Teachers have tried this and are amazed when their classes don’t go feral like in the book. It’s almost as if the book was supposed to be satire and not a treaty on the nature of humanity.
there’s a timeskip
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
THERE’S A TIMESKIP
after losing control of the signal fire there’s a FUCKING TIMESKIP and when the next chapter starts everyone’s hair is several inches longer and their clothes have rotted to shreds and they’re still just kind of chilling!!!!
IT TAKES THE TERRIBLE IMPERIALISM MIND-POISONED EXCESSIVELY BRITISH BOYS IN THE ACTUAL BOOK SEVERAL MONTHS TO COMMIT A SINGLE ACT OF INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE, EVEN THE ONE (1) CHILD WRITTEN AS AN ACTUAL SOCIOPATH
AND then when they DO turn on each other it is because
THERE’S AN UNSPECIFIED WORLD WAR HAPPENING
AND A PILOT’S CORPSE CRASH LANDS ON THE ISLAND POST-DOGFIGHT AND THE CHILDREN MISTAKE THE PARACHUTE FOR A MONSTER AND SPIRAL INTO PARANOIA
BECAUSE CHILDREN INHERIT THE LEGACY AND TRAUMA OF VIOLENCE FROM THE ADULTS WAGING WAR AROUND THEM
HURR DURR IN THE REAL WORLD IT WOULD NEVER HAPPEN LIKE IN LORD OF THE FLIES -
IT DIDN’T HAPPEN THAT WAY IN LORD OF THE FLIES EITHER YOU JUST HAVEN’T READ IT SINCE HIGH SCHOOL IF EVER AND DON’T REMEMBER WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED IN THE GODDAMN BOOK
yes. yes he did. i’m also gonna direct you to the real life ‘lord of the flies’ which occured in the 1960s, when six tongan schoolboys got stranded on a desert island for over a year before being rescued by an australian fisherman (who, it should be noted, later took on all six as crewmembers because the reason they were out in the first place was because they wanted to see the world, and named his ship the Ata after the island they were stranded on). nobody died. the only injuries that occurred were accidental, and when one of the boys broke his leg falling down a cliff, the others braced it and looked after him so well that it healed perfectly. if they argued, then they would literally go to opposite sides of the island until they’d cooled off. after leaving the island, they remained friends for the rest of their lives. here’s a photo of them as adults, with their rescuer (who is third from the left) and other members of his crew.
i read about this in rutger bregman’s human kind, a book i cannot recommend highly enough, but if you don’t want to go and read a whole book about the inherent goodness of humanity (which again, you really should) then the relevant excerpt can be found here.
It’s important to realize that platonic love can sometimes seem a lot like romantic love.
It can make your heart pound and your stomach flutter. It can make you nervous to act upon it. It can be just as full of meaning and desire as any relationship, and it can be confusing at times, but that’s alright.
If it brings joy, that’s all that matters.
This is super important. Platonic relationships can be extremely moving and very emotional. Some people would literally give anything for some of their friends and that is an amazing part of humanity.
man. remember early in the pandemic, shortly into the telework phase, when a lot of women started vocalizing “wow, i didnt realize just how much time, energy, and even money i was wasting on dolling myself up for work every damn morning, until i didn’t have to do it anymore. i don’t think i’ll go back to doing that when we return to the office? i won’t be a slob or anything, of course, i’m just not going to go out of my way to look pretty at work" and then,
so many people proceeded to lose every last crumb of their shit about it, writing the most asinine crybaby articles ever where they were just. utterly horrified by the possibility that more and more women might become comfortable looking natural/plain and completely opting out of the expectation to look as appealing as possible at all times, even when all they’re doing is spending all day in a cubicle. that was bonkers. lmao.
some ladies were like “during lockdown, i saw myself in the mirror without makeup much more often, and got used to it, so now i don’t feel as anxious for others to see me without makeup on either. i’m comfortable with the face i have, it’s fine just the way it is”
and some absolute dork ass losers heard this and went “truly, this is the death of femininity”
TERFS who think they’re welcome on my posts: you’re not. the freedom to reject conventional beauty standards should apply to and be shared with trans women as well, moreso, in fact, because trans women are literally held to an even harsher, stricter standard when it comes to rando third parties feeling entitled to meticulous over-performance from them - demanding they put every last possible ounce of resource and effort into altering their appearance just to be seen as acceptable, demanding they “prove” their validity through excessive glamour, to ensure they are not “faking” - and the consequences for a trans woman if she does not flawlessly comply with these demands can be so dire as to be lethal for her.
