Lost in the Woods

Lily | Ace | Enby | They/He/She | Disaster

[breadandflowers]

Honestly the best piece of advice I can give to younger girls trying to figure life out is to completely ignore men. I’m not being quirky or cute when I say that, I mean it seriously. Ignore men’s judgments of you, ignore their insincere compliments, ignore their half-assed romance. Focus on developing yourself. Practice your art, play sports, do theater, volunteer, spend time with your friends, but do not put substantial effort into pleasing men. They’ll be there for you to pursue when the time comes and if you want to. But nothing will waste your youth more than fighting for male acceptance.

[a-gay-possum]

Reblog if you are ace, support aces or were knee deep in that Dragonology: The Complete Book Of Dragons book as a kid.

[horreurscopes]

jessica rabbit is literally a sex symbol though she can't be asexual?

she is in romo with a rabbit because he makes her laugh and aside from using her looks to get things out of people she literally never once shows interest in anything or anyone sexually through the entire movie and is clearly appalled when anyone makes advances towards her like there is canonical evidence that jessica rabbit from the classic motion picture who framed rogger rabbit is an asexual character  

[harocat]

I am here as fuck for this. Jessica Rabbit for new asexual icon.

[drdadster]

“She can’t be asexual because she’s hot tho”

[commandertrevelyan]

“I can only see her as a sexual object so I can’t imagine her not wanting to have sex with me.”

[skottichan-deactivated20240228]

I’ve always remembered the line “I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way” as Jessica’s admission that while sexualized, she isn’t inherently a sexual entity.

I mean hell, literally, her line before is “You don’t know how hard it is being a woman looking the way I do.”, to which Eddie responds; “You don’t know how hard it is being a man looking at a woman looking the way you do.”

I think that’s pretty damning evidence to her asexuality. The whole plot point with Jessica is how everyone is either convinced she’s sleeping with every human and toon around, or why does she stay faithful to Roger.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit does a great job at satirizing Hollywood/American culture and ideals when it comes to appearances. It also does a great job at hiding some really well thought out challenges to how we look at others in plain sight.

I completely believe that Jessica Rabbit is an asexual romantic (hetero/bi/pan/etc not sure, and to be honest, I don’t know if that part is important, as she’s married to the toon she loves).

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

I LOVE this headcanon <3

[pixiebutterandjelly-deactivated]

This is important!

[luxarcher]

This headcanon is just so perfect I had to draw it

#JessicaRabbitForAsexualIcon

[filledepluie]

YES

YES

YEEEESSS

[eliciaforever-deactivated201906]

I haven’t seen this post in a thousand years and it’s gotten EVEN MORE EXCELLENT.

[karmels-stuff]

Oh my god I’m living for this

[northw0man-deactivated20201019]

anyway, the 8 hour workday and the concept of “8 hours work, 8 hours rest, 8 hours recreation” is outdated and based on the lives and needs of married straight men who had a wife at home doing all the unpaid domestic labor, childcare, and elderly care. We should all be fighting for a 4 hour workday tbh

[shipsterella]

Research suggests that in an eight-hour day, the average worker is only productive for two hours and 53 minutes.

In an 8-Hour Day, the Average Worker Is Productive for This Many Hours

The workday and how we work are intimately related to productivity, yet more hours may not lead to increased focus, concentration, and succe

[thedramaandart]

They did an experiment with a 6 hour workday in Gothenburg, on a nursing home. The staff became happier and healthier and the elderly also became happier and more content because the staff could focus more on their needs when they weren’t overworked and tired. The staff felt they had more time and energy towards the elderly.

Recently there was an article about a care home in Stockholm were they “””over hired””” (I would argue they just hired enough people), that is they added 1,5 full time staff member. There was an economic gain, not only in health for the workers but also with fewer temps, less overtime and less time wasted on constantly educating new people.

The 8 hour workday was met with the same ridicule a 6 hour workday would. Once, the upper class thought that 14 hour days were reasonable because the poor would just get into trouble if they had time off. Even when there’s actually net gain from caring about their workers, employers prefer making them miserable and paying the cost in new hires, medical costs and poor performance. People have fought and died for our free time and our weekends, even when we know a healthy worker is a healthy company. 

