xPrincess-Midnightx

[steves-cigarette-pack]

Types of greasers

Denim Jacket: 

Acts really tough but has a secret sweet side, reckless, loves being outside, breaking rules, parties, likes sweet foods, probably is involved in art, pep talks, the feeling of stepping outside after a long lazy day, cool summer breezes, sarcasm, will cuss anyone out at will, that feeling of fear when you realize you might’ve forgotten/lost something, being outside at night 

Tank Top: 

Really hopeful, adventurous, old abandoned places filled with mystery, probably collects bottle caps or seashells and other small things, believes in ghosts and bad omens, joyful, soft, has the best smile ever, long walks on the beach, lonely in a room filled with people, comforting and kind when you really get to know them, being able to open up, taking a much-needed shower after crying

Leather Jacket: 

Too cool for anything really, acts heartless and cold, likes reading and keeping to themselves, can get pretty aggressive if provoked, would die for friends, dark chapels and old architecture, loyal, doesn’t believe in anything they can’t touch, the smell of wood, starry skies, watching your loved ones having fun, making sure everyone is safe and okay, smiling when they think nobody is watching

Plaid Shirt: 

Super relaxed, the feeling of wind in your hair, sunny days, keeps the peace (most of the time), watching the sunset over a city, that sleepy feeling you get in the middle of the day, the smell of new clothes and chlorine, hanging out at restaurants and skate parks, the feeling of drinking something when you’re really thirsty, getting high on life, chill, super accepting and open-minded

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[ultrafacts]

Source 

[hellkatsally]

These dudes are fucking legit.  They don’t just show up one day in court, either, they actually make friends with the kids and let them know they have a support system and that there are people in the world who care about them and will always have their back.  And less important, but also cool, is that the few times a couple of them have come into my cafe, they’ve been super friendly and polite and when I told one of the guys that I noticed his Bikers Against Child Abuse patch and wanted him to know how awesome I thought he was because of it, he got kind of shy and blushed and said, “The kids are the awesome ones, we just let them know they’re allowed to be brave.”

[bebinn]

The source is long, but so, so good. These men and women are available in 36 states, 24 hours a day to stand guard at home, in court, at school, even if the child has a nightmare. Many of them are survivors of childhood abuse as well, and know what it’s like to feel scared and alone.

In court that day, the judge asked the boy, “Are you afraid?” No, the boy said.

Pipes says the judge seemed surprised, and asked, “Why not?”

The boy glanced at Pipes and the other bikers sitting in the front row, two more standing on each side of the courtroom door, and told the judge, “Because my friends are scarier than he is.”

[lesbian-moon-gf]

Actual tears.. hnngh

[bee-whistler]

Show me more of people like this, world. I give up on humans too easily.

[groovypirate]

where do i sign up for this,i want to be in this gang

[ultrafacts]

[haydengisearchive-deactivated20]

This is fucking amazing. It may be out of character for me to say this but rock on

[clatterbane]

Bikers Against Child Abuse was founded in 1995 by a Native American child psychologist whose ride name is Chief, when he came across a young boy who had been subjected to extreme abuse and was too afraid to leave his house. He called the boy to reach out to him, but the only thing that seemed to interest the child was Chief’s bike. Soon, some 20 bikers went to the boy’s neighborhood and were able to draw him out of his house for the first time in weeks.

Chief’s thesis was that a child who has been abused by an adult can benefit psychologically from the presence of even more intimidating adults that they know are on their side. “When we tell a child they don’t have to be afraid, they believe us,” Arizona biker Pipes told azcentral.com. “When we tell them we will be there for them, they believe us.” ( Article)

More about BACA, from their site

[uriesays]

My parents are a part of this organization and they are metal af

They go on runs to protect the child if they feel even the slightest threatened no matter where. If the child needs them to go on vacation with them, they do. Bikers come from across the nation to watch over and take shifts for these kids. And the best part is once you’re adopted into this family as a BACA kid, you’re always one. Even when you’re 40 and the perp gets released from jail, they’ll come meet with you and find your best options for avoiding the person and maintaining the life you’ve built for yourself. Once a BACA child, always a BACA child. In Florida, there’s 100% rate for identifying the perp based on the child’s testimony. Why? Because BACA stands with the child and supports the child so they feel comfortable enough to point out their attacker.

What’s better than a badass biker gang being on your side???

[kikithegirl]

NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD PSYCHOLOGIST WHO IS A BIKER AND NAMED HIMSELF CHIEF HELL YES I’M HERE FOR THAT AND BIKERS BEING BAD ASS TO PROTECT KIDS. HELL YEAH.

[birdungehrl]

it’s back! I will always reblog BACA

[your-uncle-dave]

Damn good people.

[rowsdower-saves-us]

I know they wouldn’t consider themselves such, but these people are freaking heroes and the world is a better place because of them. 

