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Dec. 8th, 2016
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theultravioletcatastrophe:
mszombi:
I have no idea what type of garment I’m looking at here but I don’t think it was made for a human or any other creature of this earth
FRANKENJIRT
theultravioletcatastrophe:
mszombi:
I have no idea what type of garment I’m looking at here but I don’t think it was made for a human or any other creature of this earth
FRANKENJIRT
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freehugsfromvoldemort:
lesbianlimbo:
Everyone’s posting their favorite vines, so I thought I’d hop on this bandwagon.
this is absolutely the best compilation ive seen
freehugsfromvoldemort:
lesbianlimbo:
Everyone’s posting their favorite vines, so I thought I’d hop on this bandwagon.
this is absolutely the best compilation ive seen
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prokopetz:
dazzledfirestar:
stardust-rain:
violent-darts:
sephboy:
heres a cool idea: what if in 2017 tumblr commie kids gave up the creepy romanticization of the soviet union thing in favor of the aesthetics of american labor history–the haymarket riot, the pullman strike, the great railroad strike, emma goldman & yiddish socialism, woody guthrie, pete seeger, paul robeson, the iww and the 1912 textile workers’ strike, the ladies’ garment workers’ union, wpa murals, the american communist party, bread and roses, the union maid. that’s the Good Shit if yr looking for historical leftist culture imo
Seriously tho, kids.
The USSR was a blood-soaked mess. A racist, anti-semitic, sexist blood-soaked mess at that. Do not repeat the sins of the Left of the 60s/etc by ignoring that. (Same goes for Maoist China, etc.) To ignore that is to literally piss on a truly appalling number of graves As an allegory, Animal Farm’s inaccuracies were that it’s not grim and horrific enough. The most conservative and hesitant and “well we don’t want to be hysterical about this” count of Stalin’s death toll, not including famine-victims, is 4 million; the one which, after various amounts of research, I find most convincing is about 20 million. Mao’s Great Leap Forward killed anywhere from 18 to 50 million, and we have literal footage of Tienamen, guys.
This is not the good example you are looking for. Do not romanticise them.
100% go back, as OP says, to the things that actually had good results (like a 40 hour work-week and basic human worker’s rights and shite) and did not do them over mountains of corpses. We have lots! They even included (gosh!) women! and queers! and people of colour/different ethnicities! They do all the things you want.
These are your models. Not those bloody handed bastards over there.
honestly, now is more important than ever to remember the historical contributions that the working class has made for social movements, given how much the media have taken blaming them for the rise of fascism.
From Trump to Brexit, the narrative being spun has been that of “the working class were too poor and too dumb to know better” and how both Brexit and Trump spoke for them or to them, even though a majority of that demographic are non-white/immigrant/minorities who are severely affected by the political outcome. It’s a false narrative and it is both classist and racist and erases the fact that labour rights and worker’s rights and social rights in West Europe and Americas have come from and were heavily supported by the socialist left and working classes.
Just to start off, I was reading the other day about The 1936 Battle of Cable Street, which was a stand organised by the local working class comprising of Jewish locals, the Irish locals, Labour and Communist party members in a demonstration against a Nazi march that lead to confrontation with the police (Discworld fans, read the fuck up about this because you will find a lot of what Pratchett was referencing in Night Watch).
I’m sure there’s probably a lot more examples, and what OP mentioned definitely deserves more historical context and background. But the fact is that those historical contexts are either forgotten or ignored by the tumblr social justice commie kids scene because clueless privileged teenagers are more willing to worship dead genocidal dictators for cheap aesthetics than do actual fucking research.
There’s a difference between celebrating bloody totalitarian regimes and celebrating actual socialist and leftist movements that had a positive outcome, in all their complexities, struggles and conflicts. And that difference means research and looking at the contexts of historical and social political landscapes of the time, the sum of which unfortunately can’t be reduced to sickle-and-hammer on a pastel colour palette.
