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kingdomheartsnyctophiliac:

i can’t believe superwholock existed as one the largest fandom(s) on this website. there hasn’t been a trace of it on my dashboard in years. No mention, no whisper. a ghost. i still follow people who reblogged it. i myself reblogged it. and yet here we are, not daring to ever mention it. im risking my life making this po

For those new to this site, “Superwholock” was the crossover fandom for the overlap of three of the biggest individual fandoms on tumblr – soup, the Finnish municipality of Perho, and Enlightenment philosopher John Locke.

kingoftheclouds84:

So, can we please talk about the BIGGEST plot hole in Twilight (which, if you’ve read the books and seen the movies, is saying something), just for a moment?

One of the biggest ongoing storylines is Bella’s struggle to decide whether to stay human or become a vampire, though she has more or less made up her mind. The only things giving her doubts are Edward, who wants to preserve her humanity; Charlie, her father, whom she wouldn’t get to see again; and finally, Rosalie, who so desperately wanted a baby before she became a vampire and now can never have one and doesn’t want that option taken from Bella.

Thus, one of the foundational facts upon which the whole plot is established is that female vampires cannot give birth – understandable, considering that they’re dead. I mean, vampires don’t bleed, don’t breathe, and besides drinking blood, they don’t eat. Now, we can’t go too scientific here when getting into vampire mechanics, seeing as they are mythical creatures, but let’s look at something here.

So, if female vampires can’t get pregnant because they’re dead (and thus cannot create life)… HOW THE HELL ARE THESE VAMPIRES HAVING SEX?!

And you might say to me, “King, they can’t get pregnant, but of course they can have sex!”

Sure, maybe the females can… But the males?

Edward has sex with Bella in Breaking Dawn, and impregnates her. How. Did. He. Do. This?

If he’s dead, how are his sperm cells still alive? If he’s icy, freezing, corpse cold, then how are the little swimmers still chilling (literally) in his balls? But let’s say some how they are still alive, that he still has sperm… How the bloody hell is he getting an erection when 1. He doesn’t have blood, and 2. Even if he has blood, which he doesn’t, he’s dead and has no circulation. THEREFORE, Edward Cullen could not get an erection and could not fuck Bella into pregnancy. I mean, we’re not even deep into vampire mechanics, this is deadass just obvious facts.

You can tell me, “oh, they’re mythical creatures, King, you can’t apply the rules of sci-” THEN WHY THE FUCK CAN’T FEMALE VAMPIRES GET PREGNANT?

If this dead guy with no blood or circulation can get a hard-on and bed down Bella and get her PREGNANT, then surely a female vampire is also going to completely ignore the rules of biology and be able to get pregnant as well.

TWILIGHT. DOESN’T. MAKE. SENSE.

realsocialskills:

Sometimes camps, schools, and other programs for kids think “mother” when they should be thinking “parent or guardian”. In addition to being sexist, this kind of bias can cause a number of other problems.

When programs for kids think of “mother” and “parent” as synonyms, they often end up forgetting that other parents and guardians exist. When they think of “mother” and “primary caregiver” as synonyms, they often fail to contact the appropriate adult. 

For instance: 

• Susan, an eight year old, just fell off the jungle gym and needs to be taken to the hospital.
• Susan’s teacher, Ruby, calls 911. 
• Ruby thinks “I need to call Susan’s mother to let her know that Ruby was just taken to Hypothetical Hospital”.
• Susan’s mother, Melissa isn’t reachable during the day because she works in a secure building without access to a phone.
• Susan’s father, Christopher, *is* reachable. He works from home, and always has his phone with him.
• Although Susan’s emergency contact form has a note saying to call Christopher first, it doesn’t occur to Ruby to do so, because she’s thinking “I need to call Susan’s mother”, and looking at the “mother” line of the form.
• Ruby keeps trying to reach Melissa. 
• It takes an hour before it occurs to anyone to call Susan’s *father*.

Or:

• David is a twelve year old who has food allergies. He also has a mother, Miriam, and a father, Fred.
• Katie, who runs the kitchen at Camp Hypothetical, has some questions about what he can and can’t eat, and whether the plan for an upcoming camp out will work for him.
• Katie tries calling Miriam, David’s mother. She doesn’t reply. Katie tries again and again, over the course of several days.
• It doesn’t occur to her to try calling David’s *father*, even though she knows he has one — because she thinks of mothers as the parents who keep track of that kind of information.

