Our school used to ask children who were late questions about maths, but those that they can’t answer yet. And then they made kids write down that they don’t know math. My 11yo classmate (who was always great at math) was crying after this.
Oh god, my elementary school was hell.
I remember this one music teacher who, for some reason, REALLY fucking hated autistic kids. I would know, because everyone in my weird therapy group was targeted while everyone else was ignored.
I saw her physically drag a kid out and threaten to get him suspended because he was to scared to dance solo in front of his peers.
There was also “lunch detention,” and they didn’t fuck around with that. They didn’t isolate the students like that, they fucking shoved them in a separate room and forbade them from sitting together or talking. They slowly brought in several teachers and eventually the principal, and they all, one by one, told us that we were horrible, reprehensible people who would never be successful.
And you wanna know HOW you got lunch detention? Not finishing your work on time, even if it was a one-time thing.
State sanctioned child abuse
‘Child abuse’
Y’all are insane.
It may not be child abuse but honestly, some of this shit is fucking insane and harmful to the students than it is helpful.
Tumblr’s new blocking feature is a drastic improvement over the previous “Ignore” setting. Here’s what it can do:
They can’t reblog your posts!
They can’t follow your blog at all!
They can’t view your blog at its address!
They can’t text you while you’re both logged into tumblr!
They can’t walk within 500ft of you thanks to our new forcefield tech!
They can’t contact you at all, even by their own email!
They can’t think of you without crying!
They can’t see you in person! You’re invisible!
They can’t say your name without a burning pain!
They can’t even brush their teeth anymore! Why? Who knows!?
They can’t vote in American elections!
They can’t ever have kids!
They can’t even eat!
They can’t listen to the old Ludwig Van without feeling sick!
They can’t live! They cannot die! All they they see: Absolute horror!
They can’t survive for longer than 3 minutes without a painful injection of sulfuric acid into their eyeballs and genitals!
They can’t ever touch their families again without causing them to fall apart like ashes, all they love, all they know will burn, condemning them to hell itself, alone and broken, tormented by pain and sorrow until the end of time and even then they cannot escape the torment you’ve inflicted upon them for you are become death, destroyer of worlds and they are but ants condemned to your unholy wrath!
They can’t link to your blog in their posts!
Please note that use of the “block” feature is forbidden by the Geneva Conventions, U.S. Federal Law and The Holy Bible.
Not sure which of those three things banning it is the most dangerous to go up against
If the current allowances for politicians and businessmen are any indication, it’s The Holy Bible.
finally some good fucking salt over thomas eddison on this site
it’s also not even HIS money, it’s his father’s money, made from apartheid emerald mining. that money was made from the blood and suffering of countless poor people of color so the rich could wear pretty rocks.
elon musk has never done or made anything valuable or worthwhile in his life.
Tesla was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.
I think it would be funny if this fun fact became common knowledge.
All throughout childhood, while my peers were socializing and making friends, I studied the blade read so many books that I am now almost legally blind, which left me with vast and deeply instinctual understanding of English grammar - and next to no ability to explain how it actually works. Friends will often ask me to proofread their writing and then get very mad when I say things like, “You need to completely reverse this sentence and cut this clause entirely; no, I’m sorry, i don’t know why, I just know that the way it is now ITCHES 😭”
Now, what I want to see is a fantasy story where this plays out with MAGICAL grammar. Someone from a backwater town deeply steeped in folk magic arrives at Wizard Uni where all their fellow students are like “What do you mean, we should add another ‘𝞯∘⋇𝞿’ to the incancation because it 'sounds better’? What do you mean, 'it could just be a regional thing’?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'THIS SPELL JUST FEELS LIKE IT NEEDS A LIVE RAT’????”
“I mean, on the plus side, there’s live rats in a lot of places, so the odds of you casting that spell within close enough range of a live rat to work is pretty high? Like, if you’ve ever had that spell just randomly fizzle out on you, then you tried it again ten minutes later without changing anything and it suddenly worked, a rat probably just wandered into range in that time.”
I want to tell a story to the artists and would-be artists out there.
