imagine if your cool mutual shared her youtube channel (which you didn’t know she had) with you once just during a random conversation and you saw it was full of videos like “Tumblr Mutual Tier List” or “Friends-Only Discord Server Tier List” or “Me & 2 Oomfs Rank Friend Combinations In Voice Calls From Worst To Best”
One of my favourite parts of working with kids is like… Very Gently subverting their idea of gendered topics… Like if a girl goes ‘no, sharks are a boy thing’ and you go “UM ACTUALLY THATS STUPID AND INCORRECT” they get freaked out, but if instead u go “Are you sure? Cause I think sharks are awesome, here’s a scale picture of a Megalodon” it’ll blow their tiny mind and they’ll be shitting themselves over it for days. 100% effective, 10/10 recommend
Good example of this happened in a class I taught recently. Kids were making predictions about a text we’d be studying based on an illustration of the character: boy with spiky blonde hair wearing a pink football kit.
The first kid to respond said, “I think this is a girl that likes to play football.” I said “what gave you the idea that the character is a girl?” Obviously they pointed out the pink, to which I replied how pink was one of my fave colours and they just looked at me wide-eyed. Then the next said, “No it’s got to be a boy. He’s got short spiky hair.” Of course, I then listed all the female people they might’ve heard of who also have short spiky hair and, honestly, the puzzled looks on their little faces were priceless.
Anyway, they continued to debate which gender the character was using phrases like: “but he … and look at his …” or “so why is she … and maybe her …” which was the point I decided to stop them and ask: “If we can’t be sure whether the character is a he or she, should we really be using those pronouns?” And I kid you not, without any persuasion from me and after only the briefest of discussions, these children unanimously agreed that the best pronoun to use would be “they” until they knew their gender for certain. They then continued their discussion using gender neutral terms throughout without any fuss whatsoever. And these are 6 and 7 year olds.
Hey the message of this post is great and all but ‘a scale picture of a meglodon’ what the f u CK
Honestly my seven year old neice screamed once I told her that girls can have short hair and now shes pestering her mum for short and also blue hair
By the way here’s a scale picture of a Megalodon
“Who cares about rules?” And things to that effect are great ones to use on kids. I’ve had many a young child insist I have to be a girl because I have tits, I just hit em with the old “I dont care I do what I want!” And it always works.
my favourite thing in english subtitles for asian dramas is when the translation is constantly talking about chess when we can see with our own eyeballs that the actual game being played is go
“you’re being being reckless with your pawns😏” “i’ll be the one to take your king 😎” and the whole time the board looks like this
“i am a monument to all your sins” is such a fucking raw line for a villain it’s amazing that it came from halo, a modernish video game, and not some classical text or mythos
classic texts have nothing on the crazy people come up with in modern times tbh
“I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”
– Joshua Graham, Who Is A Fallout New Vegas NPC, Something Most People Throwing This Quote Around Don’t Realize
“If the world chooses to become my enemy, I will fight like I always have.”
– Shadow the Hedgehog in what is widely considered one of if not the single worst game in the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise
this is the source for this text and it haunts me on a regular basis
“Pick a god and pray.”
-Fredrick from Fire Emblem Awakening
Huh, it’s almost like art isn’t just fine art…
this is my addition to this ever growing list of raw quotes originating from unexpected sources
also “you’re not brave, you’ve merely forgotten the fear of death. Allow me to reacquaint you.” Is the rawest line and it’s from dominus ghaul from destiny 2’s vanilla story when it first released.
How can we forget the quote that sums up this entire reblog chain:
Why do you people feel profound thought has to come from high places? The gutter looks at the stars too
“Spare me this mockery of justice!”
(A few minutes later, a with a different character)
“Silence! Or you shall be held in contempt of court!” “I have nothing *but* contempt for this court!”
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
“For every kid that dreams up the electric lightbulb, there’s one who dreams up the atom bomb.” - Mr. Electric, The Adventures of Sharkboy And Lavagirl (2005).
“I like turtles!” - turtle kid
“If the sea were of ink and the sky parchment I could not begin to write my love for you.”
Grandma Arbuckle reading a love letter in A Garfield Christmas.
Grandma Arbuckle
reading a love letter in
A Garfield Christmas.
Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.
it’s so strange to me that so many people genuinely seem to think ‘sexual attraction to trans people’ is the antonym of transphobia. like coming onto a post about transphobia - or, more often, transmisogyny - with 'lmao nobody in these replies slurps girldick or eats boypussy’ is just so absurd. what other axis of oppression do you treat like this? do you ask racists why they don’t want to fuck asians and black people, or can you perhaps realise that in that case is it not only absurdly inappropriate to counterpose the two, but that sexual fetishism of oppressed people is itself a common, if not ubiquitous form of bigotry?
Looking into early human migrations and learning that all blonde hair came from this one group near lake baikal, really making me wonder what other human traits there could have been that simply ceased to exist in the late palaeolithic
Looking into early human migrations and learning that all blonde hair came from this one group near lake baikal, really making me wonder what other human traits there could have been that simply ceased to exist in the late palaeolithic
bastille has done more for the queer community by just making all of their love songs about “you” instead of specifying a gender than taylor swift has in all of her discography. thanks for coming to my ted talk.
this post is VERY funny bc it has a fuck ton of likes and like. two reblogs. the fear of the wrath of the swifties is VISCERAL.
“My first language has a perfect saying for this, but it doesn’t make sense in english :(”
Say it anyway! You don’t owe them perfect clarity. Be profoundly cryptic, speak in riddles, make them ponder what the fuck you meant by that. The anglos, like porridge, must sometimes be stirred, so they don’t burn stuck on the bottom of the pot.