[racethewind10]

Hey folks, it talks about this in the article but its not mentioned in this post, BACA is a 501 © (3) charity that depends in part on donations to help pay for stuff like gas for their bikes. If you want to help, consider donating. 

[drgaellon]

@copperbadge You like posting about heroes, Sam. Seems like this would be up your alley.

[copperbadge]

I love these folks! I’ve reblogged them before but it’s wonderful to see the donation information has been added. 

[galaxy-of-stories]

Always reblog. Keep doing what you’re doing y'all.

[hurtlittleboy]

Guys? This post changed my life. I saw this post. Forever ago. And thought it was only in america… and wished desperately that they could help me. But then I saw it again, during a bad episode, and checked their site. They aren’t just in the USA

They’re in Canada as well and probably other countries. I met and talked with a native guy who runs the place near me. His name is Shaman. I got in, and I’m considered a BACA child now. Despite being 17, turning 18 when I talked to them. They spent time with me when my abuser was over, they gave me therapy resources. They give you something called a ‘level 1′ where they go to your house with as many bikers as they can, i shit you not a solid 20-40 bikers came from even out of province, and met me. I got to choose my biker name and I got a vest with patches on it and my name on it. They all hugged a Teddybear before giving it to me, and told me if I ever felt the BACA bear was running out of love, to give them a call and they’d refill it for me, and then I got a ride on one of their bikes. Just a day or so ago I went to an annual party with them and they we ate food one of them cooked and had a lot of laughs. 

I’ve never felt as loved as I did being a part of the BACA family. They also gave me dog tags with the names, and phone numbers of my 2 workers.  So I can call them whenever I feel scared. 

BACA is an absolutely wonderful group that will do everything in it’s power to help any child whos been abused. 

And it doesn’t end when you’re 18 either. As long as you get in contact/get your level 1 before you’re 18? you’re ALWAYS a BACA kid. I’m 18 now and they still invite me to parties, ask me if I’m okay, and are there for me. They’re still trying to find me resources for therapy. 

BACA has changed my fucking life. 

I hope you all can read this, and reblog it knowing from someone who fucking been with them, that they are absolutely amazing. 

[thedreadvampy]

They’re also in the UK, plus 13 other European countries and Australia and NZ. if this is a group that could be useful to anyone you know https://bacaworld.org/chapters/

[sheaymin]

anyways, fuck sia. fuck aut$im $peaks. instead of supporting both her & that ugly abusive org, support & DONATE TO:   AWN( autistic women & nonbinary network ),    ASAN( autism self advocacy network ),    autism & race reparations for black & POC autistics,  & if ur autistic rb & add ur cashapp or kofi or put it in the replies. here is my kofi stop supporting people who hate us so damn much & start supporting us actually autistic.

[azalea-in-time-deactivated20150]

When you go to a haunted house, it may seem like you’re being funny by trying to scare the actors or jump out at them when you go through a second time, but guess what? ITS NOT FUNNY.

You pay us to scare you. It is your choice to go, so don’t fucking go through if you’re going to ignore the rules and get too close to the actors as a ‘joke’.

These bruises happened because over the course of 4 hours, several people ignored the instructions that CLEARLY stated that they were to wait in the front room until told otherwise. Rather than listen, they ran into the next room and slammed into me- effectively throwing me into the wall. This didn’t only happen once. It happened ten times at LEAST.

Then we had this asshole who thought that once I ‘died’ for the haunt, he could pretend to kick me to see if I’d moved. I, being used to people abusing me- jumped back and slammed my head into the concrete wall.

YOU ARE NOT FUNNY BY BEING RUDE AT A HAUNTED HOUSE. WE ARE PAID ACTORS THAT YOU CHOOSE TO COME AND SEE PERFORM. YOU PAY US TO SCARE THE SHIT OUT OF YOU, SO DONT HIT US WHEN WE DO

I feel that this is relevant considering it is October and more Haunted Houses are opening up. I know it seems funny to scare the ‘monsters’ but all you do is hurt real people. So stop.

[cogwheel-feline-deactivated2014]

It’s not even October but I’m still spreading this

[bsroleplayblog-deactivated20160]

SIGNAL BOOOOOOOOSSSSSTTTTT!!!!!!! Now

[ziamlevinestylinson]

Yeah…your director may want to consider reblocking

[azalea-in-time-deactivated20150]

We don’t have a director? Or blocking??? It’s a haunted house bro, not a play

[jjaquerabbitt]

Reblogging for relevance-

I work at a Haunted House every October, and have been for the past few years. Our house in particular is staffed by Volunteer workers who are either earning credits for Graduation, or people who know the Family that owns the haunted attraction. In our City, we’re one of two Haunted Houses, so while we open in late September, we tend to get incredibly busy during the month of October and often work from 6pm until 2, 3am on weekends. 

