#I should acknowledge myself for that more

[bpdohwhatajoy]

Thank you for being so open and honest about your experiences. It's easy to forget that such bravery is not easy and that the ability to keep moving forward and constantly processing all these things is not something anyone can do. Positivity-focused blogs have their places, but documented rawness like this is inspirational in its own right. I can tell you've fought hard, and that you are still fighting. I really enjoy reading your experiences, because I find myself in many of them and I find it beautiful that you're still growing and learning. I don't wish to offer my sympathies; more simply a thank you for being here, and for what you do. My best wishes.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[uncanny-tranny]

I love trans people whose transness means that their sexuality is complex. I love trans people who adopt contradictory labels. I love transmasculine people who still have ties to old lesbian spaces and transfeminine people who still have ties to gay spaces (even if they themselves aren't lesbian or gay). I love trans people whose dysphoria has put them at a place where they don't want to engage with any type of sexuality. I love trans people who are confused, unsure, or questioning. I love trans people who toe the lines of queerness. I love trans people who are unapologetically embracing their sexualities. I love trans people who are working through internalized shame about their sexualities.

[niobiumao3]

The thing about teaching kids reading and writing in school is, I do think more schools could stand to intersperse the classics with some modern YA/juve fic, because

Keeping kids interested is important to helping them learn. That's easier if they're engaged, and they will engage more readily with popular stories. There are plenty of good popular stories, just like there are shitty classics.

Compare and contrast is a GREAT way to introduce them to ideas like unreliable narrators, protagonists you're not necessarily intended to like, narrative styles, etc.

You have to teach someone HOW to read critically/with intent. it's not something most people just know how to do. And you can do that with any text; arguably, they'll take to it more readily if it's something they want to read. Then getting them to apply it to something they're less engrossed in as a learning exercise is less like getting blood from a stone.

You don't have to throw the baby out with the bathwater. This doesn't have to be Divergent 'instead of' 1984. It's 'Divergent and 1984, tell me things that you feel they had in common and did not, explain how the explored themes of governmental control and how this damages society as a whole and individuals in particular'.

If the only books you're letting them read is a curated list from 30+ years ago, you have to expect pushback and shouldn't be shocked when they're like 'why can't I examine [popular series actually aimed at them here] instead'.

[da-proti-toku-grem]

i was having a midnight talk with my brother yesterday and i told him that when i went out with my friend the other day i didn't have any anxiety attack (like it usually happens to me every time i go out of my house), and you know i wasn't expecting him to say anything about it, people would usually go "...okay? 🤨" like, that's what it's supposed to be like, why would you have anxiety because of that? but he went: "Good! 😁" and high-five'd me

and i- i didn't know what to say but it warmed my heart :(

[average-robot-enjoyer]

Why do people react so weird when you say your self diagnosed?????? How about you let people live their life?????

[promiseimnotacop]

with liz (the bafflingly well regarded) gone and charles (the unambiguous shit bag) in her place. with a tory party frazzled and tearing in different but equally unappealing directions and truss posed to roll back environmental protections (fracking) and the like

with pakistan in decimated by the undeniable human tragedy of man made climate change

with the war in ukraine and subsequent oil shortages highlighting just how dependant, complicit in, and beholden too russian politics and big oil interests we are

with the labour party an anaemic shell of what it could be

with insulating britain being the no-brainer option

with nhs teetering on the brink of total collapse

with pro-union sentiment, pro-disruptive strike/protest action sentiment, and pro-fucking strong intervention on cost of living sentiment on the popular rise

it just feels like, ok, we on the same page now? can we actually get on and some fucking politics and change some fucking shit. like are the liberals or the leftists jaded into inaction on the same page? tear it down. what have we been waiting for? 

No more bloody royals. No more elite creeps. No more waiting for someone else to go and do it. Every fucking pound spent on the charade of enforced mourning and subsequent coronation that isn’t spent on helping the neediest this (, and, let’s be honest, next) winter is a crime. Every penny spent on anointing another idiot in chief in a stupid crown that could have been spent on new green infrastructure, feeding the hungry, devolution, education, healing from austerity or in anyway for the good of us so called citizens is barbaric. 

