#we arent

[jessiesjaded]

A saying I've heard one million times over the years that drives me absolutely fucking crazy is "Australia has no culture. A bowl of yogurt has more culture than Australia haha" We quite literally have the oldest continuous culture on earth. The oldest. But none of you cunts think of Indigenous people EVER so guess it doesn't exist then <3

#its always fucking british cunts too #like newsflash We have your culture too #and we do it better than you but <3 #like if you want to shit talk white australia fine whatever #but stop acting like we are a monolith and we are only white #WE ARENT #Aboriginal people have been erased enough everyone could at least acknowledge them now

[barnbridges]

every time i hear someone be like "im eastern european" and then they never talk about their home country or culture with any sort of pride or belonging im like are you actually an american bot thanks

#like americans obviously fucking hate diaspora we know its oh you have to be a “real” irish or “real” italian #but somehow saying youre “eastern european” like where from hon #i dont have a problem with people self id-ing as eastern european i use that label a lot #i dont wanna nelly ciobanu all the mountains all the sead dance the hora from moldova every goddamn day #because its sometimes not pertinent #the same way i dont give a shit sometimes if a mutual is from the us state of delaware if they say something about american news #but at the same time you do not get to both #be whitewashed as shit #and have takes about eastern european minorities or oh im Eastern European what are you babe #are you east german commie are you polish are you romanian who the fuck are you #i really want to know #because while eastern european is fine when we're talking about the economy or a general culture of ppst communism #we arent #babe #are you from the baltics or croatia

[strikes-in-boots]

Someone put up a neon sign in our room an' I've been tryna figure out who did it for the past few hours...guess we'll never know

#sighs... #yall prolly think we're the only people in this sys #we arent #i just dont see the point in postin bout other people #dunno what ta tag this but i guess its kinda a sys thin' so ill tag it with that #fictives #system stuff #plural system #plurality #did alter #did system #introject #fictive #if for sum reason ya read through the tags hiya #i hope yer doin' well! #❤❤❤

[ggriwm]

i just recieved this amazing text

thank you god for sending me this amazing bsf

#i swear we are ok #we arent #i love cloud strife #i love gojo yo wai moe #shitpost.me

[inkskinned]

what is with men being mad any time a woman raises her voice where did that even come from. someone posted a video of a small electrical explosion, and the top comment was of course the woman screams. the second comment is women try not to scream challenge, level impossible. i had to go back and watch the video again. there is, somewhat fainty, a little gasp emitted off-camera, more of a yelp than a scream. it is mostly lost in the crack of the explosion. afterwards, you hear her voice, shaken, say, are you okay?

i am helping one of my friends train her voice pitch lower, because she wants to be taken seriously at work. she and i do each other's nails and talk about gender roles; and how - due to our appearance - neither of us have ever been able to be "hysterical" in public. we both appear young and sweet and feminine. she is cisgender, and cannot use her natural voice in her profession because people keep saying she appears to be "vapid". we both try to figure out if our purposeful voice lowering is technically sexist. is it promoting something when you are a victim to it?

a storm almost sends a pole through a car window. in the dashcam, you can hear the woman passenger say her partner's name twice, crying out in alarm. she sounds terrified. in the comments, she is lambasted for her lack of calm. how is that even fucking helping?

in high school, i taught myself to have a lower voice. i had been recorded when i was genuinely (and righteously) upset; and i hated how my voice sounded on the phone speakers when it was played back. i was defending my mom, and my voice cracked with emotion. it meant i was no longer winning the argument: i was just shrieking about it.

girls meet each other after a long summer and let out a little joyful scream. this usually stops around 12-14, because people will not tolerate this display of affection (as it has the effect of being passingly annoying). something about the fact that little girls can't ever even be annoying. we are trained to examine each part of our lives (even joy) for anything that could make us upsetting and disgusting. they act like teenage girls are breaking into houses and shrieking you awake at 3 in the morning. speaking as a public school educator: trust me, it's not that bad, you can just roll your eyes and move on. it does not compare to the ways boys end up being annoying: slurs in graffiti, purposefully mocking your body, following you after you said no. you know, just boy things.

there's another video of a man who is not allowed to yell in the house, so he snaps his fingers when he's excited about soccer. the comments are full of angry men, talking about how their brother is unfairly caged. let him express himself and this is terrible to do to someone. eventually the couple has to address it in a second video: they are married with a newborn baby. he was trying not to wake the infant up. there is no comment on the fact women are not allowed to yell indoors. or the fact that it could have been really alarming or triggering for his wife. sometimes i wonder if straight men even like women, if they even enjoy being in relationships with them.

for the longest time, i hated roller coasters because it always felt inappropriate and uncomfortable for me to scream. one of my friends called me on it, said it was unusual i'm so unwilling. i had to go to my therapist about it. i don't like to scream because i was not raised in a safe situation, and raising my voice would have brought unsafe attention towards me. even when i am supposed to scream, it feels shameful, guilty. i was not treated kindly, so i lack a basic form of self-protection. this is not a natural response. it is not good that in a situation of high adrenaline - i shut up about it.