We do not get paid to help out. Due to our location, we get a lot of drunk guys coming through, and a lot of ‘funny’ teenagers. In my several years working there, I’ve seen Actors get grabbed and thrown, stomped on, kicked, bitten, everything. A lot of the Actors at this attraction are young teenagers, Middle and Secondary School students, so this kind of abuse is terrifying and potentially emotionally scarring.

There’s a position half-way through the house we call ‘Psych Ward’, and it’s essentially a jump scare. The scare is a corner-room, boxed in with walls and broken windows, that the Actor pops out of and shouts and taunts the people going through. October, 2012, a couple were going through the Psych Ward corner and the scare went off as per usual. The girlfriend of this couple got very startled but laughed it off and continued on. The boyfriend, however, back-tracked and went up to the broken window and punched the Actor in the face for scaring his girlfriend. The Actor, who I’m going to call Tracy, had a black eye for a good two weeks solid and the couple had to be escorted out of the house and were banned from the property. Ever since we’ve ruled that Veteran Actors (someone who’s been there for 3+ years) are the only ones allowed in this particular Scaring Spot.

He paid to get scared and then got violent when we delivered.

There are so many stories I can tell of ignorant customers banging back on scares and injuring the Actors inside, grabbing props from the actors and hurting them with it, destroying props because they thought it would be ‘funny’. 

I just want to raise awareness that the ACTORS ARE STILL PEOPLE. We’re instructed to get the best kind of scare out of you, sometimes with no pay at all (like this particular attraction), so please respect our work.

We wouldn’t come to your job, mock you, and push you around trying to be ‘funny’. Don’t come to our job and do that to us!

[witchcryptid-deactivated2017121]

I literally cannot believe people are angry over this post saying “don’t fucking beat up actors”

I work at a haunted hayride and a guy tried to dropkick me in the chest and knee me in the face because he thought it was funny.

I got in trouble for breaking character to tell him to fucking stop.

Ive been hit so many times this season it has left cuts and bruises. Back in 2015 I was fucking choked and dragged behind a wagon because a lady was drunk and her son had to pry her hands off me because IM NOT ALLOWED TO TOUCH YOU OR FIGHT BACK.

Most recently, a customer groped my breasts and twisted my fucking nipples. Apparently, she did it to AT LEAST twenty other actors.

THAT IS SEXUAL ASSAULT YOU ASSHOLES. ITS NOT OKAY.

Most recently a customer fucking kicked me and sent me to the goddamned hospital.

WHEN YOU GO TO A HAUNTED HAYRIDE / HAUNTED HOUSE, REMEMBER YOU LITERALLY PAID US TO SCARE YOU.

THE ACTORS ARE REAL PEOPLE.

DO NOT FUCKING HIT US.

[spiderman-anti]

Why the fuck would you even do this holy shit

[rusticbabe-deactivated20181102]

Hey guys i know this is out of theme but that comment from @witchcryptid was me and my old url. I plan on working this job again this year if at all possible, so here’s an added psa:

If your family or friend(s) force you into a haunting, be upfront as best you can and tell actors as they come up “please do not scare me i am too anxious / scared” and 9.99/10 times we will listen and leave you alone. just communicate with us even though we most often cannot communicate back.

We may be playing monsters, but we are NOT monsters.

Also, please remember to keep your hands off of us during your haunting, and also please try to step in or speak up if you see people trying to touch us, assault us, or talking about planning to touch or hurt a staff member.

We cannot do anything and will most likely get in legal trouble for touching you in defense.

Thank you and have a spooky fall 🌻🍁🍂🍃

[madhattey-deactivated20211019]

I…I feel really upset that this has to be a reminder ._.

I mean they should know you’re…justacting.

jesus christ…

[musicalhell]

I don’t even do haunted houses (I’m one of those aforementioned anxious people) but boosting the signal because this is seriously not cool.

[mizuaoi]

Hey guys it’s that time!!

You paid for a ticket which means you consented to be scared!

As an ex haunt monster please for fucks sake if you KNOW your reflex is to strike when scared DO NOT GO TO THESE.

[willthecleric]

,

[bitchesitscanon-deactivated2024]

I accidentally punched an actor during a haunted maze because he popped out of the ceiling 5 inches from my face, and I immediately yelled out sorry and felt so fucking bad. I haven’t been to a haunted house or maze since because I now know I have a punching reflex.

To all the actors out there, I apologize on behalf of the accidental punchers. I’m so fucking sorry. And to everyone who punches actors on purpose, GO TO FUCKING HELL.

[flower-vixen]

THIS

[tirednoceur]

[thehighpriestofreverseracism]

please boost

[hedgehog-moss]

why are french people rude?

