my favorite thing i’ve learned in college is that way back in ancient china there was this poet/philosopher guy who wrote this whole pretentious poem about how enlightened he was that was like “the eight winds cannot move me” blahblahblah and he was really proud of it so he sent it to his friend who lived across the lake and then his friend sends it back and just writes “FART” (or the ancient Chinese equivalent) on it and he was SO MAD he travels across the lake to chew his friend out and when he gets there his friend says “wow. the eight winds cannot move you, but one fart sends you across the lake”
i googled this bc i desperately wanted this to be real, and guess what…it is.
the dude’s name was su dongpo (also known as su shi). his original poem went like this:
稽首天中天，
毫光照大千，
八風吹不動，
端坐紫金蓮
(Humbly bowed my head below all skies Minutest lights shine through my deepest bounds Immovable by strong winds from eight sides Upon purplish gold lotus I seated straightly by the low mound) (x)
on which his friend wrote “放屁” (fart, literally), and you know the rest.
this is even funnier because just writing “fart” out of the blue sounds really stupid and random in english, but in chinese, fart (fang pi) is used as a common reply to, well, people talking out of their ass. kind of like how we’d use “bullshit” in context.
“Why box yourself in with labels instead of just being you?” is an idea i see a lot and it’s very distressing to me and I’m not quite sure why.
“why are you interested in having words to understand and talk about your experiences”
“Why be able to identify others like you when you can feel different and alone?”
This is also a tactic used by people who don’t want to have to address your identity as valid. They try to make it seem like labels are bad, but here’s the lowdown:
Labels assigned to you by others are BAD. People shouldn’t tell you who the fuck you are.
Labels you see, realize they help put a name to your experience, and use willingly, are great tools to help you express and understand who you are.
Consequently, someone trying to erase those labels is equally as harmful as them forcing a label onto you. Either way, they’re trying to alter your identity and how you express it for their own comfort.
Under the guise of “accepting” and “supporting” non-binary people, cis people have went from asking “are you a male or a female" to “are you male-ALIGNED or female-ALIGNED” and have given themselves a pat on the back for this ‘change’.
Don’t be fooled. They’re still seeing you as either ‘basically’ male and female. It’s purely performative and a way to misgender you, a way to call non-women, women, and a way to call non-men, men, with a clear conscience. You do not have to stand for this. You do not have to choose alignment.
You are non-binary, regardless of whether you’re closer to one binary gender than another. You don’t have to hide or bury or prioritise partial male/female gender identity over your nonbinary identity, which is complete and important on it’s own, to make it more palatable to binary people. You’re non-binary and that’s beautiful.
I can’t believe I’m making this post, but yes. Over the past few days, there was a spike in the amount of followers trump gained. Now this may not seem like a very big deal considering the fact famous people gain followers all the time, but there’s something very fishy about drumpf’s new followers:
A LOT OF THEM ARE FREAKING BOTS…. LIKE… LITERALLY HALF OF THEM….
A little less than half of trump’s follower’s a fake… which means that he most likely paid for these bots.
So why does this all matter???? a lot of you are probably wondering….
Well apparently the white house is launching a “war room” to censor any information regarding the Trump-Russia scandal. This can include a variety of anti-trump posts made on social media, particularly twitter. All of these bots can be used to censor out and silence the people who post about the Russia scandal. These bots can also be used to trick the twitter algorithm into promoting his ideologies. Trump and his administration are now targeting social media in order to to prevent the truth from coming out.
This isn’t a highly severe tactic against the American people, but it’s still a fucked up form of censorship. A president should not be blocking out his/her citizens out, yet here we are………
I’m honestly convinced that while Yellow Diamond played a part in Pink Diamond’s assassination, it was White Diamond behind it all. The one thing that sticks out to me that I haven’t seen talked about is this: why isn’t White Diamond at the trial?
This trial prompted two of the three diamonds to show up- it was the trial to finally shed light on the details of how someone managed to killa diamond. So why wouldn’t White Diamond show up?
