way out we should maybe be blaming the people who threw gas on the fire, such as those with a lot of power to make that person's life that bad or those who abused them into it. is that really that unreasonable

[whimsygremlinarts]

any time i go through tsa to leave the US im like “oh i mean that wasn’t that bad why do i harbor such hatred for tsa and airport security in general? silly me haha”

and then i’m trying to get back in and they’re like “AHA FUCK YOU WE FOUND NAIL CLIPPERS IN YOUR TOILETRIES BAG YOURE CAUGHT! YOU’RE A CRIMINAL YOU WERE GOING TO KILL SOMEONE WITH THESE” and then you’re like okay fine toss them out and then later on they’re like “well I know you brought your musical instrument with you that is expensive and small and delicate and like a fifth limb to you out of the country with you, but uh sorry it’s like too big for our super big plane so it has to go in the bottom of the plane” and when you say that actually that’s like illegal now they get mad. And then they go “so now take off your shoes and your hat and your jacket and your belt and your necklace and your watch and your pants—”

[mutantrenegade]

You know Jones soda cap, as a tumblr user i can actually say i think I have.

[laterkiss]

i have [gestures vaguely] my tendencies

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

[closet-keys]

as a teen, i was constantly harassed by adults enforcing ''dress codes'' on me. I very much experienced this as sexual harassment. I think this is one of many cases where people would more easily understand this as sexual harassment if I described it as if it happened to an adult.

imagine being on your lunch break, and your supervisor comes over to your table, tells you to stand up in front of everyone. they draw everyone's attention to your thighs. they tell you that you have broken the dress code because of the length of your shorts. they tell you to go change (so you do not get the rest of your lunch break). they do this every single day at lunch. every day. so you read the whole dress code front and back, and you choose your clothing carefully to not break it. you bring a cloth tape measure with you to work because they will not believe you. this time when your supervisor tells you that you're breaking dress code, you pull out your tape measure and show that you are within the limit. your supervisor says "I bet you wouldn't want me to bring you to the boss and let him measure it, would you?" it's clearly a threat: if you don't obey then you will be put alone in a room with your boss and he will touch your thighs. you don't know how to respond. you're taken out of lunch again.

this was my experience at school. replace supervisor with "teacher" and boss with "principal." this was sexual harassment. fuck dress codes.

[wiisagi-maiingan]

Generally speaking, if you haven't been in a war zone, been at risk of being murdered by soldiers when in your home or walking down the street, been forced to huddle in a bomb shelter as missiles fly overhead or buildings collapse around you from bombings, or any of the other horrific and dangerous and deeply traumatizing experiences that come with war happening in your home country, then I don't think you should be cheering on any war ever.

I think the reason why Americans are so comfortable treating war in other countries as a game or a sports match to spectate is because we're so utterly disconnected from the realities of it and we don't even realize most of the time because our country is so obsessed with war. It's just that all the wars we're obsessed with are happening in other peoples' homes.

[oysters-aint-for-me]

do me a favor and plz reblog with your five most recently used non-face, non-hand, non-heart emojis

[whimsygremlinarts]

the most horrifically loud and terror-instilling whirring sound zooms past your ear

you jerk back in time to see a brown blur hurtle past and circle back for another pass

however, instead of going for your face, it flies upwards towards the ceiling

it does not land *thump*

*thump*

*thump*

you watch in horror and fascination as it repeatedly throws itself against the ceiling in obvious agony and confusion, producing a sound far, far too loud for its apparent mass

a moth got in your room.

[throo]

Wh-what do you mean it’s from a birthday cake

[throo]

We could have been eating him

[whimsygremlinarts]

where’s that one guy who decides if posts are edible? @is-this-post-edible

[whimsygremlinarts]

lukewarm take it’s perfectly acceptable to post things that are very suggestive but not 18+, have very nsfw-type-language but no explicit words etc, but it’s also perfectly acceptable to want there to be warning tags for that kind of thing as well as for nsfw posts

[whimsygremlinarts]

“well fellas only now does it feel like summer” i say to myself as i walk to the walgreens to buy a compression glove for my first hand injury of the season

[whimsygremlinarts]

“luckily it was my left hand,” i, a right-handed person, say. unfortunately for me, i am also a violinist

[whimsygremlinarts]

“well fellas only now does it feel like summer” i say to myself as i walk to the walgreens to buy a compression glove for my first hand injury of the season

[jacky-killian]

I don't do "art studies," i draw "wrong" until I get an epiphany from god