if you are dealing with extreme heat or even just. moderate heat in your area right now. 80f/26c is when it starts getting toasty for a lot of people. if you are in a heat wave and you have not done yourself the favor of googling fucking “heat exhaustion symptoms” i am shaking you violently right now. look it up. burn the symptoms into your brain. heatstroke is no joke and it can and WILL sneak up on you before you’re aware it’s even an issue. ohh my god
if you are outside and it is hot and sunny and you are sweating thru your clothes or feeling tired or starting to get irrationally agitated or upset in another way or feeling nauseous or your heart is pounding etc etc if you are feeling Weird and Bad for no apparent reason while you are in a warm/hot area then i have news for you! you need to cool down! right now! oh my god.
and there’s a very good chance that you’re gonna think “it’s not heat exhaustion, i don’t feel any warmer than i have all day” when you consider it as a reason why you are suddenly feeling weirdbad for no apparent reason during a record-breaking heatwave and i would like to say. there is no harm in sitting in the shade and drinking some water even if heat exhaustion isn’t the cause of whatever ailment is inflicting itself upon u. once i swore up and down to my bf that i was just kinda tired and headachy and got bitchy about the possibility of being overheated and needing to drink water. because heat exhaustion tends to make you bitchy. but i did as he asked and drank some cold water and my condition immediately improved. because it was heat exhaustion and heat exhaustion is evil and a liar. sit down. drink water
i hate the “on average a user only sees 25 posts per session so they have to be good and varied” bullshit on that staff post. if i open tumblr and the 25 posts i see are nothing but a single mutual mass reblogging their favourite thing that i couldn’t care less about. well. that’s what i enjoy
If my beloved mutual needed to reblog a thing 25 times then by all things sacred I am going to read it once and then scroll past it 24 times as they intended me to!
it obviously makes sense, but one of my friend’s kids is going into swim class, and all the parents got an email today going, “when little ones are scared, they cling on to instructors. PLEASE trim their nails.”
i don’t know why that’s so funny to me, but just. the idea of this poor, scratched swim instructor having to make sure to email before each class as a reminder to please declaw the children SENT me.
When I taught swim lessons I remember trying to delicately ask parents not to cover their child in shea/coconut/olive oil before lessons.
“I understand your skincare regimen and wanting to protect their tender baby flesh from the pool chemicals, but COULD YOU NOT OIL YOUR CHILD LIKE A GREASED PIG before tossing them in the POOL? Thanks EVER so much!”
Don’t forget that in Rowling’s world there are only three kinds of women:
Mothers (or nurturers), bitches, and jokes.
That’s it.
Petunia is a bitch until she admits to worry for Harry and Dudley.
Narcissa Malfoy is a bitch until she admits to worry for Draco.
Mrs. Black is a mother who refuses to nurture and is a bitch.
Fleur Delacourt is a bitch until she chooses to devote herself to nurturing Bill.
Rita Skeeter is a bitch.
Bellatrix Lestrange is a bitch.
Dolores Umbridge is a bitch.
Aunt Marge is a bitch.
Pansy Parkinson is a bitch.
Molly Weasley is a mother.
Lily Potter is a mother.
Mrs. Longbottom is a mother.
Tonks is a mother.
Ginny is a joke until she becomes Harry’s emotional support, and postcanon is a mother.
Hermione’s entire role is to support Harry and Ron and—yup—in the epilogue is a mother.
Narcissa is redeemed by being a mother.
Luna Lovegood is a mother and teacher.
Minerva McGonagall is a head of house—what we in the US call a housemother—and headmistress.
Professor Hooch is a teacher.
Professor Sprout is a teacher.
Merope Riddle is a mother and entirely devoted to a man.
Cho Chang’s entire character is “I’m devoted to a man.” She straddles the line between mother and joke.
Professor Trelawney? Joke.
Moaning Myrtle? Joke.
Also, note that when Rowling wants you to dislike a female character, she always goes straight for their looks. Narcissa always looks like she’s smelled something unpleasant. Umbridge looks like a toad. Rita Skeeter is “mannish.” Petunia is “scrawny” while Aunt Marge is described as fat in super-fatphobic ways and Umbridge is described as looking like a toad. When we first meet Hermione she’s described as “frizzy-haired and bucktoothed” and her teeth are magically fixed after she becomes a love interest. Cho’s friend, I forget her name because she literally only shows up once, turns in Dumbledore’s Army and her punishment—which is treated as a joke—is disfiguring acne and scarring across her face.
And let’s not forget the implication that Umbridge was raped, which is also treated as a joke!
Yeah, that sure is some feminist writing right there!
Don’t forget that Merope is also a r*pist because she used a love potion, entirely negating consent in her relationship with Tom Riddle Sr.
Not only is she a rapist (hon you gotta type that out for the Tumblr blacklist to catch it, this ain’t TikTok), here’s a list of OTHER people in the books who’ve committed sexual crimes:
–Romilda Vane (attempts to give Harry a date rape drug, accidentally drugs Ron instead) –Molly Weasley (admits to using date rape drugs, which is treated as a silly thing girls do sometimes) –Moaning Myrtle (admits to hanging out in the prefects’ bathroom to see them undress and bathe) –Rita Skeeter (hides in the boys’ dormitory; it’s unclear whether she watched them undress) –James Potter (restrains a boy against his will and exposes his genitals to a crowd of onlookers; demands a date from a girl in exchange for stopping the assault) –Sirius Black (aids and abets James Potter in the above) –Aberforth Dumbledore (fucked a goat, apparently) –Fred and George Weasley (produce and sell date rape drugs, which they market toward underage girls)
And a bonus via horrible metaphor: Fenrir Greyback (lycanthropy is supposedly the wizarding analogue of HIV/AIDS; Greyback deliberately attacks and infects Lupin)
Notice something funny about this list? Because I do. All the victims–except the goat, which is a goat–are male, and every single one is underage. The only victim in the entire series who’s over the age of 18 is Tom Riddle Sr. and the lesson we’re supposed to take away from that is “if you’re a rape baby, you’re gonna be a murderous racist psychopath.”