something very bad is happening, i think. in between all the beauty standards and the stuff i've already discussed - this one feels new and cruel in a way i can't quite express. yes, it's scary and silencing. but there's something about how direct it is - that so many men agree with the sentiment that women should never yell, even in an emergency - it feels different.

is the word shriek gendered automatically? how about shrill or screech? in self defense class, one of the first things they tell you is to yell, as loud and as shrilly as you can. they say it will feel rude. most women will not do this. you need to practice overcoming the social pressure and just scream.

most women do not cry out, even when it's bad. we do not report it. we walk faster. we do not make a scene. what would be the point of doing anything else? no matter what we do, we don't get taken seriously. it is a joke to them. an instagram caption punchline. we have to present ourselves as silent, beautiful, captivating - "valuable."

a woman is outside watching her kids when someone throws a firecracker at them. she screams and runs towards her children. in the comments, grown men flock together in the thousands: god. women are so annoying.

#warm up #writeblr #this one has bothered me for a bit #any time a woman does something even passingly annoying we treat it like a fucking crime #hey man. women are allowed to be annoying. everyone forever is allowed to be passingly annoying #as long as they aren't hurting anyone/thing #like u wanna know something? i find it super annoying that men don't wear seatbelts #why arent there thousands of comments on driving videos thats just like : men try not to die in a car crash challenge #''this briefly annoyed me''. okay??????? AND????????????????? go get ur self a cookie and calm down about it #ur not entitled to control other ppl's experiences and emotions just so u can maintain ur own peace #if being briefly annoyed ruins ur whole day! you! need! therapy!!!! #men try not to become immediately angry about nothing challenge: level impossible #ps author is nonbinary. we didn't even get into the gender presentation thing #the fact men think it's SEXY that my voice is on the lower end....

[altem1e]

cause we're gonna get on league

we arwnt

#we arent #push 2 talk #lovesick ; guav

[devilfruitdyke]

we need to destroy the idea that girls should wear makeup. normalize bare faces on prom queens and flower girls and cheerleaders. no products at all instead of '7 product simple makeup routine.' no more 10 step skincare and regular facials and dermablading and gua sha just to be comfortable with yr natural face. i want to see eye bags on the funny librarian and acne on the swim coach and wrinkles on all our adult role models. i want to see a 16 year old girl that has never tried putting on eyeshadow. i want to see a 7 year old girl who doesn't have to go out and buy powder for her dance recital. i want to see trans women and girls everywhere to never have to wear makeup, regardless of how well they 'pass.' no more 'contouring to look masc' either. a post-beauty industry world is possible

reblogs are on but if you bring up the stage makeup point that i have addressed three times yr blocked on sight ☹️

#this is me warding myself against the b arbie m ovie shitstorm. </3 #too many teenage girls have had 'bimbo feminist' thrust upon them by the attention economy + consumer-feminist culture #its ok to just be fucking lame. like you can still be fem/me and stuff while doing it #there is a world where you can feel comfortable in yrself even if you arent Aesthetic #the makeup industry is trying to hinder this tho #plus i saw that post thats like. 'the reason we see a lot of casual pseudo-gender-essentialist and choice feminism rhetoric... #... is because we have fewer posts now that have basic feminist messages' #that resonated so i am the change i want to see in the world #i wanna try and make a r iot g rrrl masterpost for anyone getting into that side of things later so lmk if you want to see it

[abstractfrog]

There's something on this ship that's so bad the TARDIS ran away?

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #wild blue yonder spoilers #14th doctor #donna noble #hey guys did we all have fun with the episode haha!!!! #im really proud of this u should reblog it. <3 #cw body horror #cw scopophobia #im not sure this is body horror exactly but people arent usually that big and idk what else to call it #pats art #patsart #Doctor who fanart

[sirenetica]

Get a load of these dudes!

+ some silly romance-y stuff

#“hey we should totally post more about our fantrolls on our secondary blog bc people are excited and youre excited” #“hm true but also remember our hyperfixation spinwheel?” #“yea?” #“Freddys time” #“what” #“feddy time” #sundrop #fnaf sun #moondrop #fnaf dca #dca fandom #daycare attendant #fnaf daycare attendant #eclipse fnaf #sun fnaf #moon fnaf #ik sundrop & moondrop arent their actual names its more for tagging sake #these are done in part because Ive been drafting up a fic.. for the them #and also because again #my hyperfixations kind of claw for the mantle all the time #my art #art #artwork

[skeletood]

i've been sitting on a lot of disgrub related art.

no, context will not be provided (probably)

#homestuck #disgrub #john egbert #dave strider #jake english #aranea serket #aradia megido #a skele fanart #my art #my very favorite part of rping these characters at any point and with any plot we like #is the fact we get these hidden gems of dynamics that nobody wouldve seen coming #the fact that aranea and dave arent as good of friends in canon as they are in our lore deeply upsets me

[ryssbelle]

Drew a bunch of Marinettes in a bunch of different artists styles it was a lot of fun!!

