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there is actually a large radfem population who get mad if you imply women’s fashion throughout history wasn’t specifically designed to torture and maim women. like, not just corsets. if a fashion historian talks about the functionality of removable pockets and underskirts, they’ll get really angry. idk why, truly. women throughout history were doing jobs and living lives, they needed clothes that could be functional. even if the upper crust was competing to see who could strangle their waist, everybody else had to have clothes comfortable enough to move in. and the widespread corset maiming is a myth too.

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Lilo and Stitch presenting an accurate representation of Hawaiians perspective on luaus held by tourists. 

#what’s sad about this is that this is actually what Hawaiians had to do when the western culture took over #a luau was a sacred practice #until the westerners took the concept and had the audacity to change it into a time to stuff your face with food and put on grass skirts and coconut bras and dance the hula #and when they had these events, they didn’t even let actual Hawaiian people in #so to make money to take care of themselves, the Hawaiians were hired to work in these disgraceful events to clean up after the tourists like slaves only to make less than a buck #so good job disney for doing your fucking research and educating these people #sadly, this still goes on even until today and it makes me sick

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Doing "listen to X diaspora" bits will harm people in the Global South. Especially those X-Americans—they don’t know what’s best for us, and their bloodlust is obvious.

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i am NOT gaslighting you. i am lying to you. gaslighting implies a level of effort that i am simply not putting in. deceiving you does not require much

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Wicked and final destination 6

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Illustration by Sophie Lucido Johnson

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Ball lightning while visiting a parking lot… Ball lightning is a rare phenomenon described as luminescent, spherical objects that vary from pea-sized to several meters in diameter....

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youre never alone. bacteria

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I'll still never forgive anyone who uses the chicago mentioned meme because it's obviously painted over brazil and to replace a beautiful republic in south america in any context with a united states anything should be a crime

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Man if you did that bullshit as a kid where you fake asked someone out to embarrass them or said your friend liked them I hope that shit haunts you somewhere inside now. I hope you know that never leaves the person you did that too. I've been out of school for 8 blessed fucking years and I still do not believe people when they say they like me or are attracted to me. Doing that shit straight up makes you a bad person. You completely destroy someone's ability to perceive themselves as loveable.

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Butterfly Scream, painting by Era Leisner on Instagram

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When you think about it, David Kawena is the biggest green flag among Disney men

No, I am not accepting counter-arguments

Not only is he super sweet to Nani, he's just really nice to Lilo. Just genuinely nice. He cares about Lilo like they're already Ohana, which is perfect because when he marries Nani, they will be one

There are tragically people who see the children in single-guardian families as burdens or obstacles. I once heard of a man who told a single mom "I don't mind if you have baggage." Said "baggage" being her daughter and she did not take that comment well at all. I've even personally heard stories about a stepmother who actually pushed to replace their spouse's old children with new children

The fact that David cares about Lilo enough that he essentially tries to be an older brother/father figure for her makes him so great. There's never even an implication of him trying to get brownie points from Nani by taking care of her. Lilo will bring up that they like each other, but David only ever focuses on Lilo when they hang out

David never treats Lilo like a problem he has to accept to be with Nani. It's never "Well, I like Nani so Lilo's part of the deal, I guess."

David just genuinely cares enough about Lilo that he willingly puts himself in a paternal role for her well-being

The true testament to this man's quality is that there are episodes in the series where Lilo says she would be happy if David married Nani and became part of the family. You cannot name a green flag better than that

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bell hooks mentioned going through a time in her life where she was severely depressed and suicidal and how the only way she got through it was through changing her environment: She surrounded her home with buddhas of all colors, Audre Lorde’s A Litany for Survival facing her as she wakes up, and filling the space she saw everyday with reinforcing objects and meaningful books. She asks herself each day, “What are you going to do today to resist domination?” I also really liked it when she said that in order to move from pain to power, it is crucial to engage in “an active rewriting of our lives.”