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feelingthedisaster · 3 months

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where are all my people (closeted aroace girls whose parents think they are a lesbian bc they lack interest in men)?

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shallowspocketdimension · 11 months

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FYI just want people to know that the abbreviation of Omegaverse with and without the slashes is a very real world derogatory slur that has been hurled towards Indigenous Aboriginal Australians for centuries. I obviously understand not everyone is fully aware of Australia's history of institutionalized racism, genocide of traditional land owners and the stolen generation etc., but seeing the Omegaverse abbreviation everywhere is genuinely frustrating especially when people are ignorant to the actual serious implications of the word when put into a different cultural context.

EDIT: it should be noted that is also frustrating that people outside of Australia don't really know much about it's racist history (which is no fault of their own, hell even my education on Australian history back in primary school was abysmal and never mentioned the countless genocides the English settlers caused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people during colonization), but that's a whole other wider conversation - and even then you should be looking for Indigenous Aboriginal Australian and Torres Strait Islander Voices if you want learn about Australia's history.

#i'm pretty sure aboriginal australians in fandom have been saying this for YEARS but obviously people ignore them #due to fandom racism or just plain ignorant that fandom isn't an america only thing.#racism tw #auspol #omegaverse #ok to reblog #if it looks and sounds like a slur it most likely is one!#omegaverse tw #added edit because i realise that it's also frustrating that people outside Australia don't really know about said country's racist history #obviously thats part of a wider conversation of history education and how we should learn more about other countries in school #i get university and college cover that but people don't know that until their either go to uni or find out that info about other countries #through endless wikipedia article searches #this also doesn't even cover how people are actively re-writing or whitewashing history in educational settings #to push a specific (usually conservative alt right) agenda

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electrobiology · 3 months

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this is going to be an annoying rant so feel free to ignore it but so actually are there no good universities in all of the united states that don't leave you in lifelong debt?????? like hello???????? everywhere i look at that seems interesting and doesn't have reviews talking about how no one cares about you and you're on your own the entire time you're there or the staff/students are -ist/-phobic or no one does work and just goes to parties or other such things they're talking about the expenses. i want a degree because i need one if i want to do anything but i don't know if i want it enough to be in debt for my whole life. and why is the us like this. i just want to go somewhere else this country does not seem worth it to me. i want to go back in time and find a way to sink every european colonizer ship that landed on the land of the americas

#genuinely the more i look at college prices the more reasonable it feels to just go overseas somewhere instead... japan #if i'm gonna be paying at LEAST 15000 a semester wherever i go why don't i go do that in japan where i'm actually passionate about the #language and have reasons to use it and a potential to do something with it and can get places without a car and. etc #and the 15000 semester is a 15000 YEAR #only reasons the idea of being in america has ever appealed in the slightest to me is that it's a little easier to be openly queer #in certain places. not all of them!#and it's probably one of the most racially diverse places #whenever i look online people say that degrees in japan aren't worth anything but i feel that might just be them being racist #surely there are numerous people who went and got degrees in japan and are living happily. and idk bc they aren't on reddit #or posting on blogs or anything #god i feel UGHHHHH i hate everything #i know that as a Country with History japan is not particularly better than the us i know #but it's just the small things like being able to get places w/o cars and not have to pay an arm and a leg to heal like a small cut i got #that needs to be stitched. or not paying my whole body to pay off the debt of going to college because getting an education is #just not what they. want from you. they want your soul and your entire life in their hands #why am i living in this world #1 am thoughts i know but god

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the-trans-dragon · 6 months

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Y'know it was REALLY goddamn evil and nefarious that the oil fields gave my mom (a single mom working 3 jobs to raise 2 kids) a single $5,000 check in exchange for her signing a nondisclosure to never complain about them.

Of course we fucking took the money. Even with her working 1 full-time job and 2 part-time jobs, she barely made over $1,000 a month. Of course she took the money. We though about moving but we still couldn't afford it. She was so frugal with it, though. It did give us a sliver of financial security for years.

But goddamn. $5,000 is table scraps to them, and they bought her silence with it because she couldn't refuse the chance to slightly lessen the weight of poverty on her family.

#sorenhoots #i remember i was like 11 or something. she didnt know if she should sign it. and its not like we had or knew any lawyers. she had ME read it #over and even i was like “this is a nondisclosure and it means you cant ever talk about anything they do even if they do something terrible”#i recall being very proud of myself for knowing what a NDA was. lord knows where my middle-school self learned that from. she did eventually #have a lawyer of some sort look over it and they said the same thing but.... $5000 #it wasnt an option for her. that was more money than wed ever had or saved. she had two kids who would need cars bc we lived so far in the #country. she knew i wanted to go to college. i dont think i ever saw her buy herself clothes before then either. it was money for emergencys #and necessities and birthday presents and road trips and... i often wondered about the person who offered us that. i wondered where they #lived and wondered how much their clothes costed and wondered if their kids got to have art or piano lessons. i wondered if their home was #over 80 degrees in the summer and under 60 in the winter and if they lived in a house that wasnt filled with dangerous spiders (we had nice #spiders too but we did also have Very Dangerous Spiders) and id picture him in his office in a button up and slacks and it would break my #heart that my mom couldnt have all of that. we just had a $5000 check and a vow to not complain.#she still feels earthquakes from it. less nowdays but still. and sometimee it still smells like a jar of hot petroleum jelly. and the attic #smell is worse than ever and the tap water smells like sulfur and wet mold #goddamn what the fuck? jesus christ. she should move.

