#We are children

[lightasthesun]

just skyped with my best friend (yes we're the only people on this planet that still use Skype) and she stumbled upon the subtitles function and turned it on for shits and giggles and coz I swear like a sailor we found out that the subtitles automatically censored swear words or the like and so for the next few minutes we just hurled insults at each other through the screen and doubled over clutching our stomachs and cried tears of laughter when another censored swearwords appeared on the screen or even better when something that should be censored DIDN'T get censored.

[theaustralianfrog]

Warning, this post talks about racism and is also rather long

Honestly I always was aware of the fact that I was going to be treated as different from other kids my age, but I don’t think I’ve ever truly thought everything out.

My friend, she wears a hijab when she goes outside. When she’s in public spaces like shopping malls and such, strangers give her dirty looks. You know how old she was when she told me that? She was twelve fucking years old. She was twelve and desensitised to this, to the point where she said it with a smile on her face, not an ounce of hatred or anger in her voice.

My little sister, she has gorgeous, black curly hair. Other than that, she is just the same as her friends. She loves to draw, and she loves to play, and watch cartoons. But she is convinced that her stunning, curly, natural hair is not beautiful unless she goes at it with a flat iron. She hates the noise and feeling or hair straightening tools, but if she goes to a salon, and leaves without straight hair, she’s going to cry, and she still believes in the tooth fairy. She’s that young. And when I was that young, I held that very same belief, that I was ugly because of the texture of my hair.

I should be able to go to my high school, without expecting to be called a slur. This expectation simply being common sense. I shouldn’t be able to laugh along, and go “haha yeah I did 9/11! That’s so funny!” I shouldn’t have been raised knowing that I would have less opportunity, less love, less of everything than someone exactly the same as I am, except with pale skin.

I realise that in responding to things people say, that they shouldn’t say, that I am enabling that sort of behaviour. So I can stop doing that, I can make posts on the internet, but other than that, I don’t really have any power. I eventually reported the kid who called me “Osama Bin Laden” to my head of year. Nothing came of it. “Telling a trusted adult” means nothing.

(Also something is going on with the tags, so idk just ignore the repetition its not letting me delete)

[dirtytransmasc]

the men and boys are innocent too.

we cry "the innocent women and children" to appeal to the masses, to try and force their sympathy, but the men and boys are innocent too.

I have seen sons crying out for their mothers, their fathers, their siblings. I have seen them break down at the loss of their families. I have seen them cling to their dead and grieve.

I have seen fathers cradle their dead children, seen them kiss their faces and hold their little hands. I have seen them faint with grief when asked to identify the dead. I have seen them carry their sons and daughters. I have seen them fasting to provide what little they can for their families.

I have seen men and boys digging through the rubble with just their bare hands, I have seen them comforting strangers, playing with children, rocking them, hushing them, even if the face of such imminent danger. I have seen them cry, seen them grieve, seen them break down into each other's arms, seen them be selfless, beyond selfless, becoming something I don't have a word for.

I have seen the men who are doctors refuse to leave their patients, even when they have no medicine or supplies to give them, even when they're threatened with bombings. I have seen fathers who have lost all their children pick orphans up into their arms and proclaim them their child so they are not alone. I have seen men and boys digging pets out of the rubble.

the men are innocent too. the men and boys are being hurt and killed too. the men and boys are grieving too. the men and boys are scared too. the men and boys are fighting to save their people too. the men and boys deserve to be fought for too.

[tomi4i]

[astraystayyh]

this post actually broke my heart.

[causticcontemplation]

Work meetings not so bad when the group chat is popping off with jokes

[secondbeatsongs]

for anyone too young to know this: watching The Truman Show is a vastly different experience now, compared to how it was before youtube and social media influencers became normal

before it was like, "what a horrifying thing to do to a human being! to take away their autonomy and privacy, all for the sake of profits! to create fake scenarios for them to react to, just to retain viewership! to ruin their happiness just so some corporate entity could harvest money from their very humanity! how could anyone do something so evil?"

and now it's like, "ah, yeah. this is still deeply fucked up, but it's pretty much what every influencer has been doing to their kids for a decade now. probably bad that we've normalized this experience"

[puddin-dear]

A daily reminder

Those Palestinian people were not killed, they were murdered

Its not a war on Hamas, its a genocide on Palestine

Its the beautiful land Palestine, not isreal

Its Genocide, not war

Its a murdered toddler/child/baby/teen, not a dead young lady/man

Its “isreal should have not..” not “Hamas should have not…”

Its Palestines last defense, not a terrorist organization

Its hostages, not prisoners

Neutrality is still just Zionism

It was a sniper shot, not a stray bullet

Boycott Starbucks, Mcdonalds, etc

Protest

Revolt

Call your lawmakers

Keep ALL EYES on Rafah

And remember, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

(remember to reblog and help get the bottom tags trending again, we must not forget palestine)

[wearenotjustnumbers2]

This child in gaza is screaming:

"I wish it was a dream. Oh, mom and dad. I wish it was a dream and my mom and dad are still alive" after being rescued from underneath the rubble to find his parents killed by Israel.

Share this, we are not numbers. Let our voices be heard in hopes that this stops.

[felucians]

Nex Benedict's death wasn't just for being transgender, it was for being native too. 2 Spirits are revered in many native cultures and it is a native-specific identity. This wasn't just a hate crime against trans & NB individuals, this was also a hate crime against Natives of Turtle Island.

You cannot separate Nex's trans identity from their native identity - this is a case of MMIWG2S (Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and 2 Spirits).

Native children being killed at school is nothing new, so it's equally important to talk about Nex's native identity and being intersectional, this is a devastating tragedy for indigenous people, the queer community & especially those of us who are both indigenous and queer.

May Nex rest in peace 🪶

[crippledanarchy]

When you call "influencers" what they are, freelance marketers, it makes the phrase "mommy/family influencer" sound just as dark as it is in reality.

They are using their children to sell you things. Some of these people intentionally have children solely in order to use them as marketing devices.

They aren't harmless or wholesome. They are expanding and normalizing new and different forms of familial abuse to a worldwide audience

[princerevelucide]

the BEST new pokémon in gen 9 btw are these two sanrio reject ass mice that count as one pokemon together

but they they silently evolve from level 25+ into the exact same two mice but now they have 1 or 2 kids with them. literally you open your party to discover that these two mice FUCKED in their pokeball and have now sprung their kid(s) on you

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico referring to his mom as "Mama" implies he most likely at least used to refer to Hades as "Papa" and i 100% headcanon he still does but mostly in the manner of him having the entire Underworld wrapped around his finger for being the baby of the family

[luyo-mi]

🐙❤️

[iphigeniacomplex]

it’s very easy to tell the good satires and pastiches from the bad ones because the bad ones are too afraid to live within the form. like if you are doing work with fairy tales and you are refusing to look closer at the underlying logic and unspoken rules of what can seem at first to be a senseless form, you are not going to create meaningful work. to borrow a turn of phrase originally used by maria tatar, if you refuse to enter “the house of fairy tale” as anything more than a gawking tourist, you will miss the particular order to the way the table is set, the rooms that are locked vs the rooms that are simply difficult to enter, the set of the floorboards and the position of the furniture. whatever you build will then be a gilded imitation of how you believe the house of fairy tale ought to look, the table set according to your educated specifications and every door open. there can be no interrogation of themes from a writer who views the form as beneath them!

[aziraphalalala]

It's been 3 months and we're still here, stuck like flies in amber in the last 15 minutes of Season 2, Episode 6.

Send help. And crepes.