My Brain Never Shuts Up

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[t4t-more-like-knowing-my-worth]

was talking to my gf about my fear of dying young for being trans and my mom putting my deadname on my gravestone, and she said "i hope that never happens, but if it does, i will carve your name into your grave myself if i have to." and i think theres something extremely raw about that sentiment and trans community in general. you can kill only our bodies, but you cant kill transsexuality

[figgldygrak]

APPOINT SOMEONE ELSE AS YOUR NEXT OF KIN

If you are over 18 and do not want your parents to have control over your body after you die or if you go into a coma or something, take that power away from them. They are your automatic next of kin unless you get married which is why they have control over those things. But getting married isn’t the only way to change that, an advanced directive can do the same. This video has more information

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[ilovebeingaturtle]

Character voices are so weird because while I’m sure it’d be in character to write 03!Raph swearing like a sailor if he had the opportunity something about him makes me incapable of it. ‘What the shell’ is so engrained into how I internally hear him that any genuine cursing from him doesn’t sound right. He’s probably one of the easiest characters for me to keep his vocabulary PG. He has the energy of a bad boy who’s physically incapable of saying fuck because it’d make his grandma disappointed in him.

03!Don on the other hand I struggle stopping from cussing-

[pumpkinpie59]

ngl my hc for 03 raph is that he wants to cuss but can’t bring himself to so he just says shell instead cause it makes him feel better

casey makes fun of him for it

[ilovebeingaturtle]

03!Raph talks big game but one time Casey calls him out on it and is like “go on say the fuck word” and Raph starts stammering and coughing and tries to make an excuse to leave-

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[sandersstudies]

I sat with a crying second grader today. (The age range is outside my wheelhouse but I was the most convenient adult.) He was crying, the other adults said, because his brother took a phone he was playing on. “Phone addicted,” everybody said. “If he would get up and play games with the other kids he wouldn’t be crying.”

He told me everyone lets his brother take things from him because his brother is younger, and doesn’t know better. He told me he doesn’t want to play because he’s tired, he has too many extracurriculars this summer and can’t get good sleep because “everyone in my camper is so loud when I’m trying to sleep.” He’s exhausted and only eight. His mom’s an acquaintance and told me she and the kid’s father are going through a separation — mom and four kids left the house to stay in a camper.

But people will seriously not listen to kids crying over seemingly minor things because on the surface it looks like a tantrum. If kids are given the space to articulate themselves they often will.

[sandersstudies]

I’ve found that if a child is capable of having a conversation (that is, old enough to speak and express themselves, not injured or upset so badly that they literally cannot stop crying, and not behaving violently), then 90% of the time their reason for being upset is legitimate, or at least understandable.

[teaboot]

and with adults, too- I've found most often that people who are angry or upset about something that appears minor are very rarely *just* reacting to that one thing

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[sailforvalinor]

Okay, the joke is funny sometimes, but the “Luke is a baby uwu who wouldn’t hurt a fly and Leia is so much like Anakin and would have killed Darth Vader instantly with the sheer force of her awesomeness and rage” fanon take irks me sometimes. Like, did Luke going absolutely lava-rage-monster insane on Vader, beating the living daylights out of him, hacking his arm off, and just barely holding himself back from chopping his head off or slashing his breathing apparatus open or sending him plummeting into the chasm below for even mentioning Leia and just barely holding himself back from giving into that darkness mean nothing to you? We all think of Luke as this sage-like bastion of light, which isn’t necessarily incorrect, but I think we all forget how hard-earned that is. The entire point of Luke’s arc in Episodes 5 through 6 is just how easily he could fall to the dark side. Yes, Luke is kind and sees and brings out the light in others like Padme, but he is so much like his father! That’s the whole point! He grew up wanting to escape a desert planet, he’s a mechanic, he’s an incredible pilot, he connects to the Force so easily it’s like breathing, he’s impatient, he’s reckless, he develops attachments too easily and they run too deep. He runs out on his training in Episode 5, and from that point on, he’s standing at a precipice—he could fall so easily. He could fall like Anakin. He saw his own face in Vader’s mask in the cave even before he knew the man was his father—he knows it. He has all that darkness in him, but the difference is that he conquers it. Luke is supposed to be what Anakin could have been if he had not fallen; he is Anakin’s chance at redemption. But ignoring all of this beautiful parallelism between the two for the sake of a “haha baby Luke girlboss Leia” take is a severe disservice to both Luke and Leia’s characters, as well as the main narrative arc of Star Wars as a whole.