Also please be aware that the horrors that were brought down on people in the USSR and other regimes are within living memory. There are witnesses, victims and perpetrators STILL ALIVE, and potentially on tumblr. This is not some far off thing that happened hundreds of years ago. PLEASE understand how the trivializing and romanticizing of these regimes and their imagery can be very triggering.
My family on my father’s side ended up in Canada fleeing the Holodomor. That whole side of my family tree just ends around 1933 - the records to trace it back any further than that simply don’t exist. Like, I’m sympathetic to socalist causes, but if you want to get me on side, maybe don’t hold up the regime that murdered 50% of my ancestors as your aspirational ideal?
prokopetz:
dazzledfirestar:
stardust-rain:
violent-darts:
sephboy:
heres a cool idea: what if in 2017 tumblr commie kids gave up the creepy romanticization of the soviet union thing in favor of the aesthetics of american labor history–the haymarket riot, the pullman strike, the great railroad strike, emma goldman & yiddish socialism, woody guthrie, pete seeger, paul robeson, the iww and the 1912 textile workers’ strike, the ladies’ garment workers’ union, wpa murals, the american communist party, bread and roses, the union maid. that’s the Good Shit if yr looking for historical leftist culture imo
Seriously tho, kids.
The USSR was a blood-soaked mess. A racist, anti-semitic, sexist blood-soaked mess at that. Do not repeat the sins of the Left of the 60s/etc by ignoring that. (Same goes for Maoist China, etc.) To ignore that is to literally piss on a truly appalling number of graves As an allegory, Animal Farm’s inaccuracies were that it’s not grim and horrific enough. The most conservative and hesitant and “well we don’t want to be hysterical about this” count of Stalin’s death toll, not including famine-victims, is 4 million; the one which, after various amounts of research, I find most convincing is about 20 million. Mao’s Great Leap Forward killed anywhere from 18 to 50 million, and we have literal footage of Tienamen, guys.
This is not the good example you are looking for. Do not romanticise them.
100% go back, as OP says, to the things that actually had good results (like a 40 hour work-week and basic human worker’s rights and shite) and did not do them over mountains of corpses. We have lots! They even included (gosh!) women! and queers! and people of colour/different ethnicities! They do all the things you want.
These are your models. Not those bloody handed bastards over there.
honestly, now is more important than ever to remember the historical contributions that the working class has made for social movements, given how much the media have taken blaming them for the rise of fascism.
From Trump to Brexit, the narrative being spun has been that of “the working class were too poor and too dumb to know better” and how both Brexit and Trump spoke for them or to them, even though a majority of that demographic are non-white/immigrant/minorities who are severely affected by the political outcome. It’s a false narrative and it is both classist and racist and erases the fact that labour rights and worker’s rights and social rights in West Europe and Americas have come from and were heavily supported by the socialist left and working classes.
Just to start off, I was reading the other day about The 1936 Battle of Cable Street, which was a stand organised by the local working class comprising of Jewish locals, the Irish locals, Labour and Communist party members in a demonstration against a Nazi march that lead to confrontation with the police (Discworld fans, read the fuck up about this because you will find a lot of what Pratchett was referencing in Night Watch).
I’m sure there’s probably a lot more examples, and what OP mentioned definitely deserves more historical context and background. But the fact is that those historical contexts are either forgotten or ignored by the tumblr social justice commie kids scene because clueless privileged teenagers are more willing to worship dead genocidal dictators for cheap aesthetics than do actual fucking research.
There’s a difference between celebrating bloody totalitarian regimes and celebrating actual socialist and leftist movements that had a positive outcome, in all their complexities, struggles and conflicts. And that difference means research and looking at the contexts of historical and social political landscapes of the time, the sum of which unfortunately can’t be reduced to sickle-and-hammer on a pastel colour palette.
Also please be aware that the horrors that were brought down on people in the USSR and other regimes are within living memory. There are witnesses, victims and perpetrators STILL ALIVE, and potentially on tumblr. This is not some far off thing that happened hundreds of years ago. PLEASE understand how the trivializing and romanticizing of these regimes and their imagery can be very triggering.
