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I sometimes put additional "content" in the tags. Currently, I haven't worked out how to display them in theme yet. You used to be able to view them in the post source, but Tumblr has since started filtering tags that didn't seem like actual tags. Sorry for the inconvenience.
also if someone happens to have the Tumblr April Fools' hat and the ballpit saved, I'd like a copy, thank you in advance
just saw a chart with the gender options “male” “female” and “part-time/other” and i think i get what they were going for but i’m obsessed with the concept of part-time gender. clocking into my shift at the gender factory and brother i am not getting paid a living wage
We failed as a society when everyone stopped wearing headphones.
At my parents place with 2 children watching YT on tablets and 2 adults watching tiktoks and reels on their phones and trying not to summon a comically sized Loony Toons hammer out of my back pocket to smash them all.
she-ra is still so so funny to me like. as a concept
dreamworks/netflix/mattel: ok mr. stevenson, we’d like this reboot to be a fun kids show with a good story for the whole family and lots of nostalgia to bring in revenue for the franchise etc. sound good?
nate stevenson, planning a story in his head where pop culture icon & beloved 80s childrens hero She-Ra is a brainwashed christian imperialist soldier who has a sexuality crisis over her gay arch enemy for 5 seasons then kills god by kissing her: mhm yes absolutely
by the way i’m the reason why they send weathermen into hurricanes and shit. “it’s needless and dangerous!!!!!” i don’t care. every day i call into CNN and demand they send their most pathetic newscaster into a storm to watch them be knocked down by wave and wind and they sigh and say yes ma'am. and i do this all for nasty, sexual purposes, if you were wondering.
my favorite part of this post is people started tagging it with names of characters i’ve never heard of so i got curious and googled them and like a third are just tagging it as their local weatherman. very funny.
When I was a kid, I regularly lost reading privileges for “having an attitude” and “acting out”.
It wasn’t as simple as being told not to read during other activities- one of the first times it happened, I remember being six years old, watching my stepfather pull fistfuls of books off my bookshelf and throw them to the floor in a heaping mess while I cried and asked him to stop.
It was weird. Every other adult I knew described me as exceptionally well-behaved, but at home, it was the opposite, and it was blamed on “learning bad habits from that shit you’re reading”.
Because I couldn’t read at home, I spent all my free time at school in the library, reading with my friends.
When I grew up and moved away, I realized that my family life was toxic and abusive, and the “attitudes” I was being punished for were standing up for myself, standing up for my younger siblings, and resisting actual, real-life psychological abuse. Because I’d learned from what I’d read that my family wasn’t normal, not like my parents said it was, and in my stories, the heroes were the people who spoke out when it was hard to.
It is insane to me that there are students right now who can’t access books. It is insane that books are being outlawed. It is perverse that we are stealing away an entire generation’s ability to contextualize their lives, to learn about the world around them, to develop critical thinking skills and express themselves and feel connected to the world or escape from it, whatever and whenever and however they need.
That is not how you raise a compassionate, thoughtful, powerful society.
That’s how you process cattle.
It’s fucking disgusting.
It’s patriarchal fascism. If children don’t have a frame of reference for “normal” beyond what the Authority chooses to give them, they won’t object when the Authority does something abnormal (or fascist)
To expand on the crumbling of the patriarchal edifice of the family.
If society agrees that children can know themselves, and have a right to self determination…. Everything else that Conservatives argue they have a right to exert over children crumbles. As just two examples….
ALL corporal punishment rightfully becomes recognised for the assault it is.
Failure to appropriately consider the wishes of children in medical care and provide information in an age appropriate way is recognised as child abuse and malpractice.
Children are entire people, they deserve all of the rights, privileges and protections afforded to adults.
