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I have friends working at one of these coffee shops, they really are relying on tips for income right now. If you live in in the HRM and can stop by even just to leave a tip, they’ll appreciate it. 

suppliers are pulling their stock from the shelves because he hasn’t paid many of them as well. they also get their checks late, and often are made to ask for them before they will receive the money. none of this is ok. 

These days, especially with the lowest minimum wage in the country, one bounced check can be the difference between a roof over your head or not….. 

I really can’t stand to see any posts about March for our lives

It’s just too bitter sweet for me. I can’t stop thinking about how black people had police in riot gear and military tanks show up to their peaceful protests with no news coverage at all

Whole neighborhoods were turned into war zones because black people said please stop killing us

Meanwhile predominately white children get to take center stage in national media coverage and no one as tear gased them yet. They get to speak to congress and actually be heard and not written off as worthless…

Look, I was at the march and if you think the military wasn’t there, you’re a fool.

If you think they only let white kids speak, you’re a fool.

All of these kids spoke at length about the disproportionate way gun violence affects their communities, so much so that it’s stopped making the news. I’m sick of the criticism I’m seeing from people who weren’t even there. The truth is that these kids knew that their march was mired in privilege (they talked about that, too!) and they used it to give POC youth leaders a platform to speak. They addressed problems with educational funding, they called out the school-to-prison pipeline that many of these cities have… And then I come here to see all of you cutting it down because “white kids” organized it. Are any of you paying attention?

The feelings of bitterness and pain are understandable. People who didn’t want to listen to Black Lives Matter, who were and are still defending the police, are on side with the Parkland kids and March For Our Lives. The Parkland survivors and their allies are still under attack, of course, but not by all the same forces, and that’s got to hurt. The people calling for gun control now aren’t necessarily calling for the disarmament, demilitarization, and deescalation of police forces, and that’s got to hurt.

The thing is, that’s our baggage as a society. The Parkland kids themselves? The kids standing up, organizing, pushing forward? They ARE talking about these issues. They are talking about Black Lives Matter. They are embracing the perspectives of people of color. They are putting non-white speakers on that stage, in the spotlight. The white kids are openly, consciously, trying to use their white privilege to help everyone navigate a racist society that just…didn’t want to listen when it was black people talking about police brutality.

So we can and need to do both. We can and should acknowledge the pain caused by the public reaction around all this. The overwhelming support these kids have received, even as right wingers continue their attacks. The LACK of support for Black Lives Matter and the fight against a militarized, racist, brutal police culture. As a society, we should do better, and we must do better, and we cannot go around telling marginalized people their pain is wrong and bad.

At the same time, we can and should also acknowledge that these kids are part of one of the most diverse generations of Americans yet. They did not grow up with the illusions of the previous generation. They recognize and own their privilege, and they are trying to exploit the shit out of it to make things better, to bring marginalized people into the conversation, to make the American public listen to the people they’ve been ignoring. And we need to support and amplify those efforts, because these kids? They’re still kids. They’re still scared, they’re still hurting, they’re still spending so much energy on this fight. They are trying so hard not to screw up in front of the cameras when they are still in so much pain.

White people, in particular, need to take a page from these kids and amplify and center the perspectives of people of color. We need to avoid knee-jerk reactions to marginalized people expressing their understandable pain, and we need to empathize and try to help. We need to keep pushing Black Lives Matter. We need to keep fighting against police brutality, against the ICE, even as we fight against a gun culture that has grown positively toxic. These are all heads of the same damn hydra: an American culture rooted in racism, a culture which has always been toxic for some and is overdue for a reckoning. And most of all we need to listen to the marginalized people we’re trying to help and follow their lead, because White People Tactics do not work for everyone, and no one needs a great white savior. We need to be good allies first and everything else second.

Fuck anyone who says I have to forgive everyone, “for my sake.” I worked hard for this anger. I worked hard to love myself enough to hate them.

Shit, yeah, this is a thing that is hard to articulate. Some people don’t feel healed by forgiving the people who hurt them, because that’s what they kept doing over and over and it only led to getting more hurt. Sometimes you feel healed when you’re finally brave enough to say “This person was horrible to me, and I did not deserve that treatment, and I don’t have to be okay with it.”

THIS. I saw a post the other day that literally said if you do it to a fictional character, you’ll do it in real life.

No. Just NO.

I’m so glad someone put it into words.

In art, we can be fucking nuts.