Ah well, the safest explanation when an entire country’s people are stereotyped as rude is that they have their own culture with different criteria for politeness than the ones you are used to. It’s probably easier for Americans to forget this than for the rest of the world, because they consume less foreign media than the rest of us (from literature in translation to foreign films) and are less exposed to aspects of foreign cultures that could inform them about different norms of politeness (online interactions happen in their own language and follow their own (anglo) social codes.) With this insular worldview it’s easy to take it for granted that American good manners are universal. They are not!

A very common gripe against American tourists in Paris is that they talk so loudly in public spaces, which is definitely rude here but I assume that in the US, people just have a different threshold for what constitutes ‘loud’ (I wonder if it is due to being used to having more space than Europeans). I also remember a discussion I had with one of my translation professors about the American concept of ‘active listening’ and how negatively it is perceived in France. It may be that in the US it is polite to make ‘listening noises’ at regular intervals while someone is speaking to you, ‘uh huh’, ‘right’, ‘yeah’, ‘really?’, and that you would perceive someone who just stands there silently as disinterested or thinking about something else. In France it is more polite to shut up and listen (with the occasional nod or ‘mmh’) and it’s rather seen as annoying and rude to make a bunch of useless noise while someone is speaking.

There are of course countless examples like that. The infamous rude waiters in Parisian cafés probably seem a lot more rude and cold to people who have a different food culture… People from other cultures might consider a waiter terrible at his job if he doesn’t frequently check on them to make sure they don’t wait for anything, but the idea that a meal is a pleasant experience rather than just a way to feed yourself (esp when eating out) means we like having time to chat and just enjoy our table for a while, so we don’t mind as much waiting to order or for the next course. French people would typically hate if an overzealous waiter took the initiative to bring the note once we’re done with our meal so we don’t have to wait for it, as it would be interpreted as “you’re done, now get out of my restaurant.”

The level of formality required to be seen as polite is quite high in France, which might contribute to French people being seen as rude by people with a more casual culture. To continue with waiters, even in casual cafés they will address clients with the formal you and conversely, and won’t pretend to be your friend (the fact that we don’t have the American tip culture also means they don’t feel the need to ingratiate themselves to you.) I remember being alarmed when a waitress in New York introduced herself and asked how I was doing. “She’s giving me her first name? What… am I supposed to with it? Use it?” It gave me some insight on why Americans might consider French waiters rude or sullen! It might also be more accepted outside of France to customise your dish—my brother worked as a waiter and often had to say “That won’t be possible” about alterations to a dish that he knew wouldn’t fly with the chef, to foreign tourists who were stunned and angry to hear that, and probably brought home a negative opinion of French waiters. In France where the sentiment in most restaurants is more “respect the chef’s skill” than “the customer is king”, people are more likely to be apologetic if they ask for alterations (beyond basic stuff) as you can quickly be seen as rude, even by the people you are eating with. 

And I remember reading on a website for learning English that the polite answer to “How are you?” is “I’m fine, thank you!” because it’s rude to burden someone you aren’t close to with your problems. In my corner of the French countryside the polite thing to do is to complain about some minor trouble, because saying everything is going great is perceived negatively, as boasting, and also as a standoffish reply that kind of shuts down the conversation, while grumbling about some problem everyone can relate to will keep it going. (French people love grumbling as a positive bonding activity!)

Basically, before you settle on the conclusion that people from a different place are collectively rude, consider that if you travel there and scrupulously follow your own culture’s social code of good manners, you might be completely unaware that you are being perceived as obnoxious, rude or unfriendly yourself simply because your behaviour clashes with what is expected by locals.

[thedreamerdelta]

Such cool information buried in the tags. I love leaning this kinda shit y’all it’s so cool

[theotheristhedoctor]

One a friend told me a while back:

Whilst travelling in South Africa she popped into a dry cleaners. The two ladies behind the counter were talking. Being a polite English woman, my friend waited for them to finish their conversation and acknowledge her.

However, as time went on she began to get more and more annoyed. The girls were aware of her presence, they kept glancing at her, but continued their conversation.

Eventually, just as she was getting ready to storm out one of the girls slammed her hands on the counter and yelled “woman, are you EVER going to say hello?”

Turns out, in South Africa it is considered polite to wait for customers to come to you, rather than “pressure” them into talking to you when they “clearly” aren’t interested.

[hollyand-writes]

Adding to the whole “manners are different in different places” for countries I’ve lived in: In China it is considered very bad manners, when giving or receiving business cards or money or other similar flat rectangular objects, to use one hand. In the West if we’re giving or receiving business cards or bank notes we don’t even THINK about how we give or receive it - people use one hand all the time - but in China if you DON’T use two hands it’s considered really impolite and disrespectful, and people can actually get offended (especially if they gave you the thing with two hands and you took it with only one). 

