these thangs are carnivorous and they glow
https://people.com/photographer-captures-first-ever-photo-glow-in-the-dark-marsupial-animal-11774372
little guy would be so popular at a rave
we've definitely posted about this before but if i see one more person act like the only forms of childhood trauma that exist are abuse from family or sexual assault i will actually start crying and it will be so so so loud everyone will hear it from every corner of the earth
THE SCHOOL SYSTEM !!! PEER ABUSE !!!!! ISOLATION !!!!!!!! RACISM !!! SEXISM !!!!!! MEDICAL ABUSE !!!!!! NONCONSENSUAL SURGERY !!!! POVERTY !!!! SO MUCH MORE !!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
edit: i made this in a high school enduced rage and didnt expect it to blow up like this ?
anyway i love trans people i love intersex people i love people with personality disorsers i love aspec people okkk
notifications r going off now
was at the public pool yesterday and i kept looking around at all the women with fat and rolls and stretch marks and discolouration and cellulite and scars and thighs that bounce and bellies that jiggle and it's like wow. literally Everyone has these features that society is trying to convince us are evil and unnatural. idk it just really put things into perspective for me. highly recommend checking out your local public pool
"Oh, so its okay to write graffiti on 'fascist' property because they come from a different political viewpoint than you? What if a 'fascist' destroyed your property, would it be okay then??"
I mean... im constantly scrubbing slurs off of our pride stuff, and off of public property while being verbally harassed by homophobes in public so its kinda hard to look at this like I threw the first punch, you know?
please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.
you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.
first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.
now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:
in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.
and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.
and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.
it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:
• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.
• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.
• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.
• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.
• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.
• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.
and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.
what i'm asking:
if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.
if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.
india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.
we can still save her. but only loudly.
reblog. share. don't scroll past.
Girls w glasses are so cute. Like wow you have beautiful eyes I’m glad you got them framed
Was asked how they got the scar across the face in our server … :3
Book concept: a book written entirely as back and forth text messages, titled Where The Fuck Are You, and it's all dialogue between the POV character asking the question, and the protagonist who is one of those grandma-levels of mysterious texters.
I'm out with my dog and the girl from that party
It's 3 fucking am, what are you doing
We're on a walk
Do you have any idea how little that answers the question. Which girl, what party, and where are you going?
That girl from Emma's party with the dragon necklace. We're going to the churchyard.
I don't know if I even want to know. Are you aware that they don't open the church gates until 8 am?
It's cool she's got bolt cutters. And we only need to get to the graveyard side.
What the fuck are you doing?
[the blurriest possible cell phone photo of a graveyard, sent an hour and a half after the last message]
this would be like a modern day epistolary novel omg
but also this would be like the only book format where typos are completely fine and even add to the character's "voice"
And unlike in a traditional epistolary novel, the suspense remains because you never think "well obviously they'll be fine if they lived to write a whole letter about it."
I genuinely just don't get why white people can't just silently boost a post about racism. Like I really just don't think you need to weigh in at all. I really don't need to hear from you on this subject I just need you to boost and internalize it
You don't need to weigh in on everything. Especially if you have surface level knowledge of the topic at best. You don't need to emphasize how much you HAAATE when other white people do racist stuff, you are just drowning out the voices of racialized people for your own selfish need to establish yourself as a "good one" (you're still not). Literally the best thing you can do it just boost it silently and listen to the racialized voices discussing the subject. This is not saying you cannot talk about racism on your own, but you need to be prioritizing racialized people willing to speak up on the subject. Stop drowning us out.
I want Amelia Earhart to shotgun hits right into my mouth. with tongue.
