Heracleum Mantegazzianum

time to make a post on tumblr. surely no one will interpret it to be as offensive and bad intentioned as possible.

It all comes down to children as property instead of people, doesn’t it? They’re trying to protect their kids from being damaged not in the sense of “afraid and confused”, but in the sense of “my property disagrees with me and might be less willing to submit”.

I've never thought of it that way but you're so right! Never even occurred to me because I do in fact see my child for what she is, a human being with thoughts and feelings and opinions

there is a very fine line between good chai and air freshener

Smell also doesn't always work! Sometimes you smell it and it seems really good, but then you take a sip and guess what. Air freshener.

Unfortunately discovered that horchata, the greatest drink known to man, also suffers from this if made badly enough.

men will say shit like "well i get to behave this way because of my unprocessed trauma" and then not process their trauma

they're going to do it in the notes of this post

This is what I love about photojournalism. It is just a history of moments where human beings have gone “I know I should really be hauling ass out of here but I have to get a picture of this”

Something I really struggle to get people to understand is that like. Sometimes there was no intentional homoerotic subtext, the author was just extremely misogynistic. Sometimes the author wasn't "secretly shipping" those two men, the author literally just hates women so much that they see them as being literally incapable of relationships with depth. Like this is kind of a big thing with misogyny actually. A lot of extremely misogynistic people truly believe that a man can only have meaningful and complex relationships with other men because they literally just think women are so inferior they only exist to birth children and clean the house. It's like when people say along the lines of "no one worships exclusively men quite like straight men do". It's just that phenomenon actually. That happens to be manifesting in a raging misogynist's writing. Writing a man character who literally only puts effort into his friendships with other men while completely ignoring his literal girlfriend or wife is actually an extremely straight thing to write. And that doesn't mean you can't ship those men or that there are no stories with actual intentional homoerotic subtext. I just think it's important to be able to recognize extreme misogyny in writing and acknowledge it without brushing it off and assuming good intentions when literally all evidence is screaming that this was a misogynistic writing choice and not a representing gay men choice.

I miss when the national weather service was staffed and funded. Now the weather alerts are like “There is a slight chance of a massive thunderstorm with hail and 60 mile per hour winds capable of knocking out the power grid. Slight. Might happen, might not. We’re not God, we don’t know.”

I know a lot of girls who want to look mechanical and get ball joints and stuff. and that's what they define as "doll" aesthetics but. I've always been more into. ugh y'know Frankenstein? a body made up of disparate parts, held together with stitches? I identify more with that kind of thing. something like a rag doll, the colours not quite matching, new patches stitched over any holes. idk. idk. that's me

they took me apart and put me back together and I've been adjusting things bit by bit ever since and I'm covered in stitches but it's the best I can do.

I think we need to kill the sentiment that people lose their right to personhood once they do something bad enough

Unchecked and fear-driven dehumanization is the brick foundation for fascism.