My family on my father’s side ended up in Canada fleeing the Holodomor. That whole side of my family tree just ends around 1933 - the records to trace it back any further than that simply don’t exist. Like, I’m sympathetic to socalist causes, but if you want to get me on side, maybe don’t hold up the regime that murdered 50% of my ancestors as your aspirational ideal?
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oeshka:
windschanging:
valkubus-shipper:
patrocluschironides:
are you a boy? your clothes are boy clothes.
are you a girl? your clothes are girl clothes.
are you outside the binary of boy and girl? so are your clothes.
did someone just tell you your clothes don’t match your gender identity? they are a trashcan and their clothes are trashcan clothes.
Or in the words of Eddie Izzard..
Because this cannot be reblogged enough.
Screaming silently in adoration
oeshka:
windschanging:
valkubus-shipper:
patrocluschironides:
are you a boy? your clothes are boy clothes.
are you a girl? your clothes are girl clothes.
are you outside the binary of boy and girl? so are your clothes.
did someone just tell you your clothes don’t match your gender identity? they are a trashcan and their clothes are trashcan clothes.
Or in the words of Eddie Izzard..
Because this cannot be reblogged enough.
Screaming silently in adoration
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brookietf:
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
farmer-10:
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
moonblossom:
hedaswarrior:
highfiveshiningstrike:
REPRESENTATION MATTERS [X]
I;m crying
REPRESENTATION IS SO IMPORTANT
I’m not crying, you’re crying! Feelings are dumb!
MY HEART HURTS
Oh my god ;-; This hurts in such a good way.
brookietf:
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
farmer-10:
thefingerfuckingfemalefury:
moonblossom:
hedaswarrior:
highfiveshiningstrike:
REPRESENTATION MATTERS [X]
I;m crying
REPRESENTATION IS SO IMPORTANT
I’m not crying, you’re crying! Feelings are dumb!
MY HEART HURTS
Oh my god ;-; This hurts in such a good way.
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the-evil-twin:
cycler21:
cairawr:
radioforyoureyes:
4lung:
itchycoil:
h-e-r-s-t-o-r-y:
A New Sexual Identity Emerges…👤👥1995 @newsweek (rg @ray.chandler) #bi #biguy #biculture #blazer #1995
They look so sneaky … Me
1995 - bisexuality discovered
Bisexuality turned 21 this year
someone tell me all about the cappuccino vs cowboys dilemma
“New”
21 years later since it was “new”, and heteros and gays alike still can’t admit that it exists
the-evil-twin:
cycler21:
cairawr:
radioforyoureyes:
4lung:
itchycoil:
h-e-r-s-t-o-r-y:
A New Sexual Identity Emerges…👤👥1995 @newsweek (rg @ray.chandler) #bi #biguy #biculture #blazer #1995
They look so sneaky … Me
1995 - bisexuality discovered
Bisexuality turned 21 this year
someone tell me all about the cappuccino vs cowboys dilemma
“New”
21 years later since it was “new”, and heteros and gays alike still can’t admit that it exists
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the-evil-twin:
gothiccharmschool:
megan-likes-bunnies:
thomas4th:
jenniferlovely:
bjornwilde:
babbledevice:
roane72:
wildehacked:
ifeelbetterer:
rob-anybody:
cacchieressa:
chickletgirl:
carleton97:
lolcat76:
freifraufischer:
ashermajestywishes:
nancy drew
Murder She Wrote or Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Days of our Lives and Cabbage Patch Kids.
Agatha Christie and the dirty Harlequins I’d read in the library.
Silver Spoons, E.T., and West Side Story.
The Austin-Murry-O'Keefe families, LotR and Star Wars.
so, you know, like now.
Thundercats, The Fantastic Five, TNG, and Nancy Drew.
Xanth, Star Trek, and MST3K
All animorphs all day, with periodic breaks for elfquest.
ET, The Pirate Movie, Trixie Belden, annnnnd…
Luke Skywalker.
Star Trek, Star Blazers, A Wrinkle in Time. Oh, and James Bond.
