02/05/2017 10:40:23 ¶ ●

black-love-unity:

> ithelpstodream:

> > Isiah Lopaz is a black American college-educated artist and writer living in Berlin.

> > http://himnoir.com

> A lot of yall “allies” gonna act like yall never seen this post and keep scrolling cus yall see a shirt that has something you’ve said and still believe

02/05/2017 20:14:49 ¶ ●

tyrantisterror:

> xcassiekilla:

> > religiousmom:

> > > School just really sucks cause they take this wonderful concept of learning and discovering new things and just completely ruin it with the atmosphere of judgement and suppression of creativity and strict deadlines and basing your intelligence on a letter and wow you ruined it nice job

> > i will never not reblog this

> Fun fact: there’s been research proving that grades and traditional testing are detrimental to learning for decades now, but changing the education system to reflect that research would cost far more money than most people want to spend on education, so we’re stuck with the shitty outdated system that we’ve known is broken and terrible instead!

05/05/2017 11:55:39 ¶ ●

## Force and Flow — The Aspects aren’t the only Existential Duality at play in Classpects.

revolutionaryduelist:

> Hey, peeps. So, here’s the bottom line:

> I’m pretty sure I solved Homestuck’s Class System.

> This is a masterpost for a series of essays that lay a case, strongly informed by the canon with screenshots and references, for the following things:

> 1) What every Passive/Active pair is.

> 2) What every Key Verb (IE: Destroy and Steal, the canon ones) is, and how those Key Verbs are paired together.

> 3) what Passive/Active even means exactly.

> 4) How the Passive/Active spectrum works.

> In this masterpost, I make the case for the core philosophy that informs the entire Class system. I’m also posting and linking to the first essay, on the Destroy and Create verb pair. The other two essays are already written, and I’ll be posting them over the next two weeks!

> They are available in their entireties for my Patrons, so if you can spare me a buck a month you can get these early if you decide you like them enough. Higher reward tiers will let you invite friends to the Discord so they can read them too!.

> Feel free to @ me, reblog or send me an ask with your thoughts on these first two essays. There may be some things I can’t answer as they will be answered in later posts, but I might use those as inspiration for what teasers to release from sections of the next two essays over the course of the week.

> You can also feel free to talk to me in the Hiveswap Discord where I moderate and cry about Homestuck. I’m very interested in seeing how my thoughts stand up to scrutiny, so don’t be shy!

> [Youtube] [Patreon] [Hiveswap Discord]

> [Destroy and Create] [Steal and Serve] [Know and Change]

> Keep Rising.

05/05/2017 11:55:49 ¶ ●

## Force and Flow — Destroy and Create – optimisticDuelist – Medium

revolutionaryduelist:

> Here’s the first of the Class essays, where we go over the most intense Active/Passive dichotomy, putting these Classes on the furthest ends of the spectrum.

> The Key Verbs for these classes are Destroy and Create, covering
> Princes and Bards & Maids and Sylphs, respectively.

> Quick disclaimer so I don’t get anyone’s hope’s up: This essay doesn’t include much discussion of Jane Crocker! Not because she isn’t relevant, but because I actually ended up writing this entire series because I needed to lay out my thoughts on Maids so I could get around to writing my essay about her.

> I’ll be linking to my Jane post at the end of this essay once it’s up, and this essay is pretty much required reading for it! So I think it’s worth checking out if you’re interested in her anyway.

> As for the rest, I just hope you enjoy. The other two essays are already written, and I’ll be posting them over the next two weeks!

> They are available in their entireties for my Patrons, so if you can spare me a buck a month you can get these early if you decide you like them enough. Higher reward tiers will let you invite friends to the Discord so they can read them too!

> Feel free to @ me, reblog or send me an ask with your thoughts on these first two essays. There may be some things I can’t answer as they will be answered in later posts, but I might use those as inspiration for what teasers to release from sections of the next two essays over the course of the week.

> You can also feel free to talk to me in the Hiveswap Discord where I moderate and cry about Homestuck. I’m very interested in seeing how my thoughts stand up to scrutiny, so don’t be shy!

> [Youtube] [Patreon] [Hiveswap Discord]

> [Active/Passive Masterpost] [Steal and Serve] [Know and Change]

> Keep Rising.

14/05/2017 15:35:08 ¶ ●

cishetjojo:

> cishetjojo:

> > strplatinum:

> > > Fatphobia runs deeper than conventional beauty standards and what clothes we “can and cant” wear.

> > > Fatphobia is so internalized and we’re so aware of that. Me and any of my friends that are also bigger can’t even eat around people because of the looks and the judgements we’re scared we’ll get from people.

> > > Hell I can’t even go out in public, i can’t dance, I can’t hang out with my friends, I feel like I can’t do anything without being some sort of laughing stock.

