mimi-is-me

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reblog if your name isn't Amanda.

2,121,566 people are not Amanda and counting!

We’ll find you Amanda.

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A mark on your forehead identifies the god you must worship to stay alive, usually by joining its local church or temple. Your mark is unknown, meaning an old, forgotten god sponsored you. To survive, you must either find an old temple to worship at, or do the arduous task of building a new one

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Kim possible really did me dirty huh

I like how naked mole cats tuck their knees into their armpits. I think that’s just fabulous

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me going to the beach like yes, yes, I am providing myself with enrichment! and activities!

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and here's your annual reminder that jack-o'-lanterns were a tradition irish immigrants brought to the u.s., where (widely available) pumpkins fell into use over turnips & other root vegetables

(personally i regret this switch, as it means many of us missed the opportunity to grow up seasonally surrounded by friendly faces like these:

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fuck around and find out is a nice sentiment, but i feel like it's mostly a group of rich investors, geneticists, and paleontologists who fucked around, and us innocent bystanding theme park tourists who are finding out

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you could always do it yourself

still bummed that early humans didn't domesticate bears. what a waste

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if it's any consolation, it would have been a good pun

dislike it when people say 'bless you' when I sneeze. stop acknowledging my bodily functions

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red isn't a flavor and this is the hill I die on

poll: if you found a single sour patch kid on the ground would you eat it?

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You do owe the world things, actually. It’s just those things tend to be perfectly balanced. 

You owe people respect and dignity; they owe the same to you. 

You owe children kindness; as a child, you are owed a kind world. 

You are owed nourishment by any world that brings you into existence, you are owed a chance to thrive. In return, you owe the same to any people or creatures you agree to take guardianship over.

The issue is not that we, and others, and the world in general, owe each other.  We are all born being owed certain things, and by living we acquire debts; life requires this interdependence to thrive. The issue is that we are often misled as to what this actually means, by those who would take advantage of us. We are lied to by authority figures who do not want to respect us, or acknowledge their responsibility to us. Worse: we mistakenly come to believe that taking advantage of others is the key to restoring balance. We were cheated, so others must be cheated in turn. 

We trap ourselves in these deadly cycles. Society betrays us so we are taught to disengage, to break it further. We are taught to forget the value of repair. We are taught to forget what is owed. Fundamentally, we are taught to forget that people are owed basic decency. When we say we owe the world nothing, we forget we are affirming the opposite: the world owes us nothing in return.

But this is so incredibly untrue. We owe the world things, and are owed in return, and that’s good, that is so so good. I would hate to live in a world where I didn’t believe people were fundamentally owed dignity and decency and kindness. The real issue is that these things often go unpaid, and unreciprocated. We think: “The world gave me nothing, though it should have. Why should I owe anything?” 

And that is such a dangerous way to think. That type of thought just turns you into another gear in a destructive machine. That type of thought just allows despair to self-replicate. That type of thought validates the abusers and ensures there is never a shortage of victims. Feed those kinds of thoughts, and a plug gets pulled somewhere inside you, and lets the humanity drain away. You lose everything, trying to steal from others what was stolen from you. You cheat yourself and the world, with that kind of thinking. 

I promise you this: When we try to balance the scales by refusing to pay forward what wasn’t paid to us, we just double the debt and burden the world in the process. A better world requires that we first do better.

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why is my banana Wrong

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silly fat pink ocean baby

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When an old fanfiction you forgot you were subscribed to updates for the first time in years

it’s possible there is a better feeling in the world than remembering u have leftovers in the fridge, but i’m dubious

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my brother does this shit every time I mention that I want a donut on snap chat or smt. he fucking calls me and eats a donut from Donalds over the phone

my mom woke me up this morning with a doughnut

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my dog comes to check on me whenever I take baths. She hates them so she likes to make sure I'm okay

I'm having a rough week, tell me something nice?

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The linguistics line up but the issue is that English uses 'baba' as baby speak for bottle. Nibi is what I use as an adult for my nonbinary parent but as a young child we all used Lala which is what several of my siblings still call them.

suggestions for gender neutral version of mom/dad? something less formal than just ‘parent’

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who um--who decided it was sexy?

Andrew Lloyd Webber is such a force of chaos and I love that for him