chizuu:

lynxstorm27:

chizuu:

chizuu:

i genuinely hope anyone ages 13-15 on this website (or, god forbid, younger) stays safe and keeps their private information secure and really private 

please, if you’re really young on tumblr, try not to get swept up in the discourse and the tremendous amount of arguing with strangers that goes on here. i know you probably feel mature for your age but this website, like, really psychologically affects youth, and i encourage you to be cautious about your interactions with people on here

 please, kiddos, stay safe

additionally, for my young, non-adult followers,

  • depression memes about wanting to die aren’t a healthy coping mechanism and can lead to worsening symptoms of your own mental health if overindulged in
  • you are not garbage. or trash. i know these terms are popular on here, but you shouldn’t be calling yourself that. you have everything you need inside of you to become your best self, even if it’s hard to see that
  • seriously, really don’t trust adults who want to date you. don’t trust adults who call you hot, flirt with you, ask you sexual questions, or ask you for nudes. (that last one is VERY illegal, also, please get help from a trusted non-creepy adult if this happens to you)
  • the opinions of complete strangers who aren’t interacting with you typically aren’t worth it. move on, use the block button. it’s not worth engaging with people who are going to make you feel awful or unsafe
  • take breaks from tumblr if it’s getting really stressful for you. talk to friends if you’ve got em, play a videogame or do whatever it is that can take your mind off the massive amounts of Hell on this website
  • recovery is good. it’s really, really good. if you’re having mental health issues, please seek out help if you can, or ask a trusted adult or friend for guidance. you are not alone. don’t let this website make you feel like you are

Thank you for not just insulting us and telling us to get off the website. I appreciate this so much.

of course! i was a kid on the internet starting really young (AKA a 9-year old lying to get on 13+ websites lol, definitely wasn’t a good idea but it happened nevertheless) and i know the Growing Up Online™ experience. if you’re gonna be on tumblr, be on here the safe way! 

and definitely be safe from creepy adults, seriously. & safety privacy matter a lot for young people!

^^^ seriously for any younger followers, this hell site can be super toxic, in ways that are different from other social media. I engage in discourse but only on my terms and with boundaries. If a stranger pushes those boundaries I don’t hesitate to block them. If a person I sorta know pushes those boundaries, I tell them where I draw that line. If they continue, I block. Even with that I sometimes need to step back and get offline for awhile, or use a sideblog with no discourse. You don’t need to use Tumblr for anything specific, it can be somewhere to escape from the outside world for a bit, it can be for discourse, it can be for your hobbies/fandoms. It doesn’t have to be stressful. Your boundaries and safety deserve to be respected, and you don’t have to give your time or energy to ppl on this site at all, especially if they aren’t respecting you or your safety. (That being said please also respect others’ boundaries and safety)

sueanoi:

lilbit4point0:

avatar-dacia:

avatar-dacia:

bitterclexa:

Don’t go praising Korra and Asami’s progressiveness by mentioning only Korra as a poc and failing to acknowledge that Asami’s a poc as well

In case it’s not sinking in: no one in the Avatarverse is white, full stop.  Anyone who’s pale-skinned is coded as eastern Asian. 

And yes, this still applies even if they have auburn hair or whatever.  Pigment mutations laugh at your ethnocentrism.

Reblog to make a fandom racist cry.

#her fucking name is asami sato#that’s a japanese-ass name

Uhh…. no one in this series is coded Caucasian?????? In the first place????????? How can anyone be confused I can’t-

Anyway, let us Asians have some cool characters to relate to, ’m Kay?

rainboflg:

liberalsarecool:

Brett had a job interview. He yelled, he cried, he claimed conspiracies, he talked over everyone, he whined he was a victim.

*checks job requirements*

Um, you failed.

Epic fail

Like tbh, I can understand when he cried in his opening statement, talking about his young daughters and how they’ve been handling all this. I think it’s really unfortunate that theyve had to witness this fucking mess, not to mention the hell Dr Ford’s family has been through. But his consistent interruptions and then demands to finish his own sentences, his belligerent yelling, his fillibustering on yes or no questions, his general refusal to answer questions directly, his insinuations that Dr Ford was just a pawn (and thereby we should just ignore her and the situation and focus on partisan issues), his repeated circular references to his academic record and how he played sports (honestly very reminiscent of all those school athletes let off the hook on account of their “bright futures”), his contradictions of his own statements and quotes, and his clear attempts at derailing the whole trial were all disgraceful. He was entirely unprofessional, especially when juxtaposed with Dr Ford’s equally emotional but respectful and composed testimony. Either he was lying under oath, or he can’t handle any pressure, and either way that does not bode well for a prospective Supreme Court Justice.