Artists who's styles I mimicked: @buggachat @hamsternamedmarinette @ladybeug @sabertoothwalrus and @anna-scribbles all epic artists 🤟😎

#my art #marinette dupain cheng #miraculous ladybug #miraculous fanart #style mimic #sorry for the @s btw #yall should go follow those artists if you dont already also #this was sort of inspired by a post the three artists on the top row made #i think they all got together and drew with one another #which is really cool #but i was genuinely confused because i mimic styles a lot #and ive seen others do it too so i was just like #wow they really know each others styles really well #until i thought about it and read their posts some more #style mimicking is really freaking fun and i think its really good practice #and a good way to explore other ways of doing things #like you really have to learn new techniques and get out of your comfort zone #also anna scribbles i could not find a recent pic of marinette in her main outfit #so thats the only marinette i drew in different clothes cuz i couldnt find a more recent ref of you drawing it #anna scribble marinette has privileges thats the others dont #but ye #i also threw my own style in there as a frame of reference to what me draw like #ive drawn marinette before just not in a loooong while #sabertooth walrus was the hardest for me to mimic cuz they have a broad range in their style #so its like which sabertooth do i wanna be in this pic #Buggachat has such a distinct style thats very clean and consistent which is amazing so they were easy #being easy or hard arent bad things either it also has to do with like styles meeting up with one another #buggachats and mine arent too too different in some shapes and aspects #so yeah itd be easier plus they drew marinette like 3 sec ago so i have more recent of a ref #as opposed to sabertooth who i have a recent ref of ladybug but not marinette so we got two diff styles in one

[surprisearson]

The main critique I've seen leveraged at Saltburn is that is falls short of its message of "eat the rich". But like...I never saw it as as that. Saltburn (to me) is steeped in a specifically English class context of nobility. There is this gap that cannot be bridged. Oliver throughout the movie has this deep frustration that he does not permanently belong in the sphere of Saltburn. Multiple people specifically goad him with this fact. Oliver is privileged by most people's standards, but it isn't enough. It's not eat the rich as they're all terrible its eat the rich as consuming them, absorbing them, licking the plate clean. The film came across as less a class critique and a hornier knives out but rather a psychological horror story about desire and not being able to have what you want the most. Oliver will never belong truly at Saltburn. Oliver despite worming his way into the family never has physical intimacy with Felix. It's not skewering the rich, it's commenting on the deep desire to inhabit their skin.

#the critique that the cattons arent unlikable drives me insane #they arent bad because theyre individually bad people. thats the point. if you couldnt critique the rich because theyre nice and charming #well we wouldnt get very far #anyway the movie is less fuck the rich and more what about the deep desire to fuck the rich #saltburn

[tibli]

In light of that little "sharks are older than the north star" post, here's some other little fun facts i keep in my brain for such an occasion:

-mammals are older than flowers

-fungi are more closely related to animals than plants

-the t-rex existed in a closer period of time to humans than it did to stegosaurus.

-hyenas are closer in relation to cats than dogs

-the mitochondria in a human cell was originally a kind of bacteria that later evolved into the organelle we all know and love

-Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Iphone's debut than to the construction of the pyramids

-Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire, and the modern English language (which i'm including Middle English in, as well, just for the record.)

-if you laid the blood vessels in a single human body end to end, it would be over 60,000 miles long, or, long enough to wrap around the earth twice.

-the oldest company in the world still in operation is kongo gumi, which was founded in the year 578

#history #paleontology #i want to make it clear we obviously arent older than plants #just FLOWERING plants #science #biology #i could probably think of more if i wanted to. but im lazy lmao #tibtalks

[robotpussy]

POLITICIANS AREN'T FUCKING SCARED ENOUGH

#WE NEED TO GET ON THIS STAT THEY NEED TO START FEARING FOR THEIR LIVES #ALL THIS SHIT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE THEY ARENT SCARED! WHERE IS THE FUCKING ANGER

[dsgustng]

I do want to say altho I'm very pro shoplifting it is not something to take lightly. it is something that can and WILL get u in a lot of trouble if you get caught at the wrong place and wrong time. I know a lot of people will get comfortable with it and not think much of doing it but u really do have to be careful and smart Abt it . The best case scenario of getting caught is u get banned from a store you probably really like and worst is you get arrested and have charges pressed against you

#best thing 2 do if u get caught play dumb liek 'oh my god i forgot!! im so sorry ill pay for this i didnt even realize i was holding it" #most places say we literally cannot make assumptions we arent allowed to accuse someone of shoplifting #and this isnt always like. a gaurentee most places arent allowed to prosecute u but some will #its good to always b careful and prepared

[17isrighthere]

#i usually dont gush heaps over idols who arent jlague inducing (we know who) but im so genuinely obsessed w this video if i could frame a #video like physically it would be this im so so so so so 😭 #the first 20 seconds make me feel like life isnt so bad and maybe i should just romanticise my life more #exo #chanyeol