So let’s see…we have nine separate confirmed instances of sexual assault, ten if we assume the heavily-implied Umbridge assault scene was definitely assault. Seven of them are played for laughs. One is played as a tragedy. Two are played as horrible violations.
….wait…..hang on…..
The “feral gay man who deliberately infects others with AIDS” stereotype metaphor and the “coded as a trans woman or possibly a lesbian” stereotype metaphor are the ones seen as horrible violations.
WHOOPS.
Should we add that the only canonly gay character is actively a child groomer, and the text straight up calls him out for it? (“You’re raising him like a lamb to the slaughter.”)
So much for “she’s not homophobic”! And I’d also suggest she’s an active danger to young boys, given her apparent zest for writing them as victims of sexual assault.
Women who are attracted to men but also don’t like penetrative sex - and I’m definitely + explicitly + it’s very much the point including vaginal penetrative sex here - are also perfectly within their rights to have that boundary and to have it respected.
Straight or bisexual women, cis or trans women, doesn’t matter - I feel like womanhood is often equated with enjoying penetration. But it’s not. Your identity doesn’t dictate what you like sexually. And what you like sexually doesn’t dictate your identity.
And I think especially for women who are attracted to men, enjoying penetrative sex is considered such a must that many of us don’t even question it - to the point that a) not wanting it is considered a medical issue by itself and b) with many medical complications or conditions or even psychological reasons that someone might find vaginal penetration painful, the first concern is often not even to fix the underlying issue or even to make that kind of sex pleasurable - but to make her “functional” for her partner again. (Prized example: The husband-stitch. Generally, I hear so often from women whose partners got impatient with their recovery after they gave birth and who felt pressured to have vaginal sex before they felt like it.)
So I just want to say:
Womanhood does not equal enjoying penetration.
Being AFAB doesn’t equal enjoying penetration.
Being attracted to men doesn’t equal enjoying penetration.
What you enjoy sexually is not a matter of your identity. It’s only a matter of what you enjoy and what you and your partner(s) genuinely want to do.
And actually, yes, this specifically goes out to heterosexual cis women in particular: Even if you never ever ever want to have vaginal penetrative sex - that’s perfectly fine. You are perfectly within your rights to have that boundary. And no man has any right to force you. And calling you “uptight” or “vanilla” or “weird” or “but you own a dildo” or “It’ll be good with me, I swear!” - that’s a way of forcing you. He has two options a) accept your boundary and find a different way to have sex b) accept your boundary and go home.
If there is an underlying medical issue like cysts or if you have vaginismus that diminishes your quality of life - of course I recommend seeing a doctor. And if you have experienced trauma, I recommend therapy. All of which should be focussed on helping you with the things that you deem important - and not what your partner or a potential partner deems important.
But if you simply just don’t want to have penetrative sex - then don’t. Nothing is wrong with you. No one has any right to force you.
We often say “don’t do anal if you don’t want to”, “don’t do oral if you don’t want to” - and those are very, very true! But I feel like we don’t say “don’t do vaginal if you don’t want to” or “don’t have penetrative sex at all if you don’t want to” often enough to women - because it’s such an expectation that everyone would enjoy it.
And also, you don’t owe anyone an explanation. Sometimes, trauma is a reason - but if you have experienced trauma, you’re not obligated to tell your partner the details of it to justify not wanting to have that kind of sex. “No” is a full sentence. Sometimes the fear of pregnancy or contraception failing is a reason - and that’s also to be respected.
And if you don’t have any reason related to trauma or a medical condition - you’re still perfectly within your rights to have that boundary respected. Sex is supposed to feel good for both partners involved. And any partner who doesn’t care about your boundaries or pressures you - is for the streets. Gotta go. Is an ex. Shoo. Out. Over.
Controversial???? Hell no!!! What controversy can there be? YOUR body YOUR rules
And by the way. You don’t have to “fix” or “treat” or otherwise try to change what your body finds to be comfortable.
It’s important to me that everyone understands that if you’ve got an autistic friend who periodically sends you pictures/videos/whatever of your Thing, because they know you’re into it… They love you.
Now don’t get me wrong, It may not necessarily be romantic love, they might not want to run off to a little farm in Montana where you’ll be married forever and raise little sheeps…
But they definitely love you. And they’re so happy when they spot a post about X and go “ooh, my friend likes X! I’ll send it to them!”.
Because they love you and want you to be happy.
Happiness is stored in the 3am discord DM of a link to a Tumblr post of a cute raccoon
the default way for things to taste is good. we know this because “tasty” means something tastes good. conversely, from the words “smelly” and “noisy” we can conclude that the default way for things to smell and sound is bad. interestingly there are no corresponding adjectives for the senses of sight and touch. the inescapable conclusion is that the most ordinary object possible is invisible and intangible, produces a hideous cacophony, smells terrible, but tastes delicious. and yet this description matches no object or phenomenon known to science or human experience. so what the fuck
this is what ancient greek philosophy is like
Op forgot about sightly smh. The most ordinary object is beautiful, and pleasing to look at.
For that matter, there is an adjective “touching.” It means “sad” or maybe “cute.” So the most ordinary object is beautiful, cacophonous, stinky, delicious, and it makes you put your hands over your chest and say “awww!”
… folks I think the perfectly generic object is a chicken.
