technically came out to a coworker as aro today but i phrased it in such a way that i could be taken as making a joke or exaggerating and i can’t tell if she understood or not(tbh tho she sounded like she might be aro too but i don’t wanna push)

..i mean, better this way than the opposite, but how does someone read “please pick me up at around X time and if you’re a little late no worries, i’m not in a hurry” and think “better show up almost ten minutes early!”?

opheliaownsyou:

bemusedlybespectacled:

stevevincentbuscemi:

*pours you a nice refreshing glass of thick water*

it looks like this is for people who have trouble swallowing (for example, people who have experienced strokes) so it has a legitimate purpose but imagining the sensation of “thick water” is giving me the Heebie Jeebies

My mum’s a speech pathologist, she says it’s pretty gross. Also that they make thickened alcohol and it’s so bad you just want to be sober forever

as someone who was made to drink some as part of a “here’s how to properly thicken water” demonstration, dear *god* is it disgusting. and that’s even if you’re drinking the good stuff(aka the “doesn’t affect the taste and isn’t gritty, slimey, or both” stuff)

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petermaximoff:

not to love steve rogers on main but wouldnt it be iconic if steve didnt die but he still passed on the captain america mantle to sam and went and lived in a little apartment in brooklyn, and in all the upcoming marvel movies the end credits scene is just steve sam and bucky eating cereal regardless of what the movie is about. just 3 minutes of them fighting over who put the empty milk carton back in the fridge (it was bucky) 

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-LGBTQIAP+ experiences. Specifically, I am an intersex, genderqueer, a-spec lesbian.
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smitethepatriarchy:

excalibelle:

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pro-rubik:

disasterbisexual:

pro-rubik:

disasterbisexual:

my parents won’t let me go to the march for our lives because they don’t think it’s safe and I could almost laugh at the hypocrisy. you don’t think it’s safe for me to go to a protest, where there are hundreds and thousands of people gathering together for the same purpose–protecting the lives of students–but you’re okay with sending me to school every day knowing that the hug you give me each morning might be my last? assuming I ever have children, what am I going to tell them when they ask me about living in trump country? that I stood by and watched while millions of my peers took action? is that how you would want to be remembered? 

You’re young enough to have to ask to go to this march, it is likely that your parents are concerned for your safety because protests are not known for being safe – That’s what makes them effective. It is not out of this world to imagine that their parents are going to have a hard time letting their children take part in an event that is never going to be able to guarantee the safety of their children.

Ironically enough, this “march for our lives” thing is not advocating for any added security to schools to help keep children safe, but instead is going to advocate for some sort of gun reform without knowing the current laws already in place. Their whole idea is that more laws will solve a criminal problem, and that is quite laughable.

I mean gun control legislation has been proven effective in multiple countries including Australia and you’re old enough to have completely lost touch with the generation that’s still going to secondary school but go off I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯  

“I mean gun control legislation has been proven effective in multiple countries including Australia”

Yeah I’m aware of this argument, I live in a country that people like to constantly use as an example of successful gun control. Do you want me to explain how using our countries to push your narrative is not a good idea? Shall I begin with Australia or my own country?

“and you’re old enough to have completely lost touch with the generation that’s still going to secondary school but go off I guess ¯_(ツ)_/¯”

What’s your point here? How does the current generation in school differ from previous generations? And what does my age have to do with anything? 

@excalibelle get a load of this one 

ohhmygod. notice how theyre now calling us the “school shooting generation?” THAT’S what makes us different. Idk you age but going off this post you probably finished school or nearly had by the time school shootings like columbine started happening, and definitely had by the time they became commonplace? You never went to school wondering if you’d ever see home again because your classmate might shoot you. You probably never jumped at the sound of a slamming locker because for a brief moment you thought it was gunfire. You never had to worry if it’d happen at your school or seriously consider what you’d do if it did. You probably didn’t do drills at age 7 for what to do if s shooter entered your school like I did. For you it was a distant and unrealistic possibility you never gave weight to. For us its our every day lives. Now recently out of high school, i see names of local schools or cities trending on Twitter and my heart thumps because oh god what if its trending because there was a shooting at this school with people i know (and yes that’s actually happened to me at least half a dozen times in about the two or so years I’ve had a twitter account). I went into a local college recently, just after Parkland, to take my GED, and spent time planning what I’d do if a shooter came in, where to hide, how to fight back if necessary, how to protect others, how and where to escape.

Your generation worried about normal teenage things like grades and crushes and popularity and what to eat for lunch. Your generation worried about surviving a school day socially.

My generation worried about LITERALLY surviving a school day.

And yeah, statistically it wasnt likely to ever happen to me or anyone i knew, although i do know at least two people who knew people in campus shooter lockdowns recently. One happened at the school where my sister works and i was frantically trying to make sure she’d already left for the day and wasn’t involved (luckily she had, and the situation was also resolved with no one injured, but nonetheless). It’s in my own state where recently a kid raised an isis flag and took a bomb to school, and again luckily was caught and no one was hurt.

This shit is our daily realities while for you it was a news story that you hardly thought of again and never dreamt it’d ever come anywhere close to home.

So yeah, your age fucking matters. If you graduated before 2010 i dont think you can really pretend to understand this like we do. You have memories of news stories while we have lived experience. Experience had as CHILDREN.

And dont give me shit about “looolz i live in Australia and it sucks here too :(” because ive done the research and the math and Australia’s murder rate is like 4-5x lower than America’s. This isnt gun murders, this is all murders. You guys haven’t had one single mass shooting since the nineties. We have a couple a week. So fuck off with your “its not as good here as you think :(” bullshit.

you know what no I’m fucking tagging you @pro-rubik and yeah i know i typed a lot but you fucking asked so read it and shut up.

I’d love to see the mental gymnastics needed to try and explain away the fact that countries with effective gun control only have maybe one or two mass shootings per year that usually only involve a couple people while in the U.S. we have those kinds of mass shootings literally every goddamn day with extra horrific ones popping up at least every couple months.