jojo siwa is like. her style is not my taste at all but as soon as other people call it annoying im like actually you're wrong she's an icon and a legend

she looks like the concentrated essence of a claires store and i do not mean this negatively

it’s the “fuck you” to the current trend of encouraging teenagers to look 24 and embracing girly things that cis men hate

American Kawaii

she looks like someone turned a Skittles commercial into a person and i love it

I’m still not sure how to explain to non-writers that sometimes characters can just do things without your consent or foreknowledge and there’s not a lot you can do to stop them. 

#also when they are like #so this is my back story #and I’m like that’s a little dark can it lighten up a bit? #and they’re like no in fact it gets worse! #and I’m like thanks I hate it (via @artsome3rdthing)

So I actually, as a writer, hate this. It’s not true, you’re not being possessed by the spirits of the characters you create. You got an idea and you wrote it down. Maybe it was so compelling that you couldn’t ignore it. But you wrote it. You did. No one else is responsible for your writing. Stop pretending to be some kind of demon-possessed vessel and take responsibility and pride in your work.

Person: Has an idea that they didn't consider before

Person: “what is this witchcraft!”

really wish we could send images back in time because i would love to know what someone from 2018 would make of this

can I get a refund for having seen this

Have you ever seen a violinist going APESHIT?!

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GO OFFF

Ok so I’ve been playing for 18 years and i’m a string teacher. Can i just say how IMPORTANT it is for young kids to see a BLACK, MALE-PRESENTING PERSON playing, nae, SHREDDING on a violin? I’ve know maybe 5 black people who played stringed instruments throughout my schooling and teaching (predumably because i’m an upper middle class white woman). In districts where the population is predominantly black, funding is always low, so the instruments are crappy. Kids quit, or the program is dismantled. I’ve seen very few professional string players who are black.

Obviously there are black string players. We just don’t see them because they “don’t look like” string players.

This person is the real deal. They were clearly classically trained, and seems to have some fiddle training as well. How cool is that?

But also… RAD PLAYING MY DUDEEEE

negative space doesn’t have to be so negative

BLM protestors in Bristol have covered up the statue of Edward Colston- a slave trader who for some reason is still widely celebrated all over the city.

they fucking pulled it down. iconic.

in great news, there’s video

in better news, they threw the statue in the sea

Do this instead of letting mayors remove the statues to put them fuckknowswhere for racists to have hidden museums that resurface

can we start throwing racists into the sea?

already seeing some “J.K. Rowling is a muggle!!!” no you clowns she’s a gleefully transphobic bigot use your grownup words 

I have now also spotted a “J.K. Rowling is voldemort” courtesy of twitter and I assure you she’s really not, there’s nothing magical or grandiose about her brand of evil it’s entirely run of the mill ignorance. Joanne is not a supervillain she’s just a shitbag. 

listen y’all. I get it. the real world is overwhelming and difficult to process sometimes, and if a work of fiction first helped you conceptualize a complex real world issue and brings you comfort when shit gets hard, that’s rad. but it’s so important to engage with real issues that affect real people head on instead of filtering them through simplified fictional lenses. do not water down hate speech and violence that has real consequences on real people’s lives; that is beyond trivializing and disrespectful. 

That little girl is going places

I know more about economics than AOC and my knowledge on economics is on a high school level. Its actually embarassing how little she knows about this shit. But hey, expecting a socialist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.

Much of the ocean is a desert

You know what? Let’s use the allowance example again to make it even clearer.

Let’s pretend we have an allowance tax bracket with a 70% tax on money received after a certain point. To keep things simple, we’ll make the limit $90.

If a kid does chores and earns $10 in allowance, they get $10. They’re not going to be affected by the 70% tax.

If a kid does chores and earns $50, they get $50. They also aren’t in the 70% tax bracket, even though they make five times as much money as the kid making $10.

If a kid does chores and earns $100 in allowance, then they’re in the allowance tax bracket with the 70% tax.

$100 minus $90 is $10. This is the part that’s going to be taxed 70%.

70% of $10 is $7.

So the kid getting $100 in allowance will have $93 after the 70% tax takes its share.

Now, I’d never impose such a thing on actual kids. All of this is a thought exercise.

But if it were real, the kid making $10 and the kid making $50 would probably be kind of mad if the kid getting $93 was bitching about being short $7.

Also AOC majored in economics (actually one of her two majors) so step the FUCK off my congresswoman tyvm

But hey, expecting a capitalist to know about economics is like expecting a fish to know what a desert is.

meirl