In Western countries we’re always taught that “it’s rude to stare at strangers”, yet in China people will openly stare at you and not even consider that it might be rude or uncomfortable. It’s just not considered rude in China, it’s considered perfectly normal and unremarkable - if you’re unfamiliar in some way, they will stare at you, that’s it. It takes some getting used to, because for those of us from the West it IS VERY uncomfortable and rude, but you have to keep remembering that it’s not done to be rude or offensive - if you did the same back to them nobody would bat an eyelid.

[gudetama-tamad]

In the Philippines, when somebody visits you while you’re eating, you have to offer them food. And on the other end of the spectrum, when you are being offered food, you need to refuse once. Only once. Then when they insist, you have to. You can’t refuse.

Yesterday, an American came to the office and when he refused to eat with us three times I swear the tension in the room sky rocketed.

[little-greycells-deactivated202]

When I was on Erasmus my friends from different mainland European countries would be like do you wanna eat? Where do you wanna go? What do you wanna do? And in Ireland nobody ever says what they actually want and instead just say oh I don’t mind I’m grand with whatever. Eventually they got so frustrated with me that they were like just say what you want to do!! It’s fine!!!

[bkst-tutu1b]

It’s very interesting topic and to tell us to think twice before you judge. On both sides.

Also, something being a tradition/culture does not mean it’s always good or positive. Some things change as time goes, and sometimes things need to change. There are lots to learn from others.

AND if someone at the scene is well aware of the cultural gaps but never explain and just there watching things fester and tension goes up with a smirk- maybe it’s time for you to reconsider your life choices.

Tagging @rottenbrainstuff @fibrochemist @likingthistoomuch @rebka18 @fjordfolk

[rottenbrainstuff]

I always find these cultural differences do interesting. I still feel bad because once I went over to an Indian friend’s house and we all got in and I took off my shoes (because this is Canada) and she said “you can take off your socks too if you want”

And I didn’t, because to me, my bare feet are dirty and sweaty and I didn’t want my dirty feet on her floor. I left my socks on.

Later on though when I made more Indian friends I realized they all take their shoes AND socks off at the door because it’s polite for them, and I realized she was trying to subtly ask me to take my socks off and I didn’t know aaaah

I still feel embarrassed about that

The French rudeness is interesting though because even in Canada there’s a perception about Québécois people being more rude. I don’t know a whole lot of French people but the ones I’ve seen come through my store I have noticed talk louder and faster than what I’m used to, which I think definitely could be part of that perception. Part of it probably also is the classic animosity between English and French Canadians. So interesting, the differences.

[ruffboi-mags]

It’s interesting, because I went to France twice in my teens, and I remember going and thinking very much “French people are rude” (i was raised by awful people), but coming out of it thinking “Wow, those people were really polite and respectful!” even as my mom and aunt and grandma were complaining about how rude the waiters etc had been.

Admittedly, I think they may have been particularly nice to me because I was this wee teen with bangs I’d cut myself in like 2000 which were WAY too short, and I was practicing my french at the time and so tried to always order my food in French, and they gave me lovely compliments on my accent (I’ll never be sure if the waitress who seemed so surprised when she asked a follow-up question in French that I didn’t know who said she’d thought I was Parisian was telling the truth or not, but it made me very happy at the time), but it baffled me that my family found them rude.

They gave us space to enjoy our meal but came over promptly if we indicated we needed them, they told us frankly if something could or could not be done rather than going “oh I’ll check with the kitchen” and having to run back and forth and drag out the ordering process (and I’ll admit, I did ask for substitutions a few times because I am a picky eater, but if someone said no I either accepted it or ordered something else), and they were just… generally friendly, polite, and helpful while also not hovering the way so many US waitstaff have to.

And when we were shopping, there wasn’t any hovering to see if we “needed help”. It was so nice. Very unlike the shit I’d grown used to here in the States.

I wonder if the fact that my aneurotypicality makes a lot of US customs uncomfortable for me made me more comfortable with the way France did those particular things when I visited… worth considering, probably.

[karama9]

I’m a French Canadian from Quebec and I was warned about French people being rude before I went on a trip there, and… they really absolutely were not. I did notice something that I think some people may have thought rude but which, to me, was just a different way to express themselves.

Example: we came out of a metro station that was close to the Eiffel Tower and were looking for it. We were on a street with facades on either side and not much space between, and what space there was had trees IIRC, so we couldn’t see it. We asked a French person, and they chuckled quite openly and pointed straight at it (it was visible over a rooftop) and jokingly said something along the lines of “there’s a trick to finding it… you look for it!” 

