#this is all bullshit

[askblueandviolet]

macaque, denial is a river in egypt..

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[gayroman]

in the song "a certain romance" off of arctic monkeys debut album whatever people say I am, that's what I'm not, alex turner sings the line "he thinks it's alright to act like a dickhead." on their third album humbug, the song "pretty visitors" has the lyric "what came first, the chicken or the dickhead?" there is a one album gap between these two albums (favourite worst nightmare as the middleman). two albums follow humbug with no lyrics using the word "dickhead" (suck it and see, am). following the 2014 release of am comes 2018's tranquility base hotel and casino. the song "she looks like fun" features many silly lyrics that harbour much deeper meaning. it also has the line "there's no limit to the length of the dickheads we can be." their first, third, and sixth albums each feature the word "dickhead" (or in its plural form) in one of its songs. there is a one album gap between the first use on a certain romance and pretty visitors, and a two album gap between pretty visitors and she looks like fun. this stands for reason that on arctic monkeys tenth album, after a three album gap that includes last year's the car, alex turner will once again sing a line about someone, or himself, being a dickhead. if the pattern continues, after album ten and a five album gap, the word "dickhead" would once again be featured on an arctic monkeys record. in this essay, I will explain--

[tetsunabouquet]

God, I just read a second post about sensitivity readers (this time fairy tales, obviously the first ne being Roald Dahl), and I am already tired of their existence. Can we leave older authors and cultures' their stories alone? Roald Dahl literally didn't wanted his stories to be edited by publishers, and fairy tales are centuries old. Besides, the talk about inclusivity falls flat when you're talking about fairy tales. Where are gay couples in fairy tales supposed to exist, considering that in the times these fairy tales were written you could get locked up for life or even killed for it. What else are you going to add from modern day society to fairy tales? Human rights? (funny how sensitivity readers don't bother with adressing the lack of human rights women had at the time in fairy tales, but blame it on a lack of agency from the heroines. Which gets me to the rampant victim-shaming of these sensititvity readers). It's very clear these sensitivity writers don't even get the POINT of these fairy tales to begin with, so how can they condemn fairy tales when the moral of the story clearly eluded them? Take their criticism towards Cinderella, for instance. The emphasis of transforming into a beautiful princess is deemed as problematic, as well as her falling for the prince on first sight. Cinderella, is a VICTIM OF ABUSE, in a time where women literally couldn't have their own assets or properties and she's dressed in filthy rags compared to everyone around her. ANY victim of childhood abuse wanting to have a better life for themselves and things like nice clothes without holes after being so horribly neglected should NEVER be shamed for it. If there is anything that is problematic, it's the sensititvity readers victim-shaming Cinderella.

The prince just happened to be handsome and kind too, because guess what, fairy tales are supposed to give hope and install morals in young kids. A handsome, rich dude that helps you escape your abusive childhood was literally THE dream of any real girl put into Cinderella's position at the time, it was their fantasy to keep them going. And it taught them morals too, because Cinderella received help because she was a kind-hearted, good girl who didn't allowed her terrible life to shape her into a terrible human being. Not because she was pretty. There are still childhood abuse victims who depending on their childhood relate to what Cinderella went through, and had similar escapist fantasies to her fairy tale. Are these girls problematic too? Get out of here. Don't even get me started on the lack of racial inclusivity. DUH, fairy tales were mostly written in the Old World, these are homogeneous countries that in these historical times seldomly had any person of a different race in their country, several writers probably never even saw a person of another race before! Why advocate rewriting history for crying out loud?! There is a lack of diversity, because it reflects the ACTUAL historical time period. Also intersting, how this article solely talks about the lack of diversity in European fairy tales, and not fairy tales that became more popular across the globe in recent years from non-European cultures like Princess Kaguya (which also lacks racial diversity. Funny how none of them is crying about the Japanese). If they want fairy tales to be fitting in with the times, how about people wrote new fairy tales, or their own reimagenings instead of bashing on centuries old stories. If they think kids could get the wrong ideas from it, put a disclaimer in the book saying this story takes place centuries ago and does not reflect current society if that is SO important to you. Also, how about uplifting more non-European fairy tales? They lack diversity as well but it would add more variety to the popular fairy tale catalogue. I'm not even going to go deeply into some of the points they raised, like the emphasis on beauty when they literally gloss over Cinderella's pure heart themselves or the stupidity of saying beautiful people are priviliged to a happy ending when most of the time at least half the couple was priviliged because you know, they are a prince/princess and not because they are good looking? Sure, Sleeping Beauty and her Prince are priviliged because of their looks, not their wealth and status... Or the 'ageism' issue when many of the villains aren't just old, but they are step-parents, evil mother in laws, etc. Because evil stepmoms and evil mother in laws apparantly aren't a real thing, huh? (I suggest them to go to Reddit and read some crazy, entitled MIL stories, they do exist. Same goes for people like stepmoms who give zero shit about their stepkids, I could direct you to my dad's wife for that one).