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crowleystolemyshoes · 7 months

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so I don't know if it's just because my fiancé is in tiktok holes or if this is actually a thing people are talking about a lot, but holy fucking shit this is not the year to refuse to vote for the democratic nominee. biden isn't great. biden is actively funding a genocide. but we live in a two party system, only five third party candidates have ever gotten ANY electoral votes. you are coming from a good place, but all this will do is split the democratic vote while republicans vote along party lines. this is how trump or desantis win the election (and I guarantee you they will provide even more funding for israel). please go read project 2025, and ask if you want it or not.

#holy fucking shit this terrifies me #oh god #look if a president who is pro project 2025 is elected my partner and I are just fucked #I don't know how to emphasize it enough we're disabled trans queer people and he's Black. we would be so so sosoososo fucked #and we can't afford to leave this country until I graduate college so please? vote for the democrat?

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hiddenbysuccubi · 2 days

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Okay I'm going to say it. The MOST unrealistic thing about Supernatural are the motels in the show. The driving. Can't just show up anywhere in America with 30$ and a prayer anymore.

#I'm so not kidding I grew up travelling and so I remember travelling pre phones pre GPS #Got a small taste between HS and College before Airbnb hit #Now it's a very depressing nightmare #Most hotels cannot book directly in person or have much higher rates than online from 3rd party sites #Some hotels won't even have a receptionist available unless you booked ahead #Most you have to let them know what 'window' you'll be arriving #and absolutely none of them are under 50$ even in the middle of nowhere -#but ALSO in the middle of nowhere some states car sleeping is illegal even if you need just 6hrs to be safely rested to drive again #Tumblr talks about how USA people don't travel #or they do but inside the country because our nation is That Big #but honestly travel isn't affordable or looked at favorably unless #you can afford to do it the 'acceptable' way #I think I should have been born even 5 years earlier #I'm still very much a liberal but as I've gotten older I've gotten sick of infrastructure housing rates phones hustle culture nightly renta #surveillance states etc etc #no wonder I miss Montana but even West and Bozeman are becoming worse... sigh

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jesterthebestsir · 2 months

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People, especially notable ones who big in communities and fandoms, need to be careful these days!

Who knows what a complete stranger could be doing

#jestertalks #feeling silly!!!!#obsessive actions #obsession #it took me one Google Search to find out the High School and College they used to go to and I'm sure if I looked far enough I would've foun #more #I don't even like them romantically I just think they're neat and that their voice is super cool #So far I only got the country they live in and the state #This is PUBLIC INFORMATION

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dykekakashi · 1 year

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sorry just been seeing a weird backlash against academics from leftists too like was the right-wing backlash not enough lol. i'm not sure when professors became a ideologically homogeneous group intent on upholding """cultural hegemony""" for either political side. like sorry but nobody reads academic monographs except for other college students/faculty omg ......... and whatever influence they actually have in the classroom is probably overstated

#also from experience. most college students don't read academic monographs either #like literally most students don't do the fucking readings it's goddamn exhausting #as a TA they literally don't do the work but i am FORCED to give them As and Bs and summarize the material for them #because if these lazy rich and middle class kids don't get their degrees it looks BAD for the uni #like criticize academia all you want but frankly the administration and class barrier system in place is the problem. it is Not professors #who are barely making a living wage and fighting over the 3 tenure track positions in the country at any given minute

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corvidaedream · 1 year

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delightful experience w guests where there was a young man traveling from hamburg, and later, a group of older guys came in and sat down, and mentioned they were from "just outside hamburg" and I was like oh, are you with that gentleman over there? bc its not uncommon for someone to show up to the seating period to hold a spot for friends or family who are still in the bathroom or the gift shop or something, but they said, no

but all the same they went over and introduced themselves and seemed to appoint him as an honorary member of their group, and were, like, including him in their vacation photos, and im very charmed by that

#messages from the ouija board #sadies day job #this happens occasionally where guests will overhear that they are from the same place and strike up conversations #i also always ask where theyre from & what brings them to boston bc it establishes rapport and also im nosy #and sometimes i can give u a specific card based on ur answer which people seem to like #like if someone is in town for work or looking at colleges i ask about their job/#/intended major/etc and then try to give them someone w a similar job #and i have a lot of good little jokes for peoples responses #rn im trying to memorize the leaders of countries in 1773 starting w the ones we get guests from most frequently #which is harder than u think bc it involves so much memorizing what present day countries were called then and what empires/kingdoms etc #though rn we're mostly getting american & french & japanese tourists lately and i know all of those

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honkaidiva · 4 months

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just got a text trying to get me to join the marines ive always known its crazy fucked up that they give out college money for service but god. thats so fucked.

