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[planetzambon]

The Men’s Behaviour Change Program invites the client to reflect on their understanding of family violence, build on this understanding and learn about the impact of family violence. The program gives participants the opportunity to reflect on their use of violence and take accountability for their actions in order to maintain their safety and their family’s safety.

Gotta keep everyone safe, especaily those insecure people and the family i no longer have because its all been taken away from me. oh and my own personal safety, gotta look out for thatb too. stay safe everybody  

[jadewritesficshere]

Steve is nonchalantly browsing the chips, waiting for Eddie to return (who in all honesty is probably getting the bag of sour gummy worms Steve already said they couldn't grab).

Steve feels a tug on his shirt. He smiles as he turns, expecting to see his boyfriend but-

Steve looks down at the child staring up at him. "Uh hi?" Steve looks around the empty aisle," Where's your parents bud?" The kid shrugs, but points to Steve's shirt," Tiger."

Steve's faded shirt from his freshman year of high school, now the most soft and comfortable after years of wear, does in fact have a tiger. "Yeah, sure is. Who-" the kid cuts Steve off with a loud roar. Steve can't help but chuckle as he crouches down to be on the kid's level.

Steve is fully focused on this kid, trying to find whoever the kid should be with. When he stands back up, he holds his hand out to the kid, who tentatively grasps his hand. The kid continues to roar and talk about tigers.

Meanwhile, Eddie has watched most of this exchange. Seeing his beloved boyfriend talk to this random child, the concern on his face? Eddie watches from a distance as Steve finds the mother, who was freaking out (understandably).

Eddie can't help but watch as Steve says hi to the baby in the stroller, laughing as the baby reaches out and grabs his finger. Steve says goodbye to the family, roaring back at the kid, who lights up.

Eddie can't help but think how good Steve is with kids. How good of a parent Steve would be. Which, started innocent, but then Eddie's mind jumped to the process of how a child comes about.

And now all Eddie can think about is how he's gonna give Steve one. He doesn't give 2 shits about biology, Eddie's putting a baby in that man.

[shouts-into-the-void]

I'm obsessed with the potential dynamic of Jeremy/Andrew actually

[juney-blues]

june egbert is proof that half of you people can't even comprehend the idea of a pre-transition trans woman.

[anistarrose]

I think when a lot of queer people who aspire to marriage, and remember (rightly) fighting for the right to marriage, see queer people who don't want marriage, talking about not entering or even reforming or abolishing marriage, there's an assumption I can't fault anyone for having — because it's an assumption borne of trauma — that queers who aren't big on marriage are inadvertently or purposefully going to either foolishly deprive themselves of rights, or dangerously deprive everyone of the rights associated with marriage. But that's markedly untrue. We only want rights to stop being locked behind marriages. We want an end to discrimination against the unmarried.

We want a multitude of rights for polyamorous relationships. We want ways to fully recognize and extend rights to non-romantic and/or non-sexual unions, including but not limited to QPRs, in a setting distinct from the one that (modern) history has spent so long conflating with romance and sex in a way that makes many of us so deeply uncomfortable. And many of us are also disabled queers who are furious about marriage stripping the disabled of all benefits.

We want options to co-parent, and retain legal rights to see children, that extends to more than two people, and by necessity, to non-biological parents (which, by the way, hasn't always automatically followed from same-gender marriage equality even in places where said equality nominally exists. Our struggles are not as different as you think). We would like for (found or biological) family members and siblings to co-habitate as equal members of a household, perhaps even with pooled finances or engaging in aforementioned co-parenting, without anyone trying to fit the dynamic into a "marriage-shaped box" and assume it's incestuous. We want options to leave either marriages, or alternative agreements, that are less onerous than divorce proceedings have historically been.

I can't speak for every person who does not want to marry, but on average, spurning marriage is not a choice we make lightly. We are deeply, deeply aware of the benefits that only marriage can currently provide. And we do not take that information lightly. We demand better.

Now, talking about the benefits of marriage in respective countries' current legal frameworks, so that all people can make choices from an informed place, is all well and good — but is not an appropriate response to someone saying they are uncomfortable with marriage. There are people for whom entering a marriage, with all its associated norms, expectations, and baggage, would feel like a betrayal of one's self and authenticity that would shake them to their core — and every day, I struggle to unpack if I'm one of them or not. If I want to marry for tax benefits, or not. If that's worth the risk of losing disability benefits, in the (very plausible) possibility that I have to apply for them later in life. If that's worth the emotional burden of having to explain over and over, to both well-meaning and deeply conservative family members, that this relationship is not one of romance or sex. (Because, god, trying just to explain aromanticism or asexuality in a world that broadly thinks they're "fake" is emotional labor enough.)