[meeshimi]

im over everything

[omglaurashutup]

why ppl care so much if you want to kill urself? are you going to help me? are you going to solve my problems? are you going to keep me happy? no, you will just say that stupid talk about how it isn't worth it and the pain will go away and bla bla bla, and when you finally convince me, you will leave me like everyone did, without any further support, you selfish shit. don't say that killing myself is selfish, when you come with this positive shit and then leave me to the lions.

[martyrbat]

i dont know who needs to hear this but you do not need to go on a diet. you do not need to lose weight as a new year revolution. you do not need to feel shame for gaining any weight over the holidays and for enjoying yourself and the food. you do not need to tolerate diet talk after setting a boundary and if someone cant respect that then theyre being the asshole. you already have a summer body. you already are hot. theres no moral failure or shame in being fat

[theywontletmebeprincipal]

obsessed w james somerton saying that he blacked out every time he failed to cite his sources like he’s the dr jekyll/mr hyde of plagiarism

[solitarelee]

East Asian fanartists are starting to migrate back to Tumblr because Twitter is insane, toxic, and dying, and what we're NOT going to do is let the fucking exclusionists get them, do you hear me? We are not going to let a bunch of feral idiots try to apply the most myopic version of puritanism to foreign artists we're not we're not we're not. Form an armed brigade if you have to, do you hear me. We're not going to bully the artists who may or may not even speak English because we have our precious standards of moral purity. If we see art that makes us uncomfy we're going to block the artist and tumblr savior their name so we don't have to see them again AND WE'RE GONNA MOVE THE FUCK ON.

[releasing-trapped-emotions]

I found out the other reason you are giving up.

You don't want to face the pain of losing a child.

I am sorry and I understand, even though I'm not ready, it's ok.

[callmewhateveridc]

I HATE ENGINEERING

"Engineering is the designing, testing and building of machines, structures and processes using maths and science."

shut the fuck up

I. HATE. ENGINEERING.

fuck you kirchhoff (im sorry ur the only gud 1 qctually)

I cant read anymore about fucking voltage

im being bullied by universe and its misterious ways (fuck you universe)

should have picked fucking english instead of this ;wldfkjw;rlfknw'elfj

[just--a--vessel]

He/him pronoun bracelet broke, call that fragile masculinity

[sprinklethetangerine]

Going to school is my worst nightmare, and it's real.

Why would I ever wanna go back to that hellscape?

I'll just hope my teachers don't suck too bad.

[its-me-vixen]

Losing my pagan and art communities IRL because we had to flee Texas obviously because of the insane bigotry, and now that space won’t even exist anymore. And I just lost the community I had been in for over two years on Twitter where I felt like I had genuine friends but the site just fell apart. I feel so profoundly alone. I want to drink so badly. I’m struggling to find a new Place. I’ve always had a Place but now it’s gone again. They never last for very long. Everywhere here has really uncomfortable bullshit chairs, I think becuase they hate homeless people here so much. I don’t know. I miss my friends, but I doubt any of them even think of me.

[localdiscountgoth]

capitalism is making me feel very suicidal on this lovely day :)

[autosadist]

i don't talk too much about how trans women get treated in original posts because im not a trans woman and plenty of trans women on this site are sharing insights that i can just reblog but also sometimes i see other trans dudes talk about trans women in ways that make me want to step in 1 on 1 like "hey man, do you remember what it feels like to be a girl getting treated like a piece of meat by some guy you don't know then dismissed for standing up for yourself. because you're that guy now"

[transmascissues]

it’s so funny to me that people used to try to warn me “if you go on t it won’t make you androgynous it’ll just make you look like a man” because 1) i do want to look like a man, that is famously a major part of being a trans man but also 2) t literally has made me androgynous?? like they were wrong on both counts. i got most of the looking-like-a-man changes that i wanted (deep voice, broader body, hair all over my body including my face) and i also give every single cis person in a five mile radius a stroke every time they try to figure out my gender. the assumption that trans men wouldn’t actually want to look like men and the assumption that cis people are good at correctly gendering us once we’re on t are both weird as hell.