When I was 19, I made a large oil painting of the nerd I would eventually marry. I poured all my attention and care into this painting. It’s the only art I have from back then that still holds up as a work I’m proud of today.
I entered it into a judged show at the local art center. It got an honorable mention. I went to see the show with my beloved model. One of the judges came up to talk to me, and highlighted that all the judges really liked the painting. It would have placed, except, you see, the feet were incorrect. They were too wide and short, and if I just studied a bit more anatomy-
I called over my future wife, and asked her to take off her shoe. Being already very used to humoring me, she did. The judge looked at her very short, very wide little foot. Exactly as I’d lovingly rendered it. I would never edit her appearance in any way.
The judge looked me in the eye, and to his credit, he really looked like he meant it when he said “Oh I’m so sorry.”
Anyways the moral of the story is that all of those anatomy books that teach you proportions are either showing you averages, or a very specific idea of an idealized body. Actual bodies are much more varied than that.
So don’t forget to draw from observation, and remember that humans aren’t mass produced mannequins. Delight in our variation. Because it’s supposed to be there.
An adaptation of Sherlock Holmes set in a world in which the fictional character/literary juggernaut Sherlock Holmes, and all the subsequent adaptations thereof, still exist.
Sherlock Holmes (pronounced Holl-mess, as he is constantly reminding people) just had the misfortune of having parents who really liked the books, and his attitude towards his fictional counterpart is pretty much the same as that of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
Sherlock runs a Youtube Theory channel called Mysteries Unwrapped with Sherlock Holmes. He has received no less than seven cease and desist letters from the Conan Doyle estate, all of which he has so faded managed to rebuff by pointing out that that’s literally his name.
(No he won’t change his name. He’s Sherlock Holmes the real live human person. Let Sherlock Holmes the non existent fictional character change his name.)
John is Sherlock’s flatmate. Sherlock almost refused to live with him once he realised that it would mean staying with a medical student named John, and only gave in once John pointed out that: a) he’s a biomedical student, which is completely different from an md, and b) his surname isn’t Watson.
It’s now been three years, which is long enough for them to have developed a genuine friendship, and for John to have a) started working towards his PhD in biotechnology, and b) for him to start dating somebody with the surname Watson.
Sherlock can feel the narrative closing in.
His Youtube channel is meant to be focused on lost media, fan theories and stuff like that, but he keeps accidentally stumbling upon and then solving genuine crimes.
His brother Mycroft may or may not have chosen that name after he transitions specifically to annoy him.
He doesn’t even live in London, but somehow the only flat they could afford was on a street named fucking Baker Street.
Sherlock Holmes and the Unescapable Power of the Narrative.
Here’s to every pet-related worker who has to deal with “Her name is BELLA you’ve seen her before just look her up.”
You’re a real one. May you grow in power for every Bella in your system.
I don’t say this to shame owners for their pets names.
But please know that if you bring in your goldendoodle Bella, or your black cat named Loki, or your corgi named Ein - Please give staff some additional info to help locate your pet’s information. Approximately 1/10th of that database is filled with pets who have the exact same name and breed as your animal, don’t get mad if we can’t find them immediately please.
The 605 Bella Smiths in our system would like a word with you.
See also: Teddy, Cooper, Stella, Charlie, Finn, Leo, Lola, Luna …
Like, you try getting one Teddy at a doggy daycare/dog camp to listen to you when there’s three other Teddys in the group. They don’t know their last name. They’re all very cute names. But going out with the dogs at my job is like when I was a kid and literally ten percent of my class was named Jennifer.
I remember taking my cat, Steve, to an animal hospital. To my knowledge, there was not another cat named Steve MyLastName there. There was however a vet tech by the name of Steve MyLastName.
Apparently they distinguished them by calling them Human Steve and Cat Steve.
The family of a Tennessee factory worker who was killed during Hurricane Helene is suing the company and its CEO — claiming that the bosses sneaked out of the factory to escape catastrophic weather conditions while they ordered employees to stay.
According to an explosive lawsuit filed by Peterson’s family on Monday in Tennessee state court, the facility’s managers denied employees’ pleas to leave work as the hurricane bore down on the area.