That should not be the reality these women have to endure! That is a horrifying injustice, and anybody who not only lacks compassion for that, but promotes the ideologies that enable it, is not welcome here. I will not debate with you on the matter. Get lost.
so this post is making the rounds again, but only the version without this very important addition on it, so, as a reminder,
Please, for the love of Prime, put the slightest bit of thought into the email address you use when applying to college. You need to switch gears between education you have to go through to education that will lead to a career. Consider that your professors, your advisors, your financial aid assistants, anybody at the college may at one point need to reach out to your personal email. Don’t assume everyone will rely on your student email, we all know you don’t read that shit.
If you don’t have a generic contact email that you wouldn’t be afraid of your grandma seeing, make one. As you do so, please consider:
Don’t have anything sexual in your email address. I mean it. All those 69s and clever wordplays aren’t so funny when you have to read them over the phone to me to confirm your ID. Also I know what goatse is, you twits, I’ve been on the internet longer than you.
Don’t use your gamertag as an email address. Or your reddit name, or your AO3 ID, etc. It’s basic CYA to keep your online life and your real one separate. As silly as that seems, you really don’t need someone in your engineering class finding those Homestuck fics you wrote when you were fifteen because your professor forgot to use BCC to hide your email. Protect yourself.
Don’t use your birth year in your email. This is less of a professional problem then it is a basic security issue. You’re giving away personal information that could be used to compromise your online accounts every time you email someone. Play it smart and use a random number.
If it will embarrass you to read it out load to someone, rethink using it for school. If your name is “Matt Smith” and your email is some sort of play on the 11th Doctor, you’re probably fine. If your email is 11thDocsLoveSlave, please… Spare us both. I promise you it’s not worth having to look me in the eye as you tell it to me.
Don’t use your high school email. You no longer have access to that when you graduate from high school. We cannot contact you with an email you can’t access. Don’t shoot yourself in the foot on the way out the door.
Listen, as someone with a really awkward personal email that I’ve been meaning to change for years, I have been there. Save yourself and get an email you wouldn’t mind your professor, your boss, or your mom knowing about.
Hot off the presses, but uh if you do have an email you use for school/work/semi-professional reasons, make sure it has an appropriate name attached to it or that you identify yourself within the email for clarify.
This update brought to you by the extremely awkward phone conversation I just had with “Evil Morty.”
Whenever a person walks out of the accessible bathroom stall and sees me, a wheelchair user, sitting outside waiting for the stall, they often apologize.
In the beginning, I said, “No worries!” Because I was too scared to be confrontational.
Then I started saying nothing.
But after a while, I realized that some disabled people may be a portion of the people that apologize. And I never want to make an invisibly disabled person feel bad for using accommodations that they need. There are many different reasons a disabled person would need the stall!
(It is tiring waiting for ages while someone uses the stall to change, or do their makeup. It is not annoying for anyone who needs the stall to use it.)
So, I’ve decided to start saying, “That’s okay! I believe every disabled person should be able to use the accessible stall!”
Because then, if they are invisibly disabled, hopefully that will put them at ease.
And if the person isn’t disabled, it will remind them that the accessible stall is not just “the big stall.”
- Do you know enough about the all worlds religions to make a potentially harmful generalization about all of them?
- Are you making assumptions about other religions based off of your experience with one religion?
- Are you making assumptions about other religions and cultures based on your limited experience with a single person or group of people from said religion or culture?
- Are you taking out your valid frustrating, anger, hurt, and pain with one religious group on people who have nothing to do with it by making a generalization?
If you don’t actually mean the every single one of the vast, diverse, multi-faceted religions in the world, don’t make a blanket statement and list the one(s) you mean specifically. This also goes for using ‘grouping’ labels that do not apply, like Abrahamic, etc.
This bullshit is so fucking common that I have multiple memes for it.
Also, people using “Abrahamic” can’t name more than 3 without using google.
Transphobes aren’t attacking bathrooms randomly. It’s not about protecting women and children, it’s about preventing trans people from participating in public life.
Access to toilet facilities are essential to being able to participate in public life.
It’s why society was so reluctant to introduce public bathrooms for women, because before that all public bathrooms were for men only.
It’s why society was so reluctant to desegregate toilets for Black people.
It’s why society was and is so reluctant to create disability-accessible bathroom stalls.
If a person can’t access a toilet, then it’s extremely difficult to impossible for them to participate in society.
So, the best way to exclude a group of people from society without putting up a literal sign saying “x group of people not allowed” is to prevent them from accessing the bathroom.
yknow it’s funny. I am so much more interested in dating girls with wieners now that I don’t have one myself anymore. that dysphoria really just be blockin your chakras or whatever. now the horny can flow freely.
poor things, well we should definitely make this easier on them by never repeatedly mentioning their name and deeds on the “reblog things forever” website
Oh yay it’s the “cover evidence before the court case” move
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Hi, I'm Kestrel- she/they, General Queer™ Check out my Drabble tag! Besides that i'm a shitposting weeb who tries her best. Note: Icon not drawn by me, but by a tumblog lost to the sands of time. F to pay respects.