Marriage is a fundamental alteration to who I am, to what rights an ableist government grants me, and to how I am perceived. I don't criticize the institution just because I enjoy a "free spirit" aesthetic or think the wedding industry is annoying, or whatever.

[komashkathesilly]

my plushies but theyre silly poly furries

[phopollo]

GUYS THIS IS DRIVING ME SO GENUINELY INSANE

I CANT TALK TO ANYONE IN THIS FANDOM BECAUSE EVERYONE THINKS SHES IN A DIDFERENT AGE RANGE AND IVE SEEN IT ALL AT THIS POINT, ITS TIME TO DECIDE (/lh, ily everyone's wildly different headcanons for her, just curious what the average thoughts are because I've seen so many varying headcanons now)

(Reblogs for a bigger sample size would be banger btw)

[is-the-owl-video-cute]

Is North Korea actually bad

It is not what you have been told it is. There are many bad things about the government of North Korea, there are many bad things about those running it, but it is not what you have been told it is.

[lordgolden]

Literally have not read rote yet, is it actually as gay as tumblr is making it out to me or is it the author trying to pretend it's totally straight and platonic to kiss your male best friends?

disclaimer that I haven't actually finished the series yet so i'm not the most qualified to speak on it but anon i'm TELLING you this is one of those times where we wholeheartedly employ death of the author. both of those things are true at the same time. YES it really is that gay we aren't exaggerating I mean look a the screenshots i've posted lol and yes the author also is weird about people shipping fitz and the fool and allegedly did not intend to write them like that (??? this literally confuses me and is incredibly hard for me to believe). the fool is canonically queer and in love with fitz. the author very adamantly insists that fitz is straight and does not reciprocate. but well if she didn't want people to ship them then maybe she shouldn't have written them as literal soulmates (again, not exaggerating). I literally hesitate to call them either canon or not canon because to me the author's intention does not reconcile AT ALL with what I've read. a queer interpretation of rote is incredibly valid and you shouldn't let the author's intent sully your own interpretation

[kyuohki]

Alright, a Quality Assurance position has just opened up, and I've applied for it. (I know my worth, I have experience, and worst thing they can do is say no.)

*deep breath*

Here we go.

[ryouverua]

Whoa lol

I’ve had a couple rare yelled comments/threatening lunges at me before but this is the first time I’ve gotten the true Super Inappropriate Straight Guy experience complete with being waited for outside a place/followed for a couple of blocks but in a nice guy way

Might’ve fucked up to kick it off by engaging in a polite way (yeah victim blame-y I know…) but I also was fully not in the headspace to realize until it spiralled lmao

gonna have to figure out what to do next bc oop

[autos-ismos]

i keep anxiously swallowing air and hurting my stomach

[quekerahkerah]

I am almost done with Leech by Hiron Ennes and a) it is extremely good, and b) despite being one of the more graphic Gothic horror novels I've ever read, the premise IS kinda funny in a way - "Ohhhhh my god, a parasite!! A parasite that's trying to infect and control humanity!!!" My parasitic hive-mind physician in Christ, YOU are a parasite trying to infect and control humanity

[ocpdzim]

what you’ve got to understand about working conditions in education (and also other care-oriented careers) is that if they’re shit, two things are true at once:

that does not ever excuse being cruel to a kid, no matter what

until those conditions are fixed, education will continue to suck absolute shit

this is because when working conditions for teachers are really bad, many of the good teachers who recognize when they are reaching a point where they can no longer be the sort of teacher the kids deserve due to burnout WILL quit. they will do the responsible thing and go away for their own sake and the sake of the kids. and you end up stuck w a combination of new teachers who are trying their best but won’t last long, burnt out teachers who are trying their best but have nothing left to give and therefore aren’t very effective at actually teaching, and cockroach shitheads who take out their misery on the kids.

we have all had terrible experiences with bad teachers, many of them flat out traumatic, but for fuck’s sake please try to look at the systemic underpinnings of the problem for one minute. spitefully declaring that teachers don’t deserve good working conditions or even the right to complain about bad working conditions because ms. whoever in 5th grade was a bitch is only going to create more of her. if you want good teachers then we need an education system they can survive in