#'ever looked into the military to help pay for college' this country is evil. so deeply evil

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hollowsart · 2 years

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hmm.. cowboy.. shocker..

puts the shock gauntlets on his hips like a pair of big irons and stuffs his hands into them quickly to shoot at his targets like he were in a western showdown.

#Ghostie mumbles #I want him to have a hat on at almost all times. and I can't decide on a coat style for him.. hmm..#why make him look like he just got out of his basement with some college project arm pieces and a quilted down jacket/vest? boring #dude wore a cowboy hat in tssm. let's double down on that. loved that so much. my beloved dumb country boy

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elytrafemme · 8 months

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whenever i talk positively abt college i do need a caveat that my university itself is hellish and isn't dystopian but feels adjacent due to [redacted] being so close by & the administration sucks. also i feel like it's giving me a chance to actually be a person without the shadow of trauma right behind me so even as i'm mentally ill and actively trying to protest my university it is actually so fucking freeing that what happened when i was 15 is not something people just know about. like these people don't have the knowledge that i disappeared during COVID and came back entirely different and Better but clearly haunted. these people only know the issues i have that i choose to divulge and it's almost easier to hide it because i'm not in classes for eight hours. i finally feel intelligent because i'm not going home and collapsing from exhaustion to the point i can't do anything; i can actually do work and be productive bc i'm only in class a bit and studying things that matter.

college is expensive and shitty and elitist and i do not love my university but i love being in college so much because it just works better for my brain and like. it's been so long since i've felt people just liking me without this haunting element of weird trauma sharing shit or homoromanticism or past histories. it's a complete clean state. and people still like me. it's so fucking healing is what it is

#nightmare.personal #that's why i talk abt it so much why i like looking at my 4 year plan why i've BEEN talking abt it since before i was here #the university system of this country starts and i could go on about it for fucking hours #and i recognize that like my university is genuinely so tied to settler colonialism and just.#they fucking armed our police and ignore the student body and i hate them so badly #but also. hey. i feel like i'm actually alive. and not living on borrowed time #and some of the people here are really amazing actually and. :')#i have independence i have freedom i'm not just the mentally ill girl i have a LIFE #(that being said being mentally ill is kind of shitty in college but im having a good day so dw abt it)#idk. idk. i feel like i got a second chance of life when i turned 16 #and i'm just. healing and healing and healing.#after being underwater my entire fucking life before that.

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tillman · 1 year

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Sorry if u couldnt tell by me playing a video game for longer than 3 hours I have received some news that could possibly harm me ! 👍

#looks around. is all I can say.#worse than being forced to move across the country and being kicked from college too. wow. what a month for me.#txt

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traitorsinsalem · 2 years

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listening to a white girl give a slideshow presentation about apologetic customs in japanese (11 slides), chinese (both mando and canto combined into 1 slide), and south korean (3 slides) while just spouting generalizations should be a jarring experience but hearing this sort of thing at least once every 3 days while attending a liberal arts college makes none of this is surprising at all whatsoever.

#succ speaks #putting romanizations and no japanese or chinese characters or korean letters on the slideshow is the funniest part. no tones on the chines #this is a linguistics course you don't need to italicize non-english words also just use ipa if you're going to romanize it's a ling class #like 'having never been to any of these countries' makes sense as a college ling course at least #this isn't even a linguistics presentation. this is an intentionally satiric vocab lesson.#like sure mispronouncing mando and kr when it's romanized makes sense but romanized japanese man....#saying towards the end 'sorry if this sounded like sandpaper to your ears' and the viet guy attending class...#...looking at me w an exaggerated cringe like he just ate a lemon and me doing a 'no bitches'-esque face =the only thing to come out of thi #the following pres sounds super cool + interesting tho. about the history of american english legal jargon.

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dudefrommywesterns · 9 months

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i find that i want to see more religious services anyway. just for like...knowledge purposes

#typewriter dings #i would've gone to our local synagogue but you have to be a member #and membership requires swearing loyalty to israel (i looked on their website as to not show up disrespectfully)#and i refuse to swear loyalty to any country #especially any i don't live in #i want to see how other people worship #i should call the sikh temple and schedule a visit there #we were going to for a project i did at community college but we didn't get the chance

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randomcollection-o-stuff · 2 years

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Little did my marine policy professor know that she will be sent in an assignment detailing my anger towards monopolies and oligopolies and how they pollute and have extremely unethical practices towards the environment and their workers today. ::)

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