> > > because somepoint, in my life, ive seen a video or soemthing of a fat person doing something that’s just a normal part of life as something that’s funny, that if i were to do some silly every day thing, it’s funny specifically because I’m fat.

> > > so yeah. you can reblog your “fat is beautiful uwu” posts and then turn around and reblog a post thats supposed to be funny because a fat person is eating weird, dancing, or just having fun because you think its funny that their fat even though you wont admit thats the reason.

> > > thanks

> > i mean i make a lot of shitty text posts but this one was actually rlly important im not gonna let u guys ignore it

> im trying to not sound angry when i say it but you dont gotta be bigger to be able to reblog this y’know ppl need to aknowledge this is an actual problem

14/05/2017 19:54:48 ¶ ●

postcardsfromspace:

> rsbenedict:

> > This thread is amazing.

> always reblog

15/05/2017 20:25:43 ¶ ●

lambrini-socialism:

> rufeepeach:

> > captainclaude23:

> > > thebibliosphere:

> > > > ironicbabylawyer:

> > > > > ayeforscotland:

> > > > > > bendyluna:

> > > > > > > ayeforscotland:

> > > > > > > > The state of the union.

> > > > > > > > Westminster are demonising disabled people. This is sickening.

> > > > > > > Or alternatively they have to ask about suicidal tendencies if there is any history of mental health or any detected mental health issue. It’s their duty of care, and yes if they asked something in that wording it would be horrible. People who claim PIP can also get it for mental health issues, so it is not in any way assuming that because someone is disabled they have to be mentally ill. These are medical professionals who have a duty of care.

> > > > > > There’s asking about suicidal tendencies and asking someone why they haven’t killed themselves yet.

> > > > > > That’s not a ‘duty of care’ line of questioning. To imply otherwise as some form of defence of asking people why they’ve not taken their own life is ridiculous.

> > > > > During assessments, you’re made to re-live any trauma, to re-count any suicidal thoughts or self-harm in detail, you are asked to describe in great detail the most humiliating effects of your disability and after going through all that, your application is refused

> > > > 👆👆👆👆👆

> > > > I’m 4000 miles away at present but my baby brother still calls me to cry about how he is treated by the people currently in control of whether or not he deserves PIP which is the only thing he has to live on apart from the help of my OAP parents who are also sick and struggling.

> > > > He was disabled at birth through medical negligence, has been in a wheelchair ever since, has only one working hand, is considered legally blind, has epilepsy, asthma and a whole host of other chronic conditions including a non functioning bladder and most recently a decline in mental health from receiving no help with any of the above.

> > > > And the person asking him the questions at his appeal, with his medical records in hand, asked him in all seriousness why he felt justified in calling himself disabled which, Are. You. Fucking. Kidding. Me?

> > > > He was later asked, by someone else, if his conditions were really as bad as he claimed, why he hadn’t attempted suicide yet. That was a real question, from someone in a position of authority, hired by the UK government to decide whether or not sick and disabled people qualify for financial help in order to live.

> > > > I’ve never considered violence an acceptable outlet for towering fury, but I’m one flight away from making an exception for a motherfucker.

> > > > These are the values of the current Westminster government.

> > > > Local elections start around the country on May 4th 2017, followed by the general election a month later on 8 June 2017. I’m begging you, I’m on my hands and knees pleading with you, vote. If you are old enough and eligible to do so, vote. I know May called for the snap election in the middle of exam time, this was not a coincidence. If you won’t be able to get to a polling station because of exams or other commitments, you can literally sign up to vote through postal vote by filling out a simple form found here, which incidentally is the same form you use to sign up if you are not yet registered at all either due to age or having moved recently or changed your name:

> > > > ## https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

> > > > ## It takes 5 minutes. I literally timed updating myself to vote through proxy as an absentee citizen.

> > > > Don’t let these people stay in power, don’t let them get away with eugenics masquerading as social reform. Please don’t stand on your pride, please don’t look at the other parties and think “well they’re all as bad as each other” because I’m telling you, as someone currently living in America under the Trump regime, they’re not all the same. Holy shit they are not the same. There’s corruption and then there’s making a pact with the Devil and wondering why everything is on fire.

> > > > ## Vote. Help protect the most vulnerable people in our society and VOTE.

> > > 60% of people who appealed the outcome of their PIP assessments had the outcome overturned. Over half of the people who were told “no, you’re fine, no money for you” were then told “oops, our bad, yes money” when they fought it.

> > > You know what they did to rectify this? Instead of making the initial assessments fairer? They made it harder to appeal.

> > > https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/17/government-skewing-benefits-appeals-process-against-disabled-people

> > Seriously I work in this field, and it’s as bad as this and worse.