Flipper, Man from Atlantis, Stat Blazers, Battle for the Planets, and Godzilla.
The Dark is Rising and being really scared a lot of the time.
LEGO and spy gadgets (real and fictional).
Dragon Lance. Especially Raistlin
The adventures of my stuffed animals, vampires, and witches.
No, I haven’t really changed that much.
This would have been 1997, so… The X-Files. I was OBSESSED with that show. xp Also, as much as I hate to admit it now, I was going through a really big Celine Dion phase. >_< But there also would have been a lot Sarah Mclachlan (please keep in mind that this was long before her depressing animal commercial years lol), Sheryl Crow (again, this would have been before she sucked), No Doubt, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morisette, Natalie Imbruglia, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and probably The Beatles because my dad wasted ZERO time getting me into them. xp
In another year (1998), I developed a SERIOUS life-long love for Tori Amos, Garbage, and Hole, so my blog definitely would have been full of that and I believe that’s absolutely worth a mention. xp
Horses, Animorphs, Harry Potter, and Naruto probably. :P
the-evil-twin:
gothiccharmschool:
megan-likes-bunnies:
thomas4th:
jenniferlovely:
bjornwilde:
babbledevice:
roane72:
wildehacked:
ifeelbetterer:
rob-anybody:
cacchieressa:
chickletgirl:
carleton97:
lolcat76:
freifraufischer:
ashermajestywishes:
nancy drew
Murder She Wrote or Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Days of our Lives and Cabbage Patch Kids.
Agatha Christie and the dirty Harlequins I’d read in the library.
Silver Spoons, E.T., and West Side Story.
The Austin-Murry-O'Keefe families, LotR and Star Wars.
so, you know, like now.
Thundercats, The Fantastic Five, TNG, and Nancy Drew.
Xanth, Star Trek, and MST3K
All animorphs all day, with periodic breaks for elfquest.
ET, The Pirate Movie, Trixie Belden, annnnnd…
Luke Skywalker.
Star Trek, Star Blazers, A Wrinkle in Time. Oh, and James Bond.
Flipper, Man from Atlantis, Stat Blazers, Battle for the Planets, and Godzilla.
The Dark is Rising and being really scared a lot of the time.
LEGO and spy gadgets (real and fictional).
Dragon Lance. Especially Raistlin
The adventures of my stuffed animals, vampires, and witches.
No, I haven’t really changed that much.
This would have been 1997, so… The X-Files. I was OBSESSED with that show. xp Also, as much as I hate to admit it now, I was going through a really big Celine Dion phase. >_< But there also would have been a lot Sarah Mclachlan (please keep in mind that this was long before her depressing animal commercial years lol), Sheryl Crow (again, this would have been before she sucked), No Doubt, Fiona Apple, Alanis Morisette, Natalie Imbruglia, Soundgarden, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots, and probably The Beatles because my dad wasted ZERO time getting me into them. xp
In another year (1998), I developed a SERIOUS life-long love for Tori Amos, Garbage, and Hole, so my blog definitely would have been full of that and I believe that’s absolutely worth a mention. xp
Horses, Animorphs, Harry Potter, and Naruto probably. :P
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the-evil-twin:
selkieborne:
blackness-by-your-side:
Veterans Ask Native Elders For Forgiveness At Standing Rock.
I never thought I would see this day when a white man apologizes for the tyranny and oppression of Native American population. This is so powerful. This is the nation that I want - responsible, compassionate and that learns from its mistakes.
God bless them!
These are the people doing what we should all be doing. This is not white guilt, this is white responsibility.
This made me cry. This is so powerful, and there is so much to be learned from here… I’m so glad that I got to see this.
the-evil-twin:
selkieborne:
blackness-by-your-side:
Veterans Ask Native Elders For Forgiveness At Standing Rock.
I never thought I would see this day when a white man apologizes for the tyranny and oppression of Native American population. This is so powerful. This is the nation that I want - responsible, compassionate and that learns from its mistakes.
God bless them!