That’s despite the fact that workers began receiving notifications from the National Weather Service around 10 a.m. urging all who could to evacuate to higher ground, according to the suit.
Around 10:30 a.m., company managers told employees to move their cars because the parking lot was flooding, the suit claims.
An hour later at 11:35 a.m., senior management including Impact Plastics founder and CEO Gerald O’Connor had “stealthily exited the building,” according to court papers.
Workers had assumed they also were allowed to go home as local schools and other businesses announced closures because of Hurricane Helene, the suit alleges.
Instead, Impact Plastics allegedly instructed its employees to report to work because the company “wanted to meet order deadlines,” court documents show.
It wasn’t until water had flooded the plant’s parking lot and the power went out that managers sent workers home, the suit claims.
The 28-page suit argues that Impact Plastics had no required plan to safely evacuate employees — even though the plant was located in a flood plain and regularly experienced water creeping into its parking lot.
“Impact Plastics was aware of the flood risks, and while employees requested permission to leave, the company failed to act. We will hold them accountable.”
if the butch woman doesn’t receive tenderness and good faith, it’s not a community space. if the brown woman doesn’t receive tenderness and good faith, its not a community space. if the trans woman doesn’t receive tenderness and good faith, it’s not a community space. and if the brown butch trans woman doesn’t receive tenderness and good faith? it’s about as good as an insurance company with a pride sticker smacked on top of the logo
@rosslynpaladin adding this because you’re right. no ramp, no interpreters for large crowds, no covid precautions, no closed captions or quiet rooms are also excellent examples of a lack of community care
wait do people read first person stories and think they’re the ones in the story???
Saw people talking about not liking first person, which is fair, but their reasoning was like “I would not do that” and I don’t understand that mindset.
First person stories are still about a character. A character making their own decisions. First person isn’t about you???? At least I thought it wasn’t. What am I missing? I’ve always seen first person as just a more in-depth look into a character’s mind and stricter POV. Not as a reader stand-in.
I see first person stories like I’m sitting down across from the narrator getting the wildest tea imaginable
Most accurate way to read a first person story
My coworker, who I read this post aloud to, added that first person could also be seen as you being a ghost in the character’s head, screaming “DON’T DO THAT” at every bad decision the character makes.
something I’ve been working on overcoming lately…… maybe others can relate
had to reduce The Imposter’s level of detail for recording, but he’s actually very complicated and made up of countless writhing tubes.. ……..which may also be relatable to others.
I’m doing a Philosophy paper on Asexuality. Please reblog if you think Love without Sex is possible! I really need the data. Like if you think love has to have sex.
hhgghhghh i liked bc i didn’t see that part
and i always like when i reblog
i took it back dw
For future reference, op, it might be easier to avoid accidental misinterpretations of data if you put both choices together then say “i need the data”
I think a lot of people might’ve missed the “like if” part of the post, myself included
Thinking about Kent from Stardew Valley, I’ve often wondered why basically all he talks about to you is about his trauma. Like that’s fine I guess but I’ve casually wondered why it’s pretty much the only thing he ever talks about to you.
But it just occurred to me that Sam, Vincent, and Jodi note that he doesn’t tell them what’s wrong. It’s surprising to Jodi that he hates the sound of popcorn, Vincent and Sam both note that he’s different but they don’t know why, he goes to festivals even though crowds and open fields trigger him.
He’s trying very badly to hide it but he needs to talk about it. And the farmer has no preexisting ideas about him. Depending on how long he’s been gone this time, you may be the only person in town that didn’t know him before he went to the front lines. He’s trauma dumping to you and only you because he has no idea to live up to in your mind. You’re a blank slate. A new relationship. He doesn’t have to pretend to be strong around you. He can just be miserable in your presence and you let him and give him roasted hazelnuts sometimes and roasted hazelnuts remind him of his mom and that’s basically what your relationship boils down to. You’re the person that will stand next to the river with him and go “Damn dude that sucks do you want an egg”
Also he sends you bombs in the mail so he must know something about you. You must be chatting in universe. How else would he know that you have a use for bombs?