Mollymauk is a blessing if for no other reason than the fact that we now get to see Taliesin frequently flash big, shit-eating grins and look delighted with himself.

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being comfortable with some sex acts doesn’t mean you have to be comfortable with all sex acts and just because you consented to doing some sexual things with a person does not mean that you have to consent to doing all sexual things with that person.

you’re 100% allowed to say “i’m comfortable doing THIS but i don’t want to do THAT”. your right to set your own sexual boundaries doesn’t only apply to just whether or not you’ll have sex with someone at all but also to what you’re willing to do with them, and even if you (or they) feel like your boundaries are “weird” or “don’t make sense” that doesn’t mean you don’t have the right to have them or that they shouldn’t be respected.

okay but mordin’s audio recordings break my heart

because shep has lost so many people, and she has nothing to remember them by. nothing of her parents, who died in the attack on mindoir. nothing of her squad who were killed on akuze. nothing left of gabby, or kelly, or any of the crewmembers whose names we aren’t given in-game but shep definitely knew. nothing left of anyone who died on the suicide mission

and at any time, she could lose someone else. hell, she could lose garrus, and damn if that thought doesn’t make her want to break out the bourbon

and mordin is intelligent as fuck, and he knew all this and that it gets to her even if she stubbornly refuses to be anything other than okay in public

so he made sure that she had something left of him. “just entertainment, but entertainment important sometimes”. 

and im just picturing shep on one of the occasions the normandy docks at the citadel and she visits the apartment, sat on the floor with her knees drawn up to her chest, giving herself a moment to take a step back and grieve, with mordin singing ‘scientist salarian’ in the background from the datapad

and like. no matter how many friends she loses, she’s always got a piece of this one to keep with her, idk

Writing agent Jonny Geller gives advice to young writers. 

set your past on fire and leave

Wheelchairs aren’t a trap. They give freedom; they don’t take it away. So don’t say that Stephen Hawking was “freed from his chair”. The chair has always freed him. RIP Stephen Hawking, 1942-2018.

[Image has two panels, both drawn over starfields. The first has an empty wheelchair with a silhouette walking away; this panel is crossed out and labelled “Don’t say ‘freed from his chair’”. The second panel has Hawking in the chair flying around going ‘whee!’. This panel is labelled “The chair has always freed him.]

why is lotion so annoying to apply i want to be soft and smooth but this is too much

VIDEO GAME WITH CHARACTER CUSTOMIZATION

*has tons of sliders for the face alone*

*doesnt matter cause ur character’s face will always look weird during cutscenes*

BODY SLIDERS!!

*choose from skinny, not so skinny, and not so not so skinny*

sometimes boob slider!!

HAIR OPTIONS!!

theyre all white ppl hair and maybe one afro. sometimes they add more hairtsyles in a patch but dont hold ur breath.

ladies still cant have facial hair sorry

also the hair options are taken from the same selection as NPCs so expect 20 different ppl in the game with that exact same hairstyle.

So sometimes I see bros on the internet talk about how women couldn’t have worn armor historically, because it was too heavy for them.

Here is a picture of me wearing armor when I was a nerdy 14-year-old girl who was about 5 feet tall and weighed less than 95 pounds. I sometimes wore it for 6 hours straight in summer heat, and I would run and turn summersaults in it for fun.

And before you start asking: this was authentic full steel plate with a padded arming doublet underneath. It weighed so much that I couldn’t carry the plastic tub it was stored in on my own. It was heavy. But once I was wearing it I just felt like I was being hugged or wrapped up in a really heavy blanket. That’s how armor works. The whole point is that the weight is distributed across your whole body, and your whole body can lift a huge amount. It has nothing to do with how strong you are or how much you can bench.

So if you think women are too weak to wear armor, you are wrong on so many levels. It does not even matter if you believe in your little misogynistic heart that all women are defined by their physical inferiority when compared to men, because you are also just wrong about how armor works. Even skinny teen girls can wear armor just fine. Everyone can wear armor.

People who think that women would not be strong enough to wear full armor, also seem to forget that:

- traditionally women’s work was work for which you needed to be hella strong. Try lugging around buckets of water, animal feed, milk and cheeses for a day and see how you like it. Try doing the laundry without a machine to help you out.

- women’s clothing over the years has been layered and made out of heavy cloth and bone structures to achieve a certain silhouette. All these layers and structures are heavy, and women would be wearing them for hours and hours every day.