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[k4pp4-8]

A regular day in donnie's lab

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[rollercoasterwords]

i'm literally the priest's favorite sacrificial lamb because i am so docile and sweet and i hold very still when they put the rope around my neck and i trot along so happily while they lead me to the altar and they do not even have to tie me down because i lie so very still and only bleat once or twice in my lovely lamb voice and when the knife comes down it cuts through me like butter and i offer no resistance and i bleed so prettily all over my new white wool and my guts all unspool like the most beautiful shining yarn and my eyes are animal and dumb and hold no accusation and every time i die i come right back as another little lamb because the priest loves me so so much and he always chooses me for the sacrifice every time and he always places one hand on my small and twitching nose to calm me while he lifts the knife and he doesn't do it for the other lambs only me because i'm his favorite

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[catgirlaleistercrowley]

Not to sound fakedeep or whatever but I think it says a lot about how sexually repressed American society is that Sailor Moon, a cartoon made for young girls, got stereotyped as "the sexy anime girl show" for a long time because the 14 year old protagonist wore a short skirt sometimes

[catgirlaleistercrowley]

It's this type of thing that always makes me confused about how people who rail against "degeneracy" or "freaks" for having weird kinks in private with consensual partners seem to do so on the grounds that they're normal and have healthy views on sexuality and those disgusting perverts obviously don't, because if you're at all observant about how "normal" society goes about sexuality, you'll notice that these types of people are just as, if not more obsessed with sex than the pervert degenerates but entirely in the least healthy way possible.

You always need to be thinking about sex, but you can never talk about sex. If you don't want sex you're not normal, but if you admit to wanting sex you're a pervert. Sex is something that you must always desire, but never admit to desiring. You can only obtain it in one very specific type of permanent relationship with a specific gender and nobody else. You must enjoy the relationship with your partner but not too much. There is no need to talk about consent and boundaries because you've already agreed to that by entering the relationship. Any talk about consent is talk about sex so it's inappropriate. If you have any fetishes whatsoever you're a freak and should never express them even in private. It's ok to play Blurred Lines in public and have ads for sex shops on billboards but not ok for two girls to kiss in public because one of these is normal heterosexual sex and the other one is perverted degeneracy.

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[anneemay]

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[ivanpahdrylakeracer]

keep seeing Temu ads on here so just to share cause idk if people are widely aware

[ms-demeanor]

Folks, Temu is just Wish/Shein/Whatever shitty marketplace of the hour is direct-selling to get around import tariffs and this post in particular is garbage.

The first image is a screenshot from this website, and the article that says "The Temu app is a pyramid scheme that has been gaining popularity recently" ends like this:

The USA Today article and the final screenshot are actually both the same article written by Kim Kommando and hosted on her website AND USA Today where she is a regular contributor. Kommando is not a cybersecurity expert, she is a computer sales and marketing expert who pitches content as a way to sound like you're good at tech even if you don't know anything about tech (which hey, they say to write what you know.)

Kommando is also a Fox tech news contributor and in every mention of China in that article she refers to the country as "Communist China" - so she's recommending that you uninstall Temu so that you're not sending data back to "Communist China."

To be clear: Temu is a datamining piece of shit that sells products produced by underpaid workers and direct ships them from China to you. Their return policy means that if you have a problem you're better off throwing away the problem product than returning or replacing it. It is like if fast fashion weren't just for fashion but was also for garden hoses and car parts. It's only popular because it is spending a shitload of mony on advertising and it is literally the same business model as Wish there isn't anything special about it. Temu sucks and you shouldn't install it and honestly none of us should be using these absolute trash direct sales marketplaces because there is a global impact to cheap consumerism that doesn't seem worth the exchange of encouraging businesses like this to exist as a tradeoff for getting a shitty five dollar polyester dress in the mail.

Temu is bad but it is not especially or uniquely bad, and it seems bad for privacy but not in a way that is any worse than facebook.

OP has actually updated the original post with a Snopes link, an exhortation to do your own research, and an apology for any implied Sinophobia but I still kind of want to yell a little bit.

The "do your own research check your own sources" thing only works when you, OP, haven't ignored the conclusions of one of your sources. This post was originally either misleading on purpose OR op just didn't bother to finish reading articles before posting about.

So don't go yell at OP here, but I want people to note that as of this reblog this post is less than a week old and has about 36k notes. I've seen it floating around a few times and I've never seen it with additional information or the update from OP.

It is *difficult* to update incorrect posts on Tumblr and they can grow legs remarkably quickly. If you're going to make informative posts about a subject you need to show your work and screencaps don't actually count, as you can see here.

So yeah i guess this is your general reminder: If you see a post on the internet that upsets you or makes you worried or makes you angry or makes you scared and that post doesn't make it easy for you to check their work and verify what they are saying is true, please don't share it until you've checked to see if it's true for yourself.

[ms-demeanor]

Saw this circulating again, so reblogging my addition again.

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[ktkat99]

As someone who grew up with siblings, I just can't stop thinking about Nightwing and Red Hood getting into a fight in costume and Nightwing slapping his hand over Red Hood's mouth to get him to shut up, temporarily forgetting that he can still talk through the helmet, and Red Hood retaliating by trying to lick Nightwing's hand and accidentally just licking the inside of his helmet.