I can absolutely see someone being insulted at the obvious mocking, but it wasn’t mean mocking. It was exactly the reaction we had ourselves, it was just that it was a third party joining in the “I’m an idiot” sentiment. Similar things happened a few times, and it often boiled down to being called out if you do or say something stupid, along the lines of “well that’s you being an idiot, isn’t it? (smirk)”. I never had it done to me in a mean way but it’s definitely a bit more blunt than a stranger would likely be in North America. It felt like being treated like a friend rather than a stranger to be wary of, however, and of who you can only make fun of once they’ve safely gone away.

[chrissongzzz]

[milky-katzchen]

They tried it

[shining-wizard]

Don’t think that my boy Andy doesn’t know that neither

[thewayistare]

he said i won’t get dragged on y’alls behalf

[futuristicballoondream-deactiva]

Aslo This:

[thatgirlmustbeawesome]

What’s so bad about periods

[linzerfish]

At first I was like “no don’t reblog it’ll weird people out” then I was like “oh right that’s the point”

[homolesbians]

[cana--merula]

You also lose iron during menstruation. I actually passed out because of that yesterday.

Also shout out to all trans, gender-fluid or genderless people with menstruation out there! Periods don’t make you female. Only you define your gender!

[ineffectualdemon]

Actually there is a good chance that is not the lack of iron making you pass out but instead drops on blood pressure!

I found this out recently. I’ve always been told my fainting/dizzy spells during my period were iron related but I did some research and because I have a history of low blood pressure and fainting related to it (in times of a restricted diet and pregnancy) it’s far more likely that’s the reason I’m fainting

A lot of other AFAB people report the same

[likestoimagine16]

I ended up in the hospital due to severe blood loss and needed transfusions to recover

Not to mention the dip in your immune system when you lose that much blood, just because of all the white blood cells pouring out along with the rest of it. 

Or the fact that a lot of the painful/severe symptoms associated with periods are actually due to medical problems that need to be addressed, but people don’t know this because no one wants to talk about it and associate most of the symptoms with a fictional version of PMS

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

That last point is really worth emphasising.

Look, periods suck, but they’re not supposed to suck so much that you’re genuinely incapacitated for days at a time. If you’re literally in agony every month, then that’s a sign there might be something else going on.

[karadin]

PS, women don’t know they are having heart attacks because period pain is WORSE

[ultimatebottom69]

Oh I legit forgot

[gahdamnpunk]

The kid truly care about our planet more than adults and politicians

[aiyanayanas]

Created by CreativeSoul Photography in Atlanta, GA and Hair by LaChanda! Definitely something to show our daughters of color! Disney Princess Of Color! ❤️ 😍 Black girls are princesses too! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

❤️💛🖤💚

[baylegend]

END SARS

END POLICE BRUTALITY IN NIGERIA

[thechanelmuse]

Hazel Scott playing two pianos at the same damn time with ease

[erinbowbooks]

Hazel Scott was a musical sorcerer and a civil rights hero.   She:

 was admitted to Julliard at 8.  

was performing in top venues by 16.  

pioneered “swinging the classics” and made the equivalent of a million dollars a year doing it.  

was the first person of color to have their own national TV show.  

went to Hollywood but refused to be cast as a “singing maid.”  Demanded and got control over her casting, her wardrobe, and how footage featuring her was cut.  

refused to perform in segregated venues and led charges for integration in several northern cities, notably Spokane.  

She was brought down by the House Committee on Unamerican Activities, and has been largely forgotten.  But she was a sorcerer, and a hero.  

[domduongart]

@theladyragnell

[violent-darts]

Let’s un-forget her.

[gunvolt]

im going to have a stroke

[prideling]

Instead try… Person A: You know… the thing Person B: The “thing”? Person A: Yeah, the thing with the little-! *mutters under their breath* Como es que se llama esa mierda… THE FISHING ROD

[artykyn]

As someone with multiple bilingual friends where English is not the first language, may I present to you a list of actual incidents I have witnessed:

Forgot a word in Spanish, while speaking Spanish to me, but remembered it in English. Became weirdly quiet as they seemed to lose their entire sense of identity.

Used a literal translation of a Russian idiomatic expression while speaking English. He actually does this quite regularly, because he somehow genuinely forgets which idioms belong to which language. It usually takes a minute of everyone staring at him in confused silence before he says “….Ah….. that must be a Russian one then….”

Had to count backwards for something. Could not count backwards in English. Counted backwards in French under her breath until she got to the number she needed, and then translated it into English.

Meant to inform her (French) parents that bread in America is baked with a lot of preservatives. Her brain was still halfway in English Mode so she used the word “préservatifes.” Ended up shocking her parents with the knowledge that apparently, bread in America is full of condoms.

Defined a slang term for me……. with another slang term. In the same language. Which I do not speak.