> > The worst story I personally heard was from a woman’s husband I talked to on the phone. His wife has serious arthritis and mobility issues, and for over a decade they’ve gotten by fine on the old disability benefit. Then they ‘migrated’ her and she had to go for a new assessment because her doctor’s word isn’t good enough anymore.

> > So she goes for this super stressful meeting, where it is standard for disabled people - young, old, physical disability, mental illness, severe or relatively mild, - to break down in tears because of the interrogation tactics used. The building in my town doesn’t have good mobility access (this is the building where they ASSESS DISABLED PEOPLE FOR BENEFITS) so she decides to use her sticks to get up the stairs and inside instead of the back way with the ramp.

> > When she gets into the meeting, she ends up crying because she’s in pain and these questions are stressful and awful. The assessor hands her a tissue. She thanks him, and wipes her eyes.

> > When they got the final assessment report, she had had her benefits slashed. Their reasons included, among other things, her ability to hobble into the building (caught on CCTV and reported), and her ability to wipe her own eyes when offered a tissue.

> > Let that sink in. This sweet old lady with profound, severe arthritis, who needs a wheelchair and a special car, who is very old and can’t work, got her benefits cut because when her assessor handed her a tissue - the man whose questions were making her cry - she could wipe her eyes.

> > Fuck PIP. Fuck the Tories. It’s a goddamn human rights violation and it makes me sick that this is my country.

> Also, in addition to this, the physical exam in part assess your flexibility. Good flexibility = non severe physical disability. Poor = bad. Not that they’re gonna automatically give you the grant even if you’re barely able to move, however, here’s the thing;

> If your physical disability means you’re too bendy like mine does, you’re fucked. There’s no metric for being too flexible. You’re seen as being fine. My ehlers danlos syndrome means I’m in severe pain all the time. I suffered for 22 years before it was even diagnosed. I’ve dislocated joints before. I’ve never had a time when one of my muscles isn’t pulled or one of my joints is out of whack. One of my vertebrae is crooked.

> I was denied any physical disability assistance.

> Not only are the people who asses you out to get you, trick you, trip you up, but the very set of rules they use doesn’t work. That’s not an accident. I’m only alive because I have beautiful, wonderful friends who have given me assistance when I needed it.

> The tories are scum. They don’t just not care about us, they hate us and they’re actively trying to kill us.

16/05/2017 22:13:08 ¶ ●

thetwodude:

> WIP for the ask in the works!

> [Don’t tag as DirkRoxy and don’t delete the caption]

#Rogyxen ??? The glasses are rounded, that’s JaneRoxCallie.

17/05/2017 21:12:56 ¶ ●

sam-keeper:

> You know, it’s taken me a while to realize it, but I honestly hate the writing of Agents of SHIELD on every level from sentence to narrative

Was gonna ask “including s01?” but then I remembered s01 has the Lorelei episode.

19/05/2017 09:51:57 ¶ ●

## FUN FACT

transgenderpsiioniic:

> livebloggingmydescentintomadness:

> > livebloggingmydescentintomadness:

> > > some people who are ill and/or disabled CANNOT DO WHATEVER THEY SET THEIR MIND ON! some people are LIMITED by their bodies and their health and they are UNABLE to “"just choose”“ to do something! you can’t STOP being disabled by DECIDING to have a ”“good attitude”“! I am PREVENTED from doing whatever I want because I am D I S A B L E D!!

> > I would super appreciate it if healthy/abled people reblogged this post, because when people say these things it is so harmful to disabled, chronically ill, and mentally ill people

> also! saying “I can’t do this because im disabled” is NOT “negative self-talk” or a “bad attitude”!!

20/05/2017 12:16:28 ¶ ●

samael:

> eisoj5:

> > smartwittyurl:

> > > fishcustardandclintbarton:

> > > > If you’re a UK blog who relentlessly reminded people vote in the US election last year, then i really hope that you’re doing the same thing for our general election on the 8th June, and are registered to vote. Because otherwise, shut up, go online, register to fucking vote and do your civic duty on the 8th.

> > > Honestly, the same needs to go for US followers.

> > > For the love of Christ, please reblog any post you see reminding UK voters to register and then to vote.

> > > Please.

> > > Deadline to registering to vote in the UK is May 22nd

> > > The general election is June 8th

> > > The link to register to vote is: https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

> > > And remember you can remove yourself from the open register, or change your status on the open register.

> > > Let’s get the Tories (and UKIP) the fuck out of the Commons and local politics.

> > I know I’ve got some international friends! GO UNFUCK SHIT.

> I have almost no hope for the future at this point but we gotta at least try

26/05/2017 14:06:32 ¶ ●

tehawesome:

> Today I gave Blue Apron the rebranding nobody asked for