When you’re working with kids, it’s really important not to treat “mother” and “primary caregiver” as synonyms, and to remember that:

• Not all children have mothers.
• Not all mothers are primary caregivers.
• Not all children who have mothers live with their mothers.
• Not all mothers should be given information about their children.
• Fathers are parents.
• Nonbinary parents are parents.
• When a kid has more than one parent, it’s often best to contact both/all parents (especially if contacting the first parent doesn’t work.)
• Some kids are raised by people other than their parents (eg: grandparents, a sibling, foster parents).

Tl;dr If you’re working with kids and you need to contact their parent or guardian, don’t assume that their mother is the right person to contact. Look at the instructions on their emergency/parent contact form, and follow those instructions. And if you try calling a kid’s mother and don’t get a response, check to see whether they have another parent you should try calling.

astraeuzz:

my skills include wearing just black and not paying attention in class

windycityteacher:

advanced-procrastination:

deadcatwithaflamethrower:

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dreaming-shark:

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dionysiandoubt:

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newvagabond:

I never see anyone talking about how kids can abuse adults though. 

Growing up I saw a lot of adult teachers get bullied by students and it sucked. They would purposely push them to their breaking point until they exploded, yelled, cursed, threw desks, and the ones who didn’t have that kind of reaction would just quit or end up fired because the kids would start rumors. One was because our new math teacher was effeminate so the guys thought “obviously this guy is gay and he’s after our dicks” and if he was ever nice to a male student (which… he was nice and friendly with EVERYONE and was the best teacher we’d had that year) they would start whispering behind me, “yo, look at that, did you see that? He’s flirting with his male students, that’s nasty” and so they made trouble for him. 

My mother worked at a Discovery Zone type place when I was little and she would come home and break down crying because groups of little boys would call her names, call her stupid her whole shift.

I had friends in childhood who absolutely abused their parents. They were relentless and mean and hacked them into submission and it made for a lot of awkward moments when I would hang with them, because I couldn’t do anything since… they were my abuser too.

Just because you’re a minor doesn’t mean knives you throw are not sharp and won’t hit someone. The fact that so many kids on this site use their age as a weapon, as a way to say “but nothing I do has any impact because I have no social power” is SCARY and we need to try to make people aware of this kind of stuff from a young age because most people who are like that don’t really realize it and they need guidance and rehabilitation so the cycle can stop. Because those people grow up and have kids and do it to their kids and they don’t learn that it’s not normal or okay, that they cannot deny reality by controlling the people around them. 

But sometimes it isn’t always that way, some of those parents were so nice and kind and I considered like family, and they just had absolute evil villains for kids. 

Check in with yourselves, guys. Especially right now. There’s a lot of upsetting stuff being shoved in our faces all the time and it makes it hard not to get tunnel vision when our emotions get out of control, especially with the pressure to perform by a lot of social circles on tumblr. And if you’re young and a lot of this is new, pace yourself, you’re learning, and you need to be open to the idea of learning more and know that us being adults doesn’t mean we’re just out of touch boring old farts who don’t know anything. We’ve lived things and we have experience and when we say to you that it’s not okay to tell people who like things you do not like to kill themselves, we’re not “apologists”… we’re the survivors too. 

yo this is really important

my piano/choir teacher in 6th grade was only around 20-23 whenever she came to our school, and she only stayed for 2 years because all the kids were so awful. one time she told me that me and a few other of my friends were the only ones who hadn’t said a bad word about her the whole time.

in 4th grade, we got an awesome music teacher. he was in his late 20’s at the time, really chill and easygoing (we were in elementary school). some of the kids would just slowly drive him off the edge until one day he ended up throwing pens across the room out of frustration and anger. everybody was either scared of him or laughed at him, and it kinda made it worse. he left 2 years later and teaches a civilized and nice group of kids now.

kids really can abuse adults. I’ve seen it happen a lot and it’s sad and heartbreaking and overall awful to see because so many people brush it off as “kids being kids.”