These are the people doing what we should all be doing. This is not white guilt, this is white responsibility.
This made me cry. This is so powerful, and there is so much to be learned from here… I’m so glad that I got to see this.
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activistnyc:
IfNotNow was joined by Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and the Muslim-Jewish Anti-Fascist Front to protest the appointment of Stephen Bannon as Chief Strategist for President-elect Donald Trump. Bannon is well known as the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News, a far right American news, opinion and commentary website noted for its connection to the alt-right. Activists gathered in Bryant Park and marched to the Hyatt Hotel in Grand Central, where Bannon was speaking at the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s annual gala, and shouted “FIRE BANNON” from outside.
activistnyc:
IfNotNow was joined by Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and the Muslim-Jewish Anti-Fascist Front to protest the appointment of Stephen Bannon as Chief Strategist for President-elect Donald Trump. Bannon is well known as the Executive Chairman of Breitbart News, a far right American news, opinion and commentary website noted for its connection to the alt-right. Activists gathered in Bryant Park and marched to the Hyatt Hotel in Grand Central, where Bannon was speaking at the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA)’s annual gala, and shouted “FIRE BANNON” from outside.
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I would hazard a guess that the attraction to christmas trees is that, for indoor cats, they’re a type of enrichment we don’t give them that they’d naturally encounter quite frequently. Trees smell, have a unique texture, sway and bend, and are generally a very different climbing experience than indoor cat furniture - and they’re the type that cats are specialized to be good at climbing. Plus, they’re novel, and we put all sorts of novel things on them, and then we get red in the face and make interesting noises when they do climb it.
It can be safe, for sure, you just have to know your cat. Pine can be mildly toxic to cats, so if your cat likes to chew on the branches, get a fake tree. You also want to make sure you cat isn’t drinking the water from the tree stand (you can help prevent it by keeping the water level lower than normal so it’s not reachable, and watering more frequently).
When it comes to tree safety, another big issue is toppling/climbing. Again, know your cat. If your cat likes to climb trees, maybe get a weighted base and trim the branches at the bottom high enough that they’re not easy to climb into, or string netting through the bottom third of the branches to make them hard to climb. Also, think about where you place your ornaments. My childhood cats just liked to sit under the tree and hide among the presents, but as kids decorating @madsuspect‘s trees always involved mathematically placing the most alluring or fragile ornaments well out of cat reach and not placing many things at all on the low hanging branches.
I would hazard a guess that the attraction to christmas trees is that, for indoor cats, they’re a type of enrichment we don’t give them that they’d naturally encounter quite frequently. Trees smell, have a unique texture, sway and bend, and are generally a very different climbing experience than indoor cat furniture - and they’re the type that cats are specialized to be good at climbing. Plus, they’re novel, and we put all sorts of novel things on them, and then we get red in the face and make interesting noises when they do climb it.
It can be safe, for sure, you just have to know your cat. Pine can be mildly toxic to cats, so if your cat likes to chew on the branches, get a fake tree. You also want to make sure you cat isn’t drinking the water from the tree stand (you can help prevent it by keeping the water level lower than normal so it’s not reachable, and watering more frequently).
When it comes to tree safety, another big issue is toppling/climbing. Again, know your cat. If your cat likes to climb trees, maybe get a weighted base and trim the branches at the bottom high enough that they’re not easy to climb into, or string netting through the bottom third of the branches to make them hard to climb. Also, think about where you place your ornaments. My childhood cats just liked to sit under the tree and hide among the presents, but as kids decorating @madsuspect‘s trees always involved mathematically placing the most alluring or fragile ornaments well out of cat reach and not placing many things at all on the low hanging branches.
The ongoing saga of Harker and the stapler
Dec. 8th, 2016 06:38 amvia http://ift.tt/2gdHkO8:
sabotabby:
thatawkwardtinyperson:
falloutphanboyz:
kaijutegu:
kaijutegu:
kaijutegu:
My ball python, Harker, is really scared of this one stapler.
Every time he sees it, he balls up.