So it’s not strange, nor unbelievable, to take that fight again. There’s nothing holy or special with an 8 hour workday. It isn’t set in stone. It could be done.

[dare-i-say-asexual]

a guy at my work said telling your wife/gf that they’re the most beautiful woman in the world to you is just “something you say” and i almost went apeshit. imagine not genuinely believing the woman you’re supposed to love is a work of art. fucking weak. dare i even say pathetic.

[dare-i-say-asexual]

he told me this in a very obnoxious wink wink nudge nudge sort of way too like we were sharing an inside joke and got annoyed when i was like “I don’t just say that because i think I’m supposed to mark. i really feel that way about the women i love.” like lol imagine thinking my lesbian ass is gonna co-sign your toxic straight boy bullshit attitude

[dare-i-say-asexual]

oh what’s that mark? you lie about how you feel to the women in your life to emotionally manipulate them into staying with you until you feel like moving on? and you think this is normal and not something that’s gonna make me want to beat you with my clipboard? is that what you think you shitty little egg man?

[memehumor]

Why Am I Like This

[creamynut]

Kindness is not flirting.

[elpatron-delmal]

s/o to everyone who is still tryin to heal from things that they don’t talk about

[ithelpstodream]

[fyxan-deactivated20180801]

men’s loyalty to violence is disturbing.  when women want a life free of abuse, assault, threat, & coercion, men’s first suggestion is “learn to fight back. learn to defend yourself”.  i don’t want my life to be a fight.  i don’t want to “prove myself” through inflicting pain & fear.  i don’t find violence and physical conflict fulfilling or self-actualising.   they’re exhausting & dehumanizing

[statefairdairyprincess]

Tea only

[tami-taylors-hair]

I was in line at Aldi and this girl with two toddlers in front of me had her card declined and she looked so fucking sad and said “let me call my husband real quick” and it was only 18 dollars, so I just paid for it, and she was very sweet and then as she walked off, the lady behind me said `”You know that was probably a scam, right?” and like, even if it was, like what a sad fucking scam, right? 18 dollars at the Aldi. If you’re “scamming” me for some Tyson chicken and apple juice and cauliflower, then just take my fucking money. 

“A scam” people are fucking wild.  

[dragginage]

This happened to me, too. A woman had used WIC for the majority of her stuff (which I say from personal experience is such a long and embarrassing process) and to buy the remainder of her groceries, which included diapers and wipes, she used a card, and it got declined. I bought the other $30 of her groceries because hey, I’ve been there, and now I’m not. She was extremely emotional and began to cry and even hugged me. My mom called me on the drive home and could tell I had been crying myself, asked what was wrong, and when I told her what happened, she berated me for being “duped.” I couldn’t believe she could be so disappointed in one of her children for doing something- nice? Is that the hill you want to die on? Getting mad about people needing groceries?

[systlin]

I once paid for a woman’s bill at the vet…it wasn’t a big one, but she was trying to pay for some medication for her dog, and her card was declined. And her lip started trembling, and she says “I don’t get paid until Tuesday, would he be ok until then?” 

So I just told them to add the $20 something onto my bill, and I thought she was going to break down crying right there.

And I don’t care if it was a scam or not. Just do nice things for people sometimes. 

[quinfirefrorefiddle-deactivated]

If absolutely nothing else I guarantee you made the cashier’s week.

[feministism]

[protect-and-love-animals]

So cute!!

[straightboyfriend]

The bar is so low for men…. I could say my type is men who use toothpaste & shower & that cancels out like 88.967% of men

[qui-bono]

Sexist.

[straightboyfriend]

i am literally a man

[corporationkills]

god made a mistake when he made me a person instead of a friendly little cat on a midwestern apple orchard

[scienceshenanigans]

Good afternoon, the academic culture of “if you’re not overworking, you don’t deserve success” is unhealthy.

[phoebe-does]

just because you might be slower to learn things or it’s harder for you to understand things does not mean you’re stupid and it does not mean you’ll never be able to get it. Sometimes it just means you’re going about it wrong, maybe you can’t learn like the rest of your class from a textbook, maybe you need someone reading it to you for you to be able to understand. Or maybe it just takes more practice. Whatever you do, don’t give up, you will get there. I believe in you, granted it might take a little longer, but it’s so worth it. Don’t give up, you’ve got this.