In 7th grade or so I had the most delightful Maths/Science teacher (the two were taught by the same guy) and he was always super nice. Like he adored teaching, he brought us snacks sometimes and like really wanted us to do well. 

By 8th grade he was a changed man. We had young neo-nazis starting shit. We had kids screaming and throwing shit at him. We had knife fights and I’m 90% certain I remember him straight up being forced into a position where he had to wrestle one of my more violent classmates to the floor. My class had actually driven this calm, cool, great guy (he couldn’t’ve been more than 27 at the time) to actually break down crying in class. As far as I heard he was gone by the time I entered grade 9. 

I remember lots of my classmates mocking my math teacher because of her accent, when I was a freshman. She was from Syria, in a mexican school. Little pieces of shit were always imitating her accent and mocking her from getting certain words wrong.

I saw her about four years later and she looked so tired of everything, less cheerful and with a tougher attitude from the beginning. Fortunately she still talks to me calmly and smiling, but it’s awful to know she’s always anxious around thw kids she teaches.

In seventh grade I had a teacher named Ms. Burns.  It was only her third year of teaching, and it was her first year of teaching middle school.  And the class I had her for?

My fellow classmates were fucking awful to Ms. Burns.  They talked over her when she was trying to teach, they made fun of her appearance (said she looked like man and called her a ‘tranny’, or “It Burns” instead of Ms. Burns), and when a few months into the school year, she broke down and screamed at the top of her lungs at the class before sitting down at her desk and crying, they considered it a triumph and laughed about it for weeks.

Being a kid doesn’t exempt you from being a piece of shit, and just because, on the whole, adults have more power than minors doesn’t mean that minors get a free pass on being purposefully cruel to adults.  Some of you on this website really need to learn this.

Discipline your goddamn kids.

Seriously doubling down on the last part because this behavior doesn’t form in a fucking vacuum.

Please note that almost all of these anecdotes are about teachers. There’s a reason most of us on Tumblr don’t tag our teacher/education posts — we’ve all learned the hard way that kids on here will jump at the chance to abuse and harass a teacher, especially ones trying to vent about how abusive their students were earlier that very day. Most of the educhums I followed on here when I first made this tumblr are gone, because they got tired of being easy targets.

@advanced-procrastination speaks the truth

vampireapologist:

vampireapologist:

i’ve been vaguely formulating words for a post for months about the “glowup” trend specifically when someone uses a photo from like age 10 or 13 and then a photo now of them as an adult and everyone is like “there is hope!!!!”

bc the subtle (even if unintentional) message that it’s possible to Be ugly at age 10 and that we should’ve somehow been what?? hotter?? more attractive, as literal children, is EXTREMELY disturbing and definitely part of why we’re seeing elementary and middle schoolers doing makeup and wearing clothes to present themselves as adults on social media like instagram.

everyone shares those “me at 14 vs. 14 year olds now” memes with a modern 14 yr old perfectly contoured with puckered lips but nobody considers that by sharing photos of ourselves as children and suggesting that we were ugly and lame and embarrassing, we’re teaching kids who are that age now that they should AVOID looking their age.

and then today I saw a glowup post that literally featured a photo of a 20 year old now and a photo of them as an Actual Toddler and I realize maybe I just don’t even HAVE the words

stop saying you were “ugly as a kid” where kids can hear you. kids can’t be ugly, because no one should be holding them to any standard that judges them by their looks! and people will say “okay, but be honest with yourself, some kids just are prettier than others.”

No! Some kids are considered “prettier” than others based on a set of made-up standards set by adults!

No child should ever be viewed through the lens of “attractive” or “not attractive,” because they’re children, and when you refer to your childhood self as ugly or lame or embarrassing, the children around you look for the features you’re referring to in themselves and try to avoid/erase them. And if they can’t, they just settle for hating that part of themselves.

It isn’t about you anymore. The children are listening. They’re watching. Be mindful.

people w mac computers: i like my mac because of the organization and because it suits my needs! pcs are ok too but I like my mac better
people w pcs: a mac RUINED MY MARRIAGE, KILLED MY DOG, AND SPOILED EVERY MOVIE IVE PLANNED ON SEEING FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS