We will be weeds of joy

Queer dude trying to figure out judaism and himself. Relentlessly optimistic. He/him

[this-tragic-affair]

Charities/organisations to avoid:

PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)

FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)

Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)

Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.

[tequila-tekaylah]

Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( x x x )

[reproductivejusticeandliberty]

The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( x x x )

[shitpost-senpai]

Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( x x x )

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups

[ayellowbirds]

Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.

[arch4ngel]

A good way to know if a nonprofit you’re donating to is allocating their money in the right way is to check out their Charity Navigator rating: http://www.charitynavigator.org

[darkbookworm13-deactivated20240]

Signal boosting, the bell ringers are out in force, and this info is too important.

[ghostbri]

lately i’ve been developing a little horror/fantasy rpg concept in my freetime. here are some classes! i would like to know which one you like the most  ( ◞･౪･)

[deanhoney-deactivated20220819]

whoever murders me best not be caught bc im aiming to be featured on buzzfeed unsolved

[allycattiny]

I love how this implies that op’s murder is inevitable. There is a lot of chaotic energy here.

[deanhoney-deactivated20220819]

if you met me you would know it’s inevitable

[cheekbonered]

the other night i tried to make a curry and i got chilli burns all over my face, so i thought to myself ‘hang on, doesn’t milk soothe chilli burns? it does’ and i couldn’t google because i couldn’t see so i just had to blindly feel my way to the fridge and pour out a bowl of milk, and then plant my face in the bowl of milk, anyway at that point the rice cooker went off and triggered a power surge which turned my electricity off, which i didn’t notice at first because i had my face in a bowl of milk and when i did emerge from the dairy prison i thought i had gone blind with chilli burns. so no i don’t really cook much.

[guessed-starred-deactivated2025]

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

Have you told the Libra coyote story yet? I... is there a story? I just feel like there has to be

It’s not as dramatic as it sounds. I was driving through Dayton one winter night at around 1 AM and I was down by UD campus when I saw a German shepherd plodding along in the snow and I thought oh no! A dog out alone in the snow! It was one of those totally silent nights after a snowfall,  so I stopped my car in the empty intersection and started calling it over to my car. It stopped for a minute and considered me and then came padding my way and I tossed the door open like c’mon buddy. We’ll getcha somewhere warm.

And then it got closer and underneath a streetlight and I realized it was decidedly Not A German Shepherd so I pulled my door shut again but by then it was right by my car and it stopped and stared at me and I stared at it and at this point I was looking very Stupid.

You see this coyote knew it was a coyote, and it knew I was a human. All along it knew what was what and there I was with pie all over my face.

I rolled down my window and I said “sorry……I can’t let you in.”

It walked back off into the night, probably to make fun of me somewhere.

[kaedien]

americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip

[verssupremacy]

My friend in the UK told me that they only see their father like 2-3 times a year because they live so far away. When I asked how far do they live, they said that it’s a 45 minute drive……. my commute to work, five days a week is an hour.

[anoriginalderivative]

this is the most important thing i’ve ever done.

[just-shower-thoughts]

The fact that “a fucking casual” is an insult in some circles of hobbies - a thing that you do in your free time for fun - really says something about how bad some people are at having fun.

[wip-it]

Plotting, more like how many self indulgent tropes can I cram into a fic without fucking up the pacing

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

today I went out to get some research started with two other people i’m working with and we ended up on this fairly treacherous cliff/slope spot trying to navigate to some tricky coordinates and one of my group members slipped on the slope and started sliding and he reached out and grabbed for a sapling and the ground was so loose it just started going down with him and I was too far away to immediately help him but I wanted to alert my other group member to his peril but I fuckin’ panicked and I just said “THERE he GOES”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

if you ever feel you didn’t respond correctly to a situation, ask yourself if you watched someone all but totally fall off a cliff and said “there he goes”

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

OBVIOUSLY he’s okay or I wouldn’t have posted about it. He got another, sturdier tree.