Bonus headcanon that Kent got dishonorably discharged for stealing bombs
[ID: tags by @/cityfey that says,
#kent: yeah i cant stand the sound of popcorn anymore #the farmer: damn lemme know if you’re gonna be by the mines then i keep blowing shit up in there #kent: oh no way do you want this bomb i have?
Edit: found the where. It’s Chaos (the song) im going to promptly ignore this
Yup… I am amending everything I have ever wrote about his eyes ever T_T
Welp it has been states in the game that he has more (“Eyes torn asunder” -Haro) so it contradics the game, plus we don’t know if the songs are canon relevant, maybe it’s a Steven Universe type of deal (for those who don’t know, Steven Universe has a series of comics, in some of wich are said things that contradict the series, in case the happens, Rebecca Sugar, the creator, said to obey the canon of the serie) and we should focus on the canon of one or the other (probably the game)
All of this to say: im going to absolutely ignore whatever was said in Chaos
Crying tears of joy…. in a knitting facebook group someone’s selling four balls of a discontinued yarn that I only have two balls of. And I havent touched them for ages because two balls wasnt enough for anything I wanted to make LMAO. Miracle of miracles!
THEYRE FROM THE SAME BATCH AS MINE TOO??
Reblog to find the discontinued yarn you need, in the correct dyelot.
if you are lucky you will love someone and their hair will thin and their breasts will sag and you will kiss them everywhere over and over again
I was having a conversation with someone who was lamenting over how to maintain attraction to our partners as their bodies change and age and feeling self conscious herself about that process and I was like. we should be so lucky as to see them through these many years as we are seen ourselves. Hope that helps u understand
A lot of people encourage trying to work it out, and that’s all fine and good, but sometimes there is no working it out and you don’t need to see a counselor to know that.
There are certainly many situations where someone has no need for a mediator to try and sew things back together for them. There are also times where there is no fixing the marriage because one or both parties have decided already they do not see the other as their partner anymore.
imagine if every chapter in a real book ended with an author’s note
“sorry guys i think that chapter kind of got away from me😅 if you see me projecting my own religious trauma onto these characters no you didn’t. but seriously that was more than 20 pages maybe i have issues lol… well the next one is a doozy. ivan will finally confront smerdyakov properly. stay tuned!”
“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.
“What’s with all the fucking gaijin in this area?” “Dude, don’t say that, use gaikokujin, it’s nicer.” “Oh, shit, right. What’s with all the fucking gaikokujin in this area?”
“The breaded pork cutlet bento box is like mega power. More than ramen. That’s accurate.”
all of them start dragging kiryu for his shitty cheap shirt for five minutes
“Shooting people sends a message.” “So does shooting anything.”
(after being told that massage parlors, mahjong, and hostess clubs were cut from the US version) “I feel sorry for the people who bought the American version. SEGA USA sucks.”
S: I don’t know any ex-yakuza running orphanages. K: There was one a few years ago. A good guy. M: You sure it wasn’t just a tax shelter? K: Sure it was a tax shelter but he ran it like a legitimate thing. You know.
“Author’s
note: A heated discussion takes place as to whether the game is
stereotyping the yakuza, which is resolved when Midoriyama, a
now-retired former mid-level faction boss,
points out
that the stereotypes about the yakuza are more or less correct, with the
exception of their alleged prowess in martial arts.“
i’ve seen these quotes a hundred times but never the full article — 200k notes and i’ve never seen someone mention the guy saying “they should let kiryu smoke meth”
i’ve been watching the trump rally at madison square gardens on youtube and its fucking unreal. first guy to speak is some comedian with the most bitter and humorless little laugh and he’s just throwing out every boring, cliched racist joke he can think of (“latinos have so many kids, they don’t pull out, they come inside…like they came in our country!” yes he actually said that) and the crowd response is like lukewarm at best at any of them.
Then the guy is like “yea trump got shot in the ear…which if you think about it is literally the coolest place to get shot” and the crowd is like literally silent
and then the next guy comes out and he’s a painter and he gives a little speech about how everybody said he was never going to make it as an artist because he was conservative and didn’t bow to the woke left. And now he’s going to do a live painting which is like okay.
