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I wish there were a better way to talk about some hot button issues without pushing the hot button.

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art by @niochemblyat

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did… did she do that?

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there’s this extremely kind soul of a woman on instagram that makes accessible recipes that don’t require standing, chopping, or a stove and she might just have a permanent place in my heart

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redoing that poll bc you guys are not serious people and i need to know the actual stats here

also disclaimer the options in this poll are dumb as hell and kind of hysterical but we can't be doing this i need to know #thetruth

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hi so re: the end of the game changer episode im sure a bunch of y'all also googled it like i did and i wanna post this to both confirm and get it spread

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self proclaimed ‘free thinkers’ when sam reich tells them to watch game changer as it airs

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Now everywhere Erika goes, a roast of Sam Reich follows... 🔥

Watch the full episode on Dropout

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People know that the whole "don't portray [harmful action] because viewers might recreate it" thing is a rule for children's shows right? It's supposed to be shit like "don't show peppa pig playing with fire so we don't get sued if a kid watches it and burns their house down." Not like, fanfiction for adults.

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this isn't to try to call the racism anon out or anything, but i want to contribute information it seems they don't know, to say queerness is never something youre "born as" and present on your body from birth is kind of intersexist, its part of the erasure of intersex from queerness, many of us are mutilated at birth because we are considered intersex the moment we are born, and it is imperative intersex is considered under queer umbrella, if that makes sense

(oh wow I forgot this for a two weeks and I do not feel like hunting down the context)

That's an extremely good point to raise. In addition, I knew I wanted to be a girl while being raised by a conservative Christian family when I was like, five, to say that I had to "learn about" that kinna thing is a little weird and insulting. Queer kids do not generally lead blessed lives until they turn 21 and come to the regrettable realization they're oppressed, there is usually a lot of really difficult shit going on from a very early age.

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The Hive Tarantula (Theraphosa vesparium) enters a symbiotic bond with a swarm of wasps, allowing them to build a colony on its abdomen. The spider protects the queen and larvae, and the wasps help feed it. This mutualistic unit of tarantula and wasp, thought to be originally derived from a parasitic relationship, is extremely territorial.

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sorry I just got around to watching Rulette and that shit crazy 😭

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there’s something, I think, to be said about the impact our actions have. it’s one thing to see luffy’s charisma and how it affects the people in his orbit—his crew, his friends, even the people he meets in passing. it’s another thing to watch, from the outside, how he inspires hope. kuma sees him as dragon’s son, who wants to be a pirate. then he sees him as the one who defeated arlong, who’s begun to make a name for himself in the east blue. and then he declares war on the world government. kuma sees, firsthand, the loyalty he inspires in his crew on thriller bark. how the people he would do anything to protect would do anything to protect him, too. luffy has his respect, standing against the world government with his infectious joy and his rubbery body.

and then kuma, a former slave and a racial minority, sees that luffy has punched a celestial dragon. it is, of course, a sin like no other. but it’s not just that—he punched a celestial dragon to protect a fishman and a mermaid. he stood against racism and slavery. and already, luffy reminded kuma of nika. but to see somebody so willing to fight against the status quo for the sake of freedom…kuma saw something there that he longed for. and though his days of freedom, of bodily autonomy, were numbered, maybe luffy could usher in a new dawn. maybe, the world that his daughter inherits could be a better one.

kuma didn’t just send luffy and his crew away out of the goodness of his heart. yes, he is kind, and yes, luffy is dragon’s son. but luffy, who kuma had never spoken to before, inspired such hope in him that kuma needed to protect him. all he could do was to send luffy away and to request that vegapunk program one last mission of his own into his will-less body. but he did it, because luffy gave him hope.