Tag: important
so, earlier i saw a post making fun of the idea of kids having a tumblr prom, and i laughed too, because i remembered how silly that was back in, what, 2011? but it wasn’t all that silly, it was pretty cute, actually. a lot of people dressed up, some in character, and asked each other out, and posted costumes and drew each other flowers, and yeah maybe it was a little cringey, but it was sweet. it was well-meaning. a lot of people genuinely had fun.
and it isn’t 2011 again, is the thing.
this year, an entire graduating class of seniors isn’t going to get to go to prom. or graduation. at all. ever. no homecoming, no prom, no graduation, no signing yearbooks. maybe you’re old enough that you don’t remember how much these things meant when you were eighteen, and maybe they really didn’t mean anything to you at all, but this is something that until a month ago millions of teenagers had every expectation of getting to do, and now they won’t. these are milestones a century of american teens have gotten to celebrate as they grew from kids to young adults, and these kids this year get to sit at home and watch the world burn as a bunch of old people lie to each other.
let them have an online prom. let them dress up and reach out to each other and try to find a little joy in a world that has profoundly failed them. i’m a millennial, i know how bitter it is to come of age and find everything i was promised by everyone older than me to evaporate just before i reached it: that good job college was supposed to get me, that house in the suburbs, the world that wasn’t on fire. and now gen z is going through something even worse.
the kids aren’t alright. no one is alright. none of this is alright.
fuck it: tumblr prom.
Don’t mock people for not understanding jokes or sarcasm! It’s pretty common for autistic people to have trouble telling when someone is joking or if they’re being serious, and to have trouble picking up on sarcasm. And its especially hard to tell over the internet. Also, if someone asks you to explain the joke, don’t be an ass, just do it. It doesn’t “ruin the joke”, it just allows more people to be in on it. If you want a good solution, start adding /s or /j (which stand for sarcasm and joke respectively) at the end of your joke so that neurodivergent people can pick up that it’s not serious.
Saw a post where someone made fun of another persons atypical way of typing and when they were then told that the person in question type like that because of a disability, they went “how was I supposed to just know that?” – and in case anyone wasn’t aware the answer to that kind of fuckery is:
“You’re not supposed to know that, you’re just supposed to not make fun of anyone’s harmless differences regardless of whether they’re disabled or not. You’re not supposed to be able to tell “weird” abled neurotypicals and disabled/mentally ill people apart, you’re just supposed to treat people with respect generally speaking. It’s not that hard. “I didn’t know they were disabled” is just not the excuse you think it is cause you’re not supposed to make fun of anyone for completely harmless differences regardless of whether said differences are related to a disability or not.
Did you know that your interests are really cool?? The stuff that you find fascinating and the little facts you know aren’t lame. They’re what make you passionate and that’s a really cool thing
The End, by Alister Lockhart.
Bruh, if you don’t think that having historically significant events well documented from multiple perspectives is a good thing, then idk what the hell u doin.
Besides, like, that is literally a Giant Monster Rampaging Through The Town. What the fuck is the everyday person gonna do other than Tweet/Instagram/Post about it going “It’s the apocalypse you guys! Eyyyy lmao #apocalypse #deathrising #nofilter”?
#like come on your cellphone may not defeat the beast#but it can gain you like 50000 followers before the skies start raining blood so#who’s the REAL winner here? (via @purplebloodedmajesty)
And heck, even if your own death is inevitable getting information out could help save other people, even if it can’t save you. ‘Here are 20 livestreams of the giant tentacle monster including how it moves and attacks, how can we beat it?’ is way more useful than ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’
reblogging for this perfection: ‘an entire city got wiped off the map and things smell vaguely of calimari idk man’
My thought was “bless the two who were smart enough to turn their phones horizontally”
This reminds me of my favourite volcano, Mount St Helens, and when I went to see it at Johnston Ridge.
As a kid, David Johnston’s story seemed amazingly tragic and beautiful to me, that one of the most human things we could do is, in the face of death, live on in a way. He didn’t stare the eruption in the face and try to escape or give up. He recorded it like planned when it was clear he would not survive, and saved the camera with his body. And I think the beauty comes in humans planning for what happens after their death, for doing something regardless of if they see the outcome, and I never want to lose that.
We are so intent on living not only as individuals, but as a society, and for each other. And that’s where you find beauty in the face of tragedy.
unpopular opinion apparently, but can we please stop attacking & mocking people for having speech disorders (& especially please stop calling people with speech disorders names, saying they’re stupid, have ‘brain damage’, are incompetent / unable to do anything / overgrown children / etc)
your ableism is showing
(This post is about people with speech disorders. I’m aware that a variety of disabled and neurodivergent people are attacked & mocked like this, but if you want to talk about it please make your own post / don’t derail this one. Ableists will be blocked on site)
If any nurses/retail workers/doctors/… are following me, I just want to thank you all for your service. I know you’re overworked and probably underpaid, but without you, this outbreak would be even worse.
A big shout out to delivery drivers as well. They have to enter the warzone of panic grocery stores. Be sure to tip well where you can, because they may not have work soon until this starts to get better.
also to binmen/trash collectors who are on the front line for infection and often don’t get the recognition for their work
ifesbob 