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Hey if you ever ship a child w an adult or siblings with each other

I fucking hate you

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So many posts about femininity seen to focus on being poised and elegant and pulled together all the time and I'm over it. You can be feminine and messy, or loud, or chaotic. You don't need to be in a full face of makeup, a designer dress and heels all the time to be feminine.

You get to decide what femininity means for you and act accordingly.

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Didn't even know this was a thing 🤔

The thing about car-dependency is that… it sucks for people without a car. Big news, right. But, it’s not like that incentive curve is something we can just ignore. When our desire or ability to leave our house at all is conditional on being in a car, that affects all of our behaviour on every level.

Kids are the prototypical ‘person without a car’, and in a car-dependent area, they become dependent on their parents. In a normal, walkable city or suburb, children walk on their own to school, they cycle, they take the bus. Instead of needing to get parental approval - and enough enthusiasm to dedicate the time - to be shuttled around to any given activity, children walk to the park, or to a friend’s house. Even in rural areas, with the infrastructure, children will cycle to school. In a car-dependent suburb, a child is trapped in a single-family McMansion on the edge of town, forced to beg their parents to be able to go anywhere, always under supervision - is it any wonder they’d rather stay inside?

Even in a city, if it’s car-dependent, this is still an issue. When the roads are 100-decibel, 6-lane monstrosities, with cyclists expected to intermingle with traffic, and the busses stuck in the exact same jam, kids aren’t going to be able to get anywhere, assuming their parents even let them cross the street. This isn’t just about proximity, it’s fundamentally related to safety. Car-dependent places are a lot more dangerous to be in, on account of all the cars, so parents feel it’s safer for their kid to be in one of those cars. To boot, when everyone’s in a car, there are less people around, less people who can notice someone in trouble, less people who can help. When places are built with the assumption that everyone will have a car, they become places for cars, which humans can stupidly venture into.

This doesn’t just apply to children. We are all, at some point or another, a ‘person without a car’ - in fact, we’re a ‘person without a car’ most of the time, until we get into one. A lot of people would prefer to remain that way; driving a car is stressful, it takes a lot of effort and concentration, and not everyone likes it at 6AM. But, when your environment is built with the assumption you’re inside a soundproof, crash-proof metal box, that becomes a requirement. The second you’re outside of those conditions, scurrying across deafening, hot tarmac, and dodging heavy-duty pickup trucks (carrying solely one guy and his starbucks order), of course you’d decide that not being in a car sucks. But, the thing is, it’s designing for cars that made it suck, even for the car-drivers.

A place designed for cars, a place that people cannot walk, or cycle, or take public transit through, is a place full of cars - you are not stuck in traffic, you are traffic. Studies have shown that the average speed of car traffic, over sufficient time, is completely unrelated to the thoroughfare of roads. Eventually, because of induced demand, the new seven-lane arterial road will have exactly the same congestion as the two-lane it replaced. The one factor that sharply determines how slow road traffic gets is, listen to this, the speed of non-car travel. It is solely when alternatives become faster that people stop driving and free up traffic. Shutting down main street, only allowing buses through, would drastically increase the speed of the rest of the road network - because each of those buses is 40 cars not in traffic. If you like driving, you should want as many people as possible who don’t want to drive to stop doing it - and whoever you are, you should want to be able to travel without depending on cars.

When I was in the biggest depressive slump of my life, and I could barely get out of bed, I still went shopping for food nearly every day, and even traveled to visit my partner. The supermarket was 10 meters out the door of my apartment, and I could walk five minutes to either train station if I had to. It was peaceful and quiet outside. My disabled mother doesn’t like living in cities, but she loves public transit, and will always take a train ride over a long, tiring car journey - and when every store doesn’t need a parking lot twice as big as itself, whatever walking she does have to do is over a much shorter distance. When I’ve had to call an ambulance in a ‘car-hostile’ place, it has arrived inconceivably faster, on those clear roads, than when sitting in the traffic of the highway-lined carpark that makes up so many cities.

Car dependency sucks for everyone, including car drivers, but it sucks the worst for people already suffering. It strips you of independence, and forces you into a box you might not fit in - and I haven’t even touched on pollution. Car-dependency makes cities and suburbs into dangerous, stressful places, devoid of everyone except the most desperate. The only people it benefits are, really, the CEOs of car companies.

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Read your tag under the post about the political assassination in Japan and I have a question. Are cults really common in Japan? How common, is it worse than America?

I'm planning on moving to Jpn or SKorea and need to research any negatives I catch wind of (so I'll also be actually looking up cults in Japan, not just asking tumblr ppl).

I don't know if it's worse than in America because I've never been to the States but yeah I'd say cults are really quite common in Japan though they don't call them that 😵 they call them "new religions" but they are basically just cults lol. I've never studied there, but I hear from many foreign friends who have done so that upon matriculation and moving into the dorms and etc, one of the first few introductory guidelines given is to warn them of religious solicitations. It really is common to a point where it's kinda socially acceptable to belong to one (of course there would be non-religious people who would silently judge you for it, but basically it isn't anything shocking or rare), and many influential people like politicians etc also belong in the bigger cults (one of the biggest right wing political parties literally has roots in one of these "new religions" and it's public knowledge!?!). I've heard that if you're foreign-looking, there's a lower chance that you'll be recruited, but I'd still say be vigilant especially if you're moving to live there for the long term!

Please don't only take my word for it though! Do plenty of research and stay safe anon!

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Loki stills from Thor the dark world (2013)    

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Sir Thomas Sharpe

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Tom Hiddleston - The Night Manager (2016)

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And we got a loli fantasy instead😐

Credits to inuyasha.sesshomaru1 on Instagram.

Guys please don't use without crediting the artist

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Me everytime @billyboyfloyd appears back online

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Teen!Rin starts developing a crush on a boy at school and papa Sesshomaru gets protective cause he's afraid the boy will break Rin's heart 😙

That's it, that's the ask.

Sesshomaru doesn't want anyone to hurt his little daughter 🥺💕 Thank you!

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You didn't have to be such a sarcastic asshole, btw. You'd think that someone over the age of 30 would conduct themselves with a lot more maturity.

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Not you being apart of the fanbase 🙃

Not Sessrinners on Twitter going dry in their pussies because Sessrin isn't canon. 🙃

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Well, for some reason, there's a child choking mannequin listed with dildos on Amazon...

Big MAP energy...

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Mhhhhm!

Not Sessrinners on Twitter going dry in their pussies because Sessrin isn't canon. 🙃