“If I were you, I’d spit on the floor and swim away”
“If my grandmother had two wheels she’d be a bycicle”
“You could scare a popcorn ready
"Uglier than hitting your mom.”
“If you get up from the casket, the funeral ends”
“Jumping over the mental hospital wall with the gates wide open”
“Clapping for a lunatic’s dance”
And if English speakers like it enough (or enough use it) it will be adopted (& probably mangled). Cause the English language is like that.
I’m personally a fan of “a hungry person has bread on their mind” (głodnemu chleb na myśli) and “even Salomon won’t pour from an empty [cup]” (z pustego i Salomon nie naleje)
the first one is most frequently used in case of Freudian Slips, as a joke; the second is used when you’re asked to do something without the necessary equipment
The ones I miss the most when speaking English or German are “It’s enough to paste [person] behind the wallpaper” (je zou [persoon] toch achter het behang plakken" and “I’ll just chase a piglet up a tree for you then” (‘k zal veur ei es e kurreke oewp nen boewm jage zelle).
First one is for when someone has fucked up spectacularly and below any measure of common sense. The second one is when someone is asking for either the impossible, or far more than they’re entitled to ask.
One of my favourite Irish sayings translates to “many a time a man’s mouth broke his nose” for when you just want people to shut the everlasting fuck up and I use it almost daily
My favourite Portuguese saying is ‘maior e vacinado’, means ‘of age and vaccinated’. Essentially if someone is doing something stupid, you say ‘well, they’re old enough to know better/figure it out’
Also like ‘se a minha avó não tivesse morrido, estaria viva’, ‘if my grandmother hadn’t died, she’d be alive’
i love you USPS I love you NASA i love you taxpayer funded services that actually contribute positively to society i love you libraries i love you public transport
democrats (and liz cheney) begging for george w bush’s endorsement and acting like his “silence” in not endorsing kamala is the worst most indefensible thing he’s ever done in his entire life………… god you really can just kill 4 million people in the middle east and american liberals will simply not hold that against you at all
Published in “Transvestia” magazine #38 (April 1966). I think original art could be by Bob Tupper.
not sure if anyone’s added this info here but because I wanted to know more I checked and….
Every issue of transvestia magazine, which ran from the 60’s through to the 80’s is available through the uVic archives. It was a groundbreaking publication for the crossdressing and later the transgender community. Check it out.
thank you all so much for helping with the last campaign i spotlighted!!! let’s try this again with @noor509 and his family…
he’s reached out to me asking everyone who has the means to chip in to his campaign, so that he can provide all the necessities for his baby son, loai.
i love you petscop i love you ai builds i love you diminish i love you catastrophe crow i love you my house.wad i love you unfiction games that deal with grief and trauma in such a unique and beautiful way i love you i love you i love you
Was just watching my crested gecko change colors and thinking how cool it is we live in a world where some animals just can decide 'yeah, I'm tired of tan, lets throw some brown on that instead'.
please god stop talking about diets and weight loss in front of kids. especially if those kids are girls. and especially if you’re someone those kids look up to. but really just stop talking about about diets and weight loss when children are in earshot at all. I promise you you’re doing far more harm than good.
some of the best writing advice I’ve ever received: always put the punch line at the end of the sentence.
it doesn’t have to be a “punch line” as in the end of a joke. It could be the part that punches you in the gut. The most exciting, juicy, shocking info goes at the end of the sentence. Two different examples that show the difference it makes:
doing it wrong:
She saw her brother’s dead body when she caught the smell of something rotting, thought it was coming from the fridge, and followed it into the kitchen.
doing it right:
Catching the smell of something rotten wafting from the kitchen—probably from the fridge, she thought—she followed the smell into the kitchen, and saw her brother’s dead body.
Periods are where you stop to process the sentence. Put the dead body at the start of the sentence and by the time you reach the end of the sentence, you’ve piled a whole kitchen and a weird fridge smell on top of it, and THEN you have to process the body, and it’s buried so much it barely has an impact. Put the dead body at the end, and it’s like an emotional exclamation point. Everything’s normal and then BAM, her brother’s dead.
This rule doesn’t just apply to sentences: structuring lists or paragraphs like this, by putting the important info at the end, increases their punch too. It’s why in tropes like Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking or Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick, the odd item out comes at the end of the list.
Subverting this rule can also be used to manipulate reader’s emotional reactions or tell them how shocking they SHOULD find a piece of information in the context of a story. For example, a more conventional sentence that follows this rule:
She opened the pantry door, looking for a jar of grape jelly, but the view of the shelves was blocked by a ghost.
Oh! There’s a ghost! That’s shocking! Probably the character in our sentence doesn’t even care about the jelly anymore because the spirit of a dead person has suddenly appeared inside her pantry, and that’s obviously a much higher priority. But, subvert the rule:
She opened the pantry door, found a ghost blocking her view of the shelves, and couldn’t see past it to where the grape jelly was supposed to be.
Because the ghost is in the middle of the sentence, it’s presented like it’s a mere shelf-blocking pest, and thus less important than the REAL goal of this sentence: the grape jelly. The ghost is diminished, and now you get the impression that the character is probably not too surprised by ghosts in her pantry. Maybe it lives there. Maybe she sees a dozen ghosts a day. In any case, it’s not a big deal. Even though both sentences convey the exact same information, they set up the reader to regard the presence of ghosts very differently in this story.
one of the funniest things I see people say about “standard english” btw is californians who are like “yeah basically all american english speakers speak the same way so it makes sense to call that ‘standard american english’” because you know they only perceive it that way because californian english has like every single vowel merger simultaneously so they can’t tell the difference between other american english varieties. they’re fish who don’t know they’re wet
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