So he starts painting on this big canvas and pretty soon it’s clear that he’s trying to paint an american flag or like part of an american flag, and he’s blocking in colors like purple, red, white, blue, orange okay and at first it seems like he could go back and blend it all in and make it look really good but then he starts just like smearing all over the canvas with his fingers and it becomes apparent that the painting just looks like ass actually and it’s going to look like ass for the foreseeable future
So then he like, peels back some masking tape or something that was on the canvas revealing a cutout of a black and white image of Trump…hugging the empire state building?
What
I forgot to mention that the comedian opened with an endorsement of mypillow
I vividly remember the Napster lawsuit and when downloading music became like, illegal illegal in 2001 or whatever and there was an article in some girly teen magazine my friend was subscribed to about a record company hitting a literal teenage girl with a multi-million dollar lawsuit to “set an example” so me and my other eight-year-old friends were terrified we’d be next but we didn’t stop.
literally risking it all for our Destiny’s Child/3 Doors Down/Britney Spears/Nelly mix CD
was thinking about infighting and like. they all see us the same. from the wildest queerest fagdyke to a cis gay guy. we are the same to them. the weird queers are not like. ruining your precious community. we’re a part of it
@ exclusionists:
We are all Faggots in the eyes of the Fash. Stand United or Die Separately.
truly few things are more sneer-worthy to me than a gay deeply invested in respectability and assimilation
Honestly after years of watching Ben Shapiro play the genuine good faith debater so his fans can talk about how smart and reasonable and fair he is before going back to his real persona on his show, it is amazing to see someone tear that shit apart while he could do nothing but grin and take it. He comes into these “debates” pretending to be nice and respectful while not truly respecting a single person he’s talking to, sneaking in insults whenever he can, and fully planning to laugh behind their backs for being so dumb as to think their opinions matter, and people have to take it because otherwise they look like the unreasonable ones. It’s all a con for his outrage grift machine, and not a single word of it is in good faith.
So this guy decided to take one for the team and give back overtly the same disrespect Shapiro was dealing covertly. He flipped the chair around to throw him off his game to start (getting Shapiro to praise his masculinity right before revealing he was trans), ripped apart his charade, gish galloped him into silence, and then topped the whole thing off by faking the handshake that Shapiro had been doing insincerely with every participant. All while Shapiro, because he has to play the role, can’t do a thing about it. Don’t know if he just saw one thing too many and pulled this all off the top of his head, or if he planned to make a fool of Shapiro from the jump and was just waiting for the right moment, but either way go off king.
This is a sincerely important video. He came in knowing EXACTLY how Shapiro plays the game and turned the whole thing on his head. The only way Shapiro could possibly look- not GOOD, certainly, but at least not WORSE- was to sit there and take it. Check fucking mate, THAT is hoe you outmaneuver a fucker. Hell fucking yeah
Fox news parents think every city is an active battleground at all times
I’ve said it before but it’s genuinely so insane to me, living in Chicago, that reactionaries are convinced this place is Mad Max or some shit. regardless of what neighborhood you’re in, even. I think if you sat one of them down and tried to explain that downtown Chicago is just office buildings and fancy bars, either their head would explode or they would accuse you of lying
I’ve lived in Chicago for over a decade now and my aunt and uncle are convinced that I am going to die in a riot. Before I blocked both of them on social media they’d constantly send me news articles about anything bad that happened “in Chicago.”
Places that were “Chicago” included:
Gary (Indiana)
Milwaukee (Wisconsin)
Madison (also Wisconsin)
The Twin Cities (Minnesota)
Fort Wayne (where they both live) (“STAY SAFE” “Aunt Tiffany what the hell are you talking about that’s where YOU LIVE”)
South Bend (Indiana)
East Chicago (that’s in Indiana btw)
Hammond (also Indiana)
Waukesha (Wisconsin)
Racine (the city in Wisconsin, not the blue line stop)
Inglewood (California) (Not Englewood, the neighborhood in Chicago)
Still images from various tv shows
Still images from the movie Chi-Raq (no, they did not see it, and explaining what the Lysistrata is to these people would have been pointless)
South Central LA in 1992 (during the George Floyd protests, my aunt texted me a youtube video she assumed was in Chicago) (it was the Rodney King riots)