Was talking to both me and his mother in English when his mother had to revert to Russian to ask him a question about a word. He said “I don’t know” and turned to me and asked “Is there an English equivalent for Нумизматический?” and it took him a solid minute to realize there was no way I would be able to answer that. Meanwhile his mom quietly chuckled behind his back.

Said an expression in English but with Spanish grammar, which turned “How stressful!” into “What stressing!”

Bilingual characters are great but if you’re going to use a linguistic blunder, you have to really understand what they actually blunder over. And it’s usually 10x funnier than “Ooops it’s hard to switch back.”

[cricketcat9]

I use Spanish and English daily, none is my native language. When I’m tired or did not have enough sleep I loose track of who to address in which language;  I caught myself explaining something in Spanish to my English-speaking friends more than once. When I’m REALLY tired I’ll throw some Polish words in the mix. 

[justgot1]

There is nothing more painful than bad fake Spanglish by an American writer. Bilingual people don’t just randomly drop words in nonsensical places in their sentences ffs. “I’m muy tired! I think I’ll go to my cama and go to sleep!“ Nobody does that.

From my bilingual parents:

- Only being able to do math in their original language. “Ok so that would beeeeee … *muttering* ocho por cuatro menos tres…”

- Losing words and getting mad at you about it. “Gimme the - the - UGH, ESA COSA AHI’ CARAJO. The thing, the oven mitt. Christ.”

- Making asides to you in Spanish even though you’ve told them to not do this as lots of people here speak Spanish. “Oye, mira esa, que cara fea.” “MOM FFS WE’RE IN A MEXICAN NEIGHBORHOOD.”

- Swears in English don’t count.

- Swears in Spanish mean you’d better fucking run, kid.

- Introducing you to English-only Americans using your Spanish name so that they mispronounce your name for all eternity because that’s what your mom said your name was. “Hi Dee-yanna!” “sigh, Just call me Diana.” “Yeah but your mom said your name was Dee-yanna.” 

- Your parents give you a name that only makes sense in Spanish. “Your name is Floor?” “No, my name is Flor.” “FLOOR?” “Sigh.”

[silentwalrus1]

 - conjugating English words with Russian grammar and vice versa. Sometimes both at once, which is extra fun.  самолет ->  самолетас ->  самолетасы

- when vice versa, dropping English articles entirely. The, a, an: all gone. e.g. “I go to store and buy thing, I fix car and go to place.” This also happens when i am very tired 

- speaking English with heavy accent you don’t actually have - when my family and I are switching over fast, we say the English words in a very heavy Russian accent that mostly doesn’t show up otherwise 

bonus: 

- keysmashing in the wrong language when your keyboard is still switched over

- using ))))) instead of :))) or other culture-specific emoji/typing quirks

[cobaltmoony]

all of the above

[lourdesdeath]

I don’t actually speak Tagalog, but my mom’s Filipino. One of my favorite things is when she forgets how to preposition, so something is ‘in the table’. 

[theleakypen]

SOMEHOW I NEVER REBLOGGED THIS?!?!?!?!? this is one of my absolute favorite posts on all of tumblr also, to add to the pile of fun things bilinguals do: cackling over bilingual puns that nobody else in the room will get and then being completely unable to explain why this is funny

[theboywhocan11]

Interesting. Reblogging this for future reference.

[eg515]

my favourite is that feeling when you have the perfect response to something but halfway through saying it you realised it’s in a language the other person doesn’t speak so you either just kind of… fade out, or try desperately to make it make sense in the other language

[riskpig]

I lose my place all the time when I’m counting in English, but never when I count in German.

[araku-validrava]

I’m swedish but at this point I’m so fluent in english that I can switch between languages on a dime.

[yum-cy]

i hate forgetting a word in english and having to describe but realizing that i cant describe it in english. so im just stuttering between russian and english and none of my english speaking friends can help

[onlytwitterpics]

[udontn33dh1m]

I know y'all did not read the books but Roald Dahl talks about this in the book. Charlie’s teacher points out the fact that unless you buy a shit ton of bars you’re probably not gonna win. Just like the lottery. Just like how all of the other winners of the tickets bought a shit ton of bars. Except Charlie, who just got lucky. And Charlie was originally black. Literally the whole point of the book was that wonka wanted to give the less fortunate a fair opportunity and it wasn’t fair because the system isn’t fair.

[burnitalldowndarling]

Stop the car.

Charlie was originally black?!?!

[prince-toffee]

!?!!

[theryanproject]

He was and Mr. Dahl was forced to make him white. Also his widow has spoken and confirmed that as well.

[blackfemmejeanvaljean]

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/16/551528425/roald-dahl-s-widow-says-charlie-from-the-chocolate-factory-was-originally-black

Roald Dahl's Widow Says Charlie From 'The Chocolate Factory' Was Originally Black

Dahl's widow revealed the surprising scoop on the BBC earlier this week.

