hey guys just wanted to let you know i might die updates soon
so: a huge earthquake just hit my area and my stuff is sort of screwed. there’s a gas leak in my house and we got a lot of damage, and on top of that there’s a tsunami coming, but we’re headed to high ground so i’ll be physically safe
my family is safe but we had to shut off our gas and our heat, which. isn’t ideal in an alaskan winter but we still have electricity. our house is standing but there’s structural damage and our chimney literally fell off to somewhere?? it’s one of those little pipe ones so we haven’t found it but it means we’re getting a lot of cold air. it’ll be a while before the government gives us money to make sure our house doesn’t fall apart if they do at all. in the meantime we need to get some more blankets and maybe one of those plug in heaters? uhhh. things are pretty screwed up in my city right now. lots of bridges and roads are looking like this:
if you guys wanna send me some money for supplies while we figure out how to get heat back that would be pretty good, i know i’ve been making a lot of donation posts recently but i didn’t get enough to hold us over after getting hit this hard
another update: the city no longer has water and power… we need money for bottled water and i don’t know what else. i’m scared as hell right now because people are saying we might get an even bigger aftershock
teachers, share the weird crap your kids have done!
I’m not a teacher (yet) but I do work with students and one of them had the nerve to look me dead in the eye and ask me “why would it be a bad idea for me to eat this entire marker?” They’re 11
An 4th grader asked for a high five by saying, “A little slappy to make daddy happy?”
I did not give him a high five.
A student during break had her head in her arms and was shaking a bit, so i asked the kid next to her whether she was laughing or crying and this 8 year old stared me in the eye deadpan and said “im crying on the inside”
Wait i take that back, I cant believe i forgot about the time i brought in a small stuffed octopus as a class mascot because why tf not. It was a class of high schoolers and i didnt imagine theyd actually care much, but one student snuck in a snack and gave it to the octopus as a tribute. Which led to other students doing the same thing, until every day there was a pile of of offerings to Fweej the Overseer, mostly consisting of things like string cheeses and small bags of chips, but sometimes there wouldd be a couple bucks in quarters, one kid brought in some giant pocky i think, and at one point there was a cold stone gift card. This stuffed octopus gained a cult following.
Later i brought in another stuffed octopus that looked exactly the same but bigger and told the class that Fweej the Overseer accepted their offerings and became stronger. These highschoolers lost their goddamn minds.
what the FUCK is ariana doing acting as if she’s an ally to the LGBT community and likewise allowing transmisogynic portrayals for comedy’s sake in her latest music video
i talk about the intent of a portrayal again and again regarding other portrayals of hated minorities in media. though there are trans women who have a 5 o’clock shadow, trans women who let their beards grow out fully, trans women who don’t fit the norms of cis womanhood (or cisness in general), who are no less women than those who do, having a cis male back up dancer by the name of scott nicholson play a role where he is to be seen as a man in a dress only has one goal: to laugh at the idea of trans women thinking they’re women.
i seriously question the decision to add this detail to a music video for one of the most listened songs right now. ariana is a big enough of an artist to say that she’s refusing to add transmisogynic content into her videos and having her voice heard, yet this part is still in it. by allowing it in, she’s giving the impression that she either agrees with the mockery, or thinks it’s not big enough of a thing to question: both, in the end, equally harmful.
cis LGB artists and persons, such as troye sivian, took part in this music video, and still trans women are being mocked, showing how little the further cis community (and indeed, even the rest of the trans community) cares about the wellbeing of trans women.
ariana is, by including this, further helping transmisogyny hold its roots steady not only in its portrayal of trans women (and caricatures of men in dresses supposed to represent trans women) in media, but normalising this mockery to her audience, who will use this normalisation to harm trans women. it’s disgusting. ariana’s actions here are disgusting.
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