blackbearmagic:

all the Republican senators: I BELIEVE in you, I BELIEVE in your innocence, this is a SHAME and a SMEAR CAMPAIGN, and everyone is being a STUPID DOODOO MEANIE HEAD to you, I RESPECT you so MUCH

all the Democratic senators: sir will you please answer my question with a yes or no, that is literally all I am asking

One of the worst ones in terms of irony, imo: when Harris (after previous yes or no questions he kept fillibustering) asked if Kav thought men could be friends with some women and violent towards others. And he said yes. And then went on to describe all the women he was friends with since he was 14

miriastar:

Ignoring that racism and classism play an integral role in climate change is ignoring a fundamental part of the problem. Trying to say that massive corporations are denying global warming out of ignorance instead of out of calculated, profit-driven cruelty is trying to take away the root of this situation- that corporations and the 1% directly benefit from the suffering and oppression of poor POC affected most by climate change.

avaeryn:

arse-moriendi:

bogleech:

bogleech:

gothvegas:

fleetwoodbrak:

I thought there would be some twist to this article but no it was really just as mean and pretentious as it sounds

Oh my god who fucking wrote this

Everyone I know treasures what they drew as children once they’re all grown up and is glad if their family hung onto it

The final lines just viscerally disgust me here:

“
There’s a point, perhaps around the age of 7, when memory takes over and
a self-history starts, where children themselves decide what’s
important to them and what isn’t. Of course, you shouldn’t throw
something away that your kids say they want to keep. But absent that
urge, and particularly in the early years before it develops, most
children’s art exists to be destroyed.

“

For one thing, who the F U C K thinks children only becomes conscious of themselves and forming solid memories after seven years old?! Shouldn’t you be able to remember at least ages 3-5 like you can any other period in your life??

Second, the things created before that period are still probably the most important and amazing of all. Those are the relics of what your brain was like when it was brand new. I can’t think of many things more special to a human life than the window that offers.

Eventually, if you’ve looked at it often enough, the art becomes pitiful, emptied of meaning. It remains, at best, a sign that the child has moved on to another equally ephemeral moment of her life, already coloring on something else.

So basically, your kids won’t remain little forever, therefore their art is a temporary thing, and temporary things have no value. Good to know, you goddamn robot powered by human tears. 

You convince yourself there’s some future where your child will want to return to that moment of pride and love through the act of witnessing the thing she made so long ago.

Don’t fall for it. You’re only trying to make yourself feel better.

They seem to be trying to convince themselves that children below seven don’t have thoughts or feelings, which is very worrying.

Seriously, this reads like the mommy blogger a few years back whose monomaniacal focus on “decluttering” her children’s toys were so clearly the result of undealt-with issues. How fucking sad is this:

Real art gives you tools for reflection. But there wasn’t anything left of myself to reckon with in my old art, because the papers I had cast marker or crayon upon at age 5 had never really contained that kind of artistry or inspiration.

“Remember Tiffany, if every paper you draw on isn’t a masterpiece, into the trash it goes.”

 I never felt as fucking free as when I was doing art as a small child, as confident, as creative. For someone to think of their own childhood art like this makes me legitimately sad, and indicates the kind of values instilled in them from an early age. Just because it wasn’t a heavily symbolic masterpiece didn’t meant it had no goddamn value, jesus christ.

I saw this article and the other day and thank you for putting into words all my icky feelings about it. it just felt wrong. and now I know why. if anyone needs a bunch of “who hurt you” memes sent to them…its the author of that article.

This is absolute horseshit. My dad kept a drawing I did for him from when I was like 2 or 3, and it was pinned on the cubicle board of his office till he retired. He still has it in his room. It looks like a big fat pickle with eyes and a squiggle for a mouth. And some sticks for legs. And it’s green and terrible. But I love that he kept it and I love that I can look at it and see how little me analyzed what a human looks like and tried to replicate it on paper. I love that he kept it on display at work for like 20 years after it was relevant to the art I was making. Even when I was majoring in fine art, it was there. I may not remember the exact pride and love I felt when I made it. But I know the current love and warmth I feel now about all that is really important to me