Gen Z culture is learning, at a youngish age, that you just have to hide your emotions around adults because they think they’ve got it under control and seeing you react upsets them.
Gen Z culture is taking matters into your own hands.
Gen Z culture is having to treat adults like royalty and pander to them while they say “not now, sweetie, the adults are talking.”
Gen Z culture is hopefully gonna be, at some point, saying, “Not now, Mom, we’re trying to fix the world and I don’t have time for being told that it’s stupid or that you’ve got it under control.”
Gen Z culture is going numb from caring too much and blocking yourself off from the news, voluntarily (watching movies, eating mac n cheese, and ignoring it so you can heal) or involuntarily (going to camp and there aren’t any screens) and feeling less hopeless but still guilty, so you try to force yourself to feel again, to fight, to not go numb and sit down and panic and cry and hope that for once, an adult tries to help rather than sitting down and telling us that they know what they’re doing or that we’re their only hope and it’s our job to fight.
Gen Z is knowing that anger is an infinite resource but not caring anyway because every adult out there is screaming for us to do their job for them, and you know what? You know what? We’re doing a much better job than they ever did, and if they would just step aside or help us, give us something other than thoughts or prayers, we’d be changing the world so much faster.
Thoughts and prayers and empty words of comfort, or battle cries as you sit back, are easy. Change isn’t easy, but it’s right.
Hey remember when US and Russia was all like “We’re the best!!! We’ve won the space race!!!!” But India sent a kick-ass space probe to Mars and the whole mission was fuel efficient, costed less and a roaring success in the first try and then they were like “…..wait no that can’t be true” and still have the audacity to call us “underdeveloped” or only view us as a ‘third world country’? :)
For anyone who needs more info, the probe was called Mangalyaan (which literally means space probe vehicle) or Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and you can also get more information here and here
Remember when NYT mocked India for this very thing and an TOI (a major indian newspaper) responded with this? :)
They were being racist asf and we were till respectful literally fuck you if you think ‘third world counties’ can’t be better than you
white people can and should reblog this
Go India! First time I heard of this, the space media is always drowned out with the whole ‘who landed on the moon first?’ nonsense…
I’m doing a Philosophy paper on Asexuality. Please reblog if you think Love without Sex is possible! I really need the data. Like if you think love has to have sex.
So a tiny story: on Black Friday a few weeks ago I went to Gamestop to buy my brother a game for Christmas, and I noticed this older man was watching me like a hawk. He was loitering around the front of the store without really buying anything, and every time I glanced at him out of the corner of my eye he was looking at me. I went to look at the PS4 games, and he was looking at something right behind me. I checked out the Nintendo games, and he was looking at them too. I was the only woman in the store, by the way.
By the time I got in line to pay he was loitering at the front of the store again, and I just had that feeling that he was going to try and take the game I just bought, or steal my purse, as soon as I left the store. OR, he was going to try and follow me home. And I know I don’t have to explain that terror to any woman reading this, but all I could think was that I’m in this Gamestop alone with at least twenty other men and something is about to happen. I’m beginning to freak out, to the point where I’ve just pulled my pepper spray out of my purse and into the pocket of my coat.
So there I am, next in line to pay, and there is this GIGANTIC dudebro right behind me, and I say gigantic as a 6 foot tall woman. He says, “Ma’am? Don’t be offended, but would it be alright if I walked you to your car?” and I was like “Are you serious?” and he was like “There are some weird guys in here right now. Have you noticed that guy watching you?” and then I showed the dudebro the pepper spray in my pocket and he was like “Right on. Would you still let me walk you to your car?” and I said yes.
So I paid, and waited while HE paid, and he walked me to my car. And just as I was getting in, the weird guy who’d been loitering came out of the store, saw me and my dudebro, and turned around and walked away in the opposite direction.
In short: men who recognize that women are unsafe in dark alleys, college campuses, grocery stores, gas stations and retail stores and do something about it are the kind of quality men that this world needs more of.
Please for the love of god yes.
Good story and its true.
Today, sadly, there are very few Men who can do this because they have no fight skills and are unable to offer assistance to protect others who need it.
So all you Men out there…..
Listen up!
Learn a fight skill and take responsibility for your Manhood.
All Men, without exception, should know how to fight and defend themselves and others.
I like to believe that all the dragons in the world were magically cursed and turned into cats. But cats have never forgotten where they come from, hence the attitude.
I nearly didn’t reblog this but the above comment makes more sense than anything I’ve ever heard.
…that’s…that’s actually a story my mom used to tell me when I was little? That a dragon showed up at someone’s cottage so they gave it milk. And the dragon enjoyed the milk, so it kept coming back and got smaller and softer and purry-er until eventually it wasn’t a dragon anymore, it was a cat, and that’s where cats came from and why we keep giving them milk.