I was grading today and sure enough, the stapler was still scary.
However, for the first time, I introduced a second stapler!
He was nervous at first…
But it didn’t take him long to warm up to it.
Pretty soon it became his best friend!
There was nothing the new stapler couldn’t do!
Including protecting him from the other stapler.
The moral of the story?
My snake is a weirdo.
Update: Today I took Harker to my office, where he met another stapler.
He was fairly apathetic at first, but eventually they got on pretty well!
This stapler was smaller than either of the others, but one thing was sure: this stapler was definitely not scary!
Am I any closer to understanding my snake’s strange relationship with staplers?
Absolutely not.
UPDATE: it’s 2016 and I’m pleased to announce that he’s FINALLY gotten over his fear of the stapler!
He likes it now!
Tell him I’m proud of him
This post is so pure!
This is the best story.
sabotabby:
thatawkwardtinyperson:
falloutphanboyz:
kaijutegu:
kaijutegu:
kaijutegu:
My ball python, Harker, is really scared of this one stapler.
Every time he sees it, he balls up.
I was grading today and sure enough, the stapler was still scary.
However, for the first time, I introduced a second stapler!
He was nervous at first…
But it didn’t take him long to warm up to it.
Pretty soon it became his best friend!
There was nothing the new stapler couldn’t do!
Including protecting him from the other stapler.
The moral of the story?
My snake is a weirdo.
Update: Today I took Harker to my office, where he met another stapler.
He was fairly apathetic at first, but eventually they got on pretty well!
This stapler was smaller than either of the others, but one thing was sure: this stapler was definitely not scary!
Am I any closer to understanding my snake’s strange relationship with staplers?
Absolutely not.
UPDATE: it’s 2016 and I’m pleased to announce that he’s FINALLY gotten over his fear of the stapler!
He likes it now!
Tell him I’m proud of him
This post is so pure!
This is the best story.
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lookatthisbabybird:
(i found most of these on google image search but thought they were important to show the world)
this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen.
I love it.
lookatthisbabybird:
(i found most of these on google image search but thought they were important to show the world)
this is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen.
I love it.
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otpprompts:
Imagine person A being a master of puppy dog eyes, person B being the only one who can stand against them, and person C falling for them every time.
otpprompts:
Imagine person A being a master of puppy dog eyes, person B being the only one who can stand against them, and person C falling for them every time.
"Islam doesn’t promote violence or peace.
Dec. 8th, 2016 08:32 pmvia http://ift.tt/2gGIyxz:
“Islam doesn’t promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you’re a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism is going to be violent. There are marauding Buddhist monks in Myanmar slaughtering women and children. Does Buddhism promote violence? Of course not. People are violent or peaceful, and that depends on their politics, their social world, the way that they see their communities, the way they see themselves.”
- Religious scholar Reza Aslan answers CNN’s question, “Does Islam promote violence?” (via peralta-guarantee)
“Islam doesn’t promote violence or peace. Islam is just a religion and like every religion in the world, it depends on what you bring to it. If you’re a violent person, your Islam, your Judaism, your Christianity, your Hinduism is going to be violent. There are marauding Buddhist monks in Myanmar slaughtering women and children. Does Buddhism promote violence? Of course not. People are violent or peaceful, and that depends on their politics, their social world, the way that they see their communities, the way they see themselves.”
- Religious scholar Reza Aslan answers CNN’s question, “Does Islam promote violence?” (via peralta-guarantee)
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sonoanthony:
some girls (most) are genuinely not playing hard to get, they literally meant all that mean shit they told you lmao
sonoanthony:
some girls (most) are genuinely not playing hard to get, they literally meant all that mean shit they told you lmao
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d1rtypaws:
When someone is explaining something to you and you get hit with the realization that you haven’t retained anything that has been said to you and the moment they stop talking you won’t be able to recall any part of it
d1rtypaws:
When someone is explaining something to you and you get hit with the realization that you haven’t retained anything that has been said to you and the moment they stop talking you won’t be able to recall any part of it