Talent, Kindness, Spirit

Learning to love myself. she/they

[aaaangel444]

[aaaangel444]

[lesspopped]

please wear sunscreen!!! I've seen "fuck the beauty industrial complex" posts about complicated skincare regimens and am 100% with them except sometimes they mention sunscreen and no. no. absolutely not. sunscreen is a wonderful supportive friend who wants to keep you safe, and you should let her do it. throw out all your other cosmetics and skincare products if you want, but keep your sunscreen. and if you're not wearing sunscreen, start wearing it!!!! this is not about terror of aging, this is not about every tiny imperfection our fucked-up culture has made you feel insecure about, this is about protecting yourself from skin cancer. wear the damn sunscreen.

[cosmichroma]

Asexual flag made from cropped NASA APOD images! 🖤 🌑 ☁️ 💜

[harlotstarlet777]

[nouveau-riche-princess]

Has anyone considered using a bottle opener on the rim of a glass? I've outlined some of the benefits below:

Fucks the cup up and ruins it forever

Gets glass everywhere

Breaks the glass incorrigibly

Cuts you through several potential vectors

Let me know when you've had time to review my proposal.

[tearfulangel]

[troublepunk-ldn]

me as a teenager: man it sucks to have no privacy or autonomy but i guess its for a good reason. when i turn 18 i will realise how young i was and understand why they did all that.

me as an adult: teenagers are an oppressed class, their abuse is normalised and systemic and they need to start killing people

[fruityogurt]

[springbreak1984]

[systlin]

Getting down on my knees and thanking the humans who invented dishwashers and washing machines.

[ihonestlydontknowwhattocallthis]

InsNe that dishwashers are more efficient and easier than just washing them manually but they also use less water. It’s a win win situation

[systlin]

They ALSO sterilize dishes, due to operating at a far higher temperature than human hands could ever tolerate. It's a win every way.

[sporifluorous]

Hi sorry to be That Guy but most dishwashers don't sterilize (get rid of all dangerous microbes) they just sanitize (get rid of enough for it to be safe - like washing your hands or using hand sanitizer)

Some can sterilize but only if the plates are free of debris and organized correctly in the machine, the right amount of detergent is used, and you regularly clean the filters and wash the bay.

Minor difference for most folks but also I've seen people recommend throwing your sex toys in the dishwasher so.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Instead you should invest in a sex toy autoclave

[madmonksandmaenads]

I wish I could make white people(and not just white Americans) understand how diverse the pre-columbian Americas were. The history, religion, culture, politics was at least as complex as Europe's. There was the full gamut of religions, from monotheists to animists to ancestral religions. There were city building empires, village farmers, nomadic traders, and so many other ways to live. This is all just based on what we know, the fragments left behind and the stories of survivors of an apocalyptic plague. All this before the most extended campaign of genocide in history was waged in an attempt to wipe out those survivors.

Over 500 years spent trying to cut down a whole trunk of human culture.

Do you understand how much poorer our whole species is because of it? Can you imagine where art, religion, and science would be if we still had these vast bodies of knowledge? The stain of the colonial project will never be fully washed clean. We owe more than just the land to those we stole from. We owe them a whole future, a future that could have been brighter for all of us. If only greed and fear weren't allowed to rule this land.

[voltairinedecl3yre]

Tyranny! <3 This was supposed to be a 15 minute thing but it turns out she's *really* fun to draw

[snakebites-and-ink]

Hate how people treat friendship like it's nothing more than the training wheels version of romantic love.

[snakebites-and-ink]

Children's cartoons are full of the power of friendship, but as soon as you get to media for teens or adults it's all about "true love" which is almost exclusively used to refer to romantic love. Children's media focuses on friendship and holds it up as a deep and valuable bond, but once romance is involved friendship is relegated to a nice side garnish if it's acknowledged at all. And as soon as the target audience is old enough to be interested in romance it's nearly impossible to find any stories without it as at least a subplot.

When someone starts dating it's not only normalized but near-universally expected that they'll put their friends second to their partner, regardless of the length or depth of the respective relationships. The "friendzone" is where you hang out when you're hoping for a "real relationship." When there's a romantic or sexual aspect they're "more than friends."

I'm going to end up on the news.

[serregon]

I know we make jokes about the proverbial asexual pervert who has written hundreds of thousands of words of smut on ao3, but also shoutout to the aces who aren’t perverts. to the aces who skip the sex scenes and wince at sex jokes and awkwardly leave the conversation when your friends start talking about sex. your boundaries aren’t childish and fuck anyone who says otherwise.

[the-quasar-hero]

“Rappers only talk about their money, cars, and clothes!”

Why might someone from a group of people that historically have been denied access to wealth, now brag that they have it?

“Rappers only talk about sex!”

Why might someone from a group that have historically been denied sexual autonomy now brag about their sexual escapades on their own terms?

“Rappers only talk about drugs and crime!”

Why might someone from a group that historically have been denied the more legal means to acquire wealth and had drugs forced on their community talk about their experiences with it?

[innerchildabortionclinic]

off topic maybe but the reason human trafficking conspiracy theories are so far removed from reality is actual human trafficking operates in a way that is more socially acceptable than most want to acknowledge. there is an overlap of "human trafficking victim" and "adult or child whose wellbeing is more likely to be disregarded by law enforcement and peers alike"

[la-clementina]

When I lived in Detroit I remember a huge human trafficking ring got busted up and I actually knew one of the lawyers who worked on the case. The victims (all women) were from poor communities and many of them had been working at strip clubs in the area, the owners of which made deals with both the police and a downtown hotel, where they were housing the women along with the babies they were often forced to give birth to. Some had been kidnapped and drugged and violently kept there and others had simply been manipulated by the men in charge who took away their money and knew they didn’t have anyone who would come looking for them.

Sadly, I honestly feel like it’s happening everywhere all the time and if anything it’s getting worse. Definitely a multi billion dollar globalized industry at this point. You don’t have to look very far to see how every major industry that deals with the wealthy has some sort of connection with either drug smuggling or human trafficking or both.