She might have gotten the story from Ursula K. Le Guin, or I have confused it with a different dragon story.
That’s also why cats tend to hoard their toys behind the couch!
Actually the story is even older. Written by a woman named Edith Nesbit, first published in 1899, it is called “The Dragon Tamers”. It predates Leguin and other fantasy biggies like Lewis and Tolkien.
Nesbit actually can be credited with being one of the first authors that began to shift myths and legends to more fantasy-like stories (fantasy as a genre how we know it, wasn’t around then because it was just part of literature, especially British literature). In fact, many scholars who study fantasy literature and children’s literature believe that, since her children’s stories were so popular with children in England, the stories and their content prompted Tolkien (the first to coin fantasy as its own genre in his essay “On Fairy Stories”) to take up the stories of dragons and elves and fairies as they’d have been children when she was writing.
Tolkien was born in 1892. He would have been 7 when “The Dragon Tamers” was first published. Edith Nesbit did a LOT for modernizing myths, legends, and lore as a children’s author, maybe more than we will ever know.
This is a summary of college only using two pictures; expensive as hell.
That’s my Sociology “book”. In fact what it is is a piece of paper with codes written on it to allow me to access an electronic version of a book. I was told by my professor that I could not buy any other paperback version, or use another code, so I was left with no option other than buying a piece of paper for over $200. Best part about all this is my professor wrote the books; there’s something hilariously sadistic about that. So I pretty much doled out $200 for a current edition of an online textbook that is no different than an older, paperback edition of the same book for $5; yeah, I checked. My mistake for listening to my professor.
So this whole, “Turn Mei into a pro Hong Kong meme to get Blizzard banned” thing is a great idea, but I think we could do more. We could do something that would not only help the movement, but also increase political and financial pressure on China.
We turn Mickey Mouse into a pro Hong Kong, anti China/Xi Jinping meme. China was quick to ban Winnie the Pooh over a joke, imagine how quickly they would ban Mickey if he was used as an actual anti CCP symbol, and the resulting fallout with, and pressure from Disney, considering the Park they just built in Shanghai, and all the film revenue they stand to make.
Perhaps we could even do the same with a few Marvel characters. Something tells me Tony Stark would openly, and obnoxiously support what the Hong Kong protestors are doing.
You mean like this?
Nice
Spread. This. Far. And. WIDE. (Wide, just like Xi’s arse!)
After a medical fiasco kept me from competing at a costume competition this summer, I was going to keep these photos under wraps for another year to try again. But a friend asked me today if I had any pictures I could share with a little girl who was born with one arm, and I realized that we never know what the future may hold…but we can still bring joy to people today!
This whole project was done with a lot of love. When my daughter was studying Cinderella stories at school last year, I realized that even though there were so many beautiful tales from around the world, there were still no princesses who looked like ME! When I was growing up with a physical difference, I never saw girls like myself represented in the media, so it took me a long time to realize that what makes us different can also be the thing that makes us strong, beautiful, and unapologetically unique.
So what do you do when you can’t find a princess like you? You make up your own! I spent countless hours sewing Cinderella’s ballgown and her Prince’s uniform. And my fairy godfather Gilbert Lozano brought everything together with the most amazing glass arm (glass slippers are SO last year! 😉 )
This costume is dedicated to all the little girls learning to navigate the world with their “lucky fins” or other challenges. I hope you know you are beautiful, and that you are UNSTOPPABLE!!! Write your own story, and be your own kind of princess. ❤
(Many, MANY thanks to all the people who helped turned this dream into reality! My real-life Prince Charming, Ryan Pursley, who didn’t think I was crazy while I kept sewing for MONTHS. Gilbert, the brilliant artist who didn’t even know me but believed in my dream and is now a cherished friend. Eric Morris and Nick Ibarra at Cemrock who generously offered their equipment and assistance to create the glass arm. Jennifer Woodard at Hanger Clinic in Vista, CA for helping me figure out how to attach the prosthetic, and of course the amazing Kelly Anderson for taking such beautiful photographs!! Who needs magic when you are surrounded by such talented and generous people!)
UPDATE: WOW, WOW, WOW! I am literally just blown away by all the love and support here. All of you fabulous people have created this beautiful corner of positivity and light and are just shooting it out there and it is AMAZING. But my most favorite part is seeing all these little “lucky fin” princesses and princes in the comments. Please shower these kids with all the love too because they are adorable and awesome exactly the way they are! I know they are going to write some great stories one day too! ❤️
THIS IS SO FUCKING COOL!!! 10/10 amazing cosplay!!
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This is how to be a good ally.
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Using their Bro-ness for good, not evil
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