[midnitedancer]

one time i was camping with my gf in a park that had hella bears and it was dark and we were sitting around the campfire and i had the sudden inkling to turn around and there was a bear not five feet behind me and my first instinct was to say “HEY. YOURE not supposed to be here!” and i feel like that has very similar energy

[vampireapologist-archive-deacti]

HEY!!!

[francisxie-deactivated20200628]

horn

[zerotheduke]

[absynthe--minded]

if your film studies/film history/film appreciation class talked about Birth of a Nation but not about Within Our Gates then I’m sorry but your professor failed you

[absynthe--minded]

further rant, because I’m not done yet, and more people should know about this

despite its massive success, the extremely racist and very historically inaccurate Birth of a Nation was not without controversy at the time of its release.

a lot of activist groups tried to prevent its screening in their areas, and there was debate about whether or not showing it in cities would prove to be incendiary and start race riots. Black Americans did not like the film and were open about how they did not like it.

one of the responses to it was a full-length motion picture made some years later called Within Our Gates, about the racism and bigotry that still existed in the US. it was written and directed by Oscar Micheaux (Wikipedia), a black author/auteur who ran his own film studio and independently produced over forty pictures. his films had all-black casts and lower budgets, but proved to be popular. some of them are lost, but some aren’t, and Gates is one that’s been preserved at its full runtime. Here it is on YouTube; the cast is in the description.

talking about the influence of Nation on US cinema and by extension world cinema while removing it from its historical context makes it seem like everybody back then was just okay with the blatant racism and horrific plot, but they weren’t. and black Americans who were contemporaries of the film and of Griffith weren’t powerless victims needing to be saved, either. they had concerns and voices of their own, and they created art to express their feelings and strike back against the dominant narrative.

if your film history/film appreciation classes aren’t talking about this, I’m sorry, but they’re failing you.

[oopsprompts]

“I would die for you.”

“Bold of you to assume I would ever let that happen.”

[sexbanglish]

so here’s a quick story

to help with decision making when going on a date, my bf and i created a list of 20 restaurants we like. 1 being ihop (as a joke, neither of us actually like ihop), 20 being our favorite steakhouse, with the rest in no particular order. we roll a d20 and go to the corresponding place

after i wrote the list down, he goes “roll it, let’s go to dinner tomorrow night!” i got excited, he got a die out, and i fucking CRIT FAILED and now we’re FORCED to go to ihop tomorrow because both of us are too stubborn to back out omg

[sexbanglish]

im currently on the phone with him and im saying “what time you wanna go” and he’s all “to ihop? what time are we going to ihop?” omg he just keeps saying ihop to emphasize how dumb we are

[feralkwe-deactivated20210912]

okay but this is the cutest and most real shit i’ve ever seen.

[mikkeneko]

The rolls are meaningless if critical failures don’t come with consequences.

[drinkyourjuiceshelby]

[ausimilation]

K. But I’m crying

[thornyflesh]

CROWCORE

similar to goblincore but more goth

shiny stuff, wearing black, birds

vulture culture (crow culture???) if youre into that kind of thing, if not thats chill

stealing ur friends food (not mandatory but encouraged)

you could steal food from people who are not your friends but do so at your own risk

you must be

an absolute bastard

smart but also a dumbass (true dumbasses also welcome)

vengeful as hell

you obviously gotta like crows to be crowcore like how are you even goth if you dont like those funky little birds

[books-and-cookies]

Hey, hey remember that it’s okay to feel like you’re growing out of books or authors you loved. Even if those books or authors really had an impact on you. We’re constantly changing as individuals and with that, our tastes change as well. It’s okay to grow out of things. That doesn’t mean you’re betraying them or yourself - it just means that you’re an ever changing human and liking those things was a step in your evolution.

At the same time, it’s okay to NOT grow out of certain books or authors. It’s okay to still be excited over someone’s new book, even if they published 20 before it. It’s okay to still be reading YA, for example, even if you’re way past the “target audience” for this genre. 

I’ll repeat something that I’ve said times and times before: you do you. Read what makes you happy and fulfilled and what brings you joy. Always unapologetically.