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mercurydaze:

the real “problem with political correctness” is not that it’s considered offensive to use slurs, but that there are now many “progressive” environments where saying the right things is more important than doing the right thing. it’s why it’s so easy for abusers to gain traction in leftist circles (they learn the right words quickly and employ them to frame their own behavior as progressive); it’s why so much potential activist energy gets poured into fighting about language; it’s why moderate liberals didn’t believe fer/guson had a problem until the police emails with actual racist language were leaked. (you can do racist things, you just can’t SAY racist things.) i don’t have a neat conclusion here but a related point is that i’m so much happier since i started focusing on like, being a good kind caring person instead of trying to remove the word “crazy” from the vocabulary of everyone in my family

Just saying this is truly one of the best “discourse” posts on this site like……this hits the nail directly on the head re: what is going on with language right now and everyone pushing back in the notes only serves to further prove the point it’s making

imagine… Vietnam war ExR…. enjolras furiously fighting against conscription bc why should people give their lives for a country they don’t have a say in, having to basically drag grantaire home each night from whichever bar he’s passed out at and then having to pretend that they’re just friends to the neighbours because he knows what would happen if people found out they were together

lesgrandtears:

imagine grantaire getting drafted. 

imagine grantaire getting drafted and he doesn’t tell enjolras until the day before he has to leave because he knows neither of them can do a thing about, so why even try? imagine the desperate kiss enjolras plants on him as he’s about to leave- “god, please- please come home”- and imagine the smile grantaire gives him, bitter and sweet and sad all at once.

“only for you, apollo.” 

imagine. 

imagine letters from grantaire- bored and sarcastic like usual (all “i’ve just been sleeping all day, they’ve not let us on the front lines, i haven’t seen any of the fighting yet”) just stop, one day. and enjolras is fighting and fighting and fighting for peace, goddamn it, and he’s giving this speech all proud and fierce on top of a table when a letter comes through, and

grantaire’s missing, presumed dead.

and. enjolras keeps fighting, because of course he does (he can’t give up now even when it’s too late for grantaire because there are so many others and he would die before he let the same thing happen to them) but grantaire’s gone. 

grantaire’s dead.

except- one night enjolras comes stumbling home alone (he doesn’t go to bars because they stink of alcohol something in him breaks at the smell but he appears as one, keeping hours so long they turn into day and night and day again, eyes bloodshot and hands trembling) and-

and grantaire’s sitting on his bed.

at first enjolras thinks he’s a hallucination, because he’s so tired (so tired) and grantaire’s dead (and he looks dead, too, ghastly pale and thin and shattered) but grantaire speaks before he can even think to.

“you look awful,” he mutters, and enjolras can’t hold back a laugh because really? grantaire’s crawled out of a war and enjolras the one who looks bad?

but he’s crying, too. 

and it takes a while to get used to it again. neither of them are okay- neither of them are even close– but god, they have each other and that’s something that’s so beautiful in of itself and grantaire’s at enjolras’s side (and enjolras is at grantaire’s) and they never. stop. fighting. 

imagine. 

officialprydonchapter:

mx-marigold:

tatterdemalionamberite:

rhythmic-idealist:

officialprydonchapter:

probably gonna get slammed with anon hate for this but like…

much of the ableism towards Autistic people doesn’t happen “because we’re Autistic,” it happens because we’re weird.

now consider that… and now consider what some of the most common insults are here on tumblr.

weird, gross, embarrassing, cringeworthy… all insults based on that same idea of “you are different and we don’t like you.” 

and now consider the constant mocking of “just trying to be special” and “Not Like Other Girls™” that is constantly seen on tumblr.

from early childhood, we are taught and conditioned to know that any deviation from the norm will be punished. for Autistic people, who make up a big portion of what is usually thought of as tumblr’s userbase, this conditioning is often increased tenfold by coercive “therapies” such as ABA and Social Thinking. 

the fact that so much of tumblr’s culture is based on strict deviation from the norm– often citing “weird, embarrassing, cringeworthy, just trying to be special” as offenses– is regressive. and as an Autistic person, I would go so far as to say that it is at least somewhat rooted in ableism. 

if you’re Autistic and you do this, especially if you’re a survivor of coercive behavioral and social treatments designed to make you “normal,” please think about why you take part in this treatment of others. I know you’ve been hurt, and overcoming internalized ableism is hard. I’m here to help.

if you’re allistic and you do this, please stop. just stop. we’ve already been through enough.

also yes, allistics can reblog this. please do, in fact. 

This is absolutely true, and something I’ve been too unsure how to articulate, so thank you.

Yes, don’t mock other people’s special interests. But also don’t mock people who don’t seem to do anything but watch Minecraft youtubers, or talk to you for hours about, I don’t know, MLP or their favorite wrestler.

Yes, don’t mock people for sensory issues or for stimming. But also don’t mock the middle schooler who still sucks his thumb, or that kid who shrieks every time there’s a loud noise, or anything you haven’t necessarily diagnosed in your head as autistic.

It’s as simple as not mocking “weirdness” that isn’t harmful.

Don’t mock people for being autistic, yes, but don’t make it “it’s okay for them to be weird, as an exception, just because I know they’re autistic. This is acceptable because it’s autism.” Maybe, instead, question why it was ever unacceptably “cringey,” and why you needed to know.

Don’t make exceptions for us in “cringe culture”: create a culture in which (aside from any genuinely harmful difficulties/behaviors, I have some, that’s different) we’re not weird.