Maybe she didn’t show up because she didn’t care. She didn’t want to bother with it because she already knows exactly what happened. She knows exactly what happened because it was her scheme.
shirts, socks, underwear, and shorts are the “meat” of an outfit because you feed them to the washing machine after one use. jeans, jackets, scarves, and some hats are cartilage because you use them a few times before washing them. shoes, belts, and jewelry are bones because the washing machine cant digest them. this concludes my TED Talk
You telling me the washer vores my clothes
okay listen im fucking SICK of how this site treats “vore” as a synonym for “eat”. vore is SPECIFICALLY when you can see the outline of the person being eaten and/or see their distress as they travel down the throat and into the stomach. just eating something isn’t “voring” (not a verb by the way) it any more than calling someone a dickhead and punching them is BDSM. i hate that you put me in a situation where i had to write this paragraph and i hate that i knew enough to actually write it
While putting your favorite condiment on a sandwich, you accidentally make a magical occult symbol and summon a demon.
You silently take two more slices of bread out of the package and make another sandwich. You put it on a plate with a handful of potato chips and hand it to the demon. He takes the sandwich, smiles and vanishes in a puff of demonic smoke. The next day you get that job promotion you were after. There was no contract. No words spoken. You owe nothing. But every now and then, another demon pops in for lunch. Demons don’t often get homemade sandwiches.
I want people to stop attacking nonbinary people who describe their genders in abstract, flowery terms. And I want them to stop dismissing them as “just teenagers who don’t know any better”, too.
You know why? Because cis people do the same thing all the time and nobody bats an eye about it.
Manhood and womanhood are associated with symbols, colors, animals, astronomical objects, mythological figures, a whole list of things that have no inherent gendered properties, and that’s fine. (A lot of those symbols are stereotypical, but some binary people still embrace them, while others have come up with alternate symbols that better reflect what being a man or woman means to them.)
If men and women can describe their genders in abstract, symbolic, poetic terms, so can nonbinary people.
biggest hetero lie i’ve been told: fighting is a part of a healthy romantic relationship
Disagreements are a part of every healthy relationship. Having bad days when you’re not your best self is a part of every healthy relationship. Fighting, disrespect, and insults? Those are not healthy at all.
one of my favorite tropes is when your group of main characters has been split up for questioning and they’re all answering the same questions in a neatly-spliced montage
my favorite trope is when the stories blatantly and hilariously conflict
Regarding any rumors or posts you may or may not have seen about me, everything was taken out of context and is extremely misinterpreted. Please signal boost this as this witch hunt mentality has bullied and hurt a lot of people before. It started in 2013 and has since then escalated into outlandish and wild accusations. I will never leave but this brutal attitude has got to stop.
I’d sell my soul for a movie staring The Rock, Vin Diesel, and Terry Crews where The Rock its a baker, Vin is a classical musician, and Terry is a photographer.
They get drinks after work and talk about their day and their love lives. Terry gives great dating advice, Vin finally finds love, and The Rock bakes his wedding cake in the end.
That’s the whole movie. It’s basically a chick flick but it stars The Rock, Vin Diesel, and Terry Crews.
I changed my mind on some details…
The Rock is still a baker, but he specializes in cupcakes because how funny would the size difference between The Rock and a cupcake be.
Vin Diesel is a pediatric nurse who wears the adorable scrubs with ducks and flowers. He’s super great with all the kids.
Terry Crews isn’t just a photographer, he’s a pet photographer.
Vin Diesel just wants to settle down and find love like his two best friends have (You see Terry with his wife Taraji P. Henson before the three best friends finally hang out. Terry and Taraji go to the farmers market with their two little kids and their dog).
So the movie is a bunch of failed dates, all the while Vin has a great relationship with one of the pediatric surgeons, Lucy Liu. She’s been divorced for a few years, she and Vin actually bonded over the fact that they are both divorced.
Anyways… you have Terry and his wife all happy and great together, they’re both super supportive of each other and Taraji is the one who really brings home the money in that family since she’s an engineer.
Then you’ve got the Rock who baked cupcakes and his happily married to John Cena. They have two cats and are trying to adopt a baby. It’s just very hard for them right now because The Rock is trying to grow his bakery and John Cena works long hours as a teacher and a football coach, but they love each other and they’re happy.
Eventually Vin is going to give up on love after another failed date (Terry and The Rock spying by hiding very poorly in some potted plants, they’re about to go comfort him when Lucy walks up)
They end up on a great date and Vin realizes that there was a totally rad lady there the whole time.
The movie ends with a flash forward to their wedding like a year and a half later. The Rock has now opened a second location for his bakery and a cupcake truck, featured at the wedding along with the cake that he made. Terry is still happily taking pet photos and spending time with his kids, and Vin is so happy to finally have found someone who understands his love of his job and his friends.
A total chick flick but it’s about three badass dudes who are really soft and sweet.