[cantsayidont]

No poster because blecch:

CHALLENGERS (2024): Elaborately dreadful Luca Guadagnino tennis epic, featuring an interminable and irritating romantic triangle between three of the least engaging characters I've seen in at least a year of bad movies and terrible television: sad-eyed, personality-free tennis pro Art Donaldson (Mike Faist); his perennially scuzzy childhood-friend-turned-hard-luck-frenemy Patrick Zweig (Josh O'Connor); and the object of their mostly inexplicable mutual affection, ex-tennis hardass Tashi Donaldson (Zendaya), who is now Art's wife, coach, and generally the boss of him. I have no strong feelings about tennis one way or another, so I only watched this for the romantic triangle, which was an ordeal. It doesn't help at all that Mike Faist and Josh O'Connor each look like some kind of awful Midjourney composite of Tumblr sexymen of about a decade ago (I alternated between wanting to hit them with a shoe and put a cup over them to put them outside), and while Zendaya is, as the script repeatedly points out, smoking hot, Tashi is a nightmarish control freak whom the narrative doesn't ever allow to be even a tiny bit sympathetic. I hated all of three of the leads; the movie goes on and on and on to a ridiculous anticlimactic ending; and, unlike some of Guadagnino's other projects, it's not nearly horny enough to even partly compensate. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Tashi is the only female character to appear in more than one scene, and Guadagnino's loathing of women radiates from every frame, so no. VERDICT: Not the worst movie I've seen lately from a qualitative standpoint, but it's two hours and ten minutes of my time I would like back.

[suncaptor]

there's something specifically inside my head that is closing up that makes trusting anything so hard. i have to manually keep my mind open to the potential of anything being significant. i am so used to things being bad and things hurting and things not working and being powerless that it takes an exorbitant amount of mental energy to make sure I don't let myself shut down possibility. and I do it because I never want a certainty inside of me besides love to rule anything. but I want my brain elastic again. i want it open like breathing. it doesn't erase the unfairness or the critique or any of the bitter-built philosophy.

[mothocean]

i am, really just fucking hoping theres gonna be more safety regulations around this kind of stuff now. and that the greek coast guard gets fucking sued. also that the submersible company gets sued. and nothing like any of these things happens ever again

[heartual]

waaaaghhh

[hasarjunadoneanythingwrong]

its so strange to me when arjuna gets mischaracterized by people as really jealous and possessive of ritsuka its just so antithetical to him as a character. that guy could experience the most mild lukewarm jealousy one can possibly have and feel ashamed enough to consider suicide

YEAH!!! Cause like that’s the thing, he DOES get jealous but it’s stuff like ‘i wish I could be as heroic as him’ ‘I wish I was as gracious as that’ ‘I wish I was content with what I have’ like it’s all focused on his own dissatisfaction with himself, not over another person (or if it does involve another person it isn’t over their relationships but rather their conduct and how he compares it to his own perceived inadequacies.) And those emotions bring him pretty severe distress, to the point that he basically forms a second personality over it! This isn’t something he would want to encourage and definitely not in a relationship

If anything, all his interactions with ritsuka show is that he’s incredibly eager to prove himself and really really wants to help you (please let him guide you 🥺)- there’s never been anything that indicates he wants you to ONLY ever focus on him, just that he wants to help you out, and be important to you in the same way you are to him

[pikachugirltits]

I keep on trying to make this post and keep on erasing it but I think I need to take a break from Tumblr.

[violexides]

the American education system needing to be improved and more accessible because as it stands a lot of people lack access to adequate schooling and it has the potential to address really important subjects and provide social support for people

coexists with the idea that societally we should not be trying to pull every piece of information from the American education system because it is not equipped even remotely to address the knowledge that can come from a person's individual lived experience nor provide the information (en masse) that goes against the state that created it.

this is something i thinka bout a lot and try to re-articulate a lot because i am resistant to answering the question "why are you only studying abolition now, through a university?" but i think a lot of things can come out of that line of questioning. because it's not just about academia it's about the people forming those communities to have those dialogues and that is key that is critical. but that doesn't negate the fact that we should have school as a starting place, and a meeting place, for all of that.

[iftitah]

this is the first time saying it loud but i miss my dad so much sometimes the more i hated him the more i became like him and he's in all my habits good and bad mostly good and im spreading sheets on my berth and its exactly like he used to do damn

[seithr]

rl chatterin in tags, dont worry about it just feel like talking about recent stuff. for those who dont care look at this birdthang i won on xiv then. my silly big bird..

[pepprs]

ok i took a nap sorry for miseryposting