[neil-gaiman]

The plot of that first draft was VERY different though. No golden tickets. Charlie was encased in chocolate and presented to Wonka’s son, and then foiled burglars. Here’s a description:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/22/books/review/roald-dahl-black-charlie-chocolate-factory.html

The Real Story Behind Roald Dahl’s ‘Black Charlie’

The author’s early draft of “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” featured a black protagonist who gets trapped inside a chocolate mold. Was i

[ruinedchildhood]

[spaghettioverdose-deactivated20]

Reblog to save a duck

[bellecs]

[ofgeography]

so here’s a fun story about this movie. guess who loves this movie? me! i do! i love this movie. i love this movie so much that when i was in the 7th grade and i saw “first wives club 2” on pay per view i was like: HELL YEAH!! FIRST WIVES CLUB TWO!! NO ONE TOLD ME THERE WAS A SEQUEL!!!

here’s the synopsis for first wives club 2:

disgruntled first wives take their ex-husbands’ new lovers under their wing.

sounds great, right? awesome viewing material for a precocious 11-year-old.

so i buy this movie, and like, three minutes into it i’m starting to feel suspicious?? like it’s really low quality and my girls are nowhere in sight?? how come none of the first wives are the same?? how come they’re alone in a bedroom with mood lighting?? why is she taking off her shirt?? why are they both taking off their shirts?? WHY ARE THEY–

here’s what i did not know about first wives club 2:

it is a lesbian porno of no relation to the beloved 1996 classic.

so of course i, horrified that i’ve accidentally bought porn on my family’s account (and in that state of panic that kids work themselves into whenever anything regarding sex is mentioned), quickly shut off the TV and go upstairs and watch an episode of veggie tales to like, cleanse my soul and apologize to jesus, and that’s that.

EXCEPT, OF COURSE:

you have to pay for pay per view.

so the end of the month comes and i have completely put this incident out of my mind, haha, i accidentally bought porn, how funny, TELL NO ONE. right? and i’m sitting at a nice dinner with my mother, my stepfather, and my very religious aunt deb, and we’re just talking about farm things, whatever, when suddenly my mother puts her fork down and says, “okay, there’s something we need to discuss. as a family.”

AS A FAMILY.

and i’m like, running through a list of people i know who could conceivably be dead, and fantasizing about my mother announcing that she’s going to buy me My Own Computer Just Because U Earned It Kiddo, and she pulls out a piece of paper that says DIRECTV across the top. and i’m like: OH NO.

“i received the tv bill today,” my mother said, and i was like, shoveling potatoes into my mouth as fast as i could because i knew that when i went to PORN PRISON they weren’t going to feed me this kind of quality starch. “does anybody want to tell me who purchased the pornography?”

as a reminder, a quick table survey:

my mother, surprised and disappointed by the porn bill (innocent)

my stepfather, a grumbly old cowboy who just wants to sing along to kenny chesney and watch the hunt for red october (innocent)

my aunt deb, a super religious catholic whose best friend is a nun named Sister Placid (innocent)

me, the 11-year-old with a mouthful of potatoes who definitely purchased the lesbian pornography

silence.

my mother said, “i’m not going to ask again.”

silence.

my aunt looked at my stepdad. my stepdad looked at my aunt. NOBODY LOOKED AT ME, THE 11-YEAR-OLD WITH A MOUTHFUL OF POTATOES WHO DEFINITELY PURCHASED THE LESBIAN PORNOGRAPHY.

my mother shook her head and put the bill down. “this was incredibly inappropriate,” she said. “skip, deb, whoever. buy that shit on your own time. i’m not paying for it. what if molly had seen it?”

WHAT IF MOLLY HAD SEEN IT?

“don’t expose my kid to that crap.”

DON’T

EXPOSE

MY KID

TO THAT CRAP

“if you want to watch porn, fine, but do it in private and don’t expect me to pay for it. i can’t believe one of you did that in the living room.”

I CAN’T BELIEVE ONE OF YOU DID THAT

IN THE LIVING ROOM

but molly, why didn’t you own up to it and explain that it was an accident?

are you fucking kidding

i did not want to go to porn prison

the fun conclusion to this story is that i never owned up to it, which means that there are 3 people in the world who have not solved the mystery of the lesbian porn. a quick survey:

my mother, who lives every day wondering whose porn she paid for

my stepfather, who probably wishes he knew less about his wife’s sister’s porn preferences

my aunt, who probably wishes she knew less about her sister’s husband’s porn preferences

but molly, why don’t you own up to it now, with the safety of time and distance and the knowledge that porn prison isn’t real?

are you fucking kidding

this is the best thing i’ve ever done

[secretlyaunicorn24]

This is the fucking funniest thing I’ve read in ages