This is such an important post! I won’t judge anyone who doesn’t, but if you have room for it on your blog, please share; it would improve many of our lives materially.

I hope it’s okay to add to this as an allistic, but I was talking about something similar in regards to being disabled the other day. Someone in a group I’m in posted about a special phone holder, it kind of looped around the neck and was adjustible and you could use it hands-free. The first person who commented was obviously woke enough to know this would be a really great tool for disabled people but implied that for ableds it was lazy or cringe.

I had to say something in response. Because the stigmatisation of certain behaviours or certain tech or assistive devices with a caveat that it’s fine for Those People because poor them or whatever, it still trickles down into the disabled communities. Lots of disabled still feel that shame that their needs are lazy or embarrassing. Lots of people aren’t immediately recognisable as disabled, they might exist on the periphery of our socially defined concept of disability. And they feel paranoid about being targets of shame for using assistive tech or using certain coping mechanisms. I see people putting off using wheelchairs a lot because of this kind of trickle down shaming. They push themselves to extreme pain or risk numbness or dislocations or extreme fatigue because they want to avoid the scrutiny or criticism they risk from others.

The “but not those guys” attitude still very much makes it to us. The trick is to not pay it any mind if this shit isn’t effecting you in any way. If an abled is using a hands free phone holder who cares. If an allistic wants to talk endlessly about their favourite obscure comic character like why does it matter if they’re neurodiverse or not? Stop judging and let people be.

This is the first time that an addition to one of my posts has begun with “as an allistic” and been good.

What (some of) the amis wrote their thesis on

thebloodofangrybabes:

Bahorel: “Lice, lawyers and other things on L that I don’t like” (Law. Literally just a list of things beginning with the letter L that he dislikes. He failed.)

Grantaire: “Blue is the gayest colour –

a study of Michelangelo’s homosexual colour choices” (Art)

Cosette: “Chicks before dicks –

feminism and friendship in contemporary chick lit” (Literature)

Combeferre: “Leeches, anti-vaxxers and the myths of modern healthcare” (Medicine)

Eponine: “Grow some balls –

a study in how many men I can kick in the balls without getting reported because men are scared they will be seen as weak if they do” (Gender studies)

Courfeyrac: “The Goblet of Bi-re –

discovering the hidden sexuality of Cedric Diggory” (Literature)

Musichetta: “Whistled Wisdom –

the physics behind the whistled languages of the world” (She’s doing a joint honours in music and physics, because it’s basically the same)

bonus Feuilly: “This is not so hard – an extensive study in how my friends complain way too much about their theses”

houseplant-with-feelings:

the-spooky-birdy:

liberscaryrynn:

superbuzzwheeze-unsolved:

vrabia:

ayniasaubade:

philosophy-and-coffee:

the-multiverse:

iliveforthefantasy:

panda2296:

musingsofaramblerrr:

Hello? Little human? Okay I kiss you now.

Fun fact: the cat is checking the baby’s mouth to see if it is still breathing. Were it not breathing, the cat would commence to eat it.

FUN FACT

Omfg

That’s just blatantly untrue. While cats have been known to eat human corpses, it’s generally only when they’re starving and have no other food source.
Seriously, quit demonizing cats.

Nose touches (as you see here) are a cats way of saying hello. It’s a friendly greeting. It’s NOT checking for breath.

Laying on a human (as you see here) is literally cat cuddling. Thats it.

We have literal records of cats going out of their way to save the lives of children from various dangers, from fires, to dog attacks, to choking to death. Its very easy to look up.

The only cases of cats eating their humans, have always been when their human died and it has been several days without the body being found. Amazingly this tends to line up with the cat not being fed and therefore STARVING.

It’s also a common thing among most pet animals too? Like sorry, your dog will do it too. Hell, ever heard of the the Donner Party? Humans aren’t exempt. When faced with survival, you try and survive.

STOP DEMONIZING CATS FOR BEING ANIMALS.

(And I mean, all it takes is a quick google search to figure this out, but no lets spread misinformation about innocent animals?)

If you actually truly believe cats are out to get you, and are cold and not affectionate, or whatever else people use to justify demonizing cats… You need to actually look up cat behavior. Your cat who ‘ignores’ you? More often than not is just respecting your space. Your cat who lashes out? Probably not feeling safe in their environment. Your cat brings you gross things? Trying to look after you.

Cats aren’t dogs. They have a set way of communication, and while they can learn dofferent expressions of affection, it will always be less evident than with dogs (who are particularily malleable to human behavior.) This doesn’t mean they are any less loving or capable of bonds.

All it takes is a quick google search to figure out why your cat does what they do. And literally, no cat intrinsically wants to eat babies.

are you kidding me, cats are super protective of small children. they’ve been known to attack dogs, snakes, alligators and grown-ass men if they thought a child was in danger. a stray cat in russia saved an abandoned baby from hypothermia by cuddling him, alerted people to his presence and tried following the freaking ambulance that took him to the hospital. they are very sweet and patient with babies and there are tons of adorable videos out there to prove it.

IF I EVER HEAR ANYONE TALKING SHIT ABOUT KITTIES I SWEAR

“cats are not dogs”

And there’s the rub. People have issues with cats because they’re mad they don’t act like dogs. They are a different animal and they relate and communicate differently. That doesn’t make them worse pets or evil or something.

^^^

Cats are good and pure creatures, dammit

really? my mum didn’t leave me outside when i was a baby because she was scared a cat would eat me